First design iteration

A. Nature in Space

A Three-Ecologies Market Square

The first proposition of a Three-Ecologies Market Square will address the Project Scale parameter by designing a condense tower on the corner of Yarra and Little Malop St which seeks to add density and creating landmark for the urbanscape. The other buildings will maintain the same height as the surrounding to minimise the visual impact that a dense building may represent. The main strategy for the block attack was to extend the existing laneways to integrate the site with the urban context, and at the same time to create a more permeable ground level to be given to the public realm. In regards to the programme diversity, the project will incorporate uses diB. Natural Analogues C. Nature of Space

rectly related to existing facilities and amenities close to the site: university, hospitals, museums, galleries, among others. Market Square will include part of their programme, as well as other complementary mentioned in the brief. The gradient of publicness will be one of the most important aspects to be explored further in the next stages. A preliminary design criterion is to concentrate health, education and retail in the first two levels, a community-focused social condenser in the third level, and finally, placing offices and residences only in the tower.

The biophilic design will be achieved through terraces, massing subtraction and greening which will enable the project to include nature in space. Natural materials and colour palette will be prioritised, as well as biomorphic forms, especially in the landscape design (natural analogues). About the nature of space, the project will seek to create ‘mysterious’ spaces along the journey for a person who experiences it.

Finally, concerning the public realm, the green core will be infilled with a programme that creates active edges, as well as it will be explored transparencies/opacity to enable/ constrain relationships within spaces.