Design Studio Gamma Journal

SEMESTER 2, 2019

NAME: GRACE FLOOD ID: 911565

TUTOR: ILARI LEHTONEN CO-ORD: AMANDA ACHMADI

LIVING NEIGHBOURHOOD, LIVING HOUSE.

DESIGN STUDIO GAMMA

DESIGN JOURNAL

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JOURNAL DESCRIPTION

PA RT I (W EEKS 1 - 3) Observing Carlton and Fitzroy considering their architectural, urban and envrionmental characteristics of the neighbourhoods. Laneway conditions. Densification in the area. Old and new residential typologies and creation of new communal facilities/spaces.

Interaction between built and natural environment, private indoor/ public outdoor areas.

PA RT II (W EEKS 6 - 8) Revisiting the suburbs and undertaking precedent studies of urban houses. Different types and strategies/ architectural features - how these respond/relate to existing building and the historical streetscape. Contemporary architectural and landscape design responses. Contemporary multi-unit residential town houses/duplex and their features/application of materials.

GENER ATION A ND ITER ATION Generation and iteration of design ideas throughout the course of the semester. Inclduing in-studio private research and images of massing/study models.

The journal has been a crucial method of observation, investigation and interrogation of architectural conditions - both existing and new.

It has become a way for me to reflect, create and ruminate on my design ideas - as well as an opportunity to look elsewhere at old and new, local and international precedents that are relevant to my design project in order become more informed in the design process and as my own questions have arisen.

On top of the recommended online content and lecture material, I have read Robin Boyd’s ‘The Australian Ugliness’ throughout the course of the semester. This has undoubtedly influenced my journal observations and reflections of the inner Melbourne suburbs.

Additionally, I found Venturi, Scott Brown and Izenour’s ‘Learning from Las Vegas: the forgotten symbolism of architectural form’ highly valuable to my own registrations/ identifications in this journal process. See journal pages/ bibliography for other texts.

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Fitzroy

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Carlton

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Laneway conditions

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Old and new residential typologies

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Pre-existing conditions/analysis

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Contemporary archi/landscape responses

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Additional specific research

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Precedent studies

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Living Neighbourhood - idea generation/ iteration

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Living neighbourhood - critique + reflection

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Part II - revisiting site

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Modular person - modular family

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Living House - idea generation/ iteration

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Living House - interim reflection

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Living House - refinement

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Massing/Study Models

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Models reflection

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Subject/final reflection

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Bibliography

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Fin

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PA RT II GENER ATION/ ITER ATION

JOURNAL INDEX

PA RT I

Observing Carlton/Fitzroy

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DESIGN JOURNAL PART I OBSERVING THE SUBURBS (CARLTON + FITZROY) BETWEEN WEEKS 1 AND 3:

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2-10 MACARTHUR PLACE NORTH

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FITZROY

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CARLTON

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PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS

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BY THE TIME WE REACH THE BACK OF THE SITE, THE ARTIFICE OF THE FRONT EDWARDIAN CHARACTER HAS RUN OUT OF STEAM AND THE CONVENTIONAL VOCABULARY OF THE SKILLION AND FLAT BACK SHEDS TAKES OVER.

EXTENSION READS AS A CONGLOMERATE OF DIFFERENT BUILDINGS

ROW HOUSE — THE DIVISION OF THIS OBJECT INTO THREE SEPARATE PROPERTIES IS LARGELY READ IN THE PARTY WALLS, YET STILL DISTINCT AS ONE OBJECT GROUP WITHIN THE STREETSCAPE.

SITES ALMOST COMPLETELY OCCUPIED BY THE BUILDINGS ON THEM

ISOMETRIC OF 2 MACARTHUR PLACE NORTH

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LARGE FLAT GABLES THAT RIVAL THE MAIN STREET FACADE

PARTY WALL CONDITION + IDEA OF DIVISION/ DENSIFY.

FRONT GARDEN AS STREET-EDGE ENTRANCE TRANSFORMED INTO PURELY ORNAMENTAL ENCLOSED SPACE, WITH CEREMONIAL AND SYMMETRICAL ENTRANCES LOCATED UNDER THE PORCH SIDES.

ELEVATION OF 2 MACARTHUR PLACE NORTH

LARGE IMPOSING SIDE WALL MAKES NO ATTEMPT TO FORM A DIALECTICAL RELATIONSHIP WITH OPPOSITE FACADES/ ACES ON STREET EDGE, COULD EASILY BE ADJOINED TO ANOTHER.

EXISTING CORNER SITES: COMPRESSION OF ACTIVITIES AND FORMS INTO SMALL-ISH SITES. PERIMETER WALLS — USED TO WRAP AND MASK INTERNAL INCONGRUITIES AND PARTY WALLS/ STRUCTURAL DIVISIONS THAT OFTEN RUN AGAINST THE GRAIN OF THE ROOFS. UPPER-RESIDENTIAL, OR ‘BACK SHED’ CAN CREATE ADJOINING MULTI-FUNCTIONAL SHOP/ RESIDENTIAL.

2 PP OF 6-10 MACARTHUR PLACE NORTH

“THE VALUE OF THE RESIDUAL TERRACE REMAINS ONLY AS A TYPE OF COMMERCIAL DECORATION TO WHAT IS OTHERWISE A SHED”1

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LYGON STREET AS EXAMPLE OF CARLTON COMMERCIAL STREET — RENOVATED TERRACE HOUSES GROUPED TOGETHER TO BECOME RESTAURANTS. THROUGH A NEED OF PERMEABILITY, THE RENOVATIONS BREAK DOWN THE PREVIOUS HIERARCHICAL LAYERING OF SPACE (ILLUSTRATED IN COLLAGE). ORIGINAL FRONT GARDEN/PORCH BECOMES SEMI-INTERIOR ALFRESCO — WHICH MANAGES TO BOTH ABSORB THE STREET, AND SEAMLESSLY EXTEND THE INTERIOR SEQUENCE OF DINING ROOMS. REAR SPACES BECOME DIVIDED INTO SERVICE SPACES, AND MERGE WITH SERVICE NATURE OF LANE.

IN CARLTON, THERE EXISTS A LINGERING FEAR AND A PRECURSOR TO HIDE FROM THE LANEWAY AS A RECESSIVE MEMORY OF ITS PAST USES AND HISTORIES OF IT AS LOW ON THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC RUNG FOR DWELLING FRONTAGES AND TEMPORARY URBAN SLUMS. THERE PERSISTS A TENDENCY TO TREAT THE LANEWAY SOLELY AS A SERVICE SPACE, DEVOID OF PEDESTRIANS AND OF HIGH CIRCULATION ACCESS POINTS. YET THERE LIES AN OPPORTUNITY TO CAPITALISE ON THIS UNTAPPED PUBLIC SPACE AS POTENTIAL SEMI-PUBLIC, SEMI-PRIVATE AREAS FOR THESE GROUPED DWELLINGS TO ENCOURAGE INTERACTION, INVITATION AND FOSTER COMMUNITY.

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ACCESSIBILITY

CONNECTION WITH STREET EDGES

URBAN FURNITURE

ACCESS ROUTES

SUBDIVISION BEHIND FRONTALITY PUBLIC TRANSPORT CURRENT + FUTURE

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EXTENSIONS READ AS DIFFERENT BUILDINGS

LAND ALLOTMENT SIZE

PARTY WALLS

LIGHTNESS

TERRACE BUILDING TYPE

ORNAMENTATION

LANEWAY (MORPHOLOGY) UNITARY (FACADES)

LACK OF PARKING + DRIVEWAYS

THRESHOLDS (CLOSE TO STREET EDGE)

FRONT PORCHES

MATERIALITY

TREES/VEGETATION PARKS AND GARDENS

WIDE STREETS

BEHIND FRONTALITY, PRIVACY & DIFFERENCE

WIDE PEDESTRIAN PATHS

FRONTALITY RESTAURANTS/CAFES

ENGAGE + ENLIVEN AREA

BY PROVIDING DIVERSE SPACES

OP PO R T

STRENGTH

FENCES PERIMETER WALLS

LIMITED POROSITY

URBAN SLUMS TELESCOPING VOLUMES

SIDE WALL

HIGH BUILDING TO LAND DENSITY

PARTY WALL CONDITION STRUCTURAL DIVISIONS

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RETHINKING THE TERRACE HOUSE, RESPECTING IT AS AN URBAN TYPOLOGY, BUT ALSO RECLAIMING THE REAR OF THESE BLOCKS FOR OUTDOOR LIVING. UNDERSTANDING THE NOTIONS OF FRONTALITY THAT WERE KEY TO THE IDEA OF THE 19TH CENTURY TERRACE HOUSE. ARCHITECTURE RESPONSIBILITY TO DESIGN FOR THE GREATER CITY — PEOPLE ON THE STREETS, FOR LANDMARK ELEMENTS, SIGN POST ELEMENTS, ENGAGED SOCIAL SPACES, NOT JUST OBJECTS FOR SERIALITY AND REPETITION.

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LANEWAY CONDITIONS

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THERE EXISTS A LINGERING FEAR AND PRECURSOR TO HIDE LANEWAY RECESSIVE MEMORY PAST USES + HISTORIES. TREAT SERVICE SPACE DEVOID OF; ACTIVATION, INTERACTION AND COMMUNITY.

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THE BICYCLE RIDERS ACCUMULATE AT THE EDGE OF THE LANEWAY’S AXIS - THAT WHICH LOOKS OUT TO CANNING STREET - THIS OFFERS A BRIEF VIEW INTO THE LANEWAY AND A SHORT MOMENT IN THEIR MUNDANE COMMUTES.

NICHOLLS LANE

OLD + NEW RESIDENTIAL TYPOLOGIES

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CONTEMPORARY RESPONSES

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POST-INTERIM: ADDITIONAL SPECIFIC RESEARCH

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MY SKETCH OF WILLIAMS + BOAGS TYNE ST HOUSING -

PRECEDENT STUDIES

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PERIMETER HOUSE - MAKE ARCHITECTS

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LIVING NEIGHBOURHOOD

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LH REFLECTION & CRITIQUE

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NEW INSIGHTS, NEW THOUGHTS

PART II REVISITING SITE

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MODULAR PERSON + IN-STUDIO MSD MEASUREMEMTS

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MODULAR FAMILY

TA KING THE IDEA FURTHER FOR LH I found the modular person instudio activity to be highly thought provoking for my own project. As written above - I began to consider minute details on a very small scale - such as the hand-rail or the door handle (on top of the obvious stair treads etc). Further, I considered what kind of modular person I would design that would be relevant to the local context and the design task at hand. I used the Ned Kelly-esque symbolism because (as mentioned further in my annotations) I identified parallels between the notions of local hero and villain with the notion of new architecture in a heritage area which can be viewed much the same. The idea of increased density and the facademask of the terrace typology also influenced this choice.

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In my Living House design I used this idea as a driving force to inform elements, such as openings (aspect) and materiality choices - that evidently formed experience within the architectural design, spaces and forms. I chose to create a Ned-Kelly modular family of the clients (the grandma/grandpa, parents and the child). I did so in a way to create difference of materiality to translate into their relative buildings - notions of individual and subjective myopia framing our ideas and subsequently view of the world begin to emerge from this.Consequently it is open to interpretation as to whom sees more in their experience in the drawing below, and in their engagement with the coinciding architectural design in LH.

LIVING HOUSE

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73 NOTE THAT THESE GENERATED IDEAS WERE THE FIRST DONE - IMMEDIATELY AFTER CONTEXT STUDIES (OLD AND NEW HOUSING TYPOLOGIES PAGE 38 FOR INITIAL SEED) AND HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE FOR COHERENCE OF ITERATION DEVELOPMENT.

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LH INTERIM REFLECTION & CRITIQUE

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BR EAK APART E L EVAT ION

AS CENT RAL NO DES/ HEART HS

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E X IS T IN G C ON TE X T M AC A RT HU R C HI MN E Y S

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SHIFT ING FO R SPECIFIC INTER A CTI O N S

SHIFT LINES TO FO R M ‘Y’ 2 D ELE VATI O N

REFINEMENT OF IDEAS

PR I VATE A CTI VATI O N TO PU B LI C A CTI VATI O N

TI LT ‘ Y ’ TO FO R M 3D TR U N CATED PY R A MI D

Ideas are refined into a coherent infographic. The changes from interim to the final focussed on making the design into a more coherent and consistent whole - that was comprehensive. The diagrams summarise my discoveries through the act of journalling - beginning with the context and translating into new abstracted, yet reminiscent architectural design for the Living House.

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LIVING NEIGHBOURHOOD MASSING MODEL

MASSING FINAL FROM STUDY MODELS IN CLASS - TO

FROM THE ORIGINAL SCHEME IN LIVING HOUSE (INTERIM ABOVE. LEFT) - THE STUDY MODEL REVEALED JUST HOW SMALL SOME OF THE SPACES WERE. IT ALSO EXPOSED THE LINEAR RELATIONSHIP OF THE CHIMNEYS (WHICH I FELT WAS INCONSISTENT TO MY KEY IDEAS) SHIFTING OF THESE INTO MORE COHERENT POSITIONS FOLLOWED FOR THE FINAL MASSING MODEL (BELOW).

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FINAL 1:100 LIVING HOUSE STUDY MODEL

REFLECTION

Stimulating Engaging Explorative Enlightening Learning PersonalGrowth The lectures were loaded with highly stimulating material and content that allowed for further investigation in my own time - in areas and precedents that I found relevant to my design project and direction as per journal above. I found the diverse approaches that were presented to us over the course - those being from both Alex and Amanda, as well as the guest lecturers - in particular; Phillip Goad, Michael Roper and Rachel Nolan to be the most exciting and inspiring lectures that I’ve encountered in a studio experience.

I found the studios to be energising, engaging and a comfortable environment for bouncing ideas and driving good design, growth and development in. I enjoyed this semester’s studio experience and the taskdriven organisation of the three hours to be much more efficient than in past studio experiences.

Further, this subject’s focus on more ‘realworld’ design tasks - with a specific, and

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locally-driven design philosophy based around context and place was immensely engaging to my own personal design approach and interests. I really enjoyed investigating and elaborating on the ideas presented further in my own time and exploration.

Being exposed to local design and designers/ architects in Melbourne was highly valuable and enlightening.

Looking back on assessment tasks I am much more confident in my design ability now. I have improved immensely in creating more rigorous and coherent designs/drawings that are much more comprehensive and detailed - as well as drawings that less explanation. I believe this is mostly from the critiques, where I have gained an abundance of learning, growth and direction evaluation.

I am proud of my work in this subject, and my final projects for both Living Neighbourhood and Living House as representations and culminations of all of the above.

BIBLIOGRAPHY Bertram, Nigel and Kim Halik. Division and Multiplication: Building and inhabitation in inner Melbourne. Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, 2002.

Birell, Robert. Melbourne 2030; planning rhetoric versus urban reality. Melbourne: Monash University, 2005.

Boyd, Robin. The Australian Ugliness. Melbourne: Chesire, 1919-1971 London, G (ed.) Houses for the 21st Century. Singapore, 2004.

Moura, Eduardo Souto de. Eduardo Souto de Moura / [edited by] Antonio Esposito, Giovanni Leoni ; [with the collaboration of Monica Daniele and Raffaella Maddaluno; photographs by Alessandra Chemollo and Fulvio Orsenigo].

Pezo, Mauricio. Spatial structure/ Pezo von Ellrichshausen. Copenhagen: Architectural Publisher B, 2016.

Pfeifer, Gunter and Per Brauneck. Residential Buildings: A Typology. Basel, Birkhäuser, 2015.

Roche, Kevin [edited by Francesco Dal Co.] Kevin Roche. New York: Rizzoli, 1985.

Toyo Ito. Forces of nature. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2012.

Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour. Learning from Las Vegas: the forgotten symbolism of architectural form. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1977.

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