Venice Biennale
The Victorian Pride Centre
A1 Panel Culture - Values - History
Homes within a home
The Quilt Symbolising a diverse social composition
A2 Panels
A4 Panels
Culture - Values - History
Homes within a home
The Quilt Symbolising a diverse social composition
Exchange
Collaboration Convergence Conversations
Over 30 years Hayball has been critically engaged with the challenges that face our contemporary society and the unique contribution architecture can make to our communities. Hayball is prominent for the breadth of its practice and the comprehensiveness of its architectural solutions as well as its commitment to transitioning our cities to sustainable futures. We have enjoyed the continuing support of Hayball for the development of the architecture program at Monash from its inception and we look to them as an exemplar practice that shares many similar values for architecture. As we look to the future we see many of the attributes I believe will be required by the future architect already present at Hayball.
For over 30 years, Hayball has been critically engaged with the challenges that face contemporary society Professor Shane Murray, unique contribution that architecture makes and the Dean, Faculty of Art Design & Architecture, Monash University to communities. We are committed to creating both depth and breadth across our practice and achieve this through rigorous research-led design and a commitment to, inclusive and comprehensive architectural solutions that always strives to thoughtfully and sustainably transition our evolving built environments.
The Victorian Pride Centre
Building Area
7000m2
Location
St Kilda Melbourne, Australia
Competition
2017
The new Victorian Pride Centre aspires to create a loved and lasting home for equality, diversity and unity for the LGBTQI community, while equally ensuring that the inherent history, values and culture of this community are embedded and embraced in the built experience. The design presents a vibrant and flexible ‘public house’ that harmonises contrasting needs, as well as accommodating up to ten major allied organisations, alongside flexible multi-use spaces for tenants and the wider community. Nestled between a very public face on bustling Fitzroy Street and its more sedate suburban context on Jackson St, the site works within its context, illuminating a wide array textures and styles unique to St Kilda, and generating relational opportunities as well as a local sense of domus.
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These universal theories of domus and home conceptually adapt into use as an authentic modern-day public house. A quilt pattern effectively maps the domus of place as both an operative design and a motif that reflects St Kilda’s rich and diverse urban tapestry, identifying and activating the Centre’s presence on Fitzroy Street. This strong and vibrant theme aims to reflect a confident gesture of welcome both internally and externally in simple and substantial form.
Community participation and exchange is encouraged via an interactive and inclusive physical archive as well as the Centre’s focus on a spirit of genuine welcome and accessibility, both aspects forging analogous forms within this living ‘cabinet of curiosities’ respectfully nurtured inside the intimate structure of Melbourne’s familiar urban laneways. In this context, the laneway works as an experiential passageway, vertically linking grotto-like spaces with larger communal and civic ‘house’ spaces across the site. This is a place of colour, pride and strength, built for enjoyment and participation.