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Melbourne school of design
Booklet
Tutors Javier Lรณpez-Menchero Gumji Kang
Himali Jajal 1048659
Cities continue to grow and their inhabitants flow in to fill the gaps of the city. With their vivid memories of gold rush, faint 80s tunes, dust settling on the decades of stories buried behind cold plaster walls, buildings carry on. But do buildings grow with the cities? With the explosive growth of population and expansion of the cities, there’s continual need to re-imagine and redesign the existing city fabrics. The current building can be understood as a set of layers (or layered elements) that attribute information - not only about how a city is operating currently, but about how it was lived in the past. The entire process was about negotiating and adding to these layers. Preservation Re-imagination Intervention
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PAGE OF CONTENTS 01 - Site 01
Melbourne_CBD
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Jobs warehouse
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Bourke street mall
02 - Notion 04
Notion of intervention
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Program derivation
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Program organisation
03 - Precedent study 01 02 03 04 05
Public plaza_ Circulation and play area_ Intervention_ Library and form_ Housing_
04 - Intervention 07 Intervention process 08 Intervention
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City grows. The notion of time establishes its impact. Layers of meaning, information are embedded upon the architecture. What once was a necessity of time, following a trend, now has become a heritage, a window to the past.
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As Sir Norman foster mentioned in his interview that ‘Architecture is a connection with the past. However, our concern is not for relics but for the revitalization of historic buildings, re-purposing them for a new generation. Architecture can communicate memory, but it can also communicate values and a sense of place. Architecture is an expression of values—the way we build is a reflection of the way we live. Therefore, vernacular traditions and the historical layers of a city are so fascinating, as every era produces its own vocabulary. Sometimes we have to explore the past to find inspiration for the future. At its most noble, architecture is the embodiment of our civic values’ [i] It is of utmost importance to know that vocabulary of the past to understand it and to learn from it.
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Nevertheless, that heritage had a different value in the past, but to survive, it is crucial to know the present, for the future of the same.
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To restore a building is not to repair it, nor to do maintenance or to rebuild, it is to re-establish it in an ultimate state that never existed before. [ii] , Viollet Le Duc 1855,
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I believe that a building with a tangible and intangible aspect may not continue as the same. Hence a question of continuation and differentiation comes into place. I believe that a heritage with so many stories could be revived through brining back those memory through contemporary means. I believe that built fabric can be differentiated to make space for a new requirement, however some physical elements which are attached to the people of the city should be revived though does not necessarily in the same form as it has been before. I believe in imposing synthesized value to the building within its context to give purpose and identity to the heritage structure. I believe that the building possesses an objective position of contrasting the past in terms of the built environment to make a statement of the present. I believe in breaking the monotony of the circulation by providing an experiential circulation through experimentation with built fabric. I believe that programmatic demand of the people brings in the new intervention. I believe that amalgamation of value be it a tangible and non-tangible, the memory, adds an essence of the past, accomplishes the demand of the present and the future. I know that nothing is permanent, but I believe in framing the presence, hence this presence one day becomes a heritage a guide for the future.
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Section 01
Melbourne_CBD City
Melbourne 3000
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Melbourne_CBD Some of the oldest surviving buildings in Melbourne CBD
Corner shop Built in: 1850
Built as: Shop front residence Currently: Shop front residence
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John smith’s House Built in: 1849 Built as: Residence Currently: Law office
The metre tavern Built in: 1837
Built as: Residence Currently: Public tavern
St Francis’ Church Built in: 1845
Baptist Church Built in: 1845-1862
Built as: Church Currently: Church
Built as: Church Currently: Church
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The black eagle hotel Built in: 1849 Built as: Slum Currently: Hotel
Old Fellows Hotel Built in: 1849 Built as: Slum Currently: Hotel
Jobs Warehouse Built in: 1848
Built as : shop front residence
Currently : Vacant + Small Businesses
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Melbourne_CBD Landuse
Commercial
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Residential
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Site analysis 299-329 Bourke Street, Melbourne 3000
Jobs Warehouse Job Warehouse consists of a row of four two-storey rendered brick shops in a simple Victorian Georgian style. The external render is ruled, there is a simple parapet and cornice above, and the shop on the corner of Liverpool Street has a splayed corner. Each of the four shops has a former residence located at the rear of and above them. The internal stairs which once led to the upper floors have all been removed, though a new stair has been built at number 6062. Externally the building retains much of its original simple form, except for alterations to the shop windows, and the upper level retains original features such as the window openings and surrounds and the parapet. The interiors appear to retain few original features.
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Jobs warehouse Spatial analysis
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Reflection Jobs Warehouse 299-329 Bourke Street, Melbourne 3000 Documentation of this beautiful Georgian style building was an unexpected learning. It is one of the oldest structure standing in Melbourne, CBD. Seemingly simple structure has a depth of meaning to it. It is an hallmark of symmetry refinement, harmony and elegance. There are endless stories related to the jobs warehouse. Association of people of Melbourne for this particular structure is quite interesting. The most interesting aspect of this heritage structure is its architectural style and it relevance to the people of that era, as it was built before gold-rush, the structure represents humbleness rather than being showy through unwanted ornamentation.
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Site analysis Bourke street mall 299-329 Bourke Street, Melbourne 3000 These buildings fronting on to Melbournes most historic shopping precinct are a rich amalgam of ornamentation, vast unused floor space, and urban circulation. They are loaded with significance due to their central location, but are under-utilised given that importance. The conventional usage of the buildings for retail purposes does not cohere with the volume of space these buildings provide nor their potential broad address to the city at large and its intimate spaces within pedestrian networks of laneways and streets.
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Role in Urban Scale Urban Location
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Role in Urban Scale Landuse
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History + Story + Monumentality 2 HISTORY & MONUMENTALITY
History
2.1 ELEVATION - PAST & PRESENT COMTEMPORARY STREET ELEVATION
2 HISTORY & MONUMENTALITY 2.1 ELEVATION - PAST & PRESENT COMTEMPORARY STREET ELEVATION
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The building replaced E.W Coles’ infamous 1906 Book Arcade and marked Coles’ expansion from his Smith Street store. Coles’ Book Arcade was a stunning urban landmark in Early Melbourne, drawing the attention of international authors Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling. In this store, customers were encouraged to sit and read with “no pressure to buy”. The Book Arcade ran through the block to Little Collins Street, aligning with the former grand Australia Hotel, with Ballroom designed by Walter Burley-Griffin. The Cafeteria of the 1929 building was a significant social space in 20th Century Melbourne, with high, ornate ceilings and self-service dining.
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The Coles Building was built in 1929, to the design of prominent Melbourne Architect Harry Norris. Norris appropriated elements of Style from American Art Deco Architecture in vogue in the 1920s.
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The current Edments Building on site replaced an original store of 1898. This building was the flagship store of Alfred Edments an auctioneer and entrepreneur who sold general goods. The mid-century building (1956) utilities a technologically advanced aluminum curtain wall system but apparently retains the original brick wall to Union Lane.
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which was built for the Spry Brothers. The architects were Grainger, Little and Barrow. This steel frame and concrete building was constructed in 1924 which contained shops, offices and showrooms. The decoration of this building is according to the Inter-war Renaissance Revival style.
Deva House (c.1924) is a ten-storey steel frame and Diamond House was a jewellery Store built for Dun-
klings Jewellers and designed by HW and FB Tompkins. In the past, Diamond House had a vertical electric sign and clock on its façade. However, it was altered in the 1980s to include the Walk Arcade and removed the former marks.
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concrete building with Inter-war Renaissance Revival style. It is a shopping mall in 1926 designed by Harry Norris, who also designed the Coles Building. According to Jim Gard’ner (2018), Dumbrells Jewelers took possession of the site in 1924. Before the Edments Company bought the site from Dumbrells.. Most likely the building on site was demolished in 1970s before a single storey building was constructed an integrated with the Walk arcade in 1980.
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History + Story + Monumentality Elevations through time
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Documentation + Morphology Site ISO
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Documentation + Morphology Plan
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Documentation + Morphology Lane-way Network [Bourke Street to Flinders street]
Bourke Street
Little Collins Street
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Moments of Interest + Mentality Coles book arcade
The palace of intellect Introduction With around two million books on its shelves, the extraordinary Cole’s Book Arcade, also known as the Palace of Intellect, was reputedly the largest bookstore in the world. It was one of the iconic ‘must visit’ Melbourne stores in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In fact, it was so well known, that both Rudyard Kipling and Mark Twain visited it during their travels to Australia. In 1906, the Coles’ Book Arcade was extended all the way through to Collins Street alongside Howey Place. E. W. Cole paved and built a beautiful glass and iron ornamental roof for Howey Place, at his own cost, which still stands proudly today.
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Moments of Interest + Mentality Coles book arcade
An atmosphere of a circus Spaces and program When the Cole’s Book Arcade was two-block lengths in size, it was spacious enough to include a menagerie featuring a monkey house, a fernery, a toy-land, a stationary department, a second-hand book department, a glass and china department, a refreshment room, and a confectionery department. If that wasn’t enough, customers of all ages were also enticed with a string band, a symphonion powered by a clockwork mechanism and other mechanical devices, such as a hen that clucked and laid tin eggs containing either a sweet or a toy, when a penny was dropped into a slot. There were also comfortable chairs to sit in and read books, people were encouraged to do so by a sign that read:
“Read As Long As You Like – Nobody Asked To Buy.”
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Moments of Interest + Mentality Coles book arcade
Edward William Cole Ideology E. W. Cole was an idealist. He believed passionately in the power of education to deliver a peaceful united (federated) world without borders before the year 2000. He expounded his views in pamphlets, books and medallions. E. W. Coles’ most famous book was the self-produced publication, Cole’s Funny Picture Book, which had many reprints and sold over a million copies, making it perhaps one of the most popular children’s books ever published in Australia.
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4.1 PRECEDENCE - JOHN BRACK
Moments of Interest + Mentality John Brack
John Brack Ideology
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John Brack’s paintings 5pm Collins St. and Men’s Wear, are useful cultural and atmospheric touchstones in approaching the Bourke Street buildings. The paintings address consumerism, urban resignation, the labour of retail, anonymity in the urban streetscape within the place specific locale of the Melbourne CBD.
Men’s Wear (1953)
Collin St, 5 p.m. (1955)
John Brack’s paintings 5pm Collins St. and Men’s Wear, are useful cultural and atmospheric touchstones in approaching the Bourke Street buildings. The paintings address consumerism, urban resignation, the labour of retail, anonymity in the urban streetscape within the place specific locale of the Melbourne CBD.
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John Brack’s paintings 5pm Collins St. and Men’s Wear, are useful cultural and atmospheric touchstones in approaching the Bourke Street buildings. The paintings address consumerism, urban resignation, the labour of retail, anonymity in the urban streetscape
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Bourke Street Mall Documentation
Will, Fon, Ron & Ivan
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The notion of intervention Bourke street mall 299-329 Bourke Street, Melbourne 3000
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Notion of intervention What it is!
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Notion of intervention What it can be!
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Program derivation Bourke street mall 299-329 Bourke Street, Melbourne 3000
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Art Gallery
The Palace of intellect
Toy-land
Music
An atmosphere like a circus
For people of all
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Garden
Program Inspiration from the coles book arcade
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Activity space Active Recreation Art center
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Knowledge center
Art Gallery
Garden
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Art Gallery
Public Open Plaza
Amphi theatre
Exhibition space
Activity space Active Recreation Art center
For people of all
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Knowledge center
Library
Art Gallery
Garden
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Toy-land
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Commercial Activity
Bars
Housing
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Amphi theatre Seating area
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Play Zone Sports area Art and architecture
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Food and shopping
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Book shelf area Reading area
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Library Painting Photography Sculpture Traditional art
Installation Video Art
Art center Experimental art
Performance Sculpture Installation
Admin Temporary Exhibition Space Permenant Exhibition Space
Workshop
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Newspaper
Meeting rooms
Magazine Workstations
Press conference Assembly Extra
Comics
Public hall
Literacy
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Biography Music Language Mathematics
Gaming
Religion
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Geneology Kids
Exhibition space Auditorium Workshop
Fabrication
Work center
Workshops
Artcenter Students Community
Bedroom
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Student Housing
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Precedent Analysis Bourke street mall 299-329 Bourke Street, Melbourne 3000
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Precedent study
Superkilen_ Public Plaza Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Architects: BIG architects Area: 30 sq.m. Year: 2012 Superkilen is a half a mile long urban space wedging through one of the most ethnically diverse and socially challenged neighborhoods in Denmark. It has one overarching idea that it is conceived as a giant exhibition of urban best practice – a sort of collection of global found objects that come from 60 different nationalities of the people inhabiting the area surrounding it. Ranging from exercise gear from muscle beach LA to sewage drains from Israel, palm trees from China and neon signs from Qatar and Russia. Each object is accompanied by a small stainless plate inlaid in the ground describing the object, what it is and where it is from – in Danish and in the language(s) of its origin. A sort of surrealist collection of global urban diversity that in fact reflects the true nature of the local neighborhood – rather than perpetuating a petrified image of homogenous Denmark.
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This precedent study was done due to the fact of it being a public place for people of all walks of life. The most interesting aspect for me is the way it is intervened in the middle of the city through the use of elements and colours.
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Precedent Analysis
Ku Be House of culture in movement Location: Frederiksberg, Denmark Architects: ADEPT, MVRDV Area: 3200 sq.m. Year: 2016 The 3200 m2 Ku.Be House of Culture in Movement was designed for the municipality of Frederiksberg as a focal point for both the immediate community and also the wider area of Copenhagen; one that the people themselves could take ownership of and that would evolve its programme based on the specific wants and needs of its users. The project is a new typology, developed out of the response to a brief that solely asked for a building that would bring people together and improve the quality of life. In reply MVRDV and ADEPT answered with one that blends theatre, sport and learning into a space where body and mind are activated to promote a more healthy life for everyone, regardless of age, ability or interest; creating links between people that wouldn’t otherwise connect with each other.
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This precedent study was done as this being my one of the area of interest in terms of programmatic intervention. What I have learned in this precedent study is the circulation. A new means of circulation was derived for this cultural sort of a hub rather than a conventional one.
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Precedent Analysis
Tianjin Binhai Library Location: Tianjin, China Architects: MVRDV Area: 33700 sq.m. Year: 2017 MVRDV in collaboration with local architects TUPDI has completed the Tianjin Binhai Library, a 33,700m2 cultural centre featuring a luminous spherical auditorium around which floor-to-ceiling bookcases cascade. The undulating bookshelf is the building’s main spatial device, and is used both to frame the space and to create stairs, seating, the layered ceiling and even louvres on the façade. Tianjin Binhai Library was designed and built in a record-breaking time of only three years due to a tight schedule imposed by the local municipality. Next to many media rooms it offers space for 1,2 million books.
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This precedent study has lead to a learning of engagement between built form and people. How function it self combined with built form could become a experiential aspect for the people who are visiting it, is what I have learned in this study.
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Garage museum of contemporary art Location: Moscow Architects: OMA Area: 5400 sq.m. Year: 2014 Garage Gorky Park – completed in 2014 – is a renovation of the famous 1960s Vremena Goda (Seasons of the Year) restaurant, a prefabricated concrete pavilion which has been derelict for more than two decades. OMA’s design for the 5,400m2 building includes exhibition galleries on two levels, a creative centre for children, shop, café, auditorium and offices. The design preserves original Soviet-era elements – including a large mosaic, tiles, and brick – while incorporating a range of innovative architectural and curatorial devices.
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This being a intervention project of the old structure was the most fruitful of all precedent. In this intervention entire ground has been opened up for the circulation of people. And some of the elements of built fabric such floors and facades were modified to meet the demand of the present requirement.
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Stacked student housing Location: Belgav, India Architects: Thirdspace Area: 4000 sq.m. Year: 2017 The design for a small student housing project in the town of Belgaum India explores the section as a device to layer a series of semi-private living spaces vertically. What seems like a straightforward division of space in the plan is actually a complex layering of self-contained living units to achieve maximum density yet maintain comfortable living standards for the occupants. The site is a minuscule parcel of land barely measuring a 100 square meters on which the building was proposed. The number of students to be accommodated is more a result of the economics of scale and return on investment rather than a careful engagement with what such a site could traditionally accommodate. In all, the building of about 225 sq.m accommodates 29 students in a semi-private triple and double occupancy units.
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This is an apt solution for the student accommodation for Melbourne. Here in Melbourne the quality of space given for the student accommodation is too low. This sectional solution could become one of the option to provide a better quality of accommodation in compact areas.
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Section 06
Intervention logic Bourke street mall 299-329 Bourke Street, Melbourne 3000
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John Brack Ideology John Brack’s paintings 5pm Collins St. and Men’s Wear, are useful cultural and atmospheric touchstones in approaching the Bourke Street buildings. The paintings address consumerism, urban resignation, the labour of retail, anonymity in the urban streetscape within the place specific locale of the Melbourne CBD. Extreme consumerism has lead the city to build more and more retail structure but that is more than required for a structure. Hence, this phenomena leads to vacancy in the building.
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Program Organisation Bourke street mall 299-329 Bourke Street, Melbourne 3000
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Garden
Gallery
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For people of all
age, culture and religion
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The Palace of intellect
Toy-land
For people of all
age, culture and religion
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Intervention Process Bourke street mall 299-329 Bourke Street, Melbourne 3000
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Intervention Zoning Strategy
Sports activity zone
Connectivity to public plaza and visual connectivity to bourke street
Connectivity to Library little collins street for private entrance
Housing
Separate and private zoning
Public Plaza For maximum connectivity with the street
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Intervention Public Plaza
Federation sqaure open public plaza as a reference for the development of new plaza inside the melbourne CBD
Opening up the facade for public plaza.
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Public Plaza
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Housing
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Play area
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Housing
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Skate park
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Intervention Bourke street mall 299-329 Bourke Street, Melbourne 3000
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Intervention_ Second floor plan
Housing
Climbing wall
Housing Dance zone
Ramp as Plaza
Admin
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Intervention_ Detailed section
Scale 1:20
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Intervention_ Concept sketch
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Intervention_ Final render
I believe that a building with a tangible and intangible aspect may not continue as the same. Hence a question of continuation and differentiation comes into place. I believe that a heritage with so many stories could be revived through brining back those memory through contemporary means. I believe that built fabric can be differentiated to make space for a new requirement, however some physical elements which are attached to the people of the city should be revived though does not necessarily in the same form as it has been before. I believe in imposing synthesized value to the building within its context to give purpose and identity to the heritage structure. I believe that the building possesses an objective position of contrasting the past in terms of the built environment to make a statement of the present. I believe in breaking the monotony of the circulation by providing an experiential circulation through experimentation with built fabric. I believe that programmatic demand of the people brings in the new intervention. I believe that amalgamation of value be it a tangible and non-tangible, the memory, adds an essence of the past, accomplishes the demand of the present and the future. I know that nothing is permanent, but I believe in framing the presence, hence this presence one day becomes a heritage a guide for the future. I believe and I aspire, Bourke street site
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‘The prettiest sight in Melbourne’, Cole, Edward William (1832–1918)!!!
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Special thanks to tutors Javier López-Menchero Gumji Kang
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