UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
ARCHIVES
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Located in Brunswick, the site for the Melbourne University Archives is over four thousand square meters. Unusual site area compared to the rest of the neighborhood and reason alone to be an icon on a small and city-wide scale. Analyzing the surrounding area we notice old buildings and new, contemporary, ones sitting next to each other, making it an interesting and complex urban palimpsest.
Venturi’s theory is spread all over Brunswick, with its many contradictions. The Archive Building embraces that concept poping out on the built surroundings in its aesthetics and function. With very restrict use, the challenge was to give back and add to comunity, in a visual and social manner. With that in mind the first step was to state the project as what it is, and archive building, and showcase its function.
In addition to the glass panels displaying the storage space for all Brunswick dwellers, a public terrace space is accessible from the Outré Gallery next to it, connecting both projects as well as giving back a multiple use space, setback from the street and again showcasing the building’s reason to be, the storage space for the archives. All of that to achieve acceptance and to blend in by contrasting with the existing surrounding.
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