Reading: •The Inside and the Outside in Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1966), pp70-79, by Robert Venturi •Growing pains: the nation’s capital turns 100, by Mark Mckenna •Movement Against War and Fascism •Film: Mad Max, 1979 Australian film •Site visit: Bourke Building 145 Russell Street •Model making: Bunker Design •Site research: Jeparit launches australia’s first nuclear reactor, 1958
week 3: bunker design
jeparit “home of but also “home of
small
birds”
big politician”
robert gordon menzies
menzies spires near by jeparit primary school
history
major mitchell - 1836
jeparit
370km
adelaide
discover
jeparit
melbourne wimmera river
location
edward john - 1838 discover
hindmarsh lake
g r o m i l u k aborigines character
our jeparit
history of a small country town
01. REFERENCE jeparit history
time line from 1836 - present
architectural development & history
ebeneezer mission station
jeparit hospital
first schools: tarranyurk
jeparit primary school
railways
period: ww1 & 2 1857
1889 pine board wall iron roof
1893
1894
1912
1920
1951
1984
brick construction
memorials, erected by cohen & sons of melbourne memorials, erected by sir robert gordon menzies
2013
Institutional building types & the relationship between Materiality & Facade
01
Domestic housing types & the relationship between Materiality & Facade
02
election results since 1901 Social/Electoral Context
social issue demographic 632 population local economic: tourism
draught flooding
business closed down
railways land renting authority
agriculture - wheat planting “pumpa brothers trust� company feeding livestock
political issue crown grant federal division: Mallee national party - right wing
private housing memorial
site3 share space
private housing menzies spires
site2
rial way
site1
jeparit hospotal
community main road
site 1 - focusing on community gathering & spatial claiming in region
way to rainbow town
broad way
nhill - jeparit rd r o y retail retail retail retail
hotel
s t r e e t
hotel supermarket
n
vancancy 1
context b
context a
context c
Vacancy 2
site condition - jeparit
responds to
materiality, color & spatial hierachy
site 3 - community share space & memorial
private space
broadway 1920, by cohen and sons of melbourne public share space
public share space
nhill-jeparit rd
1951, by robert gordon menzies
private space
n
MEMORIAL AREA
LOCAL HOUSING TYPES
REFERENCE 02. jeparit site reference - primary school
site 2 - local primary school & community library
sands avenue
n
jeparit hospital residential
site location
jeparit hospital
jeparit primary school``
menzies memorial
Bourke House -1936 movement against war and fascism
anti-war
anti-fascist agitation gerald griffin
herr egon kisch
australia left wing
communist VS
right wing
Bourke House -1936
movement against war and fascism
K:AUSTRALIA I AM COMING K:“ALRIGHT! LET ME SHOW YOU 5 METRE JUMPING OFF K:then LET ME DO A SIGHTSEeING IN SYDNEY
K:WHAT SORT OF GAME? herr egon kisch
K:WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF I FAIL?
April 29, 1885, Prague - March 31, 1948, Prague - Communist, left wing - Czechoslovak wrtier and journalist - Oppsition to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime
VS
robert gordon menzies
right wing boss
the myth
l e v e l
anti-fascist agitation headquarter in 1936
what is behind this wall now?
4
typical floor planning
3
l e v e l 2
heritage bookshop most substantially racist organisation in australia
elationship er-r int
floor planning
l e v e l
myth of
bridge
what is that...
design methord: step1: concept base duty society
right
international: strong defence link with britain and united states
national: fighting & tension between liberal(right) and labor(left)
step2: concept translate in space leftwing
right wing
tension force
step3: methord - muscle function muscle function
motion
right force influence that causes object undergo a certain change
duty motion change in position with respect in time
BEDROOM + BATHROOM
A CABINET TABLE + READING MACHINE
ENTRANCE HALL + PUBLIC TOILET
R I G H T W I N G
Tension & Force Dutiy & Right
ROBERT GORDON MENZIES
plan axometric perspective - 2 @ a1
BEDROOM + BATHROOM
A CABINET TABLE + READING MACHINE
ENTRANCE HALL + PUBLIC TOILET
R I G H T W I N G
Tension & Force Dutiy & Right
ROBERT GORDON MENZIES
plan axometric perspective - 2 @ a1
END WEEK 3