Drive-Thru Material Receiving
Archive Storage
Research Offices
Archives & Artefacts
This project seeks to democratize archival institutions through two major design moves involving both corridors of ecology and transportation that are reframed, and contextualized: The Merri Creek and St George’s Rd.
The archive facility will be experienced in four stages spanning both within the creek and the road:
Merri Creek Belvedere Drive-thru Material Receiving Bay Archival Storage Research Offices
The dialogue between the robustness of concrete and the lightness of steel informs the construction materials of the facility, with the architectural strategies revolving around a car-centric design and Golden Sun Mothesque facade language.
The vagueness of the so-called “secure access corridor” existing in this proposal reframes the definition of a public space by annexing the transport corridor. Archival items are loaded and distributed from the material receiving drive-through to the storage 1.5 km away, and then to various offices within that 1.5 km span. The archives are moving, and present…
… And they never sleep. It’s freezing history and establishing a future at the same time. From the drive-through that enables everyone and anyone to drop in items that might have a historical significance to the creek, to storage that speaks of moth, and offices that exist everywhere within the road, everything comes back into the creek.
This is an archive facility that returns the extracted, and it all begins from the public, for the public. From the Merri, for Merri itself.
DRIVE-THRU MATERIAL RECEIVING
ARCHIVE STORAGE
RESEARCH OFFICES
“Things, therefore, do not utterly perish, which seem to do so, since Nature recruits one thing from another, nor suffers any thing to be produced, unless its production be furthered by the death of another… I have shown that things cannot be produced from nothing and also that when produced they cannot return to nothing.”
ARCHIVES & ARTEFACTS
