Major Project
500NOOKS
2021
Ashlee Pukk
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Five Prototypes
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From a potential 500 Series
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NOOK 197
NOOK 305
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Acknowledgments
This body of work and the author acknowledges and extends deep respect to the historic, present & emerging Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation 2021
- territory that was never ceded. It acknowledges ancient ecological and cultural practices of indigenous communities in collaboration with the landscape, waterways and atmosphere of so-called Australia, and commits to learn and to listen.
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- Light and Mystery in Architecture - Paula Cardoso PDF pg 25
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Context Nook 004
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“Mystery is a very special architectural tool… it is important to find a way to assess the difference between spaces that achieve mystery through reduced legibility or through other solutions.”
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500 Nooks
There is a plethora of valuable small spaces hidden in Melbourne’s urban nooks. This project uses these cracks and gaps. These are not typical vacant spaces without buildings, rather they are spaces which exist as a byproduct of structures in the lane ways. Their discarded atmosphere of back lane services and graffiti make these sites distinctive; the aim of these designs is to preserve, insert into the existing, and remove nothing.
The five nooks make completely customised and yet entirely unprescribed spaces; the tenants (anyone from a book binder to a goldsmith or fishmonger) bring the next level of intrigue to the nook. Ultimately these designs could pop up and appear wherever there is a nook.
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After identifying 500 such nooks, I prototyped five with small buildings, notionally for a resident tenant with a public function - an activating business and a caretaker for the lane. The buildings squeeze into the nooks, tighten up the lanes and hang over roofs and parapets. These objects aim at melding forms of a foreign nature with more familiar or prosaic architecture; to be carefully contextual and utterly alien. Pushing the standard elements of architecture such as windows to become something other than a void or a component.
“This mysterious effect is caused when it is not possible to completely perceive something in the environment and, consequently, the observer becomes engaged in a “pleasant challenge to the imagination” (Hubbard & Kimball, 1929).” - Light and Mystery in Architecture - Paula Cardoso PDF pg 05.”
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Proposition
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Shortlisted Sites
0.1 City Wide Nooks
500 Nooks Mapped
Heape Court
Kitz Lane
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ELIZABETH STREET
Thomson street
Globe Alley Croft Alley BOURKE STREET
Donaldson Lane
Carsons Place
Baptist Place
Samuel Lane
Watson Place
Mapping the 500 Nooks
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Crown Place
Knox Lane
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0.2 The Five chosen Nooks
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Carson Place
Heape Court
Watson Place
Croft Alley
Knox Lane
THE FIVE NOOKS
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Footprints
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1.1 Caretakers Guideline
a) The local policy suggests that up to 30% of the total floor area is residential and under some circumstances up to 50%.
1.2 Design Guidelines
30 % Residence
b) An adequate level of private open space is provided
a) If the site has an existing cut out between buildings, that space is to be occupied without hindering the road. b) If there is no specific cut out in the existing, the design is to land on the ground and can prioritise pedestrian traffic. Therefore the road can be blocked.
c) The caretakers residence is located on the top level or at the back of the site
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c) Architecture must meld prosaic forms with unfamiliar forms
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70 % Program
Road / Pavement Existing Building
d) The architecture colouring must be enticing and bold
e) Design should cantilever over neighboring buildings f) The design should work with and around existing services, removing nothing
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1.2 Five Chosen Sites
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Carson Place
Heape Court
Watson Place
Croft Alley
Knox Lane
Existing Conditions 16
Renders
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2.1 Watson Place
NOOK 004 The nook
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Road / Pavement
Lane way
Existing Building
6 stories
Proposed Site
10 story 4000
Watson Place
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South Elevation
4500
The Nook Site
Swanston Street Flinders Lane
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Site
i) The nook is located either side of two, 2 story existing buildings, the design blocks the lane in order to touch the ground
ii) Majority of the design cantilevers over the existing building
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2.3 Watson Place
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Existing Site
3.1 Carsons Place
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Road / Pavement
Lane way 6 stories
Existing Building Proposed Site
5 story
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Elizabeth Street
Carson Place
Plan
East Elevation
4500
The Nook Site
Little Collins Street
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ii) Design cantilevers over the lowest neighboring existing building
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4.1 Heape Court
NOOK 197
The nook
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Road / Pavement
Lane way 3 stories
Existing Building Proposed Site
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Little Londsale Street
South Elevation
Plan 17 000
The Nook Site
Elizabeth Street
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Site Findings
Heape Court
i) L-Shaped laneways, design allows for 1 meter for pedestrian traffic
ii) The cantilever of the design exceeds the apex of the pitch existing roof
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Heape Court
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NOOK 197
Plan 1:150
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5.1 Knox Lane
NOOK 305 The nook
2 stories
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The Nook Site
Road / Pavement Existing Building Proposed Site
Knox Lane 10 story 3000
Lane way
East Elevation
Plan 5000
Lonsdale Street
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Site Findings
Little Londsale Street
i) The site is enveloped by a single car park and existing infrastructure
ii) The site starts on the ground level and steps up onto a 1 story nook, then again onto a 2 story building 61
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Knox Lane
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6.1 Croft Alley
NOOK 493 The nook
Bourke Street
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Road / Pavement
Lane way 3 stories
Existing Building Proposed Site
3 story 3800
Croft Alley
South Elevation
Plan 13 000
Little Bourke Street
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Site Findings
The Nook Site
Russell Street
i) There is a cut out created from the existing structures where the design fits entirely
ii) The design hovers above the ground level so the existing graffiti isn’t hindered
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Croft Alley
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Five Prototypes
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NOOK 004
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From a potential 500 Series
NOOK 036
NOOK 197
NOOK 305
NOOK 493
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References The Melnikov House by architect Konstantin Melnikov Wall House 2 by John Hejduk
Bruther Artefactory Lab
Photographer Ken Ohyama’s Cutouts of Japanese Urban Buildings
Rooftecture OT2 by Shuhei Endo
Fisher Studio Houses (1936), Chicago by Andrew Nicholas Rebori, Architect
“Pet Architecture” by Atelier Bow-Wow
House & Atelier by Atelier Bow-Wow
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Kurt Schwitters - Merzbau
I’m Lost In Paris by François Roche
Rose house by Baracco and wright
Kadoya 315 by Atelier bow-wow
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500NOOKS Major Project
Ashlee Pukk
s3656527