Dunedin Prison Re-use Design Document

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The Ones Who Walk Away

INTA412 Timothy Voss


“Night falls; the traveler must pass down village streets, between the houses with yellow- lit windows, and on out into the darkness of the fields. Each alone, they go west or north, towards the mountains. They go on.” The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, Ursula K. Le Guin, Pg. 7

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Abstract

Dunedin is made up of many historically recognized and beautiful buildings. Among these is the now vacant former Dunedin Prison. Containing a rich history of 116 years, and functioning as both a men’s and women’s prison, as well as the Dunedin Police Station, there is opportunity for alteration and intervention to allow people from all walks of life to make use of it. Currently the building is vacant, with the owners calling for a design competition to generate ideas. The space provided a home for some of society’s most challenging people for decades, but is now left empty and unloved. During the sentence of a prisoner, a life of structure and formalities is manufactured, and comfort is found within the objectification of being a prisoner. The prison system allows peace from a world of struggles, which is often romanticised. The entire world is shrunk within the safety of

prison walls. As time continues, the outside world flourishes and grows without, freedom is foreign and intimidating. The transition and threshold between the in and out is the crux of the project. The building can now be inhabited by the people of the city. This could forming a community that is diverse, unique and united, bring life back to the space in a new way, while retaining the physical and psychological link to the past. Bringing the reinvented community culture back to the building, through the programme of a retail, eatery and hotel hub, will involve understanding the mind-set of those who once inhabited the space. The memories of the building, its wounds and scars, are key to the dialogue that will represent the new and old, standing alongside each other. This will expose the truth of the building and influence how the new community uses it.

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Fromer Dunedin Prison - Central Courtyard Figure 0.1: Dunedin Prison Courtyard - http://doinglibrarygradschool.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/exercise-yard.jpg



The Journey Begins

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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

1

SITE ANALYSIS

5

PROGRAMME ANALYSIS

11

LITERATURE REVIEW

17

PROJECT REVIEW

23

PRELIMINARY DESIGN

29

DEVELOPED DESIGN

39

CONCLUSIONS & CRITICAL REFLECTIONS

65

LIST of REFERENCES, SOURCES of FIGURES & APPENDICES

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–1– Introduction

“The rigging of the boats in harbor sparkled with flags. In the streets between houses with red roofs and painted walls, between old moss-grown gardens and under avenues of trees, past great parks and public buildings, processions moved.” The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, Ursula K. Le Guin

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Introduction

‘The Ones Who Walk Away’ will investigate the act of flux in the threshold of the prison and the changes and perceptions it causes. The less explored consequence of leaving prison is that comradeship and community is abandoned. A life of structure and formalities is manufactured then taken away. Comfort is found within the objectification of being a prisoner. The mind and body are separate. The duality between inside and out becomes highlighted, with opposites

INMATE

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EXISTING BUILDING

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EXISTING PROGRAMME

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of empathy and objectivity arising. An architectural intervention can alter the history a building, bringing freedom and voice to the repressed. The site for exploration is the Former Dunedin Prison, located near ANZAC Square, among many other important heritage and historically significant buildings. Throughout its history it has held many roles within the justice system, causing it to be vibrant and dynamic alongside being powerful and unmoving.

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freedom connection reaclimitised

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empathising

Figure 1.1: Theoretical Design Approach Diagram

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Introduction

In bringing these themes into the future, reinventing the community aspect, in a positive manor will cause a net gain for the city. A place of proactive growth rising from the depths of despair. The building was once a place for the nation’s criminals – but can the social norms be broken down between to balance the estranged social hierarchy? The division between the spaces is important. The narrative between elements in the way they speak of the memories within the building through inhabiting the building. Spatially translating this is paramount. The romanticized view of prison is one of comradeship and community within itself, albeit with a harsh and, at times, horrific reality. To some there is a comfort to life on the inside, while still having real pain looking out into the free world. Challenges that will be faced is the duality between the old site and new intervention. This will be explored through the historic and contemporary analysis of the building, both physical and mentally. The way in which the existing fabric and new intervention co-exist needs strong physical and psychological analysis into the ethos of both to navigate the incongruity that arises at intersections. The site has undergone many changes in its time, and this is an opportunity

to alter the building for a new generation of users, while retaining its unique cultural and contextual fabric. The programme of retail, eatery and hotel hub, will aid the building’s rehabilitation in a way that exposes the value of its history. Furthermore, the existing will be developed in a direct, eloquent, but also gentle manner. This exposition of memory of the building links directly to the thematic direction, providing a tangible link between the theory and the reality of the building. The journey from inmate to citizen can be seen as one of freedom, reconnection and readjustment. It is a process that is the reverse to that of going to prison, but there is scars remaining from the sentence. This journey is realised in the building, the way it was something used for detainment and scaring through regime is transformed to a restful place, While retaining the everyday activities of the prison. The intervention can be seen as exposing the narrative captured within the building’s memory. It will change the building by adding to the history, use, structure and truth.

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Introduction

Structure of Research This research will be undertaken through analysis of site and programme, a review of relevant theory including changing architecture and thresholds, both important to the project. These will greatly inform the preliminary and developed design, being developed alongside the reviews and analysis.

Figure 1.2: Conceptual Intervetntion Sketch

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–2– Site Analysis

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Site Analysis

Historic The Former Dunedin Prison is a vital part of the “historically distinguished Anzac Square/ Railway Station Heritage Precinct” (Dunedin Prison Charitable Trust 102), so has a duty to uphold the style of the area, especially as it is a prominent, major transport route.

Fig. 2.1: Historic Image of Dunedin Prison

As a category I heritage building, care has to be taken to preserve parts of the building that are historically significant. Retaining much of the original fabric and form of the building, keeping remnants of the previous use of the building - its story and people who have used it – is highly important.

The Prison Building is uniquely suited towards being a place to tell the struggles and containment of people serving a sentence, through understanding the building’s former use, layout and design. The intervention and programme will seek to take advantage of the unique host, the way it has worked in the past will continue into the future. The exterior facade’s should

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Site Analysis

endeavoure to be retained, especially, the front, east facing wall. Original cells in most floors, with hallways/corridors as well should be utilised, alongside an increase in the link to the courtyard through arches and glazing replacement. The courtyard has potential to house the intervention, linking to the administration block. Rooms in the front administration block can be joined, but corridors, windows and ceilings are important. Walls and floors can possibility be removed systematically to enable an open interconnected space, providing double height space, complementing the large courtyard space All spaces should be adapted carefully, ensuring the spaces keep their form and fabric, retaining the understanding of how the space has changed over time (Dunedin Prison Charitable Trust 54).

Fig. 2.3: Ground Level Historic Relevance

Fig. 2.4: Level Two Historic Relevance

Fig. 2.5: Level Three Historic Relevance

Keep original form and fabric

Fig. 2.2: Dunedin Prison Front Facade

Adapt, try to retain form Remove

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Site Analysis

Contemporary With two main grids patterns of streets, the State Highway oneway system surrounds the site, (Figure 5) The Octagon, the centre of the city, forms a radial pattern of streets, which encompass the site and surrounding streets of the Dunedin Prison. These street grids provide opportunities for the combination of these, being on a curved street radiating from the Octagon, while also sitting amongst the SH1 grid parallel. It also reflects the past shoreline, providing evidence of the past and its effect on the location of

the site. Many Heritage Buildings are located nearby, including the Law Courts to the north and Dunbar House to the south. Opposite is the Dunedin Railway Station. All of these have unmodified exteriors (Dunedin Prison Charitable Trust). The Otago Settlers Museum, opposite the entrance to the prison, has been recently added to. This provides an opportunity to respond to the statement of new and old coexisting.

noise city grid highway grid

Figure 2.6: 20m Contour map with major street flows and noise

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Site Analysis

Noteable Buildings

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Accomodation

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Eatery

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Dunedin Prison

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Figure 2.7: Nearby Locations of Interest to the Dunedin Prison U

A: Law Courts L: Craft Bar B: Railway Station M: Terrace Restaurant and Bar C: First Church of Otago O: Bacchur Wine Bar and D: Dunbar House Restaurant E: Otago Settlers Museum P: Ra Café and Bar F: Wharf Hotel Dunedin Q: BX Bistro G: Leviathan Hotel R: Golden Gate Café H: Law Courts Hotel S: The Octagon I: Scenic Hotel Dunedin T: Queens Park J: Scenic Hotel Southern Cross U: Dunedin Chinese Garden and Dunedin Casino K: Minami Sushi Bar and Restaurant

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Site Analysis

Many Hotels, Restaurants and Cafés are located nearby, but not immediately adjacent to the prison. The building has an opportunity to provide space that uniquely responds to the area and its history, setting it apart from the other establishments in the area through the environment and strong heritage link that these places often lack. Dunedin City sits on a flat piece of land, surrounded by hills on many sides, with the end of Otago Harbour on the city’s east. This provides a topographically interesting place for the building to be located, only blocks from the harbour (Dunedin City Council). Most noise pollution to the site will occur from the State Highway, primarily at the front admin block. Accommodation should be located

as far away as possible. The demographics of the city are similar with New Zealand averages, but with a greater population of 18-29 year olds and citizens are generally more educated. With 120 000 people, Dunedin City is the seventh largest city in New Zealand (Statistics New Zealand n.p.). In order to achieve the aims set out, reflecting on the struggle of using the space, a target for the younger educated population may be beneficial, with a thrust for both an understanding of the history and new and insightful experiences and entertainment. The solution needs to be both sophisticated, entertaining but most importantly come from the reality of the context.

gradual private

INNER courtyard

OUTTER administation block

public Figure 2.8: Spatial Arrangement Diagram - Author

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enclosed clearly defined

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Programme Analysis

cells

courtyard

administration block

removed from the assembly

inner place of engagement

connection to the exterior

HOTEL

RESTAURANT

RETAIL

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2

A05

A06

STORE G102 F.F.L -0.370

WC G36

CELL G34

WC G38

CELL G39

F.F.L-0.580

F.F.L-0.580

F.F.L-0.580

CELL G40

CELL G41

CELL G42

F.F.L-0.580

CELL G43

SHOWER G44

OFFICE G45

COOL STORE G71

KITCHEN G69

SHR G37 CELL G33 1 A06

STORE G100 F.F.L -0.470

HALLWAY G47 SK

CARPORT G101

SK

200mm

G58

G59

G57

G60

UP

F.F.L-0.580

DRY STORE G73

W.H.B

G56

G61

G74

F.G.L-0.760

F.G.L-0.760

HOLDING CELL G35d

G55

G75

EXERCISE YARD G49 F.G.L-0.760

G78

G77

F.G.L-0.760

WC G82

HALLWAY G81

F.F.L -0.470

G76

LAUNDRY G80

F.F.L-0.760 F.F.L-0.580

CELL G30

STORE G96

1 A06

STORE G48

OFFICE G40

CELL G31

F.F.L -0.470

STORE G98

G70

F.F.L-0.580 TUB

CELL G32

F.F.L -0.470

STORE G99

STORE G97

TUB

DRY STORE G72

OBSERVATION G46

F.F.L-0.670

HALLWAY G35e

EXERCISE YARD G54

INMATES GYM G53

F.F.L -0.470

CELL G28

F.F.L -0.720

CELL G83

F.F.L-0.580

CELL G35c HOLDING CELL G35a

CELL G29

SK

EXERCISE YARD G51 F.F.L-0.670

F.F.L-0.580 F.F.L-0.580

CELL G84 SHR

F.G.L-0.760

G91

G92

F.F.L-0.580

CELL G35b

TUB

RECREATION / DINING ROOM G52

CELL G85

F.F.L-0.760

G93

F.F.L-0.670

ENTRY G25

F.F.L -0.720

ENTRY G26

STORE G63

UP

HALLWAY G88

HALLWAY G62

HALLWAY G27

F.F.L -0.720

STORE G64

STORE G65

STORE G66

STORE G67

STORE G68

F.F.L -0.720 F.F.L-0.760 UR

100

F.F.L-0.670

HALLWAY G21

1

SHR

F.F.L-0.580

MALE TOILET G12

A05

SHR

SHR G87

FEMALE G13

COMMUNICATIONS G18

ADMINISTRATION G20

F.F.L -0.620

OFFICE G11

G19

RECEIVING OFFICE G24

HOTWATER CYLINDER ROOM G90

CELL G86

SALLY PORT G103

F.F.L-0.580

OFFICE G10

G89

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UP UP

UP

CONTROL ROOM G17

F.F.L -0.670

50

F.G.L -1.070 APPROX

ENTRY G23

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ENTRY G22

STAIRS G14

HALLWAY G09

FOYER G03

DATUM F.F.L 0.000

UP

F.F.L-0.580

HALLWAY G12

F.F.L-0.580

LOCKERS G95

LOCKERS G94

F.F.L-0.670

DATUM F.F.L 0.000

0 10mm

RECEPTION G02

ADMINISTRATION G16

DATUM F.F.L 0.000

MUSTER ROOM G15

HALL G05

STORE G08

OFFICE G06

STORE G07

OFFICE G04

FOYER G01 F.F.L -0.310

F.F.L -0.460 F.F.L -0.610 F.F.L -0.750 F.F.L -0.900 F.F.L -1.040

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Figure 3.1: Prpogramme Context Diagram - Author

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The proposed programme is a combination of retail facilities, a restaurant and hotel rooms. Why is this programme appropriate? Because it will: Provide a range of experiences ranging throughout different times of day, activities and people. Be a place for people from different walks of life in the same way a bond between those in prison was formed.

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Programme Analysis

Programme: Hotel Rooms Location: Cells Occupancy: 50 Guests, 25 Guest Rooms at 4 star

Figure 3.2: Room 211 Hotel T’Point.

The Former Dunedin Prison is a Heritage Building that has many remnants of its past. Being in a prominent and visible part of Central Dunedin, the building has potential in the retail and hospitality sector to earn income for the owners, as well as a place to service the community. The opportunity to provide accommodation will be beneficial to the area. Although there are hotels in the vicinity, the building will allow a new experience previously unseen in the area. The hotel rooms will

enable the nature of the building to be exposed in the same way it was to inmates, 24 hours of the day. It will keep spaces in their original function primarily; a night in the cells will fulfil this. Guest room sizes should be 25 - 36 m2 for 3-5 star rooms. There has to be a strong link between all the various elements of the hotel, the guest rooms, back of house, admin and lobby, circulation being very important. Allowances for back of house (housekeeping, storage, admin and kitchen) need to be made (Tutt).

Programme: Retail Location: Admin Block Occupancy: 2 Tenancies, 51 and 20 m2 each

Figure 3.3: The Souk, Abu Dhabi by Foster and Partners

Retail will provide a space for day-to-day retail to take place, forming a hub and small community. Retail spaces include a Bakery and Barber, a collection of stores that have different personalities, complimenting each other. They are reminiscent to the routine and order of prison life, with eating and hygiene being an important part of this. In addition to keeping the space feasible, retail space will add life to the building, providing a way for both locals and visitors to mix and use the space (Dunedin City Council). A standard width for the spaces is

often used (suited to the columns of the building) and sufficient space for counters (700-900mm walking and 600-850 bench) (Tutt). Usually there is a glass frontage, but this could be an opportunity to make a change on the standard form. It will return life and energy to the building that was once a machine every day, helping the objectives of the project, and encouraging both locals and tourists to use the building. Being located at the front will provide layers of penetration into the building depending on the programme, the further in the more immersive and entangled the experience.

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Programme Analysis

Programme: Eatery Location: Courtyard Occupancy: 102m2 Dining Space, 70m2 Kitchen, 62 Seats

Figure 3.4: Jaffa Port Market, vibrant market atmosphere bringing community inward.

Integrated into the hotel, food stores could be beneficial to the area, being close to students, central city, museums and a major transport route. A pizzeria, coffee shop, deli or café will compliment a restaurant in the courtyard. The restaurant in the courtyard will be the main focus of the design, linking all the elements (Cell blocks and admin block) together, both tectonically and circulatory paths.

The programme will allow a range of activates to take place in the prison building, being beneficial to different parts of society. The new intervention’s programme seeks to reflect upon the dynamic make-up of the former inmates by integrating services that will attract a wider section of the community.

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Programme Analysis

Eatery:

Occupancy Numbers & Proportions

Restaurant

2m2 per person seated

Coffee Shop

1.7m2 per person seated

Kitchen

1.0m2 per person

Ratio: 2:1m2 Seat:Kitchen 2 Ratio: 1.7:1m Seat:Kitchen New Metric Handbook (Chapter 17)

Hotel Rooms: 3 Star

25-27m2

per room

4 Star

30-34m2

per room

Back of House (housekeeping, storage & admin)

1.85m2 per room

Ratio: 18:1m2 Ratio: 15:1m2

4 Star room:Back of House 3 Star room:Back of House

New Metric Handbook (Chapter 11)

Retail Spaces: Sales and Back of House

55:45 Sales: Ancillary

New Metric Handbook (Chapter 13)

Bathrooms: For 120 Capacity (Restaurant and Lobby) 2 x WC (1x Disabled) 1 x Urinal Male 2 x Basins 3 x WC (1x Disabled) 2 x Basins

Female NZBC G1 Table 1, See Appendix 7.

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Figure 3.5: Initial Concept Sketch - Centre of Rotation

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–4– Literature Review

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Literature Review

The theoretical basis for the design intervention will be explored ¬- how disparate elements coexist and are in dialogue with each other and the existing fabric. The literature is chosen for its link to the objectives in three ways: the altering, “All buildings, once handed over by the builders to the client, have three possible fates, namely to remain unchanged, to be altered or to be demolished”. (Scott) The narratives of thresholds and divisions and their impact on the themes as an application of condition, give insights into the intervention within of the building.

Figures 4.1 & 4.2:Initital Concept Sketches - Author

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Literature Review

Change “Alteration is more like a duet than a solo. It is about an art of response as much as it is an art of individual genius; it sets out to make a concord between the new and the existing, or even a discord.” (Scott xvii) Scott’s On Altering Architecture provides insight into the understanding of how existing buildings create space for intervention. This is important in the context of the objectives, with the intervention and existing’s relationship being of utmost importance. The building has become obscure in the context of current times. Scott proposes three strategies for dealing with such buildings – alteration, preservation and demolition (Scott 11). The preservation can be seen in two lights, one as unchanging from the original materials and methods used, the other as a “license to alter” (Scott 47). Making the ruin in interventional work is a precise and creative undertaking, equal in many ways to the installation of the new work. They are twinned operations, with equal requirements of skill and attention, fused together as the outcome of the work (Scott 127). The act of choosing what is removed from the existing, according to Scott, is an important tool to understanding and analysing the space, and can be just as important as the intervention itself. It involves deep thought into what the changes

mean and how they will affect the dialogue with the intervention. From this key work and from other observations, the definition may be proposed that works of intervention are concerned with inhabiting ruins. An altered building is as an inhabited ruin. The ruin is the means by which a building addresses its past, present and future (Scott 126). Brooker and Stone in ‘ReReadings: Interior Architecture and the Design Principals of Remodelling the Existing Buildings’ similarly identify that intervention is strongly related to the existing but the “language used is completely at odds with the host although the character may be balanced” (81). The intervention is used as a form of “physical power” of the building that is used against itself (Brooker and Stone 82), gaining the knowledge of the existing and changing, revealing and adding meaning. The space is “activated” through the change (Brooker and Stone 82). Changing architecture involves adding and removing. Scott shows how intervention can bring new viewpoints to the existing, making comments about what was there before.

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Literature Review

“Alteration is breaking and entry, the precise cut, the strategic section exposed. It makes absences as well as additions”. (Scott 171) The act of changing architecture is powerful, and the process creates

an inevitably strong relationship with the host. Applied to the Dunedin Prison, the addition is an act of freedom for the host.

Narrative

Figure 4.3: Initial concept sketch - Moving Through

Narrative as a tool for designing experiences is highly important. Ganoe’s Design as Narrative finds that aspects of design narrative work within a framework. Innovation and universality involves the uncovering of a range of subjects and topics, and altering these into interiors. Ganoe highlights that design reveals meanings on multiple levels – “behaviour and function, power and status, philosophy and worldview” (Ganoe 13). Transformation through narrative is supplied by psychological events that “alter an individual’s perception of space and time” (Ganoe 9) to change the awareness and emotions. The design

intervention needs to bring together narratives based on individual stories, experiential needs, universal meanings, transforming environments and subjectivity response (Ganoe 13). These levels of narrative need to be applied to the project, showing how the intervention is about the individual and the universal. Basing it from a single character, for example in case study two (25Hours Hotel), brings intimacy to the design. Making the design responsive to people through senses to convey a rich experience is important.

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Literature Review

Boundary “Threshold as an operation entails the preservation of differences, as well as the creation of something new from their coexistence” (Berrizbeitia 82).

Figure 4.4: Initial concept sketch - Collision

Berrizbeitia and Pollak write about the link between architecture and landscape in five respects. In particular interest to the project, threshold is characterized. These spaces are transformations, the flux between two elements that cause “unlikely things” to occur. The relationships in the places are “dynamic” between the conditions required. (Berrizbeitia 82). Borden notes that boundaries “make social orders more concrete” (51). They arise between social elements, the space in-between (Borden 51)and form the definition of the relationship between. The boundary is a “thick edge” that is between in and out, causing a time of uncertainty and unease as the movement through boundary is allowed. (Borden 52) Ardener highlights that space can cause social boundary between individuals, affecting the way people interrelated

and act. (Ardener 16) Boundary and threshold conditions are important to creating space. The change that develops within them can be applied in an exploratory sense to the intervention. The threshold is an element that needs to be further understood in the context of the intervention and its relationship to the existing. Where it meets the heritage it forms a bi axial relationship and epicentre of the design. Research questions pose difficulties in the understanding between environmental and thematic differences, possibly the old and new in the Dunedin Prison. In the text landscape and architecture is used to understand various conditions, which brings an important variation on the idea the relationship between disciplines links strongly with the contextual conditions.

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–5– Project Review

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Project Review

Project: Tower of Porta Nuova Location: Venice, Italy Architect: Map Studio Magnani Pelzel Architetti Associati

Left above: Figure 5.1: Section, Left Below: Figure 5.2: Plan, Above: Figure 5.3 Stair segment inserted into the existing.

This project is a rehabilitation of a neglected building for masting ships. Map Studio - Magnani Pelzel Architetti Associati won the competition to complete the design. Care was taken to ensure the building’s circulation remained,

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especially the existing staircases (Europa Concorsi). Elements were created and added using steel to allow removal if necessary. This intervention exemplifies the aim of enhancing and protecting the existing. Added elements “are


Project Review

Top: Figure 5.4, Ramp. Left Below: Figure 5.5: Stairs and gallery space, additions contrasting through disengagement.

always volumetrically independent of existing masonry structures, so as to enhance the visual perception of the unity of the building” (Europa Concorsi n.p.). New services are only placed inside new structures, keeping the elements of the building separate, reading as unity between new and old. New materials, concrete and steel, are of a completely different texture from the existing masonry, allowing elements to be read clearly. New doesn’t overpower the old, instead matching it in scale. This respects the existing through engagement and repetition of existing elements in a new and complimentary way. This project displays methods of completing objectives with elements disengaged from the building but fitting precisely into a location. The scale of the intervention works in harmony with the existing fabric, providing a symbiotic relationship where care is given to both, craft enabling clear and readable differences from old to new. Going forward, it is clear this project deals with its host building well, and utilising this information will help to develop an intervention that is beneficial and a co-existent inhabitant. Working with materials that will contrast the texture of the masonry walls will be key to the project. Additionally the unconnected mimicry between the new and old will help to establish the duality of the new and old.

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Project Review

Project: 25Hours Hotel Location: Hamburg, Germany Architect: Stephen Williams Associates

25Hours Hotel is based upon a poem about sailors, bringing together different stories from the sea into a cohesive design. Each room was the result of 25 sailors being interviewed, their experiences and reactions embodied spatially through the layout and atmosphere of the space. Individual stories and thoughts are unified together through a common theme. The re purposing provides memory cues of time and place, creating a unified story about one fictional character

Left: Figure 5.6, Deck from shipping container hotel rooms, the rooms aren’t what they seem. Above: Figure 5.7: stairs. Right, Figire 5.8: Plan of hotel layout.

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(Parafianowicz n.p.). Containers make up eating spaces, lifted into the space, providing strong references to the narrative. Although sleeping areas are separate tectonically, they are tied with a similar visual language and materials. The design portrays ideas of intimacy of the cabin in the vast ocean, with very mechanical materials. The utilisation of a design language, reusing elements that resemble of the context provides atmosphere and depth to the design, but this has to be completed without


Project Review

Figure 5.9: Dining space below shipping container, appearing to have moved to reveal the table.

the project becoming “cheap”. The aims of the project are about retaining the personality of the building, telling a story about the past and what it could bring to the future. Learning from this project review there is evidence of mixing together of multiple narratives and themes with the programme. Theories of taking stories and making them spatial are important; this project uses artwork in the

guest rooms to portray narrative (Parafianowicz n.p.). This has potential to be developed further as a tectonic for the prison in a way that matches the scale of the building. Going forward, the design ideas in the building show the importance of the underlying themes and relation to the greater context. Although the project displayed themes to varying success, the motivation behind is a key learning point.

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Figure 5.11:Initial Concept Sketch - Modular Dining

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–6– Preliminary Design

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Preliminary Design

The preliminary design process allowed the understanding of relationships and cemented the link between the administration block and courtyard interventions. The experiments undertaken are in response to the research aims and objectives. A space that is important to the many people who visit it, and that reveals the understanding of the space, its history and importance is the key aim. The problem presents an amount of issues with how heritage spaces are used and the importance and relevance they will have in the future without compromising what it has previously been.

Figure 6.1 - Preliminary Intervention

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Preliminary Design

Field near

Yellow-Lit Windows

The field is ongoing, endless, rugged and exposed

friend

foe

The trees are arms reaching into the sky

Transition- open space within lots of Smaller spaces. Trying to find your own space.

The tree is the admin block, holding everyone at the same time but individually. The cell is at the end of the branch.

The window into a place of domesticity and control

Newfound freedom that is overwhelming The regulated is now unregulated. Relationship between the courtyard and the cells, and the doorway as a window between

Restaurant is pulling away, from the controlled path - not regulated by the existing

The window into a place hidden from sight

Relationship between the courtyard and the cells, and the doorway as a window between

The window into family, friends and home

Inner workings of the tree are hidden by the trunk. Yet the outcome are lights of the future. Light at top of verticals.

The window is fond memories passing by

Passing by the memories of life within are overtaken by the endless space. Some windows show snapshots of the past while others show glimpses of the future. Different openings and views.

Possessions that are loved are taken away, as transitions are made the pathway broken. Boundaries change spacial configuration.

The window into a claustrophobic and imitation of the real world

The honesty of materials is brought to life with the exposure of yourself in the field. The real world is imitated within these physical manifestations. Tight to endless.

Reuniting spaces in the “other traveller”. Strong connection of the past. The arms of the tree bring the emotions together. Like comrades.

Table 6.1 - Theoretical Matrix

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far The sky is an overshadowing porous canopy

The field is people who have changed over time - now unknown

The mountains are a distant unknown destination

Horizontal ceiling, roof overhead. Newfound freedom that is overwhelming The regulated is now unregulated

Leaving one family, returning to another. Changing space between retail and restaurant. Switching characters.

Hope of the future. The eventual and impending change that will happen.

Link to the exterior - a need to find your own place to stay - movement from the formal to informal

Control of the tree, tells people how to physically change actions but cant mentally change. Control forms strict pathways for movement.

Pathways of control, breakaway with freedom

Always hidden but once within the box of the cell, isolation. Now hidden only by the canopy above.

Isolation from people who have now change. Unknown of where you now live.

Trying to find a place to hide within the exposed mountains. The cell is your new space, yet reminds you of the prison cells.

Modular layers that enclose, insulating the memories from being shared no link to the previous life. Isolates you from the other traveller. Your belongings become the canopy. Small personal elements.

The trees are walls and spikes, slicing the memories of within. Disengagement from existing. The Guards standing by

Cells are where new memories will be created. Isolated from others, a place to dream back to the yellow lit windows.

The facade is an imitation of what is happening inside, the inner workings of the prison. The sky is the exposure of this. Allowing the truth to be seen.

Exposed to the harsh realities, dangerous places and events. Loosing connection with the other traveller.

Mountains are the distance exploding the doors of caecorrhaphies. Cell windows are the hope beyond the windows.

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Figures 6.2-6.6: Courtyard Intervention Development

Figures 6.7 & 6.8: Administraion Block Intervention Development

The accuracy and ability of the design experiments to achieve a level of realism is important to the design intervention. The preliminary design attempts to handle the history of the site through the application of the epigraph. The process of leaving prison is one that one that is emotion filled, which is explored within the experiment. The administration block begins to tell the story of the warm “yellow-lit windows”, the comfort of comradeship felt inside, as well as the reflection of the new “cells” that are looking into the central path through the space. The courtyard embodies

the fields of despair, with feelings of exclusion and lost hope without support, a machine of society pushing the prison cells into place. The way these two opposing elements come together is important, the wall between the courtyard and administration block becomes key for transition. Programmatically, the proposed design answers the research objectives of programme with a layered approach. Levels of privacy increase deeper into the space, retail in the outer, then dining, lobby and finally kitchen. At this stage, the design is mono axial.

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The literature review speaks of spaces that bring a new perspective to the existing, working to compliment and highlight parts of the old. This has the beginnings of being evidenced within the new ‘cells’ and dining wall and a continuation of the existing cell block. However, the administration block doesn’t have any apparent connection to the exterior, there is no large amount of dialogue with the façade, but does deal with the symmetry of the space and the building as a whole. Figure 6.9 - 6.13 - Initial Design Sketches

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Figure 6.15: Preliminary Design: Contextual

Case studies have had influence, with 25 Hours Hotel having people whose stories are revealed within the spaces an important part to the success of the design. This is not incorporated as well as possible. The application of a true and accurate story may help more, rather than a theoretical application. Important design decisions made were the framework of layers moving through the space. The parallel

of opposition between the courtyard and admin block and its relationship to the narrative of the emotions of leaving prison will be key in the development stage. Also the discovery of the site implications and how to form a conversation to the intervention is invaluable.

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6.16: Preliminary Design: Intervention - Front View

Intervention Elements

Kitchen - 88 m2 for 90 seat restaurant

Restaurant Dining - 200m2 for 100 seats

6.17 - 6.19: Preliminary Design: Programmatic Charateristcs

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Retail - 4 stores


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Figure 6.19: Programmatic Ordering

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Programmatic Diagram

Figure 6.20: Programmatic Ordering

Circulation Retail Restaurant Kitchen

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The developed design intervention further tells a narrative between the front and back. The three major parts of the intervention display the beginning, middle and end of the transition, becoming a key part of the intervention.

Figure 7.1: Overall Intervention

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Figure 7.2: Presentation Panels

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Figure 7.3: Passing between the cloaked ones to the light within. Standing at full awareness they cast shadows but also extend a welcoming but firm hand.

The investigation of flux in the thresholds of the prison has invoked a further understanding of the space and how the stories contained within the prison are enacted. The project research questions where about: the consequences of leaving prison, the subjections and change in emotions and the exposition of past of the prison in a meaningful way. It is important for the intervention to take cues from the existing, providing a new viewpoint on the remaining, and revealing powerful connections within that were not apparent previously. – 43 –


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the collision The central wall becomes a space for thresholds. The space compresses and expands the pathway through the space, while also drawing on the layout of the exiting columns and walls. This threshold is developed from the texts explored in the literature review, a space “where exchanges between unlikely things occur.” The space is not formed from one of the oppositions, instead a hybrid of both. Answering the objective of exploring the transition between in and out of prison and the physical and emotional hardships associated with it formed a space of power and compression.

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dispersion

Figure 7.5: Two paths take you to the stairs and eating space. One the receiver, one the giver.

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REFLECTION

Figure 7.6: Peering back through, horizontals meeting the verticals with force. The wall is shaping those who move through it.

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Figure 7.7 - 7.11: Overall Intervention and its elements.

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Powerful Creatures disgused by their Cloaks

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The administration block intervention, being the first new aspect seen, provides a setting of powerful creatures that are disgusted by their cloaks. They meet the façade head on and act as the reality of prison life, and programmatically function as the space for retail. This fits with the research objectives for setting the beginning state of the narrative while also providing a programmatic function to the space that will be used by the community. Left: Figure 7.12: North Facing Section

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The space addresses the programmatic requirements for the redevelopment of the site, integrating it into the narrative of the site with levels of depth. The intervention displays the truth of itself and the intervention, being accurate and within the New Zealand Building Code requirements.

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Figure 7.13: South Facing Section

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Alteration is more like a duet than a solo. (Scott)

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Figure 7.14: Perspective Plan

The developed design seeks to repair the missing links between the various parts of the intervention and existing that the preliminary design struggled with. There were issues in achieving a design language that could be both a static and bold form in the administration block while

also enacting a dynamic machine in the courtyard. Translating a bold and symmetrical design language into an asymmetrical one in the rear resolved this. The philosophy of interface between old and new was to allow space between the elements. Informed by Scott, materiality is to

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Figure 7.15: Plan

contrast the old, creating readability. The places this is broken is where circulation is required, and the central wall element, providing a mirror line of threshold that is heightened by its placement. Research Questions, Aims and Objectives have fed into the

developed design, along with literature, context and case studies. There is exploration of space, which creates the emotional, painful and challenging experience of leaving prison, making the result relevant to societies past as well as the future.

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Deatil One

Deatil Two

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Deatil Three

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Figure 7.16: Existing Structural Grid

Figure 7.17: Circulation Public Figure :Circulation Private

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guest rooms 25 rooms (4 star) 50 guests

restaurant dining space (upper) lobby (lower) 102 sq m 62 people seated

public fire stairs & lift

male bathrooms 2 toilets (1 accessable) 1 urinal

stairs & lift

bakery 51 sq m

restaurant reception/service area

restaurant & bakery kitchen

female bathrooms 3 toilets (1 accessable)

bakery (upper) barber (lower) 20 sq m (barber)

Figure 7.18: Spatial Funtions

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70 sq m caters for 140 people

back of house stairs

bakery back of house 11 sq m


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Figure 7.19: Materials Palette

Figure 7.20: Custom Furniture - Lobby Lounger

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Conclusions & Critical Reflections

The intent of the project is to recover and re-establish the prison history in a way that is accessible understandable translated in a way that has a direct relationship to the existing building. It has revealed stories and also enhanced the raw and rough remains. It was important that the issue was resolved through design to harness the emotion a physical space can provide mentally, allowing it to have a deeper meaning over time, to create a new history, adding to the already rich existing.

A strong relationship between two opposites is developed, and an understanding of how a new design can alter an existing to add depth was invaluable. The interface with the existing created a powerful tool that was applied as a rule. Programmatically, the space has a strong link with what was, becoming a place of community that once was, but in a new form. Through design, spaces now evidence the family that once was.

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Distinguishing elements to be from the same architectural family but with different meanings proved difficult, with the courtyard intervention lacking the strong forceful nature the rest of the

Figure 8.1 & 8.2: Sketch to intervention endpoint

intervention. A core aim was around the link with existing, but read as a narrative of old and new. In places the design is claustrophobic and can be difficult to read as having a strong relationships with each other.

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Additionally, an application of a more in depth narrative to help fully understand the emotions of the process of transition could have been beneficial. This would help inform a higher level of detail and reference in the design. Constraints of the project may be to tell and draw from an account of being released through a literal experience. This is important to developing the building not just as a space about the building and the people who were within it, but about real people and their true emotions and actions. In the future the design could be taken into more detail with more connections between elements. Also the hotel rooms could be integrated into the intervention as an auxiliary element, bringing unity and completing the design. At a basic level, the project can be used as a study in boundaries, and applied

to situations that involve change, bordering a point between past and future. It is a group of initial experiments that can be used to set constraints for a project. The less explored consequence of leaving prison is that comradeship and community is abandoned. A life of structure and formalities is manufactured then taken away. Comfort is found within the objectification of being a prisoner. The mind and body are separate. The duality between inside and out becomes highlighted, with opposites of empathy and objectivity arising. The Ones Who Walk Away creates a new point in the history of a key building in Dunedin’s heritage. It aims to provide a new chapter of life that is sympathetic to what is has been, but hopeful to what it can become.

“Night falls; the traveler must pass down village streets, between the houses with yellow- lit windows, and on out into the darkness of the fields. Each alone, they go west or north, towards the mountains. They go on.” The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, Ursula K. Le Guin, Pg. 7

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Appendix 2: Restaurant (Metric Handbook Ch. 17)

Restaurant Functional Relationships

Time Saving Standards for Building Types p. 758

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Appendices Appendix 1: Hotel (Metric Handbook Ch. 11)

Circulation Rationalisation

Room Area for class (m2)

Service Area according to guest rooms numbers

Circulation Diagram

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Appendices Typical floor Area Calculation for 100 Room Hotel (Time Saving Standards for Building Types p. 897-898)

2369 m2 947 m2

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Appendices Escape means from hotel rooms

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Appendices Appendix 3: Retail (Metric Handbook Ch. 13)

Bakery

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Bakery

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Appendices Appendix 6: Dunedin Prison Plan for Spaces

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Appendices Appendix 7: New Zealand Building Code Compliance

NZMBIE. New Zealand Building Code. Web. 03.08.2014 ,2014 < http://www.dbh.govt.nz/compliancedocuments#handbooks >

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Appendices Appendix 8: Material Selection

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Appendices Appendix 9: Furniture Selection

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