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LAW GALLERY HOUSE
MELBOURNE-LEGAL-PRECINCT-2050
Individual work
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Master year 1 Studio C, 2019
Tutor: Ariani Anwar
Collaboration: John Wardle Architects
DESIGN BRIEF
The project critiques established conventions of the court typology and introduces new and innovative programs into the building and surrounding urban realm, in order to allow the court to act as a contemporary community gathering place.
The Law Gallery House is a second-life home to ex-criminals, and a gallery where the legal trials and the accused, the general public life, and ex-criminals’ new life become curated objects juxtaposed to each other, promoting better connections and deeper interpretations of each other.
The law gallery house is a second-life home for ex-criminals to reintroduce them into our community by offering necessary skills and employment. Various activities of the three groups require courtrooms, broadcast studios for teleconferencing, education, entertainment and exhibition spaces, market lanes, cooking classes, and a food court. As historical laneways have been diminishing since 1895, the future twonscaping will restore the unique Melbourne laneway culture. The final arrangement features highly mixed and active ground floor laneways.
In the law gallery house, ex-criminals after going through cooking classes and art workshop can become chefs and artists to regain public support, and exhackers can become IT technicians, to construct the virtual court. Law Gallery House will help our society to reconfigure a harmonious and active community.
