Dear handmade life by Zimeng Zhang

Dear handmade life ZIMENG ZHANG 1103082

STUDIO-07-NO VACANCY 2020

Contents.

1. Mid-semester review Manifesto pre-program Introspection

2. Major project Brief Context Design concept Major program

Definition of heritage.

Heritage is a container that containing the lifestyle and culture of the surrounding society. It is a result of social development. It is responsibled for the formation of human cultural consciousness. It transmit intriguing stories to next generation.

Manifesto

If we can trace the lifestyle of generations or urban texture through a building, an area or an article, all of them can be called as heritage. Heritage preserving or displaying a container of old things. Somethime it is tangible like building and object, sometime it is intangible like culture, memories and traditional lifestyle. However, must of the heritage contain both tangible and intangible things. If we can trace the lifestyle of generations or urban texture through a building, an area or an article, all of them can be called as heritage. For example, the shophouse is an architecture form that spread all around southeast Asia and south China, and became a commonly used term since the 1950s. this building serving both as a residence and a commercial business. In order to suit for the lifestyle and urban settlers, shophouse were design to be narrow and deep. The front area along the street was formal space for customers, the rear house were informal space for family members. As mentioned earlier, we can trace the lifestyle of local residents through shophousesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; foot-plan from 1950s. Hence, the shophouse is heritage which contain the history of the whole area.

Manifesto

Human activates are important part of heritage. However, as time weaken all memories and stories, the building becoming meaningless. Meanwhile, old using spaces can not adapt the contemporary lifestyle, A new method is need to be proposed to resolve the vacancy problem of the heritage. In addition, Heritage plays a significant role in urban texture and human culture, it connects the past experience and future development. As a witness of city formation, it also has a responsibility to preserve the dying culture. Therefore, heritage preservation needs to consider both old histories and future opportunities. Strengthening old usage while breathing new life into heritage not only can activate the whole building and community, but also sustainably preserve the culture.

Heritage preservation

Heritage

people, memory, feelings, activities

Proactive Retroactive

space, structure, type

Site analysis

Himali Jajal_1048659 Zimezhang _1103082 Weishang Liu_

Jab warehouse

Site analysis

SITE

Uses and users

History and story

Eugene Von Guerard

Tailor, Mercer

62 60

Tailor, Mercer

Cafa

54 56-58

Photographic studio

1956

1899

1969

1848

Grocer

Meat-preserving

Book shop

2005

2012

2018

TIMELINE

Boot shop

History and story

2 1

History and story

This row of shops was built in two stages. A large shop and a residence above it were built on the Crossley Street corner in 1848 by a well-known butcher, William Crossley. The premises were used as a meat-preserving works, with the land adjacent used as a slaughter yard. The adjoining shops to the east were added in 1849 in the same style, so that the completed building extended between Crossley Street (then called Romeo Lane) and Liverpool Street (then Juliet Lane). The architect is not known. The shop on the Crossley Street corner was occupied in the early 1850s by the butcher Henry Crossley, and by Mrs Ann Crossley from 1855-58. Throughout the rest of the nineteenth century it was occupied by a succession of butchers, including William (later Sir William) Angliss (in 1896-99), and by a grocer and fruiterer until 1969 when it became a book shop. The other shops have been used since the 1850s by many businesses, including variously a shoe shop, drapery, photographic studio, cafe, grocer, wine and spirit merchant, tailor and mercer. ----From vhd.heritagecouncil

History and story

The prominent artist Eugene von Guerard, who dominated Victorian landscape painting during the late colonial period, occupied number 56 in 1857-58, when he was beginning to establish his career as an artist. Several of the shops were occupied from 1956 by Jacob Zeimer, a post-World War II European migrant. He eventually owned the whole building, and Job Warehouse became well-known in Melbourne for its wide range of fabrics for home dressmakers, dress designers and theatre groups. ----From vhd.heritagecouncil

History and story Job Warehouse is significant at the State level for the following reasons: Job Warehouse is historically significant as among the oldest surviving buildings in Melbourne. It is probably the oldest surviving shop row in the city and forms an important link to pre-gold rush Melbourne. The various businesses which occupied the four shops during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries reflect the residential nature of this part of Melbourne until the second half of the twentieth century, and the various businesses required to provide everyday goods and services to local residents. It also demonstrates the nineteenth and early twentieth century practice of people living in close proximity to the businesses which they ran. [Criterion A] Job Warehouse is a rare surviving example of a pre-gold rush commercial building, and of an early shop row, a type which was once common in the city but has now almost completely disappeared. [Criterion B] Job Warehouse is architecturally significant as an example of the small-scale austere Georgian style buildings typical of pre-gold rush Melbourne. This style was the basis for most architecture in Australia from the time of European settlement until at least the mid-nineteenth century, but is not common in Victoria, as after 1851 the wealth generated by gold soon led to the popularity of more ornate styles and the replacement of earlier buildings. [Criterion D]

History and story

The shop stands out at the top of Bourke Street because of its rustic cage doors and dusty window displays. Inside, it's unheated and dimly lit. Bolts of cloth of all colours and textures are piled to the ceiling. Boxes of folded fabric and ribbon block the aisles. -From Old shop's demise a blow to city's material wellbeing

Mid-semester project

Project concept1- "re-appear"

Presenting the sites's historical stories combining with commercial and public spaces application

Project concept1- "re-appear"

"Fabric shop" Dyed cloth workshop Custom-made Fabric library Fabric selling "Fabric shop"

Fashion show

Project concept1- "re-appear"

Keeping: Bookstore Cafe/ Bar Move up to second floor

Project concept2- "new-life"

Inserting contemporary activities to constrasted with the old.

Project concept2- "new-life"

Fathion show

Project concept2- "new-life"

Fathion line

Dyed cloth workshop

Project concept3- "re-build"

Emphasizing inherent bricks' textrure and adding new elements

La Seca

Meritxell Inaraja i Genís, arquitecta

Barcelons, Spain 2013 RESTORATION OF OLD CURRENCY’S FACTORY

Jewelry store

Bar/Cafe Vacancy Bookstore

Ground floor - Before

Exhibition

Toilet

Central void

"Activities line"

Fabric shop

Ground floor - After

Exhibition Central void Bookstore

Clothes shop

Second floor - Before

Cafe

Customized area

Second floor - After

Mid semester introspection

This project lack of research, there is not strong connection between design concept and heritage preserving method. So in the next semester, I need to do more research to support my concept and find out the situation of this heritage. How to activate the vacant heritage, how to bring the social issue in to this heritage.

Upgraded project

Memory

History

Australia Textiles

Melbourne Culture Wool

Fashion

Concept development

Fabric

Haberdashery

Concept development

Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history is interlaced with textiles. From the arrival of sheep with the first fleet in 1788 people established many industries and textile shops, The Australian textile and apparel industry plays a substantial role across the economy including in design, education, fibre production, services, research and technology.

Concept development

The influx of migrants following World War II, brought textile design and manufacturing expertise, along side a different approach to food, culture and the multicultural we have today began to take shape. But at that time, most of the manufacturers has been content to copy designs from overseas. Until the first industrial design studios was build in Melbourne in 1922.

Concept development

They introduced screen-print fabric and new techniques to the public view. Australian designers began to receive international recognition. Meanwhile, Melbourne becoming the world-class fashion city.

Concept development

4.6

30YEARS

MILLION TO

MILLION

However, the population in Melbourne cities is growing rapidly, there will more than double itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population in 30 years.

This increase in density has imporved the city in many ways

Public space increase Daily visitation increase Urban form change Accelerating life Online shopping

Streets make up 80% of the public space in the city. Daily visitation is up by over 40% since 2002. Substantial growth in land price and population cause the inner-city shift to residential development from retails. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more, the accelerating life and development of online shopping make retails stores like fabric and haberdashery becoming the past.

CLOSED

Job warehouse

Clegs fabric

Clayton fabrics

More and more fabric shop were closed, like Job warehouse, clegs fabric and Clayton fabric. Because people arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sewing or doing crafts as much as they used to. They want things ready-made, and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have time to put into actually making something. In the other words, there is a disengagement from the consumers to the textile industry

Create some spaces that make people part of the making clothes process or more engaged to it.

Escribano Rosique Arquitectos

Fabcafe Barcelona

FabCafe is a space where people can meet and make connections. Providing access to digital fabrication tools, like laser cutters and 3D printers, those who come to FabCafe will be able to bring to life their designs. FabCafe is the place to go to enjoy creating things with other people, while discovering the answers to our favorite question "What do you Fab?"--From linkedinfabcafe barcelona

Site analysis

150m

450m

600m

Concept Development

-Activaing

-Modifying

Activaing the idle space of the heritage by injecting fabric workshop. Modifying the existing usage so that it can intensify the past memory of the building.