ARC Design Research Studio ST22_S1, 2023_103336847_Adrian Pace_PART ONE

Studio (Un)Real v2

Future Food Systems

Studio 12

Led by Linus Tan

2023-HS1- ARC80003

Design Research Studio D

Unit Convener: Professor Mark Taylor

Semester 1 2023

Master of Architecture

Swinburne University of Technology, School of Design and Architecture

Adrian Pace

103336847

CONTENTS

On the one hand is about shelter, but it’s also about pleasure.”

“Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space...

-Zaha Hadid

“How can a Food innovation hub strengthen community gatherings, creating new local connections, social group?”

strengthen and grow migrant culture by facilitating connections, and welcoming others into a group?”

Most of us may be familiar with the scene in Lady and the Tramp, where the main characters were eating pasta and the moment their lips met from sharing the pasta, it tore down the societal class barrier. Though it may be a simple animation movie, it reflects our society rather accurately; that food knows no class and can bring people from all walks of life together.

Pasta has a long history that spans thousands of years and has been enjoyed by people around the world. Originating in China, pasta eventually made its way to Italy where it became a staple food and cultural icon. Today, pasta remains a beloved dish that brings people togethe r through its versatility and ability to be shared among family and friends. Whether it’s a simple spaghetti dinner or an elaborate pasta feast, the act of sharing a meal centered around pasta is a time-honored tradition that fosters connection and community.

PROJECT 1.1

PASTA WITH HOMEMADE TOMATO SAUCE

Coming from an Italian background, traditional food is a massive part of our culture and our life. My lived experience shown is an image of spaghetti with homemade tomato passata (sauce). This image may just look like a delicious bowl of a traditional Italian meal, but to myself and my whole family, this images symbolises a day of hard work, laughter and life long memories.

In Italian tradition, once a year, our family gathers all together to spend a day making passata. Sauce (passata) day is an annual Italian tradition that’s celebrated around Australia, often in January when tomatoes are at their best. It involves our family coming together, chopping tomatoes, boiling them, and then bottling the mixture for cooking throughout the year. Of course, at the end of a hard day’s work, it also calls for a classic Italian lunch or dinner, with homemade wine and lots of laughter.

This meal creates a strong lived experience not only for myself, but the whole family. It brings me back to a time of hard work and precious moments together. This meal reminds me of spending time with my extended family, enjoying each other’s company, and creating this beloved meal for everyone to enjoy throughout the year.

Tomato sauce does more than ignite taste buds all over the world with its fresh, savoury flavour. It brings families around the table to tell old stories, share laughs and create new memories.

HOMEMADE TOMATO SAUCE PROCESS

Wash and core all tomatoes

Grow or Purchase boxes of Roma

Pass through machine to remove the skin and puree and

Boil in large pots

Fill jars and add the lid

Boil jars in large pot for 30 mins to seal and preserve

Once boiled, the sauce is ready for use

Cook fresh pasta in salted boiling water

HOMEMADE PASTA PROCESS

Mix ingredients

Knead dough into a ball and leave to rest

- Flour - Eggs

- Olive Oil - Salt

Flatten dough and run it through pasta

Fold in half and run dough through the pasta maker again

Run pasta sheets through the desired pasta cutter

THE REVOLUTION OF PASTA THROUGHOUT HISTORY

1 BCE

Horace, the great roman poet, references fried sheets of dough called lagana

2-220

Noodles are referenced in a book written during China’s East Han dynasty. Called mian pian, they are made by breaking small pieces off of a larger bread or cake before being boiled in soup

2 CE

A Greek physician by the name of Galen mentions itrion in his writings, referring to the mixture of water and flour

400

A string-like pasta made of semolina called itrium is mentioned in the Talmud, a Jewish text

A record of China’s Tang dynasty notes the first occasion on which noodles are made into strips

Records indicate that this is the century in which reshteh, a thin noodle, is developed and eaten in Persia

609-907 1200 960-1269 1271-1368

Mian (wheat-based) and fen (rice-based) become China’s formal names for noodles, and noodle shops become popular in Chinese cities

During China’s Yuan Dynasty, the ability to dry noodles for the purpose of preservation is developed and practiced

1271-1368

13TH CENTURY 17TH CENTURY 1914

According to “Pasta: the Story of a Universal Food”, the first recorded reference to pasta products in Italy appears in this century

Pasta was becoming a staple meal for commoners due to industrial pasta made by machines

Record of Pasta exportation, 70,000 tones exported in the world

15TH CENTURY 19TH CENTURY 2019 - PRESENT

Pasta was considered a dish for the wealthy, mixed with many ingredients (sweet, savoury and spicy flavours)

Tomatoes are added. A recipe for spaghetti and tomato sauce first appears in 1844

Over 145 millions tones of Pasta produced in the world, with Italy leading in both production and consumption of pasta

THE LEGEND OF THE TOMATO SAUCE

Originally known as a love remedy , the tomato sauce was to replace the pepper preserve, giving rise to an infinity of dishes among them the “sugo” or “salsa al pomodoro”, or the celebrated Neapolitan pizza. The first tomato sauce was born on a summer night , which was meant to be a night of love. Vexed for the continuous refusals of a maid, the young d’Avalos marquis picked three “pommes d’amour” from the garden, crushed and mixed them with the leftovers of the onions and herbs lightly fried in oil. The red fruit coming from the New World was believed to be a love potion.

The gluttonous maid ate the dish. The youth then seized her, thinking he would find no resistance whatsoever. Alas, he received a blow with a frying pan on his head. While he was rising back on his feet, completely stunned, the maid was safe in her room.

He was desolate. Staring at the leftover on the table, he tasted a bit. In an instant he devoured it all. That mysterious flavors had conquered him. The next day he ordered his cook to serve him a sauce with pommes d’amour.

Whether the story of the noble Avalos is true, it is difficult to say. But it is a fact that the “pummarole” slowly lost the evidently undeserved fame of love remedy, but acquired throughout the 18th century a new notoriety.

A new sauce had been discovered, that replaced the pepper preserve and that could be joined to an infinity of dishes, enriching and even exalting their taste.

FACTS ABOUT PASTA

Thomas Jefferson helped make pasta popular in America. While he was traveling to Italy, he fell in love with a macaroni dish he had. When he came back to the United States, he returned with crates of pasta.

Pasta differs from other noodles because of one key ingredient: flour. While most noodles are made from flour that is milled from common wheat, pasta is made from durum semolina which is a coarser flour that gives dried pasta the ability to rehydrate well when boiled.

Currently, there are over 600 different types of pasta, and those types have over 1300 different names.

The three most popular pasta noodles are penne, spaghetti, and macaroni; while the three most popular pasta entrees are macaroni and cheese, lasagna, and spaghetti bolognese.

PROJECT 1.2

CARLTON: THE DOWNFALL OF LYGON STREET

The suburb of Carlton, and more specifically Lygon Street, was once know as Melbourne’s Little Italy, but this bustling suburb as many once knew it, is slowly subsiding over the recent years. The rich Italian influence and culture of Carlton is loosing its place within the suburb due the downfall of Lygon street and the fact that many other suburbs becoming the new home to many more Italian residents and migrants.

Restaurateurs and shop owners are abandoning Lygon Street, Melbourne’s once-bustling Little Italy, with vacancy rates more than doubling over the past year. Vacancy rates on Carlton’s famous restaurant strip have risen sharply, with at least 13.5 per cent of shops sitting empty in 2019, compared to 5.6 per cent the year before. Struggling restaurant owners are blaming several factors for the street’s woes, including poor parking, soaring rents and a lack of events. In the 1960’s, 25% of Carlton’s population was Italian, but compared to todays statistics, less than 8% of the population within Carlton are of Italian ancestry. This fact clearly shows that the Italian population of Melbourne have left Carlton and are now living elsewhere.

As the Italian culture and heritage within Carlton is rapidly decreasing, surrounding suburbs are quickly becoming hotpots for Italians living in Melbourne. East of Melbourne,

Bulleen is quickly becoming home to many Italians residents and could be seen as the new “Little Italy” of Melbourne with many residents of Italian heritage filling the suburb. Bulleen is rapidly growing and is already home to many Italian inspired Cafe’s & Restaurants, Social Clubs and popular Italian grocery stores.

North Carlton at the end of 1800s used to be a place for poor people, as they could not afford to live anywhere else in Melbourne. Italian migrants arriving in the 1920s, moved to Carlton because back then you could find rooms to rent in boarding houses which were very cheap. As Melbourne started to develop rapidly around the 1960s, Italian migrants would start to move to the newly developed suburbs that would offer them a better life than Carlton could.

Italian migrants during the 1950s and 1960s were mostly agricultural workers from the southern regions of Italy which were home to a rich landscape and farmlands. Around the 1960s the suburb of Bulleen was a newly founded and quickly became the ideal location for these migrants Bulleen was home to huge blocks of land, just as the Italian migrants remembered from back home. Italian migrants moved to Bulleen to have a larger home, to grown fresh produce in their own backyards and to start a young family.

DEMOGRAPHIC STATISTICS OF BULLEEN

11,289 people, 48.8% Male & 51.2% Female with a median age of 45

Cultural Diversity: Italian Influence within Bulleen

Born in Italy: Father

Bulleen: 13.2%

Victoria: 2.8%

Born in Italy: Mother

Bulleen: 12%

Victoria: 2.4%

Italian culture in Bulleen has been reinforced by the community’s closeknit nature and the shared experience of migration and resettlement. As a result, Bulleen has become known as a v ibrant hub of Italian culture in Melbourne , with annual festivals, events, and celebrations that showcase the community’s heritage and traditions.

BULLEEN PROGRAMME ANALYSIS: VEGETATION

LEGEND:

parkland/green spaces

major roads

local roads

bulleen boundary

BULLEEN PROGRAMME ANALYSIS: FIGURE GROUND

LEGEND:

mid-rise building

low-rise/residential

major roads

local roads

bulleen boundary

BULLEEN PROGRAMME ANALYSIS: PUBLIC TRANSPORT

LEGEND:

bus stops

train line

major roads

local roads

bulleen boundary

BULLEEN PROGRAMME ANALYSIS: AMENITY

LEGEND:

supermarket/retail

restaurant/cafe/bar

major roads

local roads

bulleen boundary

BULLEEN PROGRAMME ANALYSIS: FACILITY

LEGEND:

sports facility

schools

medical facility

major roads

local roads

bulleen boundary

NETWORK ANALYSIS: FOOD ORIGIN SOURCES

FOOD SUPPLIERS SHOWN

Melbourne Market (large circle)

Bellissima Italian Pantry

Pieno Di Grazia

Tesoro Gastronomia

Enoteca Sileno

Mediterranean Wholesale

Costante Imports

Bonfood

Fine Food Depot

Classica International

Campoli Foods

Pasta Al Dente Wholesale

Marchetti Fine Foods

Campania Alimentari

Food Art Distribution

Tripodi Wholesale

LEGEND:

large italian food suppliers

path of transport

bulleen

NETWORK ANALYSIS: FOOD WASTE POINTS

LANDFILL POINTS SHOWN

Altona North Landfill

Western Land Reclamation

Sunshine Landfill

Melbourne Regional Landfill

Werribee Landfill

Maddingley Brown Landfill Bio Gro - Dandenong

ORGANIC FACILITY SHOWN

Food and garden waste is collected throughout the Manningham council (Bulleen) and then will be sent to Bio Gro, an organics facility where it will be transformed into high-grade compost.

LEGEND:

organics facility

landfill points

path of transport 12km

bulleen

SITE ANALYSIS: BULLEEN PLAZA WEST CAR PARK

Bulleen Plaza is located in the heart of Bulleen and is the main shopping hub where locals go to get their fresh fruit & vegetables, groceries and their everyday essentials. The complex also includes a gym, library, chemist and multiple takeaway restaurants. Bulleen Plaza is located off Manningham Road (south) which makes it very accessible for all visitors. The surrounding streets include, Bourke Street (north), Grant Olson Avenue (east), and Derek Avenue (west).

My subject site is located in the north-west corner of the Bulleen Plaza complex. The site sits on the corner of Bourke Street and Derreck Avenue and the immediate surroundings are made up of predominantly residential areas where the pedestrian and road traffic is very minimal.

SITE ANALYSIS: BULLEEN PLAZA WEST CAR PARK

quiet complex car park with users stopping quickly to get essentials

quiet and lonely residential neighborhood surrounding the site surrounding

large open roads throughout surrounding residential streets

harsh site boundary and separation between public and private space

private residential neighborhood

public space bulleen plaza

throughout streets

possibility for user engagement though the use of open shops/stalls in the middle of the pedestrian walkway

poor connection between storefronts and pedestrian walkway

and lonely neighboring streets

empty and eerie feeling throughout the shopping complex

minimal user engagement throughout shopping complex

SITE ANALYSIS: BULLEEN PLAZA WEST CAR PARK

SUMMER SHADOW ANALYSIS: 22nd December - 9am

SUMMER SHADOW ANALYSIS:

22nd December - 12am

SUMMER SHADOW ANALYSIS: 22nd December - 3pm

SITE ANALYSIS: BULLEEN PLAZA WEST CAR PARK

WINTER SHADOW ANALYSIS: 21st June - 9am

WINTER SHADOW ANALYSIS:

ANALYSIS: 21st June - 12pm

WINTER SHADOW ANALYSIS: 21st June - 3pm

SITE ANALYSIS: BULLEEN PLAZA WEST CAR PARK

SURROUNDING

heavy/slow

PLANNING ZONE OVERLAYS

COMMERCIAL ZONE 1

to create vibrant mixed use commercial centres for retail, office, business, entertainment and community uses.

GENERAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE

to encourage development that respects the neighbourhood character of the area.

RESIDENTIAL GROWTH ZONE

to encourage a diversity of housing types in locations offering good access to services and transport including activity centres and town centres.

RGZ2

GRZ2 C1Z

C1Z GRZ2

RGZ2

PROJECT 1.3