‘Avant-Garde Living’

“Mixed-Use living for Creative Practitoners and Families”

By Alex Daicos (102977805) & Austin Stanley (102119568)

The rise of inflation in Australia currently at 7.8%, property prices have risen to all-time highs. With the medium price sitting at $894,000 as of December 2022...

This has led to many properties being out of reach to many people. these include Young Families and Creative Practitioners. In Particular, most Creative practitioners usually take up residency in artists colonies which operative on a selective application model based on merit...

Despite Richmond having a median Property price of $1.5 million. The area has a lot to offer to the said demographics in the way of Art Galleries & vast parklands...

With this, our design trajectory will focus on how an inclusive, build to rent model will cater to the user groups of Young Families and Creative Practitioners wanting to call Richmond Home...

• Located on Melbourne’s North-East Fringe surrounded by Natural bushland and within a 10 minute drive from Hurstbridge Train Station.

• One of the first artists colonies established in Australia during the 1950’s, with the aim of promoting and preserving a lasting vision of appreciation, inspiration and understanding of Australia’s nautral surroundings and cultural heritage.

•Administered by a voluntary board.

•User Groups include emerging and established Australian and International Artists and researchers within educational, artistic and Environmental Fields.

•Private communal residences can be let for up to two years though an applicaion or invitation with costs provided less than substiance levels, while public access to the Gated community is by appointment.

•Programs include Six individual self-contained units, Three Studios supplimented by communal printmaking facilities and access to the Foundation’s private art collection (held at LaTrobe University under an affiliation agreement). Recreation Facilities are also provided and consist of an Inground Pool, Croquet Court and acres of private natural bushland.

• Located within 5 Minutes from the Melbourne CBD and close to all three modes of Public Transport (Tram, Train and Bus).

• Operates as a not for profit with the aim of providing affordable creative spaces for those who are not able to afford to purchase or rent a space within a gentrifing area as well as providing a further understnding and awarness of the arts throgh events and social participation.

• Athough avaliability is through an expression of Interest, Collingwood yards is avaliable to anyone in the creative fields, unlike the other three which are only accessible to practising artists, particulary of a high merit.

• User groups include a broad range of creative practitioners, such as Architects, Artists, Musicians, Software developers, Radio/TV Stations and Publishers.

• Programs include indoor and outdoor conference/event/performance spaces, Media Studios for TV, Music and Radio Production, Letterable Office and Studio Spaces & Retail, Food, and Beverage including Bar and Restauruant.

Through our research, we explored the aspects of providing a multigenerational and multi-user program informed though intertwining usergroups with urban programs within the surroinding Area...

As part of the formualtion of the Creative User Groups and Programs, We explored several diferent Artists Colonies at home and abroad and decided an accessible model irresepctive of social and financial status was needed...

• Located on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga springs, New York. Two hours north of Manhattan and Three hours North West of Boston.

• Established in 1900 on the country estate of Spencer and Katrina Trask, with the aim of providing a fostering and inclusive environment for creative user groups, such as choreography, Film, literature, musical composition, painting, performance, photography, printmaking, sculpture and video.

• Yaddo provides private live-in and studio residences for invidiauals or collabrative teams of up to three persons, done via an application or inviatation, particualry to artists displaying a high level of merit.

• Public and event access is avaliable to the terrace gardens on-site.

Located in the Lithuanian resort town of Nida on the Curonian Spit Peninsula, just near the Litunania-Kalibingrad Oblast (Russian Federation) Boarder.

Established in 2011 as a subdivision of the Vilinius Academy of of arts, with the aim of up to providing 700 people a creative confluence of academic and non-academic education, artistic and scientific practice, hard work and leisure.

Academy consists of two programs; A residency Program of up two to six months, and an intensive one-week PHD Program, which provide the opportunity to exchange and gain insight into creative ideas.

Users consist of visual artists and researchers who focus on history, ecology, politics, visual culture and interdisciplinary fields. As well as Designers, Architects, curators, craft performing and motion Arts practitioners.

Public are welcome to visit the various exhibitions, seminars and events held throughout the year, as well as rent one of the many facilities for a private event. Programs