Venice Biennale
The Victorian Pride Centre
A1 Panel Culture - Values - History
Homes within a home
The Quilt Symbolising a diverse social composition
A2 Panels
A4 Panels
Culture - Values - History
Homes within a home
The Quilt Symbolising a diverse social composition
Exchange
Collaboration Convergence Conversations
Over 30 years Hayball has been critically engaged with the challenges that face our contemporary society and the unique contribution architecture can make to our communities. Hayball is prominent for the breadth of its practice and the comprehensiveness of its architectural solutions as well as its commitment to transitioning our cities to sustainable futures. We have enjoyed the continuing support of Hayball for the development of the architecture program at Monash from its inception and we look to them as an exemplar practice that shares many similar values for architecture. As we look to the future we see many of the attributes I believe will be required by the future architect already present at Hayball.
For over 30 years, Hayball has been critically engaged with the challenges that face contemporary society Professor Shane Murray, unique contribution that architecture makes and the Dean, Faculty of Art Design & Architecture, Monash University to communities. We are committed to creating both depth and breadth across our practice and achieve this through rigorous research-led design and a commitment to, inclusive and comprehensive architectural solutions that always strives to thoughtfully and sustainably transition our evolving built environments.
The Victorian Pride Centre
Building Area
7000m2
Location
St Kilda Melbourne, Australia
Competition
2017
The new Victorian Pride Centre aspires to create a loved and lasting home for equality, diversity and unity for the LGBTQI community, while equally ensuring that the inherent history, values and culture of this community are embedded and embraced in the built experience. The design presents a vibrant and flexible ‘public house’ that harmonises contrasting needs, as well as accommodating up to ten major allied organisations, alongside flexible multi-use spaces for tenants and the wider community. Nestled between a very public face on bustling Fitzroy Street and its more sedate suburban context on Jackson St, the site works within its context, illuminating a wide array textures and styles unique to St Kilda, and generating relational opportunities as well as a local sense of domus.
JAC KS O N
S T R E E T
F I T Z R OY
S T R E E T
These universal theories of domus and home conceptually adapt into use as an authentic modern-day public house. A quilt pattern effectively maps the domus of place as both an operative design and a motif that reflects St Kilda’s rich and diverse urban tapestry, identifying and activating the Centre’s presence on Fitzroy Street. This strong and vibrant theme aims to reflect a confident gesture of welcome both internally and externally in simple and substantial form.
Community participation and exchange is encouraged via an interactive and inclusive physical archive as well as the Centre’s focus on a spirit of genuine welcome and accessibility, both aspects forging analogous forms within this living ‘cabinet of curiosities’ respectfully nurtured inside the intimate structure of Melbourne’s familiar urban laneways. In this context, the laneway works as an experiential passageway, vertically linking grotto-like spaces with larger communal and civic ‘house’ spaces across the site. This is a place of colour, pride and strength, built for enjoyment and participation.
Venice Biennale
Trinity College Project 100 University of Melbourne
A1 Panel
A2 Panels
A4 Panels
Trinity College Project 100 University of Melbourne Building Area
3900m2 A hall of residence for 110 students
Location
Parkville Melbourne, Australia
Est. Completion
2020
Hayball and Openwork Landscape are currently undertaking the ‘Project 100’ design commission at Trinity College, a ground-breaking concept in student residences for Melbourne University. Conceived as a contemporary building set within in an historic and iconic 19th Century cultivated landscape, surrounded by formal ‘Oxbridge’ style campus buildings. Our approach is collaborative, working with a range of organisations interested in the concept of repair and rejuvenation as well as gradual and organic ‘slow site’ architecture principals in order to gain a better understanding of the deep connection to indigenous culture and the profound importance of ancient and modern landscapes to the College, including its central playing field known as the Bulpadock and the Project 100 site. The fold informs our approach to understanding a hidden collision of time and place and asks how we can renegotiate boundaries across a site and its forms. This understanding informs a strategy that unpacks palimpsests, latent conditions, and refreshes other ephemeral modes. In asking about what a place might look like influenced at its inception by indigenous and spatial environments, these other layers may invert the 19th century space and create speculative counterpoints that reframe the traditional architecture and landscape masterplan as an immersive experience.
Reconsidering a post-colonial perspective to emphasise a more horizontal and temporal perception of place, and rethinking what may have happened under different conditions, informs an evolutionary contemporary strategy. Indigenous planting interlaces with existing native and European deciduous tree-scape, and new built typology is reconstructed as a more porous interface. Rusticated masonry pitch and height are in effect realised as an escarpment (analogy) and a shifting landscape of transparency and solid masonry where critically, the inner program experience is pushed both inside and out, creating expanded configuration and sight lines, and imploding the 19th century brick and vine facades with punctuated windows. A non-exact, non-prescribed experience, landscape is the masterplan antiaesthetic, where the trace of walking informs immersive reconciliation of the material, ephemeral, and physical.
INDIGENOUS PLANTING PALETTE ECV 55
TREE
GROUND
Banksia marginata Eucalyptus pauciflora Eucalyptus viminalis
Arthropodium strictum Austrodanthonia caespitosa Austrostipa bigeniculata Austrostipa mollis
Bulbine bulbosa Carex breviculmis Dianella spp. Diuris spp.
Lomandra filiformis Microlaena stipoides var. Microtis spp. Poa labillardierei var.
Poa sieberiana Thelymitra spp. Themeda triandra
Venice Biennale
Richmond High School
A1 Panel
A2 Panels
A4 Panels
Building Area
6350m2
Location
Richmond Melbourne, Australia
Est. Completion
2019
Sitting in a dense, multi ethnic inner urban area of Melbourne, the Richmond High School extends across two contrasting sites: the academic precinct and the athletics precinct, and caters for 650 young adults in years 7-12. The school incorporates a number of multi-functional spaces that are shared with the local community to actively encourage crosscultural and intergenerational learning opportunities. The academic precinct forms the central focus of this exhibition work, showing a four-level building that makes a strong and robust architectural statement on the future of education in the neighbourhood and aligns with broader research contexts across different education levels. The building includes learning spaces that are adaptable and flexible to support new approaches to pedagogy and promote a range of activities and experiences for the student cohort. A close focus on work-flows, traffic patterns, and activity levels generated the interior elements of the project to reflect current and projected requirements with inbuilt flexibility.
Unwrapping Education Design
Richmond High School CONNECT | Professional Development
Tuesday 27th of March 5-6pm Central Kitchen Hayball presents an introduction to contemporary and past educational design and thinking, as well as unpacking educational jargon. Presented by: Lisa Horton & Harry Nicholas
A presentation introducing modes of contemporary and past school design and thinking; unpacking the education paradigm.
The Athletics Precinct has been constructed, and provides competition grade netball courts, community facilities and public spaces. A Performing Arts Space with theatre, dance & drama studios, music practice room and a recording studio will be available for community use outside school hours, and the nearby Richmond Recreation Centre with pool and gym will be used by the school. Students will also use a food technology facility at the neighbouring Lynall Hall Community School. This ethos of communal and shared facilities sits at the heart of this project, and informed every step of the design process.
Richmond High School Multipurpose Facility
Richmond High School Academic Facility
Lynall Hall Community School
Program Stack
Lynall Hall
150m²
410m² 87m² 248m²
Learning Communities
1525m²
200m²
Learning Communities
2470m²
Learning Communities
1525m²
Library
492m²
Administration and Staff
566m²
81m²
Library
405m² 64m²
DATS
1201m²
Library
486m²
Administration and Staff
318m²
382m²
Administration and Staff
270m² 355m²
Specialist Areas
150m² 100m²
Internal Travel
925m²
External Travel Amenities
231m² 144m²
6613m² Standard Entitlement
Gym 971m²
Engineering External Travel Amenities
53m² 231m² 144m²
6613m² Program Reshuffle
Engineering Amenities
1221m²
Gym
231m²
External Travel
53m²
144m²
6613m² Proposed Distribution of Area
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DENTS STU 8 10
Learning Community Facilities Relationship Diagram
Presentation & Gathering 60m²
Conference
Reading Lounge
Study Pods
Learning Commons
Gallery
Conference
135m²
40m²
45m²
Practice Room
108 STUDENTS 03 | Y IT UN M Presentation & Gathering 60m²
Commons 140m²
Conference 40m²
Lockers
Seminar 25m²
100m²
Kitchen
Project Studio Study Booths
Bulk Store
45m²
60m²
Conference Reading Lounge Learning Study Pods Gallery
Shared Resources
Project Studio 45m²
Conference Reading Lounge Learning
Multipurpose Workshop
Staff Workspace & Meeting Room
Print Station
Commons 140m²
Conference 40m²
Lockers
Seminar 25m²
UDENTS 8 ST 10
SHARED SPACES
Toilet
Gallery
| 02
Lockers
25m²
Study Pods
LEARNING CO MM UN ITY Presentation & Gathering
Project Studio
Seminar
CO M
53m²
LEARNING COM MU NI TY
Engineering
1326m²
LEAR NIN G
PAPE
1626m²
Specialist Areas
1001m²
Venice Biennale
South Melbourne Primary School and Integrated Community Facilities
A1 Panel
A2 Panels
A4 Panels
South Melbourne Primary School and Integrated Community Facilities Building Area
7000m2
Location
South Melbourne Melbourne, Australia
Completion
2018
Rising to a height of six storeys SMPS is Australia’s first vertical school. The building integrates shared school and community spaces for a growing community and expresses a model continuum of life and experience across learning, work, and play. As well as a government primary school for 525 students, this project integrates a kindergarten, maternal and child health clinic, multi-use community rooms and indoor and outdoor multi-purpose sports courts.
The school is located within the 2.5km2 Fisherman’s Bend Urban Renewal Area of Melbourne, which is expected to grow to 80,000 residents over the next 40 years. Synergies are created through the shared use of program spaces, cooperative management and governance, and working in partnership to develop community education programs and community ventures. Urban intensification and the contemporary pedagogical development connects to the community whereby the urban environment is considered an extension of a more extravert educational setting that houses both education, community, and public activity.
Early Learning Centre & Learning Community
This new paradigm, reflects both the changing industrial heritage of the area and the much older and deeper geological layers of Coode Island Silt below the ground plane, combining to enable observation and honouring of the specific design conditions that are in turn reconciled as conceptual plateaus.
Learning Communities
Shared School/ Community Staff Administration Music Art Community Services Maternal Child Health Centre Library
Early Learning Centre School Use School Outdoor Learning Community / School Shared Facility Community Vertical Piazza
Venice Biennale
Melbourne University Innovation Precinct, Student Accommodation
A1 Panel
A2 Panels
A4 Panels
Carlton Connect Initiative Student Accommodation University of Melbourne Building Area
16,000m2
Location
Carlton Melbourne, Australia
Completion
2020
This project provides living accommodation for 528 of the University’s postgraduate students, visiting academics and undergraduates. The plan form of the building inserts as a puzzle piece, completing the fourth quarter of a masterplan designated as the knowledge, learning and teaching hub for advanced engineering, fab-lab and a technology museum. Formally, the design explores the ecosystem of major teaching and research across science and culture, enabling academic and industry partnering and entrepreneurship through a new horizontal and vertical terrain of collaboration, fostering a mix of exchange, interaction or discreet focus. A court organises the urban form of the site, to connect the interior with the wider Carlton precinct. A vertical circulation spine connects two accommodation wings, linking living, learning, social, creative and recreational spaces throughout the building to the rooftop.
STUDENT EXPERIENCE 2 MINS
ROOF TERRACE
LANDSCAPED ‘BACK YARD’ BBQ / BEER GARDEN / SPORTS PARK
AERIAL VIEWS OF THE CITY
2 MINS
MY STUDIO
STUDY
PRIVATE STUDY ‘SAFE HAVEN’
4 MINS
LIVING ROOM
CASUAL GATHERING / COMMUNAL DINNING / INFORMAL STUDY SPACES
5 MINS
INTIMATE URBAN EXPERIENCE STREET FURNITURE
FOYER + PASTORAL CARE / ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES
5 MINS
‘HIDDEN GEM’ CAFE
MY ADDRESS MY STREET DOOR MY LETTER BOX
6 MINS
CAFE CAFE
8 MINS
10 MINS
FOOD / RETAIL ENTERTAINMENT
LIBRARIES / UNIVERSITIES
6 MINS 8 MINS
LOCAL SHOPS
MY BIKE MY BUILDING
MY STREET
MY CITY
BIKE PATHS
CINEMA / GAME ROOM / ‘HANG-OUT’ NOOKS / SOCIAL ACTIVITY
BIKE PATHS
LOUNGE
MELBOURNE HODDLE GRID BOULEVARD
3 MINSTERRACE LANDSCAPED VIEWS OUTDOOR LOUNGE
VISUAL CONNECTIVITY
3 MINS
MELBOURNE LANEWAY
CO-WORKING / CREATIVE HOT-SPOT
CARLTON GARDENS
The context for living expression derives from Carlton’s commercial and retail-strip street - a community hive characteristic of the inner Melbourne suburbs. This urban street is conceptually adopted and rotated vertically through the building, to create visual and functional porosity, exposing the living, learning, and social life within. In this way the building expresses the creative collision of people and ideas.
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P DIN O T F O O
SUN ROO M
R DINER
FITNESS STUDIO
GYM
CINEMA
THE LOUNGE
THE BACKYARD
RB HE DEN R GA
NOOK VIDEO GAMES
GAMES
LOUNGE
THE STUDY
TECH LAB
COLAB PRIVATE PODS
LIBRARY
READING ROOM
THE COMMONS
BOARD GAMES
DAY LOUNGE OM
G RO
LIVIN
‘CAFE’
MULTI P
URPOSE
RACE
TER
A PLAZ
FOYER
ROOM
URB A LOU N NGE
URBAN
LOUNG
E
Careful consideration is given to the apartment mix, and the variety and dispersal of communal spaces in creating a recognisable and stimulating city home.
These projects represent a five-year interval, 2015-2020, within a 34-year practice spectrum. What is interesting for us is the lens of the present—the abundance of vast and emerging local and global themes that are generating discussion and evolutionary approaches to design. The possibilities to champion an expansive practice, encompassing a range of hybrid typologies across art, civic infrastructure, urban design and incorporating new forms of living and working environments are enabled through a robust engagement in the cross-pollination and active sharing of knowledge beyond typological and sector boundaries as well as leading the research and testing of evolving ideas and combinations. These projects present the state of a particular place and design processes, but also illuminate new directions and speculations that come from meaningful collaborations and critical reflection: Freespace.