DARCIE VELLA ARTEFACTS 1

Three Constituent Parts Three Acts

Darcie Vella i

THE THREE ACTS.

Property can be defined as "every type of right (that is, a claim recognised by law), interest, or thing which is legally capable of ownership, and which has value. Other incidents of property which are not necessarily true in all cases include its alienability and exclusivity of use or enjoyment".

Property exists within two planes; one immanent, where its fluctuations are reflected in the built world through either emptiness or excess, and the other immaterial, the financial, economic, and legal instruments by which it is regulated.

MAJOR PROJECT. THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

ii

I suspect that the real value for property lies within the metaphysical realm of the title boundary that exists in the physical realm of paper.

Often stacked in rolls behind the land surveyor as they procure its very existence, and later being preserved within the concrete walls of the land titles office.

To quote Joel Spring, “The legal recognition of ownership has moved from occupation or being on the land to registration and administration. This was the beginning of land transformation from something physical into a liquid asset.”

iii

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

MAJOR PROJECT.

iv

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

Can architecture contest, challenge and disrupt the prescribed understanding of property ownership through mediation of the thing that makes it valuable, the title boundary?

v

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

I acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations who are the traditional custodians of the land in which I live, study and work on. I pay my respects to their Elders past, present and future.

Sovereignty was never ceded.

MAJOR PROJECT. THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

vi

Contents Page Mechanisms of Property

Page 1

Act One Drawings

Page 7

Act Two Drawings

Page 15

Act Three Drawings

Page 29

Panel Page 58

vii

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

MAJOR PROJECT.

viii

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

Mechanisms Architecture lies within the two planes of property, the immanent vessel which is either full or empty, and the physical manifestation of its immaterial instruments. As the interstitial layer, architecture may thus become a tool by which these things can be both maintained and resisted, waning into both the metaphysical and the concrete.

Architecture exists in the world as a property.

ix

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

MAJOR PROJECT.

When Robert Hoddle laid out the Melbourne city grid, he was advised by the government to not include any public space within the city. The grid was spoken of as a commercial instrument of property that should act without provision of civic or public spaces.

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

1

MECHANISMS

Bridge Road, the proposed site, is a connecting artery to the grid both south of Victoria Street and connected to Flinders Street through Wellington Parade and is the first mediation in understanding how the periphery may be influenced by these commercial instruments of property.

2

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

MAJOR PROJECT.

Richmond Town Hall and the home of the Yarra City Council, the governing body of planning within the city of Yarra, acts as the anchor for the project whilst also simultaneously investigating its boundaries, in an attempt to open them up to reveal peculiar intricacies and idiosyncrasies.

The town hall exists as the monument of authority and rule of law within its surroundings. Starkly isolated, it becomes the corporeal body of the formless ‘market’ in which property thus becomes official record, capturing the very essence of regulatory and civic governance over the area.

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

3

MECHANISMS If the Town Hall is a monument to the market of property, it is recognised in Alois Riegl’s understanding that “a monument is a work of man erected for the specific purpose of keeping particular human deeds or destinies (or a complex accumulation thereof) alive and present in the consciousness of future generations”.

Other monuments also sit on the edge of the site, that of the memorial of C.H Bennet, apparently striking an astonishing resemblance to the councilman and a memorial erected by “good friends”. The side reads, “Formed on the good old plan, a true and brave and downright honest man.” Bennett sits as an idle figure watching over both the street and the town hall, despite being apart of a family dynasty that rule the council and monopolised council seats, awarding friends and relatives council jobs before an enquiry into election rigging took place. The memorial is thus a monument for the manifestation of the power that sits within the walls of the town hall.

4

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11

MAJOR PROJECT.

Investigations for the project began by speculating on the mechanisms that over time have allowed for both the physical and immaterial manifestation of transforming property ownership into something of power and value. The conditions of ownership are regulated and maintained by multiple parties, at local, state, and federal government levels, and through that of private entities.

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

5

La on nd bl Tit oc le k sO i n ff bi ice g sp en

di ng

MECHANISMS

They include but are not limited to, the land surveyors and lawyers’ office, where property is documented and legalised and moves into the tangible realm of paper. Parliament house, where these things are both regulated and enforced but also are protested and resisted. The land titles office, or land registry services where it is stored and preserved, and the public records office where it is archived.

6

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

MAJOR PROJECT.

7

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

Act One Landscape and the Boulevard The boulevard as a public space, or as an arena of political or economic participation. The street in this instance acts as an ad-hoc economy for the precinct in which rows of informal shelter line Gleadell St on a Saturday morning to re-claim a use outside of its intended purpose.

8

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

MAJOR PROJECT.

9

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

ACT ONE

10

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

MAJOR PROJECT.

11

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

ACT ONE

12

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

MAJOR PROJECT.

13

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

ACT ONE

14

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

MAJOR PROJECT.

15

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

Act Two Deliniation of Occupation through objects The process of injecting a series of small scale, formal and informal objects within the site. This act makes use of informal objects to delineate an occupation of a site through Heidegger’s understanding of an object’s ability to “become something of explicit awareness”.

The objects take precedent from the Aboriginal tent embassy, which for decades has occupied the lawns of old parliament house as a political re-occupation of indigenous land and the subsequent calls for landrights for First Nation’s People. Also taking precedent from the practice of squatting through the appropriation of space, which overtime has become to represent a radical new approach to urban development.

16

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

MAJOR PROJECT.

17

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

ACT TWO

18

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

MAJOR PROJECT.

19

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

ACT TWO

20

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

MAJOR PROJECT.

21

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

ACT TWO

Act Two Civil Boundaries The objects shift their focus from the in-between boundary of the street to the edge condition. They not only challenge the boundary of the title but begin to challenge a secondary boundary, one of civil management through a series of pre-existing constraints.

Infrastructure space, similarly, to architectural space, is often deployed as a kit’ of parts or standard details, filed into an administrative system and brought out when a new bus stop or road needs to be built. While inevitable, its control over both human (where to walk, the establishment of urban thresholds), and non-human (water, lizards, detritus) entities is undoubted. This piecemeal control of urban disposition contributes greatly to the very ad hoc nature of Bridge Road. By taking the Yarra City Councils Standard details and abstracting them into place with the objects, the project begins to create collective and repeatable language.

22

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

RL 0.122

RL -0.128

BUILDING LINE

I.O

BACKFILL WITH CLASS 3 RECYCLED C.R WETMIX FOOTPATH

REINSTATE FOOTPATH AS PER YSD401

P.V.C CONNECTOR

EXISTING PROPERTY DRAIN 100mm P.V.C SEWER CLASS PIPE

MAJOR PROJECT.

CONNECT TO EXISTING DRAIN WITH PLUMB-QUICK RUBBER ADOPTER

BARREL

50mm CLASS 3 RECYCLE C.R WETMIX BASE

ELEVATION

FRCJ.HARDIE SADDLE TO SUIT BARREL DIAMETER. NEATLY CUT BARREL DRAIN AND APPLY RECOMMENDED EPOXY TO SADDLE & BARREL.

GENERAL NOTES 1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

INSTALLATION WORK TO INCLUDE ALL CONNECTIONS AT KERB AND BUILDING LINE. ALL PROPERTY DRAINS TO BE DIRECTED AWAY FROM VEHICLE CROSSINGS. PIPES TO BE LAID 90 DEGREES TO THE BUILDING LINE WHEREVER POSSIBLE AND THERE SHOULD BE NO BEND BETWEEN BUILDING LINE AND FACE OF KERB. ALL CONNECTIONS TO BE INSPECTED AND APPROVED BY COUNCIL SUPERVISOR BEFORE BACKFILLING. WHERE PRACTICAL INSPECTION OPENING (I.O.) IS TO BE LOCATED ON PRIVATE PROPERTY.

Yarra City Council Property Boundary Drain and Kerb Channel Typical Detail

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

Yarra Standard: YSD106 Drawing Title:23

PROPERTY DRAIN CONNECTION TO STREET DRAIN

ACT TWO

24

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

RL -0.975 RL 0.00

RL -0.128

MAJOR PROJECT.

Yarra City Council Bluestone Crossing Typical Detail

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

Vehicle

25

ACT TWO

26

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

COSTING ESTIMATIONS

RL 0.122

ITEM

RL -0.128

COST ESTIMATION (EX. GST) MANUFACTURE

COST ESTIMATION (EX. GST) INSTALLATION

1

GS3.1 - ENTRY SIGN: BASIC (DOUBLE SIDED)

$2,436.00

$2,632.50

2

GS3.2 - ENTRY SIGN: STANDARD (DOUBLE SIDED, ILLUMINATED)

$5,502.00

$4,320.00

3

GS3.3 - ENTRY SIGN: WIDE (DOUBLE SIDED, ILLUMINATED)

$6,328.00

$4,927.50

4

PS3.1 - PRIMARY PARK SIGN (DOUBLE SIDED, NON ILLUMINATED)

$5,138.00

$2,362.50

5

PS3.2 - PARK ENTRY (DOUBLE SIDED)

$3,024.00

$978.75

6

PS3.3 - NOTICE BOARD: POST (SINGLE SIDED)

$4,872.00

$2,362.50

7

PS3.3A - NOTICE BOARD: BLADE (DOUBLE SIDED)

$2,744.00

$742.50

8

PS3.4 - DIRECTIONAL SIGN: FINGER BLADE

$1,218.00

$708.75

9

PS3.4A - DIRECTIONAL SIGN: BLADE (SINGLE SIDED)

$2,744.00

$742.50

10

RS3.1A - TRAIL SIGN 1: BLADE (SINGLE SIDED)

$2,744.00

11

RS3.2A - TRAIL SIGN 2: BLADE (SINGLE SIDED)

$2,744.00

$742.50

12

FS3.1 - FACILITY SIGN: POST (SINGLE SIDED)

$2,646.00

$978.75

13

FS3.2 - FACILITY ENTRY: CANTILEVER (DOUBLE SIDED)

$742.50

$1,764.00

$438.75

14

FS3.3 - FACILITY SIGN: CANTILEVER (DOUBLE SIDED)

$1,764.00

$641.25

15

FS3.4 - FACILITY SIGN: REAR MOUNT

$770.00

$843.75

16

TS3.1 - TEMPORARY SIGN (PANEL & PAINTING ONLY - GRAPHICS TO BE ORGANISED BY YOU AT SUPERSCREEN)

$266.00

-

17

TS3.2 - TEMPORARY SIGN (PANEL & PAINTING ONLY - GRAPHICS TO BE ORGANISED BY YOU AT SUPERSCREEN)

$392.00

-

18

TS3.3 - TEMPORARY SIGN (PANEL & PAINTING ONLY - GRAPHICS TO BE ORGANISED BY YOU AT SUPERSCREEN)

$420.00

-

19

TS3.4 - TEMPORARY SIGN (PANEL & PAINTING ONLY - GRAPHICS TO BE ORGANISED BY YOU AT SUPERSCREEN)

$756.00

-

DIADEM RECOMMENDS:

CITYWIDE SIGNS & NEON PHONE: (03) 9357 0570

LEAD TIME: 4-6 WEEKS PRICE BASED ON SUPPLY ONLY

SUPERSCREEN PHONE: (03) 9510 6559

ARTWORK REFERENCE

GS3.1.ai CONSTRUCTION PACK REFERENCE

GS3_1-01 (PG6)

MAJOR PROJECT.

-

FRONT VIEW

-

(Scale 1:50)

SIGN TYPE

DATE

SCALE

ENTRY SIGN: BASIC

13.05.2011

1:50 @ A4

COMMENTS

- FOR PEDESTRIAN & VEHICULAR TRAFFIC - RECTANGULAR FORMAT - YARRA BRANDING - DOUBLE SIDED - DIMENSIONS: 4500 x 640 x 100

SIDE VIEW (Scale 1:50)

DRAWING REFERENCE

GS3.1 Yarra Standard:YSD1205 Drawing Title:

TYPICAL LIGHT POLE WITH LUMINAIRE

Scale at A4 N.T.S

REV DATE DRAWN BY A 18/12/18 OK

Richmond Town Hall 333 Bridge Road Richmond PO Box 168 Richmond 3121 Phone (03) 9205 5010 Fax (03) 8417 6666

Yarra City Council Light Pole with Luminaire and Signage Standard Details

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

27

ACT TWO

28

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

MAJOR PROJECT.

29

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

Act Three The Technical College of Site Surveying Act three positions itself as an architectural outcome achieved through the conglomeration of the prior acts. The Technical College of Site Surveying exists as repercussion of the prior establishments of new boundaries within the site, in turn responding to the requirements for how it is taught and documented.

Most of the documentation has been developed at two largely different scales: 1/500 and 1/10. These scales allow the project to be understood as both resolved around it’s civicness and simutaneously its elemental architectural outcomes.

30

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

MAJOR PROJECT.

31

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

ACT THREE

32

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

MAJOR PROJECT.

33

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

ACT THREE

34

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

MAJOR PROJECT.

35

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

ACT THREE

36

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

MAJOR PROJECT.

37

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

ACT THREE

38

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

MAJOR PROJECT.

39

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

ACT THREE

40

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

MAJOR PROJECT.

41

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

ACT THREE

42

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

MAJOR PROJECT.

43

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

ACT THREE

44

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

MAJOR PROJECT.

45

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

ACT THREE

46

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

MAJOR PROJECT.

47

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

ACT THREE

48

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

MAJOR PROJECT.

49

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

ACT THREE

50

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

MAJOR PROJECT.

51

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

52

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

MAJOR PROJECT.

53

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

Act Three The Land Titles Office This major project aims to establish a new way to recognize property, through its inception to its entombment, seemingly ending the succession of acts with the expression of a Land Titles Office that is established as the breaking of the boundary with the Richmond Town Hall.

If that which is owned lies on the interior, of which the Land Titles Office is the head, its effects thus lie on the outside, in the hands, knees or ankles. Property in this instance is a body, commanded by the head, yet expressed in different forms and gestures.

54

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

MAJOR PROJECT.

55

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

ACT THREE

56

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

MAJOR PROJECT.

57

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

PANEL

58

DARCIE VELLA.

THE THREE ACTS.

Panel Legend

1. Act 01 2. Act 01 3. Connection to Hoddle Grid 4. Shed folly 5. Detail of entry threshold 6. Detail of library void 7. Standard lighting and signage detail 8. Power line folly 9. Detail of sky light/facade 10. Downpipe detail 11. Act 02

12. Internal ‘splay’ detail 13. Standard bluestone driveway detail 14. Detail of skylight 15. Standard kerb channel detail 16. Act 02 17. Driveway folly 18. Entry threshold 19. Section 20. Mechanisms of property - axonometric 21. Mechanisms of property - map 22. Internal void

23. Skylight 24. Land titles office 25. Ground floor plan

1 2 3

4 5

6

7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

MAJOR PROJECT.

25

THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS.

59

Panel Legend 37. Land titles office 38. Land titles office 39. Land titles office

PANEL

26. Library 27. Ground floor plan cont.

28. Downpipe 29. Facade layering 30. Title certificate 31. Theodolite 32. Model of Richmond Town Hall 33. Building encroaching 34. Site plan 35. Level 01 plan 36. Axonometric

26 27

28

29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39

60

DARCIE VELLA.