ASHLEE PUKK - ARTEFACTS

Major Project

500NOOKS

2021

Ashlee Pukk

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Five Prototypes

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NOOK 004

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From a potential 500 Series

NOOK 036

NOOK 197

NOOK 305

NOOK 493

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Acknowledgments

This body of work and the author acknowledges and extends deep respect to the historic, present & emerging Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation 2021

- territory that was never ceded. It acknowledges ancient ecological and cultural practices of indigenous communities in collaboration with the landscape, waterways and atmosphere of so-called Australia, and commits to learn and to listen.

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- Light and Mystery in Architecture - Paula Cardoso PDF pg 25

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Context Nook 004

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“Mystery is a very special architectural tool… it is important to find a way to assess the difference between spaces that achieve mystery through reduced legibility or through other solutions.”

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500 Nooks

There is a plethora of valuable small spaces hidden in Melbourne’s urban nooks. This project uses these cracks and gaps. These are not typical vacant spaces without buildings, rather they are spaces which exist as a byproduct of structures in the lane ways. Their discarded atmosphere of back lane services and graffiti make these sites distinctive; the aim of these designs is to preserve, insert into the existing, and remove nothing.

The five nooks make completely customised and yet entirely unprescribed spaces; the tenants (anyone from a book binder to a goldsmith or fishmonger) bring the next level of intrigue to the nook. Ultimately these designs could pop up and appear wherever there is a nook.

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After identifying 500 such nooks, I prototyped five with small buildings, notionally for a resident tenant with a public function - an activating business and a caretaker for the lane. The buildings squeeze into the nooks, tighten up the lanes and hang over roofs and parapets. These objects aim at melding forms of a foreign nature with more familiar or prosaic architecture; to be carefully contextual and utterly alien. Pushing the standard elements of architecture such as windows to become something other than a void or a component.

“This mysterious effect is caused when it is not possible to completely perceive something in the environment and, consequently, the observer becomes engaged in a “pleasant challenge to the imagination” (Hubbard & Kimball, 1929).”

- Light and Mystery in Architecture - Paula Cardoso PDF pg 05.”

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Proposition

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Shortlisted Sites

0.1 City Wide Nooks

500 Nooks Mapped

Heape Court

Kitz Lane

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ELIZABETH STREET

Thomson street

Globe Alley Croft Alley BOURKE STREET

Donaldson Lane

Carsons Place

Baptist Place

Samuel Lane

Watson Place

Mapping the 500 Nooks

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Crown Place

Knox Lane

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0.2 The Five chosen Nooks

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Carson Place

Heape Court

Watson Place

Croft Alley

Knox Lane

THE FIVE NOOKS

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Footprints

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1.1 Caretakers Guideline

a) The local policy suggests that up to 30% of the total floor area is residential and under some circumstances up to 50%.

1.2 Design Guidelines

30 % Residence

b) An adequate level of private open space is provided

a) If the site has an existing cut out between buildings, that space is to be occupied without hindering the road. b) If there is no specific cut out in the existing, the design is to land on the ground and can prioritise pedestrian traffic.

Therefore the road can be blocked.

c) The caretakers residence is located on the top level or at the back of the site

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c) Architecture must meld prosaic forms with unfamiliar forms

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70 % Program

Road / Pavement Existing Building

d) The architecture colouring must be enticing and bold

e) Design should cantilever over neighboring buildings f) The design should work with and around existing services, removing nothing

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1.2 Five Chosen Sites

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Carson Place

Heape Court

Watson Place

Croft Alley

Knox Lane

Existing Conditions 16

Renders

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2.1 Watson Place

NOOK 004 The nook

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Road / Pavement

Lane way

Existing Building

6 stories

Proposed Site

10 story 4000

Watson Place

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South Elevation

4500

The Nook Site

Swanston Street Flinders Lane

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Site

i) The nook is located either side of two, 2 story existing buildings, the design blocks the lane in order to touch the ground

ii) Majority of the design cantilevers over the existing building

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2.3 Watson Place

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Plan 1:100

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Existing Site

3.1 Carsons Place

NOOK 036 The nook

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Road / Pavement

Lane way 6 stories

Existing Building Proposed Site

5 story

2600

Elizabeth Street

Carson Place

Plan

East Elevation

4500

The Nook Site

Little Collins Street

i) There is only access to one side of the design, therefor a 1 meter gap on the other side was created.

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ii) Design cantilevers over the lowest neighboring existing building

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Carsons Place

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4.1 Heape Court

NOOK 197

The nook

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Road / Pavement

Lane way 3 stories

Existing Building Proposed Site

1 story 4000 11 000

Little Londsale Street

South Elevation

Plan 17 000

The Nook Site

Elizabeth Street

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Site Findings

Heape Court

i) L-Shaped laneways, design allows for 1 meter for pedestrian traffic

ii) The cantilever of the design exceeds the apex of the pitch existing roof

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Heape Court

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NOOK 197

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5.1 Knox Lane

NOOK 305 The nook

2 stories

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The Nook Site

Road / Pavement Existing Building Proposed Site

Knox Lane 10 story 3000

Lane way

East Elevation

Plan 5000

Lonsdale Street

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Site Findings

Little Londsale Street

i) The site is enveloped by a single car park and existing infrastructure

ii) The site starts on the ground level and steps up onto a 1 story nook, then again onto a 2 story building 61

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Knox Lane

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NOOK 305

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6.1 Croft Alley

NOOK 493 The nook

Bourke Street

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Road / Pavement

Lane way 3 stories

Existing Building Proposed Site

3 story 3800

Croft Alley

South Elevation

Plan 13 000

Little Bourke Street

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Site Findings

The Nook Site

Russell Street

i) There is a cut out created from the existing structures where the design fits entirely

ii) The design hovers above the ground level so the existing graffiti isn’t hindered

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Croft Alley

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NOOK 493

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Five Prototypes

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NOOK 004

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From a potential 500 Series

NOOK 036

NOOK 197

NOOK 305

NOOK 493

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References The Melnikov House by architect Konstantin Melnikov Wall House 2 by John Hejduk

Bruther Artefactory Lab

Photographer Ken Ohyama’s Cutouts of Japanese Urban Buildings

Rooftecture OT2 by Shuhei Endo

Fisher Studio Houses (1936), Chicago by Andrew Nicholas Rebori, Architect

“Pet Architecture” by Atelier Bow-Wow

House & Atelier by Atelier Bow-Wow

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Kurt Schwitters - Merzbau

I’m Lost In Paris by François Roche

Rose house by Baracco and wright

Kadoya 315 by Atelier bow-wow

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500NOOKS Major Project

Ashlee Pukk

s3656527