Nurulafida Indriasari Abdul Hamid Subversion: Un-Gentrify
This project protests against gentrification as a homogenizing agent of city and attempts to subvert this increasingly inevitable condition by promoting public housing estates as a site of urban subversion and resistance. Un-Gentrify introduces onto the Carlton public housing site a revival
of a warehouse typology progressively eliminated from inner suburbs from the 1960s. Emulating the types disused space awaiting intervention, previously abundant in these suburbs, now converted to residential apartments; these bands of warehouses make available spatial opportunities
to urban pioneers/creative workers, capable of injecting culture and character back into the mono-functional site. This proposition see public housing sites as ongoing indispensable elements, re-qualifying the site for valuable use countering the allure of gentrification.
rmit architecture
major projects
semester 2, 2010
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