RMIT Architecture Major Project Catalogue Semester 1 2020

A Matter of Time Martin Miraglia Supervisors: Amy Muir & Prof. Mark Jacques In a world that constantly pursues progress, why do we tend to remove the past to give place for the new? How can we not get lost when we erase our own tracks? Isn’t experience and knowledge what lets us avoid repeating mistakes?

Currently, the former Holden’s historic car factory where Australia’s Own Car was born in 1948 foresees a new state-of-the-art engineering campus. Approximately 80% of the 38-hectare industrial block has been demolished, wiping away more than 80 years of manufacturing history.

Pursuing a complete transformation of the current landscape becomes not only a chaotic and unsustainable way of doing architecture but also a great danger to identity. Tradition and progress must come to terms.

The project will develop in one of the last standing structures in the centre of the site in hopes that it not only protects the past but also that it may outline the future of this campus as it develops on the rest of the site. A debate occurs behind the ideology of this project, there is a condition to place on-site, as well as, a memory of place from Parkville that allows defining an innovative space by overlaying both existing conditions.

Not only is there always a place for conversation between absolutes, but actually infinite opportunities through our conception of the collective and its bounding through knowledge, memory, and identity. It is not only a matter of time itself but also a matter of time when we realize, we are all in this together.

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