cloisters
ROBIN BOYD dower house x ABBOTSFORD CONVENT cloister x EXISTING laurimar community centre
ROBIN BOYD portsea house x EXISTING laurimar link park
public park
ROBIN BOYD portsea house x EXISTING laurimar housing
central object
‘suburban edge’
existing residential
Danica Yee Supervisor: Vicky Lam Link Park Process Collage
communal courtyard
residential cloister
Plan Diagram
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communal frontyard
residential courtyard
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residential
residential courtyard
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interstitial space
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entry to residential cloister
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backyard cloister public cloister
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The overall spatial and formal language of the project is categorised by three main influences; Abbotsford Convent as a historical precedent for women’s refuge, Robin Boyd’s mid-century homes as domestic precedents for framing private courtyards and finally, the existing strangeness of the context in Laurimar as a type of hypersuburbia. The project is largely a housing masterplan comprising of permanent and transitional housing units, shared communal facilities and varying typologies of open space. At the heart of the project is the ‘Refuge Hub’, a service accessible by both the public as well as onsite residents.
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Housing + Cloister Process Collage
existing residential
public green space communal residential courtyards pedestrian
‘suburban edge’
Refuge Hub Process Collage
This project showcases the design of a suburban women’s refuge situated within Laurimar, a new housing development by Delfin in the northern suburb of Doreen. The northern suburbs of Melbourne face an offending domestic violence rate that is higher than the Victorian State average. The design contains three main cloister typologies, and explores the cloister as a type of interstitial space and a way to control privacy and security.
‘walled city’
‘back lane’
hills
City of Cloisters
communal facilities
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lavender garden
wall facade
Site Plan
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Site Section
SECTION Backyard
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Back Lane
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Link Park
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Residential Cloisters
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