Patrick Brewin Urban Interruption
The current economic climate has seen a rise in the gentrification of inner suburban Melbourne, rendering housing affordability in crisis. ‘Urban Interruption’, through the introduction of housing and civic agendas attempts to reverse this trend. It becomes a precedent combination of housing stock
and multi-use program occupying unrealised space within the existing urban context, in this case a five meter stretch of land between a railway corridor and light industrial area. The narrow site creates narrow floor plates holding cross ventilated apartments with full access to natural light. Access hallways occur
every second floor becoming spaces of social interaction. Internal walls are negotiable and living space can expand and contract. Residents and the public utilise the projects expansive multi-function and student operated spaces. The combination injects vibrant scenarios into the fading urban situation.
rmit architecture
major projects
semester 1, 2009