THE “TACC”

Tensions

Which is the main road? Where exactly is the CBD? I don’t have long.

Repurposing the disconnected and unutilised Victory Park to reestablish the original main roads. Use the familiar Highway techniques of roundabout and pause to redirect attention.

PROPOSED LOCATIONS

Elements

Elements

Elements & Space

Engineered Timber Products the FamiliarSilhouette in CLT the FamiliarHighway and Roundabout

Pleated Roof

Scarred Gum Tree as Sculpture and Structure

Engineered Timber Products

Engineered Timber Hexmesh the Familiar

Post Office & Courthouse TEDS

Established Civic Presence

Elements

Pleated Roof

Elements & Space

Roof - back

Roof - front

Engineer Timber Structure

Timber Structure

Entry 2

Social & Flexible Space

Component 2

Teaching Space & Lecture Rooms

Component 1

Hex Mesh from paper wrapping material

Radial Cuts from timber manufature

Workshops & Self-learning Areas

Entry 1

MID-SEMESTER

P.O.W. Proposed Siting

Open up street presence to juxtaposing grids of Traralgon’s CBD and South Traralgon

Promote and engage with South Traralgon through it’s low socio and industrial building stock

Hearth, platform & congregation/emergency assembly

Wings established for emergency housing and courtyard congregation

Accessible connection to the Grand Junction Hotel and Terminal Precinct

Opening up to the adjacent VRI community venue who already assist in upskilling/retraining

Sliding weatherboard shutters and variability of function/housing

Week 4

Ballarat is a rural city famous for history but also presently for its tree-lined avenues, view lines and vistas, wayfinding, undulating topography, and nearby volcanoes. The proposed site is at the epicentre of these systems.

Our chosen site is located on the edge of the Woowookarung Regional Park which divides Ballarat’s urban sprawl from the eastern farmland. The site is a clearing in the park, which overlooks Ballarat, and is subject to potential unprohibited development where roads have already started traversing the park as the city tries to develop around it. As with the City of Ballarat’s intervention in the Ballarat West Development Plan to better manage the sprawling estates, we propose to intervene and prevent further clearing, poor density, development, and self-sufficiency, and for the protection of Woowookarung’s stringybark trees and their koala inhabitants. This development will also promote alternative and more considerate methods for designing the expanding urban environment.

Investigation into the contours revealed interesting detail and a natural system of creek run-off. Instead of disrupting the topography with excavated development, we propose a softer, stilted assemblage where mixed-use buildings are terraced and follow the contours of the site as walkable interconnected corridors. Instead of simply extruding the contours and dividing program, or arraying rectangular blocks, major site shifts were traced and buildings developed from tangrams to allow variation in arrangement and potential interlocking. The tangrams are oriented around the contour planes and form a dense, interlaced community framework.

Major site lines to and from the CBD, creek markers, Mount Buninyong, and Mount Warrenheip bulldoze through the terraces, making a statement for the consideration of place first while also continuing Ballarat’s heritage of tree-lined avenues and site lines to the volcanoes as a method of wayfinding. This also provides green corridors for local flora and fauna to propagate through the development. The proposal presents a medium density, mixed-use arrangement of buildings where no program is clustered and promotes community entanglement and self-sufficiency. Water damming and collection is proposed, where the creeks currently run off into low-density suburban sprawl. Urban farming is also an opportunity to promote self-sufficiency, re-vegetation of the site, conservation of the Regional Park, and a reduction in food travel.

The park had already introduced mountain bike trails and hiking tracks, which has contributed to the increased road access. These features are integrated into the holistic view of the development where a cable car is in place of primary car access.

Week 3

Coles And Myer

We take a site that underutilises its corner prominence and contains the first ever Myer department store, currently falling apart at the seams. The site is central along popular and historical Pall Mall and requires drastic repair and revitilsation. Teaming up with Coles Myer Group, we propose an intervention with a new civic corner that will revitalise the existing Myer store, and introduce a new market style grocer to the CBD. This will better engage with the abandoned connections to Hargreaves Mall, and reinstate Pall Mall as a Parade, Market, and Retail Strip. Awakening the Dragon ceremony used to commonly occur as a celebration of the harvest season. The celebration now pairs with the famous Bendigo Easter Parade showcasing heritage and culture. Sun Loong, once the longest dragon in the world at 100m, chases a spherical ball down

Pall Mall, resembling the Pearl of Wisdom, forever in pursuit. The sinous form disrupts the current urban problems which exist in poor continuity through the context during past expansions. The sectional line does not assume Wall, Floor, or Roof, but all in dividing space and combining program. It will intervene and establish a new plaza corner to taker in the street and open up the side walk. The addition of wrapping verandah-like balconies connects to its context of the Shamrock Hotel, and offers more to the limited viewpoints of Pall Mall, its Civic assemblage, and the Parade. The carpark is made available for peak times of the year, while being able to expand the Ground Floor offerings into a flexible market square. Grandeur of retail is reestablished, with Coles Supermarket and Myer Department Store blending its offerings in a building tied to cultural identity.

Week 2

The original packing facade that was proposed for redevelopment is already divided into two program entries of training and retail. We cut through the middle combining a shared lobby and lounge for both tourists and workforce. The carpark is disconnected from the factory sites with no safe crossings. A valet is provided for the public and worker alike, where upon entrering the administration building, they mutually rise in the building before workers seperate to a safer connected skybridge to the manufacturing plant. This raises and showcases the importance of the labour force and their inherit value to Shepparton.