ARCH5024 - Master Urban Methods Portfolio

Re-manufacturing Luxury in the City of Perth - West End

Stephanie Alama Chavez Portfolio

Re-manufacturing luxury in the city of Perth – West End Urban enjoyment The dictionary describes the word enjoy as to get pleasure from something (Press 2021). So, urban enjoyment might be defined as obtaining pleasure from urban spaces. This portfolio shows the methods used to study the city of Perth to re-interpreted the concept of luxury in the urban area. Drawings show in this document were produced to Masters Urban Design Research, SEMESTER 1 at CURTIN UNIVERSITY, School of Design and the Built Environment.

June 2021

Cover image: Stephanie Alama, Future Nostalgia. 2021, digital image.

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Parliament House Water fountains Green areas Water fountains + green areas Swimming pools

FUTURE NOSTALGIA THE GRAY PERTH

Cities and architecture are bonded because of their constant change. There are new types of construction, design approaches, thinking movements or structural systems, but cities, in their way to be moderns lose parts of themselves. Buildings and spaces than before were used and recognised by residents as part of their environment, nowadays are empty areas in cities.

As Patrick Geddes informed, the city is not only inhabited; the city is produced (Amati, Freestone and Robertson 2017). In Perth, people who live in the capital centre move out because the metropolitan does not offer suitable houses, entertaining activities, or a much livelier public city. Residents do not appropriate the spaces and buildings, and the coordination of actors, knowledge, and materialities has difficulties creating a system.

The community is not engaging with their history, so it does not develop an identity wivth Perth. When the time passes away, residents start feeling that it is something missing in the city, but it is not easy to define. This sense could be named “future nostalgia”.

D4. Instant Printing , P.A.F.S. House), CBC Bank, Attewell & Co., John C. Hanson & Co. Hay Street, West Perth, July 1982

D9. Ramsay Surgical Ltd and the Parker Motor Company building 1982 D8. 1100-1106 Hay Street D7. West End Mansions and Braemar, blocks of flats D6. Red Pagoda Chinese Restaurant D5. Havelock-Hay Liquor Centre, Watchmaker, All Electonic Repairs and Vee's Fine Foods D5B. Harpo Hair Design and The Johnny Young Talent School in Entertainment House D4. Instant Printing , P.A.F.S. House), CBC Bank , Attewell & Co., John C. Hanson & Co. D3. Gangemi's supermarket, West Perth News, Post Office, West Perth Pharmacy, Griffo's, Shirley's Coffee House & Lunch Bar and The Cutters hairdressers 1983 D2. Prico and Eriksen & Assoc. and HIckey & Son Pty Ltd. D1. Longviews block of flats 1983

DEMOLISHED BUILDINGS HISTORICAL BUILDINGS HISTORICAL RIVER AND LAKES BORDERS

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H3. Parliament house H2. Hale school

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1324 Hay Street D1. Longviews block of flats, April 1983-2021

D10. The Capitol Theatre 1931

D2. Prico and Eriksen & Assoc. and HIckey & Son Pty Ltd, 1306 Hay Street, West Perth, April 1983-2021

D3. Gangem i’s supermar ket, West Per West Perth th News, Po Pharmacy, st Office, G riffo’s, Shir Lunch Bar a ley’s Coffee nd The Cutt H ouse & ers hairdres Street, West sers, 1266-1 Perth, May 1 284 Hay 983-2021

D5B. Harpo Hair Design and The Johnny Young Tal ent School in Entertainment House - 1142-1148 Hay Str eet , West Perth, July 1982 - 20 21 D6. Red Pagoda Chinese Restaurant, 1134 Hay Street, West Perth, March 1984 H9. Perth Town Hall H8. Central Government Offices H6. Theatre Royal and Metropole Hotel H7. Cremorne Arcade

Demolished buildings along Hay Street.

H5. Gledden Building H4. His Majesty’s Theatre

D10. The Capitol

Figure: Stephanie Alama, Demolished and Heritage buildings. 2021, digital image.

D9. Ramsay Surgical Ltd and the Parker Motor Company building, 1056-1064 Hay Street, West Perth, July 1982-2021

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1958-1987 H1. Graham flats, 1217 Hay Street. Constructed

H5. Gledden Buildin February 1938

H2. Hale School, Havelock Street West Perth 1934

H3. Parliament House, Perth 1971

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Nowadays, in Perth, the primary source of contact with water is the Swan River, but there were many lakes inside the city. These lakes gradually disappear, and their areas were filled with urban lots. These lots represented the manufacture of private properties and, consequently, private wealth.

John Arrowsmith’s townsite plan was proposed an orthogonal grid and a central zone thought to accommodate its perimeter administrative and religious buildings (Bolleter 2015).

As the commercial directory map claims the principal business portion, in 1894, was in the area between Pier street, St. George terrace, William street and Wellington St., The character of the city centre, is similar to a big shopping complex, energetic during the day because of the commercial activities, but inactive and unattractive during the rest of the day (Gehl et al. 2009).

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1967 Figure: Julian Bolleter, Perth Water reclamation over time. 2015, digital image. Reproduced from: Take to the river: The story of Perth’s Foreshore.

Perth is in constant change and the most important in the last 200 years was the reclamation of the area over the river. This appropriation of the coastline and its incessant modification is based on the aspiration to accomplish a modern metropolis with recreational lands for residents’ benefit and pleasure (Bolleter 2015).

Figure: Laycock, J. H., J.H. Laycock’s commercial directory map of the principal business portion of the City of Perth West. 1894, digital image.

Reproduced from: State Library of Western Australia.

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H9. Hay Street, Pe rth with the Town Hall almost compl 1870-2021 ete,

H7. The Cremorne Arcade, Hay Street, Perth, 31 August 1965

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Reproduced from: State Library of Western Australia

Western Australia had a population around of 200 000 residents in 1900. The city of Perth was not divided by the transport system; thus, West Perth and the city centre were a whole urban area (N/D 1900).

Saint George terrace was the last street parallel to the river border, and Parliament House would be built between 1902 and 1904.

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Figure: Herbert Shaw & Co., The Tommy Atkins Map. Approximately 1900, digital image.

Reproduced from: State Library of Western Australia

Figure: Stephanie Alama, Western Australia and Perth environmental system. 2021, digital image.

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THE COLORFUL PERTH In this chapter, to analyse the production of the spaces and the enjoyment of the city, it was necessary to think of Perth as the centre of a more extensive system, Western Australia, and how environmental challenges can affect the city of Perth. When residents in the city believe that bushfires or droughts do not affect them, it is critical to think about the production of the food they consume and how the city’s markets are luxurious retails.

Urban scale of West Perth and the city centre

Central Perth West Perth

Figure: Stephanie Alama, West Perth and the city centre. 2021, digital image.

A notorious difference between West Perth and the city centre is the scale, while in the former is finding a human scale, in the latter the predominancy are high buildings and narrow streets. Leisure places are around the river, an important green area is King Park, and the city is divided by the freeway.

In Perth centre is challenging to find leisure spaces. A way to describe these spaces is their feeling; they share an opportunity to experience a sensation of freedom. So, this is a crucial idea for future designs. These zones permit people to be together, but they can also be away from others (Maciocco 2009)

Footpath (over 1.50m.)

Walkability and the configuration of streets Pedestrian streets

Figure: Stephanie Alama, Walkability and the configuration of streets. 2021, digital image.

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Figure: Stephanie Alama, Traffic volume per day. 2021, digital image.

Vacant spaces, for lease and water fountains along Has street and King street

FOR LEASE VACANT SPACES WATER FOUNTAINS

Private Pools and historical lakes in the city

Figure: Stephanie Alama, Water fountains and private pools. 2021, digital image.

Native plants and bird in the Swan river - and collage “the texture of the river”

Figure: Stephanie Alama, Drawings and collage. 2021, digital image and mixed techniques.

HALLUCINATE THE NEON PERTH

This chapter is where all “no possible” ideas are possible. Experimenting around the parliament precinct is part of the enjoyment of the space. Which ideas could be trying and which ideas are spacially complex. A definition of spatial complexity said that the architectural space has three ways to generate experiences: the regular, the reflected and the projected space. The first is the space filled by the body; the second is that we observe on reflective materials, and the last one is space shown on ‘projection surfaces’ and produced by digital pictures (Bar-Eli 2018).

People, in their process, to produce spaces, change them in massive or minor measurements. Furthermore, this characteristic is explained by Deleuze and Guattari as the Rhizomatic urbanism, whereas an example said that orchid developed characteristics to attract the wasp to be pollinated, and the wasp has behaviour that is favourable to the orchid. The same is possible in urban architecture by creating spaces or buildings that change because of the people. This interaction could be requested by following social media events, for example. This chapter develops all the drawings and ideas that nurture the final design project, which is fundamental re-manufacturer architecture in West Perth and Perth CBD. (Leach 2009)

Figure: Stephanie Alama, Hallucinate. 2021, digital image and mixed techniques.

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