Yee Von _ Architectural Thesis Project 2012

Yee Von Low GHOST OF WESTERN MARKET University of Melbourne Thesis Project 2012

Tutor: Francesco Vitelli Studio M | Yee Von Low |312917

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Content _ Studio Brief Design Statement Final Project Discovering Melbourne Markets Western Market Eastern Market Typological Investigation Market Facade Studies Spatial Studies

Site Analysis Precedential Studies

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Brief...

Melbourne, spatially defined as the original colonial town reserve is the realm of memory to be examined in this studio. The area is characterised by the colonial grid and the Shrine of rememberance the last monument of the 19th century colonial enterprise that used monuments to glorify and legitimate sovereign power. The studio adopts Giorgio Agamben’s notion of profanation to profane the glorious history associated wuth 19th century urbanism by recovering memories concealed by that enterprise.

Three themes emerged in the studio. The first reflected Siegried Kracauer’s and Walter Benjamin ‘ observation that the modern city destroys its memory through the removal of significant buildings and spaces (markets, arcades , portocos, verandahs, urban block , etc) The scond theme responded to Antonia Neg’s observation that a spectre haunts the world ...(that) ... of migration and the last exposes the racial practices of erasure , genocide and exclusion integral to the nation state , which haunts the study area , and in which in other forms denominates contemporary social politics.

Francesco Vitelli, tutor

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DESIGN STATEMENT

Memory, Modernity , Monumentality

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“ Memory is in permanent evolution , subject to the DIALECTIC OF REMEBERING AND FORGETTING, unconcious of the DISTORTIONS to which it is subject, VULNERABLE in various ways to appropriation and manipulation .”

“ Memory is POLARISATION

OF SPACE AND TIME THROUGHT A MATRIX OF WELL-DESIGNED FRAGMENTS .” “ in proust, past and present are neither by willful collective memorisations nor by concious memorising but by individual acts of INVOLUNTARY

MEMORY TRIGGERED by SENSES.”

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MELBOURNE MARKETS In the early years of settlement, Melbourne urban territory was filled with markets. These markets were one of the few significant public buildings within the city grid. Operated by market Commissioners which were the official government representatives, markets were not only economically significant, but more importantly, they were Melbourne’s public forums, an urban setting for public assembly and entertainment.

The principle market of Melbourne then,was the Western market - a wholesale vegetable and fruit market, established at the junction of Collins and William Street. As population increased, more markets were established and these include: Eastern Market , Hay and Corn Market , Old Fish Market, New Corporation Market, Cattle Market , Wood Market and Meat Market.

However, these markets were subsequently demolished in the 20th century at the arrival of modern movement to pave way for new modern buildings, leaving no trace at all.

REMEMBERING Apart from its social and economical significance, these markets were the image of Melbourne city then. Its architecture also reflected the Europeanization of Melbourne. By bringing back the markets, its an act of reversing urban gentrification.

Hence, this project intention is to design a monument on the western market site that acts as metaphorical trope to enable citizens to identify with its past as a political, cultural and social entity- commemorate these markets and the experience associated with it.

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MONUMENTALITY AND MODERNITY Nonetheless, modernity and monumentality has always shared a tense relationship. As stated by Lewis Mumford, ‘The very notion of a modern monument is a contradiction in terms; if it is a monument, it cannot be modern, and if it is modern, it cannot be a monument.’ In order to recreate the memories of market, the approach is to use fragments of historical elements . As Rossi argues, as a city remembers through its building , so the preservation of old building is analogous with the preservation of memories the human mind.

However, memory is only involuntarily triggered through senses and not by concious memorising. Hence, by using these grafted fragments of a vaguely familiar market architecture, a contrast is distinguished and a notion of shock is stimulated against its modern setting.

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DESIGN OUTCOME

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FORM DEVELOPMENT

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PROGRAMME & SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT While the main programme is to commemorate the hidden Melbourne markets, the architectural approach rejects a solitary museum typology.

Instead, memories of these markets are placed within the site in directions correlated to the Western Market.

More importantly, these galleries are placed in between public spaces and community services to attract more people .

As the site is rarely used on weekends and fairly quiet , the programme is suggested to revitalise the site and the western section of the city. In order to create a typology which allows for and generate encounter with people, these segments of envelope spaces are composed oF series of galleries , community centres and social hubs.

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GALLERY According to Benjamin - fragments were understood as having dynamic role as an random element to do with moments and discontinuities as it suggest fleeting and critical insights into the past as well as a sense of lost discontinuity.

Hence , fragments of the past were used.

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Playing with the idea of solid versus void , the galleries are placed within light wells

Circle is used because circle has no front and back and also the idea of loop preambulation

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FACADE DEVELOPMENT

In order to translate the concept ghost, the facade is a translation of the orginal facade but perforated to create an ambiguos feeling.

With internal layers of structure and glass surface, the effect of translucency is achieved.

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EXPLODED DIAGRAM

CATTLE YARD OUTDOOR GALLERY EASTERN MARKET

NEW FISH MARKET GALLERY OLD FISH MARKET MEAT MARKET GALLERY

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SURROUNDING RELICS The alignment of the structural columns demarcates the original spatial layout of the western market .

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WESTERN MARKET AS A CONTAINER TO ALL HIDDEN MARKETS The alignment of the structural columns demarcates the original spatial layout of the western market .

The alignment of the structural columns demarcates the original spatial layout of the western market .

Remembering the quadrangle , golded ground plane and boundary

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TRANSLATING ARCHITECTURE

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INTEGRATION Building structure is integrated with existing structure.

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RECONNECT TO IMMIGRATION MUSEUM Reconnect with the immigration museum using a overhead bridge Rood deck with protruding columns as memorial garden.

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FACADE DEVELOPMENT

The original facade was used to perforated the external screen to prevent overexposure of the intermal activities

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SITE PLAN

MARKET STREET

WILLIAM STREET

COLLINS STREET

FLINDERS LANE

FLINDERS STREET

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FLOOR PLANS

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LEGEND 1. Storage 2. Restaurant / cafes 3. Community Library 4. Cafeteria 5. Hay and Corn Gallery 6. Wood & Cattle Market Outdoor Gallery 7. Eastern Market Gallery 8. New Fish Market Gallery 9. Meat Market Gallery 10. Old Fish Market Gallery 11. Community fitness center 12. Cattle Yard Outdoor Gallery 13. Dessert Shop 14. Barrista School 15. Roof deck / Memorial garden / Breakoutspace.

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FIRST FLOOR

LEGEND 1. Storage 2. Restaurant / cafes 3. Community Library 4. Cafeteria 5. Hay and Corn Gallery 6. Wood & Cattle Market Outdoor Gallery 7. Eastern Market Gallery 8. New Fish Market Gallery 9. Meat Market Gallery 10. Old Fish Market Gallery 11. Community fitness center 12. Cattle Yard Outdoor Gallery 13. Dessert Shop 14. Barrista School 15. Roof deck / Memorial garden / Breakoutspace.

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ROOF DECK

LEGEND 1. Storage 2. Restaurant / cafes 3. Community Library 4. Cafeteria 5. Hay and Corn Gallery 6. Wood & Cattle Market Outdoor Gallery 7. Eastern Market Gallery 8. New Fish Market Gallery 9. Meat Market Gallery 10. Old Fish Market Gallery 11. Community fitness center 12. Cattle Yard Outdoor Gallery 13. Dessert Shop 14. Barrista School 15. Roof deck / Memorial garden / Breakoutspace.

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SECTIONS

cattle yard outdoor gallery

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community fitness

immigration museum

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old fish market gallery

eastern market gallery

library

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wood & cattle market gallery

weekend market

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SOUTH ELEVATIONS

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immigration museum

EAST ELEVATION

immigration museum

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ENTRY

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BACK ENTRANCE- along FLinders Lane Studio M | Yee Von Low |312917

TRIBUTE GARDEN - Immigration Museum Studio M | Yee Von Low |312917

OLD FISH MARKET GALLERY Studio M | Yee Von Low |312917

NEW FISH MARKET GALLERY Studio M | Yee Von Low |312917

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DISCOVERING MELBOURNE MARKETS Memory, Modernity , Monumentality

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HISTORY OF MELBOURNE MARKETS 1841- 1979

The first vegetable garden was planted by Fawkner’s party, as soon as it arrived, on a small flat piece of land where Spencer Street. John Batman planted an orchard and garden too. Other settlers soon had gardens and satellite settlements with an agriculture base sprang up at places like Pascoeville (Pascoe Ville), Pentridge (Coburg), Heidelberg and Brighton. Statistics of increment of crops of Port Phillip settlement:

Year 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842

Population 200 1000 4000 6000 10000 20000 24000

Area Under Crop (acs) 100 100 200 2100 3200 4900 8100

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HISTORY OF MELBOURNE MARKETS 1841- 1979

The legislature in New South Wales, of which colony the Port Phillip settlement was then a part, and had passed an act empowering a number of towns to establish markets.

Melbourne citizens petitioned Police Magistrate to establish market as well.

They felt that there were enough local and imported produce (The settlement still depended heavily on supplies from Van Diemen’s Land and South Australia )to warrant a market and that a market for produce and other goods would help to moderate process for the necessities of life.

A public meeting – agreed to set up markets and machinery of Act 1839 was put into operation.

Market Commissioners

-They functioned as Melbourne’s first local government representatives.

-In 1842, Legislation suggested that Melbourne and Sydney should have separate corporations and by year end, election of Melbourne Town Council commenced.

-The town was divided into 4 wards and 8 councillors were elected.

-The control over markets were then passed on to Council.

-Due to some legal issues, the market dues were the only immediate source of revenue.

markets establishment 1841

Market gardeners increased and they started backing their carts up along the footway of Elizabeth Street Post Office and selling vegetables directly to their customer.

1840 public meeting | market Commissioners

1839 Petition for market

A market is born.......

Market Commissioners had their first meeting and decided to select four sites for markets, of which Western Market will be the general market. Market was set to open every day except Wednesday and Saturday. These days were known as Market days.

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HISTORY OF MELBOURNE MARKETS 1841- 1979

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FORGOTTEN MARKETS OF MELBOURNE CBD Cattle Yard

Eastern Market Hay & Corn Market Cattle & Wood Market Western Market Hay & Corn Market

Fish & Game Market Meat & Produce Market

Old fish Market Hanton’s Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Market

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Western market general market started in 1842 demolished in 1960

Eastern market old paddy’s market started in 1847 demolished in 1960

Old fish market hanton’s fruit & veg. market started in 1840 demolish 1900

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New fish market Melbourne Corporation Market Built in 1890 demolished in 1959

Hay market At CAthedral site

Cattle yard queen victoria market started in 1878 cease operation in ???

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SQUARE

Meat Market Melbourne

Cattle and wood Market

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WESTERN MARKET

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The market square became more and more disreputable.

Domesticated rabbits, which escaped from vendors in the market, were breeding in there as well.

Reconstruction of the market aim to attract interest of commercial enterprise.

When excavation began , growers left for Eastern Market Just bluestone foundation only

The market was burnt down and it was re-erected.

Expansion of Melbourne to the east had led to establishment of Eastern Market in 1847 and to a decline in the importance of Western market.

Council allowed homeless immigrants to camp at one section of the market square for a fee

1856 CHANGE OF CONTRACTORS

Market house, comprised of two rows of brick stalls was built.

Tents were also erected for the unsuccessful applicants for sale of fruit and vegetables.

Legal issues prevented the Council from looking for more effective ways of using the site.

1855 CONSTRUCTION

St. James was erected around the corner in 1849 and a new status was given to the market. With its new found status and financial improvement, the City Council began to tidy up the market

1853 BURNT DOWN | EXPANSION

1849 NEW STATUS | MARKET HOUSE

Melbourne first official fruit and vegetable market, established merely 6 years after the settlement.

1846 DETERIORATION

1841 ESTABLISHMENT

WESTERN MARKET TIMELINE

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1922 NEW LOCATION Market was so inadequate, lacking of facilities such as the cool storage chambers and banana ripening room.

Proposal to move to Flinders street where the council’s cool chambers are.

1930 MOVED

Almost fully tenanted but not connected with vegetable businesses.

1920 DETERIORATION

Reorganisation of market the new building was erected and completed by 1871

1897 VERANDAHS

The first lease commenced but lack of demand for the leases so part of the new building became a makeshift Town hall until 1870.

1871 FULL HOUSE

1868 TOWN HALL

Western Market became produce market, most of the space let to fruit wholesalers, with some for hay , corn ,wine and spirit merchants Some growers began to populate the streets.

1867 CONSTRUCTION

1857 AGENTS IN , GROWERS OUT

Government prevented sales along the river wharf . Agents and importers were asked to move to Western Market.

Fruit vendors have all moved to Queen Victoria Market.

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Western Market scenes in 1908

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EASTERN MARKET history.....

The western Market, started in 1841 on Melbourne’s western Hill which was then the heart of the young town, was not easily accessed from eastern hill.Coupled with the increasing population due to the Gold Rush, The Eastern residents then petitioned for a general market in their district, and this led to the development of the Eastern Market.

Unlike the Western Market which was a market reserve from the beginning, the site of Eastern Market was initially known as a public reserve in the 1837 Melbourne plan.

In 1841, market commissioners designated the reserve as a site future general market, and it was used unofficially hay and corn market. When it was proclaimed officially in 1846, it became an official hay and corn market.

The whole reserve was granted to the council upon the trust for market purposes, but the goal area was excluded in 1846.

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Those market sheds/ arcades were extended to include the goal area.

The sheds were built in and they were officially known as arcades.

The demand for space grew rapidly; many stands were taken by fruit agents and dealers. The Eastern Market became the market for growers and it became more and more congested.

Stands were even reported to have overflow towards Bourke and Exhibition Street.

1870 GOVERNMENT’S ATTENTION

1860 INCLUSION OF GOAL

(Goal area was turned into a goal hospital in 1845 after Goal moved to Russell Street.)

EXTENSIONS 1865

Petitions after petitions to the Legislative Council led the City Council to offer $3000 to put up market sheds.

Council approved on the inclusion of goal area into market reserve boundary.

GROWTH ACCELERATION 1859

Attendance of market gardeners grew and they began to agitate for covered standing places.

1858 APPROVAL

Prosperity of the gold rush prompted Council to put up building at its own expenses. Ground plan sent to government in June and erection of the inner portion of the market and Bourke Street entrance began.

ARCADES 1857

1856 CONSTRUCTION

Eastern Market was officially opened.

GROWTH 1854

1841 ESTABLISHMENT

EASTERN MARKET TIMELINE

The hay growers and farmers were moved to corner of Sydney road and Flemington road due to insufficient space.

In order to preserve vegetables, fruit and other produce from exposure to the weather, the whole of available space in the market was covered and made into stalls.

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Announced a new design completion Design selected in 1877

Council agreed on a 99 year lease of the site for the construction of an international hotel – the Southern Cross hotel.

Growers were invited to come back but it was too little, too late.

Too little – in the sense there was less than half an acre of clear floor space for growers’ carts.

Too late –Queen Victoria Market had become a recognised grower’s wholesale market, there was no incentive for them to come back.

DEMOLITION 1960

Concurrently searching for a new place, council also held a competition for suitable designs for a building to cover the whole site and at the site time

1950S NEW BUILDING

75-Council confirmed not removing market on site.

Later confirmed no change in location.

Tenants were temporary moved to Queen Victoria Market while construction was undergoing.

22 December 1879 – opened officially

TOO LITTLE , TOO LATE | NEW ROLE 1880

73-It was reported that more than half of the council still oppose the removal of the wholesale market to Victoria Street

1878-79 NEW BUILDING

72-Petition was filed regarding the removal of the wholesale market.

DESIGN COMPETITION 1876

Arcades were extended to accommodate growing growers.(In the end, there were 339 stands there on permanent basis.)

COMPETITION 1871

Council was not sure if they wanted to retain the Eastern Market site, hence requested for a change of site.

1872 -75 PETITION | PUBLIC MEETING

The Council in 1870 turned its attention to making more profitable use of the Eastern Market after the Western Market building completion.

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MORE THAN JUST A MARKET....

Social interaction..... public forum..... entertainment.....

Eastern Market Saturday morning confusion in 1862

SATURDAY NIGHT LIFE

PADDY’S MARKET

AMUSEMENT CENTRE

Despite lack of shelter, the Eastern Market was a popular gathering place, especially on Saturday nights. It was a market of different character, as illustrated in a ‘Leader’ article

Once the arcades were there to give shelter and the town gas was laid on, the market exploded. It grew more garish, confused and noisy and this led to it being dubbed ‘ Paddy market’.

Even though its role as a wholesale market finished , the Eastern Market was still a popular public space. It assumed both the roles as a general market and an amusement center.

‘ The market sold a variety of items, ranging from Chinese lanterns, Dutch papers and envelopes, drapery , soap , to books. But the feature of the market is the confectioners’ stalls.’

The market not only sold a variety of goods but it was also a public forum where any topic were hotly debated.

There were also sideshows, minstrels and the inevitable Punch and Lady.

It was described in 1888: ‘No evening promenade can be complete without a visit to the Eastern maker . They form a feature on which the city might congratulate itself.’

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A political meeting in the Eastern Market, 1870

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WHY REMEMBER THE MARKETS ? role of melbourne markets then

Representations

Apart from custom house , it was one of the very few first public buildings.

fish market hay and corn market growers market - veg. & fruit produce market

Theatre Public forum Sideshows Amusement centre Political debates

CONSUMERISM

SOCIAL

MARKET

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RELATIONSHIP DIAGRAM?

Form

square sheds victorian market

New building Programme

public forum social hub point of exchange economic role

derive from site analysis

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MARKET TYPOLOGICAL STUDIES

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MARKET FORM STUDIES

WESTERN MARKET

MARKET SQUARE

BUILDING WITH QUADRANGLE

EASTERN MARKET

MARKET SQUARE

ARCADE

OLD FISH MARKET

MARKET SQUARE

ARCADE

BUILDING WL/VERANDAHS & CENTER COURT

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MARKET FORM STUDIES

NEW FISH MARKET

GAME & FISH MARKET

MEAT MARKET

WAREHOUSES

MEAT MARKET

WOOD MARKET CATTLE YARD

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MARKET FORM STUDIES

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block w/ central void

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MARKET FACADE STUDIES

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MARKET FACADE STUDIES

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MARKET FACADE SUMMARY WESTERN MARKET

EASTERN MARKET

OLD FISH MARKET

NEW MARKET

QV MARKET

ARCH WINDOWS

ENTRANCE

ICONIC TOWERS

VERANDAHS

CAST IRON COLUMNS

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MARKET SPATIAL ARRANGEMENT WESTERN MARKET

manshelt map 1925

MODULARITY - GRID ORDER QUADRANGLE CIRCULAR + LINEAR PATH ENTRANCE FROM ALL SIDES Studio M | Yee Von Low |312917

EASTERN MARKET

manshelt map 1925

MODULARITY - GRID ORDER QUADRANGLE CIRCULAR + LINEAR PATH entrance from 3 sides Studio M | Yee Von Low |312917

OLD FISH MARKET

MMBW MAP 1895

BLOCK INTERNAL SQUARE

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NEW FISH MARKET

mmbw map 1925

BLOCK LABYRINTH DISSECTION OF LINEAR STRIPS

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SITE INVESTIGATION

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SITE PROPOSAL

Western Market

Site was chosen due to its historical link - it was where the first Melbourne Principle Market was built.

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MELBOURNE MAP 1855

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MELBOURNE MAP 1910

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MELBOURNE MAP 1948

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SITE INVESTIGATION - HISTORY

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MARKET HARBOUR TRUST CUSTOM HOUSE QUEENS WHARF YARRA RIVER

Western Market was historically linked to the custom house , Queen’s Wharf and Yarra River.

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CUSTOM HOUSE

THREE CUSTOMS HOUSES

A structure described as a ‘shabby, leaky, comfortless, weatherboard cabin’ was shipped in pieces from Sydney and erected here during the 1830s.

As trade increased, a two-storey bluestone Customs House was completed in 1841. Designed by the Government architect in Sydney, it was Melbourne’s first stone building. However, by the 1850s, critics called it one of the ‘ugliest and most inconvenient of all our public buildings’.

With the increased revenue brought by the gold rush, the Victorian Government commissioned immigrant architect Peter Kerr to design a new Customs House. Although the building was occupied by Customs in 1858, a shortage of funds prevented its completion. The building was finally completed in 1876, to a modified design by Kerr and two other government architects.

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MUTUAL CENTRE

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE What is significant?

This was the site of Melbourne's General Market later known as the Western Market which started in 1842 but was demolished for this development in 1961. The market took up the block surrounded by Collins Street, Market Street, Flinders Lane and William Street.

Development options for the site were canvassed over an extended period, with one late 1950s option being that of Underhill Investments Ltd that planned a massive triple-tower structure which covered most of the former market reserve.

This was also the era of civic development where the new vision of the Central Business District was one of elegant office tower blocks that because of their greater height, allowed adjacent landscaped forecourts such as the much maligned Gas & Fuel towers in Flinders Street and the associated Princes Gate Plaza. These however were not enough to provide the resting places for the general public roving and enjoying the City centre: there should be grand civic squares not incidental green spaces. To this end the Western Market site, having been considered for near 100% site coverage in the late 1950s, was reconsidered in the role of half investment office tower and half public plaza set over a large area, larger than any previous city green space.

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Godfrey Spowers, Hughes, Mewton and Lobb, and Leith and Bartlett, were the joint architects and engineers (termed the National Mutual centre Architects), with E Hughes as the project architect. The client was National Mutual Life Association of Australasia Ltd (divisional manager, P Ryan) and the contracting builders were EA Watts Pty Ltd.: the project ran from 1962 to 1965. As with other recent insurance office towers the gold-anodised aluminium framed curtain faรงade walls were augmented with stone, in this case 1.1/4 inch thick white marble (requiring a modification of the Uniform Building Regulations).

Observers pointed out that the contrast between the sparkling white and gold of the NMLC was a stark contrast to the allblack Royal Insurance tower opposite. Initial plaza plans (232 x 150 feet in area) showed more paving than eventuated, seating and planting area on the east and west sides, and a large central fountain area.

True to the promise of ground level activity there were two levels of shops facing the gallery and concourse or north plaza and an internal arcade. The first three occupied levels covered a larger area than the tower above (which had a 150 feet setback from Collins St), with two and three parking and service levels below. Of the total gross building area of 536,200 square feet, some 186,840 square feet was devoted to housing the car, as a partial answer to the recently opened Chadstone drive-in shopping centre.

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The first floo r held ample staff facilities including a large cafeteria, a library, lounge, games and billiard rooms. There was also the encircling balcony which was rare among city buildings but allowed for easy window cleaning and shading of the glass facade, avoiding the cracking problems experienced by the ICI Building in 1960. `Cross-section' periodical noted in 1961 that the provision of these balconies on the NMLC tower demonstrated that `there are other alternatives to the architecture of multi-storey office blocks than the ubiquitous all glass curtain wall sheath'.

Under the plant room level, there was the top (20th) floor observation deck; the general manager’s office was one floor down at the 19th. The eight-lift lobby was on the west side and the rest of the typical floor was set out on a strict module, with 2.7m ceiling heights and 3.6m floor to floor- the office standard of the time. Most of the upper-level was leased out.

The completion of the project coincided with the Fourteenth Australian Architectural Convention and the periodical `Building Ideas' created a special edition to display the City's architectural wealth, with tour guides compiled by architect and academic Neville Quarry and others.

Mutual, with the requirement that only half the area should be built upon and the other half be paved and planted for the use of the public, with parking underneath. Accommodation for 512 cars is provided, 93 with access from Market Street and the rest from Flinders Lane.

The plaza, 228 feet x 150 feet, is paved with hexagonal Mintaro slate and a 60-feet-high piece of sculpture, with its associated fountain and pools, will be placed off-centre near Market Street.

Planting beds round the edges of the plaza are raised, with a broad wall for sitting on and there is a patch of lawn at the southern end, backed by planting intended eventually to serve as protection from southerly winds up William Street from the river.

The overflow of office workers at lunch time will, no doubt, sit informally on the broad flight of steps down to the lower concourse, where there are service shops and a coffee house.

Possibly, some day, a record shop will give lunch-time concerts...

...To keep the plaza alive when the office crowds are gone, there will be out-of-hours use of the theatrette, squash courts, observation deck and roof-top restaurant; and, although a little out of the way for general pedestrian use, the fountain will provide a spectacle worth visiting. It is to be hoped that the He wrote: restaurant clientele will enter by the plaza in fine weather, rather `The creation of a much needed open plaza in the heart of the than from the car park, since gaily dressed diners or theatregoers office district was made possible by the City Council’s move in provide a festive..’ buying the whole block and leasing it back to National Studio M | Yee Von Low |312917

SITE SELECTION + PROGRAMME ANALYSIS CRITICAL MAPPING

determining contemporary social catalyst by mapping the human density ,programmes which drive social gatherings are determined.

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DEFINING PROGRAMME

REMEMBERING THE FORGOTTEN/ PRESERVING THE OLD MODERNITY determining contemporary MEMORY social catalyst MONUMENTALITY Entertainment complex Vintage market Old film outdoor cinema

timeline museum or lost art / building/ food Future events

Memory bank Urban Archive

Forgotten event of history

CONSUMERISM

SOCIAL Problem: Melbourne doesnt need another market

Buildings which were demolished by the WHELANS

MARKET

buying memories?

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PROGRAMMES

transportation

public squares

retails

busking / grafitti

cafe / coffee

cultural precinct

educational facilities

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Hay and corn Market Western Market Pig,Hay,Horse and cattle Market Cattle - Wood Market Eastern Market Old fish Market Corporation Market

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Old fish Market Corporation Market

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COMMUNITY

THE GALLERY SERIES

PROGRAMME PROPOSAL

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PRECEDENTS

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JAJA ARCHITECTS

EH- ARCHITECTS

Concert Venue Westblaak Rotterdam

The starting point for design of the concert venue was to create a building that attracts a diverse audience and thus provides a fusion of cultural and commercial flows. Resulting in an increased quality of life in the city during day and night.

Therefore the building must create new public domain in the center of Rotterdam.

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TOYO ITO

Tama Art University

3XN

Railyard Cultural Centre

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PAISAJES EMERGENTES

Centre for Promotion of Science of the Republic of Serbia

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PAISAJES EMERGENTES Polish History Museum The use of Old fragments and preambulation through the building to revoke the old memories of the war was quite interesting.

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SANAA Kanazawa Art Museum The design was based on the concept that circle had no front and back, just like history, The architect also designed in a way that the entire building is extremely light and functions are separated by circulation , allowing visitors to have 360 degrees vision of the space. This modernistic take on a museum is very refreshing and subtle , which result in the careful study of its programme arrangement and overall building formation.

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THANKS TO Without these great friends and mentor, thesis would have been unbearable, but they have made it possible and fun !1 Franceco Vitelli Yu Lei Robert Halim Meng Hau Moon Justin Chen Can Hui Amanda Shi Qi Anthony Po Dwi Nugroho Hui Ying & Hui Jing Danny Andrew Maxwell Jessie Chow David Sun

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Studio M | Yee Von Low |312917

CONTACT +6012 -9288920 yeevonlowo5@gmail.com No 2, Jalan Bu 2/9 Bandar Utama, 47800 Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia Studio M | Yee Von Low |312917