better LIFE
The Eight Hour Memorial Park exists at the junction of the Carlton and Melbourne grids on the corner of Victoria and Lygon Streets. This site has been allocated as a celebration of the 48 hour week. It has been chosen for a redevelopment proposal that links the immediate neighbourhood and will forge a stronger identity and perception of the space at the metropolitan scale with a gateway landmark design that stitches the two grids as one.
This study is designed to assess the hypothesis that people enjoy spaces and places that can be used differently, by different people in different ways. Enticing people to engage with the city in every way is key to understanding how the site can be improved. It should reflect life and culture in the CBD and create a space that engages the site with a culturally influential and sculptural response. By maintaining the concept embraces the historic context and value society places on a life balance consisting of work, rest and play and as such, should reflect more than concepts of civil liberties, but a design response that enforces the concept as a reality in a functional, reflective and playful intervention.
Programmes have been devised to compliment the functions of RMIT, Trades Hall, local Hostels and the bus stop in a way that improves amenity with volumetric connections and services that can be used by constituents, students and workers due to its central location within the heart of Melbourne. These include a:
- Resting Place
- Tuition Space
- Performance Space
- Transport Zone
- Reflection Garden
Hybridization of space will be melded within the public programmes as they require a diverse range of uses in the day and night to accomodate a constant flow of public performances and private tuition to create the desired balance of places to work, rest and play within the intervention.
Programme generators were developed to inform and unearth parallel functions and hybridization that will be used to inform the design. Further parameters will be used to create free flowing and gradual forms that reflect the conceptual history of the site and pragmatic design constraints. Modelling will be done using Cinema 4D, ArchiCAD, Rhino and ArcGIS. The formative response will be inspired by blending natural, aesthetic and pragmatic forms and functions that can be built using materials chosen for their durability and structural properties such as stone, concrete, wood, iron and steel.
David O’Reilly S# 338643
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