How can we work within the constraints of population growth in our neighbourhoods while retaining affordability, multiculturality and character of existing assets? City of Darebin is currently undergoing an extensive community consultation strategy to inform their draft structure plan for the redevelopment of the Preston Market Precinct, a highly multicultural area that is expected to … Read more
People function with both a unique biological fingerprint and shared characteristics, like a heartbeat. Similarly, places have unique values specific to the locality (unique values) and shared attributes that distinguish a meaningful place from an empty space (common values). The characteristics that describe the importance of a space are known as place values. We refer … Read more
Week 6 of the studio began with a site visit to undertake behavioural mapping. This was a key method of data collection that most students identified as part of their methodology and, as such, was completed as a class activity. Studio 2 delved into the process of placemaking, with professional guests Elissa McMillan (Associate – … Read more
Bayswater is an inner suburban area that is set to radically change with the planned upgrade of its train station, a new land-use plan, and potentially a new rail line linked to the northern suburbs. The industrial area that is the focus of this project is located partly within the walkable/cycling catchment of the train … Read more
Why do we build? What are we building towards? Is it to make meaning out of stone and mortar? To heal the harm we have wrought? To keep adapting a changing world? To create benefits for the wider world beyond the boundaries of the development? These questions have risen to prominence in the built environment … Read more
Author: Shih-Wen Huang (Jenny Huang), University of Melbourne, Bachelor of ScienceSupervisor: Cris Hernandez-Santin & Dominique Hes The conventional placemaking paradigm empathises the relationships between individuals, communities and urban space where the assemblage of meanings and expectations that define people’s experience within a space transform it into a ‘place’. A sense of place is associated with sense of … Read more
From the end of 2017 to mid-2020, a group of adventurous universities partnered up with real communities to deliver a series of practice-based studios (sandbox studios). This innovative work expanded our teaching beyond traditional practice enabling each studio to have a real-world project for students to contribute to. Working alongside a ‘project champion studio leaders … Read more