Images: P.Nielsen
This design project was undertaken in 2009. The premise was to complete the half built Parliament building at the top of Bourke Street in Melbourne. I decided to explore breaking down the parliament building(s) and introducing more public amenity/use. This first step was cutting into the existing fabric to blur private/public use. Next was to provide the required office accomodation, at the time I was exploring ideas of a workplace which could also work as temporary accomodation (I was living in a studio at the time). It was intended that the building would be completed with a thin 'auditorium' space that protruded out of the existing street facade, this created a lot of controversy when I proposed the idea.
Axonometric view of public cutting through existing building to proposed gallery and new addition. This was intended to expose the hidden bluestone building.
Exploded axonometric of parliamentarian offices with direct access to outdoor balconies.
Section through Bourke Street. The proposed addition aligns with the Bourke Street setback to the East.
Proportional facade study of the auditorium addition. The scale of the addtion was based on the existing proportions of the facade.
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