week 3: bunker designlaunches australia’s first nuclear reactor, 1958

Reading:•The Inside and the Outside in Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1966), pp70-79, by Robert Venturi

•Growing pains: the nation’s capital turns 100, by Mark Mcken-na

•Movement Against War and Fascism

•Film: Mad Max, 1979 Australian film

•Site visit: Bourke Building 145 Russell Street

•Model making: Bunker Design

•Site research: Jeparit

jeparit “home of small birds”

but also “home of big politician”

robert gordon menzies

menzies spires near by jeparit primary school

location character

history

major mitchell - 1836

edward john - 1838

aborigines

gromiluk

jeparit

jeparit

discover

discover

wimmera river

hindmarsh lake

370km

melbourne

adelaide

our jeparithistory of a small country town

01. REFERENCEjeparit history

our jeparithistory of a small country town

time line from 1836 - presentarchitectural development & history

1857 1889 1893 1894 1912 1920 1951 1984 2013

ebeneezer mission station

first schools:tarranyurk railways

brick constructionpine board walliron roof

jeparit primary school

jeparit hospital

memorials, erected bycohen & sons of melbourne

period:ww1 & 2

memorials, erected bysir robert gordon menzies

Institutional building types & the relationship between Materiality & Facade 01

Domestic housing types & the relationship between Materiality & Facade 02

Social/Electoral Context

population

local economic: tourism

agriculture - wheat planting “pumpa brothers trust” company

feeding livestock

social issue

election results since 1901

demographic

political issue

flooding

land renting authority

crown grant

federal division: Mallee

national party - right wing

draught

railways

business closed down

632

site2

jeparit hospotal

menzies spires

memorial

share space

community

main road

rial way

private housing

private housing

site1

site3

site 1 - focusing on community gathering & spatial claiming in region

nhill - jeparit rd

hotel

hotel

supermarket

retail

retail

n

retailretail

broad way

way to rainbow town

roy

street

Vacancy 2

site condition - jeparit materiality, color & spatial hierachyresponds to

vancancy 1

context a

context c

context b

site 3 - community share space & memorial

broadway

public share space

private space

1920, by cohen and sons of melbourne

1951, by robert gordon menzies

private space

public share space

nhill-jeparit rd

n

LOCAL HOUSING TYPES

MEMORIAL AREA

REFERENCE 02. jeparit site reference - primary school

site 2 - local primary school & community library

sands avenue

n

jeparitprimary school``

jeparithospital

jeparithospital

site location

menziesmemorial

residential

Bourke House -1936movement against war and fascism

Bourke House -1936

gerald griffin

left wing

right wing

herr egon kisch

australia

anti-fascist agitationanti-war

movement against war and fascism

communistVS

herr egon kisch robert gordon menzies

K:AUSTRALIA I AM COMING

K:“ALRIGHT!LET ME SHOW YOU 5 METRE JUMPING OFF

K:then LET ME DO A SIGHTSEe-ING IN SYDNEY

K:WHAT SORT OF GAME?

K:WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF I FAIL?

right wing bossApril 29, 1885, Prague - March 31, 1948, Prague

VS- Communist, left wing- Czechoslovak wrtier and journalist- Oppsition to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime

what is behind this wall now?anti-fascist agitation headquarter in 1936

typical floor planning

heritage bookshopmost substantially racist organisation in australia

level

2

level

3

level

4in

ter-r

elation

ship

the

myth

floor

planning

myth

bridge

what is that...

of

design methord:

step1: concept base

step2: concept translate in space

step3: methord - muscle function

society

force

force

motion

motion

change in position with respect in time

influence that causes object undergo a certain change

muscle function

leftwing right wing

tension

international:strong defence link with britain and united states

national:fighting & tension between liberal(right) and labor(left)

right

right

duty

duty

plan axometric perspective - 2 @ a1

Tension & ForceDutiy & Right

ROBERT GORDON MENZIES

RIGHT

WING

BEDROOM + BATHROOM A CABINET TABLE + READING MACHINE ENTRANCEHALL + PUBLIC TOILET

plan axometric perspective - 2 @ a1

Tension & ForceDutiy & Right

ROBERT GORDON MENZIES

RIGHT

WING

BEDROOM + BATHROOM A CABINET TABLE + READING MACHINE ENTRANCEHALL + PUBLIC TOILET

END WEEK 3