Mitchell Sack
Supervisor: Alex Selenitsch
Yarraville Oil Terminal and Coode Island petrochemical storage in the Port of Melbourne present two extensively polluted locations that are symptomatic of the historical industrial development of Melbourne’s West.
This thesis investigates the transformation and remediation of the leftover land and infrastructure through the design of a new built form that draws from the tectonic elements of the existing site.
Drawing on the site’s historic uses for storage and production, the existing facilities are transformed into a storage facility that seeks to question what contents will need to be stockpiled in Melbourne’s future.
Much like the existing functions have left traces on the surrounding context through its “spillages”, the proposed facility will produce its own externalities that create new legacy for the site.
The project exists as a constellation on landmasses separated by the Yarra and Maribyrnong Rivers consisting of, a STEM teaching facility and seed bank at the Yarraville Petrol Terminal, a data centre at Coode Island and ferry terminals connecting the sites to each other and Fisherman’s Bend. The seed bank was developed further in order to test the tectonic systems in accordance with greater programmatic and functional demands, forming an ideal base for the site’s remediation, with its surrounds becoming a living lab.
Please view my @studio model for the full panels.
Images
1. Seed bank external perspective from living lab
2. Seed bank external perspective from ferry terminal
3. Seed Bank Perspective Section
4. Seed Bank Atrium
5. Experimental Planting Lab Viewing Point
6. Tectonic Concept Collage
7. STEM School axonometric
8. Seed Bank Tectonic Test Axo
9. Full Site Aerial Perspective
10. Seed Bank Tectonic System Animation