Fern Cheong
Space To Place
This thesis project revolves around the critique of the suburban identity in terms of its systemic organization of housing, roads and blocks and its connection to the ever-changing relationship to the people.
As Roads and train lines permeate the outer regions of Melbourne to accommodate the trend of families escaping the congestion of the inner city, the resulting amalgamation of single detached dwellings became organized in such a way to accommodate first and foremost the use of cars as the primary means of transport as well as the stereotypical “image’ of suburban life.
Therefore, by dissecting the grains of movement and connectivity from the large city scale down to the individual housing unit, this project aimed to make use of affordable housing as a tool to create a finer grained layer within the individual housing block. The people only pedestrian area will act as a civic connector that eases movement to and from the train station as well as internal circulation. The new negative spaces work with the translucent polycarbonate façade to generate a new feeling of porosity and bridge the gap between the People and the Place.
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Overall Isometric -
Exploded diagram of each apartment type -
Exploded structural Diagram -
Diagram showing Future spatial configurations -
Section Perspective 1 showing internal courtyard atmosphere -
Section perspective 2 showing bigger external public space atmosphere -
Overall External Render -
Rooftop Public Space Render -
Internal Apartment Render
