ABC

This studio explores
heritage conservation
and
affordable housing
in the context of a speculative redevelopment of the Former ABC Studios, Ripponlea site at 8 Gordon Street in Elsternwick.

Through a range of digital and physical visual analysis and representation techniques, students will examine the existing conditions of the site and its context to understand its spatial characteristics, opportunities and constraints and to uncover the cultural significance embodied in the fabric of the place.

Contemporary design case-studies will provide insight into cost- effective affordable housing models for the future. Students will examine these case-studies and extract strategies for the design of affordable housing for testing and deployment in development of context-responsive design propositions for he studio site and brief that operate at human, architectural and urban scales.

This studio will explore experimental spatial strategies in the response to the studio site and brief for a mixed-use redevelopment comprising the objectives outlined by the Glen Eira City Council:

The ‘Dream Factory’ Studio 31 will continue to operate as Victoria’s only soundproof sound stage available for community use, a part of the site be dedicated to memorialising the important cultural significance of the place over time, a portion of the site be dedicated to the provision of affordable housing, a portion of the site be dedicated to public recreation, the entirety of the site remains as the asset of the public and that the historical elements are protected and enhanced