Whose Line Is It Anyway?

'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' is a procedural investigation/proposal of a human-centred, arts-based 'Civic Centre/Town Hall' located in Clifton Hill. We're interested in addressing the question - 'What is a 'Town Hall' today and now, and who is it for?'

We will work on a number of small esquisses based on site research, site analysis and precedent studies. These esquisses will use findings to fuel improvisational processes of deliberate appropriation and reinterpretation; producing a series of site charrettes. An ‘Exquisite Corpse’ of sorts will incorporate these into a cohesive proposal. *jazz hands*

1.  Site + Psycho-geography

Based on Guy Debord / Situationist International's ideas of Psycho-Geography, students will participate in an immersive site observation, spending the day  documenting site conditions and observations. From these exercises and observations, students will produce a series of design esquisses - abstracting and processing these components into small-scale site installations. Site Research collected by students will also form a collaborate, whole-class site information document.

2. Precedent

Students will visit local civic, community, performing arts and visual arts building precedents, with a focus on public/civic activation and interaction. This will involve a research and analysis component where the student’s will investigate precedents and their architects as test cases for another series of mid-scale interventions. Students will be required to analyse these outcomes - complex, challenging or nonsensical, in order to identify successful aspects.

3. Accumulative Design

Design is a journey - and as such, students will be challenged to keep the outcomes of each and every design esquise. Having accumulated architectural ‘stuff’, much in the manner of an ‘exquisite corpse’, the design process following mid-semester will be one of critical editing and curating, to develop a cohesive final proposal.

Jessica Hordern, Render #1 Courtyard

Flux Precinct is an art and cultural centre in Clifton Hill, developed in a team of myself, Tiffany Dang and Alice Huang, to bring people in from the surrounding suburbs and allow for natural interactions.


Respect for the site and its history drove the proposal to develop meeting places of significance through the use of symphonic human experiences.

Jessica Hordern, Render #2 Internal Mulityfunctional space

Jessica Hordern, Tiffany Dang & Alice Huang, Hoddle Street elevation

Jessica Hordern, Tiffany Dang & Alice Huang, Section AA

Ayomide Olasoji, Diagrams

Designed to cater to the needs of a broad range of users, Arts Parade - a community arts hub - combines a series of notable precedent studies and psychogeographic analyses to foster the concepts of accessibility, circulation and community. As the user moves through a veil-like concourse which hugs the main structure, they are led through a series of 'programmatic pods' which cater to the key demographics within the Clifton Hill site along Queens Parade and Hoddle Street


Project by Ayomi Olasoji in collaboration with Sree Arun and Nikita Ho

Ayomide Olasoji, Garden Dome Visualisation

Ayomide Olasoji, Psychogeographic Map

Ayomide Olasoji, Queens Parade Elevation and Section

Ayomide Olasoji, Atmospheric Section Study