Focusing on women's mental health, the project accommodates a professional music studio and music therapy for women, demonstrating layers of privacy through subtle intervention and careful applications that affect spatial qualities. As the key element of the programs, sound has become the critical component involved in the project's development. The acoustic treatment of the project draws inspiration from the existing site condition by reinterpreting the ornamental characteristics of Victorian Terrace houses in a modern and functional way, transferring decorations into acoustic treatment. The architecture then becomes an instrument that broadcasts, records and plays.
Narrative perspective
The narrative perspective demonstrates the key elements of the design concept. Centring around sound, the relationship between the existing and the additional, natural and built, ornamental and functional are explored through the materials, scales and spatial qualities.
Demolition plan
The drawing shows the careful thinking between the existing and demolished parts of the building on site.
Physical model - section cut
The model shows the 80% of the overall design with a section cut perspective. The size of the model is 1400mm by 200mm
Facade/foyer
The majority of the facade is kept except for the opening, which has been changed into a constantine styled operable door, which opens into a grand foyer with the height of two storey.
Music therapy space
A moment in in the garden
Selective parts of the garden is designed with small installations that magnify the sound of wind.
In the spirit of reconciliation Monash University acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
