Kitta is all about culture, community and creating diverse and unique experiences within the realm of built environments. Through this project 'Nature's Tapestries', Clifton Hill's Shot Tower is re-imagined as a community Opera hub with a communal kitchen and natural activation. Shaping these minimal interventions and small ephemeral moments of porosity allows the natural ecology to ultimately take over and break down materials within the built environment, whether it be 20, 50 or a hundred years time.
Act I: Meanwhile Spaces
This sectional perspective introduces the varying types of thresholds and accumulation of spaces - including entrances, ticketing versus more privatised areas of resting and rehearsal. Showing spaces broken down and separated allows for the ephemeral flooding to occur, as another layer of interstice.
Act II: Tapestry of Narratives
Within certain seasons of Opera, nature is the backdrop to performances and allow for the audience to sit alongside the carved out, stepped seating. The richness and double-sided nature to the auditorium is unique, with the modularity of the stages.
The Overture
An axonometric of the re-imagined Clifton Hill Shot Tower.
Supporting Overture
The plan and overview of all programs, including the flooding path and facilities available on-site.
Scene I - Nourish:Nest
1:20 physical model of the community activation program; a communal kitchen. It aims to foster new relationships with multiple generations through processes of cooking and consuming food. The three-storey high facility is open at the bottom with purely storage and cooking facilities and the second storey for drying and processing unique plants/foods.
Aria I - Nourish:Nest
A 1:20 detail section of the drying facility on the first floor, emphasising structure and materials used.
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.
