Architecture, Building and Planning - Theses
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ItemWhere should the restricted parking area for shared e-scooters be located? Create criteria and maps for ‘no-parking zones’ for Flagstaff Station( 2022)Heritage identification by nation-state governments have historically favoured monumental sites with popular historical narratives, typically representing majority cultures. Recent challenges of these hegemonic selections have broadened our understanding and definition of cultural heritage and heritage values. The nomination and management by heritage bodies, of sites based on criteria which go beyond identifying physical or aesthetic characteristics has prompted greater acknowledgement of the social meaning or value of a place through heritage policies. The DAAR’s (Decolonizing Architecture Art Research) recent attempts to nominate Dheisheh camp of Palestine in the UNESCO world heritage list, explores heritage nomination and conservation in spaces of refugeehood, statelessness, contested memories and temporary urban forms. This paper attempts to identify a key challenge of recognising and conserving sites such as Dheisheh. How can we form heritage values and narratives around temporary urban structures that transcends formal state boundaries and contain complex ownership? The paper examines the Dheisheh camp to understand how it confronts this challenge by rethinking heritage and conservation through different perspectives which transcend the expectations of spectacular architecture with Outstanding Universal Value, that aids in the commodification, consumption and long-term viability through tourism revenue of specific cultural heritage sites. The DAAR’s process of rebuilding, reimagining and re-producing spaces attempts to understand and confront the paradox of creating permanence and celebrate refugeehood as a valid form of heritage. The human or social resilience of Dheisheh becomes the main theme of this case study as illustrating the site’s significance. The thesis offers new ways of understanding intangible heritage and social value in unconventional heritage places and temporally precarious environments.
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ItemAlexander Hamilton: architect, Colac( 1969)This thesis is an attempt to record the life and work of Alexander Hamilton, 1825-19011, a Scottish mill-wright who migrated to the Colony of Victoria in 1852 and who, relatively late in life, became an architect/builder practising at Colac. The role of Hamilton in the history of the Western District settlement and expansion is important. His nationality, political and religious character ensured that he was to be entrusted with the design and erection of a great many of the Western District homesteads, public, ecclesiastical and other buildings, built in the district in the period 1873-1901. Little was known of his work until this year. The results of my research will at least provide a thorough background for more detailed research on specific buildings he designed. My thesis includes a short history of the settlement of the district; a biography of the life of Alexander Hamilton; a comprehensive list of all recorded work he undertook in the role of architect/builder/engineer; a detailed study of representative public, ecclesiastical, residential and utilitarian buildings erected under the supervision of Hamilton, followed by a critical summary. As illustration a general photographic survey and sketches of his work are included, together with copies and transcripts of some of his original documents. The very character and quality of his work demand further study. However, my thesis does attempt to provide a general survey and analysis of his career, further substantiated by specific details of architectural and engineering undertakings, but, the time available, the geographic location of his work and the fact that many of his important works are in isolated regions or since demolished, has meant that only a representative cross-section of his work could be surveyed and recorded.
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ItemThe historic development of the building of Parliament House, Melbourne( 1971)The aim of this thesis has been to study the historic development of the building of Parliament House, Melbourne, with special reference to the design and construction of the various stages of its development. Integral with this study is an appreciation of the personalities involved and the various committees and royal commissions that were established to examine certain aspects of the building and its development.
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ItemTrinity College: the first twenty years of building( 1966)Trinity, as it stands today, betrays little evidence of achievement or the unique. The ‘old College’, a pleasant collection of buildings, retires quietly behind its elms and ivy. One of the buildings is perhaps the finest example of Tudor architecture in Melbourne, but another, designed by a man intimately conversant with Gothic and the architect of the first buildings at Sydney University, is most disappointing. The ‘Mid-Victorian’ Gothic Clarke building is hardly what one would have expected from Edmond Thomas Blacket. These buildings and their various styles are a testimony of the many architects involved, four of whom prepared plans for the entire college. No more than the first stage of each scheme was ever completed. Begun prematurely in order to secure a Crown Grant of the land, temporarily reserved from sale for the purpose of erecting a Church of England College, Trinity was the first of its kind in Melbourne. Had it not prospered, it is doubtful whether the other denominations would have followed so soon after in the building of their colleges. Some 16 years after the founding of Trinity and 6 years after Ormond, the Rev. W. H. Fitchett at the opening of Queen’s College said, "had they ( Trinity and Ormond ) failed, the Methodists' would not have dared to have begun this great enterprise." However, although Trinity prospered, it did so without the benefit of large gifts and endowments. Its debts, some incurred at the very beginning, were not cleared until 16 years later. Indeed, lack of financial support was its most constant foe. (Preface)
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ItemResidential flats in Melbourne: the development of a building type to 1950( 1982)This work seeks to trace the development of residential flats designed in Melbourne before 1950. Particular emphasis is placed upon the earliest purpose built blocks which were built in about 1905. Two distinct types of flats evolved. The multi-story city type and the low rise suburban blocks which were built in response to an increasing demand for flats and as a result of the improvement of public transport. The quality of flat development varied with the location and class of the suburb and consequently the best blocks were generally built in the prestigious areas of Toorak and South Yarra. Flats not only varied markedly in quality but also in planning and this report makes a specific study of elements in flat design which differentiate them from any other building type. No overall view of architectural styles within flat design is made except when the adoption of a particular architectural philosophy affects the planning. The study reveals the remarkable variety in flat design and significant number of important individual buildings in what has generally been a neglected building type.