Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning Re-imagining Fitzroy

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Students: Rohan Appel & Kate Sutton

This project explores a mixture of approaches that optimise the site's potential to be reconfigured as a place of collective memory as well as well as one where the form of new buildings and public spaces is guided by solar access considerations.

The two towers on Napier St are retained and retrofitted, while those on Brunswick St are removed due their shading impact on this major activity centre strip. The outlines of the old towers are used to guide the design of two new small public spaces on Brunswick St. A new street grid is inserted that optimises walkability and connections with the surrounding neighbourhoods without replicating the original street pattern. New buildings vary in height from 3 to 6 storeys.

The number of dwellings is increased from 800 to 2000, an increase in density from 130 dwellings per hectare to 335 dwellings per hectare.