*호주, 빅토리아시대 공장의 리노베이션-[ Wolveridge Architects ] United Tannery & Boot Factory Refurbishment

1900년대 빅토리아 시대에 지어진 부츠 생산 공장을 젊은 건축가들을 위한 회사로 리노베이션한 이번 프로젝트에서 우리는 원 구조의 패브릭이 얼마나 멋진 해결책이 될 수 있는가를 디자인으로 증명함을 확인할 수 있다. 건물이 원래 사용되었던 길과 우리의 요구사항에 부합할만한 길 사이의 연계가 존재하는 지를 여러가지 면으로 모색했었다.

공간의 사용은 넓지만 단순히 사무실로만이 아닌, 쇼룸이나 디스플레이 공간으로써 자사의 가구 또는 재질의 샘플 등을 보여줄 수 있도록 구성하였다. 사무실은 아이디어를 테스트할 수 있는 공간으로써, 클라이언트가 직접 만지고 느끼고 경험하고 평가할 수 있는 공간이 될 수 있게 설계하였다.

The project is a refurbishment of a circa 1900 Victorian era boot making factory and home to a firm of young architects. As a refurbishment, the design response was concerned with how the fabric of the original structure could inform the solution. As an open plan warehouse, we explored whether a connection could exist between the way the building was used originally and the way it needs to meet our requirements. The clear span nature of the structure at first floor provided an uninterrupted 11x12m floor plate. In early times this was an open layout area for work benches. The requirements of contemporary planning for commercial office space are similar. 

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Architects: Wolveridge Architects 

LocationVictoria, Australia

Project Year2006

PhotographsCourtesy of wolveridge architects

As architects, we work in an open studio. The nature of our activities must be tuned to function, adaptation to change and flexibility. We must be able to shrink or expand easily and quickly. This provided an integrated response in connection to contemporary thinking and regulated how each floor may be resolved.

Over both floors, the open plan spaces were dissected by the insertion of timber clad volumes. These volumes, freestanding cubic forms within the space were clad in recycled hardwood flooring. We arranged the boxes to act like walls, separating the functional spaces of the office, whilst becoming more than a wall, a container for services (wc/kitchen/storage/conference) within themselves. The manner in which these forms touch the existing building is significant to this idea and is suggestive of contemporary design practice as opposed to a traditional method of carving the entire space into a series of smaller rooms.

The use of the space is broad, not just an office, but a showroom and display area for our own furniture and an example of how materials can be juxtaposed. The office was a place to test ideas. Places where clients can touch, feel, experience and evaluate. This could also be a place for artists to show work, a gallery, a cultural venue. We consider that the ideas of multi-function, flexibility, adaptation and open space planning to be fundamental to contemporary design practice.

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