‘Depth through layering’ Leeview Bakery & Community Centre, Sunday’s Well

Description

This thesis looked at how depth is perceived through layering. It was explored through early analytical cubism which compresses space and time through reduction and layering. The compression of space through layering triggers a sense of flattened landscapes and led to the conceptual sketch of flatness of the site in Sunday’s Well.

The proposal is to maintain the character of the lanes of the site but to create a new edge adding social infrastructure as a plug -in to re-appropriate the existing backlands. This thesis is driven through the program of a Community Centre that houses a small bakery. It is explored through a layering of domestic size spaces. Circulation behind the horizontal planes restricts views before granting them on the vertical. Walls that never touch the ceiling creates a connection to multiple spaces simultaneously.

Learning from the material of the context, the building uses tiles to maximise and celebrate light within the vaults of the building. The building is another laneway providing open spaces for social engagements and rest points along the way. This new public route is sensitive to the existing lanes and remains open after the building closes. In its entirety the vaults are represented as flat and depth is compressed. The intention of this project is community engagement through these layers of re-appropriation.