The call for developing a new location for the Fremantle markets appears to be a rash and a hasty response to growing pains currently affecting the existing building. The existing building should hold true to its past and remain a market place as has done so since its inception in 1897. I am recommending an auxiliary market place which will serve as a link between the cultural past and the current Fremantle condition. The existing site will still contain many of the elements that have made it a primary destination of local and weekend visitors alike. It has become apparent through research that there is an opportunity to incorporate a microbrewery along with markets designed to showcase craft beer as well as the condiments and delectable goods that accompany the act of enjoying a specialised beer. This will provide opportunities for the local community not only for the purposed of commerce but will also serve as a destination for people to meet and socialise.
Fremantle is a place that has many heritage listed buildings and strict planning requirements that have strong influence over what can and can’t be done architecturally. Fortunately for the site the immediate buildings are shed-like structures and are not deeply rooted in the colonial past. This site is also blocked off and separated from the main urban hub by the limestone cliff of the round house. I believe this gives me an opportunity to not necessarily ignore the past but to bring an influence to architecture from other parts of Australia and from great Australian architects. Using this as my primary justification it allows me to create a new experience for Fremantle.
I felt the main opportunity for the site lay in the highlighting of existing cultural significance. This is the round house. Many of the visitors to this site come from tourists walking in and over the round house as well as navigating the whalers tunnel beneath. I deliberately framed the round house with the architecture of the beer palace and making an extension of the whaler’s tunnel making my own adjoining tunnel of sorts comprised of timber and steel. This is the focus of the site as it is appear that the inhabitants frequent this site less than the tourists would. “Why would you go to bathers bay beach when you could travel 10mins to a better more desirable beach” I want to create a place that brings new life back to a forgotten place while subtly highlighting what is important.
To the immediate surrounding of the site there were a number of issues that I felt needed to be included into the planning of the Beer Palace. The site adjacent to the north is a TAFE. I did not want to block or interrupt how that site function rather to enhance it. I felt it was only fair that if the beer palace provides a reinvigorated park for the students to frequent that the TAFE then provide the beer palace access to their car parking spaces during peak times. Such as the weekends when there will be an influx of people to the site. This park will contain many of the existing art pieces that need to be relocated off the building platform as well as new sculptures provided from the neighboring J-Shed. The existing bench and seats will remain in its current location. A roller door can be drawn up to provide an undercover area for the park goers this is solution for shelter from rain and strong wind without providing a separate structure which may take away from the architecture of the main structure.
Finally I have followed the existing topography of the site trying to accommodate for a large building footprint whilst refraining from applying retaining walls. A series of ramps connect spaces and levels to achieve this. I have also exaggerated the natural slope of the land into the roof of the building. The site starts off as relatively flat and slowly become steeper and steeper until the end of the site becomes a steep drop off into the water. I start the roof at 5degress and progress at 5degree segments until reaching 20degress.
The call for developing a new location for the Freemantle markets appears to be a rash and a hasty response to growing pains currently affecting the existing building. The existing building should hold true to its past and remain a market place as has done so since its inception in 1897. I am recommending an auxiliary market place which will serve as a link between the cultural past and the current Freemantle condition. The existing site will still contain many of the elements that have made it a primary destination of local and weekend visitors alike. It has become apparent through research that there is an opportunity to incorporate a microbrewery along with markets designed to showcase craft beer as well as the condiments and delectable goods that accompany the act of enjoying a specialised beer. This will provide opportunities for the local community not only for the purposed of commerce but will also serve as a destination for people to meet and socialise.
Fremantle is a place that has many heritage listed buildings and strict planning requirements that have strong influence over what can and can’t be done architecturally. Fortunately for the site the immediate buildings are shed-like structures and are not deeply rooted in the colonial past. This site is also blocked off and separated from the main urban hub by the limestone cliff of the round house. I believe this gives me an opportunity to not necessarily ignore the past but to bring an influence to architecture from other parts of Australia and from great Australian contemporary architects. Using this as my primary justification it allows me to create a new experience for Freemantle.
I felt the main opportunity for the site lay in the highlighting of existing cultural significance. This is the round house. Many of the visitors to this site come from tourists walking in and over the round house as well as navigating the whalers tunnel beneath. I deliberately framed the round house with the architecture of the beer palace and making an extension of the whaler’s tunnel making my own adjoining tunnel of sorts comprised of timber and steel. This is the focus of the site as it is appear that the inhabitants frequent this site less than the tourists would. “Why would you go to bathers bay beach when you could travel 10mins to a better more desirable beach” I want to create a place that brings new life back to a forgotten place while subtly highlighting what is important.
To the immediate surrounding of the site there were a number of issues that I felt needed to be included into the planning of the Beer Palace. The site adjacent to the north is a TAFE. I did not want to block or interrupt how that site function rather to enhance it. I felt it was only fair that if the beer palace provides a reinvigorated park for the students to frequent that the TAFE then provide the beer palace access to their car parking spaces during peak times. Such as the weekends when there will be an influx of people to the site. This park will contain many of the existing art pieces that need to be relocated off the building platform as well as new sculptures provided from the neighbouring J-Shed. The existing bench and seats will remain in its current location. A roller door can be drawn up to provide an undercover area for the park goers this is solution for shelter from rain and strong wind without providing a separate structure which may take away from the architecture of the main structure.
Finally I have followed the existing topography of the site trying to accommodate for a large building footprint whilst refraining from applying retaining walls. A series of ramps connect spaces and levels to achieve this. I have also exaggerated the natural slope of the land into the roof of the building. The site starts off as relatively flat and slowly become steeper and steeper until the end of the site becomes a steep drop off into the water. I start the roof at 5degress and progress at 5degree segments until reaching 20degress.