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  Friday, Jun 27, 2008 3:04AM / Standard Entry / Architecture n Design / Members only
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  Newport Art Centre

  This project seeks new methods to reactivate the post-industrial site of the 19th Century Newport Railway Workshop in Melbourne. Declining industrial activity in the area has been replaced by suburban residential development. These adjacencies have given rise to unique and alternative uses of existing built infrastructure in the former industrial areas.
  
  Building upon the existing character, the project proposes new programs and built structure that are inserted into existing old factories, developing the former industrial area into an Arts Centre for Newport. The program sought not only to engage the public through the exhibiting of art, but also enable production processes to be experienced by providing different spaces of inhabitation through which various disciplines could meet and exchange ideas.
  
  Portions of the existing building were removed to accommodate the new program, while transparent materials and various pop-out spaces were inserted to provide potential interaction to two pedestrian corridors. The corridors are proposed as the site of interaction between the different users and their vocations. The corridors are covered by a canopy that carefully wraps around the existing heritage towers at either end of the complex, framing points of entry, while providing a moment of continuity that acknowledges the corridors role as a site of conversation.
  
  The proposed Newport Arts Centre is a site of interaction, accommodating different users and disciplines in an open conversation regarding the act of making in relation to a community identity.
  
  

  Paul Typa

  2008