Located at the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia, at the intersection of railroads that continue to be in use today and the avenues that connect Hobsons Bay with the rest of the city, Newport Park seeks to connect the residential areas that were divided by these transportation routes and commercial corridors. The urban intervention achieves this re-connection through spaces that prioritize pedestrian mobility, that protect its users from the transport through vegetation and strengthen the consolidation of the community around it with new urban equipment.

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Once this intersection has been intervened and reconnected, the two buildings proposed compliment and strengthen this program dedicated to fomenting a healthy life at a local scale. Through a medical center that fits with the commercial corridor and a community center that arises from the midst of the landscaping project, the program is satisfied while also incorporating various valuable spaces for the Newport community. Both buildings reinterpret the Victorian arcades of the old industries of the zone to open up its first level of the program, reinforcing the connection with its surroundings; resulting in variable catenary arches built in pigmented concrete (that adapt in height and span to the interior program), combined with a second level protected in sunlight and privacy through a system of louvers.

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IN COLLABORATION WITH: María Elena Cangas and Mariana Espinosa.