What do you SEEK?

Linhan Yang

Supervisor: Brent Allpress

In the 1970-80s, New York City municipal finance almost went broke. At the same time, low rent in East Village attracted countless artists to live in the neighborhood. The neighborhood soon became a beautiful mess. Artists, musicians, play writers here completely changed New York subculture. However, the booming art scene gradually brought housing prices up - residents moved out and the real estate companies as well as the politicians pushed forward the gentrification process.

The influence of gentrification in Melbourne is also reflected, the laneways, or “little streets,” of Melbourne’s central business district (or CBD) originated in the Victorian era and were used at the time as lanes for horses and carts.  Starting around the 1990’s, as the city began to gentrify, the laneways were pleasingly intimate in scale and tucked away from the busier streets. However, in the process of gentrification, some of them were gradually forgotten and abandoned.

The project is a new typology combining art studios, organizational hubs, commerce, and art galleries. The purpose of this project is to obtain new functions and at the same time to gentrify the process of cultural loss and cultural loss to the public.

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