Our Design and Technology School tours (two hours) explore the design and technology processes of both historical and modern buildings around Melbourne. On this tour, we stop regularly to discuss issues with students such as design, technologies, materials and heritage as well as entering buildings. We engage in activities that explore Indigenous design, heritage images, street art, and the acknowledgement of country. Students are each given roles to play as identities important to the story of Melbourne.
Some of the buildings that we view or visit on our tour to discuss their design issues can include, depending on time:
– Flinders Station 1910: French Empire design, first steam train in Australia, gateway to city.
– Federation Square piazza 2001: abstract modern, use of stone materials, scalene triangle designs and Indigenous design.
– Federation Atrium 2001: designing sustainable biomimicry, thermal labyrinth to reduce fossil fuels.
-Eureka Tower 1989 and Australia 108: Skyscrapers in Melbourne, designs in reinforced concrete, Australian Flag design.
– Birramung Marr Park: redesigning roads to parks. Melbourne tree strategy, uses art and sculpture in design.
– Artplay building 2001. Retrofitting brick buildings into modern design purposes. Indigenous design and technologies.
– Jolimont Railway Yards: designing cities of the future in the sky.
– Hosier Lane: Warehouse design, redesigning lanes in Melbourne, agglomeration theory, bluestone as a unique Melbourne material, use of buildings as street art canvases.
– St Paul’s Cathedral 1857: Gothic revival design, buttresses, sandstone.
– Swanston Street: Metro tunnel designs, redesigning transport in Melbourne to promote walking and sustainability, biophilia, and Smart technologies.
– Nicholas Building 1926: Art deco, tiles as design material.
– 271 Collins 1872: Classical design, preserving heritage.
– Block Arcade 1891: Mannerist design
– Royal Arcade 1870: Enclosed lanes, retail design, the oldest arcade in Australia, automatons.
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