Studio Description:

ALL-STAR Studio is set at the centre of a ‘dead zone’ that is eating the heart out of St Kilda...

Formerly one of the city’s liveliest inner urban cultural precincts, St Kilda’s Fitzroy Street has struggled under the weight of mass popularity and has drifted out of fashion. The street’s reputation, as the home of Melbourne’s richest, weirdest soup of sub-cultures and misfits has worn too thin. So thin that it now risks a slow death or being swamped by a tide of conventional development. The recent success of “The Block” in Fitzroy Street is a warning sign of this impending blandness - and the social and cultural costs required to achieve it.

This studio believes that this price is unacceptably high, that social division and cultural segregation are signs of failure not success. We believe that St Kilda’s traditional identity as a ‘culture of sub-cultures’ offers the social and cultural foundation on which Fitzroy Street's impending upcycle can be launched. This studio aims to demonstrate how urban vision and architectural design can take a leading role.

ALL-STAR: from the penniless to the fattest cats in town, there's a place for all sorts here.

Students:

• Andy Duan

• Elise Jordan

• Adrian Lau

• Johnray Lee

• Yuheng Liu

• Ma Ming Peng

• Amos Ng

• Panphila Pau

• Aishwarya Pradhan

• Rupert Reed

• Mike Rezaei

• Ryan Roderick

• Tejaswini Sridharan

• Jazelyn Tan

• Naiji Tian

• Jiawei Yin

Guest Speakers + Critics:

Huge thanks to our guest speakers + critics for supporting the studio so generously by sharing their skills, experience + time:

• Alex Ray (Hayball)

• Flavia Marcello (Swinburne University of Technology)

• Grant Amon (Grant Amon Architects)

• James Brearley (Brearley Architects + Urbanists)

• Peter Malatt (Six Degrees)

• Clare Cousins (Clare Cousins Architects)

• Phillip Schemnitz (Phillip Schemnitz Architect)

• Donna Brzezinski (BG Architecture)

• Steve Whitford (Brearley Architects + Urbanists)

• Shelley Penn (Shelley Penn Architect)