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Visualisation: AT LARGE
Photography: AT LARGE
Client/Developer: Milieu Property
Architecture: Fieldwork
Concept: Studio Hi Ho

To CG Architect:

Please note that the original format for this animation is an interactive feature (available here: milieuproperty.com.au/space/nth-fitzroy) or looping gif (available here: www.atlarge.com.au). As it is really a series of images of the same view at different times of day, we would ideally like to enter this into the still category if possible.

Notes:

Milieu Property’s Nth Fitzroy was designed with deep empathy for its surroundings. The architecture features ‘a cloak of operable shutters which allow the building to breathe with the rhythms of the day’. Together with Studio Hi Ho, a brief was developed to visualise the project through a set of twelve renders that would capture the rhythms of the building and activity of its occupants. The result is a set of images that is deeply aligned with Milieu Property’s commitment to ‘create spaces that enrich the rhythms of daily life, and buildings that respond to their context and are a true reflection of place’.

To create the sense of the passage of time through still renders, each image was created at a different time of day, with the shutters in a different configuration in each. The movement and activation creates a sense of the presence of the occupants and the building breathing.

In keeping with Milieu Property's approach of creating buildings that are ‘a true reflection of place’, elements with strong local associations were selected for the images. The hot-air balloon at 6am can be seen most mornings in the sky above Melbourne, the scooter is the typical mail delivery vehicle in the area, and the birds flying over the building at 12pm can often be encountered in the area.