2 Girls Building / Kavellaris Urban Design

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  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  4300 ft²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2014
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Peter Clarke
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  VitraGroup
2 Girls Building / Kavellaris Urban Design - Windows, Facade
© Peter Clarke

Text description provided by the architects. The 2 Girls Building is a mixed use building that fuses art, photography and architecture. The project explores the relationship between the three disciplines and blurs their respective boundaries resulting in one craft overlapping and appropriating with the characteristics of the others in the form of a new medium. As a result photography appropriates architectural materiality and photography shifts into the architectural space of the third dimension. Architecture becomes photography, photography becomes architecture and the building becomes a hybrid urban artefact within the built environment.

2 Girls Building / Kavellaris Urban Design - Table, Countertop, Lighting
© Peter Clarke

KUD collaborated with Melbourne Artist Samantha Everton during the design process to ensure a collaborative integration of art forms throughout the project. The “Masquerade”, from Everton’s ‘Vintage Dolls’ series, that features on the building façade, was specifically selected for its familiar vernacular in its subject matter which is synonymous with inner city traditional domestic spaces and more importantly, for the drama and theatre it provides to the public realm. The primary circulation space doubles as a de facto art gallery with art works on display, dividing the offices, warehouse spaces and residential apartments.

2 Girls Building / Kavellaris Urban Design - Wood, Chair, Beam
© Peter Clarke

The collaboration injected another layer of complexity; unintentionally exchanging and swapping the roll of the architect to artist and the artist to architect. The boundaries of the alliance were blurred, redefining ‘the artist’ and ‘the architect’ as one expression. This synergy spawned a hybrid typology and ensured that the photo‐archi‐art prevailed.

2 Girls Building / Kavellaris Urban Design - Sofa, Table, Beam, Chair, Bedroom
© Peter Clarke

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Address:Melbourne VIC, Australia

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Cite: "2 Girls Building / Kavellaris Urban Design" 02 Apr 2015. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/615285/2-girls-building-kavellaris-urban-design> ISSN 0719-8884

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