2017年，一项支持婚姻平等的全国性调查导致澳大利亚议会通过了同性婚姻合法化的法案，这是LGBTQI+群体平等斗争中的一个里程碑。同年，非营利组织维多利亚州骄傲中心（VPC）从维多利亚州政府获得了澳大利亚第一个专门建造的LGBTQI+中心的资金，并随后为该中心在圣基尔达的菲茨罗伊街的设计举行了公开的建筑竞赛。2018年1月，Brearley Architects & Urbanists（BAU）和Grant Amon Architects（GAA）被选为设计竞赛的获胜者。
In 2017, a national survey in favor of marriage equality lead to the Australian parliament passing the bill to legalize same-sex marriage, a milestone in the struggle for equality for the LGBTQI+ community. The same year, the Victorian Pride Centre (VPC), a not-for-profit organization, received funding from the Victorian Government for Australia’s first purpose-built LGBTQI+ center and subsequently held an open architectural competition for the design of the center in Fitzroy Street, St Kilda. In January 2018 Brearley Architects & Urbanists (BAU) and Grant Amon Architects (GAA) were selected winners of the design competition.
VPC容纳了众多居民组织，并欢迎几十个团体参加会议、活动和项目。该建筑提供了一个公共工作中心、健康和福利中心、书店、剧院、档案馆、屋顶露台和一个画廊。计划在2022年建成一个咖啡馆、屋顶活动亭和社区花园。
The VPC houses numerous resident organizations and welcomes dozens of groups for meetings, events, and projects. The building provides a public working hub, health and welfare centers, bookshop, theatrette, archives, roof terrace, and a gallery. Planned for 2022 are a café, rooftop events pavilion, and community garden.
作为对客户要求的补充，BAU和GAA与用户团体和当地原住民社区进行了研讨。 因此，建筑的雄心壮志包括创造一个深刻的欢迎和安全的地方；一个澳大利亚文化进步的重要地标；以及灵活的工作室空间，以进一步推动公平、自由和包容的运动。地方精神和成为概念为设计提供了概念框架。
Augmenting the client’s brief, BAU and GAA carried out workshops with user groups and the local indigenous community. Consequent ambitions for the architecture included the creation of a profoundly welcoming and safe place; a significant landmark of Australia’s cultural progress; and flexible workshop spaces for driving campaigns of equity, liberty, and inclusivity further. Spirit of place and notions of becoming provided the conceptual frameworks for the design.
圣基尔达的同性恋历史将许多LGBTQI+社区联合起来。从圣基尔达学习，VPC包括然后抽象出异国情调、热情奔放、超现实的和介于两者之间的文化传统。菲茨罗伊街地带、海滩、浴场、月亮公园、卡塔尼拱门、滨海大道拱门、舞厅和其他历史，都为这个过程提供了信息。
St Kilda’s queer history unites many LGBTQI+ communities. Learning from St Kilda, the VPC includes and then abstracts cultural traditions of the exotic, the exuberant, the surreal, and the in-between. The Fitzroy Street strip, the beach, the baths, Luna Park, Catani arch, Esplanade vaults, dance halls, and other histories, all inform this process.
一系列的概念管作为一个抽象的支架出现，最大限度地扩大了城市的范围；提供了相关和重要的建筑形式和空间，并产生了一个总体的秩序。最重要的是，这些概念性的管子随后被抽出的简报的具体内容所作用；内部程序越是破坏管子，越是出现了共存的形式和空间。这些出现的和令人惊讶的结果包含了差异、多样性和包容性。由此产生的不断成为的感觉，一个正在进行的工作，体现了正在进行的争取公平、自由和友谊的斗争。
A series of conceptual tubes emerge as an abstract armature that maximizes the urban envelope; provides relevant and significant architectural forms and spaces, and generates an overarching order. Most importantly, these conceptual tubes are then acted upon by extraction of the specifics of the brief; the more the internal program disrupts the tubes, the more the forms and spaces of a coexistence emerge. These emergent and surprising outcomes embrace difference, diversity, and inclusion. The resultant sense of constant becoming, of a work in progress, embodies the ongoing struggle toward equity, freedom, and fellowship.
VPC旨在超越传统的用途和空间，挑战规范和等级制度，以创造一个灵活和不断发展的项目。中庭提供了可读性、自然光、表演舞台、非正式的露天剧场，以及建筑中心的动态焦点。结构性和非结构性的结构被清楚地表达出来，解释了什么是永久性的，什么是容易改变的。室内结合了原始结构混凝土和暴露的服务与温暖的材料，包括木材、彩色陶瓷和天鹅绒窗帘。这些共存的东西进一步体现了包容美学的概念。
The VPC aims to see beyond conventional uses and spaces, challenge norms and hierarchies, to create a flexible and evolving program. Circulation radiates from the atrium, which provides legibility, natural light, a performance stage, an informal amphitheater, and a dynamic focus at the heart of the building. Structural and non-structural fabric is clearly articulated, explaining what is permanent and what is easily changed. The interiors combine raw structural concrete and exposed services with warm materiality including timber, colored ceramics, and velvet curtains. These coexistences further the notion of an aesthetics of inclusion.
建筑中较小的租户类似于巷口的店面。在这些店面中整合了一个牺牲性的木材框架，以及墙壁上的吊轨和轨道照明，使租户能够适应和尝试这些空间，使其能够出现真实的自我表达。
Smaller tenancies in the building resemble laneway shopfronts. A sacrificial timber framework integrated within these shop fronts along with hanging rails and track lighting above walls enables tenants to adapt and experiment with the spaces, enabling the emergence of authentic self-expression.
Architects: BAU Brearley Architects + Urbanists
Area : 6200 ft²
Year : 2021
Photographs :John Gollings
Manufacturers : ShapeShell, Auscast Constructions , Fade Australia, command locksmiths
Project Management : Case Mealin / Bates & Co
Structural Engineer Team : WSP Norge, WSP
Acoustic Engineering : Resonate
Landscape Architecture : BAU, Thompson Berril Landscape Design
Lighting Consultant : Schuler Shook
Principal Designers : James Brearley, Steve Whitford, Jens Eberhardt, Grant Amon
Documentation Team : Fonarri Chen
Interior Architects : Stephen Herbst, Estelle Peters, Karen McMull
Slate Consultant : Quantity Surveyor
General Contractor : Hansen Yuncken
Structural Concept : Peter Felicetti
City : St Kilda
Country : Australia