Leaking
Boundaries
Year: 2025
Location: Richmond Power Station, Melbourne
Leaking Boundaries explores the idea of leakiness as both a spatial and cultural condition. The project reimagines the Richmond Power Station as a porous framework where light, air, sound, and collective memory flow through layers that mediate between heritage, community, and nature. Rather than containing its industrial past, the design allows it to seep into the present — transforming heaviness into lightness, and structure into dialogue. Through reused and living materials, the intervention celebrates the existing fabric while introducing sustainable gestures that extend the building’s legacy through a renewed and timeless design.
Tags: Responsive/Sustainable/Culture/Ephemeral Space/Narrative-driven
The building’s openings let light filter through, as its tectonics reveal and frame the old elements as living heritage. While the neglected infrastructure becomes a framework for renewal and regeneration.
“The inventory that can generate an atmosphere”
- Flores & Prats
In this section we can see the different sunlight that comes in at different times throughout the day. To create an intimacy to the structure and capture the light, the platform was made to be the point of interest. So people can experience different scales for the cultural events and the space itself from the mezzanine, atrium, and the bridge.
Materiality.
This scenography shows how the program was held in the space. The intervention on the roof was made to direct the sunlight to the exact platform. And at some specific times, it will be used as a solo performance stage and people can feel the transition of the time and light.