meat, sass & bide

the brief for this project was to design 24-hour architecture. 'meat, sass & bide' combines a butchery and a clothing boutique (for australian clothing label 'sass & bide') to exist together and also as themselves according to different times in the day. with an increasing residential population anticipated in the area, this project foresees extended retail opening hours which also seeks to enliven the area past 6pm.

encased glass display units extend between floors to allow a crossover between the display of clothing and meat products. it, in turn, creates a void in the floor which extends the visual relationship between floors and program.

a large segment of public space in front of the 'tower' incorporates an outdoor fireplace which is a reflection of the existing fireplace in neighbouring Bresolini. the presence of this domestic object creates a signal to the architecture's critique of the domestic identity of the female and the body as played out within the architecture and the objectification of clothing and food.

this project was shortlisted in the designboom.com 'the skin of corian®' competition (within a list of 124 from 3006 entrants from around the world) for the use of corian in the triangulated- and rotating facade elements (see http://www.designboom.com/corian2006.html/)