'Line of Lode' Broken Hill Projects
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These
projects won a Centenary of Federation Grant.
The $1.84m Miners Memorial and Visitors
Centre
were completed in December 2000.
The collaborative design studio program in the School of Art, Architecture and Design enabled students to problem solve in teams, and modelled the variety of problems associated with real projects.
Line of Lode Miners Memorial
In the late 1990s, the remaining operational company in Broken Hill offered to lease the non-working surface infrastructure along the 7.3km Line of Lode orebody to the community for development as a centre for tourism and education. School of Art, Architecture and Design students worked on designs for a Visitors Centre at the South Mine, a Miners Memorial and restaurant on Delprats Dump, and a mining museum and exhibition centre at the North Mine site.
Following the award of a Centenary of Federation Grant in 1998, a student scheme for the Miners Memorial was selected for further development and construction.
Line of Lode Visitors Centre
The School of Architecture and Design designed
and documented a Visitors Centre to act as a gateway to the Miners
Memorial. Developed by Chris Landorf and David Manfredi,
the Visitors Centre reflects
the Memorial in materials and form.
The Visitors Centre acts as a gateway to other attractions
along the Line of Lode.
Elements consistent with the Memorial, such as fractured roof plates and a strong sense of orchestrated journey, are evident as people move down through the building on an increasingly narrow pathway to the edge of the mullock heap which gives glimpses back toward the Memorial.
Like the Memorial, the Visitors Centre expresses the powerful industrial nature of the mining industry but this is contrasted with the lighter more tenuous nature of the domestic environment represented in a glazed restaurant space overlooking Broken Hill.
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