Hub Melbourne Pre-design Tea Party #1
Date 29 July 2010
Location Donkey Wheel House, Level 3
Attendance
Brad Krauskopf
Ammon Beyerle
Michelle James
Simon Waller
Jodie Ahrens
Eleanor Chapman
Kamil Muhammad
Eva Migdal
Nina Howard
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Minutes by Michelle James
Exercise ball
Stained glass moment
Natural light
Busy vs. quiet spaces
Number of people that makes you feel comfortable – 6 to 10 people
How do people still feel private?
DND tables + loud tables
Host adjusts the space
No air-conditioning, thermal mass
Fresh air
Getting up for walks
Alone but not lonely
Getting to do what you want to do
Bumping into each other
Elevated space with mattress
Wrap around meeting soft wall
Everything on wheels
Raised meeting spaces
Don’t like having back to the door
Prospect & refuge
Like locker in Madrid
Curtains at alcoves/arches
Connection with outside
Good desk length + width
High bench
Sit in the window
Bar stools
Solitude + social
Colour not grey
View of tree tops
Glazed meeting room allows for more engagement
Herb garden (outside window)
Consantinas (big or small and private)
Triangular apex (double meeting room)
Arch (moment of entering new space)
Ethereal windows (pivotal space – communal, give some respect)
Small doorway feels superfluous – curtains or growing vine to create more definition?
Idea orchard (water the plants)
Fireplace – therapeutic, Chesterfield lounges
Hoist all the furniture to the roof
Ball room – speakers + lights, platform that raises up
Telephone/screen free space
Vault – soft surface, inside of a tree
Pressure idea chamber
Stable tables
Photo frames
Bring in a trophy for the mantelpiece
Post-ups wall (really Melbourne!)
Vistas
Looking down out of the stairwell – puppet show
Attic space – down the track maybe
Eva has some white marble
Outlook Environmental
Green Collect
Eva + Brad to team up to make ‘story cards’
Mark successes + celebrate completion stories
Studio workshop? – not upstairs, sound issues
Night time workshop
Tool library
Elevated four post bed
Theme days
Opt-in rather than op-out
Untidy areas, visible cues rather than physical barriers
People will naturally be drawn to quiet + noisy areas
Vista when you walk in
Number of meeting rooms? Communal areas?
Most important to get toilet, wifi, seats right – these are the basics
Pinwheel tables –HUB trademark
