Yan Lane is a small new street located in an eclectic area of the inner city of Melbourne, Australia.  Undertaken on a small budget, this scheme was conceived as an opportunity to use architectural understanding to drive a development project to meaningfully infill an otherwise ignored space and to achieve financial return. The project involved the subdivision of a narrow sliver of land with no street frontage and hidden between the rear face of shops to the south and the backyard fences and sheds of houses to the north.  Yan Lane is primarily the creation of a new building incorporating two houses but reaches beyond the scope of the small site to include the extension of services infrastructure from the main road and the recreation of a right of way to form a new street.  The project creates an activated, human place from what was previously disused and neglected.
© Emma Cross

Architects: Justin Mallia

Location: Melbourne VIC, Australia

Area: 360.0 m2

Project Year: 2010

Photographs: Emma Cross, Paul Cadenhead, Justin Mallia

Building Surveyor: BSGM Pty Ltd

Mechanical & Electrical Consultant: Thomas Consulting Group Pty Ltd

Hydraulic Consultant: David Fairbairn Consulting Engineer

Land Surveyor: Barge and Miller Surveys

Builder: Ducon Pty Ltd

© Paul Cadenhead

From the architect. Yan Lane is a small new street located in an eclectic area of the ...