P o r t f o l i o
Education
M.Arch
University of South Australia
Master of Architecture
2019 – 2020
B.Arch
University of South Australia
Bachelor of Architectural Studies
2016 - 2017 - 2018
Aberfoyle Park High School
2015 - SACE Completion
Experience
University of South Australia
February 2023 – Present
Tutor - Foundations Studio - 1st Yr
HAMES SHARLEY
June 2023 – Present - 1 Year
Project Experience
Adelaide Airport Masterplan
Concept
Revit documentation Visualisations
St Yves Retail Centre
Revit documentation
SA Athletics plaza + Beach Volleyball
Concept
Revit documentation Visualisations
JPE DESIGN STUDIO
May 2021 – March 2022 - 2 Years
Project Experience
St Paul Lutheran School - OSHC and Meeting Space
Concept design
Materials & finishes
Full documentation set for tender with assistance
Mercedes College High Performance Centre
Concept design
Assisting on documentation Flythrough
Ngutungka Henley
Concept design
Materials and finishes
Full documentation set for tender with assistance
Visualisations
ALEX BARKER
Contact
Phone 0414 907 409
Email alex.b97@hotmail.com
Date of Birth 12/08/1997
Referees
Emily Anderson
Senior Architect - JPE Design Studio eanderson@jpe.com.au 0431 103 081
Andrew Lymn-Penning
Lecturer - University of South Australia
Andrew.Lymn-Penning@unisa.edu.au 0417 870 937
01
Beach Volleyball
SA ATHLETICS PLAZA HAMES SHARLEY
The South Australian Beach Volleyball Pavillion aims to create a state of the art high performace centre of world class standard. Future tier 1 athletes will be attracted to the facility for its intelligent design which will respond to its environment, be flexible in its functionality and foster excellence in the sport.
ACTIVATE THE STREETS
FLEXIBLE AND ADAPTABLE DIVERSITY OF OPPORTUNITIES
west lakes masterplan design drivers
PROJECT EXPERIENCE
HAMES SHARLEY
June 2023 – Present
One year graduate experience
Project involvement
Adelaide Airport Masterplan
Visualisations
Concept design
Documentation
My involvement included the development of the design and Revit modelling for the masterplan visualisations.
West Lakes Masterplan
Visualisations
Concept design
My involvement included the development of the design document and visualisations of the design drivers.
St Yves Retail Centre
Materials and finishes
Full documentation set for planning
Visualisations
My involvement included preparing the design post concept. Coordination with consultants to documentation for development approval.
SA Athletics Plaza Beach Volleyball
Concept design
Materials & finishes
Visualisations
My involvement included concept work through to delivery of a design package to the client and preparation of the planning set.
King William Road + Mary Visualisations
My involvement included visualisation and yield testing to deliver multiple feasibility outcomes
02
ngutungka Henley
Library & community centre
jpe design studio
This design seeks to create a more welcoming and integrated journey, connecting to the street scape, the neighbouring RSL building and the broader public realm.
Celebrating a layered history of the site, Ngutungka Henley incorporates the renewal of the much loved State Heritage listed Henley Town Hall and Soldiers Memorial into an integrated component of this public precinct. Bringing together community and library programs on this established civic site, the revitalisation of this precinct seeks to create a place for gathering, reflection and shared connections, taking inspiration from the terrain of the coastline and the sand dunes as a places of shelter.
moulded grc panels with two tone finish, referencing the local sand dunes
western facade intergration of landscpae & builtfabric
Project experience
JPE DESIGN STUDIO
May 2021 – March 2023
Two years graduate experience
Project involvement
Murray Avenue Renmark Development Visualisations
Concept design
EOI submission for adaptive-reuse
Brighton Civic Centre Visualisations
My involvement included extensive in Photoshop.
St Paul Lutheran School - OSHC and Concept design
Materials & finishes
Full documentation set for tender with
My involvement included early concept for Planning and Tender.
Mercedes College High Performance
Concept design
Assisting on documentation
Flythrough
My involvement included early concept for Revit modelling of existing site
Mary Mackillop College
Assisted on architectural documentation
Assisted on landscape documentation
Flythrough
Visualisations
My involvement included assisting with tender and production of the flythrough
Ngutungka Henley
Concept design
Materials and finishes
Full documentation set for tender with Visualisations
My involvement included all phases All the way from concept, through to set for tender.
Development
of an existing building situated on the River Murray.
Revit modelling to exporting in Enscape for post production and Meeting Space
with assistance concept work, but mainly in production of the documentation set Performance Centre
concept work through to documentation I was mainly responsible buildings and production of the flythrough in enscape.
documentation documentation
with the Revit modelling and documentation of landscape for flythrough in enscape, with post production work in Premiere Pro. with assistance
of the co design process and consultation with the client. to preparing the planning document to a full documentation
03 transfiguration
final year/2020
DEsign STUDIO 10
Transfiguration is an emotional yet practical experience for grieving relatives and friends to say farewell to their loved ones in a dignified space.
To remember, and be remembered are natural human needs, so the crematorium responds to both personal and public requirements for mourning and remembrance in a building that ritualises one’s life, regardless of faith or culture.
It holds two separate functions: one spiritual, regarding the ceremonial aspect of death, and the other practical, regarding how death is dealt with after the final farewell.
Transitional spaces, geometric forms, materiality, and natural light form the symbolic representations of ideas of remembrance and journey, which are evoked in the design of the crematorium. My project provides those experiencing the space with a dignified and respectful acknowledgement of one’s passing.
BVA glass workshop
persepctive section 1:200
The nature of my reading room is a small selfcontained glass workshop, which handcrafts meaningful glass pebbles. Embedded inside the glass is the cremated remains of your loved one. With the pebble thoughtfully placed in the reflective pool of the adajacent crematorium.
04 SUB URBAN PALIMPSEST
third year/2018
DESIGN STUDIO 6 GROUPWORK
My studio group for this semester was comprised of students who were selected to embark on a study tour to Osaka, Japan, to coloborate with students at Osaka University on a project focussing on housing density and renovations of traditional Japanese Nagaya houses. The studios aim was to analyse and communicate the socio-spatial characteristics of a suburban place.
This initial required a ‘macro’ approach to the site, which was located inn the Sumioshi Ward in the Osaka Prefecture. As a Group, we generated a hand made model of the site and its surrounding buildings using the workshop to create foam and balsa models at a 1:200 scale. The Ply base was fashioned in the shape of the Sumiyoshi Ward, and the timber and paper underlay represented the traditional Jpanaese ‘shoji’ We further researched other traditional Japanese housing in the area, and hand drew them on to some of the Shoji sqaures.
hand drawn elevation
05 the pharmacy osaka japan
third year/2018
DESIGN STUDIO 6
GROUPWORK
This collaborative and cross cultural design studio project was to be undertaken at Osaka City Univeristy in Groups comprising of three UniSA students, and two OCA students. It showed us how to map and analyse contrasting social and urban conditions between Australia and Japanese examples of urban street edges and traditional housing typologiesin Yamanouchi Nagaya(Traditional Osaka Row House)
MATERIALS STRUCTURE
The pharma cy uses many different types of materials
The exterior of the building is covered in a light concrete render The structure of the Nagoya is made from tim ber post with clay or wattle and daub walls also featuring an terrazzo genkan floor
Over the years many of the original fea tures of the building have been replaced with steel com
This experience equipped us with new skills in the design approach towards population increase and the need for socially sustainable housing through a ‘micro’ approach. The need for housing to adapt with increasing density is paramount in todays social climate. The project helped us gain excellent experience in working with students from another country, and greatly improved our communication and teamwork skills with people who had limited English. This Nagaya renovation focused on Student accomodation which was flexible for both living and studying.