2016 // Bonnie Mills // Architectural Student Portfolio

|Architectural Portfolio Bonnie Mills, 2016.

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Š Bonnie E. Mills 2016

|Work Experience.

Duomark Duomark is a Property Development company that all-inclusively took projects through from concept to realisation. My first experience in residential design documentation. I began with this company as the sole employer working alongside the Director. The experience was invaluable. 2009 - 2013

University of Western Australia Working at Duomark inspired me to persue my bachelor degree in Architecture at UWA in Perth, I was taught and inspired by modernist design ethos. 2010 - 2013

James Millar Architects Working at JMA as the head of accounts, I learned a lot about the business side of running an architectural firm. This role was combined with assisting architects with everyday jobs. 2014

Windust Architects During this 3 month contract I was solely responsible for taking ‘St Vincent St, Albert Park’ from concept through to completion. An intensely challenging but exciting design & documentation experience. 2014 - 2015

Lyons Architecture Working directly under Corbett Lyons as a Research Assistant for his PHD. A rich and valuable experience that allowed me to learn innovative ways at approaching architectural design. 2015

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Inspired by professors such as Dr.Vivian Mitsogianni & Emma Jackson, I was inspired by process-based designs and exploratory ways of producing architecture. I thought of my time here as a chance to experiment, and to challenge typical Architectural design strategies. 2014 - 2015

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UWA JMA Windust Lyons RMIT <Perth Melbourne>

|The RMIT Centre for Music.

Chromatophore, Photophore & Iridophore. the three layers of cells found within the skin of an octopus. through viewing microscopic slides of the octopus skin, an opportunity arose to analyse the organisational system and translate it into an organic formation that doubled as an acoustic barrier. 2015.

|Perhaps parasitic in nature... but moreso organic,

the form was developed through the discection of an octopus. questioning how we utilise space within a building,seeking to explore if we should densify learning enviroments. a strive to connect the seemingly isolated builings along the Swanston Academic Street. the cross-pollenation between students from a few different disciplines... what would architecture look like at RMIT if the med school was combined with the architecture school? 2015.

The Cavern

The Landing The

The Treasure Box

The Cavern

|St Vincent St, Albert Park.

an old victorian-turns-mancave. exposed concrete meets weathered timber meets steel accents, a water pool runs through the home, a fireplace interjects.2015

|Light, Water & Fire.

custom designed steel window frames. a swim pool that sits against the living room window. floor to ceiling angular glazing - controlled views. cool, masculine features. flashes of exposed concrete meets the fireplace.

Chrome Forrest

process-based design is about letting go of the wheel, feeding information into the machine and seeing what comes out. massive triumph or massive failure. it is an exploration of behavioural systems from other processes, then applied to architecture. at the core of its intention is to conjure complex, innovative design outcomes in a manner that pushes you against your conciuosness forget what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned. 2014.

Award for Commendation: The Peter Gun Building 36 Scholarship

This project used a process experiment which looked at the organisational systems within histology slides of the erosive H-Pylori bacteria. The process material provided a rich collection of organisational systems that were analysed and then architecturally applied to the learning environment, which resulted in design propositions that otherwise would not have been naturally conjured.

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Level 4 Floorplan

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Level 5 Floorplan

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Level 6 Floorplan

Chrome Forrest: Published in ‘Wonderstuff & Turbulence’

A book by Vivian Mitsogianni, exploring process-based design experiments & future university learning envi

ronments. ‘...the complex overlays between void and programmatic relationships resulted in the idea of surveil

lance as a means for productivity in the learning environment.’ Page 96, Wonderstuff & Turbulence, 2015.

|Scientology 2.0: The Audit.

ascending architecture. ‘a journey to enlightenment.’ form generated by tracing Ernst Haeckles illustrations of ancesteral microorganisms. philosophy & cults meet town planning. narrative, narrative, narrative. its what’s on the inside that counts. 2015.

He who sees senses that he is seeing. He who hears senses that he is hearing. He is walking. And thus for all the other activities there is something that senses th In such a way that if we sense, we sense that we are sensing. And if we think, we se This is the same thing as sensing existence: existence means in fa Sensing that we are alive is in and of itself sweet. F and it is sweet to sense that su

Aristotle on th

Illustration demonstrating the descending spiral stair which takes patients gracefully from their second level of enlightenment through to the third. Here they are free to explore the third realm while the priests monitor their mental and physiological response. Connections to the outside world are crucial to this pivotal point in the eight step process, in order for smooth transition.

This requirement is satisfied by the voids providing light filled spaces and with the snippets of views at all angles.

East Elevation ,Existing Not To Scale East Elevation ,Existing Not To Scale SOUTH YARRA SQUARE

SAFEWAY SOUTH YARRA SQUARE

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East Elevation ,Proposed Not To Scale East Elevation ,Proposed Not To Scale

SOUTH YARRA SQUARE

SAFEWAY SOUTH YARRA SQUARE

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North Elevation ,Existing Not To Scale North Elevation ,Existing Not To Scale

|The Wonderpuss Resort.

the strive for a connection between land and sea. karrathaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coastal landscape. an escape from the dry, arid conditions of the red land. a cool escape offering living conditions both above and below ground. 2014

|RMIT Architecture: Upper-Pool Award for Design Excellence.

design methodology inspired by process-based design in a literal application. a rigorous exploration of the anatomy & behaviours of the common octopus found in reef systems & tide pools along karrathas coastline.

|Thank you.

Š Bonnie E. Mills 2016