Bachelor of Design in Architecture - University of Technology, Sydney - GPA 6.4/7
- 2024/2025 Guest critic for 1st, 2nd and 3rd year reviews (ongoing)
- 2024 Capstone Prize Commendation Winner
- 2024 Student Representative
- 2024 Peer tutor for 2nd year ‘Architectural History & Theory: Urbanism’
‘Creative Terrain’ Short Course - Bartlett School of Architecture, London
Diploma of Design and Architecture - UTS College, Sydney - GPA 6.8/7
- Recipient of Outstanding Graduate Award for highest GPA in cohort
- Recipient of Dean’s Merit Award for highest GPA in first semester
Architectural Drafting Courses - British Columbia Institute of Technology, Vancouver
- ‘Intro to CADD Drafting’ & ‘Architectural Drafting’ (Autocad) - final grade: 88%
Diploma of Music Production - Nimbus School of Recording Arts, Vancouver - GPA 4/4
Professional
Extra-Curricular
2017/Present
‘Brock Wilson’ - Music Producer, Independant
- Recording artist with 8+ years exp., 10+ million streams across platforms, work with Grammy nominated artists, and experience with management & publishing agencies
Accessibility Consultant - Student Services Unit, University of Technology, Sydney
- Met with registered students to gather feedback on service function and effectiveness
- Provided recommendations based on feedback to improve accessibility experience and inclusive teaching practices
Bartender - Earls Restaurant and Bar, Vancouver
- Built strong team communication skills in a high pressure service environment
Revit Training - Certifications through LinkedIn Learning
- ‘Essential Training for Architecture’, ‘BIM: Designing Sustainable HVAC Systems’
Volunteer - Sydney Institute of Marine Science
- Assisted in biodiversity surveys for ReefDesignLab’s ‘Living Seawall’ artificial tide pools
Participant - ‘120 Hours’ Student Architecture Competition - Oslo School of Architecture
Volunteer - End of Year Show Exhibition for University of Technology, Sydney
- Contributed to the design and physical building of the annual exhibition
Participant - ‘Super Studio’ Student Architecture Competition - SONA
President of Chess Club at the University of Technology, Sydney
- Led weekly meets and organized events to engage members and wider chess community
- Managed club finances, achieving a two-fold increase in profits and memberships
Model-making, material experimentation, laser-cutting & 3D printing
1. Waterloo Social Condenser
Studio 6_2024_group
2. Equal Parts; A School for Every Intelligence
Studio 5_2024_individual
3. The Stepwell
Studio 4_2023_group
4. Speed-bumps
120 Hours Student Competition_2025_individual
5. Rooftop Canopy
Advanced Thermal, Lighting and Acoustics_2024_individual
≈ 15M ≈ 30M ≈ 45M + 45M
Native trees, like the Blue Gum, sequester carbon & store in the mycelial networks below.
1. Waterloo Social Condenser; “Unpredictable Itineraries”
Non-human guidance & site program speculation.
still air tent x 1
isopropyl alcohol x 1
disposable gloves x a lot
agar punch x 1
mycelium growth bag (sawdust + reishi) x 1
3D printed mold x 1
3D printed site inserts x 7
reishi culture x 1
MEAG agar plates x 22
parafilm x 22 +
1. First row depicts mycelium experimentation
2. Second row communicates the integration of myco-inspo
3. Third row documents some of the fun along the way!
DAY 6_ canopy shyness + growth
Place water bodies between ‘canopies’
DAY 9_ fuzzy edges, permeating programs
Identify high traffic areas & program ‘edges’
DAY 9_(3d)_boundary bleeding
I felt it was important to parallel the theoretical nature of the analysis by engaging with Country through a perspective inspired by a non-human voice. Using a set of MEAG agar plates and a reishi mycelium culture, I loosely arranged potential program locations on the site with an agar punch (day 6), curious to observe how they would grow and interact. I was fascinated by their shyness and the intricacy of their growth. This experiment, which continued throughout the semester, provided a compelling theoretical connection to the Social Condenser, specifically the Situationist’s dérive: “a walk of unpredictable itineraries, dependent on chance and the spontaneous subjective impulses and reactions of the wanderer.” This early conceptual framework guided our group, and the inclusion of the mycelium plates was my way of using a biological medium to speculate on such ‘unpredictable itineraries.’ Ultimately, the experiment became an enjoyable point of departure for numerous ideas throughout the semester, serving as the catalyst for the site’s primary program function: the generation and export of remediating follies for greater Sydney (day 12+).
Source: Wollen, P. (2001). Situationists and Architecture. New Left Review, 8, 123–139.
Representative of the folly export function Interconnected site programs
DAY 12_(3d)_ reaching / spilling behaviour
Proposed as a university-funded research segment of the site, the makerspace is open to students undertaking related degrees as well as curious and passionate members of the community. While the site programs include exhibition spaces, galleries, co-working areas, and commercial facilities, the makerspace serves as the uniting connective tissue. Here, collected waste can be recycled and transformed into new materials or fabricated into pavilion-like structures (follies) to be exported back to the locations where the waste originated. This process exmplifies the sites commitment to a circular economy, and is best communicated through the export model on the left. More speculative or artistic proposals developed within the makerspace may also be showcased in the west building’s exhibition or gallery spaces. Additionally, lectures held in the north building can inspire and gather curious minds to engage with the makerspace. An example of the makerspace contributing to the site’s circular economy is illustrated below (1-6). A fiber-reinforced polymer shell with a mycelium facade treatment, recently developed & employed in ‘Project Phoenix’, demonstrates a recyclable and compostable modular facade system.
Source: Souza, E. (2023). Revolutionizing Affordable Housing: The AI-Powered, Climate-Friendly Solution of Project Phoenix. Archdaily. https://www.archdaily.com/1011095/revolutionizing-affordable-housing-the-ai-powered-climate-friendly-solution-of-project-phoenix
1. Waterloo Social Condenser: Makerspace Laboratory
A point of collection, collaboration, and production.
Drawings: Laboratory Render
A relatively small laboratory is located on the upper level of the makerspace. It is intended to support biochemical research, primarily in service of the folly production. The lab includes essential equipment for fundamental and beginner-friendly experimentation—such as work with mycelium and algae—as well as tools less typical for a lab of this scale and general purpose, including compression and tensile testing equipment. Fundamentally, it is a space for users to explore their scientific curiosity within a building full of creatives, embedded in a site alive with diverse activities and people.
1. Waterloo Social Condenser; Makerspace
A point of collection, collaboration, and production.
2. Isometric section - design (top), heavy fabrication (bottom)
3. Plan detail - site circulation into upper design area
4. Isometric site detail - makerspace mechanical ventilation
The orthographic drawings of the makerspace highlight its programmatic diversity and its adaptation from a former storage facility. The building structure remained largely untouched, with modifications made only to accommodate access and fire safety adjustments. Roller doors along the south face provide truck access, allowing vehicles to pull directly into the fabrication space. A separate VAV system was installed to handle exhaust fumes, with a capacity of up to 4500 L/s (4). Public access is primarily directed to the upper floor, which features a passively ventilated design area without access restrictions (2,3). In addition to the primary fabrication area, the makerspace includes a small lab (1) dedicated to materials research. This lab, in addition to the advanced print shop below (1) enables more innovative treatments of waste collected and brought to the site, further enhancing the makerspace’s functionality and contribution to sustainable practices.
The classroom clusters best illustrate these principles; students who are more socially inclined can joyfully communicate between classrooms. The space created by lifting the clusters off the ground provides a covered outdoor learning area for students with a naturalistic inclination. Visuo-spatial students have a field day exploring the elevational changes within the classroom. Body/kinesthetic students can engage tactically with material and textural variances. Ultimately, the classroom design is attuned to the learning habits of all students, ensuring it becomes a place where diversity is celebrated, potential is recognized, and weaknesses are supported.
2. Equal Parts; A School for Every Intelligence
The civic centre - a place to debate, listen & socialize.
Drawings: Civic Centre Render, ‘Photo from below the cluster’ Render, Preliminary Process Sketches
The civic centre is designed to facilitate both public events and school programs. Borrowing further from Montessori principles— which regard the child as a future adult—the design encourages openness between the public and private aspects of the school. A cafe, for example, is shared between the students and the public, with the public side facing outward and the private (with slightly lower counters) facing towards the classroom clusters. The civic centre hosts a range of programs inspired by Montessori and Multiple Intelligences frameworks, including public debate forums, lectures, assemblies, and a shared workspace that allows parents to remain close to their children. The renders shown here convey both the civic and institutional identity of the school, as well as its quiet, restful spaces nestled among trees and the forest-like scatter of columns supporting the clusters.
3. The Stepwell; Student Housing Project
Social power via staircase redundancy!
High Distinction, invited guest lecturer & review critic
Ultimo, NSW / Gadigal Country
Studio 4 - Group project with Joshua Dambiec and Kathryn Du Pre le Roux
Tutor: William Feuerman, Coordinator: Endriana Audisho
Drawings: East Elevation, Stepwell Circulation Diagram, South Elevation, Stepwell Diagram
Brock Hetherington
Dambiec
Kathryn Du Pre
3. The Stepwell; Student Housing Project
1 A student reading 1984 looks up towards the well entry
2 A student looking down to the ground floor social area
3 A student amiring a hazy sunset along the stairs of the well
Drawings: Exploded Isometric, Student Moments
4. Speed-bumps; 120 Hours Competition Proposal
Oslo, Norway
1. sheltered exhibition area
2. sheltered garden with adjoining deck
open space for sports, protest, & temporary installations
A two page competition entry for the Oslo School of Architecture’s 120 hours student competition. Competitors are given 120 hours to receive and respond to a brief. This year, the brief was to creative an exhibit of lost items in the public square of Tullinløkka, Oslo. I responded by proposing a space that encompassed the lost memories and activities of Tullinløkka.
speed-bumps
Rediscovering the lost generational memories of Tullinløkka.
Once a place to go ice skating with friends,
Once a place to protest and fight for justice,
Once a place essential to the start of a road trip,
Once a place to teach your children of the wonder of art,
Tullinløkka has always been a place of many things.
Generations have developed and shared memories of it’s historically flexible identity, though in recent years, it’s identity has grown stagnant. The younger generation has not inherited the same richness of experience that their parents and grandparents once found here.
‘Speed-bumps’ seeks to revive the lost memories of Tullinløkka. It proposes a landscape where children can engage in the same variety of activities once native to the site and enjoyed by their parents and grandparents. Rolling grassy mounds of varying heights invite people to play, to protest, to gather, and to be curious. They confront the user with ‘a degree of slowness’, as discussed by Jean Baudrillard in The Illusion of The End. They are a means of inducing contemplation- a necessary friction that re-engages awareness of your immediate, physical environment.
collaborative play
A place to rediscover your youth
Site Section, 1:200
potential exhibition area example:
collective moral value
A place to remind you of your moral compass
Visitors may share their memories of Tullinløkka by writing them on cards to be displayed in
familial bonding
A place that instills an explorative spirit
curiosity
a place to (be) inspect(ed)
5. Rooftop Canopy; PV Proposal & Analysis
High Distinction
Paramatta, NSW / Dharug Country
Advanced Thermal, Lighting and Acoustics - Individual
Tutor: Andy Lam, Coordinator: Leena Thomas
Drawings: Energy Proposal & Analysis Page
Introduction & Framework
After learning about a-Si PV glazing assemblies in the building skin, I wanted to know if there was a more attractive way to use PV panels in a rooftop setting. Acknowledging the visual discordance presented by conventional crystalline counterparts, I challenged myself to find something more novel & appealing
The Paramatta office building rooftop now features a 39-metre timber framed ETFE canopy with a cafe/bar. The middle of the three ETFE layers features two strips of a-si pv foil, generating enough energy to power their own energy consumption as well as the lights that illuminate the canopy and cafe/bar (though unfortunately not the 1300w necessary to pull an espresso).
There are no built precedents outside of university research prototypes for this type of system, though I believe it is important to try and incorporate these kinds of ideas in an attempt to push the integration of new technologies forward.
Programmatically, the canopy acknowledges the future potential for multi-residential, so that both current occupants and/or future residents can enjoy the cafe &/or bar, rooftop garden, & serenity provided by the project.
Research supporting this idea published in the Journal of Applied Energy, & the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, linked below.
foils are placed in the middle layer to protect them from any weather damage & improve waterproofing measures for wiring.
Bottom - Fritting print
A white dotted fritting pattern helps reduce solar heat gain, reflect light & create an aesethic daylighting effect underneath. Printing it on the bottom layer allows light to penetrate to the pv foils.
System Energy Details
Generates Energy:
1 x ETFE cushion = 42.9
59 x ETFE cushions * includes consumption
Consumes Energy:
130 x reccessed floor
16 x emergency light
10 x planter lights = 4 x cafe downlights =
2531.1 - 664.8 = 1866.3
3215.5 - 664.8 = 2550.7
a-si PV in ETFE cushions without additional active to integrate thermal and
Information is estimated based count for the mesh rain suppression
Simple Module Isometric NTS
Top - Standard ETFE
Middle - A-si PV
photovoltaic
The following two pages are taken from an Advanced thermal, lighting and acoustics course I very much enjoyed. Throughout this course, I became much more interested in building energy and acoustic analysis. Here, I proposed the use of amorphous-silicon photovoltaic strips embedded within a three layer ETFE canopy structure. It sat on the roof of a pre-existing commercial office building, primarily acting as an unprogrammed pavillion like structure for building occupants. A-Si PV is typically cheaper and far more attractive than monocrystaline panels as they are more easily integrated into building components such as glazing assemblies.
Annotated ETFE Section Detail 1:10
Details
ETFE Specs & ESD
Fire Performance:
Low flammability (270c), self extinguishing
Bird detterant wiring
42.9 - 54.5 W h
= 2531.1 - 3215.5 W h consumption ie. inflation energy
floor = 416 W (3.2 per light)
light = 68.8 W (4.3 per light)
158 W (15.8 per light)
= 22 W (5.5 per light)
1866.3 remaining W h
2550.7 remaining W h
cushions can easily power all lights on the roof active support. This displays the projects ability and lighting
based on the research links provided and does not acsuppression screen.
Life expectancy:
Anticipated 50 years
Passive Survivability:
Solar/self powered non-structural. In event of electrical failure, ETFE will provide waterproof shelter & daylighting.
Future Dissasembly (full system):
Timber structure bolted together & easily dissasembled.
ETFE can be recycled & re-used.
Steel plates can be recycled.
A-si pv foil can be recycled
An ETFE system that utilizes a-si PV power is a very sustainable option for spaces such as this. It generates enough energy to power itself & more, is simple to reuse & recycle, can be fritted to control solar heat gain, & is generally very safe.
U-Value 1.8 w/m²K Mesh rain suppression layer
Tensioned overtop of ETFE
Up to 10 dB of noise reduction
3 ply ETFE membrane x 59
Amorphous Silicon PV foil placed on middle layer electrical routed through column (see column detail)
Inflation system see column detail
F7 Pine Timber Framing
72 Joists - 270x45
14 Bearers - 270x65
67 Columns - (see column detail)
SIOO:X Timber staining
Column Plan Detail 1:10
67 x F7 Pine Timber Column
Inflation tubes & a-si pv electrical work routed & concealed through false column face, does not affect structural integrity.
dimensions given in mm
Since the canopy I proposed did not provide an enclosed structure, its impact on noise control was minimal. As a result, I focused primarily on acoustic analysis, acoustic masking, and floor buildup. The analysis aimed to evaluate noise attenuation and diffraction from a traffic source located 70 meters below the rooftop, as well as to justify material choices based on estimated source levels and attenuation performance. The ‘detail legend, Rw, and Rc values’ section also considers the possibility of noisy events on the roof interfering with the work in the office space below. While this may fall outside the typical jurisdiction of an architect, this project challenged me to think critically about noise control in buildings and pushed me to engage in deeper levels of analysis than I had encountered in my studio subjects.
A more in depth reading of this proposal (& my other projects) can be found on my website, https://brockwilsonworks.com. Thank you for the time you took to read my portfolio, I hope you enjoyed it - Brock
