Folio-2024

Half Basketball Court at Moe

The proposed half court basketball court in Moe, New South Wales, is envisioned as a dynamic recreational space aimed at enhancing the vibrancy of the area and catering to the active lifestyle preferences of the community. Commissioned by the La Trobe Council, this project seeks to provide a modern and inviting facility that encourages social interaction, physical activity, and community engagement.

Fairhills High School, in collaboration with the Victorian School Building Authority (VSBA), is embarking on a transformative project to enhance its facilities and elevate the learning experience for its students. The proposed alterations and additions to Block G and the Auditorium signify a commitment to providing state-of-the-art educational spaces that inspire creativity, foster collaboration, and promote academic excellence.

DESIGN BRIEF:

Our design is a new Media Building for RMIT. Our design intention is to respond to the neighbouring context. There is a residential building behind the new Media Building. With respond to this context, we don’t want to block the residence’s view. Therefore, our building becomes a vertical garden where the façade is wire mesh and permeable to see.

Our school is in the heart of Melbourne Carlton, our media building is an innovative and dynamic educational institution that is dedicated to inspiring their students. We’ve also aimed to incorporate nature within the design to assist with a peaceful and calm intention for the users.

The renders provided are to help visualise this intention. In addition to this we also have a ETFE façade to allow film projection of the students work to create opportunities for the building to interact with the public. The following render also shows a glimpse of the vertical garden and different articulation of all levels and how they can interact and open together in its individual uniqueness.

It is a 10-storey high building that is also sustainable with water tanks, strategic sunlight approach and a double façade system with passive ventilation that optimises the temperature throughout the year.

Our goal was to create a projectable façade that faces the main streets of Bouverie and Queensberry. This façade not only showcases the media building but also emphasizes transparency to reflect the

In remediation, my project aims to provide a connection within buildings in the site to provide opportunities of different functions interacting together. Most of the roof of the buildings are connected and cross programmed.

In remediation, my project aims to provide a connection within buildings in the site to provide opportunities of different functions interacting together. Most of the roof of the buildings are connected and cross programmed.

Contamination not only of sediment, groundwater, soil and air; but contamination of form and conceptual ideas.

Typology Plan

Based on the typology research conducted earlier, I have decided to have the programs cross contaminate each other in various moments, for example: the residential and commercial programs are almost completely cross contaminated. Inside the apartments building, commercial programs are located on the ground floor. This was done to integrate the building designs and programs more fluidly throughout the site.

// The big native gum tree in the middle of the conservatory acts as an element to visually connect each floor between the office and the roof garden. This activates the “green heart” of the office and encourages staff to go out.

// Conservatory //

The big native gum tree in the middle of the conservatory acts as an element to visually connect each floor between the office and the roof garden. This activates the “green heart” of the office and encourages staff to go out.

COMMERCIAL

Different zones of the opened office are made in different colours and plant themes to create a “greenwood” in different seasons to further extend the ideas of the nature idea

// Meeting Pots // COMMERCIAL // CONSERVATORY

Different zones of the opened office are made in different colours and plant themes to create a “greenwood” in different seasons to further extend the ideas of the nature idea.

Each cluster might look like the same at first glance. Yet, all clusters are slightly different, as such voids are made in different size in each level to make sure all residents have enough sunlight. This form is inspired by the Expo 2000 and Kowloon City, in which continuity is cruital in this project to connect all residents. Therefore, the roof of each level are connected on those rooftop, just to create a full level circulation as well. Each cluster share a common courtyard between 2-4 clusters and pathways are creates within the site to create more articulations. in order to visualise a closer community and the “Village within a village” concept.

Axonometric drawing. .

Tommy is a plant enthusiast and loves cooking. His room is located at the back of kitchen as an extension of the house, has a backdoor that directly connected to the courtyard. Since plants strive in blue light, his room is made of grass and blue colored glass. Tommy’s room is a reflection of his personality, he is a lonely person that wants to connect with people, this level of intimacy is reflected in the level of transparency of his room. He has a little small courtyard of his own as well, where he could sit with his dog and watch the sunset. Sometimes Willy will come over and find Tommy to chat and play after school, this little semiprivate courtyard becomes their meeting place.

Eyes on the Street

CONCEPT ....

Our main idea is to break the social stigma of social housing being unsafe and unwelcoming, whilst also promoting a sense of community.

This can be broken into two parts. The first part is to break the negative connotation of unsafe social housing we aimed to create passive surveillance through an architectural strategy inspired by Jane Jacobs idea of “Eyes

on the streets” The buildings are composed to surround the public area, by doing so the residents in the social housing act as passive surveillance.

The second concept also focuses on building degrees of private, public, and semi-private threshold that can help with communal thresholds for human interaction.

.... Jane Jacobs

The reading space are designed to create an intimate space between readers. Plantations are loacted in the middle to provide partitions. The bookshelves are allocated in this way to provide a specific path for people to distant themselves from others. Unfolded elveation of whole site

This site is the final stop of the progressive changes in the journey through the whole site. It is opened, welcoming yet safe and secured. As you could see in small facilities, It focuses on the communal activities that articulate through the whole site. The site is also designed in a way to to gain sense of safety through passive suvilance and constant thresholds.

Inspired by the coffee culture in Melbourne, the cafe is embedded under the stairs. Pop out chairs are located on the walls to promote communal interaction. The slide is located next to the stairs to create another small playground for kids as well.