Defence Site Maribyrnong (DSM) is a 127.8 hectare parcel of Commonwealth land located at 2 Cordite Avenue, Maribyrnong, in the City of Maribyrnong. The location of the site and its historical use by the Department of Defence present some key considerations for future development, particularly in relation to land contamination, transport access, heritage and the Maribyrnong River interface.

Proposed design

Design Principles

4 rules for

Preservation of systems

Overlap system logic to create complexity

Preservation of systems

Extend system logic

Overlay of systems

Generate complexity

Master plan

Key transportation and roads

This studio aimed to understand how architectural outcomes are influenced by politics, history, society and culture. This is a museum of time, place and culture in Southbank. The purpose is to support those refugees in New Guinea who were refused to receive medical services and treatments. I visited the immigration museum in Melbourne and watched the videos about people who prefer to leave their country and family because of war, political issues, religion, poverty and els for making a better life and future but now we hear they suicide and they ignored by the host society. My proposed design makes them feel they live in a familiar architecture as their hometown but in a different county to bring them back to society and value their culture and history and say hope is still alive.

I looked at 5 cities with the highest refugee’s population in Australia and tried to bring their city-grids overlaid, pattern, color and the form of their nostalgic and historic places. The outline of Australia’s map considered as the roof of the museum to support the idea of human union and trees above the roof show hope and better future is growing. The result of my final design supporting idea of living ‘together-in-difference’ by providing spatial support for different cultural communities to encounter where cultural differences can be publicly expressed.

05 city grids with the highest refugee population

City grids with the highest refugees population

Dmascues-Syria Dmascues-City grid

Damascues- Syria Damascues- City grid

Baghdad- Iraq

Baghdad-Iraq