The Penrith Stadium Redevelopment is a $309 million NSW Government-led project aimed at transforming the existing venue into a modern, family-friendly precinct for sport, entertainment, and community use. The redevelopment will enhance stadium capacity, improve game-day experiences, and provide shared amenities to increase year-round activation.
The design was developed through extensive stakeholder engagement, including a cultural consultation process via Walk on Country, and reflects feedback from over 3,000 community members. It will cater to growing demand for NRL and NRLW events while supporting local jobs and fostering regional growth in Western Sydney.
My Contributions
• Participated across multiple design phases from Referenced Design through to Design Development & Documentation.
• Contributed to the RFQ bid submission, coordinating presentation materials and ensuring alignment with client brief.
• Assisted in developing concept and schematic designs, including planning diagrams and early-stage visualisations.
• Helped develop the facade design through a Walk on Country process with Indigenous consultants.
• Prepared sections of the ESD report, ensuring sustainable principles were embedded into the design.
• Supported the Senior Principal in preparing Town Planning and SSDA Modification submissions, leading to successful VNSW approvals.
• Engaged in BIM coordination with architectural, structural, and construction teams using Revizto.
MOUNTAIN COUNTRY
WATER COUNTRY
FLOODPLAIN LANDSCAPE
Key Role in RFQ Submission
• Led the visual production of RFQ documents for INSW, including layout design, image integration, and formatting in InDesign
• Worked closely with the Director and bid team to complete the full submission package within one week
CONCEPT / SCHEMATIC DESIGN
Penrith Stadium Redevelopment
Concept sketch by Ciaran Durney - Design Lead
WEST STAND FACADE SILHOUETTES DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
SHADOW COMPARISON
ROOF
ROOF
BOWL METALWORK DETAILS
BUILDING AND ROOF STRUCTURE MODELING BASED ON ENGINEER’S DRAWINGS
KAI TAK SPORTS PARK - ISC
HALL OF FAME
HONG KONG, CHINA
Location Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
Involvement: Sep 2024 - Dec 2024
Firm Populous
Project Phases Involved: Post-Completion Design Development & Documentation
Role: Design Documentation Coordinator
Tools: Revit, Rhino, Grasshopper, Rhino.Inside.Revit, Enscape, Adobe Suite, Microsoft Office
The Kai Tak Sports Park, occupying 28 hectares of land, is the Hong Kong Government’s most significant investment in sports infrastructure in recent decades. Once completed, it will be the largest sports venue in Hong Kong. The project brief emphasized the creation of a high-quality sporting venue that reinforces Hong Kong’s global status while addressing local community needs. The design solution includes modern, multipurpose venues that not only enhance the city’s capacity to host major international sports events but also alleviate the shortage of public sports facilities and open space.
My Contributions
Design Documentation Coordinator responsible for finalizing interior fit-out design (Hall of Fame), including materials and equipment selection, Rhino.Inside.Revit 3D modeling, joinery detailing, preparation of design reports, and documentation for fabrication and shop drawings; participated in weekly coordination workshops with client Hip Hing.
PRINCE MOHAMMED BIN SALMAN STADIUM (FORMERLY QIDDIYA STADIUM)
QIDDIYA, SAUDI ARABIA
Location Qiddiya, Saudi Arabia
Involvement: Nov 2023 - Dec 2023
Firm Populous
Project Phases Involved: Concept Design
Role: Architectural Graduate contributing to the Concept Design phase and 3D visualization support for the project.
Tools: Revit, Rhino, V-Ray, Adobe Suite, Microsoft Office
Skills: Conceptual design development · 3D modeling and visualization (Rhino, V-Ray) · Collaborative design communication across international teams Client presentation support through impactful renderings
Project Overview
Prince Mohammed bin Salman Stadium in Qiddiya City is a 45,000-seat multi-use venue designed by POP EMEA & APAC team. It features a fully retractable roof, pitch, and LED wall, enabling quick changes between events. The stadium will host major sports and entertainment events, including matches for Saudi Pro League clubs and the 2034 FIFA World Cup. Sustainable design and advanced technology create a comfortable, immersive experience, making it a key part of Qiddiya’s entertainment district.
My Contributions
Contributed primarily to the Concept Design phase, focusing on developing bowl design options and producing key 3D visualizations. Created high-quality bowl renderings that were collaboratively used by the London and APAC teams and presented directly to the client,
SEATING BOWL RENDERING
Bowl Digital Display
Bowl Digital Display
Bowl Digital Display
Bowl Digital Display
Bowl Capacities
Bowl Capacities
Bowl Capacities
Bowl Capacities
Bowl Seat Types
Bowl Seat Types
Bowl Seat Types
Bowl Seat Types
Bowl Key Chunks
Bowl Exploded Model
Bowl Digital Display
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Bowl Digital Display
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Seating Bowl Parameters_axo
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Bowl Capacities
Bowl Capacities
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KING FAHD INTERNATIONAL STADIUM (KFI) + PRINCE FAISAL BIN FAHD STADIUM (PFBF) STAGE 04
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA
Location Ridayh, Saudi Arabia
Involvement: Jan 2024 - Mar 2024
Firm Populous
Project Phases Involved: Design Development & Documentation - Stage 04
Role: Door, Shutters & Turnstiles Documentation Lead
Tools: Revit, Bluebeam
: Revit family management and BIM
assurance, and issue resolution
Project Overview
As part of Saudi Arabia’s preparations to host the 2027 AFC Asian Cup, both stadiums are undergoing major upgrades to meet AFC and FIFA standards. Stage 04 focuses on detailed design and documentation, ensuring the venues deliver enhanced safety, accessibility, and spectator experiences in line with international requirements.
My Contributions
Led documentation for doors, shutters, and turnstiles across two projects, ensuring compliance with Saudi regulations. Managed the replacement and updating of approximately 2,500 door Revit families, including inputting thermal and fire ratings. Collaborated closely with the London BIM team to identify and resolve errors, providing detailed reports and summaries to the APAC team to maintain accurate door data and models throughout the projects’ continuous 24/7 workflow.
The Adelaide Airport Redevelopment is part of a $600 million upgrade to expand terminal capacity, improve passenger experience, and support long-term growth. Works include northern and southern terminal extensions, new departure gates, aerobridges, and enhanced facilities, positioning the airport as a leading Asia-Pacific aviation hub.
My Contributions
• Produced Enscape renderings for concept presentations
• Developed Revit models to test access design options
• Assisted in creating diagrams for the Concept Design Report
EGRESS STAIR DESIGN OPTIONS
ILLAWARRA SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT PRECINCT (ISEP)
WOLLONGONG, AUSTRALIA
Location Wollongong foreshore, NSW, Australia
Involvement: Jun 2024 - July 2024
Firm Populous
Project Phases Involved: Final Business Case (FBC) Phase + Early Stage Design & Reporting
Role: Architectural Graduate - Contributed to FBC phase & Early-stage design and reporting for ISEP. Supported the design team by assisting in Modeling and Visualization
The Illawarra Sports and Entertainment Precinct (ISEP) is a sports and entertainment hub located in Wollongong, New South Wales. It features upgraded stadium facilities designed to host a variety of events, enhancing community engagement and regional development.
My Contributions
• Assisted in developing 3D models of the stadium roof and structural elements to help the team visualize early design ideas and support initial discussions.
• Supported the preparation of section overlays to clarify design details and aid communication within the team.
• Produced Enscape renderings to create clear and realistic visuals for internal review and stakeholder understanding.
01. EXIST
SIDE BY SIDE
‘Exist Side by Side’ seeks to reveal and address societal perceptions of death in cross-cultural and political contexts by defining participation mechanisms for the cemetery and memorial. The proposal reconsiders the potentialities that the death architecture affords to the discipline by way of redefining the role of the cemetery and memorialisation in the collective consciousness as a public space embedded within the ‘locale’, establishing an immediate and communal relationship to death. There are three testing grounds in the site of Kensington. The courtyard; repurposed as an recreational facility that stresses the importance of death education from an early age. The silo; a death memorial that confronts the users’ own mortality through the manipulation of the large, towering industrial architecture. The private lot; private becomes public in a cemetery that provides for numerous modes of occupation and generates civic engagement with death throughout. This is not about assuming but rather providing a framework for death architecture. Capturing the vernacular through combinatorics of contextual precedents. In providing a localised relationship to death a new future suburban infrastructure is defined. This infrastructure merges functions of remembrance, support, education, recreation and reception. An infrastructure to assist with the Reconciliation of Death.
DEATH EXCHANGE
• A public space that brings the deceased exposure to life
This is a formal political intervention through architecture by defining participation mechanisms for the cemetery. The Cemeter y here is a public space to work with the land to make site exchange rather than dominate it. It is a space that defines itself through light and shadow. A space that can provide for several
of occupation, brings deceased exposure to life and avoids the fears that push them to the edge of the city.
DEATH EDUCATION
• The way in which something is regarded, understood, or interpreted.
ACKNOWLEDGE DEATH
• A fact or belief that is accepted as true.
02.
URBAN ANTIDOTE
Cities as the medical instrument of assistance incubate new attitudes toward form and spatial organization. Fetishizing the sanitized aesthetic. it’s about how the city and architecture start to reflect broader changes in society. Composed together in unconventional ways to generate space usage and behavioural activities. Their role is potentially inferred by their changing size and markings and shapes and their location in the city. This is a reorganization mechanism using the medical facility as the quality of spatial architecture. As cities take on new capabilities to shelter their occupants. All of these conditions are creeping in and building the city, from which the machine aesthetic is born.
We’re not talking about those who are very physically fit, we’re talking about those who are the weakest. It looks like the city itself is in therapy. To return to intimate urban Spaces and shelter the occupants. To empty the city of authenticity.
04. COEXIST ISLAND
Coexist island is a station used for migratory birds’ stopovers as well as a bridge for humans to observe birds in their natural habitat. It also responded to the East Asian-Australian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP), which aims to preserve migratory waterbirds and their habitats, considering both people and biodiversity of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, connecting, and bonding people with migratory birds and qualities of nature. The concept provides a new temporary migration stop and transfers to a newly designated nature preserve for migratory birds during their long-distance flights, embracing nature as the centre of education and recreation as the existing grounds are eventually eroded by the time of 2030. Reimagines the island as an experience and designs a series of structures blended with complex and organic attitudes that would together foster vibrantly educational, community and natural spaces.
The scale of the organic structure’s interiors brings the exterior tendencies of landscapes inside, blurring the boundary between “inside and outside” spatially and formally. In this “vast interior”, nature is identified not with simply the occasional active presence of greenery or biomorphic form but with boundless, expansive space. The qualities associated with public, urban spaces, freedom of collective assembling and individual journeys are brought inside. The programmatic openness of the landscape is conveyed in an architectural framework.
Define education as a mode of a process of discovery and learning from nature. This is an open, informal study area, providing better spaces supporting new pedagogies and environmental conditions for learning.
PROFESSIONAL & PERSONAL PROJECTS
THE EXAPTIVE
THE EXAPTIVE engaged with the biological concept of ‘exaptation’ that implies a shift in the function of a trait during evolution, through the domain of procedural urbanism, focusing on the themes of emergence and emulation. The project invoked historical, canonical and contemporary precedent, to form a architectural and urban analysis that was tested on an urban precinct in Nansha, China, with a mixed-use urban and architectural proposition. The project harnessed deep learning and Artificial Intelligence – image and text based sampling as a strategic technique.
The project was part of the international CityX project exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021.
