Gabrielle Colthorpe Portfolio

GABRIELLE COLTHORPE

BACHELOUR OF DESIGN: ARCHITECTURE

DRAWINGS ARE NOT TO SCALE

THE HUMMING ROOMS FIRST YEAR, STUDIO II

The Humming Rooms aims to develop a dynamic gallery experience through the expansion and contraction of light and the auditory.

The informal invitation to a multi-species living experience explores the facets of the site through a lense of phytoremediation, healing and endurace of country.

The structure is embedded into the scars of the landscape and invites the native australian bee ‘Tetragonula’ to be the healers and caretakers of the site.

The gallery is derived from the land and intends to serve the surrounding native species as a vessel for the site to remediate for future generations whilst also giving an opportunity for residential and exhibition use.

‘We are not a unique outlier but rather are apart of a various continua.’

Shimmer, Deborah Bird Rose

ARCHITECTURE OF THE BODY

Is skin not paradoxically, the most profound thing about us?

A border defining within and without, a protective frontier, the envelope of the flesh, the bodys armor.

Skin separates and isolates.

An interface of pains and pleasures.

Skin is both armament and armor.

Blushing, blanching, sweating.

Like the eyes and the mouth, skin is also a medium and means of communication.

The Mutant Body of Architecture

George Teyssot

FREEDOM WITHIN THE GRID

SECOND YEAR, STUDIO III

FWTG is an explorative analysis of residential space and multi-generational living.

The project aims to challenge internal living qualities and break patterns of traditional programs of residential builds whilst conforming to council regulations and building envelope; giving residents freedom to customise their own space.

The form addresses the site and the public access along Beaumont street and integrates itself between exisiting flora and dissected by an exisiting waterway.

We can state the obvious. That domesticity and leisure, Birth and Death are unlikely partners.Unlikely companions. Yet there is entanglement that needs enquiry. Birth and Death are sigular, transitory and defining; yet messy, unpalatable, confrunting and emotional. We are born alone. We die alone. Singular, yet the cyclical underpins an existential continuum of birth, life and death.

Western insitiutions and commerce have sanitised, de-contextualised, de-ritualised and marginalised birth and death mimicking polarised binary constructs in politics, gender, racism, identity.

This enquiry into birth and death, leisure and domesticity is an introduction to the blending of domesticity and leisure. The reintroduction of birth and death into domestic practise and to overall confront our home city with an abrassive introduction to the harsh realitys and education surrounding womens health and mourning, funeral and loss of loved ones in a project that can create a space for these human moments publicly.