PORTFOLIO 2023

index

professional experience

2022-present new york-US

senior associate at link-arc

SHENZHEN ARCHIBIENNALE Installation: ‘Inverted Architecture’ (Dec 2022-Present)

BANSHAN SCHOOL Competition Winner (Sep 2022- Present)

2015-2022 sydney-australia

design leader at audda architecture

SYDNEY Standard Design Guide for Luxury Car Showroom Rollout in Australia (Sydney, Australia, 2022)

SYDNEY Greenacre College Extension (Sydney, Australia, 2022)

PARRAMATTA Uniont St Office Tower (Sydney, Australia, 2021)

SYDNEY Rosebery House (Sydney, 2022)

associate at ajc architects (2 years)

SYDNEY Science&Arts School (North Sydney, Australia, 2020)

WALGETT Youth Community Center (Western NSW, Australia, 2019)

JUSTICE PRECINCT (Sydney, 2019)

GOLF CLUB Club house at Cape Wickham (King Island, Tasmania, 2018)

GRIFFITH SPORTS COMPLEX (Griffith, Australia, 2018)

MILEHAM RESERVE Masterplan (Windsor NSW, Australia, 2019)

associate at ptw architects (3 years)

INNOVA CITY (Hangzhou, 2018) City for 10M Workshop)

RAILWAY STATION for new capital (Beijing, 2018)

KURNELL PENINSULA (Sydney, 2018)_ Masterplan

URBAN PLANNING PROPOSALS (Sydney, 2017-2018)

ONE CIRCULAR QUAY TOWER (Sydney, 2016)

LIVERPOOL RESIDENTIAL TOWER (Liverpool, 2015)

ESPLANADE RESIDENTIAL TOWER (Surfers Paradise, 2016)

2013-2015 beijing-china

senior architect at ptw architects (2.5 years)

CONSTANTINE THEATRE AND EXHIBITION, (Algeria, 2013-2015)

PINGDINGSHAN SOHO (Henan, 2013)

SUMYIP ZHONGCHENG SOHO (Shenzhen, 2014)

HOTANGBAY HOTEL (Hainan, 2015)

2007-2013 bilbao-spain

architect at acxt/idom (4 years)

SAN MAMES STADIUM (Bilbao, Spain, 2007-2011)

BIRMINGHAM NEW STREET STATION (Birmingham, 2008)

ASTIGARRAGA STATION (Gipuzkoa, Spain, 2008)

BIM-revit office implementation process (2008-2009)

arch-act project (1 year)

Research on design and entrepreneurship

55-HOUSE (Bilbao, Spain, 2012)

SELF-SUFFICIENT HOUSE (Zamudio, Spain, 2012)

WINERY WOODEN SHELTER (Rioja Alavesa, Spain, 2012)

highlighted projects

bilbao football stadium

team architect / completed project (built) facade design, design development, structure coordination strong team workflow intense design exploration / rhino, revit, autocad, hand-sketching and model making theatre and congress center

project architect completed project (built) / client liaison, site advisor / rhino, autocad, model making and hand sketch

infrastructure

birmingham new street station

exhibition center

project architect competition (winner) and design development CGIs coordination / rhino, autocad and hand sketch

bejing high speed train station

project architect international competition finalist / design lead, client liaison rhino model making, hand sketch

team architect international competition finalist design, model making and drafting astigarraga high speed train station designer concept design report revit and hand sketch xian high speed train station designer concept design report revit and hand sketch

residential, mixed-use and hospitality

aparments tower in liverpool

project architect complete design scope all-round work and client liaison rhino, autocad, endscape, hand sketch, model making

pindingshan soho

year_2013-2014 location_beijing (china) / scope_ competition winner and design development / role_lead designer and project architect / company_ ptw

skyscraper in surfer paradise

project architect concept design report / all-round work and client liaison rhino, autocad, endscape, hand sketch hotel tower for Sydney harbour

project architect / international competition finalist facade designer and submission coordinator autocad, rhino and lumion

hotel in the water

project architect competition (2nd finalist) all-round work and client liaison autocad, hand sketch, model making

mixed-use tower in shenzhen

year_2014-2015 location_ shenzhen (china) scope_ international competition (winner) role_lead designer company_ptw

urban design

masterplan in western sydney

project architect research, concept masterplan, and client liaison /all-round work and client liaison rhino, grasshoper, autocad, hand sketch

city for ten million people

project architect / research, concept masterplan, and business case study /all-round work and client liaison rhino, grasshoper, autocad, hand sketch

planning proposals in sydney

project architect research, concept masterplan, and client liaison /all-round work and client liaison rhino, grasshoper, autocad, hand sketch

sports, education and public

walgett community sports center

project architect / complete project (unbuilt) design and team coordination, client liaison rhino usage, revit coordination, enscape and hand sketch

art & science school

lead designer concep design and desing development all-round work and client liaison rhino, autocad, hand sketching, 3D printing

courthouse and police station

project architect concept design report all-round work and client liaison rhino, autocad, endscape, hand sketch

griffith community sports center

project architect concept design report lead designer / work and client liaison rhino usage, autocad, model making and hand-sketching

qingpu sports center

project architect concept design report lead designer / work and client liaison rhino usage, autocad, model making and hand-sketching

huairou commercial hub

project architect concept design report lead designer / work and client liaison rhino usage, autocad, model making and hand-sketching

other ideas

san mames stadium (picture)

year_2007-2012 location_bilbao (spain) scope_completed project role_team architect / facade design, structure coordination, accesibility / company_idom/acxt, bilbao (spain) / budget_$155 million

The city of Bilbao is strongly bonded to its local football team: ‘el Athleti’. This bond is not just rhetoric and popular. It also exists at an urban level. The stadium, also known as ‘the Cathedral’, takes a central place in the city core, with its monumental presence dramatically inserted within the urban fabric. The building is the reflection of a city aspiration. The team, its celebrations and sufferings, seem to transcend the walls of the stadium to become part of the city life, as the beating heart of an industrious population with a strong personality and sense of belonging.

The idea for a new stadium tries to incorporate all this contextual and historical background to be reformulated for modern standards, and parameters. The new stadium replaces the former venue with a new structure that increases the capacity up to 52,000 spectators, prioritizing its urban condition as the main design driver. This is especially clear in elements like the internal boulevard, directly accessible at the street level, that provides a visual link with the internal space.

A big part of the design work involves the strategy for pedestrian access and the circulation throughout the building to become a rich spatial experience for all the spectators in the stadium. This aspect of the project, while functionally compliant, articulates the communication elements in coordination with the façade design to provide city visuals

groundfloor plan (access street level) floor plans L1-roof revit mode (structure)

constantine theatre

year_ 2013-2016 location_ constantine (algeria) / scope_ competition winner, executive project, construction documentation role_ project architect and team coordinator, site supervision company_ ptw architects / budget_ $150M

The site is located in a rather disintegrated and impoverished area of this old roman city of Constantine, near North African coast. Due to the lack of specific public spaces in the area or facilities near the site neighbours would spontaneously use abandoned fields around the site as playgrounds, families gathering for picnic or kids playing football in the sides of the road, or across uncontrolled fences. This activity triggered an early intent to read the urban opportunities of the theatre in a broader urban context, providing more opportunities for public amenity.

The site topography provides a dominant position with views to the South-Eastern mountains. This intent would result in a big elevated plaza that not only provides a memorable car-free arrival facing the theatre lobby but also a public space that enjoys 180º panoramic views towards the South-East mountains. This urban feature becomes the core of the site intervention articulated through a series of planes that emerge from the undulating topography and provide access from the highest level of the site, closer to the road, and cascade down to the lowest level.

The theatre features a zenith music hall for a maximum of 3,000 spectators designed as

landscape surrounding the site, with open views towards the far mountains

building picture during construction

ZENITH CONSTANTINE

the plaza: architectural expression for an elevated open space to gather and look out to the surroundings

building picture

building picture

building picture during construction

building picture during construction

building picture during construction

building picture

birmingham new street station

year_2008 / location_birmingham (uk) scope_competition finalist / role_3d modelling and physical model / company_ idom uk

The proposal keeps the existing structure while adding a skin layer that creates a new urban interface for the building. The proposal takes the train tracks as energy lines to create a linear pattern that covers the whole facility externally and internally.

The methodology serves to reclad an intricated massing while providing a new identity to the whole area. It also connects the new station with the site relevant role in UK railway network history. The proposal tries to recall metaphorically that meaning, spreading its renewed identity towards the edges of the facility and surrounding urban spaces in central Birmingham.

constantine exhibition center

year_2013 / location_constantine (algeria) / scope_competition winner role_lead designer and project responsible company_ptw architects

International competition to design an exhibition center for African countries. The congress center is conceived as a structure container that works both as an exoskeleton and provides solar protection. The interior becomes a free column flexible space that could be distributed for different configurations or uses beyond its initial purpose. Previous successful experiences (like the Watercube in Beijing) are investigated in order to propose an adaptable venue.

The building plan is a spine with a corridor that gives access to the exhibition areas in one side (plugged in by loading docks from the BOH) and to the exterior exhibition space to the opposite side. The steel structural envelope creates a sinuous dramatic profile as a backdrop for the external exhibition, intermittently lifted from the ground and creating openings that become visual connections with the internal space, as informal access to the building.

new beijing train station

PLAN ROOF (100.00m)

The new Beijing train station is designed for the future administrative capital of Chia (yet to be built) 50km away from current Beijing. The proposal consists of a structure of arcs that spans over the train tracks covering the big space of the station and celebrates travellers arriving and departing, as 19th-century stations used to do.

The structural solution comprises a series of compression arcs structurally intertwined to create the grand space. The span length demanded the use of structural elements able to cover up to 400m without columns. This is solved with a combination of 4 big compression arcs, connected with stretched cables. It creates a sense of lightness emphasised by the support points springing from the ground beyond the observer visual field inside the building.

The internal space is organized with two orthogonal axes: one determined by the train tracks and the other defined by the circulation of passengers accessing and exiting the station above. By introducing this articulation, the sense of logical and visual sequence helps to guide people on the move, walking up and down to the platforms, from the drop-off to the bridge and vice-versa.

From the beginning, it was a priority to avoid the sense of visual compartmentation common to many stations, even when featuring large scale spaces, as a way to manage travellers circulation through the facility. Instead, we introduce a structure that offers a complete vision of the whole internal space, which increases security and channels the flow passengers seamlessly through a big celebratory space.

year_2017 / location_beijing (china) scope_competition, finalist / role_lead designer and project responsible / company_ ptw architects

The station is conceived as a facility integrated in a hilly landscape. It absorbs and reinterpretates the topography of its surraundings to generate a three-dimensional geometry in the linear estrusion of the station. It creates the sense of an object contained / wrapped withing the structural fins, as an alive exoeskeleton modulated in harmony with the mountains.

astigarraga high speed train station

residential / mixed-use / hospitality

facade conceptual process

one circular quay

year_2016 / location_sydney (australia) scope_ competition / role_designer and project architect / company_ptw architects

The project program is a tower for a luxury hotel at Circular Quay. The general massing was fixed by the brief, comprising a 5 storeys podium in the corner of Pitt Street and Circular Quay and a 45 storeys tower. The program required didn’t allow for subtractions or modifications to the given massing.

kaleodoscopy of land, water and sky

The project approach tries to adopt the context as a design tool. The original idea is a building conceived as a kaleidoscope that reacts to the surroundings with an ever-changing pattern of reflections and transparencies replicating Sydney Harbour water. The site is located in a formerly flooded area that becomes filled with earth to consolidate Circular Quay with its ferry docks and the pedestrian promenade. Under the site still runs the tank stream, right at the place where the spring used to fall into the Sydney bay. These circumstances build an interesting historical background and bring the opportunity to recall it as part of the design approach. The hotel room is conceived as a sort of camera obscura that frames a panoramic view of Sydney cove as it evolves with the constant presence of the water, the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge.

A modular facade, made of shifting folded glass panels, replicates water ripples with the boats arriving and departing the quay, the light changes and the continuous activity in this Sydney location. The challenge during the design development was to prove that the concept was feasible. The resultant facade system consists of a grid of repeated modular panels with a few iterations creating a sense of variation across the facade. By doing this we optimized the cost of production and facade assembly. The constant module relates to the room unit, which also brings a good asset in regards to the interior design to offer a distinctive experience for the hotel customers.

13 VIEWS

residential tower in surfers paradise

year_2016 location_surfer paradise (australia) / scope_competition (2nd finalist) / role_lead designer and project archtitect / company_ ptw architects

An incredible site facing the pacific ocean opens the opportunity for a new tower development along Surfers Paradise foreshore promenade, the Esplanade.

The proposal is based on the constraints of the site, narrow and deep, to explore potential moves in order to maximise the quality of a premium development in a world-class touristic destination without compromising the architectural outcome.

This aspect becomes relevant as the tower emerges from the general profile of the foreshore, together with another two towers, so to be a new icon for the gold coast.

I. Maximise the number of units right in the ocean frontage, which is the most valuable part of the site

Ii. Open the building sides towards the views, by rotating the plan outwards. Inside the units, the living room and master bedroom are facing the ocean too

iii. The core is configured vertically to improve side units, reducing circulation and getting light from the rear.

iv. The tower steps in from the back upwards 3 times, articulating different plan layouts. By doing this the tower grows vertically stack up against the ocean as if contained by the line of the beach, creating a memorable frontal wedge before the water.

v. As the tower depth decreases upwards it reduces comparatively the shadow impact on the beach.

vi. The tower is protruding towards the south-east site corner, responding both to site occupation strategy, closer to the water, as wells as the predominant wind coming from that direction (20-30% occurrences).

02 DESIGN STRATEGY

OCEAN VIEWS

02 DESIGN STRATEGY

OCEAN VIEWS

OCEAN VIEWS

02 DESIGN STRATEGY

02 DESIGN STRATEGY

EXTENSION: THE BUILDING PROTRUDES TOWARDS THE WATER VIEWS: SIDE IN AGLE TO INCREASE LATERAL FACADE OCEAN VIEWS

PROTRUSION EXPANSION

02 DESIGN STRATEGY

EXPANSION

EXPANSION

OCEAN VIEWS

1. Maximize number of units right in the ocean frontage, which is the most valuable part of the site

1. Maximize number of units right in the ocean frontage, which is the most valuable part of the site

1. Maximize number of units right in the ocean frontage, which is the most valuable part of the site

2. Open the sides of the building to the views by rotating the plan outwards. Inside the units, the living room and master bedroom are facing the ocean too

2. Open the sides of the building to the views by rotating the plan outwards. Inside the units, the living room and master bedroom are facing the ocean too

2. Open the sides of the building to the views by rotating the plan outwards. Inside the units, the living room and master bedroom are facing the ocean too

3. The core is configured vertically to improve side units, reducing circulation and getting light from the rear

180 VIEWS: MAXIMUM NUMBER OF APARTMENTS WITH PANORAMIC VIEWS

VIEWS

VIEWS

3. The core is configured vertically to improve side units, reducing circulation and getting light from the rear

3. The core is configured vertically to improve side units, reducing circulation and getting light from the rear

4. The tower steps in from the back 3 times when the apartment layout changes. By doing this the ocean frontage reaches the highest point and becomes an iconic glass plane facing the ocean. This helps to build a dialogue with the most iconic buildings of the area

4. The tower steps in from the back 3 times when the apartment layout changes. By doing this the ocean frontage reaches the highest point and becomes an iconic glass plane facing the ocean. This helps to build a dialogue with the most iconic buildings of the area

4. The tower steps in from the back 3 times when the apartment layout changes. By doing this the ocean frontage reaches the highest point and becomes an iconic glass plane facing the ocean. This helps to build a dialogue with the most iconic buildings of the area

5. Three-dimensionally the tower looks like a wedge with a series of angled layers stepping down. This section allows better north sun access to the beach

PROTRUSION

PROTRUSION

1. Maximize number of units right in the ocean frontage, which is the most valuable part of the site

5. Three-dimensionally the tower looks like a wedge with a series of angled layers stepping down. This section allows better north sun access to the beach

5. Three-dimensionally the tower looks like a wedge with a series of angled layers stepping down. This section allows better north sun access to the beach

NORTHERN-EAST WIND TOWER SHAPE OPTIMIZED TO REDUCE SHADOWS IMPACT IN THE DURING THE ADFTERNOON

6. The wind on site is predominantely from Southeast, with 20-30% occurences

6. The wind on site is predominantely from Southeast, with 20-30% occurences

6. The wind on site is predominantely from Southeast, with 20-30% occurences

1. Maximize number of units right in the ocean frontage, which is the most valuable part of the site

2. Open the sides of the building to the views by rotating the plan outwards. Inside the units, the living room and master bedroom are facing the ocean too

2. Open the sides of the building to the views by rotating the plan outwards. Inside the units, the living room and master bedroom are facing the ocean too

3. The core is configured vertically to improve side units, reducing circulation and getting light from the rear

3. The core is configured vertically to improve side units, reducing circulation and getting light from the rear

4. The tower steps in rom the back 3 times when the apartment layout changes. By doing this the ocean frontage reaches the highest point and becomes an iconic glass plane facing the ocean. This helps to build a dialogue with the most iconic buildings of the area

4. The tower steps in from the back 3 times when the apartment layout changes. By doing this the ocean frontage reaches the highest point and becomes an iconic glass plane facing the ocean. This helps to build a dialogue with the most iconic buildings of the area

5. Three-dimensionally the tower looks like a wedge with a series of angled layers stepping down. This section allows better north sun access to the beach

5. Three-dimensionally the tower looks like a wedge with a series of angled layers stepping down. This section allows better north sun access to the beach

6. The wind on site is predominantely from Southeast, with 20-30% occurences

WIND

6. The wind on site is predominantely from Southeast, with 20-30% occurences

WIND

BEACH SOLAR ACCESS

BEACH SOLAR ACCESS

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84 THE ESPLANADE, SURFERS PARADISE 21.11.2016

residential tower in liverpool

year_2015-2016 / location_liverpool (australia) scope_concept design & design development role_designer / company_ptw architects

The site features a key location in the southern edge of the urban core. This location represents an opportunity to create a gateway for the city center, offering a new scale for the area next to the train station that connects Liverpool with Sydney Central Station. By taking advantage of the triangular site shape, and through the resolution of its plan, the building stands as a singular icon with a strong corner character.

The concept recalls the geometric lines of classical composition to articulate the building bulk breaking it down horizontally, as if different stone strata, to be read as three smaller blocks stacking up one on top of each other one. Following this arrangement of strata, the facade is articulated vertically in block-height angled planes that generate concavity and convexity movements around the perimeter.

This geometrical exercise accentuates a variable response to each facade, where the sharp corner is a shifting arrow with the sides waving towards the bisecting streets. During the facade design development, we designed a modular element of stretched translucent fabric that would wrap the perimeter as if skin cells. This system creates a sense of texture that emphasizes the angled facade.

pindingshan soho

year_2013-2014 / location_beijing (china) scope_ competition winner and design development / role_lead designer and project architect / company_ ptw

office tower in shenzhen year_2014-2015 / location_ shenzhen (china) / scope_ international competition (winner) / role_lead designer company_ptw

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hotel in hainan

year_2013 / location_ hainan (china) / scope_competition finalist role_project architect company_ ptw architects

The complex tries to recall an abandoned site next to the beach, behind the dunes. The concept uses the topography of a site previously used as a sand quarry, reinterpreting the site levels to create a new man-made topography, this time opening the site to the ocean. The site steps down towards the dunes allowing ocean views from the hotel building in the back, down to the two storey height villas closer to the beach.

The individual villas are part of a whole network where footpaths are overlapped with landscape, water streams and built form,

green

integration of villas into the landscape reinstating the characteristics of the site_ the proposed masterplan is configured by stepping tiers of villas, integrated into the landscapea and looking towards the ocean_ it creates a landscape panorama where architectural elements are merged into nature: green roofs, sunken driveways, water feature network and pedestrian seamless connections acroos the site leading to the beach_

villa terrace

villas layouts

urban design

year_2018 / location_hangzhou (china) / scope_concept urban planning / role_project architects / company_ ptw architects (sydney)

ten million people city Innova is a study for a future city with a population of 10 million people close to Hangzhou (China). Promoted by a giant technology corporation, the project has the ambition of creating an experimental urban setting which DNA is the ability to experiment and implement the latest and foreseeable technologies applied to urban design and people living. It is inspired by the necessity of bringing back a human vision to the cities, currently lost in many Asian fast-growing metropolis.

The research focuses on creating quality of living. Regardless of the complex myriad of possible solutions at hand, our approach to the problem can be summarised in one word: walkability. We understand there’s an intimate connection in how traditional successful cities have crystallized under this principle, almost conditioned by it, and how current urban developments have dismissed this fundamental characteristic. Innova is structured by a network of walkable districts linked through a multilayered transport network that allows for a rich hierarchy of scales and reachability.

It also takes advantage of existing water canals, proposing them as the city lung skeleton throughout the whole development, that can work as both leisure spaces and transport network. Given the ambitious size of the city, there is a concern on how to define primary aspects such as scale, visuals, block dimension, density, height, functional structure, form, connectivity, access...

The conceptual stage is approached as an opportunity of research to develop a series of key urban principles against several existing and non-existing solutions and to reflect and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of worldwide city precedents.

i. Traditional HAHA: Provides separation while maintaining singular landscape expression

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PARK FLOWS IN, AROUND AND UNDERNEATH THE BUILDINGS

PARK FLOWS IN, AROUND AND UNDERNEATH THE BUILDINGS

i. Traditional HAHA: Provides separation while maintaining singular landscape expression

ii. POND: Utilises water to separate private/public in a visually seamless way. This maintains a singular expresion across the site.

PARK FLOWS IN, AROUND AND UNDERNEATH THE BUILDINGS

iii. LANDSCAPE STEPS: Smooth transition between different heights maintains visual continuity.

ii. POND: Utilises water to separate private/public in a visually seamless way. This maintains a singular expresion across the site.

iii. LANDSCAPE STEPS: Smooth transition between different heights maintains visual continuity.

walgget youth center

year_2019 location_walgett (australia) scope_design and construction / role_lead designer and project architect company_ ajc architects

Walgett is a small town in North-West New South Wales (close to the Australian Outback) three hours away by road from any other urban center. Due to its geographic isolation and ongoing social circumstances, its community is facing numerous challenges to improve social integration and young people active development. Walgett Youth civic center is an initiative that tries to promote and work along with young individuals to nurture their self-development skills, through sport and educational activities as the main core of the program.

The project brief precludes a cost-effective, easy-to-build and low-maintenance approach leading to an efficient prototype that could potentially be replicated in other locations with minor adjustments.

The idea of simplicity and flexibility led to a self-sufficient simple building that contains all the activities within a single space, so all the areas are visually connected between them and also to the street. The sports activities form the main spine of the functional program, including a broad range of activities: basketball court, gymnastics, youth hub, cafe and gym. The lightweight partitions system allows for easy future adaptation. The building is covered by a single tilted roof projected towards the street, featuring an entry verandah that provides outdoor covered space and sun shading from the South-West. There’s a lineal skylight that washes with natural light the whole length of the main sports hall throughout the day.

science & art school

year_2020 / location_sydney (australia) / role_design lead / scope_ concept design and design development / company_ajc architects / budget_$20 million

The site is surrounded and transversed by a forest of protected gumtrees that have to be maintained. The design intent is to insert a facility consisting of science labs, art workshops and common spaces with a sensitive approach to the site conditions.

The building envelope deliberately engages with its inmmediate environment by reacting to the shapes and forms of the trees, while introducing an architectural language that conveys the same variation of texture and rigor typical of nature.

Plan and facade consistently articulate this duality: while the specialized working spaces are contained in rational volumes, the common areas and circulations surround them and create a lively skin that provides a sinouous expression in dialogue with the tree

griffith sports and community center

2018 location_griffith (australia) / scope_concept design and feasibility / role_lead designer and project architect / company_ ajc architects

The project consists in refurbishing an old basketball court in Griffith, an important town three hours flight to the West from Sydney. The old venue is part of Griffith oval adjacent to the city civic centre. The council is trying to upgrade this third rate sports facility to a basketball venue reference in the area that will help to promote well-being and social environment in an area with a high rate of youth early addictions. As a consequence of this upgrade, the city will be able to host regional games and promote cities teams.

The challenge is to maximize the possibilities of expansion by adding up to 7 basketball indoor courts attached to the old venue with and arrangement that allows for staging. The design intent tries to commit with that strategy with a modular construction system that matches the local construction language (lightweight easy-to-built) by necessity. It introduces natural ventilation strategies to minimize operational cost and maintenance and improving internal temperature performance.

courthouse for southern sydney

year_2019 / location_sydney / scope_concept design / role_project leader and designer / company_ajc architects

This is a concep proposal for a new Courthouse in the suburbs of Sydney. The site location next to the future train station creates a unique opportunity for an iconic gate that brings urban character to the main access for the town center. This special circumstance leads to a conceptual approach that articulates the project anatomy and program into two main elements:

- Single storey podium: it forms the boundary of the precinct, wrapping the main program building and setting the building interaction with the street. It shapes the movement of people around the site and how to enter the building.

- Three storey building for the main program: this building form contains the main functional program for both courthouse and police station. It’s configured as a ‘u’ shaped building where the two main arms (one for each function) are linked through a bridge that saves an internal courtyard. This separation provides space for a monitored carpark, natural light and ventilation for internal offices. The upper building protrudes over the podium towards the town center, setting an appropriate presence and scale.

The courtrooms are located in the second and third floor, enclosed in isolated boxes that separate this special program as a significant element segregated from the rest of the building, while offering long views above the entry podium. The strategic location also allows for alternative entries for different parties and differentiate different flows of people. Once in the courtroom, the wideopen windows with long views and the timber finishes provide a sense of transparency and calm to the proceeding taking place.

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banshan school

year_2022 shenzhen (china) / competition winner

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The architectural language is progression from the natural contours of the site to the building geometry that evolves from a more geometric edge carved into the mountain slope. That way we see how architecture adapts to the site without mimicking, but as a version of it, creating natural symbiosis.

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Unlike traditional school typologies, we propose teacher offices as one pavilion. Such a village-like friends, develop hobbies, and be willing to help

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城市里的 山地书院

CONCEPTUAL

BUJI STREET, SHENZHEN

SYMBIOSIS: BETWEEN

1 共生| 保留山体， 融入社区

半山学校位于石芽岭公园东南侧，是石芽岭山形的延续， 场地东北高西南地，场地内高差40m。经过对校园建筑形 态的仔细研究对比，我们认为点式的校园组团式是在尊重 自然地形的前提下，减少土方开挖，解决高差的最优解。

建筑组团依山而建，向西侧打开，在高密度的住宅区创造 出了一个隐秘的峡谷。这里的居民集中在两片主要的公用 绿化区活动，南侧的绿化带、及西侧的石芽岭公园。学校 将两侧的公共绿化区连结起来，融入场地周边建筑形态、 与居民共享人行道路，成为了与邻里共生的一部分。它是 一个校园，更是一个公园。它有着明确的建筑边界，也是 社区的一部分。

inverted architecture

year_2022 / installation for Shenzhen Biennale

Mushroom mycelium is a living structure with tremendous capabilities to survive and adapt to different environments. In the context of the 2022 Shenzhen Biennale Exhibition themed ‘More-than-human-adventure ‘, this installation aims to reflect, visualize, and learn from a living organism with such extraordinary potential for the future, using architecture as a reference technique and language. The installation uses the semantics of construction to explore potential relations between architecture and the hidden natural ecosystems, trying to dissolve the conventional separation between both realms to acknowledge and create a deliberate symbiotic collaboration.

This inverted-pyramid-shaped porous installation is a metaphor of the diversion from the traditional way of thinking about construction, using an anti-symbolic attitude to provide new angles of observation for the conditions of existence in a second nature, double functionality, or purpose: inherent and adopted, present and future, controlled and natural, growing and decaying. The primary material of the installation is a degradable and renewable ecological material: mushroom brick. It uses crop waste as the medium mixed with mushroom mycelia that grows naturally and solidifies all raw materials together to form a new one, lighter and with structural strength. It presents strong plasticity to grow into any mold, under certain conditions of temperature and humidity. Once its life as construction material ends, it can be discarded and placed in the soil for several months to complete its degradation, avoiding the ecological burden to the environment.

The exhibition site in Shenzhen is an old brewery refurbished into a semi-outdoor gallery space with a concrete frame structure. Our architectural firm has many projects completed and under construction in Shenzhen, which gives us insight and knowledge of Shenzhen’s local climate and ecology. The mushroom bricks are capable to absorb moisture from the air, suitable for mushrooms growth. In addition, a pool is set under the installation to create a humid microclimate. Although the mycelium is deactivated during the manufacturing process, we selectively cultivated some of the mycelia to grow fresh mushrooms, making the device more viable in the ecological cycle of sustainability, becoming a non-human device that evolves as an organism itself. The installation evolution shows how natural crops can flourish and replace the original cultivation to form a new natural structure.