- Gained hands-on experience across the full building process, from residential to large-scale multi-story projects
- Interpreted construction documentation and applied detailed knowledge of construction practices
- Developed a deep understanding of building processes, details, and construction culture
- Solved complex construction problems and collaborated in teams to complete tasks
- Worked alongside a range of trades and professionals, enhancing teamwork and communication skills
FRENCH CONNECTION UNTED KINGDOM (FCUK)
Chadstone November 2017 - October 2019
- Organisation and replenishment of stock
- Customer Service
- Design Advice and Reassurance
- Organisational skills
- Learnt to work effectively in a smaller team
RITCHIES SUPA IGA
Mt Waverley March 2014 - August 2016, 2020
- Organisation and replenishment of stock
- Organisational Skills - Efficiency
- Working in a large coordinated team
POTTERY BARN +
Chadstone November 2019 -
- Provided Interior Design Advice
- Customer Service and reassurance on $5-20,000 purchases
- Client communication and design consultation on an architectural scale
- Understanding of scale in relation to furniture
REFERENCES
LAROY KOLONI
MADDI TITTERTON
ARJUNA BENSON
JAMES D. FISHER SHANNON HOARE
AURORA
Designed intervention into a Melbourne multi-storey carpark
6 - 21
REPLICATION
This was the outcome of an 8-week intensive studio called Narranome. It is an intervention into an existing car park. The studio called for an interrogation of the surrounding community and context, as well as an external narrative which became a driver of the design. This intervention is made up of aggregated components made through Rhino SubD and aggregated through Grasshopper. This Rhino model was then sculpted and coloured through ZBrush and finally rendered in V-Ray.
Subject: Narranome
Tutor: Hesam Mohamed
Level: 6
Score : HD
AURORA
AURORA
Aurora is a creators' space, one that hosts areas of both expression and meaningful enlightenment. The project is an alteration of the Lonsdale/ Bourke Street car park, and seeks to inspire creativity by stitching the city together at what feels like both its centre and dividing point.
The form was found through three consecutive processes: the first being a narrative-driven growth of the intervention onto the subject, the second being the augmentation of form to both fit and shape user experience in line with the story, and the third being the aggregation of form through Grasshopper and dramatization through ZBrush.
Inspired by the story 5 Stars Studio 5 from the sci-fi anthology Vermilion Sands, a pivotal piece of mid-century literature, the project takes on themes of free and genuine creation against an ordered system, with a constant struggle between the two in the form of a rigid, functional car park and a growing, reactive intervening force.
The story follows the editor of a small poetry magazine with a system of automated typewriters. This perfect system is disrupted by the arrival
of an enigmatic neighbour, Aurora, who inspires him to produce genuine poetry. Her methods of swaying him are brash, to the point, and all the actions of an impassioned individual. He is simultaneously inspired and terrified, pushed out of a sheltered life and into the real world, all in pursuit of authentic and heartfelt creation
Every aspect and moral of the story leached into not only the formal composition but purpose of the resultant architecture.
The character of Aurora took form as an architecturalIntervening force, creating a series of compressive and expansive spaces evoking feelings of dread, uncertainty and hope, with pockets of peaceful bliss and enlightenment.
Narrative development here
The Placement within the city makes this building the perfect stitch. Where lonsdale cuts the city, this stitches it back together. 'Porosity and surrounding context, a boundless vessel for creativity'
Despite being centrally located near some of Melbourne’s best social venues, such as Siglo, Caretaker’s Cottage, Section 8, and Her, it serves as the perfect place to stitch these all together with the help of Little Bourke.
This porosity, with views out to the street and surrounding buildings, makes the now augmented car park a hub of the community, of Melbourne. With areas reserved for bars, galleries, restaurants, studios, and workshops, it provides a means to both live and create, but with a highly designed means of leaving. It projects you out into the world, inviting you to explore and navigate Melbourne.
Each path leads through to the street, to the life of Little Bourke, and pulls in from the late afternoon rush of Lonsdale.
If you wish, you could work until 12 AM in a workshop or studio and find yourself walking out to Stalactites up the road, experiencing the loud, drunk groups discussing all they had done before they got there. You could step into a bar and find yourself spat out on Little Bourke hours later, being pushed into the next stage of your night, of your story.
complex modelling rendering. is of pavilion
Minima made Rhino tiled Louis inspired also through tessellated Grasshopper, finally through
This project is exercise in complex topology modelling and rendering. It a replication Marc Fornes' pavilion design Minima Maxima, made through Rhino SubD. It’s tiled with a Louis Sullivaninspired panel, also created through SubD and tessellated using Grasshopper, and finally rendered through V-Ray.
Subject : Communications 3
Tutor : Marc W Gibson
: Level 3
This project is an exercise in complex topology modelling as well as rendering. It is a replication of Marc Fornes' pavilion design Minima Maxima, made through Rhino.
Marc Fornes' Minima Maxima is unique as it consists of only one surface. With a consistent thickness of 6mm, its rigidity and structure are found only through its abstract form, which folds back on itself, into itself, and bridges connections through itself while still maintaining a single surface.
The replication of this specific topology was complex in itself, with no flat surface or clear starting point, and complex junctions that are all part of and within the same surface. The project manages to be both enclosed and entirely exposed, with no inside or outside—just sides on a surface
COMPOSITION
MINIMA MAXIMA
This complex topology was then rendered, tessellated with a selfdesigned tile inspired by Louis Sullivan s panels of ornament, and with the intention of creating something in line with Emanuel Sayrach s interiors.
The intricacy and style of Sullivan s work were combined with the depth and layering of Sayrach s to create a design of overlapping and interweaving patterns. This reads less as an array of tiles and more as the interaction of continual components, weaving in and out of one another across and in kind with its base surface.
(This was then simplified such that the computer wouldn t set itself on fire.)
A multi-storey university building designed entirely in accordance with Australian codes and standards, with full construction documentation. A group project to learn/showcase our technical skills. Subject : Tech 4
Tutor : Kenneth Wong
KAHN TOWER BUBBLE
On the corner of Bouverie and Queensberry Street, our 9-storey architecture building serves as a premier creation space, inviting individuals to observe, absorb, and create with consequence. It integrates design inspirations from Louis Kahn and Frank Lloyd Wright, harmonises with the surrounding context, and establishes a strong connection with RMIT’s overall campus. With its flexible spaces, publicly accessible areas, and thoughtful attention to light and atmosphere, the building aims to inspire creativity, collaboration, and meaningful engagement within the university community.
My responsibilities were in concept development, ensuring everything was designed in accordance with the applicable NCC and Australian Standards, the entirety of the construction details, as well as bathroom planning and documentation.
Site Address: 81 Bouverie Street, Carlton Vic 3053
LOCATION, SITE AND EXISTING CONDITIONS
Building:
The site is 81 Bouverie Street, Carlton Vic 3053. It is currently occupied by a 2 storey vacant building that was previously a Tyrepower
The site measures 23.4 meters along the West to East perimeter and 19.8 meters along the North to South perimeter
Surrounds:
The building to the north across Queensbury Street is constructed from a mix of brick and concrete, to the east is a scape building with a multicoloured façade. Majority of the surrounding buildings are brick, concrete or some other form of masonry.
There are gumtrees running down the centre of Bouverie and Queensbury street. The area is quiet with most traffic on Queensbury. A cafe in the building to the west, and another to the south.
PROJECT/NEW BUILDING
Typology:
A new RMIT University Architecture Hub is to be designed for the site
Users:
The intended users are both students and Staff with amenity to be provided for both. Students ranging from first year through to PHD and more of a focus on tutors with a direct interaction with students, and creative roles
Architectural Programme: The building should serve as a an all encompassing university architecture building and provide all the amenity necessary A library to house architecture books, specifically Peter Corrigan s Recently Donated Personal Library Lecture Theatres, for smaller groups of roughly 50-100 persons, a minimum of two to allow for multiple lectures at once Creative/collaborative Office space for tutors. Designed for moderation of work, collaboration in creation between multiple groups. Areas for exhibition of students, tutors and professionals work Kiosk/Café Space Bike storage
KHAN BUBBLE
Our design for RMIT s new Frank Lloyd Wright, while
Drawing from Kahn s Exeter create a warm and enduring height spaces and mezzanines, only pays homage to his work
The façade features a hit-and-miss a sense of privacy and quiet maximize daylight within the penetration into key spaces.
At the ground level, a publicly their work, engage with professional to serve both students and needs—whether for collaboration
Positioned at the northeastern reinforcing its connection building takes on the presence the urban fabric.
A defining feature of the opening in the outer façade. environment for focused study other levels.
In summary, our nine-storey By integrating influences atmosphere, the building fosters
BUBBLE TOWER
new architecture building draws inspiration from architectural masters such as Louis Kahn and also responding to its surrounding urban context.
Exeter Library, we incorporated a material palette of concrete and native blackbutt timber to enduring interior. The influence of Wright s SC Johnson Tower is reflected in the use of doublemezzanines, enhancing spatial connectivity. The brick façade, inspired by Kahn s circular motifs, not work but also harmonizes with the predominantly brick architecture of the surrounding area.
hit-and-miss brick pattern, allowing filtered natural light to penetrate while maintaining quiet observation—offering inhabitants the ability to watch while remaining unseen. To the building, the core is positioned along the southern boundary, ensuring deep natural light spaces.
publicly accessible café and exhibition space provide opportunities for students to showcase professional exhibitions, and witness the real-world impact of architectural design. Designed and faculty, the building offers flexible learning and workspaces that adapt to different collaboration or independent study.
northeastern corner of RMIT s City Campus, the building is aligned parallel to Swanston Street, to the university s central spine. Inspired by Kahn s fascination with Scottish brochs, the presence of a watchtower—its form and materiality establishing a strong visual landmark within
design is the library, a key study space that distinguishes itself with a large, sculpted façade. This intervention creates a distinct atmosphere within the building, offering an inspiring study while maintaining the sense of enclosure and privacy provided by the brickwork on
nine-storey architecture building is conceived as a space for creation, learning, and engagement. from architectural icons, responding to its context, and prioritizing light, flexibility, and fosters creativity, collaboration, and meaningful interaction within the university community.
Urban Camp was a project conceived during a oneweek intensive elective and is aimed at raising awareness about homelessness, the unsustainable fringe housing model, and the cost of living crisis in Victoria. It employs a hoax strategy wherein the general public are invited to ‘sleep beneath the stars, surrounded by Melbourne’s high rises.’
Subject : Public Arts Elective
Tutor : Zan Griffiths
Level : 5
Score : HD
URBAN CAMP CAMP URBAN
The proposal consists of three main phases: initial marketing, occupation, and publication of findings. Central to the project is an urban campground situated at Queen Victoria Market Testing Grounds. The camp features designed furniture and infrastructure made from building waste, providing movable pieces and shading to offer agency to the homeless. This initiative serves as both a commentary on Victoria’s unsustainable housing model and a means to engage the public in a dialogue about these pressing societal challenges.
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(C)
(D)
(F) (G)
(H)
The main subject of the proposal is an urban campground located on the site. This campground will be marketed as ‘Urban Camp,’ a fun installation/event located in the city for the ‘unique’ experience of camping under the stars and by the high rises. With marketing such as ‘by all the best restaurants, but with the unique experience of the great outdoors,’ and ‘fall asleep under the stars and make your way to your favourite café,’ the entirety of the marketing campaign is intended to function as a sort of hoax—’the unique experience’ being not that unique at all.
The area would be populated with movable pieces of furniture, shading, and infrastructure, in part as a means to give agency to the homeless. Allowing them to be the creators and to enable some form of sprawl, giving freedom to those occupying the space without making them feel commodified or used, but as active contributors to the process. These pieces will be built from building waste, collected from demolition companies over the span of a year and formed into individual pieces for the site, such as raised bed frames (F, H), heated tent platforms (A), seating (B, C, D, G), kitchenettes (E), and tables (C). These demolished materials would highlight the unsustainable fringe housing model and the excessive consumption and waste created, not only in construction.
The idea of this hoax is twofold, in part as a deception, but also to give some semblance of understanding and empathy to these people, to show that it’s not unjustifiable. I think the fact that this experience will be marketed as free will further this point. People will seek out the rent-free experience of living in the city, not knowing that their own choice to essentially live like the homeless is part of the experience.
(B)
NAME : E-MAIL :
NATURE OF COMPLAINT :
LIVING OUTSIDE
DATE :
I’m sure that there will be various objections and complaints against this work, particularly from those who came to the city for the marketed ‘urban camp.’ With enough protest, the encampment would surely be shut down as a result. The issues would be brought to the public’s eye, and I’m almost sure it would be shut down with little work done on the problem of housing these people—‘if not here, then where?’
Upon the shutting down of this project, the complaints would be published, and the furniture pieces would be donated to restaurants and other establishments throughout Melbourne. The complaints would be shown alongside a new explanation of the work and its original intent as a useful piece of infrastructure, a means to foster or locate community, and finally as a way to bring issues forward. These pieces, moved from the community of the homeless to establishments throughout Melbourne, would serve as an invitation to the people now intimately familiar with the furniture, allowing them to feel comfortable in these places.
residential Located features by its other such byker goes beyond shelter community a focus mitigate of people in public in conjunction of residence, fits all is designed types cross groups, leaders Each designed in mind.
Line is a multi Storey residential social housing design, Located in Carlton Victoria. It features 11 residences inspired surrounding context and social housing examples as the barbican and estates. The building beyond merely serving as shelter and its purpose lies in community and lifestyle. Theres focus on choice, a means to mitigate the commodification people that is often found public housing and this goes conjunction with specificity residence, not a ones size all approach. The housing designed to house multiple of residents to create pollination of different groups, putting pupils and leaders together in one place. apartment and level is designed with a certain lifestyle mind.
: Studio (Parti-Line)
Anna Jankovic
THE LINE
The bottom apartments are 2 storeys and take the form of a singular family dwelling akin to that of the terrace houses throughout the surrounding area.
The level 3 apartments are luxury 3 bedroom apartments designed for couples and retirees, these are more secluded with personal balconies and a small porch area in the communal stairwell
The level 4 apartments are flexible apartments with 2-3 bedrooms defined by operable walls.
The level 5 apartments are a variation on the below set.
These are spaces designed to grow with their occupants, they share a communal balcony, with the kitchens of each of them opening up onto it to create a sort of backyard with views out to the park to incite it and the balconies use, to incite integration between occupants
Level 6 features 2 apartment types, the sizable family home, with roof, eves and all and 3 studio apartments directly behind. The sharing of space between students and families, the houses open to one another, sharing a yard area and creating a connection between the two households.
The project comprises a multifunctional complex featuring a school to the East with offices above, retail spaces in the podium to the West, and hotel/residential towers atop the retail section. The design concept revolves around creating dynamic and interactive spaces in a vertical school and podium structure. The school’s layout encourages exploration and imagination, with operable walls, flowing forms, and open classrooms. The ground floor features multi-use areas accessible to students outside of class time, while higher levels over more traditional learning spaces. The podium, contrasting with the school, aims to integrate with the city, with the hotel entrance at ground level and apartments accessed via steps connecting to street-level activity. The design emphasizes connectivity with
STREET SCHOOL SPRING
The Hotel/Residential Towers share Facilities and are accessed largely from the northwest side. The podium is entered through this corner, fed by the busy Hoddle grid.
The school and offices are located to the east on the more secluded Wellington Parade, a safer pickup and drop off zone, a quieter area to teach and work, no need for excessive exposure and convenience to the public.
The schools layout encourages exploration and imagination. The school is entered through a stair to the south which leads to the mouth of a Richard serra like form , this form flows over and into the school with twists and turns which break the visual connection between the inside and the outside
The school consists of 5 levels, with predominantly flexible/non traditional learning areas on the lower levels which also double as a free use areas during non class times, a way of economising space and providing a unique learning environment.
In this section of the building the levels blead into one another, with informal lecture theatres, playgrounds and multilevel elements such as the temple style classrooms creating non traditional or predictable means of circulation. The continually accessible library is integrated into this circulation to encourage its use, a lot of the walls are made operable to blend the distinction between inside and outside, such that the time for learning be always.
This building is designed as path and experience more than anything else, with sections inciting curiosity, asking you to explore and others making it different from expectation, a true exploration of areas with varying purpose, intent and atmosphere. The building provides multiple types of spaces and gives freedom to both the teachers and students to experiment and explore.
This design is an aquatic centre located at 31 Surrey Drive, Box Hill, developed as part of a group project focused on creating a buildable and environmentally responsive outcome. The design features a catenary roof inspired by Frei Otto, using a combination of steel and partial timber construction. Solar panels are optimally positioned for sun exposure, and rainwater is harvested through integrated tanks.
My focus within the group was on connection detailing, construction documentation, material selection, and research into building services to support overall building performance.
Subject :Technology 3
Tutor : Babak Kahvazadeh
Level : 4
Score : HD
Over A decade of Carpentry Experience
My father is a carpenter, as was his own. I started working in carpentry from the age of about 12, having helped stand my first roof at 14. A lot of my work has been on residential and retirement homes, as well as some large 3-4 storey projects. I’ve worked across the entirety of the building stages, reading plans to mark out slabs, standing frames, straightening walls, and finally hanging doors and shooting off skirting. I’ve gained a holistic understanding of and familiarity with the building process, one that allows me to foresee and solve problems as well as take opportunities others mightn’t.
My approach extends beyond merely aesthetic or philosophical design principles and into practical application, allowing me to work off of and take advantage of real world constraints. I have an interest in and love to figure out exactly how to make things fit together for the desired outcome and while designing I often think of feasibility as part of concept development. I think about feasibility not just in terms of whether something can be done, but whether it can be done well. Considering things like budget, time, and legislative constraints, making sure the building is the best it can be within its context. My experience in construction has given me familiarity with sequencing and timelines, how to save money, complete tasks efficiently and utilise the construction process as a design tool.
I have an acute understanding of construction terminology and documentation, I understand what documentation is needed and when, to communicate the design clearly. Having this knowledge base I work well solving problems on the fly and know how to conduct research to best solve those problems. I love my work as a carpenter, the number of buildings I’ve had a hand in completing, I love when things go together just right and look amazing when it’s done, my focus has always been on creating amazing buildings.
