SELECTED WORKS
HENRY MORRIS (HARRY)
PORT FOLIO
EDUCATION
SALESIAN COLLEGE CHADSTONE
PAST EMPLOYMENT
FRENCH CONNECTION
UNTED KINGDOM (FCUK)
Chadstone November 2017 - October 2019
ROYAL MELBOURNE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (RMIT
of Architectural Design
- 2024
SKILLS
- Rhino
- VRay - Adobe suite
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Photoshop - Adobe Indesign
- Grasshopper
- ZBrush
- Revit
SketchUp - Carpentry & Model Making
I am currently employed and would require at least 2 weeks notice
My time here was spent firstly organising stock, familiarising myself with due process in existing packaging and delivery systems/processes. I graduated to a split role between back of house work and sales. In this position I maintained the look and functionality of the store, ensuring it was not only approachable but enticing. I also conferred directly with customers, aiding them in their decisions and purchasing. Here I learnt skills in customer/client care, with reassurance and explanation of the product/design decisions. I worked in a smaller team here where I learnt my role within the process and made myself more useful through a hybrid role which allowed me to reduce pressure on either back or front of house.
RITCHIES SUPA IGA
Mt Waverley March 2014 - August 2016, 2020
I worked here from the ages of 15-17 and then was asked again during covid lockdowns. This job introduced me to working in a large coordinated team, my first stint here in quite a small capacity. My role was in the organising and the replenishment of stock. I increased my role within this team after gaining an understanding of the systems/processes and as such my potential role/function.
POTTERY BARN +
Chadstone November 2019 -
This is my current place of employment, I’ve worked here for 5 years in both sales and stock across multiple locations. In this job i have learnt the nuances of assisting customers in their furniture and design needs. This job has required me to keep a knowledge on hand of our product, and processes to inform and reassure customers. My role has given me the opportunity to give design advice while building a working relationship with the customers. A decent amount of responsibility has been given to me in this position having conducted sales exceeding $10,000. This job was taken in part to practice conversing with and assisting customers directly about design decisions on a somewhat architectural scale. Working in the scale of furniture not only in the context of peoples homes but in store has given me a great understanding of how to organise a space and factor in the furniture.
TAIGH BUILDERS
November 2011 -
This is my fathers business, he is a carpenter and I have been working for him since I was about 13. I have worked across the entirety of the building process on single, and double story units/ houses as well as multi storey large scale projects. I have consulted and can interperate construction documentation, have an intimate knowledge of applied construction detailing and an understanding of building process and culture. This work has also required me to solve complex problems and work in teams to complete large scale tasks.
MADDI TITTERTON
JAMES D. FISHER
FOTINI KOKLA
YOSEPH FEBRYAN
SHANNON HOARE
LAROY KOLONI
ARJUNA BENSON
Bachelors
Designed Intervention into a Melbourne multi-storey carpark
AURORA REPLICATION
A digital replication of Marc Fornes work Minima Maxima
KHAN BUBBLE TOWER
University Architecture building design and construction documentation
URBAN CAMP
A public arts proposal bringing awareness to Melbournes housing 6-25 26-29 30-43 44-49
MAXIMA
AURORA
This was the outcome of an 8 week intensive studio called Narranome, it is an intervention into an existing carpark. The studio called for an interrogation of the surrounding community and context, as well as external narrative which become a driver to 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 Vray.
“This is my design, Aurora, located on the site of the Lonsdale/Bourke Street car park. After its alteration, it now exists as a creator’s space, one that hosts areas of both expression and meaningful entertainment. This design is largely inspired by J.G. Ballard’s ‘5 Stars, Studio 5’.”
four unique experiences under one roof. Beginning with HER BAR on the ground floor, offering a Euro-leaning restaurant and bar atmosphere, the venue ascends to the MUSIC ROOM on the first level, a dedicated space for the love of sound. BKK, a fast-paced Thai BBQ canteen, occupies the third level, while the top floor is crowned by HER ROOFTOP, an open-air oasis for cocktails and music until 1 am. Created by HQ Group, known for Arbory
in 1980, this iconic space has woven itself into the fabric of Melbourne's musical history, serving as a sanctuary where generations of music enthusiasts converge to experience the magic of live performances. Steeped in over 40 years of history, 170 Russell has borne witness to the evolution of Melbourne's music culture, hosting legendary acts from Tina Turner to AC/DC and contemporary artists like The Presets and Tash Sultana. Beyond its recent refurbishment and state-of-the-art P.A. system, 170 Russell is a communal space that transcends statistics, welcoming a tapestry of musical tastes, from old and new rockers to indie darlings and metalheads. Its strategic location in the heart of Melbourne solidifies its place as a focal point for artists and fans alike. Step inside, and you'll feel the vibrant energy and shared love for music, turning 170 Russell into not just a concert hall but a living testament to Melbourne's dynamic and enduring music culture.
a fascinating paradox of the past and present.
Nestled behind
on Little Lonsdale Street, Caretakers
Total House, stands as a striking example of post-WWII modernist design and an early expression of Brutalist architecture in Victoria. Erected in 1965, it introduces bold cantilevered horizontals
CREATIVE SOURCES
La Planete Sauvage
1973
France
René Laloux
A distant planet where humans are the most subjugated species, kept as pets, toys, understood to be vermin. This is the story of one of these pets revolution against the tyrannical aliens which subjugate them facilitated through the education of the human beings. The film features strong messages in line with the issues of the time and a unique soundtrack and visual style another. It’s Inception but a few years earlier.
The Hand 1965
Czechoslovakia
Jiri Trnka
A stop motion animated film depicting an artist and his struggle against ‘the hand’ a tyrannical and oppressive power. The film is heavily tied to the experiences of the artist in Russian occupied Czechoslovakia. The feelings of dread, defeat, and futility against an oppressive power, the ways in which people controlled and contorted are the key
5 Stars, Studio 5
191
Britain
J.G Ballard
An anthology of fictional short stories set in the futuristic resort of vermillion sands
5 STARS, STUDIO 5
A story from the collection Vermillion Sands, it explores concepts of future mechanization and automation in the realm of the arts. The story unfolds in a beachside town, set in an unknown time or location featuring flying sand rays and dry coral caves. It follows the editor of a small poetry magazine who relies on automated typewriters to write. This process is widely accepted as the status quo, creating perfectly structured poems and being far more efficient than traditional poetry. However, his perfect system is disrupted by the arrival of an enigmatic and intriguing neighbour, Aurora. She inspires the editor to produce genuine poetry, but she disapproves of his reliance on machine poets. Consequently, she destroys not only his automated typewriters but all typewriters in the area. This forces the editor and his writers to return to genuine poetry, pushing them out of their sheltered lives and into the real world, all in pursuit of authentic and heartfelt art.
NARRATIVE OUTPUT
In the final stage of design I placed the characters of my central source within the context of the site, let every aspect and moral of the story leach into not only the formal composition but purpose of the resultant architecture. The buildings use as a creative hub was inspired by every aspect of the source and context. I shaped the work by, imagining the editor being chased out by an omnipresent and intervening force within his home, the car park. I portrayed him as trying to remain in the car park, his familiar abode, but his attempts were continually interrupted and his paths changed as Aurora's growing architectural force carved new pathways through and away from the car park's interior, always leading him out into the world. This transformation has resulted in multiple new spaces both inside and out, with sections of the slabs and columns removed and new pathways created.
The editor walks up the hill of the empty lot toward Lonsdale and finds himself at the entry
He
He follows the only path and finds himself spat out at little Bourke, surrounded by life and laughter, beautiful food, cars and people bustling.
He leaves his place of comfort, with its bounds now largely removed, and walks out into the world.
This location feels like the perfect setting for this concept to unfold, as people can visit the bars, restaurants, galleries, clubs, and other establishments well represented within the area and return to this creative hub to further their work with these experiences. The narrative of the building, pushing people out to live, aligns with the ideal of ‘Art influenced and inspired by experience’ held by the character Aurora. Life outside of this car park is never more than a few steps away, often within earshot, requiring little effort to leave this place and participate in the world as it exists outside of it.
Each path leads through to the street, to the life of Little Bourke, and pulls in from the late afternoon rush of Lonsdale. This porosity, with views out to the street and surrounding buildings, makes the now augmented car park a hub of the community, of Melbourne. I intend to reserve areas for bars, galleries, restaurants, studios, and workshops—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.
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.
makes it highly layered, with multiple walled pathways creating a gallery in the southern section of the building—a place for art in line with the opinions and actions of the character Aurora, who sought to expose the editor to the world in hopes of great and honest art coming from him.
The ejection of him to the outside and his subsequent path inside integrate the exterior of the building, the street, and context into the building's circulation, asserting itself as part of this context, the life, and movement of the area. The building's inclusion of the street as circulation and its near-extreme porosity create a pinch in the fabric between the two streets it opens onto. It brings life to the sometimes busy but mostly functional Lonsdale Street and creates a pathway from QV, and as such, all the streets and roads it borders
RESULTANT AREAS
This area, particularly the Lonsdale Street side, is strangely lifeless, with most people walking sternly for the tram. The life doesn’t seem to flow from Swanston to this side of Lonsdale; it’s stiff and uninspired, and his writers. Despite being centrally located near some of Melbourne’s best social venues such Section 8, and Her, it serves as the perfect place to stitch these all together with the help of Little
The new spaces created on the roof and in the empty lot are designated as bar and restaurant areas for people to meet, converse, and engage in playful antics—a melting pot of life and hopefully creation. The entry on Lonsdale is now split into east and west sections, both serving as flexible spaces that could be used for displays of public art, performance art, or any other imaginative purpose.
These areas foster providing space and occupying result from and with the newly allowing the breathe life into
sternly past the buildings or waiting uninspired, much like the editor such as Siglo, Caretakers Cottage, Little Bourke.
foster informal growth, space for congregating occupying in unique ways that and engage in a dialogue newly remade space, new structure to directly into the community.
The only significantly sized space in the car park largely untouched by Aurora has been utilized for workshops and/or studio space—a place to create and make honest art, art as a result of life.
The uppermost space of this design serves as a drawing studio, featuring a large circular window/skylight that looks up to the sky, allowing copious amounts of natural light to filter in and encouraging you to gaze upward and outward from this place. It prompts you to embrace a more simple and raw form of creation, one not aided by computers or technology, aligning further with Aurora's ideals and her handwritten poems.
DRAWING STUDIO
FLEXI SPACE WORKSHOP/ STUDIO SPACE
MINIMA MAXIMA REPLICATION
This Project was an exercise in complex topology modelling and rendering. It is a replication of Marc Fornes Pavilion Design ‘Minima Maxima’ made through Rhino SubD. It’s tiled with a Louis Sullivan inspired panel also created through SubD and tessellated using grasshopper. and finally rendered through Vray.
KAHN TOWER BUBBLE
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. 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 con- sequence. It integrates design inspirations from Louis Kahn and Frank Lloyd Wright, harmonizes 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 atmo- sphere, 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
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CLIENT INFORMATION
Phone: +61 9925 2000
Email: kenneth.wong@rmit.edu.au
Contact Address:
124 Latrobe Street, Melbourne Vic 3000
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 to create a warm and enduring ble-height spaces and mezzanines, not only pays homage to his area.
The façade features a hit-and-miss sense of privacy and quiet daylight within the building, tion 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 forcing its connection to the ing takes on the presence urban fabric.
A defining feature of the ing in the outer façade. This vironment for focused study levels.
In summary, our nine-storey integrating influences from sphere, the building fosters
https://issuu.com/henryrexmorris/docs/khan_bubble_tower?fr=sMjFhNjcyNTI1NTM
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 enduring interior. The influence of Wright s SC Johnson Tower is reflected in the use of doumezzanines, enhancing spatial connectivity. The brick façade, inspired by Kahn s circular motifs, his work but also harmonizes with the predominantly brick architecture of the surrounding
hit-and-miss brick pattern, allowing filtered natural light to penetrate while maintaining a quiet observation offering inhabitants the ability to watch while remaining unseen. To maximize building, the core is positioned along the southern boundary, ensuring deep natural light penetra-
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, reinthe university s central spine. Inspired by Kahn s fascination with Scottish brochs, the buildpresence of a watchtower its form and materiality establishing a strong visual landmark within the
design is the library, a key study space that distinguishes itself with a large, sculpted openThis intervention creates a distinct atmosphere within the building, offering an inspiring enstudy while maintaining the sense of enclosure and privacy provided by the brickwork on other
nine-storey architecture building is conceived as a space for creation, learning, and engagement. By from architectural icons, responding to its context, and prioritizing light, flexibility, and atmofosters creativity, collaboration, and meaningful interaction within the university community.
URBAN CAMP CAMP URBAN
Urban Camp was a project conceived during a one-week 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 largely hoax strategy to draw attention to these issues. 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 dialogue about these pressing societal challenges.
My proposal is called urban camp, its a work to raise awareness about homelessness, the unsustainable model of fringe housing and cost of living crisis in Victoria.
The proposal will take form in 3 main nodes, its initial stages of marketing, the following stage of occupation and finally published findings.
I’m sure that there are people better than their home, or simply experience to sleep beneath taking on a mortgage. For of empathy, for the homeless, and not largely identified with. deception but also to give thy to these people, to show this experience will be marketed seek out the rent free experience choice to essentially live like
The main subject of the proposal is an urban camp ground 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 like ‘by all the best restaurants but with the unique experience of the great outdoors’, ‘fall asleep under the stars and make your way to your favourite Cafe’ the entirety of the marketing campaign is intended to function as a sort of hoax ‘the unique experience’ being not that unique at all. This came about as a result of the opinions some people have of the homeless in Melbourne, that their homelessness is a choice. I wanted to highlight the almost exclusively negative connotations of this, and see how many people I could trick into agreeing with this ‘choice’ by simply marketing it, highlighting all that’s great about living on the street.
This idea came about in part orous camping, and other rooftop populated with Airstream interiors.
The main external influence you choose to live in your car ‘living in your car’ essentially homelessness. More directly on the corner of Victoria and communal gathering space less. This area appeared to I could see, potentially a result them. The space evolved into community gather as a result and living day to day as opposed attempts to kind of replicate
people who choose homelessness as the street is simply because they wish to have the ‘unique beneath the stars and by the high rises’ as opposed to some I believe there is a lack of understanding, homeless, that the homeless are often viewed as ‘other’, with. The idea of this hoax is twofold, in part as a some semblance of understanding and empashow that it’s not unjustifiable. I think the fact that marketed as free will further this point, people will experience of living in the city, not knowing their own like the homeless.
part as a result of the uptick in glamping or glamaccommodations such as Hotel No, a Melbourne Airstream caravans fitted out with new luxurious
influence being the concept of ‘Van Life’ a lifestyle where car and go from place to place, but it’s not called essentially the reframing or rebranding of a version of directly it was the result of a homeless encampment and Therry Street, this had originally been built as a space and garden but is now populated by the hometo have cultivated a good community from what result of the amenity and comfort provided for into a version of its original intent, a space where result of the amenity provided, just now for sleeping opposed to sitting for lunch or studying. This work replicate this shift or change.
I cannot be sure but would expect that the marketed intent of the ‘Urban Camp’ would only last so long, if at all before dedicated urban campers moved in. While I would like to believe that tourists and locals could cohabitate, with no overwatch or security I feel that one group would likely take over the space, and the more dedicated typically win. The homeless already inhabit the space and I can see why, it’s a quiet, cool, peaceful area with park benches, shade, a toilet block just adjacent for the day and a 24 hour McDonalds down the road for any other time. These aspects will be advertised in the marketing too, a means to provide a more in depth understanding of the homeless. The potential take over of the urban camp would then stand as an occupation.
interweaving single beds framework
Seating/shade with draped netting for seating
Seating and table
Camping Platform potentially with vented heaating for tents to be set up on top of
Double Bed with platform and aboe storage
Kitchenette with simple sink and storage
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 allow some form of sprawl, to give freedom to those occupying and not have them feel commodified or used, but as active contributors in the process. These pieces will actually 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 bedframes, tent platforms, seating, shading systems and tables. All means to create a home. The use of building materials from demolished homes that would otherwise be sent to landfill is also a commentary on Victorias unsustainable fringe housing model. One which develops areas with poorly built housing at a ridiculous mark up and seemingly intended to last for only a few decades before being demolished and put into landfill. Housing which moves people further and further from the city and areas of business while providing less and less infrastructure, making it harder and more expensive to work, while providing less and less downtime.
As part of that initial marketing leave reviews and complain. with new explanation of the finally as a way to bring issues people, while also providing issue to the forefront, such the question in light of complaints
Upon the shutting down of melbourne. These pieces an invitation to the people
This location was chosen in part because the Queen Victoria Market was once the living and breathing heart of the city, it held an imperative practical purpose, it now exists more as an area for excursion, a tourist attraction. This work will bring purpose in the form of shelter back to the space but also provide an audience to the public artwork. 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 forth to the publics eye and I’m almost sure that it would be shut down with little work on the problem of housing these people ‘if not here, then where?’. I would propose that this installation would have no advertised end date but be given a slot of at least a month. I believe that enough upset would have been caused within that time to have made an impact.
Public art is universal, invites exactly what this work does. es population in their mindset public, it does so not through indisputable truth. The work to the homeless. There is after its conclusion. The work issue forth, highlighting the to integrate the work and ture.
marketing stage a website would be set up to inform the people of ‘Urban Camp’ and room would be given to complain. At a certain point after the closing of the installation these complaints would be shown on the website the work and its original intent as a useful piece of infrastructure, a means to foster or locate community and issues forward. As a protest to the current housing and cost of living crisis, giving voice to people with the providing actual help to them. An explanation would be given that the entirety of this work was put forth to bring the such that it can’t be ignored. Each complaint would be responded to with this newly revealed intention and pose complaints ‘what is our role in fixing this’, Is it just to complain without a proposed solution?
of this project the furniture pieces would be donated to restaurants and other establishments throughout being moved from the community of homeless to the establishments throughout melbourne would serve as people now intimately familiar with the furniture. Allowing them to feel comfortable in these places.
invites all without pretension, facilitates change planting seeds either physical or in the form of ideas and that’s does. It reframes homelessness changing the way its thought of and potentially putting members of the housmindset giving some understanding and potentially inciting empathy. The work brings a current issue to the through symbolism or any other subversive means but with the presence of the people affected, showcasing an work provides a direct action toward the subject it tries to bring awareness to, providing comfort and shelter meaning imbued in every aspect of the work, its conception, production, existence, its reception and its life work seeks to both disrupt and harmonise, providing an understanding of a marginalised group, bringing an the issues and showcasing the response while questioning ‘what is our role in fixing this’, and then going on hopefully the activism into the larger community of Melbourne planting seeds of change in the form of furni-
HENRY REX MORRIS (HARRY)