Architecture Portfolio - Indra Liusuari - 2025

2025

AU

INDRA LIUSUARI M.ARCH | B.FA[HONS] | B.ARCH CONTENTS CURRICULUM VITAE BUILT PROJECTS ARCHITECTURAL THESIS DIE HÖHLE XXX LOFTWOHNUNG PROFILE

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INDRA LIUSUARI

indraliusuari.com @indraliusuari

EDUCATION

2023 - 2024 Master of Architecture (Distinction)

RMIT University – School of Architecture and Urban Design 2022 Bachelor of Fine Arts (First Class Honours)

RMIT University – School of Art 2019 - 2021 Bachelor of Architectural Design

Monash University – Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture 2018 Diploma of Art and Design Monash College

LANGUAGES

SKILLS Industry experience in: Rhino 3D, Unreal Engine, Illustrator, and Premiere Pro CAD/BIM – Rhino 3D, AutoCad, Sketchup, Revit Adobe Suite – Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Indesign, Photoshop, Lightroom Visualisation – Unreal Engine, Rhino Render

English [Superior] Bahasa Indonesia Bahasa Melayu Mandarin [Basic]

Documentation – Four years of experience in project documentation and 3D rendering Video Production – Proficiency in filmmaking, editing & storytelling Proposal Writing – Expertise in writing project proposals Communication – Expertise in visual, verbal & digital communication Time Management – Planning, scheduling & balancing jobs

AWARDS 2022 2022 2022

ACHIEVEMENTS • • •

RMIT Cultural Visions Grant Liquid Architecture Graduate Prize Vice-Chancellor’s List for Academic Excellence

Selected participant in Melbourne Design Week: HARD (2023) by invitation and Echoes of Arrival (2024) via successful proposal.

Selected for three international exhibitions in Berlin across two galleries: Schwules Museum (2024– ongoing, as featured on Berlin’s official tourism website visitBerlin.de), Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien (2023), and a film screening with a talk at Sinema Transtopia (2023).

Finalist in Non Architecture’s Waterless World Competition (2021).

ARCHITECTURE EXPERIENCE

2024 Co-Designer and Lead Project Manager, Echoes of Arrival FEB–JUN Melbourne Design Week – with Asish Mohapatra and Alex Patawaran • • • •

Initiated and submitted the successful exhibition proposal to National Gallery of Victoria, securing a slot in the heavily-curated Melbourne Design Week 2024.

Assembled and led a multidisciplinary team of collaborators; managing timelines, task delegation, and production needs from concept to delivery.

Acted as the primary point of contact with NGV’s public programs team, coordinating all communications, logistics, and project requirements.

Produced fabrication strategies, installation plans, and design documentation for the Melbourne Design Week satellite program within tight scheduling and spatial constrains.

2024 Architectural Assistant JUL-NOV RMIT University – with Lauren Garner • • •

Contributed to exhibition curation and spatial layout for 2024 End of Year Major Project Exhibition.

Contributed to the printed thesis catalogue design, balancing editorial design and production constraints.

Coordinated design elements with academic staff and students, ensuring consistency across the exhibition.

2023 Architectural Assistant RMIT University – with Prof. Tomislav Kovac

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Contributed to cataloguing of the 17th and 18th Venice Architecture Biennale’s CityX Virtual Pavilion.

Developed workflows for digital archiving, aligning with international design curation standards.

Gained exposure to global design discourse and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

SELF EMPLOYED EXPERIENCE 2021 - Present

Interdisciplinary Visual Artist •

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Exhibited projects and while working closely with curators and institutions in prominent Australian events and international galleries, including Melbourne Design Week, Berlin’s Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, and Schwules Museum.

Invited to speak as a panelist and guest speaker in public programs, including symposiums and Q&A sessions connected to exhibitions and screenings in Australia and Germany.

Designed and developed spatially-driven conceptual briefs into fully realised projects exhibited in gallery and festival contexts, often managing tight budgets and timelines.

Cultivated and maintained a broad network within the independent arts sector in Melbourne and Berlin, collaborating flexibly in interdisciplinary approaches with diverse artists, designers, and institutions to bring projects to life.

Select Exhibitions : 2024 – 2025 Young Birds from Strange Mountains Schwules Museum | Berlin, DE 2024 Future Anterior PHOTO2024 | Melbourne, AU 2023 Viewing Copy Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien | Berlin, DE 2023 Unison West Space | Melbourne, AU 2023 HARD

Melbourne Design Week | Melbourne, AU

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT • • • • • •

Panellist – West Space “Unison” Symposium Invited Speaker – Sinema Transtopia (Berlin, DE) Guest Critic – RMIT Architecture Level 6 Reviews Guest Critic – Monash Spatial Design Year 2 Reviews Student Representative – Monash Architecture Bachelor Studios Committee Member – Monash Art, Design, and Architecture Student Society

ECHOES OF ARRIVAL BUILT PROJECT Year Event

2024 Melbourne Design Week

Collaborators

Asish Mohapatra & Alex Patawaran

Budget

$3500

Echoes of Arrival weaves the narratives of three individuals from the South and Southeast Asian diaspora navigating Melbourne's "post"-colonial society that exploits Brown bodies in contemporary industries under the guise of multiculturalism. Through guerilla architecture deriving from vernacular South and Southeast Asian construction methods, Echoes of Arrival reveals the relationship between assimilation as a means of survival, freedom, and policing of expression.

ECHOES OF ARRIVAL

MELBOURNE DESIGN WEEK 2024

SKETCHES COURTESY OF ALEX PATAWARAN

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DOCUMENTATION

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MELBOURNE DESIGN WEEK 2024

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DOCUMENTATION

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U.W.B. BUILT PROJECT Year Location

2022, replicated in 2024 Schwules Museum—Berlin, DE

Medium

One channel video, plywood (1200 x 3000 x 14), acrylic paint, steel, tape

Budget

Grant of $3000, with an additional international artist's fee of €600

Replica in Berlin. Documentation courtesy of Hai Nam Nguyen and Chi Phan

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U.W.B.

SCHWULES MUSEUM

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REPLICATION GUIDE DOCUMENT

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ARCHITECTURAL THESIS Year School

2024 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Supervisor

Laura Bailey

Void Pulse is an architectural manifestation of the intersection among queer nightlife, techno culture, and Béton Brut.

Informed by eclectic architectural styles, the project reimagines techno nightclub typologies – emerging as a mythologised refuge of pulsating beats soaring within the Southern Celestial Hemisphere. This project responds to the absence of subcultures intersecting with Brutalist architecture in Australia – and therefore derives itself from the radical clubbing scenes of Berlin and former Eastern Bloc capitals. Layered semiotics embedded within the tectonics of this speculative project enable Void Pulse to embody both defiance and sanctuary. Opposing itself to reclaiming pre-existing architectures or attempting to create a “new” architecture, the project engages in the process of “recasting” recognisable architectural forms that exist in Australia. These familiar elements are adapted to encapsulate ideologies of escapism, sanctuary, and resistance. Each space is sonically and atmospherically tuned, providing ritualistic experiences that offer a euphoric escape from the confines of conventional society. Fundamentally, Void Pulse stands as a testament to the transformative power of architecture to create spaces that celebrate the complexities of identity, community, and resistance – inviting all to transcend conventional confines and ascend into a space where euphoria and resilience converge.

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VOID PULSE

The project rises as a floating citadel in the sky—a temple of nocturnal rites composed of four dreamlike chambers, each echoing the language of the nightclub. At its core lies the Pulsekeep, the thrumming heart of light and movement where the human experience reaches its peak through four-on-the-floor music. To the north drifts the Traumaltar, a shadowed sanctum for intimacy and trance. Flanking the Pulsekeep are spaces of respite: to the east, the Allevisca, a zone where bodies and minds find soft release; and to the west, the Victuaris, a chamber of conversation and quiet indulgence—an echo of Berghain’s Eisbar. Together, they form a celestial circuit: ritual, release, and return.

THESIS PROJECT

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SITE MAP

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VOID PULSE

FIG. 1. TECTOPRINT: CONVEYANCE Access to the Citadel is granted through an Ascender that departs from Conveyances—monolithic terrestrial vessels where a laundrochamber hums beside a metallic bar, with a miniature Allevisca murmuring solace in steam and shadow.

FIG. 2. TECTOPRINT: CONVEYANCE

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CONVEYANCE

FIG. 3. SPECTAGRAPH: CONVEYANCE

FIG. 4. SPECTAGRAPH: LAUNDROCHAMBER

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VOID PULSE

PULSEKEEP The pulsating core of the citadel where the the main dancefloor, the Nave of Euphoria, provides a ritual of bodies colliding under sonic eclipses.

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PULSEKEEP

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PULSEKEEP

Nave of Euphoria in the Pulsekeep

The bar in the Pulsekeep

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TRAUMALTAR

TRAUMALTAR The shadowed sanctuary to the north of the Pulsekeep, tuned to slower pulses and private rhythms.

The Traumaltar provides a space of intimacy, trance, and reverie.

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VOID PULSE

VICTUARIS A chamber of slow conversation and quiet indulgence, where ice cream can be directly scooped from the tables and refreshments are dispensed via automatieks.

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VICTUARIS

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DIE HÖHLE MASTER PROJECT Year School

2024 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Studio

Lifework

Die Höhle is a provocative apartment complex in Brunswick that defies most of the crucial codes on the Victorian Apartment Design Guidelines to reflect and exaggerate the gritty, exclusive lifestyle of Melbourne’s inner-north creative scene. Drawing inspiration from Berlin’s hedonistic subcultures and industrial aesthetics, the project features neo-brutalist elements, unexpected structural interventions, and communal spaces that foster social gatherings. While it markets itself as an inclusive housing complex, its aggressive, begrimed, and eyesore-ish features subtly signal to an exclusive demographic of trendy, party-driven residents through specific spatial language and cultural cues. With ground-floor tenancies including a rave-friendly wine bar, Die Höhle ultimately satirises the performative community ethos of its milieu, acting as an exaggerated celebration of the lifestyle’s exclusivity and hedonistic allure through architecture.

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MARKETING BROCHURES PROMOTING THE APARTMENT COMPLEX AND ITS LAUNCH PARTY

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APARTMENT MARKETING BROCHURE

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DIE HÖHLE

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SITE AXONOMETRIC

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DIE HÖHLE

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

SITE SECTION

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SITE DRAWINGS

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DIE HÖHLE

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PRINCIPAL GROUND FLOOR TENANCY

INTERIOR VISUALISATIONS

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DIE HÖHLE

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APARTMENT UNITS

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DIE HÖHLE

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APARTMENT UNITS

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600

DIE HÖHLE

F5.6

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APARTMENT UNITS

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XXX LOFTWOHNUNG MASTER PROJECT Year School

2024 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Studio

Lifework

The XXX Loftwohnung is a speculative domestic sanctuary designed for a fictional Berlin-based, Indonesian-born artist and escort named Moses, whose life is a seamless blur of techno, sex, and personal performance. Located within a power plant apartment conversion, the loft mirrors the industrial aesthetics and sexual openness of Berlin’s club scene through its open-plan layout, exposed materials, and spatial hierarchy based on Moses’ rituals and social circles. Moses, known for his brooding persona and services, lives a life of curated detachment—visibly stripped of cultural roots, yet architecturally framed for voyeurism and indulgence. Key features like the Urospatium (a two-level golden shower chamber), semiopen bathroom (viewable for a fee), and a playroom with only partial privacy emphasize the project's aim to blur the lines between public and private, labor and pleasure. XXX Loftwohnung challenges the sanitisation of sexuality in domestic design while celebrating the unapologetically perverse and performative lifestyles of urban hedonism.

Client's Lifestyle Diagram

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XXX LOFTWOHNUNG

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SECTION DRAWING AND INTERIOR VISUALISATION

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XXX LOFTWOHNUNG

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PLANS, SECTION, AND AXONOMETRIC DRAWINGS

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Indra Liusuari (b. 2000) is a distinguished graduate of architecture and interdisciplinary designer whose practice includes audio-visual media, documented performances, site-interventive installations, and print media. Conceptually, Liusuari is focused on critical discourses around the presence of white supremacy in contemporary lifestyles, which manifest via absurdist exaggeration and satirical self-exotification. Brutalist architecture and industrial design, audio-visual remnants of the late 1990s and early 2000s, and underground rave scenes have become paramount influences in Liusuari's practice.

Liusuari has presented work locally with Melbourne Design Week, PHOTO2024, Blindside, West Space, Bus Projects, and in Berlin with Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Sinema Transtopia, and Schwules Museum.