IN DUE TIME
Graphic by Leo Shbla
IN DUE TIME is a publication featuring a group of students passionate about designing for Western Sydney. This is a place of knowledge sharing, experimentation, of execution of ideas, exploration and discovery, and of course design.
In WSU, we are investigating and questioning the patterns and changes of living in the west. Urban Transformations guide our studies, as we measure the challenges and opportunities of designing for the future of Sydney’s West.
My spirit fell through the page like yours, first impressions that has us stored.
Hence, In Due Time presents The Beyond Architecture Exhibition Booklet for 2023.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
Beyond Architecture acknowledges the Dharug people, the traditional custodians of the land on which the university building stands. We pay our respect to Aboriginal Elders past, present and emerging, and extend that respect to First Nations people.
An exhibtion at the Western Sydney University ‘Innovation hub’ building.
Address: 6 Hassall St, Parramatta NSW 2150
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FOREWORD
The architecture program at Western Sydney is one of the youngest, but most important in Australia, servicing the third largest economy in the country, and a huge geographical and demographic area of immense and continual change. Underpinned by diversity, Western Sydney is now the centre of many of the most interesting and provocative architectural projects in Sydney at the moment and, combined with the transformations in infrastructure and cultural investment, is witnessing a period of unprecedented growth, expansion and adaptation. The importance of architecture in these broader cycles of urban transformation is immense, not only shaping the quality of buildings that we work and live in, but also the urban spaces we share as a community. I am delighted to be a part of the project of architecture in Western Sydney and to work with the talented pool of students that the program attracts. As the program continues to grow, and its graduates move
IN DUE TIME,
Prof. Michael Chapman, PhD Chair of Architecture and Design M.Chapman@westernsydney.edu.au
into the workforce, these students will shape the communities, environments and architecture of this important region as well as many others. This exhibition, in the heart of the Parramatta CBD, is the start of an important and ongoing conversation in which young, talented people can engage creatively with the significant issues and pressures of the built environment and frame architectural proposals for its most important sites. It is a privilege to welcome you to our first “PILOT” exhibition featuring work across all years of our architecture programs.
ABOUT THE BEYOND ARCHITECUTRE GROUP
“Beyond Architecture” aims to test the limits of our potential and traditional architecture norms in order to explore new worlds of design, materials and concepts. Here we foster a vibrant community of aspiring architects and design enthusiasts who are united by a shared passion for innovations, creativity, and driven ambition. We are committed to providing opportunities for our fellow peers and changing the future of architecture through cooperation, mentorship, growth, education, and broadening skills beyond the academic. Welcome to a space where architecture can transform, connect and create.
In Due Time,
Mary Anne Yosuf President of Beyond Architecture Student Group Master of Architecture (Urban Transformations)
ABOUT THE MAGAZINE
The purpose of this magazine is provide you all with a voice, a place to pass on knowlegde and information to the next generation of students. This is a platform to explore ideas, to question our architectural landscape and beyond, to be a place for dialogue and discussion of issues that are affecting us today. This will also be a space that shares and highlights your amazing work and any pieces that may inspire, guide or encourage our friends and peers. This is our time Western Sydney students!
In Due Time,
Amanda Eessa Director of In Due Time Master of Architecture (Urban Transformations)
FIRST YEAR 2023
Alexander Sleiman
First year
Semester 1 Project
Bachelor of Architectural Design 2023
Alexander Sleiman
First year Semester 1 Project
Bachelor
2023
of Architectural Design
Alexander Sleiman
Fundamentals of Analogue Design
Year 01 Bachelor of Architectural Design
Students were asked to design a house for two people where at least one resident was working from home, on a compact block of a row house in Penrith. Students picked the occupation of the people. For the final assignment they needed to accommodate an extension, as a family (a mother with a kid) would come to live with the previous occupants. Students were asked to adapt their house to accommodate this unusual combination. The most successful projects found ways to use the unusual responses to the client and site.
The site is 21 Thornton Drive, Penrith, 10 min walk from Penrith train station. The site is 4,5 m wide x 27m long and has two frontages. Students were asked to consider both streets equal as active streets where people walk and enjoy life. Checking the views, occupying the field (the whole site) and allow for a void (courtyard) and a possible underground connections were all essential. No openings were allowed on the bounding walls.
Students were asked to treat the facade as a part of the street where people walk. No cars or car parking were allowed. Architecture as a part of the city and the openings were the two main themes. Things considered were: student’s take on the brief, circulation and organisation, sectional quality and lighting within space.
SECOND YEAR 2023
Second Year Project
Bachelor of Architectural Design 2023
Renee Bailey
Renee Bailey
Second Year Project
Bachelor of Architectural Design
2023
Renee Bailey
Rethinking the Suburban
Year 02 Bachelor of Architectural
The Role of the Architect is most commonly associated with the design and delivery of the ‘bespoke’: houses for the ‘well off’, or tailored designs for significant multi-dwelling housing, public, institutional or commercial projects. Architects design just 5 - 10% of single residential homes while project home builders, other such companies building designers account for the delivery of the other 90-95%. There are two key questions underlying the brief for this studio project: ‘Can Architects positively influence the construction and design quality of the other 95%?’ within the context of mass market housing, and ‘How could that be achieved?’ This project explores the potential for Architects to influence a significant share of mass market housing using sophisticated design tools (BIM) and the possibilities for
Design
the automation and/or prefabrication. In an optimum scenario, this investment in the Architect’s skill could better address issues of design, passive solar orientation, environmental sustainability, embodied energy etc, as well as facilitating better urban outcomes through the broad range of skills, knowledge and capability of Architects to lead multidiciplinary design (and construction) teams.
The ‘Rethinking the Suburban’ studio project was centred on designing (and critiquing) multidwelling housing under the NSW Low Rise Housing Diversity Code. The students asked to nominate a housing type from that Code and to nominate a site from a selected part of Lidcombe. From there, they were asked to review, understand and design to the Code, with permission (granted by their tutors) to ‘break rules’ if /where they could justify a better outcome.
THIRD YEAR 2023
Third Year Project
Bachelor of Architectural Design
Arseen Yonan and Raymond Haroon
Third Year Project
Bachelor of Architectural Design
Arseen Yonan and Raymond Haroon
Arseen Yonan Raymond Haroon
Studio: The Infrastructural
Year 03 Bachelor of Architectural Design
This studio explores the architecture of Data Storage. Every second, 2.8 million emails are sent, 30,000 phrases are Googled and 600 are tweeted, All this data has spatial consequences, creating an infrastructure which remains largely unexplored. Despite this, these buildings have significant political, cultural, social and environmental implications on society. They tend to be large buildings, containing important information, and usually inaccessible to the public. As a building type, the data centre is most often located on the periphery of our cities, allowing for an object typology that sits alone in a vast space. The Data Centre is commissioned by private companies to store people’s Data. This is the architectural generator - the building tend to be anonymous, unadorned, and bereft of any symbolism. They are also highly secure and impenetrable buildings. The studio asks students to consider a Data Centre commissioned by the City of Sydney for its community. As ratepayers, community members
are given a certain amount of space within the Data Centre, where their data is stored on their behalf by the Council. The City of Sydney has chosen Town Hall Square as the location for this new Data Centre. Students are to design the building, considering both the political intentions of this new building, but also its urban position and relationship to historic building’s and Sydney’s cbd.
