Lucas Masakovski
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
I acknowledge and pay my respects to the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, the traditional custodians of the land upon I live, study, and operate. I recognize the deep and enduring connection that the Gadigal people have to this land, which stretches back countless generations.
I pay my respects to the Elders past, and present, and honour the Gadigal people’s rich cultural heritage, their profound wisdom, and their ongoing contributions to the broader community. I acknowledge the significance of the Gadigal Nation within the wider tapestry of Indigenous cultures across Australia, and commit to fostering understanding, respect, and collaboration with the Gadigal people and all Indigenous communities through the works of Landscape Architecture and place design.
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Lucas Masakovski
INTERESTS
Football
Woodworking
Music production and engineering
Travel
Hiking
LANGUAGES
English
Main language
Macedonian
Fluent
EDUCATION
White Card Certified.
Graduated year 12 at Marist Catholic College Penshurst Class of 2018.
Currently a full-time Student at the University of New South Wales studying Landscape Architecture.
CONTACT
71 Bellevue Parade Allawah. 2218 Sydney, NSW
Ph: 0435541234
Email: Lucas.masakovski@gmail.com
D.O.B: 3rd, October, 2000
PERSONAL PROFILE
I’m Lucas Masakovski, a student at the University of New South Whales completing the Bachelors of Landscape Architecture degree.
Initially the degree was alluring due to the unique and expressive creative thinking required to respond to challenges presented in the built environment. Landscape Architecture therefore presents an opportunity to explore the ways in which a designer can impact the lives of many in urban interventions, or even on an impactful, smaller scale design which is highly useful to improve lifestyle. However, further study of the program has revealed that through Landscape Architecture, designers can creatively provide solutions to the urban worlds increasingly threatening issues. It has since become that my main interests and inspirations in Landscape Design are scientific responses to sites which provide creative and unique solutions to threats, and designing through history, as the designers roll is to uncover potentials often found within the historic patterns and behaviors of humans. Ultimately i aim to use these principles to provide sustainable design interventions.
WORK EXPEIENCE
METRO GLASS AND ALUMINIUM
Feb 2018 - Present
Glazier
• Assisting in all aspects of basic glass and fence trade work.
• Aid in all team tasks which require multiple people ranging from heavy lifting to problem solving.
• Aluminium fabrication in a factory environment.
• Installation of glass and aluminium windows and doors in a construction environment.
OATLEY RSL
June 2020 - Present
• Food and Beverage attendant
• L earned to interact and engage with a large variety of people
WATER BROTHERS INFRASTRUCTURE
May 2019 - Dec 2019
• Office Admin / Customer service representative.
• Liaising with customers who had issues.
• Liaising with contractors for smooth operations.
• Liaising and scheduling with coworkers to ensure they had the necessary equipment and locations.
• Pricing and claiming expenses.
• Problem solving issues on Jobs.
SKILLS
Project 1: RACE TO RESTORATION CANTERBURY PARK
In a space where private recreation spaces such as racecourses and golf courses are under scrutiny of their occupancy of a large amount of valuable land, a question arises where private functioning can co-exist with public uses. This project establishes a public wetland park within the interior of Canterbury Park Racecourse where racing functions occur seasonally while a public community hub and ecological park can be used by the whole of the community willingly.
Perspective of the grandstand from the entrance into the public wetland park. A winding path takes people across multiple site lines around the wetlands without intrusion.
The wetlands would reinvigorate the space as multiple bird species of Canterbury would populate the space.
A masterplan envisioning housing for 7000 people into Canterbury Park with retained ecology services.
The following was completed by Goolay’Yari group
Lucas Masakovski (Author)
Emma Chan
Jess D’Arcy
Weiyi Zhang
May Wang
King st, Canterbury was converted into parade with relics of the past maintained, a rainwater collection swale, public park walk, and a mixed use residential and business promenade.
A designed completly natural swimming pool, fit with biological purification.
Project 3: TASKER PARK CAMPSIE
Project 4: ENERGY IN TRANSITION
Tasker Park, Campsie
Campsie, NSW is a suburb of prime position connecting Inner West Sydney to Canterbury/Bankstown. A heavily diverse demographic, Campsie is a place of culture and food. In response to the Canterbury/ Bankstown City Council Masterplan, which would see a large introduction of high density living, i suggested improving the current Tasker Park so that the active uses of the area are maintained, however the underutalised space is contributing to ensuring equal food opportunities within the council are undertaken. Introducing permaculture by employing the use of Mandela Gardens in the shape a connecting keyhole gardens maximises planting space to pathway. Recylability is goal strategically attained by catching water off of the nearby aquatic centre roof. Connections to surrounding areas is highly important, with this in mind the riverside walk was completely naturalised on one side and the walkway improved, with connections to Little Tasker Park, the Cooks River Cycleway, and Canterbury station.
Some exploration into the Implementation of permaculture within the site, originally the concept evolved from replacing all street verges with usable and practical planting or garden beds. This evolved into the developed concept of permaculture within Campsie’s open spaces. Permaculture is an idea of ‘permanent agriculture’ where design imitates nature to ensure the growth of productive, food bearing planting requires a minimum amount of human intervention to grow and thrives as a self functioning ecosystem.
Integrating this into an area of flood risk and a riverside ecology proposed another challenge. My implementation of a dynamic river edge with a flood adaptive design and planting, whilst also remaining space for human use, such as seating space, or exploratory space.
5: LANDSCAPE PERFORMANCE
Project
Marsden Park, Sydney
Marsden Park North currently exists as a small suburb with huge potential, lying at the heart of the North West and operates under the blacktown council. Now set for redevelopment, I evaluated the current proposed masterplan and determined that too much space was offered up to the automobile, not enough of the remnant vegetation was left, let alone re-mediated, and the plan didn’t accomplish enough in managing the huge flood risk present at the site.
The design began as a low-density housing integrate with ecologically safe planning within a constructed wetland system, which would see the riparian health greatly increased and more conscious water sensitive, impacting the flood cycle. After multiple re-iterations, the idea was improved, utalising Ildefons Cerda’s ‘Superblock’ idea and integrating it into a modern Western-Sydney framework, all proposed housing could be fit directly within the possible maximum flood line, while the surrounding area sits within the 1 in 100 year flood line. Surrounding the area with practical use areas such as the business park to the north and entertainment/retail area to the east, Marsden Park North would become a safe and usable suburb within Sydney’s North West.
Marsden Park sat as an incredibly complex site, with high flood risk, strong ecological value, fire hazard, underutalised connections to neighboring suburbs and greater Western-Sydney. In the past it had seen its vegetation fall into a state of collapse, and had a re-mediation effort to fix it. Site analysis and the understanding of complex systems was essential and the study to the right exemplified how i came about the essential need to ‘Superblock’ the neighborhood. The increasing Urban Heat Island Effect emerged as a major issue to fix, set about by over developed land with harsh materials such as concrete, cleared canopy coverage, and little land to work with to fix it. Under this analysis, it became clear that the best reponse was one that would integrate humans with nature, in a ‘living in the park’ style situation, where apartment blocks surrounded landscaped courtyards, occurring to the south of the site.
A technical analysis revealed how the site-wide swale/rain garden water collection and conveyance system would work, integrated directly within street verge planting, and with the utilisation of native species, the Marsden Park North plan would ensure ecological and water sensitive urban design integrated with design for people.
Project 6: LANDART
Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
The introduction of Land Art into the context the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, involves an understanding of advocacy and expression in landscape design. The proposed design would address increasing, uncontrolled urbanism leading to uninhabitable cities. It accomplished this by exaggerating the Urban Heat Island Effect in a room with uniform, tall, metal/concrete columns to signify the harsh and unpleasant reality of over intensification in an urban aspect, all to end with an oasis of planting, that signifies the shift proper landscape design can have on making the city more habitable. It was further a study into how to change topography, with the area being partially sub-terrain.
The larger masterplan was completed as a group measure, each member focusing on an area and designing to increase awareness of how biophylic design can be achieved in multiple circumstances, and the affect design can have on water sensitivity. My contributions include the land art located to the south east, and a amphitheater located at the north end of the site.
Project 7: FLOW STATE
Set in Copenhagen, Denmark, the design intent was to create a bridge intervention over the river which created opportunity and engagement for a diverse range of people, with specific intent to increase cyclability of Copenhagen. Site analysis and design was one to ensure the design stayed pedestrian friendly and avoided vehicular dominance. The response was a large bridge that was designed with regards to equitable access and active space.
The major challenge of the site was designing a bridge that didn’t intervene with travel by boat, whilst also ensuring the whole site was directly accessible by cycling. The implemented solution was ramp to staircase design that worked completely to be easily maneuvered for disabled access as well. By incorporating a directs path through stairs, and an indirect and easy access path in a ramp. Through intense sketchup testing, the staircase/ramp was integrated into the site and proved to a human scale.
Being located on the Sydney Harbour, study into viewpoints and major spots were essential. Utalising the Sydney Opera House as a point to focus the amphitheater on is an example of how view points have been extracted to enhance the site. Another example was the newly proposed dynamic sea wall, which would make the users experience more immersive.
Project 8: DOCUMENTATION
Experimenting with calculating and documenting the grading of the site and how it will change
Documentation work pertaining to designing unique furniture to be implemented into the Copenhagen design. The opted design included a modernist, simple, approach to a bike rack. Details within this design go beyond technical analysis of the construction requirements but also exemplifies the meticulous small scale ergonomic design in public furniture.
Project 9: SKETCH WORK
Sketchings created from inspiration in planting and public spaces.
Explorations of sketching styles of the same landscapes and plants