sample of professional work -
Ngurra
The University of Queensland School of Architecture
Fluent Commercial Tower
DOMA ATO Office
John Hunter Hospital diagrams and models
Ngurra
Ngurra was a design competition for an indigenous culture centre for AIATSIS (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies) and a centre for the repatriation of unidentified indigenous remains. It continues to be a culturally significant and contentious project in Canberra, sitting on the land access line to the national parliament house and mount Ainslie, a significant indigenous natural landscape. The project had greater national ambitions to serve as a landmark for aboriginal architecture in Australia. This was my first project in professional practice, as a student I was assisting in physical and digital revit and rhino modelling, iterative diagramming, and producing the final floor plans. I was fortunate to sit in on all meetings and learn from the design process.
The University of Queensland School of Architecture
Currently situated in a single space type building from the 1970s, the school of architecture endeavoured to re define their identity and align their building with their teaching style and expanding cohorts. BVN undertook a master planning and concept exercise to imagine how the ideal characteristics of a contemporary school of architecture could be achieved by either remaining in the existing Zelman Cowen or moving to an unused, former chemical engineering building. My role was working directly with the project lead associate under guidance by a director and principle. My involvement on a small team allowed me to benefit from the experience and design expertise of Brian Donnovan, whilst allowing me to take part in testing strategies and the problem solving of the scheme. We undertook extensive precedent research to resolve a return brief to the school which informed a switch of perspective from working with briefed areas to flat floor vs interstitial space, focusing on student lead culture, ‘everything on show’, a big scale workshop and flexibility.
Within the project I gained experience in consultant meetings to understand the extent of building upgrade work, client workshops with the heads of school, rhino and physical modelling, preparing diagrams and presentations, staging a scheme to monetary constraints and marketing a project back to the university for funding. This later stage included the preparation of a visualisation image for which I designed the veranda under the guidance of the director.
key moves idea 01 - zelman
key moves idea 02 - don
identiifying existing space typesIdentifying the ideal characteristics
Fluent
Fluent is the client for a commercial health tower in Brisbane’s inner city that had aspirations for a building with a distinct identity that responds to use, context and climate. 3 key moves were identified to achieve this: the lantern and outdoor rooms for identity and use, the tower to optimise maximum flexibility and the bush house podium drawing on the Queenslander tradition for comfort, privacy and wellness. I joined the project after the competition phase for the schematic design and development application. My role was under a director and two principles to carry out all the rhino modelling and drafting of the GA plans and sections set. In addition to preparing diagrams and presentations for client workshops and developing the concept for the facade details with the director. I was able to be across all aspects of the project and the resolution of how the lead designers’ ideas could be rationalised into one working model.
DOMA ATO OFFICE
DOMA is a commercial workplace building for the Australian taxation office in Canberra. I joined the project at the back end of the schematic design phase going into design development. My role on the project started out as assisting with general modelling updates around the building in revit and transitioned into small studies to refine various elements of the design. This included material and colour selection for the spandrel glazing and powder coated metal; the atrium skylight pack, where I tested different daylight strategies and the concept for the detail and later working with the interior designer on the finishes pack.
WESTERNCORE
EASTERNCORE
design strategy singualarity +materiality achieve the most with least means for visual impact
tonal intent
references to the mild earth tones of Windsor walk’s eucalyptus connect the building as a whole to site and country
JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL
John Hunter hospital includes renovation work to the existing hospital in addition to new construction. I joined the project during the construction phase for a re design of the entry pavilion connecting the carpark to the front entrance. As a result of the civil engineers moving the existing road, the builders wanting to save money by reducing screening extent and maintaining the existing lifts from the carpark and slab above, in addition to further consultant placed restraints, the linear pavilion approach had to be re imagined. I was responsible for testing new concepts that worked with the limitations. Through the process I was involved in consultations with the engineers, builders and the project principle to reach a proposal that satisfied everyone’s agendas, preparing the final pack of drawings and vignettes that were approved.
UQ CBD awards drawing set sample section 1:200, 1:!00
Diagrams
In between project work I prepared award drawings for The University of Queensland’s CBD campus. The project involved the restoration and renovation of a heritage bank building in addition to the renovation of an adjoined tower completed previously by the company. The interior fit out centralised around a designing with country approach and was sensitive to existing datums, colours and references within the existing building. This was to be reflected in the drawing set.
I also worked on a city model diagram and diagrams for the fit out of individual levels in the set of ‘GPT’ buildings. This included a large amount of rhino diagramming and massing the existing towers.
take apart staging model prepared for a workshop 1:200
working model to test the atrium space
National Aboriginal Art Gallery 1:50