Ricky Gagliardi Architecture Portfolio [2018-2020]

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Ricky Gagliardi Graduate of Architecture.

B. Architecture UTS School of Architecture 2018 - 2020 M. Architecture UTS School of Architecture 2021-(Planned)

PH: 0405 154 095 E: ricky.gagliardi@icloud.com rickygagliardi_architecture

STUDI O 0 6: P O ST- L ABO UR UN IVE RS IT Y ACROP OLIS: U NIVE R S IT Y O F UN - P RO D U CTI O N. “ B I LLARD -LEECE PARTNER S HIP CAPSTONE DESIGN FINAL IST 2020” Forget it all, the product of you, the student, no longer burdened with the need to succeed. It’s time to let go. At the University of Un-production, nothing is conclusive nor sacred. You, the student, are now a catalyst for the tackling of impending social issues - a new topic investigated each year, with four iterations encompassing the four semesters. You do not manifest solutions but rather, appropriations of each issue - to be shared back with the public. The passing down of knowledge grants the materialisation of perspective. Each semester, you, the student, will work in cross-disciplinary groups, facilitated through the spaces of performance, making and experimentation. Through weekly, curatorial workshops and fetishisations that involve the public, you will continuously develop and curate your appropriations, with the ultimate goal being the end of semester celebratory exhibition.

Here, you will share your responses to the public - before finally, bidding your project farewell, as the university cannibalizes its essence into raw materials - to be born anew in the next semester. No matter how unfinished or finished an object- each faces demolition. The university is a mortuary for knowledge. Though the university forgets - the students do not. Ideas and experience retained by you, the student, is now progressed and workshopped into the next semester, accessible for further integration and development. Never again will you carry out your investigations in the same way. Your project, your theories - all serve as components for another.

This ultimate cannibalisation of knowledge is what propels the university’s discourse and thus society as a whole. Objects no longer stand for memory - finicky and dormant. The temporality of knowledge remains timeless to you. An unarchival university built into a false Acropolis.

INTERIOR

ARRIVAL

C o l la b o rators : Ric ky G a gliardi, Mich ael C h en & Lilian Le

MARKETING MATERIAL [AXONOMETRIC ] 1:400

SYSTEMS AXONOMETRIC

AC ROP OLIS: U NIVE R SIT Y O F UN - P RO D U CTI O N. “ B I L LARD -LEECE PARTNER SHIP CAPSTONE DESIGN FINAL IST 2020” Competition Feature: https://capstoneacropolis2020.cargo.site/Project-07-Deconstructing-Knowledge-The-University-of-Un-production

MASTER SECTION 1:400

MASTER P LAN 1:400

C o lla b o rators : Ric ky G a gliardi, Mich ael C h en & Lilian Le

CLO SE-UP PLAN | SECTION 1:150

CLO SE-UP SECTIONAL AXONOMETRIC 1:150

ACROP OLIS: U NIVE R S IT Y O F UN - P RO D U CTI O N. “ B I LLARD -LEECE PARTNER S HIP CAPSTONE DESIGN FINAL IST 2020” The Modeling of the University is essential to the composition and cinematography for the University Video. 6 Individually constructed sets imagine the functionality, core infrastructures and culture the university has to offer, an exhibition materialised physically.

THE TEAM RICKY GAGLIARDI MICHAEL CHEN LILIAN LE

STUDI O 0 5: TEMP L ES O F TH E PE R IPHE RY THE SPACE OF 4 0 DAYS : SANITO R IUM F O R AI RC R AF T & EC O LO G I ES Following the construction of the Western Sydney Airport, it is expected that the demand for commercial travel will more than double. In 10 Years, Western Sydney will see millions of extra passengers per year. In 40 Years the airport sees a projected goal of 81 Million passengers . The large format aircraft is the future, it only sees fit to create infrastructure to inevitably house them.

This begs the question of aviation in a post-COVID19 context where the necessity for quarantine and sanitation should be amplified within crucial airworthiness maintenance. The proposal seeks to embed the process of sanitation at the heart of maintenance celebrating the active role of water in the sanitation, cleanliness and filtration of the aircrafts core services and mechanics.

The verticalization of disinfection from the working wall allows for active water management at the human scale. As a systematic device for contact with the aircraft, the working wall creates isolated working conditions which momentarily interject with the activity on the buildings floor plate. As it sits on the withering conditions of the site, the building harvests water and reserves it, and disperses it to both the aircraft and its ecologies that sit within the site. In exchange, the biproduct of contaminated water from the aircraft is naturally phytoremediated and purified into an artificial wetlands to only return to the natural creek. Ultimately both aircraft and land will have a reciprocal dependence on one another. The project in the long term, therefore seeks to rectify the land into a controlled ecology that seeks to advance a self-replenishing biosphere - reinvigorating a bane landscape into a thriving precinct of process.

NORTH SECTION 1:1000

INTERIOR

EXTERIOR

C o l la b o rators : Ric ky G a gliardi & Mich ael Ch en

PLAN 1:1000

THE SPACE OF 4 0 DAYS : SANITO R IUM F O R AI RC R AF T & EC O LO G I ES

WEST ELEVATION 1:1000

MO CK UP: THE WATER TEMPLE

1:10 | WATER C OLUMN DETAIL

C o l la b o rators : Ric ky G a gliardi & Mich ael Ch en

1:10 | WORKING WALL DETAIL

MANIFESTO : SPACE OF 40 DAYS/40 YEARS | 2020/2060

STUDI O 0 4: STUDE NT H O U S ING P ROJECT THE HYP E R - D OM ESTI C : C OL L ECT US Collectus, the meaningful word which derives from “Together”, “Collective” and “Collaboration”.

To succinctly title a Student Housing Project which successfully allows a nuanced experience for students abroad. Located in place of the Tafe Building on Broadway. The goal of the project is to recognise the current limitations of a studio apartment within a student housing block isolates the student from closer interaction with others, activities and a heighten financial setback. It is a call to define what the state of domesticity is now and how it could potentially be in the future.

The co-inhabitation of students in Collective style student housing entices the cross pollination of culture, factions, services culminates into a network rather than a singular apartment block.

The Interiority and its atmospheres are created to accommodate the personalities, interests and rituals of the student whilst the infrastructure provides the necessary opportunity for communal living through the conglomeration of the single dwelling confiding with its larger family.

Being a part of a neighbourhood and coexisting with others becomes a natural art form to the public. The Structure therefore utilises recast concrete columns and beams which assembles a field of space which tessellate with activity. The mix between the public and the residents is combined to form a precinct of activity and civic life. The collectives are lined with timber and encapsulated into a perforated recycled aluminium facade which exposes moments of domesticity and occupation. The structural grid allows for recyced use in the future as an afterlife for the site to make way for commerical redevelopment. The projects overall conceptual layered thinking allows an iterative process at a multi-scalar level. From the importance of the use of a bathroom sink to acknowledging the sites heritage, potential and overarching form.replenishing biosphere - reinvigorating a bane landscape into a thriving precinct of process.

RO OF PLAN

UNDERCROF T/TRAIN LINK PLAN

The extensive set of drawings, renders, diagrams and domestic publication facilitated an indepth analysis which subverted the design thinking to planning from the “Inside -out”.

UNIT PLAN

SITE PLAN

THE C OLLECTIVE

C o l la b o rators : Ric ky G a gliardi & Mich ael Ch en

GENERAL FLO OR PLAN

01: MACRO STRUCTURE

02: MES O INFRASTRUCTURE

03: MICRO O S SYSTEM

THE HYP E R - D OM ESTI C : C OL L ECT US “SILO” D OMESTIC PUBLIC BUILDING C ORE

STUDENT AC CESS + D OMESTIC TAXONOMY

C OMMUNAL KITCHEN

STUDENT UNIT

C OMMUNAL STORAGE

SPACE TAXONOMY

UNIT DIAGRAM + D OMESTIC FUNCTION

C o l la b o rators : Ric ky G a gliardi & Mich ael Ch en

D OMESTIC S CENARIO

GUIDE HANDBO OK P G02

P ROF ES S I O NAL P RACTICE E L ECTIVE THE MAL L

THREE “IDENTITY” PRO GRAMS

C ONC E P TUAL TH ES I S MASTER -P L AN THE HYPER MAL L In a post COVID Landscape, The NSW Government has strategised a 1.4 billion dollar retrofit of the mount druitt precinct. As demolition is on the way to build tall apartment blocks and mixeduse buildings. Comparable floor space and plates, condensed and hyperised. The mall format must shift from the single story gruen-esque layout to verticality. Seeing forward into a postpandemic world, the Mall must answer to the new age of instability and uncertainty. How can we reinvigorate what becomes ‘essential’ - in a way that soothes the consumer and the tennant.

After isolation, this stagnant mall of necessity - as we know it today - will face a complete shift.

How can we pave the way for the radical transition to a life outside of the home? To re-energise the livelihoods of a community who have become so conditioned to the mundane affairs of a home life in isolation?’

With the future of Mount Druitt’s CBD undergoing a mass urban reconstruction - with the addition of 2800 new high rise apartment homes, as well as the development of new retail outlets, restaurants, cafes and high rise commercial precincts - the ground plane to home ratio will face a mass reduction. The individual backyard as we know it today, will become a thing of the past. Thus, the condensing and verticalization of Mt Druitt’s suburbia, and the lack of activity and amenities that come with the reduction of individual land use - calls for a communal and central space that will accommodate for this lack of resources. A space where the people can reenergise, a space where they can create, a space where they can simply stop to breathe and relax - the Hyper Mall will become the people’s ‘backyard’ - a home away from home. In promoting the 3 identities which make up an individual’s livelihood - of stimulation, creation and relaxation - the Hyper Mall houses a plethora of programs and activities that address each identity - a vibrant, bizzare and enriching sensory experience for the individual. As it moves away from its traditional sealed envelope of efficiency and familiarity, the Mall becomes a cabinet of curiosity - a dynamic ‘backyard’ space which plays on the routines and rituals of the people. The Mall accommodates for the continual densification of suburbs and cities, through its provision of spaces and resources for which apartment dwellers and residencies can use away from their home - the Mall becomes a new typology that serves to connect as a deployable site strategy across multiplicity of sites. A “hyper-surreal” and “hyper-active” hub of activity - the Hyper Mall will become the civic continuum for the city of Western Sydney. Once again, becoming the backyard for all.

SITE PLAN 1:000

PLAN 1:500

THESIS MANIFESTO : THIS IS TEMP ORARY RIGHT?

C o lla b o rators : Ric ky G a gliardi, Mich ael Ch en & Lilian Le

CLO SE-UP SECTION 1:100

MOUNT DRUIT T REDEVELOPMENT: NOW & 10 YEARS LATER

GENERAL ELEVATION

THE ANATOMY OF THE MALL

THESIS C ONCEPT: THE FUTURE OF THE MALL WHEN THE BACKYARD IS GONE

C o l la b o rators : Ric ky G a gliardi, Mich ael C h en & Lilian Le

BUILDING IS OMETRIC

STUDI O 02: MAKI N G THE WATE R C OND ITI O N NOT JUST A SWIM M I NG P O O L : THE SYD N EY HYD RO C O M PANY In Design Studio 02, the first year brief explored the “pool condition” at the Sydney Theatre Company Wharf 4/5 at Milsons Point, Walsh Bay. The “Sydney Hydro Company” is a response to the immersion of a dual functional retrofit of recreational pool space and theatre. The premise sees two eroded concrete pool bodies raised above the wharf. Sculpted formations, cutaways and formwork determines separate capabilities and functions at certain points in time. The larger recreational pool makes shifts between a children’s pool, lap pool, splash pool, general bathing, diving pool, bar and eventual empty space condition. Adjacent is the hydro performance theatre.

The theatre fluctuates with water to reveal platforms and performing conditions for explorative art forms. The relationship between the two water conditions is reliant on the balance and harmony of water which is distributed and pumped between one another extracted from the sea.

PLAN | SITE PLAN

A desired condition in one pool impacts the other, offering diverse experiences, see-sawing back and forth. The wharf design embodies transparent pipes which line the facade with the display of water moving to and from each side of the wharf. The introduction of the retrofit responds to the City of Sydney Planning Policy and its provision of amenities to several demographics.

The utilisation of the pre-existing skeleton and the addition of visible mechanical pipes reclaims the industrial 1919 wharf stasis in the cityscape. A larger master plan model explores the composition of the site and its relation to the surrounding wharfs, pivotal to the city of Sydney.

The larger mock-up highlight both of the programmatic pool conditions in the husk of Wharf 4/5

SECTION | ELEVATION | WATER DISTRIBUTION DIAGRAM

SITE MODEL 1:500 | ANATOMICAL MODEL 1:200

S PATIAL C O M M UNI CATI O NS 02 GRAPHI C MANIFESTO

END OF YEAR S HOW “ PR ES ENT ” 2019 UTS S CHO O L O F ARCHITECTUR E

WHAR F 4 / 5 M ILS ON P O I NT L AYE R S TH RO UG H TI M E

The Type.

The graphic manifesto investigated the pedagogies of the city of Sydney through the lens of Wharf ⅘. An artistic appropriation of Frederique Paraskevas AA 2016 Project “Cultural Limbo”, tHe manifesto seeked to stitch together the city through time, space, perspective and the multiplicity of perspective in a city of eras and ages. The reconstitution is reflected in the artistry of change and the attitude towards planning as it changed over time. Time ultimately can not be understood in one continuous timeline yet multiple planes of existence - working both together and against each other. The reconstitution of the city is ultimately never planned to the consistency of the New York Grid in Sydney, it is mapped out and uncomplacent. wThe conventional understanding of planning changed from 2D drawings of aerial mapping and documentation to 3D imaging and anatomical insights into the ingredients which build the city. The graphic style sees the array of layers as they transition from flat drawings into 3D modelling. The additional analog drawing which lines the background is digested and scanned into the modern CAD work - A reflective insight into the planning process of stitching analog information with modern retconning of organisation of the city. In conjunction to the Manifesto, a conceptual model highlights the collaboration of 4 individual manifestos. The model speaks to the concept of changing perspective and the lens that is seen through Wharf ⅘ as the subject that has seen the changes made around it for several decades.

The 2019 End of Year Show “Present” was an Exhibition that was distributed amongst the Faculty. “The Tender” featured works from both the collective first and second year Architecture Students in the format of domestic living, both residential and student housing. “The Type” featured a cross pollination of First Year Undergrad and Masters Student body works. This theme highlighted typological shifts in studios.

Each exhibition had designed timber viewing apparatuses which facilitate over 5000 patrons at the DAB Faculty.

The Tender.

LIGHTI N G & AC O USTIC E NVI RON M E NTAL C O NTRO L

THER MAL D ES I G N ENVIRO N M ENTAL C O NTRO L

D ESIGN SYNTH ESIS THE GEN ER AL L IB R ARY, CANB E R R A

DES IG N SYNTH ES IS BEL L EVUE HIL L HOUS E

The Tuggerah Library is a Lighting, Acoustics and Environmental Control Synthesis which is enhanced with DiaLUX software articulation of appropriate lighting design as well as Soundscape Sound pressure level applications to ensure a suitable environment for a general library. The design works in conjunction of a daylight intensive concrete shell-like structure which creates a dynamic naturally illuminated atrium adjacent to smaller library stacks for quiet reading.

Analysis on the design permits light reflection and ambience in the space whilst also introducing appropriate materiality for reduced reverberation and optimum inhabitant comfort. Systems of HVAC Plenums, Timber operable Louvers, Timber baffles and exhausts are integrated into the synthesis for a cold moderate climate - thermally massed with concrete to absorb heat and distribute it later in the day.

The Bellevue hill project is a residential alternative design that builds upon a pre-existing site.

The home is retrofitted to a thermally dynamic design with the anatomical focus on materiality and the exposition of design and thermal consideration. The project seeked to break down a house that occupies 5 people into 2 residences with a communal sharing area at its core. The use of water tanks, louvers, awnings and thermal massing of concrete in conjunction with timber renders the project climatically aware. The facade integrates concrete shells to repel the sun whilst providing redirection to summer breeze and rejecting unwanted wind in winter. The facade also integrates a public garden exchange to provide initiative in the community as well to provide a local sanctuary to fauna adjacent to the national park. The site ultimately checks a criteria of environmental control and appropriate synthesis.