RMIT Architecture & Urban Design Major Project Catalogue Semester 2 2017

RMIT Architecture Major Project Catalogue Semester 2 2017

Major Project Catalogue, Semester 2 , 2017 Prof. Vivian Mitsogianni Ian Nazareth John Doyle Vicky Lam A/Prof Paul Minifie Designed and Produced by Ian Nazareth Yiran Liu Benjamin Whelan

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RMIT Architecture Major Project Catalogue Semester 2 2017

Contents Introduction, Professor Vivian Mitsogianni...01 What is Major Project?...02 Stranger Familiar, Charles Bomam...03 Making Making Urban, Nicolas Cheuk Hang Wong...04 Doododododo..., Philip Chang...05 Beat the Clock, Tales of an Urban Centrelink, Tess O’Meara...06 Fender Bender, Bing Jie Chang...07 The Fourth Wall, or the Library for the Library, Emily Davies...08 Binding Ballarat, Mei Yan Chin...09 Efflorescence and Liturgy of Suburban Irritation, Bradley Mitchell...10 Sawtooth Re-Invented, Yet Chi Chua...11 Concurrence, Jaymie Buhagiar...12 Sublime Tube, Justin Thang Son Nhat Dinh...13 A New Flame, Jack Dowling...14 Regenerated Farms Regenerated Towns Regenerated Nature, Imogen Fry...15 Rehousing Memories, Gilbert Ganda...16 Quick Deals, Fast Wheels & Unkempt Roses, Aaron Gust...17 Archipelago of Forces, Rafid Reasat Hai...18 Postnuptial, Robert Hillman...19 Porcelain Jungle, Isabelle Jooste ...20 Game-On!, Kayden Khoon Yaw Lau...21 Embassy for Young and Old, Min Ji Lee...22 Enshrine: Centre for Conflict, Mediation & Resolution, Sina Memarpourghiassi...23 MIDigation, James Morton...24 Foaming Spaces, Venkatesh Natarajan...25 Vertical City Hong Kong, Zhirui Ren...26 Stable of Cards, Charlotte Strom...27 Safe as Houses, Henry Russell...28 Rooms for a City, Jae Secull...29 The Town Hall Network, Ben Whelan...30 Of Frontispieces and Traditions, Dane Zain...31 Pool Buoys in the Pond, Jesse Thomas...32 ‘Future Tents’, Joshua Wilson...33 Beyond The Block, Zhenwen Zhang...34

.Catalyze();, Sebastian Yu Tai Teo...35 Break Through the Usual, Yoo Jin An...36 Warmth in the Concrete, Abigail Qiao Chu Ng...37 Ground Xerox, Alan Shi Dong...38 Hi-Fi / Lo-Fi, Austynn Machado...39 The Collector’s Lot, Benjamin Warren...40 Situation Normal, Charles Wie Jun Teo...41 The Disenchanted Mountain, Jack Bakker...42 Back To The Past, Forward To The Future, Jiawei Wang...43 Abyss in Luxury, Jan See Oi...44 Cul-De-Sac, Dementia Village, Jiejing Du...45 When the Bell Rings, Jin Wei Lua...46 Bridging the Edge, Jing Yi How...47 Safety in Plain Sight, Krystal Rawnson...48 Sharing Learning, Pei Qin Chia...49 Nature. Perception. Dwelling, Pui Hang Luk...50 When I Drive Alone at Night I See the Street Lights as Fairgrounds, Richard McPhillips...51 The Implicit Wall, Huynh Tram Nguyen...52 Afterlife of Hazelwood, Sherly Lie...53 Footscray2, Sudrano Sudrano...54 The Civic Reveal, Wen Yap...55 Through a Looking Glass, Er Hau Lee...56 A River Runs Through It, Lucas Alush-Jaggs...57 Beneath the Canopy, Trent Baker...58 Unveiling Islam, Zahra Ismael...59 Migrating Infrastructure, Aya Maharani...60 High Density City, Meng Guo...61 Re-Footscray, Yale Teo...62 Ex(Change), Jay Ritchie...63

Supervisors Semester 2, 2017...64 Students Semester 2, 2017...65

Introduction

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Architecture schools should be concerned with experimentation that challenges the apparent self-evident certainties and accepted orthodoxies of the discipline (in its expanded definition), the underlying assumptions about what architecture is and can contain, and what it should do next.

Architecture schools need to ensure that their graduates have all the professional competencies that are required for professional practice and registration. But Architecture schools should also lead the struggle to challenge the default conventions of the discipline. The architecture school should strive to point towards possible futures not yet evident within existing understandings of the discipline and wider cultural/political terrains.

Architecture is about ideas. It is part of a wider cultural sphere and a way of thinking about the world in a broader sense. Knowledge and learning in architecture do not finish in the academy but require continued learning and a level of receptive agility from the architect, throughout the architect’s life. The rapidly changing economic and cultural conditions in the extended fields that architects engage with necessitate this, requiring, but also opening up possibilities for, new types of knowledge, fields of engagement and practices.

The Major Project Medals The Anne Butler Memorial Medal, endowed in honour of an outstanding emerging practitioner, is awarded to a Major Project that exemplifies the goals of Major Project.

The Peter Corrigan Medal celebrates the project that is most critical, political and culturally engaged. It is awarded to a student with a strong independent vision in honour of Professor Peter Corrigan who taught successive generations of architects at RMIT for over 40 years.

The architecture student’s graduating Major Project – a capstone for the formal design degree – should not merely demonstrate the competence and skill they acquired in the course. These are base expectations on entry into the graduating semester. The graduating project is an opportunity to speculate through the work and to develop ideas that will serve as catalysts for future, lifelong investigations.

The Antonia Bruns Medal, endowed to recall Antonia’s interest in the relation between film and architecture, is awarded to a Major Project that investigates the relationship between architectural representation, association and perception.

The project should lay bare considered attitudes, brave speculations and leaps of faith, pursuing these with rigour and depth. We would hope that the projects are ambitious, brave and contain propositions relevant to their time. We would hope that students experiment – in whatever form this might take – and engage with difficult questions, contributing not merely to areas that are well explored, but to what is yet to come. Experimentation though, in the graduating project, as well as in the design studio, comes with the risk of failure. But failure can be cathartic – it is an essential possibility tied to innovation.

The Leon van Schaik 25th Anniversary Peer Assessed Major Project Award celebrates Prof. Leon van Schaik’s arrival as Head of Architecture at RMIT 28 years ago. It is decided by all Major Project voting for what they view as the most adventurous and future-embracing project of the semester.

At RMIT Architecture we understand well the ethos and importance of experimentation and we have longstanding processes to reward it, importantly through our grading and moderation processes. In the RMIT architecture programs, we call this ‘venturous ideas-led design practice’.2 ‘To be ‘venturous’ is to be brave and take risks. What we hope is happening here is that students are learning to establish their own explorations which they can constantly reconsider and navigate through future conditions that may not resemble present understandings of practice. Competencies and experimentation can happily co-exist.

We aim to educate students to engage with architecture’s specific characteristics unapologetically, and to not be afraid of its complex, uncertain and liquid nature. We aim to prepare our graduates to engage in and contribute to a broader world of ideas and to eventually challenge our ability to judge with new, challenging and meaningful propositions.

Professor Vivian Mitsogianni Deputy Dean and Head, Architecture & Urban Design RMIT University

01 For an expanded version of this text see Mitsogianni, V. (2015). Failure can be cathartic! The design studio - speculating on three themes In:

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Studio Futures: Changing trajectories in architectural education, Uro Publications, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 25-31 ‘Venturous’ is a term also used by RMIT Professor Leon van Schaik and Professor Richard Blythe in relation to the RMIT Design Practice PhD

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model, originated over 25 years ago by van Schaik, who states ‘Design Practice Research at RMIT is a longstanding program of research into what venturous designers actually do when they design’ .

What is Major Project?

In Major Project, students are expected to formulate an architectural research question and develop an articulate and well-argued architectural position through the execution of a major architectural design project.

RMIT Architecture values ambitious, adventurous projects; those that demonstrate new and pertinent architectural ideas or show how established ideas can be developed or transformed to offer deeper understandings. The best major projects take risks and attempt to see architecture anew. Major Project should form the beginning of an exploration of architectural ideas that can set the agenda for the first ten years of original and insightful architectural practice.

The nature of the project is not set, and the scope of the brief and site is established by the student in consultation with their supervisor as the most appropriate and potentially fruitful vehicle for testing and developing their particular area of architectural investigation. Typically, major projects proceed in a similar way to design studios – with the difference being that students themselves set their brief and topic of investigation.

The research question and architectural project will often develop in parallel and it is expected that the precise question and focus of the project will be discovered and clarified through the act of designing. This process is iterative and develops through weekly sessions. Projects are also formally reviewed at two public mid semester reviews before the final presentation.

Major Projects have ranged from strategic urban and landscape interventions with metropolitan implications, through to detailed explorations of building form, materiality, structure and inhabitation; to detailed experimentation in the processes and procedures of architectural production. It is expected that Major Projects will develop a particular and specific area of interest that has grown during a student’s studies, rather than merely complete a generic and competent design. Often these specific interests will develop in relation to those of supervisors – we encourage students to work closely with their supervisors to build on mutual areas of expertise and interest.

It is understood that major projects will differ in scope, scale, kinds of representation produced and degree of resolution; with these factors depending on the nature of the architectural question and accompanying brief.

Emphasis should be placed on producing a coherent and complete project, where proposition, brief, scale, degree of resolution and representation work together to provide a balanced, convincing and focused expression of architectural thought.

There is no expectation that Major Project be ‘comprehensive’ in scope. Rather, the aim of the subject is to establish, through the completion of a major design work in a rigorous manner, a well-argued architectural experiment that has the potential and richness to engender future explorations and that will sustain the student for the next ten years of their architectural practice.

A high level of skill and a demonstrated knowledge of existing architectural ideas is an important component of a successful major project, however the goal should not be to demonstrate a professional level of accepted best practice. Rather it is an opportunity to demonstrate new kinds of knowledge and ideas through architectural form. _Excerpt from Major Project Briefing Notes 2017

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Building Samples

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Stranger Familiar

The final architecture of the project is the interpolation of several found building samples chosen for their robust and radical shifts in occupation. The process appropriates a morphogenesis logic where each component in the wall has its own local intelligence in determining how it will express itself, as part of a wall, column, window, awning etc. The result is an internal logic that never repeats itself, yet never so radically removes itself from its initial sampling that it goes beyond recognition. How a space is to be occupied is always understood, yet how it could be occupied is open to interpretation.

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This study is a counterproposal to the current practice of employing the model under the guise of ‘type’, speculating that multi-functionalism is a flawed ambition, and that we’d be better served considering design in terms of re-occupation.

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Stranger Familiar investigates how a building can be the amalgamation of the surrounding contextual phenomena that is the result of patterns of usage and their relationship to the specifics of space. Can a suburb like Northbridge be treated like a delicate ecology with its own hierarchy of species, and like a George Church can we identify the dominant examples, extract their genetic code and blend it to produce new offspring? Ones that are strange, yet understandable because their lineage is apparent the more you look. Are these offspring in fact truer representations and employments of the concept of type?

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Charles Boman Supervisor: Ben Milbourne

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Inserted Building Studies

I N T E R N A L E X T E R N A L

Making Making Urban

Nicolas Cheuk Hang Wong Supervisors: Brent Allpress

The industrial mass production economy is coming to an end. Industry 4.0, driven by advanced manufacturing and data exchange, brings about a new democracy of production. Homogenised manufacturing tools such as 3d printing engages people in the process of making.

Reconceiving the notions of design, production and consumption, and the very link between manufacturing spaces, social networks and public interface.

Making Making Urban speculates on an industrial urban symbiosis driven by this new democratic making model, a driver that would gradually transform Fishermans Bend beyond an isolated industrial park into a civic-production intermix through processes of economic and social negotiation. An “anchor plus� clustering logic groups together institutions, specialised manufacturing facilities, enterprises and start-ups. This enables diversified adjacencies for tools and knowledge to be shared quickly and seamlessly where manufacturing interfaces, lifestyle, working and other forms of economy.

A meta layer civic connector weaves together innovation clusters with lifestyle amenities, transport interchange and landscape to mediate between manufacturing and the community. Makers markets, public forums, laneways become locales of activity and service exchange, fostering a civic condition to educate and accelerate making innovation. Re-curation of found utilitarian types marks civic moments against generic production spaces through system overrun and interference, whilst giving a uniform character that complements the infrastructural identity of the site.

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Dodododododo‌ Philip Chang Supervisor: Dr Michael Spooner

What is a dodo?

Is it an extinct flightless bird?

A doubling of the word do?

Or a strange intermixing through an incantation?

Maybe he’s just a fool with no common sense.

The project is a proposal for a new 70 000 m2 storage facility located at Jack’s Magazine in the Maribyrnong, where I unknowingly stumbled across a dodo at the beginning of the semester.

The exploration which followed attempts to trace a loose outline of the dodo, from the infinite number of points from which we might know it. From the possibility of an impending extinction to stuttering and the plurality of images, the project traverses through all these historical concerns in a hopeful manner without holding definition to a singular reading.

By attending to the unknowable constituents of the dodo, I have been as much an audience as an actor in this project as you are right now. However, the outcome of this project is no different from any other; this is architecture, only approached from the heights of a dodo, represented through the logic of a dodo and dreamt like a dodo.

This project holds faith in the value of the dodo.

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beat the clock! tales of an urban centrelink Peter Corrigan Medal Semester 2, 2017

Your rights, if you pursue them, will be kept for you to view them...

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Supervisor Statement: Tess’s project is a new headquarters for CentreLink in the CBD. It is where students, the elderly and infirm, and

...BriefLy, like your income at the bank:

unemployed will be scrutinised by bureaucrats, and where in turn, these people will make their case heard.

Tess observed that social welfare services are the largest slice of the government’s pie. Greater than education and healthcare, which have been transformed by new architecture, Centrelink remains ignored.

This Major Project asserts a belief in a democratic architecture that ‘punches up’ to critique the government’s brief of Kafka-esque functionalism.

The project revels in much-maligned intersection of Elizabeth and Flinders St, placing a new civic institution amongst late-night takeaway and a supermarket deli.

The projects greatest folly, its Piranessian circulation system, prods ‘clients’ through a network of ramps and escalators which highlight their ‘welfare stream’. The hope is that shame is removed and waiting becomes a public spectacle that attests to the popularity of CentleLink, or SuperNormal. _ Adam Pustola

Show your card, go up the stair, have it checked by those up there...

LEVEL 10 PLAN

start here

Level 10 centrelink testing centre

Level 10 public checkpoint

Level 9 Branch offces

Level 9 meeting rooms

Level 8 meeting rooms

Level 8 Branch offces

Level 7 branch offces

Level 7 meeting rooms

Level 6 branch offces

Level 6 meeting rooms

Level 5 meeting rooms

Level 5 Branch offces

Level 4 meeting rooms

Level 4 Branch offces

Beat the Clock! Tales of an Urban Centrelink

TYPICAL LEVEL PLAN

Tess O’Meara Supervisor: Adam Pustola

Flinders street

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

Level 3 tea room

Level 3 dohs offces

Level 2 dohs offces

Level 2 dohs offces

end here

Level 1 cafe

Level 1 dohs offces

elizabeth street Level G coles central Pension 0 1

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Level G centrelink accessible

This major project seeks to confront public discourse and the collective imaginary, playing as public opinion counterweight to power, by challenging policy and the reality of its architectural outcome.

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... And a slot will print your life out on a blank

It is a proposed Centrelink for the CBD, where the major policy changes to the 2017-2018 Australian Federal Budget are assumed as the project brief. Typical institutional planning and organisation is then scrutinised and reconfigured in favour of a truly democratic architecture; one where the successes and failings of Centrelink’s current systems of processing are made legible to the outside world.

The ambition of the project is ultimately to reinforce the disparity between the typical goals of an institutional architecture; one that puts things in order, cleans things up and makes them right; versus the day to day reality of the Centrelink branch.

It is a project grounded in the notion of ‘a critical architecture’, one that sees to the protection of freedom of speech in addition to the protection of cultural, scientific and artistic production. It fosters a sense of healthy democratic scepticism, and highlights that ‘a critical architecture’ is one that punches up—and currently, in architecture, there is simply too little punching up.

If you cry that isn 't you they will shrug...

..."Prove it, True Blue" 10

If it's you but wrong that will be just as hard-

"In the meantime we'll arrest you : we have fLash FInes to divest you...

...Of what's mucking up the data on your card!"

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hey true blue, they are slipping it to you

FENDER BENDER

Fender Bender 1_500 SITE SITE SECTION SECTION 1_500

1_500 SITE SITE SECTION SECTION 1_500

1_500 SITE SITE SECTION SECTION 1_500

NOBLE PARK

Bing Jie Chang Supervisor: Patrick Macasaet

The proposition of my project is to suggest a transformation of existing facilities into both large and small; where new buildings and landscape merge with those already existing to form diverse and yet coherent fields with a similar formal language. This is a project that blends an existing sport activities program with learning and living in a single space that doesn’t discriminate on the basis of age, ability, resulting in links between people that wouldn’t otherwise connect with each other. This is achieved by prototyping urban form; articulating a clear architectural position through testing social interactions that would usually occur within different age groups.

“The noble noble park park had had aa similar similar proportion proportion of of pre-schoolers pre-schoolers and and higher higher proportion proportion of of “The persons at at post post retirement retirement age age than than regional regional vic vic in in 2011.”

2011.” persons The people of Noble Park

5.5% 5.5%

0.77% 0.77% 0.03% 0.03%

3.65% 3.65%

of residents born overseas 10.59% 10.59%

9.3% 9.3%

12.25% 12.25% 11.13% 11.13%

15.6% 15.6%

18.13% 18.13%

Between 2006 and 2011 Between 2006 and 2011

Between 2006 and 2011 Between 2006 and 2011

-The population increased by -The population increased by 2,095 people 2,095 people -The indian born population -The indian born population increased from 3.5% to 8.6% increased from 3.5% to 8.6% -The Vietnamese born population -The Vietnamese born population increased from 7.5% to 8.1% increased from 7.5% to 8.1%

-By 2024 the population is -By 2024 the population is forecast to increase by 20% forecast to increase by 20% - The number of 5-9 years is - The number of 5-9 years is forecast to increase by 66% forecast to increase by 66% - From 2014- 24 the number of - From 2014- 24 the number of 40- 44 years is forecast to increase 40- 44 years is forecast to increase by 77% by 77%

existing programs existing programs

new centre point new centre point

new programs new programs

overlapping overlapping

LIVING LIVING FOOD FOOD LEARNING LEARNING PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE PLAY PLAY PULSE PULSE HEALTH HEALTH

NEW TYPOLOGY EXPERIMENT

PRECEDENT- STADIUM CIRCUIT

main bridge bridge connecting connecting main to residential residential area area to

running track track running community centre centre community

aquatic centre centre aquatic

The site is Ross Reserve Centre in Noble Park. Ross Reserve is a large district park with extensive sporting facilities and passive recreation areas.

Throughout the design process, to maximise the collision of different typologies, the varying site programs are used as focal points to replicate the typical urban housing types. As a consequence of the process and experiment, the project generates different types of social retirement housing that includes different levels of civicness within.

When compared to older generic retirement houses, this new type of housing instils variation, difference and character.

In order to actively define our own lives, we must create a dynamic environment in direct relation to our needs within a larger social network.

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generational gap generational gap

In 2012 there were an estimated 29,000 residents in the Noble Park In 2012 there were an estimated 29,000 residents in the Noble Park suburb catchment from 121 birthplaces, including India (9%), Vietnam suburb catchment from 121 birthplaces, including India (9%), Vietnam

This represents 20.9% of the total number of people usually resident in Greater This represents 20.9% of the total number of people usually resident in Greater Dandenong.

Dandenong.

0-4 years 0-4 years 5-9 years 5-9 years 10-19 years 10-19 years 20-29 years 20-29 years 30-39 years 30-39 years 40-49 years 40-49 years 50-59 years 50-59 years 60-69 years 60-69 years 70-79 years 70-79 years 80-89 years 80-89 years 90-99 years 90-99 years 100 and over 100 and over

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The people of Noble Park

The total number of people usually resident in Noble Park on Census Night 2011 The total number of people usually resident in Noble Park on Census Night 2011 was 28,378. was 28,378.

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RETIREMENT VILLAGE VILLAGE RETIREMENT AGED CARE CARE AGED HOUSE HOUSE

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Girl Guide Guide hall hall Girl

1. CAMPING CAMPING 1.

RETIREMENT VILLAGE VILLAGE RETIREMENT 2. INTERGENERATIONAL INTERGENERATIONAL 2.

CENTRE CENTRE 3.

WELLNESS CENTRE 3. WELLNESS CENTRE 4. FOOTBALL FOOTBALL HOUSES HOUSES 4.

5. COMMUNITY COMMUNITY 5.

HOUSES HOUSES 6. WATERPARK WATERPARK VILLAGE VILLAGE 6.

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BUILDING BUILDING

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running track track running public transport transport public community centre centre community public amenities amenities public

aquatic centre centre aquatic skatepark skatepark

PARK TYPOLOGY + HOUSING

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Springvale City City Soccer Soccer Club Club Springvale

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HOUSING CATALOGUE

Community House House Community

Intergenerational centre centre Intergenerational

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aged care care aged

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Waterpark house house ++ Skatepark Skatepark building building Waterpark

Public Amenities Amenities Public

Rehoming amenities amenities Rehoming

Girl Guide Guide Hall Hall Girl

Camping retirement retirement vilage vilage Camping

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aged care care ++ house house aged

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Football houses houses Football

Antonia Bruns Medal Semester 2, 2017 Supervisor Statement: and even when I affirm, I am still questioning Jacques Rigaut’s: The project considers the task underway of archiving and preserving the contents of the library of 46 Lt Latrobe Street in the office of Edmond and Corrigan. Emily imagines a time when the whole office, which she sees as integral to the library, may be ready to be donated too. That preservation is a construction. It imposes an intelligibility; a structure and coherence and it projects an alternate future for the office as archival material. Any memory we have of that studio, office, that site of odd and wonderful things, those unlikely encounters with Nicky Winmar, Piranesi and Berthold Brecht will in the future be found in little grey boxes within other boxes. Letters to Paul Fox, exhibitions attended. Invitations not opened. This project takes the work of Harriet Edquist, the Design Archive’s director and Alison Bates, manager of the RMIT Library seriously. Emily considers this as but one project of preservation and considers how the office in its current situation might also be architecture or have an architecture and the architecture that that would need. Emily imagines a situation where there are multiple projects of deconstructing and reconstructing and replicating the office and its contents, an array of techniques, partial, virtual and actual.We recognise that the studio itself is already a copy and that in its reconstruction through architecture, more material is carried forward than the original copy had, and that other things are being copied in the process of preservation than what had been in the past. Through the project we find more architecture than there had been and that through description more things are architecture.

This is a critique of architecture and a different understanding of what architecture is as its own subject. _ Peter Brew

The Fourth Wall, or the Library for the Library Emily Davies Supervisor: Dr Peter Brew

This project proposes an alternative method of cataloguing RMIT’s Design Archive and Library on recently donated collections from the office of Edmond and Corrigan.

This project is concerned with the preservation of the physical and imagined objects of 46 Little La Trobe St. It is a library built on either side of it as a site for the unpacking, archiving, copying and dispersal of its contents for when the whole office is ready to be donated too.

If the office is a copy of one part of Le Corbusier’s Esprit Nouveau - the 1:1 unit - then this extension attempts to reinstate the other half - as an exhibition of the potential of the reproduction of this unit.

Through this project, I hoped to find a revelation in the office, catch it off guard, or find some golden thread that would make it digestible. Instead, what has accumulated is a series of ways of active - not passive - looking. That is, a study of how different types of perception or reading can affect the translation of an object. Be it visually, virtually, spatially, emotionally, by language or mediated through technology. The incisive truth to this project is not to be found in the library or office itself, but in our inspection of it - through the inventions that occur upon our reading of it.

Each reproduction is a line of inquiry, but I’m not sure if there is more than one architecture - if it is the office itself, or the ordering of it, or the inflections we can make in its reproduction.

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Binding Ballarat

Mei Yan Chin Supervisor: John Doyle

Binding Ballarat is a project that considers the idea of Facadism and the concept and value of heritage in cities.

It questions is there worth in preserving the veneer if the reality is that it is not always the best artefact to represent the architecture, materiality, experience and quality? This project is instead proposing an engagement with the back end of Ballarat, a historically well preserved town, and thinking of better ways to create a richer dialogue. It proposes an academic walk which stretches from the train station to Federation University, engaging the historical layers and the urban built fabric of Ballarat, creating a new narrative for the town. It deals with and engages the history and contributions to the new economies through a series of urban surgery cutting and upgrading the urban fabric to open up the civic presence from the train station to Federation University.

Binding Ballarat’s emphasis on the rough cut and loose end as the valuable strategy for architecture. Loose ends as an architectural device, becoming the metaphor of the way of thinking about the city. What if you open things up and leave a loose hem open at the edge of the urban fabric? Creating a narrative that is not subservient to a historical site, nor disrespectful or in it entirely.

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Anne Butler Memorial Medal Semester 2, 2017 Supervisor Statement:Brad’s project merges narrative and the behavioural metrics of retail as a foundation for an experiential and scalable ‘Bunnings’ urban design guide. The result is both familiar and disarming in its attempt to answer J.G.Ballards’s famous question: “What is the psychology of this place?. This project is not dystopian and it is through the lens of scenario based design thinking that Brad elevates a possible architecture activated through the joy of observation. _ Simon Drysdale

Efflorescence and Liturgy of suburban Irritation Bradley Mitchell Supervisor: Simon Drysdale

Can we enable a new centreless city? Can we treat the existing suburban ‘artefacts’ as shells for the creation of an accessible city - one which promotes possibilities of start and end redistributions of population, rather than fabric erasures? What could new regulation do to our suburban image?

Prologue: The Garden City model - a failed success, with each morning, an exodus occurs from the suburbs to the city.

An Altona North vacant Bunnings, the suburban church, a monument, evolves to contain a gridded up-scaled urban componentry display market. In here it’s always a Sunday, a synecdoche suburb of a literally shifting store layout, with dusty booted inhabitants going walk about, a continuous dérive, tinkering and discovering the absence and presence of potential. A re-functioning facility of 11 districts, a baroque suburban stage of domestic locations (the roof, the front window, the street, the corner etc...) for encounters of infinite adjacencies and ambiances, offering alternatives to our existing code of minimums to plug in to suburbia; a new set of city beginning seeds and spatial resistances to reconfigure density and activate stagnate contexts with new regulations. Protests, incremental texture and enablers for all to trigger centrelessness and accessibility.

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Sawtooth Re-Invented

Yet Chi Chua Supervisors: Christine Phillips

This major project is a redesign of a new train station in South Kensington. The new train station will be relocated at the river side where the main population lives and gathers. The proposal envisions an urban condenser through the notion of hybridising a transport station with a civic centre. New civic programmes such as a market, library, child care centre, and youth centre are introduced.

The project references the site’s past livestock industry legacy and existing building form which consists of industrial warehouses with sawtooth roofs. The metaphor of contemporary cattle handling system is explored in designing the building form and circulation. Diverting from the typical form of suburban train stations, a curved form referencing a cattle range is adapted to better connect the site which was originally dissected by the train line. It allows high level of flexibility where civic programmes and the train station can be juxtaposed and overlapped to create smooth transitions for better user experience.

To complement the flexible spaces, sawtooth elements are reinvented to define different programmes, spatial quality, and threshold along the loop. By linking the civic programmes in the giant loop, transportation and civic activities occur inside the contained precinct, presenting a new civic gesture for this rising suburb in Melbourne.

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CONCURRENCE WALKING ZONES

BALNARING RETREAT SCALE 1:200

FITZROY TOWN HOUSES SCALE 1:500

MILLS, TOY MANAGEMENT HOUSE SCALE 1:200

TAPESTRY SCALE 1:500

ROSE HOUSE SCALE 1:200

FISH CREEK HOUSE SCALE 1:200

GROWTH OF CENTRAL HUBS

FENCE OPTIONS

PRIVATE SEMI - PRIVATE PUBLIC PRIVACY LEVELS

Concurrence

Jaymie Buhagiar Supervisor: Simone Koch

ALLOTMENTS

1500

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SETBACK

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PERMEABLE SWALE FOOTPATH

BIKE PATH

7000 - 12000 ROAD (MIN)

1000 1000 BIKE PATH

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SETBACK

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7000 - 12000

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RAIN GARDEN

BIKE PATH

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BIKE PATH

RAIN GARDEN

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This project is about reclaiming the disciplines of urban design and town planning to the realm of architecture.

In the formation and definition of these disciplines we have lost from the field of architecture the blurry overlap or the sense that each is just a part of a single ill-defined system. My project seeks to recognize that system and in doing so propose a return to an urbanism that is more reflective and responsive to its local condition. I looked at the constituent parts of a good neighbourhood and how these could be composed to have the greatest benefit to the collective inhabitants.

I’m using a site in Rockbank North on the edge of the metropolitan growth boundary to propose a new method of design to replace the existing model that is demonstrably failing on social, economic, political and ecological fronts.

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Justin Thang Son Nhat Dinh Supervisor: Simone Koch

This project is proposing a new type of multi-storey housing that is responsive to the social context of HoChiMinh city in Vietnam.

The thesis researches how to effectively accommodate the living arrangements and social behaviours of middleincome people in Vietnamese urban multi-storey housing.

The proposition is to use the model of the tube house, which is known as street house or shop house, depicting the dominant commercial function of the house and the interaction between the house and its environment. It is also a ubiquitous type of shop-house common to lower income neighbourhoods, in the format of a multi-storey apartment.

The ideas replicate the vibrant social and commercial interactions of these neighbourhoods, with the challenge to maintain the privacy and amenity of the occupants in the new format. In the design of the building, by using materials, details and forms endemic to the city in recognition of the assets of the place and towards the creation of a new type of apartment which is, in the end, already imminent.

Briefly, the design is for a new model of housing that grows from fabric of the city to become a future for housing in Vietnam.

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A New Flame Jack Dowling Supervisor: Dr Peter Brew HOTEL HOTEL

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In the wake of CFA Fiskville closing down, there is a new fire station and emergency service facilities in the Central Victorian country town Malmsbury. This project is about creating infrastructure as a means to induce further industry to a town, rather than the often knee jerk planning response. Given the scale of Malmsbury, I looked at the opportunity of a CFA training facility as a way to expand the idea of simulation to the town itself. The convergence of existing context then becomes part of the training environment. The chosen buildings must somehow be relevant to rural scenarios everywhere, implying a mean average of architecture.

A service station, and a silo working as props amongst Malmsbury’s local bakery for example, suggests an average typology simultaneously working with something contextual, but the local bakery also exists as such in other towns. Although the buildings are simulated, there is something ambiguous with respect to how artificial or real they actually are. The hotel still functions as such, as does the fire station. But this is not a homage to the rural condition by reflecting current scenarios.

Reflections of the rural condition will continue to change, and subsequently so too will fire fighting scenarios. My methodology was to think about the town’s physical environment holistically when recreating experience.

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Whether it’s economic, climatic or ecological, the change people are experiencing in Australia’s farming regions is relentless.

Wrapping farming towns like Goroke, in Victoria’s wheat belt west of Horsham, in high-density, controlled environment farming, builds on an area’s agricultural base and infrastructure to preserve the continuity of life in rural towns.

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The farming infrastructure is adapted to provide opportunities for new and existing program making the architecture accessible to the people of the town and not only the domain of the specialist.

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These buildings can be a part of the life of a town.

High density farming uses less water, reduces the risk of pests and diseases, increases yield and provides for yearround harvests. High-density farming frees up existing agricultural land for revegetation programs, like that of Greening Australia’s Habitat 141 project to connect the ocean to the outback through green corridors.

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The future of farming is not in our cities. Urban agriculture is for our city’s elite.

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Rehousing Memories Gilbert Ganda Supervisor: Dr Jan van Schaik

The aim of the Lazarus Island Recreational Cemetery is to claim an opportunity to revive the urban element that is popularly perceived as waste land. Singapore, being a multi-cultural and religious country, experiences cultural segregation often. Lazarus Island’s multi-faith cemetery will redefine the concept of a cemetery by celebrating that diversity and documenting living history while honouring the memory of those interred. Besides being a new typology of a recreational cemetery on an island, the project is also designed to fit in with the future development plan of Singapore.

Singapore has modernised at an outstanding rate over the past few decades, resulting in cultural identity, history and heritage being contested by the need to develop as a global economic state. A legacy of Singapore’s development is that existing historical cemeteries have been sacrificed to pave ways for new apartments, shopping centres, etc. Lazarus Island fights for the existence of the past in several new ways.

New site: The project identifies Lazarus Island of Singapore as a new home, only accessible by water.

New typology: Lazarus Island can be uniquely preserved for recreational purposes, by the way it could be accessed as well as introducing multiple new programs such as memorabilia and galleries - inwardly reflecting on the lives of those interred there and outwardly change visitor’s attitudes towards death and burial.

New translation: The project encourages multi-faith programs and interactions to blur lenses of segregation that occur at subtle and subliminal levels in Singapore by combining almost-forgotten religious rites and cultures with architectural language and symbols that are less recognisable but have a strong history of being used in different religions.

Siting itself on an uninhabited island gives my project the privilege to provide a continuous journey from arrival to departure, symbolising the progression of a death ritual or ceremony and creatively immersing visitors in multifaith gestures of engagement.

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Seemingly the trouble with St Albans is that when you get there, there isn’t anything there; merely an endless span of terracotta tiles, brick walls and asphalt rivers.

This misinterpreted dressing of normality runs deep through the suburbs, diluted against the infinite sprawl of housing and vast landscape. However, “if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath”. A sinister, weird and fetishistic fuck-town festers within, clawing at our doors, peeping through windows and scouring our bins. This place is far from a desert of weatherboard and brick; it is the heartland of Australia, an iconic condition highly steeped in both identity and character. My interests lie in the vast landscapes we call home; in the condition of the uncanny, the strange and the slightly peculiar, and in architecture’s role in the facilitation of the suburban experience. More specifically the project aims to investigate the fracturing of traditional suburban tropes to reveal the bizarre Lynchian landscape that thrives within. The uncovering of strange is nothing new; these are qualities that already exist, just often disguised.

“People do strange things consistently, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.”

Through the process of amplification, the project aims to somewhat distort traditional suburban qualities to not only highlight their presence but to unmask and understand their larger role in the context of the suburb.

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Archipelago of Forces Rafid Reasat Hai Supervisors: Ian Nazareth

The Archipelago of Forces offers a draft project, an action plan in reaction to the constellation of colliding urban forces, proposing an alternate model and process of urbanism. This project explores the possibility of fragmented elements of architecture scattered around the city as a series of catalysts for urban development.

Archipelago of forces is identified through the differentiation of fragments of intensity, located islands or, usually conceived as cohesion amid public domain and the surrounding metropolitan corpus. It addresses the potential of architecture to create urban pockets of meaning and consequences that associate with a series of ambiences.

This project negotiates the apparent and inevitable juxtapositions of Melbourne’s development from fragments that engender the city, while the city becomes a highly congested series of coherent fragments?

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Postnuptial

Robert Hillman Supervisors: Ben Milbourne

“Postnuptial” is an imagined embassy in Canberra, for a hypothetically independent Scotland. The project is about a compromise and the built tensions between two sets of cultural values, after a divorce.

The embassy employs Scottish liberal land access laws to open itself up to the world, whilst ensuring a strong relationship with the British High Commission.

The campus borrows the vernacular from one of Scotland’s few unique architectural typologies; the Broch.

The double-wall circulation system is used to generate two walls that creep in and under the site of the British High Commission, creating a canyon-like space that strategically controls the traversability between British and the Scottish parts of the site.

The spatial qualities of the interiors are generated by a transplantation and manipulation of interiors from existing buildings owned by the British High Commission in Canberra. This technique of manipulating existing material is borrowed from the great bard of Scotland, Robbie Burns, who took existing lyrics and melodies and forged them together to generate new works of cultural value.

Throughout the project, the section is used to confuse territory and explore the tension between different cultures. It is the necessity for connection and collaboration that creates the tension and discomfort on both sides of the wall.

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Porcelain Jungle Isabelle Jooste Supervisor: Gwyllim Jahn

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This project is an investigation of the potential application of robotics to explore an old fashioned idea of craft in architecture. It began with the observation that the architecture we design almost always loses resolution and nuance when fabricated. This lead to an exploration of the potential of robotic fabrication to produce material artefacts in construction elements that reveal the process of their making. The discovery was that in the process of clay extrusion we lose resolution in the form of sharp corners and complex polylines, and gain it in the sense of rippling, slumping, bleeding, ribboning and folding.

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The project seeks to investigate the allegations of Siegfried Gideon, notable historian and architectural critic. His insistence that the Baroque represented “…a repugnant aesthetic ideal characterised by ornament, impurity and falseness, embedded in a decadent society” seemed to present an interesting opportunity of exploration.

Later, while perusing Anish Kapoors extruded concrete sculptures on Pinterest, intricately carved postrenaissance cathedral stone walls popped up as suggested images for further consideration. The Pinterest image Algorithm had confirmed material likeness.

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Each decision was suspended in tension between adhering to a potentially repugnant historic ideal and a modest attempt at pragmatics in working with real material. The project is not interested in the academic revival of an old style, instead it seeks to assess whether this new method of making moves beyond the old problem of ornament, impurity and falseness, when the ornament is embedded in the object. But perhaps it only perpetuates it.

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Game- On! Kayden Khoon Yaw Lau Supervisor: Ian Nazareth

“GAME- ON!� is an investigation of the relationship between the methodology of gaming, gaming culture and architectural process. It attempts to hybridize gaming typology into an architectural form and capture the essence of staging, narrative and chronology. The transformation of architecture has been limited by the building processes, completion and the nature of conservation and preservation. Lengthy procurement processes and economics mean that architecture is so often an anachronism, and reactive rather than speculative. Over the decades architectural buildings have been built to be completed, and the idea of completion has created the gap between the culture and the city that changed massively over the years.

In my project the architecture and the preservation of buildings is no longer seen as permanent objects, but as a catalyst for transformation. Here the building forms and programs are perceived as kinetic processes rather than static entities, each cultured in a transitional evolutionary moment. They are informed by the culture it inhabits and developing through material, technology and culture.

This project commenced in 1952 as the first game was generated, and by using St. Patrick cathedral as the testing ground to hybridize the formation of gothic revival cathedral with each generation of game to create a new dimension of experience that merged the space physically and visually. Each version sees the next iteration, an infinite universe to borrow a term from gaming engines. The hybridization with game culture allowing the building consistently been built according to the improvement of technology, game style, resolution and surrounding context to minimize the gap between architecture, culture and the city. The hypothesis and process attempts to make properties of Architecture that maybe be evident.

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Embassy for Young and Old Min Ji Lee Supervisors: Jonothan Cowle & Chris Hayton

Embassy for Young and Old is an architectural response to the current social issues of both child and aged care.

It is a catalyst that brings the old and young together to cohabit in a single environment and enables them to coexist in a dynamic and three dimensional manners. As it attempts to be provocative and overturn exclusiveness to inclusiveness, the project is deliberately placed in the most conservative retirement community neighbourhood of Brighton.

The proposal investigates and addresses the issue of child care affordability, as it has become apparent that while the numbers of isolated elderly are increasing and their valuable knowledge that could be contributed to society is lost in today’s society. It provides solution to these social issues through a hybrid care environment.

As expressed externally through architectural elements, various volumes of programs are inserted into a rigid and matured looking facade to express the synergy of two different environments.

The hybridised moments between the young and old exist through a different levels of sharing of space, visual connectivity to not only promote accountability but also to congregate between two spaces. The various spaces collide to form new spatial experiences that activate different ways of learning, interacting, communicating and dwelling amongst young and old.

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This project uses the Shrine of Remembrance as a foil in a scheme that mediates our disagreements. It is proposed that architecture has a hand to play here, in that the Shrine locates an explicitly contested site of contemporary understanding and negotiation of power and the city.

The metaphor employed for the addition is that of a veil, a shroud that simultaneously obscures the object and generates an overall legibility - a literal smoothing of differences. The building is occupied by several organisations, of varied and contradictory characters; the Reserve Bank of Australia, Australian Council for the Arts, Australian Secret Intelligence Service, and the Australian Olympic Committee. In addition to resolving a crisis of national identity, the project accommodates organisational differences that manufacture our identity locally and globally.

A veil is a dual object, capable of resolving and giving form to a plan that is locked in conflict. Architecture then is a conflicted resolution, a virtuous sign that embraces the contested reality of the world.

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This project is a proposed mitigation for the evolution of Lincoln square through the lens of the newly zoned Melbourne Innovation District with the ambition of constructing a contrast and relief to the districts projected increased density through a highly connected university facility. The project aims to fulfil the currently vague brief for the district as it stands while providing something new and unconsidered such as how the collaboration between two university institutions and the Melbourne City Council might impact public space.

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Form Growth Studies Character Study 01

This project investigates the possible relationship between material fabrication, algorithmic design strategies and novel processes of robotic production. As a holistic system, it seeks to answer whether this can enable us to produce various topological and tectonic configurations within the architectural discourse.

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At the core of the project is the development of a fabrication process within the context of the building industry, involving the use of a hot blade at the end of a robot which is then programmed to carve foam. The fabrication technique of carving is used as a source of exploration for a new construction paradigm in architecture. The unique characteristics of the resulting carved geometry - that are studies exclusive to the process - involves mass generated through algorithmic strategies, the logistics of the fabrication process and material properties of foam.

The formal qualities of carved foam are quite unique as opposed to other subtractive processes such as milling.

Since the placement is only limited by the robot’s reach as opposed to a flatbed, one can start designing in 3 dimensions with cuts being longer, more continuous allowing for more seamless & smoother transitions between mass, surface and line with fine edges and smooth surface qualities.

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Foaming Spaces This project investigates the possible relationship between material fabrication, algorithmic design strategies and novel processes of robotic production that can lead to new tectonic possibilities in architecture. As a holistic system, it seeks to answer how can this enable us to produce various topological and tectonic configurations within the architectural discourse. The fabrication technique of carving is used as a source of exploration for a new construction paradigm in architecture. The unique characteristics of the resulting carved geometry - that are studies exclusive to the process - involves mass generated through algorithmic strategies, the carving tool’s features, the logistics of the fabrication process and material properties of foam.

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Vertical City

Zhirui Ren Supervisors: Dr Jan van Schaik

This project proposes an architecture of a vertical city pushed to its limits, and in doing so, speculates on a new building type that could, in turn, inform a new type of city.

While Vertical City is conceived of as is existing in Hong Kong, where vertical movement through the city is as common place as horizontal movement, the project is designed to exist in a stand-alone condition, and thus speculates that a single architectural structure could be an entirely self-contained city whose residents may choose to never leave.

The project is designed through a process of intensive programmatic imagining coinciding with a practice of drawing through which architectural form, spatial qualities, transportation modes, structural modules, mechanical systems, daylight access, and surface treatments are invented and refined.

Churches are located above aquariums. Schools are placed adjacent zoos. Theme parks and shopping malls become intertwined. Galleries and art schools and designed around a vertical tram station. Hotels, living pods, and apartments are intermingled with themed markets. Expansive parks are placed alongside festival stages. A film studio and fake historical city are found below ground. Work and production spaces are peppered throughout the city.

The new city has a minimal ground level footprint, allowing for a transfer zone between the horizontal transportation modes of arrival and departure, and the vertical transport modes taking visitors to the many levels up in the many layered zones above and deep into the ground below.

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Stable of Cards

Charlotte Strom Supervisor: Emma Jackson

My thesis has been looking at form finding through abstracting framed scenes and then extracting their spatial qualities to create a sequenced journey where particular moments have been considered. It’s a bit like a dance where moments are emphasized then smoothly transition into the next. You can’t quite see what the in between spaces are, but they follow a smooth motion, merging together in harmony.

In the making of the sequenced journey my aim was to find the right scale, find the right blend and a smooth transition through the in between. Different moments were interrogated, like the waiting area, to find the right fit.

I believe architecture can be described as a spatial journey and this happens in sequences. I believe it can create a dynamic flow when spaces smoothly connect, are multi-functional and are experienced through depth.

There should be some sort of wonder; what is around the corner? Where does this door lead me?

Moving around should bring a new experience, architecture should guide you, through formal gestures, levels and materials.

The final result of my building is all about the view, wayfinding and an atmospheric relationship between certain spaces.

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Sited across the city along the lay-lines of Melbourne’s new Metro project, The Dark Days Institute proposes a dispersed public infrastructure that enables alternative modes to occupy the city, using architecture as an armature to facilitate new conditions of habitation and appropriation of public space.

The privatisation of public space and infrastructure in recent times has seen people pushed out of these places and censored. They’ve increasingly become commodified, sterilised or converted to private capital. Viewing the new Metro station sites as pressure points, the project intends to capitalise on the convergence of people and place, whilst critiquing who has the right to the city.

Taking its title and departure point from Dark Days, a film that explores the subculture of people living, and re-proposing the NY subway infrastructure through guerrilla tactics, the Dark Days Institute is an architecture of resistance, stitching this condition of dwindling public spaces to rail infrastructure, the project reimagines these new city thresholds to have a more fluid and tactical engagement with the public, re-instating the train stations role as a potent civic space or ‘Agora’. The project explores how architecture can be expressive and embody these ideas. The mechanisms by which the project explores this is through notions of the incompleteness, fragmentation and dynamism as a tectonic device that speaks to the sentiment of coming together and an openness in society.

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                  

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  

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   

The Town Hall Network Ben Whelan Supervisors: Jonothan Cowle & Chris Hayton

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The Town Hall and Civic Centre in Collingwood has like many other Civic Centres become underutilised and lost its meaning in modern society. What was once a key public place with regular social events, such as dances and galas, has become primarily used to host clearance sales. My proposal offers a generous gesture to the city by providing a new layer of social infrastructure; an open platform with connection between the public and the government, a place for debate and public opinion, for work and recreation and for culture and knowledge.

It tests the role architecture can play in re-asserting the Town Hall and Civic Centre as a vital and critical public space. It becomes a place where people search for meaning and truth, working towards shared and common goals; a mission which is an open invitation to take part and innovate together.

It is the relationships and connections that drives the project and gives architecture its meaning. Buildings become architecture when they take on a larger role; positioned to understand their place, not being that of the individual but rather a cohesive link that is part of a greater collective structure.

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Pool Buoys in the Pond Jesse Thomas Supervisor: Dr Michael Spooner

Dear Pool, I remember the first time I noticed you, driving along the freeway you appeared as this looming mass over the edge of the concrete barrier. If not for the glimpse of the blue green water inside I would have mistaken you for a carpark.

I came by for a dip last summer, the beating sun had baked the tarmac and it felt almost liquid below foot. I remember darting from one patch of shade to the next, the benches forming a series of ponds to swim through before finally making it to the cool steps beckoning me inside.

In the pool the green water reflected the lights above, the white lines making it appear as if I were swimming a multi-lane expressway. As I dressed in the change room, the summer air turned cool as it ran across the concrete and tiles, picking up the scent of chlorine.

I noticed the brass walls beginning to rust turning from bright gold to green, dissolving into the water itself.

As I departed the cranes and scaffolding filled in the gaps in the skyline beyond and I wished that, pool by pool, a river would form, so I could swim all the way to my house.

Until we meet again.

Yours sincerely The Swimmer

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sturt street facade [1]

< reinstated landscape & wetlands [2] connection to existing fabric - drainage [3]

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Post-war facade pasted over existing building form

the pitch/gathering point

the shelf

the stage

the seat / bench

spatial comparison front vs back

Post-war facade covers existing building

Operable soft wall. Curtains stored in small cupboards which can be opened up and slid out according to needs

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Approx 1933 high floodline

Operable hard wall. Pivot doors to double as walls, displays, storage and seating according to use.

the shelter

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The landscape is revealed through the erosion of the site based on flood data, daylighting an existing underground drain. This transforms the site into an urban park, evoking the memory of the former landscape and the presence of the river.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Future Tentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; explores the potential of latency and temporality in architecture in regional Victoria. In an environment dealing with issues of population expansion and demographic shifts, the project asks: how can architecture operate in a way that allows and encourages a shifting younger demographic to carve out their own identity within a regional centre whilst still revealing something nuanced about the existing conditions of the place? How can architecture be flexible and carry with it the possibility and power of potential rather than being prescriptive or fixed in its use? How can architecture speak to notions of memory and history in a way that reframes the future?

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Beyond the Block

Zhenwen Zhang Supervisors: Mark Raggatt & Tim Pyke

BEYOND the BLOCK is about the deployment of a development model to create public realm and catalyse urban density. It speculates about an alternate development that challenges the existing standards for a growing city. The focus on development yield has resulted in a lack of civic space within the urban city, creating towers that stand in isolation, disconnected from the ground plane. What if we were to challenge the current standards in place? Would we be able to create an alternate outcome but maintain the requirements that enable a project?

Through identifying the issues of current standards such as distances between towers & street setbacks, the change allows for a vibrant open park that not only houses living amenities and everyday life within, but also acts as the context for future developments around the site. Through the perimeter block being sliced up into different buildings at different stages, it provides an attempt at a solution of how large scale developments can contribute back to the city & its occupants.

Public spaces should play a more pivotal role in residential developments that prioritise commercial over social interest. This project aims to give equal importance to both aspects, arguing that through architecture, the challenge of providing civic space within a dense fabric is achievable, forging a bright future for the growth of our city.

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.Catalyze();

Sebastian Yu Tai Teo Supervisor: Dr Roland Snooks

.Catalyze(); engages with processes of autonomous design and fabrication in an exploration of the formal language of 3D printed architecture that is intrinsically tied to the material and environmental properties of its site.

Moving away from urban density, this project proposes a re-population of the most isolated of environments providing a speculative scenario for the autonomous design and construction.

Using multi-agent algorithms and behavioural methodologies, the project is an exploration of how robots might be turned into field designers and fabricators. With a set of carefully designed behavioural algorithms, it works to have a direct relationship with these robots; autonomously generating and fabricating site specific architectural logic and responsive formal qualities.

This methodology has been tested on three isolated, yet radically different, sites: Antarctica, Desert, and Mars. With each site having its own unique set of environmental parameters which inform behavioural codes, the architectural qualities and characteristics are investigated in each, once autonomously analyzed and catalyzed.

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The vision of this project is to reimagine the arterial street as a more vibrant and dense urban corridor. The project sits along the full 7km of Victoria Street which runs from North Melbourne to the Yarra River as an arterial road between the CBD and neighbouring suburbs.

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The urban strategies employed in this project are changing the perception of the street being the linear transit route into more cross connectivity of public corridors. To make a dense urban corridor, the housing types and landscaping strategies are introduced in a generic yet appropriate way to accommodate the necessities of various scales of individual domestic environments. How could these networks of domestic interventions affect the immediate surrounding as well as the larger field of the city?

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The Flinders Gate precinct is home to CBD South — 1 of the 5 underground stations slated for construction under the Metro Tunnel Project. The testing grounds rest within the precinct: adjacent to Young & Jackson, and cornered

by St. Paul’s Cathedral, Federation Square, and Flinders Station.

Full of vitality and furiously steeped in commotion, the precinct deals with an unusually high influx of traffic saturating it daily. To the point where the corner of Swanston and Flinders Street has been flagged for severe overcrowding.

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As the site sits in the middle of the Swanston commercial spine and Melbourne’s civic and arts district, it serves the role of a liminal point: between commercial, civic, and residential spines, as a gateway between the ground level street and its subterranean entity, and as a balance between the extroverted nature of the train station and the introversion of a library.

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The project carves a void into the site to reconcile its streetscape and its underground, allowing the city to thrive and flourish below the surface. It cultivates a new subterranean civic presence that filters all the congestion in the city to create pockets of quiet and respite in the midst of the intensity of urban spectacle and modern day living.

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Ground Xerox

Alan Shi Dong Supervisor: Gwyllim Jahn

Historically, copying was the means by which architecture disseminated language and culture into common use.

Palladio’s Four Books of Architecture, for example, were explicit manuals published to be copied by other architects. Yet the copy has also become characterised as the enemy of progress, an inauthentic, pastiched and faked dead end of invention.

Therefore the architectural copy can be schizophrenically characterised as the discipline’s perfect and evil twin, at once fundamental to architecture’s mode and its nemesis.

Ground Xerox explores the potential of developing the copy as a progressive and critical architectural technique through the means of machine learning and image transfer. Using the Melbourne Innovation Centre situated at the intersection between Victoria Street and Swanston Street as a testing ground. The project appropriates Antoni Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia as the style in creating an uncanny copy, warping the original masterpiece through an iterative process between machine and designer generating a new Gaudi-esque doppelganger.

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Hi-Fi / Lo-Fi

Austynn Machado Supervisor: Paul Minifie

The profile became the epicentre of the object, first as the sweep operating upon the site, then as the interior to a more subtle detail level on which new sub-objects and elements of the sweep can be articulated and added again and again, duo-mining the precedent materiel and creating a secondary and tertiary articulation to the emerging system. The multiple levels of sweeps create an ever growing layer of intricacy and detail as the system grows over the site. So the exterior of the object that we see is the system of the interactions of the object at its largest structural scale. While we look into the denser sections of the object we can see a multi layering of systems of multi scales, forming that of the interior structure, interiors systems, and details.

The architecture is a thing which is totally removed from its source data, yet has a similar nature; a system of details overlapped to create a new space. Operations of the sweep act upon surfaces to create new conditions, which allow for spaces to emerge. A space that is thoroughly labyrinthine, a strange extension of the disjunction of the source objects, where only a viewer of each plan and section could even hope to grasp itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whole complexity. This hermitry of the object affirms its architecture and its autonomy while denying the metaphysics of presence. The architecture becomes an ungrounded diagrammatic system of figures, as the machine emerges.

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The Collectorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lot

Benjamin Warren Supervisor: Damien Thackray

This project is a proposal for a civic-infrastructure that pre-empts the inevitable roll out of developer driven development across the site. In acting before the event, this project does three things: it re-figures an existing industrial fabric through acts of transmemberment; it takes the domestic amenity of the apartment and places that into the public realm; and it provides a setting for future residential development around ideas of shared existence and limited ownership.

The site at stake is a 2.5km long industrial tract in Brunswick. A collection of industrial buildings that, at an individual level have little heritage value, but taken as a collective, form a momentary body-whole. A series of acts of transmemberment were enacted on a smaller testing site, at the scale of the bounded-object. Both opening up the conditions for this collective-body to emerge and supposing a form of preservation through disembodied semblance.

This dispersed setting is taken up by a program of domestic amenity that acts to reduce the load requirements on future individual dwellings while offering the possibility of access to a greater amenity through a negotiated collective experience.

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Situation Normal

Charles Wei Jun Teo Supervisors: Vicky Lam

Situation Normal is a counterproposal to high-rise development within the city. The project questions the normal existing conditions of the urban spaces within the city and relationships between public amenity and private development.

This thesis questions whether private developments can further contribute to the collective urban scape of the city. The testing ground covers a half city block mixed-use development, located beside the city’s newly announced park space in Market Street.

Testing has been carried out through a hotel proposal, a typology that lies in between public and private ownership. The hotel lobby acts as the grounding for the project, each of the components of the hotel is broken down and reconstituted. Within a ‘hortus conclusus’ the hotel lobby is transformed into a series of transparent and permeable pavilions; a generous yet surreal civic space for both public and private users. Pedestrian movement is encouraged, while private rooms are redesigned to optimize shared spaces and extends the park’s reach far and deep into the private development.

Benjamin Constant’s assertion is that in the modern polis it is in private rather than public that freedom and fulfillment are to be experienced. Situation Normal proposes a situation where the traditional concepts of public amenity and private property are reestablished.

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The Disenchanted Mountain Jack Bakker Supervisor: Emma Jackson

Most towers arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t architecture.

The Disenchanted Mountain aims to address the issue that most towers are designed by developers and developers are driven by the market.

They are both the instruments and expressions of capital.

Towers have shifted from architecture to a form of market vernacular.

Seeking to move architecture and design beyond a mere marketing ploy for developers and to create a tower that is an urban narrative of Melbourne, its vernacular and create a defining glyph in the Melbourne skyline.

It seeks to return the tower to an architectural and social context rather than an economic tool for the creation of capital.

Can a tower be designed solely by architects, in line with social and architectural values and traits, and still satisfy the wants or desires of the market and developers?

Can it do both?

The tower seeks to draw from its site across from the Rialto tower on the corner of Collins and King Street. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s designed to operate at multiple scales - the large scale building elevated on a podium as if the building had been carved or was a group of pixels from its context. The lower podium engages at street level and draws from Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cobbled bluestone laneways.

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Back to the Past, Forward to the Future Jiawei Wang Supervisor: Ian Nazareth

The project aims to frame contemporary architecture in China and ensure its resiliency and longevity. Specifically looking at a highly political reference; The Silk road in Xiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;an, China, and how architecture can represent not just its current state of pseudo classic architecture, but explore the relics and what it means for architecture in the present and future.

The site of the project is located at the starting point of the ancient Silk Road within the relicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s area. The city was the biggest and most prosperous city in the year of around 618 to which the ancient Silk Road contributed a lot, but has since declined now and the whole city is filled with pseudo-classic architecture merely showing its splendid history, but not its present and future? How can architecture explore this history and represent this into our present and future?

This project takes the explorations of the Silk Road and existing relics, and uses these references as a technique to inform an organic garden style that engages with nonregular forms of relics.

Using a hybrid of techniques, simulations were used to create the organic styled programmed, with more of a top down decision making technique deriving from ancient site layouts to create a grid system. Its intent to let the history freeze in the underground but still maintain a connection to its ever evolving structural program that grows. It hopes to become a beacon and language for contemporary architecture for the city. The inclined columns make a similar gesture growing upward toward the sky to represent a good future for the city.

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We are now looking at the prediction of Melbourne at the year of 2061, as Victoria reaches 10 million in population.

As Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s density puzzle unfolds, it becomes problematic to build as the streets are already shut down.

A process of infill has then began to take place in various parts of the city.

Abyss in Luxury, is a genuine experiment examining what the infill of the remaining spaces between the towers might be. The project oscillates between a positivist view of an amplified density, and one of dystopia through the introduction of the customization process in architecture.

The consequences of customization allow opportunities for a cautious edit of the infill and the old towers.

The project takes place on the extremely dense precinct of Elizabeth St, particularly looking at the Vision Apartments & the Victoria One Apartments as a starting point.

As rising developments claims its luxurious title on its addresses throughout this year, is this project then a representation of the amplified dystopian reality disguised in the most luxurious way to sell the apartments in 2061? Perhaps the project portrays a silver lining to the process, in the case that densification in the city is an unavoidable reality.

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Cul-De-Sac Dementia Village

- Home-like and familiar atmosphere - Human scale

Focused around the concept of “house” this option is arranged to maximize amenity and privacy within the environment of a specific residential aged care facility. A built example of Dementia Village in Netherland values this aged care facility is a built form attempt at thought leadership. Comprising only two standard suite houses, the houses create a comfortable scale to encourage confident interaction among residents within the environment.

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Design for Dementia A critical overview of the evidence-based design of housing for people with dementia

This technique provides great views out over and through or inboard to the landscaped familiar. Inside views are considered episodic, sequential and are framed around the internal street.

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As these conditions happen at a small and localised scale, the project attempts to explore the possibility of upsizing these moments to create a larger effect in the urban realm.

With schools transforming into civic infrastructure for the community, Gilmore College seeks to provide the same service. In response to the need for security between the public and the school, and the intensity of the 6-lane freeway, the typology of the bridge was selected.

Buildings attached are required infrastructures to support the length of the public bridge.

What is left between the structures becomes the elastic infill – consisting of the sports court and interior stairs – that is shared between the public and school. The school claims the ground while the public resides on the bridge. The transition between them happens based on the daily cycles of the school. The markings of the public pathway, gates, and the redundant passageway under the bleachers allow for multiple readings of the space, control of territories, and for events to happen concurrently.

When the last school bell rings at 4 o’clock, a variety of public spaces can be formed – ranging from small, private events to large neighbourhood events.

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Bridging the Edge

Jing Yi How Supervisors: Mark Raggatt & Tim Pyke

This project represents a new future for Docklands, where business as usual no longer works, either commercially or as a city building project. Through exploring a new relationship between development and waterfront within the complex urban spaces, focus on community life and finer grains, a diverse series of environments will reinvigorate the underused waterfront into a public focal point that consolidates the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sense of identity.

By restoring the character of Docklands, wetlands will bring new qualities and create new wildlife corridors between the manmade and the natural. A system of active transportation loops act as spatial mediators between urban and ecological spaces and will lengthen and heighten the promenade and form a loop of activities that reconnect the city to Docklands, creating a comprehensive open space network.

It is envisioned that these new interventions will act as catalysts in fostering a new sense of community and revitalizing the day-to-day life of the neighbourhood. It will serve to optimize the existing functions and events of the ethnic enclave and act as anchor points along the strip.

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Safety in Plain Sight

Krystal Rawnson Supervisor: Vicky Lam

This Major Project looks at reorganizing generic regional typologies. The objective aims to support a social issue whilst creating community amenities that are absent in regional towns.

Located in Shepparton, the program consists of Family Violence Crisis accommodation and related community services.

The brief responds to recommendations from the Royal Commission into Family Violence released earlier this year (July 2017) and interprets them into architecture that attempts to improve these services.

The projects seeks to elevate the model of crisis accommodation by knitting in community services and added programs with familiar architectural devices of the wisteria laden pergola and sawtooth rooflines to organize thresholds between the refuge and a generous public realm.

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Sharing Learning

Pei Qin Chia Supervisor: Brent Allpress

Education environments are continuing to shift from teacher-centered to student-centered configurations.

Increasingly educators are recognizing that the majority of learning occurs through interaction and problem solving with peers rather than through traditional â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;teacher speaks, student listensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; formats. This approach utilizes diverse modes of learning and requires the support of engaging and exciting learning spaces that can be easily reconfigured to create a variety of learning settings.

This project aims to rethink the current school design to accommodate the 21st century learning pedagogy and improve current learning environment for Port Melbourne primary school while fostering a strong community focus by sharing facilities with the community after school hours.

This proposal consolidated a mixed demographics co-location of primary and secondary schools into the existing Port Melbourne primary school. Designed with the 21st century modes of learning, the innovative program features multi-use learning spaces â&#x20AC;&#x201C; shared collaboration spaces that weave through each learning space outside the classrooms. These spaces integrate project-based learning into the daily curriculum with discrete spaces for media, dance, arts, individual learning and small group collaboration space. As for the heart of school, the learning corridors promote collaboration between students, educators and the community, to maximize interaction, and create opportunities for interdisciplinary and inter-grade learning. Learning spaces should be flexible and inherently adaptable to reflect the dynamic and fluid nature of learning.

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68.2 m

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shop-house settlement

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five mile creek avenue grassland hotel train station golf club c h i l d r e nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; s p a r k forest walk lookout walk school dormitory museum wood service winery manangement recreation reserve sports stadium power house wool shop marino farm aquatic centre shopping arcade chapel ash forest mill hospital shop- house settlement

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Pui Hang Luk Supervisors: Simon Whibley

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This project is about nature, perception and dwellling.

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stables day yards tack wash feed laundry office groomsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; s accommodation float tractor + vehicles hay+ straw menage grass day yards pond carrot farm hay farm farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s accommodation race course carpark drinking water hay storage facilities loading dock sun room restauraunt

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truck parking walkway bath house deckings water stream sauna bath lockers

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black gum forest bushwalk carpark bar takeaway petrol station barbecue area driveway ( entry )

medium

small

stable + dwelling

truck - houses

1:150

1:150

This project questions how architecture can provoke our sensory experience and investigate how we can dwell inbetween the exotic nature & orthogonal city. The project starts from a photograph capturing the ambiguity in B & W images, the merge of two distinct elements. eg, sky and ground, the land and the sea. The project seeks this kind of spatial quality in architecture - among nature and artifects (architecture). The project proposes a peri-urban dwelling model in Hanging Rock, Victoria. Identified specific natural conditions on site and proposed various dwelling typologies in different scales accordingly and further zoomed into two of them. Proposing the â&#x20AC;&#x153;truck + dwellingâ&#x20AC;? & the â&#x20AC;&#x153;stable + dwellingâ&#x20AC;?.

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“when

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alone

at

night

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see

the

street

lights

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fairgrounds”

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USE

LAWN SHELVES FOR SEATING

PATHWAY COMMUNITY SKYLIGHTS

SPACE

PASSIVE COOLING TOWERS DROP COOL AIR ON NEWCOMERS

When I Drive Alone at Night I See the Street Lights as Fairgrounds

OUTSIZED SEATING FOR MAXIMUM USE

DENSITY OF CAPS, INCREASES AS ONE

ELEVATION, NEARS ENTRY

Richard McPhillips Supervisor: Dr Peter Brew r

RICHARD

Human perception has for centuries been based on sight. We judge distances, estimate slopes, predict our progress and gaze at spectacle with our eyes in the same way our ancestors did. What if that is changing? What if the flood of information now available in the palms of our hands will come to replace eyesight as our primary source of data on our surroundings? What if people cease to perceive their surroundings in the first person?

What if what they see of their world is limited to the halo of peripheral vision around the edges of their smartphone? How can purveyors of architecture retain relevance if architecture ceases to be regarded?

WHERE DOES ONE STAND AT THE END OF THIS DEGREE? IS ONE IS ONE AN ACCUMULATION OF THEORIES? IS ONE PREPARED TO AN ARCHITECT IN ALL BUT TITLE?

AN BE

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ARCHITECTS

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THROUGH VIRTUAL REALITY? BY WHAT CAN THIS ANCIENT ART COPE WITH

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CONSIDER THE PEDESTRIAN WITH SMARTPHONE. THEIR NECK IS BENT, THEIR EYES CAST DOWN, THEIR FOCUS ON A SCREEN THAT PROVIDES MORE INFORMATION THAN ANY REAL WORLD SIGNBOARD OR FACADE. HOW DO THEY PERCIVE THE WORLD? SURELY THEIR PERCEPTION IS LIMITED TO THE HALO OF PERIPHERAL VISION GLIMPSED AROUND THE EDGES OF THEIR SMARTPHONES. HOW

2017

SKILLS? IS ONE

REFLECTING ON MY UNIVERSITY CAREER I FIND THAT I HAVE BENEFITTED FROM OBSESSION, HAVE GLEANED MOST FROM WORK WHEN I HAVE IMMERSED MYSELF IN IT. I UNDERSTAND THAT MY FUTURE AS AN ARCHITECT LAYS IN MY WILLINGNESS OF MEDITATE ON THE ARTFORM, TO ANALYSE AND PREDICT THE COURSE OF THE INDUSTRY AS AN ENTHUSIAST, NOT AS A DRONE.

WHAT VALUE WILL ARCHITECTS HAVE WHEN THE WORLD IS SEEN MEANS CAN ARCHITECTS CLAIM AND MAINTAIN RELEVANCE? HOW THIS NEW FABRIC TO HUMAN EXPERIENCE?

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IN

THE

PALMS

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THE

CITIZENRY?

ATTEMPTS TO MARSHAL INDIRECT, EVOCATIVE, EXPERIENTIAL, PERIPHERAL ARCHITECTURAL BIRTH DELIGHT IN OPEN ENDED, MULTI-PURPOSE SPACES. DON’T PAINT A WALL PURPLE TO SPACE, LITERALLY DROP COOL AIR ON THE ROOM FROM A BLUESTONE TOWER.

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FLOOR TREATMENT CREATES FLOW TOWARD ENTRY

This project is a thought exercise on this question.

A viewer is invited to meditate on what the various intersections, adjacencies, layers and rhythms of the building may mean. This building is a non linear journey wherein users are influenced by tectonics, peripheral gestures, and revelation. The practical is also addressed, as evidenced by the adoption of the roof as a space for urban farming.

ACCESS

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COMNMUNITY

SPACE

D

TREE

GRID

RUNS

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RAMP, LOWER

TRAVERSING BUILDING PORTIONS OF SITE

A,

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UPPER,

MID

PATHWAY

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COLUMN, BEAM AND TRUSS SYSTEM BRACES UNSUPPORTED SECTIONS OF PATHWAY

3

METER

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TRANPSARENT

SECURE

CENTRE

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WHEN

6

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PAVERS

DIRECT

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PATHWAY

USERS

adjacent seating (a la bld 100)

COMMUNITY

SPACE

transgression (OMA inspired)

airdrop

COLUMN, BEAM AND TRUSS SYSTEM BRACES UNSUPPORTED SECTIONS OF PATHWAY

SPLIT RAMP CLIMBS TO PATHWAY COMMUNITY SPACE ABOVE, PLAZA BELOW.

LED LIGHTS EMBEDDED INTO AND AFFIXED TO CROSS BRACING TO ILLUMINATE SELECT PORTIONS OF THE PATHWAY FOR DIFFERENT EVENTS.

SLAB

51 ~4

SECTION

multiple entrances (a la Neue Nationalgalerie)

FALL

traverse structures

LONG

ignore groundplane (a la shingo)

CLIMB

reveal chasm

HIGHLY

deflection (a la early le corbusier)

SPACE

3

GATES TO REQUIRED

punctuation

CLIMB

adjacency

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leaning (a la nat. gallery)

PATHWAY

LED

LIGHTING

m

SYSTEM

LOCALISED LIGHTING CAST BY LED LIGHTS FITTED INTO THE CROSS-BRACING OF THE WALKWAY STRUCTURE. USERS ARE INFORMED OF WHICH COLOUR PATH SHOULD BE FOLLOWED, AND THEY CAN DO SO ON AUTOPILOT WITHOUT HAVING TO TAKE THEIR EYES OFF THEIR PHONES UNTIL THE WORLD AROUND THEM GLOWS THAT CERTAIN COLOUR.

CROWD MEETS MOBILE PHONE > AN ANALYSIS

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The Implicit Wall

Huynh Tram Nguyen Supervisor: Ian Nazareth

The Implicit Wall is an experimental project which ranges from large to small scale, focusing on how a traditional wall can be innovated to different levels. Three typical tube houses are the architectural outcome based on this development.

Massive continuous rows of tube houses provide an endless urban mobility of superstructure. This highlights the attraction of the existing programs, the six nodes of urban context; the Garden Park, the Cultural Museum, the Theatre, the Central Plaza, the Sport Area, and the Wetlands Park. Each of these displays itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own logic and independence by using the rules of transformation to build a matrix that can organise the walkability and act as reference points to visitors within the city wall.

The design is seen as familiar when it is to be the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s energy, lifestyle, and incredible pedestrian spaces. The aim of this urban mobility is about creating an energy that is conducive to a spirit of exploration and discovery. The design does not merely glorify icons, but celebrate the local common spaces and architecture that can address many questions of urban and architectural controversies.

In fact, walls in architecture can be understood as the border, the separation of interior, exterior, and rooms.

But walls can become interconnected walls between individuals, walls also could be used as both an analytical and design tool to better accommodate individuals and institutions.

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AfterLife Hazelwood of

Life after usefulness

Latrobe Valley Region

MOE

Yallourn ‘W’ Power Station

Traralgon

20 mins Drive

MORWELL

20 mins Drive

Hazelwood Power Station

Loy Yang Power Station

Churchill

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Entry - Existing

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Section A | 1:500

Coal Paths - Existing Exploring the afterlife of industrialised sites after they have become obsolete from cultural shifts and technological innovation.

How do you make sure post-industrialised sites stay relevant, stopping it from deteriorating, abandoned and forgotten.

The proposed site is located in the Hazelwood Power Station is a brown coal-fuelled thermal power station that was built in 1946 and has been decommissioned .

Afterlife of Hazelwood

An alteration of the overwhelming physical and visual scale of the site through a series of Curated spatial Sequences that emerges from the process of visual field of movement, carving through the public and private, the old and new.

This project strives to rebuild/strengthen the symbiotic relationship between Morwell and the Hazelwood power station and coal mine.

01b. Overlapping the walkability analysis to generate intensities.

01a. Walkability Analysis 400m, 800m , 3km

Re-connecting it back to the community. Transforming it into a neighbourhood and regional destination through the integration of arts and cultural programs, and gardens into the new energy and civic infrastructure.

Creating a more comfortable space to visit based on its walkability and spatial scale.

Field of movement

Sherly Lie Supervisors: Patrick Macasaet

21 02. Grid Insertion from nodes of movement 01b. Walkability Intensity Analysis

27 A

Walkability Intensity : 06

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03. Sightline Extraction Walkability Intensity : 05

25 Walkability Intensity : 04

The project explores the afterlife of industrialised sites after they have become obsolete as a result of cultural shifts and technological innovation. The relocation of industries leave abandoned spaces behind, causing social problems and creating segregation within the community.

04. Sightline trimmed

Walkability Intensity : 03

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05. Overall site outcome

Walkability Intensity : 02

06. Overall encasement

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13 07. Raw outcome Encasement of sightline through the grid of movement

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The proposed site is located in a Town called Morwell, known as the Hazelwood Power Station. It was a brown coal-fuelled thermal power station that has been decommissioned early this year.

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The intervention is not trying to replace Hazelwood. It celebrates its history, turning it into a relic, allowing civic and the new energy infrastructure to co-exist.

Initial Test 02 Breaching Sectioning the site at the highest points of the existing buildings.

Lofting them to examine the spatial drama in the in-between spaces, extracting the hierachy between them.

Initial Test 01 Encasement Sightline Encasement and wrapping of spaces through visual limits.

Using the angles of the human vision to determine areas of attention.

Standard Line of Sight

The project attempts to adapt an abandoned power station and its surrounding site to a new technological innovation, re-connecting it with the community, using the site as a battery and solar array farm.

It is an alteration of the overwhelming physical and visual scale of the site through a series of curated spatial sequences that emerge from the visual field of movement, carving through the public and private, the old and new, creating a continuous flow of movement through the space. This was generated through a process that aims to resolve the tension of physical and visual scale, simultaneously breaking down the conventional image of such energy farms.

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This project strives to rebuild/strengthen the symbiotic relationship between Morwell and the Hazelwood power station and coal mine by turning Hazelwood into a space for Latrobe Valley’s industrial and cultural tourism. It is an alteration of the entire site, not just the architecture located within it.

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Entrance to Hazelwood Car Park Visitor’s Car Park Bus Stop Plaza Buggy Hire Museum entry Coal machinery museum Info centre Gallery/ event space Outdoor Ampitheatre Gallery / Workshop Cafe Viewing area towards existing machinery Garden space Existing machinery Observatory tower entry Buggy Cart Parking/ Charging Workshop Toilets/ Amenities Conference Hall Board walk/ BBQ facilities Storage Energy farm management office Battery Farm Switchyard [Electricity distributor} 0

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Footscray 2

Sudrano Sudrano Supervisors: Simon Whibley

There are presence of physical construction of (informal) spaces in Footscray that happened through various occupational actions, where some objects are commonly seen everyday and some quite peculiar, which in many ways are architecturally interesting. The collectivity of all these things together is what makes Footscray intriguing.

This project, located on the former Little Saigon Market that was burnt down, goes from recording the everyday paraphernalia to thinking about the architectural question of how these different forms of constructing spaces can collectively create a part of the city.

What would architecture be if it was to take on these ideas and how would the site that was destroyed by the fire be extended by pulling ideas from the surrounding, as a way of creating a new market building and at the same time using it as a catalytical project to re-intensify the areas around? While occupying the remnants of the market, the project also considers the future of Footscray as a lifelong Learning Precinct, therefore taking on the education program onto the existing market.

The architecture explores programs that expand and contract which could further intensify the occupied nature of the city fabric around the building. Mobile interventions and markets would occupy the adjacent edges across the roads in the day and food trucks would occupy the market in the night. This blurs the edges of the project like how Footscray blurs the tenancy of one another, between inside and outside, infrastructure and program, bus stand and fruit stand.

The (informal) constructed objects and spaces should not be solely seen as a negation of planning, but rather for us to see it as an alternative method of creating architecture and urban environment.

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Coburg Concert Hall

Cylindrical shaped hall

Dome

Court House

Coburg Library

Simple Openings

Window slits

Victoria St

Coburg Market

Ornate shade/ entrance

Pedestrian circulation

Coburg Train Station

Pitched/ arch entrance

Leisure Centre

Curved canopy

Oval Grandstand

over hang roof

Shade

Ornate columns

Portico

The Civic Reveal

Street furniture mimics shade form

Restaurant space

Shade

DISTORT IT!

Rotate

Outline

Positive / Negative

Duplicate

Stretch

Chop & Displace

Duplicate Profile

Supersize

Split & Delete

Wen Yap Supervisors: John Doyle L14 ROOFTOP COMMUNITY SPACE

This project approaches civicness through the act of concealing and revealing. Similar to archaeology, this building buries civicness into a non-civic building - peeling it back off years later to discover the infrastructure built for it. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve looked into the mechanisms needed to embed and create civic buildings in the 21st century - financially and the physically

L12-L13 SKATE PARK & AMPHITHEATRE

L11 PERFORMANCE SPACE

As an inner city of Melbourne, Coburg is continuously growing and densifying. The 1,500 underutilised car parking lots in the centre presents an architectural opportunity to build a multi storey car park which can be transformed into a civic building in the future. In order to do so, this car park incorporates the infrastructure needed for it to be repurposed as a civic building.

L8-10 SWIMMING POOL & CHANGING ROOM

L6 BASKETBALL/ SOCCER PITCH & WORKSPACE

L5

The Civic Reveal hones into the embedding the notion of the civic into a non-civic building for the future. Its value lies in intricately designing something as mundane as a car park to have a potential of a second life. This intervention is a reiteration of our role as architects - to be the Trojan horse for civic value in the city and use design as an agent for the future.

LOCAL COMMUNITY HUB & AGED FACILITIES

L2-L3 PERFORMANCE SPACE & WORK PODS

GF LIBRARY, RECEPTION & ART SPACE

CAR PARK CONFIGURATION

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CIVIC CONFIGURATION

FLOOR PLAN

HUB 1 - LOCAL COMMUNITY HUB HUB 2 - INFORMATION + LEARNING HUB HUB 3 - CULTURAL + SPIRITUAL HUB

HUB 4 - HEALTH + WELL-BEING HUB HUB 5 - ACTIVE RECREATIONAL HUB HUB 6 - WORKPLACE

Through a Looking Glass Er Hau Lee Supervisor: Simon Whibley

The idea of ‘occupation’ has always been central to Birrarung Marr, the site transformed over time and occupied by different users and functions. A restless wedge of the city, it facilitates the movement of people across the CBD to several large sporting venues and hosts major temporary events.

The project seeks to provide focal points in the transient environment through reference to time and history of the site. This allows moments for reflective pause in several interventions scattered across Birrarung Marr.

The first intervention extends Koorie Heritage Trust through underground passage down to the wharf, seeking to reconcile with the river. The sunken building is a monument recalling the railway’s dramatic transformation of the landscape which divided the city and the river. The tent structure takes reference from further back in time looking at the transient occupation of the settler & indigenous shelter on the site. The ‘path’ intervention is a direct acknowledgment and connection to the several bridges on the site, part of the family of infrastructures that speaks of the cultural heritage of the area and also connecting people across the site.

Each of these interventions re-examines the characters of Birrarung Marr, allowing for interpretations of the site in endless ways. This reminds the user about the significance and multitude of the site other than a parkadding a contemplative factor to the otherwise eventful nature of the site.

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A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT lucas alush-jaggs

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SECTION A-A THROUGH MILL

MILL INUNDATION

3M

MILL INUNDATION

5M FLOOD

9M FLOOD

10M FLOOD

11M FLOOD

5M

MILL INUNDATION

9M

MILL INUNDATION

10M

A River Runs Through It WOOL SHED INTERNAL ADAPTATION

Lucas Alush-Jaggs Supervisors: Damien Thackray

WOOL SHED WALL ADAPTATION

The volatile flows of the Yarra River create a dynamic flooding landscape. The once inescapable Yarra has been circumvented and tamed over the years leading to a static edge devoid of engagement with the water. This project is concerned with activating an underutilised river ecology by creating sustainable, receptive relationships between architecture and the surrounding natural and urban landscapes.

This portion of Abbotsford is caught between its industrial past, historical methods of river management focused on control, and a rapidly increasing population.

In order to provide much needed public amenity we must move towards long lasting methods of conscious inhabitation of a flood plain.

EXPOSED DRAINS

SITE AERIAL

SECTION B-B THROUGH ZETLAND STREET

The architecture that emerges from this condition foregrounds the flood in the lifecycle of the Yarra and the consciousness of its inhabitants. No longer is it wished away but invited in. It finds a balance between fragility and strength, open and closed.

It is underpinned by tensions between the then, now and future, the friction between ecological time and our own. The architecture becomes a vessel, remembering the old and adapting to the new. It shifts the front and back condition left by the industrial relics to foster new connections between urban and natural civic space.

ZETLAND STREET

WOOL SHED

ZETLAND STREET WAREHOUSES

WEIR AND WETLANDS

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WETLANDS

BOATHOUSE 08:00

RIVER STAIR AND BOATHOUSES

BOATHOUSE 10:00

BOATHOUSE 12:00

BOATHOUSE 14:00

BOATHOUSE 16:00

BENEATH THE CANOPY KOO WEE RUP INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

TULLAMARINE

AVALON

KOO WEE RUP

WAITING AREA / GATES

Beneath the Canopy

IMMIGRATION BIVOUAC (TENT)

CHECK-IN

BIVOUAC ARRAY ESTABLISHING THE CANOPY

SECURITY

Trent Baker Supervisors: Christine Phillips

BIVOUAC CANOPY RESPONDING TO THE WIND

TERMINAL FORM (INSPIRED BY THE WING OF A BIRD)

INTERNATIONAL ARRIVALS

Airports, mega structures designed for speed and efficiency, fine-tuned machines for herding people through long corridors past retailers to their designated aircrafts. They are dislodged from context and a sense of culture of the community they represent.

DUTY FREE SHOPPING CUSTOMS

INTERNATIONAL TERMINAL

WIND FLOWING AROUND TERMINAL

ARRIVAL HALL ADMINISTRATION OFFICES BAGGAGE HANDLING

FOOD RETAIL

DOMESTIC TERMINAL

TOILETS

FARMLAND SUBDIVISIONS

FARMLAND SUBDIVISIONS FACADE

DOMESTIC DEPARTURE

INTERNATIONAL DEPARTURE

FRANKSTON

CRANBOURNE

PAKENHAM

KOO WEE RUP

Located just below Koo Wee Rup in Victoria’s South East, the project rethinks how we can experience the contemporary terminal model by inheriting qualities of the surrounding culture, specifically looking at the culture of camping in Victoria’s south east and how it could cultivate the architectural and spatial qualities of the bivouac tent to encourage the condition of the campsite throughout the design. The formal expression of the bivouac is arrayed over the terminals roof while expressing the idea of a field of tents exposed to environment, undulating as if the wind was blowing through them while retaining the colour of the typical green fabric quality of a field of tents, as if to camouflage the terminal into its surrounding context, detaching it from the idea of the airport terminal being a bold heroic statement. This approach of interacting within a landscape was further explored by using the façade to reflect the farmland divisions of the surrounding landscapes. This fragmented faces also allow moments that adopts the qualities of a mosquito net found in tents, as a strategy to further encourage spatial qualities of the bivouac and its relationship to the external environment.

REGIONAL CONTEXT

ENTRANCE

58 BOARDING GATE

DEPARTURE RETAIL

OBSERVATION DECK

Situation Normal

Charles Wei Jun Teo Supervisors: Vicky Lam

Situation Normal is a counterproposal to high-rise development within the city. The project questions the normal existing conditions of the urban spaces within the city and relationships between public amenity and private development.

This thesis questions whether private developments can further contribute to the collective urban scape of the city. The testing ground covers a half city block mixed-use development, located beside the city’s newly announced park space in Market Street.

Testing has been carried out through a hotel proposal, a typology that lies in between public and private ownership. The hotel lobby acts as the grounding for the project, each of the components of the hotel is broken down and reconstituted. Within a ‘hortus conclusus’ the hotel lobby is transformed into a series of transparent and permeable pavilions; a generous yet surreal civic space for both public and private users. Pedestrian movement is encouraged, while private rooms are redesigned to optimize shared spaces and extends the park’s reach far and deep into the private development.

Benjamin Constant’s assertion is that in the modern polis it is in private rather than public that freedom and fulfillment are to be experienced. Situation Normal proposes a situation where the traditional concepts of public amenity and private property are reestablished.

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Unveiling Islam A New Mosque for Toorak

MOSQUES AROUND MELBOURNE

ANTI MUSLIM RALLIES AROUND MELBOURNE

NOLLI

ACCESS TO SITE

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+

+

= Osment Street

Victory Square Reserve

HERITAGE

Osment Street

Victory Square Reserve

QIBLA DIRECTION

Unveiling Islam

Zahra Ismael Supervisors: Christine Phillips

My project is about designing a mosque in Toorak and how it can be integrated into a predominantly non-Islamic suburb. Fundamentally this project is about education; the education of teaching Islam to both the Muslim and non-Muslim community. In this way the design of this mosque aims to create a culturally integrated building that promotes a more positive outlook towards our Muslim communities.

This project aims to bring a more modern mosque to the Toorak area. This mosque uses features of traditional mosques and Islamic architecture but changes them to suit the modern mosque and tries to create an acceptance within the community.

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High Density City Meng Guo Supervisor: Dr Jan van Schaik

This project proposes the creation of new generous residential living spaces suspended in the air above, and without disturbing an existing high density built up area of Guangzhou, China.

The project has a ground level footprint of only 330m2, yet creates 15,300m2 of new residential space. Car parking is created by tunnelling underneath the existing built up areas, while the residential areas above are suspended from a giant super-truss – which is in turn supported by five mega-columns. These give columns, which are placed between ‘hand-shake’ buildings below, also contain the vertical transportation connected people between the car park, the ground plane, and the various levels of the new residential development.

The new residences grant its occupants respite from the noise and bustle of the city below, access to ample natural light, and an array of public uses and elevated gardens – contributing to better air quality than present on the ground plane.

To ensure that the residents below are not unduly affected by a sense of looming from the structures above, and to ensure that enough natural light can still reach them, the new development is elevated that well above the buildings below and the giant truss is designed to allow light to pass through its members.

Like giant hanging gardens, this project proposes an new type of building, in the hope that it may define a model for creating new development sites in already overcrowded cities, without erasure of existing built infrastructures, and the cultures that exist within them.

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Re-Footscray Yale Teo Supervisors: Jonothan Cowle & Chris Hayton Re-Footscray is an exploration of the historical fabric in Footscray and a speculation of its future development.

Footscray has experienced multiple waves of displacement by various group of migrants over a period of time which contribute to the rich culture and history of the buildings. However, due to its scarcity of land and increase in population, many historical buildings are forced to be demolished to give place to bigger and taller buildings. Hence, 5 methods of exploration are proposed, with an aim of understanding the historical value of the existing site and resulting in a proposal for future development that could incorporate with the existing fabric.

Cut the Existing square: The iconic Footscray Market logo is used to cut open the enclosed Maddern Square, creating a central gathering area for visitors flowing from Footscray train station and Victoria University.

Peel the Skin of the existing buildings| Market: Part of the building skins are peeled away, leaving the exoskeleton of the existing fabric and incorporating with market as the program, to allow visitors to view the existing fabric in an elevational view.

Dig the Floor of the existing the buildings | Art Gallery: The floor plates of the existing buildings are removed and replaced with new basement floors with art galleries as programs, allowing visitors to view up to the existing fabric.

Rips the Roof off the existing the buildings | Library: The roofs of the existing buildings are removed and replaced with new big roofs incorporating with libraries as program, allowing visitors to view down to the existing fabric.

Jam new Program into the existing the buildings | Theatre.

After slicing away the existing fabric, a theatre is forced to fit onto the existing building, to allow visitors to view the existing fabric within the new building.

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Ex(Change) Jay Ritchie Supervisor: Emma Jackson

Ex(Change) is an investigation into how we can approach the heritage, and what constitutes the heritage.

Forgetting events or ceremonies that have taken place in particular locations, heritage here is in the formal qualities of the existing building and the building in which it sits beside.

The discussion which may arise between heritage and modernity is a source of consistency and mutual enrichment. The exemplary ideas and motives demonstrate an intervention that transforms and enhances without abandoning the original cathedral.

Ex(Change) questions the ability of creating a sense of place, and how inserting interior architecture can reinterpret the role of existing built fabric. The modification and dissection of the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interior has the aim of celebrating the sanctity of space.

Within the churches existing walls, the project aims to interrupt and fragment the traditional catholic directional rowed seating defiling the formal nature of the isle by crossing streams. This intersection when subtracted leaves a void, allowing pedestrian movements to cross below with structures positioned overhead in such a way that the buildings occupants have the opportunity to interact with the original cathedrals decorative columns and intrinsic tile work.

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Supervisors Semester 2, 2017 Major Project Coordinators A/Prof. Paul Minifie Vicky Lam Major Project Moderation Panel Prof. Leon van Schaik Prof. Vivian Mitsogianni A/Prof.Paul Minifie A/Prof. Richard Black Debbie Lynn Ryan (McBride Charles Ryan) Major Project Supervisors Dr. Peter Brew Jonothan Cowle John Doyle Chris Hayton Emma Jackson Prof. Mark Jacques Gwyllim Jahn Peter Knight Simone Koch Vicky Lam Ben Milbourne Amy Muir Ian Nazareth Adam Pustola Tim Pyke Mark Raggatt Dr. Roland Snooks Dr. Michael Spooner Damien Thackray Dr. Jan van Schaik Simon Whibley 64

Students Semester 2, 2017 Aaron Gust

Joshua Wilson

Abigail Qiao Chu Ng

Justin Thang Son Nhat Dinh

Alan Shi Dong

Kayden Khoon Yaw Lau

Austynn Machado

Krystal Rawnson

Aya Maharani

Lucas Alush-Jaggs

Benjamin Warren

Mei Yan Chin

Benjamin Whelan

Meng Guo

Bing Jie Chang

Min Ji Lee

Bradley Mitchell

Monique Adeney

Charles Boman

Nicolas Cheuk Hang Wong

Charles Wei Jun Teo

Pei Qin Chia

Charlotte Strom

Philip Chang

Dane Zain

Pui Hang Luk

Emily Davies

Rafid Reasat Hai

Er Hau Lee

Richard McPhillips

Gilbert Ganda

Robert Hillman

Henry Russell

Sebastian Yu Tai Teo

Huynh Tram Nguyen

Sherly Lie

Imogen Fry

Sian Ru Tan

Isabelle Jooste

Sina Memarpourghiassi

Jack Bakker

Sudrano Sudrano

Jae Secull

Tess Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Meara

James Morton

Trent Baker

Jan See Oi

Venkatesh Natarajan

Jay Ritchie

Wen Yap

Jaymie Buhagiar

Yale Teo

Jesse Thomas

Yet Chi Chua

Jiawei Wang

Yoo Jin An

Jiejing Du

Zahra Ismael

Jin Wei Lua

Zhenwen Zhang

Jing Yi How

Zhirui Ren

John Dowling

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