Architectural Portfolio - 2022

SEAN EDIRISINGHE

Portfolio of Architecture and Interior Design works.

Sean Edirisinghe is an aspiring Graduate of Architecture with an interest in applying playful ways architecture can interact with its users. My interest in Architecture began with my curiosity towards design, specifically one that deals with spatial play and thinking. This interest grew into a strong pull to pursue a career in Architecture, and the Master of Architecture course provided a fruitful avenue towards that. The Course assisted me with the essentials of being and thinking like an Architect: in terms of light, material, space, activities and other elements vital in evolving a good sense of interior place.

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Sean Edirisinghe

Master of Architecture University of Sydney

Bachelor of Interior Architecture Monash University

2020

Completion of Master of Architecture at University of Sydney

Graduated with Distinction WAM above 80, leading design studio mark 94.00 (Bricks of Earth)

Graduate Studio selection for an Honours semester for Master of Architecture.

2019

Achievements. 2018 2016/14 2015

Work displayed in the London Design Museum Moving to Mars catalog, with attributes to UTS Architecture.

Attributed to Master Planning project in the regional city of Echuca, Vic.

Letters of commendation for academic achievement from Monash University.

3D visualisation workshop for second-year architecture students & Peer Mentor (page 16-17)

RAA architects

In this role, I worked closely with the directors, and my key role was liaising with clients, consultants and builders in day-to-day operations. I worked on multiple scales of projects and genres, notably a large remedial apartment project.

PTA Architecture

In this role I assisted the Design director and Project director on key projects in health care and urban design. My role included Producing Documentation sets for presentations to clients, Prepare construction documentation sets, 3D Modeling on client dependent projects and material scheduling and sampling for client presentations.

Studio Semaphore

This role followed from my internship at Studio Semaphore. My primary role was to 3D model the concept signage types for presentations of iterative design stages and the final product and the accompanying renders.

Casa Forte Group

This position within the company was based around a freelance business model; I worked internally with an in-house team collaborating on multiple projects within the leisure sector, notably Sky Zone in Westfield Miranda.

In Practice Profile

Professional experience

8-21

Bricks of Earth Apartment P4

MArch Environmentally Sustainable Design Studio

MArch Housing Studio

Post Tension

MArch Parametric & Digital Studio

Transplanting the Future & the Past

MArch Graduation Studio

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Holmesdale Residence compromised of alterations and additions to an existing residence. The dwelling was the bookend of five other row houses built in the late 1990s. The challenge was to programme the internal spaces to orient the client’s needs, growing and evolving their lives around the house. Expanding and opening spaces was key to achieving their brief, transitioning spaces to flow promoted a healthy interaction for the client’s day-to-day needs.

The clients for Crown Street House approached RAAa with an existing design and Development Application approval. The challenge was broaching a pre-existing design, understanding the client’s needs for the house, and approaching the existing design with new contemporary influences. Without undermining the years of processes, the clients had undergone.

7 plant room roof level +32,650

6 roof level +31,400

5 fifth floor +28,050

4 fourth floor +24,950

3 third floor +21,870

2 second floor +18,790

1 first floor +15,300

0 ground floor +11,800

This apartment building was undergoing major remedial work, including replacing existing combustible aluminum cladding, new waterproofing and new external windows. The investigative process led to uncovering of a multitude of problems, which eventually defined the brief. Communication with the clients and Strata was crucial in how the project progressed through various milestones.

Shepparton Villages Aged Care Facility

Existing condition documentation, Concept Design, Town planning documentation & Design Development documentation.

Philip Templeton Architects (PTA)

I acquired the position of student Architect at PTA Architecture Flemington location in March of 2017. The dedicated team of Architects and Interior Designer worked on various design, construction and contract projects. They were ranging from Aged Care Facilities, Multi-residential dwellings and Residential dwelling. Skills acquired: As a student architect, I was required to complete various office up-keep tasks. Managing the office’s daily needs required an attentive protocol of time management and resource supplementary management skills.

Working closely with another graduate architect on a commercial project also challenging and developed stings of skills and understanding of how architectural practice is conducted professionally. I gained the responsibility to liaise with clients, contractors, and authoritative departments and produce architectural documentation that had strict deadlines to adhere too.

Main dining area of Shepparton Villages Aged Care Facility

M. ANDERSON

Philip Templeton Architects (PTA)

PROPOSED REAR EXTERNAL ELEVATION 03 1:100 ©

ANDERSON RESIDENCE 12 WELLINGTON STREET, FLEMINGTON DEC 2018 1609 A3

PT SE LR

ANDERSON RESIDENCE 12 WELLINGTON STREET, FLEMINGTON DEC 2018 1609 A3

M. ANDERSON PROPOSED EXTERNAL ELEVATIONS TP07 1:100

PROPOSED REAR EXTERNAL ELEVATION 03 1:100 ©

On two street frontages, Nathan’s Terrace, comprising twelve singlestorey terrace houses, was developed by Melbourne furniture retailer Samuel Nathan during the land boom of the late 1880s. The buildings heritage significance listed the design towards the restoration of existing architectural motifs and the proposal of additional living areas expanding the 1880s charm.

PT SE LR

PROPOSED EXTERNAL ELEVATIONS TP07 1:100

Obtained Heritage Permit & Documentation for Town Planning including Proposed works.

2015

WAYFINDING & SIGNAGE

Studio Semaphore

Existing condition audit, Graphic documentation & 3D modelling.

The matte black provides highly legible messaging without cluttering the interior. A 3D printing technique brought the digital & physical fabrication process into a more streamlined process, with the possibility of alterations in a faster turn-around time. Each icon was individually modelled and sat alongside the material elements. 3D printed signage - Individual lettering

PEER MENTOR MONASH UNIVERSITY

Monash University’s advanced immersive and large scale visualisation facilities, ranging from the ultra-scale CAVE2, to personal head-mounted virtual reality (VR) devices. Researchers and industry connect to nascent display and interaction technologies that stand to change visualisation.

Monash University Clayton Campus Cave 2 concept design - In collaboration with Senior Lecturer Sven Mehzoud

Monash University two day visualisation workshop exercise image - Peer Mentoring 3D workshop site Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne.

Monash University three-modeling and rendering workshop render, in which second year interior architecture students were run-though graphic, modeling and work-flow techniques.

2020

BRICKS OF EARTH

Master Core unit - Sustainable Design (Group Project)

To analytically define this project, it must be presented in it’s rawest form. Meaning, the fundamental attributes which encroach this projects didactic qualities are also the finite details that symbolically complete ‘Bricks of Earth’ as an architectural project positioned in the future, acknowledging projected futures while developing a road map.

Mud Brick mixing area

User entry checkpoint

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Fundamentally, this project seeks to make its visitors aware of environmental and social sustainability needs by being an immerse and tactile experience that brings people close to the elements of nature and the sustainability strategies that the architecture employs.

Arrival site location: Mount Thorley Mine

The distinctive tower which functions as both a solar chimney and a thermoelectric generator dominates the mass of buildings.

This creates a dramatic experiential quality to the pavilion both inside and outside, while also performing some of the primary sustainability functions of the site.

2018

APARTMENT P4

Master Core unit - Housing

This project, a multi-residential apartment complex, aims to challenge the norm of typological housing models. Using research forming the basis of the design approach.

Melbourne population is set to increase. Therefore, the existing housing market is in a crisis of expending more than is available for people to inhabit; therein, this project aims to combine apartment living into a set of experimental programmes, enabling people to live and work. Furthermore, the ground floor programmes activate the surrounding population through open workshops, open to the public and tenets.

The building’s heritage application was transformed and revitalised from the existing hospitality program into a ground floor grocer and office space,

whilst the upper floor is now an artist studio. These programs intend to work in unity, engaging the local community through a rich set of activities.

2019

POST-TENSION

Master Core unit - Digital Design Group Project

‘POST TENSION’ is a project that aims to personify the inevitability of climate change through data gathering and mechanisation.

This project ultimately explores the concept of digital design and iteration; thus, ‘POST TENSION’ is firmly grounded within this context.

Model making was an essential aspect of the iterative design process. As the project was firmly grounded with real responses to user input, identifying the project’s realism through model marking was needed to translate to digital to meet the brief.

Graduation Studio Project 2020

TRANSPLANTING THE FUTURE AND THE PAST

Site: Sydney Town Hall and surrounds.

This speculative project attempts to provide an expanded narrative, broaching a changing climate with architectural responses to educate and foremost create awareness. In this speculated, yet realistic future, the design intent is curated to formulate a set of experiences. In which the user is subjected to a range of temporal based experiences. Therefore, the design response arranges the architecture into four distinct components. The first component is a proposed civic square and transitional space that provides users with different threshold junctions that lead the route to the second and third response in the design follow a focused didactic approach – which includes, a Museum to Dead Coral artefacts, within the same linear floor plan, is a subterranean coral nursery, providing a network of transplantation coral to dying reefs along Sydney’s continental shelf. The fourth component is the Sydney Town Hall and redevelopment of the internal program to incorporate learning and ground-level laboratory spaces injunction to the subterranean laboratory spaces. The resulting project circulates in a looped system.

The overall conditions of the site presented a unique interpretation of Sydney City in the year 2030. This project focus indicated a connection from a translated ecology, the central estuary, to the Civic Square and Town Hall programs. In an attempt too, implement an Estuary into the city’s heart, with the tailpiece end flowing to the southern end of the proposed civic square.

The Reservoir in the year 2030

In addition, the Town Hall transfers its existing programme to focus on education and research in coral growth. The (right) enables an intense set of classrooms, lab spaces and vertical coral storage rooms. In contrast, the (left) collaboration and surveillance rooms provide a reprieve from the intensity of the (right) plan.

Section circa. 2070

The project plays with changes in levels, both in the subterranean footing of the site and the ground and above, to encroach a temporal experience for the site’s user.

The estuary’s water source flows into the Townhalls subterranean basement, populating the basement with seawater, affecting saltwater with the same condition for coral growth.

Section circa. 2070

The hydrological process passed from the newly translated Estuary functions for the subterranean coral nursery to circulate seawater for infant and ready for transplantation coral. This process mimics the conditions found in natural ecosystems along the continental shelf where coral naturally grows.

Indicated is a potential location for a new continental shelf for the translation of coral from the Town Hall nursery. In addition, to the conceptual ideas this project evokes, this self will also aid in the barrier of sea-level rise from climate change—a natural sea-wall.

Crystal Palace sunk between the heads - as the sea rises.