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SENLINA MAYER

A BRIEF HISTORY

As a Vice-Chancellor’s Academic Excellence scholarship recipient, College of Excellence Fellow and Community Sector co-lead, Senlina is an effective student and professional demonstrating a blend of technical aptitude and creative ability. Her experience in concept development, construction documentation and LOD 300 modelling spans sectors of public, education and heritage architecture for tender and competition projects, where she is constantly learning from and investigating architectural craft and its frontiers both locally in Australia and on a global scale.

Environmental sustainability and collaborating sensitively with Countryare key interests that underpin her critical approach to design thinking in this field. Building on her professional and academic experience are thus key facilitators in deepening her understanding to better meet the social, economic and environmental needs of our world.

[EDUCATION]

UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN 2023

QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY 2020-2024

AARHUS UNIVERSITY 2021

HARVARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN 2018 [EMPLOYMENT]

ARCHITECTUS CONRAD GARGETT BRISBANE, 2024-PRESENT

QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY BRISBANE, 2024-PRESENT

LENDAGER GROUP COPENHAGEN, 2023-2024

BICKERTON MASTERS BRISBANE, 2020-2023

[EXTRACURRICULAR]

AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS 2020-2024

STUDENT ORGANISED NETWORK OF ARCHITECTURE 2020-2024

QUT ARCHITECTURE SOCIETY 2020-2023

HIGH DISTINCTION

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION

STUDENT OF ARCHITECTURE

REACH NETWORK FOR EMERGING PROFESSIONALS - CO-LEAD SUSTAINABILITY & RESILIENCE WORKING GROUP

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

STUDENT OF ARCHITECTURE

COMMUNITY SECTOR CO-LEAD TECHNICAL DESIGN ASSISTANT

CLIMATE ACTION & SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE COMMITTEE OF EDUCATION

BRISBANE REGIONAL AWARDS JURY

QUT REPRESENTATIVE QLD CHAPTER COMMITTEE SUPERSTUDIO JURY

EVENTS COORDINATOR

EXHIBITION CO-CURATOR

CURATION OF WORKS

POWERHOUSE ULTIMO RENEWAL

SYDNEY CITY COUNCIL

ALL AGES LEARNING CENTRE QUEENSLAND ARTS GALLERY

RESOURCE TERRACES CITY OF STUTTGART COUNCIL

OHAVSMUSEET EXTENSION

OHAVSMUSEET BOARD

2024 PARIS OLYMPICS DANISH PAVILION

MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY, BUSINESS & FINANCIAL AFFAIRS, VISITDENMARK, REALDANIA

VIGEO MASTERPLAN

POMONA CITY COUNCIL

INNOVATION HUB REDEEMER LUTHERAN COLLEGE

13 MOUNTJOY STREET, PETRIE TERRACE SMALL SCALE CONSTRUCTION UNIT

EARTHNWEAR BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL, UPPAREL

2024 CHARRETTE MASTERPLAN - RELAYERING COUNTRY ACT, CANBERRA

ARCHITECTUS CONRAD GARGETT, PUBLIC SECTOR, 2024

UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, 2023

LENDAGER GROUP, COPENHAGEN, 2023

QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, 2022

BICKERTON MASTERS, 2022

QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, 2022

QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, 2021

ARCHITECTUS CONRAD GARGETT, QLD TEAM, 2024

STUDIES THROUGH MY PEN STUDIES THROUGH MY CAMERA

POWERHOUSE ULTIMO RENEWAL

CLIENT: SYDNEY CITY COUNCIL

ARCHITECTUS CONRAD GARGETT, PUBLIC SECTOR, 2024

BACKGROUND

The $300 million revitalisation of the much-loved Powerhouse Ultimo museum delivers a new and expanded exhibition to showcase the existing alongside new international exhibitions. Creating a new public square and entry via the Goods Line, better connection to the surrounding precincts and public transport is created.

LEARNINGS

Working in collaboration with practices DBJ and Youssofzay + Hart, I was able to develop my experience in project coordination for a 30+ team. In developing primarily the Post Office and Terrace zones, I liased closely with the landscape architects, structural engineers, surveyors, heritage consultant, Designing for Country consultant, electrical and civil engineers for tender documentation.

• Documentation

• Environmental simulations

• 3D modelling

• Rendering

• Diagrams MY ROLE

The deliberate use of recycled brick draws upon the site’s ancestral significance to the Gadigal People and relationship to earth. Further referencing the heritage-listed brick of the turbine hall and engine room, the original mid-century volumes are reinvigorated through a stratified facade.

3.3 VIEW FROM HARRIS ST

3.1 STRATEFIED RECYCLED BRICK - INSPIRATION

3.2 EXISTING HERITAGE BRICK

In achieving a 5-star, aspiring 6-star Green Star rating, the Powerhouse employed a series of considered strategies integrated in the program of the museum to reduce carbon emissions at the embodied and operational stages.

ALL AGES LEARNING CENTRE

CLIENT: QUEENSLAND ARTS GALLERY

ARCHITECTUS CONRAD GARGETT, PUBLIC SECTOR, 2024

The vision to collaborate with the heritage board, and Queensland Arts Gallery seeks to bring together art, culture, language, science, technology and design for learners of all ages in the Brisbane Cultural Precinct.

Design Strategies, Principles & Themes

Design Strategies: Watermall Interface

In learning to work with technical consultants and gallery stakeholders, I was able to develop an understanding for the agency that space has in facilitating engagement and critical dialogue, and the significance of reconnecting to the site’s seminal cultural and architectural history.

• Sketching

• 3D modelling

Interventions on level 3 are to reflect the original grid, in its multiples of 1500mm. New blade walls at the Watermall edge are spaced at 1500mm, aligning with the floor joints of the original travertine. These lightweight blades are aligned with the concrete facade blades beyond, at half their 3m spacings. This half-spacing ensures that from the diagonal Watermall approach, visibility to the studio spaces and their windows is limited and in places excluded altogether.

• Rendering

• Documentation

The view of studio activity, sunken landscape and glimpses of sky, is revealed as visitors draw near: the frontal view between blades is unimpeded, for amenity -especially for use of sign language.

On a technical level, I was challenged to work within heritage constraints by reflecting the site conditions accurately within documentation, as well as documenting an adult accessible change room.

Architectural

The scope of refurbishment reopens the flying bridges of the original public circuit overlooking major gallery spaces and transforms the cafe and watermall into more publicly-accessible areas.

THRESHOLD HAND WASHING

In recasting the role of learning in a visitor’s experience, lead programs, technologies and enhanced opportunities for engagement are incorporated.

Adhering to a strict grid setout as distinguished by the original architect, Robin Gibson, all spaces were configured to a 6m x 6m matrix.

Revitalising Robin Gibson’s original vision, an

Architectural Design Strategies, Principles & Themes

It was identified that the original furniture is no longer serviceable or comfortable for users of all ages, providing no heel clearances.

Architectural Design Strategies, Principles & Themes

A new shell is proposed for the seat that fully complies to AS1428.1, consistent with the original cubic composition. Timbers and joinery selected were to relate to existing alignments and materials palette.

Architectural Design Strategies, Principles & Themes

Furniture for Level 4

The Conservation Management Plan recommends the commisioning of new furniture where original furniture is no longer serviceable.

Where the existing furniture is not comfortable for users of all ages (i.e. low seats in lounge furniture), new furniture can be developed, maintaining the design langauge of the originals in modified form.

Original hard fibreglass furniture features dark brown leather upholstered

Original hard fibreglass furniture features dark brown leather upholstered inserts, but this is limited to seat and back rest. The fibreglass shell is also flush across

A new shell can maintain a void under the chair, and the seat can be raised. Raised to the maximum height in AS.1428.1, a consistent line can be maintained between back rest and new, padded arm rests, consistent with the cubic alignment of the original composition.

Original fine parquetry to special limited extents: Johnstone River Hardwood

Gidgee

Precedent: QPAC: Queensland Walnut with applied wash: Harmony with Concrete

Original fine parquetry to special limited extents: Johnstone River Hardwood

Precedent: QPAC: Queensland Walnut with applied wash: Harmony with Concrete

Robin Gibson’s strategy of containing special elements within cubic structures.

Mulga and Gidgee timbers are proposed for select areas of future works

Original fine parquetry to special limited extents: Johnstone River Hardwood

Mulga

Gidgee

Precedent: QPAC: Queensland Walnut with applied wash: Harmony with Concrete

Mulga and Gidgee for select areas

Original fine parquetry to special limited extents: Johnstone River Hardwood

Mulga

Gidgee

Precedent: QPAC: Queensland Walnut with applied wash: Harmony with Concrete

Robin Gibson’s strategy of containing special elements within cubic structures.

Proposed

2.8 EXISTING FURNITURE

QLD WALNUT

GIDGEE

MULGA

RESOURCE TERRACES

CLIENT: CITY OF STUTTGART COUNCIL

Arnulf-Klett-Platz

UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, 2023

BACKGROUND LEARNINGS

With 40% of global carbon emissions owing to the building industry’s excess of material and operational useage, the Resource Terraces sought to challenge the traditional supply chain, in line with the client’s vision for more integrated circular systems.

Königstraße

Zugang Innenhof

BürosEingang1b

BürosEingang1a

By seeking to preserve as many existing construction elements as locally possible, I was challenged to develop a strategy that ensured any components removed were to be reused, upgraded or recycled, in line with the goals of the Danish Reduction Roadmap. New materials proposed came from regional production near Stuttgart, are biobased and very robust allowing for ease of maintenance and disassembly.

Schillerpassage

ZugangÖffentl. Tiefgarage

Theaterpassage

1.2 VIEW FROM THE NORTH-EAST CORNER OF ARNULF-KLETT PLACE/SCHILLERPASSAGE

1.1 CORE PROJECT PHASES

Data provided by the Stuttgart City Council launched the research the existing building material palette, which was processed for carbon calculations. This was used to quantify the savings made through reused and repurposed design decisions, thereby making a quantitative case for the viability of circular construction. GEBÄUDESCHNITTE 1:200

The facade acts simultaneously as robust protection of interior spaces whilst conveying a narrative of a world without waste. It inspires us to visualise the future while appreciating the present.

SOMMERFALL natürliche Querlüftung über die Fenster natürliche Verschattung durch Auskrakung und Pflanzenbewuchs Auskragung wird Richtung EG immer geringer um ausreichend Belichtung zu generieren Abkühlung der Luft durch Transpiration der Pflanzen (siehe Vertikale Begrünung)

Ribbed concrete ceilings from reused slabs function to create overhanging eaves, and provide area for vegetation to flourish, creating a green oasis in Stuttgart city.

PFLEGE INSTANDHALTUNG

BLICK VON SÜD-WESTEN I ECKE KÖNIGSTRASSE/THEATERPASSAGE

SPEICHERMASSENKONZEPT

Fenster sind mit Schlüssel für Instandhaltungsarbeiten zu öffnen Ausritt nur mit entsprechender Absturzsicherung Leiter zur tiefer

DECKENKONSTRUKTION freiliegende Brettschichtholzdecke sowie Brettschichtholzträger speichern Wärme aus dem Rauminneren während des Tages und geben diese Wärme während der Nacht ab Amplitudeneffekt Vermeiden von Überhitzung des Rauminneren am Tag und Auskühlung in der Nacht

WINTERFALL nur gezieltes Stoßlüften Pflanze tragen weniger bis keine Blätter natürliche Belichtung Oberlicht ermöglicht natürliches Licht im Rauminneren trotz flachstehender Sonne solare Gewinne

1.8 VIEW FROM KONIGSTRASSE 1.5 SITE PLAN 1:500

A combination of mechanical and passive strategies are employed at each level to create an operable facade that helps maintain a comfortable microclimate for building occupants.

OHAVSMUSEET EXTENSION

CLIENT: OHAVSMUSEET BOARD

UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN, DANISH ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DESIGN, 2023

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The Ohavsmuseet (Harbour Museum) extension unites natural elements and sensory experiences to create a new cultural meeting point in Faaborg. As a tribute to the archipelagic geology, the museum invites users to explore our inner and outer landscapes and exposes our connection to nature - and one another.

As a pilot project in working with seaweed and rammed earth, I was excited to learn and explore the potential of these materials from vernacular examples and researchers. As highly regenerative and robust materials, I look forward to experimenting with their potential in other contexts.

In stage 2, it is proposed to retain the functions of the existing building, apart from the moved entrance. as soon as you enter the building, you will experience being close to nature by encountering polished stone floors, clay walls, wood and small courtyards with running water and growing plants.

Already in stage 2, consideration has been given to how a further expansion can take place.

Here, it is proposed to make greater use of the existing building for office and storage, while the extensions are used to continue the experiencerich architecture.

The inspiration from nature can be seen on the museum’s roof, which imitates the waves of the sea, while the skylight creates a beautiful incidence of light and offers a view of the sky. The exhibition rooms have rounded walls built of rammed clay that can be smelled and felt. You move on a polished stone floor and step out into courtyards with trickling water and growing plants. And while you move along the wooden gallery passageways, you get a view of the water and the harbor’s many activities.

Our ambition is that you not only see the landscape, but also move through it, both inside and outside around the building.

2024 PARIS OLYMPICS DANISH PAVILION

CLIENT: MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY, BUSINESS & FINANCIAL AFFAIRS, VISITDENMARK, REALDANIA

LENDAGER GROUP, COPENHAGEN, 2023

BACKGROUND LEARNINGS

Four spaces constitute the Danish pavilion that follows the journey of recycled materials’ evolution into chairs, architectural elements and built spaces. Repurposing parts of the chair itself allow for easy dissasembly and minimal wastage in construction elements.

Denmark’s identity in championing reduced waste through construction is celerbated through the potential of the Lendager chair at the Paris Olympics 2024.

Working in collaboration with an exhibition curator and engineers, this project united my skills in furniture detailing, interior design, and 3D modelling of built elements. Resolving a design that prioritised a limited construction time, and low carbon emission proved an unsuspecting, exciting challenge.

SIKRING AF BANNERE

• Prototyping

• 3D modelling

• Rendering

• Diagrams

Referencer

“France is the 8th largest export market for Denmark and is growing rapidly. Therefore it is of great importance to showcase Danish solutions and companies for the 10 million visitors expected for the 2024 Olympics.”

- Ministry for Industry, Business and Financial Affaris Morten Bodskov

The user experience follows the process of gathering recycled material, treatment of individual components and assembly into chairs, stacked to create architectural spaces.

Modularity of the Danish Pavilion permits ease of construction and disassembly, following transportation from Copenhagen to Paris, and back.

5.6 SITE PLAN 1:500

5.7 AERIAL VIEW FROM CHAMPS-ELYSEES

5.5 DURING CONSTRUCTION 5.6 HIS MAJESTY KING FREDERIK AND QUEEN MARY OF DENMARK AT THE PAVILION

VIGEO MASTERPLAN

CLIENT: POMONA CITY COUNCIL

QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, 2022

LEARNINGS

In seeking to connect to the existing networks and local communities, VIGEO provided opportunities to engage actively with the residents, patrons and shop-owners of Pomona Market Grounds. Developing the holistic and resilient vision for this area could therfore perform to a practical and vibrant standard.

6.2 MASTERPLAN PROPOSAL

6.1 TESTING VARIOUS SCALES OF INTERACTION ON THE SITE

INNOVATION HUB

CLIENT: REDEEMER LUTHERAN COLLEGE

BICKERTON MASTERS, 2022

BACKGROUND LEARNINGS

In providing a innovation hub designed to empower secondary school students,a dynamic space for experimentation and growth is designed that combines the arts and sciences. Documenting an interior design project for tender for specialist spaces required a adept knowledge of Revit documentation tools and Australian Building standards. Regular coordination with consultants and specifiers was also conducive to providing a compliant and comfortable space.

PROGRAMMATIC

7.2 JOINERY DETAILS - CUSTOM BENCH SEATING

KITCHENETTE DETAIL PLANS/ELEVATIONS

13 MOUNTJOY STREET, PETRIE TERRACE SMALL SCALE CONSTRUCTION UNIT

QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, 2021

LEARNINGS

Modelling and documenting 13 Mountjoy St required a comprehensive understanding of the techniques essential for creating precise and effective technical drawings. I learned how to master the conventions of line work, scaling, and projection - and apply these skills to produce detailed drawings. The course also emphasized the importance of clarity and accuracy in communication, preparing me to tackle real-world design and engineering challenges.

EARTHNWEAR

CLIENT: BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL, UPPAREL

QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, 2021

BACKGROUND LEARNINGS

The EARTHNWEAR offices operate to provide a living, active and breathing organismal facility for the collaboration of a retail chain, SUK Workwear, an upcycling initiative, UPPAREL and members of the community. As an experiment in applying ethical and sustainable theory to the design of a socially-responsible multi-storey office and retail building, serving the lcoal community, the project was largely driven by the socio-economic needs of our current climate.

9.1 Circular fabric design

9.2 Concept development for integrating circular fabric design in the building

Recycled fabricEARTHNWEAR presentation board of concept development

In striving for social and environmental sustainability and regeneration, the facility receives and recycles goods for the service of others.

The retail precinct seeks to engage with the consumerism and economic systems of society, through supporting an ethical company, that aims to positively contribute to the growing culture of sustainable clothing. This also provides an opportunity for unemployed members of the community to find regular, stable work.

from the commercial leaving that to welldeputies, while he small cog of playful but selftravelling constantly to textiles and materials much tea-drinking design laboratories, the team of daring had gathered round

interested in people human form,” Miyake New York Times in “Clothing is the closest humans.”

witnessing the 1968 protests, Miyake disenchanted by an designed to dress only It was this interest as art and function, but aesthetically which led him to the Miyake Design 1970, and show his wearable collection York in 1971. One of pieces was a jersey hand-painted using Japanese tattoo

sportsman, function linchpin of work. His most famous affordable clothes, Please line, was 1993 as a retort to and unwearability of fashion.

Miyake’s cynicism fashion industry, particular the speed at produced, that gave such longevity in and design. In an with the Village Voice Miyake outlined his to the fashion cycle: customer to be able sweater I designed

round him.

“I am most interested in people and the human form,” Miyake told the New York Times in 2014. “Clothing is the closest thing to all humans.”

After witnessing the 1968 student protests, Miyake became disenchanted by an industry designed to dress only the wealthy. It was this interest in fashion as art and function, democratic but aesthetically pleasing, which led him to establish the Miyake Design Studio in 1970, and show his first very wearable collection in New York in 1971. One of his earliest pieces was a jersey body, hand-painted using traditional Japanese tattoo techniques.

A keen sportsman, function became the linchpin of Miyake’s work. His most famous and most affordable clothes, the Pleats Please line, was launched in 1993 as a retort to the price and unwearability of high-end fashion.

It was Miyake’s cynicism about the fashion industry, in particular the speed at which it produced, that gave his designs such longevity in reputation and design. In an interview with the Village Voice in 1983, Miyake outlined his opposition to the fashion cycle: “I want my customer to be able to wear a sweater designed 10 years ago with this year’s pants.”

Mikyake saw technology as a solution to the problem of overproduction, with one such solution the late 90’s “One Piece of Cloth” idea (later known as A-POC) which pioneered the idea of

and

While the fabric itself is experimented with, its texture and potential is exhibited on the building itself as the fabric

Detail model of the window openings

Designing microclimates in the site involves purposefully integrating vegetation in numerous zones to reduce the temperature, improve lighting ambience and shading to respond climactically.

9.10 Issey Miyake “One Piece of Cloth”

9.7 Typ. western facade

9.6 Sectional perspective concepts

2024 CHARRETTE MASTERPLAN - RELAYERING COUNTRY

CLIENT: ACT, CANBERRA

ARCHITECTUS CONRAD GARGETT, QLD TEAM, 2024

BACKGROUND LEARNINGS

In a fast-paced design competition for 3 days, I co-lead the Queensland team to develop an adaptive reuse masterplan for a lot in the city of Canberra.

In working with the Nguunwaal people of Canberra, we we sought to prioritise a reintegration of native flora and fauna through reduced hardscapes, and community activity. It was insightful to work with landscape architects, civil engineers and urban planners to understand to another level the scope of work that would effectively communicate the team’s vision for restoration of Country.