Roadside Station Rehabilitation 2024 - M. Arch Teamwork
Park Towers 2024
Public Housing Redevelopment 2024 - M. Arch
Individual Work
Constellation Odyssey
Aviation Museum 2023 - M. Arch
Individual Work
Sporsesculpt
3D Clay Printing 2023 - M. Arch Teamwork
Professional Work:
Our Quiet Neighbour
Melbourne General Cemetery Repatriation 2024 - NExTLab Teamwork
The Ikina Island Michi no-Eki (roadside station) serves as a homage to the island’s fading local businesses, seeking to preserve their skills and craftsmanship. Focused on sustaining the essence of Ikina’s identity, this project upcycles materials from abandoned housing (akiyas) and industrial structures, repurposing them to forge a new infrastructure that revitalizes the site.
By intertwining sustainability and industrial preservation, the station not only breathes life into fading businesses but also becomes a symbol of resilience, echoing the island’s rich heritage in every reclaimed element. This innovative approach ensures a harmonious blend of tradition and craftsmanship for the Ikina community.
IKINA: THE RECLAIMED TAPESTRY
*Project completed in collaboration with Harry Bai. Roles involved: Concept development, drawings and visualisations (50% of total work)
Supervised by Nancy Ji, Mitch Eaton.
Remnants of abandoned houses serve as the material bank for Ikina Island, the roadside station not only preserves the mastery of local industries to combat the worsening depopulation, but also acts as a reminder to the value of the “leftovers” to be equally beautiful.
The new Ikina port acts as a tapestry for all locals to shine. The project collates craftsmanship of planing old wood planks to extends their performance lifespan, the mastery of local miso and fruit production to serve as seasonal programs...
1. Popura Ikinaten (Convenient Store)
Popura Ikinaten (Convenient Store)
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A new building that is assembled through the salvaged materials, an approach to celebrate the precious cultural inheritance and craftsmanship that Ikina possesses.
1. Planed timber battens as external columns
2. Recycled roof tiles from akiyas
Planed timber planks for handrails finish
4. New metal rods for handrails
Reused steel structure as primary structure and walkway
Recycled roof tiles from akiyas
Reused timber planks for louvres
New metal beams for structural reinforcements
Reused plastic trays for cabinets
10. Mud walls
11. Reused steel staircase
Section B-B (Flexible Workspace) 作業場
Park Towers 2024 proposes a new apartment typology that recomposes domestic relationships to bridge accommodation models with that of housing as commodity - two conditions which at present, are held in different regulatory models.
This is done through the renovation of existing public housing properties, which also creates a new impression for this infrastructure to bring new interest into these structures by better designs. It challenges the limit of generosity of how design can fulfill the needs in this demanding circumstance.
PARK TOWERS 2024
SOUTH MELBOURNE, VICTORIA
The recomposition of domestic relationships to bridge across different models of housing - a place to live and commodity. The same precinct that ties in different regulatory models and creates a way of living.
The proposal refurbishes the existing public housing structures and introduce them to new housing markets, while the public tenants are relocated to improved living conditions in the same precinct.
Phased Relocation A New Housing Commission
Public Housing Expansion
Retrofit & New Build in The Same Precinct
Recreating housing from the existing public housing tower creates a new trajectory of how existing infrastructure can proceed. The solution shows renovation could equally or more significantly achieve better public housing community.
It aims to introduce the new impression of the public housing model by adding private and shared outdoor spaces to the units, leading to a new model of living.
The re-arrangement of internal layouts replaces the stereotypes of “ugly” rigidity from public housing properties.
An attempt of flexible living to fulfill varieties of needs within the same model. It responds to the economical agenda of relocating existing public tenants, while also maximising the social aspect of the residents by accommodating varying family structures.
The extension building aims to cater the wide array of family structures from the public housing tenants, hence there will not be any standard 1,2,3-bedrooms as typical unit layouts.
Expansion Building
Typical Floor Level on Expansion Building
The new Moorabbin Air Museum (MAM) boldly defies the traditional constraints of museum spaces, opting instead a visionary approach that scatters iconic architectural structures throughout the expansive Moorrabbin precinct. These individualised architectural follies, each imbued with a unique purpose and distinct identity, eloquently articulate their immediate contextual significance. As these structures coalesce into a harmonious system, they collectively give rise to an avant-garde conception of museum visitation experience.
CONSTELLATION ODYSSEY
MORRABBIN AIRPORT DISTRICT, VICTORIA
Individual Work
Supervised by Dayne Trower, Simona Falvo.
Just like indicator signs that span across the entire Moorabbin precinct, the museum is composed of follies curated in open areas and junctions of roads, elevating public engagement with the existing context to connect the entire precinct.
The constellation forms a gesture that replaces the existing road signs, giving each a unique representation of spatial coordination. This introduces undefined, connective spaces that the public could re-appropriate the surrounding as well as the structure based on their needs.
Site Plan
On the ground floor, only structural elements are built to create on open public sphere, blurring the boundary of a typical public building. This invites a stronger public engagement with the presence of amenities, as well as paving the circulation that connects to a park.
// Unintentionally, the ramp is a welcoming gesture
They work together that defines the rebranding of the new museum. It is a precinct, it has some arbitrary programs, and it is an aviation museum collated with a series of landmarks.
Sporesculpt, which seeks to prototype a living internal wall and installation piece through explorations of clay and mycelium. Acknowledging the environmental crisis, construction waste and agricultural waste, the project develops upon existing and ongoing research in developing environmentally sustainable material composites to inform new methods of architectural component design and wall systems.
SPORSESCULPT
completed in collaboration with
development and physical
digital
MELBOURNE, VICTORIA
*Project
Baikun Gao and Kiu Yan Leung. Roles involved: Concept
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prototyping (35% of total work)
Supervised by Hesam Mohammed.
Combining the self-growing property of mycelium and robotic coordination, Sporsesculpt aims to create a selfhealing wall system that could potentially replace the everyday wear and tear of internal walls.
Sporsesculpt integrates 3D printing of clay and mycelium growth to establish a system that contains structure, services, insulation, texture design and spatial definition.
Considering pragmatic issues of manufacturing, particularly the 3D printing paths of clay structures, the system is designed in a loop shape that ensures complete printing on each layer. This gives rise to a more controlled approach of how the form of the wall is developed.
Plan - Clay Formwork Illustration
Front Elevation
CLAY ROBOT
MYCELIUM
The 3D printed clay creates a formwork for the wall system, just as how typical timber / stud frames are set up.
The internal infill of mycelium not only acts as an insulative layer for the internal wall system, but also the natural adhesive agent for the clay blocks. It challenges to replace bolts and nuts elements in a stud wall frame to connect different elements together.
The Living Wall - mycelium that slowly integrates to the clay formwork.
A symbiosis of different elements that proposes a self-healing architecture. Mycelium eventually grows out of the formwork and transforms into the external expression.
Our Quiet Neighbour is a research project and subject collaboration comissioned by Wendy Walls from the Melbourne School of Design. The project defies the lackadaisical impression of graveyards and celebrates the liveliness of memories from the deceased. It exemplifies the work of restitution on existing infrastructure, preserving the instant moment while utilising the opportunity for creativity.
OUR QUIET NEIGHBOUR
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PARKVILLE, VICTORIA
Team: Melissa Iraheta, Tony Yu, Ying Lee, Jen Papapaikonomou, Gargi Tokekar, Olivia Buckhingham.
*Project completed
team member of MSD NExTLab. Roles involved: Concept development, 3D-scanning, data processing and visualisations (20% of total work)
