Alice Dyer Selected Works
The Great Southern Stand Redevelopment
Project Name The Great Southern Stand Redevelopment The Melbourne Cricket Ground, Australia Services Architecture, Interior Architecture Budget $55 Million Status Completed 2013 Project Description The project called for the much loved home of Australian sport, to be transformed into a first class sporting stadium. The project aimed to improve parton experience across all four public levels of the Great Southern Stand, whilst maintaining the integrity of the original brutalism structure. The insertion of new member dining rooms, public cafes, and sports bar reflects the changing demographics of the 3 million fans that visit the stadium each year. The project scope also included the upgrade of existing ammenities, kitchens, concessions, concourses, technology infrastructure, improved entry points and wayfinding strategies. Professional Role Sketch design. Design development. Construction documentation. Contract administration. Post Occupancy.
Cox Architecture, Melbourne, Australia
The Great Southern Stand Redevelopment
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Cox Architecture, Melbourne, Australia
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A new cafe provides a family friendly space for patrons.
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The exhausted basement concourse has been transformed into an internal street with cafes, food outlets and bars opening out onto it.
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A palette of timber, coloured tiles and concrete is both tactile and robust.
The Great Southern Stand Redevelopment
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Cox Architecture, Melbourne, Australia
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The main service bar of the basement Sports Bar. Materials traditionally used as exterior cladding such as zinc panels, concrete and glass have been used as interior finishes.
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The bar is zoned into a number of different spaces. A combination of bespoke lounges, dry bars and light box elements are intergrated into the interior.
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Concept Design proposal. A feature of the space are large scaled media screens that play live streamed images from the arena above.
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Stadium exterior. A media and branding proposal was designed in parallel with the architectural design to enhance wayfinding and branding.
Victoria University Construction Futures
Project Name Victoria University Construction Futures Services Architectural Budget $44 Million Status Completed 2013 Project Description The building is designed to support the university’s new concepts for trade related education, a place of both formal and informal knowledge exchange. Introducing a collection of educational spaces, the project offers students and staff a number of meeting places, from traditional workshops and classrooms through to casual break out areas. The building acts as a learning tool in itself. The design semi-exposes the building fabric, allowing students to learn by viewing the construction methods and materials. The 6 star Green Star rated building incorporates methods for renewable energy, water preservation, solar design and temperature technologies.
Professional Role: Design development. Construction documentation.
Cox Architecture, Melbourne, Australia
Victoria University Construction Futures
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Cox Architecture, Melbourne, Australia
The semi-transparent facade not only exposes the construction system beyond but also the movements of the buildings occupants. Plywood Panels add warmth to the palette of concrete, glass and zincalume. Typical section. The large workshop area is a double height space flanked by classroom and meeting spaces.
Victoria University Construction Futures
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Cox Architecture, Melbourne, Australia
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General Plan. Interior meeting spaces. Much of the buildings structure is left unclad. The major approach to the building is landscaped using drought resistant planting.
Australian Tax Office
Project Name Australian Tax Office Box Hill, Australia Services Architecture, Interior Architecture Budget $100 Million Status Design Development 2015 completion.
Project Description The 19,000 sqm office tower has been developed in response to the Victorian Governments Central Activity Areas Initiative. The 20-storey building will act as a catalyst for further private sector growth in the designated suburb of Box Hill. The design includes 690 sqm of ground floor retail space, activating the buildings presence on Whitehorse Road. The building is designed to achieve a 5 Star, Green Star environment rating, a first for the Box Hill area. Professional Role Design development. Design documentation. Services Coordination.
Cox Architecture, Melbourne, Australia
Australian Tax Office
Cox Architecture, Melbourne, Australia
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150 secured bike spaces & shower facilities contribute to a 5 star, Green Star rating.
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Ground floor retail.
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Typical office facade section.
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Glazing elevation.
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External glazing system.
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Typical balcony detail.
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Cox Architecture, Melbourne, Australia
ATO entry foyer. Section detail through the foyer ceiling. The internal timber panelling is continued to the external soffit.
Australian Broadcasting Commission
Project Name Australian Broadcasting Commission Accommodation Project Southbank, Australia Services Architecture, Interior Architecture Budget $165 Million Status Sketch Design.
Project Description The project provides a new centralised head quarters for the Victorian sector of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. The ABC currently conducts a third of its operations from the Southbank site. The existing radio studios and office building will be refurbished and supported by the new purpose built building that will house television and film production studios, office spaces. In addition to operational facilities, a collection of new civic spaces are integrated on the ground floor to help promote and connect the internal workings of the ABC to the surrounding Melbourne Arts Precinct. Professional Role Feasibility studies. Sketch design. Planning proposal.
Cox Architecture, Melbourne, Australia
Australian Broadcasting Commission
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A new building core will support both the new and existing buildings on the site.
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Existing offices spaces (blue) will be extended through to the new building to support continuity.
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2 floors of new office spaces will be added to the existing building. 04 A new rooftop garden to the east of the building will maximise views over the Arts precinct and Royal Botanical gardens. 05,06 Collaborative workspaces (yellow) are a major focus of the brief. 07 Ground floor plan.
Cox Architecture, Melbourne, Australia
Australian Broadcasting Commission
01-05 Facade options testing sunshading outcomes. 06-07 Screening option. Perforated copper panels.
Cox Architecture, Melbourne, Australia
Frankston Transit Interchange Precinct
Project Name Frankston Transit Interchange Precinct Frankston, Australia Services Architecture, Urban Design Budget N/A Status Feasibilty Study Project Description
Nominated as a key area of renewal in the Frankston City Council’s ’Tafe to Bay’ Structure Plan, the transport interchange will stregthen existing public transport ammenities, whilst ativating the streetscape and improving the safety of the area. The design calls for a reconfiguration of existing traffic planning in the area. The existing railway platform is retained, but a new entrance, kiosk and waiting area are proposed. A series of canopy structures provide both amenity and a strenghtened identity to the relocated bus interchange and pick-up and drop-off taxi zones. The introducion of small scaled public spaces, street landscaping, station entry and civic programmes will help to activate the surrounding area. This design provides improved connectivity between the train station and the surrounding streets of Frankston’s CAA. Professional Role
Precinct Masterplan. Feasibility study. Concept Design. Written architectural proposal.
Cox Architecture, Melbourne, Australia
Frankston Transit Interchange Precinct
Cox Architecture, Melbourne, Australia
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Aerial view of the proposed bus interchange.
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Existing conditions, figure ground diagram. The existing station is adjacent to a shopping strip, however poor pedestrian connectivity and traffic management has resulted in disconnection between the public transport hub and the city centre.
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Proposed plan for the upgraded precinct. The number of pedestrian points are increased, footpaths are widened and landcaping is introduced.
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Cox Architecture, Melbourne, Australia
Sections through proposed canopy. Street view of the proposed bus interchange and new train station entry. The canopy structure is a series of folded timber soffits that connect the different modes of transport throughout the site. The use of timber is extended to the materiality of street furniture and hard landscaping throughout the precinct.
The Kaleidoscope Walk
Project Name The Kaleidoscope Walk Melbourne, Australia
Services Competition Submission State of Design Festival Design for an Active City Budget $20,000 Status Finalist Project Description This temporary urban intervention acts to reduce the perceived walking distance between the edge of Melbourne’s CBD grid and the newly developed Docklands, helping to support greater walkability and connectivity within the area. When approaching the site the pedestrian attention is drawn to a series of timber portals, clad in perspex panels. These portals create a colonnade that is awash in a gradient of coloured light. Pedestrians are encouraged to use the intervention as both a place visit and appropriate. A series of terraced platforms within the colonnade provide pedestrians with seating, or as excercise stepping blocks and planter boxes for flowers and herbs.
Professional Role Design proposal in collaboration with Marco Roma. Cost analysis.
State of Design Festival Competition
The Kaleidoscope Walk
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Elevation. The coloured panels are arranged in a gradient to provide pedestrians with a changing experience as they move through the colonnade. Plan. The portal frames extend across the width of an existing footpath helping to protect pedestrians from vehicular traffic.
The Kaleidoscope Walk
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Looking through the Kaleidoscope.
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Section. The position of the perspex panels are designed to provide a changing rhythm for both pedestrians and passing traffic. Typical portal sections and elevations.
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State of Design Festival Competition
Tuvalu Community Refuge
Project Name Tuvalu Community Refuge Services Design Proposal Budget N/A Status Masters of Architecture Thesis Project Project Description This design provides a community refuge for Tuvaluan families relocating to Australia as environmental refugees. The theme of refuge is explored through two streams of development. Transitional housing is designed to enable immigrant families a place to find their feet in a new country, and permanent cultural infrastructure is introduced to create a place of cultural identity. These developments record the flux of visitors upon the site over time. Imprints left from the families living on the site help to weave the story of immigration into the landscape. Remnants act as markers that reinforce the story of the Tuvaluan community. This allows the site to become both a place of cultural significance and an instrument of story telling.
Student Project, Masters of Architecture
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Community Church Plan Elevation. The Church stands as a permanent element inserted into the existing embankment on the site. Pockets of landscaped spaces are created along the cultural axis. Here the day care centre helps activate the public space provided along this axis. Church interior.
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Student Project, Masters of Architecture
Family house plan. A large open lounge and kitchen area overlook the ocean. The house is designed to enable easy addition of bedrooms that open onto a living corridor space. Typical Section through living corridor and bedroom. Perspective along the living corridor. The corridor’s facade is made up of a series of operable walls that allow the corridor to be openeded out onto the garden areas adjacent.