BUILT ENVIRONMENT
BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE CATALOGUE 160 EXHIBITING POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS 70 EXHIBITNG UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
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2020 EX
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN OF FBE Professor Helen Lochhead
MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR OF ARCHITECTURE Dr. Philip Oldfield
SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL OFFICIAL SPONSORS
SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL GUEST TUTORS
REGIONAL STUDIO Public Library + Writer-In-Residence Studio URBAN STUDIO Making Urban - Without Form
Professor Helen Lochhead Outgoing Dean of Faculty of Built Environment
UNSW Built Environment: Shaping Future Cities Congratulations to our Bachelor of Architectural Studies and Master of Architecture students on completing their studies at UNSW Built Environment. We warmly welcome you to our alumni community. UNSW Built Environment provides the platform to generate innovative solutions for today’s world that also anticipate and mitigate tomorrow’s urban problems. Our imperative is to make the world a better place through a better built environment. Every year accomplished academics and award-winning practitioners lead our Architecture programs, providing a firm foundation to launch your professional careers, to design and build more sustainable, liveable cities. The architectural projects that follow profile an inspiring and creative compilation of your work during the course of your studies. Each year our students create projects that understand, respond to, and enhance specific environmental, sociocultural and economic contexts. This portfolio of work addresses diverse urban challenges and through creative problem solving, result in compelling projects with many interwoven stories. When viewed together, they provide glimpses into our world and the potential to improve it with clear, innovative ideas and design propositions that challenge the status quo. Together, you and your future colleagues will contribute to architectural design and place-making solutions to many of the future challenges facing our cities - solutions that, today, have yet to be imagined. In your future pursuits, I urge you to keep following your individual passions while welcoming interdisciplinary collaboration. This will produce authentic, multilayered solutions that stand the test of time in a quickly changing world. We look forward to hearing about your future endeavours and the impacts they have on the communities that you serve. Please update us throughout your career at BEalumni@unsw.edu.au. I also invite you to join our LinkedIn group (UNSW Built Environment) to maintain connections with your peers and other UNSW Built Environment alumni as you move into the next steps of your career. We are also grateful to our alumni who support future students with scholarships, prizes, internships and mentoring programs. It is a real delight to support and celebrate our graduates’ achievements and I look toward to seeing how you choose to shape your future. Thank you for the energy and passion you have devoted to your degree at UNSW. I wish you all the very best.
Dr. Philip Oldfield Director of Architecture Program
There is little doubt 2020 has been a difficult year. In March, the architecture program at UNSW converted to on-line teaching, pushing students and teachers into new and unfamiliar ways of learning, designing and communicating. This has brought with it many challenges, but also great opportunities. Throughout this year, I have been amazed by the dedication, passion and ambition of our students as they tackle their final studio projects. The architecture they have created displays all the social purpose, environmental concern and graphical creativity befit of UNSW graduates of architecture. Our final studio in the Bachelor of Architectural Studies has been shaped through collaborations with some of Australia’s most acclaimed architects. Our Regional Studio is led by Professor Rachel Neeson. Sited in Broken Hill, students are tasked with the design of a library and writer’s residence. Our Urban Studio is led by Anita Panov and Andrew Scott. Framed with the title “Making Urban: Without Form” the studio examined the reinvention of the Tram Shed and the north end of The Goods Line in Ultimo, Sydney. Supported by Dr John Gamble and Dr. Ainslie Murray, alongside experienced and passionate teaching teams, they have devised ambitious curricula that adapt their respective design methods to an educational setting. It has been challenging this year to understand the different sites in Sydney and Broken Hill during the period of COVID-19 global isolation. However, we have used the concept of ‘virtual touring’, using videos, interviews, presentations and more to allow our students around the world to ‘visit’ these urban places and develop their architectural responses. This innovation has fuelled a remarkable quality of design ideas that engage with the climate, culture and context of their unique settings. I’d like to say a special thank you to Rachel, Anita, Andrew and all our teachers this year. I’d also like to thank our Student Exhibition Committee who along with Dr. Russell Lowe and James Hargrave have worked tirelessly to pull together every aspect of the ARCH-EX exhibition – including this catalogue – while simultaneously completing their studies. Congratulations to our graduating students. The quality of your final projects, as shown in this book, offer us a tantalising glimpse of the emerging talent that will go on to shape our future cities for years to come.
SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL OFFICIAL SPONSORS AND GUEST CRITICS
PUBLIC LIBRARY + WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE STUDIO Architecture + Regional Stream
Site: Broken Hill
The urban footprint of Broken Hill is clearly visible within its arid landscape in far west NSW near the South Australian border. It has a large diurnal temperature range with extremes of heat and cold, high impact rain events, and evaporation that generally outstrips precipitation. Added to this are frequent strong winds, dust storms and high lead levels, creating a need to filter and shelter the weather conditions. Broken Hill’s isolation is a strength as much as it is a challenge. Connected by air, rail and road, and with all the facilities that one would expect of a regional city, the Broken Hill lifestyle is treasured by many. Broken Hill is Australia’s longest lived mining city, where some of the world’s major mining companies were founded on the richest mineral deposits. It is where safe working practices and workers legislation were first developed for miners in Australia. A thriving city of 35,000 people in its mining heyday, Broken Hill is now home to fewer than 18,000 residents. The Council is looking to reenergise the urban centre to counter the impact of large shopping centres recently opened on its periphery. This is the challenge not only for regional cities but urban centres across Australia – how to sustain urban community! The new Broken Hill Library will be the cornerstone of its rejunevation.
JAMES STOCKWELL
LEE HILLAM
James Stockwell Architect
Dunn and Hillam Architects
POLLY HARBISON
RACHEL NEESON
Polly Harbison Design
Neeson Murcutt + Neille
TAMAS JONES
IAN MARTIN
Neeson Murcutt + Neille
Patonga Design
ADIB IMAM
Email: adib.imam@me.com Instagram: adib.imam
RE-TREASURING BROKEN HILL This Design Proposal seeks to be a sensitive response to place. Articulated by 2 dominant architectural languages- the Main Library and the served and servant quadrants integrates a number of highperformance systems. Namely, the solar chimneys, mechanical louvers and a dynamic double skin. This idea of “Re-treasuring Broken Hill“ is fundamentally grounded in the metaphor that the true treasures beneath the land are not the opals, or precious metals. Instead, it is the fossils; particularly the petrified organic material, that lives in spirit to tell us a story about how this vast landscape has formed over time. As such, the sectional profile of the Library, steps down and etches itself into the land- much like the Archeological sites where such treasures are to be uncovered and studied. With every ‘step’ into the ground, the program integrates a series of ‘bays’, encouraging a similar process of discovery, inference and intertextual learning.
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CATHERINE ERZETIC
Email: catherine.anne.erzetic@gmail.com LinkedIn: catherineanneerzetic
A LIBRARY IN THE HEART OF BROKEN HILL A timeless library in the heart of Broken Hill, adjoining an additional writer’s residence and the existing Charles Rasp Library. The facade is constructed in rammed earth for its low embodied energy, natural beauty, and sculpting properties. Depth, created through the wall thickness and an interplay with light, emboldens one’s experience as they traverse through the aisles. On the north and west facade, the tunnel-like windows reveal a wall with strategically varied thicknesses, in response to the harsh solar conditions. The calculated angles of these openings control the direct sunlight permitted into the main reading room. Each openings’ frame is rebated into the rammed earth, making frames invisible from the exterior. Reading nooks are nestled within these arched openings on the western facade. This makes it so that as you would approach the main reading room, the floating bookshelves frame each nestled nook, enticing you to sit, rest, or read.
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DONNA HELM
Emailďźšdonna.helm24@live.com.au LinkedInďźšdonna-helm Instagram:@dhelm24
CONNECTING TWO WORLDS Connecting two worlds takes inspiration from the location and vast landscape of Broken Hill. The proposal aims to highlight a sense of isolation whilst also celebrating connection and community. The architectural strategy is derived from the idea of connection: connecting the community, the heritage fabric and modern society, proposals of new and old, and the important relationship of Broken Hill with the rest of Australia. The site has existing dwellings in each corner that are a significant part of the Broken Hill community. The site organisation looks to activate each of these, whilst connecting Blende Street, Argent Street, and Argent Lane by introducing new entry/exit points. There is a central circulation area at the entrance of the library, creating the opportunity for members of the community to meet. The facades of the two proposed dwellings create a directional walkway whilst providing connecting views between new and old.
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EDDIE YU
Email: xineddie.yu@gmail.com LinkedIn: eddiexinyu instagram: enterior_yu
ANOMALY: SEEKING ATTENTION THROUGH THE DISRUPTION OF THE NORMAL To repopulate the heart of Broken Hill, the library encompasses a multi-faceted hub that shifts Broken Hills normality through form and function. Drawing in locals and tourists to repopulate the slowly depleting town centre, ANOMALY bring attention to the playfulness nature that contrasts the existing layout. Broken Hill Library contrasts the peaceful exterior to a ‘box in a box’ interior, creating clusters of various thresholds and co-existing functional spaces provides purposes for users to populate and habitat the space. I believe my final design demonstrates structural and design elements that was strongly developed and adapted to site, however further work on the internal arrangement of furnishings and individual experiences is needed which I hope to work towards following graduation.
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ERICA A. LEONG
Email:ericaanne14159@gmail.com LinkedIn:erica-anne-leong Website: ericaleong99.wixsite.com
WARRA WARRA LIBARY Warra-warra is a Paakantyi word meaning ‘sitting side-byside, together’. Inspired by the clustered organization of ancient Egyptian villages, the design seeks to readapt this typology into a remote outback context. In drawing parallels to Piet Mondrian’s style of analytical cubism and the geometric artwork by Jean Baptiste Apuatimi, the library is spatially delineated into a series of sub-grids (with the Old Town Hall as the starting point) where ancillary spaces are anchored to the main reading space like barnacles. Separate from the main reading area, rooms with similar functions (Staff, guest services) are organised around central courtyards. They are exemplified by the inverted hip roof that slope inward towards the vertex, giving rise to a series of undulating ridges. In the main reading room, the sloping convex roof meets at a linear, diffused skylight. Comprising vernacular architectural elements, the interior palette is intentionally pared down through monolithic rammed earth walls and their visual contrast against the sloping timber ceilings. The Corten steel roofing pays homage to the old houses in Broken Hill constructed using weathered corrugated iron.
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HARRIS PANERAS
Email:Harris.Paneras@gmail.com LinkedIn:harrispaneras Instagram:harrispaneras
THE PUBLIC SYMBIOSIS The Broken Hill Library unites the public realm of the site, between two high traffic spaces. The library provides a symbiotic environment that brings life to the private and public domain of the Broken Hill Site. The design of the library presents a simple form that explore the idea of spaces between the streets. The design features an all timber frame approach, taking inspiration from its contextual history that promotes low embodied energy materials to keep heat gain low and building costs to a minimum. Fitted with a Writer’s residency that is located inside the main reading room overseeing the library reading spaces, providing an intimate relationship between the writers work and the readers within the spaces. This relationship is also carried out around the architecture of the library, signifying a strong relationship between the site of broken hill and the formalities of a Public Library.
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HENRICK MICHAEL
Email: h.michael@student.unsw.edu.au LinkedIn: Henrick Michael Instagram: acanthus_arcus
A SILVER LINING
Focusing on the rugged regional landscape and ductile geology of Broken Hill, ‘A Silver Lining’ proposes a new community library with an architecture that is grounded in the local topography. The design investigates the structure of a library as an abstraction of geomorphology, examining the prominent shear zones and belt of attenuation or line of lode. A geological and mining focus for the library tells a story of the land, investigating the complex tectonic forces and ancient 1,800 million-year-old mineral formation. Reflecting its enduring existence, the orebody consisting of lead-zinc-sulphide serves as the heart of one of Australia’s oldest mining towns and informs the steel structure and rammed earth composition of the library. With true North orientated 35° from the city cartesian grid, the library connects to the landscape by conflating both solar and cartesian orientations, mediating semi-arid climactic conditions and reinforcing a sense of belonging within the civic site.
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HNIN IZALI
Email: hninizali_ivy@hotmail.com LinkedIn: Hnin Izali Instagram: hninizaliivy
BROKEN HILL’S CULTURAL LANE LIBRARY Imitating Broken Hill’s lane grids, the vision is to create an accessible, recreational, sociable, and vibrant area for diverse people. The form of the building is vast and high as it reflecting the culture of “Big Sky and Deep Earth” topography of the region. The overall form mimics the surrounding buildings’ aesthetic while expressing the functional walls at the South-west Facade (when closed) as poetic Monumental tectonic that reflects and reinterprets Broken Hill’s remoteness and “big sky and deep earth” culture. Besides, those rammed earth walls are 180 degrees rotatable with fixed seats to look in the front sculptural garden (adjustable privacy). During sandstorms, they can be closed, while allowing people to sit and enjoy in the public space. Or open for ventilation and views as required. None the less, those blank huge walls can be used as exhibition canvas for recreational purposes. This library is rich in culture which narrates Broken Hill’s indigenous art of storytelling along the public walkway walls. Thus, effectively educating the younger generations. Since the area is known for heritage walk famous among the tourist, hoping the library become more open to the public and vibrant in the future.
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ISABEAU ADAMEK
Email: isabeau.adamek@gmail.com LinkedIn: Isabeau Adamek
YAPARA LIBRARY The Yapara Broken Hill Library and plaza will help to foster stewardship of and belonging to place by acting as a community hub whilst simultaneously attracting residents and tourists back into the historical town centre. Broken Hill’s climate helped to inform the contrasting duality of the twin buildings. Rammed earth is used to help combat the high diurnal temperature ranges while extensive operable shading provides flexibility for the summer and winter months. An underground reservoir also provides low carbon cooling and acts as an overflow in flooding periods. The traditional owners of Broken Hill, the Wilyakali people, have been greatly considered in this design. Named after the Paakantji word for home, the library features a keeping place and language centre as well as red earth wayfinding pathways in the landscaping which help to decolonise the space. In the future I intend to directly include traditional owners in all my design practises.
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IVY CHEN
Email:ivychen.arch@gmail.com Instagram: arch__iv
PORTAL
Portal introduces a dynamic community hub to serve the city of Broken Hill including a library, offices and public use spaces. Situated in regional New South Wales, the proposal aims to be a fresh new destination for learning, socialising and celebration. A location like this comes with numerous challenges such as the difficult environmental factors, where a significant amount of time was spent experimenting with facades to let in positive aspects while keeping out the harsh weather conditions. Shown in the models above, I enjoyed experimenting with the roof structure, considering factors such as the courtyard views, entry of light and water collection. The library is designed to be accommodating, comfortable and beautiful; inside and out. From the expressive courtyard to allow community events, to the light-filled reading rooms with books lining the walls and the playful addition of the slide down to the children’s area.
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JARED RUDNICK
Email: jaredrudnick@outlook.com LinkedIn: jaredrudnick Instagram: jared_arch
CONNECTUM
Connectum – joining the great divide. Broken Hill is a spec in the vastness of the landscape, but despite this maintains itself as an important node within a network - connecting those far and beyond. This scheme seeks to become a connector, physically and culturally in many ways. This curvature is derived from the existing forms and the relationship between the orthogonal and solar geometries. The existing forms create four distinct quadrants of the site, which all need to house aspects of the program. Seamlessly transitioning between these building was key for a harmonious experience for people on the site. Part of this includes creating new forms that directly adjoin and hover over the existing buildings. Connectum is that which bridges old and new, linear and organic, and moves the people of Broken Hill from the past to the future.
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KATE LYNCH
Email: katev96@hotmail.com LinkedIn: kate-lynch-intarch Instagram: kl_intArch
CONTRAST Not many places can incorporate a mining blast in their morning coffee routine. This is a township isolated for kilometers in the middle of a still arid desert, only to flank around an active mine. It floods, there’s drought. It’s considered Australia’s ‘mineralogical rainforest’. These are the foundations of this town, contrasting characteristics are at its heart. The paradoxical nature of Broken Hill is undeniable. This proposal is about emphasising these contrasting characteristics, representing a subconscious response to Broken Hill’s paradoxical nature and pinpointing the local comfort and resilience in its contractions. The contrast of grid systems, of scale, of lightness creates a paradoxical sensation, the feeling of subconscious discovery as the Library aims to strengthen the reception of contrast in Broken Hill. The Library proposal captures the subconscious yet excee-dingly valuable spirit of Broken Hill and creates moments of connection, letting the architecture be defined by Broken Hill itself.
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KATRINA WU
Email: kattwuu@gmail.com LinkedIn: katrina-wu Instagram: kattarch
SKY + GROUND
‘Sky + Ground’ is a community hub and library that reflects the needs, culture and climate that is uniquely Broken Hill. The aim of the proposal was to create a “cultural heart” amidst the expansive sky and red planes of Broken Hill. The conception of the form and program was an urban planning and climatic control exercise. Where, the aim was to connect and shade current and future pedestrian site through links to create a hub that inviting. At the library’s centre is a shaded oasis that utilises evaporative cooling to passively cool inside. Inspired by James Turrell’s work, the towering building walls frame and sky closer to those inside the atrium. The everchanging colours and textures of the sky invite the occupants to gather and watch the sky. Ultimately, this project is about not to make a statement, but to respect the culture, heritage, and future of the community at Broken Hill by grounded by the factors that are specific and unique to the place.
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KINGSLEY CASTILLO
Email: kingsley.castillo26@gmail.com LinkedIn: @Kingsley Castillo
256 ARGENT The town of Broken Hill consists of a really interesting and diverse heritage and culture with remnants of this still existing throughout the town. A specific example of this is the remaining Broken Hill Town Hall façade located onsite. The initial driving idea of the development is the revival of the once existing building footprint and reinterpretation of the gestures given by the existing elements of the town hall. 256 Argent begins to introduce double voided spatial elements once used by classical examples of Library spaces, giving the building a strong civic presence that a town library and community centre deserves. Accompanying this civic space is a long colonnaded spine that runs through the length of the site, connecting the parallel main town roads of Argent st and Blend St but also provides a climactic solution towards the harsh outback Australian sun and the prevailing winds coming from the south. The device not only provides pragmatic solutions but also exists with really bold proportions that allow for 256 Argent’s presence to really be seen and felt.
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TERRENCE FENG
Email: terrencedesignworks@gmail.com LinkedIn: Terrence Feng Instagram: terrence__design__works
LIGHT BETWEEN Light Between is a library proposal that aims to promote gathering and sharing of ideas along a centralised light well split between the two major forms. The design challenge of Broken Hill is its harsh climate; powerful sunlight, dust storms and sudden downpour results in periods where indoor spaces becomes highly valued. The sections explore how vertical structural fins with glazing can improve internal micro-climate; the sunlight is reflected into the space and the rain is quickly re-directed into water storage via internal gutters. The resulting between space is one of the senses; dappled light, earthy tones and ambience of rain. All contributing to an inviting indoor experience of literature and sharing of ideas. Although the climatic response was successful, further refinement may seek exploration of ‘double skin’ structural systems, which may improve upon internal ventilation, thermal control and the exterior expression of the built form.
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TONGHE LIU
Email: DONGHAE5977@163.COM LinkedIn: TONGHE LIU
INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONS BETWEEN ARCHITECTURE & SPACES BASED ON HUMAN SENSE ‘Transition’ conveys a transitional stage of a space complementing the interior architectural space, and a space where people readjust their emotions while in the process of entering from one space to another. If we do not regard the building blocks as the collection of volumes, but ‘empty parts’ between volumes, the transition space of the whole, that is to say, creating space by turning addition into subtraction. The idea of creating a spatial transition was inspired by the space under the large verandahs in broken hill. The protruding eaves create a semi-open space, which forms the typical transitional space. While the transition space should not has been a physical space, but should be identified by human sense.
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TROY CHAN
Email: tchan1995@gmail.com Instagram: @troy.y.c
MINE OF THE MIND
“The accidental encounter of alphabetical order and social interaction is the promise of the new public library.�-patrick arends As technologies advance in the 21sts century, human have become more sensitive in questioning on not only what we learn; but how we learn. The mine of the mind is a democratic, peace driven place that serves firstly as a visual representation of the culture and geographic identity of broken hill. Secondly, the library acts as a continuation of the traditinoal idea of library as an emblem of hope and symbol of cultural establishment. Lastly, the design respects and embraces diversity and thus, spatial experiences have been shaped with consideration of potential programs that would be hosted by various communities such as the local indigenous tribe(s) and their methods & preferences of passing and exchanging knowledge.
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TYLA VENISH
Email: tyla.venish@outlook.com LinkedIn: tyla-venish Instagram: @tv_arch
MULYAMIJI LIBRARY Louis Kahn famously endeavoured to give human concerns, such as reading and learning, an architectural form in his libraries. In a quest to give the concerns of reading, learning and civic life, as well as the Genius Loci of Broken Hill an architectural form, the Mulyamiji library has been designed to reflect the lightness of turning pages of books, paper-bark trees and the mass of the earth. Whilst Kahn’s libraries were used as precedents for function and plan, Aboriginal architecture was the primary source of inspiration for the ethos of this building, as it represents a simple, yet careful tuning of what is available to the location, and the value of using local materials, technologies and forms in order to create an architecture of place. The adaptable and advanced technologies of the desert creatures which have survived in Australia for thousands of years were also harnessed in the built form.
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MAKING URBAN: WITHOUT FORM Architecture + Urban Stream
Site: Broken Hill
The urban condition is to entangle with accretions of occupation. These ever evolving spatial and temporal networks make the experience of the city so exciting and potent. If the typical architectural project could be described as the organising of rooms to define a coherent whole, one which facilitates a specific kind of beautiful experience/appearance, we wonder what might eventuate if instead we adopt a process more akin to that of the urban designer - one in which success is measured not so much by specific experience/appearance as by the capacity of a place to enable and protect myriad different and inventive appropriations. Often we architects rush to establish form. That is understandable, it is the tangible byproduct of the design process and establishes the image of architecture we so readily consume on our screens. But we must remember that form is really just one excretion of a process, rather than the singular goal. More and more, in disciplines parallel to architecture, there is a growing interest in design processes that enable resilience via adaptability and the breaking down of the unitised object into orders of operable parts. Of course ‘Without Form’ is a little tongue in cheek, there is no architecture without form, but what we are interested in is a potential realignment of priorities. So in this studio we will put ourselves in the heart of our city, in an emerging and exciting urban situation. We will develop a lucid and experimental design proposition based on the close observation and analysis of that urban condition and an understanding of the history of city making. We will seek an architecture of transformation. A term which gives appropriate weight not only to the moment of architectural intervention, but the times both past and future.
ANDREW SCOTT
ANITA PANOV
Panovscott Architects
Panovscott Architects
ANTHONY PARSONS
BELQIS YOUSSOFZAY
Savio Parsons Architects
Youssofzay + Hart
EOGHAN LEWIS
MIRIAM GREEN
Eoghan Lewish Architects
Atelier M
AMY LEUNG Email: amyleung890@gmail.com LinkedIn: @Amy Leung
SENSE AND CONNECTION Built forms that continue to stay relevant, regardless of time, are those that foster a sense of community and communication between others. My design includes a learning environment for physical therapy focusing in art and creativity that is connected to the public spaces along the Goods Line. The idea of learning flows throughout the entire site, experienced through communication between different groups within the community. The school’s active spaces such as exercise rooms are connected to the skatepark and basketball court and shared with the publiclyopen dance and yoga studios. Ramps and lifts that are accessed by the students are also shared with people visiting public active spaces. Rest spaces are designed into the ramps that act as gathering spaces that promote communication and learning between people.
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BEATRICE WONG Email: b.arch@outlook.com
MAKING URBAN: WITHOUT FORM My proposal highlights the importance of being in the presence of now, with living patterns movements in the urban life following this strict linearity of time and schedule, that the idea of being in the moment is lost with missed opportunities for interactions. The self-sustaining urban public space integrates blends of private and public programs with a blurred boundary, creating layers of connections and exchanges that would usually be hidden or lost. Thus, evoking a sense of unconsciousness of finding what is not expected and not in immediate sight.
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Branson Wei Hong CHIN email: bransonchin@hotmail.com linked.in: @Branson Chin instagram: @bransonchin99
Nexus The proposal organises an institution, gallery, cultural gathering space and a sports centre, aiming to revitalise and redevelop the existing site of the Junction CafĂŠ, Tram Shed and the north end of the Goods Line in Ultimo. The design serves as heart of the city by creating strong urban gesture and visual stimulus which encourage public to the important point of gathering. The generosity with the idea of intervals and maintaining existing site grain protect the myriad different and inventive appropriations which can adopt the evolving spatial and temporal networks. The proposal embraces the concept of social interactivity and connectivity internally and externally, with the usage of translucent, transparent, opaque elements for different spaces. As a result, they can serve a particular function for spaces and creates different experiences for users. The articulation of structures and materials can physically and temporally demarcate appropriate public and private use of spaces.
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CHRISTY TANG Email: tang-christy@outlook.com LinkedIn: christytangy Instagram: christytangy
A JUNCTION OF DISCOURSE Learning isn’t limited to age, race or occupation. Individual’s are always looking to learn new things, but this may be restricted with their identities. Is there a new yet effective way that can bring anyone together to learn and be entertained no matter their differences? This project plays with the different levels and sizes of space, resulting in a minimal yet effective space that does not affect or obstruct the daily use of the existing site. The architecture of the building and urban spaces in this project becomes a subtle addition that enhances Good’s Line, balancing both working and relaxing activities together. The integration of these factors has the capability to benefit students through a newly designed educational system.
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CHUEN FUNG JONATHAN TANG Email: jcf.tang28h23@gmail.com LinkedIn: jonathantang Instagram: jt_does_arch
THE ANNEXE The Annexe is a spiritual extension of the Powerhouse Museum (MAAS) which seeks to increase its engagements with the community. The Museum of Applied Arts and Science has been a staple in Ultimo’s history as well as its cultural and technological identity. The Annexe aims to amplify the significance of the institution and promotes a more personal connection to the artistic and innovative people of Sydney. Rather than imposing a drastic intervention onto the site, the design creates spaces through subtle manipulation in layers. This is to preserve the already limited optical freedom along the Goods Line and the industrial identity of the Hardwood Building tram shed facade. The scheme revolves around creating a collection of spaces that are supplementary to the already established Powerhouse Museum. A dedicated learning space and Maker Studio is added to promote community engagement with workshops and casual courses. New gathering spaces are introduced to bring in public connection to the institution.
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CRISTINA REHO Email: cristina.reho@gmail.com LinkedIn: Cristina Reho Instagram: designsbycreho
INTER-GEN The Urban environment is designed to foster multigenerational living to meet the demands of both aging-in-place preferences that includes the urban lifestyle with an emphasis of fun, interaction, stimulation and engagement. Intergenerational living in the city can be challenging but with the right education and connections we can all work together and learn valuable experiences from each other. It is through education and awareness between the young and the old, the older generation gaining education in the new arising technology world, interacting and not isolating themselves, to the younger children enriching their communications, understanding of the experiences told from an older person and understand their needs and role in the community. The design approach is looking at creating a holistic design approach that caters for all active ages from the young to the elderly. Each of the spaces looks into creating value and require to be multi-purpose, adaptable, safe and interchangeable function throughout the day.
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DARLYN QUILALA Email: darlynrquilala@gmail.com LinkedIn: Darlyn Quilala Instagram: drq_arch
REVITALISATION THROUGH ADAPTATIONS The site, both then and now, has always been a place of momentary transition, however the new additions of private learning environments and urban habitats demands a site which instead allows moments of stillness, permanence, and encourages inhabitation. ‘Remain’ seeks to revitalise the “in between” spaces of our existing city through the integration of new architecture. This scheme’s parasitical architecture complements what has remained on site, embracing what it once was, but also creates extensions of them; a public terrace complements the Powerhouse Museum and the Tram Shed’s learning environments are expanded. Furthermore, at each end of the site, are intersections fostering temporary activity, fleeting moments. A hierarchy of space renders the northern end a wider, congregational area, and the southern, a narrow, intimate one; the public spaces for each are designed respectively in reflection with this. I believe my final design successfully activates this “in between” with a new identity supporting permanent activity.
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DONOVAN TAN LinkedIn: life_with_Donovan Instagram: Donovan Tan
THE GOODS PLACE: A CULTURAL EXTENSION IN ULTIMO Located in the cultural and historical area in Ultimo, sandwiched between the decorated walkways of The Goods Line and the historical and cultural presence of The Powerhouse Museum, The Goods Place was designed as a space of transition, extension and connection. The Goods Place is split into two portion, with The Goods Corridor ( A basement cultural walkway running in parallel with The Goods Line bringing the cultural elements from The Powerhouse Museum down to a different plane.) and The Goods Tower ( An Extension of the Ground Plane upwards that contains various amenities that will be able to give back to the area). The Goods Place shows the possibilities of spatial connection vertically and diagonally, integrating the various urban typographies into a project that would be able to tie the different axis and junctions of the site together.
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ERI SHIBATA Email: eri.shibataxy@outlook.jp LinkedIn: Eri Shibata Instagram: ELIII__LLL
LIFE ON TRACK This is a space to convey culture, knowledge and happiness. The idea of LIFE ON TRACK is inspired by the existing railway track on the site. Transportation of cargos on the historic site is transferred to transmit learning space, sporting space and farm life for people living in the urban site to relax themselves and achieve other spiritual meaning. In order to retain this historical character, I imitate the buildings as different stations, various activities are transmitted to each station like goods. The circulation space like a track will be designed to be completely transparent and open. It is also a space for people to learn dynamically. People learn from the movement of other people’s activities in different places and observe the changes of things around them with the changes of space and time.
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GRACELLE REYES Email:reyes.gracelle@gmail.com LinkedIn: Gracelle Reyes Instagram: grcllrys_
PROJECT GAEA Nature represents a powerful resource for shaping a beneficial urban habitat. Project Gaea is a place that will source different types of produce necessary for health, growth, and good condition. It’s program aims to educate others on urban agriculture and their beneficial effect to one’s own well-being through hands-on experience with urban gardening. With this aim, people can learn about a large variety of indoor and outdoor plants, herbs, and other sorts of produce. It will allow and encourage individuals to participate in urban farming, food preparation and create opportunities for people to learn about different relationships and nature. I believe my design has a strong aim for the betterment of the community but more refinement is needed with the urban gardening and learning spaces for the community which I hope to understand and explore more following graduation.
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HAN SU Email: sh.suhan@qq.com Blog: https://unswsh.blogspot.com/ Instagram: s.hounsou.h
EYES OF THE CITY The project is a community-based learning infrastructure, located beside Powerhouse Museum and UTS campus in Sydney City. The site takes up the gap between Tram Shed building and The Goods Line which was a conduit for trade previously and transformed into a recreation trail nowadays. The design is proposed to integrate community centre, skatepark, workshop, laboratory, gallery and performance space within the site, questioning today’s urban condition and seeking not only the moment of architectural intervention, but the times both past and future. The concept Eyes of the city is inspired from the reading “Life and death of American great cities” by Jane Jacobs, who claims an idea that the public peace is primarily kept by citizens unconsciously or unintentionally. In other words, people are the guard and supervisor of the street when they see other’s performance, when they interact with others, when they start to build the relationship with others. Therefore, I hope the design would eliminate the blind angle within the site, encourage people’s involvement in the public events and interaction with the surrounding activities.
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JIAMEI YANG Email: yjmyjm983@gmail.com Instagram: @jiameiyang0325
ABSORB, CONNECT AND DISPLAY The project is made up by the adamic component, the sport & culture component and the reformed the Goods Line landscape. People are attracted to this hub from various directions and are given different experiences depending on their needs. Their experiences echo with the Goods Line’s cultural feature. The “forward- sink- rise” route component imitates the route of a train. At the underground level, the lightness, space volume and viewpoint height alternate as one moving forward, the feeling is like sitting on a train, looking at the scenes move backward. On the ground level, the energetic contemporary Sydney is displayed. Children play on the playground, families and friends sit on the grassland, reading, eating or chatting. At the northern end, the route goes upper, recalling a train crawling on Sydney’s fluctuate topography. Here the sporting people are displayed to the city, meanwhile, the city is displayed to them.
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JIAYI YIN Email: jiayiyin1212@gmail.com
BRIDGE The brief is focused on a multi-purpose activity center of arts and humanities and combine with public community space next to the Power House, Sydney. To develop the architectural proposal to a detailed level of programmatic, spatial and material complexity. The “BRIDGE” is a connection of forms and humanities, holding up a series of geometric buildings with V column structure of timber façade to highlight the urban site.Each form has been cut irregularly, and splicing with glass window to improve the sunlight also provides the ornamental value from different visual sense angles. As a urban element, the structure and appearance compare to the site is unique and the space arrangement of each level produces different uses and value.
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JIANG JIAYUE Email: jiangjiayue2906@gmail.com LinkedIn: Jiang Jiayue Instagram: jynow_
PLATFORM ULTIMO To design a civic community project in the heart of Ultimo, located right next to the award winning project - the goods line, is an exciting brief to work with. With respect to the goods line, the history and existing urban fabric, the main design intent of Platform Ultimo is to create a vertical community centre with minimal building footprint. The project is consist of a basement - the memory lane, and a tower - the community spaces. The memory lane is a space where the history of the city is commemorated in the form of exhibitions and artworks. The vertical community centre, with 40% of each floor area is 24 hours open to air space that can be easily facilitated by the user, connected with staircases. The project is also an initiative for future community spaces to go vertical and make room for the other essential infrastructure in the city.
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KEAN SHENG KHOO Email: keanshengkhoo@outlook.com LinkedIn: Kean Sheng Khoo
ONE TO REMEMBER A young child dancing away in an open area, a collar worker engrossed in a conversation with a colleague, an elderly taking a stroll through the neighbourhood. At different times of our lives, we favor different necessities, occupations, and interests. Similarly, the urban condition, civic culture, and the ever-evolving spatial and temporal networks are revitalising the meaning of architecture and its inventive appropriations within the city. The project brief is on making urban “without form”, challenging our beliefs and ideals not only towards what architecture can be, but what architecture should be. ‘One to Remember’ does not refer directly to the architectural building in place, but rather to the spaces within. The focus of space-invention is on the idea of appropriation - the capacity of a place to reserve, enable, and create meaningful experiences regardless of demographics, interests, and time. The adoption of tectonic elements facilitates adaptability and allows users to do “whatever”, “whenever”. Over time, the spaces become a part of one’s lifestyle, transforming the space into a place, and intuitively one to remember.
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KELVIN LI Email: kelvin.li2688@gmail.com LinkedIn: @kelvin-li2688
THE JOURNEY The undergrad urban studio encouraged us to realign our priorities when it comes to understanding city making and taking into consideration the ever evolving urban conditions within Sydney. The brief’s title “Making Urban: Without Form” embodied this concept and inspired the creation of experimental design propositions. The site lies at an important junction representing the transition from Haymarket’s industrialisation to the urbanity of its ever evolving cityscape. My proposal seeks to create a memorable ‘destination’ for the Goods Line that facilitates collaboration and recreation amongst young professionals and students from the surrounding city. The concept of the journey is communicated through a facade that engages users with the urban site through an externally wrapping staircase that facilitates a constant connection to the ground plane. I believe my final proposal simultaneously enhances the transition and arrival of users through a historically significant by exploiting the layers of existing urban conditions.
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LIBBY FELDMAN Email: libby.feldman@gmail.com LinkedIn: libby-feldman Instagram: arch_li.fe
THE THREAD BETWEEN THE WAVES An interpretation of architecture without form is stimulated by two fundamental design ideas, landform manipulation and morphology of existing site elements. Protecting the public domain and transforming distinct spaces into a harmonious unity cultivates an urban precinct of collaboration, creativity and education. The contrast between the horizontal progression and vertical extension is developed by two anchoring forms that are connected by a central, undulating pathway. Elevating forms to free the ground plane enables for generous and flexible public spaces with a strong inside-out relationship that is further heightened by large voids and permeable facades. A resilient shift between urban and human scale encourages unobstructed movement through the site, activating all axes and offering a variety of experiences.
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LUOYAO ZHANG Email: chriswhale988@gmail.com LinkedIn: @LUOYAO ZHANG Instagram: @lululuoyai
DECONSTRUCTION AND ASSEMBLAGE Seeking an opportunity into a narrow urban condition. Identifying the boundary and creating a harmonious space for the public to gathering for multiple purposes. Aiming to provide a multi-functional space for the public to communicate and share ideas. This is the Cultural Center located in Ultimo, Sydney. There are two main parts of the design, the bridge, and the hybrid building. The bridge is made up of reusable containers. The design idea is re-innovating the containers as the pop-up gallery, study room, and other different functions rooms for the public. This bridge also serves as a passageway to the vertical cultural center. The five-story-high cultural center is designed for different activities and unique experiences on different levels. The outstanding green garden can enjoy the view from the surroundings. It also gives an opportunity to appreciate the Goods line from the high altitude. Container-form cultural center creates some independent rooms for indoor activities like yoga training and drawing class. It provides a comfortable and casual space for the public to enjoy.
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LYNN GAO Email: lynn.gao@me.com Instagram: lynng.arch
METANOIA Making Urban: Without Form Metanoia in which this urban project explores, translates from Greek, describing the journey of changing one’s mind or cognition. The lack of public spaces dedicated towards self-expression and cultural immersions in Sydney is thus revitalised via this creative and performing arts centre. This projects seeks to renew the rhythmic and dynamic spatial configurations between The Goodsline and the Powerhouse Museum. In dedication to promote a multi-purpose community space which stimulates both the cognitive and spiritual. Collaborative spaces will be dedicated and accessible by the community and students for therapeutic practices such as yoga, Pilates, meditation and arts which emphasises one’s emotional and spiritual well-being. The outdoor and semi-outdoor spaces including the library and amphitheatres, as captured in the render and model will enhance cultural vibrancy through examples of collaborative use including taichi and zumba.
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MAEGHAN DOHERTY Email: maeghandoherty@gmail.com LinkedIn: maeghan-doherty-bb941a200 Instagram: maegha.n
THE IN-BETWEEN The urban landscape has left many in-between spaces. I would like my design to create as little impact on the ground plane as possible and allow underground space to be utilised as a farmers market. The connection between people and food is one of the most important aspects of life. Creating a space for people to interact with each other, learn, and share through this is the main focus of my project. Through my design I will show the melting pot of the Sydney food scene as it currently exists, dynamic, urban and connecting, as well as highlighting the importance of locally sourced products.
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MELISSA TAOUK Email: melissa_t_97@hotmail.com
AGRICULTURAL PRIMARY SCHOOL Community based learning infrastructure as an emergent hybrid building type in a high-density urban context. Design adaptability and versatility in function is essential in an urban context. Private and public spaces can exist in separate spaces, as well as within voids. This design aims to maintain the existing circulation patterns which exist on site and provide infrastructure to encourage community engagement in health and lifestyle activities. The Agricultural primary school requires both indoor and outdoor teaching environments, which become semi-public after hours. This diversity in function and timescale can be explored through multifunctional non-traditional teaching spaces. The structure is elevated off the ground plane which allows for transient experiences throughout the building at different times of the day. Vertical gardens facilitate an engaging experience of cultivation, preparation, collaboration, and recycling.
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NATHALIE TUN Email: NATHALIE.TUN@GMAIL.COM LinkedIn: nathalie-tun-barreto Instagram: designby_nbarreto
THE SHED The Shed consists of a cultural hub in response to China Town as an observation of the site and through referencing Australia’s past. Through relandscaping the area, a higher sense of inclusivity was achieved. For instance, I created a bushwalk across the site that is complemented by an external sand pit acting as a place of protest, dance, etc. This becomes a signified area of learning. In my plan, you can see that I have integrated this to the slender Northern Building. This building follows Japanese concepts of joinery as I wanted passers-by to learn through seeing. The integrity seen in this structure here, continued on to rainwater collection and other details across the site in which I referenced both Aboriginal and Japanese concepts. To conclude, I believe my final design did successfully touch on Aboriginal concepts and creating cultural hub. However, more justification was needed in using Japanese concepts and further research in Indigenous Architecture which I hope to work on in the future.
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NICOLE ANN SAMUDERA Email: samuderanicole@gmail.com LinkedIn: Nicole Ann Samudera
REVITALISATION THROUGH SPACE Geometrical verticality is principal in fabricating urban infrastructure through the metropolitan linearity. Composure and tranquility can be achieved within a space. The perpendicular features of the design aim to elongate the construction inside the narrow location. They orchestrate an architectural tempo to soothe anyone present on site. The design focuses on civic labourers and dwellers’ mental health. Public spaces are open to anyone along the area. Private artistic classes and fitness programs are inserted within the symmetrical expanse. Effective indoor-outdoor experience helps visitors encounter episodes of playfulness. A floating garden allows people to connect with the environment while enjoying the gallery. The hub facilitates a modern rehabilitation plaza within the column-held concrete slab.
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NICOLE HUA Email: nicole.hua118@gmail.com LinkedIn: nicole-hua118
URBAN LIVING ROOM The design aims to enhance and accentuate the existing urban domain by drawing attention to the life that exists between buildings and human scale interactions. An interpretation of architecture ‘without form’ is explored through blurring the boundaries of public and private spaces to establish a harmonious unity of the existing site. Defining the edges of the site with the placement of two larger forms that interact with the urban scale of the surrounding buildings and are connected through a sunken public space that activates the edge condition of the Tram shed and Goods Line. It is a space that will be actively shaped and remade by an evolving community. A space that works day and night. A space where people can retreat from the noise of the city and provide a range of opportunities for people to come together, inhabit/ occupy and use the space through creative expression, active living, community involvement and learning environments.
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PEARRCE COHEN Email: cohenpearce@gmail.com pearcecohen.myportfolio.com
PARASOL Assuming a community-based learning infrastructure, Parasol harbours an everchanging program beneath its evocative permanent structure. Adopting modular bays, the repetitive spaces below are activated by community initiatives like workshops and performances, or social happenstance. Enclosed components can be inserted where required, existing functionally independent of the protective roof structure. Here, the industrial heritage of the Goods Line and Ultimo is acknowledged through steel-frame construction and an appropriation of the Tram Depot’s saw-tooth roof. Parasol’s strong repetition and legibility, coupled with the operable roof that casts fascinating shadows and moderates solar gain, generates a sculptural form which acts as a place-maker within the cityscape. Whilst this investigation into the modular has born an adaptable architecture, finer examination of the social activities that augment the generic spaces they assume should be undertaken.
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PEITIAN HUANG Email:peitian666@gmail.com
CULTURE ACTIVITY HUB “Cultural Activity Hub” is a space of transdisciplinary engagement, history and culture production that emerge intersect with the public domain. Based on the research in the Good lines’ site, the sports equipment is scattered in various space and far away from the site which is not convenient for people to work out. The project aims to provide space that enables visitors, students and residents to exercise and engage with sports culture. The new cultural centre is for sports history and sports activities. This space is designed for people from a variety of cultural background, interests, gender and age to exercise and relax. In the sections, you’ll see different sports room and cultural theatre to satisfy people’s sports needs. I believe my final design demonstrates the value of design concept, but more work is needed to address issues around structural elements and urban surroundings which I hope to focus on more following graduation.
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PEGGY LO WAN HUI Email: peggy_hui@outlook.com LinkedIn: Peggy Hui
THE URBAN THOROUGHFARE The project transforms an unused, ‘leftover’ lane within the heart of the city into a dual-levelled urban street. With strong references to the adjacent Goods Line model, the proposal serves as a key public condenser that offers a wide range of amenities catered to the lifestyle of its citizens. The upper street is an extension of the Goods Line via the expansion of platforms on both sides of the circulating spine, whilst extending further north towards the Sydney Harbour. The intention is to connect the Goods Line to each adjacent building, followed by a greater establishment of an urban street within the centre of the city. The lower street is a topographical manipulation of the current laneway and an activation of key spaces beneath the Goods Line, Harwood Building and Turbine Hall. Two towers, dedicated as a hub for public use, erect according to the perpendicular extension of the upper street. It serves as a key gesture as to how the public street would have its influences on the building’s architecture.
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PUI WAH PHOEBE TSE LinkedIn: pui-wah-phoebe-tse Email: puiwah.phoebe.t@gmail.com
CONNECTION HUB The strategy of this design is to reconnect and straighten the connection between different urban and cultural aspects around the site. Between old and new; street and lane; local and tourist; above and below. By adding a ‘floating’ rooftop throughout the site and placing all additional architecture to the underground, the idea of merging the old and the new are achieved and the current iconic Ultimo Skyline gets to maintain. This strategic plan also frees up the most valuable public space on the ground floor to the neighborhood, which also acts as an extension to The Goods Line.
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SALLY AL-SAFFAR Email: alsaffarsally@gmail.com LinkedIn: Sally Al-Saffar Instagram: sallyalsaffar_
URBAN HUB The proposal is a contemporary realm which creates architecture that frames the Goodsline and surrounding buildings. The design fuses the public and private through the reoccurringmotif of geometric courtyard voids which lead to the underground library and exhibition spaces, allowing visitors to retreat from the noise of the city while maximising public space at ground level. This encourages individuals to take an urban journey through spaces and nurture interaction between those that occupy the space, make use of the space and pass by. The tall tower on the north gives the site more presence and grandeur. The concrete and u-glass building with differing floor heights create depth and interest to the site, where u-glass effectively controls light during the day while lighting up like a lantern during the night. A surge of dynamism is brought into this once dormant architecture, making it an illuminated, vibrant, and thriving Urban Hub.
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STEPHANIE CHOW Email:stephaniechow0603@gmail.com LinkedIn: stephanie-chow-arch0603 Instagram: step_arc
THE INTERCHANGE STATION The design activates community participation by creating a junction of the surrounding environment. The form of building blocks is facing each access point to be welcoming. Responding to pocket spaces in The Goods Line, building blocks are lifted to open up a flexible community space. To connect the journey, three gathering points are created as stations for various activities, from performances to seating spaces. Moreover, spatial arrangements are adaptable by a combination of spaces at different time scales. The rich historical background of the railway is introduced by showing the historical identity. Arches are chosen as the major geometry representing tunnels. The geometry incorporates structure and furniture, which immerse the historical value as part of the experience throughout the journey. It is not only a pathway, but also tights the surroundings together as an interchange station by gathering people from all directions and introduce a rich experience in the journey.
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STEVEN XIANXING LIU Email:steven835857291@gmail.com LinkedIn: steven-xianxing-liu Instagram: a_teeny_tiny_boat
Rem Koolhaas stated, “all the business is only a phase, a provisional occupation that anticipates the Skyscraper’s conquest by other forms of culture, floor, by floor.” In this studio, we accommodated this potential by relating to the urban context. It started by learning where the city broke off and came together. These would then be interpreted as Shearing Layers to accommodate the unstable and unforeseeable combination of simultaneous activities in various timescales. In analogy of Jenga games, the design was a deconstruction process by breaking down the unitised object into orders of operable parts. By curating functionalities and sorting out them into critical programme clusters, resilience can exist via fabricating multiple programmes. In vertical direction, programmes are not just identical repetition but strive to be a folding network. Jenga’s strategy is to critique redundant blocks so that the spatial order will be legible on structure and form.
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SUPATCHA NINRATSUWAN Email：Bambayeon@gmail.com LinkedIn: Supatcha Ninratsuwan Instagram: Bambayeon
LINE BY L/NE LINE by L/NE : starting from the grid pattern exploded structure to forming a community space to establish a permanent facility for the existing creative artists’ community that makes the ‘arts’ visible within the city centre. The provision of a public and community space that encourages social interaction through the freedom of exchange and can achieve by the open-plan circulation throughout the site and can be visibly seen in my aerial perspective. Moreover, the additional function that I have added into this project is a library, cultural gathering space, sports centre and cafe, that can serve a diverse kind of visitor. In summary, I believe my proposal demonstrates the value of exploded grid structure that creates an open-air design to reconnect the community together as shown in my perspective photo. Nevertheless, more work is needed to address issues on the constructability which I hope to focus on a more future project.
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TAIXUAN ZHAO Email:taixuanzhao@gmail.com
BENEATH AND BEHIND This project aims to leave the Goods line as open and connective as never before, hence no actual building proposed on top of it. By digging the entire site into another level, the Goods line is suddenly elevated as an independent open space. The tram shed walls is opened for such a visual connection to the goods line as well as a physical separation between the institution to the west and general public to the east. Underneath the goods line and behind the tram shed walls lies a series of public and intimate spaces according to this order. Libraries, arts workshop and museum are on one side, while market, sports and community space are on other. Between this major volumes, small cubic structure are explored to faciliate pedestrian to walk through those layers connected between museum and Goods line, and even further to Darling Harbour precinct.
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TANDIA HARDCASTLE Email:tandiakhardcastle@gmail.com LinkedIn: @Tandia Hardcastle Instagram: @hardcastle.arch
THE COMMUNITY LIVING ROOM My design intent was to enhance the existing context, invite creatives from across Sydney to the site and ultimately bring these two groups together. Through an analysis of the surrounding context I was able to determine that inviting arts, recreation and education onto the site would enhance the space and benefit the current demographic. Therefore, my design consists of a recreation and performance zone, a meeting and events space and finally a creative studio and makerspace. Inspired by Frank Duffy’s concept of ‘Shearing Layers’ I have used the interior-exterior threshold to create a dynamic, porous relationship between the educational and artistic activities taking place inside and the unprogrammed external space, typically occupied by the casual site users. I believe my final design demonstrates a thorough consideration into the relationship between form, threshold and user experience. However, my work would benefit from further exploration into facade construction, which I intend to focus on from here.
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TIMOTHY LAU Email: timlau4@gmail.com LinkedIn: @Timothy Lau Instagram: lau.arch.jpg
NOVA VIA The technocratic insurgence upon educational and social systems are gradually eroding the integrity of authentic interaction. Where anthropocentrism remains innate to social functioning, the intimacy of dialogue is gradually being forfeited to digital governance and efficiency. “Nova Via” or “A New Road” presents itself as a catalyst towards optimising social richness as a defining architectural vernacular; an attempt to break the austere delineation of space through walls, but rather the richness of anthropomorphic dialogue. It is the induced urban porosity of the proposal which frames social cohesion as the edifice of architectural form, reversing the traditional stigma of efficiency and progress. The form of “Nova Via” is first defined by the poetic movement of society within a space, and subsequently by the axial tensions of Hay Street, Darling Drive, Macarthur Street, with the intention of the site to be the missing green link to Darling Harbour, collecting a series of increasingly pedestrianised vectors across Ultimo.
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TIMOTHY MARANTA Email: timothyandym@gmail.com LinkedIn: timothyandym Instagram: timothyandym
URBAN COMFORMITY In the flourishing modern urban context, space becomes a rapidly diminishing commodity. To resolve this dilemma, humanity has begun building towards the skies to create more space in a limited area; this nonetheless gave birth to a new issue: separation and privacy. This project explores the possibility of regaining a sense of separation through careful vertical planning and volumes. The aerial perspectives show how the vertical element of the design which houses more intimate spaces such as classrooms, workshops, and art spaces is segregated from the horizontal element which are composed of public multifunction halls. Furthermore, the exploded axonometric and sectional perspective shows how different levels and double height spaces in the building are arranged according to its use to minimise the transfer of acoustic disturbance between levels. Overall, the design exhibits sufficient competence of spatial planning; future endeavours however should allow for more focus towards materiality and construction systems.
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UNJELIQUE HAJJAR Email: unjeliquehajjar@gmail.com LinkedIn: @Unjelique Hajjar
LES ARCADES DE LA VILLE The proposal is a creative vicinity, which frames the Goodsline and existing buildings. The contextual motif of arches has been reimagined to create an array of vistas. The process revolves around identifying this motif, creating repetition, and then generating unique versions of the original form. Through this strategy, a journey is created. It is a unique narrative experience for each user, allowing them to map their own path throughout the site. They become the artist, painting their own architectural journey. Depending on where the individual travels, they may find simplicity, in repetitious lines, or inspiration in a unique collection of patterns. Each individual enters with a different purpose, following a different path, which reactivates the space. An energy is brought into this once stagnant architecture, making it a living, breathing body. The final design demonstrates how archways have the ability to soften the harsh lines of the cityscape, whilst mirroring the fluidity of the existing sawtooth roof present on the site.
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WEITENG HUANG Email: free40304@gmail.com LinkedIn: @wei-teng-huang
The Modules: inserting several grid structures onto the site to create a multifunction building. The site currently is a long strip-shape park surrounded by museum and warehouse which were industrial therefore the richness of history is obvious. Thus, it is essential to design a new building which can preserve the historical feature and grabbing the gaze form the pedestrians also. The new building needs to be constructed without offending the historical buildings or a less offensive way. The building is composed of several building blocks, which is simple but suitable in this circumstance. My concept is placing these blocks on the site and divided it into several parts according to different functions such as learning area, entertainment area, and sports area. Also, the area of the site is limited thus multifunction is important in this project, so the building can be functioning as a machine by changing floors’ height for the different usage. It is hoped that this project could reflect the characteristic of history and bring a new life into this area.
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XINTONG ZHANG Email:z5157854@unsw.edu.au Instagram: rosalin.zhang
The site we locate our project is goods line, a junction that connects 5 streets, a public path transfer people from 5 directions, so the goods line has a neutral personality and it’s in lack of personalities. My approach is to bring an identity characteristic into the site by breaking the existing order, the teething roof shape of the red house displays an order in even which is neutral and Impersonal, so I create a new dynamic roofline connects to the existing red warehouse aims to radically break the order with different capacities and telling people the diverse functions with unpredictable performances inside. The continues dancing roof like a gesture extends into the 2 gaps at the north and south ends of the site, which is expected to outline a vast geometric void and show welcome to the people from Hay st and Macarthur streets.
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XUYUAN ZHANG Email:kelsea0407@gmail.com Instagram: @zxy_arch
THE INVISIBLE VALLEY My design aims to provoke the sense of being together by controlling the level of abstraction within the diverse functional spaces in the urban realm. The form of the design was inspired by the skyline of its surroundings, public intentions, and circulation. In my section, the whole building is elevated, it is like a valley that converging people from both ends to the cultural gathering space in the middle by the trafficable roof. The spaces with different programs are well-arranged and connected, which provides more freedom and potentials to engage people in the community. The sensual experience is highlighted within the whole building by minimalist architectural elements, which provoking self-awareness and inner feeling for every occupant, to define an essential self. Meanwhile, the translucency of the material of the facade blurs the boundaries between inside and outside, which merges the serene Valley into the bustling yet vibrant city.
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YIZHI ZHAO Email: isabellazhao1119@gmail.com Instagram: isabella__zzz
THE CULTURE RIBBON The Goods Line in Ultimo, Sydney links more than 80,000 tertiary students, locals, and visitors in the Sydney CBD. It is a crucial site for public communication and cultural gathering. The design aims to create a cultural ribbon in this urban environment, trying to promote cultural interaction among a variety of users and furthermore, to provide them the most convenient access to different kinds of public facilities. The visitor block is located in the northern part of the site, which is close to public transportations and welcomes visitors from the major attractions of the Darling Harbour. And the student block with a library is placed at the southern end near a number of art, media and education institutions. A cultural gathering and communication corridor connects the two major blocks with a farmers’ market underneath. By applying a flowing timber screening system throughout the design, the idea of a cultural ribbon is reinforced.
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YUTONG CHEN Email: 1225874295@qq.com LinkedIn: yutong-chen Instagram: kanidown
URBAN LIVING ROOM The existing site is like a leftover space, even though it stands in the critical junction in the city. I decided to create an URBAN LIVING FOOM in this important junction to connect to the surrounding buildings (Powerhouse Museum and Urbanest Apartment) and bring people from different cultural background together. The building is like a living room, welcomes diverse people to communicate and have interaction. The public art pavilion provides shelter and flexible use of the site. A serious of exterior staircase allows people to enjoy exterior life at the terrace. People can circulate around the building both at the exterior and the interior. The facility provides various functional spaces and communication spaces for different people. I hope the building can create an intimate yet public space to improve the well being of people. The building facade system is the combination of U glass and clear glass to create a translucent aesthetic. The thin columns locate around the edge of the floor to support the concrete floor and also make a translucent appearance.
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ZIBING WANG Email: hoder992@gmail.com
URBAN FOREST On this narrow site, the design was developed to become the main gathering point for the area by flexibly linking the surrounding roads, providing a purer, richer and more focused learning environment within the main building, and improving the ecology of the area by the addition of a variety of greenery. The first inspiration for the design concept came from Atelier bow wow’s pet architecture, which maximizes the use of fractional, remaining spaces without disrupting the environment of the original site and offers more services and areas through new design than was previously available. The second creative strategy was to link the entire site through this design that could be based on a preliminary investigation of the site’s circulation routes. The surrounding buildings were likened to trees in a forest, now supplying open access and outdoor space to unite them. Moreover, “green” is the theme throughout the new design, which not only unifies the indoor-outdoor theme, but also serves as a natural signpost that appears on all circulation lines.
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