BUILT ENVIRONMENT
MASTERS 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
HIGH PERFORMANCE STUDIO Hybrid in Timber HOUSING STUDIO Alternative Housing Model SOCIAL AGENCY STUDIO Mental Health URBAN CONDITIONS STUDIO 1 Metabolism Reconsidered URBAN CONDITIONS STUDIO 2
Public Works and Infrastructure
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
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 Master of Architecture is run across two terms. In the first, emphasis is placed on research, analysis and the precise framing of an architectural proposal. In the second focus is given to design development of an architectural project to an ambitious level of resolution. This provides our students with a period of eight months to think, explore, test, imagine, discuss, draw and fabricate their architectural ideas. In addition, students tailor their education by aligning their project to one of four distinctive architectural streams, outlined in the following sections of this book: urban conditions, high-performance technology, social agency and housing. These qualities have resulted in a wonderful diversity of student projects, ranging from the grounded to the more speculative. But, while their focus varies in terms of typology, scale and direction, what draws them together is that they engage with the very real challenges we are facing in society in innovative and stimulating ways - challenges of climate crisis, urbanisation, mental health and more. Many people have played a vital role in the successes you see in this book. Our students have been ably guided by studio leaders Mladen Prnjatovic, Ivan Ip, Chi Melhem, Ben Green, Dr. Raffaele Pernice, Shaowen Wang, Morgan Lumen, Prof. David Sanderson, Mark Szczerbicki, Prof. Philip Thalis, Madeleine Rowe, Brett Sperling and Ben Driver. Shaowen Wang has coordinated and led the studios with great organisation and care. I’d also like to say a special thank you to 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
HYBRID IN TIMBER Architecture + High Performance Stream
Site: Hassell Street, Paramatta
Aboriginal Nation: Designed on the unceded land of the Burramattagal people The High Performance stream focuses on hybrid buildings, architectural design in detail and the materiality. The studio focus is on the technological challenges including construction systems, methods, integrated sustainable service solutions and low carbon design. Students will explore the use of engineered timber as a base material for the new hybrid use tower. The project site is located in Parramatta on Hassall Street, adjacent to the emerging new commercial heart and the new education precinct.
IVAN IP
MLADEN PRNJATOVIC
Ethos Urban
Tzannes
ADAM HOGAN
Email: adamhogan313@gmail.com LinkedIn: AdamHogan93 Number: +61 458 367 002
PUBLIC PASSAGE: INTEGRATING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPACE TO INSPIRE USER INTERACTION ‘Open space’ is an ambiguous term used within the industry with no formal definition. Through my research of Parramatta and analysing concepts such as The Power of 10+, I began to categorise such spaces within the area based on accessibility and function. In addition, I looked at how these spaces could be integrated so as to blur the line between public and private land through a building’s occupiable footprint. What if 50% of this could be given back to the pedestrian, imagine the improved wayfinding, liveability and reduced congestion that a city could benefit from. This concept drove the form of my building and as depicted below, the result is quite successful in creating a public open space seamlessly assimilating both public and private at the ground plane. The challenge I then set myself was- how can open space be better integrated within the vertical typology that is Parramatta’s Future? My response was to create three towers, a central public tower with a park on top sandwiched between two private university towers. The idea was to passively engage the different users through a common path of travel and allow the public a unique experience of the building.
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AMEESH KAUL
Email: ameeshkaul@gmail.com LinkedIn: ameesh-kaul Number: +61 414 922 278 Instagram: @ameeshkaul
HASSALL PLACE Parramatta’s identity and cityscape are changing and will continue to do so as it heads towards becoming Sydney’s second city, making it the geographic epicentre of Sydney. In particular, the next 40 years will see the population of Greater Sydney grow to over 8 million, with most of the population residing west of Parramatta. This increase in population, and the changing identity, creates a unique opportunity in which the proposal at 2b-6 Hassall Street can accommodate the people’s needs, and contribute to a sense of place, and city-making. The primary urban design move was the pedestrianising of Hassall Street in order to create a larger ‘green’ city-link from Hassall Place, Lancer Barracks and Parramatta Square, as well as to accommodate the predicted influx of people and pedestrian volumes in the near future. Additionally, the decision to relocate the City of Parramatta Library to Hassall Place and re-adapt it to the needs of the people of Parramatta and beyond, helped anchor the project to its place.
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ANUJA MALLYA Email: anujamallya94@gmail.com LinkedIn: anuja-mallya-56b16858 Number: +61 414 662 704
A BALANCING ACT: INFUSING COMMUNAL SPACES IN HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS TO FOSTER SOCIAL COHESION High density development changes neighbourhoods in ways that further disadvantage low income households and exacerbates economic and social disparities. To successfully address Parramatta’s disparities, it is important to balance development with design that supports local networks and processes. This project suggests a new way through which individuals, communities and educational institutions can come together to forge new relationships and develop successful solutions to complex problems that fuel social and economic progress. Communal spaces have been infused between the irreducible components of the building creating a symbiotic relationship between the community and university. Careful programmatic overlaps occur to cultivate this relationship while maintaining building security. The formerly isolated military ground of Lancer Barracks has been redeveloped into a Civic Nexus that ties together the different arteries of Parramatta’s CBD to create a new centre that brings people together. As denser forms are rapidly realised, narratives of place and belonging must not get lost. Portfolio:https://issuu.com/anujamallya/docs/portfolio_for_ issuu
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BERENICE FOO
Email: berfoo@gmail.com Number: +61 451 653 762
HUMANISING THE CITY As the urban population continues to densify, the demand for high-rises grows. Humanising the City explores timber high-rise construction as an alternative to the influx of generic glass towers currently characterising our cities. Many of these towers reflect a lack of specific design and targets no particular user; a backdrop in a built environment which ultimately alienates its community. The proposed high-rise builds around the notion of interactivity, facilitating moments of interaction between the high-rise and its people. Warm materiality of both contextual brick and mass timber encourages physical manipulation of building elements, such as sliding louvred shading devices. The use of a bundled-tube structure enables open-space interior layouts which allow for easy modification by inhabitants, whilst the exposed timber trusses of the chosen structural solution brings attention to the ‘bones’ of the high-rise. Humanising the City reveals hidden potentials, of high-rises to become something more than just a setting.
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BILLI HAYES
Email: info@billihayes.com LinkedIn: @billi-hayes Number: +61 418 557 335 Instagram: @billirybahayes
DEATH AND RENEWAL Parramatta is a fast-growing city with rapidly evolving infrastructure. Like most cities under construction we are faced with the problem of releasing excessive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. My research involved a study that calculated the embodied carbon emissions (CO2e) of the twenty-one new Development Applications (DA) in Parramatta’s CBD which equated to approximately 1,265,181 million tonnes of CO2e. This, coupled with Parramatta’s increasing population together with the issues surrounding urban sprawl informed the research for my graduation project. The response to this set of problems was to design a building that can grow over time – the isolated timber villages contain its own services, structure and floor to floor levels allowing the typology to change each time a new village is built. The central atrium allows for a post build construction and the permanent concrete base supports the timber villages above.
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DARSHIL BHAYANI
Email: darshilb555@gmail.com linkedIn: darshil-bhayani Number: +61 405 984 407 Instagram: @darshilbhayani
THE COLLABORATION HUB The QLT Graduate Satisfaction Survey suggests that today’s graduates are not well equipped to enter the workforce straight out of university. With five generations working together in a workforce for the first time, professionals can become facilitators of learning and students can have more control of their learning journey and vice versa. “The Collaboration Hub” aims at developing physical working spaces that spark communication, spaces where different generations are actively and equivalently involved in reciprocal and collaborative processes in everyday contexts. The design process was driven by an idea to create a platform for a professional dialogue to take place between different generations of a common ‘community of practice’. This intent was fulfilled by the exploration of various sectional relationships to guide the arrangement of different university and office spaces that overlook and share a visual connection at all times.
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GEREMY YIP
Email: geremyyip@icloud.com LinkedIn: @geremyyip Number: +61 431 980 297 Instagram: @geremyyip
HYBRID TALL TIMBER TOWER Hybrid Tall Timber Tower is a design response that negotiates the highly constrained site, through interventions at all scales from urban design to detail design. Fundamental to the urban precinct is unlocking Lancer Barracks through publicly accessible green space and introducing generous through site links. A timber tower then rises above the public domain with a hybrid program consisting of a vertical university and workplaces. The university is an innovation centre dedicated to crossfaculty teaching, research, and collaboration. With no one specific faculty but a hybrid of faculties, the spaces are designed to be flexible and reconfigurable. Traditional lecture theatres are replaced with terraced forum spaces to encourage discussion, discourse, and exchange. The commercial tenancies aim to maximise health and wellbeing through generous inter-floor connections, outdoor green terraces, and flexible and collaborative workspaces. Ultimately, the building strives to be a quiet achiever towards the highest social and environmental performance.
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HAOJUN LI
Email: jeremyleehokwan@gmail.com Number: +61 478 195 522 Instagram: @jeremyleehokwan
TOWARDS TALL TIMBER BUILDINGS Affected by COVID-19, schools and offices have been shut down for an extended period. More people are emphasising the impact of both workspaces and campus environments on their health than ever before. This project, a high-rise timber building, includes an architecture faculty as part of the university and commercial offices. Four main strategies are applied, from large to small scales, to maximize the benefits of this building for occupants’ health and wellbeing. The site is connected to the Lancer Barracks, providing sufficient public green space for building users and the community. The building is divided vertically into several parts. Floors are connected by continuous staircases located in the centre, to encourage occupants to use stairs instead of lifts for short-distance movement. Outdoor terraces set on different floors are provided for middle/highlevel users. Communal spaces near the central stairs also provide users with a comfortable environment for leisure.
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JIANAN (NATHAN) ZHUANG
Email: nathanzhuang66@gmail.com LinkedIn: nathan-zhuang Number: +61 410 901 638 Instagram: @nathanzhuang
CURIOSITY CORE With growing urban populations and land scarcity, vertical architecture is becoming a strategy to achieve density and intensity of use. The Curiosity Core examines how Reggio Emilia, an educational philosophy traditionally focused on primary education, can influence the design of a hybrid office and educational building in Parramatta CBD, Sydney. A Reggio-inspired design favours exploration, social interaction which stimulates an interactive experience and constructive learning. Spaces are not only provided for activities and daily routine but tell the story of a journey of curiosity. The building challenges the monotony of high-rise architecture by replacing the central core with a collection of shared social spaces, linked to an open public realm at the ground. Environmental performance is paramount; the design uses a CLT primary structure fostering a low embodied carbon. A faรงade of terracotta fins provides shade against the harsh summer sun, whilst also filtering daylight into the spaces beyond.
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JIMMY BAI Email: jimbaijimmy@outlook.com LinkedIn: jimmy-bai-376831154 Number: +61 422 355 040
URBAN FOREST: HYBRID TIMBER HIGH-RISE The condition of tertiary education and work environments are in constant progression and with emphasis on collaboration and flexibility. The design brief provoked the creation of a timber tower that was responsive to site while also admitting an element of difference and awe, a building which seeks to challenge the current archetypes. The building was divided into three major volumes: podium, midrise and high-rise. The podium aimed at addressing a link between the two otherwise segregated public boundaries and is activated with retail and double height performance space. The body of the tower is elevated from the podium by robust CLT columns and a bleached steel transfer structure which tastefully acknowledges the heritage hotel to the western boundary. The upper volume is elevated once more and stepped to the east to provide a shared sky garden for office crowds and university students alike. The interior of the building is linked every four storeys with central atria or theatres that provide circulation and visual connectivity between floors. The facade of the building is double skinned and louvered to suite solar orientation. Vision panels expose the natural hues of the timber structure within whilst sleek steel mullions match the materiality of the diagrid structure from which the facade hangs. The design aims to broaden thinking to what high-rise buildings are, both in terms of materiality and use.
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KARAN DHUMAL
Email: karandhumal18@gmail.com LinkedIn: @karandhumal Number: +61 433 911 718
AN ADAPTIVE MOULD The COVID-19 pandemic has completely redefined the way people currently work and study. Though the current situation may be temporary, it has raised serious doubts and uncertainty about the future of work and education buildings. These buildings will eventually have to face a prolonged effect and adhere with the refashioned social norms, thus hampering their value and efficiency. This compels the design of future work and learning spaces to enhance ingrained flexibility. They must possess the ability to accommodate a supplementary purpose. With the surge in remote work and study, it seems ideal for any future commercial and education building to instil the ability to evolve into a residential building if need be. Rather than wedging smaller spaces into a large open plan, the research proposes an ‘inside out’ approach, commencing from the design of an accommodation unit. The residential cluster is later optimised to provide for larger spaces required within the commercial and education components. Portfolio:https://issuu.com/karandhumal/docs/5220208_ karan_final_booklet_lowres
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KELVIN C.Y LUI Email: kelvinluicy@gmail.com LinkedIn: kelvin-lui-cy-0630aa133 Number: +61 466 541 798 Instagram: @kelvincy_
FAMILY-SCHOOL: EXPLORING HOW COMMUNAL SPACES CAN BRIDGE DWELLING AND LEARNING TYPOLOGIES IN A VERTICAL CAMPUS Spatial arrangements are critical to maintain a sense of community when integrating student housing into a vertical campus. This project attempts to design a campus in a vertical masterplan approach. Different complex spaces and structural strategies are organized vertically according to the types and privacy required of different spaces. Connecting the site Lancer Barracks and Hassall Street in Parramatta, the ground floor becomes part of the public domain and campus lobby. In addition to various communal spaces and terraces that are dedicated to different users, this reduces tensions of rapid change in space between levels and strengthens the sense of community. My curiosity in solving the growing population and vertical cities theories inspired my graduation project. A sense of community is significant if our habitation spaces are limited within a high-rise building due to the potential problem of over-population. Because of the site context and limited footprint provided, I propose stacking arrangements with communal spaces and terraces as connecting medium. Yet, the final design outcome is not the sole solution to integrate dwellings, working and learning in one building. Hence I look forward to exploring different possibilities of vertical architecture in my career.
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KISHAN DHAMELIYA
Email: Jkishandhml@gmail.com LinkedIn: @Kishan Dhameliya Number: +61 406 792 363 Instagram: @Cross_capture
HEDONISTIC VERTICAL CAMPUS This project introduces a vertical campus as an opportunity to reconceptualize the design of university facilities in Paramatta CBD. In recent years, Paramatta CBD has witnessed an increase in population and development. Educational centres play a crucial role in the city centre because of accessibility. With an increase in density and shortage of land in an urban fabric, the transition from horizontal campus to vertical appears to be a sustainable solution. The program is geared to create multiple courtyards and voids where students and professionals are encouraged to make inventive use of spaces and interactions are triggered with the local community. A series of openings and terraces are integrated in a way that they take not only optimum advantage of site context, but also allow natural light and wind to flow into each space. The building skin with shading devices and the use of recycled hardwood delivers maximum impact with minimal effort.
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MICHAEL HAOXUAN LIANG
Email: micoleungo@gmail.com Number: +61 413 971 832 Instagram: @micoleungo
SHARE CANYON Sharing activities existed earlier with natural species and is broadly known as ‘Symbiosis’. The building purposed will be an ‘urban canyon’ that contains a biophysical environment within. Spiritually, mixed user groups represent different creatures in the canyon where they share all the sources and space within. Functionally, the inner space emphasises flexibility and vertical connection. Environmentally, the building is a nature machine that sensitively changes the climate of the internal space and the surrounding area. With a focus on structural hybridity and sustainable design, the building structure features a hybrid of GLT and CLT elements which promote a warm and natural workplace for the future. The water system, facade and other building services work collaboratively to achieve passive cooling environmentally, reduce energy consumption efficiently, and create a living urban environment sustainably.
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NANA YAA YEBOAH
Email: z5225763@ad.unsw.edu.au LinkedIn: nana-yaa-yeboah Number: +61 411 089 788 Instagram: @adombayeboah
THE PUBLIC REALM AND THE VERTICAL CAMPUS Public spaces play an essential role in ensuring the liveability of a place. Urban areas are defined by densification, verticality and fast movement and less “place�. Places include but are not limited to open fields, parks and squares. Parramatta is fast transforming from a suburban into an urban environment. With the task of designing a vertical campus, the project seeks to integrate and prioritize elements and characteristics of true public realms by opening up a semi-private field, Lancer Baracks for all. Legibility and access are prioritised with all the neighbouring streets such as Little Street and Hassall Street that are linked to the building through walking and cycling lanes. The building starts small on the ground then opens up gradually to absorb various activities the building has to offer, giving more true space to the public. Its final cladding not only serves as a sustainability tool but illuminates at night to enliven the place.
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NAN DU
Email: dunan7777@gmail.com LinkedIn: @Nan Du Number: +86 187 4020 8077 Instagram: @dunan7777
CO-CENTER As spaces are designed for activities, the activities also make the spaces alive. What kind of spaces will encourage interaction, and what functions can attract people? In this project, the building’s podium has fab labs and a library to encourage the community to walk into the building. The shading components at the podium level are DIY in the fab labs and can be replaced by people to leave their memories. For the campus, the waiting period before classes is the best opportunity for students to collaborate and exchange ideas. So, the corridors of the campus module become wider. Besides, all classrooms are equipped with moveable walls, which can close the space when quiet is needed. For the office module, it is comprised of coworking spaces and private-rent offices. The food bars and the atrium spaces are set for “encounters� to have more collaboration chances.
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NICK KEIGHLEY Email: nick.keighley95@gmail.com LinkedIn: nickkeighley95
THE PARRAMATTA PERMACULTURAL PRECINCT Parramatta’s heritage has agriculture deeply engrained in its development due to its life source of the river and rich arable soils. This has opened an inquiry of bringing agriculture back to the city. The aim of this project is to understand how a building can respond to agriculture and how the agricultural industry may benefit from this building. Agriculture has been integrated throughout this building with external and internal vertical farming systems, and is centred around increasing spatial quality, binding community, and agricultural research. This building features commercial office tenancy, a vertical university campus and a permeable public domain. Its form has drawn inspiration from a wheat kernel seed paying homage to the first successful wheat harvest produced by James Ruse in Parramatta 1791. This building has morphed into an opportunity promoting views to the Parramatta city and neighbouring lancer barracks. The use of vegetation, operable shading devices and articulated orientation serve as a resilient strategy to counter the urban heat island effect. Bronze cladding with Glulam timber structure float above the heavy masonry podium providing vibrancy to the urban fabric whilst complementing the surrounding heritage.
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REUBEN ROY
Email: reuben.k.roy@gmail.com LinkedIn: reuben-roy-0126a0127 Number: +61 481 296 459 Instagram: re.k.ro
ONE FOR ALL: INTRODUCING HYBRID HABITATS TO FOSTER SWIFT PARROT POPULATION IN PARRAMATTA CBD
‘One For All’ is an experimental project that focuses on the integration of urban ecosystems with human habitation. This multipurpose timber high-rise in the heart of Parramatta CBD, aims to rehabilitate and revive the dwindling numbers of the swift parrot population in the city centre by building an assistive habitat integrated with archive, restoration, and exhibition spaces. The ave habitat in the centre comprises 3 hourglass shaped towers that function as feeding pods and multiple timber viewing decks that noninvasively look into the habitat. When humans learn to observe and experience biodiversity, birds acquire a safe haven to access resources and shelter in a non-competitive habitat. The key moments as seen in the images are different levels of human-bird interactions spread across the building as the users transition from Hassall street to Lancer Barracks. Moreover, the building’s bird friendly envelope and hybrid cooling system help mitigate the strained climatic conditions of the city centre. Portfolio:https://issuu.com/reubenroy/docs/final_report_24082020_with_audio_embedded
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XIAOYI LIU
Email: la.meredith.lee@gmail.com LinkedIn: @Xiaoyi Liu Number: +86 186 647 430 94 Instagram: @draconian_meredirh
A WATER SUSTAINABLE MACHINE Cities rely on water for cooling, heating and cleaning. A high-quality human life environment seems destined to consume a lot of water and electricity. Especially when it is located in Parramatta CBD. This design attempts to explore a model that can embrace water sustainability in the city centre. The vertical campus consists of two sorts of flexible modules. The Edu + Commercial Module is also open to small commercial tenants and students to help young entrepreneurs and job seekers, while the Water Sustainability Program Module is open to students and research institutions. It is responsible for the operation and management of the entire building system and serves as a base to do research on the sustainability of water. The building itself provides a comfortable built environment for users. It encourages everyone to explore how the building can achieve this at a low resource cost by exposing an extraordinary building services system and purification tanks.
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YI ZHOU
Email: zoeyzh10@outlook.com Number: +61 406 742 936
NATURAL PHILOSOPHY TOWER Targeting the mental health issues of office workers and students in high-rise buildings, the idea of the Natural Philosophy Tower is introduced in order to create an inclusive, flexible and environmentally friendly workplace. Functionally, the program philosophies are “productivity, connect, smooth and given�. It is mainly focusing on creating a comfortable and secured operating environment interior and exterior, bounding the relationship between the occupants and their communities, and sharing time and resources with others for internal rewards to help behavior, encourage altruism and create a more positive social environment. Environmentally, the design shows how future commitments can lead to a sustainable future in Western Sydney, which could be further illustrated through environmentally responsive and technologically advanced building designs.
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ALTERNATIVE HOUSING MODEL Architecture + Housing Stream
Site: Gibbons Street, Redfern
Aboriginal Nation: Designed on the unceded land of the Gadigal people The Housing stream interrogates the fundamentals of how we live and what makes good housing design in the context of our changing cities by challenging the conventions of current multi-residential typologies and developing creative architectural solutions for the site. Students underpin their own approach to housing through returning to a first principles understanding of how we live and how people occupy spaces at different scales to challenge, explore and propose improved architectural solutions for our current housing challenges. The project site is located in Redfern, walking distance to Redfern train station and amongst a diverse context ranging from low scale terraces to the east and high rise towers to the north.
BEN GREEN
CHI MELHEM
Tzannes
Tzannes
ALEXANDER MURRELL Email: alexander4murrell@gmail.com.au Instagram: @relaxmurrell
GECKO GATHERING: INTERSPERSING ACTIVE SHARED TO REDUCE LONELINESS
SPACES
Gecko Gathering: interspersing active shared spaces to reduce loneliness. The livelihood of young emerging adults in the city can be a painful transition, which is why it is important to provide the infrastructure for supporting activities that allow them to meet other young adults. I investigated: how can alternative cohousing better address the growing issue of social isolation among young adults living in dense urban environments? I found the experience of space through different scales could be addressed. An enticing entrance formed by a hugging podium and linked tower takes inspiration from nature, utilising a landscaping hearth & encircling garden. The transition up the dense verticality of the form is connected and released at scattered indooroutdoor activity voids of varied shared spaces. Internally the personalised corridors create a sense of home to the student’s paired customisable rooms that open to inclusive balconies.
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ANNA-PURNA SRIVASTAVA Email: anna-purna@hotmail.com Linked.in: @anna-purnas Number: +61 420 420 948 Instagram: @anna.purnaa
HOUS3D
We’ve got a problem, Australia’s housing system is broken. In the last 10 years house prices have risen twice as fast as incomes resulting in a significant proportion of the population coming under financial hardship. According to the Parliaments discussion on the housing crisis, the key contributing factors are; rapid population growth increasing the demand for housing, insufficient and slow land supply, and onerous planning and taxation policies supporting demand for housing as an investment asset, rather than as a place to live. My solution is to create a housing cooperative made up of prefabricated 3D printed concrete cells acting as part of a Metabolist unit. The brutalist modular approach encourages life to spill out into the negative spaces between units, growing and evolving through the generations. Within my design, the architecture becomes democratized, the occupier has the ability to construct their own environment. The nature of the design encourages a culture of sharing and collaboration, enhancing interdisciplinary solutions to our current built environment.
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CONNOR ISAKSEN Email: cmisaksen22@gmail.com Number: +61 456 995 350
FORMING SOCIAL EQUITY AND DIVERSITY: REINTRODUCTION OF SOCIAL HOUSING AND PUBLIC SPACE IN SYDNEY, NSW
This major design studio project was focused on providing a mixed-use building that could help form a community based on social equity and diversity. To succeed in this, firstly a 21st Century library was proposed to provide a truly public, interior space that can house a variety of activities therefore appealing to a range of people (podium level). Due to in-depth research, these types of spaces were deemed important for Sydney’s urban fabric especially considering that many spaces in the city are labelled ‘public’ but are privately owned. The second part of this design was the creation of social housing above the library to deliver the basic human right of shelter to those people in need. Social housing has been lacking in urban projects within Sydney, resulting in the development of communities that lack diversity, ignore Sydney’s distinct history and disregard equity between people who call this city home.
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HEYU LU Email: heyulu.syv@gmail.com Linked.in: @heyu-lu Number: +61 424 673 000
BREATHING HOLE: A VILLAGE IN THE HEART OF THE CITY
Urbanisation has brought convenience and possibilities to our life, but at the same time apartness and pollutions. Our site, Redfern, was called ‘a village in the heart of the city’ in the past. As an important transportation junction in Sydney nowadays, it has lost some of its village characteristics at the price of urbanisation. Interaction between people, good air quality, a zest for life, these are what we need for a high-quality life. Here the question comes: how do we bring back those good village qualities to the city? In my design, what will be seen is a lively urban village that pops out from the grey city full of concrete and cold surfaces. The urban village provides space for people to dwell and take a breath in the endless stream of cars, restore the village life, and allow people to feel connected with others.
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ISABELLE ORR Email: isabelleorr@icloud.com Number: +61 448 130 245 Instagram: @isabelleorr
PIXEL TOWER
Driven by the extreme commodification of houses and land, Karel Teige’s concept of the minimum dwelling is returning to cities around the world. Pixel Tower proposes to define the spatial criteria that assures not only a standard of quality in housing, but a cost that does not represent a burden to households. A collaborative co-housing, minimal dwelling approach is explored, reducing the floor area and thus costs. High quality communal spaces encourage socialisation and are an urban answer to the typical suburban neighbourhood where conversations and connections are encouraged. Pre-fabricated modules provide scalable choice, that can grow and adapt as residents age in place. This echoes the ‘Australian Dream’ experience where suburban residents have freedom of choice for how they occupy their home. The Pixel Tower concerns itself with reinterpreting the dream for today and the future. If we can change the dream we can change the city.
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HOW DO THE RESIDENTIALS WORK?
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‘THE UNDERSTORY’
JACKY ZI QI CHEN
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Email: jchen5118728@gmail.com Linked.in: @jacky-chen-unsw-arch Number: +61 468 568 778
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Redfern is one of the fastest growing suburbs in the inner city of Sydney. Currently home to nearly 40,000 residents and another 18,000 more by 2030, the time to address the health and wellbeing of the population is now. By integrating housing and urban farming, not only can we achieve the obvious community benefits of increased food security for residents, but we can also promote social interaction and inclusivity, hevighten dietary awareness and set a greater precedence for a healthier way of living. Here, the very public podium of Eden, defined by its tilt-up panels, will serve as a multi-levelled hydroponic farm which incorporates grocers, bakeries, educational workshops and function spaces for events such as seasonal crop launches. The residential tower above will feature interlocking apartment modules that are uniquely stacked across three levels. The open-air circulatory corridors will double up as breakout areas and semi-public gardening spaces whilst a vertical co-op garden to the North allows the residents to trade, interact, establish healthy eating habits and ultimately give back to the greater community.
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JORDON BLANKET Email: jordon.dov@gmail.com Linked.in: @Jordon Blanket Number: +61 419 230 008 Instagram: @studio_blanket_fort
THE ICONIC, PINNICALE OF LUXURY, BOUTIQUE, INSPIRED, ONCE IN A LIFETIME, ULTIMATE IN SOPHISTICATION, ARCHITECTURALLY CRAFTED SPIDER BASED SKY RESIDENCES, EVER NOT BROUGHT TO MARKET; RESIDENCES AT THE WEB Residences at the web, is a critical study for alternate housing, while taking aim at the at the established developer driven housing landscape. The Baugruppen model was employed to provide affordable housing, sans the real estate jargon and 20-30% profits. Research began with interrogating the relationships of adjacency and use of space. It became very clear that humans do not need a one size fits all apartment. The project concludes that all we need in a home is autonomy, to provide a space that is fit for our needs and can change over time. In order to provide adequate numbers of apartments yet filter sunlight, piloti are constructed; filtering light, they provide a scaffold to grow your dwelling within. Providing a forest-like environment to a very un-green area of Redfern. The ground plane is a place for the community, a natural landscape shaped in the form of typical Sydney national parks. Gunnery turrets form Utzon-esque sitting zones as the ground plane peels up to form artists’ studios lit by south light.
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KATERINA KOUTSOULLIS Email: katerina.koutsoullis@gmail.com Number: +61 468 695 421
INTERACTIVE HARMONY: FLEXIBILITY FOR RETREAT OR CONNECTION WITHIN A HOUSING MODEL
Inspired by Covid-19’s isolation period, the project addresses the issues with the low levels of interaction within the current housing model. With some people forced to stay in their tiny apartments, isolation has made us question what we really want in our living, bringing out our innate human needs of wanting a balance between privacy and connection. With the range of semi-public to semi-private spaces scattered around the project there are many ways for residents to interact visually as well as physically to reduce loneliness and boost mental health. Residents are also given the option to open out or close off from the rest of the complex and enjoy their own privacy through the use of the operable screens. The internal layouts of the apartments further reinforce the idea of flexibility as residents are able to interchange elements to suit their own personal needs. Portfolio:https://issuu.com/katerina_koutsoullis/docs/ graduation_exhibition_portfolio_katerina_koutsoull
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LAUREN HEE Email: laurenhee@gmail.com Linked.in: @laurenhee Number: +61 415 354 122 Instagram: @laurenhee
RECYCLE
ReCYCLE: Achieving a more sustainable future through a bicycle friendly design and thoughtful selection of materials. ReCYCLE interrogates the fundamentals of how we live and what makes good housing design in the context of our changing cities by challenging the conventions of current multi residential typologies and developing creative architectural solutions for our site. Our project site is easily accessible to public transport as it is two minutes from Redfern train station and five minutes into the CBD, so I wanted to create a transport hub filled with essential uses which are geared towards activating Redfern’s community. My mixed-use podium design with co-housing above integrates four design strategies to thoroughly answer my question: actively promoting bike usage through embedding storage functions and movement into the program, utilising recycled and reused materials to achieve a more sustainable future, designing fine grain spatial qualities to enhance cyclist experience and utilising a co-housing model to activate community engagement. I believe ReCYCLE creates a future positive and relevant new addition to Redfern’s developing community through its focus on sustainable materials and benefitting resident’s needs. Portfolio:https://issuu.com/laurenhee/docs/recycle
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MADELINE MCCARTHY Email: madeline.mccarthy5@gmail.com Linked.in: @MadelineMcCarthy Number: +61 435 754 298 Instagram: @maddiemccarthy_
CLOSING THE GAP
In Redfern, gentrification and new developments are raising housing prices thus pushing low-income households further way from adequate housing close to key transport nodes and essential amenities. To address this, the key design principles explored in this project address what low-income households need to achieve a high standard of living whilst still being affordable. The co-housing model encourages an affordable way of living by promoting reconnection and inclusivity through the integration of shared spaces and social services provided at three different levels. The first was to close the gap on the community level through the integration of an affordable child-care and mental health service, where low-income households are givevn the support needed to maintain a high quality of life. The second was at the residential level where the project addresses how the residents could live together as a collective with shared facilities and open spaces. Lastly, closing the gap between immediate neighbours was explored through provisions of providing compact apartments that are connected to shared central spaces whilst still maintaining adequate cross ventilation, solar access as well as favourable views.
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NAILAH MASAGOS Email: masayu.nailah@gmail.com Linked.in: @nailah-masagos Number: +61 411 029 005 Instagram: @nai.msz
RECIPROCITY: A MULTIGENERATIONAL HOUSING MODEL WITH SOCIO-ECONOMICAL BENEFITS FOR THE INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE
Today’s economical, social and political factors have caused a major shift in contemporary societal structures and ways of living — where housing affordability is faced by both young and old. Additionally, increased opportunities to work, study and live away from home has created an increasing social and emotional need for meaningful companionship and connections experienced across all generations. This Multigenerational Housing project seeks to answer the above question through the implementation of an integrated community building program. A series of communal spaces are scattered through the building to facilitate the mutual exchange of skills, knowledge, service and company that will then be rewarded with financial benefits. Through this reciprocal system of participation and reward, notions of inclusivity and communal resiliency can be enhanced to ultimately foster a strong sense of identity and belonging within both the immediate residential and wider Redfern community.
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NANCY CHEN Email: Nancychen2597@hotmail.com Number: +61 420 938 693 Instagram: @deznc
GIBBONS AFFORDABLE LUXURY
In a money savvy, indulgence seeking society, new home buyers are struggling to afford homes that comply with their ideals. How can we change these ideals without compromising a quality standard of living? Through an intense breakdown of ÔluxuryÕ housing models, I formulated a reduction of design principles to translate into affordable, modest sized studios and apartments to create an open air community housing project in the heart of Redfern. Economic strategies were primarily implemented through Ômicro-housingÕ dimensions and kitchens shared between two units. Corridors are open air and visible to neighbours, yet individual apartments are discreet enough to adjust their level of privacy, using screen doors, windows and set back bedrooms. This housing model is ambitious in aiming for a new community style living; however, can be effective in questioning the realistic needs of a modern-day individual by stripping down luxury living to its basics.
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NITYA MOHAN Email: mohanitya@gmail.com Linked.in: @nitya-mohan Number: +61 414 800 293
HOME HOW CAN ARCHITECTURE BE INSTRUMENTAL IN ALLEVIATING SOCIAL ISOLATION & CATER TO USERPERSONALITY TYPES? Social isolation has long been known as a key trigger for mental illness. “One nowhere feels as lonely and lost as in the metropolitan crowd.”- Georg Simmel. Urban loneliness is connected to population mobility and declining community participation. The urban migrant leaves behind their own social ties and often struggles to connect to their new community. Third places such as community gardens, libraries, etc. enhance a sense of community on a more human scale – a relief from the overwhelming sensory experience of a large and unfamiliar city. As individuals, we exhibit a range of different reactions to a given situation based on our personality types: - The introvert- is inward turning; they require solitude to recharge and thrive on introspection and ideas. - The extrovert thrives on frequent interaction with people and is more movement oriented. - The ambivert exhibits a combination of both ends of the spectrum. An attempt has been made to understand how architecture can respond to diverse individuals with greater specificity, creating more comfortable homes.
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PATRICK LIXIANG LIAO Email: Patrick.liao.0120@gmail.com Linked.in: @Patrick Liao Number: +61 451 996 853 Instagram: @bravopat
SYMBIOSIS
With the inspiration I gathered from research on the Nightingale housing model- the interesting comparison between self-made city and developer-made city, I started this project by thinking about how shared necessary communal spaces can help support the formation of communities. Following the study on possible ways to encourage residents to use those shared spaces, the project both compromises and minimises less essential private spaces in each dwelling, increasing the potential for these shared spaces to be more likely used and successful. This architecture of reduction also has affordability and sustainability benefits for the community as a whole. All the previous studies lead to my studio research questionhow high-quality shared spaces can bring the benefits of affordability, sustainability and sociability to the community. The shared spaces in this context are scaled from within the dwelling to in-between dwellings, and finally, to the city.
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PRASHASTI VERMA Email: prashasti1504@gmail.com Linked.in: @prashasti-verma Number: +61 435 764 101
AFFORDABLE ECOSYSTEM
RESEARCH: In this project we provide a start-up real estate developer with an opportunity to collaborate with a university and other start-up unions to create this affordable housing which would include: • accommodation and co-working spaces to students and start-up owners • start-up & industry spaces in the building that would provide employment to the students ARCHITECTURE: A cuboid module is eroded in a way that it reacts to different levels of sunlight creating a site-responsive form. The gridded cuboid module creates an adaptive, repeatable building system that provides spatial flexibility and could be customised according to different site locations and requirements. An efficient grid of 6.5x6.5m provides structural simplicity and flexibility in the arrangement of spaces by combining vertically and horizontally, whilst creating variability in design. The grid becomes the formal identity of the building and renders it recognizable in its urban context. The precast elements fit in one frame to form a set of units.
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SHWETA ARADE Email: shweta.arade@gmail.com Linked.in: @shweta-arade Number: +61 432 505 763 Instagram: @art_tecture_by_shweta
HOUSING FOR ALL
With fast-paced life in the urban suburb of Redfern, ‘Housing for all’ creates an affordable niche by promoting co-housing for transitory living and long-term rental living. Specific to the lifestyle and needs of people in Sydney, the project promotes compact and sustainable living by creating micro communities with shared kitchen, laundry and lounge. Each micro community is designed with 3-4 cuboidal units for flexible use, and the compact size allows increased housing supply targeted for single or double occupancy. The use of natural and local materials like timber and concrete ensures cost-effective construction and also supports trauma informed design, sensitive to transitory living. The rental housing occupies the upper floors that foster vertical dialogue and social cohesiveness through protruding balconies. The housing models are socially held together with shared terrace gardens and veggie gardens that cascade down the form of the building. Overall, the building creates strong ground level activation by aligned business services including a restaurant, deli, shops and coworking space along the length of the site.
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XIAOXIAO LI
HOME WITHIN A HOME
Today, more and more young people have difficulties socializing. Confronted by pressures of moving out from home and removed from parents for the first time, new challenges in both life and work impose tremendous psychological burdens on those freshly transitioning into adulthood. Being by themselves for the first time, most of the young generation often find themselves having no one to turn to. Could urban communal living foster a sense of home and create a more comfortable living environment for the young? Home within a Home aims to tackle urban loneliness by motivating the young through arts embedded within everyday life. The scheme seeks to recreate the feeling of home away from home for those living in a new urban context with their new family. It invites the young to step out of their comfort zone and interact with others through activities of sharing, ultimately creating a city that is diverse and a place that is mutually inclusive.
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ZAAHIR AHMED Email: zaahit@gmail.com Linked.in: @zaahir-ahmed Number: +61 451 146 635 Instagram: @zaahir_a
CLOSING THE LOOP
This is a story about changing perspectives on waste and how we could see it as an object, or even a commodity rather than a burden. This proposal throws light on how we may solve one of the biggest problems we face in the 21st century- affordability and waste. We look at merging an industry- a waste-toenergy plant with housing in search of a solution. The waste that is produced by the residents is segregated and fed into the plant, the plant uses this waste as fuel and produces energy by incineration. Heating and cooling, along with energy are the by-products of this process that are supplied to the residents. This reduces the burden of energy for residents and waste management on the government. The energy plant also doubles up as a cultural hub activating the ground plane and spreading awareness among the community.
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MENTAL HEALTH Architecture + Social Agency Stream
Site: Carriageworks, Redfern
Aboriginal Nation: Designed on the unceded land of the Gadigal people The Social Agency stream bases its research studio brief on the stigmatised societal issue of mental health and developing an architectural response that creates a positive impact on those aged between 18-24 in the short, medium and/or long term. Students question the wider issues and implications of practice and the future role of the architect in a rapidly changing society. The project site is located in Redfern at Australia’s largest multi-arts centre, Carriageworks.
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MARK SZCZERBICKI
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Mark Szczerbicki Design Studio
AASHNA MITTAL
Email: aashnamittal.studio23@gmail.com LinkedIn: aashna-mittal-697b14b1 Number: +61 466 404 373 Instagram: @ashmi_ttal
LIGHT AT END OF TUNNEL: ASHRAM LIVING FOR BETTER WELLBEING
Earth is a marvelously intricate web of interdependencies. In urban precincts, as the built environment occupies a dominant status, it drives emotions such as anger, disgust, fear, joy or surprise within individuals persistently. It is through these emotions our mental wellbeing is shaped in the short and long term. Having lived only 1% of our human life in built settlements, we are coded to live in harmony with nature. Ashram sits as a sigh of relief in the middle of a changing skyline, building emotional and mental wellbeing through exposure to nature. It extends its positive influences to all irrespective of age, gender, colour and nationality through a mix of uses, overlooking the greens and cascading water creating a multisensory experience. To daily commuters it is a constant peep through window, for neighbours, it is a daily pass way and for rest, it is a weekend getaway cocooning from the hustles of a rising city.
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AISHWARYA SHARMA
Email: work.aishu@gmail.com LinkedIn: aishwaryasharma009
INSIDE OUT We are our messy realities, and often the negative feelings associated with our lives are distorted and at times socially undermined. My proposal explores mental resilience through the underlying feelings of angst (anxiety), chaos (schizophrenia), and mundaneness (depression). Inside Out creates places to explore one’s negative emotions. It incites a sense of discomfort to help empathize with those struggling from mental health issues. Sydney’s historical Carriageworks as an industrial landscape with an artistic past provided an opportunity to recreate the experiences of agony. The Paint shop’s external structure remains as the reminder of this place and, like the experiences scattered across our lives, the new and existing become a part of one another. The individual experiences across the three buildings involve various combinations of unpleasant sounds and uncomfortable spaces- from the screams of animals and humans with creepy faces staring at you, to unexpected narrow walkways and alienated grey voids. To leave a little happier, or a little sadder, but always with an understanding of why.
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CHARLY WATSON
Email: charlywatson0@gmail.com Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/482489912 Number: +61 450 620 338
PLUNGE Water is our world, water is our city. How can we engage our blue mind for bettering our mental health? My proposal explores mental resilience through the blue mind, this being the psychological mind state one can enter when in, on, or around water. It is a sense of calm centeredness. Sydneysiders have an intrinsic relationship with water, it moulds our city psyche and builds on a national identity. Sydney’s historical Carriageworks as a vast, train scaled, industrial landscape provided an opportunity to explore the experiences of water. Carriageworks’ external structure remains as the reminder of this place and, like the ocean pools scattered along our coastlines, the new and existing become a part of one another. From the sounds of lapping waves and falling water, the smell of salty, rocky outcrops to views across great blues, and the intimacies of bathing – plunge creates places to explore one’s blue mind, helping to strengthen mental resilience.
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FION LAI
Email: fionlai1207@gmail.com LinkedIn: @Fion Lai Number: +61 450 462 933 Instagram: @fififi.on
FINDING COMMON GROUND In Australia, the top concerns for young people are stress, school problems, depression, family conflict and addictions according to the Australia Youth mental health report by Mission Australia and Blackdog Institute. Young people have been found to prefer self-reliance over seeking external help for the issues they face. There is this stigma associated with mental health disorders and an associated unwillingness to seek help from close personal contacts for fear of judgment. So how can we have a dialogue about mental health with young people? How do we open a dialogue as the first step? One way is through listening and observing dialogue. The performance center puts different forms of dialogue at the center of the design. The sound tower houses soundrelated activities like an open radio station, public speaking workshops and more. Sound wells of different sizes and shapes penetrate the entire building encouraging one to listen, observe and share. The process of hearing stories and the experiences from different people will hopefully inspire one to open a dialogue.
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GARRY RAPESE OA
Email: garryroa2015@gmail.com LinkedIn: @garry oa Number: +675 7925 0789 (PNG) Instagram: @roagarry
THE GRUNGE CONNECTION The design approach is to use an “unboxing” concept as a platform to explore simple rudimentary geometries to design socially connecting spaces that will link the users to the place of activity, encourage participation that is motivated by their own desire for intrinsic values, and find an attraction to the activities within the given social space that interacts, connects and feels comfortable, physically, and importantly mentally and socially. A Skate Park was the proposed design intervention; a collection of shipping containers delicately assembled around a steel superstructure that provides a fun, recreational skate park hall where users are able to congregate and enjoy not only the halls’ activities but also the surrounding adjacent facilities and activities of play, eating, learning, entertainment and other social activities. This skate park reflects the design intent to stimulate a playful fun, social space for all to enjoy, that motivates the user’s intrinsic values.
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HELIA ARIAN
Email: Arian.helia@gmail.com Number: +61 416 400 677
THE SENSES
As known, there are five main senses such as taste and smell, that help us to discover and perceive the world. Therefore, designing a complex based on trauma recovery of the senses and designing five separate buildings for each sense will create a place for anyone to come into and enjoy things again. Since each building has been uniquely designed based on its functionality, five different materials have been chosen, such as steel, concrete, brick, timber, and soil in order to represent a specific sense and feeling. The sound of the chocolate factory makes us smile! The tasting building which is the chocolate factory has been designed next to the entrance; when people walk down the street they can see the vibe and liveliness of the courtyard and outdoor cafĂŠ, and the smell of the chocolate invites them to visit this complex. Visitors can get a massage and attend yoga classes in the touch building. At the same time, they can enjoy planting a flower in the smell workshop.
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HOOTAN FARAHANI
Email: Hootan_farahani@yahoo.com Number: +61 406 061 864
ONE STOP WELLNESS
In order to achieve better mental and physical health, the site accommodates a range of activities that create new responsibilities for users and guide them towards the same goal of achieving healthier lifestyles. Moreover, they are not isolated from the rest of the community during their journey. The cafĂŠ, restaurant, market, and dairy factories are the activities that connect the residences with the community. Also, to achieve the goal of a healthier lifestyle while ensuring compatibility with the context of the site, the farm is the main feature of this scheme, and is located right at the centre to be accessible from other spaces and activities. A pavilion in the middle protects people from the rain and harsh sunlight. Moreover, it creates an atmosphere for afternoon barbeque gatherings and discussions about their thriving little farm. In addition, people could have their coffee in a peaceful environment beside the farm and get a feel for the countryside lifestyle within the city.
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HUICHAO LUO
Email: lauraluo.hl@gmail.com LinkedIn: @Laura Luo Number: +61 404 710 607
DREAMS When dreaming, we feel that we are no longer isolated from the world, so eternal power flows into the present life. Many young people are under tremendous pressure due to family, work, or social reasons. In the golden age of their lives, past fantasies, reality gaps, and future uncertainties have gradually made them no longer brave, and lose their ability to enjoy life and forget how to love. If God has given us something, it is imagination. Dreaming obviously has a purpose, otherwise why do we have this ability? When we filter things and overcome our sense of restraint, when we are imagining and dreaming, we will gradually understand our true feelings, beliefs, and desires. I hope my design can convey a kind of power. I hope that young people can walk into the illusion here from reality, get warmth and strength from dreams, and then return to reality, to live and love.
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IVAN YIM
Email: ivan_yim1996@hotmail.com LinkedIn: ivan-yim-7aa70b102 Number: +61 402 185 778 Instagram: @ivan_yimm
GARDEN OF WORDS “Garden of Words: Creating boundless spaces to foster teenagers’ communication.” Teenagers have their unique characteristics and talents, but they often struggle with what they want or what to do in the future as no one is guiding them. Who am I? What is my role in life? What kind of future do I want? With these questions in mind, this project establishes spaces to help teenagers discover their future, providing a variety of activities and experiences. On approach, the buildings emerge with the central courtyard. The architecture itself blurs into the landscape and creates diverse experiences for teenagers. The spaces offered foster a journey of communication and outreach, playing the role of mediator with the wider Redfern community.
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JUSTIN PAK
Email: justin_pakjp@outlook.com LinkedIn: @justinpakjp Number: +61 434 056 198 Instagram: @justinpakjp
CATALYST
Catalyst: experiences to bring people and community together. Catalyst is a way of approaching mental health, where traditional therapy is paired with breakout spaces. These spaces host activities and experiences to connect people. This views therapy in a more positive and accessible way. Beginning with conversations and listening, we start from the small steps that build towards community resilience. Sited alongside Wilson Street the building reconnects Carriageworks to street level. On approach the form peels back as a gesture of urban generosity. The rhythmic layout of the Carriageworks bays is carried into the building, setting the structural and formal response as well as framing narrow glimpses into Carriageworks. A series of activities is hosted through the building, ranging from calm, casual to challenging. In section, a series of cloud-like vaults bounces and filters in dynamic qualities of light, each addressing their respective space below. Emulating billowing clouds, it evokes a sense of calmness in the city.
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KATHERINE LUU
Email: katherineluu@hotmail.com LinkedIn: katherine-luu-801301b4 Number: +61 420 277 889 Instagram: @katherineluu
URBAN NURSERY Nursery /’ne:s(e)ri/ Noun 1. An institution or environment in which certain types of people or qualities are fostered or bred 2. A place where young plants and trees are frown for planting elsewhere. The education system provides people the building blocks that are necessary for living in a modern world; to read, write, think critically and problem solve. Each year, individuals build upon this knowledge until eventually they are ready to take the next step – but what happens after school ends? Children are nurtured into teenagers and teenagers learn to be independent and survive on their own – but what happens next? After leaving school, young adults find themselves during a time with many unknowns, little guidance and few resources while they dive into unchartered territories trying to find their next move in life. This research project explores how the urban environment can support young adults to empower them and help them discover their potential.
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LAMISA SALMA
Email: lamisasalma01@gmail.com LinkedIn: @lamisasalma Number: +61 425 192 994 Instagram: @breakingarchitypes
EVELEIGH AVIARY:
A MINDFUL RE-ADAPTATION AT CARRIAGEWORKS Thoughts are a very powerful part of us. As powerful or even more so, when those thoughts are distorted, negatively inaccurate or perhaps socially unacceptable. We have books, technologies, exercises and therapies to aid us with our minds. The Eveleigh Aviary is an architectural response. If we were to take the act of mindfulness, stand in it and invite the community, how would that be? A technique of ‘cognitive defusion’ is to distance and disconnect from thoughts to see them as streams of words, passing sensations like ‘bytes’ to avoid associating meaning to unhelpful thoughts. Similarly, bird vocalisation across species involves combinations of pitch, loudness, length and complexity to infinite combinations. To an average human observer these are mere flowing sounds mostly of indistinguishable meaning. “Flying is not for human bodies, maybe just for our thoughts and spirits” – Hugo Fortes
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NIC RACZKA
Email: nic.raczka@gmail.com LinkedIn: Nic-Raczka Number: +61 425 326 337 Instagram: @nic_raczka
A FRIEND OF A FRIEND For many, the experience of trauma is unable to be contained within the limits of what can be put into words. The split between the living of an event and available forms of representation can exclude individuals from accessing the available counselling & therapy services sought by 1 in 3 Australians per year. A friend of a friend explores the relationships of trauma, movement and the body, providing non-verbal opportunities to represent human experiences. In doing so it implies that acknowledging memory and spatial awareness or creating a ‘bodily understanding’ is the first step to healing after experiences of trauma. A Performing Arts Centre provides artistic outlet to individuals & experiences which words have failed. Passing through choreographed volumes, all bodies (regardless of dancing ability) experience the building’s programmatic use in functional movements akin to parkour. Projected to the community, movements are distorted by a veil that offers anonymity and a reminder that we all have a friend of a friend who might require additional help in managing their mental health.
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PAIGE KODESH
Email: pkodesh@gmail.com LinkedIn: paige-kodesh-7a48a9139 Number: +61 432 477 713 Instagram: @its_all_a_facade_
ISOLAND Isoland looks at having fun during a pandemic, together whilst separated. It is an adaptable and global solution to a current collective experience of isolation and disconnection, celebrating the banality of life we seemingly take for granted. Isoland is a theme park, composed of six common functions of social gathering which we have not been able to take part in during lockdown measures. It provides spaces for a cinema, pub, live music venue, swimming pool, gym and a wedding venue. Agency in the form of satire, whimsically represented through the re-imagination of familiarities, nostalgia and collective memory presents opportunity to reinvent normality and restore lost connections. Isoland thus proposes a bewildering take on mass public gathering, within the constraints of metric separation. The masterplan re-interprets six banal scenarios of socialising where each building is designed to mimic flatpack assembly like that of IKEA, so that the architecture can be collectively experienced around the world. Isoland can be found at www.isoland.org.
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RACHEL LOUISE MOODY
Email: rachel.m@outlook.com LinkedIn: rachel-moody-412815a3 Number: +61 479 077 666 Instagram: @rlm.design
LINES OF FIRE We will never defeat fire in this country, so we must use it as a tool and adapt. My proposal is to create an environment that uses the very force of fire to help reduce anxiety amongst our citizens in relation to unpredictable natural events. Lines of Fire is an architectural intervention that provides psychological relief through the open expression of strong emotions, causing catharsis, bringing some form of positive change to an individual’s life. “Australia will have to adapt to a more flammable future” – this will require more than just new approaches to land, fire, and emergency management. It will also require new, transformative approaches to building community and personal resilience. Lines of Fire creates a place where experience, testing, research, the community, and Emergency Services come together under one umbrella to work collaboratively to provide solutions to deal with our emotions about our changing climate and make us better prepared for future weather events. A place that facilitates the gathering of a community that normally doesn’t interact, allowing them to build resilience, knowledge, and a stronger sense of selfworth individually and/or collectively.
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SALLY NGUYEN
Email: sallynguyen95@hotmail.com LinkedIn: @sallynguyen95 Number: +61 406 340 451 Instagram: @sallyng_architecture
A CENTRE FOR CULTIVATION The Centre for Cultivation at Carriageworks, Eveleigh, is an urban farm project which aims to be a community hub of cultivating, cooking and caring for others, close to the Sydney CBD. With the youth of today facing mental illness, depression and anxiety disorders, it can be hard sometimes to find a purpose in a somewhat ‘meaningless’ world. What the project aims to do is tackle this idea of finding purpose from the side, which allows the individual to engage in activities within the urban farm to not only grow vegetables and care for animals to provide a sense of worth, but to also give back to the greater community. Such facilities like the community kitchen, which is run by community members and locals, utilise the produce from the hydroponics greenhouse for main ingredients, as well as from the animal sheds next door, with goats milk, eggs and meat. The vegetables, flowers and beehives can also provide for the weekly Farmers Markets, allowing greater community involvement and contribution. Animal therapy also is a proven remedy for those afflicted with mental illness, and by allowing participation in the upkeep of the animal sheds, the individual can care for and feel vital to the animal’s health and wellbeing also. The Centre for Cultivation is not just an urban farm, but a place of purpose, and it cultivates not only plants, animals, and food, but also creates connections between the greater community and Carriageworks.
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SAMANTHA TALAS
Email: samj.talas@gmail.com LinkedIn: Samantha Talas Number: +61 437 601 462
SECOND LIFE
A School of Adaptation, Reuse & Restoration It can be overwhelming to think of ways to act on the Climate Emergency in a meaningful way. Part of the challenge is knowing where to start, and to start with something within our control. We need to unlearn the habits of the past 70 years of unrestrained consumerism. Remember how to live simpler, smaller and to value the resources we have. Learn how to fix what is broken, reuse the useless and adapt to our rapidly changing environment. We need a new industrial revolution. Portfolio:https://issuu.com/samtalas/docs/samanthatalas_ graduation_studio_unsw_2020?fbclid=IwAR0hamPm_ lNo9anc0b789emFPGbW0OWUEOMDauQLbi 4igsgTlXGYp6HxJ-E
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SARAH MACDONALD
Email: sarahashleydesign@yahoo.com LinkedIn: @sarah-a-macdonald Number: +61 426 892 945 Instagram: @sarahashleydesign
THE QUIET CARRIAGE SOUND MUSEUM The Quiet Carriage is an urban sanctuary that seeks to investigate how we as individuals and as a community can be better communicators to increase awareness and dialogue around mental health. Based on research exploring how people communicate, approximately 55% of communication is understood through visual or nonverbal cues, 38% of communication is understood by tone, volume and expression of sound while only 7% is attributed to words or content. The Quiet Carriage combines auditory, visual and tactile experiences to better understand how people connect with themselves, with others and with the world around them. The project title comes from the site’s connection to the Carriageworks site, using language already implemented within our society to encourage people to take a moment of quiet, to promote awareness and practices of mindfulness in being able to address mental wellness through improved communication with oneself and with others. Portfolio: https://drive.google.com/file/ d/1dFMkXu2YLzpnlK2mktZrl2kpDT0IL_UZ/view?usp=sharing
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SHUYANG LIANG
Email: lsyyyy10@gmail.com LinkedIn: shuyang-liang-888855167 Number: +61 426 952 626 Instagram: @clover_lsy
ANIMAL CROSSING
Do you ever feel stressed, depressed, or lost in your life? Most of us do. Therefore, an escape is needed once for a while, to slow things down and to allow one to recharge. Animal Crossing is a place which helps you explore, create, and share a world of your own. The scheme seeks to create a balance between humans and animals by integrating nature with built forms. It aims to enable pets and farm animals to coexist with the urban context, allowing living, work, and nature to thrive together in the creation of a new metropolis. The newly built structure is carefully inserted into the landscape, blurring boundaries between animals and people to promote human-nature interactions. The structure of the built form mimicking trees, blurs the architecture amongst leaves, ultimately creating a series of secluded spaces awaiting one’s discovery. As one strolls through the facility, one may find birds in the sky and fish in the water. Lying down on the grass, one may bask in the sun. By interacting with nature and animals in this world of their own, one may find themselves rejuvenated and refreshed with positive energy.
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SIN TUNG VIVIAN CHAN
Email: cstvian@gmail.com Number: +61 466 047 482
THE AROMA ARRAY The project is titled aroma array, which means it delivers an array of aromatic sensational experiences through architectural and landscape design, to carry out aromatherapy which is effective in taking care of mental health. Programs include an Australian native fragrant plant pathway, a florist, a restaurant, a tea house, a greenhouse and a series of gardens growing aromatic plants. Visitors are able to explore different ways to encounter aromatherapy under the options of environments provided. The design of the buildings aims to cater for the demands of scented plants, and also express reference to the Carriageworks site in terms of the use of materials and forms.
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SIRAH GIACCO
Email: sira.giacco@hotmail.com Instagram: sira_works
ART OF MIND Addressing mental health concerns can be an arduous and intimidating task, particularly for young people straight out of high school. Art is both an accessible and alternative way of expressing meaning beyond that of verbal communication. What may be too difficult or complex to put into words may be conveyed through visual expression. The proposal of an art college will not only rejuvenate the already existing art-precinct of Carriageworks, but offer another way for young people to communicate and foster human connection in a safe, reflective environment. The program re-purposes a large empty warehouse, once a significant component of the site’s industrial history. The proposed spaces are scattered diagonally within, their fluctuating blueprint held firmly together by its external walls. Public space including an art supply store and central cafÊ spill out of the warehouse to lure people inside. Internally, art studios integrated with living quarters, a formal gallery and a large hall for installations create a series of stepped concrete platforms that open onto one another. A fluid transition and visual connectivity between spaces is established, while the forms cascade downwards to embrace the northern light.
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SUSIE SOYUN BOO
Email: susieboo98@gmail.com LinkedIn: @SusieSoyunBoo
THE LIVING ROOM Mental health in young adults is a topic often dismissed in society, a major barrier to improvement in this sector being the issue of stigma attached to therapy accompanied by societal boundaries and challenges. This project, ‘the living room’ explores how the subject of mental health could be reframed in the context of everyday social activities and public spaces in order to normalise the action of seeking help and increase its accessibility. By adopting everyday public functions such as the library and art centre into the program, the architectural proposal aims to achieve a balance of public and private through expressions of diverse themes such as safety and enclosure as well as openness and freedom. The central notion of the ‘living room’ ties the project together with the intention to foster an environment which allows youth and the overall community to find common threads and experiences within these spaces.
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TINGTING ZHENG
Email: ztt0615@hotmail.com LinkedIn: tingting-zheng Number: +61 433 989 400
SPIRITUALITY:
：EXPERIMENTING A NEW COMBINATION OF ARCHITECTURAL FUNCTIONS TO INVOKE SPIRITUAL EMPATHY The whole project is based on the global social issue mental health, exploring a new form of architecture and a new design method that can effectively mitigate or prevent city-living mental health challenges. Following a series of research, I chose spirituality as the central theme, which was realised as the real cause for most mental issues in young people during the investigation. Four different spiritual paths - social actions, mystical, heart, and head are explored, which correspond to the functions of the workshop, meditation, tea house, and library. In the plan and axonometric drawings, you can see the four paths are carefully located and connected with nature to ensure a complete spiritual experience for the occupants. The whole scheme aims to establish a sanctuary that meets various spiritual healing needs and goes beyond architecture’s usual boundaries. It is highly people-oriented and focuses on people’s feelings and interactions.
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YIXUAN LI
Email: eva961101@gmail.com Number: +61 406 761 101
LINK_AGE
This design is facing the issue with mental health. People who suffer with mental health issues will seek professional help, but how can normal relationships between people help to solve mental health issues? So, the aim of my scheme is to reach mutual healing between people. Make the part of the process being the site become a healing process. The program contains three parts. The mental disorder rehabilitation centre and a new bridge connects two sides of the railway. A market and farm place are located beside Wilson street. The bridge directly connects onto the street level and can go down to the ground through different staircases and lifts. The rehabilitation centre is surrounded by different green spaces. The public square and semipublic courtyard bring more nature in.
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YUEN KWAN LUI (VICKY)
Email: yuenkwanlui@gmail.com Number: +61 401 255 168
SECRET GARDEN: HEALING SPACES IMMERSED IN NATURE Good mental health is critical to our well-being and to achieving resilient and sustainable communities. Amongst the hustle and bustle, urban life has brought about positive and negative effects on mental health and wellbeing. Within this framework, how can Carriageworks be reinterpreted to push aside urban sprawl, reinvigorate the site amidst the historical setting, and create a place that awakens our inner happiness and peace? The Secret Garden, full of flowers and plants, is a peaceful and pleasant place where we can share our stories and find ourselves. The Secret Garden evokes a sensory experience and fosters the process of healing in spaces embedded with the natural environment. A variety of spaces are offered ranging from public to private: a courtyard, theatre, gallery, sound tower, handcraft workshop, cooking workshop and tea room. Through the solid concrete wall, we begin our journey into the Secret Garden.
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YUEZHI CAI
Email: Yuezhi618@hotmail.com
THE PIT STOP: ELIMINATING LONELINESS The Pit Stop engages with one of the growing challenges in today’s rapidly developing world- loneliness. Often stigmatised and left unaddressed, the feeling of loneliness is both prevalent amongst mental health sufferers and within the urban context at large. The Pit Stop responds to the needs of those yearning for connection and the warmth of another in today’s fast-paced world. The facility hosts shortterm accommodation for the lonely above a space for the public. Public amenities on the bottom level invite users to stay by embracing diversity and creating a mutually inclusive place for rest for passersby, local neighbours and newcomers alike. Warmth is collected anonymously from these city dwellers in the form of voices and silhouettes and passed through the architectural intervention to those in need. In strengthening existing community and neighborhood ties, The Pit Stop explores the possibility of architecture in becoming a future node which fosters human connections
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METABOLISM RECONSIDERED Architecture + Urban Conditions Stream 01
Site: Waterloo Estate, Sydney Aboriginal Nation: Designed on the unceded land of the Gadigal people The Urban Conditions stream aims at integrating the two scales of architectural and urban design processes whilst investigating the notion and feasibility of proposing a compact and vertical city as an urban model to orchestrate future development in a 21st century city. Students will reflect on concepts such as density, efficiency, liveability, changeability, community living and architecture to develop innovative ways to pursue a mutual relationships between the city ground and its built form. The project site is located in South Sydney’s Green Square, at the junction between Waterloo and Zetland areas where students design a multi-functional urban block.
SHAOWEN WANG
RAFFAELE PERNICE
UNSW
UNSW
MORGAN LUMEN Turner
AKAASH KARAN
Email: akaashyk@gmail.com Number: +61 433 913 803
URBAN SPORTS HUB Aim The aim of the thesis is to show how sports can remove the inequality amongst people. It is a place which does not see race, religion, colour or background. That is exactly what the urban sport hub aims to do. To encourage individuals going through problems to get involved in sports. The hub aims to decrease social disparity amongst individuals, decrease crime rate, increase social capital and improve health whether its mental health or physical health. Thesis proposition The proposition of the thesis lies within creating an advanced urban sports hub in Waterloo estate, NSW. This would help spread the sporting culture in Waterloo as well as removing disparity amongst people. The sports hub aims to portray itself as a rehabilitation centre in order to encourage unity and build a sense of community amongst individuals regardless of their respective backgrounds.
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ANDREW BEST
Email: andrew.w.best@outlook.com LinkedIn: andrew-best-072620117 Number: +61 410 244 495
WATERLOO ASSEMBLY Through the site analysis, it was noted many of the support services providing for the people of Waterloo experiencing stigma & exclusion were instituted or organised mostly by a church-body, albeit via a secular ‘service’. This highlighted an institutions’ core-values over religious belief. The new belief is simple, not only to provide respite for those who need it but to present as the first step-away from centre, an entity which will provide care & support, a tremendous example for a community. The possible second & third steps become limitless. The building would house the existing services available in Waterloo, a welcoming home for all residents, not only those obviously in need but be able to cross pollinate different socio-economic groups, leveling all & offering a springboard to re-grow together. Alike Dreamtime Waterloo, the building would provide social sustenance. It will be a catchment, a basin providing relief for all, equally. All voices, all thoughts. Altogether. All equal. The building will become an assembly of people. A catchment. Waterloo Assembly.
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CHUNQI LI
Email: z5215723@ad.unsw.edu.au
FOOD COURT Australia is a unique, rich and diverse society that is made up of a range of cultures, backgrounds, re足 ligions and ethnicities and it is these experiences that make our society what it is today. At Lifeline, we believe that every person deserves to live in an inclusive, just and equal society that respects and pro足motes individuality, dignity and diversity and supports people to live a meaningful, rich and fulfilling life. Promoting an inclusive community by breaking down language and cultural barriers, reducing so足 cial isolation and designing programs that include people of all abilities were seen as priorities. Some people suggested that mixing age groups may help some residents feel less isolated and en足courage neighbours to look out for one another, while others suggested more community gathering and activities to promote interaction between people of different ages, cultural groups and abilities.
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CLAIRE NGUYEN
Email: cl.nguyen@outlook.com LinkedIn: claire-nguyen-35364b1a6 Number: +61 421 990 370
THE CORROBOREE Looking forward, the food supply system as it exists is inadequate in its continual degradation of the environment and inability to continue supplying food into the future. Urban farming offers a possibility of tackling these issues. Despite nearly three-quarters of the national Indigenous population residing outside remote communities, urban populations are often marginalised through the questioning of their ‘authentic’ Indigeneity and the lack of government funding. They also report poorer health outcomes compared to their rural counterparts. Providing a gathering space for Waterloo’s significant Indigenous population can tie with an urban farming system and encourage spiritual, social, and cultural exploration through connections to land, community, and cultural identity. Pushing localised and native food can help Indigenous people feel a greater link to their heritage which may feel diminished with city lifestyles. Native cuisine and bushtucker can act as a gateway to broader culture, traditional activities, and a connection to Country.
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FAHIM JALAL
Email: fahim.jalal.ar@gmail.com LinkedIn: fahim-jalal-b1420474 Number: +61 466 549 382 Instagram: fahim_jalal
BRIDGING HABITATS With increasing human population and urban sprawl, we notice a pattern of decreasing natural lands as a result of cities being human centred. The age of the Anthropocene causes ecological imbalances that if continued would lead to the loss of major wildlife and forced rapid evolution of the remaining. This urban studio recognises the Metabolist Movement as a technology driven solution to contextual issues and this project uses its tools to architecturally bridge the gap between the people that inhabit the city of Sydney and its urban wildlife. Seeking inspiration from Kisho Kurokawa’s Helix Tower, an Urban Wildlife Rehabilitation and Research Centre is designed as a modular civic unit that can be repeated over the existing urban fabric of Waterloo. This typology analyses the living patterns of urban fauna and retrieves lost habitat; all while aiding in man’s education through observation and without a loss in vibrant social facilities.
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GRIFFIN LEE
Email: griffin_lee1@hotmail.com LinkedIn: griffinlee0 Number: +61 404 985 096 Instagram: @griffgriffff
THE INTERGENERATIONAL LINK The Japanese Metabolist movement of the 1960s proposed radical ideas of megastructure, verticality and the re-invention of the vernacular village to be projected into these immense structures. Metabolism, being the “replacement of the old with the new”, was the underlying theme of the studio. Understanding this, an interest was formed in adapting and implementing these ideas to the Waterloo site in response to the growing needs of the community there. Located in a new aged care and education precinct, the project proposes a vertical dementia aged care village and early childhood education facility combined. Beyond this, the project also explores the horizontal link – taking the Metabolist vertical and inverting it, challenging the organic growth ideal and instead proposing an extending upwards and outwards that is intentional and a means of connecting the various communities.
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HON NAM CHAN
Email: jimchn007@gmail.com LinkedIn: hon-nam-chan-119081143 Number: +61 401 658 437 Instagram: @ jim_chn
LINKED COMMUNEEXPLORING SHARED SPACE IN URBAN RENEWAL The research question explores the potential of adaptative reuse of the two existing modernist towers built in the 1970s. By acknowledging the value of the existing community spirit and emotional attachment to the architecture, new community programs are inserted into social housing to improve the quality of life for existing and future residents. In the master plan, the collaborative program consists of local produce of fresh food in the community garden, collaboration in the community centre and the informal economic activities in the marketplace. The Waterloo tower is reprogrammed for more diverse apartment types and communal spaces. Co-living and working are considered to form a local support network between the residents. The new community additions are aimed to have distinctive form and help to mend the urban fabric, creating a relationship with the streets. The project wishes to facilitate the community with fresh food and shared spaces to empower the people and strengthen the resilience of the community.
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HONGHAO YU
Email: z5218164@ad.unsw.edu.au LinkedIn: @Honghao YU Number: +61 412 290 180 Instagram: @dudu_bearxx
WATERLOO AGRICULTURAL HUB Fresh Food City: Activate an urban area by introducing Urban Farming to create an Agricultural Hub With industrialization, urbanization and globalization happening all over the world, especially in larger cities such as Sydney, we have less and less agricultural land within cities and peri-urban areas. Besides, younger generations barely have the knowledge of basic farming; less and less students are enrolled in agriculture-related courses, and gradually we won’t know where the food on our plate comes from, how it is grown, and how long it takes to grow it. Thus, this project is a response to the research question: how could agriculture be introduced to the Waterloo Estate to contribute to Sydney’s Food Security? The idea is to design a building which is all about food, food production and agricultural education. By converting a variety of urban farming technologies, such as vertical farming, into exhibitions, food will grow in the city and people will have the opportunity to experience and learn farming activities.
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HUAQING LIU
Email: huaqing.liu@student.unsw.edu.au LinkedIn: huaqing-liu-1018681b7 Number: +86 132 471 611 86
METABOLISM RECONSIDERED: WATERLOO GROUP FORM COMMUNITY
I will introduce my graduation design through my research and design stage including a masterplan stage and single building stage. It started from the learnings of Fumihiko Maki’s idea- group form. After I proposed my research question, I tried to answer it from different views. On the city level, the whole community site needs to be an entire group with a boundary, which can be identified. On the community level, the building groups organisation needs to meet the community demands. And Maki’s work gave me great inspiration. On the single building level, it needs to create detailed space for people. In conclusion, I believe my final design demonstrates my architectural thinking of the group form throughout the whole stage of the design. The logic is clear, I’m proud of it, but more work is needed to address the detailed issues of the single building which I hope to keep developing after graduation.
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JENCY ISSAC
Email: issacjency5@gmail.com Number: +61 403 835 462 Instagram: @da_jency_code
THE MEMORY BOX Every urban landscape exhibits various patterns that are linked in a network to create a larger pattern. Alexander’s “A pattern language� book suggests that patterns are not a random design idea but something that needs to be recognised and validated through thorough examination. The book categorises and explains 253 patterns. 4 patterns were closely analysed and used as an instrument to understand Alexandria as a larger network and as a smaller detailed network. By addressing this we determined the issues and a response to help unpack the real questions. An analysis was done to sew various patterns together to understand the functioning of Alexandria as a suburb and its connection to the larger Sydney network. The research resulted in unveiling the past and displaying it in the present. The design resulted as a memory box that retains the past and something that will continue storing memories created by the community.
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JIAHAO LI
Email: lijiahao5050@gmail.com LinkedIn: jiahao-li-852b72193 Number: +61 422 656 288 Instagram: @lee_nogi
HABITAT The project is created based on the masterplan: the world belongs to nature rather than humans, so the whole site gives back to greenery. Building will only be one piece in this rebalance and will be connected by bridges with buildings in other pieces. Thus, the only building on the site shall contain as many functions for urban needs as possible, say a mini-city. Citizens live in it, work in it, entertain in it, do sports and hang out in it, so it’s called a Habitat. Leveled floors are converted to a helix ramp with a very small gradient to minimise the feeling of isolation from level separation. Restaurants, living units, offices, a library, a sporting village, parks and roof clubbing are all placed on this helix ground, held by a spiral steel tube frame showing natural vigor. The project aims to provide a prototype- that the traditional city form is possibly transformed to Australian ground, so the city could co-exist with the green land and create a world where we live in nature.
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JONAH GERIES
Email: jonah.geries@hotmail.com LinkedIn: jonah-geries-2b40b0168 Number: +61 421 949 345 Instagram: @jonahgeries
WATERLOO - SOCIAL INCUBATOR Located South of Sydney CBD, Waterloo is the latest town set for development and rejuvenation. The preferred masterplan proposes a massive increase in density for the area, housing approximately 7000 residents. On visiting our site which is bound by Botany Road, Wellington Street, Pitt Street and Raglan Street, it became apparent that the existing social housing model in Waterloo was utterly flawed. When in the centre of the site it didn’t feel like you were in Sydney as there was a clear disconnect with the city’s surroundings and a severe lack of community services/ amenities. The aim of this proposal is to introduce much needed socio-cultural amenities into the area. Cultural infrastructure refers to an architecture of cultural typology. This hybrid scheme is comprised of three main buildings: a Sports and Recreational facility, a Community Centre and a Library. Although these are of differing typology, they act together homogeneously to provide the user with an environment which is complementary to their lifestyle and wellbeing.
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MICHAEL GAI
Email: michaelcgai@outlook.com LinkedIn: @michaelgai-arch Number: +61 418 116 816 Instagram: @michaelgai_arch
URBAN, LONELINESS, ALONE, TOGETHER Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, accounts of social isolation and loneliness have increased in recent decades, particularly within disadvantaged, inner city groups. Social housing often manifests as ubiquitous tower forms with double-loaded corridors which not only isolate residents from the public ground plane but also from each other. This project is an examination of what urban forms can support high density living and how both introverted and extroverted individuals are able to find their place in the community. A cascading housing block coils to form a tripartite of non-private spaces: two semi-public courtyards bisected by a public internal street. Common outdoor spaces are arranged intermittently around the main circulatory elements so to not only encourage chance encounters and incidental meetings but also allow residents to gather in smaller groups without feeling detached from the ground plane. Ultimately, the homecoming experience is understood as a sequence of visual checkpoints, allowing residents to see and be seen.
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MOHAMMED SAMEER SYED AHAMED MANZUR Email: sameermhmd.95@gmail.com LinkedIn: @Mohammed Sameer Syed Ahamed Manzur Number: +61 405 093 818 Instagram: @sameermhmd95
SEED GENERATOR We live in a time of significant social and ecological imbalance caused by our actions, and the ego of our past cannot save our future. The project titled Seed Generator reimagined the lost landscapes of the agricultural land of Australia. The building was choreographing the collisions between two extensions of nature; building as an extension of people, trees/ landscape as an extension of ground. The program has reimagined how we look at the boundary in the institutional and exhibition spaces; how their activities can transform by using the social sphere as a catalyst that promotes dialogue between people and nature rather than an obstruction in the process. Social and physical resilience built using ecological aims and architecture could be an agent to transform with time to adapt to its surroundings.
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RAYEED MOHAMMAD YUSUFF
Email: rayeed_2825@hotmail.com LinkedIn: rmyusuff Number: +61 405 880 292 Instagram: rayeedyusuff
THE “IMBY” EFFECT: WASTE TO ENERGY PLANT IN WATERLOO, SYDNEY
Waste generated in urban areas is transferred to landfills that adds to environmental degradation. The construction of Waste-to-Energy plants around neighbourhoods in a city can help minimize climate change. Moreover, waste can also be converted into electricity that can be used by the community. However, the acceptance of waste in our backyard has been a pressing issue. The “IMBY” effect is the “In My Backyard” phenomenon where waste is accepted and celebrated within the society. With the addition of public functions to a factory, this project would be able to include industrial architecture in the public realm. To increase its acceptability, the design tried to blur the lines between a factory and urban architecture in terms of its aesthetics. I believe my final design demonstrates a type of hybrid architecture that can change the face of urban life that will benefit the city, environment and give back to the community.
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RENNIE SO
Email: rennieso@hotmail.com LinkedIn: @rennieso Number: +61 433 193 301 Instagram: @rennieso
THE CONNECT Waterloo can be known for many things, its industrial characteristics, and refurbished warehouse cafes. However, there is an underlying negative stigma as an unsafe place with people of low socio-economic backgrounds. These disadvantaged groups are further pushed away from mainstream society as it undergoes urbanisation. The struggles of low socio-economic groups are vicious and cause a chain reaction in attaining quality of life. How can we be more inclusive to those less advantaged in a rapidly growing society? What can a person with limited education and lack of work experience do to improve their financial and socioeconomic status? The vision of ‘THE CONNECT’ is a new type of institute: It brings the opportunities to those at the fringes of our society, equipping them with the experience to break out of the socio-economic status through a series of faculties that focuses on practical learning and immediate experience exposure through the pop-up market spaces.
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SHUOMENG SHI
Email: shishuomeng@hotmail.com LinkedIn: @Shuomeng Shi Number: +61 434 499 739 Instagram: @shishuomeng
This project is located in the Waterloo districts. During the site analysis, it has been found that even this site is very valuable from an economical point of view, and a lot of the land on the site is under-utilised and needs to be developed so that it could be more engaging for people. This mixed-use building consists of a residential tower and a commercial base including retail shops, a food hub and an exhibiting space. It is designed to accommodate the future population growth within the Waterloo district and the job opportunities that come along with the new metro station. The existing site is isolated from its surroundings. Therefore, my design intent is to create a vibrant and lively space for the people living on the site or nearby. One of the main sustainable elements used in this project is the green roof, which can significantly reduce not only the cost of the facilities but also the energy usage.
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TONY TIANSHUO LIU
Email: Ltsh970115@gmail.com LinkedIn: @Tianshuo Liu Number: +61 406 163 912 Instagram: @ttonyyyyl
LIVEABILITY IN VERTICALITY One of the biggest issues confronting housing is isolation from the ground caused by going vertical, as high-rise buildings separate large numbers of people from the street. The coarse urban fabric in Waterloo leads to disconnection from its public spaces. The diverse range of communities have resulted in a degree of segregation. Together with the outdated facilities and poor management, the site creates a sense of isolation, messiness and insecurity. This project responds to the failure of high-rise buildings with estrangement problems. Four levels of shared spaces are implemented, fostering a stronger sense of community: - The plazas of the ground plane link the different programs as first level shared space - The podium building provides exhibition space as second level shared space - The green landings at different heights work as third level shared space - The decentralisation of core elements in the residential tower enable more intimate fourth level shared space
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YI YU
Email: yuyi940117@gmail.com LinkedIn: @yuyi_117 Number: +61 421 858 999 Instagram: @yuyi_117
WATERLOO YOUTH HUB Urbanisation is a significant change we are facing today. In the latest development of Waterloo, mixed-use is very common. Since the block has been defined as mixed-use in the master plan, space or building here should be able to accommodate different programs and activities, not just residential, to enrich the local culture and strengthen the relationship between space and people. This project aims to discuss new ways of life for contemporary young people. Through planning and design, there will be a gathering place for young urban residents that will enhance the vitality of the entire community. Cultural, commercial and residential spaces enrich the building. At the same time, the connection with the surrounding environment makes this a vibrant and enthusiastic youth hub.
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YIKAI CHANG
Email: a1040309618@gmail.com LinkedIn: @Yikai Chang Number: +61 426 518 937 Instagram: @Kaicccc
WATERLOO CIVIC CENTRE As human civilisation sprouts over the earth, urbanisation took place all over cities. Following the history of urbanization, the current and commonly discussed issue is urban renewal. The inner cities of Sydney have gone through constant renewals and have been considered ‘successful’ reviews. But the question is: ‘how is an urban renewal project considered successful?’ Fulfilling the substantial objectives is definitely one criterion to judge its success, but not the only one. Waterloo Civic Centre is designed to challenge the current urban renewal model, and to change the physical as well as the social fabric of the community. A gallery, a rehearsal centre, a theatre, a multi-function space consisting of four “stage” quality space, and a linear “audience” space (library) full of public events interweave these spaces together. The interaction happens on the boundary between each fragmentation endowing meanings to the building. The house has become the epitome of the city, in which the residents’ daily life and their yearning for urban renewal is fully displayed in between the mise-en-scence of the architectural elements and visitors.
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YUQING LI
Email: molly57@126.com Number: +61 468 492 991
AMONG THE GENERATIONS Nowadays as most of the global cities are experiencing rapid urbanisation, they are facing many new modern problems. Like currently in Sydney’s Waterloo precinct, a new metro station will be developed. This will absolutely bring opportunities and economical and social development, but it will also cause urban congestion and decrease living comfort due to sudden population growth. The overall master project seeks to solve these problems and improve the community of the Waterloo precinct by developing new design thoughts. It intends to harmonise the needs and conflictions between different generations in order to provide a future multigenerational community. The building proposal is designed as an intergenerational center to provide diverse multigenerational activity spaces for different age groups. It also offers educational facilities for children and elderly people as a mixed day care center to encourage interaction between these two generations. The project itself also seeks to explore how such an intergenerational center could benefit the community and serve as a prototype for other multigenerational sites.
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ZHIXUN ZHAO (RICHIE)
Email: zhaorichy@gmail.com LinkedIn: @Zhixun Zhao Number: +61 422 764 198 Instagram: @terror_pants
CO-WORKING & CO-LIVING CENTER By expanding the city vertically, we maximize the land use, accommodate more population, and leave space for people and nature. However, cities are now becoming isolated. We are being locked up in tall towers all day, only to return to another one at night. It separates us from each other and the surrounding environment. A variety of urban spaces and functions bring a variety of activities that engage people in the community and improve social cohesion. The co-live and co-work ideas themselves are ideas born to form a sense of community in the urban context. What I propose is a connective public space network that flows within a high-rise building. The link of the public space network climbs up the building from the ground level to the rooftop. Public spaces differ in scale and type according to their levels and the functions they are adjacent to.
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PUBLIC WORKS AND INFRASTRUCTURE Architecture + Urban Conditions Stream 02
Site: Alexandra Canal, Sydney
Aboriginal Nation: Designed on the unceded land of the Gadigal people In recent years, the City of Sydney has been busily building a new generation of public and social architecture to contribute to the life of the fast growing population in and around the major Green Square urban renewal area. This constitutes the largest community investment in the public works in any period in an Australian city. The City of Sydney has now acquired part of this strategically-located site for a Sports Hall and improved public spaces, with opportunities to extend the cycleway and promenade south along Alexandra Canal past the Depot. In contrast to the City’s public works, the NSW State Government has taken over a huge area to construct the St Peters interchange – a massive entry to the contested Westconnex motorway. While this engineering project has been hugely damaging to the urban environment and extravagant in its costs, it has delivered two new bridges over the Alexandra Canal south of the City’s Depot.
PHILIP THALIS
BEN DRIVER
Hill Thalis
Hill Thalis
MADELEINE ROWE Hill Thalis
BEN SHEN Email: benshen2016@gmail.com LinkedIn: @Ben Shen Number: +61 416677911 Instagram: @sointothu
ALEXANDRA SPORTS HUB This project adjoins to Alexandra Canal (which is a potential element for social activities) and Huntley Street (which is potential for public interruption). The ideas of this project are to deal with the relationships among building, site and contexts addressing the public usage. Firstly, being aware of potential arrivals is to settle the arrival spaces respectively from side of Alexandra Canal and Huntley Street. Secondly, to activate arrival spaces, a covered outdoor basketball court places between street and building to create sense of public and bring the activity to the street. As well as Canal side, a swimming pool and sun fill green spaces are placed there to bring activities to Canal. Thirdly, bringing local memories to the roof elements. The abstracted brick kiln chimney places on the show court of the sports hub to show the significant position and the special memories. Also, a series of the angled roof to address the warehouse surrounding the site, as well as bring natural light and ventilation into building. Finally, the building use timber as the primary material (both structure and facade) to create the warm and soft character to the public and keep low embodied carbon for sustainability.
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HANG ZHANG Email: loreto5248@gmail.com LinkedIn: @loretoZHANG Number: +61 450034720 Instagram: @loreto5
ALEXANDRA SPORTS HUB The industrial suburb Alexandra interrupts the community’s continuity of surrounding residential suburbs. The design of this sport hub will cooperate with the new proposed green spaces to bring more energy into this suburb and increase the connections between surrounding suburbs. To achieve that, my design created more pedestrian access and cycle link in this area and enhanced the social interactions between the exterior public domain and the interior sports spaces. In my plan, you will see the sufficient entrances which improve the accessibility from Huntley St, Sheas Creek and Alexandra Canal. And the translucent façade with louvers ensure the visual connection between the inside and outside. I believe my final design demonstrates the connectivity of the suburbs and the social interactions of people, but more work is needed to address the environmentally sustainable design which I expect to have further explore in this area after graduation.
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JIAMIN LI Email: karman_li@hotmail.com Number: +61 415189922(Sydney) +86 13802756284 (China) Website: https://karmanstudio.cargo.site
ALEXANDRIA COMPLEX The rapid development of the city creates a sense of unstable, without local public infrastructure support, the link between residence and community become very weak. By considering the fact that the majority of new residence are new families or couples with affordable renting cost, the lack of public facilities cannot allow them to construct a sense of belonging to the community. Therefore, the local suburb may not be the prior choice for long term living. In this project, the Alexandria sport hub aim to argue the architectural response to the future development in the urban context. Architecture become the link between community and the local residence, providing better qualitative public facilities as a guarantee of life quality, concrete the sense of belonging of the local residence to the community. From long term perspective, Alexandria will become a suburb where people would like to move in instead of fast rate developed area. Detail A
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JIAXIN JU Email: june_ju21@yahoo.com LinkedIn: @jiaxin ju Number: +61 412971821 Instagram: @jiaxin_ju
NEW SPORT TOWER IN ALEXANDRIA Alexandria is not a traditional social area. To activate the vitality and potential of the area, a conspicuous and interactive iconic building is proposed. The project is a combination of two separate buildings. One for sports, and another for the community. The ten full-size courts will set into one high-rise building as a sports tower to create compact functional areas and emphasize the sports atmosphere. The community room and public gymnasium will be located in another low-rise building, which will have high walkability and accessibility for the public. The scaffolding system was chosen as the facade to create an open and flexible circulation space. This open faรงade breaks the boundary between interior and exterior and plants played around the scaffolding blur the definition of interior and exterior. As a public circulation space, the scaffolding makes this area more interesting and attractive, creates a novel and attractive appearance faced to Alexandria.
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KENA MA (MARCO) Email: 191885816@qq.com
ALEXANDRA SPORT HUB The site of this project is located in Alexandra, near the Alexandra Canal. The building footprint comes from the site boundary. Pushing boundary lines inform the footprint of this building, and other empty spaces of this site are used as public space. According to the brief, this sport facility must contain ten courts, and these courts decide the volume of this building. The structure is well designed. This building has a simple structure of steel columns and trusses. I am focusing on the faรงade expression. People will have totally different views from all four elevations. The different material uses represent the different internal uses. The cladding is made of translucent glass which gives a feeling of light and mystery to push people to explore the space.
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MENGJIA CHEN Email: z5213371@ad.unsw.edu.au
URBAN SUPPLY DEPOT Due to the scarcity of public space and sports space, residents do not have enough space to exercise. With the development of society, people pay more and more attention to their health and are more and more willing to do sports. The site of the project is close to the canal and is located between Sydney Park and Perry park. The project is mainly a sports ground with some other communication and commercial space. I hope the project exists as an urban supply station. It is not only the supply of some real materials, but also the supply of physical function and energy. Residents can exercise and relax themselves here and release the pressure in their daily life.
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RONGKUN BAO Email:jnbobby0417@outlook.com Number: +68 15908086619 Instagram: @bobby_417
ALEXANDRA SPORTS HUB In recent years, the City of Sydney has been busily building a new generation of public and social architecture to contribute to the life of the fast growing population in and around the major Green Square urban renewal area. This constitutes the largest community investment in the public works in any period in an Australian city. The City of Sydney has now acquired part of this strategicallylocated site for a Sports Hall and improved public spaces, with opportunities to extend the cycleway and promenade south along Alexandra Canal past the Depot.
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YIHUI WANG Email:yihui.sally.wang@gmail.com LinkedIn: @ yihui-wang-970a89139/ Number: +61 452181913 Instagram: @yihui.sally.wang
GREEN SPORTS TOWER The project of this studio is to design a sports hub, located at Alexandria, next to the starting point of Alexandra canal. As an industrial heritage, the site is surrounded by warehouses. And the stinky smell of polluted canal blow with wind. The design concept of this building is to create a green tower with a sense of openness which helps to resolve the sense of depression of the site. I used three strategies to achieve the goal. Firstly, use green faรงade to bring the nature into the site. Secondly, create a complete open level to bring outside in and give the building more sense of openness. Thirdly, the balcony located on the south side provides an open view to the canal while the north balcony opens to the perry park and Sydney park. I believe the final design demonstrated the benefit of the green facades, but I need to put more effort to address the human experience and materiality that brings flexible natural light condition. Hopefully I could focus on more after the graduation.
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YUAN WANG Email: z5030871@ad.unsw.edu.au LinkedIn: @yuan wang Number: +61 426667141 Instagram: @wangniuniu26
ALEXANDRIA SPORT HUB The main idea of the master plan was first to extend the existing bicycle network and increase the connections between the Sydney Park, Perry Park and the site. In particular, the bicycle-accessible road along the river bank has been increased, which can improve people’s comfort level. The second is to increase connectivity between the various areas by building new roads.As most of Alexandria is an industrial area, in order to activate the new connection with the surrounding and better attract more people, the ground floor of buildings along the new roads was change into shops and cafes. The concept of the building was originally influenced by the overall environment, with the canal in the middle dividing the area into two parts. Bridges connect the two sides, as well as people’s lives and activities. I tried to apply the layout of the environment to the building and the site.
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ZIJING YANG Email: jahyeongyang@gmail.com Number: +61 402699302 +86 15276638696
ALEXANDRA SPORTS HUB In recent years, the City of Sydney has been busily building a new generation of public and social architecture to contribute to the life of the fast growing population in and around the major Green Square urban renewal area. Main concept of this project is to create Green links between public parks and site, between public parks and blocks, so develop more closer connections and easeful experience for people when they walk through this area. Create open parks stand in an interactive position that provide more recreation spaces for pedestrians, and these little Greens are like an extension of Sydney Park, bringing greenery and vitality to urbanism. The project site acts as a central point that interact with each areas, so the sports hub designed here can be as a significant green cross space that be transparent to offer a comfort and open experience for people, be relax, dynamic and inviting.
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