/2017 UNSW MASTERS OF ARCHITECTURE GRADUATE catalogue
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contents message from the dean
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message from the studio convenor
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special thanks to staff and sponsors
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urban conditions stream
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Rethinking the Campus at Australian Nuclear Science Technology Organisation
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Curiosity in the Built Form .......................................................................... 20 - 21 Erin Arthur
Discovering ANSTO ..................................................................................... 22 - 23 Lauren Bell
Synergy: Innovation + Interaction .............................................................. 24 - 25 Vaishnavi Bopiah
FleXis ............................................................................................................... 26 - 27 Esther Chong
Learning From Nature .................................................................................. 28 - 29 Jeremy Curtain
ANSTO: Science, Nature & Architecture ................................................... 30 - 31 Miriam Elia
Bridging Landscape ....................................................................................... 32 - 33 Nazia Farnaz
Living Bridge .................................................................................................. 34 - 35 Tom Hall
the living lab ................................................................................................... 36 - 37 Emma Lee
Spark: Engage + Innovate + Collaborate .................................................... 38 - 39 Yenn Yinn (Claire) Lim
ANSTO PAST and FUTURE ....................................................................... 40 - 41 Yang Liu
Rethinking the Innovation Campus ........................................................... 42 - 43 Farzan Mistry
Rethinking Learning ..................................................................................... 44 - 45 Peter Owen
COLLIDE.CONNECT. ................................................................................. 46 - 47 Victor Seit
NU-CYCLE .................................................................................................... 48 - 49 Yanman (Joyce) Tong
Collaborative Life .......................................................................................... 50 - 51 James Vongphprachanh
Learning Neighbourhood ............................................................................. 52 - 53 Stephanie Wong Han Shi
POST ARCADIA ........................................................................................... 54 - 55 Mingzhu Zhang
Undivided ....................................................................................................... 56 - 57 Amy Ying Tong Zhu
high performance Generous Skyscraper
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The ‘Green Machine’ ..................................................................................... 60 - 61 Amit Angane
‘Enterprise’ - Innovation Campus ............................................................... 62 - 63
Gaurav Bhatewara
The Healthy Skyscraper ................................................................................ 64 - 65
Claire Boland
Porocity: A Civic Vertical Campus ............................................................. 66 - 67
Frank Chin
Bridge Point .................................................................................................... 68 - 69
Brontë Doherty
Grounded Connections ................................................................................ 70 - 71
Bronson Fung
The Breathing Tower ..................................................................................... 72 - 73
Weixian (Wayne) He
The Solar ‘Grid’ .............................................................................................. 74 - 75
King Han Edward Hung
Business School in Business District (BSBD) ............................................ 76 - 77
Changdae (Mike) Kang
Creative Muscle ............................................................................................. 78 - 79
Chen Li
Transit Hub + Skyscraper ............................................................................. 80 - 81
Lin (Leo) Li
Inside Out + Outside In ................................................................................ 82 - 83
Yirong (Ronnie) Li
Suburban Utopia ............................................................................................ 84 - 85
Julian Mina
Learning @ Height ........................................................................................ 86 - 87
Charmaine Oh
Vertigrow ........................................................................................................ 88 - 89
Kallol Shah
Of Its Place ..................................................................................................... 90 - 91
Editha Supangkat
Cros-sing ........................................................................................................ 92 - 93
Wilson Tan
Balconies - The Social Connection ............................................................. 94 - 95
Cameron Thickett
The Approachable Tower .............................................................................. 96 - 97
Lia Tsatsoulis
Circulate ......................................................................................................... 98 - 99
Sadina Tursunovic
Meeting - Living On The Rise ...................................................................... 100 - 101
Selma Tursunovic
Solar Carve ..................................................................................................... 102 - 103
Porus Vakshoor
The Retention Of Goldfields House ............................................................ 104 - 105
Arya Viji
The Green Anchor ......................................................................................... 106 - 107
Vicky Hai-lan Wang
The Cycle Hub ................................................................................................ 108 - 109
Angus Whittle
social agency Resilient Neighbourhoods
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The School Of Life ......................................................................................... 112 - 113 Benjamin Allen
The Lot ............................................................................................................ 114 - 115 Chak Ming (Jaime) Au
Innocence Reborn - The Ageless Playscape ............................................... 116 - 117 Chan Li Li
Salutogensis .................................................................................................... 118 - 119 Tomohito Chung
re:habitat ......................................................................................................... 120 - 121 Hayden Co’burn
Redfern Street Social ..................................................................................... 122 - 123 Remy-georgette Crick
Redfern Art Factory ...................................................................................... 124 - 125 Chaze Weihao Ding
Welcome to Redfern - The Intergenerational Campus ............................. 126 - 127 Yanfei (Fay) Feng
Exploration Hub ............................................................................................ 128 - 129 Nee Shuang Heng
Parenting Hub ................................................................................................ 130 - 131 Tina Wai Yan Kan
Heart - A Youth Development Centre ........................................................ 132 - 133 Samina Khan
Creative Community .................................................................................... 134 - 135 Chang Liu
Recessive Corridor Of Community ............................................................ 136 - 137 Mingjia Liu
Urban Harvest ................................................................................................ 138 - 139 Sher Rin Loh
Creativity + Market ....................................................................................... 140 - 141 Yibing Meng
Aboriginal Art + Culture .............................................................................. 142 - 143 Thin Lei Nandar
Dialogue .......................................................................................................... 144 - 145 Bryan Nguyen
Refuge Of Conscience ................................................................................... 146 - 147 Johann Andre Pereira
107 Redfern .................................................................................................... 148 - 149 Na (Vanessa) Tang
Common Ground .......................................................................................... 150 - 151 Mariel Vazquez
New 107 Art Centre ...................................................................................... 152 - 153 Junyue (Archer) Xia
Redfern Open School: 2027 ......................................................................... 154 - 155 Hao Yang
Greeting Greens ............................................................................................. 156 - 157 Man Yan (Janice) Yeung
Redfern Arts Village ...................................................................................... 158 - 159 Kyar Nyo Yin
LAND107 --- An Art Centre Inspired by Nature ..................................... 160 - 161 Yuzhu (Bamboo) Zhang
housing Social City
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ParkGuy LLC .................................................................................................. 164 - 165 Erandi Amarasinghe
Social Sustainability In Focus ....................................................................... 166 - 167 Debashis Biswas
Dandelion Green ............................................................................................ 168 - 169 Minke Bu
New Ideas, Old Buildings .............................................................................. 170 - 171 Bien Castillo
Lessons Of Informality .................................................................................. 172 - 173 Yan Chao Heng
The Punchbowl To Bankstown Run ............................................................. 174 - 175 Clara Ho
For The Particularities Of Living .................................................................. 176 - 177 Lisa Ho
Smaller + Better .............................................................................................. 178 - 179 Yuxin Huang
Rethinking Density, Building Communities .............................................. 180 - 181 Stavros Kazantzidis
Amenity-driven Community ........................................................................ 182 - 183 Yaping Ke
Housing Above Market .................................................................................. 184 - 185 Mengying Li
Multi-generation Community ...................................................................... 186 - 187 Yajing Liu
Density Through Design ............................................................................... 188 - 189 James Masman
Community + Housing .................................................................................. 190 - 191 Ashraf Shamsuddin
Rehousing Courtyards ................................................................................... 192 - 193 Xavier Ooi
Rehousing Social Housing ............................................................................ 194 - 195 Hyun Min Park
Inverting The Dream ...................................................................................... 196 - 197 James Paviour
‘Design Is People’ ............................................................................................ 198 - 199 Kishore Rajasekaran
Creating Community ..................................................................................... 200 - 201 Chelsea Sheridan
Cubic+ .............................................................................................................. 202 - 203 Yiqing Xiong
The Riverfront High-rise Housing ............................................................... 204 - 205 Xue Tao
Towards A New Old Hurlstone Park ........................................................... 206 - 207 Hayden Wooldridge
Another Way - A Social, Sustainable Alternative ....................................... 208 - 209 Ruoyu Yi
Social Interaction and Lilong Housing ........................................................ 210 - 211 Zhenli Zhao
exhibition committee team
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Built environment Unsw Dean of Faculty of Built Environment
Prof. Helen Lochhead
Director of Architecture
Dr. Maryam Gusheh
Studio Convenor
Dr. Philip Oldfield
UNSW Built Environment:
Shaping Future Cities
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ongratulations to our 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 9.
collaboration. This will produce authentic, multi-layered 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 forward 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.
PROF. HELEN LOCHHEAD
Dean, UNSW Built Environment
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2017 - Masters of Architecture Graduation studio
WELCOME
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elcome to ARCH-EX 2017, a catalogue celebrating the work and achievements of the Masters of Architecture final year design-research studio at UNSW Built Environment.
Our Masters of Architecture program provides a framework where the opportunities and challenges that our cities face can be explored, debated and tested. It allows students to tailor their own education and to pursue a particular direction in architecture by aligning their studies to one of four distinctive architectural streams, outlined in the following sections of this book: urban conditions, high-performance technology, social agency and housing. The final year studio is run over two semesters. In the first, emphasis is placed on research, analysis and the precise framing of an architectural proposal. In the second focus is given to the design development of an architectural project to an ambitious level of programmatic, spatial, material, environmental and technological integration and resolution. This provides our students with a period of 9 months to think, explore, test, imagine, discuss, draw and fabricate their individual architectural interests. These qualities have resulted in a wonderful diversity of student projects that question the assumptions limiting conventional approaches, ranging from the grounded to the more speculative. But, while the focus of these projects varies in terms of typology, scale and direction, what draws them together is that they tackle the grand challenges we face in the built environment today in an innovative and stimulating way – challenges of climate change,
urbanisation, social inequality and more. Many people have played a vital role in the success you see in this book. Our students have been guided by committed and creative studio leaders in Theo Krallis, Cathy Kubany, Katarina Vrdoljak, Ivan Ip, David Sanderson, Mark Szczerbicki, Sue Wittenoom, Jon Jacka and Delia Ngay. In addition, our cohort has received guidance and input from a large slice of the local and national built environment community, with over 60 tutors and reviewers joining us from architectural practice, consultants, research institutions, developers, clients, community groups and more. The work you see in this book is indebted to their generous contributions. What’s more I’d like to say a special thank you to our Exhibition Committee; Benjamin Allen, Erin Arthur, Claire Boland, Hayden Coburn, Bronte Doherty, James Masman and Hayden Wooldridge have worked tirelessly to put together every aspect of the ARCH-EX exhibition, while simultaneously completing their studies. Finally though, I would like to offer the Faculty’s congratulations to our graduating cohort. Over the past year I have been amazed by your dedication, passion, determination and ambition in the studio. The quality of your final projects, as shown in this book, offer us a glimpse of the emerging talent that will go on to benefit our cities for years to come.
Dr. philip oldfield
course convenor, march grad studio 11.
Jess Cook 107 Projects Andrew Andersons Andrew Andersons AO Architect Graham Miller ANSTO Diana Lopez Pinto ANSTO Isabell Adam Anthony Gill Architects Michele McSharry Architectus Jane Freeman Architectus Philip Vivian Bates Smart Rob Burton Burton Architecture Daniel Cruddace BVN Architecture Valerie Lux BVN Architecture Luke Wolstencroft City of Parramatta Jesse McNicol City of Sydney Hannah Bolitho City of Sydney Felipe Miranda COX Rodrigo Uriate Design Inc Stefan Meissner Ethos Urban Jane Threlfall GANSW Alicia Pozniak GANSW Olivia Hyde GANSW Catherine Forbes GML Heritage Jeff Morgan Grimshaw David Tickle Hassell
The work produced in these pages, and the success of our students, would not be possible without the generosity, invaluable input and guidance from the following tutors and reviewerS
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WITH THANKS
Laura Harding Philip Thalis Chris Procter Lester Partridge Mehrnoush Rad Hugo Moline Sven Ollmann Ted Quinton Stephen Giblett Jessica Freeman Ben Pomeroy Peter St Clair Matthias Hollenstein Sam Rigoli Jennifer Calzini Elisabeth Peet Kate McElhone Jason Goggi Samuel Davidson Gabriel Duque Annraoi Morris James McCarthy Georgina Dougenis Aaron Hogan Amir Safaei Claire Mallin Alec Tzannes
Hill Thalis Hill Thalis JBA LCI Make Architects MAPA Martin + Ollmann MASQ Architecture Mott MacDonald Noxon Giffen Rothelowman Scott Carver Stewart Hollenstein Studio R Transport for NSW Transport for NSW Transport for NSW Turner Turner Turner Turner Turner Turner Turner Turner Turner Tzannes 13.
Mladen Prnjatovic Tzannes Michael Mossmann University of Sydney John Gamble UNSW Robert Barnstone UNSW John Carrick UNSW Anir Upadhyay UNSW Peter Murray UNSW Maryam Gusheh UNSW Paola Favaro UNSW Aysu Kuru UNSW Harry Margalit UNSW Belinda Dunstan UNSW Marjo Niemela UNSW Gabriel Norman UNSW Tim Mahlberg Dr Anshu Sharma Russell Rodrigo
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official sponsors The Graduating Cohort of 2017 would like to thank the following sponsors without whom ARCHEX would not be possible
ALLEN JACK + COTTIER ARCHITECTS
MADELEINE BLANCHFIELD ARCHITECTS
PTW ARCHITECTS
APP PROJECT MANAGEMENT
MAKE ARCHITECTS
SCOTT CARVER
ARCHITECTURAL WINDOW SYSTEMS
MELIKA ALJUKIC ARCHITECTS
TKD ARCHITECTS
Aws
Porebski Architects
TONKIN ZULAIKHA GREER
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studio leaders
Students
theo krallis cathy kubany kataria vrdoljak
Erin Arthur, Yehuda Bassin, Lauren Bell, Esther Chong, Jeremy Curtain, Miriam Elia, Nazia Farnaz, Tom Hall, Emma Lee, Yenn Yinn Lim, Yang Liu, Vaishnavi Bopiah, Farzan Mistry Peter Owen, Victor Seit, Joyce Tong, Stephanie Wong, James Vongphrachanh, Mingzhu Zhang, Amy Zhu.
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URBAN CONDITIONS STREAM
Rethinking the Campus at the Australian Nuclear Science Technology Organisation As a unique urban condition, the contemporary campus is a city in miniature with a distinctive hierarchy of buildings, spaces and landscaped settings. The character of the contemporary campus however, is not simply a function of the interplay of buildings and landscapes. As places of learning and research, they are also settings where people and activity are critical to a sense of place and community. Places of higher education aspire to an intellectual mission unique in architectural production. From the establishment of medieval universities whose physical form was shaped by the growth of urban centres, to the arcadian colleges of Jeffersonian America, to the modernist democratisation of higher education, the campus can be understood as a civic art form, an architecture of ideology. In the contemporary context, new kinds of spaces are emerging in our 21st century campuses, hybrid places of stimulation and encounter that reflect new ways of learning, new technologies and new relationships with academia, government and industry. This studio interrogates new ways of understanding and speculating on the campus typology as a distinct urban condition through the research and design of a nuclear science and technology innovation hub located as part of the campus of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) at Lucas Heights, a southern suburb of Sydney. This unique environment will allow integrated learning, collaborative research, student placement and technology incubation to flourish. 19.
Image opposite - Ground Floor Plan Image above - Site Section Image below - Site Plan and Section
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S ON ITI ND CO N BA UR erin arthur Email: erin.arthur.93@gmail.com
Phone: +61 402 444 072
‘curiosity in the built form’ How can embedding curiosity into the built form enhance scientific inquiry and the pursuit of knowledge?
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uriosity in the Built Form is a design for a new Graduate Institute and Discovery Centre (information centre) at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation campus in Lucas Heights Sydney. Curiosity was chosen as the focal point of this project due to its strong relationship with knowledge and learning - which forms the fundamental core of ANSTO’s practice. It provided an alluring challenge for the project paired with the enigma of making an inherently intangible concept tangible. The pursuit of understanding and implementing curiosity for this project was twofold and based on the concept of curiosity being a process that begins with a ‘spark’, and is followed by a ‘pursuit’. This was implemented by firstly considering the ‘Spark’ to be the Macro scale, which was a necessity when considering the obscure nature of the bushland facility. The building was envisioned as creating an interruption in the landscape to draw attention, primarily through its harsh concrete exterior and bridging element. However, it also aimed to use the natural setting to further enhance its sense of intrigue by using landscaping as an ephemeral facade to the building, opening up and removing sightlines to bypassers over the seasons, in turn creating new bursts of interest about the building. After enticing people into the site, the ‘pursuit’ aspect of the project aims to create learning spaces that emboldens innovation and pursuits of knowledge by providing a modern pedagogy paired with an embedded sense of curiosity within the internal spaces.
Image opposite - Masterplan Perspective Image above - First Floor Plan Image below - Internal Collaboration Space
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S ON ITI ND CO N BA UR lauren bell Email: laurenbell.arc@gmail.com
Phone: +61 401 530 857
Discovering ANSTO How can the structure of the surrounding bushland foster ANSTO’s values and become a stimulus for innovation?
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ince the 19th century we have built our business and education models around a linear production system. This well-manicured and orderly system can be compared to a plantation where new ideas are like weeds and are often rejected. As Australia moves into the direction of innovation, we need environments which promote creativity and chaos, comparable to a bushland ecosystem. ‘Discovering ANSTO’ seeks to encourage collaboration and promote the future of innovative scientific research. Located within a bushland setting, the project connects the surrounding natural and historical systems to the future of nuclear research, both physically and through its multilayered experience. The central spine weaves together the built form, public spaces and pedestrian networks to create an interactive spine of various activities and experiences. A graduate campus and an innovation incubator have been proposed which are intertwined within one built form, creating a highly innovative and collaborative environment. Suspended over Illawarra Road, this building connects the existing and proposed campuses and becomes the first point of contact for visitors to the site. The entrance to the building from the southern site has been designed as a journey that not only connects staff and students but also connects natural setting to the technological essence of ANSTO. As one walks over the landscaped bridge like form, they witness the two intersecting forms of both nature and technology.
Image opposite - Design Illustration Image above - Longitudinal Complex Section Image below - Ground Floor Plan
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S ON ITI ND CO N BA UR vaishnavi bopiah Email: bopiah.vaishnavi@gmail.com
Phone: +61 406 353 340
Synergy: Innovation + Interaction How can the creation of an innovative campus allow the public to interactively engage with the process of scientific research?
‘science is the icing and architecture is the fundamental base’
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synergistic complex is one in which learning, interaction and innovation exist and function, simultaneously and symbiotically. The complex will foster a sense of curiosity, amusement and learning, with a life cycle of its own. This project is an exploration of the interrelation between science and architecture – of how science translates spatially to embody synergy on site. The design presents a new vision for ANSTO’s reactor zone. Housed opposite the OPAL reactor, the ‘RE-ACTOR’ complex is designed to accommodate an experimentarium, research labs and incubators. The concept of the design is based on the working of a nuclear powerplant and the adaptive reuse of the footprint of the old HIFAR reactor. The design offers a cycle of interactive learning with the experimentarium imitating the old reactor and becoming the main public zone; the research labs oriented to the OPAL reactor and an infinite platform leading to the incubators nested in the contoured bushland of the Lucas Heights campus.
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Image opposite - Northern Perspective Image above - Evening Eastern Perspective Image below - Northern Perspective 2
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S ON ITI ND CO N BA UR esther chong Email: esther.ccm@gmail.com
Phone: +61 450 220 112
FleXIS How can flexibility be a catalyst for ANSTO’s vision of an innovative campus?
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s global challenges such as urbanisation and climate change continue to influence the decisions we make about the built environment, it is essential that educational buildings also remain resilient to the demands of research and innovation. To cope with a growing population and the unforeseen future, a campus should be designed to respond and adapt. FleXis is envisioned as a Nuclear Science and Research Institute for the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) and seeks to assert flexibility as a generative concept through a series of hybrid modules. The key to FleXis is its systems-thinking and holistic approach to the land, building and people. The extending water façade and terraced landscape provide a series of contemplative and regenerative outdoor spaces while the building incorporates an assortment of modules designed to create a playful and interactive environment filled with informal learning and breakout spaces. Graduates are also given a plethora of flexible learning platforms such as writable walls and glass panels for ideation, research and innovation. A campus’ ability to be improvised on a large and small scale will become a dynamic impulse for innovation and collaboration, fulfilling ANSTO’s vision for excellence in innovation, insight and discovery through people, partnerships, nuclear expertise and landmarks. 27.
Image opposite - Northern Entrance View Image above - Masterplan Axonometric Image below - Exploded Structural Axonometric
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S ON ITI ND CO N BA UR Jeremy Curtain Email: jeremycurtain@gmail.com
Phone: +61 438 425 408
learning from nature How can the typologies of a scientific research campus be influenced by the concept of biomimetics?
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he Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) aims to redevelop and enhance its existing campus at Lucas Heights for future scientific and public use. Being an urban campus in a dense bush setting, it’s hard to look past the influence of the surrounding natural environment. While simply copying nature can sometimes be useful, it is through creative abstraction of nature that leads to innovative problem-solving solutions. Put simply, biomimetics is the science of learning from nature. This project is focused around exploring the concept of biomimetics in architecture, mixing art, science and nature to develop tangible and intangible abstractions of nature and innovative scientific solutions. The design creates a hybrid building for the graduate campus and innovation hub in which art and science collide. The building is conceived as an extension of the proposed masterplan and establishes the bridging of New Illawarra Road and the linking of the existing and future campus. The building form of the habitable bridge weaves across the site following the contours and hugging key micro environments, creating a direct connection to nature. A series of lanterns extend into the bush with urban windows bringing nature into the research labs.
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S ON ITI ND CO N BA UR miriam elia Email: miriamelia3@gmail.com
Phone: +61 431 581 595
ANSTO: Science, Nature & Architecture How can ANSTO’s context and natural environment inform collaboration and innovation through the built environment?
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NSTO aims to become one of Sydney’s leading organisations in scientific research and innovation. An innovation and research precinct is proposed, focusing on the graduate research building. The site is large and widespread and the future development area separated from the existing site by New Illawarra Road, one of the main challenges for this project. The surrounding natural bushland and waterways serve as the main themes. The planning integrates notions of collaboration and connectivity, inspiring new modes of learning, along with the themes of nature to unify the site. An urban walkway is proposed to connect the key parts of the site, such as the old and new nuclear reactors, the existing village and the proposed development which bridges across New Illawarra Road, connecting the separated areas. The proposed research building incorporates the bridged portion of the walkway. The building is a series of rectangular blocks that are connected by juxtaposing lightweight structures. The blocks, staggered in plan and variable in height, create interesting moments of physical and visual connectivity amongst the numerous spaces and utilise the surrounding bushland and themes of nature to create interesting views and experiences, such as the flooded plains. The series of blocks are connected via a single proposed ‘corridor’ that functions as a large informal learning, gathering and circulation space and includes key features of the design, such as the atrium, exhibition space, outdoor amphitheatre and lookout.
Image opposite - Southern View Towards Research Building Image above - Contextual Plan Image below - Interior Connected Collaboration Space
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S ON ITI ND CO N BA UR nazia farnaz Email: sriya.farnaz@gmail.com
Phone: +61 426 575 426
Bridging Landscape How can the site’s unique characteristics be a catalysis in creating a sustainable sticky campus?
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he Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation (ANSTO) is located at Lucas Heights which is an isolated site surrounded by bushland. The topography dominates the site. ANSTO wants to expand the campus to a world class research centre and proposed an innovation hub. Sustainability is the largest research industry sector of ANSTO. We are in the early stages of the sixth mega extinction, plunging declines in biodiversity and a rapidly destabilising climatic circulation. Research into sustainability can eventually change the world. Technology changed our traditional education system. From the survey it was shown that most of the potential learning came from informal learning space. The new innovative 21st century campus is called ‘Sticky Campus’ which is a vibrant campus where students meet their friends, collaborate and share ideas. This project aims to design the ANSTO world class sustainable research centre employing the ‘sticky campus’ concept and considering the site topography and use it to design a water sensitive urban landscape with attractive urban spaces. An innovative adaptive solar facade strategy is designed in the east and west facade of the research centre which will make this building energy efficient. The internal atrium area has some unique collaboration spaces where students and professionals can meet and share their knowledge. 33.
Image opposite - Sectional Perspective Image above - View of Southern Facade Image below - Interior View
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S ON ITI ND CO N BA UR TOM HALL Email: tom.hall@uon.edu.au
Phone: +61 481 769 356
Living Bridge How can the habitable bridge be reinterpreted for the 21st century?
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abitable bridges have been central features of major cities around the world, yet their popularity has declined significantly from the 18th century to today. As a result, very few of these unique structures remain. However, with rapid urbanisation, an obligation to better utilise space and an emphasis on hybrid functions, the idea of the habitable bridge has been rekindled. Space is connected above, below and around a bridge. They can be traversed in numerous directions. Bridges allow people to head into new territory, and inversely they bring people together. Creating a bridge by raising the major roadway that bisects the ANSTO site opens up new territory to the north and allows free movement through the site. With this, the bridge becomes a beacon that announces your arrival to the campus with views across the site and surrounding native bushland. Additionally, as a living bridge, it provides habitable spaces at this focal point of the site. As development moves to the north, this living bridge becomes a gateway between the new and the old campus.
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Image opposite - Exterior View Image above - Masterplan Diagram Image below - Perspective Section
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S ON ITI ND CO N BA UR EMMA LEE Email: emmalee910@hotmail.com
Phone: +61 451 090 910
the living lab How can the surrounding environment foster a sustainable innovative architecture?
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he two most significant ‘grand challenges’ we are facing today are urbanisation and global population growth. Projections show that urbanisation combined with overall growth of the world’s population could add another 2.5 billion people to urban populations by 2050. I believe that the way we design our environment sends strong messages to the people surrounding us; it influences the people that we value and educates the next generation of the world. This project aims to address the unique bushland setting of the site, rejecting how the existing campus was designed without consideration of its land and surroundings. At the same time, it proposes a new kind of campus for the emerging 21st century, a hybrid hub that promotes sustainability and allows interactive learning and collaboration while appreciating the beautiful and unique Australian bushland. The ‘Living Lab’ is a celebration of nature.
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Image opposite - Internal Perspective of Bridge across New Illawarra Road Image above - Context Plan Image below - Internal Perspective of Entrance Ramp and Incubator
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S ON ITI ND CO N BA UR YENN YINN (CLAIRE) LIM Email: yennyinn.lim@gmail.com
Phone: +61 411 644 092
Spark: Engage + Innovate + Collaborate How can we rethink innovative spaces for public engagement in science, education and culture?
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he Greater Sydney Commission has identified ANSTO Technology Park as a key project in its South District Draft Plan, being a national contribution to the manufacture of medical resources across Australia and overseas export. This project aims to address ANSTO’s unique role in national nuclear research, situated at the aboriginal heritage site, by creating an innovative learning hub. This high tech collaborative facility will bring together scientific partners, businesses, researchers and students to embrace world class expertise in teaching, learning and research. The design presents the Graduate Research Institute at the site frontage, with an internal street that connects and bridges across New Illawarra Road to the Aboriginal Discovery Centre. The existing heritage lecture hall and staff canteen connection is established via a pedestrian footpath, in which proposed future accommodation and outdoor informal learning spaces are incorporated. Learning and working spaces are arranged in clusters with amenities in the middle that encourage collision, ie. communal spaces and print zones. The ground floor SuperLab with the concept of transparency allows the public to understand ANSTO’s research. In terms of sustainability, vertical climatic facades made of recycled timber will be paired with double facade trombe wall system, to allow better passive ventilation and energy efficiency. 39.
Image opposite - View of the Northern Side Image above - View of Wisteria Pergola Image below - View of Internal Activity Space
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S ON ITI ND CO N BA UR yang liu Email: allex.liu@hotmail.com
Phone: +61 452 538 199
ANSTO PAST and FUTURE How can a focus on ANSTO’s heritage site provide a catalyst for the design of a contemporary research campus?
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o accommodate a contemporary collaborative innovation campus with significant historical value, we need to recall the past and deliver this value to the future. One solution is draw the heritage buildings together with the new innovation building. This project aims to address issues with the unconnected system in Lucas Heights’ campus by proposing a new method of strengthening the relationship between the past and the future. The concept focuses on the overarching question of the emphasis of the heritage buildings and the connection to the two key areas consisting of the new heritage site and the existing nuclear precinct. Within the new heritage site, the lower ground pedestrian path provides an opportunity to connect with the natural surroundings. Specifically, the building provides a three-storey high internal collaborate space for multi-functional use by students.
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Image opposite - View of Collaboration Pods and Stepped Landscape Image above - Model through Entrance Lobby Image below - Detailed Section through Collaboration Pods
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S ON ITI ND CO N BA UR FARZAN MISTRY Email: farzanmistry@gmail.com
Phone: +61 406 694 806
Rethinking the Innovation Campus How can the natural setting bring to life ANSTO’s vision of accessibility and collaboration?
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he project outlines an approach to reconfigure ANSTO’s campus design and provide a visionary scheme that integrates and enhances the existing urban setting with the new one. As the site is in a bushland, it is isolated and away from the public eye. Moreover, the isolation only adds to the stigma that goes with a nuclear site. The focus is to remove this cloud of mystery and paranoia that is associated with a nuclear site and make ANSTO accessible to the public. The project strives to celebrate the natural setting and use it in favour of ANSTO to develop an environment that promotes public accessibility and collaboration. The Innovation campus design has been developed to accommodate flexibility and collaboration between students, professionals, scientists and researchers. With the current trend in campus design, it is essential to create an environment that fosters learning and helps in developing business and startups for young professionals. To create this environment, the innovation campus has been designed as a hybrid of a Graduation Institute and an Innovation Incubator. This kind of program would help in creating synergy between researchers, students and industry professionals integrating research, learning and practice into one.
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Image opposite - Building Entrance View Image above - Site Masterplan Axonometric Image below - Interior Learning Space
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S ON ITI ND CO N BA UR PETER OWEN Email: peterowen.arc@gmail.com
Phone: +61 400 463 645
Rethinking Learning How can ANSTO create a 22nd-century campus to enable students for the future?
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ith university student numbers constantly on the rise, what role does the physical campus experience provide in an age of on-screen learning? For universities, the investment in our campuses reflects more than just its capacity to create more physical space and rooms to accommodate for student growth. In the age of sports, music and academic education systems, a genuine attempt to create pathways for predicted future job markets and opportunities in science and technology has been underutilised to create a new paradigm of contemporary science based education. As a result, Australia’s brightest students in these field have been forced to move overseas to pursue their endeavours through international precedents whom place a higher social value on their investments, student growth and educational facilities. While students are currently spending less time on campus in this age of independent technology based learning, the pursuit for knowledge provides ever increasing opportunities to prepare students for the possibilities these pathways hold. Instead of continuing our emphasis on literacy and numeracy, educational facilities should be looking forward to create new pathways to broaden spectrums through STEAM based learning networks to enable students for future job market opportunities. 45.
Image opposite - Eastern Elevation Image above - Atrium Perspective Image below - Perspective of Northern Entrance
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S ON ITI ND CO N BA UR VICTOR SEIT Email: victorseitzg@hotmail.com
Phone: +61 468 552 068
COLLIDE.CONNECT. How can the ideas of collision and connectivity be embodied in an innovation campus?
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s a subset of the urban landscape, the traditional academic campus can be compared to a scaled down version of the city. Comprising of a plethora of buildings, landscaping and open spaces, it is vital that the architecture of the campus aspires to cultivate knowledge and encourage learning while establishing a sense of place and community in the urban city. This project aspires to create an architecture that encourages new methods of learning, embracing new technologies and fostering partnerships within the academia, government and industry. The proposed graduate campus aims to foster the collision of ideas while connecting multidisciplinary backgrounds through the collaboration and incubation of ideas. A strong emphasis on the site context plays a significant role in the building’s structure, façade and program. The bridge linking across New and Old Illawarra Roads recognises the Aboriginal heritage of the land by connecting the main campus to the Aboriginal trails. Essence of the surrounding bushland is taken into the proposed graduate institute through the façade and atrium structure, resembling the filtering of sunlight through a bushland and under a tree canopy while providing shade and daylight control to interior spaces. Together with a discovery centre, the proposed design aims to connect the general public, the global scientific community, local indigenous cultures into an integrated neighbourhood. 47.
Image opposite - Journey to the Building Image above - Landscape Bounded by Building Image below - Ground Floor Contextual Plan
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S ON ITI ND CO N BA UR YANMAN (JOYCE) TONG Email: joyceymtong@gmail.com
Phone: +61 424 187 197
NU-CYCLE How can a public engaging campus reduce the stigma of nuclear science and catalyst innovation?
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urrently, limited information regarding nuclear science development is released to the general public. This can cause public misunderstanding about the purpose and benefits of nuclear science. The project aims to encourage the public to take the initiative to discover and learn more about nuclear technology. A bike system is incorporated into the site to convert the existing campus into a bike park. It does not just act as a device to attract the public but also improves access and circulation around the site. It connects and goes into several key research buildings, providing an opportunity for the public to explore the site. At the same time, it aids cross-disciplinary collaboration among staff. All levels in the proposed Business Incubator + Graduate Institute have direct access to the bike system. The ramps in the building form a loop and link all the key facilities and thus they guide visitors to discover different research spaces in the building.
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Image opposite - External View of Science Centre Image above - Ground Floor Plan Image below - Detailed Section of Science Centre
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S ON ITI ND CO N BA UR james vongphrachanh Email: james.vongphrachanh@live.com
Phone: +61 409 535 205
Collaborative Life How can the integration of living, learning and working be a model for a sustained innovative campus?
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he idea of integration allows for innovation. It allows for architects and designers to collaborate with other professionals to create, experiment and express their visions in built form. Blurring the lines between living, learning and working creates opportunities for communities to emerge which expands the learning and social benefits of a residential campus as a single idea. The blending of learning, living and working allows for the faculty and students to reside together and contributes to breaking down barriers. Universities across the globe are launching ambitious, long-term programs that include establishing innovative state of the art academic buildings to attract students. Resort architecture is an idea that can be used as an asset. Bringing this attractive idea into a campus results in more students, researchers and visitors. The nodes on the site are the main principles for ANSTO’S new masterplan. These nodes act as collaboration points within a network. The focused site, one of the nodes, is located on the corner of Illawarra Road and the entry driveway into ANSTO. This allows for maximum visibility for potential visitors. The proposed Science Centre is placed to the south following the shape of the contour. The building connects to the proposed elevated walkway and bridges across Illawarra Road to link the new luxury accommodation spaces. Each of the accommodation boxes are either cantilevered, embedded or sitting above the landscape. 51.
Image opposite - Overall Perspective View of the Building Image above - Lower Ground Courtyard Perspective View Image middle - Elevation showing Interaction and Connectivity Inside and Out Image below - Section showing Interaction and Connectivity Inside and 52. Out
S ON ITI ND CO N BA UR stephanie wong han shi Email: stephaniewong.0138@gmail.com
Phone: +61 418 811 357
Learning Neighbourhood How can a focus on the development of a unique learning landscape create a flexible innovation campus?
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o design an innovation campus on a unique landscape requires understanding based on data and analysis of various responses and site conditions. In a large context like ANSTO various constraints and restrictions relating to a nuclear site need to be taken into consideration. This project aims to overcome these challenges and celebrate each node by creating more attractive urban features and spaces for knowledge sharing among science experts, graduates and the public. This design presents a graduate school and research lab acting as a gateway to the science precinct. A five-storey, science-based facility and an industry research workspace aim to create interesting indoor and outdoor collaboration spaces. The cascading approach is derived from the existing landscape. Environmentally, adaptive horizontal photovoltaic louvres provide daylight shading and would take advantage of a north facing faรงade to provide self-generated energy for the building.
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Graduate Institute Innovation Incubator 2 Innovation Incubator 1
Recycling Building
collaborative Space
Mixed Use Building Mixed use meeting Space Gym /sports center
Nodes: Discovery Park
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new illawarra Road
New Illawarra Road Innovation Incubator Zone paths little forest Road
paths Car Lane
Collaborative Paths Car Lane
Image opposite - Birds Eye View of the Building Image above - Masterplan Diagram Image below - Sectional Perspective
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S ON ITI ND CO N BA UR mingzhu zhang
POST ARCADIA How can the secluded bushland setting foster collaboration?
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ollaborative research is a highly efficient working model widely used by scientists and business people. It requires various physical and mental engagements and is impacted by spatial and environmental conditions. ANSTO’s existing site is surrounded by bushland, which places significant restrictions on its future development. To address the bushland development issue, this project is focused on making space in the bushland setting to increase public engagement. One solution is to move the main road along the boundary of the bushland. This circle loop is for car use only from the entrance zone, which is a graduate institute, to the village, then to the east research zone and storage zone and finally to the reactor zone. A second solution is to create a dynamic bushland walking path with informal collaborative spaces to increase public engagement. A third solution is to move the proposed main building into the bushland setting, such as the graduate institute and innovation incubator. For the graduate institute, the interior space contains few walls or partitions to achieve an ‘integrated collaborative space’. All western, eastern and northern facades are glazed with shading louvres to provide a view of the bush landscape.
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Image opposite - Sectional Model of Innovation Incubator Image above - Bridge Floor Plan Image below - Detail of Bridge
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S ON ITI ND CO N BA UR amy ying tong zhu Email: amiarchitecture@icloud.com
Phone: +61 459 983 366
Undivided How can symbiotic spaces of living and working create new experiences for research and experimentation?
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raditionally, scientific spaces are structured in such a way that isolates them from other activities for safety reasons. With the rise in the popularity of ‘sticky campuses’ I have become interested in how the barriers of scientific spaces can be dissolved and rethought to create a more cohesive science-based campus. Drawing inspiration from a simple plant system, a sequence of elements expressed as the root, stem and leaves are interpreted as a symbiotic system. The proposed Innovation Centre could be seen as a metaphor of a vessel that is supportive of all the working and living functions through its system where the roots, stem, and leaves are the laboratory, fusion hall and residential/library/common spaces respectively. By connecting these three realms to nature via a bridge link (ie fusion hall), intersections are formed which allow these ‘corridors of retreat’ to bring together once non-associated spaces in a bushland setting. By imagining how spaces could be rethought and converge to support both living and working activities, the spaces of a campus change dramatically as different people form creative exchanges and new experiences through mutual activities both shared and enjoyed by members and visitors to ANSTO. 57.
studio leaders
Students
Ivan Ip Dr. Philip Oldfield
Amit Angane, Gaurav Jitendra Bhateware, Claire Boland, Li Chen, Frank Chin, BrontĂŤ Doherty, Bronson Fung, Sophie Gallop, Weixian (Wayne) He, King Han Edward Hung, Chang Dae (Mike) Kang, Leo Li, Yirong (Ronnie) Li, Julian Mina, Charmaine Jia Ying Oh, Kallol Balmukund Shah, Editha Supangkat, Wilson Tan, Cameron Thickett, Lia Tsatsoulis, Sadina Tursunovic, Selma Tursunovic, Porus Vakshoor, Arya Viji, Vicky Hai LanWang, Angus Whittle.
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HIGH PERFORMANCE STREAM Generous Skyscraper Can the skyscraper provide a solution to the global challenges of urbanisation and climate change, creating high-densities with access to public transit, and limiting the suburban spread of the city? Many people would argue not, instead suggesting that building tall is inherently selfish, taking away sun and light from the city and creating gated communities for the rich in the sky. ‘Bigger’, and especially ‘taller’, has become synonymous with ‘worse’, both in terms of environmental and social performance. But does this have to be the case? Can bigger be ‘okay’, or even ‘better’? Can we create skyscrapers that are generous – to the environment, but also to the city and its people? Internationally, tall building design has been dominated by weird and wonderful skyscraper shapes designed to ‘stand-out’ and be ‘iconic’, or mono-functional boxes, both often totally reliant on air-conditioning and clad in continuous curtain-walling, regardless of orientation or sunpath. The outcome is a generation of buildings that are failing to respond to the climate, culture and context of the city they are built within. But the tall building can, and should, offer so much more. This studio explores the research and design of high-rise architecture on sites at Circular Quay, Sydney – perhaps the city’s most prominent public space. It asks students to develop high-rise architecture informed by society and ecology, not just economy. In terms of programme, emphasis is placed on hybrid functions, and innovative ways of stacking and combining activities, along with creating vertical architecture that responds to the unique climate, culture and context of Sydney.
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Image opposite - Masterplan Isometric View Image above left - The Green Machine Scheme Render Image above right - Village Block Isometric Section
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E NC MA OR RF PE GH HI amit angane Email: angane.amit@gmail.com
Phone: +61 434 680 801
the ‘green machine’ How can we foster urban greenery into commercial high-rise buildings?
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ydney can hardly be considered a ‘green’ city. On a global scale, Sydney has far less green space per resident (18.3m²) than say London (27m²), Singapore (66m²), or Vienna (120m²). Yet, green spaces are the lungs of the city; they clean the air, provide opportunities for escapism from the intensity of the CBD and space for exercise, contemplation and conversation. Yet, as Sydney grows increasing tall, will our connection with these vital spaces be lost? How can we lift greenery into the sky, into our high-rise architecture? This project seeks to answer these questions, both urbanistically, and architecturally. The first move was to close the Cahill Expressway, and renovate this space as a raised urban park for the city, creating a biodiverse connection from the Botanic Gardens in the east to First Fleet Park in the west. A new office tower is proposed, set back from Alfred Street, which takes this horizontal green link and draws it into the sky through green atria, planted balconies, green walls and more. Imagine being stressed by sitting at your office desk for a prolonged duration, but having the opportunity to take meetings, lunches and breaks in gardens with plants and flowers. This design will restore mental health and refresh the mind, improving both the well-being and productivity of occupants.
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Image opposite - Make Floor Perspective Image above - View from AMP Plaza Image below - Sectional Model
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E NC MA OR RF PE GH HI gaurav bhatewara Email: gaurav.bhatewara@gmail.com
Phone: +61 405 341 312
‘enterprise’ - innovation campus How can we foster a sense of community in a Co-working and Co-living high-rise typology?
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he way people work has shifted; the modern-day worker wants a space that is not just flexible, creative and collaborative, but also simple and affordable. Office space has evolved, and so has the culture of working in offices. The traditional notions of ‘private’ and ‘public’ space is eroding under the influence of a sharing economy and technological advancement. This has led to the rise of co-working and co-living spaces. The vision of my project builds on these ideas, and aims to foster collaborations between entrepreneurs, corporations and the city for the enrichment of the broader community and to create a place to experiment and share ideas. I propose a program that inspires creativity, innovation and experimentation, spaces where occupants can develop new products and ventures in laboratories, incubation or businessbeta spaces, programming suites and workshops. The design consists of a split floorplate, with cores and structure pushed to the perimeter. A mix of office and light industrial spaces are provided on floors, with multiple atria creating opportunities for visual connectivity, chance encounter and interaction. At the ground level an innovation arcade is carved through the building, providing a stepped space for public access to workshops, retail and exhibition.
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Image bottom, right - Internal Perspective Public Swimming Pool
Image opposite - Perspective View from Circular Quay Image top - Perspective View from Circular Quay Image bottom, left - Internal Perspective of the Vertical Activity Space Image bottom, middle - The Vertical Sydney Circuit
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E NC MA OR RF PE GH HI claire boland Email: clairejboland@gmail.com
Phone: +61 406 187 027
The healthy skyscraper How can the built environment of Circular Quay be improved to have a positive effect on occupant and public health and well-being?
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reen building standards are now widely recognised within the architectural community but need enhancing to incorporate human health and well-being. This project explores how building technology and human activity and/or sport can be integrated into high rise architecture to improve occupant and public health and well-being. Australia has a global reputation of a country with a healthy lifestyle, but how healthy are we in reality? This project seeks to address the issue of lifestyles in Australia. The proposal consists of a 5 level sports building along George Street and a 42 level / 174m tower set back from Alfred and George streets with various sporting facilities within. The Healthy Skyscraper encourages a healthy lifestyle from Circular Quay through to the tip of the tower. The masterplan begins from a far with fitness nodes located along the harbour edge. The Healthy Skyscraper is a commercial tower encouraging healthy lifestyles into the everyday. The design proposed here integrates healthy spaces throughout the height of the tower to motivate or guilt occupants into participation. This exploration of integrating health and sport into a skyscraper has shed light on an issue we have started to understand in Architecture. Through the use of healthy design principles, efficient building technologies and designing with the occupant in mind, a healthier skyscraper is possible. 65.
Image opposite - Internal Perspective: Reading Room Image above left - Sectional Perspective Image above right - Perspective from Alfred Street
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E NC MA OR RF PE GH HI frank chin Email: f.chin@outlook.com
Phone: +61 433 049 680
Porocity: A Civic Vertical Campus How can education stay and thrive within the hyper-dense city?
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ver time, the functions of educational buildings have evolved from being primarily concerned with formal teaching to accommodating a variety of public and private places within “miniature cities�. However, in Sydney, many education institutes sit well beyond the urban fringe, making them less accessible to the overall general population. As the school-age population continues to grow and land scarcity begins to become a major issue, a new building typology is required to replace the horizontally orientated education campus of the 20th century. As such, I propose a new vertical civic university to generate a new relationship between the city and education, where physical, social, economic and cultural generosity can flourish. The masterplan seeks to strengthen the Sydney 2030 strategy, providing a new cultural hub as an extension to the Cultural Ribbon of Circular Quay, providing a new dimension to the otherwise heavily commercial precinct of the CBD. The design consists of a timber diagrid structure, with steel nodes, supporting a series of structural floors. Hung from these are learning landscapes of spaces and places; workshops, theatres, libraries, classrooms and student housing. Atria and voids throughout provide visual connectivity, and opportunities for students and the public to interact, meet and engage. 67.
Image opposite - Perspective of Podium Entry from Pitt Street Image top, left - Interior Office Atrium Perspective Image top, right - Sectional Perspective, Highlighting Materiality and Structure Image middle -Northern Perspective
Image bottom - Long Site Section
E NC MA OR RF PE GH HI brontË doherty Email: brontegdoherty@gmail.com
Phone: +61 478 647 242
bridge point How do generous civic realms at ground activate dense cities?
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s the world becomes denser, and cities ever more vertically inclined, it is crucial not to ignore what happens at the ground in high-rise architecture. Bridge Point is the outcome of a long thematic and contextual exploration and understanding of Hong Kong as a case study, in comparison to Sydney. This resulted in a desire to emphasise and democratise the civic realm in the design, through architecture, program and materials. The design focuses on the ground floor interface of the site, exploring the importance of human scale and tactile materials. Vegetation, pedestrian walk ways, over-looking terraces, open shop fronts, bars and restaurants, are just a few of the implementations that ensure the ground floor is activated. The masterplan is broken down into four different ‘nodes’ on site. These house a range of programs to ensure individuals are engaged and present. Tectonically, Bridge Point plays on ideas around Brutalism, focusing on the richness, permanence and honesty of concrete, expressing the buildings’ structure and construction, but also providing thermal mass for passive cooling. Overall, it is a project concerned with social sustainability, from the bottom up.
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weathered steel cladding substructure thermal insulation
double glazing (6 + 6 + 4mm) thermally broken aluminium frame
60mm granite stone panels steel channel substructure thermal insulation
60mm sandstone panels substructure thermal insulation air gap acoustic insulation plasterboard finish
60mm sandstone panels substructure t-profile steel columns with cempanel in-between
planting soil filter fabric irrigation system drainage deck waterproof membrane thermal insulation reinforced concrete floor slab
granite stone floor panels terrace pedestals waterproof layer thermal insulation with inclination reinforced concrete floor slab
THEATRE NIGHT DAY
DANCE CERAMICS
CONCERT
TV STUDIO FILM
SCULPTURE
Image opposite - Sectional Perspective Facing East Image above - Sectional Perspective Through Urban Trail Image below - Diagram of Building Programme
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E NC MA OR RF PE GH HI bronson fung Email: bronson.fung@gmail.com
Phone: +61 474 832 086
grounded connections How can we make a vibrant multi-level city?
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o tackle the issue of growing urban density, we often turn to high-rise architecture. Yet typical skyscrapers act as mono-functional pins in the city fabric, isolating their occupants, and doing little to add vibrancy and activity to the textures of urban life. This project aims to overcome this limitation by considering a group of skyscrapers as an opportunity for a socially-generous multi-level city to return public space to the urban realm – at both ground and height – and to challenge the architectural typologies of the past. This design presents a new vision for a city block in Sydney’s Circular Quay: a vertical cultural centre spans across the towers at lower-levels, linking a number of courtyards and skygardens, accessed via an undulating ‘public trail’ that brings visitors up and through the building. This trail is inspired by the Sydney beachside walks along our coast. Throughout these trails, a number of typically back-of-house programmes are situated – including rehearsal rooms, practice spaces, back of stage and more. Here the wandering tourist, nearby office worker, or cultural buff can peek into traditionally hidden spaces in the city, transforming an urban block into a series of connected ground planes for the public to enjoy.
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Image opposite - View from Gallery Image above - View from Central Atrium Image below left - Photograph of Detail Model: Side View Image below right - Photograph of Model: View from George Street
E NC MA OR RF PE GH HI Weixian (wayne) he Email: wayne.ho412@gmail.com
Phone: +61 434 701 790
the breathing tower Can biomimicry inform sustainable high-rise designs?
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tudies around the world have shown that urban areas are between 2 and 12°C hotter than rural areas. This provides many challenges to city buildings; increasing the energy needed for cooling, creating thermal discomfort and exacerbating health issues. To overcome this global challenge, I’ve taken inspiration from the termite mound – a structure which uses a mix of opacity and porosity to provide thermal comfort and free cooling in its interior spaces. In response, my tower design consists of a concrete exo-skeleton, positioned outside the building’s thermal perimeter. This not only provides the building’s lateral stability, but shades the interior; the size of the openings within the concrete are optimised in response to sunpath, but also to maximise key views, and provide dramatic openings at ground. The floor plate itself is split with a full-height central atrium rising in middle. This utilises the stack effect to help drive natural ventilation through the spaces, reducing the need for artificial cooling. Exposed concrete soffits act as thermal mass, absorbing excess heat from occupants and machinery during the day, which is ventilated away at night. At ground level, an organic concrete gallery provides a sense of drama and shade for the city.
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Image opposite - Public Square Perspective Image above Left - Longitudinal Section Image above right - Sectional Perspective
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E NC MA OR RF PE GH HI king han edward hung Email: edwardkhhung@gmail.com
Phone: +61 405 929 992
the solar ‘grid’ How can we design an Australian high-rise cluster that is shaped by the sun?
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ith the ever-growing demand for more housing in our large urban centers there is an inevitable need to develop new homes for people and families which will reach for the sky. Historically, the typical high-rise has been designed with little or no concern for its carbon emissions, or its long-term impact on the environment. In Australia, this is particularly true when we speak of buildings which could harness the Sun’s energy to power, heat and cool spaces. On average, Australia has more solar coverage per square metre than almost any other continent in the world. Through analysis and careful design research, my thesis focuses on the opportunity to make our residential buildings greener, more comfortable and visually stimulating by harnessing the power of the sun. The design presents a new vision for Circular Quay: two elegant residential towers are orientated north, towards Sydney Harbour, with a solar façade which stitches thousands of photovoltaic collectors together into a single skin to power the building. This consists of louvres, with each tilted to maximize the power generated from the sun. The skin also acts as a buffer space to the apartments which sit behind, providing shade in the summer, but being able to capture solar energy for passive heating in the winter.
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Image opposite - Isometric View Image above - North South Section Image below - Ground Podium Perspective Image below, right - Physical Model
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E NC MA OR RF PE GH HI changdae (mike) kang Email: xcdk12@gmail.com
Phone: +61 450 368 425
Business School in Business District (bsbd) How can we foster contemporary, healthy business spaces and educational facilities in the hyper-dense urban environment?
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n the era of urbanisation and globalisation, the rapid flow of information and knowledge impacts how we perceive learning. Ongoing professional development through education is now a common fact of life for many professionals wanting to climb the corporate ladder in an increasingly uncertain and competitive environment where the demands of the work place are in a state of constant flux. This project re-thinks the traditional campus typology, which is typically a horizontal distribution of programmatic functions across a site. By responding to the immediate urban context of the AMP site at Circular Quay, a vertical campus typology was adopted to facilitate the stacking of functions combining educational uses with commercial programmes to foster an environment that redefines how people live, learn and socialise at height. Four basic functions: business school (study); business incubators (work); campus (play and stay) have been proposed as a starting point for the project. These functions are carefully tied together with a variety of active open spaces which function as urban platforms to celebrate the act of learning and provides a place of business for professionals to connect, learn and build networks together. The BSBD serves as a prototype for vertical education campuses into the future, playing an important role in the ever-evolving urban environment of Central Sydney. 77.
Image opposite - Aerial Perspective Image above, left - Axonometric Diagram of Galleries Image above, right - Village Diagram Image below - Sectional Perspective
E NC MA OR RF PE GH HI Chen Li Email: lichen426arch@gmail.com
Phone: +61 450 210 426
creative muscle How can we create vertical communities tied together by art and creativity?
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rt and creativity bring our city to life, and help shape its identity and spirit, giving it depth and resonance. The ‘Creative City Sydney’ plan aims to make our city a more creative and vibrant place to live, work, play and visit, with Circular Quay at its heart. Therefore, the APDG site for this project will be deeply influenced by the creative arts. Given this, my design aims to create a high-rise urban building for creative occupants, that will better connect the public to the city’s artistic output, while also assisting the community in developing their own creative abilities. At the podium level, new laneways create gallery and workshop spaces, providing opportunities for the public cutting east-west across the site to engage with the arts. The highrise block includes a radical hybrid programme of residential artists’ housing and a vertical public gallery including community workshops, exhibition spaces, libraries, performance and education areas and a café. Careful planning, and the use of buffer spaces helps mediate public and private areas, while a dramatic gradient of colour highlights the public arts facilities to the city. The public would be able to take elevators to the upper levels, before descending through galleries and other creative spaces via a network of stairs and landings.
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Image opposite - Axonometric Diagram Image above - Photos of Model Image below - Skyline Perspective
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E NC MA OR RF PE GH HI Lin (Leo) Li Email: answerlin09@gmail.com
Phone: +61 450 340 223
transit hub + Skyscraper
How can we best integrate density, public space and transport in Sydney?
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his proposal reimagines Circular Quay as an integrated and thriving transport hub supported by many significant 24 hour uses on Sydney’s doorstep. By integrating a new bus interchange into the block between Philip and Young Streets, and re-configuring ferry wharves four and five in Circular Quay, the precinct masterplan consolidates the future light-rail, train, bus and ferry interfaces to form a single transport hub for passengers to move seamlessly from one of transit mode to another. By re-locating the existing Alfred Street bus layover into a new location behind the existing AMP building on site, a dedicated bus terminal has been proposed allowing for an extension of the existing Customs House forecourt to include the area previously occupied by the Alfred Street bus terminus. The tower proposal itself, located at the southern end of the site, will house a boutique hotel, cultural centre, commercial floor space, retail and a publicly accessible sky terrace which will connect to the rooftop of the existing AMP tower. By providing a sky terrace at height, the opportunity exists to create a second ground plane which is accessible by members of the public and anchor the site as both a functional transport hub and a destination for tourists and local residents to share.
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Image opposite - Exterior Perspective Image above - Perspective Section of Education Village Image below - Long Site Section
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E NC MA OR RF PE GH HI yirong (ronnie) li Email: ronnie_lyr@hotmail.com
Phone: +61 449 970 925
inside out + outside in How can we bring the activity and vibrancy of the ground into the sky?
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his design starts with a criticism of the traditional ‘transit hub’, which is often enclosed within a solid box, through which thousands of people move each day. Urbanistically, this project aims to liberate the transit hub from an interior space, to an exterior semicovered public park in Circular Quay – an urban move that seeks to link water, train, light rail and bus transit through a dramatic new public space for the city. At the building scale, the project seeks to draw the activity and vibrancy of public spaces at ground into the sky. A new cluster of towers is proposed; one residential, one commercial and a third that links the two containing a mix of social, educational and public facilities, acting as a ‘vertical street’ for the new development. This building is broken down into a series of ‘vertical villages’, with each containing its own public ‘ground floor’, essentially turning the tower into a series of stacked six storey buildings. Stairs and ramps wrap around the tower, linking with elevators to provide vertical access between floors, but also providing a buffer space between public and private functional zones.
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E NC MA OR RF PE GH HI julian mina Email: info@julianmina.com
Phone: +61 431 071 973
Suburban Utopia How can hybrid buildings reinvigorate our cities?
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s Sydney’s suburbs continue to sprawl, the city’s infrastructure will come under increasing strain as the struggle to keep neighbourhoods connected becomes a losing battle. In a bid to reduce the pressure on our cities and contain urban sprawl, one solution is to increase population densities in existing urban centres which are often close to public transport and local amenities. By taking the best elements of suburban life and intensifying them in an urban environment where people live, work and play together in one place, the project aims to challenge the notions of both the high-rise building and the suburb. The design showcases a new vision of high-rise living and working for Sydney’s Circular Quay, through a vertical hybrid tower, inspired by the complex and intimate connections which exist within Sydney’s suburbs. Two dominant towers emerge from the one building providing high-density living to the north and premium office space to the south, a direct response to sunpath. Shared functions are strategically located on ‘buffer’ cross-over floors on every fifth level where programmatic functions such as childcare, sports facilities, shops, bars, restaurants and cafés are located strategically to promote social interaction between occupants.
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E NC MA OR RF PE GH HI charmaine oh Email: o.charmaine@hotmail.com
Phone: +61 401 154 034
learning @ height How can Sydney embrace high-rise schools in its CBD?
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ccording to the Sydney Morning Herald “Sydney is facing a once-in-a-generation enrolment surge” in inner-city schools. NSW will need an extra 386 primary school classrooms every year for the next decade to cope with these booming enrolments, and more students will be forced back into the public system because Catholic and private schools will run out of room. There is a significant role for schools to play in the inner city; students make a strong contribution to the city’s vitality and cultural diversity, providing a youthful stimulus and often international perspective. Students come and go day and night with extra curricula activities, keeping a city alive in the evening. This project proposes that Circular Quay, an accessible transit hub, and cultural district, is the ideal location for an iconic vertical school for Sydney. This design strives to combine both a primary and secondary school, coupled with offices at the higher end of the tower. Floor plans are L-shaped, providing two wings of classrooms and ‘traditional’ learning spaces, while opening up the rest of the floor space to collaborative atria spaces. ‘Pods’ are suspended in the atria, acting as breakout spaces, or areas for quiet learning in groups. At the podium level shared facilities with the city are created; a grand stair wraps around a lightweight glass box where the canteen and indoor sports areas are located – areas that ‘after hours’ can be used by the public. 87.
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E NC MA OR RF PE GH HI Kallol Shah Email: kallolshah@gmail.com
Phone: +61 450 446 769
vertigrow How can vertical farming co-exist with commercial work spaces?
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ith intensifying populations, the agricultural land needed to support our cities is extremely high. NSW, for example, is a net importer of large volumes of vegetables from other States, while Sydney imports the vast bulk of its vegetables from outside the city region. This is due to get worse; a major implication of development in southern and northwest areas of the city is the number of vegetable farms in the Sydney region could fall by more than 50%. So where should we grow the city’s food? One opportunity is vertical farming, yet due to the value of inner city land, such an idea in Sydney’s CBD is financially unviable. As such, my project explores the opportunities to hybridise the emergent typology of vertical farming with commercial office space, providing a financially viable sustainable food model for the future. The masterplan consists of a staggered cluster of towers at Circular Quay, surrounding an open courtyard that forms a new marketplace for the city. The towers step-up to the south, maintaining solar access to the northerly public areas. Each tower is made up of commercial office floor plates, and lightweight north-facing glazed atria, acting as growing spaces for hydroponic agriculture. Their output of fruit and vegetables would be sold in the market below, but the agriculture also provides solar shading to the offices, caters to organic restaurants for office workers, and psychological relief from daily office work. 89.
Image opposite - View from Stairway across Living Room Image above - Resdential Section Detail and Facade Elevation Image below - Site Model of AMP Precinct
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E NC MA OR RF PE GH HI editha supangkat Email: misow.editha@gmail.com
Phone: +61 452 489 622
of its place What role can critical regionalism play in the development of a highrise building that is distinctive and of its place?
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he modern conception of the high-rise as a sealed, air-conditioned glass box reaching for the sky has withstood the test of time, being seldom challenged in the last 100 years. Such a standardised model for development, while efficient, has been rolled out across the globe with little or no regard for its surrounding context, largely ignoring the issues of local culture, climate and custom, resulting in buildings and cities which feel faceless and foreign. By responding to the immediate urban context and undertaking research into local building typologies, a local language for tall buildings was developed to identify it as something distinct to Sydney. The proposal borrows from the iconic and much-loved archetype of the Sydney terrace house, using it as a vehicle for reimagining vertical living in Sydney. Using a split-level configuration based on the terrace dwelling and converting the backyard into a double height balcony, the vertical component of the building is split into two slender towers, clad in brick and glass and are orientated north and east to maximise access to the sun and views to Sydney Harbour. The slender towers are grounded by a heavy sandstone podium, which incorporates commercial and retail uses designed to contribute to the life of the street. The use of sandstone at this lower level serves as a direct reference to the surrounding heritage buildings in the local area providing a clear but subtle link to the past. 91.
Image opposite - Transit Hub Sectional Perspective Image above - Northern Perspective Image below - Photograph of Solar Facade within the Office Model
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E NC MA OR RF PE GH HI wilson tan Email: twsunsw@gmail.com
Phone: +61 431 083 169
cros-sing How can we create a sustainable transit hub?
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ircular Quay acts as a major public transit hub in the city, bringing together ferry, train, light rail and bus transportation. Yet, of these four modes, buses receive perhaps the least attention, even though 6% of daily trips within the city are taken by bus. Given this, the project proposes a major new sustainable bus transit hub at Circular Quay. The design consists of a mixed-use office and hotel tower on the AMP site, with a new city bus terminus at the base. It envisions a future Sydney of autonomous electric buses, that provide rapid public transit. A north-facing solar skin stretches down the tower, curving to form the bus terminus roof, and protruding out into Circular Quay. This provides surface area for photovoltaic panels, generating renewable energy to fuel the electric buses. In this way, the tower doesn’t only provide density – it acts as a battery for the city’s transit network. The spatial quality of the terminus was inspired by the great transit hubs of the past, providing a sense of drama and destination to bus travel. Programmatically, the transit hub is designed as a catalyst to regenerate diversity in the city with various convenience and amenities available to the public.
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E NC MA OR RF PE GH HI cameron thickett Email: cam_thickett@hotmail.com
Phone: +61 422 836 124
Balconies - the social connection How can water and balconies be used to enhance social connections?
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his project uses water and balconies as social condensers. It focuses on the significance of the site, its relation to the Tank Stream and the importance of the Tank Stream to colonial settlement. I wanted to expose the Tank Stream at ground, and to create different ways for the public to connect and interact with water. At the same time, balconies can connect people visually and are a big part of Australian culture, so these became an important language in my architecture – while also providing breathtaking views of Sydney Harbour. The plan form celebrates the balcony, with each apartment being accessed from the perimeter of the building, rather than an interior corridor. This gives the sensation of walking down a front path to your house, but with the added benefit of spectacular views. The project uses terracotta cladding to express the balconies around the tower’s mass. The changing nature of the edge condition provides spaces of refuge on balconies, but also opens to frame expansive views. Large, flexible façade panels open up exterior walls, drawing the outside in, and the inside out, blurring boundaries between balcony and living space. Rainwater, captured on the balconies, is also pumped through the terracotta cladding, to provide additional cooling in the summer months. 95.
Image opposite - Internal Render of Typical Collaborative Studio Space Image above - External Render from Alfred Street Image below - Physical 1:250 Model
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E NC MA OR RF PE GH HI Lia Tsatsoulis Email: lia.tsatsoulis94@gmail.com
Phone: +61 431 025 170
the approachable tower How can social notions of fun and leisure be captured and exploited in traditionally sterile building typologies?
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ydney’s CBD is dominated by commercial office towers which often present an intimating and unapproachable façade to the ordinary civilian. Consequently, the programming of these towers has fostered a lifeless and dull CBD, especially in the evenings and on weekends, when these towers remain empty. The Approachable Tower (‘The AT’) aims to create a skyscraper that facilitates a vibrant, bustling environment through a celebration of one of Sydney’s most important enterprises – the film industry. This is particularly pertinent in light of Sydney’s crowning as a UNESCO ‘City of Film’. At its base, the ‘The AT’ provides directly for the public with a film museum, two cinemas, an event space, and an outdoor amphitheatre flanked by bars and restaurants. New films can also be projected onto the south façade of the adjacent AMP Tower for public viewing. The tower itself is divided into a series of four storey villages, and accommodates studios for animation, audio and visual recording. These are organised around a central collaborative atrium space which is a naturally ventilated and characterised by multi-functional staircases and an adaptable façade that allows for projection. These spaces are juxtaposed by the enclosed private studios which line the eastern and western wings, ventilated through underfloor air distribution, and conditioned by chilled beams which receive their water supply from the Sydney Heat Exchange, and a biogas trigeneration system. 97.
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E NC MA OR RF PE GH HI sadina Tursunovic Email: sadina.tursunovic@gmail.com
Phone: +61 402 005 307
circulate How can laneways be used to inform the creation of spaces to foster social connections in a contemporary high-rise?
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ften congested and choking with traffic, many large cities around the world offer precious little in the way of pedestrian amenity. Restricted to narrow sidewalks or pathways, pedestrians are often forced to simply ‘make do’ with the poor walking conditions offered by the city. In Sydney, laneways provide important pedestrian links through the urban fabric, however history has ensured that too few of these important connections remain. This project aims to build on the site’s existing network of laneways to successfully develop a meaningful connection to Sydney Harbour. Inspired by these existing laneways, this project proposes an extension of Sydney’s envisioned 2020 pedestrian route along George Street, upwards, into the sky. By extending the public realm vertically, this proposal challenges the traditional model of isolated, privatised spaces at height, and offers everyone a more public and transparent experience of vertical architecture. The core and its adjoining lobby spaces act as ‘laneways’ mediating between functions and allowing visual engagement between different users, becoming an extension of the ground plane where the activities of the everyday occur.
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Phone: +61 415 869 277
meeting - living on the rise How can the concept of ‘meeting’ create social sustainability within a high-rise?
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ydney is Australia’s largest and most densely populated city. Boasting a population of over 6 million residents, the city is made up of a diverse patchwork of communities connected by an intricate network of transport, social and economic infrastructure. With an everincreasing population and a seemingly limitless urban sprawl, Sydney faces many challenges relating to its own identity as a connected and culturally diverse city. Exacerbated by other local issues like housing affordability, Sydney is increasingly becoming a fractured city where social isolation is a result of physical distance and the inability to provide residents access to good cultural and social infrastructure close to home. This project aims to overcome these challenges by considering an integrated building program as an opportunity to address the issue of social sustainability by challenging the monofunctional and monocultural nature of most contemporary high-rise environments. Inspired by the Vienna Model of housing, the building proposes an arrangement where people from various social and economic backgrounds can live together to promote equality and encourage social interaction. Residents will be afforded access to a wide range of public program such as art galleries to improve the overall standard of living in dense urban communities. The building is also programmed to offer a range of shared communal facilities to foster relationships between residents through social interaction.
Image opposite - Solar Atrium at Ground Plane Image above - Perspective from Circular Quay Image above, top right - Array of Models Made Image above, bottom right - Bay Study Model
E NC MA OR RF PE GH HI porus vakshoor Email: porusvakshoor@gmail.com
Phone: +61 402 314 670
Solar Carve How can high-rise architecture better respond to solar access?
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unpath, and solar access have played a significant role in the design of high-rise buildings for over a hundred years now. As far back as 1916, the ‘New York Zoning Law’ stipulated towers should have set-backs to allow light and air to penetrate onto the streets below, forming the famous ‘wedding-cake’ skyscraper style of the time. Today, a similar idea is used in the City of Sydney, with a solar envelope prescribing building heights, to reduce shadows cast onto some of our most important public spaces. Inspired by this history, the project aims to take this thinking to the next level and craft high-rise urban, spatial and energetic performance informed by the sun. The tower’s mass is generated with computational design tools and algorithmic modelling to create a form that allows sunlight to penetrate onto public spaces at key times of the day. Atria are carved out of its mass, allowing light deep into floor plates, and to penetrate through the tower onto buildings behind. An undulating north-facing façade is formed to optimise energy generation from solar panels, while also shading the office spaces from the high summer sun. In doing so, the tower is estimated to be carbon positive – saving 508 tonnes of CO2 per year more than it needs for operational use.
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E NC MA OR RF PE GH HI Arya viji Email: ayrasantamaria@gmail.com
Phone: +61 406 739 607
The Retention of Goldfields House How can we adapt and extend a culturally significant structure from the 1960’s to modern standards while minimising its environmental
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apid urbanisation has had a profound effect on the growth of cities, resulting in their transformation into major metropolises, within a time frame previously unimaginable. Yet, within this expansion a question arises – what should we do with structurally viable buildings that are no longer commercially, or environmentally efficient? Should they be demolished and replaced, a one-ways street which contributes to the loss of enormous amounts of embodied energy and materials? Or can they be adapted, revitalised and reused? This project explores these opportunities by densifying the existing city fabric using the potential of the existing structures. I propose expanding the historic Goldfields House – a concrete tower block at Circular Quay, originally built in 1962 – rather than demolishing it. My proposal uses architectural additions constructed from Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT), to benefit from the carbon sequestration properties of this material, thus benefitting the environment. The design expands the tower both vertically, and horizontally, creating 97,000m² of office and hotel space. But also recycling 4,000 tonnes of structural steel, 21,400m³ of concrete and 1,333m³ of brick, at a significant environmental benefit.
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E NC MA OR RF PE GH HI Vicky hai-lan wang Email: hailanvvang@gmail.com
Phone: +61 421 213 558
the green anchor How can we maintain and establish green environments in a growing metropolis?
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sing greenery to enrich the city is an important aspect of design when considering an approach to urban environments. By studying specific streets, lanes and parks, the potential for a ‘green ribbon’ was identified through the city centre, linking the Royal Botanic Gardens to the east with Observatory Hill to the west. The proposed building located at the corner of George and Alfred Streets, integrates this green ribbon and extends it skywards. The building at ground level consists of a green link that allows for a generous public domain and a broad range of uses from active recreational spaces to more passive space for quieter social gathering throughout the Circular Quay precinct. By contrast, the skygardens at height are private and offer building users access to a diverse ecological profile of plants and shrubs. The spaces will be used to provide a mix of informal and formal work spaces orientated to provide views to different parts of the city. In addition to functioning as break out spaces, the skygardens are also voids which promote air movement to facilitate cross ventilation to internal work environments. The openness of the skygardens not only drives natural ventilation through the building but also creates visual transparency between office floors. The public and communal spaces in this project become functional, comfortable and celebrate greenery in the city. 107.
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E NC MA OR RF PE GH HI Angus whittle Email: a@anguswhittle.com
Phone: +61 409 597 767
the cycle hub How can a sustainable transport hub in Circular Quay help cultivate a new era of self propelled transit in Sydney?
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n Sydney, people either love or hate cyclists. The reason there is so much angst towards cyclists is down to a lack of proper cycling infrastructure and a general misunderstanding between cyclists and drivers with regards to safety. Major cities around the world are rapidly developing their cycling infrastructure, as citizens realise this is a healthier, faster and more environmental way of getting around. Sydney has perhaps been slower, but the culture of cycling has been increasing regardless of any hostility present on the road. This design builds on this culture, providing a new vision for Sydney’s cycling infrastructure. The aim would be to provide cycling ‘hubs’ in key locations throughout the city, linking together a network of cycleways. Hub locations have been selected using data collected from the activity app Strava with the largest hub being Circular Quay. Given this high-density location, the hub is integrated within three new skyscrapers. A dramatic cycling ramp wraps around the buildings, allowing cyclists to access multi-storey facilities – bike shops, storage, change rooms and more - up to the sixth floor, where they are met with spectacular views across the harbour. Beyond this height, the ramp evolves into an elegant shading and daylight reflecting system, protecting interior spaces from the high summer sun, but reflecting light deep into office floors. 109.
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Prof. David Sanderson Mark Szczerbicki Sue Wittenoom
Benjamin Andrew Allen, Chak Ming (Jaime) Au, Li Li Chan, Tomohito Zhi Ren Chung, Hayden David Co’Burn, Remy-Georgette Crick, Weihao (Chaze) Ding, Yanfei (Fei) Feng, Nee Shuang Heng, Wai Yan Tina Kan, Samina Khan, Chang Liu, Mingjia Liu, Sher Rin Loh, Yibing Meng, Thin Lei (Sophie) Nandar, Bryan Tran Nguyen, Johann Andre Pereira, Na (Vanessa) Tang, Maria Isabella Vazquez, Junyue (Archer) Xia, Hao Yang, Man Yan Janice Yeung. Kyar Nyo (Sapphire)Yin, Yuzhu (Bamboo) Zhang. 110.
Resilience, among other things, calls for cohesive neighbourhoods and societies that are able to prepare for and overcome everyday stresses. Given rapid changes in society, both in Sydney and globally - which include fast urban growth, climate change, urban migration, divisions between wealth and poverty, marginalisation and the increasing recognition of mental health in society – urban centres need to consider resilience as a cornerstone within all current and future urban developments, if they are to succeed. Recognising this, the studio explores the translation of the social, political and economic components of resilience into urban built form, to develop an architecture of resilience. To these ends, the studio focuses on three important elements: wellbeing, inclusion and creativity. The location for this studio is a block at the corner of Redfern Street and Pitt Street, an area comprising the challenges of inclusion and exclusion, wellbeing and ill-health, and immense creativity, but also neglect. On the site three adjacent buildings are the Sydney Mental Health Service, the community and arts collective ‘107 Projects’, and the Aboriginal Medical Service Co-operative (AMS). The studio was held regularly in the premises of 107 Projects, encouraging students to immerse themselves as much as possible into the life of Redfern Street. The site as a whole (and including neighbouring buildings) is the location wherein students were invited to rethink how the combination of the functions of these to-now separate entities might be combined. 111.
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SOCIAL AGENCY Benjamin allen Email: benjaminallen.1991@gmail.com
Phone: +61 401 586 376
the school of life How do we challenge perceptions and stigma surrounding mental health whilst simultaneously developing a collective community
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he 107 projects site sits nestled between the Redfern Medical Service (RMS), formerly the Redfern Courthouse, and the Aboriginal Medical Service (AMS), with the unassuming former carpark housing artistic, community and education programs. Each of the three buildings professes to address wellness; mental, community and disadvantageousness respectively. And yet, the functions and services are concealed; without dialogue their objective falters. Community wellness is overlooked for intermittent and fleeting solutions to corrosive communal problems. Research revealed the extent and pervasiveness of this mental health struggle, but more concerning was the debilitating impact of stigma and denial in the mental health space. To develop a built response to wellness that did not embed a genuine attempt to reconcile community attitudes with the scope of the issue would perpetuate the problem. The solution was to establish a dialogue between mental and community wellness through an incision that runs between the two buildings, transposing the entrance from the street to the shared communal zone. Altering the narrative of the thresholds of, and between, the AMS and 107 site – as the space between is neutral and un-prescribed it submerges the normalcy of the mental health reality into the collective community consciousness. The program of the building pivots between gallery and education, recognising the reciprocity of the two. Art becomes both advertisement and engagement in wellness and self-acuity, inspired by the work of Alain de Botton in Art as Therapy and The School of Life. Each function of the building is accompanied by a hub for curated learning and reflection. The program of the building pivots between gallery and education, recognising the reciprocity of the two. Art becomes both advertisement and engagement in wellness and selfacuity, inspired by the work of Alain de Botton in Art as Therapy and The School of Life. Each function of the building is accompanied by a hub for curated learning and reflection, recognising the interconnectivity of all things. The School of Life celebrates individual and collective growth, acknowledging that in life it is not necessary to be strong (well) but to feel strong.
Image opposite - Site and Ground Floor Plan for Hub Image above - Facade and Sectional Model of The Hub Image below - Perspective through the Courtyard
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SOCIAL AGENCY chak ming (jaime) au Email: jaimeau93@gmail.com
Phone: +61 411 159 662
the lot How can the resilience of Redfern as a diverse community be enriched and preserved in the face of inevitable change?
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he resilience of Redfern as a whole depends on the resilience and wellbeing of its people and their ability to enrich and preserve their identities, cultures and knowledge in the face of inevitable and increasingly rapid change. The Lot encapsulates the diversity and complexity of Redfern as a suburb and creates exciting and dynamic spaces for local engagement, interaction, sharing and collaboration. The Lot is a place where the people of Redfern can play out their identities and interests, enrich and challenge one another through expression, learning and shared growth, and of course, celebrate their history. The Commune’s design focused on engaging and connecting the public domain to the building footprint, encouraging visitors to circulate around the program freely and without interrupting other users. The exhibition space acts as the transition point between the public and private. As a predominantly co-working space, visitors will have the chance to engage with artists while they work. Alternatively, the Hub challenges the common practice of having programs and circulation within enclosed walls, and instead creates a flow of continuous circulation around the building façade as a second skin. The design of the Hub, as the social gathering space, encourages the visible movement of people throughout it and between the public domain.
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SOCIAL AGENCY chan li li Email: chanluplup@gmail.com
Phone: +61 481 469 897
Innocence Reborn - The Ageless Playscape Can architecture, manifested through art and play, spark the journey of Redfern’s healing process amongst the young and old?
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edfern is in a constant state of tension. Studies indicate that the young and old are the minorities in Redfern. The locals highlight the lack of recreational spaces and social services catering for these demographics, and they continue to be neglected. Having observed the abundance of public art, I asked, what does ART mean for them? Alain de Botton’s thesis Art as Therapy proved to be a relevant precedent. Aldo van Eyck’s playgrounds emphasised the importance of play spaces in the city to promote inquisitive minds for both children and adults through spontaneous exploration of spaces. A hybrid of the two thematics, Art and Play, forms the underlying thinking of my research question. The design aims to tackle the societal ills of Redfern. From a curved roof that forms a playful slide, to a meditative weather watching room, the architecture actively engages with the locality through a wide spectrum of activities, including a master plan promoting urban connectivity through site interventions. The essence of the architecture is of healing, of helping people face their inner frailties and engender a cathartic relief. The innocence of Redfern’s youth and elders is thus rekindled, and we will see their smiles return once more.
Image opposite - Perspective View from Redfern Street Image above - External Perspective from Ramp leading towards the Building Image middle - Gallery and Workshop Perspective Image Bottom - 24 hour Wholefoods Perspective
SOCIAL AGENCY tomohito chung Email: tomohitochung@gmail.com
Phone: +61 448 005 800
Salutogensis How can cities shape public health?
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ith the advancement of technology and medicine, our generation tends to live longer than previous generations, but even though we have good doctors and hospitals it is actually much better for us to stay healthy and not to have to visit the hospital at all. It is not just about more healthcare and treatment but it depends heavily on personal choices and lifestyles. We should strive for prevention in the first place. Researching on how the ‘big five’ diseases (cancer, diabetes, asthma, mental health, heart disease) are linked to our built environment, Salutogenesis conceptualises housing for medical staff and students through the introduction of healthy lifestyle by providing a 24-hour whole-food restaurant, a fitness centre, art gallery and collaboration space within the property boundary. To ensure the wellbeing of the next generation of medical staff, the proposal’s approach focuses on factors that support human health and wellbeing rather than on factors that cause disease (pathogenesis). Salutogensis introduces art as a mental health fix, encourages a healthy diet and promotes physical activity.
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SOCIAL AGENCY hayden co’burn Email: h-coburn@unsw.edu.au
Phone: +61 411 430 550
re:habitat How can we facilitate new relationships between the urban environment and its occupants to improve mental health?
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e:habitat reconceptualises housing, community and mental healthcare in Redfern. Researching the future of urban mental healthcare systems internationally and interpreting NSW’s Mental Health Commission ‘Living Well: A Strategic Plan’, a major restructuring of our current system needs to take place if we are to adequately care for our people. Reorienting community based services at the front line rather than depending on acute institutionalisation is a much more effective allocation of resources, which promotes mental wellness and dissolves the stigma around mental illness. Providing a spectrum of mental health care from Day Care, Inpatient Units and medium to long term accommodation promotes a path to recovery and assures support for all. Using the decommissioned Rachel Forster Hospital as a focal point of social agency, re:habitat seeks to engage with its community rather than ignore them through a more responsive purpose for the site. The recovery college that feeds off the Rachel Forster Hospital creates a variety of flexible spaces that encourage a constantly shifting configuration of programs, with underlying orientation towards mental wellness and community participation. The spaces in and around the recovery college blur boundaries of physical, personal and psychosocial space and promote the intimacy that’s often lost in urban conditions – encouraging contact between people is the most effective approach to dissolving the stigma around mental illness.
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remy-georgette crick Email: remy.crick@gmail.com
Phone: +61 430 281 992
Redfern Street Social How can an all-inclusive community facility nature the wellbeing, skill-set and independence of residents and visitors to Redfern?
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here is a need for a ‘third place’ within today’s society; a free civic space that allows for opportunities of informal social interactions, and may be used during all hours of the day. Furthermore, placement at both childcare centres and women’s domestic violence refuges within the Sydney region are at full capacity. The design proposed for the communityfocussed 107 projects site in Redfern, is one that aims to nurture the social and emotional well-being of residents and visitors in the area, while simultaneously encouraging personal growth, independence and skill development. Redfern Street Social presents an innovative approach to providing a ‘third space’ between that of the home and the work environment; a place where everyone is welcome regardless of age, ability, or income. The twenty-four-hour facility provides a ‘public wet room’ (including a free to use shower, WC, and laundry amenities), 46 place childcare centre, community creative and lounge space, and women’s refuge; aiming to redefine social ideologies in regard to domestic violence, informal education, homelessness and loneliness.
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SOCIAL AGENCY chaze weihao ding Email: chaze.ding@gmail.com
Phone: +61 450 192 728
Redfern Art Factory How can we successfully create local art communities and encourage the artists to support Diversity in Redfern?
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y vision is to introduce a recycled container and crane system to serve the community of Redfern. The art factory design will focus on how flexible art spaces can shape local creative industries and generate possibilities to encourage artists to support diversity in the suburb. The project shows the continuity of studio module development on the site; however the delivery of the best solution may not be designed by architects, but delivered by local residents and artists` themselves. Architecture can be seen as a primary instrument to generate art communities. The open lower-level entrance in my design gives a glimpse of the ground floor exhibition space, including galleries and creative activities, to build connections between local artists and the public. To enhance the visiting experience, the crane is integrated as a part of the architecture, to serve the art factory through construction development, artwork installation, storage etc. The flexibility and potential of the crane system provides a dynamic experience for both artists and visitors, and will support the art community by facilitating an iconic visiting experience, and local attraction in future of Redfern.
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Image opposite - Ground Floor Plan of the Intergenerational Campus Image above - Intergenerational Art Hub Exhibition Space Image below - View from George Street
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SOCIAL AGENCY Yanfei (Fay) Feng Email: fay.yffeng@gmail.com
Phone: +61 433 114 070
Welcome to Redfern - The Intergenerational Campus
How can architecture improve intergenerational practice as well as social sustainability through the establishment of a creative
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hrough conducting a series of participatory appraisals, social issues such as a lack of childcare and senior day care, generational segregation among youngsters and seniors was identified in Redfern. This project aims to tackle these issues by designing an intergenerational campus that consists of general care services for elders and kids, indoor recreational space, platforms for creative business and spaces for intergenerational communication and knowledge exchange. The proposed campus unlocks the potential for future Redfern by redesigning 107 projects, the heritage-listed telephone exchange and Telstra exchange sites. Inspired by Gund Hall - the home of Havard GSD, cascading exhibition and art class spaces were introduced at the intergenerational art hub to provide unique knowledge and art exchange experiences. Three rows of tree-like columns, which have translucent panels on the south-facing side, let indirect sunlight penetrate the overall building. A cross-site link started at George Street and a colonnade at Turner Street were proposed in order to increase the permeability of the ground plane. Glulam timber trusses on the first floor form a bridge which connects the art and intergenerational hubs with views to integrated open space that is shared with other existing buildings. Cross-laminated timber was used as the main construction material due to its greater design flexibility and less carbon footprint. 127.
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SOCIAL AGENCY nee shuang heng Email: shuang.hns@gmail.com
Phone: +61 430 788 980
Exploration Hub How can spaces be designed to support the future of youth, the elderly and the socially disadvantaged in Redfern?
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resilient society focuses on cohesion within the community through encouraging an ethics of sharing and nurturing. In a suburb like Redfern community bonds are slowly deteriorating as the years pass. The lack of a gathering space widens the gap between the youth and elderly as these numbers continue to increase. Homeless, isolated people are sometimes seen walking along the streets in which there is a lack of support for their own life. Therefore, this project aims to create a centre that could provide education and engagement for the people of Redfern to aid in developing the skills needed for their future. The project provides a new building function that is a hybrid of educational space, community centre and a library. The rooms are multifunctional to allow for different uses and are close to the garden to accommodate different teaching environments. Interior interventions such as the Reading Garden and Chambers of Secrets explore the idea of privacy in reading and different book storage. A floor-to-ceiling height touch screen in the Digital Matrix allows for interactive learning. As mind cultivation is important for resilience, a zen room is included to allow for peace and relaxation.
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SOCIAL AGENCY WAiyAn (tina) kan Email: kan_wy@hotmail.com
Parenting Hub
Phone: +61 451 668 147
How community facilities and empowers parenting?
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ore young couples and families would like to move in to Redfern, due to the demographical changes driven by gentrification. Family oriented community facilities would facilitate the change of the community and improves parenting environment of Redfern. From understanding how essential of good parenting that will affect a child’s character and behaviour as children grows, in conjunction with the challenges of parents and children involves through the parenting journey. The project seeks an answer to response how community facilities empowers parenting. The parenting hub aims to assists parents through parenting challenges and equips parent so children can have a better childhood. By providing parents and children a free and relaxed social environment. A safe and child friendly public facility for parent to spend time as to encourage parents to have more parenting time and parent-child time. A place that facilitate users to build networks in between families in the community and physical platform to open up to their issues and look for supports, such as family issues and learning difficulties.
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SOCIAL AGENCY samina khan Email: shamina.live@gmail.com
Phone: +61 452 293 489
heart - A youth development centre How can arts build creativity and capability of individuals as well as the community and improve their quality of life?
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een stress is an important, yet an often overlooked health issue. The way in which teens cope with this stress can have significant short and long term consequences on their physical and emotional health. Therefore, this project aims to address teen stress and overcome them through the means of art, by proposing an arts centre that is exclusively dedicated to today’s youth. By this, individual and collective well-being, health and happiness of struggling youth of Redfern will be promoted. The design delineates a new vision of youth development centres that is completely based on art; several activities designed to keep the youth busy and off the streets. Every individual can find a program that suits their personality and help them create their identity through self-expression, and by discovering their most authentic desires. The building also stimulates movement throughout the interior as well as exteriors. Every component of the structure promotes interaction, not just among the users but between them and the structure as well. The exterior shell of the project is a journey up the ramp – one that explores and piques young people’s curiosity. There is something novel and vibrant, starting from the ramp made of plexi-glass that lights up as you walk on it to the rooftop gardens – something that the site currently lacks. The destination is not disappointing at all and has a bar/café sunken into the ramp with a screen that shows games and movies, and can be turned into a water screen for a more peaceful environment.
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SOCIAL AGENCY chang liu Email: 7777777connie@gmail.com
Phone: +61 451 650 312
Creative community How to build a creative community to promote belongingness and social connection and mitigate social isolation?
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always believe that tradition is not to be followed but to be challenged. Every idea should attempt to question and break existing rules. Even though if the effort we make only breaks fresh ground in a very small field so that it provides a possibility and new thought of solving some problems, then it can be said that this idea is meaningful. I hope that every work is able to have a dialogue with the environment socially and culturally be it through the routine of a user’s activities, the influence of an event or a regional characteristic. Social isolation as the result of gentrification is occurring in Redfern. This project explores how a creative community is able to provide a series of harmonious spaces and strengthen the social connection through creative activities and the street life to mitigate social isolation. People’s lifestyles are constantly going to the centre, young people need street life and art rather than boring suburb lawn. My project explores an optimistic future as a creative community that is interactive, cultural, communicative and mixed use.
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SOCIAL AGENCY mingjia liu Email: mingjia0102@gmail.com
Phone: +61 451 639 000
Recessive Corridor of Community How to create a network of public space to meet the needs of diverse activities in Redfern?
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he activity records and spatial research of Redfern show that the main problems are inadequate in diversity of activity spaces and limitation in distribution. One solution is to build an organized system of public spaces for different programs ( such as sports, leisure etc.), making the whole community vibrant. This network of public space can provide more opportunities to tap Redfern’s potentials. Also, this corridor connects with the Sydney bicycle way, so visitors can walk or ride from the city to Redfern directly. 107 project is the most important node of the master scheme which is proposed as a library. And the walkway corridor would be a horizontal plug-in of the library. This proposal is a solution to both spatial and non-spatial social networks. I imagine the site as a “field” condition within which a multitude of activities can occur, so the walkway corridor and 107 site will become a canvas for people to visit, gather and express themselves. Meanwhile, WiFi blankets the site and draws the young and mobile, so one does not need to enter the library to experience it. This library will be a place where you can connect, learn, relax and play.
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SOCIAL AGENCY sher rin loh Email: sherrin.loh@hotmail.com
Phone: +61 433 877 614
urban harvest How can a new Urban Farming infill development contribute to the wellbeing of the Redfern community?
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espite the variety of land use in Redfern, this part of the city does not “breathe”. Urban fabric, which due to the urban sprawl has grown far beyond the suburb limits is in a sense impermeable to green. Bringing nature back to this part of the suburb will bring the porosity to its consolidated grain. For this purpose, as well as to restrain further urbanisation, the project proposes to integrate nature-orientated urban conditions by implementing urban farming to be adaptively reused. The notion of urban farming allows local communities of Redfern to harness their agricultural skills for socio-economic participation while increasing the availability of fresh produce at any time for their overall wellbeing, making this concept Redfern’s self-sustaining suburb. ‘Urban Harvest’ is designed with the guiding principles of People, Place and Design, allowing the site to be shaped into a central space for people from all walks of life to be part of the booming urban farming experience, providing them with the knowledge of basic agricultural skills in the process. The facade depicts a playful take on the creative art in Redfern while the use of tinted photovoltaic polycarbonate materials provides a level of privacy but maintaining optimum light transmission into the interior spaces.
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SOCIAL AGENCY yibing meng Email: lingshui6670@gmail.com
Phone: +61 414 588 799
Creativity + Market How can a community place focused marketplace improve the engagement and strengthen the local chance of the site?
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ue to the gentrification development in Redfern, it leads to the low engagement between different classes, also based on its historical context; there exists the disconnection between the local people, especially the aboriginal people, the low income people, the unemployment people and the new residents under the different cultural and economic background. Based on 107 projects, the public arts in Redfern is the local character. Therefore, the project aims to promote inclusion and creativity through connecting a community place with the relevant arts activity. The design approach try to create an impact chain between artists, designers, and the residents (especially for vulnerable people, unemployment people).The marketplace as an element of social cohesion space is added for the artists and residents to exhibit and sell their own art products. It is inserted at the ground floor and extended into the outdoor street place as the weekend market to connect the main street with its back street. The arts and crafts workshop and performance space at first floor as the extension of marketplace is to bridge the outside stairs. The lower ground floor still as the live arts showing space try to enrich the market atmospheres.
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SOCIAL AGENCY thin lei nandar Email: thinleinandar@gmail.com
Phone: +61 452 532 806
aboriginal art + culture How can Redfern reflect and preserve Aboriginal cultural identity through the arts?
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hat Aboriginal society needs in Redfern is a sense of community by having a place where anyone can feel at home. The Aboriginal Art Learning and Culture Centre has been designed to meet the challenges of inclusion and exclusion, wellbeing and ill-health as well as the preservation of Aboriginal culture and the transmission of knowledge from one generation to another. There are two factors in cultural identity: symbolic identity expressed through ‘form’ and behavioural identity expressed through ‘function’. ‘Art’ has been chosen to reflect and preserve culture since it can provide a rich entry point to strengthen interactions between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. The aim is to explore opportunities for developing resilience by weaving wellbeing and inclusion though creativity. The main targets are young people and elders while other members of the community would be warmly welcomed as well.
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SOCIAL AGENCY bryan nguyen Email: bryan.nguyen@live.com
Phone: +61 432 486 233
dialogue How do creative outlets and density shape the wellbeing of individuals and communities?
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he strong social ties of the people in Redfern is comparable to the resilient strength of Dharavi, one of the largest slums in the world yet also the most successful. The makeup of a horizontally connected community where constant interactions occur at almost every corner reveals the power of a heavily interconnected social community. Bounded by health services on either side and located within a diverse mix of buildings and programs, the 107 site defines a diverse social makeup of the necessities within Redfern where health, wellbeing and creativity are present. Connections drawn from these key themes and the influences of creative practice within the growing neighbourhood of Redfern, an exploration of interactions between the health, creative and public communities through a series of horizontal interactions are explored. Concave and convex spaces are explored addressing introverted and extroverted personalities with mental health disorders where these spaces establish a sense of enclosed or open environments. Developing to a fluid spine, the two programs establish an interaction alongside a series of open public corridors mimicking the existing site conditions that establish an integrated and harmonious dialogue between the public, health and creative communities. 145.
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SOCIAL AGENCY johann andre pereira Email: johann.andre.pereira@gmail.com
Phone: +61 432 299 013
Refuge of Conscience Can an experimental housing model foster and nurture resilience in high density public housing?
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ecognising that the forced relocation of residents from the Waterloo Public Housing Estate away from their neighborhood during the urban renewal of the area is a crisis with potential danger to their mental health, the project repurposes student accommodation at ‘The Block’ in Redfern into temporary public housing. Housing this extremely vulnerable part of society within their own neighborhood ensures that their strong sense of identity, so closely tied to the Redfern-Waterloo area, is not taken away from them. It allows them to maintain their close interpersonal relationships within the community with continuous access to important localised social services and support networks. The site is an urban agora. A public library under the building podium seeks to destigmatise the ground plane by promoting interaction amongst the building’s residents, their neighbours and the growing student population. The building is a resilient high-density housing model wherein both the housing and social spaces are capable of being continuously modified, adapted, reorganised and repurposed by its residents to better suit their diverse and evolving needs. The project aims to foster a sense of community and belonging that all people can aspire to be part of, without being labeled, stigmatised and excluded by society. 147.
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SOCIAL AGENCY na (vanessa) tang Email: vanessatangnana@gmail.com
Phone: +61 410 863 191
107 redfern How to create a communal street in Redfern for elderly people to overcome social isolation?
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lmost 53% of the tenants in Redfern’s social housing are aged over 60 years. They live alone and may experience a sense of social isolation. Social isolation can arise from a lack of meaningful social networks and therefore building these networks is one way of overcoming isolation. 107 Redfern is an open and connected communal street filled in many programs that would encourage social participation and communication. They include a Community Information Centre, Community Kitchen, Redfern Senior Activity Centre, Redfern Cafe, Redfern Citizens’ Library, Youth Activity Centre and Outside Activity Area. These programs create a strong social connection between the place and people. I hope the 107 Redfern will attract elderly people to go outside, communicate with others and participate in the social activities that 107 Redfern would provide. Welcome to 107 Redfern.
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SOCIAL AGENCY mariel vazquez Email: marielrvaz@gmail.com
Phone: +61 452 665 110
Common Ground With the gentrification of Redfern, how can community life strive amidst increasing socio-economic inequality and create a city of inclusivity?
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ydney’s rapid urban renewal has provoked the widening inequality gap between the haves and have nots. The income, spatial and social rift becomes the agent for encroaching gentrification and cause of social displacement across Sydney suburbs, Redfern included. The greatest effect on those socially displaced is how they question their right to be in a place based on their access to everyday goods and services of notability is food. 8% of Australians experience food insecurity at one point, always questioning their able to afford healthy, good food. This in turn affects one’s whole well-being from physical, mental and social health. So I ask - With the gentrification of Redfern, how can community life strive amidst increasing socio-economic inequality and create a city of inclusivity? The project seeks to use food - a basic human need - as a catalyst for social cohesion and resilience among Redfern’s existing and incoming community. The design presents a new type of community-run centre revolving around all facets of the food system, both the familiar and the unfamiliar. The project aims to not only provide the right to consume food, space and sustainability but be an agent that allows its community to produce it. 151.
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SOCIAL AGENCY junyue (archer) xia Email: architecturedesignerarcher@gmail.com
Phone: +61 452 074 018
New 107 Art Centre How can architecture help people at a low point in their lives to survive, revive and thrive?
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n today’s social housing community in Redfern there are many people who have lived under difficult conditions for a long time. Architects need to think about how to help improve the lives of these people and one solution is to provide well-designed, inviting and comfortable spaces for people to develop and engage in cultural activity. The new 107 project aims to stimulate people’s interest through a variety of different arts. The project preserves all the functions of an existing building, with exhibition halls, artists’ studios and offices, and finally adds a new ribbon – a Public Learning Area. The public study area provides a venue for cultural exchange and learning for the local residents. The working environment of the artists’ studio in the old building is extremely harsh, lacking in light, poor ventilation and lacking intimate work space. In order to provide users with a better working environment, the building was made in the design of a large atrium. The courtyard design provides plenty of natural sunlight and natural ventilation for the artists’ studio, and it could be enhanced with beautiful outdoor views.
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SOCIAL AGENCY hao yang Email: Yanghaoyy@msn.cn
Phone: +61 406 781 991
Redfern Open School: 2027 How can future learning spaces provide an equitable and affordable education?
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edfern Open School is a community-based, tuition-free school that aims to provide an alternative option to traditional universities. It empowers students to take ownership of their learning, provides a mixed-age program with a project-based learning approach. Students are grouped into collaborative Independence Levels which are based on executive function skills rather than traditional-age restrictions. All learning lessons will be online and without the need to hire high-cost staff the school can open up more public space for the Redfern community and focus on providing a quality learning environment for the students at the school as well as world-class learning materials at home. Redfern Open School dedicates 50% of its building volume into semi outdoor public space to provide additional sheltered public space to Redfern’s community as well as provide a learning environment blended with nature. The building is covered with a roof of grass and herbs. The roof adds ecological value creating a sculptural object that reads as land art and, at the same time, manifests itself in the surrounding landscape. A fold in the roof gives way to an adventurous mountain trail and a lookout post.
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SOCIAL AGENCY man yan (janice) yeung Email: janiceyeung108@gmail.com
Phone: +61 433 777 329
Greeting Greens How can we maximise resilience and minimise vulnerability within Redfern’s food system?
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edfern is going to experience a 61% population growth in the coming twenty years. Apart from planning for housing, transport and jobs to accommodate for this boom, food supply would be one of the first and foremost problems that must be addressed as we try to feed a growing population with limited resources. Allocating food in an equitable manner is therefore vital in planning for a sustainable future that is resilient to external shocks. The project, Greeting Greens, creates a local food system that allows all members of Redfern’s community to access nutritious and affordable edible greens by minimising the distance from farm to table. Apart from satellite programs that are held around the neighbourhood, the proposed building will become a focal point to showcase how urban farming can co-exist and transform city living. Greeting Greens tries to: connect urban residents with one another and their food sources; increase the community’s food literacy; provide access to fresher, safer and cheaper edible greens; and be more responsible about the environmental impacts of our food. Through exploring the opportunities to create a more resilient food system, Redfern is going to become part of a bigger change in Sydney as we move towards a more sustainable future for the community and the environment.
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SOCIAL AGENCY Kyar Nyo Yin Email: kyarnyoyin@gmail.com
Phone: +61 406 409 115
Redfern Arts Village How can keeping creative people in Redfern enhance the community?
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reative industry is the second highest employment sector in Redfern, but there are not enough affordable art spaces to flourish it. Thus, the Redfern Arts Village allows artists to generate income through teaching and selling, so they can rent affordable housing and workspaces. Other programs include arts library, commercial art building, courtyards and art centres for performance, digital and visual arts. It is ran by people in the community to bring the community together through activities, such as exhibitions, performances, workshops and talks. The aim is to enliven and strengthen the Redfern community. The Visual Arts Centre is homey and natural with its exposed timber structure, white walls and earthy floorings. All habitable spaces have access to greenery, sunlight and outside world. Central courtyard accommodates various exhibitions on the green wall, in the pond and at centre of the staircase. CafĂŠ, restaurant and exhibition space on the main Redfern Street attract pedestrians, while open-planned artist studios on top are flexible and collaborative. Various workshops on the south can be used by members when there are no classes. Lastly, multipurpose room and sculpture garden on the top floor are for renting to create revenue for the centre.
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SOCIAL AGENCY yuzhu (bamboo) zhang Email: bambooowork@gmail.com
Phone: +61 452 567 702
LAND107 --- An Art Centre Inspired by Nature How nature and art promote resilience in the neighbourhood facing the challenge of urbanization in the form of architecture?
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ountries and regions all over the world face the challenge of urbanization. Sometimes, people build cites at the cost of the destruction of nature. However, nature is essential for resilient neighbourhoods. While visiting the site, Redfern, lots of greenery can be spotted on the streets. Another character of Redfern is artistic. Art seems to link the people in Redfern. In an increasingly urbanized world, the quality of urban life is a matter of great concern. The project aims to promote wellbeing, inclusion, and creativity in the city by integrated nature and art. The design presents a new vision for art centre which integrated and inspired by nature. Each level has a different theme. The basement level has the theme of caves and accommodates audio-visual activities; the ground level has the theme of water and the major function is exhibition; the first level has the theme of trees and is used for workshops; the second floor has the theme of clouds which is for leisure. Using building, you will encounter and inspired by nature and art. Located in the heart of Redfern, the project will be revitalising and refreshing for the people in the city.
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Studio leaders
Students
jon jacka delia ngay
Erandi Amarasinghe, Debashis Biswas, Minke Bu, Bien Castillo, Yan Chao Heng, Lisa Ho, Clara Ho, Yuxin Huang, Stavros Kazantzidis, Yaping Ke, Mengying Li, Yajing Liu, James Masman, Siyuan Ni, Xavier Ooi, Hyun Min Park, James Paviour, Kishore Rajasekaran, Ashraf Shamsuddin, Chelsea Sheridan, Hayden Wooldridge, Yiqing Xiong, Tao Xue, Ruoyu Yi, Zhenli Zhao.
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HOUSING STREAM Social City Our housing provides space for interaction and respite. Our homes are places of events and places where nothing happens. They are dining rooms with kitchens open for anyone to cook a meal. They are tea rooms and bars encouraging conversation and debate. They are recital halls for performance with associated rehearsal rooms. They are arranged in close proximity and they are all alone. They are not one thing but many. Within the contemporary context, our housing is also increasingly unaffordable. Further, its provision, particularly where greater densities are projected and planned for, lacks diversity or the capacity to change over time. In an age where urban populations are increasing at unprecedented rates globally, prevailing political processes, legislative frameworks and economic imperatives combine to limit housing possibilities and affordability. This studio asked students to reimagine the urban strategies informing the development of our cities. With a focus on housing affordability and diversity in housing arrangements, the studio projects develop an urban proposition that serves as a direct, detailed and substantive critique of the policy frameworks currently guiding housing delivery. The critique is based on three fields of inquiry – economic (understanding the financial settings required for alternative outcomes), regulatory (acknowledging the legislative framework underpinning the development of the city) and programmatic (exploring the physical arrangements of localities and buildings and their impact on the way we live). The studio is set in response to the planning framework for development along the “Sydenham to Bankstown Urban Renewal Corridor” – a live project of the NSW Department of Planning expected to deliver approximately 36,000 new dwellings.
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G IN US HO Erandi Amarasinghe Email: erandi.a@gmail.com
Phone: +61 432 057 962
ParkGuy LLC How can we develop parks and open space as a prerequisite to housing development?
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he need for more housing has resulted in the Sydenham to Bankstown Urban Renewal Corridor Plan. This plan stipulates the required housing densities along the new metro corridor. Much of the plan is focused on intensifying existing suburbs, with little additional provision for amenity associated with large populations. The ParkGuy LLC is an imaginary company dedicated to developing parks in an attempt to not fill the void when it comes to density. The proposed development is situated in Wiley Park, ironically, a suburb lacking in open space provision. A park model is formulated, where the residents may buy shares and invest in the development of the park. The provision of a park with a magnitude of facilities can then support a more intensely developed built fabric. The proposal for the residential precinct surrounding the park is based on dense bocks made up of a variety of housing plans to suit various family structures. These layouts are design to be flexible; they can be configured to allow for shared spaces, combined to become larger units or simply used as separate individual units. It is envisioned that a co-housing scheme is adopted to encourage a sharing culture and a sense of community.
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G IN US HO debashis biswas Email: suryadeb.au@gmail.com
Phone: +61 449 780 965
social sustainability IN FOCUS How to allocate new housing in an industrial zone?
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arrickville is a historic suburb which is known for its industrial development. There is a new proposal from the Council for the Carrington Road precinct that proposes to replace a light industrial zone with high-density housing blocks. The intent of this project is to question the approach of this new development and propose an alternative masterplan that promotes high-density housing without replacing the current established businesses. The proposal is to create a sustainable housing complex on the edge of an industrial area and existing housing. It includes converting an existing stormwater channel into a biodiversity corridor. This corridor will be a new community hub which will connect the area to the railway station and surrounding neighbourhood. I have incorporated innovative ideas and concepts related to what has recently been referred to as ‘live/work’ project. Gradually the development will merge with the existing housing in respect to density and function. My research shows that this development scheme will provide more affordable housing for the neighbourhood by replacing the low-density housing zone with mid-rise buildings. There is community opposition to the Council’s new development concept. I think my masterplan reflects the public voice and is a responsive development proposal which will create a better environment now and into the future. 167.
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G IN US HO minke bu Email: minkebu@gmail.com
Phone: +61 449 590 322
dandelion green How do we improve access to public open space with the provision of housing for low-income families?
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he provision of open space is often secondary in the current development of housing. But when high quality open spaces are provided, this can drive up the land values of the surrounding area. This is evident in the development of the High-Line in New York City, where urban renewal has led to gentrification. The relationship between affordable housing and open space is, therefore, inversely related; improved access to open space drives up the cost of land. The main focus of this project, ‘Dandelion Green’, is to provide more open space for lowincome families in Lakemba. The project employs three strategies to improve access to open space while reducing the probability for gentrification to occur and maintain affordability in housing. The first strategy is to develop land as a Community Land Trust (CLT). This will enforce a rental rate that is based on family income as opposed to market rates. The second strategy is to provide small scale open spaces. The last strategy is to encourage D.I.Y Community. Similar to D.I.Y. Urbanism, it is a low-cost and efficient method to develop a sense of community; space created by the residents for the residents.
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G IN US HO bien castillo Email: bienjcast@gmail.com
Phone: +61 430 363 263
new ideas, old buildings How can we reinvigorate Marrickville’s creative culture through adaptive re-use strategies that ensures ideas evolve from the past, instead of erasing history and starting again?
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he Sydenham to Bankstown Urban Renewal Corridor Plan for Marrickville recommends re-zoning the industrial precinct along Carrington Road for medium density housing. Carrington Road Precinct lies in the heart of a flood zone and it is also close to the noisy freight rail line – some of the factors that make the site unsuitable for housing. The precinct is currently also home to Marrickville’s cultural community. The tight network of light industrial warehouses provide low cost work spaces for these small businesses. The Corridor Plan will not only result in gentrification of most of these work spaces, but also deliver homes in a compromised location. Instead, the proposed design presents Carrington Road as Marrickville’s “Creative Hub”. It is imagine that this will be the focal point for local artists, manufacturers, independent startups, and entrepreneurs. The cultural aspect of Carrington Road comes to the forefront. New live-work housing facilities and studios are situated within the existing fabric, re-using where possible and integrating sensitively. The heritage-listed General Motors Assembly Factory has also been re-imagined to form the Multi-Arts Exhibition and Performance Centre. This innovative hub will showcase the cultural developments in the area and also add to the public amenity for the Marrickville community. 171.
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G IN US HO yan chao heng Email: y.c.heng@hotail.com
Phone: +61 434 584 789
Lessons of informality How can the principles from Tahj Rosmarin and James Connor’s ‘Lessons of Informality’ be adopted to provide more housing possibilities in Sydney, and to what extent can this elevate the
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et up as a way to regulate and maintain living standards of the populous, the current planning regulations have also resulted in Housing inaffordability. Limitations on minimum lot sizes and heritage precincts, for instance, ultimately drives up the cost of land. De-regulating housing allows for more sites to be adapted to accommodate more. This project provides an alternative to some of the current planning regulations. It is based on building a portable and modular housing system that can be deployed across various sites. Like a caravan park, occupiers have the freedom to decide where and for how long they choose to stay in a particular site, in this case, Marrickville. Each unit is portable, and can be expanded to suit the needs of the occupant. Additionally, communal and social space units can be scattered between the dwelling units to create spaces such as gardens, cafés or even a theatre. This suburban caravan park enables existing home owners to develop their land at a profit and at the same time provide more land for additional housing. It is a solution that promotes social interaction and provides the opportunity for affordable housing through a flexible framework.
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Cluster Apartments @ North
Linear Apartments @ South
Elevated Deck + Walkway Spanning Metro Line
Cycleway next to Railway
Central Park
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Future Apartment Buildings along Rail Line
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G IN US HO clara ho Email: homyclara@gmail.com
Phone: +61 474 846 814
the punchbowl to bankstown run Re-framing the Sydenham to Bankstown Urban Renewal Corridor for liveability
Along with the evident lack of detailed planning that appears to characterise the Department of Planning’s proposal for the Sydenham to Bankstown Urban Renewal Corridor, the location of the proposed development itself – the majority of which is planned to be built along a freight line – portrays a lack of even a basic understanding of what could be considered an appropriate place for housing. Liveability should never be sacrificed for the sake of density. With regard to buildings, a loose co-housing model with shared common spaces and private rooms is explored for the northern small cluster blocks to strengthen the community connection among the buildings while a linear housing model with various apartment types and sizes is developed for the southern block to create a shared community within the building. To bridge the divide that is the rail line, an elevated platform is proposed to unify the housing at the north and south as well as the underneath park, cycleway and community facilities. As a result, it could offer raised common spaces with ample solar access in winter, but also provide diverse shaded areas at park level for kids to play and for outdoor events and activities in summer. 175.
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G IN US HO lisa ho Email: lisa.ho222@gmail.com
Phone: +61 411 125 580
for the particularities of living How do we move away from the monotonous model of housing to diverse models that consider the particularities of living situations?
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hile standardised models of housing are continuing, one size does not fit all when it comes to living in today’s population of diverse cultures, household structures and living situations. Heterogeneous design is encouraged as a solution where
a series of interviews with unique households becomes the key driver in the proposal of personalised housing layouts that cater to particular living situations. The interviewed households become the project’s hypothetical residents establishing the variety in the way people live, the differences in household structures and home values, whether it be cultural or lifestyle. Based in Marrickville, an envisioned cooperative housing development consisting of individualised residential units and diverse on-site buildings, amenities and spaces offers needed heterogeneity on a micro to macro scale to successfully provide for all particularities of living situations. A human approach to urban living, this project focuses on individualisation, diversity and community by rejecting the homogeneous developer model of living.
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G IN US HO yuxin huang Email: yuxinhuang531@gmail.com
Phone: +61 414 761 599
Smaller + better How can we design a better micro-housing typology as a way to provide affordable housing in urban areas where land is limited and expensive?
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icro-housing is a typology of housing that challenges the required square metrerage of living spaces. This often results in smaller than usual housing units that is suitable for 1-2 persons, and is constructed from pre-fabricated techniques. The benefits of this is, theoretically, affordable housing in urban areas; expensive land can be developed to accommodate more and therefore cost less to build. However, the opposite can also occur. Developers can use this as an opportunity to develop more and make a larger profit margin. This project looks at developing micro-housing units in Bankstown, close to the new metro station, along the existing high street, whilst retaining existing shop-top housing. The Sydenham to Bankstown Urban Renewal Plan proposes new high-rise development along this street, which will result in the current shop-top housing being demolished. The current shops occupying the shop-top housing contributes to the vibrant and active street life in Bankstown. By maintain the existing, the character of place is not disrupted. The design of the new micro-housing development takes into account the existing community, promotes active street life and aims to create liveable, although small, spaces. It also employs a form of collective housing controls to ensure affordability.
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G IN US HO stavros kazantzidis
Rethinking density, building communities How can we transform the current closed, individualistic and profit-driven high-density housing developments into open, vertical communities that foster connections, share resources and live
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ur cities’ profit-driven housing developments have sidelined the needs of individuals and families in both affordability and liveability. The single-function high-density building typology—a remnant of the industrial era that separated living and work, housing from the neighbourhood, and occupants from each other—seems unstoppable as it marches across the urban landscape, driven by surging population growth. But alternative housing developments offer hope—such as the “Baugruppe” movement in Germany and the muchcelebrated “The Commons” in Melbourne. These models consider social issues of inclusion and community and, by incorporating mixed-use elements, fuel urban interaction and vitality, cutting the Gordian knot of closed, individualistic, profit-driven forms. Candalepas’ Revolution Apartments (Marrickville, NSW), which typifies the “business as usual” housing developments, has been selected to illustrate how an alternative approach could transform current developments in a post-industrial future. A range of programmatic interventions, alterations and additions transforms this development into an open, vertical community. The project also suggests new forms of home ownership to increase affordability and employs sustainable construction methods. As we rethink urban living and reshape the places that we call home, we create a new typology responsive to changing human needs by building communities, caring for our environment, and creating a truly social city.
Image opposite - The Open Street Housing Cluster Image above - Diverse Housing Typology and Street Thresholds Image below - Masterplan of Adaptive Street Strategy on Relocating Housing Area
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G IN US HO yaping ke Email: carolkeyp@gmail.com
Phone: +61432858456
Amenity-driven community How can walkable streets create vibrant and liveable neighbourhoods?
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he Sydenham to Bankstown Urban Renewal Corridor Strategy stipulates an approach centring housing density on the new metro stations. The proposal for Marrickville means that most of the housing will be located along its existing main street, Illawarra Road, and the Carrington Road industrial precinct, a flood zone and along a very noisy and frequent freight rail line. By improving the walkability along Illawarra Road through shared pedestrian roads, pedestrian prioritised streets and scattered open plazas, an area further south of the station towards the Cooks River will be a more suitable location for dense housing. South Illawarra road is imagined as a key north-south walkable link between station and riverside public realm. The open space along Cooks River will provide better amenity for residential development. The new residential precinct proposed looks at creating vibrant public spaces through providing diverse housing typologies at different scales and with different faรงade treatments. The threshold between residential and public active spaces on the ground level is carefully curated to enable harmonious living. A series of diverse open space types are also proposed, ranging from intimate to open, to encourage a variety of uses.
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G IN US HO mengying li Email: sukilimengying@gmail.com
Phone: +61 432 286 543
Housing above market How can the relationship between shopping and housing contribute to social interaction?
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hen carried out at an urban scale, housing is often accompanied by the big-box retailers. They exist in the dark, cavernous, centrally-located spaces of what we refer to as “podiums”. Supermarkets love these spaces – they’re windowless. The supermarkets suck the life off the adjacent streets. By doing so, they also turn what should be a social activity into something stripped down to a purely functional requirement – something that we have to do, a chore, rather than anything more than this. My project looks to Rome for clues to reverse this trend. It looks to the active and social market square as a key to informing the design of both our urban domain and the housing that frames it. I superimposed Rome’s Campo de Fiori on an existing carpark in Marrickville. It matched the width but not the length. I extended the length to suit. And this became my market square. The buildings followed suit – built to the boundaries, they defined the square as an outdoor room. Lightwells were cut in, to provide daylight and ventilation. Doubleheight winter gardens at the facade improved the throw of daylight into the internal spaces. Similarly, influenced by Rome, the internal arrangements of the apartments were designed for diversity – unique arrangements responding to particular households and personalities.
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G IN US HO yajing liu Email: wendyfabulous12138@gmail.com
Phone: +61 449 606 068
Multi-generation community Can multi-generational housing encourage social interactions across demographics and create a better sense of community?
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ocial isolation is a growing trend within communities in urban areas. Smaller family structures and denser living typologies contribute to this issue. As neighbourhoods develop almost instantaneously, the influx of strangers within a location makes it challenging to create a sense of community. This project aims to promote multi-generational living, not just within families, but within the community. Several strategies are adopted to enable this. For instance, each housing unit plan encompasses a shared kitchen and dining room. This room also opens onto shared hallway, wide enough to accommodate other communal activities, acting as the high rise “street�. The proposal also includes other shared amenities on the ground level, such as, a mall, fitness centre and even a child-care facility.
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Image opposite - Lakemba Street Perspective Image above - Masterplan Image below, left - A series of Interventions Image below, right - Infill Axonometric
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G IN US HO james masman Email: jamesmasman@gmail.com
Phone: +61 421 822 203
Density through design How can architectural design contribute to increasing the density of affordable housing?
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arry Seidler once described the transformation of inter-war Sydney – from a suburban landscape of detached dwellings to one ‘dominated’ by near-identical, low-rise brick apartment buildings – as ‘truly horrifying.’ Lot after lot of barrack type buildings reign with disproportionate dimensions and backyards denuded of vegetation. Cars dominate the ground plane and living rooms of adjacent blocks often face each other across deep, dark and narrow canyons. These ‘walkup flats’ are where a vast number of Sydney’s population lives. These buildings were designed over 50 years ago and haven’t changed since. While medium to high-rise apartment buildings may provide a lot of additional dwellings, a one-size-fits-all approach to the solution is neither realistic nor suitable. The diversity of the Sydney population should drive an approach that engenders diverse housing typologies achieved through different tenure types, building types, dwelling sizes, floor space configurations, lot arrangements and locations. The proliferation of walk-up flats within these suburbs provides a significant opportunity to address predicted population growth and the issue of providing affordable housing by addressing the ‘missing middle’ and other low density housing fit for renewal. This project investigates the potential of walk-up flats, how we can learn from the past, create new from the old, and how we as architects can contribute to the solution for the demand of affordable housing.
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G IN US HO xavier ooi Email: xavierooi.wy@gmail.com
Phone: +61 423 073 798
rehousing courtyards How can the courtyard housing typology be developed to suit different residential lot sizes at a variety of scales and densities whilst encouraging social interaction?
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ourtyard housing is the vernacular housing type for many cultures. The benefits of courtyard housing is typically derived from the internal, protected courtyard. This space is open to the sky and often forms the heart of the house, where social interactions take place. The courtyard spaces within large developments often do not share the same scale to traditional models and can end up with open spaces that are under-utilised. Rehousing Courtyards is a design scheme that looks at deploying courtyard housing across different lot sizes whilst maintaining an intimate scale of open space. Starting with a typical residential lot in Lakemba, different models of courtyard housing is tested to achieve different densities. The smallness of such development offers opportunities to build individual wealth. For instance, the current land owner may sub-divide and sell off part of their land. This project is ultimately a typology study of Courtyard housing, showcasing the versatility and benefits of the type to achieve density and at the same time maintain the amenity of private open space associated with single dwellings.
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G IN US HO hyan min park Email: hyunmin.park01@gmail.com
Phone: +614 020 383 987
Rehousing social housing How can we create an alternative social housing model in response to the deepening distrust in the effectiveness and necessity of social housing in New South Wales?
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ehousing Social Housing offers an alternative social housing model as a response to the deepening distrust in the effectiveness and necessity of social housing in NSW. The government’s plans to continue to reduce social housing stock and relocate displaced inner city housing to the edges, is a model that promotes inequality and class division. This project aims to provide affordable and liveable housing to the city’s essential workers who are often neglected in the social housing debate. This includes key workers, as well as other moderate income earners, such as, small scale entrepreneurs, artists, designers, writers and freelancers. Rehousing Social Housing proposes a government led co-living-andworking typology. This shared typology will encourage the cultivation of community and at the same time challenge the social stigma surrounding existing social housing residents. The proposed site, situated on the corner of Marrickville’s two main commercial strips offers a public face to social housing. The influx of working professionals will also boost the local suburban economy. The rental income from the work spaces will be directly used to subsidize the housing component, providing a prototype for a more economically sustainable social housing system.
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G IN US HO james paviour Email: james.paviour7@gmail.com
Phone: + 61 408 996 268
inverting the dream Can a development model that rejects the idea of ownership lead to more social, equitable and affordable housing while also re-framing the way we develop our cities?
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ousing in Australia has traditionally been underpinned by the concept of private ownership. The ‘Great Australian Dream’ currently permeates through our social, political and economic systems. What began as a means of offering security and autonomy in housing has today led to a situation where housing is seen as something to trade, invest in and profit from rather than a means to create safe, affordable and comfortable living environments. This project seeks to challenge the concept of home and land ownership by investigating the potential of renting as the primary mode of housing tenure. Specifically, the project explores how renting can positively change our living patterns (offering more choice and flexibility in dwelling types), engender greater social interaction (through increased communal program), improve affordability (by removing the financial incentive for housing development). The current ‘business as usual’ model that relies on planning and development controls to ensure adequate amenity does not result in good housing, social interaction or successful urban environments. The project suggests that if we were to remove private ownership from the equation, our current planning guidelines would no longer be necessary, and residential development could be based on a long-term outlook and the needs of the end user.
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G IN US HO kishore rajasekaran Email: rkitect.kishore@gmail.com
Phone: +61 406 219 105
‘Design is people’ How can we create a diverse housing model with creative spaces that enrich the neighbourhood character?
‘Design is People’ - Jane Jacobs (1961)
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ust as cities and the economy have changed over the past decades, there have been big changes in how people live and connect with each other. People have fewer opportunities for social interaction with the households requiring two incomes to make ends meet and the dislocation between housing and workplaces requiring longer commutes. Further, more people are expected to live alone in future. This project takes on the challenge to provide housing that recognizes these broader changes. A wide range of housing choice like live work opportunities, Cohousing and Flexibility in how the living and work spaces can be arranged, are crucial to support our future communities. The project is a response to the proposed development of the Carrington Road precinct in Marrickville from Industrial to Residential. The existing industrial zone supports creative industries that help define the cultural setting of the immediate neighbourhood and more broadly, the cultural events of the city as a whole. The current government proposal removes these vital industries for residential development, retail and commercial premises. My project seeks to retain the existing affordable spaces along with exploring the possibilities for an alternative housing model - an intensive, flexible, live-work mixed-use arrangement.
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G IN US HO ashraf shamsuddin Email: ashrafshamsuddin@gmail.com
Phone: +61 474 204 226
Community + housing How can I maintain the existing community, make it better while providing affordable housing that integrates amongst the existing community?
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urrent planning for increased residential densities throughout middle ring suburbs of Sydney supports amalgamation by large scale developers, limiting the potential for diversity in our housing and radically changing the character of these established communities. My project explores an alternative, incremental model of housing delivery. The incremental model supports small scale developments built over time. They acknowledge and take on the existing subdivision patterns and can be built by small scale developers or groups of future owner-occupiers. Within an incremental model, the potential for a greater diversity of housing types and affordability in construction is evident. Importantly, it allows our existing suburbs to gradually adapt and change over time, maintaining our existing communities.
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G IN US HO chelsea sheridan Email: chelsea.sheridan@hotmail.com
Phone: +61 488 014 925
creatING COMMUNITY How can we improve density while creating a community environment?
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ith the growing need for housing, it is almost as if people have forgotten what makes Sydney, Sydney. The new developments have taken over and have started eradicating the micro communities and culture that once belonged to the outskirts of Sydney. I have been trying to understand how such a disconnect can be resolved. What I have come to understand is that a dwelling’s potential far exceeds the space within. It is important to look at not just the house itself but the interconnecting outdoor spaces that help define a community from the outside. The fundamental issue with Wiley Park is the lack of amenity and community. By rejuvenating the hidden creek, feathering the water’s edge, and integrating housing and circulation into the landscape, the residents will be able to access and move through the site and overall regain their lost community. The building types include a modern take on the terrace house, at a scale and form that mimics the neighbouring typology, an apartment block with retail on the ground floor, a community centre opposite the school, and a folly, which serves as a pop up commercial or hire shop with a green roof that works as a living machine to help clean the creek.
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G IN US HO yIQING XIONG Email: yiqingx.s@gmail.com
Phone: +61416284869
CUBIC+ How can housing adapt to the changing lifecycles of Its occupants?
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dapting a new home to changing life phases can be a time consuming and expensive process. One way to address this is to develop a building plan that can be extended and adjusted to adapt to the changing life phases of residents, rather than frequent moving or buying new property. This project focuses on housing adaptability as a response to the multiple facets of changes within the human life cycle; we age and our lifestyle choices change, along with our spatial needs. The site is located within a district of Sydney Urban Renewal Corridor in Marrickville, Sydney. Dividing the long existing residential block with a new road towards the existing park and providing a public open space between the new building and current residential cluster would encourage and activate a new neighbourhood relationship. Housing adaptability can be achieved through two strategies – addition/extension of space and/or flexible internal walls.
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G IN US HO XUE TAO Email: xt.keith@gmail.com
Phone: +61 435 877 930
THE RIVERFRONT HIGH-RISE HOUSING HOW TO USE CYCLING TO REMOVES URBAN DENSITY?
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he government project “Sydenham to Bankstown Urban Renewal Corridor” outlines the future vision and character for suburbs (Bankstown, Punchbowl, Wiley Park, Lakemba, Belmore, Campsie, Canterbury, Hurlstone Park, Dulwich Hill, Marrickville and Sydenham). It looks at opportunities for more homes, jobs, bet¬ter public spaces, shops and cafes that are developing within walking distance of train stations of each suburbs. Although, the new masterplan shows out some improvements ap¬parently, there is an unintended impact may arise from new planning of urban renewal and development due to disproportionate (too dense) residential density around train sta¬tion, people live or work within the centre of suburbs or near train station may encoun¬ter crowded building/population environment, and lesser shared green/public space. A cen¬tralized residential building development around train station does not guarantee a better living environment for the residents. The quality living environment should nev¬er be sacrificed for the sake of distance to train station. It would make better sense that our most nature/ beautiful environment areas, serving the most people, have the best amenity. The main idea of development project “The Riverfront High-rise” is to re¬move amount of residential density away from Marrickville urban centre to somewhere near the Cook River to seek for more liveable en¬vironment. 205.
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G IN US HO hayden wooldridge Email: hayden@haydenwooldridge.com
Phone: +61 431 515 860
Towards a new old hurlstone park Is there a way to conserve an areas existing character whilst also allow density to increase?
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he Department of Planning recently suggested that the Inner West council prepare a planning proposal for a new heritage conservation area in Hurlstone Park. This was due to objections from residents regarding land zoning changes proposed under the Sydenham to Bankstown urban renewal plan. Residents believed the proposal would have an adverse impact on the character of the locality. Although the implementation of a heritage conservation area within Hurlstone Park would assist in maintaining the existing architectural character, its ability to provide adequate housing supply into the future would be diminished. This leads to exclusivity, forcing the existing community to disperse and inturn eroding the character the plan was originally trying to protect. A localities real character stems from the people who occupy it and the relationships created within it. This research led me to the following questions: Is there a way to conserve an areas existing architectural character whilst also increasing density? and; How can new building typologies foster meaningful interactions through the sharing of spaces, things and ideas? The response involves repurposing the underutilised 20m streets to allow an additional 12 metre layer of development. Within this 12 metres several new typologies were designed with a particular focus on the concepts of shared living and working. 207.
ROOF Vegetable garden Laundry Meeting point
ROOF Vegetable garden Laundry Meeting point LEVEL 7 Diverse apartments
LEVEL 20-23 Standard apartment
LEVEL 6 Diverse apartments
LEVEL 19 Co- living of small families
Shared living & kitchen & Dining space LEVEL 18
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Shared kitchen & Dining space Ping pong table Concept of Co-living for large families Shared Living space Shared Kitchen Shared Dining space LEVEL 1-4 Diverse apartments
Concept of Co-living for small families Shared Kitchen Shared Dining space
Barbecue Cross laminated timber wall
EXTERNAL FACADE Timber rods Shutters on outside of living room windows
GARDEN ENTRY SPACE Shared garden space between two family Enhance natural ventilation Winter garden
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G IN US HO ruoyu yi Email: annayih91@gmail.com
Phone: +61 435 713 219
Another way - a social, sustainable alternative How to enhance sustainability by Co-operative housing and urban farming?
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he recent development around the Canterbury train station is indicative of what might take shape along the Sydenham to Bankstown line. My project asks what could have been if the development was imagined through a different lens. I approached the development as a cooperative that gave equal priority to liveability, environmental sustainability and social interaction. Protected by two linear buildings as buffers along the railway line and Canterbury Road, the residential buildings are placed within the site. They stand on stilts to leave the ground plane open to the city. The natural topography is re-established and the opportunity taken up for filtering and partly containing the site’s water run-off before it reaches the river. At this open ground area, people are encouraged to engage with the river, tend to urban farm plots, and make use of the playgrounds and common facilities. Two residential types are proposed – private apartments and co-housing. Each type is dispersed through linear building and tower forms, allowing for different household types, for people of different orientations and housing needs. Garden areas punch through the buildings providing garden areas adjacent to the apartments. A high density but immensely liveable environment is provided based on how we want to live. 209.
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Cohousing Dining Room Folding Door for Pathway
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Shops in the First Level of Housing
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G IN US HO zhenli zhao Email: tonydzhao6666@gmail.com
Phone: +61 450 751 112
Social interaction and lilong housing Testing the Lilong Housing model of Shanghai in support of a low scale, socially vibrant community in Campsie.
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he Draft Plan for the Sydenham to Bankstown urban renewal corridor proposes 6000 additional dwellings in Campsie by 2036. The new dwellings are concentrated around the station and vary from high-rise to mid-rise apartments. The size of these developments together with the lack of connection between residents and between residents and the public realm evident in current residential development of this scale pose significant issues for social interaction and the development of community. My project takes Lilong Housing of Shanghai – a highly social and intensive housing model – and applies it to the contemporary setting of Campsie. The current housing stock in Campsie is predominantly made up of single houses and walkup flats. There are more than 1500 single houses on separate lots. If we take these properties and use an adapted version of the Lilong to increase the density of the suburb we can achieve the same (or a greater) number of dwellings as proposed in the Draft Plan. In contrast to the government proposal and the status quo, this approach would provide housing at a human scale – at 2-5 storeys – with a greater diversity of housing types and radically improved opportunity for social interaction. 211.
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The E xhibit ion C ommitte e consists of ele c te d student repres ent at ives f rom e ach st re am.
a r c h e x p r o j e c t managers
Architecture & High Performance Technology
The ARCHEX Te am for 2017, are resp onsble for br ing ing ARCHEX toget her, including t he e vent, t he c at a logue and many ot her t hings!
Architecture & Urban Conditions
claire boland ‘The Healthy Skyscraper’ Innovatively integrating health, sport and well-being into our high-rise buildings of tomorrow. clairejboland@gmail.com
Erin Arthur ‘Curiosity in the Built Form’ Exploring notions of curiosity in the built fabric to enhance scientific inquiry and the pursuit of knowledge. erin.arthur.93@gmail.com
brontË doherty ‘Bridge Point’ Rethinking the commercial tower typology with a focus on the permeability and activation of the lower levels, making them public. brontegdoherty@gmail.com
Architecture & Social Agency
Architecture & Housing
Benjamin ALlen ‘The School of Life’ Developing a physical framework that improves the communities social and emotional wellbeing. benjaminallen.1991@gmail.com
James Masman ‘Density Through Design’ How can architectural design contribute to increasing the density of affordable housing? jamesmasman@gmail.com
H ay d e n c o ’ b u r n ‘re:habitat’ Reorienting mental health care within urban communities to facilitate new relationships between the built environment
H ay d e n wooldridge
and its occupants.
‘The Macroscopic’
hayden.coburn@live.com
Reimagining the city through detailed interventions hayden@haydenwooldridge.com
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