FOLIO REBECCA DOLORES MAHONEY 2016-2018
Contents 4 Thesis Studio: Jack’s Magazine
33 Exchange Semester: Structuralism
68 Biennale Exhibition: Hong Kong/ Shenzhen
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With each rotation of a kaleidoscope a new polychromatic fractal is generated. The same coloured beads combine to create unique displays with each turn. Heritage sites can be viewed in a multiplicitous way, like kaleidoscopes. The rotation of time has changed their use, patina and surrounding. Perspective has changed their value, importance and maintenance. As you turn a kaleidescope a new layer and new view is created in place of the old. Jacks magazine evolves in a similar manner. Diaphanous layers are built upon each new threshold, creating a movement through the site that increases privacy and complexity with each layer passed. At present in melbourne there is one specific respite hospital for australian defense force veterans suffering from anxiety and stress related mental illnesses. This proposal is for a treatment facility for those affected, as both in patients and outpatients, where they may transition back into a life of normalcy. The site, jacks magazine, a former munitions storage facility owned by the adf is here tranformed into a housing and rehabilition centre that integrates itself into the landscape, into the community and into the life of the patients. At jacks magazine no harsh boundaries are drawn, allowing patients and guests to live and recouperate without stigma and isolation.
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Most of those states are preserved by war; but. After they have acquired a supreme power over those around them, are ruined; for during peace, like a sword, they lose their brightness: the fault of which lies in the legislator, who never taught them how to be at rest.
-Aristotle, A treatise on government
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LUCY
VETERAN REHABILITATION
“The ideal model would be veterans only - these guys need to be 24-hours supervised. And (they need to be) supported
(through)
that
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phase that would be three months. They would then go into transitional housing - that transitional housing would then reintegrate them back into civilian life.� Lucy represents a typical patient referred to Jacks Magazine- She is currently living full time at Jacks and has done for the past 6 weeks. Her day is as follows.
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EXCHANGE SEMESTER TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY DELFT
Central
Beheer
Structuralist
was
buildings
one
of
the
first
to
be
realised
Dutch in
position of Apeldoorn within the Netherlands.
the
While the IT/ tech center will serve as a place
Netherlands. Designed by Herman Hertzberger
of work, it will also be a place of education and
the office building for insurance company Centraal
learning for the next generation within Apeldoorn,
Beheer was radical in its ideation.
for the town to up skill and retain its young
the 1960s saw the intended shift of administrative
residents. Secondly Centraal Beheer will act as a
power in the Netherlands from the Hague to
housing complex for mostly young small families
Apeldoorn, in the countries west. Centraal Beheer
and professional adults.
was an open plan office space built around four internal ‘streets’ by which all movement was based.
The two spaces have clarity and distance from them
Office space and leisure space were co-mingled,
as a means of separating live from work- a future
creating a new type of corporate space. The office
trend that is growing in the age of technological
was built around 9 m x 9m blocks, stacked and
reliance and obsession. The two are separated not
arranged around each other to crease a distinctive
only physically by architecturally.
massing that was formed to respond to
human
In retaining and valuing the original concrete
dimension and interaction. Centraal Beheer was
structure- a new expression is created. One that
to be truley transformative to office life, offering
removes everything but the structure itself and
occupants the ability to arrange and organise thier
builds around
lives and spaces within.
it in a way that creates a new appreciation for the existing system. This architectural gesture is
In the 1990s updates were made to teh building
a strong contrast to the retention of the original
by hertzberger to enclose and isloate some spaces,
facade within the work/ learn half of the building.
and connecting others. This was the end of Central
The positioning of the housing to the south is
Beheer as it was intended. The building has sat
purely for the advantage of sunlight and privacy
vacant since 2004.
from the main road that borders the site. However in retaining the facade at the north as existing-
Centraal Beheer as it is now needs to adapt to a new
it relays to the public that Centraal Beheer as it
range of function. Here is it proposed to become an
stands should and is valued for its architectural,
IT/ technology hub at the forefront of the future
social and societal value within its setting.
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THE LIFE WORK BALANCE
SOON Disconnection
NOW Hyper-connectivity
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POOR LIGHTING ON LOWER FLOORS
PROGRAMMING NON-HEIRARCHICAL SPACE
POOR CONNECTION TO TOWN AND TRANSPORT
STRIPPING AND REFILLING OF STRUCTURE VISUAL CONTINUTIY ON STREET FRONT
INNER VOID SPACE
SEPARATION OF LIVE/ WORK
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DEFINED/ EXTRUDED ENTRANCES
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REPROGRAMMING
GRAMMING
HOUSING ELECTRIC CAR PARKING
LOBBY ROOFTOP
WORK SPACES
PUBLIC SPACE SCHOOL BIKE STORAGE
DINING
OFFICES
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THE STREET
The street here has been changed from a dark public walk way along the major thorough fare of the ground and first floor to a vertical and horizontal `‘street’ acts as a transport and circulation route, as a meeting point, an informal working space, and also as a tribune for talks and presentations within the office/ schools. The concept here is to connect the work and learn spheres whilst also opening up the building, bringing light into the central area of the building, and visually connecting the two towers.
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63 m2
63 m2
72 m2
81 m2
120 m2
144 m2
162 m2
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The modularity of the 9 grid that defined Centraal Beheer is retained and celebrated in the housing silo proposed. The apartments are built on the skeleton of the old Centraal Beheer. Only the concrete grid structure remains with a new apartment supplanted within, made of a new material and aesthetic to emphasise the new program and old. Each apartment is located in one or more vertically arranged grid, each is oriented towards solar south with courtyards, cutouts and windows to maximise sunlight across all levels. The circulation space between spaces is mesh metals to facility light penetration. The lower floors house public amenity, access and shared space. The higher solely dwelling. the size of apartments reflect the desire for
a range of
demographics to be housed within.
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Hong Kong, Shenzhen bicity biennale of urbanism/ architecture 2015- 2016
The 2015 Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture
In January 2016 I traveled to Hong Kong and
and Urbanism proposes to exhibit, make, and
Shenzhen to participate in the HK/SHZ urbanism
discuss architecture that reflects the reuse
and architecture Biennale with a group of 25
and rethinking of existing buildings, the re-
other students from the Melbourne School of
imagination of our cities, and the remaking of
Design. Along with fellow student Hana Nihill,
our daily lives by design. It will be a biennale
we created a graphic exhibition that was an
of fragments, not abstract plans; of collage,
exploration into the urban villa phenomena in
not grids; of tactical urbanism, not top-down
Shenzhen as a speculative piece that explored
strategies.
the future potential of the unregulated villages in the face of a decreasing Chinese GDP and what this means for the mostly migrant workers that call these villages home.
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the 1990’s saw a continuing influx of migrants into Shenzhen. The population boom saw the urban village swell to accommodate even more activities and people. Densification sped ahead, inconsiderate of living standards and public amenity. The population that had lived in the original village grew richer, profiting on the ever-larger rental yields. The villagers sustained their rental payments with work in the factories that popped up intermittently throughout the city. Industrialisation was at full throttle, government regulations were pushing peripheral building higher and higher. The plots around the village became blocks of high cost living that walled in the ramshackle walk-ups. RDM Folio 2018
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The influx of migrant labour from different regions in China have led to a rapid increase of the demand for Low-rent ousing in urban villages particularly. This market-driven factor, to varying degrees, has triggered a large scale of housing expansions. The regulated public spaces between buildings have decreased from 8 metre and 3 metre to less than 1 metre; uilding heights have increased to over 10 storeys, ratio plot from 1.3 to 4.
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the 1990’s saw a continuing influx of migrants into Shenzhen. The population boom saw the urban village swell to acoomodate even more activities and people. Densification sped ahead, inconsiderate of living standards and public amenity. The population that had lived in the original village grew richer, profiting on the ever-larger rental yeilds. The villagers sustained their rental payments with work in the factories that popped up intermittently thoughout the city. Industrialisation was at full throttle, government regulations were pushing peripheral building higher and higher. The plots around the village became blocks of high cost living that walled in the ramshackle walk-ups.
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“The scope, speed and scale of transformation both from a social point of view, and from a geographical point of view, is quite unprecedented in human history” said Du. With an original population of 30,000 Shenzhen’s official population was 12 million in 2005, making the demographic 99% migrants. There is no easy way to capture the amount of traffic into and out of the city; the population is never static, or consistently calculated in official documents. Du believes that the 22 million active SIM cards registered in Shenzhen now may well be the most accurate description of the volume of people and activities observed in the city today. Shenzhen, historically called “Bao’on”, a territory of treasured peace was known for its tranquil beauty. In 1979, Deng Xiaoping established Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in the Pearl River Delta region, with Shenzhen being one of the zones, set up under common policies, receiving the same economic treatments with its peers. Shenzhen soon stood out among the SEZs not solely due to the growth in its population or economy, but also due to the amount of constructed landscape that totally changed the geography of the region.
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“I graduated from Sichuan Music and Art College. Having worked as a designer in the advertising industry, I started to feel bored, so I sold my business and moved to Dafen in Shenzhen to seek a new life. Unfortunately due to the financial crisis I could not find a job in Dafen Village. I relied on my family to support me. I felt so ashamed of having made the decision to move to Dafen. Eventually, I found a job in an electronics factory with a monthly salary of 900 RMB. In my spare time I started to paint, but my landlord disliked the smell of oil painting. I was forced to move into a dormitory in the factory. After Chinese New Year in 2010 I resigned from the factory and rented a small exhibition area in Dafen. It is bout 2 square meters and costs 500RMB each month. Since then I have started painting again. So I am now a painter in Dafen.” “I have been living in this house for two years, since I came to Shenzhen with my sister. For half a year, we operated a food stall selling fried food. One day, my sister told me that she was dating a local man. So she moved out of the house, found a new job, and started a new life. Now I live with somebody from my hometown. Besides selling fried food, we also do delivery jobs. I am trying to save 50,000 RMB. Then I will go back to my hometown and open a small restaurant. Life is not that desirable here.” RDM Folio 2018
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“In an urban milieu where context and the genius loci of a place have become subsidiary to economic and political considerations, reducing architecture to predetermined programs and their formal manifestation, the act of binding architecture into the story of its inhabitants can bring a new relevancy to the built environment, projecting, but not predicating the rules of its occupation.� _AD: Drawing Architecture 2013 However, the increase of multiple cultures and different regions of people have largely increased the community lifestyles within the villages. While some might reckon that urban villages are densified and vulgar, others, on the other hand, tend to regard this as a typical urban village culture which enables the residents to enjoy a busy and lively atmosphere among the modern CBD area. The creation of the flotation population was triggered by the increasingly larger urban-rural income gap, which has developed since the mid 1980s. Hundreds of millions of rural migrants have left their homes for cities for job opportunities and better lives, resulting in a huge labour pool in urban areas. As they circulate among jobs in different cities, rural migrants barely have a chance to obtain hukou. Consequently they are overlooked and excluded. _Pu Hao 2012 Utrecht University In 2004, the average floor area ratio and built-up density of urban villages in Shenzhen was 1.13 and 35% respectively, indicating that urban villages were much denser than the overall built-up area of the city. The construction intensities between the Special Economic Zone and the on SEZ were significantly different. With houses generally above six storeys, the average floor area ratio of urban villages in the SEZ was 2.7 and the average floor space of a single building was 506 m sq. However with much lower buildings, the floor area ratios of urban villages outside the SEZ was only 1.0 and the average floor space was 275 m sq. _Pu Hao 2012 Utrecht University RDM Folio 2018
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Jitters emanating from China’s equity and currency markets have exposed widespread fears that the way ahead will be rocky indeedan that Mr Xi and his colleagues are illequipped to navigate it.” _The Economist Jan 2016 “The problem is thus not an economic one per se. It is that a government once widely thought of as all powerful -even over markets- may be losing its grip.” _The Economist Jan 2016 “Computer-aided design technology has advanced rapidly in the past two decades and is now widely adopted by architects. Today, digital models can be produced faster and cheaper than physical ones. Despite being represented on a flat screen, the digital model appears to be three-dimensional since it can be rotate, moved and navigated in real time. Furthermore it can be rendered to produce photo-realistic still images. With these qualities, the digital model has undermined the primacy of the physical model as a representational device. At the same time, it has also largely replaced the working model, as it is easy to edit and thus even more suited for quick iterative design exploration than its physical counterpart.” “If robots are to be employed in the construction of high-rise structures, logistics and material systems have to be entirely rethought to cater for both their abilities and limitations: robots have limited loading capacity, but greater dexterity than other onsite, automated construction techniques.” _AD: Made By Robots, 2013 RDM Folio 2018