Mitchell Ransome Portfolio
Mitchell Ransome 7 Dunfermline Ave, Greenvale. 3059 0432585676 mitchell.ransome@gmail.com
Education
Skills
St Bernards College - Essendon Year 7 - 12 / 2007 - 2011 University of Melbourne (The) - Parkville Bachelor of Environments Major in Architecture 2012 - 2014 Masters of Architecture 2015 - present
AutoCad 2015 - Advanced Revit 2015 - Intermediate Rhino 5 - Advanced Grasshopper - Intermediate Sketch Up - Intermediate Photoshop cc - Advanced Illustrator cc - Advanced InDesign cc - Advanced Lightroom cc - Advanced Premier Pro cc - Intermediate 3D Printing - Advanced Physicall Modelling - Advanced Woodworking - Advanced Photography - Advanced Printmaking (Piezography/Press) - Advanced
Awards >Best in year level - Visual Communications Year 11 >Perfect folios - Visual Communications Year 12 >Model of Villa Savoye in Best of Exhibition 2013 >Work Exhibited in MSD building library 2014 - 2015 >Work Exhibited in MSD Exhibitions 2015 - 2016
Work >Technion at MSD FabLab. July 2016 - present Skilled in Laser Cutting, CNC, 3D Printing >Work experience at BSS Design Essendon. 2009 Gained knowledge of basic CAD programs, and a small insight into the industry and workings of a practice. >Coles - Greenvale Customer Service Supervisor. 2009 - 2016 Customer service skills, money handling, supervising the workplace and other employees, writing the monthly newsletter.
>Tutoring at St Albans Sudanese after school care. 2009 >Year 12 Visual Communications tutoring St Bernards College 2013 - 3 week period Established Photography Portfolio disposablemitch.org - 2014 - present Interests >Photography / Film and Digital >Drawing >Etching / Dry-point >Painting >Carpentry >Skateboarding >Hiking
Referees Scott Woods Architecture Fellow, Melbourne School of Design. Coordinator Designing Environments, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning. Scottwilliamwoods@gmail.com 0412 886 020 Ravi Bessabava Lead Technician MSD, FabLab. Artist. Fabricator 0402522350 Robyn Porter Service Manager Coles - Greenvale 9333 9400 / 0409531125
Studio Water - Year 2 The brief was to design a Boat House / Restaurant that would be sited where the existing Studley park Boat House was. We were enabled to design with the influence of a specific modernist master according to each class. I was given Le Corbusier. This was the first real studio that opened my eyes to the possibilities of architecture and the slow development of a style, of concrete and form.
Studio Fire B - Year 3 The studio’s brief was to design a new gallery for the OutrÊ gallery franchise. The site was situated in the heart of Brunswick Sydney Road, my decision to envelop a harsh and brutal treatment to the design was to isolate the art and make the art the focus of the building. The facade was panelled in a perforated concrete modular shading system which would only let barley any light into the spaces to protect the art and remove the occupant from the outside world. This studio ran along side Fire studio A.
Studio Fire A - Year 3 The brief for the studio was to design an archive building for the University of Melbourne, the site was also in Brunswick just off Sydney Road. The Building was also developed with the same Perforated Concrete Building Modules to limit the light exposure with in the building to protect the archived stocks. Furthermore the building was designed to be a hulking mass to implore people to respect the building before them and respond in an overwhelmed fashion, making them unable to comprehend the mass before them. The the three buildings each housed different functions all connecting via a series of sky walkways allowing the occupants to revere the magnitude as they explore. To continue the grandeur of the building all the building functions were elevated to elevate the ground floor and bring in a forest conjuring some green space with in the heart of Brunswick.
Studio Concrete Dreams - Year 4 The studio’s brief was to re-develop over a disused Cement Works factory in Geelong. Site had massive 20m high relics of the old Cement Works, these silos towered over in comparison and there was no human scale. We were tasked to turn the site into a contemporary art space and a way to bring community engagement back to the area. My approach to the brief was to turn the site into almost a convent for artists on a scale near to the NGV, having living quarters for 32 artists to work and create a community around the gallery spaces and the central sculptural garden which doubled as the cloister. The idea of a modern convent was key to the design process as it motivated the design of the main gallery in a sort of cathedral like form as well the massiveness of the other buildings, re-developing and re-using the old and breathing a new life into the disused silos.
Construction Design - Year 4 Partner - Kai Yang We were tasked to design and build an office building with a floor plate efficiency of higher than 80%, was both structural and sustainably designed; and with in our own design considerations. The building that we came up with has a floor plate efficiency of 83%, using a post tensioned concrete structural system we were able to create a free working environment with in as well as include solar and passive shading devices to deal with the environment. The building was designed to show of the structure that it was constructed with hence the overall heavy concrete nature of the final.
Studio Gift to the City IV - Year 4 The studio I am currently enrolled in at the moment, we are tasked to design 4 galleries based on past and present artist interviews, dealing with a particular work of theirs. Then work outward and design 4 accompanying museums based off of an architect interview and intervene on existing museums, for the galleries to fit with in. Then like a Russian doll we are now designing the world that this all fits with in.
Ex-Lab: Digital Furniture Fabrication -Year 5 The tambour side table was solely motivated by having a drawer mechanism that would come be a surprise to the user. Following this design path a range of different mechanisms were produced and explored with the tambour system being the most elegant to fabricate. When the tambour front is pulled up over the interior drawer slides out in one motion producing the desired two-in-one surprise action. The Side table is made from Tasmanian Blackwood, Brushbox and Copper.
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Studio AMAL.GAM2 - Year 5 Partners Hana Nihill and Hans Liu Every year the Nendaz Alphorn competion happens, the resonance of the Swiss Alphorns are heard all through out the Alps. Re-awakening the sentinels that roam the range. They are invigorated by the sounds from the festival and start building tower like labyrinths of salt, deposited all over the natural landscape acting upon the traditional herding paths of old. An architecture born out of sound. 65 64
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AMAL.GAM2 // Hana Nihill, Mitchell Ransome, Hans Liu
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