PORTFOLIO Dan Dorocic
Vitruvian Dan
Creativity
“architecture’s beauty is directly proportional to its horror”
Education Languages English German Croatian French Spanish
fluent fluent fluent intermediate intermediate
2011
M.Arch II
2010
M.Arch
Bergen Arkitectskole Melbourne School Of Design
2009 Design Studio OCAD University,Toronto 2007 B.Sc McGill Universty, Montreal 2002
HS Diploma
De La Salle College Toronto
Experience
Architecture experience Will Alsop Student Architect
Cicada Design, Toronto June - August 2011 Intern
August-October 2009
Studio 505, Melbourne Student Architect/ Model Maker`
January-March 2011
To whom it may concern, Architecture has long been a presence in my life. My mother, an architect, often took me along to her office, where I spent endless hours exploring the world under her drafting tables. Hole punches were dismantled to release the ‘confetti’ inside, small drawings were photocopied and blown up to many times their size, and paper airplanes and buildings were modeled, constructed, and built– all leaving a very nostalgic impression upon me. I have moved homes frequently, residing in Croatia Germany, and Canada all before the age of twelve. This urban nomadic lifestyle affected my personality, as I easily integrate into new environments, communities, and social circles. Real estate figured prominently in my parents’ lives. They took it upon themselves to personally redesign and renovate each home in succession. Needless to say, I took great interests in the transformations, noting how fluid the layout of a house can be and the possibilities of designing space. Past experience is a key factor that determines present understanding, how one perceives the world and one’s success as a designer. I believe the experience of continuous movement weighs heavily upon my worldview. I see man’s life as very ephemeral and transient on the surface of the earth. Thus I believe that man’s architecture should reflect man’s dynamic lifestyle. Architecture should act as a formula of the landscape. The urban environment should not stray away from the natural environment. Architecture itself should be a system of sustaining man and nature in a harmonious way. It shouldn’t only shelter, buffer, and remove us from the harshness of the environment but it should keep us tied to it even in an urban setting. Only in this way does it function. Architecture is not only shelter, but it is a monument left behind by generations past, exalting their cultural ideals. Ambi¬tion and drive lets one materialize and utilize ideas. I am very grateful to have such driven parents, providing me the opportunity to experience so much in my youth and to prove to me that with a creative perspective and ambition, anything is possible. I graduated from McGill University in 2007 with a B.Sc. of Geography, but have always been interested in architecture and design. During my undergraduate studies, I took courses in urban planning and architectural history. I wanted to be more involved in the arts, so I organized ‘art nights’, where I initiated projects making and modifying sculpture, cloth, stencils, canvases and murals with others. I was also very interested in my classes on geology, hydrology, and the environment. I scored a GPA of 3.3 (B+). These courses sparked my interest in ideas of social responsibility and environmental consciousness. I then went on to Uni Melbourne where I achiever an H1 in my first year (85% average). Many problems arise when thinking about constructions sustainably. In our modern age of many comforts and excess, it is hard to look into a simpler way of being and creating. I have always been very interested in both science and art, and felt that a choice had to be made between the two. Yet this does not have to be the case, as architecture offers a space in which balance is sought between the two. I have always had a passion for creating. At first I wanted complete freedom to created art, it’s lack of utility in the end made me feel empty. Although there are many sciences, which I am interested in, none have been as persistent in my life as my reverence for design. I am ultimately inspired by the improvement of everyday objects, appliances, and our urban environment in terms of utility, beauty and sustainability. Since graduating in 2006, I have traveled to Germany, Scandinavia, Croatia, much of the Balkans, Israel and the West Bank, Costa Rica and Panama, and attended some design and furniture fairs in Singapore, Bangkok and Hong Kong. Along the way I was inspired to sometimes quickly take pictures, sketch my surroundings, sometimes make artwork, and definitely write and collected many ideas for future works and projects. These places inspired me in many different ways and made me more world-conscious. In the future I hope to obtain an M. Arch and further my proficiency in the language of design. I believe that there is a lot of room to improve upon design today to make the world a more sustainable place. Ultimately, architecture as a system of ideals encompassing nature and the urban environment equals more sustainable design and more sustainable architecture.
Environment Chernobyl Crisis (on my birthday)
Australia gets medicare
1984 1984
Cold War Ends
1990 1990
Bill Clinton
Helmut Kohl
1995 1995
Boris Yeltsin
1996
1996
Education
8 different high schools
Learned German Learned to Talk (croatian)
Learned to Ski
ExperienceMoved to Gave grandma a fright
English
OCAD
Ilke ♥
Snowboard Instructor
Learned to sail
travelled around balkans
Moved To Canada
Germany
Melbourne
McGill
Briony ♥
Moved To Australia
Siobhan
Molly ♥
♥
Creativity First ‘Gallery’ Exhibition
Taught art class in Palestine First ‘Architecture’ Project
First Design Collective
First out of body experience
9/11 attacks BUSH The European Court of Human Rights is instituted. 2001
2001
Swine Flu
SARS
Iceland Erupts
TSUNAMI Large Hadron 2007 Collider
2007
2011
2011
TRAVEL EXPERIENCE
WORK EXPERIENCE
Photographer/ Journalist
Art Teacher/ Volunteer Student architect
Student architect
partner
Intern
Student architect
Photographer/ Journalist
Photographer Worked as a Journalist for various independent magazines AROUND AUSTRALIA including Vice.
spoof
JALAZONE REFUGEE CAMP Art Teacher/ Volunteer Jalazone camp was established in 1949 on 0.25 square kilometres of rocky hillside 7km north of Ramallah. Most of the original refugees came from 36 villages in the Lydd and Ramleh areas. Like other West Bank camps, it was established on land UNRWA leased from the government of Jordan. The camp came under joint Israeli-Palestinian control following the Oslo agreements. All shelters are connected to public water and electricity, but many are not connected to the sewerage system, instead using private latrines connected to percolation pits or allowing waste water to flood into the roads. Small businesses in the camp have increased as it has become increasingly difficult for workers to gain access to the Israeli labour market. SITUATION
More than 11,000 registered refugees Two schools, one running on a double-shift Lack of sewage system Overcrowded schools
Volunteer/ Geologist/ Farmer PERMACULTURE FARM
The Bustan Qaraaqa mission is to propagate a grassroots environmental movement in the Palestinian Territories to help combat ongoing humanitarian and environmental crises. To this end we are continuously developing and refining ideas for ways in which people can get the resources they need from the environment around them, and in addition, ways in which people can take action to limit their environmental impacts, protecting and nurturing the system that sustains them. Our ideas are tried and tested at Bustan Qaraaqa, as we strive to create a model for full sustainability (Permanent Culture). In addition, we are active in the local community as we seek to share these ideas, strengthening environmental consciousness, supporting community initiatives and seeking environmental justice.
Studio 505 Student architect
http://www.pixelbuilding.com.au/
Designed by Studio 505 Architects in association with environmental sustainability design consultants Umow Lai, Pixel ticks just about every “green� box imaginable. You could say the book of sustainability has been thrown at it just to prove how easy - or hard - it is to be green. Some of the features packed into its four storeys include a roof planted with native grasses for water collection and filtering, fixed and sun-tracking photovoltaic panels on the roof, a bank of three vertical wind turbines (interestingly, locked down on the day I visited the building, despite a gentle breeze), reed-bed ledges around each of its four storeys to filter grey water and shade windows , night purging of warm air for cooling of interiors, ammonia refrigeration, vacuum toilets, radiant cooling and development of a structural concrete, with a high proportion of recycled and reclaimed aggregates in its mix, that uses about half the embodied carbon in its manufacture.
Sketch Model 1:200
Melbourne Tower Proposal
1:100 Model
The $100 million building will be made from soft-wood panels imported from Europe and fitted together in weeks to make 50 apartments over 10 storeys. The Grocon building, including its lift shafts, will be all timber, and will use similar technology to the nine-storey residential Stadthaus at Hackney, East London. The building,to be known as Delta,will be carbon neutral and have its own gas-fired electrical generator powered by waste woodchips, and a rainwater and a grey-water recycling system.
2md floor
Design process
Ground Floor
Basemement Concept The project is part of a series of beautifully designed projects that includes the Pixel zero carbon building at the Carlton Brewery site in downtown Melbourne. The 50-unit residential tower will stand 10-12 stories tall atop a heritage bluestone building. The tower will be composed of prefabricated laminated FSC timbers that will be locally sourced. The project’s carbon neutral design goes well beyond the materials used, and the building is also seeking Passive House certification, easily making it the most efficient building in the country. The building is aiming for a recordbreaking 105 Green Star points as well — 100 from the base and 5 innovation points.
Endless Forest Fence Brisbane, Ausralia
1:50 physical Model
inspiration
a residential screen
Iteration 1
Inspired by an endless forest
iteration 2
laser cut double sided mirrors
Design Sketches
Creating a seemingly endless illusion
Lotus Hall
A lotus flower serves as a meeting hall floating in a pond
Wujin, China
section
1st iteration
in plan 1:750 site Model
PROJECT
mixed use complex
8TH FLOOR 4-7TH FLOOR 3RD FLOOR 2ND FLOOR
1ST FLOOR
PROGRAM
SHOPPING
VERTICAL ACCESS
PEDESTRIAN PEDESTRIAN
CAR
PEDESTRIAN CAR
HOTEL
EDUCATION
2006
2009
2011
2012
SCHOOL WORK Temporary
Studio
Plan
concept
axo
axo site
section Melbourne University
types of encounters with the ‘decking’
physical models
perspective
Exterior Perspective of temporary workshop project
Second year project for the redevelopment of an existing university building for 3 000 students.
concept model for massing of spaces - where do you insert the fun? circulation!
Exterior Perspective
interior Perspective
Site Plan Exploded University building
3D model
CREATIVITY
context
Trends
precedent study
How the story pans out is still up to US.
noise