GRADUATE DESIGN PORTFOLIO
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Architectural responses to the complexities that compose everyday our existence. Most recently that interest has lead me towards parametric design techniques that provide an effective means to process the huge amounts of information that architecture must consider. The same
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workflow allows physical manifestations of these architectures to be rapidly fabricated at full scale. Above all else I want in every way possible to engage with the contemporary discourse by continually interpreting the cultural, historical, political, economic and technical developments that shape architectural practise.
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This thesis is an investigation into the real world production of context specific, performative architecture.
Argument: Geometrically complex architecture can be produce locally, without excessive resources if an opportunistic or ‘optioneering’ approach is implemented. The potential to produce such architecture in
Per[form] in Place
Melbourne is accessed by testing the capacity of the local construction industry. A hypothetical project is used to provoke critical response from with a wide array of specialist involved in design, fabrication and construction and by this establish what constraints and opportunities exist. By understanding the various skills and technologies that are locally available, an architect is able to explore the benefits that parametric design offers and move towards the production of performative architectural solutions. The hypothetical project (Ripple) tested the potential of the articulated ribbon to respond sensitively to
Design Thesis
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contextual stimuli and produce engaging, program oriented affects.
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Supervisor: Stanislav Roudavski University of Melbourne
Culteral Overlay
[Organic ornamentation]
Tuneable System
[Grasshopper, Attractor Points]
Attractor Point
Articulation Through Internal Program and Deflection
Planes formed corresponding to floor heights.
[Grasshopper, Kangaroo]
Aligned to stairs
Anchor points are set.
Deflection is simulated.
Additional fixing points are set.
Ribbons panels are interpolated.
+31 600mm
Roof Top Bar
1st Floor
2nd Floor
3rd Floor
4th Floor
6th Floor
7th Floor
8th Floor
Scale 1:2000
+27 800mm
Exhibition Space
+24 800mm
Theatre
+20 100mm
Night Club
5th Floor
+15 300mm
Bar
+11 600mm
Restaurant
+8 400mm
Network Space
+4 700mm
Sushi Bar
+0mm
Retail North/South Section
North Elevation
West Elevation
South Elevation
East Elevation
Scale 1:2000
Ground Plan
Scale 1:200
Howey Lane
Swanston Street
Little Collins Street
Presgrave Place
Concrete core
Framing and infilling ribbon types.
Infill
Frame
Existing building
Highly adjustable by altering
angle of ribbons.
Segmentation of facade into panels for modular prefabrication.
Ground Floor Plan
Ribbon Articulation Affects
Natural curvature produced by
flexibility of polypropylene.
Load
[Catalogue]
Anchor Point Natural Curve
Linear
Morphing Static
Structural frame RHS 125 x 75 x 5mm
Ribbons
Curving
Primary vertical access
Structural optimization through bunching of vertical members, dependent upon ribbon angle.
Structural beam Tensile ribbons
Expanding
Polypropylene infill ribbons 250 x 6mm
between structural frame.
Spiralling
Glass curtain wall
Ribbon under tension, stretched
Vertical Rods
Polypropylene frame ribbons 400 x 6mm
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Entertainment Districts
Site Analysis
Study model four
Site model
Study model one
Study model two
Site model
Study model three
Buildings can help us understand our pasts; could they possibly allows us to predict the future?
Argument: When speculating on how the next century will unfold stoicism and escapism can be
Past City Future
considered the extreme stand points for the business-as-usual vs planned resilience paths. This project illustrates how these divergent futures could potentially play out in two adjacent buildings. Initially it considers how key historical events have delivered the buildings in their present state then shows how the site might change at six different times over the next 100 years given events such as the end of oil, climatic and political instability, a third world war and the loss of the internet. The building fabric records the physical response of the changing needs of its inhabitants.
Fifth Year Studio
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Supervisor: Ian Woodcock University of Melbourne
OPEN DECK
EXPOSED CROPS
RESIDENTIAL & SMALL BUSINESS
SHELTERED CROPS
ARTEFACT
REPOSITORY
COMMERCIAL
EAST-WEST SECTION
DORMITORY
OPEN DECK
SMALL BUSINESS
Solar collectors
Water tank RESIDENTIAL
SHELTERED CROPS
Materials HERITAGE
FOOD
SPACE
CROPS
Machines
Solar access
BAKERY Stack ventilation
Maze
THE WELL Lab ADMINISTRATION
COMMERCIAL
COMMERCIAL
APARTMENT
Reading room
RENDEZVOUS ROMANTIC BOOKS
MEDIA SCHOOL
THE WELL
THE WELL
EAST-WEST SECTION
RETAIL
Bookshop
EAST-WEST SECTION
EAST-WEST SECTION
STORAGE
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RESIDENTIAL & SMALL BUSINESS
OPEN DECK
RESIDENTIAL & SMALL BUSINESS
OPEN DECK
RESIDENTIAL & SMALL BUSINESS
OPEN DECK
Soy beans
Apples SHELTERED CROPS
EXPOSED
EXPOSED
CROPS
EXPOSED
SHELTERED CROPS
SHELTERED CROPS
CROPS
CROPS
Lettuce
Cabbages
ARTEFACT
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REPOSITORY
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Crop rotation
COMMERCIAL
COMMERCIAL
COMMERCIAL
THE WELL
EAST-WEST SECTION
EAST-WEST SECTION
EAST-WEST SECTION
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DORMITORY
MUSHROOM CROPS
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“I welcomed everyone to display their mementoes, to show where they came from. The Well became a repository for identity, gradually rebuilding our collective memories”.
Particular objects structure our understand of the city through their unique presence.
Argument: Boundaries are not experienced as exact delineations between adjacent
Structure of the FORM[less] City
domains as a map makers stark lines would suggest, rather they are as uneven gradients of intensity that provide places with an understandable structure. These gradients of intensity or presence are establish by the gestalt characteristics of certain objects in the landscape. FORM[less] addressed the undefined, spilling North West edge of Melbourne CBD, exploring the potential of an adaptable, dynamic icon at the cities periphery to strengthen the sense of entry into the city beyond.
Fourth Year Studio
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Supervisor: Ooi Wei Yap + Rutger Pasman University of Melbourne
STRUCTURE of the FORM[less] CITY
Society since the inception of the renaissance, society has experienced a rapidly accelerating rate of development and change. New technologies perpetuate this growing complexity. As a result cities are becoming more fluid; constantly in a state of dynamic growth they seep through historical boundaries, growing in presence. Social insecurities, political power struggles and above all the omnipotent economy devour the ‘old’ medium of a the city at a every greater rate; a builds expected life drops to below 10 years. The drive for constant renewal necessitates a new architectural paradigm, iconic, complex and shifting.
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Etihad
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OPEN SPACE
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Density Increase
Elements
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VEIL
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COMMUNITY
UNITS
SERVICE CORES
STRUCTURE
Gateway to the city 1:500
1:500
NORTH
Void
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WEST
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Form
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Publicaity
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In complex, demanding situations impure responses and discontinuous reactions thrive.
Argument: The use of irregular formal massing can provide a variety of heterogeneous internal and
Footscray Ideas Store
external spaces that satisfy the unique requirements of the functions in a mixed use development more effectively than orthogonal massing. When considering solar access, overlooking, edge condition, pedestrian access and the need for multiple apartment typologies more faceted, non linear arrangements yielded a greater range of characteristics, reduced the perceived grain size, maximised effective density and provided a more diverse array of spaces. Through this a human scale was maintained, idiosyncratic characteristics allowed a greater user connection to place and a unique
Fourth Year Studio
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identity is created.
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Supervisor: William Orr + Serge Biguzas University of Melbourne
Ground Floor Plan
Scale 1:1000
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EAST/WEST FACADE SECTION
First Floor Plan
Scale 1:1000
UP DN
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1_250mm insulated conc. wall. 2_100x40mm timber outrigger. 3_120mm wide timber louvre fixed inside vertcal support. 4_Recessed timber frame window. 5_Operable glass louver. 6_150mm conc. slab. 7_Peer insulated suspended ceiling. 8_2300mm high glazed curtain wall. 9_90x40mm timber top plate. 10_100x40mm timbre vertical louver. 11_50mm furring channel. 12_Plywood external cladding. 13_Steel T section
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Second Floor Plan
Scale 1:1000
South Elevation
Scale 1:1000
East Elevation
Scale 1:1000
Patterns can be applied as a type of rule that allow us to effectively cope with complexity.
Argument: Patterns offer an effective means for dealing with complex arrangements and are particularly
Binningup Master Plan
useful as organisational tools at a large scale. This master planning exercise for a small, coastal town tests how a single formula can simultaneously respond to existing landscape topography as well are the varying needs of tenant for variation in lot size, proximity to town centre, street, neighbourhood and community size. The radiating green belts define neighbourhoods and provide direct pedestrian/cycle access to the town centre. Where possible they run across the tops of the coast dunes, keeping the crests free from housing developments in order to maintain a vegetated skyline. The size of the lattice
Third Year Studio
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reflects the increase in housing density as the belts converge at the central point.
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Supervisor: Carly Barrett University of Western Australia
FEATURES TOWN CENTRE IS WITHIN 250m OF BEACH CENTRAL TO NEW DEVELOPMENT BUILT ON FLAT LAND RESIDENTIAL DENSITY RADIATES FROM TOWN CENTRE HIGH DENSITY - 350m2 (537) MEDIUM DENSITY - 600m2 (360) LOW DENSITY - 950m2 (311) TOTAL - 1208 LOTS RELOCATION OF GOLF COURSE TO REMOVE BOTTLENECK BETWEEN OLD AND NEW TOWN GREEN RAYS INCORPORATE 95% OF TUART AREAS AND 100% OF COASTAL RESERVE ROAD NETWORK RED - TWO WAY, OBSCURED IN GREEN RAYS CUL DE SACS USED FOR PRIVACY TWO WAY ROADS SINGLE LANE ROADS
SOLAR FIELDS WIND TURBINES
RENEWABLE ENERGY FOUR WIND TURBINES IN SW CORNER FOUR SOLAR PANEL FIELDS ON NORTHERN SLOPES WITHIN GREEN RAYS PUBLIC FACILITIES: -PUB -PRIMARY SCHOOL -CONFERENCE CENTRE -SPORTING OVAL OPEN SPACE COMMUNITY OPEN SPACE DISTRIBUTED EVENLY
RETAINED LAND EXISTING TOWN PUBLIC FACILITIES LAKES COMMUNITY PARKS GOLF GREENS PROPOSED RESIDENTIAL GREEN RAYS SCALE 1:10 000
MASTER PLAN
RETAIL/PUBLIC FACILITIES
COMMUNITY OPEN SPACE
MODELS EXAMINE CONFIGURATION OF GREEN RAYS
HIGH DENSITY LOT
LOT
FOOT PATH
DOUBLE LANE ROAD
VERGE
SINGLE LANE ROAD
VERGE
SETBACK
LOTS
MEDIUM DENSITY LOT
FOOT PATH
SETBACK
LOW DENSITY SEALED TRACK
LOT EXAMINATION OF SPATIAL QUALITIES WITH RESIDENTIAL ZONES
SETBACK
SCALE 1:1000
GREEN RAYS ACROSS CRESTS OF DUNES MAIN ROADS RUN THROUGH GREEN RAYS DECREASING RESIDENTIAL DENSITY TOWARDS PERIPHERY
TOWN CENTRE
SCALE 1:10 000
ROAD
HIGH DENSITY RESIDENTIAL
MEDIUM DENSITY RESIDENTIAL
LOW DENSITY RESIDENTIAL
GREEN RAY OVER DUNE CREST
Internal/external overlap provided by various types of filters.
One Station Cigars
Argument: Careful meditation between internal and external environments is vital to ensure that both internal functions are invigorated by street life and that the public urban space is activated by the private functions that surround it. 101 Station Street seeks to explore this relationship and in doing so invigorate at previously underutilized street corner. To achieve this, a series of folded lourved screens are used to sensitively control different level of visual and acoustic permeability as required by the projects different functions.
Third Year Documentation Studio
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Supervisor: Kate Heslop University of Western Australia
Architecture through mimetic, narrative and nuanced understanding of place.
Argument: In a vast site that is devoid of personality, cultural mimetics can inform a radical architectural
Harmony Fields Pavilion
statement to compose a project that is referential of its historical context, its physical surround and in doing so solidify a distinct local identity. The aim is not to reproduce the material or rhetorical characteristics but rather to reinterpret both in a contemporary manor. Formal references to the aboriginal rainbow serpent are fused with material references to the cracked suburban sidewalks by the pavers used to clad the main pavilion. Rippling retaining walls define a series of interconnected open air encampments and provide a surface for memorial plaques that commemorate the elders and
Third Year Studio
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leaders of the area.
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Supervisor: Amanda Davis University of Western Australia
Digital vs analogue subject positioning.
Films/Fliters
of every image - and rightly so - photographic honesty is rare, if it exists at all. Through photography the author physically and/or digitally describes a reality of their own making. Films/Filters challenges the perceived dominance of digital techniques in subject positioning by using mechanical/analogue devices to achieve the same results.
Photographic Exhibition
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Argument: Our everyday lives are oversaturated by digitally enhanced photography. We are suspicious
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Conscious, experience informed digital design processes emotive spaces.
Visual Communications
Argument: Digital modelling tools are often criticized as merely providing the means for formal enquiry response without engaging with the human experience of space. In this class students were asked to choose a word that could describe a special experience, then use digital tools to illustrate that special sensation. The formal outcomes were a product of the each student’s individual interpretation of a spatial experience.
Tutoring at Melbourne University
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Supervisor: Lindy Jouber University of Melbourne
Matthew Harkin
Anastasia Sklavakis
James Woolway Emily Flint