ADESIG NPORTF OLIOBY GEORGI AHONAN
CONTENTS 03. Short Bio 04. Studio C : NGV Contemporary Semester 2, 2020 09. Studio D : Permanent Vacation Semester 1, 2021 17. Construction Design Semester 2, 2019 19. House of the Future : Casa Tolo Exchange Program, 2018 22. Architecture Design Studio : Air Semester 1, 2018
ABOUT ME I am an enthusiastic student with a willingness to learn and develop myself. I have a strong curiosity towards environmentally sustainable design and materials. I am experienced in a wide range of CAD programs and critical thinking in design as demonstrated throughout my university degrees and professional practices. The following is a small collection of works that I have completed during my studies at the University of Melbourne in my Bachelor of Environments, Master of Architecture and an exchange program that I undertook at TU Delft. I have a strong passion for digital modelling and rendering as illustrated in my following projects and I have really honed in on these skills throughout my university degree. I am highly skilled in physical modelling too and have a close attention to detail which is evident in my projects. I thrive in projects where teamwork plays an important role in achieving innovative design and feel that this is the best way to create both a positive and creative working environment.
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STUDIO C : NGV CONTEMPORARY Southbank has a lively arts scene that has been engrained into the city fabric over generations of Melburnians. NGV Contemporary is an architectural gesture that interweaves itself with its surrounding arts programs, bringing people together through built form, contemporary art, landscape, and social interaction, contextually framed by a multi-cultural Australian city. NGV Contemporary is a multi-sensory sequence of spaces that wraps its arms around visitors from all walks of life and creates opportunity for a woven sense of culture. Internal spaces are a reflection of interlaced program, blending together different art collections to inspire a new sense of culture that is inclusive and enriched by unique experience. As each person’s experience with culture is unique, numerous gallery junctions provide visitors with endless opportunity to explore artworks with moments for social interaction along the way through lawless circulation. The gallery draws on Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s concept of phenomenal transparency by dividing floor plates and shifting them up half a level to visually interweave gallery spaces and create a sense of continuous connection to all parts of the gallery. The two distinctive sites are bound together by a promenade forming a connection between Southbank Boulevard, City Road and St Kilda Road.
North-Western Aerial Perspective
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West Perspective
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Diagrammed Weave / Circulation
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This Ground Floor Plan illustrates the meeting of traffic entering off Southbank Boulevard and the Promenade off the First Floor. This traffic intertwines to create organised chaos where people then weave off around the back of the welcome desk to the beginning of the gallery space. Gallery spaces are divided and restitched together to create a permeability that connects all kinds of art. Finally, the double height gift store creates a visual connection to the exterior environment where passbyers can observe down into the Basement and Ground Floor level, interweaving itself with its external context.
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Promenade View into Double Height Gift Store
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Main Foyer Perspective
Ground Floor Gallery Space
Ground Floor Entrance
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Second Floor Gallery Space
Second Gallery Location Entrance
First Floor Gallery Space
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Second Floor Gallery Space
STUDIO D : PERMANENT VACATION Studio D called on me to design a carbon-neutral aged-care facility that caters for 120 residents. With Environmental systems at the forefront of my mind, I worked in collaboration with the Civil Engineering faculty at the University of Melbourne to produce a zero-carbon loop proposal for a site that is contextually framed by Ringwood. This studio’s exploration into environmental systems prompted my concept of phenomenology. That is, a philosophy that interweaves the human experience with its environment. As someone enters the final stages of life, I wanted to provide them with spaces that prompt them with a deeper sense of presence and environmental gratitude. I focused on celebrating natural elements of the building to reverse carbon modernity and jog human consciousness. Lynch’s ‘The Image of the City’ provided the framework to which I designed phenomenological spaces that played on people’s memory of laneways, edges, nodes, landmarks, and districts.
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South-East Perspective
Southern Aerial Perspective
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Kitchen Garden & Chicken Coop Perspective
Form-Finding
Start by peeling up the land from beneath the resident’s feet to unground them and express phenomenon.
Continue the streetscape along this ‘peel’ and extrude volumes from it to serve as public retail spaces.
Extrude central volume 16 m (four levels) to create a low-rise facility.
Slice up volume into an 8 x 8 x 8 m grid (as derived from the load-bearing capacity of CLT).
Delete modules to create internal courtyards to capture maximum natural daylight intake.
Slide each floor out from under each other to create cantilelevers for passive shading and to create lots of laneways that lead to more green spaces.
Vertically extrude massings to create double height spaces, break up corridors and maximise daylight entry. Additionally, this provides cantilevers to shade the below external spaces.
Provide external columns that speak to the 8 x 8 m grid in an illogical manner to interrupt expectation.
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Entrance 26 Carpark Gym Carpark Entrance Foyer Allied Health 18 Staff Administration & Kitchen Medical Storage Plant Room Biodigester 20 Heat Pump Ground Source Rainwater Tank Cafe & Bakery Hair Salon 22 Consultant Suites Emergancy Exit34 Commercial Kitchen Dining Space Well-Being Hub 24 34 TV Lounge Research & Creative Space Bookable Family Function Space Low-Care Residences Plaza Water Feature Yoga Space Outdoor Kitchen Chicken Coop 23 Miniature Golf Course Bocce Course Running Track High-Care Residences Cinema Lounge 34 Nurses Station
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The ground floor welcomes public access on the South-Eastern side with a commercial retail area. Spaces 13, 14 and 15 can be sublet by external businesses, generating additional income for the facility, and increasing community engagement. When entering through the main foyer space, line of site is directed towards the first and most central ‘landmark’: the staircase. Being a carbon neutral building, I chose to celebrate the aspects that make it so by revealing the back of house functions to the residents and public through the continued translucent façade that creeps its way into the internal spaces. The first floor is a celebration of greenspaces which not only break up the built form and has an abundance of mental and physical health benefits, but it also provides a natural cooling resource for outdoor temperature moderation. Residents continue walking up the peel, bypassing the main foyer space and are greeted by a large central plaza that contains a plethora of outdoor activities such as mini golf, outdoor chess and an athletics track which speaks to phenomenon through its irony. Internal partitions are plug in to the framework of the 8 x 8 m grid and break up spaces and circulation in unexpected ways, such as the circular TV lounge that juxtaposes the rigid form of the building. Long corridors are broken up by vertical plans to create break out spaces for residents to gather. The TV lounge has been designed in the image of a cinema to really emphasize the experience of entering a different ‘district’ and evoking a sense of phenomena when a resident exits one world into another.
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Design Theology
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Nodes & Circulation Typical Bedroom Perspective
Lines & Paths
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TV Lounge / Cinema Space Perspective
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Reversing Carbon Modernity : The Layers to Carbon Neutrality
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CONSTRUCTION DESIGN Construction Design is the analysis of specific architectural ideas to arrive at the evaluation and selection of implementation alternatives. Mixing built examples and project proposals, I show how to identify, evaluate and engage with the technological underpinnings of architecture. This project is the Elizabeth Blackburn School of Sciences; designed by Clarke Hopkins Clarke Architects and structurally engineered by Burns Hamilton & Partners. I was designated a particular section of the education centre and had to exhibit my understanding of the structural components and systems involved in realizing the project. 17
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TU DELFT EXCHANGE : CASA TOLO One of the studio’s that I undertook on exchange was a model studies of a ‘future house’. This was a group assignment where we worked as a team to study the design response an architect has generated to a particular future scenario. Alvaro Leite Siza created a residential project that directly responds to the topography of Portugal. He believed that architecture should complement the site’s landscape with as little changes made as possible to the natural environment.
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We investigated different model making techniques for both our physical and digital model, using skills such as laser cutting, CNC milling and 3D printing.
A LVA R O L E I T E S I Z A Alvaro Leite Siza is the son of the eponymous Alvaro Siza Vieira who has been a famous portuguese architect. Like his father Siza became an architect with a style similar in many ways to his father’s. Siza typically starts designing a building by making sketches of the terrain and environment to get a comprehensive understanding of the site. Siza doesn’t like to add a lot of windows into his buildings as he feels that it doesn’t fit with the climate of portugal as well as that it compromises privacy too much.
SITU ATIO N The Tolo house is situated on the south side of a hill near a town called Alvite in the north of Portugal. The site and orientation provide a scenic view of an opposite hill overlooking a small river. Hillside terraces were used for farming in these parts. The Tolo house follows this tradition.
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Pieter Oosterheert | Georgia Honan | Frederik Janum Friis | Caspar Sagarajah
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Model Photos
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STUDIO AIR : DIGITAL STEREONOTOMY In my architecture studio: Air, I explored the ability of using compression as a construction tool. I created a student precinct for the University of Melbourne that aims to welcome students and be a comfortable hot spot for them. The idea behind this project was that like the Armadillo Vault which abandons the use of mortar, the voussoirs are brought into compression due to the formwork of the structire and holds each other together. Using rhinovault coupled with grasshopper, I created an algorithm that enables seperate voussoirs to come into compression with each other and be structurally viable without the use of mortar.
Algorithmic Process
In addition, I experimented with using translucent concrete as the main material to create a stunning visual experience throughout the precinct, as shown in the following photos.
Construction Process
RhinoVault
Remeshing
Dual of mesh edges
Planarisation
Voussoir Generation
Form Generation based on structural equilibrium
MeshMachine to create half-edge meshes
Triangulate meshes are used produce their dual of hexagonal tessellations
Hexagonal tessellations are planarised via kangaroo
The tessellations are converted in a mesh and is offset at variable thicknesses
Fabricated Voussoirs
Falsework Prop-up
Voussoir Placement
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Decentring
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South-West Perspective
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Assemblage of Formwork that had been Laser Cut
Placement of the 3D Printed Voussoirs
Removal of Formwork & Stabilising Voussoirs
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Transluscent Concrete
