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Final Sketch
University of Melbourne Tutor: Peter Raisbeck & Karen Burns Year: 2012 Location: Cnr Victoria & Swanston St.
Initial Proposal Iterations
The issues of university identity, site identity (based in ritual, location and memory), the neighboring contextual legacy of architect-designed encounters with history and the mosaic pattern of small scale artisanal production in the central business district were explored. After the issues on site and its vicinity were recognized research was done in order find an appropriate way to approach design. Precedents were found, sketches were done and the ideas which came out of it were developed which lead way to the final design.
Masters Thesis Project
The new RMIT Design Hub on the corner of Swanston and Victoria Street is an important new site for design research, innovation and production. The building is an important new representation of design in a university setting and the city. In this studio an opportunity was provided to redesign a new design hub for RMIT.
The Lost Soul
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Before RMIT Design Hub building was built on site their used to be a brewery on site. This brewery building was very famous in Melbourne. There used to be a hotel on the corner of the brewery site. The main purpose of the hotel was to provide a place to exhibit and sell beer.
S T R E E T
After RMIT took over brewery building on site was demolished, but its spirit remains. As time passes, the occupants move on and are replaced by new occupants. The memory of the previous occupants of the spaces echoes in the hollowness of space. The basic concept for design is that this spirit or ghost of the old building is taking over the body of the new one.
Flinder Street Station
Upon further exploring the traditional concept of spirit I found that spirit is: - Formless, but possess the body of the new. - Reminds of the old. - Uncanny and unexpected from the usual. NGV
The intention of the thesis is to integrate the memories of the inhabitants of a site as an ingredient to build. By overlaying RMIT design hub building over old brewery layout, those parts of RMIT building are kept intact where there are remaining parts of brewery on site and the parts destroyed is where ghost of brewery takes over. This ghost deforms everything it touches producing uncanny spaces.
Initial Proposal
Concluding, sites get their meaning and identity from the memories that people have had of them. A new forced built intervention on a site deprives it of its desire to hold back certain collective memories and eventually the historical identity that used to unite the community of the place, gets erased from the city. This project is a recollection of all those memories integrated with the new ideas for a healthy future. Shrine of Remebrance
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Design CEMETRY
Process diagrams
Exhibition Space
Plan View View of Interior from Ramp
Image shows the interior urban space and the atrium above.
Design Concept
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Initially, there used to be a brewery on the site. When RMIT bought this land they demolished everything that was there, thus depriving site of its original memories.
Repititive factory like facade.
Assymetry
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Since, the old brewery building wasn’t repected so the design concept is that ghost or spirit of this building is now haunting the new RMIT design hub building. Draping cloth from deformed skeleton.
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Overlapping Rmt facade with the deformed ghost.
1. Public Space 2. Bicycle Stand 3. Lecture Theatre 4. Exhibition Space 5. Design Cemetry 6. Service Core 7. Game Area 8. Timber Workshop
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vIEW from North Entrance SECTION a-a
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Floors above contain compuetr labs, workspaces and student lounges. The open plan allows for better collabration between students encouraging group discussions and cross-pollination of ideas from one design faculty to the other. Atriums and open spaces provide visual access between different floors, thus keeping you in touch with your surroundings and making the user aware of things happening around him. This is done so that students can be inspired from their peers work.
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3D PRINTED PHYSICAL MODEL
Bird Eye View
Enlarged view of middle floors
Victoria & Swansto street intersection etrance
Enlarged View of Cantilevered Spaces
Front View
Swanston Street View
Night View
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Hybrid n3
University of Melbourne Tutor: Mikel Roman Year: 2012 Location: Lonsdale Street
Masters Studio Project
DESIGN PROCESS
The aim of this building is to celebrate different cultures in Melbourne. Hawker style markets, stalls and booths are proposed for the project so that retail can flourish. The retail areas are divided into different zones (using different level for each zone i.e: making use of the natural slope). Each zone is assigned with a different culture that is found in Melbourne e.g: Chinese, Aboriginal, Greek, Koreans etc.
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Detail Section
3RD Floor Landscape View
A performance space with a stage is also given to celebrate festivals of all these different cultures. The intention is to make this building a “Cultural Hub in Melbourne.�
Typical 1-Bedroom Units
Second Floor Plan Legend:
It has been observed that people of Melbourne love places like stalls or booths with a casual setting. Few of such examples are night markets in Melbourne and setup by Crown Casino at Chinese New Year. Keeping these things in mind this building seeks to celebrate diversity and cultures of Melbourne within an urban setup by welcoming it into the centre of the city.
Typical Aparment Floor Plan
Landscape/Paved Areas Ramps
Ground Floor Plan
Restaurant Retail
Typical 2-Bedroom Unit
Typical 3-Bedroom Unit
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Section A-A
Section B-B
Landscape Area
View into the central courtyard
Chinese theme based market
3D Section
View from Lt. Bourke Street China Town
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The aim is to blend in with the neighbouring buildings, while improving the general character of the neighbourhood.
Concept Diagrams
Idea Architecture [Office Work] Year: 2014 Location: Brisbane, Qld.
Apartment Building
The building is divided into 3 vertical parts so that it doesn’t appear as a huge block of mass. Darker colour and a different material is used for the top floor to make it less visible. Also, building is divided horizontally by different visual elements to reduce the appearance of the building as a huge block of mass.
Greenslopes
The 9 - storey high apartment building is being proposed in a residential suburb of Greenslopes in Brisbane. It will have a total of 103 apartments and a car space for 153 cars.
Site
Site extruded to allowable 8 - storey height
Front 3D View Mass pushed in to go with neighbourhood character
3D North - West View
As shown in section, car park for the units is provided on a split levels underground in the basement. The total number of car parks is 153. On ground floor space is provided so that rubbish truck can easily move in, collect rubbish and drive out.
Courtyards on Ground floor
Further offset to divide mass into 3 parts
3D North - East View
Offset on top floor to create common areas with city views
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3D South - West View
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Shadow Diagram 0900 (21 June)
North Elevation
Shadow Diagram 1200 (21 June)
Shadow Diagram 1500 (21 June)
West Elevation
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PHOTOMONTAGES
Street View fron North - West corner South Elevation
Typical Floor Plan
Level 8 Floor Plan
West Streetscape Elevation Along Lincoln Street
Street View fron South - West corner East Elevation
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The general concept for the design and arrangment of apartments is as follows: 1. The units on Ground floor will have entrances from the lobby and through the front yard from the street. 2. Other units on a typical floor plan will have access from the central lobby via lift.
Street View fron North - West corner
Ground Floor Plan
West Streetscape Elevation Along Lincoln Street
North Streetscape Elevation Along Flora Street
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Concept Diagrams
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After the re-zoning of the area by Brisbane City Council, half of the site falls in the medium residential zone and the other half falls in the high residential zone. Keeping these zoning restricitions in mind a concept is proposed for the site where building steps back to form common area on level 5. Level 6 steps back even further giving big balconies to the penthouses on this floor.
Apartment Building
The 8 - storey high apartment building is being proposed in a residential suburb of Upper Mt Gravatt in Brisbane. It will have a total of 49 apartments and a car space for 73 cars.
Idea Architecture [Office Work] Year: 2014 Location: Brisbane, Qld.
North- West Corner 3D View Arial South - West View
Arial North - West View
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Apartments are arranged in a way to have the minimum circulation area with a central core which inhabits a lift core, fire stair case, fire hydrant room, mechanical ventilation chute and a bin room.Effecient circulation area allows to have bigger apartments on each floor, and in some cases an extra bedroom. This helped in generating a yeild much higher than what client initially wanted. Level 5 has an access to the common area with bbq facilities, and Level 6 has penthouses with big balconies. The number of units towards front boundary are high so that more units can enjoy the mountain view on north side while getting the maximum sunlight.
Lower Ground Floor Plan
Front - North Elevation
Side - East Elevation
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Typical Floor Plan
Level 6 Floor Plan
Level 05 Floor Plan
Rear - South Elevation
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Side - West Elevation
North East Corner 3D View
Arial North - East View
Arial Soth - East View
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PHOTOMONTAGES
STREETSCAPE ELEVATION ALONG MOUNT GRAVATT CAPALABA ROAD
Street View fron North - East corner
Street View fron North - West corner Section 2
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Mixed Use Apartment Building
This was a quick design excercise to produce a building concept for the developer with retail on ground floor and apartments on upper floors. Client wanted to test the market and see if there is a demand for such project in a developement with alot of townhouses.
Coopers plain Concept
Public|Retail|Apartment Building|3D Printing
Initial models
Using revit file, a model was printed using an in house 3D printer for marketing purposes.
Idea Architecture [Office Work] Year: 2014 Location: Brisbane, Qld.
Site Plan
Final model in developer’s offfice
The building is divided into two parts so that there is a direct view from the site to the park at the rear. Ample parking is provided on ground floor for retail. An access is also provided on ground floor through ramp to the parking in basement.
Revit Concept Model
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Testing colours
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