2019 ARCHITECTURE Architecture Masterclas STUDENT PORTFOLIO
A WITH BY DIALOGUE JULIE PHAM MAN’S INSTRUMENT A MACHINE Master of Architecture A structure can do more than just support a building… it can be a socially interactive machine that is adaptable to the shifting conditions of its time and place... Architecture as a dialogue of time, one that tells stories of the past, maintains a conversation with the present and communicates with the future through its form and function. Architecture as man’s instrument to the sea, a concept of hand craft and drawings that are built to extend human action beyond land and drift onto the transient field. Architecture as a machine, investigating and reimagining the possibilities of a structure and a surface to serve more than one purpose, to transform, adapt, and be alive.
T i R c t r b T p t p a a h b t T s e
A r a b r a l o a v t J b a p b s r w b b d i
2018 Master Studio A SUBURBAN ASSEMBLY working in & in-between the existing, placing new interventions informed by a mechanical item to assemble the city
THE SIXTH ASSEMBLY MECHANICAL ASSEMBLY : PIANO KEY STRING & PERCUSSION SOFT & LOUD The city is like a piano, an organ that houses many keys to a different note, otherwise, the city houses many people who open doors to different functions When the keys begin to move, a sound is made, when the people wake up, the quiet surrounds begin to play a sound. Keys perform different sounds & activites that activate the piano/city/organ of people
Forms & functions begin at a public level of engagement on the ground floor, fitted within the context of the existing site, & weaving up towards the residential environment. Through removing centrally existing buildings, a new laneway is placed representing the piano key displayed as the main area that activates the site, guiding visitors towards public gathering spaces through structures that bind the north & south.
Upper forms function as living environments. Structures connecting these forms to the public grounds function as vertical access paths, leading the resident to the communal spaces. Residents later disperse out to housing units that take on rectangular & curved forms, informed by the mechanical assembly. Forms are displaced to display openness & transparency vertically & horizontally across the site, providing connection between site occupants & visitors who tie the displacements together, & activate the suburban assembly.
Mechanical Assembly - piano key
LANDRIDGE
VICTORIA
HODDLE ST
RUPERT ST
ROKEBY ST
WELLINGTON
SMITH ST
ST
GIPPS ST
ST
Site
PDE
Composition
Collingwood , Victoria
LOCATION PLAN
Assembly of functions & activity
site bounded by Gipps St, Landridge St, Rokeby St, Rupert St
1:1500
site functions 0
20
40
60
industrial warehouses, manufacturers, re-adapted creative studios
EXISTING SITE INTERPRETATION
CONCEPT DESIGN
Connection
10
GIPPS ST
7
3
LANDRIDGE ST
RUPERT ST
3 2 7
ROKEBY ST
COMMUNAL LIVING KITCHEN
LAUNDRY BIKE
CAD-O
existing forms & new interventions- the mechanical assembly sown into the existing conditions to implement a living machine activating the site
SITE PLAN & SECTION
the public realm circulates across the ground floor through a new main laneway cutting north-south centrally in the site, crossing with small existing laneways emtering from east & west towards central
1:500
moving up, the public realm begins to merge with residential forms & functions 0
5
10
20
50m
residents move towards their housing areas passing through communal shared forms, & eventually disperse out to the private sleeping areas
HOUSING OPTION 2 SOLO LIVING
HOUSING OPTION 1 FAMILY/SHARED LIVING
- bathrooms shared amongst group of people living in the pod - kitchen shared amongst other residential pods - laundry shared amongst other residents
- core consists of bathroom & kitchen, allowing adaptable uses around the core providing outlook into communal spaces or surrounding site - laundry shared amongst other residents
DESIGN - casement windows open to personal garden providing physical presence of nature & cooling strategies - passive cooling from floor, through windows, through roof - roof accessible to adjustable solar shading device, & sky connection for resident from their room
DESIGN - louvred encagement providing external filters of light & shade - walls openable to connect with neighbour, or perhaps a larger family to combine 2 units into one - public private adaptation through 2 levels of flooring
DETAILED SECTION -
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1
2
1:100
5m
HOUSING FORMS
RESIDENT’S JOURNEY HOME
Curved structure: family / shared housing units Rectangular structure: individual sleeping units
Cycle up bike path into bike storage & laundry washing area, collect clothing, move up through to communal living/ dining / kitchen to socialise with residents... disperse to private living space - take ramp or stairs up into housing/sleeping units...
VISITOR’S EXPERIENCE WITH METAPHORS OF NATURE THE PUBLIC KEY
- a guided visitors experience through the main laneway formed across the centre of the site leading to central courtyards of events - light steel structure providing views down into public laneway, up into the sky & activities around the site - appeals to a visitor’s sense of safety walking through laneways - a play with the structure enclosure through physical presence of nature planter boxes, shiftable up and down to create different play of light, shade & views
WORKER’S EXPERIENCE WITH SENSES COURTYARD
- formed within spaces found between existing buildings, protected from strong winds to cater for sensory events & activities in the urban setting - curved structure visually circles the courtyard, allowing further attachment of objects or structures for enclosure capabilities protecting the use of the space in winter - courtyard situated as a discovery of nature or green spaces inside the built environment
RESIDENT’S EXPERIENCES WITH TIME LIVING LAYERS
- looking up within the site you’ll find forms joined by angular & curved structure forming a mechanism of residential styles of living with experience of time through sight of daily routine & movement above - forms are placed in varying rotations to maintain open & dense views of the sky - layers in view consist of curved structures that support smaller forms which overlap between private and communal living spaces
COMIC - EXPERIENCE THROUGH THE SIXTH ASSEMBLY
STUDY MODEL
FINAL MODEL
2019 Architecture Masterclas
A DIALOGUE WITH MAN’S INSTRUMENT A MACHINE A structure can do more than just support a building… it can be a socially interactive machine that is adaptable to the shifting conditions of its time and place... Architecture as a dialogue of time, one that tells stories of the past, maintains a conversation with the present and communicates with the future through its form and function. Architecture as man’s instrument to the sea, a concept of hand craft and drawings that are built to extend human action beyond land and drift onto the transient field. Architecture as a machine, investigating and reimagining the possibilities of a structure and a surface to serve more than one purpose, to transform, adapt, and be alive.
T i R c t r b T p t p a a h b t T s e
A r a b r a l o a v t J b a p b s r w b b d i
2019 Architecture Masterclass Studio
A DIALOGUE WITH TIME MAN’S INSTRUMENT TO SEA A MACHINE A structure can do more than just support a building… it can be a socially interactive machine that is adaptable to the shifting conditions of its time and place... Architecture as a dialogue of time, one that tells stories of the past, maintains a conversation with the present and communicates with the future through its form and function. Architecture as man’s instrument to the sea, a concept of hand craft and drawings that are built to extend human action beyond land and drift onto the transient field. Architecture as a machine, investigating and reimagining the possibilities of a structure and a surface to serve more than one purpose, to transform, adapt, and be alive.
This exploration is investigated on an iconic structure on Geelong’s waterfront - Cunningham Pier, formerly known as Railway Pier. Its path is carved into the city, being a point of exchange between the harbour and the urban fabric on a rail track built to import coal from the bay to the industrial zones of Geelong. To address the unused rail track on the pier, the design response aims to revive the existing railway on the pier to propose moving forms on the site. In addition to reviving history, structures are investigated as a machine – to see how the site may physically operate, and built elements move and adapt to events that occur within or surrounding them. The programs proposed on this existing structure is placed to pass, or spill, or exchange dialogue across one another. A secondary pier is situated as a reference to the old railway pier. This axis is where the existing pier used to be placed, before being demolished and rebuilt to address the city grid and allow easier docking and departure of large ships. A reference to history isn’t only in its form, but also in its program as an intangible digital museum, where visitors experience Geelong’s history through screens of augmented reality. Journeying further on this pier are boardwalks that extend access by foot above the water, however the walkable pathway ends at various points determined by the changing sea level. The boardwalks sink into the water in an attempt to represent lost structures on the bay where historical remains have sunken and become inaccessible. The boardwalks then begin to rise from the water to reach a destination at the end of the pier which is accessed by the journey of a boat.
Cunningham Pier, Geelong , Victoria site half on land and half on water highlighted blue: the lost structures of the bay across time
LOCATION PLAN
1:10000
Cunningham Pier formerly known as Railway Pier with train rail carved into city
SITE INTERPRETED AS AN INSTRUMENT
INVESTIGATION OF THE WATERFRONT MACHINES
SITE MODEL MAQUETTES
CONCEPTUAL COLLAGES
DIAGRAM DEVELOPMENT
SKETCH SITE PLAN
SKETCH PLAN TO SECTION
existing pier / Cunningham Pier / icon / revitalised with mobile architectural elements to pass & exchange knowledge
SITE PLAN x FLOOR PLAN
new secondary pier as representation of lost history that sinks into the sea and rises with sea level
1:500
the pier as a place of events that communicate with the past, present and future 0
5
10
20
50m
programs in their dedicated zones occassionally spill into other programs and onto entrance to see hints of the beyond
WELCOME TO NEW PIER Weaving circulation guide to museum entrance and towards the boat excursion to access destination from sea
DESTINATION END OF NEW PIER Observation Towers x Gallery that mirrors existing pier structure but distinguished by deconstructive forms and angles of 18 degree difference
SECTION OF EXISTING PIER INTERVENTIONS
SECTION OF NEW SECONDARY PIER
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5
10
20
SINKING BOARDWALKS Extending man's access to the sea by foot and follow the pier to a point controlled by sea level. Referencing history that is lost
PORTALS TO THE PAST Pointing at lost structures on the bay, re-visited through digital information of augmented reality museum
LIBRARY CHAIN Located along track of old railway- to hold and exchange passive knowledge in open and closed strings
WAFFLE WORKSHOPS Extending the grid of Geelong's makers' city out to the pier - breeding growth out the bay and exchange of active knowledge
BOAT HOUSING QUARTERS Attaching a living arrangement onto pier like critters, and mobile ability to detach as boat form and return home to the structure later
RAILWAY RESTAURANT Extending existing function to integrate with other activities on pier by reactivating old railway as dining pods - where eating becomes a journey too
railway restaurant / library chain / workshops
observation towers x gallery / sunken boardwalks / digital museum portals
1:500
50m
FINAL MODEL
END DESTINATION OF SECOND PIER OBSERVATION TOWERS X GALLERY
A FLOATING DIGITAL MUSEUM PORTAL A REFERENCE TO THE PAST THROUGH AUGMENTED REALITY
CROSS SECTION TO PLAN - THE PIERS AND IN-BETWEEN
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2
4
6
10m
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LIBRARY CHAIN RAILWAY RESTAURANT POD EXCHANGE OF PASSIVE KNOWLEDGE EXTENDING EXISTING FUNCTION ON OLD RAILS
THE WORKSHOP WAFFLE EXCHANGE OF ACTIVE KNOWLEDGE
BOAT HOUSE MOBILE LIVING ON WATER
STUDY MODELS
FINAL MODEL