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STUDIO FOUR THOMAS BRADY

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I would like to pay my respect to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander members of our community by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which Curtin University is located, the Wadjuk people of the Nyungar Nation.

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Ego Reformation

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Drawings

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The Archetypal House

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The Death of the Ego

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The Interior Experience

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Challenging our Expectations

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Amorphic Archetypes

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The Experience

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Drawings

Ego Reformation In psychoanalysis, the ego mediates between the impulsive desires of the id and the morality of the super ego.

This project explores their reformation in order to reconstruct how the self is entwined with the landscape.

Located at the Mundaring Weir, the building is intended to catalyze this process, ultimately strengthen the transition from visitor to custodian.

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Fig 1 - Axonometric

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Fig 2 - East Section

Fig 3 - Ground Floor

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Fig 4 - First Floor

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‘If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.’ - Oscar Wilde

The Archetypal House The facade is modeled on the archetypal house. The image that is familiar to all western children. Perhaps on top of a hill, with a chimney and square windows on the second floor.

Intended to draw in the visitor, it invokes feelings of home and comfort.

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‘Real liberation comes not fro or repressing painful states o only from experiencing them - Carl Jung

The Death of the Ego This comfort and familiarity is quickly contrasted with discombobulation and distress as the visitor progresses through the architecture.

The internal space is morphed and battered. As the visitor walks through, the aluminum center. Often having to rely on touch for guidance, the controlled light creates undiscerning shadows off the morphic form.

om glossing over of feeling, but to the full.‌’

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‘The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.’ - Brandon Sanderson

The Interior Experience As the visitor reaches the center, they are greeted by the custodian. A guiding figure who is quick to embrace the discombobulated traveler.

Through a process of stages, the custodian nurses the visitor back to health. Exchanging stories and feeding the visitor as they advance upwards on a hydraulic platform.

The first stage sees the visitor in complete dependence. They are reliant on the custodian for support who is nursing them back to health via cake.

The second stage sees the visitor beginning to experience the world through the use of smell. As they reach the eucalyptus infused hay used for insulation. The visitor uses their hands to prepare the tea under the aid of the custodian.

At the third stage, the visitor can now peer out through the windows into the surrounding landscape.

Finally, the visitor is free through a hatch at the top.

They look through the windows of the facade and make their way across the bridge and into the morphic facade, alone.

“Independence is never absolute, the healthy individual does not become isolated. Instead, they become related to the environment in such a way that the individual and the environment can be interdependent.�

- Donald Winnicott

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‘Hands are a complicated organism, a delta in which life from the most distant sources flow together surging into the great current of action.’ - Juhani Pallasmaa

Challenging our Expectations Modeled on the toy blocks we all played with as a child, the concept is the same. The circle goes into the circle hole and the square into the square.

However, the player is forced to pick up the box and inspect it when the block does not reach the bottom. Upon doing so, the realisation that the triangle block is needed to win. Thus, challenging our learned behaviour as children.

Fig #5- Puzzle Box

The toy is meant to be attractive to touch. The child like impulse to pick up the smooth wooden blocks and feel their edges.

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Amorphic Archetypes The amorphic archetype dwellings challenge our western perception of what we consider to be ‘home’.

One part of a four building project, these dwellings function the living quarters for research students at the Weir.

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The Experience A total of six dwellings, each one progressively morphs in form.

To experience the final form is to experience the blurring of boundaries. The definition of the walls weave in the night and encroach on the dwelling space. Feeling your surroundings at night is advised.

Fig 6 - Final Morphic Form

‘How does the body, not merely the mind, remember the feel of a latch in a longforsaken childhood home?’ - John R. Stilgoe

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Fig 7 - Isometric

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Fig8 - North Section

Fig 9 - South Section

Fig 10 - North Elevation

Fig 12- First Floor

Fig 11 - Ground Floor

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Fig 13 - Site Context

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STUDIO FOUR THOMAS BRADY