Architec ture Portfolio
Lachlan Miller
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Contents Contents ...................................2 Carriage Works - Wilson Street Cinemathèque.............................4 - 13 Flinders Street Station Bike Share Hub............................14 - 29 Pavillion Sinking Cloud.............................15 - 16 Billarong Reserve Scout Hall.................................17 - 26
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Lachlan J. Miller Bachelor of Design in Architecure 75 Hillcrest Ave Hurstville Grove NSW 2220 Phone: 0404564177 Email: lachlanjamesmiller@gmail.com
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Cinemathèque Carriageworks - Wilson Street
Gallery Entrance
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Cinema is a closed off box that shelters you from the elements of the real world yet opens your mind and takes you on adventures to new places. My experience of the site was similarly an adventure that wound through spaces segregated from the rest of the community. What they used to be or what they would have become is long unused decrepit rail lines, while doorways became holes cut into wire fences, built forms shifted from homes and pubs to iron and brick shells of abandoned buildings. They themselves have been long forgotten much like the time they are from. Industrial heritage is of great importance to the site. Rusted machinery and dilapidated, yet monstrous, carcasses of buildings brings about reverie of the past and what these machines and spaces were used for. It was very much an ambition of mine to created new spaces that share a material link to these ornaments so the reverie is not lost through disconnection. I imagine that the spaces I created bring about a rebirth to the site, by forging connections with its demented and forgotten spaces instead of subjugating them. I wanted to create plentiful views that let us experience their many layersthrough a journey as you experience the site from the ground then work your way along it, all the while ascending and piecing together a puzzle of spaces until you arrive at the highest point where everything fits into place. Movement is important to this journey and whilst ones movement through a building does not tend to change pace the geometries of the spaces can evoke feelings of movement and a change of pace.
Architectural Proposal - Wilson St.
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Section North - South 6
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Section East - West
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Moving corridor wall to restrict light in gallery space
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Corridor Gallery Juncture
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Entry Gallery
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Gallery Space - Fragmented Light
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Flinders Street Station Bike Share Hub Melbourne currently has a bike share scheme, consisting of 600 bikes spread around 39 bike share stations and a generous amount of bike paths, both on and off road. The city plans to have a 2000km bike path network, 25% of which is already complete. Melbourne city says it is creating “a connected bike network to boost riding participation, which will deliver a health benefit, congestion relief and lower carbon emissions�. Flinders Street Station is central to the bike share stations throughout the city. It is the perfect location for a bike share hub that incorporates bikes, a workshop for repairs and offices for staff that are needed for the day to day runnings of a bike share network.
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Flinders Street Masterplan, part of a greater green ring that runs around Melbourne’s CBD, connecting green spaces and attractions around the city, promoting exercise and an alternative to using carbon producing public transport. The train tracks have been dropped making way for parklands to the west and a pedestrian bridge that conducts the pedestrian flow from Elizabeth Street. The eastern side of the station has been opened up reducing congestion and providing greater access to the widened river side pathways. And the existing rail line between flinders Street and Southern Cross station will be turned into a green highline, forming part of the city green ring.
The bike station is located at the junction of two main axial flows identified in the Masterplan. It connects to three levels of pathways- the top level which is the bridge and park level, the middle level which is a main concourse that feeds into a bridge leading to Southbank and the Crown Casino and the lower concourse that runs along the Yara river.
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The building takes the form of a continuous path which incorporates the offices, main circulation ramp and top ramp housing the bikes. The whole structure is designed to be ridden on, it’s part of Melbourne’s interconnected network of bike paths. The winding sloping path encourages you to grab one of the 130 bikes on offer and ride down the ramp into the city beyond. Being in a convenient location isn’t enough, a bike station should make you want to ride a bike.
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Bikes from the bike share program aren’t the only bikes ridden in Melbourne. Bicycles account for 11% of traffic entering the CBD. There are 1.2 million privately owned bikes in Melbourne but sadly most of them stay at home everyday. Taking bikes into the city on the train is a hassle and there’s no safe places to lock up bike overnight. This is where the bike station can help, the bicycle docks can be used to house anyone’s bike. For a small fee you can leave you bike overnight in a safe environment with many other bikes that are being looked after. When you get off the train in to morning your bike is waiting there for you to ride to work on and use throughout the day, maybe even ride to around the green ring. 27
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Sinking Cloud T
raditionally in architecture abstract ideas were shown to the public through small free standing structures, which were built as objects of pleasure. These structures, otherwise known as pavilions, often had unique appearances and were characterized by fantasy and speculation. Their forms, often dynamic united the realms of art and architecture and played on the viewer’s perception of space and light. Through this project I intended to reestablish the idea that pavilions should be built as objects of pleasure with dynamic forms that play on the viewer’s perceptions. By constraining a pneumatic structure I intended to create a dynamic form which re-defines space and reflects the erratic characteristics of sound. By adding ornamentation to the minimalist design , we create an object which plays on the viewer’s perception and creates a playful sense of pleasure. This ornamental skin will also allow the model to breathe as the pneumatic inflates and deflates. 30
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Professional Practice 43 Macdonald St Erskineville 2043 NSW The proposal aims to address the following issues in the amenity of the existing building; -One third of the backyard is taken up by a workshop that clients don’t have use for. -Stairs and laundry out back take up yard space also. - The Front of the house is in poor condition and visually unappealing. -Internally both the ground and first floors are made up of many small rooms, each with limited solar access and poor ventilation. 41
Description of proposed works The proposal is intended to address the issues of amenity outlined above by undertaking the following works; 1. Restoration of front of house, including render, paint and new window frames. 2. Removal of workshop and laundry from backyard and replace with landscaping. 3. Addition of eastern side and relocation of stairs from rear of house to within the addition. 4. Opening up of inside walls on ground floor to create open plan living. -current program is divided into multiple , small rooms, with little solar access. Open plan living takes advantage of light and ventilation. Living, kitchen and dining spaces are all opened up. 42
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Scout Hall Billarong Reserve A multi- purpose scout hall suitable for basketball which takes advantage of the opportunities of the site. We maximized natural ventilation, daylighting without glare and water drainage and have used the predominate winds to work to our advantage. We also explored large scale structural timber construction and decided to use a glulam curved portal frame structure, connected using splice joints.
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Final Model
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Lachlan J. Miller
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