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Contents Architectural Works 04 Bondi Apartments 12 Matraville Library 20 Casa Antonio Siza Analysis 26 Woolloomooloo Bakery 32 The Bridge
Collaborative Work 36 Meditation Space Design
Watercolour Work 42 Where The Bloody Hell Are You?
46 Photography Research 52 Community Engagement
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Bondi Apartments Mixed - Use Cnr Hastings Pde & Wairoa Ave North Bondi, NSW Australia Semester 1 2012 Convenor - Harry Margalit Tutor - Brent Trousdale 2013 Eric Daniels Prize in Residential Design 2013 Shortlisted - NSW Chapter Design Medal The project site is in North Bondi, situated in a neighbourhood, which is predominantly residential. Considering the immediate vicinity of the site in which a variety of building typologies exist - thriving commercial, educational and communal buildings - the design proposal miniaturises this characteristic and aims to activate the local neighbourhood. The planning of the four apartments embodies the pockets of activities within the local area, whilst the ground oor restaurant extends the open space already established by Wairoa Reserve across the road. Each of the apartments and the restaurant has a distinctive outlook and connection to its immediate and urban context. Zoning
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Massing
Section to plan
Wairoa Ave
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Roof
Basement
Hastings Parade
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Wairoa Ave
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Hastings Parade
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Level One
Level Two
Section AA
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Section BB
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Section CC
Section DD
Section EE
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NE Elevation
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NW Elevation
SE Elevation
SW Elevation
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Matraville Library Civic / Public 521 Bunnerong Road Matraville, NSW Australia Semester 2 2011 Convenor - Dijana Alic Tutor - Vivianne Marston
This project simulated for students the inuence and importance of architectural thinking on design practice; introducing the task of designing a local library for the duration of the studio. The tasks were formatted as progressive esquisse presentations which covered stages within the process of design. These included mapping, precedent study and its relevance to the students’ proposal, interiors, materiality and the resolved library design.The designated site for the library is cradled in between an industrial border to the west and to the east a ora and fauna corridor. These two borders generated the geometry for the following proposal complementing the complex outlline of the site. Industrial, Flora & Fauna Border
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Generating Geometry
Conceptual Diagram
Topography
Platform
Core & Void
Breaking the Core
Angled Front & Entry
Circulation
Podiums
Roof
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Entrance Exhibition Area Information Desk Garden Returns Toilets Outdoor Cafe Cafe Loading Dock Childrens Play Area Indigenous Library Computers Childrens Library Archives Amphitheatre Meeting Rooms Staff Room Audio Visual Storage Directors Office Main Library
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Section AA
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Section BB
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Section DD
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External Perspective - Entrance
Internal Garden
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Library Atrium
Resolved Materiality Model - Main Library
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Casa Antonio Siza Analysis Residential Semester 1 2011 Convenor - Catherine Lassen Tutor - Yoshihito Kashiwagi
This project enabled students to study the devices and concepts of modern architecture using prescribed examples. Alvaro Siza’s Casa Antonio Siza is the subject of this selected project. This particular house subverts the use of false perspectives, asymmetrical axis, hierarchy of spaces, courtyards and windows as architectural devices. The works within this project exhibits an analytical approach to understanding the way of living introduced by Siza through this house; especially the way he creates direct and indirect relationships with the dierent functions of a house with the use of windows. The study also required students to reinterpret their analysis as an architectural proposition. Floor Plan Analytical Study - Windows
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Analytical Models
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East Elevation
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West Elevation
North Elevation
South Elevation
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Architectural Proposition
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Architectural Proposition
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Woolloomooloo Bakery Commercial Cnr Reid Ave & Dowling St Woolloomooloo, NSW Australia Semester 2 2010 Convenor - Maryam Gushem Tutor - SoďŹ a Husni
This studio introduced students to the meaning of the terms site and siting by providing the projects an existing location. The same inner city suburb site was utilised for three small scale hypothetical projects, ranging from residential and communal buildings. Certain building area constraints, client programs and drawing requirements were provided for each project. This particular project displays the design of a local bakery. Apart from this students were also introduced to architectural precedents whose principles were applied to the three projects; Country Brick House by Mies Van de Rohe, Trenton Bath House by Louis Kahn and Leca Swimming Pools by Alvaro Siza. Roof Plan
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Ground
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SW Elevation
NW Elevation
Bird’s eye view from Reid Ave
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NE Elevation
View of the steps to and from Reid Ave
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View of the bakery from the adjacent park
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Ramp down from Dowling St
Bird’s view from McElhone St Property
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The Bridge Commercial Semester 1 2010 Convenor - Russell Lowe Tutor - Shaowen Wang
This studio explored the fundamentals of design practice and concepts of architectural design through experimental projects. It engaged students with two dimensional interpretive drawing, creating sections, axonometrics, perspectives and custom textures reflecting a word. Selected drawings were transformed into three dimensional environments using Google Sketchup and Crysis Sanbox. This selected work “The Bridge” was one of the three projects within the studio. It emphasised the space, scale and movement through the amalgamation of two offices within a bridge. The bridge is situated in an arid valley that reflects the rich red earth of Central Australia. Dark to Light Textures
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Dark to Light Textures
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Two-point Perspectives - Letter E
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Keller’s office
Junction between Keller’s and Kerr’s offices
View of the bridge from the valley
View of the junction between Keller’s and Kerr’s offices
View of the mountains from Keller’s office
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Meditation Space Design
Communal / Interiors Mews Hall, Cornell University Ithaca, NY USA Semester 1 2012 Convenor & Tutor - Paul Eshelman 2012 Featured in the Cornell Chronicle A collaboration between architecture, landscape architecture, interior design and human factors and ergonomics students this projects addressed the interest of Cornell University organisations to create a tranquil environment suited to relieve stress. Prior to the design and construction, the team conducted community consultations where students initiated conversations with key players as well as immersed themselves in a range of meditation practices. The design development of storage, focal wall and seating elements were undertaken in teams, whereas the construction was a class eort. As a member of the seating group this section presents some elements of the seating design. Seating design concepts
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Construction of seating elements
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Community consultation
Design teams
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Focal wall
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Scale model
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Entry & Storage
Meditation Space
Seating screen panels & Focal wall
Seating elements
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Where The Bloody Hell Are You?
watercolour, gouache, lead and Inktense pencils, charcoal, soil and pebbles, mango leaves, twigs and trails of several insects and birds
2009 Visual Arts HSC Major Work Teacher - Catherine Molloy 2010 The Brian Jordan Prize 2010 Shortlisted - Clancy Art Prize 2010 Shortlisted - Art Express I love a good mango. Migrating from the Philippines to Australia in 2002, all I wanted was to enjoy a mango. Mangoes taste different in Australia. Everything was different in Australia; shattered expectations numbed my sense of sight, smell, taste and touch. Australians seemed to me to take everything for granted. Through the making of this work, I was reliving my childhood memories and my journeys between my two homes. The growth cycle of the mango echoes my journey of discovery of who I was, who I am and who I will be. Through my art making practice, I have added “flavour, vision and truth to my world,” continually aspiring to be the “salt of the earth” and “the light of the world.” Scroll One - 2m x 1m
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Scroll Two - 2m x 1m
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Mango seed study
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Australian mango study
Australian mango study
Mango leaves study
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Photography architectural, black & white and macro
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Community Engagement: Its Benefits to Architecture
Two Australian University Projects 2013 Honours Research Convenor - Catherine Bridge Supervisor - Linda Corkery
Experiential learning holds a significant value for architecture. However, the institutionalisation of architectural education contributed to the reduced exposure to experiential learning overtime (Powers, 1993). In recent years, some schools of architecture started offering design studios with a community engagement component. These community engagement studios, often referred to as service learning, provide educational benefits to student learning. Extensive studies in the United States show that these educational benefits vary from improved career competence, increased awareness of civic responsibility to developed critical thinking (Bose, 2007; Boyer & Mitgang, 1996; Palleroni &
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interview results from students and academics on the other hand, explored the students’ expectations, achievements and development. This exploration provided raw research findings thematically analysed in terms of improving students’ career competence, increasing awareness of civic An understanding of these educational responsibility and developing critical thinking. benefits would contribute to the body of research on service learning in Australia. The results of the study show that there are The investigation of the two projects evident benefits under improving career comprised of project profiles and semi- competence, increasing awareness of civic structured interviews with academic and responsibility and developing critical thinking. student representatives. The project profiles These benefits range from program to project contextualised the projects to draw broader specific outcomes and vary from project to similarities between the two cases. The project. Under improving career competence, Merkelbach, 2004). Using two Australian university projects as case studies, the objectives of this study were to identify the educational benefits, determine the strategies employed in achieving the benefits, and investigate the value of the benefits to the.
the most significant benefits include exposure to interdisciplinary work and increased understanding of design and construction. Whilst under increasing awareness of civic responsibility, the most significant benefits include understanding of civic responsibility and the impact on individuals and communities. Improved critical thinking, problem solving and the opportunity to apply theory were amongst the most significant benefits under developing critical thinking. Similarly, the strategies employed to attain the benefits are project specific, although exposure to other disciplines, teamwork and the context of community engagement were common between the two cases. The value
of these beneďŹ ts for students range from the belief that improved communication skills would contribute to career success to developing a set of skills that ensures better negotiation with clients and other professions in the building industry. The students also mentioned their willingness to exercise civic responsibility and, realised that their ideal career prospect involves the same level of community engagement.
References Continued Boyer, E. L., & Mitgang, L. D. (1996). Building Community : A New Future for Architecture Education and Practice. Princeton, N.J.: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Canowindra Connections - Photos taken by Weijie Shen
Palleroni, S., & Merkelbach, C. E. (2004). Introduction Studio at large : architecture in service of global communities (pp. 3-13). Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press.
Powers, A. (1993). Arts & Crafts to Monumental Classic: The Institutionalising of Architectural Paper presented at the The Bose, M. (2007). The Design Studio: A Site for Critical Education. Inquiry. In A. M. Salama & N. Wilkinson (Eds.), Design education of the architect : proceedings of Studio Pedagogy: Horizons for the Future (pp. 131- the 22nd Annual Symposium of the Society of 142). Gateshead, U.K: Urban International Press. Architectural Historians of Great Britain, London. References
Sipaia Village Ablutions Composting Facility - Photos taken by Matthew Breen
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Career Objective
Achievements & Awards
To work in an environment that pushes my abilities as an aspiring architect whilst developing an appreciation for research-informed design, interdisciplinary collaboration and community engagement.
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2013 UNSW Honours Year Scholarship
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2013 The Eric Daniels Prize in Residential Design
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2012 Student Exchange Scholarship
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2010 - 13 Built Environment Undergraduate Dean’s List
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2010 The Brian Jordan Prize
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2010 UNSW Academic Achievement Award
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2009 Good Samaritan Catholic College Dux
Education 2010 - 2013
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Bachelor of Architectural Studies (Hons) University of New South Wales (Distinction Average)
Exchange Semester Interior Design Cornell University College of Human Ecology
2004 - 2009 Higher School Certificate Good Samaritan Catholic College (College DUX)
Computer Skills • • • •
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Adobe Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop) AutoCAD Architecture Revit Architecture Google Sketchup
WAM 81.571
GPA 3.918 ATAR 98.15
- Awarded to students who achieve Distinction average in their respective undergraduate degree - Best performance in Design for Residential Accomodation - Awarded to students with the highest academic grades from each faculty - Best performance in Semester 1 or 2 of an academic year - A religious art award honouring the contributions of Brian Jordan both to art and art education - A university scholarship awarded based on the nomination of a High School Principal - Recognition as the school’s highest academic achiever - Received the sponsorship of Liverpool Catholic Club for the first year of tertiary study
Experience
Extra-Curricular Activities
June 2011 - November 2013 Cox Richardson Sydney Architectural Assistant • CAD drafting of architectural drawings • Digital and physical 3D modelling • Assisted in client and consultant inquiries and meetings
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2013 ARCHIKIDZ Volunteer 2012 Head of Food Committee for Cornell Filipino Association Kamayan Event 2011 - Present Ambassador for the UNSW ASPIRE Program
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2010 - Present Member of the UNSW Photography Club 2010 - 2012 UNSW Student Representative for Architecture Courses 2009 - Present Volunteer for the St. Vincent De Paul Night Patrol Program
February 2011 - February 2012 McDonalds Cartwright Crew Trainer • Attained Crew Trainer position within 3 months of employment • Undertaken training in management of the store’s products November 2006 - December 2008 Best & Less Liverpool Shop Assistant • Assisted in the store’s stocktake year events • Undertaken training in display and management of retail products December 2005 - January 2007 KFC Liverpool Team Member • Awarded Employee of the Month January 2007 • Undertaken a customer service and cash handling training • Trained and supervised new crew members • Undertaken training in preparation of the store’s products
- Promoting further tertiary studies to disadvantaged high school students
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Abstract Expressionist Art & Watercolour Painting Fantasy Novels Guitar and Ukulele Baking
Referees Shaowen Wang - Design Studio Tutor University of New South Wales shwnwangunsw@gmail.com Sofia Husni - Design Studio Tutor University of New South Wales sofiahusni@gmail.com Cathy Molloy - Art Teacher & Mentor Mary Mackillop College
+61 415 379 674
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Luen Ria Tumbali Samonte luen.samonte@gmail.com +61 488 960 888 luen-samonte.blogspot.com.au