Undergraduate Architecture PORTFOLIO
MAX MASON 1
0401 792 089 max.mason0345@gmail.com
About me I am a young student currently studying a Bachelor of Architecture and Environments at the University of Sydney. I am enthusiastic about sustainability, building construction and design, hoping to, one day, get the opportunity to make a real difference in helping the climate and improving peoples lives. I also enjoy photography, art, and being outdoors as much as possible.
Skills Programs : + Rhino 7 + Enscape + Adobe Illustrator + Adobe Indesign Other : + Hand drawing + Verbal Communication
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Shortlisted for Best Project Award UDP Graduate Show 2023 Completed Bachelor of Architecture and Environments 2023
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Dragonboat Club
Serpentine Theatres
Glenarvon House
Glebe Pavilion
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Dragonboat Club 2023 Shortlisted for Best Project award Design Integration Lab: Capstone University of Sydney
This project consisted of an adaptive ruse for an existing warehouse structure in Pyrmont, on the shore of Blackwattle Bay. Intended for a new use as a Dragonboat racing club, the design brief included providing new public and private spaces to facilitate the multiple racing teams which train on Blackwattle bay, their staff, and members of the public for a gallery and resturant. The design concept draws from the history and topography of the site surroundings; pyrmont was signifcantly excavated to quarry iconic sydney sandstone, leaving the landscape broken and abrasive. The design employs a large sandstone curtain which cloaks the existing structure, giving it a likeness to the tall escarpment across the street, appearing to rebuild part of the landscape. Progression Diagram
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Site Plan 1 : 1,000
Perspective from Bank st.
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Floor plan level 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Lobby Boat building / workshop Boat storage Outdoor shower Boat ramp Courtyard / outdoor boat building Cafe Kitchen Outdoor seating Bathrooms Gallery
Floor plan level 2 12 13 14 15 16
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Office Women’s changeroom / bathroom Men’s changeroom / bath room Classroom Gym
Axonometric semi-exploded
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Section Bank st to water Section detail Outdoor shower + circulation space
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Axonometric section detail of grc + sandstone wall The wall comprises of both real sandstone blocks and also glass reinforced concrete (GRC). The GRC is a versatile material which can be mixed with a compound of different grains and sediments, allowing it to take on the texture, colour and feel of the sandstone whilst still retaining its strong formative properties and tensile for its own weight. This would be supported by a steel truss frame that gently bends around the building, attaching the GRC panels via brackets, also holding small pockets of soil, accomodating small plant growth along the facade.
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170mm glass-reinforced concrete with local sandstone grain incorporated
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SHS 80mm x 80mm steel frame with CHS Ø 35mm cross bracing
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6063-T6 aluminium brackets with galvanized steel bolts
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soil substrate 2mm filter membrane 2mm rot-repellant waterproofing membrane
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1090mm x 720mm sandstone block
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Serpentine Theatres 2022 Design Integration Lab: Materials University of Sydney The Serpentine Theatre followed a brief to design two theatres of differing capacity: a 25-50 and 50-120 seat space for theatre, performance or lectures, also including supporting backstage facilities. The project’s brief included a site, in place of the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park, London. In using this project as a vessel for exploration of material and form, it was encouraged to choose materials and shapes that dramatically differed between theatres. In this project, this is realised through the juxtaposition of form and materiality; the rectilinear, monolithic and jagged, contrasting with the curvilinear, smooth and gentle. Materially, this contrast is embodied also, the rough and sharp realised through concrete, and the smooth and organic through timber. This juxtaposition is tied together with a continuous grid-like distribution of timber columns which draws likeness from the Neoclassical, peripteral structures of Roman and Greek influence found in London. The intermediate void joining both theatres aims to act as an artificial forest, an alluring experiential space of grandeur, providing shelter.
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Axonometric roof + columns + walls exploded
Plan ground floor
Concept abstraction of form
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Section through small theatre + courtyard Perspective central foyer space
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Perspective small theatre
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Glenarvon House 2022 Design Integration Lab: Energy University of Sydney 01 : - existing plan chosen - site chosen - site analysis
02 : - spaces redistributed - maximise sunlight - give garage street access
03 : - circulation spaces - outdoor utilities space
04 : - eaves added for shading - skylight added for light
05 : - skylight shade to mute light - extended shading - operable louvre shades
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The Glenarvon house project focused on understandiung the nuanced and functional design features in a residential context that can greatly impact the thermal comfort, light levels and energy usage of a dwelling. The initial design was to be developed from a generic stock plan drawing from the YourHome Australian Government website, which was to be analysed for its performance strengths and weaknesses. Based on the size of the plan, following an appropriate FSR, a site had to be chosen, 15 Glenarvon st. Strathfield, Sydney. The original house typology was adapted and changed through multiple stages of seperate assignments. Initially, the natural lighting and thermal comfort of the house had to be maximised only through spatial laywout, then only through window size and placement and solid eave shading. Finally, features such as operable shading, high-performance glazing and wall materials were employed to observe their impacts on the house’s thermal comfort. Throughout these stages, the program DesignBuilder was used to record and graph the performance data of the house in metrics such as daylight factor, solar incident and radiant temperature. Using Passive house princicples, the energy usage of the house in order to maintain a thermal comfort range was reduced by 70%. Design Process through 5 iterations
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Plan ground floor Section main living space + courtyard
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Blackwattle Bay Pavilion 2023 Sustainable Architectural Practice University of Sydney
This project’s brief involves creating a pavilion which attracts and informs people on an issue of environmental sustaiability, the chosen topic being thermal performance in building design. The site chosen for this project was at the old Burley-Griffin incinerator on the shores of Blackwattle Bay, Glebe, where two steel frame structures remain from old storage sheds. These frames were employed to loosely enclose two buildings; one of typical Australian suburban house materials, and another built to Passive House standards, to allow the public to experience and observe the thermal comfort differences. Inside both spaces lie information boards explaining features such as angled shading, thick insulation, stopping thermal bridging and mechanical heat recovery systems. Plan ground floor Axonometric exploded
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Section south to north Section facing north
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Hand Drawings 2023 Architectural Technologies 3 University of Sydney
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Detail Wall section, Community Centre in Ribe
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SHS Steel column vapour barrier 50/25 mm counter-battens 56/25 mm battens roofing felt sealing layer 19 mm plywood panel 25 mm back ventilation 9 mm gypsum fibreboard 325 mm mineral wool insulation 630/350/30 mm roof tile 3 x 6 thermal glazing, 2x 12 mm air gap timber window frame 19 mm oak window sill roofing felt sealing layer 325 mm mineral wool insulation 2 x 12 mm glued chipboard panel 18 mm glued upright strip parquet 4 mm footfall sound insulation mat 28 mm cement-based dry screed under-floor heating strips 250/50/2.5 mm steel C-section 235 mm mineral wool insulation Ø 30 mm High-strength steel bolt suspension bracket 3x 15.5 mm fire-resistant plaster-board IPE 270 mm steel beam 125 mm mineral wool insulation 40/325 mm timber nogging 15.5 mm plasterboard 45 mm mineral wool insulation (services level) 2x 13mm plasterboard
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2 mm sheet-aluminium covering to parapet 2 mm sheet staubless-steel fadcia 50 mm precast concrete slab paving bituminous sealing layer 150 mm rigid-foam insulation vapour barrier 280 mm reinforced concrete composite slab Detail Wall section, Office building in Nantes 50 mm gypsum-fibreboard fire-protection casing steel I-beam 400 mm deep 2x 15 mm suspended gypsum plasterboard soffit 2x steel U-section fixing strips, insulated aluminium sunshading louvres, motor-operated fixed glazing: 8 mm toughened glass + 16 mm cavity + 2x 6 mm lam. safety glass 200/400 mm steel RHS 8/100 mm galvanized steel balustrade Ø 40 mm stainless-steel hinged bolt fixed glazing: 2x 8 mm toughened glass fixed to 40/40 mm SHSs; cavity; 2x 80 mm rigid-foam slabs; 10 mm sheet steel; 360 mm void; 10 mm sheet steel bent to shape lam. safety glass sunscreen lourve: 12 mm low-iron safety glass + screen-printed interlayer + 12 mm low-iron safety glass 8 mm galvanized sheet-steel maintenance walkway Ø 50mm stainless-steel thrust bar 60/120 mm steel U-section bolted to steel bracket steel I-beam 120 mm deep high-strength cast-aluminium bracket stainless-steel connecting rod Ø 40 mm stainless-steel hinged bolt high-strength cast-aluminium bracket lam. safety glass sunscreen lourve: 12 mm low-iron safety glass + screen-printed interlayer + 12 mm low-iron safety glass
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