RMIT Architecture & Urban Design Major Project Catalogue Semester 2 2020 by RMIT Architecture

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Major Project Catalogue, Semester 2 , 2020 Prof. Vivian Mitsogianni Ian Nazareth

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RMIT Architecture Major Project Catalogue Semester 2 2020

Contents Introduction, Professor Vivian Mitsogianni...06 What is Major Project?...07 Club Analogic, Nicholas Morgante... 08 A careful occupation of 12 Holland Court – Flemington library and heritage centre, David Veidt... 10 PUZZLING EVIDENCE, Liam Oxlade... 12 FIELDS OF ENTANGLEMENT, Lachlan Wiles... 14 Mending Guanlan Old Town, Jingyuan Wang... 16 Dame Edna's Golden Transactions, Bridget Foley... 18 HERE, Eilidh Ross... 20 State of Exception, Fraser Carroll... 22 The House of the Victorian Government Architect, Alessandro Castiglioni... 24 Open-cut Living, Xiang Gu... 26 POLL, Freya Solomon... 28 Grounded, Natalie Angus... 30 The Artefact of Point Nepean, Cameron Gordon... 32 Revitalisasi Kampong Dolly : Community, Cultural Identity, and Dignity, Gavrila Mandy Kahuni... 34 Easy-Oar, Toby Rawlings... 36 Invasion Space, Nikolce Nikolovski... 38 SensArc Wing, Jack Stirling... 40 City Re-read!, Fook Yi Lo... 42 DWELLINGS: DETERMINISM & AGENCY, Phillip Pender... 44 Encounter in Eye of the Beholder, Jie Shuang Yeoh... 46 RECOMMISSION, Neal Kaldor... 48 Embed; Imbue, Kenny Ken Li Chong... 50 13, Jacqueline Hays... 52 Subtle Asian Traits: A Suburban Handbook, Kimberly Pakshong... 54 Smart Eco-city, Zecong Tan... 56 At home, At sea – the resilient urban village, Sumeeka Farooqui... 58 Richmond’s Table, Anya Lee... 60 The Seed and the Bit, Lewis Smith... 62 Act of Place, Karl Dela Torre... 64 Eccentric Intelligence, Jarrod Allen... 66 Vernacularized Modern, Samuel Danielo... 68 Perpetual City, Robert Fiasco... 70 Hong Kong Assembly: Permanent Impermanence, Prisca May Yan Kwan... 72 AFTER THE FLOOD, Baohong Li... 74

Living Lands, Benjamin Verzijl... 76 Desert City, Hao Zhang... 78 Outlandish, Ebony Hopmans... 80 Anti Assimilation, John Chandler... 82 OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND, Negar Fallahpour... 84 CITYX China, Teng Guo... 86 The Umwelt City, Tsz Ki Lam... 88 Desert City, Yuanyuan Su... 90 Production & Consumption, Laura Walters... 92 Red Rig, Joshua Jian Min Khong... 94 Metro Rail Trouble, Floyd Billows... 96 POST DEFENSIVE WATER COMPLEX, Boyu Dou... 98 “Business or Leisure”, Alexis Infeld... 100 The City of Sports, Yadana Kay Khine... 102 Engagement, Dongyun Lee... 104 Hybridize the Community, Wenkui Li... 106 BLOCK INFUSION, Christopher Papadimatos... 108 A Dawn In The West, Caulfield Shaw... 110 “Hutong” Hotel, Ziqi Wang... 112 Great Migration Safari, Ziyi Zhang... 114 Food Futures, Daniel Anderson... 116 The City of Tai O, Zijing Chu... 118 Hong Kong Frontier 2047 , Yuk Pong Hui... 120 POLYVALANT AGEING, Elma Klara Thordardottir... 122 Hyper Boundary, Zihui Yu... 124 The Silent Carer, Livia Delestrez... 126 Mekong Wetland Co-habitation, Hien Le... 128 Spontaneous Parasitic, Bingyan Cao... 130 “Bath” City, Jingyi Sun... 132 Deciphering Perception, Erica Chen... 134 ‘BIANLIAN’ Market, Lu Han... 136 Building Pandemic, Leyla Mills... 138 Vestiges of Madras, Vijayalayan Panneer Selvam... 140 Microlocal, Zeyu Wang... 142 An Oasis in the City, William Alexander... 144 New urban paradigm: On the mangrove edge, Manuela Lopera Agudelo... 146 ALTER-LIVING, Hiu Wa Kwan... 148 Verdant City, Snehaja Katepalli... 150 HOME 50, Dijia Yang... 152 Supervisors Semester 1, 2020... 154 Students Semester 1, 2020...155

Introduction

It has been an extraordinary year for RMIT Architecture Major Project students who have demonstrated perseverance, resilience, dedication and generosity as they sought to contribute new ideas and venturous propositions to their discipline and to an increasingly complex world. This year’s Major Project students completed their fifth year of architectural study in the midst of a global pandemic, in a year of upheaval and uncertainty. For the majority of Major Project students who were in Melbourne they left the RMIT Design Hub, RMIT Architecture’s home in central Melbourne, in March this year and have spent the year working remotely including, the entirety of their Major Project semester in lockdown. Their resilience and agility needs to acknowledged and applauded. Architecture schools should be concerned with experimentation that challenges the apparent self-evident certainties and accepted orthodoxies of the discipline (in its expanded definition), the underlying assumptions about what architecture is and can contain, and what it should do next. Architecture schools need to ensure that their graduates have all the professional competencies that are required for professional practice and registration, but Architecture schools should also lead the struggle to challenge the default conventions of the discipline. The architecture school should strive to point towards possible futures not yet evident within existing understandings of the discipline and wider cultural/political terrains. Architecture is about ideas. It is part of a wider cultural sphere and a way of thinking about the world in a broader sense. Knowledge and learning in architecture do not finish in the academy but require continued learning and a level of receptive agility from the architect, throughout the architect’s life. The rapidly changing economic and cultural conditions in the extended fields that architects engage with necessitate this, requiring, but also opening up possibilities for, new types of knowledge, fields of engagement and practices. The architecture student’s graduating Major Project – a capstone for the formal design degree – should not merely demonstrate the competence and skill they acquired in the course. These are base expectations on entry into the graduating semester. The graduating project is an opportunity to speculate through the work and to develop ideas that will serve as catalysts for future, lifelong investigations. The project should lay bare considered attitudes, brave speculations and leaps of faith, pursuing these with rigour and depth. We would hope that the projects are ambitious, brave and contain propositions relevant to their time. We would hope that students experiment – in whatever form this might take – and engage with difficult questions, contributing not merely to areas that are well explored, but to what is yet to come. Experimentation though, in the graduating project, as well as in the design studio, comes with the risk of failure. But failure can be cathartic – it is an essential possibility tied to innovation. At RMIT Architecture we understand well the ethos and importance of experimentation and we have long-standing processes to reward it, importantly through our grading and moderation processes. In the RMIT architecture programs, we call this venturous ideas-led design practice. ‘To be venturous is to be brave and take risks. What we hope is happening here is that students are learning to establish their own explorations which they can constantly reconsider and navigate through future conditions that may not resemble present understandings of practice. Competencies and experimentation can happily co-exist. We aim to educate students to engage with architecture’s specific characteristics unapologetically, and to not be afraid of its complex, uncertain and liquid nature. We aim to prepare our graduates to engage in and contribute to a broader world of ideas and to eventually challenge our ability to judge with new, challenging and meaningful propositions. This semester we saw some astonishing and brave projects and propositions from a student body deeply concerned with making a positive impact on the world around them and with contributing new ideas to their discipline. We look forward to following our students’ careers as they join our global community of practice and to seeing how the ideas seeded here are pursued and advanced.

Professor Vivian Mitsogianni Associate Dean and Head of RMIT Architecture

For an expanded version of this text see Mitsogianni, V. (2015). Failure can be cathartic! The design studio - speculating on three themes In:

Studio Futures: Changing trajectories in architectural education, Uro Publications, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 25-31

The Major Project Medals The Anne Butler Memorial Medal, endowed in honour of an outstanding emerging practitioner, is awarded to a Major Project that exemplifies the goals of Major Project. The Peter Corrigan Medal celebrates the project that is most critical, political and culturally engaged. It is awarded to a student with a strong independent vision in honour of Professor Peter Corrigan who taught successive generations of architects at RMIT for over 40 years. The Antonia Bruns Medal, endowed to recall Antonia’s interest in the relation between film and architecture, is awarded to a Major Project that investigates the relationship between architectural representation, association and perception. The Leon van Schaik 25th Anniversary Peer Assessed Major Project Award celebrates Prof. Leon van Schaik’s arrival as Head of Architecture at RMIT 28 years ago. It is decided by all Major Project voting for what they view as the most adventurous and future-embracing project of the semester.

What is Major Project? In Major Project, students are expected to formulate an architectural research question and develop an articulate and well-argued architectural position through the execution of a major architectural design project.

RMIT Architecture values ambitious, adventurous projects; those that demonstrate new and pertinent architectural ideas or show how established ideas can be developed or transformed to offer deeper understandings. The best major projects take risks and attempt to see architecture anew. Major Project should form the beginning of an exploration of architectural ideas that can set the agenda for the first ten years of original and insightful architectural practice. The nature of the project is not set, and the scope of the brief and site is established by the student in consultation with their supervisor as the most appropriate and potentially fruitful vehicle for testing and developing their particular area of architectural investigation. Typically, major projects proceed in a similar way to design studios – with the difference being that students themselves set their brief and topic of investigation. The research question and architectural project will often develop in parallel and it is expected that the precise question and focus of the project will be discovered and clarified through the act of designing. This process is iterative and develops through weekly sessions. Projects are also formally reviewed at two public mid semester reviews before the final presentation. Major Projects have ranged from strategic urban and landscape interventions with metropolitan implications, through to detailed explorations of building form, materiality, structure and inhabitation; to detailed experimentation in the processes and procedures of architectural production. It is expected that Major Projects will develop a particular and specific area of interest that has grown during a student’s studies, rather than merely complete a generic and competent design. Often these specific interests will develop in relation to those of supervisors – we encourage students to work closely with their supervisors to build on mutual areas of expertise and interest. It is understood that major projects will differ in scope, scale, kinds of representation produced and degree of resolution; with these factors depending on the nature of the architectural question and accompanying brief. Emphasis should be placed on producing a coherent and complete project, where proposition, brief, scale, degree of resolution and representation work together to provide a balanced, convincing and focused expression of architectural thought. There is no expectation that Major Project be ‘comprehensive’ in scope. Rather, the aim of the subject is to establish, through the completion of a major design work in a rigorous manner, a well-argued architectural experiment that has the potential and richness to engender future explorations and that will sustain the student for the next ten years of their architectural practice. A high level of skill and a demonstrated knowledge of existing architectural ideas is an important component of a successful major project, however the goal should not be to demonstrate a professional level of accepted best practice. Rather it is an opportunity to demonstrate new kinds of knowledge and ideas through architectural form. _Excerpt from Major Project Briefing Notes 2020

Club Analogic Nicholas Name Morgante Supervisors: Supervisor: Andre Bonnice & Jean-Marie Spencer By using the idea of the club, this project inquiries into the subversion of place and explores how architecture and imagination can act as instruments of access. A club, as defined in 1838, is “an assembly of good fellows meeting under certain conditions”. From squattocracies’ to bureaucracy, the idea of the gentlemen's club no longer fits into the city as it once did. The unknown acts as the basis of the inquiry. Most people know of 36 Collins Street for its exclusivity - its identity is in its mystery. By using play as the tool that would subvert the site, and through harnessing the power of play and curiosity, the Melbourne Club is accessed through a shift in perspective - or a childlike perception of the unknown. The kindergarten is where young children learn language, social skills, and the values of their culture - all while engaging and developing their senses. Friederich Froebel’s Gifts are used as analogue devices that provide a pedagogy to the physical manipulation of architecture and space within.

Leon Van Schaik Medal Semester 2, 2020 Supervisor Statement Nicholas’ project is an inquiry into how architecture forms our perception and understanding of the world. Situated at 36 Collins Street, The Melbourne Club is transformed into a kindergarten. The club’s exclusivity is displaced with new methods of observation and uncanny scales of the tactile and the haptic. The kindergarten becomes a point of access, a way to see and uncover the unknown. Framed through a sequence of operative devices or ‘lessons’ that engage the senses in curiosity and play, the project seeks to shift and obscure our understanding of place; recognising architecture as a means of reconciliation between ourselves and the world. _Andre Bonnice & Jean Marie Spencer

A careful occupation of 12 Holland Court â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Flemington library and heritage centre David Veidt Supervisor: Dr. Michael Spooner

The Melbourne skyline can always be framed with the odd 20-storey public housing towers that spread across the inner city. But what if they were to disappear? Recent events have brought about a scenario where all are demolished but one. The project is framed around preserving this last remaining one, as a memory to Melbourne and as a lived experience. The specific building, 12 Holland Drive - the one with a prior ARM intervention. The project is undertaken with the thought of care. Seeing the difference between an aggressive or sensitive attitude, testing what should or could remain or disappear. Ultimately the project utilises care as an understanding of occupation in the building, in rooms, and on walls - finding traces that can be imagined amongst the new and revealing the hierarchy between them. The program inside becomes a library for the community and archives with preservation labs as a response to the theme. The exteriority of the building remains, only a small incision and a base to the building indicates change, but this does not reduce the towers presence rather it gives it resilience. Inside new spaces capture the domesticity and existing experiences with new walls and structure that allow shutters, curtains, furniture, and doorways to interplay with the existing framework, colours, and apertures.

PUZZLING EVIDENCE Liam Oxlade Supervisors: Dean Boothroyd & Prof. Mark Jacques “The revolution in our attitude of mind to the reorganisation of our world calls for a change in our media of expression.” - Hannes Meyer in 1926 One hundred years ago, the possibility of explosive transformation in the aesthetic spectrum was born out of an optimism generated by radical change that had and was occurring within the global social structure. In 2020, this possibility shares optimism with hope for even a moderate shift towards a global society capable of recognising the frail relationship it has with the planet it exists on. An aesthetic regime we might look to as modern, or contemporary in this way, could be a set of devices employed by the politico-media complex. This project is about locating an architecture - and devices for its production - that can participate confidently in this complex. Then how we might leverage this competency to pursue an outcome for the City of Greater Dandenong. If our present circumstance generates an unbalanced, top heavy social structure which displaces the undesirable by-products of this minority’s lifestyle. Then the place that these things are displaced to, are exactly where our efforts should be focused.

Anne Butler Memorial Medal Semester 2, 2020 Supervisor Statement Puzzling Evidence is a project that is interested in co-opting the politico-media complex to create sight-lines into the idea of place and modes of production. It is an expansive proposition, where the ubiquitous blankness of the data and distribution centre is used as a platform to shed light and atmospherics onto infrastructure networks that need to be made to work harder - extracting value for the constituents of the City of Greater Dandenong rather than the shareholders of remote providers. The circumstances of 2020 have been harnessed to break new ground by eschewing the primacy of drawing conventions for multiple scripts and storylines created in a video film format jumping the project out of major project examination material and into the digital town hall of Vimeo. Puzzling Evidence describes an architecture of carefully constructed cinematic artifice in which we’re invited to search out the edges of a created world and in doing so, to gain a new perspective on our own world. _Dean Boothroyd & Prof. Mark Jacques

FIELDS OF ENTANGLEMENT Lachlan Wiles Supervisor: A/Prof. Mauro Baracco

This project uses an industrial precinct in Altona North as a proxy for a wider change in how we might place ourselves within a system of living things. Using unitary understandings, the project seeks to entangle culture, nature and technology. Dualistic ideologies, that posit human culture as being separate from nature have dominated western thinking for hundreds of years. Our current cities and the way we inhabit the world are a direct and physical manifestation of these ideologies. Climate change and the destruction of the environment are the results of our dualistic cultural understanding. This project aims to embed unitary understandings of nature, culture, and technology into our cities. Through the architecture, boundaries can be blurred, and distinctions vanish, leaving only a complex series of relationships and adjacencies. In this way, we can shift our understandings of our place in the world to one that encompasses a wider territory.

Peter Corrigan Medal Semester 2, 2020 Supervisor Statement In transforming and readapting existing volumes and open spaces of an industrial precinct in Altona, west Melbourne, Lachlan’s project addresses topical challenges related to climate change and urban sustainability. Envisioning effective, non-idyllic, levels of integration between built and unbuilt repaired ecologies, the compelling speculations of this project propose programs and design strategies that aptly respond to pressing calls for resilient circular cities. Topical issues such as food production, water and waste management, sustainable energies and locally-based manufacturing are investigated through the interrelated coexistence of a large scale compact thin circular system – a backbone for the whole precinct, accommodating a logistic centre, car depots and HD farming – and 4 selected case-study interventions: an unmanned aerial systems factory; an apiary and integrated performative and regenerative landscape; a nursery with flexible lettable work spaces; an innovation hub with commercial and research+learning activities. The site’s endemic grassland vegetation and related natural and urban ecosystems – waterways and industrial buildings – are regenerated through an ‘entanglement’ – a term that Lachlan reappropriates from landscape architect Martin Prominski – between culture, nature and technology. _A/Prof. Mauro Baracco

Mending Guanlan Old Town Jingyuan NameWang Supervisors:Supervisor: Helen Duong & Tim Pyke

China’s aggressive development has swallowed up tens of thousands of historic sites. This demolition has made Shenzhen - where a city has not only replaced individual towns but a complete spatial history -a city without history. Working with the remaining heritage buildings of Shenzhen is not purely the restoration of the physical. By ‘mending an old man’ in Chinese medicinal practices have been used as a metaphor for repairing, rebuilding and bringing meaning to the heritage site of Guanlan Old Town. The old street, traditional shophouses and western-style hotel have been redefined by using Chinese cultural references, such as traditional landscape paintings, movies, opera and fiction to bring new meaning to these structures. These interventions create a cinematographic journey through the old town and are mild enough for the old buildings to be rich with expression, it can be summed up as: Repair is a kind of poetry. This is the story of mending.

Antonia Bruns Medal Semester 2, 2020 Supervisor Statement Jing’s proposal contributes an alternative way to act on heritage sites beyond China’s accelerated demolition of towns and successive loss of cultural meaning. She sensitively likens the damaged architectural fabric of Guanlan Old Town to a frail old man; in need of extensive treatment that doesn’t destroy the existing tissue. By seeing architecture’s role in revealing history and culture, her proposal exceeds the two common modes of heritage technique in China; restoration to the original state versus minimal intervention. Her project gives value to the gaps, overgrown ruins and dilapidated façades as found conditions worthy of preserving. Careful interventions and additions curate a journey through, over and between old buildings. A concealed world is constructed to understand cultural meaning and metaphor; from ancient Chinese medicine, classical theatre and arts to contemporary Chinese cinema. A layered cinematic experience is created by day and an immersive and other worldly stage set by night. _Helen Duong & Tim Pyke

Dame Edna's Golden Transactions Bridget Foley Supervisor: Ian Nazareth

Our world is in a state of constant flux. Changes are our only means of consistency. As a public we continue existing, adapting day to day. Our shifts are often unrecognizable to us, the actors in the scene. However, when we assume the role of the critical observer, we can begin to uncover the fallacies. Our built environment no longer caters for our consumerism, the restaurant no longer facilitating our desired feast, retail no longer gratifying our greed, and the home no longer expansive enough for our population. We no longer simply purchase the good, but we purchase the service. This project exemplifies the interaction from transaction to doorstep in a place parallel to the typical urban block. A place where architecture negotiates the inconsistencies between data and the tactile, reflecting how we can maintain empathy for the existing and allowing provisions for the future. Introducing a new block, where the shop becomes a showroom, and the restaurant is a kitchen. The inner block is no longer bounded by dead ends and narrow lanes but an activated space where inhabitants can live conveniently. An urban kintsugi of sorts, where a golden narrative is threaded, and Dame Edna remains an icon of Melbourne.

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HERE Eilidh Ross Supervisor: Dr. Emma Jackson

70% of new Australian homes are built by volume builders. If we are to effect change in the way we live, we need to start with volume housing. HERE investigates how we can plausibly implement change to housing to deliver a living situation that is more connected to country. The plausibility of the project lies in its pragmatism. Only 10% of the estate needs to shift in order for something big to happen. The test site is an estate in Braybrook, in Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s West. A set of rules are applied to the existing housing estate in order to shuffle current value systems. An audit is performed to reconcile the homogenous housing and to allow for new ways of occupying. There is more built form in volume housing than is required. This project takes the unnecessary pieces and reassigns them to provide opportunities for communal living and a connection to the land down by the river. HERE is the start of an ongoing discussion about how we begin to effect change where it is most needed.

State of Exception Fraser Carroll Supervisor: Dr. Peter Brew

This project seeks to explore the relationship between architecture and the code which governs its execution. Here, the building codeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s origins and definitions are the battleground, asking where architecture is to be found between the rules of the code and the desires for an object. It is at the intersection of these qualities that an architecture is to be recovered. The proposal is sited on Mantra Bell City â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a precedent where the laws around imprisonment of refugees was recently suspended. Departing from this irony, the restrictions and classifications of the architectural industry are scrutinized with the vision statements of an activation centre becoming the testing ground for the exploration of rules. From this, a new metropolis emerges with the code performing to reveal the priorities of our discipline. The project delivers form to our rules so that one day we might shape it. The process finds the tolerance between code and function, use and value. It occupies the tension between how a building acts and the requirements of law. These thresholds are then tested against our desires, finding irony in the gap, and affording value to the code as an architectural construct. Symbiotically torn between requirement and desire, the project finds value in the labour of an object.

The House of the Victorian Government Architect Alessandro Castiglioni Supervisor: Dr. Michael Spooner

The House of the Victorian Government Architect is a fictocritical thought experiment exploring the consequences of an inversion of the relationship between architecture and power in a local context. By acknowledging and exaggerating the skills of synthesis and the multi-disciplinary expertise of the Architect as a professional, the definition of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Architectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is pushed from the realm of the built environment to the one of decision making. An alternative history emerges, where architecture and politics merge into a fictional government authority in charge of legislative architecture. Architects are now public servants and congregate in the Middle House, a third technocratic assembly arbitrating the parliamentary procedures of the Upper House and the Lower House. The shift to an Architecture Technocracy is legitimized through a holistic redevelopment of Parliament Hill. Parliament House is completed, the fences are removed, and an acropolis is given to Melbourne. The civic precinct collects the urban and architectural axis of the city and redirects them towards a new architecture of governance. Through oblique gestures, the hill is sculpted by the axis, giving form to a geological architecture where infrastructure, landscape, interior and heritage collapse into one. The hill is the building, and the building is the hill.

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Open-cut Living Xiang Gu Supervisor: Prof. Alisa Andrasek

In the crisis of the pandemic, people are adapting to a new lifestyle, starting to work virtually instead of occupying office space. The idea of moving to the suburbs is becoming a more economical option. Taking Lilydale's quarry into the northeast of Melbourne as a testing ground, the project intends to propose an alternative suburban solution that houses the new population while rehabilitating the quarry from mining activities. The project starts by utilizing a combination of multi-agent systems that respond to the current site conditions. The best outcome will further articulate, to explore the possibility of a high-density residential program that incorporates non-human programs such as self-sufficient energy and food production. Various components are designed accordingly to each program and constructed through automation procedures. The project offers a glimpse of an alternative future of quarry living that adapts to the condition of topology, rather than simply filling it up.

POLL Freya Solomon Supervisor: Dr. Peter Brew

What does it mean to take on the role of the author? To bring to life a narrative, welding the story to your identity. Constituting the privileged moment of individualisation of an event. It is a role which sparks anxiety in some while others feast in the ability to control all. Architecture predicates the material, placing the authority with the author. It is in the name of whom that we speak? The agenda of whom that we drive? The authority of Architecture needs to be acknowledged. Architecture is an instrument that claims territory and dictates use. The Hoddle grid the system that champions subdivision and land exchange is an instrument of economics, trading in the form of property. The project explores an alternate to that of economics, the speakerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s corner program acts as placard. Leaning on moments of public agency and embracing the role of author, the project is more than the recitation of historical fact, the events become stories we tell ourselves, the architecture facilitating the narrative. The project is not the project so much as a concept for the project.

Grounded Natalie Angus Supervisor: Dr. Christine Phillips

How can architecture exist as a binding occurrence where multiple histories can be shared and celebrated, while posing as an unrestricted platform for our First Nations people to engage with and contribute to from the outset? GROUNDED is a project that responds to this question by asking the profession how we might reconsider the persistent architectural trends of exclusivity and permanency that are endemic in our cities, and rather invert these modern-day implications to become more inclusive and commemorative of the unceded lands in which they are sited. The project invites and demands non-Indigenous designers to take accountability and unite with Indigenous knowledge holders, with the intention of perpetuating these connections to stimulate a process of continual evolvement and expansion. It presents itself as a framework for our traditional owners to leave their mark and tell their story and prioritises the architecture as a facilitator rather than a monument. This enduring condition will not only engender inclusive and unrestricted opportunities for all and disseminate a required urban agenda, it establishes an everlasting outcome â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a work in progress of what could facilitate a re-grounding of sorts, not just of the landscape but of the people too.

The Artefact of Point Nepean Cameron Gordon Supervisor: Dr. Peter Brew

The National Heritage Listing of Point Nepean Defense and Quarantine Precinct requires ‘[the] owner not allow [the] registered place or object fall into disrepair or fail to maintain it to the extent that its conservation is threatened’. With this as a condition, the site was transferred from the Commonwealth to the State in 2009 and since then there has been a stream of proposals to find a commercial use. The need for the site to ‘pay its way’ tethers success and value in a way that justifies neglect, which raises issues as to the concept of National Significance and the notion of duty and obligation.

At any moment the two compulsions - obligation to maintain the fabric and the requirement for ‘economic sustainability’ - constitute the project, however the site is in a state of continual change, and ultimately the project is seen not individually but as a drama. A baroque tragedy, where events or moments are the precondition and possibility for the future. The act of preservation and addressing climate change becomes the instrument by which we acknowledge the cost of neglecting the environment as well as offering the chance to recognise and conceptualize our time in time.

Revitalisasi Kampong Dolly : Community, Cultural Identity, and Dignity Gavrila Mandy Kahuni Supervisors: Helen Duong & Tim Pyke

This project explores the future relationship between the urban-kampong and the city. It evaluates the government policy and future agenda that affect urban and social-economic conditions. It aims to revitalise Kampong Dolly and set an example for others by intensifying the urban grain and street quality as well as adding new functions to prepare for future expansion. The new image of Kampong Dolly is like a living museum that showcases the history and intensification of daily life that can be experienced by both locals and tourists. Each intervention responds to different issues which creates varied types, size, and scales: Food tower, Community Hall, Super-Kiosks, Civic space and Government office, as well as Civic Space and laneway shelter. It explores different design approaches from additions to the street edge, rooftop, laneway, to insertions to the existing building. This projects challenges the design public space that is inviting but also restricting, uses architecture to bridge social gaps as well as physical boundaries, integrates the iconic vernacular architecture of Joglo house ( Javanese house ) to attract more visitors and bring back dignity to the local people. It helps to resolve the socio-economic issues whilst bringing dignity and cultural identity to the local community.

Easy-Oar Toby Rawlings Supervisor: Simone Koch

This project explores the recorded memories and moments of a place, attending to the historical narratives that they reveal. Can we flip and reorder the past to establish an architecture specific to its context? The location is the lower Moonee Ponds Creek where a shadow of a canal cut in the late 19th century is still visible in the creekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Broadwater. Its low-lying topography and lack of residents proving to be a primely positioned conduit for the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s services. What if this drain became a canal once more? A residential canal system coercing a level of accountability in an area obscured by a patchwork of zoning and jurisdictional boundaries. The architecture emerges from this overlap, connecting emerging growth precincts along the shores of the creek; a negotiation between the siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s past so that it may welcome the future. The Boat, Home & Club are the first constituents of a new framework. Their physical forms are derived from three stories emblematic of the pervasive narratives of the site. Their silhouettes acting as a container for moments I have recorded along the creek. Reordering their composition and purpose to ground these three foreign typologies in a site that needs their soft infrastructure effect. This project comes in before the end, asking what we might preserve before it is too late. Easy-oar mate.

Invasion Space Nikolce Nikolovski Supervisor: Prof. Leon Van Schaik

Invasion Space enables communities to show their colours. It provides the northern suburbs with a platform for people to showcase their interests, making it an exhibition space for their passions – aural, visual, tactile, pop-cultural. People from other parts of the world are welcome to come and explore the cultures of the people who invade the space. This platform is more than what is offered by the idea of the age-old art gallery. This space disrupts the eidetic spectrum delineated in Leon’s book ‘Meaning in Space’ by adding a new category, as the project can be personal and non-personal, and it combines the categories temple, monument and machine together thus accommodating shifting zeitgeists. Invasion Space began with an eidetic precedent analysis that informed the site selection, and the process was then repeated focusing on the context and the cultures allowing me to create a narrative. This led to proposing that we should allow for future unknown tribes to invade the space. Thus, the tri-polar idea of past, present & future is reinforced. I then used this idea as a catalyst for the architecture - capturing moments from local contexts and local cultures to create ‘invasion space - the cultural condenser.’

SensArc Wing Jack Stirling Supervisor: Simone Koch

A set, built to harness a dramatic narrative, whether film or theatre, references and suggests realities outside of the apparent. Hospitals, internally and externally, are identifiers of themselves and the formal realities inferred by their programs. This thesis seeks to investigate affectations of dissociative aesthetic and sensory mechanisms through a composed procession and built environment at a range of scales, using the prescribed program of a Medical Rehabilitation hospital wing as one example of how this may be tested. These architectural interventions discussed through this proposition, though purposefully distinct from conventional approaches to healthcare facility typologies, should inform a new framework and approach to contemporary architectures of the wider context. Through this lens, I argue that an inclusive architecture is to be experienced at all scales, using recognition as a malleable tool to deliberately refer or dissociate program and function, this framework for architecture is to benefit all, not just those who need to use it. This new polemic advocates for the ability to compose and inject an additional generosity through offering suggestive readings at every scale of human interaction. Sensations, sentiments, emotions, impressions, thoughts, associations, feelings, ideas and memories are the ornamental facets of human existence.

City Re-read! Fook Yi Lo Supervisor: Dr. Anna Johnson

“City Re-read” speculates the evolution of civic space in a high-density metropolis - Melbourne with the assumption that cars will be eliminated from the street. The three main focuses of this project are projecting the collective identity of Melbourne cultures and characters onto the main street; flipping the relationship between interior and exterior of city buildings; and amplifying the quality of urban palimpsest. As a response to overpopulation and shrinking of public space. Design methodology of this project adapts the model of Palimpsest- “multi-layer record” to drive the form. The process started by creating a palimpsest of Melbourne city, superimposing drawings of the inside of the public building and their spatial quality onto the street. The drawings are later re-palimpsest in multiple directions to enrich the formal quality. Outcomes from multiple palimpsests are then served as a large structure to inhabit civic activities. This major project emphasises the important of civic right by proposing a series of newly invented civic related programs that are driven by the 4 tenets of civic space which are people’s right to information, expression, conversation, and assembly. By interacting with the existing buildings along the street, this project reactivates heritage towers and provides a 24-hour civic structure to serve different activities across different periods of time.

DWELLINGS: DETERMINISM & AGENCY Phillip Pender Supervisor: Simone Koch

My project examines the power and powerlessness of the architect to determine the usage and meaning of buildings. Through challenging the privatisation of public housing and land, my project questions the agency of the architect and the agency of the dweller, exploring the interplay of economics, conceived design and lived experience. It considers architectureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role within the nexus of powers that pre-determine the socio-spatial homogeneity of the contemporary dwelling. It critiques our servitude to an economy predicated on property finance and challenges the prescriptive and assumptive methods in which architects design. It seeks an architecture that is indeterminate: de-commodified, realigned towards social outcomes and re-affording the greatest agency to a diverse public. It considers the primacy of the act of dwelling; the public and private processes that give character and ontological meaning to the home and neighbourhood. Dwellings: Determinism & Agency suggests that the architect operates within a relatively closed system of logic, which may never achieve complete relevance, integrity or objectivity. However, it highlights the importance of an awareness of this discourse, the powers which we serve and the wider implications of architecture.

Encounter in Eye of the Beholder Jie Shuang Name Yeoh Supervisor: Supervisor: Dr. Ben Milbourne

View and architecture have a uniquely powerful resonance in tourism. With the invention of photography, places are now commodified into a piece of compelling imagery to be ‘consumed’ by the tourists. This gazing culture has now emerged into a formal strategy, the Archibrand in contemporary architecture. From non-place architecture to destination symbols, should a place image be entirely constructed on the tourist’s desire?

This project is interested in the gazing culture in architecture which aims to explore an inclusive planning strategy for a tourist place, allowing the coexistence of locals and tourists’ programs. Through studying the language of the scopic regime in renaissance painting and deadpan photography, this structure of ocular perception sets up a visual hierarchical spatial system, allowing the co-existence of prospect and occupation space. In reflecting to the cohabitation and interdependency nature between the tourists and the locals, the formal object is layered with a re-assemblage of iconic and mundane artefacts from St Kilda, as a proposition of the parallel experiences between spectacular and banality within a tourist place. “Encounter in the Eye of the Beholder” is a call for an inclusive tourist place, where integration is celebrated, not only the people but the experiences.

RECOMMISSION Neal Kaldor Supervisor: Ian Nazareth

RECOMMISSION looks at the existing Commission Housing Towers, and seeks to adjust the current model, finally integrating them within their surrounding urban fabric and a creating a safe environment for residents. There is no physical and visual barrier more evident than a fence line and a misused park which acts more like a moat of a medieval castle. Rephrasing ‘Tower in the Park’ to ‘Park within the Tower’ the surrounding park which is currently not designated as Public Open Space is pulled into the building. Allowing for the existing green space to be given back to the pubic in the form of much needed Public Open Space. Within the towers itself the circulation and communal spaces that lie within the building are inverted and becomes highly visible as part of the exterior. This allows for the establishment of passive surveillance thought all communal areas and helps to encourage accountability amongst the residents. The Apartments themselves now have Dual-aspects and front gardens, where their identity is no longer the number on the door but their garden, reflecting its surround Richmond context and the concept of the quintessential suburban home in Australia.

Embed; Imbue Kenny KenName Li Chong Supervisor: Supervisor: Prof. Alisa Andrasek

The project aims to experiment with current motifs of architecture and challenges the current notion of high density living. The goal was to tackle issues related to overpopulation - issues seen in rapidly urbanizing cities - and to embrace the sporadic identity of rapid urbanization through a more systemized and learnt manner. The project utilizes a combination of multi agent-based scripts - namely Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Culebra scripts - to engage the designer with high density forms. The use of the script was to force a hand onto high density living in a more controlled environment based on a set list of parameters. The outcomes were heavily influenced by current site conditions and each iteration trained the agents to react accordingly to a specific site. The most successful outcomes of which were then analysed and extracted to determine the possibilities in application towards architectural design. It was a thorough process of form finding and pattern recognition that aided in the decision for the final iteration of design. The outcome remains conceptual and rather aims to promote a rethinking of architecture to combat future design obstacles related to expansive growth.

13 Jacqueline Hays Supervisor: Dr. Peter Brew

13 is a project about economy, freedom, metaphor and provision. Dealing with the issue of the extractive nature of the residential rental market where you are not able to do anything but pay for a roof over your head and tend to another’s land with no return. The garden suburbs of Melbourne are an ideological myth, and the profession is complicit by perpetually designing dwelling stock that is only compliant with residential design regulations for ‘landowners’, the ideology of Menzie’s ‘the forgotten people’ speech continues. 13 questions the residential typology, allowing residents to enter a separate economic market themselves devoid from the economy of the land of 15 Outlook Drive through the architecture as an instrument.

Subtle Asian Traits: A Suburban Handbook Kimberly Name Pakshong Supervisor: Supervisor: Vicky Lam

Who am I and how do I exist within the constructs of the Australian identity? Situated in the heart of Springvale, this project is a response to the Springvale Boulevard Rejuvenation Project, a public offering, and a projection of the future density of the suburb. The project addresses a desire for recognition and representation of Asian migrants within Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s national identity. To represent and to recognise involves a willingness to understand and to empathise, looking at the same thing with different eyes. The Hills Hoist adapts into a food dryer, shoes lined up on the front steps, a symbol of occupation within. The project takes an anthropological approach towards the migrant home. The ethnographer observes these adaptations of the traditional Australian suburban home through object and ritual and in turn uses these adaptations to inform a new vernacular. The architect is the outsider, the Asian migrant the local. This project isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t about creating a new typology of living or about distinguishing foreignness in the local context, but about an architecture concepted from a desire to give acknowledgement and recognition, celebrating acceptance and belonging.

Smart Eco-cityâ&#x20AC;Ż Zecong Tan Supervisor: Prof. Tom Kovac

My project is to study the possibilities of the smart city in the future. With new technologies and new ways of life, the city of the future will also bring about great changes. Intelligent automation and sustainable development will be the subject of future research. As a kind of bionic city, smart eco-city can perfectly adapt to the development of society. As a key development area in China, Xiongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;an's poor infrastructure and numerous wetlands and lakes are fundamental problems hindering its development. By studying the growth characteristics of local plants and the formation of forests, I tried to design a super city similar to the forest. The large 'trunks' and' roots' form a network to stabilize the buildings. The whole city system realizes the metabolism like the cell organism through the new technology of intelligent automation. The city will be divided into two parts, the human activity area above ground and the mechanical automation work area below ground. From then on, people will only need to remotely control the machinery or let the machinery realize self-regulation, so that the whole city can operate normally. Smart eco-city realizes the suitable coexistence of human and environment. This will be an important reference for future cities.

At home, At sea – the resilient urban village Sumeeka Farooqui Supervisor: Ian Nazareth

In a world captivated by urbanization and modernity the native gets left behind. This aging out of indigenous people is more apparent than ever with the Koli community residing in the growing city of Mumbai, struggling to keep their head above water. Hence, it is imperative to work towards preserving the Koli lifestyle while reconciling it with an urban Mumbai. After observing the existing conditions of Koliwada and realizing a co-relation between the problems faced by the community and it’s economic status, this project ushers in a paradigmatic shift for the Koli community towards economic stability. A new Koliwada is constructed through a system of grids, rules, modules and glitches, which adopts a nature of duality after occupation. The urban environment may, at first, seem strict in nature due to the adoption of grids and rules. However, the tendency of the people towards applying “Jugaads” fills the environment with moments of negotiations between the Koli people and the built outcome in the form of glitches and the nature of duality. The project aims at offering the Koli people an environment that is resilient to challenges caused by the climate and that enables the Koli people to sustain and uplift their means of living: the fishing industry. Simultaneously, community engagement is increased to preserve the cultural vibrancy of the settlement. This project aims to reconcile and strengthen the future of the Koli people and their role in the greater Mumbai zeitgeist and provide them with a more resilient outlook.

Richmond’s Table Anya Lee Supervisors: Dean Boothroyd & Prof. Mark Jacques Richmond’s Table is a market hall that assembles small businesses and vendor kitchens into a public stomping ground for Richmond’s local talent and food. This project ponders the architecture of ‘the local’ and the essence of its character; seeking to venerate existing elements and reveal the latent conditions that are already embedded in ‘place’. Employing purposeful and intentional architectural interventions to reclaim under-utilised space and collect a spatial armature for local business; this project seeks to reinforce the local scale through an architecture of collectivism. To sustain small family businesses and neighbourhood entrepreneurs by means of shared infrastructure and resources. To elevate ‘the local’ through an economy of scale, allowing it to punch above its weight and compete as a viable system for future food. Richmond’s Table empowers local systems of production, preparation, distribution, and consumption, closing the gap between farm and table. It uses the local food experience to ponder larger systems of sustainable food. The humble plate of Jill and Judy’s handmade koftas represents something far greater than the individual food experience but is also the next step in the delivery of a much larger food manifesto. This project juxtaposes the mechanics of a hyper-local food market in an attempt to describe the entire food industry. Mobilising modest local business with entirely immodest ambitions, Richmond’s Table reconsiders the model of the current food system and proposes a robust alternative rooted in locally sourced authenticity and honesty.

The Seed and the Bit Lewis Smith Supervisor: Anna Jankovic

My project is interested in the reception and understanding of the evermore pervasive infrastructure of the internet. Through its configuration of programmatic elements, I explore, connect, and interrogate what exactly it is that houses our combined digital culture. As currently no type of building embodies the 21st century more distinctly than the data centre. As these typologies emerged out of sight, occurring at scales where the language of architecture begins to break down, where interiors have their own microclimates and layouts become circuitry. What is to define these landscapes without a history? Here I have attempted to use the more prolific language within IT to inform my set of design principles including glitch, fragmentation, mirror and duplicate. The evolution of information repositories stems from churches and archives to great libraries and museums to the data centre. My project derives itself from the idea that if the library today is having its own existential crisis, I seek to replace this uncertainty through reimagining: materiality, spatial configurations and function. Each fragment of this landscape is imagined as a negotiation between a machine expressing its own autonomous existence while developing character through its own narrative. I am proposing a model for mitigation considering the growing requirements for data, through analysing its by-products and historical significance hybridising a back-up server farm with a seedling greenhouse.

Act of Place Karl Dela Torre Supervisor: Dr. Peter Brew

This project seeks to explore the current nature of place-making and the mechanisms within it. It asks the questions: “What if our planning instruments were based on something else other than the current formal and zonal requirements?” “What if it prioritized a specific need or objective to engender a qualitative outcome?” “What if it we reframed our planning instruments based on ecology and a natural landscape?” Framed within the context of Cremorne, Victoria, the project proposes a landscape schema to engender an opportunistic vision for the suburb – that of which is derived from the suburb’s lowperforming market indicators. Within the schema are design principles that range from a wider urban strategy to the smaller finer details which seek to reframe our planning schemes in order to realize the landscape. These mechanisms that extend from the suburb, the street to the building place this vision with a directive outcome to affect the quality of life. This project recognises our voice as architects to engender a vision for a place. By redirecting our focus towards seeking opportunities, rather than restrictions, that actively improve the nature of our place, we can start a broader discussion on the mechanisms which allow us to define our place.

Eccentric Intelligence Jarrod Allen Supervisor: Dr. Ben Milbourne

Eccentric Intelligence is an investigation of the hyper local as cities evolve. By understanding architectural typology as elements that embody a fusion of history and memory, we can understand its absence from new universal architectureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as the loss of understanding of place as urban density increases. By exploring the ideas of typological anomalies, this project proposes that it is these eccentricities, rather than the most common elements that define a sense of place. Through a series of analyses, the project describes the logic embedded within these anomalies and brings them together, creating a design that is both wholly new and inseparably of its place.

Vernacularized Modern Samuel Danielo Supervisor: Patrick Macasaet

Vernacular is an identity determined by the unique behaviours. Containing an identity within its true form could result in losing the identity itself. To sustain an identity, the behaviour should be extracted and reinterpreted towards the present and future context. The change should be embraced for it to survive. On the other hand, contemporary behaviour should not disconnect itself from history and its context. Instead, it should connect and co-exist with the past and present in order to outlast obsolescence. The future perhaps is a mediation between the past and present. In this major project, this idea is tested in the context of commercial in Jakarta, Indonesia. The project aims to mediate the vernacular and modern by extracting and reinterpreting vernacular behaviours into a new retail typology, a reimagining of a shopping mall typology through the infusion of vernacular behaviours. It is no longer an isolated box, but rather it becomes a communal landscape where the mediation of vernacular and modern happens through the clashes between the culture of the past and present.

Perpetual City Robert Name Fiasco Supervisor: Supervisor: Nick Bourns

Perpetual city is a seed project that entails the design and choreography of a series of urban rulesets to provide alternative perspective of Melbourne 2050. It is a system of cyclical adaptation of 3d printing, enabled Architectural kit of parts to achieve optimal density and amenity in response to the exponential growth of demands and needs within the urban realm. Colonization, expansion, customization, subtraction, and reconfiguration revolves around lifestyle and seasonal variables, and made possible through the onsite 3d fabricators which build, dissolve and re-use materials when required. The bandwidth between human and technology has climaxed, augmented reality becomes essential to remain connected. Perpetual city promotes organic growth, stepping away from governmental dictate and empowering the people who collectively decide on the arrangement of the city through the pairing of agendas and interests via machine learning algorithms that are embedded into their augmented reality interface. The system creates an architecture of ordered chaos, that relies on augmented reality to optimize user experience through the city. Perpetual city provides a mix mashing of function and culture at the human scale. The Skyland scraper typology posed by perpetual city innovates by avoiding the current condition in cities of obscurity, anonymity and single typology brought forth by the skyscraper pandemic.

Hong Kong Assembly: Permanent Impermanence Prisca Kwan Supervisor: Peter Knight

A protest is often entangled with a negative connotation of it being a disrupter, creating chaos and disorder. This project seeks to look at architectureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role in capturing the ephemeral event and challenges the negative connotations of the event. The architectural proposal takes the form of a Hong Kong embassy- a place that is ceasing to exist. The outcome is speculated through two-acts of manifestation based on the protest: The deconstruction and the restoration. The first act is a collective manifestation of the protest onto the context, form, and system. The elaboration of the chaos and disorder onto the architecture admits and accepts it as an emergence of an urban fabric. The restoration of the aftermath of destruction is the final outcome that proposes a reality that arrived at a state of peaceful celebration in the indifferences. While Hong Kong is not a country of its own, the project proposes an embassy that operates for the exiles to assist Hong Kongers process foreign matters and activism in Melbourne. The architecture itself is a form of protest towards its site and the Hong Kong government. It possesses the spirit of the protesters that seeks a permanent impact. The project affirms the architecture role that embodies a power, the power to give the ephemeral a status and the disorder a control.

AFTER THE FLOOD Baohong Li Supervisor: Dr. John Doyle

The project proposes a new model of rural urbanism which demonstrates a symbiotic relationship between flooding systems and human settlement. The architecture explores how the negative effects of frequent floods can be mitigated and investigates the potential value of floods in developing new kinds of economic systems that can be co-existing with nature. Design strategies begin by analysing the impacts on existing economic typologies, demonstrating how seasonal disaster leads to specific issues.

The investigation of the economic model splits into two parts. Firstly, looking at agricultural and local industries a series of new industrial types are proposed. Secondly, a new framework of urban and public engagement is developed in which the isolation and dislocation of flooding events is inverted to create a new open community condition catalysed by the presence of water. Ultimately, the ambition of this project is to propose a model of rural urbanisation that allows for vibrant villages that thrive through their adaptability to flooding events.

BAOHONGLI S3527921- DR.JOHN DOYLE

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FLOOD ADOPTION CONCEPT INFRASTRUCTURE

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OPENNESS TRADE - FAMILY INDUSTRY

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SELF-SUFFICIENT FARM

Living Lands Benjamin Verzijl Supervisor: Dr. Jan van Schaik

Living Lands is designed to test the extent that architecture can find a productive overlap between three very current urban social issues: 1. 2. 3.

How the tax system affects property values, and the negative impact this has on housing affordability. The concentration of lower socio-demographic groups in social housing complexes and The impacts that COVID-19 social distancing measures will have on the use and design of domestic and urban spaces.

The project uses this undesirable opinion of public housing in order to create affordable housing that also breaks down the social barriers that prevent social integration. Meanwhile the COVID19 pandemic has pushed us from our offices, to working from home and forced us to stay 1.5m away from our family, friends, and neighbours. Here lies the crux of this speculation, the need for dense, integrated housing within a pandemic that requires us to occupy more space that is too expensive for public services. How do we enable social interaction when social distancing requires us to do the opposite? My project is a housing project that attempts to seamlessly integrate public housing into private housing in order to bring down perceived land value and safely bring together communities that are being pushed apart by this pandemic.

LIVING LANDS

2014

A PROJECT TESTING THE ABILITY OF ARCHITECTURE TO FIND A PRODUCTIVE INTERSECTION BETWEEN PROPERTY TAX LAWS, SOCIAL HOUSING AND POST COVID LIVING

2019

Lower than average price increase in these areas

< $800k < $1m < $1.2m < $1.4m $1.4m+

Desert City Hao Zhang Supervisor: Prof. Alisa Andrasek

Desert City is an exploration of building high-density cities in the Desert to reverse the hollowing out of villages. The goal of the project is to create a symbiotic relationship between oases, landscapes, and farms in the urban system. The project is located on the edge of the Taklimakan desert, at the foot of the snow-capped mountains in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Relying on melting water from icebergs to build water networks and store water, the desert will gradually be transformed into a sustainable city. The building adopts an interwoven spatial language, interspersing Living space with gardens, farms, and production spaces to create a multi-orientational experience while preserving the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sense of transparency. Build a social factory to reduce the division between workplace, home, and leisure space. AI farms use the vast amounts of data collected by farm computers to make important decisions, such as how much water each plant needs to irrigate, how much light it needs, and when to harvest it. Traditional architectural combination forms are broken, diversified Spaces are created, and vegetation and farms are introduced to achieve the regeneration of deserts, reduce the hollowing out of villages, and realize the sustainable development of urban and rural areas.

Outlandish Ebony Hopmans Supervisor: Ian Nazareth

The Australian Dream was built on ownership, stability, and future-plans, forming the foundations of suburban living in the 20th century. Throughout this time, new Australians migrated to the country and found moments of celebration in the seemingly ordinary. Granny flats with manicured front gardens, ornamental balustrades, and terrazzo finishes were examples of how the suburbs became an opportunity to portray celebrations of memory and pride of place. Today, the notion of the quarter acre block is no longer a dream, for some, it is seen as unattainable. Those who wish to pursue their own slice of Australia are sprawling further out from the city. The dream’s holy trinity has been replaced by desire for access, identity, and freedom - not always by choice, but by necessity. In a post-pandemic world, the definitions of ‘home’ and ‘work’ have been manipulated into a covidnormal. For many, the introduction of radiuses and curfews births the requirement of a new local. Outlandish speculates how the humble suburban strip can densify and behave in an urban manner, responding to infrastructural collisions and overlap. It proposes a new type of dream-like condition, one that is hyper dense, but truly suburban.

Anti Assimilation John Chandler Supervisor: Brent Allpress

My project explores the interactions of a site with an overdetermined typology, and a program resistive of this site. The site in question is the former home of Pentridge Prison in Coburg, a traditional gothic style prison in operation from 1851 all the way up to 1997. Being a prison, Pentridge has remained as an â&#x20AC;&#x153;outside of the cityâ&#x20AC;? condition over its lifetime, despite the urbanity of Melbourne creeping past. My project seeks to hold onto this condition while converting the site to an immigration and community centre, for the processing of visas, and the temporary housing of refugees waiting on their visas to be processed. While the Australian stance on immigration is one of integration and assimilation, my scheme questions the validity of this and looks to push against it. The project is made up of a network of intersected walls on site, which house the circulation and ground level-built form, as well as support a raised level of circulation and form for the inhabitants of the site. The project focusses on the creation of in between spaces and intersections to accommodate these people in a peculiar condition of limbo, between two countries.

OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND Fallahpour Negar Supervisors: Danielle Peck & Samuel Hunter The plight of the refugees in Manus Island is because they are not recognised as persons who are seeking asylums. Instead, the existing myths within the society have labelled them as illegal immigrants, queue jumpers and country shoppers who are incarcerated all together regardless of the eccentricities of their circumstance. Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s response to refugees and asylum seekers is related to the political partiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; decision makings. In the mid-1940s the program started by using Army Nissen Huts located on Army Barracks or remote sites with intention of preserving the British culture. Recently. After 75 years, operations Pacific Solution and Sovereign Borders have caused inhuman imprisonment of hundreds of refugees to be kept in islands miles away from Australia in prison-like camps surrounded by stiff fences and security guards for years which has cost Australia more than $1billion per year. The architectural problem is the associated built form language of detention, incarceration & isolation. The siting of these such facilities discourages urban integration and therefore a lack of quality public space. My architectural idea is going to use the existing city fabric to introduce acceptance in diversity and change to provide a safe transition for refugees establishing their life in Australia. By exposing and uncovering the story of the land and its custodians, the European colonial settlement, and the multicultural history of Australia. I am trying to understand and find an architectural language that talks and express humanity to aprovide a common ground for diversity which enables and encourages acceptance to develop greater empathy and understanding.

CITYX China Teng Name Guo Supervisor: Supervisor: Prof. Tom Kovac

CityX is exploring the potential to boost the development of human knowledge and social efficiency through urban environmental connectivity and scalability. Based on the predictions on emerging technological evolution, this project will focus on urban design and architectural solution and response to sustainable development goals and it will be use as a guideline to interoperate and respond to the project system. The project comes from real databases on existing conditions, this aims to tide over the technology and city infrastructure as well as human being, which peruses an environmentally friendly city system and nature. The project is promoting a future life model by the combination of different systems, including dynamic Voronoi system, mobility system, intelligent skin system etc. The system is in Xiongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;an China. Compared with the traditional mode, it will happen with innovation, the future city needs to provide people with more dynamic and all the programs should be blended as different zones. They will distribute time cycles and develop a new city, allowing the whole city to be well-connected which will then aim to be functioning at 24/7 hours.

The Umwelt City Tszki Lam Supervisor: Dr. Anna Johnson

The city council of Melbourne is planning to shift our city into a car-free city by 2030 and this project is a testing scheme to review the future city as a hybrid and nature-human shared environment by transforming the street into a dense native micro forest, forming as a walled garden that not only produces more enjoyable urban living but also to rebuild Melbourne's natural identity, and sense of place to urbanism. The Umwelt City is a project that retrofit the city to interface with the new environmental context. A eucalyptus inspired cellular structure skin system is added to the buildings as a threshold that would open-up the building edge as a vertical outdoor environment and to provide animal habitation onto it. Additionally, considering the current situation of the year 2020, a huge vacancy issue occurred on single-purposed buildings and acknowledging the prosperity of online-working. The skin is to extend as an internal social platform that would fit for multi-purpose usage according to the programs it's attached to, meanwhile acting as a vertical passageway to the retrofitted public roof-plaza, a new public district from the unused space in the city and diverse building purposes.

Desert City Yuanyuan Name Su Supervisor: Supervisor: Prof. Alisa Andrasek

Desert City is a prototype project of exploring a new relationship between people and public spaces in high-density cities. The goal is to introduce elements from nature, intergrade urban programs, and focused on the realisation of new public spaces in an urban context. The chosen site in Shanghai is located in a cluster of residential towers and high traffic. At the beginning stage, a multi-agent system was developed to proceed with context data and accordingly determine the basic typology of the field. At this point, the project is identified as a combination of greenery, park area - and architecture. In the architectural space, the project probed further in new typologies of post-pandemic public space - the relationship between intimacy and distance. The form was inspired by Claude Parent's Oblique Function that established a perspective of the human-architecture relationship on oblique surfaces. Conventional building elements are discrete and reorganised precisely to offer a variety of human's physically experiences. The vague boundary, with implanted lightweight greenery, dissolves solid wall boundary between spaces. It let users climb up and down, sit and lay down on the bodyoriented planes, which in a way, break the physical barriers while keeping the necessary functional independence.

Production & Consumption Laura Name Walters Supervisor: Supervisor: Anna Jankovic

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Production & Consumptionâ&#x20AC;? addresses the issues of how we produce to support our ever-growing human needs and in turn, how our consumer behavior needs to change. Consumerism today is a multi-faceted social matter in which people consume goods and services beyond their basic needs or means. Our society today displays our endless options of produce with a glorified end result allowing for an increase in our consumption levels. This detracts from the production processes involved, making it easy to compartmentalize or ignore. As this consumer culture is a means to be dismantled and recast, I am interested in finding a new kind of consumerism focused on our growing populations needs, which is measured through carbon. As the global waste production rate continues to rise, the need for sustainable and renewable resources for waste management becomes more apparent. The project operates around a closed loop system which incorporates all features of the production and consumption process, producing minimal carbon emissions while recycling all the nutrients and organic matter material back into the soil it grew in.

Red Rig Joshua Jian Name Min Khong Supervisor: Supervisor: Patrick Macasaet

The ‘Red Rig’ is a proposal that aspires to provide an alternative perspective on how sustainability could be defined, to reinterpret itself as a catalyst for further investigations upon the sustentation of local fishing villages and the vernacular architecture of Malaysia. With climate change and the global capital challenging its sense of place, with ruthless development erasing local fishing traditions in Johor Bahru, with a huge number of abandoned oil rigs and with the 1MDB scandal impacting Malaysia’s status and economy - the Red Rig will become a strong symbol of new “sustentation”. It is a steppingstone towards becoming “One Malaysia”. Explored through process-based experiments termed “Infra-type”, it is a process where an infrastructure of a cultural typology (podium, façade, column and roof) is extracted and amplified. A ramped up Red Book, established by Former Prime Minister Abdul Razak Hussein, guides form, programs and spatial arrangements while becoming a strong reminder to Ex PM Najib Razak of his involvement in 1MDB and his father’s great achievement. The Red Rig is a path for Malaysia’s resurrection of a lost vernacular. The Red Book and repurposed oil rigs establish a new ground of sustained hope towards “One Malaysia” designed by PM Najib Razak himself.

Metro Rail Trouble

Floyd Billows Supervisor: A/Prof. Graham Crist

Grattan street is currently in the process of being torn up to facilitate the construction of the new Melbourne Metro Rail Tunnel works, to be completed in 2025. The closure of this street has provided a rare opportunity to depict an alternative identity for the Melbourne Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interface with Grattan Street, and the city. This proposition aims to utilise the timing of these works, to recast Grattan Street as one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great university streets. The design process interrogates, critiques and acts upon the effectiveness of a street to exist across multiple active planes, providing three streets, in the place of one. It expands by splitting Grattan Street between the Subterranean, Natural Ground, and the Elevated Street, as opposition to site infill. Subsequently, this project also undertakes studies of boundary condition to closely knit the existing buildings to a new Student Union precinct, restitching the fabric of the existing campus.

MET RO R A IL T ROUB L E

Elevated Arcade Live Music Zone

A new student precinct that re-stitches Grattan St, investigating three streets in the place of one. Melbourne University - Grattan Street - University Square - Parkville Station Student - Floyd Billows

Subterranean Housing

Tutor - Graham Crist Leisure Centre

Student Union Services

Tiered Garden

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Subterranean Oasis Station Entrance

Market

Student Accommodation

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Melbourne Medical School

John Medley Building

Centre for Spatial Data and Infrastructure

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Alan Gilbert Building

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POST DEFENSIVE WATER COMPLEX Boyu Dou Supervisor: Brent Allpress The project is located in Beijing, an ancient city that is remained with the partial ancient city walls and moat. As rapid development occurs over recent years. The ancient wall with its previous use to defend the enemy has lost its function and is being destroyed. Most of the moat branches are changing into culvert and the main moat is enclosed by concrete to deny any connection with the city. The reduction of the river system brought the issue of flooding when storms occur. The architectural ambition is to build the relationship between the citizens and river, but also to arouse the cultural memory of the ancient wall and moat. The site is at the corner of the southeast moat where a corner tower had been remained and is adjacent to the urban village. The proposal uses water to stitch the boundaries. The concrete enclosure of the moat is planning to be demolished and allowing the water to permeate into the landscape and architecture to provide continuous waterfriendly experiences to all citizens. The culvert through the urban village is planning to be renovated according to the daylighting stream to return the river back to the citizens and to slow down the flooding issue. The water combined with landscape and architecture provides an easement zone for daily recreation of bathing and other activities. The city wall is used as an element not only to defend the water or the public but also for the water to cross and create continuous movement of scene and connection with the corner tower.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Business or Leisureâ&#x20AC;? Alexis Infeld Supervisor: Anna Jankovic

Business or Leisure? The project focuses on the Princess Park Motor inn, an underused motel in Brunswick with a simple spatial arrangement. By unpacking the hotelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s typology, the performative components are revealed. The new adaption of the building questions the relationships that we typically have with our fellow users of a hotel. Four user types are outlined by the project: The guests travelling for business, the guests travelling for leisure, the permanent residents, and staff members. Elements of the building rotate, unfold, and adjust according to the user. The entry points are tailored to the journeys and intentionally frame the experiences of others. The system of the building allows for the celebration of the workings of a hotel and the performance that normally happens behind closed doors. By doing this, the project questions the social behaviours within contexts that involve those who serve and those being served.

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The City of Sports Yadana Kay Khine Supervisor: Dr. Anna Johnson

The proposition instigates with study of the City Baths which acts as a gateway to the Melbourne CBD and RMITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main academic spine. With a new metro station building up right next to the site, it opens up the opportunity to densify with a sports hub that acts as an urban refugee. The new building therefore starts to commemorate sports which plays an important role for university students as well as the Australian culture. Design methodology begins by redrawing and reinterpreting of references extracted from site context and precedent studies. Facade expression of new building extension is then translated as a piece of tapestry as a narrative expression. With reworked stitches of the context and existing City Baths, design outcome becomes the result of threading and restitching of referenced components on the urban fabric. This can be traced back to the origin it derives from a way of paying tribute to civic heritage architecture. With reworked patterning and colourful assembles that is inspired from surrounding buildings, designated parts on the facade begins to open up as porous screens. This ultimately provides the glimpse of theatrical and vibrant expression of sports activities within the hub which is then named as The City of Sports.

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Engagement Dongyun Lee Supervisor: Dr. Jan van Schaik

The project tests the architecture’s role in facilitating engagement between Indigenous Australians and post contact arrivals for the next 200 years. It explores the idea of ‘fuzzy’ boundary of the indigenous language group maps and implement it into the design process. The process generates the final chunk, which has a series of unique spatial qualities in its boundary and within the boundary, is where the act of engagement occurs.

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Hybridize the Community Wenkui Name Li Supervisor: Supervisor: Brent Allpress

This project is located in Chongqing, China. Chao Tian Men District is one of the oldest and most dense districts in Chongqing Peninsula. As a result of the development of CBD area in the west of the site, this district lacks management and maintenance from the government, and the local residents and labour are forced out of jobs due to the degraded economy. The living condition and logistics transportation are in chaos at the present. However, the tightness of the old district still retains as a strong connection of a community which is hardly found in the high-rise typology. This project re-develops the old district and create a hybrid community, so that the living quality can be improved whilst the vibrant social and cultural urban space are brought to the district. This project explores the hybridized objects designed for the appropriate combinations of functions and related spaces between human activities and urban relationships. This test of hybridizing the community attempts to affect the missing cultural and social heritage by the architectural language, which includes integrated amenities, overlapping of public space and appropriate dwellings.

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BLOCK INFUSION Christopher Papadimatos Supervisors: A/Prof. Graham Crist & Thomas Muratore Block Infusion is a project that sets out to infuse the diverse qualities of Melbourne's outer suburbs to redefine mid-rise housing. The mission is to find the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Missing Middleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; - a midpoint between outer suburban living and inner CBD apartment living. This project defines four qualities to assist in the search: adaptability, private open space, the relationship between street and house, and the suburban layout. Located on Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, the project reconnects people by incorporating housing, education, and a public market collectively. It showcases the evolving nature of an outer suburban block as well as the identity and character of the egocentric individual, putting the individual owner to the forefront of the architecture. The project juxtaposes a rules-based architecture of a brutalist framework, with an amalgamation of suburban styles which begins to break down, cover over but at the same time, reveal an architecture of the missing middle. The adaptability of a D.I.Y. private open space allows the inner suburban block to evolve, encouraging owners to project their very own identity. A school and market are horizontally infused with the residential stack, creating an important overlap, and blurring between spaces - An informality which leads to sociability.

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A Dawn In The West Caulfield Shaw Supervisors: Danielle Peck & Samuel Hunter This Major Project is interested in boundaries and edges. Roadways, railways, waterways and their Jeckle and Hyde relationship. Taking on the site in Werribee, the project proposes a response to the Victorian Government’s Western Rail Plan. Outlining a case for building density in Werribee’s existing city centre. Denouncing the state government’s 2015 plans to privatise and develop publicly held Greenfields land in adjoining Werribee East. Werribee is on the edge of Melbourne’s ‘Urban Growth Boundary’ and critically endangered Western Volcanic Plain grasslands. The Werribee River, in fine health is on the boundary of Woi-Wurrung and Wathaurong Language Groups. Outlined as a future National Employment and Innovation Cluster, the project examines how the development of an economic and innovation zone can remain critical to the surrounding ecology and resist a capitalising trend – the over development of river fronting land. Different buildings and different programs have been designed at each intersection across a section of the suburb, from the Werribee River, the Melbourne Geelong railway, the Werribee local high street, Princess Highway through to the Princess Freeway and adjoining Greenfields land in Werribee South.

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“Hutong” Hotel Ziqi Wang Supervisor: Vicky Lam

‘Hutong’ Hotel is a project to explore how Beijing Hutongs develop under the influence of modern business. The aim is to study how to reduce the space contradiction between modern business and traditional hutongs, and the hollowing of Hutongs caused by excessive commercial development of Hutongs. China is in a period of rapid modernization. Modern civilization and traditional culture are in strong conflict which has caused rapid and chaotic changes in the appearance of the city. With the reconstruction of the old city, the excessive commercial development of Hutong has continuously destroyed the spatial texture and ecological environment of its neighbourhoods. The project starts with connecting different functional spaces inside and outside the Hutong and reduces the spatial conflict between commercial transformation and traditional Hutong by rebuilding the existing abandoned space. While solving the needs of the Hutong’s internal and external space, the original horizontal space restrictions of the Hutong was broken through the construction of visual corridors and vertical spaces, so that rebuilds the Hutong texture. The project can become an innovative community to cope with the commercialization of the Hutong in the future.

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Great Migration Safari Ziyi Zhang Supervisor: Vicky Lam

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Architecture is not only about space and form, but it also provides a space for movement and actions. â&#x20AC;&#x153; The great animal migration has a long history in East Africa. This major project uses mapping as a tool to notate the great migration, discussing the contradictions between human activities and wildlife in recent years. By extracting clues from animal habitats, local traditional culture, and spatial arrangement of tribes, the project conceives an illusion where these systems could co-exist in nature, casting architecture as notations. Through analyzing the movement of different systems, the project regards architecture as fragments that construct, consolidate, and mark these movement trajectories. The fragments are transformed from sequence and notations, they are as large as a path running through the whole project, a viewing platform tracking flamingoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flight path, or as small as a solar panel, a swing, and a handrail which marks the existence of different systems. They are attached to this undulating landscape and form the context of this journey. Meanwhile, due to illegal hunting, farm expansion, and loss of animal habitats, after many years, if everything is destructed, memories will be preserved through these architectural fragments and tell people the stories that once happened here.

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Food Futures Daniel Anderson Supervisor: Dr. Leanne Zilka

The project considers a radical systematic change to the food systems within cities, as a reaction to the event of the Covid-19 pandemic. With ever growing concerns around food security as an effect of critical global anxieties, the project contemplates an alternative narrative in which disused office towers are converted to urban food factories. The program consumes redundancy within the city, inhabiting the recently superfluous Collins Place complex by I M Pei. The project reflects on the previous architectural speculations around food, undertaken by people like Peter Cook, CJ Lim, and Rem Koolhaas, extending on this body of knowledge within contextual specificity withing Melbourne. The project pursues a redefinition of the functional, spatial, and aesthetic relationships within the complex. 36 floors of primary food production occupy the smaller tower, providing produce to the 150 restaurant kitchens. A market occupies the southern portion of the ground floor, where left over produce is sold to the public. Food is distributed through a vehicle delivery system on the lower levels and through drone landing pads directly accessible to each kitchen.

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The City of Tai O Zijing Chu Supervisor: Dr. John Doyle

The idea is to urban engineer the liveliness of the OLD Hong Kong, into a new landscape through the use of TOD. The City of Tai O (an alternative procurement) is a project located in Hong Kong. For decades now, Hong Kong has been developed through experience for capital investors and the purpose of gaining the highest value out of the smallest area possible.

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Hong Kong Frontier 2047â&#x20AC;Ż Yuk Pong Hui Supervisor: Dr. John Doyle

Hong Kong Frontier 2047 is a proposal for the future border settlement between Hong Kong and Shenzhen. By 2047 after 50 years handover to China, the border between Hong Kong and China will no longer exist. This project questions what will the Hong Kong and Shenzhen border become after this reintegration process? The project is not a resistance to the reintegration process but one that seeks to define the qualities of Hong Kongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urbanism as an architectural memory, which stands apart from the Chinese city. The project presents a close observation of local features of Hong Kong, their importance and explores how they might be translated into an architecture. This project develops a new typology of border zone development by capturing various urban moments of Hong Kong as a way of informing the future people of the rich diversity and unique culture identity of Hong Kong following the reunification.

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POLYVALANT AGEING Elma Klara Thordardottir Supervisors: Danielle Peck & Samuel Hunter In this thesis I explore how good design can help tackle the issue of loneliness and social isolation in older adults, by paying attention to the characteristics of the user and its location and site with an empathetic approach. Improving social interaction within its surroundings through a 4-step design strategy, thoughtful programming, and laying the grounds for social interaction and various unplanned interactions among different age groups. A chance of ageing in place, a polyvalent place, that is ever changing and evolving with the community.

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Hyper Boundary Zihui Name Yu Supervisor: Supervisor: Patrick Macasaet

Hyper boundary speculates the form as an invisible learning environment in the city physically and digitally. Elasticity learning environment format learning mode, which is much more ingrained with the city. Learning behaviours is no longer limited in megastructure buildings. This Major Project re-evaluates spatial structure in campus by productizing small and medium scales through amplifying the boundary interaction with the urban fabric, contributing to the shared learning infused daily life. City and hyper boundary are the reciprocal symbiosis. Elastic quality adapts learning behaviours to meet with the urban context and makes the learning space much more dynamic and flexible. Looking through the new lens from the learning environment, medium and small scaled developments are collaborative, blended and hybrid between infrastructures and between the cities. Reducing the degree of accessibility developed and contributed to the civic potential of the learning environment and encourages collaborative learning. Elasticity explores a hybrid urban growing method between learning and the city which also forms the invisible campus and academics in the street. The learning environment fills the urban environment and explores an elastic conversation with each context specifically. By embedding different types makes flexible urban interventions, which explores a hybrid urban growing method in the future.

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The Silent Carer Livia Delestrez Supervisor: Simone Koch

The meeting of neuroscience and architecture provides biologically supported clues into architectural experience and the memories we are left with. This proposal explores the mechanisms behind the brainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perception sensors, space navigation and memory forming, as well as considering an architecture for a better experience of end of life. Every memory we have is connected to a place and the built environment modulates the nature of this experience. Our sensory and physical responses to a building precede conscious understanding. There is an emotional value attached to this moment and the more intense the response, the more memorable the experience. The experience of end of life has changed profoundly over the last 100 years. People used to die at home, within days, surrounded by family. Today we often deal with degenerative and chronic illness, for extended periods of time. This can be an isolating period. Sited at 104 Studley Park Road in Kew, the project unfolds across four complementary programs for patient, family, friends and carers. It organises different gradations of community and personal engagement. Neighboring outdoor spaces alternate between the public and private realm. A drop-in centre and private cabins provide familiar places for conversation and everyday life, away from traditional institutional settings.

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Mekong Wetland Co-habitation Hien Le Supervisor: A/Prof. Graham Crist

The project is a design for an open eco-tourism facility in the Trasu Melaleuca jungle of the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. The diverse and rich landscape has made this wetland jungle an ideal destination for researchers and for wildlife enthusiasts. This wetland jungle is best traversed by canoe, so people usually visit in flood seasons from September to February, though climate change is extending the dry seasons these days. Architectureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intervention can participate in supporting new ways to sustain this environment. The project is a network of pavilions searching for a contemporary vernacular architecture for the Mekong Delta. Local materials and open sculpted forms adapt better to the site environment and create a series of objects which transpose the conical Mekong brick kiln into a lightweight, floating form. The series explores the relationship between local natural and cultural environments and investigates structure that can bring humans further into the wetland jungle for all seasons of the year, and in varied flood levels. The series of small Melaleuca buildings spread apart and are connected by walkways, hiding in the dense Melaleuca jungle. This experiment in architecture and its inhabitants disappearing into the natural environment, also gives new form to that desire.

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Spontaneous Parasitic Bingyan Cao Supervisor: Patrick Macasaet

Increasing density has forced new vertical living structures into micro-plots that result in sky-high facades with no distinction between one and another, which also results in lack of social cohesion and interaction because vibrant public life does not engage in section, but still on the one ground plane. In Porosity philosophy, promoted by Richard Goodwin, he believed urban porosity is a dissolution of closed architecture and provokes the connection between urban structures. In architectural expression, he promotes a parasitic strategy in sky-high facades. Public domain act like parasitic intervening and shifting in between solid private. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The proliferation of human activity in our cities has given rise to the nature of cities as a place of exchange and surplus, a place of urban generosity.â&#x20AC;? A new mechanism of public field addresses urban density with communities in the sky through producing a Spontaneous Parasitic intervention in sectional quality, that associated with microspontaneous human occupation and fragmental public amenities, in vertical faĂ§ade to integrate a series living skyscraper. Attempting to balance rational efficiency of modern high-rise and the social intensity of public life, and also be generous with diversity and randomness by gradational sequence, which has a potential of inclusive urbanism approaching in vertical growth era.

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“Bath” City Jingyi Sun Supervisor: Vicky Lam

"The idea of the ‘Bath City’ is to celebrate the significance and the history of the bath culture. While respecting the cultural and historical values of the Melbourne Urban Bath, this project challenges the potential to revitalize the Melbourne Urban Bath in the manner of transforming it into a vibrant and inviting public amenity that enhances user experiences and fosters local uses. By implanting a bathing house into the centre of the building whilst maintaining the original façade and form, this project is seeking to maximize the preservation of the cultural heritage while allowing innovations for social transformations. In order to serve to the needs of today’s society – bonding and connecting, this project is exploring to offer an attractive open urban proposal which catalyses human connections and promotes a sense of community and belonging. The ‘Bath House’ project acts as an urban catalyst that activates sensorial and physical experiences, at the same time boosts communications. In addition, in contemplation of encouraging the establishment of relationships between member and community, this project works as an urban visible joint that ties university and city by creating physical linkages. "

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Deciphering Perception Erica Chen Supervisor: Peter Knight

Human and machine, the acknowledgment between one another is often shadowed in urban environments. The lack of coexistence amongst the visceral and logical is an aftermath as spaces are designed either for industrial or civic purposes purely. The innate perception we hold amongst such vast scale, grounded by vessels, is challenged when the port of Melbourne overlaps with Docklands. A threshold between the habitable and inhabitable, where humans experience the presence of giants in the form of an arts precinct, with the architecture’s skeleton to mimic the machines’ uncanny scale and its tectonics to cater for a program of events. The architecture alters its form, an exercise of folding, dragging, and lifting. The physical manoeuvres reference the port itself, as the island’s choreography is endless, the systems of distribution cites our constant pursue in consumerism. Simultaneously the shifting tectonics alter our subconscious, rewriting existing biases of inhuman landscapes through the psychological viewpoints of the public realm.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;BIANLIANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market Lu Name Han Supervisors:Supervisor: Helen Duong & Tim Pyke

In the past 200 years, cities in China was experiencing a quick evolution. The quick establishment of Chinese contemporary cities lead to a group of issues in society. People are moving away from their hometown and people are lacking a sense of belonging in the metropolitan city and to the local community. Looking back on the history of both the Chinese community and the market. The COVID situation might be an opportunity to find out a new way to re-establish the local identity. The future market can be adaptable when there is an emergency event. People's activities might still need to follow social distance for now but may be back to normal following the pandemic. If there happens to be another public health issue, then it can be scalable to any spatial requirements. It would also be a place to keep the memories, moments, events, and experiences. It can work as the container to hold the moments for each generation so that identity will never be lost but transformed into a different form in our memories.

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Building Pandemic Leyla Mills Supervisor: Simon Drysdale

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Building Pandemicâ&#x20AC;? addresses the changes of the built form that our society will require in order to adapt to the current and future issues. It seeks to make a palliative environment for all people. A city where all citizens can access essential amenities and services within a 2-minute commute. This concept addresses two differing scales. One being the combination of industrial and domestic architecture, and the second being warehousing, storage, and retail. These retail spaces are atypical and include dark kitchens and click and collect facilities. The residential units provide short stay tenancies, providing flexibility for residents. These spaces reduce our urban footprint, provide community liveability, and reduce the risk of sickness. The intention of the service station at ground level is to domesticate the industrial scale of the city. I investigated trucks and how trucks have a strong connection with service stations and similarly domesticating the industrial. The external fabric of the city explores the idea of upholstery within architecture, and how this represents domestic and luxury items, as well as the idea of emergency - an inflatable pop-up. This is symbolic as we are in a world emergency for not only the COVID crisis but climate change and mental health.

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Vestiges of Madras Vijayalayan Panneerselvam Supervisor: Dr. Ben Milbourne

This project looks at speculative moments in Tamil architecture and reinstates remnants of an ancient civilization in a contemporary backdrop. The goal of this project is to create an expression that is unique to a city by reviving long-lost symbols that once used to be a part of the city. The process devises a socio-cultural model that encompasses an overall expression created from reflections of traditions, philosophy and literature. The model articulates a negotiation between the physical artefacts, the contemporary grid and the post-colonial architecture of the city inciting memory and interpretation on the onlookers. Architecture, in this project, is merely a medium to reinterpret aesthetic outcomes from history and to reference a contemporary building based on tools outside of the architectural expanse. The proposition includes a transit hub that attempts to manifest built tradition by introducing subtle references of the historic and cultural significance and also embracing the ornamental nature of Tamil architecture. The past being ignored, the future being unknown and the need to adapt to the ever-changing urban trends, this project questions the existence of current urban trends and speculates a future that thrives in a controlled manner.

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Microlocal Zeyu Wang Supervisor: Dr. John Doyle

This project is about the criticisms of the programmatic singularity of the mono-programmatic community development model. Then start to explore how we can develop a more sophisticated mixuse community model, not just housing. COVID-19 has affected our well-protected 'normality.' The home, or the building in which you live takes on a heightened role as not only the place of dwelling, but the place of work, the place of leisure, the place of exercise and the only site of socialisation. The residential type has become the only viable type in the city. It must be rethought and reimagined as being one that can embody and take on an expanded role in daily life. The Microlocal community proposes a future lifestyle, a residential building embedded with a public library, coworking space and other convenient functions, as a response of the remote working and online learning. Rethinking the apartment unit, reducing common areas to increase more flexible spaces to adapt to the migration of public activities into the private sphere. The arrangement of opened balconies gives the opportunity, for each apartment, to enjoy more space, more natural light, and more mobility.

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An Oasis in the City  William Alexander Supervisor: Peter Knight

“An Oasis in the City” addresses the issue of the pressure that modern life demands where our urban and suburban existence surround us with a crowded, artificial environment of plastic, high-stress lifestyles, loud noises and environmental toxins that assails our cells and sensibilities. The architecture is like an oasis in the city that encourages urban dwellers to leave these tensions for a while to cultivate our natural wholeness. It acts as a symbol of hope and offers a moment of respite, a softscape to the hardscapes of the urban environment. An ambition to achieve a highly urban context that is full of city but at the same time trying to evoke these ideas of a natural world and wide, open spaces. The architecture agenda provides an environment to foster personal relationships, through social, cultural and artistic activities, an environment for recreation, reflection, contemplation, education, and discussion, and most importantly an environment that enhances one’s experience of nature through all senses. “An Oasis in the City” embraces the human being coming in and provides hope, tranquillity, serenity, and haven for the mind. An anticipation of a future which is good, based on mutuality, a sense of personal competence, coping ability, psychological well-being, purpose and meaning in life, a sense of the possible.

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New urban paradigm: On the mangrove edge Manuela Lopera Supervisor: Dr. Peter Brew

On the mangrove edge is made with a continuous series of appearances performed by architectural and urban strategies. A proposal to transform the economic, social and environmental performance of Buenaventura, a seaport city located in the pacific region of Colombia in South America. The analogy of the paradigm comes from the symbolic pattern of the mangroveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s roots which are considered one of the most productive, sustainable, and biologically diverse ecosystems on the planet. The mangroveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s root system analogues the phenomena of a new paradigm. It is structured by a main root that branches out into healthy cells, and represents the formula in different fields, finding its expression at every stage. The paradigm focuses on the regeneration of cities, neighbourhoods, buildings, humans and non-human species that make part of the whole. The paradigm marks a renaissance of habitation and urban living by creating a strategic distribution of resources. On the largest scale the mangrove grid is articulated by self-sufficient cells creating a lively and inclusive archipelago. This dynamic goes again into each cell (neighbourhood) and again into each building, finding its way at every stage, the paradigm can go up to infinity.

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ALTER-LIVING Hiuwa Kwan Supervisor: Dr. Ben Milbourne

First established and based on the observation on the transformation of the function of housing during the pandemic. With the impact of COVID-19, the house becomes the most dominant place in which we have stayed. Activities/programs that used to be spatially distinct are now blended into the living environment, this project proposed a thought experiment of new model for housing that is based on the observation during the COVID pandemic and used that act as a filter and way of exploration to the current use of residential space to think about the new way of housing.

The model makes consideration to the residents in the early stages of design, as not all uses could be foreseen at the moment of design. Which may cause an issue of something that we think the resident needs but is actually not what they preferred. The system aims to enhance the flexibility and adaptability of housing where the residents could select the component according to their activities or preference. At the same time promoting a housing community that encourages people to participate in the community. With their own preference, they could enjoy privacy while acknowledging the neighbours, the living environment will be more harmonious with better quality.

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Verdant City Snehaja Katepalli Supervisor: A/Prof. Mauro Baracco

This major project tackles the current issues of Hyderabad- Climatic condition (heat) and its rapid urbanization as it has become one of the fastest growing cities in India. The design proposal aims at achieving informed design that is adaptable with the existing infrastructure and environment. When you think of Hyderabad, the first image that comes to anyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mind is the Charminar surrounded by historical context, chaotic streets, food and a variety of markets. After analysing the site, key elements are proposed: cross programming as it works with the existing infrastructure, composting on site as there is a lot of food waste produced, allowing growth for the markets, high density farming for the restaurants to sustain with, addressing the informal housing and hanging gardens to introduce more green into this rigid site with harsh climate. The issues are addressed through interventions that will allow the city to grow vertically by building on the existing urban fabric. Cross programming of existing infrastructure, inclusive of existing markets, housing, waste management and high-density farming becomes an integral part of the project. These become more than just programs, but a larger part of the infrastructure. The project will imply these interventions without disturbing the existing fabric that can impact at both micro and macro level of the environment but also by enhancing the site condition.

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HOME 50â&#x20AC;Ż Dijia Yang Supervisor: A/Prof. Graham Crist HOME 50 is a residential building consisting of 48 households, each for 50 residents. It is located on the northwest corner of CBD, opposite to Flagstaff gardens. It sets up new kind of urban family, creating a deeply sociable environment, collecting and drawing on the qualities of the suburban house and the apartment tower. In a busy urban life, a large number of people are limited to home and their workplaces, making it hard to meet new friends other than colleagues. HOME 50 provide opportunities for people from different working areas to set up new relationships and even become intimate friends. This is a co-living area, and an urban collective household. The dwellings create an extremely close neighbour relationship by compressing individual space while collecting the common space together. The terraces, courtyard gardens and the large but concentrated common areas of each household break up the isolation between urban residents, creating a lively everyday environment. It is a residential building not only for the individual but also a new type of family community.

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Supervisors Semester 2, 2020 Major Project Coordinator Amy Muir Major Project Moderation Panel Prof. Vivian Mitsogianni Prof. Carey Lyon A/Prof. Paul Minifie Dr. John Doyle Amy Muir Major Project Supervisors Prof. Alisa Andrasek

Simon Drysdale

Andre Bonnice

Simone Koch

Jean-Marie Spencer

Tim Pyke

Anna Jankovic

Thomas Muratore

Dr. Anna Johnson

Prof.Tom Kovac

Dr. Ben Milbourne

Vicky Lam

Brent Allpress Dr. Christine Phillips Danielle Peck Dean Boothroyd Dr. Emma Jackson A/Prof. Graham Crist Helen Duong Ian Nazareth Dr. Jan van Schaik Dr. John Doyle Dr. Leanne Zilka Leon Van Schaik Prof. Mark Jacques A/Prof. Mauro Baracco Dr. Michael Spooner Nick Bourns Patrick Macasaet Dr. Peter Brew Peter Knight Samuel Hunter

Students Semester 2, 2020 Alessandro Castiglioni

Kimberly Pakshong

Alexis Frymetta Infeld

Lachlan Flavin Wiles

Anya Lee

Laura Elizabeth Walters

Baohong Li

Lewis George Smith

Benjamin Verzijl

Leyla Aysen Mills

Bingyan Cao

Liam Jeremy Oxlade

Boyu Dou

Livia Delestrez

Bridget Clare Foley

Lu Han

Cameron Henry Gordon

Manuela Lopera Agudelo

Caulfield Lincoln Shaw

Natalie Charlotte Angus

Christopher Papadimatos

Neal Kaldor

Daniel Robert Andrew Anderson

Negar Fallahpour

David Joel Veidt

Nicholas Morgante

Dijia Yang

Nikolce Nikolovski

Dongyun Lee

Phillip Pender

Ebony Hopmans

Prisca May Yan Kwan

Eilidh Catriona Ross

Robert Fiasco

Elma Klara Thordardottir

Samuel Danielo

Erica Chen

Snehaja Katepalli

Floyd James Billows

Sumeeka Farooqui

Fook Yi Lo

Teng Guo

Fraser Carroll

Toby Rawlings

Freya Bronte Solomon

Tsz Ki Lam

Gavrila Mandy Kahuni

Vijayalayan Panneer Selvam

Hao Zhang

Wenkui Li

Hien Thi Thu Le

William Alexander

Hiu Wa Kwan

Xiang Gu

Jack Hordern Stirling

Yadana Kay Khine

Jacqueline Claire Blaxland Hays

Yuanyuan Su

Jarrod James Allen

Yuk Pong Hui

Jie Shuang Yeoh

Zecong Tan

Jingyi Sun

Zeyu Wang

Jingyuan Wang

Zihui Yu

John William Chandler

Zijing Chu

Joshua Jian Min Khong

Ziqi Wang

Karl Nikko Cajes Dela Torre

Ziyi Zhang

Kenny Ken Li Chong