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Major Project Catalogue, Semester 1 , 2020 Prof. Vivian Mitsogianni Ian Nazareth

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RMIT Architecture Major Project Catalogue Semester 1 2020

Contents Introduction, Professor Vivian Mitsogianni...06 What is Major Project?...07 A Little Glass Jar of Small Brass Screws, Hugh Jones... 08 Fiction-ism, Temitope Jones... 10 Carnegie Local, Brooke Barker... 12 Condencity, Benjamin Strong... 14 A Playbook for School Architecture, Nathalie Putri... 16 Slice, Dust, Polish, Andrea Milovanovic... 18 With Melbourne Subtitles, Sushma Prabhu... 20 Imprisonment & Remedy: Surrender, Conform & Be Cured, Jason Tam... 22 In Conversation, Briony Ewing... 24 Nested Melbourne, Timothy Chan... 26 Urban Contextualism, Dong Woo (Danny) Kwak... 28 Processed Food, Michael John Lillis... 30 A Cathedral of Obverse Obsessions...Another Museum, Fiona Then... 32 This is Home Truly, Celestine... 34 New Sunshine Primary School Project, Chengqi (Leon) Wang... 36 A Matter of TIme, Martin Miraglia... 38 Uncommon Beauty of Common Things, Callum Andrews... 40 Urban Hacking: The Architecture of Opportunity, Marnie Louise Newton... 42 Transcendence, Ju Ern Ooi... 44 Pivot City Station, Jared Linton Drever... 46 Temple of Infinity, Qingqing Yang... 48 Readymade Goods, Joel Jia Wei Lok... 50

WALLS, Mick Ming Qing Shi... 52 Capsule 2.0, Jingjing Zhou... 54 CITYX China, Zhouhang Qiu... 56 The Kids and Oldies' Farm - Union St, Honglin Zhu... 58 This Mortal Coil, Yutian Liu... 60 Meta Gr!D, Christopher How Vong Leung Cheun... 62 The Kovil Wall, Sivasunmuga Sekaran Jayakumar... 64 City X, Weida Ruan... 66 Superposition, Zhong Wenzhao... 68 The Requirement Room, Atefeh Seddighin... 70 In-VISIBLES, Mariakmila Bernal Moreno... 72 Walking Through Facade, Chaoyu Yang... 74 Beyond the Market, Daxiang Wu... 76 The Other Architect, Maheshika Madurawalage... 78 Pitch in the Cloud, Yifan Zhou... 80 Synthetic Centre, Yifan Tao... 82 Extra-Territory, Jianan Fan... 84 The Next Stop, Arleen Lee Chiong... 86 Supervisors Semester 1, 2020...88 Students Semester 1, 2020...89

Introduction

Architecture schools should be concerned with experimentation that challenges the apparent self-evident certainties and The Major Project Medals 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. The Anne Butler Memorial Medal, endowed in honour of an outstanding emerging practitioner, is awarded Architecture schools need to ensure that their graduates have all the professional competencies that are required for to a Major Project that exemplifies the goals of Major professional practice and registration. But Architecture schools should also lead the struggle to challenge the default Project. 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. The Peter Corrigan Medal celebrates the project that is most critical, political and culturally engaged. It is Architecture is about ideas. It is part of a wider cultural sphere and a way of thinking about the world in a broader sense. awarded to a student with a strong independent vision in honour of Professor Peter Corrigan who taught 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 successive generations of architects at RMIT for over 40 in the extended fields that architects engage with necessitate this, requiring, but also opening up possibilities for, new years. types of knowledge, fields of engagement and practices. The Antonia Bruns Medal, endowed to recall Antonia’s The architecture student’s graduating Major Project – a capstone for the formal design degree – should not merely interest in the relation between film and architecture, is awarded to a Major Project that investigates the 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 relationship between architectural representation, association and perception. 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’.2 ‘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.

Professor Vivian Mitsogianni Associate Dean and Head, Architecture & Urban Design RMIT University

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 ‘Venturous’ is a term also used by RMIT Professor Leon van Schaik and Professor Richard Blythe in relation to the RMIT Design Practice PhD model,

originated over 25 years ago by van Schaik, who states ‘Design Practice Research at RMIT is a longstanding program of research into what venturous designers actually do when they design’ .

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

A Little Glass Jar of Small Brass Screws Hugh Jones Supervisor: Simone Koch

How do you let a landscape dress an object? This project was conversely about understanding the world through meticulous observation. Landscapes talk in the movement of sand, the slanting of tussocks, the stains in the ground that appear darker or more reddish. These are words to hear. A lost practise of observing the things that move much slower than us. I acknowledge that these processes contain a loss of control, as designers, we can shape initial interventions. However, the compounding of events will ultimately shift these choreographed objects into objects of chaos. This critical understanding of deterioration allows for a shift in design methodology, by attempting to negotiate the various rates of decay, systems are put in place to augment the return to ruin - a resting state. The thesis was tested by responding to a brief set by the Australian Antarctic Division. The brief outlined the reconstruction of an existing research station on Sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island.

HUGH EDWARD JONES

Fiction-ism Temitope Adesina Supervisors: Anna Jankovic & Andre Bonnice Fiction-ism is a critique of civic typology. This project concerns itself with the politics of the container, the singular objects of architecture and the positioning of that in relationship to art and the archive. It employs the typology of the museum as a lens of exploration, one with the ambition of developing a dialogue between Synchrony and the change in linguistic systems over time. As the name suggests, I’m interested in looking at methods and systems of using elements that are open to interpretation as tools to re-contextualise, clarify or confer validity. The project reinstates itself as a presence on Swanston street in accordance with Harold Desbrowe’s “how to make Melbourne an ideal city” plan and advocates for a return of the archive to the object, one that challenges the” idealist” through re-presenting the known to the transient consumer of the metro and broader city. The project re-orders and re-orients through adjacencies of space and contemporary icons, advocating for a re-reading of architecture and art within a historical, regulatory, and cultural framework. It uses elements to clarify order, order to emphasize the irregular and the irregular to highlight gaps between the object and the meaning implied on it. Above all, this project is an indulgent study, a series of agitated observations of the architectural, social, political and geometrical. In this proposal, the built form adopts the role of both the container and the material in which knowledge is inscribed upon. A framework of microcosmic truths. Click here for slides

FICTIONISM

THE CAVALIER ENTRY

NOT SO SQUARE COURTYARD

COLLECTION “A” FROM “OUT

UNDER THE CLOCKS

ABOVE THE CLOCKS

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Carnegie Local Brooke Barker Supervisor: Dr. Michael Spooner

When boundaries are narrowed, the horizon becomes local. Welcome to Carnegie Local! This project is a proposal to put Carnegie (Victoria) on the global map through an international expo operating under the theme of the local. The condition of the collective local arises when boundaries become narrowed; place is isolated and defined within its own physical or metaphysical borders. Through the tightening of this lens, idiosyncrasies of the local are revealed: distinctive, peculiar characteristics that develop into the hyperbole of itself. This project understands this condition as a civic presence and uses the expo to exemplify and celebrate. The Carnegie Local is an event in which a collection of pavilions are the architectural consequence of devouring the identity of Carnegie through the framework I have assumed of the collective local. One in which the narrowing of boundaries reveals and celebrates idiosyncrasies. One that proposes that this condition of the local is one that is globally shared. One that overlays the absurdity of my own experience of the local; a seal as the town mascot, projected onto the global stage not only by offering the world's whitest beaches, but also a full-scale Stonehenge. Click here for portfolio

Anne Butler Memorial Medal Semester 1, 2020 Supervisor Statement Brooke’s project examines the suburbs as a stage for a network of expositions following the skyrail through Melbourne, with Carnegie identified as having regional influence. This project constructs both an architectural outcome and the procurement framework for the exposition. The framework reflects the roots of the suburb of Carnegie, renamed in 1909 with the hope of securing funding from the wealthy Scottish American industrialist of the same name. Brooke hails from the isolated town of Esperance in Western Australia, globally marketed as the epitome of Australia’s infinite horizons of blue waters and white beaches. It is unfortunate that the town’s full-scale copy of Stonehenge is not as equally celebrated. Brooke considers the unique social and cultural structures along a short strip of Kooyong Road, adopting the eccentric independence that is uncovered as an attitude to make architecture with. Against the backdrop of our global inertia, Brooke is emphatic, the local is to be celebrated. The Carnegie Gift Card is accepted at more than 30 shops! _Dr. Michael Spooner

Condencity Benjamin Strong Supervisor: Ian Nazareth

Condencity is a project investigating the system of urbanism and its evolutionary potential, with a focus on cities that are subject to the ideas of capital and private property. The project proposes an alternative set of rules and spatial framework for the future suburb of Sandridge in Fishermanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bend and speculates on the urban and architectural outcomes. The project responds to fragilizing forces inherent in market-based urbanism leading to the properties of bigness, homogeneity, and specialisation. Condencity suggests a set of corrective measures to produce an "antifragile" alternative, namely a model of urbanism that will benefit from - rather than be inhibited by - a changing environment. It is proposed that such an urbanism must have the properties of smallness, heterogeneity, and decentralisation, here coined â&#x20AC;&#x153;condensity". Click here for slides

A Playbook for School Architecture Nathalie Putri Supervisors: Helen Duong & Tim Pyke

Nathalie began with the pre-COVID speculation that public schools have the potential to do more than provide places for structured education and play. Post-COVID, she has found it a useful way to reimagine the role of civic institutions as public assets and more importantly as public space. This is tested through a set of infinitely reconfigurable components. Each customisable part has been tested on two locations, Mernda and Carlton Gardens, each with specific site constraints. It deals with the civic in the suburbs and the connectedness required in tight inner-city schools and universally the contentious fence. You will see all the other combinations in her Kit of Parts catalogue in her file. These elements are mass-producible and can be applied at multiple scales on multiple sites. Her project imagines the school and playground from the eyes of children to have agency over what they participate in and to actively explore numerous possibilities in learning, play and interaction with the public. Beyond the child, the parts extend opportunities for parents and teachers to interact at the edges of the school. Her speculations into the playground and other school infrastructure aims to augment and adapt the ‘space’ between the school’s buildings, which is usually ad-hoc and undefined. Click here for book

WE DEMAND SCHOOLS ARE NOT SEPARATE FROM THE COMMUNITY

Infill Space

new play space in between the existing school buildings

+ climbing stairs

standard clip on shelter

standard classroom

In & Out Space

parents having quick conversatios during school pick up

playground shelter

children playing handball and backyard cricket at the laneway

handball pattern

meeting room

parkour ramp

standard ramp B

a new front gate at the back laneway

A PUBLIC

SCHOOL IS A

PUBLIC waiting room

playroom

ASSET

standard classroom

children having choices to play near or far from each other

parents lingering to watch their kids after drop off

standard sandpit & planter

fish pond

runners can see activities at the school

Outdoor Theater

nature play scape

Walk-in Pavilion

stage bench

fence & light poles

Sunken Garden

canopy & pop up pavilion

extended school grounds at Carlton Gardens, connected by the running track

sports shelter

standard shed

standard pole

Edge Activator buildings replacing existing fence as a barrier while also creating a parents waiting zone

children play safely on the footpath without being caged

seamless learning space between indoor and outdoor

GRATTAN ST

CARLTON GARDENS

EXISTING SCHOOL BUILDING

A E

A A

A B

EXISTING SCHOOL BUILDING

B E

EXISTING SCHOOL BUILDING

RATHDOWNE ST

new stage for children performance

SHOULD ALLOW CHILDREN AUTONOMY IN LEARNING AND PLAY

standard amphitheater

standard shed

standard classroom

A F

EXISTING BBALL COURT

F F

standard sandpit & planter

A B

MELBOURNE MUSEUM

Learning Mount Carlton Gardens Primary School Site Plan 1:2000

SHOULD STIMULATE DISCOVERY AND EXPERIMENTATION

A PUBLIC SCHOOL IS

teaching shed

lecture theater

people meeting each other at Merndaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s civic square

FOR EVERYONE

climbing rocks Mernda PS used as Mernda Fountain and Water Park

standard pole

performance shed

skater bench

surveillance amphitheater

tri circle pattern

children looking at the big tree while learning an indigenous song

feasting ramp for grandparents appreciation day

skate ramp

standard ramp A

+ basketball ring & kicking target

Party Shelter

Outdoor Theater

two parent who didnt know each other have a conversation about their kids

children learning to share space

modular wall play shelter bridging the carpark and the nature play scape

sports pattern

kids birthday party at the shelter next to Saturday sports game

standard pole

skater bench

parents lingering after drop off

a child staring at cars while waiting to be picked up

Walk Along Space

standard classroom

standard sandpit & planter

MERNDA VILLAGE RESERVE

ERSKINE RD

a new dense space at the edge of a sparse school

EXISTING GYM & SHEDS

VIL

A C

RN ME

Chatting Gate

ITY

A A

A C

C D

Mountain Climbing Space

EXISTING CLASSROOMS

EXISTING SCHOOL BUILDING

Concert Hall

standard ramp B

skater bench

F A

EARL Y CENT LEARNING ER ME RNDA

ER TO N

A G F

F A

Mernda Primary School Site Plan 1:2000

NOT DESIGNED OUT OF FEAR BUT OPPORTUNITIES

G G

a new way to create a barrier while still maintaining a sense of being in the same space

children having opportunities for a public choir performance

civic stage for Mernda Community Fair at the school

Slice, Dust, Polish Andrea Milovanovic Supervisor: Dr. Peter Brew

Discerning the residues of the social construct of a housewife, this project zooms into the suburban house as a type that has reinforced it around a century ago. Fencing a household from the public sphere and domestic from the political economy. It observes a recent trend of introducing a butler’s pantry as an addition to the open plan living as proof that even the market has identified those residues. Combating them with what it knows best - a new room with its own designated function. Since you’re struggling to satisfactorily maintain your open plan kitchen, we’ll provide you with one more - one where you can freely prepare the food and hide your mess away. Surprise, surprise, eventually you’ll have to clean that one too. And that’s not even the only one of the extra rooms you ought to tend to. Recognising the disjunction between the excess of space and our ability to use it, the project takes those display rooms along with housework’s main sources (laundry and kitchen) away from the house into the communal, in-between areas, highly encouraging their use instead of treating them like porcelain for guests that never come. It reshuffles the remaining footprint of the dual occupancy into multiple units whilst maintaining the illusion of both the dream and its solidity. Moreover, it does not see architecture as exceptional, but as entangled in many other forms of cultural production - thus it still operates within the bounds of the system those houses are ingrained in. Click here for website

Peter Corrigan Medal Semester 1, 2020 Supervisor Statement Andrea identifies within contemporary feminist art and theory, gendered domesticity as provocation and agent for the exploration of the production and consumption of housing. In these studies property is cleaned and maintained in a permanent state of the real estate brochure, no longer houses and homes but a tradable financial instrument. Her project seeks to occupy the disconnect between the discourse of liveability (The Future Homes Competition 2020) and that of the housing market. Andrea’s project acknowledges an excess in real estate, the multiple near identical feature rooms, Dining/Meals/ alfresco Living /Theatre Lounge/Kitchen/Kitchenette outdoor and a mismatch between the 2.1 occupants and the three and four bedrooms of the average home. Andrea proposes a radical and humorous redistribution of spaces, subtle and cleverly within the brief of the 2020 Victorian Governments Future Homes Competition appropriating the found spaces of the advertised homes as the feature space for eight separate dwellings. There is a provocation in the extent that Andrea is able to mount a critique in the form of a radical redistribution of what is contained within the current project home, accepting planning and building codes, construction technology and delivery and institutional finance she is able to propose a four-fold increase to the density of the site. _Dr. Peter Brew

With Melbourne Subtitles Sushma Prabhu Supervisor: Vicky Lam Does unpacking the sensibilities of where we come from give us an objective understanding of place? Can distancing ourselves from our ideologies, test the limits of our imagination, pushing us towards new ways of relating to ourselves and each other? This project can be mistaken for a Jacaranda in the Australian landscape. A foreign film with Melbourne Subtitles. Located under the Flinders Street Viaduct, it recognises foreignness as a consequence of the city’s architecture. Could Architecture then be a consequence of foreignness? An endeavour that began as an outsider in Melbourne wherein acknowledging my difference, helped relate to difference within the city. Whether read as pavilions of the unfamiliar or an optimistic reinterpretation of the city’s infrastructure – the project was an opportunity to leverage the specificity of my foreignness to augment the reading of space. Creating subtitles to the city, through adjacencies, proximities, multiplicity and reinterpretations extracted from a lived past abroad to present local findings, that then embed itself within the quality of space and the scale of its objects. At the same time, engaging with the unnoticed personas of the street - a conversation which then became the architecture. The project, therefore, possesses both vulnerability and resilience. It is both foreign and local. Perhaps there is value in acknowledging an outsider’s interpretation of the city, and if so, what do I bring to the table as an architect here? This proposition doesn’t hope for utopia but rather suggests other lived realities, other systems and ultimately, other architecture. Encouraging me to constantly question - Who am I? Where am I? And what do I value? Click here for portfolio

T EE TR

SS ER

IND FL

foreign : laundry ordinary : curtain ‘act’ : providing privacy/buffer

Transgression through multiplicity

NS EE

E RIS RP TE EN

ID BR

s0 | the formal reading

T EE TR

laundry as curtain

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RK PA

s0 | the formal reading laundry as curtain

s1 | the architectural reading laundry wall

R VE

Transgression through night shift

I AR RR

01 foreign : laundry ordinary : curtain ‘act’ : providing privacy/buffer

s1 | the architectural reading _The program is maintained, the ‘object’ changeslaundry wall _Alternate perspective to the existing _Potential to exceed the brief. s1 | the architectural reading laundry wall

s2 | addressing the city

01 foreign : laundry

house/apartment+ communal laundromat

ordinary : curtain ‘act’ : providing privacy/buffer

01 _The program is maintained, the ‘object’ changes foreign : laundry _Alternate perspective to the existing ordinary : curtain _Potential to exceed the brief. ‘act’ : providing privacy/buffer

_The program is maintained, the ‘object’ changes _Alternate perspective to the existing _Potential to exceed the brief.

Transgression through human scale

foreign :playground/ ‘gully cricket’ ordinary : laneway/thoroughfare ‘act’ : semi-private access & program

s2 | addressing the city house/apartment+ communal laundromat

Transgression through extended program

foreign : shrine ordinary : parking spot/public space ‘act’ : containing/communal

foreign : religious art/shrine ordinary : wall/fence ‘act’ :boundary

*with Melbourne Subtitles*

Imprisonment & Remedy: Surrender, Conform & Be Cured Jason Tam Supervisor: Dr. Peter Brew

Architecture is the physical manifestation of the synthesis between two distinct realities: the preexisting context; as the reasoning for design, and the consequence of the envisaged place. Humans hurl themselves into the endless political quarrels. Contrived skirmishes, ruthless incarcerations, biased educational systemizations, and whole genocides are the results of disparate social misconceptions and corruptible authority. Inevitably, governmental autocrats realize new totalitarian states, supplanting the petrified by their power and architecture. Buildings are diminished into governing tools as though their exertion of power cultivate loyal subservience. As civilization adapts with the expansion of the cold and tasteless infrastructure, the land is claimed and legitimized by the newly supreme-power, as though it will never cease control or protract its ownership of the domain and its inhabitants. All that can be changed within this governmental system, is the rejuvenation of the infrastructure, followed by the re-establishment of economy, culture and a new threshold of emancipation. The project revolves around manifold counterfactual realities, that are facilitated by various architectural environments which interrogate the discrepancy between chance and probability. Ultimately, the amalgamation of the distinct realities sought after new and unpredictable social occurrences within predictable geographic and programmatic changes. Does hope exist in Architecture beyond the plight of humans? Architecture is the physical manifestation of the synthesis between two distinct realities. Thus, the project reiterates itself, until we finally discover the best version of the new reality.

Peter Corrigan Medal Semester 1, 2020 The Leon van Schaik 25th Anniversary Peer Assessed Major Project Award Semester 1, 2020 Supervisor Statement In the circuit board like diagrams that outline the schema of this project, at the intersection line of the Belt and Road Initiative and as it passes through a territory occupied by remote isolated rural communities, is the word HOPE. The overall schema of these diagrams is familiar enough. Lefaivre and Tzonis titled their study “Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization: Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World”: regionalism establishes boundaries (‘peaks’ and ’valleys’) while globalisation removes obstacles of interaction and communication (‘flattens the world’). A classic analysis of hope takes hope to be a compound attitude, consisting of a desire for an outcome and a belief in that outcome’s possibility. The project is a study of seemingly incommensurate scales; that of global trade and local commerce, of time and duration, of infrastructure and habitation, things that are constructed materially, capital and by pact and agreement society and culture. What is being sought in this project are moments where difference is suspended, where there is a break in the obvious oppositions. The views presented are of unscripted moments demanding and challenging the viewer to interpret where the story goes. _Dr. Peter Brew

In Conversation Briony Ewing Supervisor: Dr. Peter Brew

This project could be interpreted as a strategy for staging a conversation. It poses a question – How much of architecture is overdetermined at the cost of other voices? The site for this project borders between discernibly different logics, as a condition found at the edge of the city and internal to itself as architecture. The architecture, as both artifice and instrument, elevates the differences between the various narratives that affect it. In turn, recognizing its own value at their points of encounter. The project proposes a way in which we give substance to qualities intrinsic to architecture and place other than forms predicated by program. It makes it possible to imagine the voice of the shadows. As a strategy, it avoids ‘writing over’ the problems and confrontations that arise in conversation. Instead, formalising these points to instate their value. The architecture is represented in a way that is both seemingly abandoned and with impending purpose to suggest that an architecture exists before the intentions of an architect. Like how the ruin invites us to imagine what it will take to restore it, or what may be of it in the future. Click here for portfolio

Antonia Bruns Medal Semester 1, 2020 Supervisor Statement In his inaugural speech to RVIA 1863 - Redmond Barry whose statue is in the library forecourt - spoke of the Hoddle grid as a commercial instrument of property without provision of civic or public spaces. Though the subsequent unfolding of the grid to the south and from Victoria Street to the north resulted in irregular spaces that have in time become the site of remnant vegetation, small parks, memorials and public institutions (form anticipates function). There is an assumption in Redmond Barry’s speech that the city in its design anticipates a future city. Though it is unlikely that Hoddle could have imagined Mawson’s trek to the Antarctic, the temperance movement, need for fountains, the First World War or that Black Lives Matter that these spaces are available may be as much by accident as design - but they raise the question of intention and programme - to the purpose of the city and its possibility. The project on the corner or Russell and Mc Kenzie St explores the programmed content of architecture. It considers the accident and that which is caused by intent. Architecture rediscovers a history of the cities in itself and local architectural precedents (the works of Yuncken Freeman, Bates Smart McCutchen, to Marika Neustupny’s ‘Curtain Call’ study and book and Peta Carlin’s ‘Urban Fabrics’ photographic project). The project aims to claim nothing of itself other than the possibility for a future. _Dr. Peter Brew

Nested Melbourne Timothy Chan Supervisor: A/Prof. Graham Crist

The Project is an urban precinct nestled into the block of Melbourne around the old Melbourne Gaol and RMIT. A perverse reinterpretation of urban life, created by the deliberate disappearance of humanistic sensibility, within a walled district where space, movement and living are all converged into a system of surrealism, otherness and uncanniness, or even autonomous in its urban fabric, an area which does not appear to be Melbourne. The project has started by addressing issues observed in Melbourne, where the city has been overly two-dimensional with a loss of intimate spaces, urban hierarchies, precinct identities, public rooms and process of unfolding. Therefore, the project uses the opportunity inherited in the site where the two grids collide and manifest a new grid system overlaid by devices called the Armature, the masses, the urban rooms and the net to induce cohesion and uncanniness out of the collision. The architectural form bizarrely plays with perception, fake reality and false memory by the expression of juxtaposition between the classical ordinary and the imaginative provocation. The ideology is ultimately visualized if other edge conditions of the Grid can breed precincts with similar qualities and can act as gateways for the CBD, bring layers and depths to Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urban fabrics, city formation and public realm. Click here for slides

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Urban Contextualism Dong Woo (Danny) Kwak Supervisors: Anna Jankovic & Andre Bonnice Why has the relation between architecture and context been so antagonistic? This project begins by revisiting architecture’s affiliation with the idea of context. It attempts to unpack the complexities of context to find aspects that are often overlooked by the profession. The project explores alternate methods to evaluate, critique and expand the bubble of Contextualism, it suggests that perhaps the answer lies not in the traditional architectural attitude, rather looks to that of other professions which also associate with the notion of Contextualism. Context as a generative tool is the fundamental idea behind D’Arcy Thompson’s, Lev Kuleshov’s, Jakob von Uexkull’s, J. J. Gibson’s and Nikolaus Pevsner's theories. These are unpacked and become mechanisms of perceiving site, uncovering attributes of context which architecture might underestimate and neglect. The science-sociological behavioural responses manifest into six architectural techniques. The Attractor, Ha-Ha, Active, Pitstop, Blurring Boundary and Threshold, these exist in hyper intensified moments, superimposed onto the proposal at the Kangan Institute in Cremorne. This project marks a beginning and offers a small glimpse into how architecture can take alternative methods to the idea of context, one that challenges the conventional and sees with a wider lens. This project is not aimed at redefining the term of contextual design, it does not try to solve any specific problems, but instead, it seeks to nudge the boundary of architectural engagement with the idea of site context. Click here for website

Processed Food Michael Lillis Supervisor: Dr. Jan van Schaik For this project, I have attempted to create a process-driven architectural language using Found items as formal inspiration. I have experimented with several aspects of this process, employing different methods to analyze and interpret the found object and exploring how to translate these studies into an architectural language. These experiments are conducted on a proposed new multi-use site to act as a suburban hub in central Reservoir, with dining and a food market taking up a large portion of the site. To reflect the diverse nature of the people of Reservoir and responding to the dominant programs for the site I have limited myself to market produce when looking for found objects to start the design process with. The project raises the questions: Where does the big pineapple end and architecture begin? Does the lingering presence of the object in the final form carry weight regardless of whether the inspiration is recognized or not, and does it matter? I would argue that the process itself becomes the defining recognizable thing. The found object is but a component of this however, obscured in the result. The process I have developed follows a basic pattern where an object is found, that object then is described/interpreted, its potential for architecture is then assessed and the ideas are then tested in a representation of built form, through drawing. There are several methods I have experimented with for interpreting objects in 2D and 3D which generate different architectural potential. It is in the combination and intersection of these studies where the result starts to surpass the form of the found objects.

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Major Project s1 2020 Michael Lillis Jan Van Schaik

A Cathedral of Obverse Obsessions... Another Museum Fiona Then Supervisor: Ian Nazareth

As architecture becomes the reduction of its own representation, this research explores the dichotomy between the built model, representation, translation and the collective relationship. Drawings are a specific form of 2d representations and hold a plethora of spatial and visual information. The poche and visual manipulation are key elements which repeat throughout the project through the roof shadow play, reflective immersive materials, object distortion and voyeuristic overlooking. The assessment of success occurs in the translatability of the manipulation, the evidence of altered states, and the multitude of possible experiences. Utilising this process of reading the precedents and subsequent drawings, the museum could not occur without the analysis of and the precedent itself. The pavilions which realise the spatial play could also not occur without the created manipulated drawings. The project instances the drawing within the design process as both the medium and transposition tool. This practice of the drawing, and collective representation, is modelled here outside of normative methods as deeply embedded in process, whilst proposing a wider use and re-evaluation of the weight of representation. Click here for slides Click here for video

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This is home truly Celestine Supervisor: Tim Pyke

This project recognises the personalisation and adaptation of space in the Traditional Singaporean Kampung village as architecture. It facilitates agency, familiarity, and ownership. This project recognises the need for HDB housing in Singapore to be renewable instead of being demolished after 2 generations of occupation for new HDB housing. The project acknowledges that relationships, habits in daily life and occupation are erased when people are asked to move into new accommodation, and it takes a generation to develop these relationships again. Therefore, this project is an alternative model for Singaporean HDBâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where multiple generations can continue living in the same location whilst the building stock is updated in an adjacent government-owned block. The project is not nostalgic, it does not want to go back to the 60s, but it acknowledges the collective lifestyle of that era. It has minded these past examples as a way to make a new collective model for Singapore by applying them to architecture to maintain social relationships, passing knowledge between generations, having agency over communal spaces, and including aged care and childcare within the tower rather than on the ground in the HDB complex.

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New Sunshine Primary School Project Chengqi (Leon) Wang Supervisor: Brent Allpress

This project is not a protest for capitalism eroding the Melbourne suburb. It is not a critique of old school typology. It is a New Sunshine Primary School project. It is the start of architectural generosity. The Victoria government proposes a Growth Area School Project in 2019, which advocates keywords, ‘Permanent Modular School’, ‘Shared Facilities’, and ‘Community engagement’ to deal with the educational requirements of a fast-growing area economically but with special qualities. The phenomenon of lacking educational infrastructure and the shrinking of public spaces in the suburb of Sunshine makes the New Sunshine Primary School project possible. The architectural generosity would be carefully arranging the existing phenomenon to make it good, even if it is perceived as too skinny, instead of creating something new with big fat ambition. The architectural generosity would be taking a school and giving the shared facilities and refined landscape back to the community, and new in-between learning spaces back to pupils. This school is the first school in Sunshine to show the attitude of generosity for pupils and communities, and it will not be the last one. Click here for video Click here for slides

First Growing area school project

Sunshine through the framing is the smell of grass.

It is not only about the sunshine, but also the tree shade.

Cheap structure, Cheap framing not equal to a cheap school.

we are opening to all, 24/7.

Sunshine primary school always has a good sunshine.

Regardless of internal or external, ivy has its own way.

Water pipe, exposed framing, court, and summer.

Give me a school, I will give you a present back.

The football club near school is always popular.

The silent wet land will be popular again.

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A Matter of Time Martin Miraglia Supervisors: Amy Muir & Prof. Mark Jacques In a world that constantly pursues progress, why do we tend to remove the past to give place for the new? How can we not get lost when we erase our own tracks? Isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t experience and knowledge what lets us avoid repeating mistakes? Currently, the former Holdenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historic car factory where Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Own Car was born in 1948 foresees a new state-of-the-art engineering campus. Approximately 80% of the 38-hectare industrial block has been demolished, wiping away more than 80 years of manufacturing history. Pursuing a complete transformation of the current landscape becomes not only a chaotic and unsustainable way of doing architecture but also a great danger to identity. Tradition and progress must come to terms. The project will develop in one of the last standing structures in the centre of the site in hopes that it not only protects the past but also that it may outline the future of this campus as it develops on the rest of the site. A debate occurs behind the ideology of this project, there is a condition to place on-site, as well as, a memory of place from Parkville that allows defining an innovative space by overlaying both existing conditions. Not only is there always a place for conversation between absolutes, but actually infinite opportunities through our conception of the collective and its bounding through knowledge, memory, and identity. It is not only a matter of time itself but also a matter of time when we realize, we are all in this together. Click here for portfolio Click here for video

Uncommon Beauty of Common Things Callum Andrews Supervisor: Simone Koch

This thesis examines how we define place and how we can create and represent it. Two independent sites have been identified requiring immediate amenity architecture as a result of a disaster. These sites, while different in context, demographic and way of life serve as testing grounds for a sequence of architectural projects in an attempt to better understand the place they are for. ‘Sibling’ projects are introduced with the idea of repetition without it being identical repetition, they are not copies of each other. Instead, it is about the dialogue between two apparently similar elements, not knowing who spoke first and who second. Although simple, they beg comparison, and this act draws greater scrutiny. You become curious, compare them and – most importantly – begin to look more carefully. Post-disaster, a series of architectural amenities are deployed to restore life and function; A Primary School and another Primary School, a Bus Shelter and a First Aid Post, a Public Toilet and a Community Toilet, a Community Centre and a Fishing Outpost. While Two unnecessary ‘things’, a Data Centre and a Weather Station are also proposed to test the strength of this proposal against something less desired. Click here for video

Urban Hacking: The Architecture of Opportunity Marnie Newton Supervisor: Peter Knight

Representing the intersection of architecture and urban dance, this project explores the use of architecture as a method to clinically study the ideas and relationship of the urban dancer within the context of a city. Unlike other translations of dance within architecture, this project intentionally chose to focus less on the common ideas of “performance”, “movement in form” and “choreography” and instead opts to express dance within the narrative of practice and community. But this project is not about just designing spaces for “dancers”, as these spaces already exist outside of the urban context. Rather, it chooses to explore the use of the narrative and relationship of the dancer within the urban context as a means to critic existing and propose a new idea for activation based on opportunity and flexibility within the existing typologies of new private developments. This study has resulted in the creation of the 5 principles of opportunity in Access, Insertion, Negotiation, Visibility and Permission, of which form the soul of this project and weave through all of the tests, proving not singular nor universal in application, but rather as a series of unique connections and sequences, inter-woven not only in the architecture but within society. Click here for book

Transcendence Ooi Ju Ern Supervisor: Dr. Anna Johnson

My project began with a questioning of what architecture could do in providing a role to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;exhibitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; or educate people about mental illness and supporting people with mental health conditions. This led to another question about cultural wellness of the city and how architecture and landscape could serve the community. Sited at T H Westfield Reserve, the project consists of a series of buildings dispersed across the park providing educational and community spaces. My research explores architectural language by re-examining the role of everyday objects which have impacted on my own selective mutism condition, looking into the present within the very stuff that is already there, to discover optimism within the contemporary and rethinking the alternative ways in which we can use it by transforming it into architectural work. This project is not about solving mental health issues, but a project that explores an architecture that begins with the every day and then evolves into the psychological-emotional effect of colour, space and form. Uniting the present with history, nature and architecture to create a place with a new value for people to gather. It uses architecture as a tool for the benefit of realization, using sublime as a profound moment of feeling its ability to see negative things in a positive way.

Pivot City Station Jared Drever Supervisors: William Brouwers & Prof. Carey Lyon Geelong has broken down! Once known as the city of exports, manufacturing and a gateway to the surf coast and beyond, Geelong is now a city struggling for an identity and purpose. A new Pivot is needed, a device that proposes a work-life for the future and creates the required networks for the cities impending high levels of growth. This device is an output, a host, a platform and a home; this device is Pivot City Station. An economic port for the city's future, that celebrates the city's past. Through the implementation of a new high speed rail line that drastically alters the cities capabilities, a new condition is formed for the city that re-establishes a once proud pivot point for regional Victoria. Toolset and need dictate the form and the Pivitonian is celebrated and elevated to a new kind of nomadic worker who is comfortably between cities and finally happy to come home. Geelong needs to stop wanting but not getting, and getting but not wanting. Geelong needs an architecture of necessity. Geelong needs to unearth the Pivot!

Temple of Infinity Qingqing (Stella) Yang Supervisor: A/Prof. Roland Snooks

This project uses fractal algorithms and mathematical principles to achieve a new kind of digital renaissance of ancient architecture. Fractals can be found everywhere in nature, it is a pattern that formed from chaotic equations to contain self- similarity. Theoretically speaking, fractal geometry can repeat itself into infinite smaller parts. In ancient times, fractal geometry was associated with religious buildings, especially the Arabic mosques and Hindu temples. According to their philosophy, the universe is constructed by one element repeated from the largest to the smallest. In the early 19th century, the mathematical theory of fractals is found in snow-flake curves that can be divided into infinite smaller parts (Koch Curve). Fractal geometries are defined as 2D until recent years, where the development of computer science resulted in 3d fractals that can be virtualized and modified. By applying transformation formulas on the basic Mandelbrot equation, such as scaling, addition, reciprocal, poly fold, rotation, etc. magnificent and complex 3d fractals can be achieved in digital calculation. Therefore, as ancient people use fractal design language to express their architectural ideology, could modern people use fractal algorithms to provide a new perspective of architecture design? By locating this temple besides Shanghai city center, I created a dramatic contrast between grass/ steel modernism and sand/ stone classicism. In order to achieve the highly intricate ornament and structure, 3d- sand printing technology could be introduced into its fabrication process. The main function of this building is to provide a relaxing and peaceful sanctuary to the hustle and bustle of city residents, a perfect place for meditating the ancient philosophical paradox: does the universe exist infinitely or only limited in our perception?

TEMPLE OF INFINITY Qingqing(Stella) Yang

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Readymade Goods Joel Lok Supervisor: Dr. Peter Brew

“What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think about what we are doing.” Hannah Arendt’s proposition from The Human Condition is the pretext for this project. There are four parts: the swimming pool - an “architecture”, the Work and Development Permit - an apparatus analysed, the master plan - a schema for thought & the objects - the model applied. The swimming pool is the project we would come to expect an architect to be involved with, the architecture of architects. An analysis of the Work and Development Permit (WDP) provides us with the means to recognise two models, Marx’s theory of commensurability & Aristotle’s three goods. The Masterplan is a diagram for thought, how we think a thing in terms of the three goods. This is represented through three zones intrinsic, extrinsic; and the consideration of a final good. The objects exist as a grid, which is a comparative exercise in classification. We are prompted to perform the task of determining their status as a good. In doing so we are prompted to confront the status of architecture, and our engagements to and through the profession. Are our actions a means to an end or an end in itself?

WALLS Mick Mingqing Shi Supervisor: Dr. John Doyle

A gated community’s wall is its own method of taxonomy, granting a clear definition of what is, and what isn’t. It aids in the grouping and separation of the human existence, as a pragmatic but less than ideal barrier between ‘us’ and ‘them’. Within the traditional Chinese political and mental space however, it also confers a degree of autonomy and understanding of the world around us. It provides a space for which we are responsible. A space for which we may take ownership of, in a world where we are typically unable to influence the decisions and outcomes that affect our cities at large. The wall in this project has been modified along a path which removes the juxtaposition of the interior and exterior, the public and the private. With the non-existence of such concepts within the proposed gated community, the wall is freed to transform into whatever is required upon each specific threshold condition, which in turn affects the architecture it interfaces with. This embraces the populational transience that has gripped modern society and aims to broaden the oxymoronic group-individualism that permeates existing gated communities to include our co-inhabitants of the greater urban fabric.

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Capsule 2.0 Jingjing Zhou Supervisor: A/Prof. Graham Crist

Why did the Metabolist capsules fail dynamical change and metabolise? Is it possible that now this fantasy is more possible? This project aims to develop a dynamic and incremental growth system that could fit into a densely populated and tight city, responding to shifting markets, and interacting with both its occupants and the current environment. These capsules are designed into a more flexible system, where the lift and services allow a mobile delivery of the units. FaĂ§ade and interior customization is built into the new modular system. Wifi, smartphones and networked laptops are now normal and a natural companion to this system. Airbnb has made mobile living an everyday reality. The software and social media that allows cities to evolve faster need physical structures that are more dynamic and responsive. You can order a capsule online, in one size, customise its interior, its faĂ§ade and its use â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a dwelling, an office, a shop or restaurant. You can have it deployed to the working building which is already operating, and then later, have it refitted and removed. There are many configurations and facades possible here and countless sites for its location; this project draws one possibility.

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01. About site Conventional core and layout doesn't fit into densely populated and tight city context. The system needs a new model of center core to adapt to the increasingly dense city.

02. About replacing capsules Nakagin tower didn't provide an efficient method about how to replace capsules. There is no fixed crane sitting on site to replace capsules. When replacing capsules, structure will be detached along with capsules, this will cause unstability of the whole building.

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CITYX China Joanne Zhouhang Qiu 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 is promoting a metropolis organised by a dynamic Voronoi, which is an urban solution that significantly reduces the overall length of the path system while maintaining a low average detour factor. By creating a green, self-sufficient city that restores the environment, this system aims to tide over the infrastructure and technology as well as life and social well-being, which peruses a friendly coexistence of both city and nature. While respecting the cultural histories of the land, and reinterpreting the infusion of future technologies, this new form of habitation is challenging to move away from rigid form and functionalities to a dynamic urbanism, from designated systems of linear production zoning to a hybrid condition of the city. This project is seeking to fulfil the essentials of the city demands. New spatial organization, new industries and new technologies form a symbiotic system that allows the new city to be connected and function on a local and global 24/7, as it is no longer a 9-5 world.

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The Kids and Oldiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Farm - Union Street Honglin Zhu Supervisor: A/Prof. Graham Crist

This model for aged living brings together old people, children, animals and plants in an urban environment. Reducing a sense of isolation is important for all of us; joining these groups in one building aims to address this. The project sets up contrasting dialogues between freedom and discipline and mixes these two themes in the building form. The approach to ageing exposes it to youthful innocent freedom and the shedding of fixed rules. The building combines childcare, pre-school, assisted care homes, seniorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; clubs and a dairy with cheese production, fowl, orchards and mushrooms. These exist on a small South Melbourne site, allowing kids to explore and learn by spatial experience while creating chances to trigger memories and re-experience freedom. Architectural form merges diverging approaches to material exemplified by Peter Zumthor and Peter Corrigan. Natural materials and colourful cloaking; pure geometry and figured ornament are tested together. These contrasts create in-between spaces for social activity and encourage people to cross thresholds. The composition of boxes and gaps sets up open voids which bring in light and air and allow chance views out and through. Framed window compositions guide observations and encourage users to consider the city close by.

This Mortal Coil Yutian Liu Supervisor: A/Prof. Graham Crist

This design is a vertical community for the end of life. As older people downsize from large houses to apartments in the city for various reasons, current models do not cater to their intense needs. Two social problems are considered: a sense of belonging and physical accessibility. The building aims at a vertical village which is socially connected and universally accessible. Three identifiable blocks are stacked; each coloured block represents a different neighbourhood, giving identity to different communities in the tower. Singular apartment tower extrusions are replaced by a collection of more discreet communities. Ramps form the main tower circulation making everywhere accessible by wheelchair or mobility scooters. Core lifts are also oversized to become small social rooms, each of them being big enough to accommodate four wheelchairs or mobility scooters. The reduced mobility triggers a need for a theatrical and varied life within the tower. It creates neighbourhood space for interaction and communication; a self-contained inner kingdom. Generous sky gardens are formed by gaps in the stack, and the perimeter spiral circulation. The tower is perhaps the final destination of a life. It accepts death and reduced mobility and aims to find comfort in its architecture.

Meta Gr!D Christopher How Name Vong Leung Cheun Supervisor: Supervisor: Ian Nazareth

Meta Gr!D is an exploration into setting up a platform and framework as a medium to understand how cities could possibly be planned through data. It is a grid that wants to be described by information; a grid that knows no given typography, no prescribed ideology and no context, but only pure data. Encoding the relationships between the building and its environment. Future cities are to be distributed while carrying a sense of autonomy. Up until recently, Big Data has been used to unpack the organisational pattern of human beings in many cities however, it has always been the case that these visualisations are from a given environment. Meta Gr!D looks at data as an opportunity to reimagine how planning could be distributed within itself in a virtual ecosystem, using the current physical manifestation of humans as a starting point, these data are being scaled and amplified to match the required need of such an environment. The floating objects are the materialization of data both in the physical and virtual world. Virtual as it is operating in the background while dealing with its surrounding field.

The Kovil Wall Sivasunmuga Sekaran Jayakumar Supervisor: Vicky Lam

A Kovil (Temple) wall is the expression of the city imprinted on an irreplaceable object. What if these expressions are in the form of a wall? The Project gets anchored to this threshold condition that opens up the irreplaceable object that is bound to the city that is simultaneous and ever-changing in nature. The city of Chennai becomes the place of observation and the Object corresponds to the Shrine wall. Moreover, the architectural expression seeks to unravel the city and its nature on this shrine wall. The rich red and white wall starts to take up agency of the street and starts to amalgamate with the city front of George Town; Chennaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s political centre. There is a dialogue between the shrine, which is an irreplaceable and explicit object, with the city, which is generic but holds interesting layers of social and cultural affinities. This dialogue is the essence that the thickness of the wall seeks to grasp and affiliates itself. The architecture is expressed as the vision of the city which brings in boundless gestures through red and white temple walls.

LEGEND 1. SOCIAL BLOCKS 2. RAMP 3. REFLECTION SPACE 4.LIFTS 5. PERFORMANCE SPACE 6. EXHIBITION SPACE P 7. PLATFORMS 8. WATER TANK 9. WALKABLE STREET

THE KOVIL CITY

“THE RESEMBLANCE OF CHENNAI ON SHRINE WALLS”

City X Weida Name Ruan Supervisor: Supervisor: Prof. Tom Kovac

WEIDA RUAN S3605067

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Superposition Wenzhao Zhong Supervisor: Dr. Michael Spooner

This largest Confucius Institute campus ever arises in Latrobe Valley re-inhabiting the closed Hazelwood Power Plant not only as an outpost of the Belt and Road Initiative, but also as conflicted sovereignty. Confucius Institute, as the consequence of the extension of the Chinese soft power, has locally considered a controversial organisation that potentially threatens Australia while its proof, to some extent, seems not invincible. However, this project attempts to encourage a binary status of the two opposing sides of the Confucius Institute, which is not either nefarious or amiable, but both at the same time. By overlapping the existing local heritage and the representative heritage of Chinese power the Forbidden City as the landscape condition as well as exploring the adjacency between the embedded 100 contested programs that involve the controversy of Confucius Institute, the internal conflict of Confucius Institute has been intensified yet both nefarious and amiable aspects are still maintained within. As a consequence, neither can it be proved guilty nor innocent, but the possibility of both might exist as superposition.

The Requirement Room Atefeh Name Seddighin Supervisor: Supervisor: Dr. Anna Johnson

The project is a proposition for the future state library metro train station. This is a metro station that also provides a large-scale shelter for the city, an escape from chaotic urban life, or a free public space for socializing and meeting in the heart of Melbourne where a moment of peace is always missing. The requirement room is a return to our initial human needs of peace and socializing in the community, and it is looking for varied informal opportunities for interaction between people in the architecture of a major civic room for Melbourne. This is an architecture acting beyond the considered purpose. The metro station becomes a public community space to join the city inhabitantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; daily life and be socially active. Acknowledging the existing public spaces in Melbourne, I inverted the dynamic architecture in the surrounding context and evolved it in my architecture. This architecture is derived from the memories or recollections and fragments of the adjacent public buildings. It is a space for people which is made from the fabric of the city.

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In-VISIBLES Mariakmila Bernal Moreno Supervisor: Simone Koch

In the decade of the sixties, Colombia was submerged in an internal violent conflict, the genesis of it was the dispute over the land in certain strategic locations. Land dispossessions became recurrent and the rural population had to crowd into cities to be safer. Located in Bogota, the architecture aims to create spaces to empower the community, build and strengthen neighbourhood links and represent the value of their collective memory, the goal is to re dignify the victims and create a sense of belonging in a foreign context for them. The memorial is the backbone of the project. But how can the memorial stop being a disconnected and isolated element? By providing an architecture that establishes a bridge between the city, the monument, and the community, a series of new spatial relationships are recreated between the volumes allowing the memorial to play an active role in the city and peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daily life. The memorial can transcend its function and its limits when a series of public spaces within a more user-friendly scale is implemented as a bridge between the memorial and the city. The project recreates an urban space while commemorating and making visible a population that has been put aside until now.

Walking Through Facade Chaoyu NameYang Supervisor: Supervisor: Vicky Lam

The project is a critique of facadism which has spread across Melbourne like an epidemic. Driven by housing demand, contemporary high-rise buildings are designed following a profit-driven space production logic and treat heritage architecture as a two-dimensional attachment. The problem is that the results are so often lazy and cheap, patchwork solutions rather than visionary repurposing. These chimaeras hide an alarming implication: Much contemporary architecture is so banal and soulless that the veneer of the past needs to be plastered on top. Selecting the malt store as the site, my project is a renovation project which tries to challenge facadism. My methodology is to reconfigure spatial experience as a memory trigger to help users to perceive its historical identity. The new design unpacks the malt store’s heritage values and transforms her as a public garden serving for the whole site. The new submerged garden activates the adjacent muted plazas to contribute a continuous journey in a limited footprint, which not only revives the experience of “carriageway” and “storage facility”, but also stretches time and blurs the edge of interior and exterior. Barley plantation is an importation program to provide an interactive experience to recall the malt store’s historical identity as a brewery factory. New arrangement tells the old story. Functionally, the malt store serves as a super amenity open for the public, but when you walk through the facade, her historical identity can still be perceived through spatial experience.

Beyond the Market Daxiang Wu Supervisor: Dr. Jan van Schaik

The Other Architect Maheshika Name Madurawalage Supervisor: Supervisor: Ian Nazareth

Any given reader will derive from a text something that will be different to that of another. Any text can have multiple meanings. The user will derive from a building, an experience, a meaning, very different from that of the architect. In The Other Architectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s firm, the role of the creative user is as important as that of the architect, neither is superior to that of the other. The aim was to challenge and remodel the relationship of the skilled/professional and the unskilled rather than the physical product of architecture and it is tested by retooling the architectural practice. This project is a reform, not a revolution. The new architect is no longer an author, but a scripter. The new user is no longer just part of the cast, but a contributor. The new architect and the new user together create The Other Architect.

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Pitch in the Cloud Yifan Zhou Supervisor: Dr. John Doyle

The project â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pitch in the Cloudâ&#x20AC;? is a project researching how data archives could be integrated into peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daily life and how data would play a role in the post-pandemic world. In the post-pandemic world, people are desperate to socialise but still aware of social distancing, so physical contact with virtual objects would be a great idea in such a building. For example, people are used to studying with each other by gathering together in one place, but in the future, they may have one more option which is interacting with hologram classmates/colleagues by the support of data centre behind them. This allows people to gain an awareness of social engagement but with a great feeling of safety in their minds. In all these activities, the data centre plays an essential role, reinforcing why people would be more willing to get to know them instead of just put them out of the city like a real cloud. In the valley like entrance, people feel more engagement and amusement whilst sustaining great safety. At the same time, the commercial part could be plugged in to make a profit from it. Much more technology elements could be inserted by the support of the strong data centre and the plaza would be a great place to chill and enjoy the safety and happiness brought by technology in the postpandemic world. Finally, this project could be a powerful information centre bringing the public together and output the

Synthetic Centre Yifan Tao Supervisor: Dr. Anna Johnson

Architectural representation has historically been represented through means of static images. This thesis contends that architecture is perceived through the introduction of human movement and to explore a new mode of architectural representation that utilizes the dynamism of movement as a method of design for architectural form through what is described as the moving image. The project also explores the debate that emergent design and vernacular language can co-exist. This is a community centre for Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inner suburb of Collingwood, dedicated to the local dweller. Synthetic Centre provides public spaces, including a library, theatre, and activity spaces whilst testing the potential to solve existing issues in Collingwood. The idea is visualized through narrative and makes a manifesto to the concept of observing reality. The project exploits a diagrammatic methodology through different montage techniques for the organization of program which proposes an architecture language that breaks the limitation of time and space. As a rebellion to the common understanding of architecture by the general public, Synthetic Centre encourages the local dweller to pay attention to the form, shape, and perspective that constantly surrounds us.

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CIRC + FOYER CENTRAL GATHERING SPACE

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Interior Perspective Section B-B

Permanent exhibition hall 1300

Collection area

Exhibition and education room Short exhibition hall 450

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Collection area 200

Book bar

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Public service room 150

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Stylistic activities room

Elderly activities function 700

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Management area Literature rehearsal room 400

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Music room 60

Music room 40

Piano room 36

Technical equipment area

Art rehearsal room 300 Equipment room 64

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Science/ technology class 100

Small conference room

Advisory Service Area 100

Public activities&ancillary service areas Business area

Management room 450

Art and calligraphy

Sports class 100

Management and service room

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Business Research room 300

Literature and art 200

Teaching room and auxiliary room

Youth activities function 2150

Middle conference room

Public activities&ancillary service areas 400

Cultural integration function 5700

Business area 100

Big conference room Multifunction conference room

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Management area 100

Leisure sports

Technical equipment area 80

Leisure sports 520

Other 120

Photography and other 50

Acting small theatre

Acting small theatre 2000

Exhibition hall

Management and service room 50

Stylistic activities room 200

Book bar 500

Multimedia book area

Short exhibition hall 150

24 hour self-help books

activities function 4300

Round hall 500 H>8M

Art and art display function

Collection room

3-ordinary exhibition hall 1000 H>5M

Collection room 700

4300 Education and training room

Management and service room

Education and training room 200

Management and service room 100

Storeage

Work repair and mounting room

Storeage 750

Work repair and mounting room 150

Extra-Territory Jonathan Jianan Fan Supervisor: Dr. John Doyle

EXTRA -TERRITORY

The Next Stop Arleen Chiong Supervisor: Dean Boothroyd

Airports from around the world of today are located in the outskirts of the city and positioned generally in underdeveloped and less populated areas, whilst the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) is found in the middle of Manilaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dense city that is causing segregation within the community because of its constrained program. The project aims to break that threshold and to create an engagement between the local community and the aviation site, the visitors, and the environment. This project is an infrastructural architecture that is civic-focused, a mixed-use facility for passengers and for the public realm. It explores the idea of an airport as a space of transition and an iconic representation to the public by bringing the city to the airport that creates a more sociable and sustainable environment in the airport precinct. The design aims to exhibit a new type of program for residents and visitors that come in from different parts of the world and define a passengerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first and last good impression of the airport as being part of the city.

Supervisors Semester 1, 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 Brent Allpress Andre Bonnice Dean Boothroyd Dr. Peter Brew William Brouwers A/Prof. Graham Crist Dr. John Doyle Helen Duong Prof. Mark Jacques Anna Jankovic Dr. Anna Johnson Peter Knight Simone Koch Tom Kovac Prof. Carey Lyon Amy Muir Ian Nazareth Tim Pyke Dr. Jan van Schaik A/Prof. Roland Snooks Dr. Michael Spooner

Students Semester 1, 2020 Temitope Oluwadara Adesina

Ju Ern Ooi

Callum Andrews

Sushma Prabhu

Brooke Silburn Barker

Nathalie Kartika Putri

Celestine

Zhouhang Qiu

Hong Kay (Timothy) Chan

Weida Ruan

Christopher How Vong Leung Cheun

Atefeh Seddighin

Arleen Lee Chiong

Mick Mingqing Shi

Jared Linton Drever

Benjamin Strong

Briony Ewing

Hoi Fung (Jason) Tam

Jianan Fan

Yifan Tao

Sivasunmuga Sekaran Jayakumar

Fiona Yoke Foong Then

Hugh Edward Jones

Chengqi (Leon) Wang

Dong Woo (Danny) Kwak

Zhong Wenzhao

Michael John Lillis

Daxiang Wu

Yutian Liu

Chaoyu Yang

Joel Jia Wei Lok

Qingqing (Stella) Yang

Maheshika Madurawalage

Xinyue Yao

Andrea Milovanovic

Jingjing Zhou

Martin Miraglia

Honglin Zhu

Mariakmila Bernal Moreno

Yifan Zhou

Marnie Louise Newton