RMIT Architecture & Urban Design Major Project Catalogue Semester 2 2019 by RMIT Architecture

RMIT Architecture Major Project Catalogue Semester 2 2019

Major Project Catalogue, Semester 2 , 2019 Prof. Vivian Mitsogianni Ian Nazareth

Designed and Produced by Ian Nazareth Jack Jordan

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RMIT Architecture Major Project Catalogue Semester 2 2019

Contents Introduction, Professor Vivian Mitsogianni...01 What is Major Project?...02 No Vacancy, Alana Brunton... 03 YESLOGO, Jack Jordan... 04 Fields of Play, Jacqueline Tang... 05 Project/project, Laura Szyman... 06 THE RUB, Leon Koutoulas... 07 Anti thesis <architecture as layer>, Harry Bardoel... 08 Swimming At High Tide; Civic on the Foreshore, Benjamin Paszyn... 09 Adaptive Assembly, Tong Ning (Vicky)... 10 Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Musings, Zachary McPherson... 11 Catalyst, Jessica Simons... 12 The Waiting Station, Emma Donovan... 13 Revealing the Hidden, Anestis Pneumaticatos... 14 Library of Importance, Tidus Lok Tin Shing... 15 Big Dock Energy, George Mollett... 16 Sliding Doors, Nicole Kirby... 17 To Catch a Glimpse (NGV Depot), Jin Howe Chung... 18 Immediacies. Daniel Paltridge... 19 2a-2b Cunningham St, Maya Le Branksy... 20 “Superorganism”, Ilana Razbash... 21 In the Blood, Emma Li... 22 Sunday Bloom, Roxanne Esagunde... 23 A Camel is a Horse Designed by Committee, Alexandra Kemp... 24 New Academic Field, Nguyen Uyen An Le... 25 The Unbroken Tie, Elena Yi Ling Chia... 26 This is Not a Tower, Rosemary Heyworth... 27 Memorama, Lau Ching Ming Ronald... 28 Hong Kong Community Air Right, Ip Kwun Lun... 29 Condensed Grounds, Prathyuksha Acharya... 30 “Re-address”, Pricilla Khoo... 31 “Flawless Failure”, Yolanda Wanzhi DU... 32 Terraforming, Mirabela Vasilie... 33

M^7 Future Knowledge, Kim Mudie... 34 Suburban Catalyst, Ka Yee Wong (Camellia)... 35 Future Zoo-Cities 2050: Ho Chi Minh Zoo-City, Vi Nguyen... 36 Ecopolis, Stefan Vincent Frey... 37 Wish You Were Here, Amy Tremewen... 38 Transformer, Qian Li... 39 Bake the Market, Emily Yueyue Wu... 40 Supercity â&#x20AC;&#x201C; City x, Nansha, Huxu Yang... 41 On Nature, Growth, and Ornament, Hibah Kuhodr... 42 Ketahanan Kampong Ayer, Lim Chia Chuin (Alan)... 43 The 20 Acre Block, Rebekah Collins... 44 Integration & Regeneration, Kang Du... 45 Made in Harbin, Tracy Lee Wong Tien Hing... 46 Labyrinth of City Fragmens, Fiona Shing On Yung... 47 Comm-back, Houzhi Du... 48 The Griffins Muliplex, Justin Phillips... 49 Within Without, Katherine Bailing He... 50 Super Market, Zhonglong Wei... 51 The Muaion of 555 Collins, Damian Camilleri... 52 Penang Transit Fisherpo, Xin Yan Choo... 53 Place Narrative, Mingzi Pan... 54 Pointing Chapel, Wai Yin Lau... 55 The Royal Order, Simon Sawyer... 56 Business as Usual, Regine Tjan... 57 PORK, Jiachen Zhu... 58 A New Stadium Type, Luke Kebermik... 59 Duel Identity: The Tales of an Architectural Palimpsest, Stella Skoumbridis... 60 Transect, Ethan Allsop... 61 Enjoy Animation, Ruoyun Li... 62 Memory Fragments, Minghan Yan... 63 The Hidden Palace, Boby Subagyo Putro... 64 Subscribe!, Cecilia Young... 65 The Centre for the Displaced, Edward Bainbridge... 66 Jinan: Eternal 'City of Springs', Qi Liu... 67 Supervisors Semester 2, 2019...69 Students Semester 2, 2019...70

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 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.

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 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 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 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.

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.

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

01 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’ .

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 2018

No Vacancy

Alana Brunton Supervisor: Dr. Peter Brew

Like television sitcomsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; the project positions a series of new and non-market characters providing an inside out perspective of the city that is made to look like life in situ, casting architecture as an instrument. Sited on 699 La Trobe Street it seeks to account for the value of architecture in its use, not as an end in itself i.e. as a commodity (property) but as a means to an end; of the economy which Aristotle refers to as the chief good. To the city, the economy is a modern approximation of this. Without recourse to the description of architecture as property, of apartments as real estate could we describe it instead by its activities, as shared accommodation, its use as a site of consumption, its consumption, the flux flows relationships and exchange that take place in the economy. To do this it looks at social media, the task economy and emergent platforms that facilitate it. The building then is hardware to this software and like the sharing economy its nascent form is found to be outside of the regulatory codes and regulations that architects administer. It identifies what must change if we are to account for the full extent of the city. For if we can better understand this, we could tailor new typologies that better suit the city and way we â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;actuallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; live. Then the city becomes more interesting the way it is, and the challenge is finding a way to see that.

YESLOGO

Jack Jordan Supervisor: Dr. Christine Phillips

It’s been 20 years since Naomi Klien’s NO LOGOs battled against the big brands and the battle was lost. My thesis looks at changing the architecture of educating towards that of a hybridized commercial vernacular, where the private and public sectors have collaboratively determined an alliance procurement method that can fund and create Cremorne Incorporated, a K- 12 school. The project itself has many faces. Its faceted identity is a radical breach of the disciplinary thresholds creating an architecture of distinction and incomparable atmosphere, that works as a series of case studies showcasing how one could test this hybridization. They are inherent to the identity of the site, with the corporations that they align themselves with and their teaching policies. The mixture of formally, well separated typologies and programs has created a new kind of school space, that taps into the conversation of what is an effective learning environment for students at all levels of schooling. Although my project isn't trying to solve education concerns or issues in anyway, it's an adaptation of architecture as a place where knowledge and culture are embedded in space from the tectonic to the context of material and use. As you escape into a realm of the child’s imagination that ended as a visual commentary on the problems surrounding Victoria's educational apparatus and how might corporations help it be remediated.

Fields of Play

Jacqueline Tang Supervisor: Patrick Macasaet

‘Field of Play’ (F.O.P) speculates on the evolution of hybridized types specifically through the lens of learning and living environments. This prioritises hybridization which includes typology and programs, syntax of programmatic codes and evolution. This Major Project seeks to re-evaluate architectural projects on spatial possibilities; seeing the value of architecture not just on a form, but on how we understand the program and how they may potentially evolve. F.O.P studies architectural ideologies embodied in the spatial program. This includes the production of fields of social encounter, new functional juxtapositions and forms of spatial segmentation. A way to judge this success is through the programmatic analysis compiled in the ‘Fields of Play Encyclopedia’ (F.O.P.E). It is an encyclopaedia matrix that highlights a series of programmatic codes and relationships based on negotiation. The essence of this encyclopaedia is a strategy to understand the complexities in the processes and to speculate ‘other’ typological hybrids. It is a future speculation on hybrid evolution with ideas and methods possessing the potential to be transferrable or applicable for other types. Currently, F.O.P exchanges between the living and learning across 4 stages. Yet in foresight, when the learning shuts down, the value F.O.P.E. will be imperative to re-iterate and evolve again.

Anne Butler Memorial Medal Semester 2, 2019 Supervisor Statement: The project occupies real and imagined spaces, of the Victorian titles office in Queen street. It entails detailed alterations and additions of the existing building linked to layers of underground passages of a reconstructed and imagined city of its foundation. And these, in turn, connect passages through the grand Victorian chambers to a display apartment of a projected future constructed above the existing buildings. The works are necessary to reconstruct the empiricism of the duality; fact and law (the 19th-century building ) to that of Model and reality of our present. Reconstructed as a model the architecture proposition is both the site for and object of inquiry. The project takes the form of 3 episodes over a 15 week period, with staged presentations to jurors at 5-week intervals, each focused on specific and distinct parts of the model, as Laura says; “The model describes the model, the project describes the project and my presentation described my presentation”. Paths through the building lead to different definitions of property, and different ways of recognizing what it is that is caused by architecture, commodities and possessions identity in equal measure to inequality, need and exclusion. Laura’s model suggests the need to account for all of the architecture not just by grand spaces and noble façades but its hidden rooms and dark passages, and importantly to identify the exits. In this project, it is the view of the model from outside that leads to new ways to connect parts of the complex that allow for the construction of entirely new and different institutions within the model._ Dr. Peter Brew

project/project

Turnstile

Window and Landscape as Turnstile

Vita Docummodified Mythopotopia

Window and Landscape

Laura Szyman Supervisor: Dr.Peter Brew

Alibi Space

Bored Ornament

Docummodified Mythopotopia

Trojan Horse

Party Wall

Canopy

Supernormal

This model describes the way in which utopian precedents, and the fragments those utopias leave behind, have their meaning subsumed and consumed by the forms that follow and are inspired by them. How each discussion and form of the precedent becomes the precedent for the discussion and form that follows. The model describes the model, the project describes the project, and my presentation described my presentation.

The project concluded by highlighting its own subjectivities and anxieties, and using those points to escape from the model. Ultimately these anxious subjectivities are an acknowledgement that my discussion of utopia, and my conclusions, are imperfect. All models develop cracks, and what is utopia but a model for life, given form by architects, as architecture is the mechanism by which we act upon the world. With all my post-masters idealism I believe this could help me create an architecture of uncertainty, but with confidence. The confidence of believing that my utopian vision will last hundreds of years, but with the wisdom of knowing it won’t.

Language

Myth

Mythopotopia

Documented Mythopotopia

It began as a pedagogical proposition, one that would allow practitioners and academics greater control over the teaching of these precedents, and morphed into an ontological discussion of the current architectural paradigm and the position of both the objects and the practitioner within the model of the discourse.

THE RUB

Leon Koutoulas Supervisor: Michael Spooner

Harold Bloom in his book ‘Hamlet: Poem Unlimited’ writes about Shakespeare’s own environmental experiences at the time of writing Hamlet as having given rise to the character of the same name. John Hejduk speculates, as an extension of this thinking, that one of those experiences was witnessing the Globe Theatre deconstructed, transported across the River Thames and reconstructed as an exact copy. He goes further to surmise that it was this action in particular, where the playwright was able to witness the architectural artifice, deconstructed and reconstructed, that enabled him to conceive of Hamlet: the dramatic construct who constantly deconstructs and reconstructs himself, the play in which he exists, and the world beyond the confines of the play. Out of architecture is born a self-perpetuating crisis; a character anxious to preserve himself, whilst just as anxious to move forward with decisive action. This project is concerned with embedding the same productive critical energy into the architectural systems of an institution. This condition, procured through a series of sixteen architectural operations, seeks to repeat the ‘crossing of the Thames’ and interrogates the productive capacity of architecture when ‘time present and time past are perhaps present in time future’. In search of Hamlet, the Design Hub in plunged into a state of crisis, with hopes that perhaps something more could emerge perhaps something of a dream?

ANTI-THESIS <ARCHITECTURE AS LAYER> 1856–2019 CREMORNE [-37.829516,144.988765] 001

external view – gough street

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internal view – house 01 mezzanine

001

internal view – public toilet + void

001

plan – house 01 mezzanine

001

internal view – house 01 mezzanine

mies van der rohe

003

plan – library

004

key plan – vegetable garden roof

005

plan – other house + hotel entrance

006

key plan – ground

007

internal view – b04 level 01 medical rooms

008

internal view – other house 02 facade

009

key plan – b10 ground

002

plan – change room + toilets

003

external view – other house 01

004

key plan – office + other house typical

005

external view – other house entrance + mezzanine

006

external view – core projection areas

007

plan – b04 level 02 other house

008

plan – toilets

009

internal view – verandah

002

key plan – ground

003

plan – other house 01

004

key plan – podium roof

005

key plan – b08 + b09 other house typical

006

key plan – basement lower flooded gallery

007

internal view – b04 level 02 other house

008

internal view – other house 01 internal street

009

key plan – b11 level 02

003

key plan – ground

004

key plan – compost typical

005

external view – other house front yard

006

external view – flooded gallery

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external view – somewhere

008

key plan – ground

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internal view – garden beyond

004

key plan – compost ground

005

plan – b09 other house

006

plan – other house front yard roof

007

plan – b05 + b07 level 01

009

key plan – b11 ground

004

internal view – compost + other house entrance

005

internal view – other house

006

external view – other house front yard

007

external view – bridge to somewhere

009

external view – b11 industrial shell as gift

1886–1969

002

internal view – other house

003

internal view – cafe

008

external view – structural grid beyond

anti-thesis <architecture as layer> Harry Bardoel Supervisor: Simone Koch

001

plan – ground essentials

001

internal view – ground essentials

1880–2019

ticket box + other house

001

ticket box + other house

002

plan – other house

002

external view – other house + pool

1963–2019

dock, pool + other house

002

dock, pool + other house

003

plan – cafe

003

external view – toilet + library

1903–2019

cafe + other house

003

cafe + other house

004

plan – other house

004

external view – gasometer circulation

2018–2019

compost + other house

004

compost + other house

005

key plan – b08 + b09 ground

005

internal view – hotel gallery

1952–2019

hotel + other house

005

hotel + other house

006

plan – other house

006

internal view – other house

2018–2019

theatre + other house

006

theatre + other house

007

plan – b05 level 02 lounge

007

internal view – b05 level 02 lounge

1880–2019

wellness + other house

007

wellness + other house

008

plan – other house + event store

008

external view – other house

1920–2019

event space + other house

008

event space + other house

009

plan – other house level 01

009

internal view – other house level 01

1939–2019

garden + other house

009

garden + other house

this project is located on the fulcrum of gough street. containing an old hopper the building reads externally as a sub-station – with prime real estate to the footpath. at such a public edge the project avoids assuming the identity of a domestic building. through minimal intervention, the idea is to do just enough – providing amenity for the residents and preserving the pedestrian experience externally. this maintains the ambiguous nature of what lies beyond – offering a sense of dignity and privacy for residents inside. the pop-up roof acts as a beacon to draw attention. the mezzanine levels of the other houses are left empty with removable sheets of 1200mm x 2400mm ply as balustrades. the intent, to allow flexibility and autonomy of space, playing on the idea of a half-house.

this project intends to create new connections – referencing a public swimming pool proposed at enterprize park. the richmond malting site is located within a prominent flood plain, turning away from the yarra river – once a lifeline to the site. the project looks to repair a severed relationship, re-connecting detached ecologies. the idea for the project was to put a pool where a dock would normally go, and vice versa. the other housing is suspended by the existing columns under the m1 freeway behind a singular brick wall. this brick wall acts as a buffer for residents to live behind, offering a virtual street behind the pool and freeway entrance. the south facing other houses receive light from high windows over the re-directed bike path, and through skylights that jut out from under the bridge.

this project is about the preservation of an old malthouse wall. the building is demarcated by an existing car park layout, the idea, architecture as a banal layer – existing in a manner prescribed exactly by that before it. sometimes, our aversion to architecture that seems 'foreign' in a particular place inhibits us from seeing the positives. by dumbing down the complexity of what is offered, we are allowed the freedom to channel creative energy into the finer details – to create more of a different kind. this enables the architecture to work hard at little moments to honour the existing place. materiality and formal gestures try to dissolve and blur domestic and public realms that now co-exist. a homogeneous sleeve with uniform facades, skylights and high windows.

this project accepts the reality of stage 3 by caydon + hayball – an office building and podium car park. the idea, to intervene and comment on the office building by encasing the existing with an open-air structural grid (from the old gasometer). this grid is occupied with other houses, slowing suffocating the office building to flip real estate privilege back to the other house. the podium facade is bricked – between the existing floor slabs – leaving a gap for compost air-flow. the intent is for local residents to dump their waste in the car park and use this compost to fertilise future gardens in the area. the stair and lift core between the office building and other houses are shared, but are separated through the use of partition walls to provide privacy for the residents when entering.

the idea for this project is to build tubes within the silos – set-back 500mm from existing walls. the middle silos are sliced open, providing circulation with webforge floors. the only change to the exterior is to demolish roofs and prop upper level walls – providing dappled light and air to the hotel capsules and other houses. the ground floor is left flooded with barley for a gallery. the hotel capsules occupy the lower half of the silos where less light is received. the other houses are the 'penthouses' - using entire floors as apartments. perverse economic value systems are challenged, flipping luxury from impermanent to permanent. the architecture explores objects within the tubes, offering a physical separation to the artefact and dappled light to the perimeters.

as it stood the site for 'coppin's corner' was a two-level deep basement car park – with three half-finished cores, two half-poured slabs and two blade walls for the ramp between levels. the idea was to use these conditions and do just enough for the theatre proposal to work. the lower basement level is left alone, slowly flooding to allow old punts from the yarra to circle an exhibition space. upper slabs provide amenities for visitors and projection areas on the stair and lift cores. the other house becomes a parasite that cantilevers from ground, providing residents with an opportunity to participate in front-yard pride, on their roof. the other houses are claiming a box seat to the theatre behind a two-way mirror. this project uses rammed earth to demonstrate a repurposing of material from excavation.

a mix of medical centre and education – this project has minimal intervention, introducing a few doors, partition walls and furniture. an existing external staircase leads to an opening that was once bricked. the staircase remains yet leads nowhere. like a piece of art, it has little purpose, revealing a glimpse of a larger historical story. in many ways, the stair acts as a metaphor for how society has historically tended to those with mental ill health. the main idea was to create a bridge from this staircase to a new brick opening – leading through b05 – to somewhere on the other side, a place that needs to be cared for. the qualities embedded within the existing buildings and layers are incredibly 'fat'. this project brings awareness to delight that already exists through minor refurbishment at the scale of furniture.

this project rebuilds parts of a heritage listed building that was demolished – the existing structural grid is reestablished but left empty. two other houses are situated in the wall at one end of the project – the sleeping quarters are pushed to the far boundary wall, creating an internal street as a barrier between sleeping areas and adjacent event space. a store-room is wedged between the other houses and freeway entrance. shed structures are built into the grid to provide toilet blocks. the idea for the project is to reimagine the possibilities and opportunities within the structural grid. by itself, the grid is not much, but with a few chairs, maybe it is considered a space, with a few wall panels, maybe a room. this project encourages ‘fattening’ by the community, a place they can make their own.

this project is about creating a house within a greenhouse. b10 remains an artefact and b11 is refurbished, there is also a renewal of the external garden – a former car park. by removing all doors and windows of b11, this building becomes a public shell. the other house is retrofitted across all three levels by using the existing structural columns and demolishing floor space in-between. the architectural idea for this project is to use a brick tower for the other house – encasing and privatising specific ares within. a raised verandah acts as an extension to this tower across all levels. the inention – to explore how interstitial spaces, such as the verandah, can influence very disparate relationships that now co-exist. this project preserves, reduces, and welcomes 'fattening'.

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003

004

005

006

007

008

009

cremorne st

punt rd

cremorne st

punt rd

rra ya

1880–2019

fka – coppin’s corner

2017

1:2500

hin lim photography

b03 + b04 + b05 + b07 malt house

h st

rra ya

2018–2019

1:2500

site photo

b08 + b09 concrete silos

2019

h st

rra ya

1952–2019

1:2500

hin lim photography

location map

hayball – office building

2017

h st

rra ya

2018–2019

1:2500

site photo

location map

b01 + b02 malt house wall

2019

h st

rra ya

1903–2019

1:2500

hin lim photography

location map

rra ya

moreshead overpass

2017

h st

rra ya

1963–2019

1:2500

maggie diaz

location map

h st

rra ya

b05 and later malt house

1960

h st

1880-2019

1:2500

hin lim photography

h st

1:2500

2017

h st

location map

cremorne st

location map

cremorne st

location map

punt rd

location map

punt rd

location map

2017

1920–2019

1:2500

hin lim photography

b06 malt house

2017

1939–2019

hin lim photography

b10 + b11 – barley store + malt house

2017

hin lim photography

2019

site photo

2017

hin lim photography

2017

hin lim photography

2017

hin lim photography

2019

site photo

2017

hin lim photography

2017

hin lim photography

2017

hin lim photography

2017

hin lim photography

2017

hin lim photography

2017

hin lim photography

2019

site photo

2017

hin lim photography

2019

site photo

2017

hin lim photography

2017

hin lim photography

2017

hin lim photography

coppin’s cremorne gardens

1855

gondola – fw wilson

2017

hin lim photography

2017

hin lim photography

2017

hin lim photography

2019

site photo

2017

hin lim photography

2017

hin lim photography

1856–1863

This project re-appropriates the different historical functions of the broader land, condensing them into nine interventions scattered around the Richmond Maltings. Each of these are coupled with a form of government housing – from homeless to low income government workers, and those suffering from mental ill health. By viewing architecture as a direct response to a place by one person – it becomes personal, individual and circumstantial. The polemic of the project is to propose an idea – that the architect must work for the homeless person, or someone acting as their worst customer. This thesis is not about offering a solution, or a particular social outcome, but these issues act as a proxy to test an architectural enquiry. The design has focused on the following architectural idea, seeing architecture as a layer, at a particular point in time – one that does just enough. Within this framework, three sub-layers exist; Preserving Reducing ‘Fattening’ Each of these layers are sort of one and the same – they see architecture as a process of observation, analysis and concurrent response. The layers resist an urge and provide room to consider the limitations and possibilities beyond their own intervention. The intent of this thesis is to offer an alternate way to participate in a discussion of gentrification. The single commission can be used as a tool to affect architecture as a larger whole (at the scale of the city), giving a voice back to the individual with little power.

1856–1863

coppin’s cremorne gardens

100 Year Sea Level Rise with 10% Wind speed

Swimming At High Tide; Civic On The Foreshore

100 Year Sea Level Rise

5. 6.

Existing Condition Existing Condition Sea Level 25 Years Existing Condition Existing Condition

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30 Year Sea Level Rise 1994 Storm Surge Height

Pre 1880 wetland condition

1. St Kilda Pier Kiosk 2. St Kilda Sea Baths 3. Palais Theatre 4. Luna Park 5. Renfrey Gardens 6. St Kilda Botanical Gardens 7. St Kilda Marina

Original Shore Line

8 Mo Moran Reserve

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Pre 1880 Edge Condition & Wetland

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My thesis proposes a civic space that is democratic, situated at the St Kilda Marina. This space is modelled on leisure at the foreshore and it responds to the increasing commercialisation of foreshore leisure spaces. The form includes a library, and a swimming pool, and reintegrates the site with the existing leisure trail. The objective is to create an interconnected leisure space and examine the adjacency of these spaces.

Globally people are rediscovering rivers, harbours and canals in their own cities as spaces for leisure and socialisation. Waterways once reserved for industry are now used as everyday recreational areas, and this project adopts the view of waterways as space for people. H.

Water is our nations life blood, where we celebrate our freedom and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve captured that feeling in the pool; a condition that has sparked a raft of cultural output and experiences.

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The project celebrates water; the form reinvites water into the existing reserve to establish the wetlands. It plays on water infrastructure in non-utilitarian ways. Water unconstrained is the essence of freedom. And freedom is the ultimate goal of leisure. The combination of porosity and void gives visitors the ultimate freedom.

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Adaptive Assembly

Tong Ning (Vicky) Supervisor: Roland Snooks

Adaptive assembly is looking at an alternative design solution for rapid urban changes with computational design and autonomous construction methods. Traditionally, in a static and linear workflow in the industry, a brief would be handed to an architect for design proposal and then the builder would come in for construction. My project envisions a dynamic workflow which would assist the architects and designers to be more responsive to the updated condition through the lifespan of the building, a program that could update the design brief, react and re-design then indicate the autonomous constructors, which are external assembling devices (drones) to assemble rigid components as the building modular. Taking Southbank as a testing ground, the building starts from being occupied as an accommodation to a mix-use community centre for the residents and the public, in response to the vertical segregation in the gradually builtup concrete jungle. The project investigated a flexible model of autonomous collective construction system whereby building components can assemble themselves. The proposal purposely overlooked the current limitation of scalability in robotic construction, speculating the spatial influence on-site during the transformation process from private spaces dominated to the public engagements. Adaptive assembly is not suggesting a fully self-automated design process but rather a collaboration between robots and the architects to achieve habitable design and performance.

Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Musing Zachary McPherson Supervisor: Simone Koch

A bus stop, time table- table column, a bookcase that bookends an existing library, a rear front fence and front rear facade, a building as void and a room as a street.

Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Ruminations

There is a perversity in the act of proposing a university campus for a town that would operate perfectly fine without one. It doesn’t solve any problems, other than the problem of how one goes about conceiving of a university within an inconspicuous small, suburban, quasi-rural town. The project is a university, in Warrandyte, but this thesis is not about the university nor the town.

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that engenders the potential in the real. It is concerned with the subtleties that are present within the everyday objects of the city and the uncanny relationships and dualities that exist between them. It demonstrates that encounters with these objects and moments of the unassuming might be just enough for the making of space. Through a series of typological interventions; a bus stop, a lecture theatre, a workshop, a cafeteria and student housing we’ll explore the idea of the city as both a room and quotidian occurrence in relation to how they manifest, circumstantially, to the things that already exist around them. In opposition to masterplaning as a domineering exercise, perhaps a critical architecture can arise from the alteration and continuity of what is already present. ‘If we accept this as the role of architecture, we’re given agency to engage in the presence of the real’2… Of the circumstance… So that profound and even uncanny interventions may encourage how the perception of things; the object, the individual, the institution, the room and the city, are perceived. This suggests that architecture should indeed ‘impart the qualities that define our city’ (and its broader territories); melancholy, pathos, hope'2 5 0

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1. The title is derived and modified from that of a text that is a collation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe&#39;s insightful maxims. The original title; &quot;Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings.&quot; A jotting, an immediate thought, scribbled down in hast, contrasts that of the often slow and drawn out process ensue a musing. 2 ‘The Emotional City’ Caruso.A, Quaderns (Barcelona, Spain: January 2001) Issue 228, pp.8–13

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Antonia Bruns Medal Semester 2, 2019

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Supervisor Statement: Jess Simon’s major project, Catalyst, BROKEN CREEK LOOP TRACK

questions current colonial thinking on revitalisation strategies for SCALE REPRESENTATION OF BARMAH LAKES

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regional towns; specifically, that a new landmark civic building on the main street is still an appropriate strategy. The project is sited in Yorta Yorta Country, in the regional Victorian

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town, Barmah. Barmah is located on the Murray River, 260km north of Melbourne. Jess sites her building not in the centre of town, but just outside of town in a culturally significant area of the national park. Jess uses

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the existing Barmah civic centre, now in desperate disrepair, as the substrate for her experiments. It is not a critique of the existing architecture or its materiality, but an investigation of civic behaviour; a reframing of what constitutes civic and how architecture can formalise that. Old civic geometry is smeared around the site like a camera on a dolly track finding and formalising a new more meaningful civic. A civic that acknowledges Aboriginal and colonial occupation, makes explicit the current threats to our national ecology, and that more appropriately catalyses regional growth.

CENTRAL AMMENITY AND GATHERING SPACE

_ Emma Jackson

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The Dharnya Centre is an indigenous learning and cultural centre located within the forest, close to the Barmah Lakes Camping Grounds. Opened in 1985 as an initiative by Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporation and Parks Victoria.

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8.LIFE AFTER RING BARKING Mature River Red Gums ensure their own survival by out-competing any nearby surroundings. Ring barking was once used as a forest management to kill large, unproductive trees allowing and in fact encourgaing regeneration to occur underneath.

The yards have been replaced, remodelled and repaired extensively over the years. Adjacent to the yards is a small complex of buildings which includes a herdsman's hut, built by long-term herdsman Tom Galloway in the early 1950s, a musterers' quarters building brought from a World War II era internment camp c1980, and a kitchen lean-to structure built since the 1980s to serve the expanding annual muster event.

These younger straight trees provided timber to the paddle steamers which supported the settlements along the river, as well as tiber for railway sleepers, bridges and wharf piles. Now these trees have become extremely important again as they provide important habitat, shelter and food for many species of animals and birds.

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The large timber post-and-rail yards are designed for management of cattle grazed in the surrounding River Red Gum forests. The yards feature a race where stock were identified by owners under the herdsman's supervision, pens named for different localities or the properties of the larger owners for holding of cattle to be removed from the forest, and a 'branding back' pen for cattle to be returned to the forest.

PROPOSED LANDSCAPE WEB FORGE PATHWAY WITH BURL PODS

9. CHANGING FOREST Compare the size and number of trees to the North and South of the road. The area to the North was once open forest with few widely spaced big trees similar in appearance to the South. Reduced occurrences of flooding since European arrival have resulted in areas of thick regeneration now present on the North side. There are now more trees in the Barmah National Park than ever before.

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Hazard markers indicate the direction to take when approaching the obstacle or driving past the hazard. Drivers must obey these signs. Barmah thrived in the 1880 ’s with a chief industry of saw milling, the remnants of which are still evident today in the access routes to former logging areas which still form the tracks through the forest.

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10. MISTLETOE The clumps of slightly brighter foliage that you can see hanging from the River Red Gum are actually Mistletoe, a seperate semi parasitic plant that looks remarkably like it’s host. It grows on the limbs of its host by tapping into nutrient and water supplies through the bark.

Changes in flooding regime have caused the vegetation to adapt. In many areas around Barmah, River Red Gum trees and Giant Rush are encroaching onto the delicate and significant Moira grass planes. Yorta Yorta contributes to work with relevant agencies to reinvigorate traditional management knowledge and practices, which was long used to influence and shape the environment.

Mistletoe plants are dependant not only on their hosts, but also on a small black, white and red bird, the Mistletoe bird.

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11. TREEHOUSE When a termite-eatem tree branch snaps off, the front door of a home for parrots, owls, bats and many smaller animals is opened. Did you know that nearly one in every five of Australia’s different birds depends on such nesting hollows? 7. CANOE TREE

Being a night hunter, the flat Huntsman spider is grateful to squeeze under the tree’s loose bark and spend the daylight hours hidden from hungry birds.

The section of bark removed from this mature River Red Gum was used by the Yorta Yorta people to construct a bark canoe or, in Yorta Yorta language, a ‘matha’.

In the hollows of fallen tree branches lizards find snug quarters for winter hibernation, whilst in summer they are a great place to cool off quickly, hidden from the sharp eyes of hawks.

Canoes were an important means of transportation in this area, used for river crossings and to move around the bush in times of relatively frequent flooding.

To bush creatures, flowers signal food. The parrots arrive early to eat unopened flower budes and return later with the bees, ants and other birds to feast on the flowers, nectar and pollen.

Warning signs let drivers know that road changes are coming up on the drive. These can be permanent or temporary traffic hazards and obstacles. The Barmah National Park is on a major migratory flight path for birds and is home to a number of wildlife species such as Kangaroos, Emus and Koalas

12. WHERE IS THE WATER TABLE? This bore hole extends 20m below the surface and is one of many located throughout the district. The bores were established by the Rural Water Commission and the University of Melbourne in the 1 950’s and 60’s and are measured monthly to monitor changes in ground water tables and predict salinity problems. The depth of the water tables varies throughout the forest, but is generally highest adjacent to the river. Groundwater moves beneath the forest in sand aquifers confined by a clay surface.

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The canoe scar that you can see is more than 300 years old and would once have been even larger than it is now, but years of regrowth around the scars edges has effectively shrunk its appearance.

Warning signs let drivers know that road changes are coming up on the drive. These can be permanent or temporary traffic hazards and obstacles. Barmah thrived in the 1880 ’s with a chief industry of saw milling, the remnants of which are still evident today in the access routes to former logging areas which still form the tracks through the forest.

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These culverts carry water into Goose Swamp, which lies behind the Muster Yards, The swamp is a critical component of the internationally significant wetalnds of the Barmah National Park, listed under the RAMSAR convention.

Guide and information signs give directions and information for scenic tourist routes and destinations such as rest stops and fuel stations. They also provide additional traffic information to guide driving.

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Native grasses are a very important part of the ecosystem. Within Barmah National Park, they provide food, habitat and refuge for Kangaroos, emus as well as smaller birds and animals alike. Grasses hold the soil together along river banks and water ways to prevent erosion and act as filters within the water system.

The regulator gates are used to control the inflow and exit of flood waters in an attempt to recreate pre-European flooding patterns. When regulators linking the Murray River and Broken Creek to the swamp are closed, it becomes and isolated environment, unaffected by altered river flows. This enables longer peiods of high water levels, supporting species habitat and breeding.

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Barmah thrived in the 1880 ’s with a chief industry of saw milling, the remnants of which are still evident today in the access routes to former logging areas which still form the tracks through the forest.

for the Yorta Yorta people;

>>Seedes are collected from sedge and Nardoo, which is ground into flour and then cooked on hot ashes. >>Tubers such as Yam Daisy and Nardoo are just some of those collected and roasted. >>Fibres from stems of the Hlow sedge Carex tereticaulis are woven into mats and baskets. >>Bulbs are beaten and then turned into string for making bags and fishing nets for catching fish. >>Reeds such as Phragmites Australis and Broadleaf Cumbungi were used a breathing device to travel under water >>Medicinal plants were sourced for all ailments such as toothache.

4. BURLS AND INSECTS The black growths that you will notice on the older trees nearby, are burls. This cluster of dormant growth buds is the trees natural survival response to damage or injury through insect attack or fire. The tree continues to grow around the burl, creating unique wood-grain which is highly valued and keenly sought after by wood carvers.

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Experience tells us that the removal of the burl, leaves the tree more exposed to invasion by fungus and disease, and more vulnerable to fire damage, and so it’s best to leave them untouched. The protected River Red Gum Parks along the Murray are among the last remaining places that burls can be seen in their full glory.

Born into a large and well known family, Aaron Briggs spent most of his life in the Barmah bush.

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Initially working on the ‘thinning out gang’, in later years he delighted in guiding visitors through Barmah and it’s wetlands, illuminating not only the beauty of the forest, but also his fascinating Yorta Yorta heritage. Such was his good nature and love of the area, he also spent considerable time caring for friends and visitors boats and permit huts on the NSW side of Barmah Lakes. It was in appreciation of this that his friends bulit him a hut, which stood in honour of him for many years, near where the muster yards are now.

5.OVEN MOUNDS The Yorta Yorta people used oven mounds repeatedly, in the same location over a long period of time, so the subtle moimd in front of you is actually the result of thousands of years of cooking activity.

Throughout the semester, the thesis of this project has become apparent as being concerned with the agency of architecture or lack thereof within regional towns and their ability to catalyse regional tourism or further architectural growth. More specifically, the proposal of a series of small, yet well connected architectural interventions that are intended to embed themselves within the site, negotiate with the landscape and seed growth for tourism to a region. A series of smaller gestures rather than a large ineffective one. Regional towns are far too often simply a remnant of colonial settlement, a Main Street and a sprawl of ill adapted suburbia. As such, I don’t believe the fix lies in a new library or civic centre. The case study that has been used is a town called Barmah on the Murray River. I have tested this provocation through a series of architectural interventions, a cultural visitor centre, a historical educational boardwalk and an all seasons camp site. They are aligned in their attitude, their celebration of both the indigenous and colonial histories that this site is so rich with, their negotiation of nature and their ability to seed growth that responds as needed, never without provocation.

Oven mounds are circular or oval, around 50cm high and 10m wide, dark or black in clour (in contrast to the surrounding earth) and typically found near rivers, lakes, on floodplains and the banks of watercourses. Mounds often contain charcoal, burnt clay or stone (used to retain heat), animal bones (fish, waterbirds, kangaroo, emu), shells and stone tools, providing a fascinating insight into how the Yorta Yorta people lived and ate in Barmah.

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Due to White Ant damage the centre was at risk by 1999 culminating in its part demolition and closure in 2007. The site has continued its usage in a severely limited capacity since with many buildings cordoned off with warning tape.

If you take a look around, you will see two imposing trees nearby with rough dark bark, and dull bluish green leaves. These are Black Box, an extremely water tolerant and adaptive species that can happily stand in water for up to four months, but then go without water for more than six years. Ideally though, they prefer only occasional flooding and their presence here confirms this spot as a relative high point. The scientific name for Black Box is Eucalyptus Iargiflorens; ‘Iargiflorens’ meaning ‘abundant flowers’, and one look at this tree in flower will suggest that it’s aptly named. It’s profusion of white flowers is key to the tree being renowned for yielding exceptional honey.

1. WETLANDS AND WILDLIFE The Barmah bush is a diverse and magical place. Subject to regular flooding, which is necessary to maintain the delicate balance of it’s ecosystem, the park is an internationally recognized wetland. It provides important habitat for wildlifeparticularly waterbirds, with more than 29 species of waterbirds alone, many of which are endangered. Yorta Yorta consider these lands a “nursery” for the breeding of birds and animals.

How were oven mounds formed? 1. Yorta Yorta people dug a hole in the ground. 2. A fire was lit; stones or lumps of clay were thrown into the pit were they became heated. 3. When they became hot, the lumps of clay were removed. 4. Food was then placed in the pit and the hot clay balls replaced for cooking. 5.Once the food was cooked, it was removed from the pit. 6.Fire cooking debris such as clay balls, charcoal, bones or shells were swept out so that the mound could be reused.

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The flood post indicates water levels reached in past major floods. These levels can also be seen on the trunks of trees throughout the bush.

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Today this mound is of important cultural significance to the Yorta Yorta people, as it was once an area of central focus to their ancestors’ daily lives.

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The Waiting Station

Emma Donovan Supervisor: Dr. Peter Brew

This project is a comment on the discipline of architecture - how we operate within a set of frameworks, regulations and understandings of what architecture is and should be. It proposes a system, as a way of working to deliver architecture to a wide range of populations in a way that isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t possible now. It looks specifically at regional Australia as a testing ground for this. Through creating a framework that questions and tests the scale and thresholds we work within; it suggests there is a different way of working that is in opposition to the generic outcomes in regional areas we see as a result of the way we work today. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s against the unwavering horizon of identical development and the one-off funded community revitalisation project. By acknowledging that every place has intelligence and architecture within it already, it system provides a way of working that translates the existing to form the new.

It proposes that what architecture is, goes beyond the built form outcome and in this project, the system of working is the architecture. The existing town becomes the model for the new town.

Revealing the Hidden

Anestis Pneumaticatos Supervisor: Jan van Schaik

This project is a critique of inner residential Melbourne. It identifies nine dwelling types and then proposes idealised modifications to the architecture of each type in a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;what-ifâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; scenario. The ideals are underpinned by speculation that architecture can do more than service the bind between homeownership and property speculation and be a medium for a greater social good. The project then seeks to identify which of these idealised modified types are likely to lead to a net increase of land value. This project speculates that a number of these ideal modifications can create a greater social good through design, and then manifest within the constraints of the very mechanisms of property speculation that they seek to critique.

Peter Corrigan Medal Semester 2, 2019 Supervisor Statement: Peter Corrigan used to tell us as students there are only two questions; Who are you? Who do you want to be? Tidus Shinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s project wrestles with those questions for the city he calls home, with a proposal for a library that would house artefacts of a local culture and recollections of everyday life. The architecture is a palimpsest of expired boundaries, urban fragments and cherished symbols that merge to form an atmosphere that simultaneously echo competing revisions of a city but in a dialect undeniably local and a voice that is hopeful. _ Vicky Lam

Library of Importance

Tidus Lok Tin Shing Supervisor: Vicky Lam

Library of Importance is a mnemonic device for survival, the first act of resistance against erasure. Cities rarely end. Hong Kong is a city that had ended once as the City of Victoria and is now close to its second extinction. This project digs deep into the hidden layer of the city and explores through archaeology methods to retrieve buried ideas with faint traces. Hong Kongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cultural identity is embedded into the architecture by inscribing and coding its languages, symbols and urban experiences. The library is a magnified boundary stone of the original city, mute from afar, but within architects and citizens are invited to connect with origin, borrow from the lost, celebrate their language. The project is a path for Hong Kongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s survival through establishing a new ground of hope through language and codes for architects working in a surveillance society. Through recognition, naming and decoding, values embedded in the city by architects are resurrected as ideas that are immutable. Each time a patron borrows from the library, it is an act of preservation, to resist erasure. This is how a city could survive. And how we could possibly survive in the worst of times

Westgate Tunnel

Hydrogen Economy

Fishermans Bend Development

Vehicle Fuel Cells

Energy Storage

Commodity Export

Proposed Metro 2 Tunnel

Three existing facilities Existing Yarraville Oil Terminal

Existing Scienceworks Museum

Existing Newport Gas Fired Power Station

Big Dock Energy

George Mollett Supervisor: Brent Allpress

A proposition around infrastructure, intersection, vegetation and the working waterfront.

Big Dock Energy

As cities shift away from fossil fuels to a more benign generation of energy infrastructure there is scope to change the relationships that play out across the Yarra Riverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s waterfront. This project reconceives of that infrastructure as a catalyst for multi-use urban intensification. The project explores the qualities of scale and form found in the infrastructural landscape and seeks to give an experiential presence to the processes that enable our cities to function. The project explores the re-appropriation of objects designed for functions that don't directly relate to our experience of them. Analogies are found between the industrial and institutional. Objects, typologies and vectors jostle and intersect in the field condition of the waterfront. New armatures and programs are introduced that facilitate functional, educational and ecological interactions.

Waste-to-Energy

Heated Pools

Glasshouse gardens

Grid Battery

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ON the brink of another decade and an ever-expanding population, people are moving, spreading and rebuilding on the edge of Ballarat. In Australia there is still a strong belief that the “Australian Dream” is viable, which pushes the urban framework further and further away from the centre. The further our cities expand from the origin, the more desaturated the built environment becomes. Where new suburbs spring, where developers embrace a kind of tabula-rasa, only stopped by property boundaries and easements, we see a cross section of unidentifiable space. This is coupled by orthodox planning, bright colour-coded maps and convoluted clauses. This outlines what civic needs, the specific programme, and is in many cases valid. But it does not coordinate a civic of a human scale. Decades of urban design have developed many views of the city. We consider two, the utopian view of the city (Le Corbusier) and the second, the observational city, pioneered by Janes Jacobs. These models are broken; neither sustains a realistic approach to the design of and growth of our cities. The design of the pilot project at West Lakes instead considers Aldo Rossi’s “The Architecture of the Rossi”. West Lakes considers Ballarat as a series of magnetic pulls, the matter that makes the city and disturbs the grid. They hold specific identity, civic and memory of place but are not set

BUS LINK UPGRADES

WHITE NIGHT IN THE WEST

WRONG DOOR: Previous masterplan proposal for Ballarat’s western edge.

by an exact framework. They are not necessarily buildings, but places. Historically Ballarat was first inhabited by the traditional owners, the Wathaurong people – and its name is believed to be made of the words Balla and Arat – translating to resting place. European settlement was driven by GOLD! which saw the infamous Eureka Rebellion or Eureka Stockade during which gold miners revolted against the colonial authority of the United Kingdom. With a rich history we can observe the concept of urban artefacts in Ballarat, places that as a whole describe the identity of Ballarat. They hold a combination of historical, cultural and personal value and where they are placed are areas of energy within Ballarat. As suggested by the following maps the growth of Ballarat over the last 30 years has consistently moved further and further west, with no real control over how far it will spread. As we drive the main street of Ballarat – Sturt St – out of town we begin to appreciate the desaturation that is occurring. So where does this lead to understanding the architectural identity of Ballarat? Through the new precinct at West Lakes, we have catalogued a series of urban types that are relevant to the formal identity of a regional town like Ballarat. This specific project has developed the canopy and verandah types as catalysts for a new architectural language at the edge. This type has been understood both as its physical structure,

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“Anythin’ below 70 km in a residential area is too slow if you ask me,” said one Wendouree man. “I’ve been going 60 my entire life and this new West Lakes area isn’t

Letter to the Editor: Civic identity is key!

“40km an hour has been proven to be the safest speed, particularly in areas with schools and local shops,” said a VicRoads spokesperson. “And let’s be realistic. Ballarat drivers are bad enough, let’s at least slow their accidents down.”

Baby on my mind... BY T MURPHY It was an exciting afternoon on Saturday as residents of West Lakes gathered at the local Aldi to witness the results of “West Lakes cutest baby” competition. For weeks now young couples have been petitioning and sharing cute snaps of their little babies. Many have spent hours creating costumes and themed sets to win the hearts of the community. It may seem like an exhaustible amount of effort for a mere supermarket competition, but the Grand Prize is an all-expenses paid weekend away for two and a bonus prize of babysitting.

CIVIC: The character of Ballarat CBD is vital to it’s growth.

that infest the edge of Melbourne. We are a city with a rich town history and it’s time that we use it! – Disgruntled Citizen

COMING COMING COMING COMING COMING COMING

INTEGRA developments are excited to proceed with the first of many new precinct developments on the western edge of Ballarat. The developments are a continuation on the design of West Lakes town centre. The revitaliation of Cardigan Village will be completed at the end of 2021.

SOON SOON SOON SOON SOON SOON

Enrol now to be part of this new move to Ballarat’s new and vibrant western district.

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Prominent Melbourne architecture and landscape firm OpenWork announced today its intention to expand into the Ballarat region when it opens an office next year in West Lakes.

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At the forefront of landscape architecture, Open Work are excited to look outside of Melbourne, particularly in a large-growth area like Ballarat. The considered approach that’s been taken in the new West Lakes precinct jumped out at us as just the kind of development we want to be part of.

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and design of the West Lakes precinct. The gallery urges the community to gather on Friday for the opening of the exhibition and consequently the new gallery.

See page 4 for full article

With the announcement of NH Architecture to be the lead architects for multiple new precinct projects on the western edge of Ballarat, the search is on for local Ballarat businesses, residents and designers to collaborate. It is well established that West Lakes is a key pilot project with a methodology that should be reviewed by the community. NH believes it is vital to engage the Ballarat community before engaging with the developer environment.

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LIGHT IT UP: White night in the west sparked a light on iconic West Lakes markers.

BY E BAXTER BALLARAT’S newest suburb West Lakes lit up as part of last weekend’s regional White Night. 2019 was the second year Ballarat was selected to host the regional White Night, having successfully put on a show in 2018. This year Ballarat extended its White Night festivities to the edge, showing off its newest precinct in bright lights. The curator of West Lakes art gallery BUS STOP Megan Latter said

the night was a success. “We had so many people coming out to visit us, and saying how fantastic the centre looked. The lights and colours on our verandahs and canopies really highlighted what West Lakes is all about,” Ms Latter said. The West Lakes section of White Night included a number of local performances, including a fire-breather, face painting for the kids and a series of light shows out the front of Bus Stop Gallery.

A spokesperson for Ballarat council said they were already planning White Night 2020. “It couldn’t have gone any better for us. White Night is a fantastic opportunity for Ballarat to attract visitors across the weekend. We were really pleased to see locals and tourists using our all night public transport to explore outside of the CBD, moving into our newest precinct West Lakes. We’re really excited to put in our bid to again host White Night next year.”

POST DELIVERY? AN INSTALLATION

BY C HOLLOWAY

RESIDENTS of West Lakes have been delighted by a new popup art installation at the post office. Unveiled on Sunday by local artist Kelly Bird, the piece is a warp of reality. The red and white logo projected across the façade of the milk bar and faux post boxes is arrayed around what is real. The installation, like many aspects of West Lakes Precinct, plays on the idea of a lingering memory, a spark of something that is not quite right.

URBAN ARTEFACTS: A STORY OF WEST LAKES BY A FORD

THE GOLDEN ARCHES WE DESERVE...

BY A THOMSON

MANY of West Lakes residents have been eagerly awaiting the completion of the entry Arch Way into West Lakes. The piece was designed collaboratively between architect Nicole Kirby and the local sculptor Gina Cross. The Arch Way is a homage to the Arch of Victory only two kilometres down the road. The design is based on the idea of two alternate realities – two pathways of our urban and built environment. One continues on the path

of non-specific urban growth, where the developer rules the land and builds on the cheap. The second is a warping off that path into West Lakes; a beacon of hope for civic space that is of its place and references its identity. Some Ballarat residents have taken the liberty of speculating a new meaning for the arches. One Alfredton resident says she believes “this is a rejection of fast food giants overtaking the beautiful streetscape of our Remembrance Drive. I was dismayed

by the announcement a month ago that another set of Golden Arches is making its way to West Lakes… Surely this is not in keeping with the historic look of our tree-lined avenue dedicated to our soldiers.” The City of Ballarat has organised an unveiling of the Arch Way at the end of November.

VISIT

“Architecture of the City” Aldo Rossi, 1854 “Ballarat, A Guide to buildings and areas 18-51-1940” Wendy Jacobs, 1981

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STAMPS,

SPORT BY D BREHAUT IT was a brisk icy day on Saturday afternoon at the West Lakes football field, you would think we were still in winter. Although the fog fell low and spectators feet were frozen to the bone, the Western Bullants inhaled the sweet smell of victory. In their first season the Western Bullants defeated the Redan Lions in the BFL Grand Final, with the low score of 9.7 (61) to 5.2 (32). Winning by 29 points the Bullants were on fire kicking six quick goals before half time, gutting any confidence Redan might have had to win. Redan were still goal-less nearing the end of the third quarter, but a quick snap from Kennedy sparked hope in the boys with another goal before the end of the third. With confidence in the boots, Redan took the field in the final quarter, smashing another three goals in the first ten minutes of the quarter. But the fiery defence of the Bullants was too much and West Lakes managed to match their three goals to hold on to victory. It was a historic day for Ballarat Football and an impressive display for a club not yet 12 months old. The coach Darren Peters spoke of the victory, “I was so bloody proud of the boys today. To be able to do what we’ve done today, it’s a sense of pure joy.” Peters is already confident in the season to come, “If we can win the big dance in our first year, why not in our second?”

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Tender

Community Limp lettuce and bruised eggplant just not cutting it anymore?

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WEST LAKES Oak St. Sunday 8am - 3pm. Electrical tools, fishing & camping gar, gardening tools & plants. some computer stuff, heaps more. Some items free.

Come down to the West Lakes precinct this Saturday to find your dream vegetables! Bring your own homegrown produce with you to swap, or be prepared to provide a small donation to your neighbours’ gardens.

VEGGIE SWAP West Lakes Community

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WHEN: Saturday WHERE: just past the Arch TIME: 9am - 1pm Come early to avoid missing out!

FIERY BULLANTS: Kennedy snaps two goals in the last quarter to secure the win.

CARDIGAN VILLAGE PRECINCT

VISITED

20 Lakes St, 8am - 11pm. Camping gear, swag, 50lt Engel fridge/ freezer, bar stools, household goods, bric-a-brac, xmas lights and decorations.

TENDERS

TENDERS BCC-RFT-17-2019 Construct - West Lake Road Reserve Lighting DESCRIPTION: Submissiond are requested from suitably experienced organisations for the above-mentioned tender. OBTAINING DOCUMENTATION: Log on to ballaratcitycouncil.vic.gov.au/tenders and register at Council’s eTender portal.

CVP-RFT-24-2019 Construct and Civil - Cardigan Village preparatory civil works DESCRIPTION: Submissiond are requested from suitably experienced organisations for the above-mentioned tender. OBTAINING DOCUMENTATION: Log on to ballaratcitycouncil.vic.gov.au/tenders and register at Council’s eTender portal.

LODGEMENT OF TENDERS: Submission must be lodged via the Ballarat City Council electronic eTender portal at tenderserch. com.au/ballaratycity

Closing Time: 12 noon Thursday 14 November, 2019

GREY SKIES: Rain was threatening the field early afternoon, but stayed away till the evening.

WINNERS ARE GRINNERS: West Lakes Bullants celebrate their victory

GOLF: McKINNON TAKES THE LAKES TOURNAMENT CUP

Closing Time: 2 pm Friday 15 November, 2019

2 Blind St, 7am -1pm. Whitegoods, wood heater, furniture, bikes, kids toys and clothes, shoes and more.

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specifically a building but a place. West Lakes was designed as a pilot project of this concept, where particular urban types were identified and tested as methods for creating this sense of identity and familiarity. The canopy is a key component that links these otherwise orthodox programs. The URBAN ARTEFACTS exhibition will run throughout November, with the opening night not to be missed. The event will start at 6pm, with an opening address at 6.30pm.

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WEST LAKES HIGH SCHOOL

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POSITIONS AVAILABLE FOR CASUAL SHOP ASSISTANT

understood as a broad concept that defines the specificity of a place. Urban artefacts are the magnetic pull of a city that controls the grain that is attracted to them and defines the identity of the city. A city can have multiple and they need not be a specific type or scale. However they must hold within them something of place, an action, memory or awareness. Urban artefacts have a specific importance or relevance to the city. They are effectively the architecture of that city, where architecture is not

CONTACT DEBORAH HAYES PH: 0453 823 954 www.westlakesfnl.com.au

WEST LAKES

NEW STORE ON MAIN STREET, WEST LAKES

ON Friday November 15 BUS STOP gallery is holding its first gallery exhibition entitled URBAN ARTEFACTS. The exhibition is a collection of work from the Italian architect Aldo Rossi. The architect is well-known for his book The Architecture of the City where he forensically analyses the construct of the cities we inhabit. Although first published in 1984, Rossi’s observations still hold true today, and Ballarat’s new town precinct West Lakes was founded on this knowledge. A key aspect of Rossi’s writings includes ideas of the urban artefact and memory of a place. It can be

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WIN THE END OF AN EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL SEASON, WEST LAKES FNL IS LOOKING FOR A NEW SENIOR COACH FOR THE SENIORS NETBALL TEAM.

Home maintenance, trade qualified. No job too small. Currently located in West Lakes. Experience with large projects, see art installation at milk bar. contact: jim.l@bigpond.com ph: 0459 485 326

The firm will be in search of a creative and like-minded design to head up the office in Ballarat. Applications can be sent directly to work@openwork.info

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Using the nine letters in the grid, how many words of four letters or more can you list? The centre letter must be included and each letter may only be used once. No colloquial or foreign words. No apostrophes or plural words ending in “s”. Reference source: Macquarie Dictionary.

CORNER FRONT

Western Bullants have stung Redan Lions to win their first Ballarat Football League cup.

POSITION AVAILABLE SENIOR NETBALL COACH

PLASTERING & PAINTING

The new office is expected to open in January next year.

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GRAND FINAL STING!

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Open Day is on the 15th of January, after the compeltion of the new campus.

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Finding a new home isn’t always easy

RMIT University is excited to annouce its first regional campus will be opening in Ballarat for mid year intake for 2020.

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The council chose 40 km as the blanket speed limit for the new suburb in consultation with VicRoads.

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but also its context to the street. This new language is not a direct copy of the Ballarat main street, but rather a warping of it. There is a sense of a memory, but it is slightly skewed. This project hopes to inspire a new direction for growth and development. We do not expect to cancel out the developer, but rather engage in the same environment. West Lakes is a shining hope for the future of regional towns.

gonna stop me,” said a West Lakes driver.

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40 KM IN WEST LAKES: Speed limit reduced for centre of precinct in West Lakes.

For all your second hand building materials.

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WEST Lakes, the newest development in Ballarat’s expanding Western suburbs, is being slowed down by the ridiculous speed limits. Every main street in West Lakes is restricted to 40 km per hour, which Ballarat locals say is too slow for them.

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BUS STOP Gallery is hosting its first exhibition this weekend, showing a collection of writings, work and local commentaries on the work of Aldo Rossi. It is well known that the Italian architect’s book The Architecture of the City was a great source of inspiration for the methodologies

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“Our hope for West Lakes in this project was to design a precinct that could immediately assimilate with its surrounding context and community. The space is designed to disturb the regular grid, the business as usual. We worked closely with the developer to set out the necessities of the project and become an armature to the developer imprint. This project is a “sliding doors” moment within the future development of Ballarat and we hope it sparks a desire to develop future place against the grain of the orthodox.”, Ms Kirby said. West Lakes is currently in the final stage of development. A bus link and interchange point are expected to connect the suburb to key business hubs and regular direct services to the Wendouree Train Station, for those commuting to Melbourne.

uplift and focus on connecting civic programs. It is time the council insist that developers do more than clear the land and copy paste precinct templates

URBAN ARTEFACTS: Gallery exhibition opening Friday 15th at BUS STOP gallery, showing a collection of works from Aldo Rossi’s Architecture of the City.

WARPED ARCHWAY: A golden archway defines the entry for the new West Lakes suburb.

This major project is about charging the public and civic realm of the suburban edge. The intention of the project is not to radicalise the developer master plan in the suburban condition, but rather to speculate a moment in time where it’s identity and memory is specific to its centre. This sliding door moment is not an exact solution, but rather a testing of a potential methodology for conditioning the edge, the site in question being Ballarat. Through an understanding of Aldo Rossi’s urban artefacts, as referenced in “The Architecture of the City”, I began to catalogue the urban typologies found within Ballarat. This resulted in the canopy and verandah being utilised as a new armature to test against the developer landscape. The canopy type extends to the kerb, the road, the street parking, the road lines and the street furniture, warping and manipulating them into new artefacts within the town centre. These markings are part of charging the space between the developer shed, creating civic space that is generous and connections between everyday programs of the suburban. This project is an experiment on conditioning the edge of our cities and incepting a sense of memory and specificity in our suburbs.

New civic precinct for the west...

THE completion of the pilot project for West Lakes’ new town centre has proven the success of focusing our urban design strategies around the identity of place. Residents of Ballarat should be demanding that the City of Ballarat invests in this opportunity and proceeds with further projects that implement this methodology, in and around Ballarat. New precincts like Delacombe’s town centre could benefit from an

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BALLARAT has a new suburb marking the west edge of the city, West Lakes. With the current population growing and moving out of the CBD, this new western civic precinct brings hope for the expansion of Ballarat. The project is the first of a series of precincts for the west that are designed to reference identity, familiarity and place with respect to Ballarat. West Lakes is the first of the design methodology, referencing the iconic canopy and verandah the centre of Ballarat is known for. The precinct aims to use the typical program found in a development and create a charged main strip, connecting school, shopping, civic space. The lead architect, Nicole Kirby, spoke with The Courier about the intention and success of the project.

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WEST LAKES END OF SEASON NETBALL TOURNAMENT SUCCESS

WEST LAKES TENNIS TOURNAMENT CUP CANCELLED DUE TO WASH OUT

NEW FACILITIES SHOW PROMISE FOR WESTERN DISTRICT

To Catch A Glimpse ( NGV Depot ) Jin Howe Chung Supervisor: Ian Nazareth

My major project is to seek to test and explore a new typology where private spaces such as art storage and art logistic are opened up to the public, enabling them to catch a glimpse of these private spaces while still retain a barrier when needed.

The proposal is a depot that displays artworks and objects while creating an experience of entering a backstage that is normally hidden from the public. An alternative way of dealing with the storing of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s big-ticket cultural collections in a gallery setting that hopefully creates a more transparent and democratic relationship between the public (visitors) and the private (storage). The proposed typology indicates that when the building opens its doors, the depot of NGV will open its entire collection to the audience. Additionally, the depot is transparent with regard to the entire museum process. Visitors can see the restoration, transportation and preservation of the collection throughout the building. Thus, the process is the stage and visitors are the audience looking at a performance. This is represented through the layers of structures and translucent facade. Components and scenarios like a typical art exhibition, are constructed, staged and curated. This shows the relationship between the public (the visitors) and the private (staff and collection). Rather than the collection itself, the spaces become the focal point. Inverting the idea of what the public expects to see in a gallery setting.

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The Scarred Tree Fence There was once a scarred tree in the front yard of house on Mclachlan St that has now been removed. The bark from the tree had been cut on the south-eastern side which aligns with a practice of protecting its wound from sun and desiccating winds. It is not uncommon to erect a perimeter fence around scarred trees to memorialise or protect them. There is now fence where the tree once stood. The plot, perhaps now memorialising a loss of culture, speaks to a tension between different ways of understanding place. The fence addresses the tangible and the intangible, private and public and the assumptions that govern how we define place. The Kerb As the footpath on Cunningham St meets the plot boundary of 2B, the kerb deteriorates into grassy rubble and eventually meets the Merri Creek. A kerb is illustrative of the invisible barrier between us and the land and delineates how we move around. Architecture on steep topography is intuitively concerned with how its walls meet the ground. The wall of the childcare centre on 2B is the missing kerb wall. Its imposition reveals the mechanism of a kerb in defining place and eludes to the creek’s role as a suburban drain.

The Public/Private Threshold Down the hill the break in the kerb wall gives access to an IGA. The childcare and the supermarket overlap an entry courtyard. The rigidity of public and private demarcation is slackened but still present. What does the entry courtyard become as opposing definitions meet? The Pumbling The existing water facilities on 2B are the tap, meter and toilets. These systems quietly underscore every architectural project and can often be the most static. The IGA is accordingly bound by their location. The Plot Boundary Within these bookends, the supermarket presses against the slightly skewed plot boundary. Property lines, despite their intangibility, wield immense power. The irregular legal edge at 2B dislodges the hyper-logical square shelving of the supermarket. The physical pressure reflects what was once applied by the creek against the street grid. The fall of the land down to the creek, then, further breaks the alignment of the shelves.

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Maya Le Bransky Supervisor: Simone Koch

The Creek Entity The Merri Creek is defined as an entity with its own regulations that reconstitute its shape. The old shed structure follows the physical creek edge but does not reflect the new legal edge. The ramp holds the three legal edges by emerging on the other side of the setback boundary but within the existing building envelope. The third edge is captured as the ramp slopes up to the clearance height stipulated by the land subject to inundation overlay.

Once owned by Amalgamated Stone, 2a and 2b Cunningham street is now a vacant site of dilapidated sheds that sit astride an L bend in the Merri Creek. The site’s past, present and future are entangled in the tussle of property, where property lines, despite their relative intangibility, wield immense power and contribute to our perception of place.

The Picture Window The elevated sections of the sheds shelter the exterior space beneath and frame the cliff wall opposite. Like the picture window, a room with no windows at all or relentless urbanity, architecture is powerful in curating how we experience a place.

The Terrace A row of terraces is an unrelenting urban form, rendered almost invisible by their ubiquity. The terrace typology creates a two dimensional street presence through its persistent prioritisation of the façade. The clarity of a distinction between back and front positions the typology as an architectural analogue for exploring the notion of frontage. The terrace row at 2A faces the boundary fence realising its public interface as a boundary wall.

This major project engages with similar constraints in architecture, both tangible and intangible, that govern how we define place. To explore these ideas, I have been arranging a new town centre at the site, which is already at the confluence of Rushall station and other community amenities. My major project stems from my own discomfort with architecture’s ability to define a place. My enquiry into what then is defined as place seeks to recognise the deep influence of the systems and regulations that are sometimes invisible to us. These assumptions in architecture carry a physical and social significance that I have sought to reveal both architecturally and as an idea. Perhaps separate in conception, each idea is reorganised and integrated in place to allow the small town to emerge as an object of its place, held between the systems that define it.

The Easement The Yan Yean Pipe Track is an easement that slices through the Melbourne suburbs. It is a physical manifestation of the power in controlling the flow of water in and around cities. Water and wet facilities are the protagonists at 2A and 2B. The terrace row is punctuated by the toilet and the stormwater easement that lies against the boundary fence. The ground is a reflection of water in a place. The rooms that sit behind the linear terrace façade hold a library and are sunken to meet the ground at desk height. The desk holds the confluence of the ground, the gutter and human activity.

The Back Laneway The town inhabits the back laneway, revealing the intriguing nooks and additions. The laneway was historically home to external wet facilities that relied on the shared gutter system. A familial and endless reliance on domestic wet areas draws people to them. At 2B, drinking fountains, a coin laundry, showers and toilets physically and socially support the town. The Intersection The terrace row is reflected along the adjacent boundary line, physically realising the street grid’s imposition on the property. The town square emerges on 2B, a plot at the intersection of two delineating boundaries; the urban grid and the creek. The town is an object of its place, held between the systems that define it.

“Superorganism”

Ilana Razbash Supervisor: Emma Jackson

Kempsey, ‘The Worst Town in Australia’, is located on the NSW Mid-North Coast, 4-hour drive North of Sydney. Superorganism is the reimagining of Kempsey’s culturally important public swimming pool to include a Neutral Buoyancy Training Facility for the Australian Space Agency, in the vision of a future Space City. It’s a study on the introduction of new industry into an existing (conflict ridden) context as a vehicle for hope, in pursuit of a new collective identity. Guided by a polemic of awkwardness, the scheme identifies the swimming pool as a pivotal battleground in desegregation and decolonisation; suggesting that this might be one of the first facilities that our relatively new Space Agency should seek to build. In the pursuit of plurality within architecture, I have proposed the ‘Star Code’ as a new planning code requirement which states that sight lines to key stars and celestial bodies must be preserved, thereby reinforcing and demanding an intrinsic connectiontoplace.Superorganismre-orientatesarchitecture to other points of relevance while intensely focusing on the people who live here. The composition has been drawn in the cannon of Hayne’s Repair and Service Manuals, harking back to the car culture of the NSW mid-north coast, my own experiences while on fieldwork, and the ultimately the resourcefulness and resilience of the human spirit.

In The Blood

Emma Li Supervisor: Michael Spooner

The project â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;In the Bloodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, could be mistaken for a Magpie couched in the branch of a Jacaranda tree. But it is the Rising Sun Hotel, the home of the Melbourne fans of the Sydney Swans, once home in South Melbourne, which illuminates our mistake. It is a project which imagines the pub as the dissolution of concrete identities; a partial myth-making explicit both the fallacy of these truths while cementing them. It is the opening of potentialities, revealed by the first roll of the dice on a table, or the first throw of the coin on the field. It is both the great order in the details which causes tumult in the whole, and the acute focus of incisions and inflections which explains how things grow, disappear, and die, yet endlessly find themselves again. The fact that they resemble other things while remaining as they are is a matter of conjuncture. For this swan is both black and white, both of Sydney and Melbourne, and both belonging to one club, between two cities. It is that which implements the crisis of place, the affirmation of identity and the burden of happiness. And it is only in the excessive and incremental discernment of difference where we may find our true likeness.

Sunday Bloom

Roxanne Esagunde Supervisor: Anna Jankovic

If you ever find yourself in Hong Kong on a Sunday, you will observe 350,000 Migrant Domestic Workers coming together to occupy the city. A mandatory live-in requirement for these workers means that for one day a week, they are emancipated from the isolated confines of their employerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s homes and gather in public. From conditions in which they have no space of their own, these women co-opt and transform public squares, sidewalks, footbridges, parks, and pedestrian underpasses into makeshift leisure spaces. Places in which they exchange goods, sing, dance, cook and eat together. Charter Road was turned into a pedestrian zone on Sundays in the 1980s to establish itself as a luxury retail precinct. Decades ago, this became a destination for Filipino Migrant Domestic Workers. Situated here, this project is concerned with these circumstances and the negotiation of agency and visibility for the marginalised diaspora of Filipino Migrant Domestic Workers. Coupled with the compressed timescale of their ability to partake in public life - the cultural and the civic â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it considers how architecture might perform and enhance this dialogue. My response takes shape in two forms; both augmenting and extending existing walkways that bookend Charter Road. At the top end, a market hovers above the road below, wedging itself directly adjacent to luxury stores. As the stall tables inside are activated from their inert state, the overhead canopy articulates the activity below. The second, an elevated walkway and temporary amphitheatre, sits atop Statue Square, transforming into a corridor of activity; a social and political forum and centre for leisure. Hotplates are revealed, seats unfolded, a stage cascades down and shade-cloths are unfurled.

A Camel is a Horse Designed by Committee Alexandra Kemp Supervisor: Michael Spooner

Every day dignitaries gather in front of cyclone fences for the purpose of driving yet another survey peg into a more unbroken ground, to launch a stage, that is in effect, exactly the same as the one before. It makes the six o’clock news alongside global share market fluctuations and floods in Northern Queensland. Nation Building is groundbreaking, and groundbreaking is nation building, and yet New Parliament House still sits atop a cavernous unfinished ‘cathedral’ simply because the budget ran out. This project is concerned with the procurement of public architecture. The bureaucratic condition has been invoked as a mechanism, not only in spite of but in light of its absurdity, to establish a self-propagating architecture that is instinctively public. I have proposed a strategic plan for the extension and alteration and addition to the future and former offices of the Melbourne City Council, encompassing an entire city block. Resolutely optimistic, it is this project’s aim to realise the opportunity often overlooked within the bureaucratic refrain and celebrate the absurdity that reveals our innate human fallibility. As if to say, as long as there’s free Wi-Fi, the camel isn’t such a bad deal after all.

R E V E R S E C I T Y

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REVERSE CITY IS TOTALLY AGAINST GENERIC PRINCIPLES, STANDARDS OF ARCHITECTURE. THIS PROJECT FOCUS ON THE AMBIGUOUS IN ARCHITECTURE; TOP-BOTTOM, INSIDE-OUTSIDE, NATUREA RT I F I C I A L I T Y AND AGAINST FLAT SURFACES

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New Academic Field

Nguyen Uyen An Le Supervisor: Dr Graham Crist

New Academic Field is a continuous campus building for RMIT Bundoora and a new version of New Academic Street on a more open field. This proposal joins up the collection of existing buildings on the campus into a continuous field of space. The project is constructed on my ‘Reverse City’ manifesto. The Reverse City works against common principles and standards of architecture, to affirm whether those rules are a must or a limitation in architectural creation. This intention seeks possibilities in the extremely contrary conditions of architecture and of learning environments.

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After series of tests starting with collections of elegant natural terrain contours, the Reverse City was focused on four aspects:ambiguousandabstractspace;againstflatsurface;an indistinct spectrum between up and down, inside and outside (parks versus buildings); ambiguous between nature and artificiality (or material and drawing). The indistinction was generated by blending 4 layers existing site, two new layers of artificial contour, a 5x5m grid line and cartoon-like, abstract surface materials. To be ambiguous in this massive open field also means the visibility of the learning environment where people have more opportunities to engage with each other, share knowledge and explore different, ambiguous fields of study.

SECTION A - 1:250 The 2016 NGV Architecture Commission by M@ Studio Architects Featherston Home’ in Ivanhoe, designed by Robin Boyd in 1967

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The Unbroken Tie

Elena Yi Ling Chia Supervisor: Dr. Anna Johnson

Welcome to Causeway 2050, to experience a new way of commuting. This project is an infrastructural architecture- sited on the border that separates Malaysia and Singapore that draws together the fabric of each city to form a new place. Made from fragments and parts of each, this project takes advantage of what is a highly trafficable zone- a place where commuters and travellers might spend hours just traveling the 1km distance between each city. This project, therefore, proposes that people and vehicles coexist within an architecture-infrastructure system that accommodates this density â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and even takes advantage of this mobile population- while also providing for new community spaces, new walk-ways and green spaces and activities that happen within this mega-structure. This project aims to investigate the role architecture can play in a context defined by this border condition- of peoples of two cultures each with a long and complex relationship while also addressing the issue of the devastating congestion that happens every day. An architectural infrastructure typology was proposed on and around an existing causeway between the borders of Johor and Singapore that will become a linkage for the two countries â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and also part of the causeway infrastructure. It is a conglomerate of bilateral diplomacy between the countries of two sides.

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Memorama

Lau Ching Ming Ronald Supervisor: John Doyle

Memorama. A collection of the past, present and future. Memorama redefines the didactic architectural representation of archives. It mediates between existing physical artefacts and the digital catalogue. It also explores the tension between the material and the virtual in the discourse and act of archiving. The archival paradigm has transitioned from solid artefacts to intangible representations. Architecture becomes a reduction of two-dimensional images, dominating the visual perception of our urban and domestic environment, as well as creating a dichotomy between the solidity of the built form and the fluidity of memory space. A new monument does not simply exist as a commemorative plaque. It has a civic responsibility as an activated space that democratises social congregation. It allows an interactive spatial representation of both the physical and digital catalogue within the archival framework. The glitch bridges the two opposites of catalogue together as a single organism. It represents the surreal interactions between human memory and historical reality, and the symbiotic human-machine relationship. Holographic projection using mist as a medium is the focal point of public immersion to the virtual environment. The metadata is finally released from its two-dimensional constraints of representation. The architecture becomes the catalogue, and the catalogue is the architecture.

HONG KONG COMMUNITY AIR RIGHT

Rooftop Social Infrastructure

Hong Kong Community Air Right Release & Relief

Ip Kwun Lun Supervisors: Brent Allpress

Hong Kong is a very dense city. Sham Shui Po is one of the old and most dense districts in HK. As a result of unaffordable price of living, lots of tenement houses in old districts are subdivided. People belonging to the low-income group need to live in overcrowded subdivided apartments for an average of 5 to 7 years before getting into public housing. Although the overcrowded living condition is unpleasant, the tightness in old districts creates the most vibrant street in Hong Kong.

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Social infrastructure on the rooftop is proposed in a super tight context with many tiny apartments below. Through reshaping but not reconstruction process in old districts, social infrastructure with amenities are provided as the extended space for peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daily activities. Generosity of space is given by the social infrastructure. By creating contrasting scales of space within living spaces, sense of release and relief are brought to the residents. The social infrastructure also creates opportunity for residents nearby meeting each other.

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Many parts of Hong Kong were developed into new towns with high-rises. But there are still some old districts left behind. The living condition may not be good, sometimes is worse, but the tightness of the old district retains the strong connection of a community which is hardly found in the high-rise typology. Redeveloping old districts by releasing the air-rights to the communities, archives a win-win situation â&#x20AC;&#x201C; living quality can be improved while the vibrant life is brought to the new strata on the rooftop level in the city.

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Condensed Grounds

Prathyuksha Acharya Supervisor: Anna Jankovic

This project interrogates Social Housing in Victoria and Australia; and centers on the Carlton Housing Estate as a casestudy for the future development of Public Housing need. Under intensified economic pressures to turn-over this land for a profit, there is a real risk of displacing residents from their homes and communities. This is further challenged by the current policy for ‘housing renewal’, that is to demolish and rebuild. My project re-defines this public housing procurement strategy under new conditions; never demolishing, never removing and only adding, transforming and re-using the existing building stock. Instead of disposing of the architecture, its capital value and embodied energy, this project acknowledges and advocates for the inherent social, architectural and material value, for the long-term. This is facilitated by the adaptation and addition of private residential spaces and the addition of new spaces for community programs and social services, in turn densifying spatial relationships with a multitude of functions. Atop the towers, levels of new dwellings are added, whilst a secondary façade to the levels below provides a row of wintergardens annexed to the existing living spaces, offering much needed natural light and ventilation and outlook. With a view to the ‘Utopic’ social housing models that were once seen to have advanced the living conditions of those most in need; this architecture augments and reconfigures the common spaces and shared circulation to be a generous and programmableframework,fosteringsmallcommunitygroups through a ‘breaking’ apart of the tower and mass housing typology. This project seeks to present people and community at the fore of Public Housing need.

“Re-address” END

Priscilla Khoo Supervisor: Emma Jackson

The title is a play on the word of ‘Readdress’. Firstly, it is an idea about Placemaking. To create new addresses and new identity into a place. A civic idea about giving a sense of ownership and address towards the occupants in density and the users of the space. Secondly, the project seeks to address a culture that is deteriorating in Australia – The decline of neighbourliness. Lastly, to create a new methodology based on an analysis of some of the NEIC planning polices, which identifies strategies to deal with Melbourne’s growth in key areas to encourage density and develop new precincts. My intention is to form an alternative approach, and a non-site specific methodology based on these same intentions. My project is a study on how these policies may be reimplemented with a computational process that carries the elements of the past, proposed and best practice for a nonspecific subject site. The outcome is the implementation of this alternative methodology on Todd road located in Fisherman’s Bend NEIC. To explore planning possibilities and the emergent architectural outcomes, in order to compare them to the intentions and benchmarks of the original NEIC proposals.

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‘Flawless Failure’

Yolanda Wanzhi DU Supervisor: Simon Drysdale

This is a topic of acknowledging the death of human beings and architecture, knowing that extinction is becoming a reality, a pseudo-longevity resort is derived from an existing abandoned early modernism retreat- Burnham Beeches under the supernatural emotion, as a prolongation of this type through an emphatical experience. The story started in 1936, a Tasmanian tiger, last of its kind, Benjamindiedlonesome.Thekeptenvironmentdomesticated Benjamin’s wildness, the apathetic care had taken his last chance to survive. As a spiritual prolongation with the anxiety from Benjamin, a grotto is digging down on the earth as the morphological alteration of the old Burnham beeches, pretending to be a cave in early century to protect the weak as a sanctuary. Here, a recognition of death is suspending by nature - the nature of the decaying skeleton; the nature of the emotion. It’s the cultural prolongation of the Anthropocene - An architecture should not be domesticated and therefore becomes only a style. Every endling architecture would be a flawless failure because it’s writing a self-conscious essay - realising its endling is the catalyst of another individual endling.

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Mirabela Vasilie Supervisor: Dr. John Doyle

This research has primarily been about how we might reimagine landscapes from which we source resources and energy in a post climate disaster future. It considers the past and future roles of our planetary landscapes. We come to understand that territory is a medium of energy storage. Through the process of mining - we extract energy from the ground, we find it, we explode it and then over time it has disappeared. The question of energy systems and artificial geographies are deeply linked. My proposal is an artificial territory made of batteries. These batteries are unapologetically artificial. I am reclaiming the artificial – not as in fake, but rather designed – as a platform which links the anthropogenic climate change to the geopolitics of automation. We’re at the point where we need to start making decisions about the world we’re going to live in and start thinking about the strain of architecture that will support this crisis. This proposal is not the orthodoxy, but it could very well be the typology that will define our time.

M^7 future knowledge Kim Mudie Supervisor: Ian Nazareth

Micro Macro Mega Mecca Mecha Meta Medical is a tracing of 3 dimensional space across scales through the lens of human health. The concern is rising chronic health and overburdened medical system in Australia. The architecture is an apparatus of small public artefacts of the city redirected for human health. It is also a system of seeing, a medical delivery system, a brief and a dispersive distribution strategy. The city is positioned as a laboratory for potential practice to unfold. The labs space unfolding, a limitless field of data. The architect/ scientist left to string a line between its distant fields: between urban and apparatus, human and environment, biology and technology, psychology and medicine, science and art, economics and data science, micro and mega. From these abstractions within field of data, the prototype is birthed. A coded fragment from which information is based. An allele as a data surface, written into existence. A new structure, a new code, a new triptych, A new clinic. Within this new space, a space between, a collaborative space, A space where I can become WE (the collective) Medium and tools: a highlighter, a pipette, a paintbrush, microscope slides, PVA, PVC, a faro scanner, a script, a solution, milk.

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The project is located within the Brunswick Design District where warehouses are the most affordable spaces that dominate creative activities. The project speculates on the ‘warehouse roof’ as a catalyst in terms of formal expression, transprogramming platforms and a 3-dimensional experience. By extracting the transformative behaviour of cell movement, the dynamicity of the warehouse roofscape was amplified. Outcomes were critiqued through three core investigations:

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‘Suburban Catalyst’ redefines the role of University as a collective identity and in support of local core assets with the aim of strengthening its position and value in future urban development. In addition, students are able to benefit from the public wisdoms and inspirations. It speculates on a porous boundary between campus and suburban community through three key investigations: the monumental, programmatic and future civic and learning experiential contributions.

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Monumental catalyst- where campus contributes to the local collective spirit to unify various potentials towards creativity achievement. Programmatic catalyst- where campus supports the design industry by providing co-working environments; networking students, creative professionals and design entrepreneurs. Future experiential catalyst- where campus reinforces its position through dynamizing and intensifying suburbias’ experience on two different levels. THREE DIMENSIONAL EXPERIENCE ON GROUND LEVEL

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The design reactivates RMIT’s Fashion and Textile campus as an immersive educational institution– supporting design sectors with strong future connections.

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Zoopermarket

SWAMP FOREST

TROPICAL RAINFOREST

NGUY

U CA EN HU

LE LOI ROAD

Ben Thanh Market

LE LOI ROAD

TRUNG SISTERS TRAIL

HCMC Municipal Theatre

CHARNER CANAL

BONNARD BOULEVARD

C DU

H NG

G AI

TRIC T

NGUYEN HUE

N TO

NORTH

HO CHI MINH

FUTURE ZOO-CITIES 2050

ZOO-CITY

V I THI HONG NGUY E N

T H E S C H O O L O F B O TA N Y

COMMUNITY CENTRE

3 D I M E N S I O N A L AV I A R Y

CO-HOUSING SPECIES

FUTURE ZOO - CITIES 2050: HO CHI MINH Z00- CITY Vi Nguyen Supervisors: Adam Pustola ‘Future Zoo-Cities 2050’ explores the relationship between the built and the natural world in future cities, through the expansion of zoos. Zoos have become a testing ground for architectural ideas providing models for sustainability. As the planet faces radical changes, they have become important institutions in a time of global climate crisis.1 However, the ethical questions confronting the future of zoos, become questions for the planet and the world of nature.2 My proposal speculates that the future is heading towards integrating wildlife population into urban conditions, thus improving the health of the city in creating a sustainable, adaptive and resilient environment. The project explores the architectural investigation of co-habitation to connect people and animals in everyday life from a Non-Western perspective. Through analysing the evolution of zoos, inequality between the West and the East is identified due to colonisation and globalisation.3 These ideas contribute to the emergence of zoo design and architecture in South-East Asia. Ho Chi Minh City is reimagined through the expansion of Saigon Zoo, as reinstatement of nature at the core of District 1. The parallel evolution between the two reveals a key cross-over between localism and colonialism, which make a relevant case study for future zoo-cities.

ZOOPERMARKET D O M I N A N C E & C O N F R O N TAT I O N

T H E E D U C AT I O N A L P R E C I N C T & THE OLD SAIGON ZOO

Mossy Frog

Tropical Birds

FINISH

The School of Botany

CO-HOUSING SPECIE TYPE 1 SAME FAMILY

CO-HOUSING SPECIES TYPE 2 PREDATORS & PREY

Antelope

Monkeys

Community Centre GROUND LEVEL OC EO CULTURE (MEKONG DELTA RIVER)

LE-MAC LE TRINH NGUYEN LORDS

CHAMPA CULTURE

Museum of Vietnamese History

NGO-DINH LE/LY DYNASTIES

TRAN HO DYNASTIES

Zoopermarket

Indochinese Tiger

START

TAY SON DYNASTY

36 NGUYEN DYNASTY

CAMBODIA SUNBEAR PATH TO LEVEL 1

CHINESE DOMINATION

XOM LAI HCMC MUMMY

METAL AGE

PRE-HISTORIC PERIOD

ETHNIC GROUPS OF SOUTHERN VIETNAM

Sunbear

CO-HOUSING SPECIES COMPATIBLE DIFFERENT FAMILY Indian Elephant

Antelope

Indian Elephant

SITE PLAN PROPOSAL SCALE: 1:400

NORTH

Ecopolis

Stefan Vincent Frey Supervisor: Peter Knight

We are struggling with the most dangerous crisis humankind has ever faced in its long climb from the never-never to the stars. It is clear now that if we do not prevail in this crisis, in so doing we will lose our habitat and this way of life. History will record with, the greatest astonishment, that those who had the most to lose, did the least to prevent its happening. The ‘Ecopolis’ conjures up an architecture of immense resilience by grasping hold of ecological and enduring urban strategies that have existed in the discourse for years. The ‘Ecopolis’ grasps onto the protecting infrastructure, the flame of hope in a sinking context, taking the opportune moment of the crisis to extend its limbs outwards and call for those impacted by the crisis. It critiques the cities of before, that unlike them it is designed with the sole purpose of weathering the storm. Its veins and systems providing shelter and cool breezes through its channels. Its systems become the traversable terrain and its ground plane, sacred to feed its huddled masses, quench thirst through its billabongs and provide respite to those that live in its merged urban environments. Here stands hope.

ECOPOLIS

CRISITUNITY ARCHITECTURE IN A CLIMATE OF CHANGE STEFAN VINCENT FREY S3429655

WISH YOU WERE HERE!

Amy Tremewen Supervisor: Dr. Christine Phillips

As Victoria progresses towards achieving treaty with our First Nations peoples’, it is clear that the reconciliation aspired will not be sufficiently met through political policy, signed statements or social sentiment. A disruption to the urban fabric, and a shift in the way we experience and navigate our city begins to generate a true and universal representation of equality and an aspiration for the future. Driven by a series of dramatic and destructive urban fires that ripped through the eastern edge of the CBD, ‘Wish You Were Here’ proposes a new vision of Melbourne, wherein residents become tourists once again. This project seeks to find ways to honour the true landscapes of Melbourne, and questions how we develop a postpost-colonial approach to dark pasts. Remnants of our political powerhouses are enclosed in tourist walkways and observatories, creating an artefact to be observed, studied and questioned. Within, ghostly casts of these remnants create the spaces required to achieve treaty and honour First Nations culture, inverting and subverting the buildings once used to define our city. The indelible marks and scars left by colonialism, rather than being ignored, are occupied and given greater meaning, offering a truer reflection of past, present and future.

Program Setting / DNA Base Pair System

Hiding Space

Proper Functioning Space

Type

Office

Public

Residential

Open workstation

Restaurant / Cafe

2 Apartment

Group office Meeting

Retail

1 Apartment

Lecture Hall

Stair Rest Space

Harf Apartment

Lecture Hall

Stair Rest space

Harf Apartment

Proper Functioning Space

Hiding Space

Basic logic is HIDE & SHOW Each module can be devide into 3 space. The height of each space is 2m. With the Movable Floor, the whole space canbe devide into two part. Funitures and structure canbe hiding in 1/3 volume when they are not be used, and anther 2/3 volume will be proper functioning

G Type / 2X Apartment Unit & Open Workstation

TRANSFORMER

Qian Li Supervisor: Georgina Karavasil

Platform Transformation System TRANSFORMER /

Flinders St Station Renovation / MTM Office Extend Project

Normal Station Platform / Crowded

Platform Transformation System

Station Renovation

Movable Separating Wall

More Platform Space

(There might only one or two trains arriving at the same time)

Station Mode (5am - 12pm workday) Structure hidding under the platform

Ground Floor

Modern buildings have vacant time. For example, office buildings work 8 hours during weekdays, but after those 8 hours, the building is vacant, which is a waste of efficiency.

Night Mode / Night Restaurants & Night Clubs (12pm-5am next day)

B1 Floor(Station Platform) LL HA WH TO ATION ST

FE EN DERA TR AN TION CE SQ

The purpose of this project is to explore how to activate the vacant time of buildings by TRANSFORMING the spaces between different functions; by changing its structure. In the future, when population density increases and property prices gradually rise, apartments in urban areas will no longer be affordable for normal citizens. Then parttime property apartments will appear. It means citizens can only buy or rent these spaces for 8 hours of the day as their apartment property, while the other 16 hours of the space will be occupied by other functions, such as offices. To achieve this goal, this project attempts to explore the feasibility of movable structure in the method of modular architecture. The typical module is divided into two parts by a movable floor. When the floor is moved to the highest position, the bottom space will be fully functional, and the top space will be folded and hidden. The site is located in the Flinders Street Station, and the platform of the station will also be shape-shifting. When the train does not arrive, the movable baffles will change into an extra platform to increasee the waiting space. At the same time, between midnight to 5 am when there are no trains coming through, the platform can also be used to hold night activities. Transformers is designed to provide a more efficient lifestyle for all users.

A B2 Floor(Underground Passage)

Transformer Modules Setting (Base-pair system / DNA) / Main Building Program will be arranged according to base pair rules in the area wher any two circulation INTERSECT

Fixed Modules Setting / Main Building Modules which have only connect with one circulation

TRANSFORMER FLINDERS ST STATION / MTM OFFICE EXTEND PROJECT Qian Li / s3665413 / Georgina Karavasil Time

Office

Public

Residential

9am-5pm

MTM Office Emploees Timetable

60%

30%

10%

5pm-1am

30%

60%

10%

Divide each day into 3 x 8 hours part. 1am to 9am / 9am to 5pm / 5pm to 1am (next day) Each pairs of modules have two mod which shows different functional spaces. Each pairs of modules will transform to the other functional 2 times during one day

1am-9am

10%

80%

1am / 9am / 5pm

9am-5pm

5/8 Residential modules

Public modules

5pm-1am

Half Office modules

Public modules

1am-9am

5/6 Public modules 2/3 Office modules

Residential modules Residential modules

Bake the Market

Emily Yueyue Wu Supervisor: Patrick Macasaet

This project questions how existing architectural types could be re-imagined through the superimposition of historical type, alien type and no type as a design methodology. This major project specifically explores the market type as a testing ground. Through the procedure approach, a series of tests have been implemented including historical type Tabriz Bazaar, alien type Preston Oval- which is a type that does not have any relationship with market, and no type which is a pure system-based experiment. While process-based design opens up possibilities in the pre-design stage, the post process is challenging. Therefore, as a design tool and a way to understand the raw outcome from the procedure, the Cake Theory is introduced to drive the design and authorship from the post progress. The final architecture outcome is an experimental result of process-based design and the Cake Theory. It reflects the idea of projecting market beyond its boundary and seeing the market as a new urban type.

Supercity â&#x20AC;&#x201C; City x, Nansha Huxu Yang Supervisor: Tom Kovac

The project proposes a sustainable urban condition with the ability to react to environmental and human behaviours. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a system capable of adapting to environmental, climate and spatial conditions. City X takes on Chinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s major development initiatives for self-generated urban structures. Each structure is generated by BESO optimisation logic, with forms that can shift and change by vertical irritation, environment and human data. Based on different environmental and human behaviours and conditions, through the BESO optimisation, the outcome contains the ability for scalable variability with the core structure containing transportation and utilities. The system studies human activities and behaviours to set urban conditions for living, working, private and public domains, etc. It calculates the space sizes required for everyday activities, integrating urban programs required to generate pod communities.

By using drones and robots to achieve variability, the pods could shift and change size and locations. to receive sunlight views with public facilities near the central zone of the structure (BESO outcome). Assembled by drones and robots, the structure involves pods as communities as systems expanding into a horizontal city with vertical irritations and scalable variability.

On Nature, Growth, and Ornament Hibah Kuhodr Supervisor: Ben Milbourne

There is a rich tradition of using natural form in architecture throughout history; from Gothic Architecture with ornaments that are integrated with structure to Art Nouveau with decorations that are often richly embellished designs that follow natural form. This major project aims to revive this rich tradition and investigate what it means to follow growth logic and natural form in this era of advanced technology. A Marine Biology research facility located in the vicinity of the Great Barrier Reef aims to take inspiration from the growth logic and natural â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ornamentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; of the coral reef. It was only through understanding the behaviour and mechanics with which coral grows, and constant back and forth testing that the manipulation of the growth could be achieve and driven to respond to position site, levels, and program. The ornamentation system throughout the project has been following a set of rules established specifically for each space guided by proximity to activity of people, program, and shape of the ornament. The aim of this project is revitalizing complexity in architecture that has been lost with the Modernist movement and doing so through reviving the use of natural form in architecture. This project takes it a step further where it is no longer only about the formal resemblance of nature, but also about the growth behaviour, the unity of ornament design and the structural fabric.

Ketahanan Kampong Ayer LIM Chia Chuin (Alan) Supervisor: Sean McMahon

Located in Brunei at the heart of Borneo in South East Asia, Kampong Ayer, or directly translated as the water village is the birthplace of Brunei and the world's largest settlement on stilts. However, the government have been encouraging people to move from water to land. The water village requires self-sustenance due to age, economy depletion and losing the sense of community. Instead, the people are seeking expertise to tackle these issues whilst preserving their heritage, enhancing local interaction and cultural aspects. This project attempts to improve the economy, ecology, health and design of the area. Since the government is exploring into the agricultural sector, implementing aquaponic system takes advantage of the existing aquaculture in the village and new hydroponic interventions. This creates a foundation for a networkbased infrastructure, creating one instance of retrofitting design and expanding it to three main typology scales of housing, nodal hubs and schools. This will potentially improve the existing conditions whilst considering costeffectiveness and high adaptability by the people. Being the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;largest water villageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; by name does not suffice, but that might change by introducing new interventions via the means of adding value and retrofitting. This project may not be about how well the infrastructures are being executed, but the possibilities of what this could achieve in the years to come.

the european plaza

the australian pool

coburg pool houses

backyard poo

, coburg

60 donne st

The 20 Acre Block

Rebekah Collins Supervisor: Nick Bourns

Bondi Pavilion

slsc Ground level

The 20 Acre Block is a suburban oasis- a new kind of social infrastructure seeking to inspire change in suburbia. The reclaimed Vic-Track land resulting from the newly elevated Upfield Line, combined with backyards and front-yards along the corridor make up the site. The Moreland Surf Life Saving Club Station provides not only station amenities, but also a sundeck, lifeguard observatory, restaurant, Nippers canteen and an island bar. Floating down the river, private backyards begin to merge into a forest where glimpses of backyard doors can be seen. The oversized backyard pool against the vernacular style of the pool houses provides a public pool experience at the level of accessibility of your neighbourâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pool. The pop top extension of the pool house is pushed around the viaduct, emblematic of the pressures of neighbourhood densification. My vision for the new Australian Dream is deeply rooted in the notion of community and shared amenity. As the unexpected is discovered throughout this scheme, opportunities for interaction are created and community is strengthened. And so, from a dangerous and barren rail corridor to a suburban oasis, this project is an example of what could be if we think and live communally.

slsc Level 1

Moreland Station SLSC Level 2

Integration & Regeneration Kang Du Supervisor: Jan van Schaik

Melbourne is expanding fast. Railway infrastructure around the edge of the city centre is gradually overlapping with new urban programs to create more social & economic value. But the cost of building overactive rail infrastructure is staggering, and this means that some opportunities for improving our urban environment are being overlooked. This project proposes a new method of redesigning the railway and industrial buildings, questioning how we make better use of urban condition beside train lines to allow developers to easily construct over it and better integrate the surrounding community with these large projects to justify the expenses of constructing over a large infrastructure. It speculates that the Transport Oriented Developments (TODs) that are increasingly appearing over suburban train stations can better serve their local surrounding contexts by pushing all the public functions and human interface of the commercial component of the developments into the surrounding context. By doing so, these TODs can become better integrated with their surrounding communities and, at the same time, increase the lettable efficiency of the commercial component of the train lines, thus assisting with the ever-increasing costs of building overactive rail infrastructure. The project hopes to find ways to develop a new type of urban growth around train stations that capitalises on the ambitions of developers and investors but, at the same time, services the needs of the city and its people beyond the immediate financial gain of the few.

The post blockchain city

Tracy Lee Fa Wong Tien Hing Supervisors: Jan Van Schaik

This project asks the questions: ‘What if blockchain technologies eradicated the need for financial institutions, and the space they currently occupy in the Melbourne CBD became vacant?’ Obviously, there would be a lot of empty commercial spaces, but the city is quite capable of finding new uses for them without the architects' help. I asked myself the question: ‘Are there any types of space that would become available that could not be simply re-let to another corporation?’ As a result, this project focuses on the spaces that ground floor ATMs leave behind and asks yet another question: ‘How could these tiny unused spaces be repurposed, and what hidden parts of the city could they unlock?’

LABYRINTH OF CITY FRAGMENTS

S T R AT E G Y

A C C O M M O D AT I O N ARTIST STUDIO FOOD & BEVERAGES R E TA I L COMMUNITY FACILITY

SINGLE BLOCK

I N S E R T L A N E W AY

PROGRAM

SUB DIVISION

COLLECTION OF CITY FRAGMENTS

HOSIER LANE

BLOCK ARCADE

S TAT E L I B R A R Y

CENTRE PLACE

CHINA TOWN

Labyrinth of City Fragmints Fiona Shing On Yung Supervisor: Vicky Lam 1 / F PLAN

ACDC HOTEL

RAPHA ARCADE

PLAZA TOWN

BLOCK ARCADE

MINI

ARTIST STUDIO

HOSIER HOTEL

This project challenges the architectural norm of demolition to make way for modern redevelopment, seeking an alternative idea of non-destructive growth through efficiency, hyper adjacency and tightness. This is a strategy for adaptive reuse to retain heritage fabric. Through intensifying programs and sub-division of the site, a compound of extra fine-grain fabric works collectively to compete with the trend of consolidation. GALLERY HOSTEL

Time is frozen in Guildford Lane. The dramatic contrast with its context makes this lane exceptional in the city. It remains a world of its own, breaking the regularity of scales and character in the city.

URBAN OASIS

CENTRE PLACE

MINI

S E C R E T C AT H E D R A L

S TAT E L I B R A R Y

MINI

BUCKS HEAD RESTURANT

P O S TA L L A N E

MINI

G / F PLAN

Here, I would like to propose a precinct of hospitality for escaping from the ‘ordinary’. Inside Guildford Lane, I have created a city within city, laneways within laneways. Different fragments of urban conditions are translated and intensified into Guildford Lane, as a miniature collection. Passing through a wall and stepping into the next urban condition, one experiences the strange adjacencies of fragments of the city. It is a strange jigsaw puzzle with every piece representing a certain scene in the city, forming a continuous yet independent space within. It is a journey of discovery, a labyrinth of city fragments.

47 TO

R OU

TA L S

TIO

Location

Calculation

MALL COMMUNITY SPACE

Community & Dwellings

Modeling

Grouping

Community Space

Semi-Privacy & Separation

TYPICAL APARTMENT

Communities Connection

Corridor

Apartment

Community Group

Balcony

18%_Balcony+Corridor 82%_Living Space

Balcony

Dichotomy

Corridor

COMMUNITY APARTMENT

Cul-De-Sac

Veranda

Apartment

18%_Veranda+Cul-De-Sac 82%_Living Space

Veranda

Community

Cul-De-Sac Veranda

Apartment

Cul-De-Sac

COMM-BACK

EDIUM COMMUNITY SPACE

TYPICAL APARTMENT

Houzhi Du Supervisor:Nick Bourns

COMMUNITY APARTMENT

COME BACK, COMMUNITY BACK, Back to the city’s life. This project seeks to explore what allowance architecture can make to promote once again and foster community and connection in contemporary residential development. In recent years, fewer than 10% of Australians live in close proximity to the city centre. One of the reasons is that the urban development of Melbourne’s high-rise has encountered some problems and attracted some criticism. The designer tries to solve these problems to attract people back to the city’s life, and based on a series of precedent research, bringing the community into the high-rise is the main strategy in this design work.

ARGE COMMUNITY SPACE TYPICAL APARTMENT

COMMUNITY APARTMENT PLAYGROUND

BAR CONVENIENCE SOTRE

ACCOMMODATION

FOOD STREET

LOBBY

APARTMENT

Small members group is better for a community group. But how can it still involve all people in a high-density residential building? In this design, there are three different scales of community space, small, medium and large, which means people will be separated into different community groups. Therefore, they can meet through social activities like washing, activities in the garden, clothing lines and shared facilities. Meanwhile, after a series of spatial transformations, this design can be realized in future practical projects.

HOTEL

SHOPPING CENTER

RESTAURANT

TYPICAL APARTMENT

SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE - ORGINAL CAPITOL THEATRE

Zone 5 Zone 4

CAPITOL THEATRE - ORIGINAL FOYER ANALYSIS

Zone 3 Zone 2 Zone 1

ZONE 5 Thetare entry up ZONE 4 Top of steps ZONE 3 Bottom of steps

up up

ZONE 2 Ticket booth

ZONE 1 Street frontage

WALLS - HORIZONTAL VIEW PLANE VARIES IN 5 ZONES

CEILING - HORIZONTAL LEVEL CHANGES

FLOOR - HORIZONTAL LEVEL CHANGES

HEIGHTEND POINT OF EXPANSION AND COMPRESSION 5600MM COMPRESSION

EXPANSION

COMPRESSION

EXPANSION

COMPRESSION

STEPPED CEILING

COFFERED CEILING

LENGTH OF EXPERIENCE SENSE OF EXPANSION AND COMPRESSION

EXPANSION

COFFERED CEILING

STEPPED CEILING

CEILING TYPES

CEILING LINE VARIANCE VIEW CONES MEDIATE SENSE OF EXPANSION AND COMPRESSION

MEDIATING DATUM FOR SENSE OF EXPANSION AND COMPRESSION

1815MM FLOOR HEIGHT VARIANCE

EXPANSION

STEPPED CEILING

2400MM CEILING HEIGHT VARIANCE

VAULTED CEILING

FLOOR LINE VARIANCE SWANSTON STREET

02 SECTION DETAIL - EXPANSION AND COMPRESSION DIAGRAM IN THE VERTICAL PLANE 1:100

ELEMENTS HEIGHTING EXPANSION AND COMPRESSION - VERTICAL EXPERIENCE

01 SECTION - OVERALL BUILDING 1:1000

1. OFFSET OF FLOOR AND CEILING PLANES AT MAXIMUM COMPRESSION POINT TO ENHANCE SENSE OF EMMENSE COMPRESION AND EXPANSION 2. EXPERIENCE OF EXPANSION AND COMPRESSIONS IS NEVER THE SAME, VARYING IN LENGTH AND HEIGHT, NOTE HEIGHTEND PONT OF EXPERIENCE AT GREATEST LEVEL CHANGE.

CAPITOL THEATRE - ORIGINAL FOYER RECREATED

The Griffins Multiplex

Justin Phillips Supervisor: Brent Allpress

ZONE 2 - CEILING HEIGHTS VARY IN HEIGHT AND TYPE WITHIN EACH ZONE

ZONE 1 - ENTRY OFF CENTRE, ON AXIS TOWARDS COMPRESSED APPETURE

The Capitol Theatre design by Walter and Marion Mahoney Griffin was built in the 1920s at a time when silent film was just being introduced.

ZONE 3 - AXIS POINTS MANIPULATE MOVEMENT AROUND THE COLUMS

CAPITOL THEATRE - RE PROGRAMMED

PRESGRAVE PLACE

However, by the late 1960s, with the introduction of television it saw the demise of single use theatres.

RESIDENTIAL TOWER ARCADE HOWEY PLACE

PROJECTION GALLERY

For the Capitol to survive, a large section was demolished to make way for the arcade that currently exists.

CINEMA VOID

GRIFFIN ARCHIVE

SWANSTON STREET

FOYER

THEATRE

AUDITORIUM

FOYER VOID

HOWEY PLACE