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Major Project Catalogue, Semester 2 , 2021 Prof. Vivian Mitsogianni Ian Nazareth

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RMIT Architecture Major Project Catalogue Semester 2 2021

Contents Introduction, Professor Vivian Mitsogianni...06 What is Major Project?...07 New Asclepeion; A Total Care Plan, Joyce Ho... 08 Every-ware and Know-ware, Alexandra Waldron-Clark... 10 Formalisation of Nomadic Urbanism, Guled Abdulwasi... 12 Three Constituent Parts, Darcie Vella... 14 Co-living with nature, Shuai Tang... 16 Properly Property, Jack Heatley... 18 Marooned in the Temporary, Abigail Li Shin Liew... 20 Systems of Comfort, James McLennan... 22 Upon Encounters, Kathryn Stuart... 24 transformativeCohesion ();, Ho Kyeong Kim... 26 Sky Earth Ancestors, Youjia Huang... 28 An Other Architecture, Ruby Lang... 30 Now Showing! 好戏上演, Jialiang Zheng... 32 Who Cares, Riley Pelham-Thorman... 34 Common Property, Meri Sirgoska... 36 Open For Maintenance, Benjamin Ellis... 38 What once was, now is. Michelle Gan... 40 Eroded, Xu Tang... 42 The Other in the ‘Home’, Kaixiang Xu... 44 This is not a School, Dinh Tien Nguyen... 46 Departing's Party, Zachary Bunston... 48 Familiar Matter, Strange Assembly, Sarah Lucas... 50 The Social Utility, Nicole Francischelli... 52 Recipe for Redemption, Justin Chong... 54 Municipal Grounds, Tanya Si Yun Tay... 56 Knit Skin, Anne Ebery...58 Autocorrected, Lisa Gargano... 60 Western House, Dominique Pozvek... 62 The Origin Theatre, Jingtong Zhao... 64 Parchitpelagos, Danny Tan Kah Aik... 66 Walyalup Tower, Alexander Rayfield... 68 Borderlands, Megan Voo... 70 More Than Meets the Eye, Riwina Savio D Cruz... 72 Parallel, Kanthamet Akarawatcharakiat... 74 The Missing Piece, Shuhan Wang... 76 Kensington Echoes, Eric Thoroughgood... 78

Reimagining Heritage, Karlo Abbugao... 80 Reconnecting Canberra, Sheridan Hirst... 82 Alternative Block, Yaoming Li... 84 500 Nooks, Ashlee Pukk... 86 Bygones of a Nation, Andre Wee... 88 Architect-Nality, Qianqian Chen... 90 Would God Sell The House?, Elijah Cercado... 92 A Place in Time… Michael Parlapiano... 94 Delirious Guilin, Tianyi Huang... 96 New Dock, Hepeng Miao... 98 Inverted – A Resilient City, Andrew Wan Lun Chung... 100 Composing Space / Composing Architecture, Ming-Hsien Hsu... 102 Undefined Factory, Yiming Guo... 104 Stepping across the Threshold, Jongwoo Kim... 106 Re: Detached, Jacob Lam... 108 Food Court Arena, Vivian Lim... 110 Elderly Family, Xiaolin Pang... 112 Housing the Dead, Junhua Zhou... 114 Mixed-use Messy Tower, Feiyin Xu... 116 What do you SEEK?, Linhan Yang... 118 Garbage Archives, Kun Yan... 120 Nicholas Creative Hub 2.0, Tianyu Feng... 122 Embracing Inundation, Madison O'Shea... 124 Past Present Future, Stephanie Grizancic... 126 The Other Houses, Ren Wu... 128 New River Bank, Qianwei Han... 130 The Place for a Village, Nicla D'Argento... 132 BRICKERTIES, Dingji Pang... 134 New City Wall, Yutong Wang... 136 Third -and Only- Place, Gergo Andrej... 138 Vacillate, Jeffrey Xu... 140 MOCKLANDS, Kate De Pina... 142 Supervisors Semester 2, 2021... 144 Students Semester 2, 2021...145

Introduction

It has been an extraordinary semester for RMIT Architecture Major Project students who have demonstrated perseverance, resilience, dedication and generosity as they sought to contribute new ideas and venturous propositions to their discipline and to an increasingly complex world. This semester's Major Project students completed their fifth year of architectural study in the midst of a global pandemic and with many studying remotely. Their resilience and agility need to acknowledged and applauded.

The Major Project Medals The Anne Butler Memorial Medal, endowed in honour of an outstanding emerging practitioner, is awarded to a Major Project that exemplifies the goals of Major Project.

Architecture schools should be concerned with experimentation that challenges the apparent self-evident certainties and accepted orthodoxies of the discipline (in its expanded definition), the underlying assumptions about what architecture is and can contain, and what it should do next. Architecture schools need to ensure that their graduates have all the professional competencies that are required for professional practice and registration, but Architecture schools should also lead the struggle to challenge the default conventions of the discipline. The architecture school should strive to point towards possible futures not yet evident within existing understandings of the discipline and wider cultural/political terrains.

The Peter Corrigan Medal celebrates the project that is most critical, political and culturally engaged. It is awarded to a student with a strong independent vision in honour of Professor Peter Corrigan who taught successive generations of architects at RMIT for over 40 years.

Architecture is about ideas. It is part of a wider cultural sphere and a way of thinking about the world in a broader sense. Knowledge and learning in architecture do not finish in the academy but require continued learning and a level of receptive agility from the architect, throughout the architect’s life. The rapidly changing economic and cultural conditions in the extended fields that architects engage with necessitate this, requiring, but also opening up possibilities for, new types of knowledge, fields of engagement and practices.

The 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 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 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.

The project should lay bare considered attitudes, brave speculations and leaps of faith, pursuing these with rigour and depth. We would hope that the projects are ambitious, brave and contain propositions relevant to their time. We would hope that students experiment – in whatever form this might take – and engage with difficult questions, contributing not merely to areas that are well explored, but to what is yet to come. Experimentation though, in the graduating project, as well as in the design studio, comes with the risk of failure. But failure can be cathartic – it is an essential possibility tied to innovation. At RMIT Architecture we understand well the ethos and importance of experimentation and we have long-standing processes to reward it, importantly through our grading and moderation processes. In the RMIT architecture programs, we call this venturous ideas-led design practice. ‘To be venturous is to be brave and take risks. What we hope is happening here is that students are learning to establish their own explorations which they can constantly reconsider and navigate through future conditions that may not resemble present understandings of practice. Competencies and experimentation can happily co-exist. We aim to educate students to engage with architecture’s specific characteristics unapologetically, and to not be afraid of its complex, uncertain and liquid nature. We aim to prepare our graduates to engage in and contribute to a broader world of ideas and to eventually challenge our ability to judge with new, challenging and meaningful propositions. This semester we saw some astonishing and brave projects and propositions from a student body deeply concerned with making a positive impact on the world around them and with contributing new ideas to their discipline. We look forward to following our students’ careers as they join our global community of practice and to seeing how the ideas seeded here are pursued and advanced.

Professor Vivian Mitsogianni Associate Dean and Head of RMIT Architecture RMIT University

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

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

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

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

New Asclepeion; A Total Care Plan Joyce Ho Supervisors: Sam Hunter & Danielle Peck

The number of people using aged care has tripled over the last 10 years, however the ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach is failing us. This project takes inspiration from an Asclepeion in Epidaurus Ancient Greece, the most celebrated healing centre of the classical world, where once entire cities were planned around improving our health and well-being through good design. Somewhere along the way these ideas were forgotten. In Asclepeion, health was more than administering the right treatment, it was a function of the whole environment, providing healthcare outside the institutional setting. Using Box Hill as a testing ground, New Asclepeion creates a care territory within the suburb. The project sets itself against a mythical backdrop grounded by the real problems we encounter in aged care today. Taking cues from the Asclepeion in Epidaurus, New Asclepeoin in Box Hill includes a wide array of approaches to all aspects of aged-care with physical, spiritual, and social dimensions, played out across a network of facilities of varying scales and types. The scheme this project proposes is more than just a building, but an attitude to our failing systems. New Asclepeion seeks to instil hope in the people and honour the wisdoms of our ageing society, creating a dignified place to age together.

Every-ware and Know-ware Alexandra Waldron-Clark Supervisor: Simon Drysale

If time suddenly stopped, what would our model of care look like? Would we question our values as we see people isolated in rooms, separated, alone, void of community, and celebration? Care is not a one-size fits all solution. This is a proposal that tackles real issues within our current healthcare settings and what we deem acceptable solutions for care typologies, investigating how a new architecture typology can transform the way we view care. Sited in East Gippsland, one of Victoria's highest per capita populations of ageing people, with almost 40 per cent of the population being over 60 years in 2020, this project focuses on the town of Orbost, a timber town, located off the Princes highway on the snowy river plains. The project’s condition of service is introduced at The Golden Fleece Service Station, an icon on the road; the glow of service station inviting, a welcome to town. Combining age friendly care services and emergency youth care in a drive in and drive out typology, this is a future-present design. The highway entrance to town imbeds wellness and health into communities; rather than a new McDonalds, healthcare becomes a catalyst to bring together the community.

Peter Corrigan Medal Semester 2, 2021 Supervisor Statement This project is a sort of journey into an underbelly of rural mental and health need. It is an unusual project that looks at step up/down care provision set in the regional Victorian township of Orbost near the mouth of the Snowy River. Care architecture is not the usual project stock of a thesis students, but this was the choice by Alex and it’s her story. Orbost is a timber town with a proximity to nature that is both profound and supernatural. The project that Alex embarked upon can as its labelling suggests be installed any-ware and yet the data as viewed through her know-ware lens suggests a menacing need and hunger. It is a response to what you do in a town where a yellow light still means slow down, not go faster. Bravo Alex for the owls are not what they seem. _ Simon Drysdale

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Formalisation of Nomadic Urbanism Guled Abdulwasi Supervisors: Tim Pyke & Helen Duong

The Afar are nomadic pastoralists of Ethiopia who trade their prized livestock and salt in Dire Dawa city during the dry season. They informally settle and trade on the Dachatu riverbed which fills up during the rainy season washing away memories of the transient Afar. This project seeks to formalise this informal settlement using memory of the geography and settled groups such as the Harar and Oromo peoples. The first of three proposals, housing forms work on the riverbed and offers the Afar a hub for their seasonal visits. By allowing the river to flow through the site during the rainy season, the urbanised population are reminded of Afar’s the seasonal visits. The second proposal is short-term housing along the river edge with some scattered in the urban fabric to further strengthen connection between the nomadic and urban populations. This housing accommodates those who wish to stay for longer periods of time. Lastly, is housing with shop-fronts along the river wall. The wall is the city’s solution to mitigate against flooding whilst maintaining connection. This housing encourages the Afar to have a long-term base in Dire Dawa and to increase the frequency and volume of trading.

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Three Constituent Parts Darcie Vella Supervisors: Andre Bonnice & Jean-Marie Spencer

Property may be described as “every type of right (that is, a claim recognised by law), interest, or thing which is legally capable of ownership, and which has value. Other incidents of property which are not necessarily true in all cases include its alienability and exclusivity of use or enjoyment.” Property exists within two planes; one immanent, where its fluctuations are reflected in the built world through either emptiness or excess, and the other immaterial, the financial, economic, and legal instruments by which it is regulated. As the interstitial layer, architecture may thus become a tool by which these things can be both maintained and resisted, waning into both the metaphysical and the Concrete. It is presumed that the real value for property lies within the metaphysical realm of the title boundary that lies within the tangible realm of paper. Stacked in rolls behind the land surveyor as they procure its very existence, and later being preserved within the concrete walls of the land titles office. The project anticipates the need for a new method of recognition. Its presence is established through a layered, timescale understanding of a shift in perception around ideas of occupation and reoccupation, through the lens of the boundary that dictates property ownership – the title boundary. The project takes the conditions of property ownership, the boundaries that define it and the things that give it value and recognises architecture as being an instrument that can give substance to the expression of these problems. Modern legal recognition of ownership of land in Australia exists as a means of registration and administration. This was the beginning of land transformation from something physical into a liquid asset. Each stage of the project questions how to challenge our perceived understanding of that of a colonial, outdated means of ownership.

Anne Butler Memorial Medal Semester 2, 2021 Supervisor Statement Darcie’s project ‘Three Constituent Parts’ contests and disrupts the imposed understanding of property formation and ownership; by addressing its conditions, how it is defined and the things that give it value. The question is asked, can Architecture exist beyond ownership? Mediating Architecture’s relationship with the title boundary; the project presents a new method of recognition, set out through a series of ‘acts’ that are positioned in and around the Richmond Town Hall. Each act permits a new type of occupation, one outside of intended purpose, by making use of informal objects to delineate a reoccupation alongside formal speculations for a new Technical College of Site Surveying and Land Titles Office. Through these acts, the project recognises architecture as an instrument that can both maintain and resist the mechanisms by which property ownership is perceived and prescribed. _ Jean-Marie Spencer & Andre Bonnice

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Co-living with nature Shuai Tang Supervisor: Prof. Alisa Andrasek

This project is a low-coverage, high-density community with good condition in Lishui, China. It is expected to provide residents with a chance to co-live with nature and have a self-sufficient life, respecting the traditional Chinese life philosophy. Here, artificial intelligence tools are used to create massing agents clustered by voxels. Then, a game-type methodology, similar to the video game called 'Sim City', is applied to build through voxels. The final mapping result displays an interlaced system: inhuman habitation (forest and landscape farming area) and human habitation (residential fabric) are blended well. As a result, the high-density building clusters are no longer obstacles on the site. Instead, they are endowed with high permeability and generosity to humans, plants and animals.

Anne Butler Memorial Medal Semester 2, 2021 Supervisor Statement Shuai’s project is exploring high density/low coverage architecture for increasing planetary challenges, highly adaptive to the environment and its inhabitants. AI based combinatorics are used for creative tectonic variations of timber structures, and novel programmatic clustering at the intersection of shared economy and cultural memory of a traditional Chinese village. Novel aesthetics are searched for, at the intersection of human and machinic pattern recognition. _Prof. Alisa Andrasek

COMMUNITY LIVING ZONE

FOREST CROSS THROUGH RESIDENTIAL

BIOMASS PRODUCING ZONE

REFORESTED AREA COMMUNITY LIVING ZONE

COMMUNITY LIVING ZONE

BIOMASS PRODUCING ZONE

FARM BLEND INTO RESIDENTIAL

FARM AREA

RESIDENTIAL AREA WITH LESS DENSITY

RESIDENTIAL CLUSTER WITH MORE DENSITY

LISHUI TRADITIONAL VILLAGE ANALYSIS Total Area: 50566 sqm Total Residential Area: 11007 sqm (21.8%) Total Farm Area: 23047 sqm (45.5%) Total Reforested Area: 16512 sqm (32.7%)

PROGRESS: COMBINE DIFFERENT MASSING LAYERS_BIOMASS MIX WITH COMMUNITY

Multi-agent system from: Complex City research directed by Andrasek, Joshua Lye PhD

RESIDENTIAL AREA

FOREST GROW ALONG FARM

Residential : Biomass = 1 : 3.5

PROGRESS: TEST GROWING AGENT ON LANDSCAPE TO BE SENSITIVE TO THE SITE

BEST AREA TO GET DIRECT SUNLIGHT

LISHUI TRADITIONAL VILLAGE_TERRACE FIELD

PROGRESS: TEST GROWING MASSING ON LANDSCAPE TO BE SENSITIVE TO THE SITE

Lishui traditional village_Figure from: GOOGLE IMAGE

AREA SELECTION FOR MASSING GROWTH

Multi-agent system from: Complex City research directed by Andrasek, Joshua Lye PhD

SOCIAL LEISURE (SWIMMING POOL/TENNIS COURT)

LARGE SCALE OF FARMING AREA (SOLAR PANEL/INDOOR FARMING/GREENHOUSE FARMING)

COMMUNITY LIVING ZONE AREA WITH STEEP SLOPE FOR HUMAN COMMUNITY BIOMASS PRODUCING ZONE AREA WITH STEEP SLOPE FOR HUMAN COMMUNITY

ADDITIONAL DENSITY OF RESIDENTIAL AREA

SCATTERED FARMING HOUSING

SCATTERED LANDSCAPE GREEN HOUSE

AREA WITH STEEP SLOPE FOR HUMAN COMMUNITY

SMART FARMING

CLOSEST TO NATURE

PROGRESS: COMBINE DIFFERENT MASSING LAYERS_BIOMASS MIX WITH COMMUNITY

SOCIAL LEISURE (SWIMMING POOL/SUN BATH TERRACE)

MASSING OF HUMAN COMMUNITY ONLY HAPPENS ON THE STEEP SLOPE TO GET MOST CASCADING SHAPE CONDITION

INDOOR FARM LOW-COVERAGED BIOMASS FACILITY

BEST PRIVICY

CHUNK C CHUNK B

INFILTRATED FOREST

1. ENTRANCE & CULTURE

2. ACTIVITY & SOCIAL CONTACT

1. ENTRANCE & CULTURE

2. ACTIVITY & SOCIAL CONTACT

CHUNK A

3. LANDSCAPE

LANDSCAPE/PRODUCTIVE GREENHOUSE

4. VENTILATION & LIGHT

MASSING GROWTH FOR HUMAN COMMUNITY AREA + BIOMASS FACILITY (SMART FARMING/GREENHOUSE/HERB GARDEN)_ CHUNK A_VOXEL SIZE 4M*4M*4M Figures from: Google Image

LISHUI TRADITIONAL HOUSES’ COURTYARD TYPE 3. LANDSCAPE

FINAL: MASSING GROWTH FOR HUMAN COMMUNITY AREA + LOW-COVERAGED BIOMASS FACILITY (SMART FARMING/GREENHOUSE/HERB GARDEN) + INFILTRATED FOREST

4. VENTILATION & LIGHT

CHUNK A_COMBINATORIC SPACE INFO Voxel Resolution: W_4m; L_4m; H_4m

No. of Voxel: 4469 Total Volume: 286016 cbm Total Area: 71456 sqm

BEST SOLAR RADIATION AREA FOR SOLAR PANEL DISTRIBUTION ON THE ROOF

No. of Private Voxel: 837 (18.7%) Total Private Voxel Volume: 53568 cbm Total Private Voxel Area: 13392 sqm No. of Shared Voxel: 3632 (81.3%) Total Shared Voxel Volume: 232448 cbm Total Shared Voxel Area: 58112 sqm

TYPE A_01_IN CORNER

TYPE A_02_IN MIDDLE

Resident type: Young single, or couple family without children Skin area facing to scenery: 2 side (50.0%) Function: 1 Bedroom + 1 bathroom + 1 balcony garden + water recapture tank under floor

TYPE A_01_IN CORNER

Resident type: Temporary residents such as visitors, or businessman. Skin area facing to scenery: 1 side (25.0%) Function: 1 Bedroom + 1 bathroom + water recapture tank under floor

TYPE A_02_IN MIDDLE

K-MEANS INPUT: SOLAR RADIATION ANALYSIS FOR FUTURE SOLAR PANEL DISTRIBUTION

CLASSIFY TYPOLOGY OF BUILDING COMPONENT

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TYPE A_01_IN CORNER Resident type: Young single, or couple family without children Skin area facing to scenery: 2 side (50.0%)

4m 1

TYPE C 4m

TYPE A_02_IN MIDDLE

TYPE B

Resident type: Temporary residents such as visitors, or businessman. Skin area facing to scenery: 1 side (25.0%)

1 4m

TYPE B Resident type: Family with 2 adults and 1 or two children. Skin area facing to scenery: 2 side (33.3%)

2 4m TYPE A_02_IN MIDDLE

TYPE A_01_IN CORNER

3 2 4m

TYPE C Resident type: Family with 2 adults and 3 or more children, or family with 2 young adults, 1 or 2 children and 1 or 2 old people who need to take care. Skin area facing to scenery: 3 side (37.5%) Function: 3 Bedroom + 3 bathroom + 1 landscape courtyard + 1 balcony garden + water recapture tank under floor

TYPE B Resident type: Family with 2 adults and 1 or two children. Skin area facing to scenery: 2 side (33.3%) Function: 2 Bedroom + 2 bathroom + 1 landscape courtyard + water recapture tank under floor

TYPE B

TYPE c

12m

K-MEANS INPUT: DIRECT SUNLIGHT ANALYSIS

CLASSIFY PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL TYPOLOGY

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1. ENTRANCE & CULTURE

2. ACTIVITY & SOCIAL CONTACT

3. LANDSCAPE

4. VENTILATION & LIGHT

2. ACTIVITY & SOCIAL CONTACT

Size 1 voxel (16 sqm) Function: Cultural spirt/temporary stay/entrance

Size 3 voxel (48 sqm) Function: Social activity/light

Size 1 voxel (16 sqm) Function: Nature/circulation/temporary social contact/light

Size 1 or 2 voxel (16 or 32 sqm) Function: Circulation/nature/ventilation/li ght

Size 3 voxel (48 sqm) Function: Social activity/light

SHARED AREA WHICH DISTRIBUTED ALONG THE COURTYARDs UNDER LEVEL’S ROOF, AS THIS LEVEL’S BALCONY 3. LANDSCAPE Size 1 voxel (16 sqm) Function: Nature/circulation/temporary social contact/light

4. VENTILATION & LIGHT Size 1 or 2 voxel (16 or 32 sqm) Function: Circulation/nature/ventilation/li ght

1. ENTRANCE & CULTURE Size 1 voxel (16 sqm) Function: Cultural spirt/temporary stay/entrance

COURTYARD COMPONENT

K-MEANS INPUT: VIEW PERCENTAGE ANALYSIS IN EACH FLOOR

COURTYARD COMPONENT

SHARED AREA (REMOVING PRIVATE AREA)_COURTYARD STRATEGY

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BIOMASS BOUNDARY BLEND WITH LANDSCAPE

OVERTIME DEVELOPMENT_STEP ONE ANALYSIS (29.1% OF TOTAL PROJECT)

STEP ONE ANALYSIS (29.1% OF TOTAL PROJECT) Total Area: 46368 sqm Total Residential Area: 25456 sqm (54.9%) Total Biomass Area: 20912 sqm (45.1%) Residential : Biomass = 1 : 0.82

EASY FOR ANIMALS TO CROSS (INSTEAD OF BECOME AN OBSTACLES)

Total Area: 46368 sqm Total Residential Area: 25456 sqm (54.9%) Total Biomass Area: 20912 sqm (45.1%) Residential : Biomass = 1 : 0.82

Total Residents: 760 ppl

INCREASING POPULATION OVER TIME_STEP ONE_PRODUCTION

AXONOMETRIC VIEW_STEP ONE OF OVER TIME DEVELOPMENT

STEP TWO ANALYSIS (69.3% OF TOTAL PROJECT)

OVERTIME DEVELOPMENT_STEP TWO ANALYSIS (69.3% OF TOTAL PROJECT)

DENSITY ANALYSIS Total Area: 159248 sqm Total Residential Area: 81664 sqm (51.3%) Total Biomass Area: 77584 sqm (48.7%) Residential : Biomass = 1 : 0.95

RESIDENTS CO-LIVE WITH NATURE

Total Residents: 3281 ppl

Total Area: 110288 sqm Total Residential Area: 67856 sqm (61.5%) Total Biomass Area: 42432 sqm (38.5%) Residential : Biomass = 1 : 0.63

Total Residents: 2583 ppl

AXONOMETRIC VIEW_AFTER MAPPING BIOMASS INCREASING POPULATION OVER TIME_STEP TWO_LIVING & PRODUCTION

AXONOMETRIC VIEW_STEP TWO OF OVER TIME DEVELOPMENT

STEP THREE ANALYSIS (100.0% OF TOTAL PROJECT)

OVERTIME DEVELOPMENT_STEP THREE ANALYSIS (100.0% OF TOTAL PROJECT)

BIOMASS BOUNDARY BLEND WITH LANDSCAPE

SCATTERED BIOMASS AREA BLEND INTO RESIDENTIAL AREA

Total Area: 159248 sqm Total Residential Area: 81664 sqm (51.3%) Total Biomass Area: 77584 sqm (48.7%) Residential : Biomass = 1 : 0.95

Total Residents: 3281 ppl

GREENHOUSE FOR ALLSEASONS FOOD

DISCRETE SOLAR FARM

INCREASING POPULATION OVER TIME_STEP THREE_SELF-SUFFICIENT LIVING

DENSITY ANALYSIS Total Area: 159248 sqm Total Residential Area: 81664 sqm (51.3%) Total Biomass Area: 77584 sqm (48.7%) Residential : Biomass = 1 : 0.95 Total Residents: 3281 ppl

AXONOMETRIC VIEW_STEP THREE OF OVER TIME DEVELOPMENT

GREEN TRAIL FOR PEOPLE AND ANIMALS TO CROSS

GARDEN PROVIDE PLAYGROUND, FOOD AND EXTRA LIGHT TO LIVING AREA

COMMUNITY LEISURE AREA (TENNIS COURT) indoor farm

shared terrace co-living courtyard

COMMUNITY LEISURE AREA (SUN BATH & SWIMMING POOL)

garden/farm

ANALYSIS FOR A TYPICAL LEVEL Total Area: 6080 sqm Residential Area: 3232 sqm (53.2%) Green Area: 1616 sqm (26.6%) Shared terrace: 1232 sqm (20.2%) Total indoor farm components: 256 sqm [productivity = 1 acres (4046.86 sqm) of traditional farmland]

co-living study

co-living dining

Type A house number: 23 Type B house number: 7 Type C house number: 6 Total residents in this level: 23 * 2 + 7 * 4 + 6 * 6 = 104 ppl

shared terrace

greenhouse farm

co-living kitchen

bedroom

co-living courtyard

co-living dining

co-working office

co-working meeting

co-living kitchen

co-working cafe

co-working office

co-living living room

co-living study

solar farm

co-living living room

indoor farm

co-living kitchen

co-working cafe

co-working office

co-living dining

co-working meeting

ROOF PLAN_AFTER MAPPING BIOMASS PLAN & DENSITY ANALYSIS

COMMUNITY BOUNDARY_CO-LIVING WITH NATURE

shared terrace

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20m

SECTION

10m

20m

INDOOR COURTYARD _BLEND WITH NATURE

PRIVATE BEDROOM_ LOOK TOWARDS BIOMASS FARM

INDOOR COURTYARD_ACTIVITY AREA

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CO-LIVING TERRACE_SUN BATH & SWIMMING POOL

Properly Property Jack Heatley Supervisor: Dr. Peter Brew

This project recognises architecture as a discipline entangled with property. The central aim is to reconceptualise property and demonstrate that architecture can change our relationship to both property and land through new models for shared living and the formation of new laws. This project contends that architecture plays an important role in this, as a physical thing that is interpreted by the law. It is this idea that makes it possible for architecture to create (and amend) laws. Through a series of property law case studies and disputes, the idea of property is found to be the legal condition of a particular resource as being 'proper-' to a particular person. This means that property has more to do with perceived ‘rightness’ than it does with ownership. The dispute is a mechanism that reveals conflicting understandings of the same thing. It is through a dispute that things are required to be put in their proper place. By understanding property properly, the project aims to reposition architecture and by extension, the architect - positing architects as not merely law abiders but possibly lawmakers. The project suggests that law is how we understand objects and that we need new laws to better reflect a future that we envisage in a world that we ultimately share.

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OWNERSHIP OF RESOURCES - 06. DAREBIN COUNCIL V ABBANTANGELO: ADVERSE POSSESSION - 07. NORTHCOTE FOOT

BALL CLUB V TAYLOR: THE RIGHT TO A VIEW - 08. DAREBIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY V NORTHCOTE CRICKET CLUB: A DISPUTE ABOUT FIXINGS - 09. HOUSING LOCATED IN THE NULL AND VOID OF RESCODE AND PROPERTY LAW - 10. TREATY OF JOHN BATMAN

01. LUGANO V TELSTRA: A DISPUTE REGARDING THE OBSTRUCTION OF A VIEW - 02. ATHLETICS VIC V SKYVIEW LTD.: DISPU

Marooned in the temporary Abigail Li Shin Liew Supervisor: Dr. Emma Jackson

Our attitude to risk and threat is reflected in our response of insuring ourselves against the possibilities of danger and harm. Consequently, our city and built environment is a mirror image of this behaviour. As natural disasters are becoming part of an everyday norm in Australia, can we redefine our perception and understanding of risk? Inclusion, not exclusion. Can we design to include risk? Elizabeth Street of the Melbourne City has been known to flood, and whilst we may be unaware, the seemingly ‘normal’ street sits uncomfortably on top of a river that once flowed back into the Yarra. Unconcerned with the concealment of this natural waterway, the so called consistent built environment that we occupy has made every effort in keeping evidence of the flood and the river out of sight and out of mind. A disaster, or rather, a maladaptation? Would it then be more appropriate in recognising the flood ascribed to the incongruent acclimation of our city to the river? This project seeks to challenge and reframe our existing ideologies built around risk and threats whilst questioning the consistency of our urban environment. To discover the unknown and to subvert what may be deemed as unapproachable to a more generous and responsive occupation of our urban fabric and streetscape. The architecture is therefore a guiding hand for us to embrace the unpleasant, the inconsistent and the ambiguous; in that we are able to find the child-like innocence in us to slow down and pause, to eventually find solace and beauty in the undiscovered ‘threat’ of the flood.

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Systems of Comfort James McLennan Supervisors: Andre Bonnice & Jean-Marie Spencer

Systems of comfort are controlled by the Australian Institute of Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heating alongside the consultants and engineers that follow. The mechanical engineer has become the quartermaster of architecture. This project suggests that architects must take control by redefining the system of comfort, challenging the way spaces have been created to service the mechanical. It is okay to be uncomfortable. When it is hot, do light work. Discomfort is not a bad thing if it’s designed, managed and desirable. What if HVAC systems are removed and replaced with a thermal buffer; an additive and evasive structure that sits alongside the existing. The system is an assembly of high and low-tech conditions operational by the individual whilst connecting to the central ecology. The thermal buffer changes the way we value space, creating a condition that provides less yield, but also provides less impact. The site is located on a small section of the Hoddle Grid that is a microcosm of the city encompassing Melbourne and its current conditions: a set of aging modernist buildings. It’s an idea for a new city typology that is not limited to the site.

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Upon Encounters Kathryn Stuart Supervisor: Simone Koch

This model of architecture attempts to collaborate the overlapping of vernacular as an instrument of framing narratives & a sense of place. Without alarm, this allows the introduction of programs within a contemporary context. How can architecture deal with the stagnant conditions of small townships that have fallen dormant to its declining industry, paused in an era of its former peak period? What is in the next phase of development from further rural decline. This project attempts to reflect on these preexisting conditions of context and capture essential qualities that have potential to be transposed within a new direction of progression. To form an alternative architectural language for the regional area, that is in a continuum of broader relationships to our contemporary time. The projects identify three models of internalized research. Each depicts design narratives that collectively distil ideas of architecture through past stories, sensory of place, artifacts of present and past. Individually encapsulating specific responses to the overlapping of time periods towards reevaluating the relationships significant to the community. Allowing us to speculate further questions on how we respond to stagnant rural communities.

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transformativeCohesion (); Ho Kyeong (Alan) Kim Supervisor: A/Prof. Roland Snooks transformativeCohesion (); investigates a design process of amalgamating multiple self-organising and autonomous algorithms with digital fabrications. It builds on the idea of the bottom-up and morphogenesis design process to seek and enhance the fundamentals of architectural topologies with complex tectonics. These investigations bring about the notion of emergent computational processes that create a symbiotic and non-linear relationship on global and local scales. It systemises the poly scalar behaviours with simple underlying rules to enhance generation of architectural form. The system has been executed in multiple architectural scales in examining the process of the development of cohesive tectonics. The project values a time-based format; transformative growth. It showcases and highlights the exploration of emergence tectonics from the algorithmic process that couldn’t be captured in a traditional format. Enhancing the sequence of animation, authorship is enhanced by the detailed visualisation of emergent, creating a higher and complex order of divergent actualisation. The framework orchestrates to form an architecture that questions the traditional topologies and tectonic values. It enhances the emergence of morphogenesis through a computational approach through robotic fabrication. The interactions of morphogenetic emergent and morphodynamic authorships created the proposal that produces responsive, transformative and cohesive architecture. transformativeCohesion (); investigates a design process of amalgamating multiple self-organising and autonomous algorithms with digital fabrications. It builds on the idea of the bottom-up and morphogenesis design process to seek and enhance the fundamentals of architectural topologies with complex tectonics. It values a procedural time-based format to showcase divergent actualisation.

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Sky Earth Ancestors Youjia Huang Supervisor: Patrick Maccasaet

Through my personal childhood memory at the festival of worship of ancestors as the beginning. Modernisation, left the ancestors we have worshipped, the gods we have prayed for, the rituals we have cherished, are gradually leaving, accompanied by that’s none of my business and treachery. The project seeks to speculate how ancient rituals may transform, arouse the spiritual resonance of future people. How might we begin to have an alternative understanding of Chinese rural villages foregrounding the projective ideas of folk ritual/culture implication, in architecture. However, the purpose of this design is neither to carry out historical documents, nor to restore the ancient ancestral temple, but based on the Chinese family view to explore the village as half city and half folk ritual space. Assist to speculate a new Chinese cultural capital possibility. Hence, the project is not about giving a solution. But through the lens of an alternative world to explore ideas about architectural, urban and cultural implications. Borrow technique from film and performance in order to animate scenarios, telling stories as a new way to offer us a journey to diagnosing the present moment. And to communicate with people outside the architectural discipline, transcend disciplinary boundaries and connect to people.

Antonia Bruns Medal Semester 2, 2021 Supervisor Statement It is the year 2100. We walk through the world of sky, earth and ancestors - an alternative universe conjured by Youjia that bridges projective ideas and her personal histories of folk rituals, ancient traditions, local cultures and typologies, rural renewal, memory and family. An exercise of critical curation and personal reflection, Youjia projects her wanderings through film, performance and gaming to animate a provocative hyper techno-ancient rural village landscape. This project masterly balances architectural and urban gestures with highly immersive environments and storytelling. Temples and theatres are eternally under construction competing with rising generic towers and seen as equally important as the flying fish ferrying ancient souls. From designing altar tables to building worlds - it is epic in its scale and ambition. _ Patrick Macasaet

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An Other Architecture Ruby Lang Supervisor: Simone Koch

This project is not so much a project as it is a framework for the project to exist. It seeks to understand architecture as an instrument that claims territory beyond an economic claim. The current framing and definition of value and particularly property, is often reified into the object of capitalism, with its subjectivity becoming economic. What would happen if we were to move beyond the deeply ingrained idea of “price determines value?” What new stories might we tell? This discussion is where the following projects are positioned within to provide a counterpoint and as a strategy for staging a conversation. Situated within a small neighborhood in Fitzroy, is where the series of small projects lie. A framework, or manifesto, was written to provide a way in which we may move beyond this narrative, even though architecture can be its own challenge rather than a solution to another. However, it is how we talk about things that affects behaviour, and in turn affects how we theorize. In this way, architecture may become not what we know it to be, only to prove its existence by being able to affect it, and instead be a recognition of our own fallibility that can begin to understand the implications of our own assumptions.

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Now Showing! 好戏上演 Jialiang Zheng Supervisor: Ian Nazareth

This project originated from observing urban villages. As a unique product of Chinese urbanisation, urban villages were treated as the tumour of the city throughout the beginning of the century and demolishing was their only destiny. However, people are now realizing Chinese cities are starting to look similar and are losing their original identities, history and culture through urbanisation. Urban Village, a bottom-up self-urbanisation system, could be the answer to the problem by recreating the former collective identity through new urban texture. This project is imagined in Shapowei Village, a fishermen's urban village located on the southeast coastline of China. A place with chaotic informal infrastructures and active religious activities. The project is trying to find the solution to preserve regional culture and keep the activities alive within the urbanization context. Architecture is the materialisation of ideas, building is the stage of life. By seeking available spaces or alternative transportation methods, a new framework was set up to start a dialogue with existing buildings, rather than demolish them. This project reimagines the relationship between neighbours and buildings. An interactive theatre was formed by the structure to extend the existing building and provide a vertical stage for all the activities in the buildings to perform and be seen - encouraging more participants to help preserve and evolve the regional culture and activities. Life is a show. Everyone is the main character. The architect is the stage builder.

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Who Cares Riley Pelham-Thorman Supervisor: Dr. Emma Jackson

Who really cares about individual suburbs development and infrastructure? It is evident from community facebook pages, talk back radio and letters to the editor that local residents do; but it is always after the fact, when their objections have no impact. What if development values their feedback earlier in the design process? Rosanna is a case study in the North East of Melbourne to test an alternative to the planning process, where the community consultation is moved up the framework ladder closer to the to. The onsite dog walking gossip, the social media chats and talk-back radio discussions take centre stage as a means of acknowledgement and attempts to answer the question of “who cares”. This project seeks to propose an alternative framework for the suburb of Rosanna and explores the uncomfortable conversations of how corporate stores are placed on site. It aims to walk the line of community discussions and endemic landscapes, flooding creeks and even walking the dogs, for an architecture that is attempting to acknowledge all. The local’s memories, values and recognitions become apparent; balustrades, bricks, awnings, even bus stops are smeared on site to feed this hunger to be heard. Will the locals now accept this proposal as they are now listened to earlier within the planning process framework– perhaps next time you walk down to Rosanna a once angry local might have something nice to say.

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I’ve lived in Rosanna for the past 25 years. Everyday I walk my dog past the library on my way to the park. It will be missed! :( Like

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David Claptan 14h I think its a bit funny that they are building a new Woolies but not replacing the bus stop out the front. Theres only one tiny shelter - maybe design a new one before the supermarket!

Nick Thomas 19h I walk past this spot everyday on my way to the park. I love the trees, the library and the strange wooden park benches out the front of the theatre but this kind of stuff is going ahead anyway. Well that’s progress, I guess I’m all for it.

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I live behind the library and theatre. I really don’t want to see trucks, rubbish and bins everytime I look over my fence. Like

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What will happen to all the trees, plants and gardens? Again another council and store that doesn’t care about the landscape!!!

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Common Property Meri Sirgoska Supervisor: Dr. Peter Brew

Property law is the solution to any dispute. A problem, glitches in the system, ‘fixes’, unplanned and unauthorised adaptations. These definitions showcase that ‘issues’ do in fact exist. That currently, it is something unrecognised by the law. They are untangled and made to fit back to the standards we abide by and if labelled a dispute, we must mould them back, to make them compliant with the law. The logic of construction and the efficacy of repetition are things defaulted to in suburban housing. A family of 6 would be expected to use a home differently to a family of 3. So how can the same space be suitable for two different situations? This project seeks to use the current laws within our advantage to create a new sequence of how we design things. It aims to give a status to these ‘problems’ allowing their mark to transition from unintentionally discovered to deliberate. An object, now, of common property and a law. To allow property formation to occur after the situation rather than before while giving us permission to design for situations instead. To have a relationship directly with the object itself, rather than property. We think architecture is the apartment building but in reality, the building is only possible because of these embedded objects. If laws cannot be broken, it might be in the making of laws that we need to focus our attention.

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Open For Maintenance Benjamin Ellis Supervisors: Andre Bonnice & Jean-Marie Spencer

Open for Maintenance is concerned with the privatization of Melbourne’s public buildings. Increasingly unchecked in recent years, the spaces we may think of as public are maintained behind the scenes by private actors, resulting in spaces that act in the interests of their benefactors before the public. As the city has emptied out due to the pandemic, the frailties of this situation have been exposed, leaving these spaces functioning neither for commercial interest nor the public. So what public remains? Enter the Department of Maintenance, a new government department to take over the contracts held with private maintenance companies and centralise the care of the city and it’s public. The DOM enacts an occupation of Melbourne’s GPO, and through a series of interventions returns the building to a public workforce. These interventions are acts of maintenance on the GPO itself, appropriating a language of service spaces and leveraging past and present architectures of Melbourne’s initiatives towards its public to serve a new understanding of the importance of maintenance for the city. By occupying the GPO a question is asked of how we currently use our public buildings and what their use is saying about what we value.

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What once was, now is. Michelle Gan Supervisors: Andre Bonnice & Jean-Marie Spencer

Our houses speak to tell our stories, they grow and change as we do, banks of our accumulative memory. Heritage houses fall short of this, preserving a story only of its first inhabitants. They stand safeguarded by protocols that punish alterations from land subdivision to paint finish. Embedded within these homes are outdated ideologies that psychologically dismantle our culture as individuals, and as architects. This fervent preservation is stunting our growth, creating an unattainable market as housing provisions stagnate. An interrogation of protocol is long overdue – In this new vision, a condition of four adjacent early, mid, and late Victorian homes are merged for a new intimacy. It introduces an operation that both activates densification across heritage suburbs and fluidly adapts the home to embody the highest ambitions of its past, and present. Collectively, these homes form a cabinet of curiosities, containing ornament to be rediscovered and rearranged. By designing at the 1:1, a direct preservation is enacted through a tactile personal connection. It questions how each could fit into the resident’s routine as opposed to remaining at eye’s reach. Within, each ornament is treated as a generative tool to produce a kit of parts, able to liberate any heritage type. Without patronising the history, these altered homes teach us to profess to love, they show us how we too might carry valuable parts of the past into the restless future.

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Eroded Xu Tang Supervisor: Prof. Alisa Andrasek

According to the related research, in the past few decades, Shenzhen is facing the problem of fragmentation of its urban green space. The new buildings block the connection of each mountain, which has led to a decrease in species diversity. Meanwhile, numbers of people are still living in the dense local village with poor quality. Even though high density is usually associated with problems and poor quality, we are still arguing for low coverage, high density to preserve this relationship in nature and to preserve natural elements and biomass here. However, currently, with the new tools of machine learning, multi-agent system and computational design, we can now develop solutions that are not only high density but also high quality. This project is proposed to work on the barren site to stitching the mountains and lake surrounding to achieve high quality life for both non-human and human areas. Based on the terrain analysis of machine learning, the project uses a multi-agent system to create an organic form related to the terrain, blurring the boundary between natural and buildings. Meanwhile, it allows residents to enjoy high-quality life through the reasonable location of co-working and co-living areas while providing greenery corridors for the migration of wild animals to protect biodiversity.

BEHAVIOR CONTROL

The tentacle like curve is used to control the growth of voxels, so as to produce a porous interface, naturally form a courtyard, and do not hinder animal migration.

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1. Ensure the smooth migration of animals and maximize the biomass. 2. Optimize the quality of living on the basis of high density, including lighting, privacy, view, distance from shared space, etc.

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Prograss：Porous pattern to blend the biomass and residential area.

Prograss：Left geenary gaps for animals

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Machine learning technology is used in the early site analysis. The results would have impact on the original location of points for multi-agent systems.

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The k-means algorithm is used to subdivide chunks generated based on voxels into different communities, and then subdivide based on a single community to generate circulation, function division and so on.

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Remapping:Find out the centers of each chunk

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Test the potential applicable functional areas according to the form of different components

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Analyze the living quality of the selected chunk, including space privacy, room vision, lighting and distance, to provide a basis for functional division.

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Based on components, aims to create a space with more community sharing platforms or courtyards.

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The Other in the ‘Home’ Kaixiang Xu Supervisor: Simone Koch

Who designs the environments and spaces around us? Whom are they designed for? And in turn, if these spaces shape us and our society, how does it work? What if architecture acknowledges our diverse society? Who is missing and absent here? The other in the ‘home’, is about an interest of ‘the Other’; the interest of the ‘out-group’ citizens who are neglected in the grand narrative. The three ‘homes’ projects are in Chinatown, Melbourne, and I will act as ‘the Other’ to provide three different shelters with additional public buildings to serve the specific client, Asian immigrant women who are facing family violence in different situations. Taking the idea of ‘the Other’ as a tool of self-reflection and architecture as a critical practice, to blur the typology of spaces, from the private space of an individual to the public living space of a family, from the ‘home’ to the public building facility, from the unnamed alleys of Chinatown to Little Bourke St, to the whole community. This serves to reshape our society by redefining the public and private realms to make it more inclusive and reflective. Here, everyone is the other and no one is the other.

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This is not a School Dinh Tien Nguyen Supervisor: Patrick Maccasaet

This is not a School is a speculation and proposal for the changing role of future universities. Due to the advancement of telecommunication and online platforms opening flexibility and accessibility for everyone in the world to learn and work online, the language of the traditional school platform, such as classrooms, auditoriums, teaching and learning spaces, will no longer be needed. Schools will be a container or a gathering spot that converges the online platform while enhancing the physical communication and observative learning through the non-school programs. The University of Architecture and University of Economy in District 3 of Hochiminh city has been chosen as a testing ground for the idea of This is Not a School. By using a system base process, without preconceived notions, this project opens the possibilities of what future learning might be by prioritizing the sectional quality of the type and the experiential aspect and atmosphere of not a school type. The outcomes from the system-based process is judged on the relationship with the specific context of Hochiminh city where the vibrancy of street culture is embedded through three different filters: creative type, performative type, and social type. This is Not a School is a place of culture, a convergence of digital and physical interaction and an informal playground for Vietnamese youth - blurring the boundary of real world and digital world.

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THE CHANGES OF SCHOOL’S ROLE? Civic University of Economy HCMC

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Departing's Party Zachary Bunston Supervisor: Amy Muir

This project assists the Australian desire to die at home.  Integrating faith, ritual, palliative care, the civic and multigenerational living, this project reconsiders the family home and the procedures surrounding death. To Past generations, death was familiar, now it is ‘out of sight and shrouded in mystery. An analysis of Australia’s social perception of death, through education, religion, and existing mechanisms, allows this proposition to allocate itself. What if a housing typology permitting the event, the ritual, the civic, and a dignified exit? A place where we could live and die together, across generations, faiths, and backgrounds. A place capable of a ceremony, whilst also a family home. Our understanding of suburbia and entitlement is challenged. We are no longer joined by a paling fence but instead a courtyard, a hallway, or a veranda. We are reconnected across generations, The young gain access to history, the old gain access to care, the removal of isolation and exclusion takes place. Through an unfamiliar lens, the lens of death; a new living is unveiled.

Leon Van Schaik Medal Semester 2, 2021 Supervisor Statement Zac’s project seeks to reveal and address a fundamental disjuncture between life and death. With 70% of our population expressing a desire to die at home, only 14% do. Zac acknowledges that the home is key to understanding how we might nurture and accommodate the process of dying. The rituals associated with death are interrogated in order to develop a new formal outcome for the multigenerational home. A space for community, support, education and gathering. A home that acknowledges its civic responsibility while embracing the intimacy of living.  _ Amy Muir

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Familiar Matter, Strange Assembly Sarah Lucas Supervisor: A/Prof. Graham Crist

FAMILIAR MATTER, STRANGE ASSEMBLY is a collection of material and spatial design experiments, developed through an exploration of re-contextualising found material as architectural matter. Methods used within these design experiments have been inspired by the sculptural gesture of reassembling found material to produce new form, an approach to design famously mastered by artists Marcel Duchamp and Rosalie Gascoigne. The process considers unwanted building material as found material and underutilised architecture as found space. Focusing on the reuse of found materials, sourced from local marketplace and demolition sites, the work encourages a reinterpretation of the familiar to produce an architecture that is strange and experimental but resourceful. Initial experiments are based on the abstraction of a pink pedestal basin, a familiar domestic object that is sliced and broken up into pieces. The pieces are re-collaged and then scaled up to form spatial condition and enclosure, inspiring further experimentation with an expanded catalogue of found material. Simplified elements of architecture are combined to generate unusual architectural assemblies, within the bounds of an individual car park space. Individual elements within these modules are fabricated from strange assemblies of found material. When combined, these form textured and layered compositions that challenge architectural convention. These experimental outcomes are tested in the context of James Birrell’s Wickham Terrace car park, to form a proposition for its future reoccupation.

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SARAH LUCAS s3491750 Supervised by Dr Graham Crist

THE PINK BASIN Inspired by the artwork of Rosalie Gascoigne, the pink basin experiment tests the recontextualisation of found material, as architectural matter. The familiar, pedestal basin form is segmented into small pieces, then exploded and re-collaged.

experiments, developed through an exploration of re-contextualising found material as architectural matter.

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Methods used within these design experiments have been inspired by the sculptural gesture of re-assembling found material, an approach to design famously mastered by artists Marcel Duchamp and Rosalie Gascoigne. All material used in these experiments has been digitally sourced from local demolition sites and online marketplace.

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FAMILIAR FAMILIAR MATTER, STRANGE ASSEMBLY is a collection of material and spatial design

The form created by this new assembly is scaled up and tested in context as spatial condition and enclosure.

Findings from these design experiments have been used to produce a proposal for a future reoccupation of James Birrell’s Wickham Terrace Car Park.

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Inspired by the methods of artist Marcel Duchamp, architecture has been distilled down into its necessrary elements. This includes structural and functional elements. These elements have been represented in the 600 x 600mm grid.

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A single, standard car park space (5400 x 2400) is divided into an evenly distributed grid measuring 600 x 600mm. The grid becomes a repeated design condition throughout the project and allows for outcomes to fit within existing car parks.

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With developments in car and transport technology car park use will decline in the near future. This provides a major opportunity for re occupation through adaptive reuse of existing buildings and infrastructures.

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FOUND MATERIAL AS ELEMENT This process combines the collection of found material and re assemblage to produce new elements. The material is removed from its original context and applied in an unconventional manner. Some materials are segmented and then re collaged, while others are assembled using multiple items of the same material. 1

1. Breezeblock + Column 2. Balustrade + Wall 3. Corrugated iron + Table 4. Roof sheeting + Wall 5. Downpipe + Door 6 . Steel I Beam + Wall 7. Breezeblock + Column 8. Balustrade & Glass + Table 9. Steel I Beam + Column 10. Steel I Beam + Table 11. Steel Hollow Section + Seat 12. Breezeblock + Bed 13. Brick + Seat 14. Roof Tile + Door 15. Balustrade + Column 16. Roof Sheeting + Seat 17. Downpipe + Wall 18. Roof Tile + Door

MODULES FOR LIVING

WALL FLOOR ROOF COLUMN DOOR WINDOW SEAT TABLE BED STORAGE

Left: Using a scripted algorithm, combinations of elements have been randomly arranged within the grid, forming a series of unusual spatial arrangements. Right: Ten of these assemblies have been selected to interrogate further. These ten assemblies have been chosen for their varied combinations and arrangements. Individual modules have been planned according to the elements contained within each, for example a module that contains a bed becomes a bedroom and so on. Modules that contain elements such as tables and chairs remain open ended and allow for the user to define how the space is used. Below: The 10 selected modules have been developed further with individual elements being replaced with new material assemblies. Planning of these modules remains the same. Modules 5 & 6 are repeated but their materials vary. These assemblies are designed to function individually or as a collection. Combinations of different modules produce different plan layouts and ultimately inform different types of occupation. A series may become a dwelling, temporary accommodation or a high turnover co-

5 1. Bedroom 2. Bedroom 3. Study + Living 4. Bedroom 5. Kitchen + Dining 6. Bathroom 7. Bedroom 8. Study + Living 9. Bedroom 10. Dining + Working

6 1. Bedroom 2. Bedroom 3. Study + Living 4. Bedroom 5. Kitchen + Dining 6. Bathroom 7. Bedroom 8. Study + Living 9. Bedroom 10. Dining + Working

Downpipe + Wall Steel Hollow Section + Seat Brick + Wall Corrugated Iron +Wall Glass + Column Steel Hollow Section + Door

WICKHAM TERRACE ASSEMBLY

24 Modules have been arranged to form four separate dwellings. The dwellings, occupy the external car parks on each floor plate, taking advantage of natural light and ventilation. Individual modules within the dwellings are separated by internal courtyard gardens and are enclosed with soft curtains for privacy.

The Wickham Terrace Car Park, designed by James Birrell in 1960, located in Brisbane, QLD, has been used as a testing ground for the series of experimental assemblies.

Occupying the existing, the intervention takes an adaptive reuse approach, re-purposing the car park without the need for demolition and generation of additional waste material.

Hard enclosure surrounds each dwelling as well as each module within. This hard enclosure, constructed from recycled translucent panels is designed to give the occupant authorship over thresholds between the modules, accommodating private or open occupation and changing weather conditions. Internal car parks have less access to natural light and ventilation so are utilised as storage areas. SITE PLAN

A PLACE TO DINE, WORK, RELAX AND SLEEP

A PLACE TO WORK AND RELAX

TYPICAL PLAN 1:100

THE STRANGELY FAMILIAR Layered assemblies of material and form produce strange combinations of texture and colour. Occupation of individual modules is sometimes unclear due to a diversion from typical material conventions, adding to the strangeness of the architecture. However, on closer inspection, combinations of elements hint at how the space might be occupied, such as the combination of table and seat, occupied as a space for dining or working.

A PRIVATE BATHROOM

TYPICAL MODULE ARRANGEMENT

The pink basin re-appears in its whole form, as a final nod to the process. A PLACE TO COOK, DINE AND SLEEP

A PLACE TO WORK AND RELAX

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STRANGE

ASSEMBLY

The Social Utility Nicole Francischelli Supervisor: Dr. John Doyle

Utility is a system or service that provides a particular function dependent on its form. A service utility caters for a single use whereby it is exclusive to itself and therefore is not utilitarian. It is a one nodded response that does not encompass the ‘greatest amount of good for the greatest numbers’. It’s infrastructure is typically disconnected and impermeable to the surrounding urban context and therefore one aims to question and challenge the value of the utility. The notion behind utilitarianism is to promote general well being and happiness. But one’s satisfactions are not necessarily comparable to another? There are different degrees and forms of leisure whereby our freedoms become lost due to our over regulated world. The utility conforms to a rule to maximise the service and in effect creates a social contempt which controls our happiness and leads to the disappearance of our freedom. Leisure is a measurement of freedom, this project questions the distribution of the utilities social value. The utility service of stormwater drains is to redirect and minimise flooding incidents which benefits all in the area. The drain is an exclusive civic infrastructure, that currently is a direct response to its function but how can we expand on its social utility? This concrete encased ugliness is accepted visually and spatially, and is viewed as unfortunate but not tragic. How can we use the drain as an agent to allow for the emergence of new social utilities?

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Recipe for Redemption Justin Chong Supervisor: Dr. Anna Johnson

‘Recipe for Redemption’ is a gesture towards the rejuvenation of Chinatown in the city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, also known as Petaling Street through the lens of an architectural performance, giving back to the place and its significant history of being the catalyst for the introduction of the Chinese community into Malaysia through the reinterpretation of the entire site as an opera stage. It involves the pushing and pulling of iconic food vendors within the street at different scales by translating their own recipes into architecture, converting these standalone stalls into mixed-used extensions of the existing built fabric to become part food stall and part street performance theatre, with strong heritage influences from Cantonese opera, whilst also facilitating the provision of aid to those that are not as fortunate through the act of void metabolism, repurposing redundant and abandoned buildings within the site for shelter, rehabilitation, and food distribution. The goal is for there to never be a curtain call on Petaling Street, to become a container that is a utilitarian counterpart in its application of existing cultural heritage to inspire a new design language in the revitalisation of Malaysia’s premise of being a multicultural country, the reason I call myself a Malaysian today.

Leon Van Schaik Medal Semester 2, 2021 Supervisor Statement A multi-layered strategy for the rejuvenation of the China Town district of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Justin’s project explores cultural, political and social agendas to propose a mix-used multi-cultural urban tapestry. Drawing on the strong heritage of Cantonese opera, the iconic food vendors and their recipes, as well as a careful knowledge of the local built fabric, Justin's project forms a series of extensions to the existing conditions. Part food stall, part street performance theatre this new work also has provisions for shelter, rehabilitation and food distribution for the local homeless populations.  _ Anna Johnson

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Municipal Grounds Tanya Si Yun Tay Supervisor: Adam Pustola

Nothing lasts forever in Singapore, not even housing that is taken away, demolished, rebuilt, and replaced after 99 years. The HDB (Housing Development Board) void decks are the forgotten and underappreciated ground plane that is heterogeneous of everyday liveliness and ethnic practices under a singular roof for all to witness, however the government does not recognise the practice of a unique cultural zone of receptiveness. The Municipal grounds propose a dynamically cultural, democratic, and continuous way of living for the city into the future, that looks beyond the lifespan of 99 years by conserving communities whilst saving the void deck. Lessons and observations from the diverse ethnic city of Singapore shall become part of the segregated social housing estates, forming a composite that is reflective of the diverse citizen. In the municipal, one can find themselves in every moment of transverse of the more expressionistic and social grounds of liberating places as the new citizen in these grounds.

PLACEHOLDER

1960 STAIRWELL

1960 CORRIDOR

1960 RESIDENT CORNER

1960 VOID DECK CORRIDOR

1960 BASKETBALL COURT

1960 HDB BLOCKS

1960

HDB

SCHE

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Knit Skin Anne Ebery Supervisor: Dr. Leanne Zilka

Knit Skin reskins a modernist, curtain-walled skyscraper in Melbourne’s CBD using an architectural knitted membrane. A knitted membrane is a meta material, emergent from the combination of fibre and stitch morphology. It’s a material of structural contingency and limitation, so baked into the design process is a consideration of material and its manifold specificities. The project engages with Melbourne’s already built, mid-century office towers, not as reified heritage ‘icons’, and not as ecopathic stumbling blocks in our vision of a utopic sustainable future, whose riddle we might solve if only we came up with the perfect new build. Rather, these buildings are an already-existing ecology to team up with. Knit Skin proposes the knitted membrane as a lightweight, ultra-strong solar array and sunshade, an energy source for the city, draped on and between existing towers, exploiting and being exploited like lichen on a log. The knitted membranes define social space, dapple light, and provide a radically different street level experience. The project explores the opportunities in an architecture of strategic weakness and material constraint, and aims to eke more pleasure and utility from an already existing urban ecology.

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Autocorrected Lisa Gargano Supervisor: Ian Nazareth

“Cars aren’t going anywhere, they’re here to stay!” Autocorrected looks at the relationship that irreversible government infrastructure projects and the economy have on the built environment. The 1969 Melbourne Transport Plan and increase in car ownership in the 60s created the urban sprawl that we see today in Melbourne. What if cars were converted to electric? Has car ownership peaked in the suburbs? Will the suburban rail loop be well adopted as a primary form of transport by locals in the future? All these variables are undefined. The influential and transformative capabilities of architecture in the future comes down to the conscious carbon form that we produce as architects. Pre-empting the next energy transition that society will go through which will influence our social structure and correspond to the built environment. The project aims to find architecture typologies that result in petroleum carbon energy that will need to change in the future to accommodate the revolution in carbon energy and variation in car ownership. As suburban areas like Clayton become denser, and with the implementation of the suburban rail loop, it seeks to challenge the current standards of the public realm to benefit society.

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Western House Dominique Pozvek Supervisor: Anna Jankovic

Built heritage allows us to understand our collective identity and defines our sense of place and belonging. In the early 20th century, the local Theatre was at the center of our suburban communities. Landmarks that fostered culture and the social sphere, through their distinctly monumental form and central theatre space – a place of the collective. Now these buildings are isolated, disused, falling into disrepair and ripe for commercial development. With façade retention deemed enough to satisfy conservation; the value attributed to ‘heritage’ buildings, commonly disregards the spatial quality, function and fabric that shaped their significance. Averting the cautious regard of ‘preservation’ that is so resistant to change; How can these buildings be adapted and re-used without diminishing their former life? In reconsidering what the local theatre once stood for, this project presents a use-case for these buildings to adapt and facilitate the needs of our contemporary society. After a time of isolation and retreat into our private spheres, here the Estonian House (former Western Theatre) presents the testing ground for remaking and redefining the local community center. The building produced is multiverse, with an incongruity of uses coming together to create a catalyst of activity, making it a community center piece once again, re-defined through adaptive re-use.

WESTERN HOUSE 10. 6. 11.

2ND LEVEL

6. 11.

10.

3. 6. 7.

1ST LEVEL

11. 9.

8. 2. 4. 6.

Victoria St

11.

1. 13.

GROUND LEVEL

1. Foyer 2. Admin/Office 3. Amenities 4. Cafe 5. Studios 6. Circulation/Performance/Function Space 7. Multi-use Room 8. Circulation/Stage 9. BOH 10. Theatre Seating 11. Balcony/Outdoor Space 12. Workshop 13. Book Store

Melville Rd

Hunter St

13.

20m

LOWER GROUND LEVEL

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The Origin Theatre Jingtong Zhao Supervisor: Dr. Jan van Schaik The thesis serves as a counterpoint to traditional processes of conservation. Architecture is a highly complex organism that is constantly undergoing its own changes and metabolism through time, which leaves behind a variety of materials and intangible elements embedded with cultural significance. In this vigorous world compiled with development, how should we handle the contradiction between the “new” and the “old”? The eighteenth century has imparted us with heritage ontology of basic principles - authenticity, identifiability, minimal intervention, completeness, and reversibility. Within the natural typology of the hutong scape, the project seeks to propose an idealized restoration to the selected site. To do this, it required two types of judgment, the first to distinguish what alternatives are capable of replacing existing parts, and the second to identify how resilient an object being restored is, meaning how much change it can endure prior to becoming something different. We have been blinded by the relentless pursuit in preserving buildings that we neglect the values behind that is driving this notion of authenticity. The authorship of legacy is a superficial acknowledgement of yesterday, interrogating what truly constitutes history and what constitutes architecture. It is through fixing things that you get to understand how they work. The Origin theatre is not only a modernized archive of narrative, but a witness to the process of constant change that challenges traditional assumptions of architectural conservation. The concept of this reflective practice is the foundation of all possible buildings.

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Parchitpelagos Danny Tan Kah Aik Supervisor: Patrick Maccasaet

Parks, natural recreation for human enjoyment, fulfill an important role in our urban fabric, giving back as a conservatory of greenery. Within the urban realm, park typologies tend to sit within hard boundary conditions of the existing urban fabric with distinctive transitions from green landscapes to built form environment. The project embedded these blended edge conditions of parks with the surrounding urban landscape, boosting the user experience and engagement towards the surrounding context. Emergence of various conditions, resultant of this blending of surrounding context into the park, redefine what the park should do, not just as leisure and recreational space but also as introduction to areas such as commercial, carpark, public infrastructure, etc…

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Walyalup Tower Alexander Rayfield Supervisor: A/Prof. Graham Crist

This is Walyalup Tower; a subsidised housing scheme, located in Fremantle, Western Australia. The proposal comprises an apartment tower, woylie memorial, public plaza and roof treatment of an adjacent building. The proposal was born out of dissatisfaction with Fremantle, the site of first European contact on the western coast, in 1829. Present day Fremantle reveres in the folklore of early colonial hardship in its preserved 19th century city, and celebrates the success of this struggle in the working Fremantle port. Contemporary efforts to preserve and protect the city reflect an ongoing resonance with the colonial misconception of terra nullius, which legitimised settlements to the colonisers themselves. Walyalup Tower is not an indigenous architecture, but an allied architecture. It is a provocation to the colonial city and its sympathisers, using form and sign that ‘breaks the fourth wall’, to address the city with a message in dissent to the norm. Architectural space is conceived of as loose and generic, with efforts made to ensure its climate sensitivity; public space is generous and lacks commercial program. Walyalup Tower is a testimony to the ever-presence of indigeneity in Walyalup, and a nod to a future that reflects shifting understandings of the colonial city in Australia.

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Borderlands Megan Voo Supervisor: Dr. Emma Jackson

A boundary line is defined as confining a whole urbanised area and is used by local governments as a guide for zoning and land occupation. It marks the place where a suburb ends and another territory begins; until a wall or fence is erected, they are invisible. This proposition questions the legibility of the boundary line. Can we visualise these fringes and experience it at a personal scale? Located on the corner of 334 – 336 Bell and Sussex Street, the project site occupies a Hungry Jack’s and a Shell Service Station. Both hold a different postcode despite being on the same block, one being Pascoe Vale and the other being Coburg respectively. This uncommon urban phenomenon led the project to question the possibilities of capitalising on the behaviours found in plants to overwrite the existing planning logic of the boundary. Borderlands is a multi-functional rest stop that attempts at stitching two suburbs undefined boundaries. It performs as a prototype of urban infill, and acts as an architectural instrument of access to unlock the cultural identity of the suburb.

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More Than Meets the Eye Riwina Savio D Cruz Supervisor: Dr. Ben Milbourne

Architecture is communicated and presented primarily through visual modes of representation. The media we use to discuss and communicate plays a key role in how we view our work, influencing our perception and decision making. Further, the increasing popularity of social media as a platform for sharing architecture exacerbates this perceptual bias prioritising aesthetics and creating architecture designed for instant persuasion. This project creates a multi-sensory architecture by understanding a vision-impaired person's perception of space. This project highlights the visual bias of the profession while also being limited to digital and visual modes of representation. Therefore the potential of architectural drawings to influence our perception will be explored, a graphic and mapping language that can evoke the senses through synesthesia will be developed. The expressive and synesthetic nature of the drawings, maps, interprets and generates an architectural response that is multi-sensory in its spatial planning and formgiving. Inclusive environments can be created through this approach, providing a range of sensory cues for people with varying sensory capabilities to navigate and revel in the architecture. Accessibility and inclusiveness will become a creative process rather than a regulatory requirement.

MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE

SOUNDSCAPE

SMELL AND TASTE SCAPE

VISUAL LANDSCAPE

TACTILE MAP

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Parallel Kanthamet Akarawatcharakiat Supervisor: Nicholas Bourns

Parallel is a project that tackles the current conflict between gentrification and rapid growth of malls and existing shophouse typologies in Bangkok, Thailand. The two contested views between commercial growth and development and the existing shophouses, are seen as the cause of social issues in inequality and urban planning. However, demolition of existing shophouses causes the city to lose its identity, whereby Bangkok is known for its street life and activation through these shophouse laneways. This project questions and explores these two typologies to work in parallel, benefiting the city in a wider context and accentuating its sense of identity. The project focuses on formulating and speculating a new typology through the hybridization of the mall and shophouse for the future site, with spontaneous flexibility for heterogenous activities. The extraction of these typological strategies is then used to formulate the project, creating a mixed-use project which brings street life and interaction, rather than the ground plane. Verticality allows for users to experience pieces of the city’s mixed programs as a journey of wayfinding.

LEELELL E R RA LL

LL A P A A R

R A A PP

~2m

Site edge increased by sub-divisions Interactive nodes

organization of units forms physical unbounded (fragments) but visually bounded in between, this also allow for the usage of in between spaces

Sense of identity - edge & zones ity within the grid

Main circulation area that allows for programmatic run through

Layering - shopping mall Sectional variation + densify build form tion that enable visual connection between level

ria-

Layering

~2m

Resident/Hotel

Private

Mixed use/mall

Individual

Local market/Community area

Shared Public/ collective

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The missing piece Shuhan Wang Supervisor: Ian Nazareth

The formation of "Taobao Village" is a change in the post countryside social structure under the background of network globalisation. It is an e-commerce cluster that operates online stores and reality activities as a family unit. However, Taobao Village has clear and stable borders, the characteristic of self-enclosure and exclusion. The small-scale operation mainly focuses on low-end product processing. It’s low production efficiency has led to the loss of a large amount of capital and customers. The project will provide the opportunity for the manufacturer and the audience to work and study in an experimental place of community and exchange. Turn the originally isolated e-commerce building into meanwhile spaces of creativity and community. Meeting the different needs of the people participating in the space. Enhance the connection between commercial space and users to encourage people to spend more time here. On the premise of respecting the existing structure of LirenDong Taobao Village, provide an interface augmenting the logistical and small-scale manufacturing infrastructures and try to blur the boundary between commercial and community activities. The scheme provides an opportunity to regenerate the physical spaces and cultures associated with virtual transactions by creating a sustainable solution for the village. Encouraging public interaction and exchange with the manufacturer.

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Kensington Echoes Eric Thoroughgood Supervisor: Vicky Lam

Kensington Echoes is about the reframing and re-examining of our developed suburbs through an alternative “potato” lens. The project focuses on utilising and evolving a lens that allows us to rethink the urban and neighbourhood layout. The lens allows for a new perspective which lets us reconsider, break down and record previously unseen characteristics that make up a suburb’s atmosphere and character. This results in a novel process which condenses layers of the pedestrian’s experience into a malleable and workable diagram that puts hidden characteristics of place forward and presents new ideas for densification and urban layout. Condensing the potato plan reading into a single site tightens the scale, making it a more potent version of the suburb and its character. It amplifies the diversity, creating and including magnified moments of the Residential, Industrial, and green bands. It's about the porous street edge, creating a recognisable rhythm and pattern which gives the same feeling as walking through an amplified, but strangely familiar street. The process isn’t about generating form, and using the potato to get a form. It’s about condensing and diagrammatically explaining the condition and atmosphere, the urban strategy of a dialled up Kensington, in a high density high rise typology.

KENSINGTON

ECHOES Low Flux

High Flux

Chunk Flux Commercial Industrial

Road Footpath Fence + Gate

Wall + Window + Door

Garden + Path Verandah

KENSINGTON ECHOES

Dwelling

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Reimagining Heritage Karlo Abbugao Supervisor: Dr. Ben Milbourne

Preservation in the city sparks several points of contention with what should be removed, added, or preserved to existing heritage structures, as well as the process of how to go about doing so without relying on mimicry. This project questions this role of preservation and looks to how machine learning can be used as a tool in developing novel approaches to heritage sites. This idea is tested with Flinders Street Station, a heritage building that has stood the test of time yet has been left incomplete along the Swanston Street face. The process of machine learning involves training an output production from two existing references. Main references chosen for this project are detail drawings of Flinders Street Station, as well as map images of the Yarra River that traverses along the site. The Yarra River has many a time been shunned by the city, and the use of the river as reference in the completion of Flinders Street seeks to conceptually bring together the river and the city. Bringing these two visually distinct styles together produces results new, yet familiar, standard, yet uncanny. This process can change the way we approach heritage, to stray from imitation and bring about meaningful connections.

REIMAGINING HERITAGE

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Reconnecting Canberra Sheridan Hirst Supervisor: Adam Pustola

How can architecture and urban interventions act as a vessel of and advocate for decolonisation and cultural healing? Ancestral remains and stolen artefacts of Indigenous Australians have been held in institutions since the 1800s, repatriation of these remains and artefacts is essential for national healing. By challenging the present-day city of Canberra, by using urban interventions to decolonise Lake Burley Griffin and attempting to reconnect Canberra while addressing the city’s historic layers, an inclusive representation of Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander People in our nation’s capital is proposed. Separate and entwining paths represent the complicated relationship of Indigenous people and White Settlers, and placement within the parliamentary triangle allows for direct connection to national monuments, while connecting with and disrupting the Griffin’s Masterplan. What results is a place of reconciliation, of education, of research and cultural healing, while attempting to grapple with a matter of national importance. This project doesn’t seek to imply it has all the answers, but explores an approach through focus on journey, and urban interventions.

GROUND FLOOR 1:700 Research Storage - Long-term Paths Public Ceremonial Space Ceremonial Loading Bay Office Space Handling Station / Reconciliation Space

LEVEL 1 1:700 Indigenous Education / Pathways Paths Office Space Meeting Space / cafe Reconciliation Space

LEVEL 2 1:700 Storage - Temporary Paths Handover Space of Artefacts and Remains

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Alternative Block Yaoming Li Supervisor: Dr. John Doyle

In conditions of rapid urbanisation (especially with the dynamic exploding urbanism of Asian cities), controlled sustainable urban development has not always been achieved. One core challenge for cities in the future will be the tension between urban form, compactness and livability. This project is a rethinking of the future urban blocks in Chinese cities and a critical thinking and challenge of the typical and traditional Chinese block rules. By means of advanced mixed use, diversified living space design, high-quality compact community space，vertical connective method, a harmonious living neighbourhood can be designed in a 500m x 500m plot to meet the daily life requirements of different age groups. Alternative Block defines a relatively dense urban area linked by easy access to transport systems and designed to have minimal environmental impact by supporting walking and cycling to connect different programs efficiently instead of creating invalid and negative space, making all program Integrate together well.

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500 Nooks Ashlee Pukk Supervisor: A/Prof. Graham Crist

There is a plethora of valuable small spaces hidden in Melbourne’s urban nooks. These spaces exist as a by-product of structures in the laneways. In the distinctive, discarded atmospheres of back lane services and graffiti, this project uses these cracks and gaps, aiming to preserve, insert into the existing, and remove nothing. 500 such nooks were identified, and five were prototyped with small designs, notionally for a resident tenant with a public function - an activating business and a caretaker for the lane. The buildings squeeze into the nooks, tighten up the lanes and hang over roofs and parapets. These objects aim at melding forms of a foreign nature with more familiar or prosaic architecture; to be carefully contextual and utterly alien. Pushing the standard elements of architecture such as windows to become something other than a void or a component. The five nooks make completely custom and yet entirely unprescribed spaces; the tenants (anyone from a book binder to a goldsmith or fishmonger) bring a next level of intrigue to the nook. Using mystery as an architectural tool, inevitably they pop up and appear wherever these unseen moments occur.

HEAPE COURT KNOX LANE

ELIZABETH STREET

LONSDALE STREET

CROFT ALLEY

BOURKE STREET

CARSON PLACE

WATSON PLACE

500 NOOKS

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Bygones of a Nation Andre Wee Supervisor: Adam Pustola

This project aims to to celebrate the local consequences within Singapore’s built environment. It investigates ideas of preservation and identity and placemaking, the provocation of a true vernacular that looks at the immediate condition of place. The conditions that contain the memories of the everyday, conventional and mundane. The vernacular relishes itself as past and present iterations of itself, staking significant junctions in the perpetual urban development of the city through the megastructure. This proposition creates a centre of localities. Forming a new “complex” of distinct local commercial conditions and phenomena. The hybridization of local artefacts and typological shifts needed to forge an enduring identity. The Market, the shophouse, the void deck, The bazaar and the HDB block. These objects represent the true vernacular of Singapore. These objects come together in compliance with the grid negotiating the existing immigrant enclave of the people park complex. Each being key interventions of their own revealing moments of intersections, disconnect and connect, revelation and concealment. These acts of intervention each seek re-integration of citizens and newer immigrants in becoming the true city room an ensemble of working class commercial urbanity. It hopes that this cross pollination of culture drives the displacement of migrant programs into the vernacular spaces, resulting in a transmutation of cultural activities. The project explores architecture’s role of preservation and conservation and the social and cultural significance it can have. It questions the things that we choose to delete and rewrite within our built fabric and how that would ultimately construct the identity of place.

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Architect-Nality Qianqian (Foris) Chen Supervisor: Dr. Peter Brew

“Architect-Nality”, as a combination of Architecture & Personality, proposes a perspective that sees a building as a person, its elements and contexts as its personality. The project itself then is a discussion about conversations and the characters involved. How similarities and differences make the individual and the group. What is a conversation and what exists beyond. “To be political, to live in a polis, meant that everything was decided through words and persuasion, and not through force and violence” - Hannah Arendt, the Human Condition Hannah Arendt suggested that everything in human civilization: the culture, the history, the relationships, can be seen as it’s constructed by conversations, and so is architectural projects. Though it’s always been said that projects are indeed conversations, in this case, the subject of the conversations is not architects nor clients, but the building itself. The function of the project is an office building as well as co-working spaces for the newspaper/ journalism website: The Conversation, which is operated by various universities and institutes. And it decides the personality of the site: a junction of multiple, different conversations.

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Would God Sell The House? Elijah Cercado Supervisor: Dr. Peter Brew

This project utilises the disjunction of the word ‘house’ away from its interrelation with the word ‘home’. If the house and home dichotomy exist, then this renders the role of architecture to operate in a precarious duality. If the things that we produce and what we talk about concern different parts of architecture, how do we as architects conceptualise this duality? In illustrating an architecture, we currently sit at the point of viewing the bi-products of our work as the disciplinary subject, that this subject or (in Khuns terminology) an active field of research. With the use of fluid mediums like language and fiction, we can recognise the defaults of our own idiosyncratic architecture and notice an architecture that is not nullified by mechanisms of property; one where the experience of agency and dwelling is the focus of how we shape future housing and the institutions responsible for shaping it. By following an ethic of displacement, may we find that a future where the definitions of property and the architecture responsible for producing it is impermanent, reconfigurable, and where the act of dwelling becomes the work itself. Would God sell the house or would he live in it? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChTgiXwJ-X21VH8MQde3wAA

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A Place in Time… Michael Parlapiano Supervisor: Simone Koch

The project as a whole body of work is concerned with acknowledging that a sense of place and ownership of an architecture can be attributed through memories and interactions to place, in the many forms these take. An inquiry was made into the relationships between the architecture and those who occupy it over it’s life, with the intention to use it as a vessel between the occupants and place. Although not new, this concept is reappropriated into our current context, conditions and dialogues faced in our discipline today. There are open opportunities within our interdisciplinary loop, for us to answer to the other clients who are not formally acknowledged through a traditional framework. These are the ones who will be future inhabitants of the building or who may silently occupy it. Therefore, it is our duty to represent their voice and consider life beyond just the client. Sitting alongside and within existing frameworks, this notion exists as means of demonstrating that one's ability to form a sense of place over time, irrespective of its type and scale, can commence an improvement in the accessibility to an architecture. Decentralising the ownership of it and redistributing it amongst the place and to those who exist now, or those that will arrive in the future.

a place in time . . . . . . . . .

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Delirious Guilin Tianyi (Meg) Huang Supervisor: Vicky Lam

Guilin is one of the most famous tourist cities in China for its iconic landscape. Referenced in literature and art, Guilin holds its reputation as an ‘imaginary landscape’.   In contrast with the cultural imagination, the city grows in a complex and delirious way around the rivers and mountains. The areas for tourism are intentionally separated from the local residential area through its formal qualities. In such an urban environment, the life of local residents is very different from that of Guilin in the imagination of poetry and painting. The separation between tourists and residents leads to a delirious city context.   The brand of ‘travel’ is like a cage that limits urban development. Local governments are keen to maximize the urban performance of the tourism industry and neglect the needs of citizens.   This project aims to create a city microcosm that embedded a more authentic idea of the place while integrating the stereotypical elements of the ‘Landscape-Image’ of Guilin, and the formal qualities of the tourism architecture. It is both a critique of the established city context and a vision of the city of Guilin.

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New Dock Hepeng Miao Supervisors Dr. John Doyle

NEW DOCK is about the exploration of living environments through high-density and high-rise patterns in the post-pandemic era. By utilising a metaphorical approach that allows us to rethink the sense of belonging and rebuilding neighbourhoods for residents in high rise conditions. The metaphor allows for a series of new scenarios that allow residents to regain the harmony of their neighbourhood and to remove the sense of disorientation in soaring towers and re-establish the spatial ownership that has been lost for so long. This results in an evocative process that interacts the residents' spatial memories with the context of the Docklands, as well as offering various possibilities for the layout of urban residential and public space. The metaphor condenses the urban fabric of the harbour area into the Central Pier site, making it more symbolic. This project interprets the urban void between the towers to give the urban porosity a more vibrant and diverse public, social, and green spaces. The whole exploration is not only about the form giving, but also about the context of free market ideology. Questioning how to use this tool for architectural exploration to produce a new typology rather than a closed glass or concrete composition?

NEW DOCK

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Inverted – A Resilient City Andrew Wan Lun Chung Supervisor: Peter Knight

Architecture not only as a building but as an urban landscape itself. ‘Inverted – A Resilient City’ is an approach that challenges and seeks a redefinition of urban typologies within Melbourne’s city to create an alternative through resilient design that adapts to current and future scenarios. Through resilient design, this project seeks to invert the conditions of the inside and outside, shifting the defined internalised circulation of current tower typologies towards an externalised circulation. This opens opportunities for integrated urban landscapes on multiple levels that become a realm for interaction. To redefine the boundaries of the public and private realm, the dematerialising of boundaries creates a clash between spaces, generating opportunities and new conditions that become hybrid spaces that invert the experience and conditions of inside and outside.

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Composing Space / Composing Architecture Ming-Hsien Hsu Supervisor: Dr. Ben Milbourne

Composing Space / Composing Architecture is a proposal that explores the concept of using novel arrangement of spatial typologies as a way to generate a new social and sticky campus environment for the tertiary design school of RMIT. It is about creating the sticky campus through the lens of providing spatial flexibility, where a series of sampled floor plans and sections are used as input spatial typologies. By clashing these spatial typologies in a compositional grid to generate a vast catalogue of interactive spaces that together or separately enriches the social and learning experience. The new learning environment created through this process is known as the staged blender, which is a vertically exposed environment celebrating the informal learning space as the stage surrounded by adjacent spaces which become the audience of the stage. Through this compositional process, it argues for the concept that programmatic use and spatial form have an indeterminate relationship, and takes the next step to breaking the idea of programmatic fitness for current learning environments. This is highlighted in the proposal as a new approach to spatial flexibility that is both unique and adventurous for a learning environment.

COMPOSING SPACE / / COMPOSING ARCHITECTURE

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Undefined Factory Yiming Guo Supervisor: Dr. Jan van Schaik

The project is led by a question: whether architecture can abandon its functional constraints and exist. It is well known that buildings with specific functions often have inherent patterns and stereotypes, and users are also given fixed roles. However, this proposal will start a discussion and use the three existing inherent architectural models to reversely derive a new result that is also universal. In this result, the role of the user will not be restricted. This is the undefined factory. The undefined factory liberates the citizen's identity, the building no longer labels the user, and the ambiguity of the citizen's identity prompts a re-examination of the publicity of the space. The extracted prototype will evolve according to this criterion to reflect the expansion of civil rights and intensifying the occurrence of public events. The undefined factory is a challenge to functional architecture: deconstruction and reorganization, discarding the original attributes, and then giving new spatial concepts. Emphasize the use of equality here, ignoring the limitations taken by citizenship.

UNDEFINED FACTORY

When the bottom of the building wall disappears...

When the balcony is no longer just a ‘balcony’...

When the circulation starts to host public events...

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Habitat block Return public space

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Introduce the road

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⑦ Circulation waves

Open Classroom

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Indoor Playground

Penetrating balcony

⑤ ⑤ Office

Circulation extrude

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Flexible platform

Cloth Gallery

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③ Food Court

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A series of balcony

Distribution Centre

Shop

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Stepping Across the Threshold Jongwoo Kim Supervisor: Brent Allpress

Due to the recent pandemic, we have experienced lock downs and quarantines which have pushed many of us to work from home. As we gradually adapt to the remote working condition, there is an increasing number of people who have interests in becoming digital nomads.The concept of digital nomad is that you can work from anywhere outside of a traditional workplace if you have access to the internet and a PC. If Melbourne becomes one of the most favourable destinations for the itinerant community of digital workers, there is a need for new spaces in the city. In this project, a combination of different spaces is designed to accept digital nomads in the city as well as to expand innovative and creative industries in Melbourne. The unique urban features of Melbourne are unpacked to design spaces to enhance the experience of living in the city. To accomplish this goal, the usual high-rise tower typology has been rethought; built environments do not stay as objects to look at, but rather are inclusive spaces that can be occupied by an unusual mix of people to form a new network of people.

JONGWOO KIM (S3705696)

ACCOMODATION | RESIDENTIAL UNITS

FABRICATION WORKSHOP OVERALL BUILDING

FLEXIBLE CO-WORKING OFFICE

ACCOMODATION | RESIDENTIAL UNITS

INNOVATION HUB

PUBLIC LECTURE | EXHIBITION | CORRIDOR SPACE

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Re: Detached Jacob Lam Supervisor: Ian Nazareth

Re: Detached is a speculative suburban intensification infill strategy, proposing a new dwelling typology at the scale of low-medium density housing. Adapting co-operative financial development models at the scale of a typical detached suburban home. Exploring it’s possibilities to influence and generate an architecture that reflects the ideals of shared living. The project looks specifically at low-density suburban areas of Perth, where privately owned single detached dwellings dominate the landscape. In the process, Re: Detached directly challenges the cause and effect of urban sprawl (Private developments based on investment) to address the housing needs of changing contemporary household demographics and lifestyles. Here, the abundance of detached dwellings in the suburbs of Greater Perth are viewed as an under-utilised resource rich in social, cultural and spatial qualities, ready to be mined, refined and redefined as a new form and dwelling type. Examining the historical and contemporary behaviours of Perth’s suburban development from both a personal and cultural lens, Re: Detached identifies the lack of diverse housing stock, in combination to private development models (which exclude and fail to accommodate changing household demographics) as an opportunity to experiment, speculate and innovate existing dwelling stocks and models of development. Re: Detached is a work in progress that invites an open discussion speculating how a small to medium shared dwelling type might influence an established suburb, especially in a regenerative capacity from environmental, cultural and social aspects.

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Food Court Arena Vivian Lim Supervisor: Adam Pustola

In preparation for 2032 Summer Olympics Games to be held in Brisbane, a new venue is proposed in the “ethnoburban” fringes to challenge notions of the assumed global and contest its homogenised visions to cement a “New World City” status. How can the Olympics better serve as a meaningful catalyst for urban rejuvenation beyond the city confines and enrich the multicultural suburbs? By reframing our understanding of the local as having roots from elsewhere, the typical suburban shopping strip is recontextualised and new meanings can be found in blurred boundaries, liminal spaces and disjuncture. In pursuit of a more authentic Brisbane urbanism that embraces its contested identities and privileges “otherness”, this market hall/community sports centre hybrid brings forth migrants’ critical role in place-making and cultural production of the city. Through its flexible armatures and the invigoration of the streetscape, the migrant is imbued with architectural agency thus they are no longer the stranger or the guest, but now the local and the resident.

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Elderly Family Xiaolin Pang Supervisor: Brent Allpress

This is a community service center designed for the elderly, located in a small city in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. The purpose is to solve the physical and psychological issues of the elderly caused by the aging of the population. The project combines the characteristics of the city, culture, and the needs of the elderly, to meet the physical needs of the elderly while retaining their memory of the city and culture. On the other hand, through architectural language and architectural functions, the elderly are guided and encouraged to integrate into society and establish new lifestyles. Hopefully, elderly could become more confident and happier through this project.

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Housing the Dead Junhua Zhou Supervisor: Dr. Leanne Zilka

In times of accelerating urbanization and densification, cemeteries face the challenge of keeping up their relevance as a public urban space. A series of interesting social phenomena are taking place in some metropolitan cities in China, in which the burials plot prices outstrip housing; some people are having to be buried in commercial housing as a “private cemetery”. In order to meet the increasing number of people (citizen, migrants) who can gain a place for the body to rest, as well as the place where temporality of death is processed, the dead themselves gain a social role in which biological events are replaced by rituals. Thus, in deciding future strategies to accommodate the dead, communities are adapting ancient traditions. New functions of cemetery and funeral rituals are inserted into the community, offering a “cemetery plot” to adapt the phenomenon of “can't afford to die” in most cities of China. Housing the Dead breaks the boundary between living and dead providing improved death space without the loss of physical space to mourn, as well as keeping Chinese ancient traditions of a dead culture. The bereaved can seek consolation in an apartment privately, in their own family shrine space: photographs on the table, a favorite piece of music, and quirky family sayings all permit the dead a continued foothold in the world of the living.

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Mixed-use Messy Tower Feiyin Xu Supervisor: A/Prof. Graham Crist

Aiming to integrate a mixed-use tower, this proposal begins on a vacant site in Chinatown of CBD Melbourne. Chinatown is well-known for being noisy and messy. People are attracted by its hot ambience; the cluttered facades of small shops and the traces of life left by people of different ages and cultural backgrounds. Messy, but full of a unique cultural atmosphere. Here, a variety of customs and cultures coexist. Red lanterns, modern graffiti, and signs in different languages are mixed to form a unique scene of the street. This project believes that architecture needs to reflect the breath of life, and space needs to be used by people to have meaning. It simulates the messy street space, encouraging unexpected behaviours and interactions in the complex architectural environment. The mixed-use loose space is presented here, encouraging multi-function interaction and multi-cultural exchange through messy programmes. We must admit that messy, back of house and productive programmes are an essential part of the city. Being messy may be an attitude of life. It also could be a character of a place. Messy here, brings creativity and opportunities to architecture.

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What do you SEEK? Linhan Yang Supervisor: Brent Allpress

In the 1970-80s, New York City municipal finance almost went broke. At the same time, low rent in East Village attracted countless artists to live in the neighborhood. The neighborhood soon became a beautiful mess. Artists, musicians, play writers here completely changed New York subculture. However, the booming art scene gradually brought housing prices up - residents moved out and the real estate companies as well as the politicians pushed forward the gentrification process. The influence of gentrification in Melbourne is also reflected, the laneways, or “little streets,” of Melbourne’s central business district (or CBD) originated in the Victorian era and were used at the time as lanes for horses and carts.  Starting around the 1990’s, as the city began to gentrify, the laneways were pleasingly intimate in scale and tucked away from the busier streets. However, in the process of gentrification, some of them were gradually forgotten and abandoned. The project is a new typology combining art studios, organizational hubs, commerce, and art galleries. The purpose of this project is to obtain new functions and at the same time to gentrify the process of cultural loss and cultural loss to the public.

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Garbage Archives Kun Yan Supervisor: Dr. Jan van Schaik

The quantity of waste is ever-increasing due to consumer culture, the growth of productivity, and the underdevelopment of the circular economy. Thus, it has become an enormous challenge, threatening both mother nature and our living environment. Australia generates huge amounts of waste annually and domestic garbage takes a large proportion. Every year, over 20 million tons of domestic waste are transported to hundreds of landfills in urban areas, where the soil is being eroded gradually. The goal of this project is to design a museum called "Garbage Archives''. This building gives a warning about the effect of human activities. It also creates a connection between individuals, resources, and the environment. The museum points out the boundary of space that belongs to every individual and explains the "archives” in an architectural language, inspiring the public to face environmental issues with rational and critical thinking. In a place enriched with eco-friendly culture and different activities, the project tightens the connection between the natural environment and local communities. In addition, the design adapts abstract expressions and forms to create multiple types of space, enlightening visitors to have a moment of reflection when they are having a hands-on experience.

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Nicholas Creative Hub 2.0 Tianyu Feng Supervisor: Dr. Leanne Zilka

Recently, the Nicholas Building, a heritage listed building, was up for sale. The Creative Community in the building believes that selling the building will destroy the community because the new owner will increase the rent or change the building into apartments for more profit. Due to the limitation of the heritage building, the project creates a new extension by the transformation of the private to public to connect the old building and resolve its current issues, potentially becoming a space that stimulates innovation and contributes to vibrancy. A new Nicholas creative hub aims at underlining the creative identity of Melbourne city by enabling it to welcome and host in the same place different forms of expression and productivity. The creative hub also has a role to connect the art community with the public by cultural mediation and knowledge exchange. It’s a place to think and to share, with more open and fluid space in the new hub which allows for a wide array of functions and uses.

NICHOLAS CREATIVE HUB 2.0

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Embracing Inundation Madison O'Shea Supervisor: Dr. Leanne Zilka

The inundation of water is one of many environmental issues facing the current urban condition. Even if emission targets are met, sea levels are expected to rise substantially in the next 100 years, with many regions around the world set to be severely impacted, and some devastated. As the threat of water invasion looms, the urgency for a new attitude towards the built environments’ relationship to water is paramount. Architects need to find a way to mediate and benefit from the impending co-existence with flooded environments. This project focuses on the low-lying Melbourne suburb of Elwood, as it is one that would be lost to rising sea levels if no intervention is made. The proposal explores how we could modify and adapt the current built fabric, whilst maintaining the character of this eclectic neighbourhood. It investigates the provision of additional infrastructure, to facilitate mobility, and public spaces to suit a new condition that encourages co-existence and co-habitation with water. Embracing Inundation is based on the premise that built works are completed before the region is intentionally flooding in a controlled manner. A process enabling Elwood to be prepared for the inevitable inundation of water, instead of being reactive. Working with, rather than resisting, Elwood would become a suburb that is equipped to deal with a flooded environment.

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Past Present Future Stephanie Grizancic Supervisor: Dr. Anna Johnson

This project is about rethinking public space in the city and what a city space could look like after the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic agitated our whole beings and sensibilities but offers the opportunity for a rethink – and reworking of the dominance of the colonial architectural language of the city to generate a city space that through program and through it’s design, approaches and enables other memories and other stories to be told such as Indigenous smoking ceremonies, Indigenous art and learning about climate change to better our cities and quality of life. This happens through the program which is a Climate Research Centre that holds a cultural library and an archive and through a design process that acts to invert – taking the inside of some iconic city spaces and turning them inside out. Chosen for their large open space, high ceilings and various ornamentation patterns and the use of different materials in the one space. These fragments have been reworked and reconfigured on site, such that they now open up space for new programmatic activity to occur. This new public space also holds cycles of events tied to Indigenous ceremonies and activities such as smoking ceremonies and dance. In hope that these programs will reclaim the city and bring life back to the city.

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The Other Houses Ren Wu Supervisor: Dr. Jan van Schaik

This proposal for the Crown Land in Fitzroy will propose a new concept of community housing, trying to challenge the conflict between privacy and public, exploring the relationship between the architecture and the area, and how to improve the vitality of the community while minimising the impact of the proposal on the local environment and also provide people with high-quality and safe housing. The relationship between the architecture and the existing site environment should be closely connected. How to continue the historical, cultural, and contextual elements here requires a better integration and response between the building and the surrounding environment. The proposal is parallel to the surrounding existing buildings along the extension line to enhance the connection between the buildings. In order to blend into the existing environment, the proposal uses mirrors as the main façade material, which is almost transparent during the day and acts as a lighthouse in the surrounding area at night. The mirror essentially reverses reality and makes you believe that the image is real. The mirrors at different angles reflect the scenery from different angles, and the combination with the architecture makes the whole space hover between the virtual and the reality. It makes the boundary between nature and architecture indistinguishable.

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New River Bank Qianwei Han Supervisor: Brent Allpress

Melbourne's Central Business District is one of the most densely populated areas. South of the Yarra River, the density of high-rise commercial buildings has declined, replaced by more urban green spaces, open spaces and residential communities. As the population grows, residential building space and communities are increasing day by day. The buildings on both sides of the Yarra River are very complete, but also very scattered. Large shopping malls, industrial land, office buildings, retail and urban green spaces are scattered in various places and the volume of the building also varies greatly. Under these conditions, how to respond to the growing needs of residents in this area has become a new problem. The project aims to make full use of the open space and green space of the Yarra River and rethink the building functions and environment that are beneficial to the community. Innovate the methods and forms of community activities along the Yangtze River. Build the riverside space into a space that is conducive to the community and embeds more social values. This is not only a re-planning and utilisation of idle space, but also an exploration of optimizing the community environment.

NEW-RIVER-BANK Integrate and rebuild the functional space of the riverbank community

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The Place for a Village Nicla D'Argento Supervisor: Anna Jankovic

The project aims to find a better way to design social housing: a place for a village, where residents can feel part of a community and be socially engaged, a place that helps remove stigma and marginalisation of the most vulnerable. Affordable housing doesn’t have to look “cheap” - everyone has the right to a decent home. This project highlights the importance of shared spaces and common areas to incentivise connection and communication between residents, allowing to improve an individual experience through the collective: the apartments are structured in a way that promotes visual connection and a hierarchy of spaces from public, semi-public ground floor plaza to semi-private and private. This model also allows for adaptability to different household types and growing families, where each resident can customise the external semi-private space in front of their apartment with additional rooms or simply paint it with the colour they prefer and make it their home. The shared spaces and common areas, on some floors, and the roof, focus on flexibility as well, leaving plenty of room for the residents to customise and decide how to use them for various social events, clubs, sport or simply to unwind.

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BRICKERTIES Dingji Pang Supervisor: Brent Allpress

The population of Fishermans bend’s new district will reach 80,000 in 2050. As an old industrial area in Victoria, a large number of new immigrants will flood into this area. How these new residents and employees adapt to the new environment has become a big challenge. BRICKERTIES as a new cultural center. Here, residents can create their ideal social space by assembling movable prefabricated walls, platforms and floors. Visitors can also participate in entertainment activities or parties there. It will become an environment that constantly interacts with society.. BRICKERTIES assembles digital wood blocks in real-time through digital models. The connecting ports are prefabricated in the building blocks first, and they are assembled together to form a strong structure through a connection method similar to the Japanese traditional joint. All of this will be controlled by a parameterized model. Compared with traditional buildings, they will be more environmentally friendly when replaced and demolished.

BRICKERTIES

Flexible space at Fishermans Bend

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New City Wall Yutong Wang Supervisor: Dr. Anna Johnson

The project aims to investigate the empty space in Beijing's infrastructure and rethink the city and its public space. After the founding of New China, the defensive role of the Beijing city wall almost disappeared. The city wall was demolished. As an alternative, the Beijing Ring Road traffic system was built along the original site of the ancient city wall. But today's Beijing does not make full use of all the space. There is a lot of empty space under the urban viaduct that has not been used. The ambition of this project is to repair and rebuild the ancient city wall based on the empty space of transportation infrastructure, and bring meaning to the wall. The city wall will be redefined by using traditional Chinese cultural references, such as traditional landscape paintings, murals and dances, to bring new functions and meanings to the building. Break through the defence and isolation functions of the city wall in the past, and create a public space where citizens are connected with others, nature, and culture.

New City Wall

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Third -and only- place Gergo Andrej Supervisor: Vicky Lam

It is essential for all humans to feel a sense of wholeness through connections beyond our first and second places, our homes and workplaces. The Third Place is a convivial, accepting and unclaimable realm of the public - a rich and meaningful source of social interactions. It is grounded in the colorful local banter, in unintended incidental encounters, and is experienced through positive diversity rather than monumental swathes of public spaces. While every person has an individual catalogue of memories of their favorite destinations, this project is set to recall, interrogate, and utilize the common patterns of third places in society. Representing a great struggle of publicness, the suburb of Ringwood offers a testing ground for reversing the process of constantly shifting forms of civic life. In the quest to articulate the immense spatial opportunities in this suburb and challenge the capturing of public life within its commercial mall, a process of recalling and experimenting with forms of vivid memories of third places sought to create a new palimpsest of destinations. Reconstruction of Ringwood town hall, extension of its train station, and reconnecting its new library with the public the same way third places do is seeking new alternatives to support public life in the suburban context.

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Vacillate Jeffrey Xu Supervisors: Dean Boothroyd & Mark Jacques

The architect is often too eager to offer a comprehensive solution, in offering such rigid answers - the object is always prone to collapse. To vacillate is to be caught between two forces, and to resolve a problem we must recognise that there is an ostensible issue. This project does not seek to establish a new paradigm for the architect but instead looks to explore how we operate under duress, and respond to external forces. Rather than viewing the architect under the guise of a master designer, it pursues an understanding of the influence the architect holds within existing systems. Negotiating between the speculation of an object and the spectacle of its commodification, this project investigates alternate ways to utilise developer tools, and informal but real occupation of spaces, taking a back seat from design in a traditional sense, the design influence of both the market, and spaces in occupation are brought to light. The project aims to apply both a methodology of universality and utilitarianism, in conceding the building is artificial and separate from the environment, it is able to reconcile with both, allowing the architecture to act as a document and a lens to frame contemporary cultural and economic forces, rather than stating one regardless of environment. There is no single answer to the financialisation of architecture, and the systems of collapse it triggers, but ideally in its acknowledgement, and incorporation into real spaces, the architect is decentered from the architecture.

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MOCKLANDS Kate De Pina Supervisor: Vicky Lam

Defined by its overwhelm of form, wind-stricken promenades and long bare edges, Docklands is a prime example of city homogenisation. Completely reinvented over the last 30 years, Docklands fell victim to greenfield site treatment by government and developers, erasing the fine grain public realm ecology cultivated by communities and culture over time. Today Docklands exists paradoxically - its public face emanates an emptiness, a sense of something missing yet it is full of form by some of our greatest architects. Issues of homogeneity affect all “instant cities” and are too wide spread for a single response to fix. It is therefore not about “fixing” but rather beginning to unpick and recode the existing systems to be read in a new way. Mocklands seeks to undermine homogeneity by process of subverting edges, introducing porosity and creating a presence of history. Challenging conditions that deny ecology, culture and community, it permeates rigid public and private thresholds, reintroducing layers of the past to create ambiguous new territories. These territories are a reconfiguring of existing systems, creating co-existing conditions that foster natural and human ecologies. Mocklands introduces an architecture of intersection and phenomenological immersion. Docklands is no longer a place where you show up and go, it is a place you are a part of, that you interface with and that you experience.

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Supervisors Semester 2, 2021 Major Project Coordinator Amy Muir Major Project Moderation Panel Prof. Vivian Mitsogianni A/Prof. Paul Minifie Adjunct Professor Kerstin Thompson Dr John Doyle Amy Muir Major Project Supervisors Adam Pustola Prof. Alisa Andrasek Amy Muir Andre Bonnice & Jean-Marie Spencer Anna Jankovic Dr. Anna Johnson Dr. Ben Milbourne Brent Allpress Dean Boothroyd & Mark Jacques Dr. Emma Jackson A/Prof. Graham Crist Ian Nazareth Dr. Jan van Schaik Dr. John Doyle Dr. Leanne Zilka Nicholas Bourns Patrick Maccasaet Dr. Peter Brew Peter Knight A/Prof. Roland Snooks Sam Hunter & Danielle Peck Simon Drysale Simone Koch Tim Pyke & Helen Duong Vicky Lam

Students Semester 2, 2021 Abigail Li Shin Liew

Madison O'Shea

Alexander Rayfield

Megan Voo

Alexandra Waldron-Clark

Meri Sirgoska

Andre Wee

Michael Parlapiano

Andrew Chung

Michelle Gan

Anne Ebery

Ming-Hsien

Ashlee Pukk

Nicla D'Argento

Benjamin Ellis

Nicole Francischelli

Danny Tan Kah Aik

Qianqian (Foris) Chen

Darcie Vella

Qianwei Han

Dingji Pang

Ren Wu

Dinh Tien Nguyen

Riley Pelham-Thorman

Dominique Pozvek

Riwina Savio D Cruz

Elijah Cercado

Ruby Lang

Eric Thoroughgood

Sarah Lucas

Feiyin Xu

Sheridan Hirst

Gergo Andrej

Shuai Tang

Guled Abdulwasi

Shuhan Wang

Hepeng Miao

Stephanie Grizancic

Ho Kyeong (Alan) Kim

Tanya Si Yun Tay

Jack Heatley

Tianyi (Meg) Huang

Jacob Lam

Tianyu Feng

James McLennan

Vivian Lim

Jeffrey Xu

Xiaolin Pang

Jialiang Zheng

Xu Tang

Jingtong Zhao

Yaoming Li

Jongwoo Kim

Yiming Guo

Joyce Ho

Youjia Huang

Junhua Zhou

YuTong Wang

Justin Chong

Zachary Bunston

Kaixiang Xu Kanthamet Akarawatcharakiat Karlo Abbugao Kate De Pina Kathryn Stuart Kun Yan Linhan Yang Lisa Gargano