RMIT Architecture & Urban Design Major Project Catalogue Semester 1 2019

RMIT Architecture Major Project Catalogue Semester 1 2019

Major Project Catalogue, Semester 1 , 2019 Prof. Vivian Mitsogianni Ian Nazareth Amy Muir Designed and Produced by Ian Nazareth Jennifer Chen

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RMIT Architecture Major Project Catalogue Semester 1 2019

Contents Introduction, Professor Vivian Mitsogianni...01 What is Major Project?...02 A project for Melbourne's boulevards, Matthew James Lochert...03 Work work work work work, Nicola Louise Cortese...04 Manual of Monsters, Senesios Skevos Frangos...05 30x40 Digital Vernacular, David Mundattuchundayil Thomas...06 The Carlton National Assembly, Stephanie Natasha Pahnis...07 Fixup City - Make Adelaide Great Again!, Aaron Lance Robinson...08 Art as Therapy, Benjamin Hock Yuu Tan...09 Reform, Dominic Shigeo Tanaka Van de Ven...10 The Recidivists, Kelvin Rolando Urbina...11 The Thing, The Thing, The Thing, Christian Philip Lionis... 12 The Agency of Space, Samuel Peter Kakkoufas...13 The Essendon Plan, Rhys Owen Mcfarlane...14 Phasing Network, Nelson Ling Voo Teo...15 The Unknown World – City of the Death, Wilson Febriyan...16 Zebraphant, Ho Ching Wong...17 The ’18 Stairs’, Pengyan Chen...18 Looking In, Looking Out! The Civic Notion of Saturated Youth Justice Centre, Yichen Yang...19 Obscure Knowledge, Dylan Thomas Findlay...20 Object No. 20, Aaron James Hall...21 Uptown Good Time Party Athletic Club, Zheyi Xue...22 Après nous, le deluge, Yash Ravi...23 Urban Collisions, Alejandro Fabian Martinez..24 Persistence, Arjuna Arundell Padmanabhan Benson..25 Lost Substance, Xun Luo...26 Badolato, a Triptych, Eulalie Lenna Trinca...27 Longevity Village, Long Cheng...28 Healthberg, Ziyu Men...29

Made In Harbin, Chenxi Yang...30 White Noise Generating a New Architecture Language For Post-Colonial Shanghai, Jia Li...31 Mirror of Georgetown, Chengyi Ding...32 The Bridge Initiative, Menghao Yuan...33 Supercity - Nansha, Jiayi Wang...34 Hospitality, Phu Duy Vu...35 Park Plus, Thein Zaw...36 All In Good Taste – Native Food Park, Wai Keat Cheong...37 Super Temple, Peiwen Shang...38 The Western Backyard, Zhuqi Hou...39 City Grotto, Suqing Yan...40 Kampong Woodlands, Japiere Wei Feng Ooi...41 24:12:365, Jasmine Chan...42 Leitmolif/lower, Chengyu Wu...43 Brunswick Bazaar, Melika Owji...44 The Space Between, Nicole Catherine Dowling...45 Borderless Treasures, Siti Shahnazurawaty Md Shahri...46 Reprogramming Box Hill, Son Nguyen...47 Super City Nansha, Baiyang Wang...48 Bridge City, Daihui Gao...49 Jolimont Park, Danica Tasia Garizio...50 Memory Recovery, Siyuan Huang ...51 Retire High, Prativa Maharjan...52 Informing the political process through architecture, Ruwan Vimukthi Heenkenda...53 Linear urban farming warehouse (Renovation of abandoned railways), Xu Nan...54 The Library on Smith Street, Ting Zhang...55 In the Middle, Ariel Anak Minggat Spencer...56 Supervisors Semester 1, 2019...57 Students Semester 1, 2019...58

Introduction

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Architecture schools should be concerned with experimentation that challenges the apparent self-evident certainties and accepted orthodoxies of the discipline (in its expanded definition), the underlying assumptions about what architecture is and can contain, and what it should do next.

Architecture schools need to ensure that their graduates have all the professional competencies that are required for professional practice and registration. But Architecture schools should also lead the struggle to challenge the default conventions of the discipline. The architecture school should strive to point towards possible futures not yet evident within existing understandings of the discipline and wider cultural/political terrains.

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

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

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

The architecture student’s graduating Major Project – a capstone for the formal design degree – should not merely demonstrate the competence and skill they acquired in the course. These are base expectations on entry into the graduating semester. The graduating project is an opportunity to speculate through the work and to develop ideas that will serve as catalysts for future, lifelong investigations.

The Antonia Bruns Medal, endowed to recall Antonia’s interest in the relation between film and architecture, is awarded to a Major Project that investigates the relationship between architectural representation, association and perception.

The project should lay bare considered attitudes, brave speculations and leaps of faith, pursuing these with rigour and depth. We would hope that the projects are ambitious, brave and contain propositions relevant to their time. We would hope that students experiment – in whatever form this might take – and engage with difficult questions, contributing not merely to areas that are well explored, but to what is yet to come. Experimentation though, in the graduating project, as well as in the design studio, comes with the risk of failure. But failure can be cathartic – it is an essential possibility tied to innovation.

The Leon van Schaik 25th Anniversary Peer Assessed Major Project Award celebrates Prof. Leon van Schaik’s arrival as Head of Architecture at RMIT 28 years ago. It is decided by all Major Project voting for what they view as the most adventurous and future-embracing project of the semester.

At RMIT Architecture we understand well the ethos and importance of experimentation and we have longstanding processes to reward it, importantly through our grading and moderation processes. In the RMIT architecture programs, we call this ‘venturous ideas-led design practice’.2 ‘To be ‘venturous’ is to be brave and take risks. What we hope is happening here is that students are learning to establish their own explorations which they can constantly reconsider and navigate through future conditions that may not resemble present understandings of practice. Competencies and experimentation can happily co-exist.

We aim to educate students to engage with architecture’s specific characteristics unapologetically, and to not be afraid of its complex, uncertain and liquid nature. We aim to prepare our graduates to engage in and contribute to a broader world of ideas and to eventually challenge our ability to judge with new, challenging and meaningful propositions.

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

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

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Studio Futures: Changing trajectories in architectural education, Uro Publications, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 25-31 ‘Venturous’ is a term also used by RMIT Professor Leon van Schaik and Professor Richard Blythe in relation to the RMIT Design Practice PhD

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

What is Major Project?

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

RMIT Architecture values ambitious, adventurous projects; those that demonstrate new and pertinent architectural ideas or show how established ideas can be developed or transformed to offer deeper understandings. The best major projects take risks and attempt to see architecture anew. Major Project should form the beginning of an exploration of architectural ideas that can set the agenda for the first ten years of original and insightful architectural practice.

The nature of the project is not set, and the scope of the brief and site is established by the student in consultation with their supervisor as the most appropriate and potentially fruitful vehicle for testing and developing their particular area of architectural investigation. Typically, major projects proceed in a similar way to design studios – with the difference being that students themselves set their brief and topic of investigation.

The research question and architectural project will often develop in parallel and it is expected that the precise question and focus of the project will be discovered and clarified through the act of designing. This process is iterative and develops through weekly sessions. Projects are also formally reviewed at two public mid semester reviews before the final presentation.

Major Projects have ranged from strategic urban and landscape interventions with metropolitan implications, through to detailed explorations of building form, materiality, structure and inhabitation; to detailed experimentation in the processes and procedures of architectural production. It is expected that Major Projects will develop a particular and specific area of interest that has grown during a student’s studies, rather than merely complete a generic and competent design. Often these specific interests will develop in relation to those of supervisors – we encourage students to work closely with their supervisors to build on mutual areas of expertise and interest.

It is understood that major projects will differ in scope, scale, kinds of representation produced and degree of resolution; with these factors depending on the nature of the architectural question and accompanying brief.

Emphasis should be placed on producing a coherent and complete project, where proposition, brief, scale, degree of resolution and representation work together to provide a balanced, convincing and focused expression of architectural thought.

There is no expectation that Major Project be ‘comprehensive’ in scope. Rather, the aim of the subject is to establish, through the completion of a major design work in a rigorous manner, a well-argued architectural experiment that has the potential and richness to engender future explorations and that will sustain the student for the next ten years of their architectural practice.

A high level of skill and a demonstrated knowledge of existing architectural ideas is an important component of a successful major project, however the goal should not be to demonstrate a professional level of accepted best practice. Rather it is an opportunity to demonstrate new kinds of knowledge and ideas through architectural form. _Excerpt from Major Project Briefing Notes 2019

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Racecourse Rd / Flemington Rd

Abbotsford St / Flemington Rd

Elevation 1 : 100

Elevation 1 : 100

Antonia Bruns Medal Semester 1, 2019 Supervisor Statement: Matthew’s thesis establishes a position on how buildings sit within, and deliberately shape, both the space around them, and our conception of what constitutes a larger territory. It attempts to redefine a relationship between the individual and the collective, the building and the city, at the scale of the street.

Each building is designed to form part of the city fabric rather than create an entire city in its triumphant self. This is a wry comment on the civic responsibility of architecture in the context of the current crisis of the profession that defines itself as a collection of individuals rather than a collective, responsible to the whole.

Matthew’s particular interest is in the choreography of the public

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domain, initially engaging standardized street furniture and unusual monuments to transform the perception and occupation of common spaces. He conceived of each investigation through the eyes of the flaneur, a character interested in the spectacle yet maintaining a critical distance, establishing in each instance a subjective view from which to critique and reshape the place. His choreography grew to

Street plan 1 : 500

encompass the architecture of the state and the street, composed

Street plan 1 : 500

Street

these he established a framework, something fixed that enabled the

Street

to provide a level of legibility and coherence to the city. Through unexpected, the ambiguous, and the intriguing to occur around it. The void space where a flaneur may encounter the stories and moments which inform them. From the outset an aloof and witty critique, his production evolved to be a restrained and yet disarmingly frank selfreflection. The cast assembled of his favourite observations of the place, the resultant performance a portrait of his city realized only in retrospect.

Entryway

Entryway Room

A project for Melbourne's boulevards

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_ Simone Koch

Matthew James Lochert Supervisor: Simone Koch City plan 1 : 40,000

This project seeks to look at architecture’s role in how we impose order within and regulate the city.

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Between past large scale schemes for Melbourne’s expansions, and current endeavours in tying the city together through furniture and kerb details - it looks also to general architectural types which are of the state and of the street. At each of these scales there seems to be an attempt to provide a level of legibility and coherence to the city, which, rather than imposing dominance, establishes a framework, something fixed that enables the unexpected, the ambiguous, and the intriguing to occur around it. The void space where a flaneur may encounter the stories and moments which inform them.

The formation of a stage set for urban life - comprising the choreography, sets, and backdrops, it implicates us and our lives as the cast and story.

Location plan 1 : 2,500

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Gatehouse St / Flemington Rd

Haymarket

Elevation 1 : 100

Elevation 1 : 100

It seeks to use this as an example which establishes a position on how buildings sit within and deliberatelywww shape both the space around them, and our conception of what constitutes a larger territory. It attempts to redefine a relationship between the individual and the collective, the building and the city, at the scale of the street.

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Street

Street

Street plan 1 : 500

Entryway

Entryway

Room

Room

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STANDARD RECESSED CURTAIN RAIL TRACK TO BELOW CURTAIN - MINIMAL TRANSPARENCY

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CUSTOM MIRROR VIRIDIAN MIRRASTAR BRONZE WITH 50MM X 10MM FRAME

750

750

750

MIRROR WELD FIXED TO ROTATION HINGES 50MM CHS GALVANISED STEEL 1013

1238

STANDARD STUD WALL CLAD WITH 10MM POLYCARBONATE @ 50% OPACITY

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2046

327

750

2606 3840

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MOSAIC MAT / STANDING MARKER CNC ROUTED TIMBER. LARGE FORMAT MOSAIC PATTEN

TYPICAL CURTAIN RAIL AND STAND DETAIL SEE ABOVE

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METAL HINGE BASE STAINLESS STEEL WITH 55DIA CUTOUT FOR CHS TO SIT WITHIN. ALLOW CHS TO BE ROTATED. PLATE NOT FIXED TO GROUND

BEHAVIOURAL TRAINING APPARATUS

100 X 100 FLOOR TILES TO DELINEATE AREA 50MM CHS TO CURTAIN RAIL

COFFEE CABINET TILED TO MATCH FLOOR

CUSTOM DOUBLE SEAT / COFFEE AND TEA STATION. SEAT CUSHIONS UPHOLSTERED WITH 100MM MEMORY FOAM

Anne Butler Memorial Medal Semester 1, 2019 Supervisor Statement: The ostensible object of this project is a

VIEWING WINDOW DOUBLE GLASS. BLACK TO EXTERNAL AND CLEAR TO INTERNAL. GLAZING FRAMED WITHIN 10MM STIANLESS STEEL LOOP

TURNING TABLE SEE OBJECT 5 FOR DETAILS

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294

4029

581

2169

2097 1486

ENLIGHTEN SEE OBJECT 15 FOR DETAILS

INTERNAL JOINERY LAMINATE CONTRAST COLOUR TO MATCH DOOR. CUSTOM DOOR PULLS STAINLESS STEEL

CUSTOM DOOR HARDWARE. STAINLESS STEEL. SAME PULL TO BOTH SIDES

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2728

INTERNAL FLOORING 600 X 600MM REMOVEABLE FLOOR TILES

STANDARD PROPRIETARY DOOR FORM BUNNINGS. DOOR TO BE PAINTED WITH CONTRAST COLOUR PLYWOOD 1200 X 2400MM SHEETS TO EXTERNAL FACE

LIFE SAVER CHAIR SEE OBJECT 11 FOR DETAILS

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NOTE: PORTABLE CONTROL ROOM DIMENSIONS TO BE CONFIRMED WITHIN LARGE LIFT TO ENSURE ITS TRANSPORTABILITY

PORTABLE CONTROL ROOM

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faculty of work at the edge of the city on the corner of Spring and Victoria streets. It is a research facility looking at work, the work of work. Work is topical, there are questions of its value, its social function, of productivity, the future of work and its necessity. Not

FULL HEIGHT 600MM WIDE SCREENS TO INTERNAL WALL FACE. SCREENS TO BE CONTROLLED BY PORTABLE CONTROL ROOM (SEE OBJECT 2 FOR DETAILS).

SCREENS TO BE FRAMELESS WITH NO SHADOWLINE

surprisingly these are relevant and current questions for architecture

CUSTOM STANDING LIGHT. STAND TO BE WELD FIXED TO BASE. 40MM DIA CHS ATTACHED TO 150MM DIA BASE PLATE. LIGHT FIXTURE FROSTED GLAZING WITH P/C CASING

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600

3195

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EXTERNAL CLADDING 1200 X 2400MM PLYWOOD TO STANDARD STUD FRAME

600 X 600 REMOVEABLE FLOOR TILES LIGHT GREY

SMALL LATCH TO REAR TO ALLOW FOR ONE PANEL TO SWING OUT FOR ENTRY

200MM BASE FOR REMOVEABLE FLOOR TILE SYSTEM TO SIT WITHIN

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NOTE: HEIGHT OF BORED ROOM TO BE MINIMUM 300MM LESS THAN LOWEST CEILING SERVICES TO ALLOW FOR TRANSPORTABILITY

BORED-ROOM

HERMAN MILLER DAY BED SOFA UPHOLSTERED IN 'GOLD RUSH', STAINLESS STEEL FRAME

for our architecture program. Nicola identifies a body of crossdisciplinary research that recognizes work which allows her to frame a question of how work is recognized by architecture. Work in architecture as the work of architecture. This then is the clue in

LATCH DOOR ENTRY TO CONTROL ROOM BELOW

PANTRY JOINERY CONTRAST COLOUR LAMINATE WITH CUSTOM STAINLESS DOOR PULLS (TYPICAL THROUGHOUT) 2339

STAINLESS STEEL BENCHTOP WITH IN BUILT SINK. BENCH EDGE TO FINISH WITH 10MM SHADOWLINE

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572

857

1592

740

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DOUBLE SIDED GLASS VIEWING WINDOW TO BELOW EXTERNAL BORDER CLAD IN PLYWOOD SHEETS

KITCHENETTE TEIRED SEATING AREA FACING AWAY FOR PREPARATION AREA. SEATING TIMBER TO MATCH STAIR. 1674 2572

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TIMBER STAIRS TO SIDE OF SEATING AREA. KITCHEN AREA ELEVATED APPROX 600MM

ARNOTT’S OBSERVATION DECK

VIEWING WINDOW TO INSIDE FACE OF PANTRY. DOUBLE SIDED GLASS TO ALLOW LOOKING OUT THROUGH PANTRY 995

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BALLUSTRADE EXTENDER TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE WITH ADDITIONAL HEIGHT. BALLUSTRADE 20MM DIA CHS IN STAINLESS STEEL AT 120MM CENTRES

the project title ‘WORK WORK WORK’. The ubiquitous environment of professional service providers such as architects. In architecture, the office building is a type, empty shells that they design for property developers whose clients are investment trusts. The brief; net lettable area and site yield. This is in stark contrast to the curiosity

DESK FORM STANDARD COMPUTER ENLIGHTEN SEE OBJECT 15 FOR MORE DETAILS STORAGE UNDER DESK

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STAINLESS STEEL FRAME WITH EXPOSED FIXINGS TO PERIMETRE 40MM DIA STAINLESS STEEL CHS LEGS 10MM DIA STAINLESS STEEL CHS CROSS BEAM 502

STAT E1

NEWSPAPER

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SEAT; CONTRASTING COLOUR PAINTED TIMBER

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548 RESTING LEDGE

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CROSSBEAM AS NEWSPAPER HOLDER

STAT E2

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TURNING TABLE

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STAT E3

40MM DIA STAINLESS STEEL CHS LEGS FORBO DESKTOP TO BENCHTOP WITH STAINLESS STEEL FRAME / BORDER 30MM DIA CHS AS COAT RACK

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ALUMINIUM COAT HANGERS

and consideration that other disciplinary studies have when they look at work. Nicola critically restages a host of these studies as departments of a faculty and there is an exhausting, exacting and at times comical exploration of work situations, the work of looking

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PROPRIETARY PARTITION

DESK POT PLANT 653

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STANDARD FURNITURE

STANDARD COMPUTER

MUG IPHONE CHARGING POD

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FORBO DESKTOP WITH STAINLESS STEEL BORDER AND EXPOSED FIXINGS

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STAINLESS STEEL LEG AND CROSSBEAM STAINLESS STEEL PARITITON STANDS

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PROPRIETARY TASK CHAIR

at work as work. The clues to how this will be done is the number of things considered in her design as causing architecture, the consequence of architecture, what is caused by architecture? What is surprising was the incredible variety of spaces equipment and

TRANSLUCENT POLYCARBONATE MODULE. 75% OPACITY.

environmental conditions demanded by this and the demonstrable

CURTAIN. OPAQUE HEAVY FABRIC TO BE USED. LENGTH VARIES PENDING FLOOR TO FLOOR OF SPACE INSTALLED

TYPICAL NOGGIN CONSTRUCTION TO BOTH MODULES 50MM DIA CHS CURTAIN ROD (STAINLESS STEEL UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED)

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10MM, 500 X 500MM LIGHTWEIGHT FLOOR TILE FLOOR TILE ALUMINIUM STRUCTURE, 100MM ABOVE GROUND

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500 40

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REMOVEABLE FLOOR TILE SYSTEM. TILES REMOVED TO FORM SPACES AND CORRIDORS THROUGHOUT

FLOOR AND WALL SYSTEM

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OPAQUE PLYWOOD MODULE

inadequacy of the current model. She suggests that as work being re-imagined in other disciplines that it should be a proper field of Architectural inquiry. _ Dr. Peter Brew

150 X 100 STAINLESS STEEL RHS

TWO LIGHTS, ROTATED OUT FROM EACHOTHER TO ILLUMINATED INDIVIDUAL SPOTS. LIGHT CASING ALUMINIUM. WELDED TO CENTRAL POLE

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AWARENESS POLE

CONCAVE MIRRORS TO ANGLED FOUR DIRECTIONS. WELD FIXED TO CENTRAL POLE. MIRROR CASED IN 10MM STAINLESS STEEL.

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POLE PERMANENTLY FIXED IN POSITION THROUGH BASE PLATE

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LIGHT IN THE STYLE OF AWARENESS POLE (OBJECT 8)

Work work work work work

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SHELF TO TOP OF DRAWERS DRAWERS / PIGEON HOLES EXTERNALLY ACCESSED AND BUILT IN TO PARTITION WALL 124

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PARTITION HINGED TO MAKE ENTRY DOOR 1000

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PLINTH WITH TILING TO TOP TILES 200MM X 200MM

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STANDARD DESK AND FURNITURE TO CUBICLE DISPLAY

OFFICE CUBICLE DISPLAY

'TRIPLE' PARTITIONS TO CREATE CUBE. PARITIONS MADE FROM LIGHTWEIGHT PINBOARD WITH 20MM STAINLESS STEEL FRAME

STAINLESS STEEL STANDS TO PARITIONS

Nicola Louise Cortese Supervisor: Dr. Peter Brew

CURTIAN TO SIDE OF BED OPENS TO DESK WORK DESK WITH BOOK SHELF ABOVE. INDIVIDUAL SEATED ON MATTRESS TO WORK

CURTIAN RAIL 50MM DIA CHS STAINLESS STEEL WITH STIANLESS STEEL CURTAIN RINGS BED 'ROOM' PARTITION. PLYWOOD 1200MM X 2400MM

50MM DIA STAINLESS STEEL CHS LEG TO DESK

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TOILET AND JOINERY POD TO BE CLAD IN PLYWOOD AND PAINTED IN CONTRAST COLOUR ALCOVE FOR COOKBOOKS

PAINTING

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CURTAIN TO SIDE OF BED. OPAQUE FABRIC.

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TEA TOWEL HOLDER 10MM DIA BENT STAINLESS STEEL ROD STAINLESS STEEL SPLASHBACK AND BENCHTOP WITH 10MM SHADOW LINE TO EDGE TILED PLINTH TO 1000MM CIRCULATION SPACE

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ALCOVE FOR APPLIANCES (OVEN, FRIDGE ETC) 4397 2205

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180MM PLINTH TO HOME OFFICE

HOME OFFICE

JOINERY TO UNDERSIDE OF BED ON EACH SIDE. PLYWOOD OPEN SHELVING AND SLIDING PANELS TO BACKSIDE SEAT AND NEWSPAPER HOLDER. CURVED ROD WITH LEATHER CONTRAST COLOUR UPHOLSTERED SEAT WITH 50MM MEMORY FOAM

UPHOLSTERED TASK CHAIR IN CONTRAST COLOUR WITH 75MM MEMORY FOAM EXTENDABLE POP OUT LADDER TO LIFE SAVER

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STANDARDISED TASK CHAIR WITH EXTENDED INBUILT

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STANDARD TASK CHAIR EXTENDER

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LIFE SAVER

499

BELOW HEAD HEIGHT TO ALLOW FOR INTERACTION

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CUP HOLDER

This project is concerned with the architectural axiom, form follows function; an axiom that suggests that there is interdependence between architecture and program. In this project, I focus on the office building and office work and the contradiction that is presented between the type and the aforementioned axiom.

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SPARE WATER VESSELS

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JOINT LINE OF COMBINATION

WATER COOLER CRASH

HOT AND COLD WATER TAPS

EXCESS WATER DRAIN

PROPRIETARY WATER COOLER NO. 4

ZINC CLADDING TO EXTERNAL FACE OF MIRROR EAVE

ALUMINIUM WINDOW MULLION 50MM WIDE

MIRROR TO UNDERSIDE OF EAVE

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MIRROR EAVE

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GLAZING TO FACADE

WARDROBE / STORAGE MODULE WITH CUSTOM DOOR PULLS. LAMINATE IN CONTRAST COLOUR.

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TYPICAL WALL DIMENSIONS

BAR LEDGE TIMBER 400W X 20D TIMBER BOOKSHELF INDIVIDUAL DESKS AND SCREENS. DESKS 400 X 400 X 20MM TIMBER TV FIXED TO WALL BACK

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SIDE

FRONT SIDE

TIMBER 'COFFEE' TABLE HINGED OFF WALL. TIMBER 400MM L X 300 MM W X 20MM D SOFA ADJACENT TO TV. UPHOLSTERED IN CONTRAST COLOUR FABRIC WITH 100MM MEMORY FOAM ON HIDDEN TIMBER FRAME

SINGLE LARGE SHARED DESK 600 X WALL LENGTH X 20MM TIMBER WITH SHARED LARGE SCREEN

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STAINLESS STEEL BASEPLATE TO WALL ROTATIONAL HINGE

TURNING WALL

EXTENDABLE LEGS TYPICAL THROUGHOUT. STAINLESS STEEL WITH RUBBER STOPPER FOR STRUCTURAL SUPPORT

LED LIGHING RECTANGLE

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MOVEABLE / ROTATABLE STAND TO LIGHT HEAD. WIRING THROUGH CENTRE OF PLASTIC ROD

BASE STAND FOR LIGHTS P/C DARK CHARCOAL

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IPHONE CHARGING CORD 126

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EN-LIGHTEN

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HEIGHT PENDING

LENGT H DEPEN DING USE

40MM TIMBER SUPPORT SLATS

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NOTE: LENGTH AND HEIGHT DEPENDENT ON USE

EMPATHY BENCH

40MM TIMBER FRAME UNDER SLATS

30MM DIA DOWEL LEGS TO EACH CORNER

STAINLESS STEEL STRUCTURE TO HOISTS. MAIN STRUCTURE AT 75MM DIA

ROPES ATTACHED TO HOISTS FOR MOVEMENT OF PROPS AND OBJECTS

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SUCCESSION OF HOISTS QUANTITY DEPENDENT

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The body of research is made up of a series of studies informed by historical and contemporary inquiry into the sociology of work, these include but are not limited to Richard Boyatzis, AMO, Cheetham and Chivers & Marina van Zuylen.

It explores work through recognising architecture as a research collaborator that embraces and materialises a traditional scientific approach. It challenges why we conceive of work as undifferentiated or empty and the architects role within this. In a sense it is a polemic against the office building type as it is currently understood, which seems to be a store of capital, and as a totem but not as a place of human occupation.

The project allows us to realise that so much of work is not only the productive job we do but the training and personal development that comes with it. Perhaps if we can better understand this, we can start to allow the office type formally develop to the specific needs of work and the worker. We can begin to address work as a human issue rather than a productivity issue.

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LOCKABLE CASTER'S TO ALLOW FOR TRANSPORTABILITY

INDICATIVE FLOOR AND VOID FOR CLARITY

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HOIST CUSTOMISED STANDARD PARTITIONS LIGHTWEIGHT GREY PINBOARD WITH 10 MM STAINLESS STEEL BORDER

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EAVESDROPPING DEVICE 126

20MM PARITIONS

CUT OUT TO PARTITION FOR HANDS

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CUT OUT TO PARITION FOR LEGS

PASSION PARTITION

PROPRIETARY TASK CHAIR

STAINLESS STEEL STANDS TO PARTITIONS

TIMBER STAIRS TO MATCH SEATING

TACTILE INDICATORS TO STAIRS TO ALLOW FOR SAFE PUBLIC USE

SOLID TIMBER TO FRAMEWORK UNDER

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PYRAMID OF MOTIVATION

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MOVING PASSION PARTITION (SEE OBJECT 18 FOR FURTHER DETAILS) STAINLESS STEEL CURTAIN AND PROP LOOPS TO ALLOW FOR ATTACHMENT AND TRANSPORTATION

VIEW FROM VICTORIA PARADE

VIEW FROM PARLIAMENT

50MM DIA CHS BENT ROD PROFILE AS CURTAIN RAIL

PLAZA LOOKING TOWARDS ICI HOUSE

STEEL ROPE (10MM THICK) FOR HANGING OF HEAVIER PROPS

TBC

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CURTAIN; APPREARANCE VARIES PENDING USE (OPACITY, COLOUR, LENGTH ETC)

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RAIL

STAINLESS STEEL LIGHT CASING WITH PLASTIC LIGHT DIFFUSER TO UNDERSIDE

100MM DIA STAINLESS STEEL CHS LIGHT POLE WITH WIRING THROUGH CENTRE

50MM WIDE, 20MM DEEP METAL FRAME TO MIRRORED FRONT SURFACE

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TIMBER RECEPTION DESK 50MM THICK, CURVED TO MATCH PROFILE OF FRONT PANEL

908

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REAR VIEW DESK

MIRRORED MATERIAL TO CONVEX SURFACE

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WATKINS EXPERIENCE LIBRARY MARSICK & WATKINS INCIDENTAL LEARNING 1990

LOCKING MECHANISM WITHIN BACK POCKET

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BLANK FACE P/C COLOUR DEPENDENT ON LOCATION 323

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STANDARD METAL FILING CABINET

TEMPORARY FILING CABINET

PYRAMID OF MOTIVATION ABRAHAM MASLOW HEIRACHY OF NEEDS 1943

ROLE MODEL EXPERIMENTS WALES ET WALES ET AL. & KOLB LEARNING CYCLES 1993, 1998

ERGONOMICS STUDIES TAYLOR AND GILBRETH TIME AND MOTION EARLY 1900S

POSTEL MUSEUM OF MEDIEVAL WORK VERENA POSTEL ARBEIT IM MITTELALTER 2006

BEHAVIOURAL TRAINING APPARATUS RICHARD BOYATZIS ‘SOCIAL ROLE AND SELF IMAGE IN THE WORKPLACE 1998

LEARNING AS PART OF LIFE OUTSIDE OF WORK ERAUT ET AL. 1998

ATMOSPHERIC TESTS ‘PROFESSIONS, COMPETENCE & INFORMAL LEARNING 2005

BOREDOM STUDIES MARINA VAN ZUYLEN ‘A PROPER EDUCATION’ 2018

APPLEBAUM ACADEMIC LIBRARY HERBERT APPLEBAUM ‘THE CONCEPT OF WORK’ 1992

UNLOCK VIA WINNING 'SLIDEY TILE GAME'

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PLASTIC PULL HANDLES

Peter Corrigan Medal Semester 1, 2019 Supervisor Statement: Senesios Frangos’ “Manuel of Monsters” is a riff on our contemporary world and how architecture can represent it. This is not as panacea nor as Prozac-induced denial, but as selfawareness and revelation. It is a proposition about the Zeitgeist as an architectural self-help book and handbook for future action. This is the true ambition, indeed, the youthful bravado of the proposal. Old words such as ‘hybrid’ and ‘collage’ have been reimagined as part of a new and monstrous taxonomy. Even the ‘Instagrammable’ world of good looks and narcissistic behaviours are caught up in the distorting mirror of “monster talk”.

And, of course, this is done in a truly RMIT way. Possible even a way that Peter Corrigan may have recognised. A culture hypothesis has been made, backed up by research of the local architectural scene, a growing knowledge of architectural history, broad ranging readings, writings and talk. Finally, a physical proposition is made which seeks to test the initial hypothesis.

A monstrous amount of work has been done, there have been a number of false starts and the occasional revelation during a sleepless night. This is undoubtably a fine way to start an architect’s life. Most likely Peter Corrigan would recognise it all as completely necessary! _ Neil Masterton and Prof. Ian McDougall 1

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‘Manual of Monsters,’ by Senesios Frangos is a manual or ‘how to’ guide for the design of annexes, addenda and appendices. Buildings which are more and more becoming the reality of public work in growing cities like Melbourne. The extension to what is already there - the reworking and augmentation of an existing construct.

The manual explores the translation of techniques and strategies of monsters from film, myth and legend into architectural operations of non-affirmation. This was the design of a methodology, aimed at re-framing the role public buildings.

The existence of monsters calls into question architecture’s status as a domain of cultural representation.

The case study is a speculative brief extension to the current restorative works at the World Heritage Listed Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton Gardens. The design of annexes for Exhibition Building and the Melbourne Museum in the space between the both of them.

Throughout history, monsters have been like the animals in a fable who speak with human voices. They are incredibly aware of us, watching us, placing us and yet we do not see the gratifying reflection of ourselves we had hoped for but the opposite undermining definitions, forms and ideas, placing them under re-examination - a future public architecture of self-reflection as opposed to more and more imposition.

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“...Rhetorics of the ‘monstrous,’ are not simply ‘constructed by their social contexts,” but they are also, “constructive of their contexts: that they both produce & reproduce social discourse and practice. In this sense, discourses on monstrosity serve as global currencies.

‘Monster talk,’ may function as a means to inquire into the sociopolitics of given cultures and reflect much about how porous, and resistant, its boundaries are.”

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30x40 Digital Vernacular

David Mundattuchundayil Thomas Supervisor: Dr. John Doyle

A strange and compelling contradiction exists in architecture today. Digital communication and digital tools make everyone and everything in the world more accessible and more alike. There remains a powerful desire to express qualities of difference, unique to each regional community, each specific place and each individual designer.

Global digital unification also fosters an equal desire to express new ideas in architecture independent of regional place that is built around common ideas, not common place. This project is an attempt to respond to this paradox of wanting to be the same and different simultaneously.

Digital vernacular is an idea that tries to combine vernacular design principles of the past and digital technologies of the present with goals of accessibility and appropriate innovation in a contemporary context.

The design approach taken was to look at the construction process as a system of discrete building parts that have a logic and amenity encoded into their form and how they can then be replicated and adapt to this constant flux of change while being informed by the surrounding built environment and vernacular context.

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THE CARLTON NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

Negotiation Chamber 1-150

1788 1835

Australia (or ‘New Holland’) was colonised upon Terra Nullius

JOHN BATMAN NEGO-

1857 1901 1915 1965

TIATED A TREATY WITH

THE LOCAL KULIN CLAN

ELDERS ON THE BANKS

OF THE MERRI RIVER, IN MELBOURNE’S NORTH.

THE TREATY WAS SUB-

1967

SEQUENTLY VOIDED

1971

BOURKE TWO MONTHS

1972 1979 1988 2016 2016 2017

BY NSW GOVERNOR LATER.

CORKMANS PUB WAS BUILT

‘Australia’ & commonwealth federation was founded

Gallipoli campaign begins “People in Australia have to register their dogs and cattle, but we don’t know

how many Aborigines there are.” — Faith Bandler

2018

Referendum passed to

2018

in the census and allow the

2018

laws for them.

2019

the Northern Territory,

2019

treaty to Queen Elizabeth II

2019 2019

include Aboriginal people Commonwealth to create The Larrakia people, of attempted to present a seeking land rights.

Aboriginal tent embassy

established in Canberra.

The National Aboriginal Conference called for a Makarrata.

Bob Hawke adopted the Barunga Statement and

committed to concluding

a treaty by 1990. This was not delivered.

The 1857 Corkman Pub is illegally demolished while heritage listed. Official

letters pleading not to go ahead with demolition

were ignored on more than one occasion.

Standing by Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner, First war memorial in Mel-

bourne representing the

men were publicly hung for two murders. This is con-

sidered the first memorial for frontier wars.

Legal Library 1-150

Uluru Statement of The

Heart called for a Makarrata

Commission at the National Constitutional convention.

Peak of the Anzac ‘Myth’

with 250 year celebrations costing Australia $600m.

The Moment of Truth:

History and Australia’s

Future is released by Mark McKenna.

VICTORIA BECOMES THE FIRST STATE TO DEVELOP A

TREATY COMMISSION

WITH ABORIGINAL VICTORIANS.

Corkman owners charged $1.3 million of fines for

the illegal demolition of 160-year-old pub.

The Constitution of Australia never has, and to-

date still does not, protect

basic human rights or offer protection against racial discrimination.

CORKMAN SITE SITS AS

A PILE OF DEBRIS, CON-

TAINED BY A SHEETS OF

FABRIC, WEIGHED DOWN

1788 1835

BY USED TYRES. A RUG

OVER OUR COLONIALIST PAST AND A NEW SLATE

FOR HOW WE MAY WRITE

OUR FUTURE.

1857 1901 1915 1965

1788 1835

1967

Australia (or ‘New Holland’) was colonised upon Terra Nullius

JOHN BATMAN NEGO-

1857 1901 1915 1965

1971 1972

1967 1971 1972 1979 1988 2016 2016 2017

Plenary Hall 1-150

TIATED A TREATY WITH

THE LOCAL KULIN CLAN

ELDERS ON THE BANKS

OF THE MERRI RIVER, IN MELBOURNE’S NORTH.

THE TREATY WAS SUBSEQUENTLY VOIDED

BY NSW GOVERNOR

BOURKE TWO MONTHS LATER.

CORKMANS PUB WAS BUILT

‘Australia’ & commonwealth federation was founded

Gallipoli campaign begins “People in Australia have to register their dogs and cattle, but we don’t know

how many Aborigines there are.” — Faith Bandler

2018

Referendum passed to

2018

in the census and allow the

2018

laws for them.

2019 2019 2019 2019

include Aboriginal people Commonwealth to create The Larrakia people, of the Northern Territory,

attempted to present a

treaty to Queen Elizabeth II seeking land rights.

Aboriginal tent embassy

established in Canberra.

The National Aboriginal Conference called for a Makarrata.

Bob Hawke adopted the Barunga Statement and

committed to concluding

a treaty by 1990. This was

The Carlton National Assembly

not delivered.

The 1857 Corkman Pub is illegally demolished while heritage listed. Official

letters pleading not to go ahead with demolition

were ignored on more than one occasion.

Standing by Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner, First war memorial in Mel-

bourne representing the

men were publicly hung for two murders. This is con-

sidered the first memorial for frontier wars.

Uluru Statement of The

Heart called for a Makarrata

Commission at the National Constitutional convention.

Peak of the Anzac ‘Myth’

with 250 year celebrations costing Australia $600m.

The Moment of Truth:

History and Australia’s

Future is released by Mark McKenna.

VICTORIA BECOMES THE FIRST STATE TO DEVEL-

As a reaction to the Uluru Statement of the Heart and the recent passing of the Victorian Treaty Advancement Commission; this project speculates on the infrastructure required to facilitate the uncertain process of negotiating a treaty between the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria and Victorian Parliament to occur within a modern context.

The project is implicated through time in parallel with Victorian democratic process. It is a manifestation of the incessant negotiation of the law in the event of establishing treaty: there is no conclusion. The outcome is a speculation of the constant fossilisation, erasure, amendment and extension of the architecture at different points in time throughout its constant occupation and re-occupation.

It affirms architectures profound role of embodying and distributing power. The project challenges the static architectural expressions of parliament while also maintaining adjacency to it – in order to give substance to the sovereignty of aboriginal Victorians.

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TREATY COMMISSION

WITH ABORIGINAL VICTORIANS.

Corkman owners charged

THE CARLTON NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

Stephanie Natasha Pahnis Supervisor: Dr. Michael Spooner

$1.3 million of fines for

the illegal demolition of 160-year-old pub.

The Constitution of Australia never has, and to-

date still does not, protect

basic human rights or offer protection against racial discrimination.

CORKMAN SITE SITS AS

A PILE OF DEBRIS, CON-

TAINED BY A SHEETS OF

FABRIC, WEIGHED DOWN

BY USED TYRES. A RUG

OVER OUR COLONIALIST PAST AND A NEW SLATE

FOR HOW WE MAY WRITE

OUR FUTURE.

1788 1835

Australia (or ‘New Holland’) was colonised upon Terra Nullius

JOHN BATMAN NEGO-

The Corkman Pub - Original Site Condition

1857 1901 1915 1965 1967 1971 1972 1979 1988 2016 2016 2017

TIATED A TREATY WITH

THE LOCAL KULIN CLAN

ELDERS ON THE BANKS

OF THE MERRI RIVER, IN MELBOURNE’S NORTH.

THE TREATY WAS SUBSEQUENTLY VOIDED

BY NSW GOVERNOR

BOURKE TWO MONTHS LATER.

CORKMANS PUB WAS BUILT

‘Australia’ & commonwealth federation was founded

Gallipoli campaign begins “People in Australia have to register their dogs and cattle, but we don’t know

how many Aborigines there are.” — Faith Bandler

2018

Referendum passed to

2018

in the census and allow the

2018 2019 2019 2019 2019

include Aboriginal people Commonwealth to create laws for them.

The Larrakia people, of the Northern Territory,

attempted to present a

treaty to Queen Elizabeth II seeking land rights.

Aboriginal tent embassy

established in Canberra.

The National Aboriginal Conference called for a Makarrata.

Bob Hawke adopted the Barunga Statement and

committed to concluding

a treaty by 1990. This was not delivered.

The 1857 Corkman Pub is illegally demolished while heritage listed. Official

letters pleading not to go ahead with demolition

were ignored on more than one occasion.

Standing by Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner, First war memorial in Mel-

bourne representing the

men were publicly hung for two murders. This is con-

sidered the first memorial for frontier wars.

Uluru Statement of The

Heart called for a Makarrata

Commission at the National Constitutional convention.

Peak of the Anzac ‘Myth’

with 250 year celebrations costing Australia $600m.

The Moment of Truth:

History and Australia’s

Future is released by Mark McKenna.

VICTORIA BECOMES THE FIRST STATE TO DEVELOP A

TREATY COMMISSION

WITH ABORIGINAL VICTORIANS.

Corkman owners charged $1.3 million of fines for

the illegal demolition of 160-year-old pub.

The Constitution of Australia never has, and to-

date still does not, protect

basic human rights or offer protection against racial discrimination.

CORKMAN SITE SITS AS

A PILE OF DEBRIS, CON-

TAINED BY A SHEETS OF

FABRIC, WEIGHED DOWN

BY USED TYRES. A RUG

OVER OUR COLONIALIST PAST AND A NEW SLATE

FOR HOW WE MAY WRITE

OUR FUTURE.

1788 1835

Australia (or ‘New Holland’) was colonised upon Terra Nullius

JOHN BATMAN NEGOTIATED A TREATY WITH THE LOCAL

1857 1901 1915 1965

KULIN CLAN ELDERS ON THE

BANKS OF THE MERRI RIVER,

IN MELBOURNE’S NORTH. THE TREATY WAS SUBSEQUENTLY VOIDED BY NSW GOVERNOR

BOURKE TWO MONTHS LATER.

1967

CORKMANS PUB WAS BUILT

1971

federation was founded

1972 1979 1988

“People in Australia have to

2016

Bandler

2016

Aboriginal people in the census

2017

create laws for them.

2018

present a treaty to Queen Eliza-

2018 2018 2019

‘Australia’ & commonwealth Gallipoli campaign begins

register their dogs and cattle, but we don’t know how many

Aborigines there are.” — Faith Referendum passed to include

and allow the Commonwealth to The Larrakia people, of the

Northern Territory, attempted to beth II seeking land rights.

Aboriginal tent embassy established in Canberra.

The National Aboriginal Conference called for a Makarrata.

Bob Hawke adopted the Barun-

ga Statement and committed

2019

to concluding a treaty by 1990.

2019

The 1857 Corkman Pub is ille-

2019

This was not delivered.

gally demolished while heritage listed. Official letters pleading

not to go ahead with demolition

were ignored on more than one occasion.

Standing by Tunnerminnerwait

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and Maulboyheenner, First war memorial in Melbourne repre-

senting the men were publicly hung for two murders. This is

considered the first memorial for frontier wars.

Uluru Statement of The Heart called for a Makarrata

Commission at the National Constitutional convention.

Peak of the Anzac ‘Myth’ with

250 year celebrations costing Australia $600m.

The Moment of Truth: History and Australia’s Future is released by Mark McKenna.

VICTORIA BECOMES THE

FIRST STATE TO DEVELOP A TREATY COMMISSION WITH ABORIGINAL VICTORIANS.

THE CARLTON NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

The project is staged as a series of infrastructures that arrive immediately at a solution. There is no negotiation, the negotiation happens after. The conclusions we make at each stage are re-evaluated, amended, and adapted.

Each stage is a recognition of our fallibility, our obligation to keep trying, and the depth of architecture to commit to the community it harbours.

Corkman owners charged $1.3 million of fines for the illegal

demolition of 160-year-old pub.

The Constitution of Australia

never has, and to-date still does not, protect basic human rights

or offer protection against racial

discrimination.

CORKMAN SITE SITS AS A PILE OF DEBRIS, CONTAINED BY A

SHEETS OF FABRIC, WEIGHED

DOWN BY USED TYRES. A RUG OVER OUR COLONIALIST PAST AND A NEW SLATE FOR HOW

WE MAY WRITE OUR FUTURE.

1788 1835

Australia (or ‘New Holland’) was colonised upon Terra Nullius

JOHN BATMAN NEGO-

1857 1901 1915 1965

TIATED A TREATY WITH

THE LOCAL KULIN CLAN

ELDERS ON THE BANKS

OF THE MERRI RIVER, IN MELBOURNE’S NORTH.

THE TREATY WAS SUB-

1967

SEQUENTLY VOIDED

1971

BOURKE TWO MONTHS

1972 1979 1988 2016 2016 2017

BY NSW GOVERNOR LATER.

CORKMANS PUB WAS BUILT

‘Australia’ & commonwealth federation was founded

Gallipoli campaign begins “People in Australia have to register their dogs and cattle, but we don’t know

how many Aborigines there are.” — Faith Bandler

2018

Referendum passed to

2018

in the census and allow the

2018

laws for them.

2019

the Northern Territory,

2019 2019 2019

include Aboriginal people Commonwealth to create The Larrakia people, of attempted to present a

treaty to Queen Elizabeth II seeking land rights.

Aboriginal tent embassy

established in Canberra.

The National Aboriginal Conference called for a Makarrata.

Bob Hawke adopted the Barunga Statement and

committed to concluding

a treaty by 1990. This was not delivered.

The 1857 Corkman Pub is illegally demolished while heritage listed. Official

letters pleading not to go ahead with demolition

were ignored on more than one occasion.

Standing by Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner, First war memorial in Mel-

bourne representing the

men were publicly hung for two murders. This is con-

sidered the first memorial for frontier wars.

Uluru Statement of The

Heart called for a Makarrata

Commission at the National Constitutional convention.

Peak of the Anzac ‘Myth’

with 250 year celebrations costing Australia $600m.

The Moment of Truth:

History and Australia’s

Future is released by Mark McKenna.

VICTORIA BECOMES THE FIRST STATE TO DEVELOP A

TREATY COMMISSION

WITH ABORIGINAL VICTORIANS.

Corkman owners charged $1.3 million of fines for

the illegal demolition of 160-year-old pub.

The Constitution of Australia never has, and to-

date still does not, protect

basic human rights or offer protection against racial discrimination.

CORKMAN SITE SITS AS

A PILE OF DEBRIS, CON-

TAINED BY A SHEETS OF

FABRIC, WEIGHED DOWN

BY USED TYRES. A RUG

OVER OUR COLONIALIST PAST AND A NEW SLATE

FOR HOW WE MAY WRITE

OUR FUTURE.

Fixup City Make Adelaide Great Again!

Aaron Lance Robinson Supervisors: Prof. Ian McDougall & Neil Masterton

I want to Make Adelaide Great Again.

I am sick and tired of Adelaide being 10th in the Global Liveability Index.

I want to make Adelaide Number 1!

I believe if we truly want to fix the city then we need to embrace the role of the Architectural Fixer.

The Architect must become the Fixer, and as such must stringently adhere to the Fixers Handbook. The prophecy which outlines the Fix Up City and the genesis to the three keys of the Fix Up Faith.

- The Architect as The Fixer - The Collector as The Hoarder - And the Analyser as The Googler Each Key is synonymous with the other, in that the Architect needs to google and hoard in order to become the fixer.

In true Fixer style we have used artificial intelligence to collect and rebuild the best parts of the best cities in the world. The collection covers the number 1 destination from the top 9 cities in the world. These collected models are not just carbon copies of the original, but rather an enhanced version, of a digital copy, of the real deal.

These new collections of built form blur the boundaries between the real and the imagined.

They are grotesquely poetic and they are made for Adelaide.

We will Make Adelaide Great Again.

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Art as Therapy

Benjamin Hock Yuu Tan Supervisor: Dr. Peter Brew

This major project seeks to explore how the specificity of the individual might be better reflected within the built environment. It imagines an opening of the memory prison that is the NGV archive and the establishment of an artistic institute to examine what is produced and valued through the experience of art.

With 95% of the NGV’s collection hidden away, the project adopts Alain De Botton’s theory that there is potential for art to be utilised as a therapeutic tool. One that can guide, exhort and console its viewers. A theory that brings into question the point of a public repository that is hidden from the public.

Through the project, mechanisms were designed to repurpose parts of the typical archive and gallery. Beginning to define spaces, they explore new ways of using and interacting with art, changing and multiplying the frames through which we view the works.

If the crowd curated the exhibition by their needs and desires.

If the artworks were called up on demand.

The exhibit would become a barometer of the city’s mood.

An ever shifting reaction to events, to people, to itself. A form of intelligence.

The project imagines ways that crowds, the modern city, psychiatrist couches, bedrooms, galleries, experiences and mental operations could be reconfigured. As places that teach the moral dimensions of life; as places in play.

This project suggests that things can change, by seeing everything as being in consideration, by changing what we see as fixed and what moves.

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Reform

Dominic Shigeo Tanaka Van de Ven Supervisor: Nick Bourns

This project sentences the former H.M. Prison Pentridge to holistic institutional reform.

It is an immodest proposal that manifests the site’s former condition in a contemporary urban context. Taking custody over the ideas, questions and expectations of prison reform in order to critique and reinterpret its built legacy.

Through urban strategies, it aims to address future growth and material preservation across a spectrum of ideals. The project intertwines these themes, creating an architectural narrative. Acting as deployed density and public infrastructure. For community interests and development ambition. Respecting history or exploiting it for personal gain.

This thesis speculates upon how the ideologies of reform may come to author the architecture of site. To do so, it makes explicit the ingrained contradictions of punishment and rehabilitation. Balancing these two ideologies through the project. It informs an architecture that takes responsibility for the elephant in the room, rather than cutting the ground out from under it and calling it a day.

Ultimately, this project culminates in the trial of place. It makes explicit the tensions of a contested development site. Playing out the tragic urbanisation of one of Victoria’s forgotten “public infrastructures” – its 170-yearold colonial detention system. It’s an attempt to write forward, through the architectural project, the intensity of collective life within the two-kilometre bluestone perimeter.

It is a vision for the site that makes persistent and forebodingly present the collective memory of incarceration.

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the recidivists

The Recidivists

Kelvin Rolando Urbina Supervisor: Peter Bickle

There are some roguish characters that hang around Springvale, The Recidivists. Some of these characters have had the nerve to congregate on a site just outside the suburb centre. They have arranged themselves as an astronomy precinct and in their haste to find a language of architectural form, reached out to familiar objects and suburban forms.

They, who were once observations of the daggy residue of the suburb, have transformed themselves into observatories and exhibition spaces and a planetarium.

Their form driven from a perceived personality derived from the observations and the exploration of architectural qualities that morph a building into a ‘character’.

It’s hard to tell with such a rabble, but it seems the characters have manifested with the intention to become a playful introspection of the suburb that stares back just a little.

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The Thing, The Thing, The Thing Christian Lionis Supervisor: Dr Peter Brew

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“THE THING WITH NO NAME” (2019)

Patent number: 12, 189, 776

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(29) METHOD FOR RECOGNISING AND MAKING SPACE

AVAILABLE FOR USE. (36) Christian Lionis, Peter Brew.

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Correspondence address: 12080B No Pl, Melbourne VIC 3000

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The Thing, The thing, the thing

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2019, Ink on 200gsm paper satin finish, Faro scanner, hard work The Thing, The thing, the thing aims to recognise the architectural project as property - with the aim to elucidate a potential for architecture to achieve greater affect than architectural objects generally allow. By doing so, the project recognises the power of architecture as authorship in relation to the acquisition and use of existing material - in this case, a collection of quasi-natural entities are recognised as a thing, which is ‘authored’ by the project. This, in turn, allows it to become useful and recognised - to enter into thought - to exist. The project is against the tireless filling of voids and the pushing of ideas into matter, rather it aims to allow for thought to be reavealed from The Thing.

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Given that the politics of architecture as purely production is becoming increasingly entangled with climate destruction & inequality, we invest our hope instead in the vast amount of existing material available to us.

By making the sublime un-authored object available to us, we recognise architecture as more than an additive function, an architecture of preservation, subtraction or recognition.

With the supervision of Peter Brew.

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The Agency of Space

Samuel Peter Kakkoufas Supervisor: Ian Nazareth

This major project embarks on a journey through space and time to explore how a city can regenerate itself, through augmenting its own internal dynamics and logics. The project investigated how cities can catalyse their own metamorphoses and the agency of new program in the articulation of the existing, negotiating the city’s orthodoxies and hierarchies.

My thesis explores the agency of space through a distributed campus of the Australian Space Agency in Adelaide. It speculates on the burgeoning space industry and what the public interface of this will be, and therefore architecture’s role in this extraordinary quest. The project seeks adjacencies and alliances with universities, research institutions, commercial enterprise, totems of capitalism and the everyday life of the city, embedding itself in the public realm of Adelaide.

The cathartic agency of architecture is deployed across Colonel Lights grid. It draws reference to the terra nullius of Adelaide that can be charged by the growing science, innovation and space industry (extra terra nullius) to encourage porous innovation and collaboration amongst public and private domains.

The ambition is to create an inclusive anti-silo architecture that frames the city’s history and taps into its existing fabric. With the aim of fostering a relationship between the space industry and the public, the project challenges the status quo through inciting progress and difference and differentiation.

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The Essendon Plan

Rhys Owen Mcfarlane Supervisor: A/Prof Graham Crist

The Essendon Plan explores the possibilities of working within current Victorian planning controls and re-testing a closed suburban neighbourhood with a secret vibrant culture hidden by fences and locked doors. Amongst the constricting planning rules for height, setbacks, overshadowing are a set of permitted land uses that paint a vivid portrait of a suburb. I uncovered this other permitted image with an architecture that is flamboyant, communal and participatory.

The project is an antidote to the closed and monotonous suburb. It retains the suburban form and private land ownership model but investigates how the house can become more open and public. It deals with uncommon uses mixed into a house. It extends the logic to the street as a way to increase green space, decrease bitumen and consequently decrease street traffic. It comprises of modifying a street and designing 6 houses, situated near an intersection. These houses are titled “Goat House”, “Wise House”, “Sacred House”, “Shop House”, “Pool House” and “Remedy House”. This proposal sits on a threshold between gentle and radical change, between the perpetual present and the unrecognisable future. It is a transition and catalyst for questions on how to continue functioning within what exists, and to push away from the norm. It is a transitional utopia.

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Phasing Network

Nelson Ling Voo Teo Supervisors: Georgina Karavasil & Vicki Karavasil

With the increasing population in Southbank, civic precincts with large footprints are no longer viable without compromising urban experiences.

Southbank, an assemblage of blanketed facades and privatised developments, exerts a request for centralised civic zones for the people.

Phasing Network speculates on this condition in a vertical typology, phasing the relationship of architecture and urbanism by introducing a phase shift that recombines them into a singular organism.

This phase shift exaggerates the extent of blurring boundaries and translates ‘urbanistic’ ideas and qualities into a series of privatised precincts that are phased between emergent civic interventions and re-adaptations of existing infrastructure.

Through the application of a process driven methodology, the project adapts to different user groups. Their experiences are heightened within the narration of journey across multiple conditions influenced through urban conditions observed in Shibuya’s Crossing. The urban conditions of curbs, edges, and roads are a metaphor for a phasing governance as it reconvienes into a vertical architecture typology, enabling the emergence of programmatic arrangements such as waiting zones through behaviours of attraction, congregation and dispersal within the parameters of the site context.

Multilayered transversing is a reflection to Shibuya’s underground train network system, however flipped vertically to cascade as civic connectors between individual precincts.

Phasing Network complements in height to its surroundings, yet juxtaposes with ‘urbanistic’ conditions conditions programmatically distributed to phase into a tessellated network of architecture.

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The Unknown World – City of the Death Wilson Febriyan Supervisor: Ian Nazareth

An unknown world – city of the DEATH is a project that speculate towards the future typology of the funeral home. The project is based on the question, “Is death something as important as a birth?”

This typology has existed to perform especially in celebrating death. A funeral home is like a city hub, both for the mourners and dead people. We go to funeral homes to gather and celebrate with someone we know, yet sometimes we don’t. Therefore, in the future a funeral home will have a big potential to be categorised as a new civic space for the city.

The testing ground to challenge this funeral typology is located in Surabaya, Indonesia. This country acknowledges five different religions and has a strong religion base. Thus, my major project proposes a funeral home that acts as a secular space. Something that is no longer attached to religions, a space that embraces the idea of death itself not the religions. In order to achieve this, and to bring all the elements and characteristics from the surrounding area into the inside.

The result is a new funeral home that feels like an urban park where everyone feels familiar. A hybrid funeral home that exists to serve everyone. Not only the mourners, but the public also get to experience the impact from the building. An urban park that has a quality of ambiguous spaces to questioning each visitor towards their quality of spiritual life.

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Zebraphant

Ho Ching Wong Supervisor: Patrick Macasaet

Zebraphant, an equilibrium when politics build into architecture. It is a creative precinct in the Eastern end of West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong as a constructive engagement which I define as a critical reconstruction of a junction from local culture to high culture; from de-sinicization to re-sinicization.

Zebraphant is an Architecture of Hope. A spiritual symbol of the freedom of expression, an open platform for the exchange of ideas, a sense of cultural relief, a breeding ground of local culture cycle, and a re-celebration of Hong Kong’s vanishing and vanished local culture. It represents ‘hope in a metaphor, the metaphor to fight.’ It is to acknowledge the importance of metaphor in the battle of defending our local culture, our value of freedom of speech and protecting us from living in ‘white terror’. It is a ‘self-help precinct’ that allows the younger generation to know what politics is - what is the real Hong Kong from all perspectives is, from a bottom to top approach. Wrestling with these metaphors is important. It is a spirit of hope to intervene, following the result of the reconciliation of forces that continuously adapt to various unforeseen conflicts, and contradictions through society.

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The ’18 Stairs’

Pengyan Chen Supervisor: Dr. John Doyle

The ’18 Stairs’ is an experimental project that seeks to retrofit the urban field condition through an investigation of the fine grid system in the large civic infrastructure.

This investigation consists of a range of typological study and the testing of the scale shift from small to large, focusing on how a traditional typology could be mutated into a new architectural language. The objects are generated by a collection of vernacular stilted houses in Chongqing. Elements are unpacked and repacked to assemble a new object. The flatness of the field creates a public urban corridor for the city, constructing a new masterplan with injected shared sports fields.

It also intends to explore the balance between urban context and human activity. The aggregation of the stilted houses provides a special hierarchy within the urban context. The tiny scale stilted houses are repeatable on the site, creating an inverse of the megastructure in the city. This argues the layout of small scale density between large scale context. The massive grid of new stilted houses is essentially an integral large structure, which creates a strip of civic infrastructure that serves the surroundings.

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looking In, LOOKING OUT!

the civic notion of saturated youth justice centre PUBLIC PARKING ENTRANCE

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Looking In, Looking Out! The Civic Notion of Saturated Youth Justice Centre

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The old building bricks are recycled to build the surface as A manifesto to break the traditional sense of imprisonment! and the solid materiality provides safe feelings for the general public. The building form integrates with the ground. it's flat to be occupiable and allow fluid movement as a civic plaza. The strip texture design changes from landscape feature to glazing roof which merges the ground and the building, guiding people to move inside. From the furniture scale to buiding scale, the gradation of form scales blurs the boundary of spaces, encouraging discoveries and encounters with various activities.

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Roof Panels: The gradation of brick panels and glazing panels increase the daylight within the building.

"There's not a day goes

by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, or because you think I should.

I look back on the way I was then, a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime.

I want to talk to him.

I want to try and talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are."

Public involvement also means the youth justice centre can work as a self-beneficial institut which does not need to rely on government fundings or be the money maker for private companies.

Roof Structure

Public Lecture

New Justice Forms

7p.m. 21/06/2019 Lecture Hall, New Civic Youth Justice Centre

Professor X: "What could a restorative facility look like in the future? Is it possible to dream of another way incorporating more rewarding results from progmatic and formal perspective? May this new type of facility benefit both of the young offenders and the general pulbic as a spatial and formal public space? ..."

Roof: Stripe windows, hardscape and green space reduce the massive volume sense of the building.

Re-evaluate the value of isolation and interaction within incarceration facilities.

Traditionally imprisonment means separation with the outside world but interaction with other inmates. It leads to issues like prison-subculture or difficulty to rejoin society.

Upper Floor: "Grounds managers''" office and the "deck" which observes, detects and records the operation of the facility.

Typical Accommodation Floor: Individual "cabin" has a big glazing window for sights to the plaza and the city and soft material finish, helping the "fresher" to reflect the value of ordinary life.

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Ground Floor: A serious of public programs drive the "visitor" circulation to engage with the facility. The interaction between "freshers" and "visitors" are voluntary and at different levels.

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Basement: The radial layout design keeps various programs close to the central hall, where "freshers" and "grounds managers" share the same quality of space. This design increases equal sense and helps to build a respectful atmosphere.

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landscape design: Landforms merge with the building forms, which blurs the scale of furniture and building.

The water feature, hardscape and green space also help to form the saturated condition.

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The idea here is to do the opposite: using private accommodation space to keep each inmate safe when they are alone and keep everyone connected with the community when they are together.

By doing this, rchitecture design may help reduce negative prisonsubculture and keep their existing social connections for a better transition.

The saturated condition encourages spatial discoveries and encounters. It helps the "visitors" see something beyond their initial recognition about the "freshers."

Now architecture does not have to be the middle point between penal philosophy and re-offending behaviours.

Space becomes the carrier for both the attitude and the outcome which can interchange seamlessly.

Can incarceration form has a soul?

Buildings send messages to both "freshers" and "grounds manager" about how they are expected to act and particularly for incarceration facility, how they can expect to be treated. The signals that emanate from the quality of their environment will have an effect on the "freshers" who, after no more than a few years, will once again regain their places in the community. The answer to the question 'Can design changes behaviour?' is that design can certainly help to change behaviour, and denying this means leaving a potentially powerful instrument unused.

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Meanings in different places can be hard to provide for everyone. But that's no excuse not to try.

The answer to the question “Can design change behaviour?”; yes, design can certainly help change behaviour. As future architects, there is no excuse not to try!

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FOOTY PLAZA

How do you engage the public as visitors without recognising the notion of justice?

Based on a procedural design methodology, the outcome of this project is not a result of one experiment, but many explorations. Each one tackles a specific issue and together set a new dialogue between the youth justice centre and community. Not only the way you look in, but also the way they look out.

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Bricks down!

Traditionally, isolation has been the main form of incarceration to justice-involved youngsters. However, research shows that the ‘lock them up’ approach cannot eliminate youth crime, and instead, increases the chance of recidivism. To move on from 200 years ago, we need to have a new reading of the type and rethink the way we describe the habitats. A new lexicon on youth justice centres is created as the linguistic saturation, contributing to civic life, building positive relationships, sparking durable civic engagement among voluntary participants.

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Yichen Yang Supervisor: Patrick Macasaet

The project intends to question the fundamental notion of incarceration in juvenile justice through an exploration of an architectural saturated condition.

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"The good fit" between the people and the place, the physical layout, the programs and the attitudes.

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'Freshers' are encouraged to build new skills, to be exposed to new ideas, to stretch their thinking and even domonstrate mastery and seek advise from the visitors and grounds managers. By shifting the framing of justice-involved youth from villain or victim to resource, the Centre strives to break down the isolation and distinction between these freshers and peers and sends the message that all are part of the same community.

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Obscure Knowledge

Dylan Thomas Findlay Supervisor: Dr. Christine Phillips

Obscure Knowledge, proposes alternative perspectives to existing architectures of Wilcannia. It is a provocation, exploring knowledge as a medium which possesses agency to skew and distort existing understandings, presenting new terms to read the present.

This is not an explicit building, instead I invite you to read this project through the imaginative potential which lies in a way of perceiving and acknowledging the unknown forces of place. I question and challenge existing and normative architectural frameworks, dislodging understanding to make way for new design approaches.

I question the stability of the existing, its fidelity to abide by logics of construction of gravity and of knowledge, as it has been shared with me through Indigenous Knowledge holders, photographic recordings and personal experiences.

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Object No. 20

Aaron James Hall Supervisor: A/Prof. Grahram Crist

What is Object 20?... Well, it’s a park… an urban park being a pretty open-ended place to hang around.

Object 20 is a composition of landscapes. It holds varying spatial experiential qualities through the assembly of structure, sampled elements, colour, light, iconography and the composition of architectural form…

Object 20 is also a single drawing some cinematic screen images… and a small book. Object No. 20 is developed and described by exploiting those media.

Its architecture considers the question of autonomy through the suppression of conventional architectural function, designed without the usual architectural crutches.

Object No. 20 is developed through ideas of abstraction through the process of sampling non-abstract elements, and ideas of architectural space to form a set of characteristics which give it experiential qualities detached from use. Object No. 20 considers reframing elemental components through dematerialisation and ambiguity of concrete fragments detached from location.

The spatial qualities, being the main focus, are controlled through a symmetrical overall form; graded transparency, porosity, and partial shelter. Objects 1 to 19 also informed this process. Working out how to use Object no. 20, and where to locate it, are future tasks for its inhabitants.

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UPTOWN GOOD TIME PARTY ATHLETIC CLUB 업

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View From The Laneway - From Ignored Laneway to Good Time Sports Club

View From Chango Korean BBQ - Interaction Between Eating and Sporting

View From Sky Bridge Above the Laneway - Intimate Community Sport Court

Uptown Good Time Party Athletic Club View From Empire Tower Swimming Pool - Outside and Inside - "We Are Playing Together !"

Zheyi Xue Supervisors: Helen Duong & Tim Pyke

Melbourne is a multicultural city with an increasing overseas population, who are more likely to become segregated from the social activities because of the language and cultural barrier. As an “international language”, sport is a good way to help break barriers and build connectivity. This project aims to investigate the potential for the laneways to embrace sport and community spaces that engages with the city texture and daily routine, allowing people to participate in physical entertainment and social networking.

View From Empire Tower Apartment - Staying at Home, Still Link to The Urban Life

The project is located in the laneway between A’beckett Street and Little La Trobe Street, which is surrounded by high-rise apartment complexes. By inserting multi-use sporting facilities in different scales, this project amplifies the exciting and various activities and adjacencies of the existing laneways, reimagining them with a theme of “sports”, with multiple sports occupying part of the laneway. Thus, the previous unused ignored corners become adaptable for events and activities.

View From Abeckett Tower Level 8 Car Park - Multiple Sports happen outside

By fitting sport into Melbourne’s high density and high rise condition, my scheme seeks to reframe the city activities, not only for people on the ground floor but also for those who live in high rise. By lifting sport from ground floor to the tower, it reduces the physical distance between the urban environment and tower residents. It is not only designed for people who are in the project doing the sport, but also for those who are outside watching what’s going on, and they can also be involved.

View From Rmit Basketball Court/Abeckett St - Sports On the Ground, Sports On the Roof

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Après nous, le déluge RAISED HANDRAIL IN ACCORDANCE TO AS.1428.

PLEASE REFER TO YARRA TRAMS -SECTION FLOODING ZONE DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR FURTHER HANDRAIL DETAILS

Yash Ravi Supervisor: Dr. Peter Brew

“After us, comes the flood,” Said by Louis XV in the days leading up to the French revolution. The quote has made its mark through time as a signifier of the crisis of the human condition – an unbearable loneliness, surrounded by nullity.

Part Dolphin, Part Flooding, Part gumboot promotion and a Super Storm-Water Pipe. This page is woven as a tale of a city coping with its own demise staying one tile at a time above the rising waters. There seem to be giant drains and plumbing infrastructures, lifted up tram tracks, re- instated canals and dams, people wearing yellow Melbournian gumboots all in an eerie atmosphere as none of it is enough to stop the over spill of the flood onto the footpaths.

For the past two centuries, the Yarra has gone from being an ecology to a constructed piece of infrastructure.

With the human intention of its use as a catchment, the river has reached its inevitable exhaustion. The Super Storm-Water Pipe is a mega project for the city with the intention of diverting the existing storm water outlets from the river out toward West of Werribee to the treatment farm. This predication therefore gives once again, a glimmer of hope for ecology to co- inhabit amongst our urban environment.

TRAM STOP SEATING TO BE RAISED IN ACCORDANCE TO AS.1428.

PLEASE REFER TO YARRA TRAMS -SECTION FLOODING ZONE DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR FURTHER HANDRAIL DETAILS

Melbourne’s Agenda 21 Super Storm Drain under the Yarra river.

SUPER STORM DRAIN DETAIL

THE MELBOURNE TILE FRIEZE

EARTHING BOX

RAISED TRAM TRACK DETAIL

There is a sense of a script being re-written here in which architecture is taking a more active response toward non-human agendas through a conscious enquiry of nonanthropocentric intelligences which seem to have their own intentions usually quite different to ours.

FLOODWATER BACKWASH STOP TO BE INSTALLED PLEASE REFER TO YARRA TRAMS -SECTION FLOODING ZONE DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR FURTHER HANDRAIL DETAILS

SELECTED TILES TO BE LAID ON TOP OF EXISTING TILES TO ACHIEVE A MINIMUM CLEARENCE OF 50mm FROM FLOOD WATER

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How does nature exactly imagine the city?

here is a sense of a script being re-written here n which architecture is taking a more active response toward non human agendas n through the consious inquiry of non- anthropocentric intelligences.

or the last two centuries, the Yarra has gone from being an ecology to a constructed piece of infrastructure. With the human ntention of its use as a catchment, its has reached its inevidable exhaustion. The super storm pipe is a mega project for the city with he intention of giving hope for ecology to co-inhabit amongst our urban enviornment.

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After us, comes the flood. Said by Louis XV in the days prior to the French revolution. The quote has made its mark through time as the signifier of the crisis of the human condition - an unbearable loneliness,surrounded by nullity.

art Dolphin, Part Flooding and a super storm water drain. This page is woven s a tale of a city coping with its own demise staying ne tile above the rising waters.

YEAR 2023

How do we register the fact that there are intelligences beyond ourselves which have their own agenda?

And that our aloofness to them makes us quite dangerous?

Does ecology become the means of understanding something intrinsic within ourselves?

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YEAR 2018

How can we co-habit along with other species without interventions of drastic proportions?

Urban Collisions

Alejandro Martinez Supervisor: Dr. John Doyle

This project represents the aspiration of an inclusive, vibrant developing city. Urban Collisions suggests an alternative planning scheme method at strategically targeted sites for urban activation and urban renewal. In this instance, Bogota has been chosen as a case study seeking to tackle issues of homelessness, commerce, education, and mobility through a programmatic strategy.

I have taken this approach in two steps. Firstly, I used multi-agent modelling techniques as an organisational strategy in order to find points of intensification for potential sites of regeneration and reactivation. Secondly, I made a series of observations at a one-to-one scale to understand how to intervene. For example, the relationship of the city centre and graffiti and colonial buildings, or the relationship of buildings and water, or the relationship of church and plaza, and the ephemeral and informal qualities of the street markets. These identified observations were used as an effect of a formal urban collision.

The ambition of this project is to develop a methodology which, in effect allows for urban regeneration to take place by using a vernacular or typological language that is endemic to its place.

The representations on this panel are architectural realisations of the planning scheme being applied to the existing urban fabric. This should be understood as representations or visualisation that might accompany a master planning scheme.

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Persistence

Arjuna Arundell Padmanabhan Benson Supervisor: Simone Koch

Peter Eisenman described Anti Memory as “The making of a place that derives its order from the obscuring of its own recollected past.” He was referring to specific conditions in European cities that had come about in the city’s history as a result of political events an architectural actions. Melbourne, on the other hand, knows nothing else. Its very structure is anti-memorial.

Within the grid, novel forms and radical programs whether built or proposed - are rendered into bits of difference that make no difference. Contrast this to cities whose forms and structures have developed under many different socioeconomic frameworks. Aggregations of form have significance independent of either initial program or subsequent use. In the ancient cities of Asia and Europe, these persistent forms shape subsequent inhabitation of the city and serve as registers of its memory.

I am proposing a virtual and physical aggregation of form upon which is inscribed the history and unrealised futures of the city. It is both a register of the city’s past, as well as a structure against and within which the city will continue to develop. How the form relates to the different part of the city - in this case, the Hoddle Grid, Federation Square and the Domain Parklands - depends on the specific antimemorial strategy that each of these parts and structures impose upon the city.

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DANCE HALL

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South Melbourne is a place with a rich history, which is losing its cultural thickness because of the relatively static environment allowing for very little change. The heritage protections that are in place have the effect of holding the place at a particular time without providing the circumstance for continuous evolution. In addition, the people who once created and experienced its history, those that could translate its stories, have long gone.

South Melbourne has thick experience in its history but the reflection is getting thinner.

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The key idea is to reimagine the site by creating a series of joyous structures as part of a travelling exhibition, in this instance in South Melbourne. The exhibition briefly ignites memories of the past and gathers the specific cultural references that enable the creation of a permanent piece of architecture, contemporary but rich in history. The parameters for the permanent piece are pieced together from the cultural investigations and revelations of the exhibition. The exhibition occupies places that are vacant or have demolished, or voids between existing buildings that may be negotiated with landholders. After the exhibition, the permanent piece will stay in South Melbourne and functions as a dance hall.

The strategy includes a collecting process in urban scale and a reflecting process in architectural scale.

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The first official fish market was built in 1865 at the Flinders Street corner of the approach to Princes Bridge. Increased health regulations and congestion saw the market moved to new premises, designed by Robert George Fish Gordonmarket - complete with railway access for fish cargoes, and unique refrigeration and freezing chambers - on the south side of Flinders The first official fish market built streets in 1865 Street between Market and was Spencer at the Flinders Street corner of the approach in 1892. to Princes Bridge. Increased health regulations and Market congestion the market moved The Fish was saw demolished in 1958 to to newway premises, designed

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Gordon - complete with railway access for fish cargoes, and unique refrigeration and freezing chambers - on the south side of Flinders Street between Market and Spencer streets in 1892.

For more than 100 years Victoria’s towering wheat silos have defined the state’s rural landscape. Silo art which is prevail in recent years brings energy into struggling rural communities.

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For more than 100 years Victoria’s towering wheat silos have defined the state’s rural landscape. Silo art which is prevail in recent years brings energy into struggling rural communities.

The Fish Market was demolished in 1958 to make way for a second rail viaduct.

Canvas Town During the Victorian Gold Rush of 1851 a tent city, known as Canvas Town was established. The area soon became a massive slum, home to tens of thousands of migrants from around the world.

In 1890s, a photo pictured a canvas shop in Canvas Town the Australian bush was found and showed us the possible life in canvas town.

During the Victorian Gold Rush of 1851 a tent city, known as Canvas Town was established. The area soon became a massive slum, home to tens of thousands of migrants from around the world.

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For more than 100 years Victoria’s towering wheat silos have defined the state’s rural landscape. Silo art which is prevail in recent years brings energy into struggling rural communities.

During the Victorian Gold Rush of 1851 a tent city, known as Canvas Town was established. The area soon became a massive slum, home to tens of thousands of migrants from around the world.

In 1890s, a photo pictured a canvas shop in the Australian bush was found and showed us the possible life in canvas town.

The Fish Market was demolished in 1958 to make way for a second rail viaduct.

Portable iron house

Black and white terrazzo tiles

South Melbourne landscape

“In the ‘30s when the economy started to pick up and there were more jobs available, people were receptive... to having a good time. And one of the areas that we see that, particularly in Melbourne, was the dancehalls. There were Dance numeroushouse dancehalls, many of them in Art Deco styling. And this was a wonderful way for people to get together and have a good time.”“In the Grow ‘30s when the economy started to pick Robin up and there were more jobs available, people were receptive... to having a good time. And one of the areas that we see that, particularly in Melbourne, was the dancehalls. There were numerous dancehalls, many of them in Art Deco styling. And this was a wonderful way for people to get together and have a good time.”Robin Grow

The corrugated iron houses in South Melbourne are extremely rare surviving examples of portable housing from the 1850’s.

The Royal Arcade is Melbourne’s and Australia’s oldest surviving shopping arcade. In 1934, the original Castlemaine flag floor was replaced with black and white square concrete floor tiles, which in turn were later replaced by Black and black white terrazzo tilestiles. better quality and white terrazzo

One of Melbourne’s oldest suburban areas with well-preserved street landscape.

South Melbourne landscape

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The Royal Arcade is Melbourne’s and Australia’s oldest surviving shopping arcade. In 1934, the original Castlemaine flag floor was replaced with black and white square concrete floor tiles, which in turn were later replaced by better quality black and white terrazzo tiles.

One of Melbourne’s oldest suburban areas with well-preserved street landscape.

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While the floods were rising, we tried to maintain a cash flow by moving vegetables by boat and by devising a flying fox.

Flood prone towns and communities knew weeks or months ahead it was coming, but how high would it be?

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Black and white terrazzo tiles

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1956 Flood

“In the ‘30s when the economy started to pick up and there were more jobs available, people were receptive... to having a good time. And one of the areas that we see that, particularly in Melbourne, was the dancehalls. There were numerous dancehalls, many of them in Art Deco styling. And this was a wonderful way for people to get together and have a good time.”Robin Grow

The corrugated iron houses in South Melbourne are extremely rare surviving examples of portable housing from the 1850’s.

The Royal Arcade is Melbourne’s and Australia’s oldest surviving shopping arcade. In 1934, the original Castlemaine flag floor was replaced with black and white square concrete floor tiles, which in turn were later replaced by better quality black and white terrazzo tiles.

One of Melbourne’s oldest suburban areas with well-preserved street landscape.

Luna Park: In the years before World War I, the park was a great success.

Really, who still uses them?

Many people evacuated their homes and were taken to the Mildura migrant camp where flood evacuees were stationed. Half the camp’s population of over 200 people during the flood period came from Wentworth and district.

They also demonstrate early prefabrication methods developed as a result of the Industrial Revolution that dramatically streamlined the process of building construction throughout Australia and the world

Cyclorama: The cyclorama emerged in the 1700s and became a popular form of entertainment.

Travelling DarkRoom: A photographer was travelling with his darkroom on wheels, 1859.

Boxing Kangaroo: It is one that dominates many people’s perceptions of this iconic Australian animal.

In the 1980s and ‘90s, the phone was an appliance. In 2014, according to the Australian Communications and Media Authority, only 9 per cent of Australians reported having used a public phone.

To the metro dweller, the phone box has become a cultural oddity. By their very design, public phone users appear shifty, their backs turned, isolated from the mob. Members of the mobile community, by contrast, have nothing to hide.

While the floods were rising, we tried to maintain a cash flow by moving vegetables by boat and by devising a flying fox.

Flood prone towns and communities knew weeks or months ahead it was coming, but how high would it be?

Badolato, a Triptych

Eulalie Lenna Trinca Supervisor: Nick Bourns

Badolato, a Triptych explores how architecture can mediate three cultural groups, creating a monument to a culture which doesn't exist yet. Using Badolato, a small hill town in the depressed south of Italy as a testing ground, this project grapples with regional depopulation and migration as local worlds are shaped by global cultures.

The project seeks to give architectural expression to the town’s struggle to simultaneously maintain its dying heritage, host an influx of refugees and tap into the tourism machine. The three protagonists; the Local, the Tourist and the Refugee, vie within the public space.

The tourist experience is characterised by the hyper Italian. A theme park conglomeration of Italy’s greatest hits, anachronistic in the medieval town. While the refugee seeks out representations of home, finding welcome in a new landscape. The Badolatesi draw upon their heritage, with a modernised but intensely local architectural identity.

Through this pluralistic architecture of mediated cultures, can a dying town gain new life?

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Longevity Village

Long Cheng Supervisors: Helen Duong & Tim Pyke

DEMENTIA RESIDENT_WAKE UP IN HIS ROOM

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DEMENTIA RESIDENT_WALKING IN THE LANDSCAPE GARDEN

VISITOR_WINDOW FRAME VIEW

As an already practising Chinese Architect, I am aware that I will be returning to China where big cities continue to lose their identity. I am aware that I need to find a way of inheriting traditions of Chinese building and architecture and translating them into a modern Architectural language.

With around 400,000 Chinese migrants in Victoria from various areas across Asia, one of the most significant problems for the Chinese community in Australia is still the language problem. As elderly Chinese people who have never learnt to speak English properly approach ageing and dementia, there lacks places for belonging and cultural memory. Courtyard types and the spatial hierarchy are one of the most important parts of the Chinese traditional building language. The Beijing Siheyuan was chosen as the original type for this project as Beijing and Melbourne share the same Latitude and as such weather quality.

This project utilises local materials of the rural corrugated shed and rural house type and composes them through the rules and relationships of the siheyuan and combines this with the ideas of viewing through walls in the Chinese traditional garden. Elderly people walk out of their rooms in this aged care home to enjoy fresh air, wind, shadow, light and sunshine.

RESIDENT_WALK INTO THE COURTYARD

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Happiness can be felt by the inhabitants here as spaces are culturally familiar. It provides opportunities for Chinese migrants to share their experiences and life with each other and the next generation.

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Healthberg

Ziyu Meng Supervisor: Anna Jankovic

Healthberg is a proposal for a health and wellness civic spine. It aims to provide a series of new public offerings that encourage a community focus of health and wellness. This urban scale intervention moves beyond the current focus on individual health treatment precinct. It is defined by the correlation between wellness, sense of place, landscape and its community.

Starting with capitalising on the connection with the existing Yarra River cultural precinct, walk track to the hospital and train station, create the civic corridor that weaves Heidelberg key public transport to the adjacent park-lands. Learning from the existing site condition, to generate a set of contours and create different walking tracks of the Healthberg spine to acts as the connector between all the wellness and health programs.

This Civic Intervention is an oasis in the middle of Heidelberg, that does not only act as a green lung to the site, health-endorsing project, but also as a place where it brings together the community as one, as a healthier one.

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Chenxi Yang Supervisor: Patrick Macaset

The ambition of the project is to explore a procedural method using urban ingredients as generator, to create a new civic space for the public with respect to urban context and regional feature; and to redefine the railway station typology in the context of Chinese condition of homogenous railway infrastructure and type.

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As the city originated from the construction of the Chinese eastern railway transportation hub by Russia, Harbin’s urban grids expanded around the station and showed diverse street spatial arrangements in the special historical background. Accompanied with a series of historical legacies, urban expansion routes and local geographic elements, these urban ingredients from Harbin show their potentials to be reorganised and composed to generate new architectural spaces and form.

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The project not only gives the space back to the public, but also provides passengers and the public with more possibilities to participate in civic life. Regionalism is amplified and cultural communications are catalysed.

EXITS LEVEL PLATFORMS

By using a procedural method with the speculation of paralleling different spatial arrangements to diverse spatial qualities for civic space, the project explores the transformation of specific urban blocks into multilayered architectural spaces composed of urban ingredients to reflect urban context. And to transform the existing railway station type with issues of isolation and homogenisation into an open and connected civic container of regional feature.

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COMMERCIAL DISTRICT SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE

White Noise Generating a New Architecture Language For PostColonial Shanghai Jia Li Supervisor: Dr. Jan van Schaik

What is the character of Shanghai, and how does this character contribute to the new buildings for the next generation.

This project explores the colonial architectural elements as the character of Shanghai In order to generate a new type of architecture for the elderly, as the ageing population has become a serious issue worldwide.

Inspired by fuzzy screen, a new generating process is produced to reimagine the HSBC building. The new outcome combines the original colonial elements of the HSBC building with amphibolous form. It plays up the contrast between variation and reputation, the traditional and the contemporary.

This project also proposes a new vision for the future life of the elderly. Based on the Chinese living style and variety of family structure, a high degree of co-housing living layout can be applied in this project. Instead of clearly defining the private and public, this project will be sharing the balcony, kitchen, working space and living space. These shared spaces will enhance the connection between the neighbours by sharing and moving.

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Mirror of Georgetown

Chengyi Ding Supervisor: Ian Nazareth

Mirror of Georgetown adopts Penang’s UNESCO heritage listed clan jetty and its surrounding shophouses as ground zero for testing out how the modern twentieth century urban growth could be engulfed by the past, by interrupting and re-framing the modern city and to achieve a different approach to revitalise the social, cultural and architectural diversities which once was prevalent in the old communities.

While de-territorialisation of small villages due to globalisation and commercialisation of place is a common phenomenon, boundaries that define places and their identities get thinned out. The unique character and sense of place of small villages dissipate amidst the globalised urban environments. The Clan Jetties of Georgetown in Penang is one example of such a condition.

Ground Floor - Workshop + Library

Second Floor - Willow Breeding Centre

What if we could change all this? By reintroducing the past into modern Penang, inviting the concept behind the clan jetties which could possibly bring back the communities that once stood proud. Bleeding and adapting what work back then into the multi-level dying modern communities and rejecting the typical development model within the urban centre by applying the old into the new. This move would retain and amplify the existing phenomenon and civic vibrancy of Penang within the conditions of commercially driven urban model.

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The Bridge Initiative

Menghao Yuan Supervisor: Prof. Alisa Andresek

At the dawn of a mass application of artificial intelligence and implementation of 5G communication networks, approaching architecture from an algorithmic and digital point of view has finally been made possible. For the first time in history, the capacity for data collection and processing of mankind has begun to make the connection between architecture and other fields of society occur at such a fundamental level that has never been possible before. Hence the project aims at posing a valid example of the process and outcome of such design methodology.

Specifically in this case, the city of Chongqing, China, has in every aspect transitioned into a higher status with the mass implementation of 5G network and construction of more traffic resources and bridges. Together for the first time a giant urban replanning scheme aimed at turning the city from a gross manufacturing model to a service-industry based model, I looked at how perlin noise together with a multi-agent system can be used as a design tool for generating a pedestrian bridge that spans across the Yangzi River of the city, therefore providing a wide range of public spaces, of which the city of Chongqing is in dire need due to its mountainous landscape.

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Supercity - Nansha

Jiayi Wang Supervisor: Prof. Tom Kovac

In 2015, 17 Sustainable development goals were adopted by all United Nations Members. There is an urgency for us to create a more sustainable way of living for our own future. To reach those goals, individuals, communities and Institutions need to efficiently work together through sharing ideas, knowledge, technologies and financial resources.

Perspective view

This project focusses on creating an economically and environmentally sustainable super city, by creating a dynamic environment that is attractive to international finance, information technologies and production companies. At the same time maintaining the existing marine logistic port. It is aiming to develop a complex adaptive system to deal with the reality of complex, dynamic and an interconnected urban system to cope with the change and uncertainty in ways that build positive resilience and support regenerative design and development. “The future is not finite, that change is inevitable, but that a framework is an important element in allowing that change to happen� - Robert Kronenburg

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Hospitality

Phu Duy Vu Supervisor: A/Prof Grahram Crist

You don’t need to be scared to come to this clinic. Find a comfortable seat next to the pond, or on the edge of the soil bulb, shaded by a tree; play with the friendly dog that you might meet when passing this building.

Waiting for consultation or treatment is a form of Hospitality. This piece of architecture aims to break the prejudices of formal medicine which insists that architecture has to be neat, clean, white, isolated, and serious.

Its own type of medicine, it stands as a symbol of liveness among the busy and rigid community and responds to the public realm with a dose of bio-diversity.

Approaching the original frame of nature, Hospitality seeds the nature and lets it live by itself. If you visit here with any concern of your health, this building will only make sense when you can feel lively and observe the beauty of symbiosis.

This is a modern hanging garden or a grotto for medicine; a building hung onto with wild, messy, mossy nature.

Nurturing nature and sheltered by in nature, the Hospitality clinic strives to grow as if by some process other than ourselves.

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Park Plus

Getting more out of parks in rapidly growing cities

DESIGN ELEMENTS

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Park plus is a project that questions how open public amenities can perform better in rapidly growing urban cities in the future by experimenting with new design principles and approaches. A garden that is not only the pure landscape but also includes sport, recreation services, and some other amenities that will help to activate the garden.

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Flagstaff Gardens has been chosen as a testing ground because of its corner condition between west Melbourne and Melbourne CBD and its location next to Queen Victoria Market, and I believe the market’s redevelopment plan for more public open space should include Flagstaff garden.

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The objective of the project is to activate the northern side of the garden through introducing a new set of diverse programs that are reflective of the site context, and which applies the pluralistic idea of bringing the familiar into new design architecture where people can be easily related and adapted to it.

Not only Flagstaff Gardens, but the same principles can also be applied into all the gardens in the city of Melbourne, garden for future growth with its characteristic and attraction, Park Plus.

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All In Good Taste – Native Food Park Wai Keat Cheong Supervisor: Sean McMahon

Food is an everyday element in our lives, embedded within our urban fabric, and yet is generally not seen more than through the lens of consumption; leaving the other elements of harvesting, production, distribution and waste relatively invisible to our urban eyes.

“All in Good Taste – Native Food Park” explores and proposes an alternative outlook to our current food system; one that aims to challenge and address issues such as the lack in use of native foods in our diets, creating a better transparency and understanding of how food moves through the system, the disconnect between rural and urban Melbourne and the need to increase the amount of localised food networks.

How different would our food system be if staple foods like the Yam Daisy or Cumbumgi were still in existence in the abundance as they once were?

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Super Temple UP

Peiwen Shang Supervisor: Vicky Lam

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Super Temple is a housing project and renewal of Huguoguanyin Temple in the heritage area in the Heart of Beijing. Over the years, the temple had been subdivided and inhabited by residents into a number of small individual living spaces, commercial space and communal spaces. The informal and poor construction fills the infrastructure of the temple to the brim.

Although cramped, it still offers a vibrant and dynamic quality to the temple attracting locals and tourist to use its courtyards and tiny shopfronts to exercise, shop and gather. This project attempts to amplify these adaptations to be both formal and informal, public and private to create a new and improved Super Temple.

Super Temple has the ability to switch from to “Daily Mode� and “Temple Mode� with the use of flexible moveable walls. The informal structures that once fill the temple courtyards is removed and “flipped� into section along the edge of the site to recreate highly visible wall of activity containing apartments for the locals that once lived in the temple structure.

In “ Daily Mode�, restaurants and communal areas bleed out onto the street and temple grounds. Moveable glass walls are used to cater for formal activities, or Temple Mode, where the informal activities are cut off from the temple.

To enhance the ritual procession of the temple , a monumental sculpture for worship is placed at the rear of the project creating a hidden and surprising counterpoint to daily life that surrounds it. Super Temple offers the local residents an upgraded and upscaled version of the inhabited temple that is filled with life of both the spiritual and the everyday.

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The Western Backyard Supervisor: Vicky Lam Student: Zhuqi Hou | s3404339

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Zhuqi Hou Supervisor: Vicky Lam

The Western Backyard is a new residential project area for a community located in Tanhualin, Wuhan, China, a peculiar historical district with a significant number of European architecture erected by Missionaries from 1861.

These buildings established significant social institutions among the local village, resulting in what is now a “Heritage Tourism” district with strange adjacencies of Western Architecture and the local vernacular. The Western Backyard preserves qualities of historical architecture as imprints, fragments, and negatives to achieve varying scales throughout the project. Along with increasing the number of residence in the area, the project also includes a small museum for tourists to learn about the history of the site.

In various moments, public spaces intersect to create a continuous journey for users and visitors of the building.

This project attempts to subvert the internal and external divisions to allow indoor and outdoor communication.

Courtyards and pathways are defined by solid walls mirrored and imprinted from the previous historical buildings opening out to courtyards and communal spaces covered by lightweight open timber canopies.

This project injects within this historical precinct a new residential development that does not merely mimic historical architecture, but creates a fragmented but rich experience of the vernacular architecture and urban experience at the scale of dense and vibrant village with added amenity and structure to expand the network of daily life.

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CITY GROTTO A MODERN BUDDHIST TEMPLE IN HIGH DENSITY CITY YAN SUQING _S3674652 TUTOR: SEAN MCMAHON

City Grotto

Suqing Yan Supervisor: Sean McMahon

This project is a modern Buddhist temple in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong. Sham Shui Po is one of the densest and most vibrant neighbourhoods in Hong Kong. It has a diverse mix of migrants from rural China, working-class families and seniors, with many living in cage homes, subdivided flats and public housing estates. This project is aimed to explore the typology of Buddhist worship space in high density cities. Moreover, it is trying to create a sanctuary for spiritual beliefs in this dynamic while decaying neighbourhood.

My concept comes from the giant grotto Buddha, which is human built giant statue in the mountains with small caves around for practicing Buddhism. In my project, the giant Buddha sits in a “city grotto� made of concrete, and shows his side face from a mountain shaped window on the facade. The building absorbs the rules of traditional Zen Buddhist temples, focusing on the visual and emotional effect that people experience when viewing the Buddha, as well as the journey and sequence that people walk around the Buddha. The expected result is to open up a peaceful spiritual world in vibrant neighbourhoods.

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COMMUNAL DINING HALL

GARDEN COMMUNAL SPACE

COMMUNAL CORRIDOR

Kampong Woodlands AEROPONIC COMMUNAL SPACE

COMMUNAL GARDEN SPACE

FRESH MARKET

Japiere Wei Feng Ooi Supervisor: Dr. Anna Johnson

WOODGROVE DRIVE

The building features communal space of different scale which extends from living space to encourage residents to live in a communal environment. Residents can take a breather in the communal garden or partake in agriculture activities in the aeroponic garden which is designed to foster bonds through these interactions.

Private spaces are also designed in various scale so that it does not compromise the need for comfort and privacy.

WOODGROVE DRIVE

Kampong woodlands is the convergence of the past and present day of Singapore. It is a modern adaptation of a kampong which provokes the monotonous built form and living conditions of HDB blocks. It embraces the culture of a garden city and kampong spirit through communal living, providing a respite from the agony of isolation in an urban cell.

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Kampong woodlands epitomises the absolute morality of love that precedes economic growth as society progresses. Residents shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

It is not a cure for social isolation, but merely a vessel to accommodate a modern adaptation of kampong spirit.

FORM PROCESS

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10m

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Site mass offsetting 10m from site boundary to allow for setback with a height of 50m to accomodate 13 levels.

Kampung houses silhouette intersecting with the mass creating voids for communal space and aeroponic gardens.

Mass split in half to 2 blocks of residential scaled unit blocks. This creates a central circulation that runs through the centre of the building and also open up as a connecting path to adjacent street.

Divide blocks up to 13 level each height of 3m while a ground floor that is elevated 5m from ground

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Mass split through centre dividing into 4 blocks into scaled units which created different size of communal space within the voids.

Adjusting each levels to create floor slab that is inspired by rice terraces plantation.

CIRCULATION

24:12:365

Jasmine Chan Supervisor: Ian Nazareth

URBAN PROCESSES

BUILDING PROCESSES

SECTION 1:200

A city is not an ideal place for permanent living. For many people, a home is a symbol of permanence and security but not for the urban nomads. The urban nomads move from a place to another in a city in search of education and job opportunities. There is a lack of aspiration to put down roots and ownership, rather a desire for living experience and exploration in them. The influx of nomads contributing to the growth of a city gives rise to question the most ideal way for temporal living in high density.

The typical property ownership model certainly does not fit the nomadic lifestyles, therefore, the challenge of this project is to redefine the meaning of home for the urban nomads by providing flexible living options according to their duration of stay. When life is not fixated at one location, this project proposes new temporal living typologies that transform the way we cook, rest, interact and work.

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Leitmolif/lower

Chengyu Wu Supervisor: Helen Duong & Tim Pyke

Music, no doubt it is the most basic instinct of all human civilisation. Music can link people together, regardless of background, age and cultural background. This project is based on the relationship between music and architecture and how architecture might mediate and be mediated by the experience of music.

The melody of a traditional Chinese folk Molihua, also knew as Jasmine Flower, is chosen as a leitmotif, a recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation. The original folk song sung by paddy field farmers, Puccini’s Turandot, a rock interpretation and an electronic version. By breaking down the elements (notes, instruments, rhythm, timbre, phrasing, beats...) of four variations of the song, this project explores the potential of translating these elements into physical architectural spaces, in this case circulation corridors.

By taking the experience of time and movement through space, a persons perception of architecture stretches beyond a single visual sense. The experience of rhythm, distance. light and materials are experienced through this movement.

My proposal provides room and space for people to experience music in traditional ways, but also proposes another way to experience music: through an architectural journey. The building is a physical concrete manifestation of the Jasmine Flower motif. Like a music box, it records and restores the memory of music.

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BRUNSWICK BAZAAR

Roof Details

Brunswick Bazaar WINDCATCHER

COLUMN

Melika Owji Supervisor: A/Prof. Grahram Crist

This design is a market place for Brunswick modelled on a Persian Bazaar. In traditional cities in Iran, the main body of the city cannot be defined without the existence of a bazaar. Bazaars connect the different parts of the city and provide bridges between the middle and lower classes of Iranian society.

COURTYARD

COLUMN

Since most Persian bazaars are spatially introverted, even during the day it can be dark inside the covered space.

What makes these corridors special is the radiating light which is emitted into these dark spaces through small skylights in a way that you can follow light radiations through the darkness. It creates a pleasant visual and sensational atmosphere. That is why bazaar is not just a place for commercial purposes many people just walk in to sit, think and enjoy the place. The Brunswick Bazaar aims to re-work the quality of traditional Persian Bazaar from an introverted to a more extraverted type.

While bazaars normally are dense, introverted and narrow corridors, my market tries to open up as much as possible.

Section

The result draws attention to the space above and frames views of the sky which we pass under of every single day.

Day Market

Night Market

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Nursery - First Floor

Residential access

Nursery - Ground Floor

The Space Between

Nicole Catherine Dowling Supervisor: Vicky Lam

This major project looks at a site in central Brunswick, disconnected by pockets of under activated and unusable public spaces, and proposes a city centre that reorganises the block through research into campus models and how they use public space to gain unity. The project catalogues public spaces separate from their campus, from two quite different universities in close proximity. The first, Melbourne University with its categories of: Quadrangle, Oval and Sports field, Lawn, Garden, Courtyard, Path and Plaza. The second RMIT University through its interventions by Peter Elliott’s work and the NAS, producing categories of: Largo, Street, Theatre, Alley, Yard, Courtyard, Balcony, Roof terrace, Arcade and Vertical garden.

The proposal is a pedestrian only block, which prioritises human interaction by freeing up the ground plane, raising the programs, clad in the traditional Brick of Brunswick, onto pilotis. The space in between acts to unify the programs. Its form of sculpture like concrete winds around the inside of the programs intersecting their forms, becoming moments derived from campus elements, i.e. Largo, Arcades etc. These are strategically placed in order to connect the programs internally and externally, allowing interaction. The campus elements combine in places to become new hybrid campus forms.

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Borderless Treasures

Siti Shahnazurawaty Md Shahri Supervisor: Vicky Lam

This project explores the edge conditions of the borders between water, land, and infrastructure. Catered to its location, the project is situated in the city centre of Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. Bandar in itself depicts a portrait of the development of opulent infrastructure superficially stemming from hopeful political aspirations, while at the very heart of the city also lies the lower socioeconomic demographic whom call shriveled timber houses on stilts, their home.

Borderless Treasures is ultimately a new gateway into bridging the past and in building the future of the local identity that has remained on the Brunei river for centuries past. It functions by allowing a platform for the primary school to blend with the community centre, in the name of celebration of tradition and practicality - by making common necessities more accessible. The evolution of design pays heed to our symbolic patterning of the Bruneian Air Muleh which is abstractly infused with our traditional Songket-style weave; the intricacies of which are often being symbolic of one’s social standing.

Hence Borderless Treasurer’s design depicts the poetic juxtaposition of the historical landmark that is the water village, against the foreground of the rest of our ever-changing city centre. The planning of the project also pays much attention to the dynamic between the transparency of walkways and buildings, which further express the intricacies of the nation’s culture through the embossed timber filigree and exploration of one’s surroundings through the varying thick and thin pathways. Overall the project exhibits the potential of designing land on water for the preservation of Brunei’s historic identity.

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Reprogramming Box Hill Son Nguyen Supervisor: Sean McMahon

Box Hill lives up to become Melbourne’s new CBD, with a high number of investments and construction in medium and high density residential and commercial sectors in recent years. However, the development of the infrastructure and healthy public space is not relevant.

Reprogramming Box Hill aims to remedy the existing issues and reactivate Box Hill Central, which is the key public space in the suburb, by connecting infrastructure, reusing abandoned areas on site and creating public space that helps to promote cultural identity.

The project is an application on ephemeral substances, including space, scale, and movement elements. It takes the inspiration from the image of flow, the flow of movement and connection, which is the response to the site problems, as well as an implication for the wave of immigration, to reflect the suburb’s diverse and multicultural area.

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Super City Nansha

Baiyang Wang Supervisor: Prof. Tom Kovac

The site is located at the proposed CBD of the developing district of Nansha in Guangzhou, China.

Nansha has played a big role in the history of the maritime silk road and nowadays it’s still an important port area which connects to the ports all around the world.

Instead of planning a city in the old ways, the growth of new cities is imitated programmed based on current situation and the potential growing speed. The form grows in an asymmetrical way as the buildings have program and memory.

This future city has different functions on different levels, so that it is also a vertical city. Functions such as heavy industry which does not need much sunlight will be at the lower level and living spaces will be located on the upper levels.

The future is not only about advanced technology but also sustainable development. The project has an intelligence skin on top of it to provide solar energy generation, rainwater collection and air-ventilation control. Water and green waste are maximised in this project. There will be livable spaces all around the entire project.

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Nansha Kimi Baiyang Wang

Bridge City

Daihui Gao Supervisor: Dr. Jan van Schaik

The Beijing City grid has been incredibly prolific in its capacity to instantiate archetypes within its orthogonal confines. Yet this grid curtails the capacity for architectural forms to escape the rigid boundaries of the block. This project seeks to provoke new types of interactions between parts of the city formerly separated by the ring road.

For the Second Ring road, once a seat of Chinese modern development, this formal segregation, coupled with a reductive zoning regime, has resulted in a staid, monotonous environment, increasingly devoid of vitality.

This project identified new type of site in Beijing. City Bridge, a composite object, formed of an aggregate of individual constructs and a 300 metre by 300 metre square, floats above the second ring road. The basic form is from the traditional Chinese city form square The project aims to break down the barrier between the ring road and the urban area. It shows China’s massive transport infrastructure.

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Jolimont Park,

Danica Tasia Garizio Supervisor: Dr. Jan van Schaik

The city is a means to a way of life – it can be whatever we want it to be. It can change, and it can change dramatically. As the search for happiness shapes the city, the city shapes the search in return. This project is not about the brand itself, but it’s about what the brand can offer to everyone else.

Apple Inc.s recent Federation Square proposition acts as a catalyst for questioning the correlation between commercialisation, architecture, and the city. Jolimont Park experiments the relocation of the flagship store to the Jolimont Sidings, a site that calls for a unique approach and broad cross-government community commitment and corporate collaboration, whilst attempting to facilitate the recognition of shared history amongst the community of Melbourne. This project questions how architecture can facilitate a balanced approach between activation and commercialisation of a region, whilst placing an emphasis on the legibility of civic space.

Jolimont Park provides a new amenity for the community of Melbourne, whilst comprehending the dynamism of the city. It understands the desire to have connectivity within in a forward-thinking city for the future – and harnesses the transformative and spontaneous nature of society.

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Memory Recovery

Siyuan Huang Supervisor: Dr. John Doyle

The topic of my major project is about recovering the centrality of the city in Nanjing. As a result of the urbanisation, all of the cultural life and commercial life of the city in Nanjing has been pushed to the outside.

It has been incredibly popular over the last 15 years for shopping malls to be planned at the edge of the city and all of the commercial shopping and street life has been taken out of the centre of Nanjing and sent to shopping malls at the edge of city. But now the shopping malls in China are beginning to become less popular, particularly in the second tier cities. Some shopping centres are almost closing because of the emergence of Taobao and delivery services. It is increasingly important for shopping, a kind of retail, commercial centres to have another life. A life that is driven by experience, a kind of experience of being in space. So the proposal of this project is looking at the changes in the way that the retail is experienced and consumed in China, specifically in Nanjing. It can drive the regeneration and revitalisation of the centre of Nanjing in order to recover the commercial vitality. The site is called “San Pai Lou�. It used to be a very popular night market. When people finish a day of hard work, they can go to the night market to have dinner and shop. But over the last decade it has slowly died and is no longer in use. The proposal of my project is to use the insertion of a new type of commercial shopping street to make changes in the way that the retail is experienced and consumed. What the proposal suggests is that the site be should be recovered as a night market and tourist destination for the centre of Nanjing. Why it is valuable and necessary for this design? I stayed in Nanjing for 5 years during my campus life. When I was a student there, the night market was gone. However thirty years before me, my uncle studied at the same university in Nanjing, where he still has a strong memory of how vibrant and amazing it used to be. This project is about using the reinsertion of a new type of shopping street to recover the vitality of commercial. Moreover, it is a way of creating exciting and interesting new memories for new generation of people living in Nanjing.

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RETIRE HIGH

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Australia’s senior generation is projected to more than double by 2057. The biggest issue now among them is social ISOLATION.

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The suburbs are deserted during the day, interaction can be limited and moving to age care is not what today’s generation wants. Thus, the research shows that this newly minted ‘ageless generation’ – where 70 is the new 40 - is now changing the economic power balance of Australian cities by selling their suburban houses and moving into luxurious city apartments and townhouses.

In the past, the majority of retirees moved to costal retreats, but now many of them are choosing to occupy the crease with a thinking:

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

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RETIRE HIGH is a vertical urban typology for today’s active agers that aspires to reduce the model of dependency and bring opportunity for recreation, leisure and work inside the city. It attempts to break the trend of traditional retirement living by bringing the vibe of communal into a new vertical community – reducing isolation.

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Informing The Political Process Through Architecture

Informing the political process through architecture

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Parliament Security

Senate President’s Office

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Small Committee Room

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This project reworks how a government should work by combing the three branches of government, the Executive, the Legislative and the Judicial, into a single complex. Each branch operates separately and has its own building and identity, each has its own discreet entrance and appears as separate buildings, however they meet in the centre in a shared space that covertly links the three physical buildings, but more importantly its staff and its functions. In turn the individual buildings actually work side by side in a way that is not obvious from the architecture, delivering a building according to the client’s brief but in a covert way aims for the cultivation of a more ideal government

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As we have been witnessing in recent decades the unexpected phenomenon of democratic backsliding all around the world, many democratic nations are leaning towards becoming a more dysfunctional and, or authoritarian government. This project seeks to reassess how government buildings are designed, and how they impact upon those who work inside them.

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What do you do when you have a client you do not agree with? Maybe it’s their values, maybe it’s how they do business. What if it’s a dysfunctional government? How do you design a building for them?

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Linear urban farming warehouse (Renovation of abandoned railways) Xu Nan Supervisor: Prof. Alisa Andresek

There are hundreds of abandoned railroads around the world. It is not only a waste, but it also leads to many issues in the city. So this project is trying to make a renovation of these unused railways.

Two main concepts: Firstly, design a new type of automatic transporting vehicle to reuse the railway as an autonomous delivery system; Secondly, cover it by a linear urban farm, park, and market, to improve the environment and provide more functional use to the city.

The design strategy involves splicing a semi-arched modular structure on the ground floor and stacking four kinds of different sized modular blocks above the structure. How they are stacked depends on different surrounding situations along the railway.

The site of the project is in Paris, where there is 23km abandoned ring railway around Paris, which crosses nine peripheral districts, and separates them into two parts, inside and outside. The project’s social responsibility is to break this barrier and make more connections between two sides. As most of the areas are residential, the upper urban farm could provide personal gardens for the elderly. In the meantime, the railway automatic transportation system could deliver the crops, vegetables, fruits, and flowers harvested in the above farms directly to the markets, then being taken to customers homes by drones, in order to adapt to the increasing demand for online shopping. This whole system is like a big farm warehouse, which aims to improve the environment and make life more convenient and colourful.

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The Library on Smith Street Ting Zhang Supervisor: Sean McMahon

I focused on the Fitzory and Collingwood areas, creating a space for local people to entertain, relax and improve themselves. Current cities are often full of square buildings and hasty crowds. The original ecological woods, hillsides are difficult to enjoy for people who live in the city all the year round. My design intent is to build a fully open public area, based on pristine forests and mountains for children to play, theatres, coffee shops, and rest areas to relax, all the whilst allowing people to learn and share knowledge. The building itself contrasts sharply with the surrounding buildings and exits an open platform on the first floor.

1 - Ground floor uses the elements of Melbourne's terrain, with woods and topography dominating. There is also a long corridor and public platform.

2 - For stairs, this design involves three kinds stairs. First floor is the horizontal staircase, the second floor is a vertical staircase and the third floor is a semi-landscape stairs for users to visually feel from different angles.

3 - The first floor still uses the cliff as the prototype.

Designed to open a lot of hollowed holes to connect the ground floor, whilst at the same time, enriching the shadow of the space sense. This floor will place some open viewing areas, coffee bars and some entertainment spaces.

4 - Upper levels have height of 10 meters, with five interlaced layers, the stairs are inspired from the contours of Melbourne. This area is the library’s main place for local people to read and communicate.

5 - The roof design is more rounded and bigger than the other planes, forming a certain covering effect. Roof excavation a creates skylights; for which the shape is taken from the raindrops when they hit the ground. More than half of the walls of the building are made up of translucent materials.

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In the Middle

Ariel Anak Minggat Spencer Supervisor: Anna Jankovic

This project explores the potential of a building reacting to the friction between 2 opposing urban conditions. A building of 2 faces; one mimicks the immediate and imposing character of the city while the other stretches into the Docklands with its strange distances and open spaces.

In the Middle is a project that explores the potential of a building reacting to the point of tension between two different urban conditions. This project is interested in the disconnection between Melbourne’s CBD and Docklands that is interrupted by the major infrastructural threshold of rail lines, which has been one of the key struggles in Dockland’s urban planning. This project questions; now that we have invested and developed Docklands to its current extent, how can its growth diversify and develop alongside its thriving neighbour, the City?

This scheme is about duality, beginnings, gateways and transitions. Borrowing on the Roman figure, ‘Janus’, this is a project of two faces; its ambition is to become the starting point of productive friction that can begin to intensify the way Docklands can grow not as an extension of the CBD, but on its own. This project is a gateway that explores how a building can act as the mediator of a ‘rift’ between the two different conditions; Docklands in opposition to the City’s built fabric.

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Supervisors Semester 1, 2019 Major Project Coordinator Amy Muir Major Project Moderation Panel Prof. Vivian Mitsogianni A/Prof.Paul Minifie A/Prof. Richard Black Suzannah Waldron (Searle x Waldron Architecture) Amy Muir Major Project Supervisors Prof. Alisa Andresek Peter Bickle Nick Bourns Dr. Peter Brew A/Prof. Graham Crist Dr. John Doyle Helen Duong Anna Jankovic Dr. Anna Johnson Georgina Karavasil Vicki Karavasil Simone Koch Prof. Tom Kovac Vicky Lam Patrick Macasaet Neil Masterton Prof. Ian McDougall Sean McMahon Ian Nazareth Dr. Christine Phillips Tim Pyke Dr. Jan van Schaik 57

Dr. Michael Spooner

Students Semester 1, 2019 Aaron James Hall

Nelson Ling Voo Teo

Aaron Lance Robinson

Nicola Louise Cortese

Alejandro Fabian Martinez

Nicole Catherine Dowling

Ariel Anak Minggat Spencer

Peiwen Shang

Arjuna Arundell Padmanabhan Benson

Pengyan Chen

Baiyang Wang

Phu Duy Vu

Benjamin Hock Yuu Tan

Prativa Maharjan

Chengyi Ding

Rhys Owen Mcfarlane

Chengyu Wu

Ruwan Vimukthi Heenkenda

Chenxi Yang

Samuel Peter Kakkoufas

Christian Philip Lionis

Senesios Skevos Frangos

Daihui Gao

Siti Shahnazurawaty Md Shahri

Danica Tasia Garizio

Siyuan Huang

David Mundattuchundayil Thomas

Son Nguyen

Dominic Shigeo Tanaka Van de Ven

Stephanie Natasha Pahnis

Dylan Thomas Findlay

Suqing Yan

Eulalie Lenna Trinca

Thein Zaw

Ho Ching Wong

Ting Zhang

Japiere Wei Feng Ooi

Wai Keat Cheong

Jasmine Chan

Wilson Febriyan

Jia Li

Xu Nan

Jiayi Wang

Xun Luo

Kelvin Rolando Urbina

Yash Ravi

Long Cheng

Yichen Yang

Matthew James Lochert

Zheyi Xue

Melika Owji

Zhuqi Hou

Menghao Yuan

Ziyu Men

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