PORTFOLIO Shelley Mao
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WORK EXPERIENCE
maomao - Founder
2021-Present Founded a small business; curating handmade clothing using recycled and deadstock fabrics. Sold 200 pieces to date.
SKILLS
SHELLEY MAO ARCHITECTURE GRADUATE
- Initiative and organisation; managing finances, creating own daily schedules and business plans - Customer service and communication skills; avg. 5-star rating with over 100 reviews - Innovative; recognising contemporary trends and creating unique and bespoke designs
Humanitarian Design Internship - Student
2018 university intensive November subject Undertook a 2-week intensive program based in India. Proposed and designed a drainage system in a school site whilst considering the economical, cultural, environmental and client context.
shelley.mao.7@gmail.com SKILLS
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- Cooperative; understood and improved the communication skills required for a group design project - Problem solving; designed against various constraints - Worked under time pressure; proposed a full design project in 2 weeks - Open; developed a widened scope of various methodologies and design approaches within unfamiliar contexts
Kumon - Teaching Assistant
2015 - 2021 Worked as an assistant at an education centre teaching maths and English to primary and secondary students.
PROFILE
SKILLS
I am a graduate of a Master of Architecture from the University of Melbourne. Fresh into the professional industry, I am excited to learn and broaden my perspectives around the architectural scene. I would also like to further develop the versatility of my skillset by being open to different experiences, work and challenges.
- Adaptation; required to cater towards different students’ needs - Teamwork; offered help for coworkers when they had heavier workloads - Versatile communication; interacted with both children and adults
EDUCATION The University of Melbourne (2020-2021) | Master of Architecture
I am ambitious and passionate in the field of architecture.
The University of Melbourne (2017-2019) | Bachelor of Design - Major in Architecture The Mac.Robertson Girls’ High School (2013-2016) | VCE
EXTERNAL INTERESTS Tennis, running and swimming
EXHIBITION / SCHOLARSHIPS
Piano and guitar Sewing
2018-21
MSDx Exhibition | University program
2018
New Colombo Plan Scholarship | Grant assigned towards Humanitarian Design Internship | University program
2017
FOD:R Exhibition | Univeristy program
Travelling
SOFTWARES
Rhino
Revit
ADOBE SUITE
Grasshopper
Autocad
Photoshop
Enscape
Sketchup
Illustrator
Vray
Unreal Engine
Indesign 2
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Rabbit Hole
The University of Melbourne, M.Arch, Studio Thesis, Semester 2 2021
The Library and the Cube
The University of Melbourne, B.Design, Design Studio Delta, Semester 1 2019
Tree-house
The University of Melbourne, B.Design, Design Studio Gamma, Semester 2 2018
Breathe
The University of Melbourne, B.Design, Design Studio Epsilon, Semester 2 2019
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Rabbit Hole
Studio Thesis, Studio 7 | Semester 2, 2021
Rabbit Hole offers a contemporary retail experience. It represents a moment in time. It encapsulates the culture of the street in being intrinsically linked to human culture, a fluid and constantly evolving phenomenon. Therefore, it seeks to provide for the prevailing and ever-changing social attitudes and lifestyle ideologies of its context. A profound contextual influence towards the current way of life has been the ongoing pandemic. Significant restrictions were placed across the region, notably depriving autonomy and outdoor activity to the people. These affected both the mental and physical health of many and naturally, healthy activity was craved for. Thus, Rabbit Hole looks to reclaim the healthy needs of the human that were prompted from the current pandemic.
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Site - Chapel Street Facade(North-East Isometric)
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Down We Go
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FORM Form-making revolved around the central oculus, in the position of the original lightwell. Rabbit Hole is a semi-open architecture that allows the natural elements in, in response to the contemporary shopping policies and priorities derived from Covid-19. Furthermore, the internal layout is comprises of eclectic flooring for a ‘Wonderland’ experience.
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The site is located along the Chapel Street Precinct, a historical street in Melbourne that now harbours many heritage-listed buildings. A notable feature is its proximity to the Yarra river and that it is situated next to Cato Square, an urban parkland. However, it lacks other nearby open civic spaces. Thus, ‘Rabbit Hole’ aims to retain any historic features such as the old column grid and ceiling ornaments, and offer open spaces within itself.
LINE DRAWING The perspective section and exploded axonometric were the best representatives of the winding floor levels and the semi-open nature of ‘Rabbit Hole’.
RENDERS Internal perspectives highlighting the view towards the oculus. Top to Bottom: Underview of oculus, activity of the oculus, entry view towards the oculus
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Upon entry, greenery space is located next to the semi-transparent or open sudare facades to offer a a sunny resting space, and an attractive face into the building from the outside.
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Marketplace thoroughfare is located under a half-open, glassed-dome roof. The extra height of the semi-circular shape allows heat to rise and ventilate out of in conjunction with the westerly winds coming from the movable sudare facades.
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Level 1 A bathhouse, inspired by the Korean Jjimjilbang, is located on the ground floor, the ‘health’ floor. It offers a short or full-day experience to relax in spas, saunas, massages and sleeping areas.
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The Library & the Cube
Design Studio Delta | Semester 1, 2019
The library and the cube revoles around designing a library for an individual (me) within a 3x3x3m cube space. This cube of a library comprises of 2 fixed portals that are direct thresholds to neighbouring library cubes of other individuals. The design language is rather personal to the designer and caters towards my image of a library. Therefore, I focussed on space efficieny via multi-functional spaces and devices. I was also attentive towards separating private and public spaces and circulation.
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WOOD CLEAN
WOVEN BLUE COMFORT
WOVEN GREEN EARTHY
WOVEN RED WARM
CUBE ALLOCATION : B3
Network Position Diagram CONSTRAINT: - Surfaces of the cubes cannot be touched, however the portals and ground plane may be intersected - Stairs and public circulation to be BCA compliant
SITE: - 3x3x3m cube - 2 2x1m portals within cube - No gravity, time or weather - No sun, but there is ambient light
Organisation of Space The organisation of space within such a confined site is crucial to ensure efficient space is allocated for the requirements of the brief. Brief: 1. Reading space 2. Working space 3. Public circulation between portals 4. Book lending interface 5. Book storage (min. 900 books)
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Application of Design After organising the spaces into correlating devices, the archi-
- Clean and organised
tectural language can be developed and defined. My goal for
- Minimalist to a degree to prevent over-cluttering
this library includes:
already limited space - Design and material should elongate space - Provide a warm architectural tone
Diagrams
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Treehouse
Design Studio Gamma | Semester 2, 2018
The treehouse aims to maintain the historic facade whilst integrating new technologies and strategies to comply with the urban Australian context. This mainly includes the implementation of biophilic design for occupant well-being, cohabitation between human and non-humans, and giving back to the environment SITE: 4 Macathur Place N, Carlton VIC 3053
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SITE Brief: Reconstruction of the exising, compact Victorian terrace house for a young family expecting the changing dynamics of getting older together. The site situates in the inner north Melbourne suburb of Carlton, a place with historical significance demonstrated in the many victorian terrace houses it contains. The front faccades of these heritage-listed buildings must retain their front facades, as required for this site too. Carlton is a self-containing suburb with many lifestyle and entertainment amenities within close distances. It also offers pockets of greenery and open spaces. Therefore, the aim for the Treehouse is to offer a living space that is just as exciting as its surroundings.
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LEGEND Site area Greenery Health Utility Supermarket Transportation
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FORM MAKING 1 Spatial allocation + positive and negative space relationship
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FORM MAKING 3 Rationalising form
FORM MAKING 2 Breaking up form into shapes
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OPERABLE LIVING SPACE The windows of the kitchen and dining area are operable to open up the space to the patio. This allows an indoor/ outdoor architecture, to bring in the natural elements into the house and open up the spaces for living.
PATIO The patio comprises of a wooden decking, providing a warm material in alignment to the concept of the Treehouse. A key point is a tree that grows in a cutout within the decking that sits within the bend of the house.
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LOURVE CORRIDOR A moment of movement within the Treehouse. A pattern of wooden panels and thin windows frames the dripping greenery from the roof, and provides protection from the afternoon sun.
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INTERSPACE A gap between the lower and upper floors provides a place of habitat and rest for non-humans; flora and fauna. This allows for both human and non-humans to co-habitate as a response to utilising the land that
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Breathe
Design Studio Epsilon | Semester 2, 2019
Breathe is a proposal for a community health centre (CHC) located at 461-549 Lygon St, Carlton, Melbourne. Only 20% of the total site area was allowed for the building footprint, whilst the rest was left for landscaping. The main concept of Breathe was to provide a space for potentially stressed occupants of the CHC to ‘breathe’ and resultingly take a step back from their prevailing stresses. Breathe is a project that focusses on steadying human mental and physical health through the influence of the natural environment and the action of breahting. Thus, humbling the architecture to make it assimilate within the site context is important.
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Breathe - Conceptualisation & Development SITE ANALYSIS SCALE 1:2000
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The site, resembling a triangular shape, resides alongside Princes and Lygon Street, two vehilcular-heavy streets. The surrounding buildings are mainly multi-residential high-rise buildings, however towards its North is a large, open, flat cemetary. There is a decent amount of exisitng greenery that should mostly be retained and exapanded upon for privacy purposes of the building and to filter acoustics and smells resonating from the busy streets LEGEND Site area
Surrounding buildings
Greenery
Sun pathway
Wind paths
Acoustic levels
Super tram plan
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Sketches A series of sketches to address the aspects of the site to construct a ‘breathable’ piece of architecture
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1 Environmental 2 Physicality + Transport 3 Touch + Sight 4 Acoustics + Smell 5 Private + Public + Greenery 6 Block Massing outcome 7 Northern perspective sketch
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Form Making
Urban street interface Public realms, points of entry and views Meeting point; courtyard Direction from all public realms to meeting point
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Extrusion of established building area regarding site diagrams. Large surface area to volume ratio to minimise distance from occupant to the environment
STEP 2
Direction of undulations Spots of nature in courtyard area
Undulations implemented to literally and figuratively ground the architecture. Also considers biophilic and healing architectural principles
Cut-ins for terraces Slope down into carpark Slope up for berms into terraces
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Issues of the form addressed; cutins and berms implemented
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SCHEDULE
Render
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Waterproof membrane
2 Physical Health
Insulation Internal
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Balcony-integrated planter 4 Amenities
Reinforced concrete Suspended ceiling
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1.1 Central courtyard 1.2 Rest space 2.1 Gym 2.2 Multipurpose / workshop room 2.3 Changing rooms / toilets 2.4 Physiotherapy consultation room 2.5 Rehabilitation room 3.1 Consultation rooms 3.2 Meeting rooms 3.3 Space 4.1 Cafeteria 4.2 Multipurpose / workshop room 4.3 Theatre 4.4 Study / work space 5.1 Reception 5.2 Storage room 5.3 Function room 5.4 Toilets
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