THOMAS BLACK PORTFOLIO MASTER of LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE with DISTINCTION BACHELOR of DESIGN (LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE) SELECTED WORKS 2011-2015
My current approach on the practice of Landscape Architecture looks at forming new connections between the immaterial and material layers of ‘Site’ and ‘Ground‘ to allow for the redefinition and creation of territory. Through exploring ‘Site” as the generative design tool and agent for design therefore allows for the creation for new ways in re-thinking of territory as an operative tool to allow for the generation of form. This portfolio looks to explore and define how my practice has evolved and changed throughout the past 4 years. More importantly focusing though on how we as Landscape architects look at ‘Site’, not just as it is often defined by the extent of its physical being as one site is not the same to the next, that ‘every site is a unique intersection of land, climate, production and circulation… The condition of each individual site makes it understanding in relation to the notion of site extremely difficult.’ Burns suggests that “it is by nature not a finished or closed product. It is an artifact of human work that can neither be completed nor abandoned. Its meaning can never be determinable. The site, like human condition, is open. This is the surplus of site, its indefinable excess.” Therefore site may operate both temporally and spatially on a range of material and immaterial planes.
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In defining and exploring ‘Site’ through this research the porfolio looks at designs which look to explore how public space is considered and designed when using this methodology.
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CURRICULUM VITAE //
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UNCHARTED FRONTIERS //
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TERRITORIAL TERRAIN // º
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ATMOSPHERIC TERRITORIES //
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MUCH ROOM? //
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FREELANCE LANDSCAPE DESIGN PROJECT // STRABANE AVENUE, MONT ALBERT, 3127
CURRICULUM VITAE CONTACT DETAILS
ACADEMIC AWARDS & RECOGNITION
Address:
Stutterheim & Anderson Landscape Architects Innovation in Landscape Architecture Design Award.
Certificate of Achievement – 2015
Uncharted Frontiers – Masters Project
Award Winning Entry for the Food Works Design Competition (Environments 4)
Certificate of Achievement – 2011
Entry – MUCH ROOM?
Awarded Equal 2nd Prize for the Food City of the Future Design Competition. (Design Studio 3)
7 Norway Avenue, Blackburn 3130
Mobile No:
+ 61 430 925 742
Email:
tapblack@gmail.com tom.black@rmit.edu.au
Portfolio:
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EDUCATION 2013 – 2014:
Masters of Landscape Architecture
RMIT, City Campus Melbourne
2009 – 2011:
Bachelor of Design (Landscape Architecture)
Certificate of Achievement – 2010
RMIT, City Campus Melbourne
Entry – Freight Farm
2003 – 2008:
Marcellin College, Bulleen, Melbourne
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT -
Graduated Masters of Landscape Architecture (RMIT) with Distinction
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Graduated with a Bachelor of Design (Landscape Architecture) (RMIT)
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Completed VCE
EMPLOYMENT
SKILLS & ABILITIES Proficient in:
JB Hi-Fi Doncaster 2011 – Present Position: Full time Media Software Advisor & Storeroom Member Responsibilities • • • • • • •
Retail and sales assistant Customer Service Processing deliveries and new stock Visual Merchandising Maintaining operational standards Registers – Point of sale Processing customer orders and store transfers
RMIT University Melbourne 2015 – Present Position: Sessional Staff Member & Tutor Currently Tutoring 2nd Year Landscape Architecture (Bachelor of Design) students in Communications 2. Responsibilities • • -
Teaching tutorials specifically on the use of Adobe Illustrator, Rhino and Grasshopper. Teaching students and tutorials on Digital & Physical Fabrication, focusing on the specific use of tools such as Laser Cutting, 3D printing and CNC routing. Guest critiquing final year students in the Masters of landscape architecture program at RMIT, presentations and progress reviews.
Freelance Landscape Architect/Designer 2012 – Present Responsibilities • • • • • •
Client consultations Site analysis Plant research (horticulture) Project budgeting and management/Invoicing Producing design concepts Design refinement
Software - Rhino - Adobe Suite:
- Illustrator - InDesign - Photoshop - AfterEffects
- AutoCAD - Grasshopper - Office Applications
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Scale Modelling for design representation Digital modelling Conceptual and Abstract modelling (Digitally or Manually)
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Freehand Representation 3D Visualisation Survey drawing Technical drawing & detailing Collage & montage
REFEREES Philip Belesky Offering Co-ordinator for Landscape Architecture Communications 2, RMIT University PhD Candidate at the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory, RMIT University contact@philipbelesky.com +61 432 098 159
Sia Agialotis Media Manager, JB HIFI Doncaster (03) 9840 7800
UNCHARTED
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Not shown or located on a map; unexplored; unknown, as a place or region:
the uncharted depths of space.
FRONTIERS // º Noun -
The part of a country that borders another country; boundary; border.
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The land or territory that forms the furthest extent of a country’s settled or inhabited regions.
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Awarded the: 37° 49’ 3.4602”E
Stutterheim & Anderson Landscape Architects Innovation in Landscape Architecture Design Award.
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The design looks to redefine and challenge the current edge condition between the Melbourne cbd and the Yarra River. The project looks at three specific sites, the federation square east block, and then two sites along the yarra river, one situated along Birrarung marr and the princess walk and other along edge flinders walk both between either side of the princes bridge. The intention of the designs proposals looks at shifting the focus from private and commercial development initially proposed, but to what is best in the interest of the public providing new mixed used precincts which are envisioned through public and green space, activity and programmatic spaces such as basketball courts, bridges/pathways, to floating pontoons, jetty’s and piers. These design outcomes look to not only form a new connection between the city and Yarra, but also attempt to begin to redefine the current edge condition between the two.
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Testing Grounds - 4th Year Design Studio 2013 RMIT Dr Marieluise Jonas Site - Testing Grounds - 1 City Road, Southbank, Victoria 3006 Territorial Terrain was a design research studio project which focused on how shifts in topography can change what can be considered the boundary of a ‘Site’. The research looked to explore and test what defines the boundary of a site/territory by setting parameters to create a series of terrains and topographies that questions where a boundary begins or finishes. The parameters were based off existing view-ports of the site, key locations where the site could be first visible. From each different view-port this created a new perspective of how the site/territory is seen. The design itself looked at generating a new public space for the Testing Grounds Site, out of this process.
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FIG. 2.1 - LINE OF SIGHT VOLUME MODEL FIG. 2.2 - VOLUME & AREA MAPPINGS FIG. 2.3 - BOUNDARY AND TERRITORY MAPPINGS FIG. 2.4 - OVERLAY OF BOUNDARIES PLAN FIG. 2.5 - CNC ROUTED FOAM MODELS
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FIG.. 2.7 These models allowed for a better understanding of the limitations and parameters which could be set to allow for the generation and design of the topography/form.
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PARAMETERS - The number of points in each zoned territory create the number of levels formed.
PARAMETERS - The number of intersection depends on the height of the surface/terrain growing below the surface or staying at the ground plain.
PARAMETERS - Recording how many sides and faces create the territory determine the number of contours its raised.
ATMOSPHERIC TERRITORIES // M. LA Design Research Seminar Semester 1, 2014 RMIT Associate Professor Dr Rosalea Monacella
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‘One important thing is that we have to understand that maps are not a mirror of the real land. Maps are abstract diagrams to describe how the world is in a certain way. We have to read the level of abstractness to understand the corresponding relationship between maps and the real world.’
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I want to explore and create a perspective that provides a tangent that searches for the interconnected relationship between species and environment and how this influences shape, form, behaviour and possible future evolution. My focus is to design a ‘species’ which occupies a landscape and to describe the behaviours which generates not only ‘physical’ form but also ‘social’ interaction where both shape environment.
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Existing Site Conditions: es act as the lungs of the building. erior air conditioning outlets. They Awarded: A landscape for the future. How can the technology of robotics generate and challenge interacwith mushroom growth tions within existing and developing environments. Winning Entry for the Food Works Design Competition and experiential mircoclimates that What I want to do is to introduce or challenge the concept of what is natural? What defines a CERTIFICATE OF ACHIEVEMENT – 2011 way in(ENVIRONMENTS the smaller4) thoroughfares of species? As well as exploring how technology (robotics) influences and shapes design of creaRMITin Melbourne mbranes these dry, cold, sunless tures and species. Furthermore, I want to consider how robotic species coexist and interact Master Plan 1:2500
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regenerate and mushroom growth. The membranes act as the lungs of the building. Master Plan 1:2500 Section living off the pollutants in the down pipes and exterior air conditioning outlets. They in/exhale according to different times of day and with mushroom growth requirements. “Muchroom?” contains inhabitable and experiential mircoclimates that are self-sporing and ripe for the picking. Tucked away in the smaller thoroughfares of RMIT, it creates clammy caverns and moving membranes in these dry, cold, sunless places.
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Robotic Species
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Robotic Starfish
Saw Dust
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Monomers absorbed into mycelium cells through facilitated diffusion.
Mycelium allows for Mushroom Production
FIG. 4.1 - MYCELIUM BRICK DIAGRAM Mycelium
Existing Inter and External Piping.
Soaking.
Begins to break down into biological polymers into small units, monomers.
ment.
FIG. 4.2 - MASTERPLAN FIG. 4.3 - DAY TIME INFLATION SECTION
Self exploding starfish
Mycelium structure forms.
External - Form
External - Entrance
FIG. 4.4 - NIGH TIME HIBERNATION SECTION Wheat Grain
OYSTER MUSHROOM
FIG. 4.5 - SOAKING PERIOD SECTION Membranes obstructing laneway, forcing a human interaction.
Tent inspired entrance allows for contained biosphere when not inhabited.
Day Time Inflation:
FIG. 4.3
Mycelium breaks down rock into soil, hence the transition from geometric to organic.
1:100
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1: 100
Night Time Hibernation:
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Day Time Inflation:
1:100
Night Time Hibernation:
. Harvest Period . Expanded Membrane for Ventilation (Uses hot air from air-con exterior duct) . Allows for Human Inhabitants and Experience . Pollutants from the air-con outlets feed mycelium, hence plant host fertility
SYSTEM DIAGRAMS Soaking System
Mycelium Growth System Mushroom Rainfall. waste and spores collected.
Soaking Day Time Period Inflation:
1:100 1:100
SYSTEM DIAGRAMS
Pollution (Food Source). Exisiting Guttering.
Mycelium Growth System Roof top
Existing Internal and External Piping.
Rainfall.
Waste and pollutants begin decomposing.
Air Particles
Water Runoff Collected.
Air Duct Mushroom waste and spores collected.
Existing Internal and External Piping.
Waste and pollutants begin decomposing.
Water Runoff Collected.
Mushroom
Mycelium and Mushroom Growth.
Mycelium structure forms.
FIG. 4.7
Air Particles
Water Runoff Collected.
Internal Ventilation Network
Mycelium structureMycelium forms.
External - Entrance External Form Internal -- Production and Mycelium brick transition to Organic Form
Hylozoic ground, Philip Beesley, Canadian pavilio
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Protective Membrane.
FIG. 4.6 - PARAMETRIC MODEL - BRICK CASING
Internal Ventilation Network
Air Pollution
Begins to break down into biological polymers into small units, monomers.
External Air Vent
Soaking. CASING - EXPLODED MODEL FIG. 4.7 - BRICK External Air Vent
FIG. 4.8 - EXTERNAL FORM Mycelium and Mushroom Growth.
FIG. 4.9 - EXTERNAL ENTERANCE
Monomers absorbed into mycelium cells through facilitated diffuExcess sion. Water Dispersed.
Mycelium allows for Mushroom Production
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Roof top Air Duct
Existing Internal and External Piping.
Nutrients Absorbed.
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External Air Vent
1:100
. Responds to Air –Con system shut down . Membrane clings to mycelium surface (keeping moisture and thermal energy contained over-night)
Rainfall.
Soaking.
Monomers absorbed into mycelium cells through facilitated diffusion. Excess Water Dispersed.
Mycelium allows for Mushroom Production
Air Particles
Night Time Hibernation:
Exisiting Guttering.
Hylozoic ground, Philip Beesley, Canadian pavilion.
Internal Ventilation Network
Begins to break down into biological polymers into small units, monomers.
1:100
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Roof top Air Duct
Mycelium and Mushroom Growth.
External External - Form- Entrance
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Soaking Period
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Air Pollution Soaking.
Begins to break down into biological polymers into small units, monomers.
1:100
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Exisiting Guttering. Pollution (Food Source).
Nutrients Absorbed.
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Mushroom
FIG. 4.6
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Mushrooms
Mycelium
Mushrooms
External - Entrance and Mycelium brick transition to Organic Form Internal - Production
Mycelium
Internal - Production and Mycelium brick transition to O
Robotic Species
Robotic Starfish
Robotic Starfish
Self exploding starfish
FIG. 4.8
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transition from geometric to organic.
FREELANCE LANDSCAPE DESIGN PROJECT STRABANE AVENUE, MONT ALBERT, 3127 - 2012
05 // Concept 3
This was a small project I completed in late 2012, helping out a family friend with generating a series of concepts for front and back garden design. The Clients brief focused on a accesiblity allowing a clear path between the front and back gardens, while also allowing space for relaxing and entertaining.
Garden Bed
Garden Bed
Images FIG. 5.1 - CONCEPT PLAN 1 FIG. 5.2 - CONCEPT PLAN 2
Concept 1
New Pathway Connecting Front Garden to side passage
Pathway continued connecting driveway Garden Bed Retaining Wall
Raised Garden Bed
New Pathway Connecting Front Garden to side passage
Pathway continued connecting driveway
Raised Garden Bed
Timber panelling to hide utilities
Timber panelling to hide utilities
Outdoor Seating
Outdoor Seating
Timber dividing wall between passage way
Raised Garden Bed
Proposed Vegetable/ Herb Garden
FIG. 5.1
Timber dividing wall between passage way
Raised Garden Bed
Proposed Vegetable/ Herb Garden
FIG. 5.2 N
N
images FIG. 5.3 - CONCEPT PLAN 3 FIG. 5.4 - CONCEPT PLAN 4
Concept 5
Garden Bed
Concept 4
Garden Bed
New Pathway Connecting Front Garden to side passage
Pathway continued connecting driveway
Garden Bed
Garden Bed
New Pathway Connecting Front Garden to side passage
Pathway continued connecting driveway Garden Bed Retaining Wall
Garden Bed Retaining Wall
Raised Garden Bed Raised Garden Bed
Outdoor Seating Raised Garden Bed
Timber panelling to hide utilities Outdoor Seating
Timber panelling to hide utilities
Outdoor Seating
Timber dividing wall between passage way
Raised Garden Bed
Proposed Vegetable/ Herb Garden
FIG. 5.3
Timber dividing wall between passage way
Raised Garden Bed
Proposed Vegetable/ Herb Garden
FIG. 5.4 N
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