Master of Architecture Final Year Studio 2011 Never Stand Still
Faculty of Built Environment
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Front cover: Brad Strauss, Vertical Fibres Opening Night 6pm to 9pm | Friday November 25 10am to 4pm Saturday | November 26 10am to 12 noon Sunday | November 27 PIER 2/3 Walsh Bay, 13 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay, Sydney
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INTRODUCTION
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MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN
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MESSAGE FROM THE PROGRAM DIRECTOR
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FINAL YEAR STUDIO 2011
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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ALUMNI PROFILE
INTRODUCTION 2011 GRADUATION STUDIO The 2011 Graduation Studio, consisting of Arch 7201Research Studio and Arch 7202 Major Design Studio, has seen some changes in its conceptualization and implementation. Guided by the Dean and a parity panel, we have introduced a new structure to enable critical reflection of knowledge and a review of professional skills in Session 1, which leads to a self-driven research project to lay the foundation for the graduation project in Session 2. A lecture series, along with design esquisse, were given to facilitate this critical reflection and skill review before the self-driven research and design project were undertaken. The idea of these changes in the course design has been to enable leading practitioners and academics to offer a broad framework of working approach, within which students are motivated by self-directed learning whilst they are structured to meet the basic competency requirements. Ten prominent Sydney architects and three full-time academics have been included in the 2011 teaching team. On behalf of this team, I encourage you to look into these graduation projects with the hope that the fruits of students’ labour, the guidance of the studio project leaders, and above all, the meanings of the work can be deciphered.
2011 Course Convener Xing Ruan, Professor of Architecture, PhD
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MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN FACULTY OF BUILT ENVIRONMENT UNSW Built Environment (BE) is focused on research and education relevant to the design, delivery and management of the 21st century city and the elements within it. This catalogue presents selected projects from our final year students in the Master of Architecture degree program. The unprecedented level of urban growth and associated urban issues of critical significance provides the global context and distinctive knowledge framework of the UNSW BE curriculum. A distinguishing feature of our student experiences comes from our capability to focus on design, research, teaching and learning from perspectives that place emphasis on the stewardship of the built environment and the interdisciplinary dimensions from which it is formed. The strategic direction of UNSW BE is based on a Faculty commitment to deliver high impact research and graduates equipped with the knowledge and practical skills required to realise sustainable urban environments of enduring cultural value. New research initiatives undertaken in the last twelve months build on the faculty’s strengths concentrating on themes that include sustainable design and development, urban typologies, people and places and emergent digital technologies. Each degree program integrates relevant research methods and outcomes to ensure our students understand and value lifelong learning and possess intellectual skills to enable successful future careers in a global context. The design studio is central to the curriculum of many of our degree programs. Our academics collaborate with leading design professionals to create learning experiences around issues of local and international relevance, Our students work is often presented or exhibited to the public, enhancing the connection of our teaching and learning programs with real world experiences. These experiences contribute to the highly developed professional skills of our graduates and help to foster future career opportunities. International relations are of great importance at UNSW BE. We provide opportunity for international engagement in our teaching, learning and research through established collaborative relationships with leading universities around the world. Our students often choose to undertake part of their degree program in another country through our established network of international relationships. Our worldwide alumni play an important role, providing points of contact for our graduates. We continue to foster our relationships with them through regular alumni events both at home and abroad. Your student experiences, hard work and skills are in many ways reflected in summary form by the quality of work contained within this catalogue. On behalf of the faculty I congratulate all the students who have completed their degree program and now become our alumni. We wish you every success in your chosen field of endeavour. In many respects, our relationship is just beginning as we look forward to your ongoing participation in the life of our university through the many events and activities that we undertake to support research and the education of future generations of built environment graduates. 6
Professor Alec Tzannes Dean UNSW Built Environment 7
MESSAGE FROM THE PROGRAM DIRECTOR MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE The Full Scale 1:1 Exhibition and this accompanying catalogue celebrate the distinctive graduation projects of the 2011 graduand students of the Master of Architecture degree program. Course Convener Professor Xing Ruan assisted by Sanaz Hosseinabadi, in her role as inaugural Built Environment postgraduate research teaching assistant, and a dedicated team of studio project leaders guided students’ engagement in a yearlong graduation studio experience that demonstrates the vital relationship between disciplinary contemplation and architectural project realizations. Each studio was framed by a distinctive stance and architectural approach that the studio leaders brought to guiding the development and resolution of student projects. This endeavour necessitates an extraordinary level of commitment to the graduation year experience. We are indebted to: ›› Ray Brown and Ivan Ip of Architectus for guiding student exploration of urban connectivity between street, place, work, habitat, transit and sky. ›› Robert Brown of Casey Brown Architecture who proposed a world-wide context to advance student understanding of how architects may assist communities in need. ›› Tim Greer of Tonkin Zulaikha and Greer who promoted student exploration of informal cultural events as a generator of urban rejuvenation. ›› Ramin Jahromi of Cox Architecture and Shaowen Wang for directing students in their conceptual speculation of infrastructure as a system contextualised as a ‘series of artefacts’. ›› Diane Jones of PTW (Peddle Thorp and Walker) and Dr Catherine De Lorenzo of UNSW Architecture who challenged students to question the nature of dwellings for older people, specifically those who may develop some form of dementia. ›› Russell Lowe of UNSW Architecture for advancing students’ self directed projects dependent upon the application of digital technologies for their conception, inquiry method, design, fabrication and evaluation. ›› Visiting Professor Peter Mould and Helen Lochhead, NSW Government Architect and Assistant Government Architect for facilitating students’ exploration of the role of schools as community hubs in urban settings. ›› Professor Xing Ruan of UNSW Architecture who steered student inquiry into what constitutes the meaning of home in the Australian context in particular and, the English speaking world in general. ›› Frank Stanisic of Stanisic Associates who promoted student exploration of hybridity to accommodate the changing nature of live-work relationships and enhance their connection to public domain activities in the city.
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Together, the studio project leaders, their associated practices, our colleagues as well as invited guests brought their professional expertise to the studio experience and guided our students architectural design education with their stance, insight, experience, passion and patience. This interactive approach demonstrates how UNSW architectural student design projects, in attending to questions, issues of concern and debate, can contribute as research based ‘incubators’ for advancing understanding of architecture’s relational contribution to beneficially imagining, realising and sustaining our Built Environment. With a student community of over 100 students of diverse educational and cultural backgrounds we acknowledge the student representatives who play an important governance role in this year-long experience. Special mention should also be made of our dedicated student exhibition team in designing planning and developing the graduation exhibition Full Scale 1:1.
Congratulations to the 2011 Master of Architecture Graduand Students on their achievements and best wishes for a rewarding and successful career as an Architect of contribution to the thoughtful making of our Built Environment.
The Master of Architecture degree with its penultimate Bachelor of Architectural Studies degree as well as the Bachelor of Architectural Computing degree program forms the UNSW Architecture Program community. The graduation projects presented in this catalogue affirms our distinctive Built Environment studio approach. This approach celebrates the mutuality of student’s creative vitality and technical capability, in concert with demonstrating the qualities of academic excellence, commitment and community identified with UNSW graduating students of Architecture. Congratulations to the 2011 Master of Architecture Graduand Students on their achievements and best wishes for a rewarding and successful career as an Architect of contribution to the thoughtful making of our Built Environment.
Ann Quinlan Architecture Program Director
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RAY BROWN + IVAN IP FAME Studio
This studio serves to define the requirements of the scheme without limiting the exploration of innovative ideas and design excellence. The proposed project is a mixed use development and is framed within the views of the parameters of the future market for commercial office, retail, public and residential opportunities. The Urban Design study undertaken by students in Semester 1 informed the design and development of a building of their own choosing in Semester 2. The subject site is a key asset for the city fringe and is considered to be a development opportunity of great potential and importance. The site is situated directly opposite one of Sydney’s largest transportation hubs and is located at the crossroads between the village community of Surry Hills and the CBD. The existing site was considered in relation to the other key buildings around Central Station and Belmore Park and Surry Hills. Similarly, consideration should be given to the site’s proximity to precincts such as Chinatown, the University of Technology and the Fraser’s Broadway Development site, all with significantly tall existing or proposed towers. The premise for this project is urban complexity and connectivity, which aims to conceptualise, connect, and complicate the relation between street, place, work, habitat, transit and sky. It is intended as a challenge to the current notion of ‘workplace’ and ‘dwelling’. The project endeavours to conceptualise these challenges by reconsidering the traditional notion of ‘streetscape’ and its figurative relationship to the ground plane.
Student Reflection - Brad Strauss FAME studio, titled as such by the roads bounding the site, Foveaux, Albion, Mary and Elizabeth is a uniquely positioned site that acts as a gateway between Sydney’s CBD and Surry Hills. Semester one focused on an urban proposal encompassing residential, commercial and cultural spaces, whilst semester two honed in on the development of an office tower. The challenge outlaid to students was the successful integration of a large-scale development in proximity to Surry Hills, which is predominantly a low-density locale. Students undertook a detailed analysis of planning documents such as the LEP, DCP, Sydney Laneway Strategy and Sustainable Sydney 2030 to understand real world constraints. It is a perquisite to design that one must know and understand bounding constraints in order to successfully challenge them. Within studio, students drew upon a plethora of knowledge from a wide array of high profile consultants such as: ARUP for environmental impact & façade systems; Enstruct for structure; and Cundall for building function and services. The studio has successfully produced an array of schemes that complement the sites geographic proximity to important districts and provides an iconic landmark upon the edge of Sydney’s CBD.
Bahram Bateni Mitchell Bonus Wilson Yiu Fai Cheung Marissa Haryanto Lesley Leung Brad Strauss Kwok Shing Wan Yangyang Lu 11
Bahram Bateni
Office Tower, FAME In the initial attempt the design seeks to unveil the ground area, where there will be many artistic activities and great potential for an active environment. Tower has minimum amount of structural and spatial contact to the ground level and specifically parts of the tower in lower levels demonstrate a dialogue with those spaces in order to enhance the quality of ground environment. The tower follows a simple diagram and this simplicity develops with same language toward higher levels. The dominant aspect of the tower is its permeability and penetration of light to almost every spot of the design. Even the structure core which formed around atrium has a configuration which lets light enters and since it covers the east part of the facade it also controls the quality of light. The tower is separated to low-rise, mid-rise and high-rise sections. The plan formation and horizontal circulation are similar which demonstrate a clear, bright, open plan.
Email bahram.bateni@gmail.com URL www.bahrambateni.com Phone 0412 189 100
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Part-Time Cruise Terminal, Garden Island
Email mitchell.bonus@bonusarch.com Phone 0422 671 051
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A cruise terminal is proposed for Garden Island in order to meet the staggering growth of Sydney’s cruise sector and the increasing frequency of visiting cruise ships that are too large to fit beneath the Sydney Harbour Bridge. According to industry forecasts, four additional cruise berths may be required east of the Harbour Bridge by 2023 and Garden Island’s deep berthing facilities represent the only location on Sydney’s existing foreshore able to accommodate such a program. The project is based on a rigorous and thematic reinterpretation of Foreign Office Architect’s Yokohama Ferry Terminal, which was reinvested with particular studies and experiments explored by the ‘Situationlist International’ and similar urban theorists in the 1950s. As a result, a brutally insular and demanding infrastructural strip is stitched into a dense working waterfront of neglected industrial artefacts and robust existing uses. The extreme volatility of the program, which is unlikely to service any cruise ships during the winter season, is met with a permanent combination of public and private ancillary uses along the building’s length and an increased capacity for temporal events.
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Wilson Yiu Fai Cheung
The FAME site is situated in a prominent location with close proximity with the Central Station and Surry Hills. The integration of the commercial and the colorful Surry Hills is done by establishing hotels, galleries and various retail and specialty shops throughout the site. The bridging of the two middle towers together forms the main commercial building of the site. The main tower takes on a flatiron form to create the funneling effect into the site. The FAME commercial tower caters for various businesses through a variety of floor plates. Sohos located on the ground, dual floors in the lower levels, bridged floor plates in the mid levels and single floor plates on the high rise levels. Different types of faรงade treatment is used on the tower to react to the environment they are exposed in order to maximize energy efficiency of the towers.
Email wyf.cheung@gmail.com Phone 0423 233 663
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FAME (Foveaux, Albion Mary & Elizabeth Street) Commercial Tower
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Marissa Haryanto Email marissaharyanto@gmail.com URL www.marissaclarestaharyanto.blogspot.com Phone 0415 619 396
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FAME The mixed-use development is sited on the borderline of Sydney CBD and the residential-retail district of Surry Hills. The two contrastive conditions of the busy road and the suburban district on another side become the fundamental factor of the building’s program. The 150-meter tower includes public (retail), semi public (offices), and private (hotel and residential) spaces; layered out vertically. The 12-storey office is located in the middlerise, in between the two horizontal belts of the sky lobby, with a centralized core shaft with an open plan space to allow for flexibility. Collaborating environment factor with the aesthetic, façade treatments are distinctively applied on each orientation corresponds with its space function. Green spaces are vertically arranged; each comprises two-to-threestorey high, layered towards the north and south orientation of the office spaces. Further energy conservations, such as photovoltaic panels, tri-generation system, and office’s atrium are installed in the 40-storey tower.
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Lesley Leung
Interweaving: Cultural, Work and Play The Community The development proposes a design to connect commercial, social, art, recreation and cultural aspects by interweaving the different layers to create a new urban fabric for the Central Sydney. The initial design is to breaking down the site into small fine grain area aligning to the grid in order to activate the existing laneway. Within the community space, people can explore the variety activities including small retails, medium art workshop, to large recreation facilities.
Email lesley_lsl@hotmail.com
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The Office Tower The commercial office tower is placed on the top of the community grid, with some small office integrated with the community space. The interactive, naturally ventilated atrium not only acts as the key circulation space, but also it is the space for chatting, gathering and meeting. Also, the stairs are designed to encourage physical movement in order to minimize the uscage of lift. A
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YangyanG Lu Email sunsun.jumping@gmail.com Phone 0433 009 078
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Flowing Space The site is located at the city edge of Sydney, directly facing central station and Belmore Park. The central office building provides 4 levels of exhibition space and 29 levels of office space. The cantilevered structure allows free movement for pedestrians on the street level. The double skin western faรงade and full height glass atrium is designed to optimise sustainability performance and the workplace environment.
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Vertical Fibres The Vertical Fibres Office Tower derives its name from its pronounced emphasis on the defining vertical movement that is characteristic of high-rise office architecture. The structural exoskeleton expresses interfloor connectivity through its manipulation of undulating cores that serve to deliver services, transport occupants, shade the faรงade and provide stack effect natural ventilation. The proposed scheme challenges and redefines expectations for livable working environments by means of creating an abundance of diverse break out and relaxation spaces that re-establish a connection with context that is often absent in traditional high-rise office developments.
Email b.strauss@studiostrauss.com.au URL www.studiostrauss.com.au Phone 0421 459 010
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Kwok Shing Wan
300 Elizabeth Street The aim was to redevelop the whole site to enhance more on-site activity and interact with local community. To achieve this, the master plan of the site provided a public plaza and short cut to increase the use of the site, also a subway will be provided to connect the Central Station, which also draws lots of people using the site. To provide a better working environment, a small garden will be provided in every two floor. They are spinning upwards around building faรงade; the living plant will give a funny organic faรงade which keep on changing the appearance with time. A series of environmental friendly building system are also introduced into this building as to create a sustainable office building, such as double skin faรงade, displacement ventilation system, black and grey water recycle system etc.
Email frankie_wan90@hotmail.com Phone + 852 95569220
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ROBERT BROWN Architecture for Humanity
A design studio taking a worldwide view of architecture and the challenging role architects can play to help communities in need. Within the context of a ‘social project‘ students will be exposed to the complex myriad of cultural and socioeconomic challenges that architecture of necessity entails. it is into this perplexing mix of globalisation, rapid third world urbanisation, climate change and the ever increasing occurrence of natural disasters students will be asked to design The studio reshearched different issues that could be remedied through socially responsive architecture. Education, poverty, food security and the need for basic shelter were the many issues that the studio strived to find solutions for. the diversity of locations ranged from the Pacific Islands, Australia, Asia, Africa and South America all of which engaged the class into exploring a wide range of cultural, social and economic problems. this led the students into finding sensitive and unique ways to tackle their problems, pushing the boundaries of design and materiality to improve peoples quality of life. Emphasis was placed on the students capacity to search for meaningful architecture beyond the issues of functional problem solving and pure composition. more towards the complex integration of architectural issues leading to an innovative solution in direct response to the needs of the community. The final outcome of this studio is a collage of world wide socially specific solutions where by architects can use their skills to help develop and rebuild communityies affected by human or natural catastrophes.
Student Reflection Colin Sternberg + Mirella Gallego Tumultuous situations are presented to us every day; and too often we take for granted what we have and forget that there are many people around the world who live in dire circumstances that often require very simple solutions. This graduation studio enabled us to create architecture, which intends to improve these desperate situations of the local while still focusing to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants rather than filling pockets. The studio took us through our own research into different social and cultural issues that varied from location to location. The problems each of us faced were different; food security, safety, basic shelter requirements, gang violence, wars and even the loss of traditional education. Designing for humanity demonstrated that architecture is a multi-faceted discipline and shows that at times small gestures can make tremendous impacts. though there were different intentions for each project, we all shared the same goal; to help better the lives of people through architecture.
Jemima Retallack Mitchell Thompson Jakub Eugen Beseda Mirella Isabel Gallego Dul Stephen Kim Blake Letnic Jiaze Lu Daniel Mihalovich Shi Ying Ooi Colin Sternberg Albie Christine Tenedora Iraj Thapa Lin Zhu 29
Jemima Retallack Mitchell Thompson Email jemimaretallack@gmail.com me@mitchellthompson.com
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Lessons from Nauru Nauru serves as a warning for societies that base themselves upon the exploitation of a natural resource. With the complete exhaustion of its mineral phosphates Nauru went from being one of the richest countries in the world to the poorest in a single generation. From politics and land and environment, to family configurations and diet all levels of this micro-nation were affected. “Lessons from Nauru� attempts to deal with the ramifications of a depleted place, where simple sureties such as access to food, water and electricity have become restricted. The project involves the design of semi-detached housing for a tribe of 450 people with the primary building material being the limestone pinnacles which former mining operations have left unexploited and exposed. The master-planning is such that the scheme may be replicated within the 12 tribes that form the island, allowing for a combined effort at rehabilitating Nauru.
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Jakub Eugen Beseda
Architecture should not be an art that is exclusive, isolating or excluding due to gender, race and economics – quite on the contrary - it should assist, enrich and rejuvenate the human spirit. The aim of the project was to develop prototype of an independent and flexible sustainable accommodation and community infrastructure for Indigenous communities in remote parts of Australia. Firstly, at a housing scale, as a shelter with the flexibility to allow the user have an input into its design, taking into count the complex socio-spatial, traditional and cultural issues as determined by the user and allowing for future expansion and re-configuration. Secondly, with materials and prefabricated construction having the flexibility to be adapted according to the climatic conditions with emphasis on sustainability of design technologies – with strong connection to surrounding environment and climate Thirdly, by considering this project on a larger, urban scale, in built form – an independent community multi-function centre with social and health processes that educate, empower and grow the community.
Email jbeseda@hotmail.com Phone 0416 126 920
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MIRELLA ISABEL GALLEGO Email mirellagallego@gmail.com
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RURAL COMMUNITY: Housing and Community for Sugar Cane Farmers Everyone in the world deserves to live in a good and secure home that is a reflection of their culture and environment. This project looks at bettering the lives of the Sugar Cane farmers and their families in a Hacienda (farm) in the Philippines. The aim of the project was to design low-cost sustainable housing that empowered and enhanced the lives of those living in Hacienda San Jose. The use of bamboo, which is a traditional building material and incorporating design techniques that would demonstrate innovation created a culture and climate appropriate house. The house and their arrangement on site, aims to provide better living conditions and opportunities for the farmers. Coming from the Philippines, it is important to address issues in your backyard and this project was a chance to do so.
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Dul Stephen Kim Email dulsdebankim@gmail.com Phone 0421 997 242
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YeonPyeong Island Art Gallery and Evacuation Centre “But where danger is found, there also rises that which saves.” F. Hölderlin The Western marine border region of the Korean peninsula is a volatile locale. The island of YeonPyeong, located at the heart of this region, has been under multiple attacks from the DPRK since November of 2010. The threat of attack is real. A Unique brief was developed that attempts to address the issues of providing a cultural destination as well as protecting both the islanders and civilians in times of unforseen calamity. The bunker is supplanted deep into the ground. Yet the art is not. The amalgamation of the two programs have been tied in by the notion of transitions towards a safety threshold within. The deeper one traverses down below, he/she is en route towards a final recourse. As one resurfaces to the ground his/her sensory is renewed.
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Blake Letnic
Kazungula Women’s Refuge Whilst travelling through Africa, I was appalled by the poverty at the converging point of Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Namibia on the Zambezi River. The associated horrific social problems of abuse and prostitution of women were indeed confrontational. In response to this I proposed a social intervention in the form of a refuge for the women and children of Kazungula. The refuge would act to not only shelter and feed the occupants, but also aim to equip the women and their families with life skills and education, so that they no longer needed to resort to prostitution.
Email blake_letnic5@hotmail.com Phone 0412 555 666
One of the most striking aspects of this social problem is that it is, such a horrible problem in such a beautiful place. The challenge was to harness the beauty of the site, whilst creating a space in which the women feel safe. This balance formed the concept of my design.
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Jiaze Lu
Rural Primary School for the Qiang Ethnic Minority - Reconstruction After 5.12 Earthquake The site is located at Mao country in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, China. The main concept of this project are deeply concerned the potential healing properties of the whole environment for victims who survived in disaster. The healing space needs to be in harmony with its surroundings: the environment, the community, the people, the view, even the path, and all the other buildings in this area. The design of the rural primary school demonstrates adaptable architectural technologies to create a safe, healthy, comfortable and energy-saving education space and provide a high-efficient and personalized teaching environment. It also fully considers the climatic features and architectural culture in Qiang group as well as energy consumption for the operation of the school, integrates site conditions and various functions of different buildings, and reasonably optimizes layout and architectural space to realize an organic integration of architecture and natural environment.
Email edelluyou@hotmail.com Phone 0430 536 099
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Daniel Mihalovich Email gemara94@yahoo.com.au Phone 0410 684 378
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Enriching Sydney’s CBD Laneways Many of Sydney’s CBD laneways have been ‘lost’ or built out to an extent that has rendered them unrecognisable, unusable or ambiguous as the public places they are or were. This project will develop an architectural strategy and proposal to accommodate an invited artist either international or Australian; to live in Reiby Place Laneway for a set period of time. The artist will work with and socialise among the institutions of the arts in the area. This building will be attached, squeezed, eased into these lost or leftover laneway spaces; its indents, crevices, slivers, towering voids, ‘empty corners’, marginalised spaces will provide sites for building; to be explored for their potential for occupation. While my project will be miniature in size to its city companions, the hope is that a curious collective of inventive, multilayered, adaptive structures in these marginalised spaces will give rise to broad discussion and speculation on ways to significantly enrich the urban and social condition of the city and take advantage of these circumstances.
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Shi Ying Ooi
Laos Village Agriculture School This project is in response to the poverty stricken areas of Luang Namtha, in a SouthEast Asian country that is predominantly rural. The aim is to integrate education and local agricultural practices in a sustainable way for long term rural development. The design of the school’s infrastructure and curriculum bridges the gap between the urban and rural education, assists in enhancing food security, empowers farmers and most importantly, responds to the changing agricultural and economic circumstance of Laos. To further enhance community development, a Buddhist Shrine Hall (Sala) design serves as a cultural resource and as a hub for social gatherings through religious practices and a marketplace. Bamboo has been used throughout the design as the primary building material, as it is sustainable and grown locally. While the design remains respectful of local traditions, it showcases an innovative bamboo grid shell construction that can potentially transform the village architecture.
Email shiying86@gmail.com Phone 0430 007 279
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Colin Sternberg Email cls@vigaco.co.za Phone 0449 075 029
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Football for Life Centre | Rocinha The site is located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We propose to use the game of football as a driving force for social engagement, a catalyst for change across the Favela as a whole, with its unique appeal and core values that reach across generations and cultures; football offers common ground for engaging in a wide range of social development activities. The football for life centre focuses around a proposed sunken pitch and a pedestrian bias district of retail arcades, corridors and courtyards; improving security by site, community interaction, protection through robustness and a linkage between significant nodes, junctions and gateways of Rocinha. To encourage integration with the community a Favela style tectonic has been idealised, a certain materiality and colour palette of Brazil. Essentially the concept of form is a combination between urban circulation and urban density; Public exposure with the uttermost dwelling density, thus improving the quality of life in Rocinha.
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Albie Christine Tenedora Email albie87@hotmail.com Phone 0404 120 946
Haven The proposed project aims to design a youth rehabilitation centre for youth and young adults on the streets of Manila, the capital city of the Philippines. The youth haven is located in the district of Malate where there are approximately 85,000 street children and adjacent to two slum areas – the Dakota slums to the west and the Leverisa slums to the east. The program utilizes sports such as basketball and dance to get these youth off the streets and into a safe and secure environment. It also aims to initiate the rehabilitation process providing youth counselling, health and welfare services. The program also provides temporary accommodation for the youth in home-style apartments. Previous government attempts to “help” these youth have resulted in forced rescues and the youth’s mistrust of adults. Thus the youth haven prioritises regaining this trust and establishing the haven as a beacon of light and hope for its surrounding community.
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School in Kyakmi, Nepal Education is a fundamental Human Right. Education enhances lives. It ends generational cycles of poverty and provides a foundation for sustainable development. Education should be contextual based so that it helps local youth find livelihood within their village. Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world, but it is one of the richest countries in the world with its beautiful natural landscape and vibrant cultural heritage. This project proposes a school in rural village Kyakmi, in western Nepal, to provide opportunity for local village youth to learn and gain skills and knowledge that is needed for their daily life as well to learn their local culture, heritage and their surrounding environment to appreciate and to preserve for better future, and to equip with knowledge for becoming better host for eco-tourism. The school becomes sharing ground for village elders and youth, and host and their guest.
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Tibet School of Performing Arts This is a performing arts school which resumes the quintessence if Tibetan folk art, such as Tibetan opera and tangka painting. The school follows the rhythm of the contour line, gently weaved into the site. Building blocks are broken down into small modules providing space to ‘breath’. By exerting the nature of the inclining slope, the master plan of the project adopts a height hierarchy strategy as the divisions of different spaces. The school is a contemporary translation of the Tibetan culture, by using current technological resolution as well as respecting the Tibetan ethnics and religious beliefs. For example, the gompa and library of the school which use a circular path for students to worship and practice their rituals. The school minimizes construction costs, by maximizing use of local materials, whilst maintaining a comfortable living condition for the children; the school introduces sustainable passive solar devices such as Trombe walls.
Email linlinlinnilnilnil@hotmail.com Phone 0430 513 666
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Cultural Speculation The city is ever-changing and can be thought of as an evolving organism: thriving and dying, receding and regenerating. Urban regeneration is usually led by culture - predominantly by youth culture, artists or sectors of society who are not rooted in the past or wedded to precedent. This Studio focused on a central part of Newtown, currently a reinvigorated and thriving part of Sydney. The studio group investigated the historic evolution of the area, researched its contemporary culture, and analysed both of these forces to generate architectural proposals for the future function and vitality of this area. Students were asked to identify ‘informal events’ and speculate on their cultural development into built form. Each student selected two specific uses, identified from their research, to form the programmatic basis for their proposal. The overall site is the Newtown Train Station and its environs, including the air space over the train line and the historic tram sheds, Hub Theatre site, the King Street Bridge, and the parcel of land bounded by Enmore Road, Station Street and the railway line. Students selected one of these interconnected sites on which to develop their architectural proposals. Students were required to test their proposals against the prevailing planning controls (Marrickville and City of Sydney Councils), and prepare an urban argument justifying their departure from the established controls. The Studio looked to develop an architecture that is rooted in the ‘now’, but speaks of the creativity and innovation (‘future’) of Newtown. Students were encouraged to use forms of representation that best suited their architectural idea.
Student Reflection Ivette Bechara + Grant Sadler This studio was driven by research, analysis and speculation into the rich cultural, social and physical fabric of Newtown and its environs, allowing students to develop unique design propositions and propel their ideas as the generator of Architecture. One of the greatest strengths of this studio lies in its balance between speculation and response; attempting to create an architecture that is firmly rooted in the now, whilst speaking generously of the future. It is this essential duality, this central tension between present and future, which has catalysed a series of diverse, yet equally fascinating architectural responses. Each student’s proposal is highly idiosyncratic and based on a personal response to investigations into the fabric of Newtown. From a police station to a food theatre, a sports centre to artists’ housing, there has never been a shortage of stimulating ideas. We would like to thank Tim Greer, our studio master, who has been an invaluable and inspiring mentor to our design thinking and process throughout the course of the year. Ivette Bechara Sandler Grant Lucy Ho Samuel Lee Joseph Mammone Muhamad Hanafi Rahmat Victoria Selia Sheng Ying Jonathan Tang Thanin Thaweeskulchai Philip Wong
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Living Library – Newtown Newtown is a lively hub distinctively characterised by its network of community spaces where social issues, culture and art are vividly expressed in the public realm. The library and community garden were redefined as primary places of knowledge; community support ‘nets’ thriving on the exchange of ideas, seeds and cuttings. This exploration led to design of a living library, the culmination of a new typology; a public ‘lounge room’ where community, landscape, art and architecture are harmoniously unified to create a permeable landscape weaving through the city. The component-based architecture developed as a series of layers engages the ground plane through various conditions. The process of cultural development is transpired in the design components; the wall as the architectural spine embedding the resources of knowledge, the urban room as a container for community engagement of resources, and the platform as the exhibiting stage of knowledge.
Email ivette.b@hotmail.com Phone 0415 308 698
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The Scenic Route This proposal re-examines current approaches to urbanism that tend to preface the highly determinate formation of space so as to suit a particular place. Although such an approach may have success in the short term, it very often limits a building’s potential to successfully respond to fluctuations in socio-cultural context. As such, this project proposes a series of nondidactic spaces, which act as a provocative framework for an ever-evolving sense of place. Another driving force behind this proposal is the relationship between humans and the natural environment. In our current urban paradigm, much of our understanding and, thus, respect for nature has been compromised. Accordingly, this proposal intends to counteract this loss of intuitive learning processes through a garden dedicated to cacti and succulents. The explicitness with which such plants display natural patterns of growth and structure are a response to the rapid metabolic rate of urban perception and experience.
Email sandler.grant@gmail.com Phone 0411 777 728
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Imbued Succession Observation of Newtown showed that activities tend to be limited at street level, with upper levels being inconspicuous to the public. The design aims at activating the site as a whole through an integration of the building programme and the building’s vertical circulation; an elevator in the heart of the building transcends to other levels. The aim is to ensure the continuity of the cultural strengths of Newtown; cuisine and fashion are the main focus. The motivation of the programme is taken from a reflection of our learning culture, “The transmission of knowledge from one generation to the next”. Glass as the main facade material encourages passive learning in the built environment, allowing a wandering gaze to fix upon the learning activities within the building, while allowing the building to interact with the community. For what goes on within a building of such nature is only a testament of the society’s culture.
Email lucyhochin@yahoo.com Phone 0404 758 627
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Newtown Centre of Urban Art Newtown is a historical and cultural epicentre with one of the most complex social development in the history of Sydney. The fine grained mixture of old and new, the formal and informal, immense connection to theatrical art movements and street art culture, is what defines Newtown. Newtown Centre of Urban Art is set up to be a bridge between the differences, which addresses and acknowledges it renowned eclectic mix of formal and inform art. It is a microcosmic reflection of Newtown, where the “formal” and “informal” art are connected by the streets and the public. The center of the complex is neither the street art gallery nor the cinematheque, but the “street” which connects the two. It is where the Newtownian life is concentrated. It is where street art, cinematic art and the public meet, communicate and interact. It is a line, a wall and a street all in one.
Email s_lee_k@hotmail.com Phone 0424 086 889
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Joseph Mammone Email j.mammone@hotmail.com Phone 0420 945 363
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Newtown Sports and Cultural Hub Located at the heart of Newtown and King Street the design occupies the site of the old tram sheds and the current train station. This site particularly, the railway station is of great significance to the historical development of NSW railways and to Newtown itself. The design draws on the important role the station has played in shaping Newtown’s history, while utilising the established train station to bring people into the new space. The rejuvenation of the site has created a much need break along King St with its intense commercial activity. The design creates an open public space that encourages pedestrian access, participation and community. The site allows pedestrian movement through the site creating a new public square for Newtown at the prominent junction of King St and Enmore Road. The program of the design comprises of a sporting complex, indoor sports hall and swimming pool all of which are interrelated with the other cultural and public facilities. The skate park is interwoven into the site to emphasise the interconnectedness of the space. Throughout the space street art is encouraged as a means of reflecting Newtown’s past, present and future cultural identity. The design celebrates the city’s unique culture, diverse communities and rich history. The design gives remembrance to the past, while making the space useable for the present and the future.
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Muhamad Hanafi RAHMAT Email muhamadhanafi@yahoo.com Phone 0433 731 013
Newtown Food Market Newtown Food Market is based on the two cultural uses studied in Newtown which are: 1. Kings Street as the ‘Food Street’ 2. Varieties of ‘markets’ in Newtown. The project proposes the insertion of food market which is going to sell varieties of fresh food ranging from fruits, vegetables, ready-to-eat-food, fishes as well as butchery. It is also featured a cultural food court which sells the cultural and traditional fast food (based on diverse culture and races in Newtown) in the ‘hawkers’ style. Apart from that, another important element for the project is the ‘creative cuisine theatre’ of where the cooking demonstration and competition is going to take place.
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Victoria Selia Email victoria@selia.com.au Phone 0417 672 678
A. Plan arrangement exploring the notions of centre and cluster B. Part section, East-West C. Elevation West, Station Street (Top image) Elevation South, Enmore Road (Bottom image)
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House Of the Other An affordable housing scheme centred on self-expression is proposed for Newtown. Using the Burning Man Festival as a celebration of alternative lifestyle this project aims to bridge ‘misfits’ and the community by a way of connecting with art. It views social housing as an event space, a place where people come together to create a marker, a community that celebrates self and place. Observing the parallels between the Burning Man Festival and Newtown, this project is based on a centred arrangement whereby ‘tents’ are formed around small communities amalgamating into clusters around this notion of marker. The site proposes two centres, one being at the convergence of the arterial roads and train station. The other centre being the housing community comprised of artists and the ‘others’ arranged on site, bridging people back into the existing fabric.
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Sheng Ying Jonathan TANG Email jontang.sy@gmail.com Phone 0431 086 380
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Order of Presence The City is a network for many different groups; it is also a reflection on the fragmentation of society. One further fragmentation is that of the Self. We alter between real life experience and cyber experience through the use of new media. The urban environment of Newtown is one that needs to match up with this interchange of experiences. The proposed design aims to take advantage of Newtown’s vibrant cultural community and by incorporating the new technologies of new media to rejuvenate itself in a new direction. The project takes on a highly challenged program consisting of - a law enforcement agency, film studios, exhibition space, a restaurant, leasable space for offices and public garden with outdoor performance space. The demands of the design reflect the cultural milieu of the future, integrating both our experience in the physical realm as well as our cyber personalities in a built environment.
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Deconstructing Sydney’s Ghetto: Urban Aboriginal Cultural Site “‘Aboriginality’ arises from the subjective experience of both Aboriginal and nonAboriginal people who engage in any intercultural dialogue, whether in actual lived experience or through a mediated experience...” Marcia Langton
Email thanin_th@hotmail.com Phone 0416 814 774
This project addresses the issue of Aboriginal misrepresentation within the urban context of Sydney as the root of negative social stereotypes. Proposing to design a cultural precinct in the area surrounding Redfern Train Station on each side of Lawson Street within close proximity to The Block, a gestural approach is taken by connecting the two landmarks. Moving away from merely a transient space, the area is transformed into a precinct of artistic cultural expression underpinned by opportunities for positive cross-cultural interactions. The objective is to provide a platform that promotes a better understanding and appreciation for Aboriginal Australians within an environment that is visually and experientially distinctive of the culture, but which enhances and integrates into the existing urban fabric.
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Philip Wong Email pwk.wong@gmail.com Phone 0414 676 570
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Invigorating the Laneway Graffiti and street art are representative of the creative youth culture in Newtown. Although Newtown is the site of countless pieces of graffiti and street art, it pales in comparison to other cities like New York and Melbourne. How can graffiti and street art be fostered without sapping away the intrinsic power of their illicitness? The project explores the creation of a zone within which youth are subtly encouraged to experiment and partake in whatever graffiti or street art that appeals to them. By reconfiguring the existing morphology of the site, hidden interior spaces appear in the form of laneways. The two uses of youth centre and art centre assimilate existing fabric on either side and weave their way above these laneways. The art centre dissolves the boundary between gallery and laneway, challenging the notion of street art in the gallery, while the youth centre turns its back on the laneway. In an act of subversion, however, the upper spaces of the youth centre constantly expose its occupants to the street art in the lane, passively suggesting opportunities to paint on the street. The two buildings, essentially separate, straddle the laneway and together establish a situation with the potential to develop into a thriving location for the proliferation of graffiti and street art.
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Peter Mould + Helen Lochhead The School as Community Hub
The purpose of this project was to rethink the proposition of the school in the urban environment and to explore the concept of a learning community. The exploration of innovative models for the design of new schools in infill areas is a key imperative of the Sydney Metropolitan Plan. This project can inform that debate. The project was in two parts. The first part was research and analysis where students were asked to investigate how the school sits within the urban context and can act as a community catalyst for social engagement - a meeting place. They also investigated the notions of the 21st century school education pedagogy and places of learning. The second part was the design proposition. Building on their investigations in the first semester, the students had to design a 21st century school in an urban Sydney location. The brief was for the school to act as community hub by incorporating facilities such as library, gym, performance spaces and child care that can be shared with the broader community. The project also required other complimentary uses on the site such as residential, commercial and retail to help create greater density and consolidate the program on the site, and so test a more urban model of the school and its associated uses.
Student Reflection Anthony Maughan-Wright “To a worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish�. The revolution of learning environments remains a very real and relevant proposition of the age, and the comprehensive task of developing a balanced urban proposal which challenges the conception a school in the 21st century became our horseradish. The outset of the studio forced a healthy exploration of new pedagogical models and there permeation into distinctly urban mixed use environments which maintain an equally subservient relationship and responsibility to the community and wider socio-economic realm. In developing a portion of the masterplan which primarily included a senior school, through the framework of the extensive state school brief, the development of a sound pedagogical philosophy was fundamental before the each proposal was to materialise and establish a relationship with key architectural principals. Economically grounded proposals were encouraged with an emphasis on planning the relationship between learning environments. A linear process of design development through each phase of resolution consequently grounded decision making in pushing towards more holistically valid schemes. We wish to thank Peter and Helen for their comprehensive critique and deliberation, and providing very reasonable boundaries within which to explore, and push towards a variety of solutions. Ewe Pin Chuah
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Sophie Scott
Siyang Kou
Ren Jie Teoh
Thi Quynh Huong Le
Chao Xu
Anthony Maughan-Wright
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Randwick High School [Polycentric School – The School as Community Hub] Social Gathering – is the foundation to promote a better community and hence, the importance of social gathering has to be preached to an individual since young age. Thus, school is the foremost platform to educate young individuals on meaning of humanity and way of living of the 21st Century not only textual education. Polycentricty - is the main idea which generates the master planning of the school and the two main parti – courtyard + corridor – are the architectural priorities which form the gathering and learning spaces within the school compound for students (tertiary + secondary + primary school students) to social and to learn from one and another. Nevertheless, the school is equipped with quality facilities to accommodate not only students but also to the public. Types of gathering space are defined by the scale and proportion of the buildings within the school compound in which the main central courtyard is the nucleus of the school.
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Flexible learning spaces reveal that corridors can incorporate activities, transforming into an in-between space where students interact and events occur, the collision of ideas and young minds. The design investigates the interweaving of classrooms and these inbetween spaces and how this relationship can occur within outdoor and indoor spaces. As the learning space is no longer limited to within the school, the design also creates an ambiguous boundary between the school and the community, the library, swimming pool and sports facilities are shared with the community, creating a dialogue and strengthened link between the school and the community. The school becomes part of the community allowing activities inside the school to involve the community and vice versa, expanding the field of education and most importantly giving students a broader experience. A
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The School as a Community Hub To clearly used both for education and community, the initial idea is to separate school and community function in two parts, keeping a wriggling pedestrian walk in between with interesting landscape. The school, which located inner, is serviced for primary and high school students. After school hour, the outer parts, including gym, auditorium, library, communal hall are convenient to open to community. In architectural design, the four high school buildings with different functions could be considered as two teaching modules in one building. The circulation system in the center that includes wide public space connecting each building to promotes social interaction and discourages organization barriers. The scheme takes advantage of the site’s natural landscape to provide visual and activity connectivity. The courtyards, shaped by buildings form could be enjoyed as outdoor teaching area. Every small learning neighborhood has an adjacent outdoor classroom, providing teachers with the opportunity to take advantage of the mild climate to better engage students in outdoor and kinesthetic learning.
Email xifansiyang@hotmail.com Phone 0433 002 170
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School and Community Intersection More and more schools today are becoming ‘community school’. Schools are not only used by the community but also are a valuable/ a genuinely shared resource, with dual use of the sporting facilities, performance spaces, main hall, library, and other social spaces. Following this idea, most of Randwick school facilities will be opened for public use, especially after school hours. In order to encourage local people come and join in the school activity, the new school is designed in compliance with the existing urban fabric, attracting people from main directions. Thus, the two strong axes are set through the school, one will form a “learning street” which will connect the whole school together and one will form a “community street” which will give a strong sense of ‘welcome’ to local people.
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PARRAMATTA COMMUNITY ACADEMY The Learning Nest of the West “Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent, not a singular conception of ability.” Ken Robinson
Email a.maughanwright@live.com Phone 0424 189 883
The PCA matured through a sincere inquiry into the relationship between new age pedagogy and architecture, exposing the changing role of the educator to that of a mentor, through more technologically comprehensive transfers of knowledge and increasing transformation of learning spaces into more flexible and transparent environments. Consisting of a senior school, commercial, residential, communal library and communal movement complex, the learning community is nested above the charged civic ground plane of the Parramatta CBD, generating a mixed use street level ‘marketplace’ and niche environments for outdoor learning. As a conception, the PCA acknowledges the library as the central nest of knowledge and social hub. Formally reiterated through a pure circular form, it acts as the primary entry and congregational node, while encapsulating an extended program of spaces, from informal social to private contemplation.
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Yoke Heng NG Email heng_51star@yahoo.com Phone 0431 619 073
Randwick School - A Community Hub The school is inspired by the idea of a ‘village for learning.’ A progression in scale leads students, teachers, and the public from large courtyards at the school gateways to smaller, protected courtyards at the classroom units and community facilities. A path running across the site creates a strong north-south axis, directing movement into the seemingly scattered school facilities. This spine, along with the courtyards, encourages students to socialise as they make their way to their classes, and also enables informal meetings to take place along the way. Classroom blocks, while similar, are given distinctive identities by unique colours which also help with way-finding. Modular classroom layouts (GL units: 9x8m; Specialist units: 8x7.5m) supported by concrete columns form a protected, internal courtyard for each cluster of classrooms, with brick infill and timber claddings for the external façade to create a sense of warmth and calmness.
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Sophie Scott Email sophie.a.scott@gmail.com Phone 0414 406 761
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The School as a Community Hub The purpose of the project was to rethink the proposition of the school in an urban environment and to explore the concept of a leaning community. Research into innovative 21st century school education pedagogy supported the development of a high school model in a tight urban site in Parramatta CBD. My scheme is designed to integrate school and community use by providing facilities such as an auditorium, gym, dance studio, workshops, art studios and a library, that are available for public use via varying security thresholds. The school becomes a community catalyst for social engagement rather than an entity in isolation with under utilised resources. Learning spaces are visually stimulating, operationally comfortable, safe and visually transparent to facilitate the learning from watching other students, and for passive surveillance.
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CITY-as -CLASSROOM While pedagogy is being transformed rapidly with technology, physical faceto-face contact remains fundamental in how people actually learn and grow. The physical classroom is here to stay; it is how new methods of pedagogy can better create and involve a livelier school community and, how that school community can become part of the greater community, so as to imbue into students the critical life and social skills that will work in synergy with classroom learning. The constrained site in the Parramatta CBD provided the unique opportunity to see how a typical NSW High School programme can be reinvented involving multiple stakeholders and businesses from the community to become the core of a high-density, mixuse development. Cleverly layered quality public and semi-public spaces that creatively interface with the core teaching spaces result in a highly dynamic architecture that can facilitate lively social exchange within the school and with the larger community.
Email cosmopolitance@gmail.com Phone 0430 807 574
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Chao Xu Email betty5151@gmail.com Phone 0430 934 230
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School of the 21st Century The challenge of the project is to design school that can fulfil 21st century educational needs: not just a friendly study environment but also a place that kids are willing to utilize. The strategy is to introduce various flexible, interaction spaces and eliminate the boundary between inside and outside. In my design, every corner of the building can form a nice learning space. Narrow corridors are not necessary in school; they all turn into communication space. Some of the formal classrooms have been removed and change to flexible learning space that open to everyone. Some of them are defined by the void space from above, or act as balcony that totally open to central courtyard. Void space has been added between each floor, the study experience will not only limit in enclosure space but lots of interaction between peers. School is no longer an isolated building it should encourage more interaction between students and community. Library, gyms are located along main road so they can be easily accessed by neighbourhood without interrupt main teaching area.
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Zeyang Yu Email yzy_eric@hotmail.com
The School as a Community Hub In twenty first century, school should not be still considered as a close space which only use for students, it can plays a more important role in community, therefore, re-think the proposition of the school in the urban environment and explore the new relationship between school and community become the main purposes of this project. In order to achieve these two purposes, there have some questions need be thought. What is school? In my opinion, it can allow children to learn the knowledge, to discover their kinds of abilities, to shape their own characteristics. How to achieve these goals? Book and teacher is the basis, furthermore, a good environment which can make children engage in learning is also important. How to get the connection between the school and community? Share part of school resources with local community, which can promote the interaction between them, would be an effective way.
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Architecture and Technology In this studio group each student was invited to propose a project that depended upon the application of contemporary technology for their conception, method of enquiry, design, fabrication or evaluation. Such technologies, strategies and media included parametric modelling (including the use of genetic solvers), real time interactive environments from the computer gaming industry, film making, bio mimicry, social networking and telecommunications. As each project was self-directed there were almost as many architectural programs as there were students in the group. Their programs ranged from Urban Zoo’s, through a Subterranean Prison to an Aquatic Centre. Clearly the programs investigated were provocative (even the more typical live/work mixed use projects brought basic assumptions of what it means to live and what it means to work into radical review) and this was a deliberate strategy; the outputs from this studio should be seen as in a dialogue with those from the F.A.M.E studio group lead by Ray Brown. Finally, this studio understands that technology is not inert… as Robin Evans tells us (The Projective Cast, 1995), architecture is limited by the forms of its representation that are available in any particular period… and limits, more than anything, are a wonderfully provocative call to action. I’m looking forward to seeing where these students take architectural research and the profession in the coming years.
Student Reflection David Saczko “For me the studio was about opportunity, not only to explore architectural concepts but also the opportunity to prove these concepts in a virtual environment. Without the constraint of a formal program for the site the studio developed a very diverse personality, where we had the freedom to explore our own concepts and ideas, with the knowledge that we would need to realise them in a rational manner that could be tested in real time, to this extent it would also test the foundation we had gained over the past 5 years. It is very rare as a student to see your projects realised but the technology let us give our architecture life. The studio made you ask tough questions of yourself, it tested capabilities and gave you insight into new things, it made you want to explore in different ways, to push unknowns whether it was a concept or computer program and the end result was nothing that I would have expected, but something I am very happy with.”
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Michael Chien Hao Chiu Email kobe_12v@hotmail.com URL www.3222161mic-notes.blogspot.com Phone 0414 488 176
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Metabolic Cubes The project aims to respond to the analysis performed during the research stage of the design studio, using advanced 3D software. The concept is to have a modular megastructural frame system put in place, which enables all sorts of programs to be inserted pragmatically anywhere onto this frame. The spaces are prefabbed off site and hoisted and inserted in place with cranes and locking mechanisms. The frame system has a metabolic character – it can extend beyond the site to connect to various spaces around the site to increase its level of engagement and vibrancy. Whenever a situation arises, prefabricated apartments and spaces can be pulled out and transported elsewhere, and the frame can be fully dissembled – and to be used somewhere else. The ground plane is complete open public space, with some retail outlets at various points to direct circulation, and the mezzanine level is lifted into midair, and connects to neighbouring blocks. Higher levels are reserved for residential and commercial spaces. Elevators have high visual permeability and run diagonally to enhance the experience of travelling in this structure.
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Stephen Davey Email stephen.b.davey@gmail.com URL www.evolveddesignInformant.blogspot.com
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Evolved Design Informant A scientific understanding of ‘memes’ (evolving ideas constituting culture) informs design processes considering cultural evolution. Buildings become obsolete and replaced when lacking ‘memetic adaptability’ – ie, when not so integrated with social culture that they’re necessary to sustain it. My key implementations of memetic adaptability were flexibility of space to ensure adaptability of program, and built environment integration of social media technology to ensure the building will irreplaceably integrate into the inhabitant’s social life, just as smartphones have irreplaceably integrated into social life. An apartment module was developed, containing a bathroom and a flexible space that transforms between living, bedroom, kitchen, and dining spaces. A different, open plan module can extend the design for multibedroom apartments. For further flexibility, modules are capable of ascending and descending the building on tracks, with extendable sleeves for temporary extra space. This lets one module’s roof act as the balcony of another.
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CHRIS FREEBURN Email cfreeburn@gmail.com URL www.ungroundedarchitecture.blogspot.com
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Zantedeschia The premise for my project was that humanities leap towards sustainability requires more than just buildings with ‘green features’. The project explored an alternative approach – To look to nature as precedent and design a built environment that operates and organises itself as an ecosystem would. The first step in the design was to invert the shape of the skyscrapers so that they had only very small footprints thus freeing up the ground plane to be returned to the public as a forest. The next step was to establish a connectedness of all the activities and processes that occur on the site. This decentralisation of the role that humans hold within the built environment establishes a mutually beneficial relationship between the built and natural components. A key driver behind the project was to question if replacing high environmental impact with low environmental impact architecture is doing enough – is doing “less bad” really an achievement?
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SCOTT Jianlong Lee Email darchitects@hotmail.com URL www.beerchitecture.blogspot.com Phone 0425 709 596
Redfern Station If a place is just for getting to places, it is a placeless place
Engaging The City Fracture
The current Redfern Train Station serves its purpose but the question falls in its efficiency and significance. Followed by the potential of its influence beyond its current boundaries.
To perceive the rail corridor as the site and explore possibilities of harnessing such continual open spaces, stitching and interconnecting adjacent pocket parks along its path as an integral green corridor.
Redesigning Redfern Station
A Missing Platform – A Platform for Dialogue
To embark on a process of honouring what has come before through finding new inspirations for old spcaes, new purposes for existing structures, new life for derelict sites and buildings, bringing relevance and meaning to a train station and a continuum of time and place.
A transit and recreation hub for communication. To project seeks to piece together three fragments of Redfern (the people, University of Sydney, Drosscape). A back and forth engagement between people, movement and the past. The re-conception of a train station as a town centre through shear ubiquity and interconnectivity, perhaps to spark a new Australian generic space. A Train Station as a Seed for Development
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David Saczko Email davesaczko@hotmail.com
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Concept visualisation Elizabeth Street perspective Structural concept Night Interior concept
Bio_Reuse Exploring concepts of bio morphology and adaptive reuse the building seeks not only to use what already exists on the site but also to develop a new paradigm for defining what is suitable for reuse, that adapted buildings need not be of historic or cultural value, but rather through the reuse of all buildings we can save resources for the future. The bio influences on the building are not only in the faรงade, which also provides structural support to what remains of the original building form, but carries through to the planning and new program of the building, a bio research lab. The adapted elements of which make a statement about what was once there giving the building a unique new and used character to those that pass through the site.
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Siem Salem Email siem.salem@gmail.com URL www.soexotique.blogspot.com Phone 0410 505 107
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So Exotique! Zoos are becoming an endangered species, as the current visitation pattern is to visit once as a child… and maybe once again if you have children. This is a shame, because humans, as biological beings, gain a better understanding of ourselves by seeing how we relate to other members of the animal kingdom. This project is a modern menagerie, inviting, multi-programmatic and integrating comfortably into the urban jungle. The architecture is as varied as the collection of animals it houses, moving you through a forest of catenoidal and helicoidal geometries you’re constantly surprised by what is around the next curve. The enclosures have the same base geometry, varied by the individual animal’s requirements, so you can see how each animals needs warp the base architecture. And as you wander around you might wonder: what would a human catenoidal enclosure look like?
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Hamid Samavi Email samavi_h@yahoo.com
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A Porous City, a Folded Emptiness, a 3D Plaza , an Infinite Space Redevelopment of a 3 hectare inner city block into a stylish gateway for Parramatta City adjacent to Parramatta Station has been considered For the site of project. As SILENCE is the most important element in music, EMPTINESS is the most important element in the city. It’s A PLACE OF INTERMINGLING AND INTEGRATION, A PLACE TO EXCITE THE SOUL. SIMPLY A SPACE, A VOID. Being more like a park than architecture, people come together with a sense of freedom and generate a stimulat¬ing mix of creative and intellectual activities every day. The biggest challenge is not to follow con¬ventional programmes defined by functions such as a museum, library and so on, but to redefine and integrate them in a completely new software, called “mediatheque.”, The Mediatheque is a typical building in the sense that it is not program driven, and therefore can ac¬commodate any and all programmatic conditions that might arise.
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Bio-Aquatic Centre The main focus of this project is that how could architecture be able to be integrated with biomimetic technology in order to approach the unique complexity in terms of spatial organization and circulation. Based on the research and experiments, a particular surface named triply periodic minimal surface is the most suitable surface to create biomimic bone structure. This surface with high porosity has significant potentials in terms of architectural space. To generate the final result, variable process was operated to emerge the final form. Specifically, by changing the factors in the equations of the surface, the form of surface is simultaneously changing. The final result was determined by comparing and observing its practicability in terms of architectural form.
Email wuyn85@gmail.com URL www.wynstanwu.blogspot.com Phone 0433 604 436
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Puay Khoon Yeo Email ypkhoon@hotmail.com URL www.arch7201-2011pk.tumblr.com
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Interactive Architecture Smartphone penetration in Australia is the second highest in the world. There is an opportunity to tap into the real time data collected from smartphones to influence and modify architecture. This project proposes a redesign of the static ground plane at the Centennial site, next to Central Station, to create a new space that is activated by its users via their smartphones. Interactive elements of different scales react at different speeds. On the ground, “ponds” of interactive ground systems create different spatial configurations according to the users’ behaviour. Slow moving or static users trigger seating areas in an amphitheatre while a food market infrastructure is triggered by lunchtime. The “Diaphragm” roof fluctuates gradually like a pair of bellows to draw polluted air from the three existing commercial buildings into the expansive ground space to cleanse biologically before returning it. The fluctuations also modify the spatial quality of the ground space.
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Diane Jones + Catherine de Lorenzo People Live in Architecture
The studio questioned the nature of dwellings for older people, specifically those who may develop some form of dementia (the loss of cognitive abilities in previously unimpaired persons). Students are asked to develop a dwelling type recognizing that some of the inhabitants shall require care in some form, due in part to the presence of dementia. To this end the central themes of the studio were dwelling, care and research. These themes were to be considered not from the perspective of an institution such as a hospital/nursing home but from within the dwelling i.e. when care is required it shall be provided in the home. Art and architecture shall play a central role in the care, which encompasses both treatment and prevention. Research shall be in-situ, ie, the project will facilitate the investigation, analysis and postulation of the needs of those suffering dementia. In this way the idea of an institution is removed and replaced by a home that has spatio-temporal continuity to an inhabitant’s past. A kind of living laboratory is imagined. In keeping with the aims of the Dutch-based Humanitas Foundation, “intensive nursing home care… (is) rendered in one’s own home. (An) important starting-point in this notion is that supply of care is strictly based on the demand. What does the inhabitant want?”… For Humanitas it is evident that in many cases the client experiences more ‘well being’ from a pet than from a nurse, more from a barkeeper than from a dietitian and more from expressions of art than from a strict hygienic regime.” On an inner Sydney urban site, either in Redfern or Bondi, the studio demanded a certain density involving medium to high-rise development. Students were encouraged to address ideas around:
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›› Social Mix ›› (De) institutionalization ›› Intergenerational living: age mix/segregation ›› Nature in dwelling ›› Home ownership ›› Attitudes towards work and ageing ›› Dwelling flexibility and family ›› Design for the needs across cultures, including indigenous people ›› The ability or potential of art and architecture to operate in a caring capacity During Semester 1, students were asked to prepare an annotated bibliography which critically reviewed literature from a wide range of sources (scholarly articles, creative projects, official reports). This bibliography was to be accompanied by a concept artwork that showed some knowledge arising out of the art and health literature and communicated effectively ideas related to core issues of dementia. In order to develop the concept design for Semester 1, students were encouraged to pursue a creative and experimental analysis of the mapping of the physical and cultural context of the site and the program. Conceptual modeling was to be used to articulate issues and hybridity studies (theatre and baking, for example) which could be linked to typology studies (to understand the inherent possibilities and limitations of various types). Semester 2 was devoted to the translation of the students’ concept programs and designs into architectural proposals. The greatest challenge for the students was to overcome conventional typologies and to understand how architecture may address society’s changing needs.
Student Reflection - Jean Philippe Duchame “People Live in Architecture sets an extremely challenging context for this graduation studio: an ageing population and the dementia epidemic. The question of what is architecture’s role in such context was crucial in the development of our architectural response. Each of us has walked on thin ice over the 2 sessions in order to find the right balance between contradictory pairs: control and freedom, openness and enclosure, privacy and community building, change and permanence. How does a permanent structure accommodates for the changes in one’s life in order to age in place? As the dwelling is critical to the definition of self, our objective was to imagine a form of collective dwelling with an in-built capacity to adapt, while providing stability and safety as we age. Therefore, flexibility was one of the main areas of focus. We were given 2 different sites for the development of our graduation project: Redfern and Bondi Junction. Both offer a dense urban environment and supporting infrastructures such as transport, commercial, health and community facilities. Despite the opportunities, both sites were also presenting constraints,
notably, in regards to the definition of an appropriate envelope which would maximise solar access, mitigate undesired surrounding disturbances and provide appropriate levels of privacy to the residents. Further, both sites required density, verticality and programmatic diversity for the project to be relevant to the current socio-economical context. Finally, central to our designs was the user’s perspective, the clarity of spatial sequences and the definition of an architecture which appropriately stimulates body and mind. As a result, the projects attempt to appeal to all senses of the human body.” Alfie Arcuri
Chauntelle Mitchell
Duc Cao
Gregory Phillips
Guofang Chen
Shih Shing Pua
Jean-Philippe Ducharne
Queenie Tran
Jinjoo Ko
Konstantinos Tsaloukas
Nikola Kozomara
Shuai Yuan
Carol Leung
Owen Liang Zhu
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Alfie Arcuri Email alfiearcuri@bigpond.com Phone 0422 547 385
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Elder Centred Community The premise of the studio was to question the nature of dwellings for the aging and specifically with some form of dementia. My research into dementia found that constant contact with nature, people and animals is a powerful remedy for those suffering with the illness. This idea informed my concept and design objective to create an elder centred community where life, nature and activity converge. In my living environment residents with dementia can wonder freely in the sensory walk which weaves through a series of spaces such as a community garden, community kitchen and sculptural voids while simultaneously circling a public plaza on lower ground. The walk allows residents with dementia to engage with all senses and to experience unconstrained interactions with other people, wildlife and nature. The living environment also facilitates communal and neighbourly interactions through design of the living modules. Designed as a flexible exoskeleton framed structure, the buildings program works as a series of prefabricated living modules which are able to be inserted into the structure to adapt and grow according to the changing needs of the community. The modular layout and program design creates a series of spontaneous experiences and personal exchanges between residents through balcony interaction and communal courtyards.
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Duc Cao Email caoduchieu@yahoo.com Phone 0425 373 253
People Live In Architecture Garden Reinterpretation The project was to design family living accommodation which maximizes beneficial impact on people at the early stages of dementia. The use of garden as a therapeutic tool affords opportunities for sensory stimulation, communication and meaningful experience. A potential healing role of architecture is unfolded through the concept of slim multistorey apartments. Building slimness not only optimizes a connection to nature at building edges but also enables a more substantial area on the ground for a community garden.
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Cross section Adaptability apartment Perspective Conceptual sketch A view of sunroom
The incorporation of dementia training centre and volunteer centre is to support the community garden’s activities as well as to provide the greater community with information of horticultural therapy. Community garden and dementia cafe are designed for social interaction and enhancing the sense of belonging to the society among residents. Within each apartment, a well-lit pots garden facilitates regular gardening. The opened sunroom next to the pots garden is a multifunctional space for taking care of plants, reading, enjoying flowers, sunbathing and doing exercises. These spaces were aligned along the north and the west side to allow suitable solar access. The openness of the sunroom is intended to allow greater supervision of the whole family, creating greater family support and encouragement. Adaptability was considered for different families’ requirements and satisfying possible arising need of alteration. The necessity of designing for disable users was taken into account in order to maintain the idea of “aging-in-place”.
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Guofang Chen Email hunshimoyu@gmail.com Phone 0430 789 188
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People Live in Architecture An ageing population and the dementia epidemic, the question of what is architecture’s role in such context was crucial in the development of our architecture response. My proposal is an apartment combined with visual art studios. The apartments are designed for the different kinds of families especially for the aged and even people with dementia living home. Beside this, the art studios consist of the Painting Studio, Craft Studio and Pottery Studio which are particularly designed for the aged and some ones with dementia. The three concepts in my design are communication, openness and adaptability. Firstly, the most important concept is how to create different kinds of sensible environment and opportunities for communication, especially which is significant helpful for the aged relating with the community, which as a result that the Art Studios is designed for their communication and themselves expression. Secondly, the building is together with open spaces for activities, such as the courtyard, different forms of balconies in apartments which not only brings opportunities of communication but also brings enough sunlight, ventilation and views. Thirdly, it is considered about future flexible space use linking with adaptability and efficiency for people living in architecture.
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The Aleph
Email jeanphilippeducharne@gmail.com URL www.architecture-jip.blogspot.com Phone 0424 919 812
Hamm: Nature has forgotten us. Clov: There’s no more nature. Hamm: No more nature! You exaggerate. Clov: In the vicinity. Hamm: But we breath, we change! We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom! Our ideals! Samuel Beckett, Endgame (extract). The Aleph refers to Borges’ novel published in 1949. It is a celebration of life and its ineluctable path. The Aleph is a man-made body eroded by time and life. It is an eroded block of sandstone, a meeting place, a home, a bath house. Space is formed by the movement of bodies, tracing our daily rituals. Water is freedom and memory, taking any shape and yet bound to the horizontal plane. It is a balance of solids and voids. The voids are places to meet and feel, exposing the residents and temporary guests to the wind, the rain, the sun, sounds and fragrances.
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Jinjoo Ko Email qpearl2005@hotmail.com
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People Live in ArchitectureMulti Sensory Homes The project proposes homes for all generations in urban context that would provide not only a place to live in but also a new model of social integration, support and care of home for the aged with dementia. The project is based on Bondi Junction where such homes are in a high demand due to increasing population of the aged and the interest in the aged friendly environment. Multi sensory environment via vertical gardens is a concept of the project as a reflection of dementia related studies and site opportunities as well as a question regarding how to create a high rise building of the urban context without losing the suburban qualities such as green space and local neighbourhood. A wide range of gardens throughout the building are designed to be visually and functionally engaged with private gardens and public park so that the entire space provides healthy environment.
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NIKOLA KOZOMARA Email vitez_koja@hotmail.com Phone 0401 554 150
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The “Generations” Junction In a nutshell this proposal is for a multigenerational and multicultural facility with strong emphasis on the close social connection of residents in a self sustained “village” like community where they work together and look after each other. The vibrant and diverse composition of residents will be accompanied with a rich array of activities and communal spaces - filled with interaction so that one never feels alone. Personal privacy however will never be jeopardized, and all participation will be strictly voluntary. If one desires their private realm they will always find it in their apartment. Designed to universal standards these apartments will be able to comfortably accommodate the elderly, including those suffering from dementia. The highly flexible nature of the apartments will also allow them to adapt to the changing needs of its occupants and not the other way around. This will allow the residents to continue living in their familiar surroundings, right till the very end, maintaining their social habits, independence and human dignity.
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Living with Architecture This project aims to develop a new model of adaptable residential environment in an urban context, challenging the existing nature of dwellings for the aged, and how aging is addressed by society through the built environment. Developed though research into therapies and preventative measures for dementia, the driving concept of movement considers how development of habits impact on the way people live, especially in the case of the elderly and those with dementia. Habits reduces mental stimulation and physical activity, making one ‘lazy’, and architecture is generally designed to reinforce or to adapt to human habits. To address ageing and dementia, and general mental and physical wellbeing, this design considers space and architecture as a process. Through the use of sliding shelves and the services as a fixed point of reference, apartments are allowed to mimic changes of the inhabitants, and provides a chance for the environment to be constantly modified when habits develop.
Email carolleung88@gmail.com Phone 0424 463 339
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The Vertical Courtyard The following project questions the nature of dwellings for the aged, specifically the aged with some form of dementia. It seeks to develop a new dwelling type which caters to the occupant as they age within the building. Dementia is a complex disease and requires a layered approach in both terms of design and care. This project realises these complexities and aims to address them both spatially and socially. The form of the building also takes on both the physical and social manifestations of the site, it is essentially a vertical courtyard. It aims to investigate the positive and negative relationship between spaces and mass, reinforcing the idea that with every mass or series of objects, there is an associated definition of space of void around it.
Email reba85@hotmail.com Phone 0415 984 106
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Bondi Junction Community Art Centre The project seeks to investigate how architecture can create a supportive setting that enhances a person’s independence, dignity and wellbeing - specifically how architecture can create opportunities for meaningful activity, choice and personal control. The scheme is informed by a research project examining art therapy for patients with dementia. Composed of a hybrid typology the programme consists of residential apartments and a vibrant public space for the production of, and engagement with art which acts as a neighbourhood hub. The design explores the notion of functional flexibility and an operable edge condition to create a space that can become a catalyst for interactions in which the community can learn, create and connect.
Email chauntelle@gmail.com
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Gregory Phillips Email gregoryp@email.com Phone 0412 215 515
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Mind Your Mindfulness Medical studies have identified hippocampal atrophy as an early predictor of cognitive decline. Stress produces the stress hormone ‘cortisol’ which damages this centre of the brain, and age and/or illness affects the body’s ability to manage cortisol levels. The management and prevention of stress, as a precursor to hypertension and stroke, can be used to manage the onset of dementia. Drawing on this link, the brief was to design a housing complex in Bondi Junction that is integrated with a meditation centre. The meditation centre is to cater to both the spiritual needs of the residents, as well as the wider community, through the provision of meditation and stressmanagement classes, workshops, together with fitness classes such as yoga thereby adhering to a holistic approach of mental and physical health in order to reduce stress, improve heart function, reduce anxiety and chronic pain with the ultimate goal of increasing life longevity.
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A Living Spaces, Bondi Junction Apartment The project proposes to question the nature of dwellings for the aged, specifically those who might eventually develop dementia. The institutional idea is eliminated but a perspective of ‘Home for Life’ is adopted that a dwelling can be gradually adapted to changing needs. The main concept of the studio is ‘Integration of Art & Architecture’. The effect of music/ music therapy is found to be significant in the treatment of dementia. Music therapy has been employed as the research component which can be taken out formally and informally for the purpose of research and for its general beneficial outcomes. Music is a translation of art which is developed into a music store/academy with a music hall below the apartment units that engage music into everyday life of the community. A community hub is created from a range of activities where the elderly form a healthy lifestyle, remain independent, and participate in society.
Email star_pua@yahoo.com Phone 0433 731 013
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[WATER]cress Designed as an integrated system, the proposed development aims to explore the impact of Australia’s aging population and acknowledges that from 65 onwards, the likelihood of living with dementia doubles every five years, affecting 24% of those aged 85 years (Henderson & Jorm 1998). The programme utilises a person-centred approach, focusing on accessibility, flexibility and education. The development emphasises sustainable food production with a commercial kitchen and training centre which invites the local community to develop skills as well as facilitate research on the nutritional impacts on dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. A dementia café/restaurant provides a meeting point and fosters greater understanding of the disease. The sustainability centre provides an area to motivate sustainable practices within the local area. Flexible accommodation options allow for “housing for life”, adapting to the changing needs of individual residents. An integrated system design ensures a self-sustaining and proactive community catering for the individual.
Email tran.queenie@gmail.com Phone 0435 172 525
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Food for Life With the increasing aged population of Australia and the need for a more appropriate housing model for the future of such people, combined with the notion of Redfern being at the cusp of a development resurgence, this design project address the concept of a new model for lifetime living in Australia and high rise living in Redfern. Food, is the driving factor in providing an environment, through its growth, collection, processing and ultimately its consumption that connects residents to each other, and to the community and environment in which it is placed.
Email ktsaloukas@hotmail.com Phone 0433 731 013
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Shuai YUAN Email sean.yuan.s@gmail.com Phone 0425 550 723
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People Live in Architecture - Reminiscence Museum + Apartment for Life The major task of my project is exploring what architecture can contribute to the idea of “age in place�- to support aged, especially people with dementia living in their own home without moving to an institutional care facility. The social needs and mental health of the residents are highly valued. The apartments focus on flexibility and adaptability to the living-pattern and demographic changes of the families. The reminiscence museum provides aged people and people with dementia a joint way of sharing memories of events and household objects long forgotten, with their own agegroup, their children and grandchildren. It acts as a media between the residents and the outside world, breaks the isolation. The proposal tries to dissolve the boundary between the dwelling and the outside world; meantime, also the boundary between the dwelling and the reminiscence museum is blurred, so the museum can provide amenities and venues of activities for the residents.
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Owen Liang Zhu Email owenyokomo@hotmail.com URL www.flickr.com/photos/owenyokomo Phone 0432 023 918
A New Arts and Cultural Centre, Newtown This project begins with an interest in the process of gentrification. Like other postindustrial areas, Newtown’s gentrification is initiated by artists and other creative professionals. With its proximity to the Sydney CBD and accumulated cultural capitals through the years, it has attracted many investors, developers as well as many young urban professionals. Many have been forced to move out due to the climbing rental price and the rising living standard. How to sustain Newtown’s cultural diversity and retain a healthy community has become the impulse, altogether with a strong personal believe of the mergence between visual arts and performing art has result a series of hybrid architectural spaces that are complex, specific, flexible and ambiguous, most importantly a place where the concept of boundary will be eliminated.
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Dream Home in the Metropolis? Is there a dream home in the metropolis? What constitutes a home? To what extent does the architecture of housing contribute to it? The background of these questions is the modern dilemma facing the Australian city, as well as a large portion of the urbanized world: the Australian dream home – a detached house on a quarter acre block, and the high-density collective living – multistorey apartment and various other forms of attached dwelling, remain incompatible in our psyche. Yet no top-down “social engineering” imposed by the government and bureaucrats can succeed without the willing response from our everyday circumstances. This studio launches into an inquiry into what constitutes the meaning of home in the Australian context in particular, and the English speaking world in general. The inquiry is two-fold: on the one hand, it examines in the Anglo world the birth, development and meaning of suburbia in relation to the facts and myths of the dream home in this country. On the other hand, it looks into the multi-story and other forms of high-density urban housing throughout the European history, both on the continent and in England. The focus on both fronts is the modern development, that is, from the eighteenth century onwards. Dwelling on a learned and discerning inquiry, the studio tests the efficacy, as well as the limit, of the architectural apparatus through the design experiments in defining the dream home within the constraints of the modern metropolis.
Student Reflection Zain Al-Hindi + Andy Marlow A small, diverse group of students from a variety of countries, we came together to battle with the concept of the ‘Dream Home in the Metropolis’. We chose a variety of sites, building scales and social contexts according to our own philosophical and architectural beliefs about what makes ‘home’ and what is ‘the metropolis’. The small size of our Studio made for a unique experience where we all had active involvement in each other’s projects rather than the silos that ordinarily develop. The depth of analysis and intensity of tangential conversations has given a breadth to all the projects that can only be afforded by the luxury of time. Our Research Studio was a genuine exploration of ideas, concepts and the ideological underpinning of housing across both time and place. The non-site specific Studio gave genuine freedom for us to choose our focus area, that on which we would be judged; a social housing project integrated with urban gardens, a revisioning of the Australian Dream, a communal housing model, a permanent home for temporary residents and a highly speculative ‘return to origins’ for the urban pockets of Sydney. Many thanks to Xing for his insightful comments and help throughout the year. Zain Al-Hindi Jimin Cho Charles Estephen Farhan Mahmud Andy Marlow
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“Dream Home in the Metropolis”: ‘A Return to Origins in the Urban Pockets of Sydney’ – ‘The Monastic Cell” “A Room within a Room” “The Garden”
Email zainalhindi@hotmail.com Phone 0416 814 774
Detailed Description: The Metropolis theme, the basis for the site selection for the three proposals, is based on three concepts: the 17th century Parienne urban poche (pocket), a modified type of the European Medieval Live/Work hierarchy, and the ‘minimum dwelling’, a solution proposed in the 1920’s for the global housing crisis. The Dream Home part is based on the main concept of “A Return to Origins”, and inspired by Joseph Ryckwert’s statement: “Paradise is a promise, as well as a memory”, promoting a recreation of the condition of the primitive hut, assuming that the first hut was Adam’s in Paradise. The first site is based on acquiring the solitude of the monastic cell in the heart of the city, the second is a manifestation of the study on the microcosmic relationship between the universe, the human body, and the house, and the third is based on the relationship between the house and the garden, assuming that the first house was set in a garden, ‘paradise’.
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Jimin Cho Paddington Village Paddington village is locating at the corner of Gordon Street and Licombe street in South Paddington. The use of building is multiplex residential building cooperating with the site for the educational use enveloping library, learning centre and display area for COFA students on the Ground and 1st level and residential on the level 2,3,4 and 5. There are 4 types of apartment’s setouts each elaborating different plans and sections fit to the certain group of residents. The groups are newly developed family types in modern society such as single mum with children and old couples living alone and young students and graduates. In designing, the Concept was picked up from English House in metropolis is an understanding the needs of a person in home is to feel home. As the urban develops, there are few downsides keep reoccurring in our society. Family concept became more distributed into nuclear units rather than having a traditional big family, where landlord, ascendants, descendants, servants live all together in one house. It is very common for elderly couple or elderly single to live alone, after upbringing of their children, flew off from the nest. The trends of high education, pro city population growing, and the economical living standards also contributed to this type of family living as well. Big companies and businesses happens within big metropolis,
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the city area, for physical convenience to idealism to get to work easier, with public transport escaping the problems with parking and traffics, young people after they finish their education, leave their home apart from family, living rent in metropolis is quite common case as well. They are not quite there to get a house of their own whether, they are not ready to be married, or economical reason or the trend of living single is understood as the most ideal way of living. A home can be called as a true home when the activities, lifestyle and memories of dwelling contained within the space. What they expect and focus from their home is not the fanciness of exterior façade, but to have characterized value of interior experiences and memories. The design was focused to have this internal experiences among neighbors causing accidental encounters by residents to have this feeling created as togetherness and take advantages of each other , looking after one and the other’s needs. The basic design layout was took from the traditional setouts of European and Asian architecture facing courtyard and the courtyard and communal spaces acting as part of circulation to maximize smooth accidental encounters of neighbors and families.
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BEYOND THE PROJECT “Beyond the project” is a residential apartment building located in Woolloomooloo, Sydney that accommodates both 88 private residential apartments and 22 subsidised apartments. The program for the building combines both the financial aspirations of a private developer as well as the social objectives of the Government Housing body. The project looks to incorporate the idea of communal gardens and urban agriculture as a way to encourage social activities, healthy living and sustainable lifestyle. Apartment types have been designed according to the demographic associated and located appropriately throughout the building. This particular scenario creates a charged environment with split circulation routes and landscape being used to provide separation and segregation. Looking beyond the immediate project and considering future possibilities such as food sustainability and the increasing density in urban cities, “Beyond the Project” aims to cater for such potentials, whilst also accommodating the idea of the “Dream Home in the Metropolis”.
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The Contrast Between the Exterior and Interior In ideal circumstances, the external façade of a home reflects on the interior – the well manicured garden and the beautiful colors painted on a house would directly indicate a beautiful home. The Moving Home built from the underappreciated shipping containers may not be the initial idea for a home but it is for the urban nomad. Pride in Construction: Situated in 3 very different sites, these dwellings aid the urban nomad to recreate their fond memories of home. With the shipping container as a template, the home is carefully constructed from a kit of parts through the urban nomad’s specification as it differs from backgrounds to life experiences. House as an Artifact: The urban nomad own little personal possessions but these objects are the ones that give the identity of the individual. Apart from having the perfect shell of a home, the furnishings make it concrete and the idea of a home, achievable.
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Greyfields Greyfields is an investigation into the suburban future of Australian cities. The task ahead of the design professions is how to accommodate 1.5 million people in the next 25 years particularly within walking distance of public transport and especially in urban settings that communities embrace. The project outlines the potential for existing suburbs to accommodate a larger proportion of Sydney’s growing population. While urban densification is not a new concept its successes have occurred in a narrow range of locations, Greyfields proposes a pathway to expand the reach of densification beyond the limited remaining brownfield sites. The second part of the project examines housing patterns and their derivative types that could fulfil the physical, financial and psychological needs of suburban residents in a higher density context. Greyfields focuses on the potential of courtyard housing to satisfy the composite parts of the Australian Dream; the backyard, the ‘garden as show’ and the relationship with the ‘outdoors’.
Email andymarlowsydney@yahoo.com.au Phone 0406 754 533
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The studio explores the emerging hybrid form and program in Sydney, with specific reference to the transformation of type, fabrication, live-work, long life: loose fit: low energy, the aesthetics of operability, permeability and public interface. These themes are explored by examining the changing nature of livework environments and their potential to make connections to other uses, the public domain and city components. While the studio is anchored in the design of living environments it promotes ‘autonomous hybrids’ rather then mono-functional forms. A return to the diagram and frame as a basis for organization and the study of configurations is encouraged. The studio adopts a performative approach with intensive digital and analogue design testing and description. Housing is a form of cultural design, as important as the design of iconic structures such as event, arts and media buildings. More than any other form of architecture, housing responds quickly to cultural shifts – demographics, consolidation, global recession and climate change. In this respect housing is perhaps more important than the celebrated icons as the living environment forms the launch pad for much of our lives in a digital age. The studio builds on the live-work-play obsessions of the office of Stanisic Associates, providing a more open field of enquiry and exploration than the control and client driven professional sphere. It encourages critical reflection, testing life experiences and perceptions while striving for invention. The studio takes both a local and global perspective, drawing on recent work in Australia, Europe and Asia, including China. The program comprises live-work and 3 other uses. The venue for the project is Barangaroo South, framed by Lime Street, Napolean Street, Hickson Road, the harbour’s edge.
Student Reflection - Robert Malec The Barangaroo Hybrid and Habitation project has been the most relevant and discussed project of today’s architectural world that our student group has encountered. The combination of an exclusive site, modern building typology and open brief, provided the opportunity to explore architectural concepts from a master plan level to the micro level of architectural detailing and finishes. The open nature of this studio allowed each student to explore building forms which appealed to their personal values, resulting in an extensive and unique range; such as iconic and unique shapes, matrix and grid driven designs, towers and low rise forms, whilst retaining the core concepts of the Hybrid building typology. Frank Stanisic has provided each student with his experience, architectural knowledge, and professional feedback which pushed the design capability of everyone to a high level he knew we could all achieve. Whilst this course was very demanding, each student had a fun learning experience, and grew closer together as a group.
Jesse Cheung Natalie Davis Murine Lai Emily Maclaurin Robert Peter Malec Robert Poon Jane Setyapranata Dion Antonio Sundojo Jocelyn Jing Ling Yong Luella Lumiao Yu
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Hy-Bridging the City The approach to the Barangaroo Site was of response to neighbouring buildings and of quality to the inhabitants of the hybrid. In response to the site, the interpretation was that the Barangaroo site was not to be filled with high-end stores, rather a more intimate and local approach, e.g.: fresh food markets, farmers markets, boutique stores, and local events. The underpinning concept of framing the views, and allowing direct access to the site through lane-way and street corridors is concurrent throughout the design. As a hybrid building it aims to be a sustainable building and sustainable strategies have been incorporated into the design as a model for future development. The hybrid model aims to be accessible on all levels, external stairs lead up to the raised public space, and is linked to the freeway as to provide a drop off zone. The model is of an organic complex not just a multi-use complex.
Email jesseche@gmail.com URL www.jcworks.blogspot.com Phone 0403 578 344
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Natalie Davis Email nataliemichelledavis@gmail.com Phone 0403 414 927
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Hybrid Connection South Barangaroo The long-term success of the Barangaroo site depends upon its connections to transport. Therefore a major feature of my design is the Wynyard Arcade, situated at the centre of the site, providing direct connections to Wynyard train station and Kent St. At the completion of Barangaroo, Hickson Road will become one of the busiest streets in Sydney, therefore it is vital that it has an active and vibrant street edge. My hybrid study focuses on two buildings which incorporate cultural, commercial and residential facilities. These buildings have been designed to sit on a platform which acts as a secondary street edge to Hickson Road. The platform provides direct connections to adjacent buildings as well as Wynyard Arcade and the ground plane. The ground plane incorporates a variety of retail as well as public open space, with each of the buildings positioned to allow for maximum northern sunlight and views over the harbour.
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Murine Lai Email fenwick.lai@gmail.com Phone 0416 613 868
A. Section: ‘XO’ from Hickson Road to Sydney foreshore B. 021 to 022: Linked cultural building facing foreshore C. Public interface from Hickson Road D. 003 to 004: Library interior with Hybrid façade E. Interior from sample apartment in XO
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Hybrid + Habitation: Where the City Meets the Sea Three main ethos taken into the design principles on this Hybrid & Habitation project; to create a strong city identity, provide open squares and initiate a culture educated on public transport. A ‘small scale’ city within a city was evolved, allowing for amenity, urban porosity, permeability onto the site. With a full pedestrian and bicycle system in place, open greens to public collective spaces (for events/nonevents, retail) and internal streets create access links to the waterfront/King Street Wharf. Extension to 412 & 413 bus route and continuing the cycle path from Kent Street leading directly to site is proposed. Linked vertical cultural facilities (connected to the library/ground on ‘XO’), with associated museums for events/nonevents, café to fine dining is established. XO (crossover) tower contains inverted uses, living above alternative ground, working in the sky, whilst the SILO tower is reversed. A hybrid façade of BIPV louvres on the north façade and bio-filtration lobbies are dominating ESD strategies on this scheme.
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EMILY MACLAURIN Email emily.maclaurin@gmail.com Phone 0416 339 887
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Barangaroo_Hybrid The main aim of the project is to create a rich urban precinct for Sydney. The master plan allows for dense urban development whilst continuing Sydney’s foreshore walk and incorporating recreational and cultural facilities in particular the Eora Gallery and Cultural Centre. The buildings form a laneway system that enables a rich urban framework and ensures pedestrian movement dominates site. The architectural proposal is based on a grid structure with consistent floor heights and shared facilities, regardless of program. The structure of the building allows for shifting programs and for situations where apartments or office spaces might be amalgamated or subdivided. The residential component explores an apartment type that allows for Sydney’s ‘suburban’ lifestyle in a dense urban environment. All the apartments have common elements; generous outdoor spaces, open planned living and double height spaces. The rooftops act as the ‘backyard’ incorporating BBQ areas and communal garden spaces.
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Robert Peter Malec Email r_malec@hotmail.com Phone 0405 954 448
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[B] Hybrid The [B] Hybrid project based on the site of Barangaroo, has been designed on principles and concepts derived from site influences, personal values, and the Hybrid building typology characteristics. The notions of porosity, building amalgamation with its surroundings, integration of open public space, the sense of transitioning levels of privacy, green energy principles, and the reaction to solar gain in the North and Westerly direction, were key elements which I value in this project. The areas between the different building uses, creates physical realms which allows the mental separation and partition between live and work whilst still being in the same precinct. Keeping in the principles of the Hybrid building being one of transforming spaces, the exterior sheltered and glazed area, prologues the use of the space through all times of day and night, and through all weather conditions. Whilst this building typology has not been fully realised, with its placement on such a prominent site, the [B] Hybrid project would open the gates to more Hybrid buildings in Australia.
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Robert Poon Email robertpoon@live.com.au Phone 0419 993 173
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Hybrid One; Sustainability in Habitation The distinction between Hybrid Architecture and Mixed-Use Architecture is in a single word; humanity. As an organism living in the current world, the elements which essentially convey “life” must be echoed by the Architecture which life resides in. Architectural programs commonly found in Mixed-Use; that is, LIVE, WORK, HARVEST, fail to complete the “picture” of life. But, with the addition of the elements of MENTAL and PHYSICAL PLAY, the portrayal of the activities of a living organism are achieved. The final missing elements, elements which propagates life, and ultimately creates Hybridity are active and passive systems of SUSTAINABILITY. This proposal is thus an exploration of sustainability, and its importance in the design and creation of Hybrid Architecture. Its inclusion into the design takes place not as an afterthought, but instead, as a key feature which binds the “Hybrid ONE” together as a living breathing exhibit of an Architectural Organism.
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Jane Setyapranata Email jane.setyapranata@gmail.com Phone 0411 822 664
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Hybrid Hybridisation: the process of combining different varieties of organisms to create a hybrid; the mixing of atomic orbitals to form new orbitals suitable for bonding. The studio focuses in designing habitation, with linkages to other uses; work, cultural centres, and entertainment. Located in Barangaroo South, the hybrid development aims to create porous public space which is open from each side, forming connectivity across the existing CBD to the waterfront, from east to west and across King Street Wharf to Barangaroo North. The area is formed by buildings cut with porous blocks, inviting the community inside. The ground level is an interconnected open space, providing strong definition of place for interaction and freedom of movement, where pedestrians can change directions. On the intermediate level, various public programs are connected by bridges, creating layers of linkages. On the sixteenth level, another skybridges connects residential towers with facilities such as swimming pool.
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Divercity Barangaroo is currently a concrete wasteland. The project of hybrid-connective housing, provide an opportunity to design a sustainable and successful mixed-use district that is sustainable in character, and act as an extension of the existing CBD area into the western water’s edge. In the project, the building that will be focused on will be positioned on the southern end of the Barangaroo Site. The name ‘divercity’ is chosen to reflect the ‘plural’ condition of living in society, where every individual has their own different needs and activities. Divercity reflect the idea of having a micro city within a city with diverse programs that will accommodate these plural conditions of living. One of the key concepts of the project is to bring permeability on the ground floor, a connection between the western water’s edges with the existing CBD that is served by the spacious green outdoor area on the ground level.
Email dionantonio@gmail.com Phone 0414 968 604
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Jocelyn Jing Ling Yong Email jclnyong@gmail.com Phone 0431 617 071
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Contemporary Urbanism + Architecture The design proposal aims to regenerate the waterfront and inject new life into South Barangaroo by creating a new twentyfirst century porous urban space, inviting and open to the public from every side. It promotes interactive relations and encourages encounters in the public spaces that vary from commercial, residential, and educational to recreational. Permeability, reflectivity, depth and transparency are key aspects of the design. Building towers acquire a twist-cut form that reflects the identity of Barangaroo: the reflections of the sea and green urban living. The reflection has translated these identity elements and is clearly expressed through the faรงade design: voids, green and the variations in glass color. One of the significances of the design is the creation of a comprehensive network of viable urban public space to meet the needs of society. The importance of creating such integrated multifunctional urban space for the liveability of cities helps to promote mixed-uses, intensifying land use, balancing the relationship between constructed fabric and empty spaces, connecting to virtual space and meeting one another. A
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Barangaroo Hybrid Development Barangaroo is an inner-city suburb of Sydney. It is located on the north-western edge of the Sydney central business district and the southern end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The brief of the design studio requires providing a place of live, work and entertainment for a growing Sydney population. The concept of design is aim to create a form of ‘open a city within a city’, and intends to extend the waterfront edge and dialogue between historic water frontage and new development area. The key design strategies include:
Email lumiao.yu@student.unsw.edu.au Phone 0416 814 774
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– The metaphor reference of notional wave movement along shoreline extending into development area – Create protected urban plaza areas with commercial uses orientated around permeating public open space – Elevated building form from “the rock” (the tower) rising from the sea – Integrated layered approach of mixed commercial uses connecting, yet extending the waterfront – Establishing an urban dialogue that could be extended into surrounding development area
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Shaowen Wang + Ramin Jahromi Bridging Centre | Per iphery? Re-conception of a Train Station To some, infrastructure is the systems of mobility upstaging the now disappearing public works. This studio attempts to conceptualize infrastructure as “a series of artefacts”: to contextualize infrastructure as system. Infrastructure has created a living condition of unbound spatiality and localized discontinuity. The constant flux in-between the public and private realms accelerated by the network of transportation has, in the meantime, inflicted the continuous order of urban fabric and its social form. A kind of residual/empty spaces where there are no continuity, repetition or system, the so-called “drosscape”, become more dominating than the constructed urban fabric in the recent landscape of infrastructure. For the third installment of this studio, following Placing Motions (2009) and Staging the Public (2010), the Re-conception of a Train Station will focus on the architectural proposition for the spaces lying on the boundary between Centre | Periphery brought forth by a new train station and its transit networks. Students are encouraged to research on this urban condition and develop “a series of artefacts” that will either bridge, further isolate, or insert a new urban system into the “drosscape” accentuated by the juxtaposition of train station, railway, public domain + landmarks, existing urban fabric + circulatory system, and topography in Sydney. In the first semester, two exercises in three parts were commenced: Mapping Infrastructure + Typological Analysis, and Siting a Typology. Each student then worked on the programme for a selected train station from the three given sites: Milsons Point Station, Redfern Station and Artarmon Station. Second semester was focused on the architectural design development of the programme: a reconceptualized train station and its “series of artefacts”.
Student Reflection In this time of unprecedented global transformation, which has generated so many urgent challenges but also whole new forms of creativity, architecture’s unique ability to address both the most direct practical problems facing global society becomes all the more important. The design of train stations asks more than simply supporting the basic rhythms of everyday life, it tries to envision a better life, turning practical dilemmas into the most expressive opportunities, whether at the scale of a vast city, a building, or a single interior. This studio enabled students to experience the challenges of designing for large infrastructure networks and their troubled presence within the city fabric. The studio acts as an open platform for collaborative research; through mappings of rail networks and urban fabric systems it is revealed that whilst train networks provide arteries that connect the city and periphery, they physically divide it, often severing immediate surrounds with destructive scars in the landscape. As a studio group, we have endeavoured to consider the theoretical, the future direction of the train station typology, and found imagination to incubate new evolving forms of train station intelligence. Matthew Fung Amahl Haradasa Sanghee Kim Linda Liu Man Shan Ng Chenxi Qiu Xiong Sun Zhenyang Sun Jimmy Yan Ho Chung Yin Xiao Zhou
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Matthew Fung Email fungfunky@gmail.com Phone 0433 942 339
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Artarmon Station - The Vigorous Edge The re-conceptualization of Artarmon station was based on the unique condition of the site. Being “cut” into two kinds of morphologies by the natural topography and the railway, the site is “squeezed” by two distinctive sides, one being the dynamic “hard” edge, with bustling streets and residential apartments. The other side is the static “soft” edge, with large green spaces and residential houses. It is in them, a sense of a “town center” could emerge from a re-conceptualized train station. The proposal composed of diverse elements including a new train line and cycling route which sets the green strip into a “centre” for Artarmon, transforming the existing “main street” into a civic zone incorporating a station hall, cycling hub, community garden all housed under a continuous roof element. This architectural language makes visible the transition of the two edges by creating a linear icon “surfing” through the landscape.
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AMAHL HARADASA Email amahlharadasa@hotmail.com Phone 0414 279 691
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Artarmon Station The Artarmon Station design intends to return the surrounding land to its original park and bushland state. This design proposal seeks to catalyse the unification of Artarmon’s two halves by connecting the low-density residential heritage conservation precinct to the medium density apartments, areas currently separated by the train line. The proposed train station and surrounding landscaped open space is the interface for dialogue between these two halves, referencing the historical brick pits and kilns to the suburb’s integral commercial, recreational, educational and infrastructural facilities. The underground platform and line is clearly expressed above ground with the vertical shafts dotting the landscape. These shafts provide natural and filtered light for the platform and a sustainable source of power for the proposed buildings, as passing trains funnel air at high speed through turbines in the shafts to generate electricity. The notional ideas behind the development draw upon the site’s pre-train line conditions and industrial heritage to rationalise a conceptual framework for the project.
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Sanghee Kim Email sanghee0410@hotmail.com Phone 0449 255 033
Communicator Space – Artarmon Station On my project, my main idea is to gather “OLD” and “NEW” environments together. Artarmon is programmed mostly with residential areas and few commercial areas which exist near the station. On Elizabeth Street side comes with short (about 5-8m height) residential buildings but on the other hand, on Hampden Road side are surround with units and apartment (14-40m). An existing Artarmon Station stands on the middle of these two roads which brought the results of dividing up the “OLD” and “NEW” environments. The station is already the gathering spot of Artarmon, but there is a lack of circulation due to the railway track. To develop those problems, in my design, I focused on the circulation between two main roads which becomes a communicator of the suburb. To solve this, I brought “Ramp System Building” which can resolve the free movement between “Old and New”
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Re-conception of Milsons Point Station - Crystal Porosity The freeways, tracks, power grids, and concrete rivers originally designed to connect a horizontal city, often deliver the opposite: the piecemeal city, with infrastructure as a consistent obstacle to the integration of the disparate civic parts. At Milsons Point the viaduct has become a scar in the landscape. The solution: re-conceive the train station by multiplying the purposes of its infrastructure. To build over, under, and through the viaduct and tracks, to use the existing rights of way as the foundations for a series of new, infrastructure-scaled conceptions of building form, habitation, and public and private purpose generated by its patterns of connectivity and disconnectivity. The station becomes an absorptive and permeable structure in the landscape, recognised by the series of crystals perched along the edge of the viaduct. Within the viaduct a whole new series of carved out public spaces come to life, with both station functions and public functions inter-related.
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Man Shan Ng Email fivedollarcents@gmail.com Phone 0416 218 863
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Amplification of Milsons Point The main principle behind this design is to reinvigorate pedestrian activity within Milsons Point Station, through adaptively reusing the existing references of history to the site. Milsons Point is a site which full of historical background directly related to the infrastructural development of Sydney Habour. This provides a lot of opportunities to combine the old and the new together and enhance the experience of the station. The existing viaduct faรงade and underpass have created this strong image of Milsons Point, which should be maintained and further enhanced. There is also two strong axis which form the movement of both vehicle and pedestrian which is strongly defined by the Bradfield freeway and the two existing underpass. The new station will certainly read as a historical references but also incorporating new contemporary elements to make Milsons Point station to stand timelessly.
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Chenxi Qiu Email qiuchenxi9@gmail.com Phone 0430 363 423
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Re-conception of Redfern Railway Station – URBAN INTEGRATION New Redfern Railway Station, as a landmark around local area, will integrate into existing urban fabric by connecting both sides of track lines, which means to create a new linkage between city north and south; In response to Master Plan of Sydney Uni., it creates two public translational space in new campus in north side. This new transport hub, binding new campus, bridge and railway station as a whole gesture, will become a major terminal in future of Sydney.
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The Artarmon Train Station - Green Journey The New Artarmon train station is Megastructure. It should include many programs. It also should apply exsiting public and commercial buildings to make Artarmon more actively. Firstly, the urban context at the sides of the railway is completely different. The most important duty of train station in Artarmon is to connect the sides of Artarmon. The new station will apply new huge artificial landscape to create new communication public space for the dwellers of Artarmon. This new landscape will connect the two sides. The landscape also applies new structure. The idea of the structure system is from the trees. Secondly, Artarmon Train Station is the only one in North-Sydney line which has great green view. This will be the special advantage of Artarmon station. The new station will apply the concept of forest to create the space of the station.
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Bridging Centre The new train station will be located to the west of the existing Redfern Station. According to the University of Sydney 2020 Master Plan, a new campus will be built at North Eveleigh which provides teaching facilities and student accommodation. The principles of the urban planning refer to a clear, pleasant and safe public area. The new Redfern square will provide new architectural elements such as a new Redfern Museum, bus stop, benches and lighting elements. Two three-story height concrete structures will start at the square and Museum and guide the passengers from the ground level up to the connecting bridge and back down onto the platforms. The unpaid concourse will be sheltered from the glass roof supported concrete beams. A small library will be added to the train station which contains books of art, design and architecture. The library will function as a meeting, teaching and studying place for university students. Rather than a transitional space where people get off the train and walk towards their destination, the train station itself becomes a place that will be buzzing with life all day and night.
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Milsons Point Station – New Volume Underneath Viaduct Milsons Point station has a strong cutting edge separating the two areas of Kirribilli and Milsons Point. My main design principle is to resurrect the connectivity among the district. In responding to the site, several urban axes are defined which connect the two sides underneath the viaduct. By the mean of the cuts, volumes which house the various functions are then generated. Different activities with different levels are imposed to the volumes underneath the viaduct to introduce a new experience in Milsons Point Station. By the different levels among the volumes, an artificial landscape is then defined underneath the iconic structure which makes a contrast to the existing landscape of the site With the study of the car flow in Milsons Point station, the structure of the station is designed in related to the horizontal movement along the Harbor Bridge.
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Artarmon Station _DYCHOTOMY Artarmon Station is currently located in Willoughby area, which seems as a Sydney suburb. The project needs to answer two key questions. The first one is how to bridge the stratified zone made by city rail tracks and existing topography. The second one is what can be provided to surroundings, especially to Artarmon community through setting this new infrastructure. The concept began by understanding the surroundings, being divided into two parts. Yet two part complements each other in terms of function, spatial configuration. Part A acts as a concrete box, which take on the traditional functions of a train station. As the site is located a Japanese community in Sydney and the part B was designed for them, which aims to create lots of flexible spaces to accommodate ever-changing needs from the community. Part A owns the pure look; Part B is written in a lively style. Part A is the concrete box on the ground; Part B is the glass perfume bottle floating in the air. Part A provides the main entrance for the stream of people in all directions. Part B is accessible from any direction with an open posture and attitude. The two parts thus formed are complements. A
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Architecture Program Community Academic Staff ›› Ann Quinlan Architecture Program Director ›› Dr. Ainslie Murray ›› Andrew Macklin ›› Dr. Catherine de Lorenzo ›› Catherine Lassen ›› Professor Deo Prasad ›› Dr. Dijana Alic ›› Graham Bell ›› Associate Professor Harry Margalit ›› Jeremy Harkins ›› Jim Plume ›› John Carrick ›› Maryam Gusheh ›› Dr. Paul Hogben ›› Dr. Peter Kohane ›› Peter Murray ›› Dr. Peter Graham ›› Russell Lowe ›› Dr. Stan Fung ›› Stephen Peter ›› Steve King ›› Tam Nguyen ›› Professor Xing Ruan ›› Dr. Yinong Xu Built Environment Professors ›› Professor Richard Johnson MBE ›› Professor Ken Maher ›› Professor Glenn Murcutt AO
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ALUMNI PROFILE JULIET BYRNES Graduation year 1999
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Juliet is a Development Manager, working with the NSW State Government’s Barangaroo Delivery Authority I chose the Architecture Program at UNSW because of its leading reputation and high-calibre graduates. There was a genuine buzz of excitement and learning around the Faculty. Within weeks of starting the program, I knew that I’d made the right choice. There was fantastic diversity and a healthy tension of ideas amongst the lecturers. The environment stimulated intense discussion and output, leading us in entirely new directions. My advice to anyone considering studying architecture is to select a university with good networks in industry and academia. Have a look at the guest lecturers they are attracting. The teaching culture at UNSW balanced the value of both practical and academic experience and, in my opinion, equipped us for the realities of working in industry. Also have a look at the ‘extra-curricular’ activities available (and I don’t just mean the Roundhouse!). A highlight of my time at UNSW was taking part in an architectural survey to Udaipur, India and in my final years I was employed by UNSW’s SOLARCH research group, to help represent Australia on an international solar energy research task led by the International Energy Agency (IEA). During this time, I also contributed to developing the first sustainability policy of the Australian Institute of Architects NSW and was on the board of the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) and Chair of its Education Committee. My research work and first class honours degree from UNSW gave me the edge over hundreds of other people applying for a graduate trainee programe with Lend Lease. The interviewers were impressed that I had already been published in academia and presented at conferences. Since graduating from the Architecture Program at UNSW Faculty of Built Environment in 1999, I‘ve held senior management roles in developing and delivering $2.8 billion dollars worth of award-winning property development in Australia and the United Kingdom. I’ve worked directly with leading advocates of design excellence such as Jean Nouvel, Sir Richard MacCormac, Sir Terry Farrell, Simon Allford, Mark Whitby and Peter Rogers, former chair of the UK’s ‘Constructing Excellence’. Between 2002 and 2007 I played a key role in delivering the London portfolio of the UK’s largest developer Land Securities. In collaboration with different sections of the industry, I fostered new practices and legal agreements whereby multiple parties could share cost and time risks whilst maintaining a common and overarching approach to design excellence. These initiatives involved changing attitudes towards the responsibilities for design quality. Several of the projects received awards including the RIBA Regional Architecture Award 2011; Winner International Property Awards 2010, Best Mixed-Use; RIBA National Architecture Award 2008; Civic Trust Award 2008; and the RIBA National Architecture Award,2004. 220
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