UNSW Built Environment - ARCHEX 2021 M.ARCH Catalogue

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UNBOXED This year’s cohorts of graduating students are unique; for the first time since formal university-level qualifications for architecture in Australia were established at the beginning of the 20th century these cohorts of students will have earned their degree mostly, if not entirely, from within the walls of their homes.

For our students then, the annual exhibition will be a celebration of a rigorous architectural education, but also a longawaited opportunity to publicly present their final studio projects. The exhibition is aptly named ‘UNBOXED’ in reference to the popular practice of ‘unboxing’ where the contents of a box are unpacked, displayed, and reviewed publicly.

Acknowledgement of Country The staff and students would like to show our respect and acknowledge the Bedegal People as the traditional custodians of the lands and waters of this place we now call Kensington. We acknowledge all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders, past and present, and thank them and their communities who have shared and practised their teachings.

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Exhibition T Exhibition Lead Dr. Cristina Garduño Freeman

Exhibition Design and Development James Hargrave @ ABSTRACT8

Exhibition Design Team Ross Driessen Yihang Xie Ryan Chen

Exhibition Production Team Brittany Elliott Feimo Song

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Justin Wohl Kate Morris Louisa Hartley

Team Industry Sponsorship Team Benjamin Rowbotham Gabriela Lauria

Digital Event Team Taylor Joffe Tony Li

Marketing Strategy Team Kefeng Yuan Jiawei Xu

Internal Stakeholder Team Jinlong Li Jiarui Zhu

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Message from the Head of School Assoc. Professor Philip Oldfield Head of School, School of Built Environment

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In 2021 our graduating architecture students have completed their most important projects; the architectural briefs tackled within their capstone studios in difficult circumstances. But they have excelled.

I’m amazed by the diversity of student projects we have on show this year: they range from a transportation museum built from mass timber to a community library in regional NSW; from architecture typologies that seek to tackle discrimination, to the adaptive reuse of a warehouse and its extension to create new urban housing.

While the projects in this year’s studios vary in scale, typology and direction, what draws them together are two common themes we address across UNSW Architecture: firstly an engagement with human-centered architecture with a social purpose. A concern for the way people live, how they work and inhabit architecture – including those for whom cities are places of unfairness, inequality or isolation. And, secondly, a concern for the environment, creating architecture that engages with climate, place, and explores innovative low-carbon technologies and materials.

As our students graduate from their undergraduate and postgraduate architecture degrees at UNSW Built Environment, they’ll be entering a profession that, I believe, will play a key role in resolving many of our global challenges.

The rigorous education they have received here prepares them to contribute to these challenges and to go on to establish careers which will positively impact our built environment in the future.

In closing, I would like to thank our staff, your resilience and innovative teaching is the foundation of the impactful education of our students. I also wish to thank all our industry partners and the many practitioners who contribute their knowledge, passion, and energy to design learning within our studios. Finally, I would like to congratulate all our students, and especially our graduating cohorts. You have shown determination, ambition, and creativity throughout this year. We look forward to watching you leave your mark on the design and shape of our future buildings.

Yours sincerely, Phil Oldfield

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Message from the Discipline Director Dr Paul Hogben Discipline Director of Architecture, School of Built Environment

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Within the daily flow of emails that keep me busy, it is always such a wonderful and elevating moment to receive messages from studio leaders and tutors telling of how impressed they are with the standard of student work in their courses.

They describe in the most sincere and genuine way the deep respect they have for the passion and commitment of their students. They describe the strong impressions made on guest reviewers and panel members. These messages are a small but not insignificant reminder of the huge amount of work our students devote to their studio projects. Behind the virtual spaces of our studios this year, where Zoom, Teams, Miro and Conceptboard are the means of communication and representation, there lies hours and hours of hard work, often running late into the night. There are the unseen emotions, the ups and downs, notebooks and sketches, inspirations, images of building precedents and piles of dishes!

In sharing this reflection, I would like to congratulate all graduands from the Bachelor of Architectural Studies and Master of Architecture degrees at UNSW on their achievements this year and in previous years. I know I speak on behalf of all my colleagues within the Architecture

program in saying we are tremendously proud of you. We admire your dedication, creativity and curiosity and the true love you have for this discipline we know as architecture.

For those who are finishing their undergraduate studies we wish you all the best in your future endeavours, especially if they involve moving into further studies in the form of the Masters degree. For those who are finishing their university studies altogether, an extra big congratulations. We wish you all the best as you step into the world of architectural practice or, indeed, if your path takes you somewhere else.

I would like to take this opportunity to offer a sincere thanks to all the sessional teaching staff within our courses and in particular to those who taught within our graduation design studios. The work represented in this catalogue is in no small way a tribute to your passion and commitment to the education of our students and their development as future architects.

Yours sincerely, Paul Hogben

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Message from Course Convenor Shaowen Wang ARCH7202 Course Convenor, School of Built Environment

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At UNSW the final studio in the Master of Architecture is run over two terms.

First, students undertake the Graduation Research Studio. Here they propose and carry out an intellectual inquiry that defines their projects and present their initial architectural proposals. Next, students undertake Graduation Major Design Studio, where students develop their proposals into a comprehensively resolved architectural scheme.

Since 2016 students within the UNSW Master of Architecture can tailor their education. Led by award winning architects and academics, each of the four streams, High Performance Technology, Housing, Urban Conditions or Social Agency sets a brief that interrogates a set of urgent social, technological, cultural, environmental, and material conditions situated along a local-global spectrum.

This year the studio projects address such complex issues: Social Agency explored the way public spaces can reveal the hidden agenda of racial, cultural, and social discrimination; Urban Conditions considered how on-going climate change is impacting the strategy and form of waterfront urbanism; can this reality encourage opportunities? In Housing Studio, students have explored housing typologies that dwell on and within urban heritage sites; while the High Performance

Studio interrogates the role infrastructure can play in enabling public agency, through technologies measuring performances across exhibition, educational facilities, and artistic production.

2021 is the second year since the world awoke to the reality of a pandemic. Over the last two years our tutors and students have been through lockdown, remote teaching, hybrid mode of delivery, short period of face-to-face studio tutorial, then back to online remote teaching and learning again. A challenge that requires a deep passion for architecture, to face, pivot and complete successfully. The constant force during this time has been the dedication of our team of inspiring tutors and the cohort of committed students who are persistent and ambitious at once.

To the UNSW Graduating Cohorts of 2021, represented here by these exhibited projects, we salute you. This year is not just another year of exceptional achievements, but also an academic conclusion that leads to a lifelong profession in architecture and built environment practiced with the memory of the pandemic. Congratulations!

Yours sincerely, Shaowen Wang

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Message from Exhibition Lead Dr Cristina Garduño Freeman Course Convenor, ARCH7219 Graduation Exhibition Design, School of Built Environment

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I joined UNSW’s thriving architecture program as a Senior Lecturer in August 2021, ready and enthused to convene the Graduate Exhibition Design course.

Working with our graduating students in this endeavour was a unique opportunity to meet them. Weary from months of remote learning, a task made even more difficult in design studio, they nonetheless took up the challenge to explore how exhibitions are being transformed by increasingly sophisticated digital technologies within a time of global pandemic.

Putting on an exhibition is no mean feat.

Putting on a virtual exhibition even less so!

Students have researched a broad range of exhibitions, from architecture to fashion to those that are digitally avant-garde and make us the product. They have learnt from professionals, Antonia Fredman from Kaldor Public Art Projects and Sasha Baroni from City of Sydney shared their knowledge and expertise in this area.

These students have undertaken a valuable experience that spans from the theoretical to the practical. They have explored ideas, applied for roles, created marketing plans, liaised with sponsors, delivered outcomes, and most importantly worked as a team.

I am incredibly proud of each and every one of you: Ross, Brittany, Justin, Yihang, Kate, Kefeng, Jiarui, Gabriela, Ben, Feimo, Louisa, Ryan, Tony, Taylor, Jinlong and Jiawei. Together with James Hargrave, we have learned to turn on a dime to get things done, to be flexible and creative, to take risks and offer each other encouragement and constructive feedback.

Welcome to Unboxed!

Yours sincerely, Cristina Garduño Freeman

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Message from Exhibition Developer James Hargrave

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My career has traversed architecture in all its forms. From building the possible to building the seemingly impossible. Seeded by a first-year project while studying architecture here at UNSW, I now run my own company.

Abstract8 specialises in developing virtual exhibitions: digital spaces that transform online experiences from flat, point and click to immersive custom designed places.

Telling a story is a central to the success of virtual exhibitions. It has been a constant theme over the years embedded in the imaginative and idealised projects produced at university, to communicating architectural projects professionally and teaching students about the impact of presentation.

The pandemic has transformed the cultural sector. As the world shut down and we all transitioned to life via zoom, our ideas about exhibitions changed too.

That first-year project, where we were tasked with taking crude sketches and

simple 3D prototypes and creating an immersive experience using video game engines, coupled with the encouragement of Dr Russell Lowe grew a passion into a profession. The result is Abstract8 and a growing portfolio of exhibitions, hybrid virtual/ physical installations, art exhibitions, education tools, and many other inspirational experiences.

No project is the result of one person.

ARCHEX 2021 has been a wonderful collaboration, with the Graduate Exhibition Design students and course convenor Cristina Garduño Freeman.

ARCHEX 2021 Unboxed is a playful and unique exhibition inspired by the students’ experiences. A playful take on life, an experience we can all relate to.

Congratulations to all the graduating students.

James Hargrave Founder of ABSTRACT8 Architecturally Designed, Digital Places.

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Sponsors Thanks To Platinum Sponsor NSW Architects Registration Board

Gold Sponsor Bates Smart EM BE CE

Silver Sponsor

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Bronze Sponsor Ethos Urban GCCV

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CONGRATULATIONS to the graduates of the University of New South Wales!

We look forward to seeing you in the near future as you continue your journey toward registration.

Image: Boaz Nothman for the Sydney Architecture Festival 2019

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Bates Smart would like to congratulate 2021’s graduates!

Looking for career opportunities? We are on the lookout for current students and recent graduates.

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Education as a Collaborative Process EM BE CE is a new design studio which was established in July 2021.

The practice name is derived from a phonetic rendering of our first name initials: Mladen, Ben, Chi - EM BE CE. Our name embodies our Studio’s approach to a collective and collaborative working ethos.

We aim to work across the spectrum of the built environment, from the chair to the city, with a focus on mixed use, multi-residential projects, commercial projects, urban renewal, heritage adaptation, precinct planning and bespoke homes.

We believe good design is for everyone and the process of making places and buildings requires a strong collaborative approach across all disciplines and all stages of the process. Our ambition is to bring this ethos into our teaching as we believe this is a central to being an architect. We look to embed an open design discourse with our students and value the opportunity to be involved in the mentoring of future architects.

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Always Seeing Potential

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Congratulations to the 2021 graduates! You are now crossing the threshold into a fulsome engagement with practice, entering a profession and broader industry that offers exciting opportunities and worthy challenges.

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At Bijl Architecture, we understand and embrace the demands made of our profession - that architecture must improve our connections to each other, ourselves, the environment, and to future generations. Our practice is guided by these beliefs - and that architecture must also bring enduring surprise and delight. Our residential projects are borne from an empathic, deeply personal expression of our clients’ vision for living; our educational and public architecture progresses our shared social and built legacy. By acknowledging the traditional owners of the lands upon which we work, our practice embraces an open design culture – to encourage everyone to learn about Country and participate in reconciliation. From this philosophical framework we create architecture that is impeccably detailed, grounded in economic mindfulness, perceptive, and proudly Bijl – alive with light, character; sometimes mercurial, always striving.

Congratulations to the graduating students of the Bachelor & Master of Architecture at UNSW. At TURNER we design, we lead, and we deliver. We are proud to offer our ongoing support to graduate programs.

Turnerstudio.com.au/contact/careers/ Careers@turnerstudio.com.au Be passionate.

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Congratulations to Graduating Students

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Congratulations to the graduating cohort of 2021. We commend you for your perseverance and unwavering dedication to good design throughout this year that has been like no other.

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We at Tzannes are focused on innovative, sustainable and enduring design in alignment with the values of the UNSW Architecture program. While current circumstances don’t permit the celebration of your achievements together in one room, we are confident that we will learn about you and your contributions to the profession in the future. We wish you the best in your journey ahead and may even welcome you to our practice one day.

Architectus is a multi-award winning Australian architecture and design studio specialising in commercial, education, interiors, public, residential, transport, and urban design. Our design philosophy is underpinned by our 5Ps – people, place, purpose, planet, and production. We are thoughtful in our approach and we work collaboratively with our clients and partners to create places and spaces that stand the test of time and are respected for their rationality, ingenuity and beauty. At Architectus, we take community and environmental sustainability seriously – accepting responsibility for our projects’ social and ecological impact and our practice operations. We take design leadership for environmental impact, cultural heritage, economic viability and social significance so that each precinct, building or interior space will withstand and adapt to whatever the future holds. As of 2021, we are net-zero in our operations and will be carbon neutral certified in 2022. We are one of the first large practices to have an endorsed Reconciliation Action Plan. We are committed to making reconciliation tangible by listening, learning and working with First Peoples in our practice and in our projects. We are dedicated to supporting the next generation of architects and designers. Our Graduate Program offers students a valuable opportunity to launch their careers. Our graduates benefit from networking and mentorship from industry leaders while working on exciting projects that strengthen their conceptual knowledge and develop real-world experience. We operate as a single studio with more than 400 staff across Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, and Sydney. Our practice is governed by a Board of Directors that ensures best practice is achieved in everything that we do. In 2022, we will celebrate our 21st birthday.

A key building within the broader Randwick Health and Education Precinct, the University of New South Wales Health Translation Hub (HTH) will facilitate world-class integrated healthcare, medical research and education.

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NBRS - shaping people’s lives

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We constantly strive for innovation in built environments.

Committed to excellence in design, we draw on genuine insight and our own research, to create stronger connections between people and place.

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We believe the wellbeing of ecology, society, and culture is interconnected. Whether at individual, or community level, wellbeing is at the heart of all we do.

So naturally, we don’t just support sustainability, we champion it. Caring for our environment, our cultures, and our heritage, raising our voice for the marginalised, for social justice, equal employment and anti-slavery, and honouring the continuing efforts of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples caring for Country. To us, sustainability is more than a principle. It’s a driving force.

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Contents

High Performance Studio Meet Studio Leaders

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Studio Introduction

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Student Work

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Housing Studio Meet Studio Leaders

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Studio Introduction

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Student Work

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Social Agency Studio Meet Studio Leaders

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Studio Introduction

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Student Work

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Urban Conditions Studio Meet Studio Leaders

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Master of Architecture High Performance Studio

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Studio Introduction

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High Performance Studio

Mladen Prnjatovic

Teresa Pereira

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Ivan Ip

Stefan Meissner

(Ethos Urban)

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Eveleigh Gateway Timber is one of the oldest building materials known to humans. Yet in Australia it is only very recently, with the emergence and broader adoption of the engineered wood, that this versatile product is being rediscovered as the base building material in an increasing range of contemporary building types, not just single-family homes.

Engineered timber refers to a range of products manufactured by bonding the strands, particles, fibres, or veneers or boards of wood, using adhesives, or other methods of fixation to form composite panels. This studio will explore the use of engineered timber as a base material for

a generation of new environmentally and socially sustainable mixed use (hybrid) buildings in Central Sydney.

The ambition for the project is to create a compelling urban and architectural proposition that will provide a valuable addition to cultural life of the precinct while enabling improved pedestrian movement connections in the precinct and to surrounding areas. Students will be encouraged to interrogate and explore the broader urban context as well as the existing built form fabric of the site which comprises a rich and varied array of large span structures and reflects its past as a working train yard.

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Akash Babu Sudheer Babu Linkedin: akash-babu-321164130 Email: arch.gec.akash@gmail.com

Redfern Railway Museum The project focuses on rehabilitation Participation of indigenous and other communities that used to live and work in the surrounding neighbourhoods. The key strategies that the project focus on to bring the community together focus on: 1. Adaptive reuse of heritage buildings 2. Movement 3. Cultural integration 4. Improving the public domain.

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Preserve the rich railway heritage history of the site and teach the people of Sydney the Importance of Eveleigh and Redfern station in the evolution of NSW transport network and connecting people.

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The Heritage building becomes part of the Railway museum by exhibiting Trains of the past exhibiting carriages.While also telling stories of the indigenous and other communities that used to live and work in this railway precinct. Major functions of the Railway museum are integrated into the newly built timber structure that wraps around the heritage building by parasitic adaptive reuse typology.

The Public Domain consists of the Museum square, plaza, Park and the Railway boulevard all well-integrated and connecting the surrounding urban fabric.

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Cathleen Lin Linkedin: cathleen-lin Email: cathleenlin06@gmail.com Website: https://cathleenlin.myportfolio.com/

North Eveleigh Railway Museum & Wellbeing Centre This project engages and adaptively reuse the existing heritage-listed buildings across the North Eveleigh Precinct. The proposal was informed from thematic research into how contemporary narratives of First Nations and European Settlements could be acknowledged and shared through repurposed heritage buildings on site using CLT.

connectivity and health infrastructure for the public. In conjunction with the new Railway Museum, a Wellbeing Centre is additionally proposed adjacent to the Paint Shop to directly provide wellbeing support to railway workers. By bringing these two proposed spaces together, sharing of knowledge, skill and development are enabled.

The ambition for the project was to propose a compelling urban and architectural proposition that will enhance existing arts and cultural offerings in the Redfern-North Eveleigh area, whilst also complementing the much-needed

Given the site’s strategic position, its accessibility to Royal Prince Alfred’s Hospital, the proposal appropriately responds to the missing link in healthcare and directly supports the high levels of growth and innovation within the region.

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Zach Morris Linkedin: zachary-k-morris15 Email: z5117966@ad.unsw.edu.au Instagram: @zacharymorrisarch

Redfern Rail Precinct

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The Redfern Rail Precinct is a space that bridges the gap between the rich industrial heritage of Redfern with the ever-developing arts environment of South Sydney. It is a unique opportunity to create an interaction between the past and present atmosphere of Redfern through a harmonious blend of industrial character and emerging architectural design and technologies. A rebirth of the natural landscape is combined with a natural presentation of materiality to

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revitalize the place’s already existing feeling and ambiance. The precinct will be open all hours with events and activities of all sorts taking up the community spaces, injecting some life back into those spaces that have been forgotten. A museum of the past railway lines will be embedded into the landscape to give a sense of importance to the place it once was while still maintaining a connection to the present above through its voids and vertical connections.

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Alexander Lim Linkedin: Alexander Lim Email: alexanderlim.0698@gmail.com Instagram: @alexander.lim_

Bridging the Past A museum must be as dedicated to the future as it is to the past. It is more than a place for memories; it is a place to reimagine the future, educated by the past stories.

grew around them now form the beating heart of Redfern. But those same railway tracks that helped the city to flourish now divide it, and Redfern station is struggling to support the growing population.

The railway workshops of Redfern were once a focal point of industry in Sydney.

In this first place, Indigenous and white Australians worked alongside each other at a time when discrimination was widespread. Today, while the workshops lie in disuse, the vibrant communities that

This project imagines a hybrid solution, stitching the city together through a combined museum and station that bridges the railway tracks. The pedestriancentric concourse blurs history and journey, interweaving people and past.

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Tony Li Email: tl1993315@gmail.com Instagram: @tl930315

The Museum that can Improve Mental Health through Shared Space Museum - The idea is to create a place for research on mental health issues and educate people. Encourage physical and mental communication between people.

It comes into two parts; one is to share the knowledge and cultural identity with people. Other is to create mental health research center and share the knowledge with the community.

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Improve mental health - People are particularly feeling positive with the

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landscape, and strong directional space makes people feel more belonging. So to create natural integration space at the same time has a strong orientation.

Sharing Space - Sharing between people is an interactive activity. To create space that is not just gathering and communicating between people but also exploring the interaction between individuals and the built environment.

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Jiang Jiang Email: luciajiang31@gmail.com Instagram: @Jiangsquared31

A Wondering Mind A wandering mind: a museum space that sparks curiosity whereby the visitor becomes the explorer.

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The nature of curiosity and its ability to instigate social interaction and engagement offers an opportunity for a collaborative learning experience.

The design for the locomotive museum questions the traditional glass box typology. It seeks to answer how a museum could spark curiosity and, in turn,

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aims to understand how spaces could encourage imagination and innovation.

Being more than just a display of artefacts, the museum facilitates cross-pollination of ideas and thus should be viewed as a series of curated spaces for curiosity. The metaphor that underpins the floorplan is that of a journey. It is this universal state of mind of being curious, drives the visitors on a journey to discover.

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Nour Qasho Linkedin: nour-qasho-0594b0125 Email: nourqasho@gmail.com

Reconnect and Revitalise North Eveleigh Precinct

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This major design studio project focused on reconnecting the communities with North Eveleigh’s history and improving the site’s connectivity through public open spaces. This was achieved by creating new public open spaces and providing an over-rail walkway elevated to the same level as the main street (Wilson Street). This aims to improve the site’s connectivity and reconnect the North and south Eveleigh precinct, which are separated by the railway. A new station

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concourse was provided and connected with the new walkway and the public open spaces to ease commuter congestion on the existing Redfern station. Secondly, the new public open space aims to reconnect the communities with a new underground railway museum that recognizes the history of the site and exhibits historically significant trains and locomotives built and constructed in the North Eveleigh Railway workshop.

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Paul Salvarinas Email: p.salvarinas@gmail.com Instagram: @paulsalvarinas

Sydney Transport Museum

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Sydney Transport Museum, as a part of the North Eveleigh Masterplan, is a new cultural institution within Sydney that reveals the area’s history through transport, exploring how people have evolved in the city and how it has shaped today’s Sydney. The site enhances the rich creative, educational, technological and community fabric to become engrained within its local context of Redfern and Eveleigh. A creative & community focus is centred around supporting

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the neighbouring Carriageworks and engaging the local community, while the new museum, with an emphasis on education and learning, adds to the existing world-leading education precinct.

The public domain is central to giving the diverse community a range of spaces to enjoy, with varying courtyards between the new and existing buildings as well as the repurposing of an old warehouse to the Native Garden and Gallery, a place to sit, relax and play.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Conrad To Email: conradto1@gmail.com Instagram: @conradto_

Eveleigh Gateway Eveleigh Gateway is a new Redfern Station to connect the city and the community.

Redesigned platforms and an engineered timber canopy structure shelter a public concourse, blurring the line between public space and transport infrastructure.

Circulation is guided by movement and program, as the roof form mimics these ideas, displaying the intersecting grids of the train line and a connection from Little Eveleigh St to Redfern St.

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For the station, better access is provided to ease congestion and adequately serve the surrounding education and business sectors. The new concourse shelters pedestrians from an exposed and traffic-

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ridden Lawson St; while connecting North and South Eveleigh around an otherwise bottleneck street grid.

Commercial, retail, and food and beverage services surround the station’s perimeter to cater to 24-hour use, while stationspecific services feed off movement paths within the station.

Eveleigh Gateway aims to explore how transport infrastructure can be better utilized to serve the community. By definition, such infrastructure mixes many aspects of the community. To not design it with urban design principles in mind would be a waste.

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SA Sabrina Akter Linkedin: Sabrina Akter Email: mesabri005@gmail.com

Wallama Museum

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The project explores ‘materiality’ to showcase the historical background of the place and manifests ‘Co-Existence’ of past and future, an interrelationship between ‘old’ and ‘new’.

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Jake Fornasaro Linkedin: jakefornasaro Email: jakefornasaro@hotmail.com Instagram: @jakeforno97

Opening Eveleigh This project stemmed from three key areas - the enduring First Nations and Industrial narrative of the site, the changing characteristics of the local Redfern/ Eveleigh community and the demands of the broader City of Sydney.

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The Masterplan addressed these through retaining important heritage structures, stitching the sites movement and open space network into that of the city and programming the site so it addressed

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deficiencies in social capital within the community and city.

The developed structure, Museum and Library, is realised as a hybrid structure positioned around shared open space. This shared space, inspired by the First Nation’s notion of country, is the focal point of the site, and symbolically, a gathering place at which today’s community converge with the rich story of site.

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Dimple Lalwani Linkedin: dimple-lalwani-b25853193 Email: dimplelalwani1992@gmail.com Instagram: @dimplelalwani574

Creative Cultural Precinct A space where culture, art, and local landscape be integrated with existing urban fabric using CLT to form a public space that connects people to the place.

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The project incorporates a transport museum, a co-working space, library, cultural and community space with public plazas in between serving as the connection between these zones. This then extends and forms a connection with

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the North Eveleigh precinct with the help of a concourse.

Although this project consists of various spaces and elements, with an appropriate design technique, all these spaces are merged together, providing a design where people can walk around, enjoy the entities, build up community relationships, and create opportunities for people in the future.

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Jerry Zhu Linkedin: Jirui Zhu Email: zjrjzzz@gmail.com

Eveleigh Gateway/Museum Design

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Cities grow in grids, railways break the grids, and there comes the Cul-de-Sacs.

In this project I explored the relationship between museum and railway, to build a public building with the open space that can fix the issue on the site. In this project I delved with two main puzzles, one is the masterplan that needs to be achieved on

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the interaction of two open spaces and inside and outside of the museum, and keeps the focus on the site. The other one related to high performance is that with the long-span timber structure to build the system of natural light, ventilation, thermal comfort, drainage and renewable energy in a smart way.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Sahil Pasahan Linkedin: Sahil Pasahan Email: pasahan298@gmail.com Instagram: @sahilpasahan

Jewel of Redfern

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The project envisages a new masterplan for Redfern North Eveleigh. The aim is to stitch urban fabric to create a holistic arts and cultural precinct as a consociate of IT hub, USYD campus and residential units of Eveleigh. The masterplan includes new concourse for Redfern Station, commercial, communal, educational and co-working hub zoned around the proposed locomotive museum. The museum will be the new beacon of interaction between aboriginal community, students of nearby universities, workers of South Eveleigh tech sector and visitors. The design perceives as labyrinth of galleries each dedicated to the journey from the past to the future of locomotive technology.

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The galleries also highlight historical ties of locomotives with aboriginal community both in the form of the physical realm (observation tower) and digital realm (VR and AR spaces). It is all about acknowledging and communicating with the true flag bearers of the place. People will notice this positive change in the place because positivity is contagious. Thus, every single user shall be responsible to influence other people around him. Around this approach of sensitivity will be where the real impact is felt and in doing so, not only creates ripples of positivity but a real revolution.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Dhruv Pillai Linkedin: dhruv-pillai Website: https://dhrpillai.wixsite.com/mysite Email: dhrpillai@gmail.com Instagram: @pillaidhruv

Cadence My project draws upon the correlation between architecture and its communication with space. Over time, this dialogue can enrich the social and cultural lives of the people in and around the space. I wanted to explore adding a new layer of meaning to it while respecting the site’s cultural heritage.

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The design embodies these ideologies and serves as a platform for the visitors

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to immerse in the journey of the space through it.

The rigidity of the lower level anchors the building to its historic roots while the lighter, warmer timber structure alludes to the possibilities of a brighter future with the aim of drawing people into the site and engaging with it, for a while Architects design spaces, it is people who make them destinations.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Sakshi Patel Linkedin: sakshi-patel04 Email: sakshivpatel@gmail.com Instagram: @Saksh_04

Urbanising Agrihoods - Cultivating and Connecting the City

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The Redfern North Eveleigh precinct is known for its strong industrial identity and its rich heritage context along with Sydney’s suburban train network which has resulted in a physical as well as community division between North and South Eveleigh. This project attempts to design a Research and Education Centre for Urban Farming that will not only be a valuable addition to the existing identity of the precinct but also resolve the division caused by the railway by designing a pedestrian connection between North and South Eveleigh.

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The project was inspired by the thought of starting a self-sufficient city through Urban Farms and a Research Centre that will help in spreading awareness about the importance of Urban Farms in Cities through the involvement of all inner-city communities. The project aimed to help generate modules of such urban farms all around the city that will help in connecting inner-city communities as well as the whole of Sydney.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Michael Dean Kut King Kan Linkedin: michaeldeank Website: https://michaeldeankut.wordpress.com/ Email: michael.dean_kut@hotmail.com Instagram: @michael.dean_archi

North Eveleigh Library & Museum

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Given the highly industrialised context and rich railway heritage of the site, this studio focuses its research on the large span, engineered timber buildings that are capable of supporting civic architecture on an institutional scale. The ambition for the project was to create a compelling urban and architectural proposition that will provide a valuable addition to the cultural life of the precinct while enabling improved pedestrian movement

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connections in the precinct and to surrounding areas through a masterplan scheme development to connect North and South Eveleigh. The project has been developed on two different scales.

A new cultural building – Transportation Heritage Library. The developed design of the Transportation Library which closely linked to the newly renovated and transformed heritage Paintshop building into a Living Transportation Museum.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Emily Jingwen Su Linkedin: emilyjsu1 Email: emilyjsu1@gmail.com

Museum of Railway and Natural History How can a new museum in North Eveleigh serve the local needs of a community which has a dynamic and diverse cultural history?

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In creating a museum which builds off existing site characteristics and employs adaptive reuse, the site is remediated to fortify Redfern’s cultural and community identity within an ever-evolving precinct. The museum enriches community cohesion with discourse on its rich cultural history.

A permeable Wilson Street is created by pushing the streetscape into the site which enriches the public domain, meanwhile unifying the old and new, through the museum’s connection underground.

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The Museum of Railway and Natural History pays homage to what was originally on site, continuing Eveleigh’s cultural history through ecological and historical lens. The site provides educational and dynamic spaces which encourage connectivity and exploration. It celebrates Eveleigh’s diverse history - from one of pre-colonial ecological importance, to post-colonial industrial importance.

Collaboration spaces within the museum and its regenerative green areas enable visitors and residents to engage with environmental rehabilitation projects.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Radia Tashkina Rifa Email: z5303197@ad.unsw.edu.au Instagram: @radia.tashkina

Eveleigh Gateway North Eveleigh being located within proximity to Sydney CBD and rich with cultural and industrial past remains a closed-off inactive urban site at present.

The site has the potential to improve its connectivity to the sixth busiest station in NSW, the Redfern Station.

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The busy pedestrian movement in the area suggests that the residents are being overturned by the temporary population which consists of the students from the University of Sydney and office workers from converting the area into a thoroughfare suburb. This project

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explored ways that can nurture community connections and foster collaboration.

The key strategies for master planning are a new Redfern Concourse. Secondly, improving connectivity within Eveleigh that helps to improve activation and community connections. The community plaza acts as a glue to connect all and adaptive reuse of the paint shop that helps collaboration among surrounding precincts. And the proposal of a heritage museum that restores and enable engagement with the rich past of the area.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Xiaoqi Liu Linkedin: xiaoqi liu Instagram: @xiaoqi_liuu Email: archliuxiaoqi@icloud.com

Transportation Heritage Museum in North Eveleigh This project is located in North Eveleigh, Sydney, NSW. North Eveleigh was one of the largest railway industry precincts in the world, where has rich heritage recourses.

At the same time, the north side of the site is the University of Sydney, and the south is ATP. This complex context and diverse community culture constitute a rich design background. In this project, I not only design a timber museum for the precinct but also address the urban issues as well.

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a place to preserve historical memory, but also a place that could redress social inequalities. In this project, I try to explore the ways to make the museum have a close dialogue with community life. To meet the requirement of different communities. This project will contain a Transportation Museum, the local community centre, and an innovation precinct. Based on the “Hybridity” theory, I organized these different institutions by the interlink. Another challenge is about the timber structure and the light design.

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Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Fan Wang Email: 19921121unsw@gmail.com

Community Museum Design

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[Not only a museum] The museum is located in North Eveleigh.

North Eveleigh was one of the railway workshops, where still has the heritage building. At the same time, the north side of the site is the University of Sydney, and the south side is ATP. This complex surrounding environment and diverse community culture constitute a rich design background. Therefore, it is difficult for a simple railway museum to interpret the story and meet the surrounding community’s needs. In my design, I did the adaptive reuse on the Paintshop as a railway museum and expanded a long-span space on its east side to

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accommodate large exhibitions. Then I rebuilt the building on the north side of Paintshop and opened it to the community as a community area to enhance the site’s vitality.

[Design on-site] This design attitude comes from three years of working experience in Beijing and learning experience in UNSW. This attitude implies my concern about the existing buildings on the specific site, including the logic of space, construction, material, reaction to the light, surroundings, and the interaction between structure and human behaviors.

Master of Architecture Housing Studio

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From the Room to the City The principal aim of the studio is for students to return to a first principles understanding of how we live and how people occupy spaces at different scales - starting at the intimate scale of the room, to the sanctuary of the home, to the connection of the site and to the collective of the city. These fundamentals will provide students with the tools to interrogate and challenge conventions and explore alternative housing and delivery models in order to propose improved architectural solutions for our current housing challenges.

A key part of these challenges are how cities around the world are being transformed at unprecedented speeds, changing the way we move, experience,

and live at many levels. Sydney’s fast growth over the last two decades has continued to put pressure on the city’s development agenda. With an average annual population growth of 56,650.

Sydney will need 770,000 additional homes by 2036 - a 46% increase on the city’s current 1.68 million homes. Despite Sydney’s population growth, the average household size is falling with the number of one–person households expected to increase by 69 per cent% (circa 260,000) by 2036. The provision of inadequate transport infra-structure alongside housing have been highly politicised adding further pressure to a city that is becoming increasingly unaffordable and inequitable.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Kate Morris Linkedin: katemorris-au Website: https://issuu.com/katemorrisarch/docs/portfolio_2021_km Email: katemorrisarch@gmail.com

Tramway “How can shifting the concept communal living make us happier?”

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Tramway is based on the concept of urban co-living, a model that gives people the opportunity to live within a thriving community that encourages social interaction and sense of belonging. This collaborative living model embraces shared/communal areas, acting as the interface between private living spaces.

Focus is on creating a fulfilling daily life.

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This project aims to give residents access to shared facilities and services that keep them close to what they need on a daily basis. Open garden spaces, communal dinners, urban gardening, shared daycare and groceries.

It is these shared spaces that act as the building blocks for a thriving co-living community that supports and improves the daily life of residents regardless of age or living situation.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Kefeng Yuan Linkedin: Kayla Yuan Instagram: @y_kefeng Email: z5125791@ad.unsw.edu.au

Ultimo How to design a house that can satisfy different age groups and low income group’s psychological needs?

The site is located in Ultimo in the allotment bounded by Macarthur Street, Omnibus Lane and Mary Ann Street. The Powerhouse Museum is located to the north, the Goods Line to the East and UTS Business School to the south.

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income group’s psychological needs?”

The design focus on the two main strategies; the first strategy is “Affordable housing”, which can meet the owners’ aspiration for collective and affordable living and working. This can probably be manifested in minimising the room’s size, reducing the garage, using cheap building materials, etc. The second strategy is “luxury and diverse space”, which makes the architectural plan based on luxury and comfort, such as a large curtain wall, single-sided kitchen, open view, etc. And my object is to express these elements in a small room.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Jiarui Zhu Linkedin: Jiarui Zhu Email: z5125705@ad.unsw.edu.au

The Present Is Also The Past CO-LIVING APARTMENT (based on each cultural group) Embrace the diverse culture: The project explores the consistency and difference between various cultural groups. It comes to two-part; one of them is to introduce a new typology to create shared circulation between cultural groups, shared vertical village increases the accessibility of the adjustable courtyard within all units as a consistent core to examine the ways they pair indoor spaces with outdoor ones and invite them to work together.

Variety Module & Layout bring lifestyle.

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strong feeling of horizontality of normality that you don’t have this idea of the neutral block function that are communal (temple, cafe, museum, library, gym, sports field).

The greenery (landscape/farm/courtyard) as a threshold Interactive space: Encourage physical and mental communication between people from different cultural backgrounds by designing interactive space(void space & courtyard) for sharing activities to eliminate isolation and loneliness of new immigrant appropriately experiencing the benefit of diverse cultures.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Utkarsha Chintamani Gharat Linkedin: utkarsha-gharat-264b889b Instagram: @utkarshagharat Email: utkarsha8@gmail.com

“At Home in Nature” The project ‘At Home in Nature’ is an investigation into the ideas of biocentrism in architecture with an attempt to reinvigorate the lost biodiversity of the Pyrmont Peninsula. It explores the merger of Nature, People and Design incorporating principles of Biophilia in housing.

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The proposal is also an Adaptive Reuse of a heritage tramshed, adding and subtracting elements from this existing structure with the idea of biodiversity emerging out from old and continuing into the new.

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The project was based on a housing model designed for students & young professionals that focused on three main parameters : 1) Education & Research into Biodiversity Conservation 2) Production & selling of native edible species for revenue generation and increased community involvement.

3) Provision of Amenity by creating an environment that provides psychological and cognitive benefits to its residents.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Kurt Egan Linkedin: kurt-egan-383a22183 Instagram: @kurtegan Email: kurtegan44@gmail.com

Ultimo, Welcome Home.

This project is about community. It is about the place where one sits in the community as well as in the gathering circle, and these are not the same. To be in a community one can merely exist within the intangible boundaries of the residence or locale, or one could exist amongst the active exchange of conversations. One can choose to not gather at all. Yet all these conversations are underpinned by the exact qualities of the space they happen in.

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The proposal — Ultimo, Welcome Home. — is a co-housing, co-working precinct at the bookend of the Goods Line. It is a proposal

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that allows one to place themselves in their community ‘sweet spot’ and speak as loud as they want in the conversations of Ultimo.

The form is both physical (building) and guerrilla (app). The physical mimics the existing architectural language of the site by centering itself around the hyperlocal language of the saw-tooth roof and the frame. The app facilitates community connection. How? I have cooked pasta for 100 people - perhaps accidentally and I can let my connections on the app know. And there you have it, an impromptu dinner party with my Ultimo.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Nicon Sanchez Linkedin: Nicon Sanchez Instagram: @nicon_sanchez Email: niconsanchez@gmail.com

A case for family-friendly high density living The project brief proposes a cooperative housing scheme for families with young children; to create public and commercial spaces on the ground floor to cater for these families and the broader public, and to design formal and informal communal spaces throughout the scheme for play and gathering.

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The program aims to cater for the residents above yet be of benefit to the wider public - consisting of public commercial spaces to activate the ground plane and improve the public connection between the goods line by creating the open plaza within the site, providing a central open space for the commercial spaces.

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With the increasing trend of working from home, a co-working facility is proposed so that residents working from home have the option to work in a separate functional space, while still close to home.

The facility is integrated with the children’s play centre so that parents who do need to work from home, can drop their kids off at the centre, and still work within proximity to their children.

My housing strategy aims to achieve family-friendly apartments. Apartments with spacious rooms; plenty of storage; private and communal open spaces; and formal and informal spaces for play.

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Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Gabriela Lauria Linkedin: Gabriela Lauria Instagram: @ga.lauria Email: gablauria@gmail.com

Soft Thresholds How can thresholds underpin successful communities in denser ways of living?

The relevance of thresholds is that they’re a point of entry and exit, they have a dual coding in society as both a physical and symbolic marker of separation and connection. Too often, thresholds also divide human activity or communities according to social, ethnic, national, or economic characteristics. But can architecture construct soft thresholds― lines that are easily traversed, even temporarily erased―thereby allowing for multiple perspectives across different

modes of living and catalysing social connections yet allowing for retreat and privacy? (Mehrotra, 2017) ‘ Soft Thresholds’ aims to explore the tensions between inside and outside, public and private, for a housing scheme in an industrial heritage site. Besides the provision of housing in a key area of the city, there’s an interest in analysing the perceived home as the limit between public and private, collective and autonomous; understanding that there is a layered threshold of transitions between them.

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Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Karishma Garg Linkedin: karishma-garg-0415851515 Instagram: @karishma.garg.77 Email: karishmagarg.kg@gmail.com

Community within the Ruins The study of the migration pattern of Sydney established the issue of the housing market which is lack of inclusivity in terms of demography, amenities and cost. This drove the research question for this project which investigates the ownership of spaces and its effect on inclusivity.

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Different levels of sharing form the core experience with the slow progression of spaces as one moves from the public ground plane to their private units. The concept of cluster flats is used to break

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the confines of a traditional apartment and instead form a multi generational living typology where social interactions are experienced with the insertion of public thresholds through communal spaces in each cluster.

The idea of a ruin is achieved by inserting a new structure within the existing warehouse and exposing the trusses and brick façade; thus creating green pockets that set diverse environments driving interactions at various levels; therefore creating a community within its ruins.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Nishat Hossain Linkedin: nishat-hossain-38aa6a111 Email: nishat.hossain@student.unsw.edu.au

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The project is based upon promoting the economic aspect of the site in Ultimo, where this new housing project will benefit people in finding affordable housing in the heart of the city. A huge range of businesses mostly food and retail surround the site, which is mostly attended by young professionals and students. So as a critical response to boost the housing market of ‘Affordable housing’ in the heart of the city, ‘Cohousing’ is the chosen housing model to provide an affordable approach to living in a community. This new housing project is based upon the research question:

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‘How can economical measures assist in boosting the housing market and simultaneously promote an interactive community?’

The proposed housing complex is to be an addition to the existing building which is currently administered by Sydney Powerhouse Museum. The existing Ground plane is shared between the existing and new building, making it a continuous plane growing from the old into new.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Ross Driessen Website: https://driessenrm.wixsite.com/rossbuildshop Email: driessenrm@gmail.com

Porosity Housing This project consists of 55 apartments and 37 individual houses within the frame of a retired train depot bounding Ultimo’s industrial Neighbourhood.

Porosity Housing takes issue with the unitisation of the typical Australian home and the limitations it places on the realisation of quality dense urbanisms.

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It seems counterintuitive, but the future of dense urban life relies upon the thoughtful integration of spaces inbetween, interrelating the boundaries of our public and private worlds. Penetrated by a network of vertical courtyards, the carpet of 2 storey houses can fluctuate

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between 1 to 6 bedrooms, depending on the need for commercial tenancy, share houses, studios, and workshops to build a neighbourhood of discrete communal spaces.

Through rigorous analysis of historical housing typologies and the urbanisms they form, Ross employed porosity as a design theme to address a multiplicity of contemporary dense housing concerns, integrating radical solutions for flexibility, sustainability, diverse familial structures, expansion, community, amenity, and bottom-up development.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

JZ Jiawei Zhu Email: z5271147@ad.unsw.edu.au

The space could do more things than what they are The site is located in Ultimo in the allotment bounded by Macarthur Street, Omnibus Lane and Mary Ann Street. The Powerhouse Museum is located to the north, the Goods Line to the East and UTS Business School to the south. The existing warehouse building on the site must be retained as part of the adaptive reuse for the future design proposal. The diversity of the site urban condition, the various movement systems, built form scale and public domain interface will provide for a rich context to inform the housing proposal.

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While satisfying the basic needs of the house, by designing the circulation of the building, the relationship between the neighbourhood and the comfort of the building is improved. Circulation connects public space In between, organize people to use them together to build a movable building.

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Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Jez Baron Email: jezbaron@gmail.com

The Supportive Sawtooth My site analysis established a connection between the young adult population, housing payments and negative mental health. I found that there are several reasons why young adults feel this way, but one of the main reasons is that they experience a low socioeconomic status and financial difficulty. In Ultimo, there is a large gap between income and living expenses. After this research I discovered the importance of alternative housing and how it could be used to combat the negative effects of the evolving city.

My thesis question summarises these findings:

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How can alternative housing improve the mental health of young adults by reducing levels of stress?

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“My site analysis established a connection between the young adult population, housing payments and negative mental health. I found that there are several reasons why young adults feel this way, but one of the main reasons is that they experience low socioeconomic status and financial difficulty. In Ultimo, there is a large gap between income and living expenses. After this research, I discovered the importance of alternative housing and how it could be used to combat the negative effects of the evolving city.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Sabrina Liew Instagram: @xgxsabrina Email: xiangggsabrina@gmail.com

New Living The project, New Living offers the city dwellers a new way of living. The research question came about after understanding that urban living has become highly sought after due to its convenience of access to infrastructure, workplaces and other amenities especially in metropolitan cities like Sydney.

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But at the same time understanding that urban living means that city dwellers live in a fast-paced lifestyle and constantly deal with stress, etc, their mental wellbeing is something that should not be neglected.

Also, considering living in such an environment, quiet time is much needed for individuals to space away too.

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Hence, this co-operative living project located in the inner-city suburb, Pyrmont aims to address these concerns by focusing on creating the right balance between the community and the individual.

Furthermore, the housing design principles that have been incorporated are including firstly, housing with clear boundaries between the public and the private, secondly, housing for more social interactions and lastly housing with multi functional spaces that can be used accordingly to needs.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Jingwen Gao Linkedin: Jingwen Gao Email: josie.gjw@gmail.com

Shared Space in Life This program is in Ultimo which has many students and young workforces. The main strategy is to create open shared spaces with landscapes to gather students and a young workforce based on common interests. It will be followed by three principles defined by different thresholds.

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Firstly, facing the public, a beautiful inner street can work better with different activities. This gives high flexibility to the public space to encourage the public to explore. Secondly, facing the residential building, shared space will be based on the key users’ daily routine. This will give the living area a better condition when

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living space is divided by the noisy and quiet requirements. Thirdly, facing the living block, the important living area is studied due to key users. So, combining the study with a green garden might be a good choice.

Thus, the brief states that the Ground floor will be activated as a beautiful street with different commercial and educational programs via interfacing with the goods line and the original depot building. One shared zone block and two living blocks will provide different living styles to increase the social interaction chance between neighbours.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Siqi Wang Email: 839855250@qq.com

The Tram Depot Renovation

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This project is about the renovation of the Tram Depot. Today’s apartments are generally boring buildings, simple concrete blocks. However, the modern living community needs to feel a sense of community, allowing people to break away from the tension of social life and relax in the building. Therefore, the apartment can take advantage of the concept of nature, and when we think about urban renewal, how to introduce nature to enrich

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the community is a topic worth thinking about. Plants can improve the quality of a community by providing green space and recreation. To provide a beautiful and pleasant environment for the community.

The combination of nature and modern apartments can activate the area and make it a vibrant urban node, bringing vitality to the community with nature, making the urban lifestyle even more vibrant.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Benjamin Perkins Linkedin: Benjamin Perkins Instagram: @benyperkins Email: perkins28182@gmail.com

Adapt To be succinct, I used my thesis project to investigate through design the topics listed below: Transient demographic – Is homeownership the only goal? Is a renting lifestyle the same as homeownership?

What are the similarities and differences between the two and what are the opportunities of a build to rent model?

Adaptive Communities.

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Design & Place – What is Beauty and where can it be found? If Plato in his

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theories of forms speaks of beauty as our relationship to forms and is created from our past through our experiences, could it not also be found in our connection to the heritage and history of our built environment and our connection to its past? Adaptive Reuse.

Living in Nature – What are biophilic design principles? What is the nature of space? Prospect vs Refuge. More is needed. To inspire awe and wonder, to shift the collective mentality and behaviours.

Adaptive Nature.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Brittany Elliott Linkedin: brittanyelliott1 Instagram: @belliott_arch Email: 2brittanyelliott@gmail.com

The Harwood Collective The project focuses on building healthier living environments and is based on a coliving and co-working housing model in an urban living environment. This model provides the opportunity for people to connect together through shared spaces/amenity that allows people to interact socially, building healthier living environments and a sense of belonging in a community.

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public, communal and private living spaces. The shared spaces aim to foster better communities and create healthier living environments for the residents.

The existing Ultimo Tramshed is characterised by its monolithic brick facade and sawtooth roof. The project responds to this distinct silhouette and internal spatial quality through the new structure’s interface with the existing.

Shared thresholds create a sense of permeability into the site, building a relationship with the wider context.

Master of Architecture Social Agency Studio

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Resilient Neighbourhoods Discrimination is a global phenomenon that blights the lives of hundreds of millions of people, worsens society and embeds unfairness into everyday life.

As Transparency International notes, ‘Discrimination strikes at the very heart of being human. It is harming someone’s rights simply because of who they are or what they believe’.

Discrimination is harmful and perpetuates inequality. According to Anti-Discrimination New South Wales, ‘Discrimination is treating someone unfairly because of a characteristic they have, or they are assumed to have, that is protected by New South Wales law’.

Characteristics include disability, sex, race, age, marital or domestic status, homosexuality, transgender status and carer’s responsibilities.

The studio question is, ‘what is a meaningful architectural response that reduces discrimination’? The site is Town Hall Square in central Sydney, located between Sydney Town Hall and St Andrew’s Cathedral, and faces Town Hall light-rail stop. The site is directly off George St, one of Sydney’s oldest and busiest streets. The square has beneath it an underground shopping mall leading to Town Hall station. To the back of the square is St Andrew’s Cathedral School.

The site therefore is extremely high-profile, and is bounded by substantial buildings that represent powerful institutions of religion and government respectively, with retail below and education to the rear.

Such a site provides rich opportunities for a range of interventions and typologies.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Josie Bi Linkedin: josie-bi-10526b9a Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/__josiebi/ Email: josiebi76@gmail.com

Dye The concept of a dying factory is a metaphor for race. People with different racial colours from all over the world flock to this site every day. The picture in my mind is of a factory with a huge stirring engine, mixing these colours together and turning them into beautiful works of art.

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Cathedral. Tourists gather here from all over the world, bordered by politics and religion respectively. I use the metaphor of dye to express my opposition and attack against racial discrimination and encourage harmony between different races in the world. The building here becomes the glue between the races by the actual process of dying.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Mona Keophonexay Email: mona.k@live.com.au

Re:cycling

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Our wastefulness as a society has both environmental and social consequences.

Wasted resources contribute to pollution, and are simply thrown away rather than being recycled or passed on to those who need them. Re: cycling takes this issue and combines it with the City of Sydney’s cycling initiatives to create a sustainable bicycle hub in the centre of the city. At Re: cycling, a social enterprise bicycle hire and workshop provides employment opportunities to new migrants and refugees. Here, secondhand bicycles are repaired and provided to disadvantaged

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groups in need of a means of transport, as well as for hire by the general public.

At the same time, Re: cycling advocates for and celebrates bike riding as a means of sustainable, affordable transportation.

Facilities such as bike parking, indoor cycling, meeting spaces for bicycle clubs, and an exhibition space are provided within the building, and Town Hall Plaza has been retained as an open space for public events. Re: cycling promotes the idea of cycling Sydney as a healthy and inclusive city.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Justin Wohl Email: justinwohl@outlook.com Website: https://bit.ly/3GmTM5R Instagram: @justinwohl1

Pluralism

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The proposed marketplace and workshops are a series of spaces for culturally diverse local artisans to create and sell their designs, while celebrating festivities and sharing stories of their respective cultures. The marketplace gives primacy to the cultural practices of marginalised communities, facilitating a platform to make those histories, traditions and norms visible. Public demonstrations of cultural practices invites collaboration with the public who listen and learn from the many different cultures and who involve themselves in those practices.

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The incentive for artisans to work in the marketplace is the opportunity to leverage an existing platform, that will one day be a well-established Sydney destination, to voice their background, showcase their culture and teach others, bringing a level of prominence to their craft that cannot be achieved alone. The aim is to create a complex overlapping of spaces, cultures, stories and interactions to embrace multiculturalism in Australia, addressing discrimination by promoting understanding and shared experiences.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Shivansh Shah Linkedin: shivansh-shah-25329b8a Instagram: @shivansh_arvind Email: shivanshshah7@gmail.com

Theatre of the Oppressed Living in a City can be isolating, one might never know their neighbours. Theatre gathers different people together. Sharing stories can be a powerful tool to alter or question one’s beliefs. Theatre transports the engaged audience or actors into the shoes of the character. Such exercise of experience generates empathy.

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The project here tries to transform the public space into a place of performance.

But the aim is not just to shape a space to accommodate a function, rather realise the public space as an urban theatre - a theatre of everyday life.

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Experiences like performing, observing, to be observed, gathering, doing together, discussing, accidental meetings etc have been important considerations of the design. Keeping a public square of open space was vital for me. Movement and connection within the site and between various transport stations have been sites of intervention. I try to use the heritage facade as a backdrop has been explored.

Formal performances on-site is a temporal activity, but the character of the project is developed to cater for the daily-life drama, interaction and conversations to take place in a new background.

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Landy Tan Linkedin: landy-tan-84b897220 Email: landy.tan.298@gmail.com

Acapella Inspired by the characteristics of A Capella, I wish to celebrate the huge variety of languages in our world the same way a capella is formed by the singing voices.

Different languages in the world also blend, contrast, creates different pitches that release harmonic tensions and create amazing soundscapes which all teach us how to be attuned with our listening as well.

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The 5-6 storey tower opens out to an outdoor amphitheatre and its performance space at the centre of the site which allows access from all three entrances.

The core is placed in the middle, anchoring the building structurally as the 1st floor of

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the building cantilevers out to create a floating effect.

On the typical floors, the western wing consists of recording studios, vocal and rehearsal rooms. Recording studios are very important in preserving languages where some languages are under the threat of dying with their last speaker. There are 3 musical chambers used for music practice. They are designed in curved rectangular shapes to enhance acoustic textures. The dynamic pattern of sound reflections is smoothly decreased due to small echoes. By doing so, occupants in the room can attentively listen to the tones and rhythm.

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Jun Xiang Teoh Linkedin: jun-xiang-teoh Website: https://issuu.com/teohjunxiang/docs/portfolio_2018-2021 Email: jxteoh2009@hotmail.com Instagram: @teoh_jun_xiang

Parkour and More

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Located at the heart of the City of Sydney, Parkour and More is a centre for selfexpression which aims to allow the diverse demographics of the site to congregate and conduct activities with shared purposes of self-expression. Through these activities, the stakeholders of the site will collaborate and co-exist with one another, thereby forming an empowered community. Self-expression thus becomes a tool to break down barriers, prejudices, and address discrimination in the city.

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Parkour and More’s design was driven by the research question: “Can the implementation of a centre for selfexpression, equipped with parkour and self-expression programmes, help address discrimination in Sydney?” The result was a witty and playful design proposition that aims to address a highly serious social topic: discrimination, and on a personal note, a highly-successful people-centred design approach.

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Benjamin Rowbotham Email: rowbothambenjamin@gmail.com

1+1=3 Is it possible for us to design systems that teach reciprocity in our built environment?

Configurations and relationships that allow us to realise that designing against discrimination actually enriches civic life for all?

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Voices key to the equitable formation of our worlds has often been blocked out of the exclusive realm of design and architecture. Whilst this culture continues to change it is critical to allow these voices into the room and the university level should be no exception. This

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project strives to reflect the insights and experiences of four inspiring individuals involved in the space of disability.

1 + 1 = 3 is a central civic realm for peoples with abilities to congregate, explore and create whilst maintaining and enhancing a significant public amenity. Lightweight materials, extensive planting and an innovative model of urban circulation aim to counteract the outdated attitudes that formed the currently oppressive plaza of Sydney Square and provide a new vision of inclusion in our city.

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Sen Yan Website: www.archsenyan.com Email: helios.ys@outlook.com Instagram: @archsensation

Tactile Dialogue

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There has no solid boundary between the digital and physical world, between mind and matter. By implementing the combination between technology and architecture, the way we interact with light, material, with space will be dramatically differentiated. It helps us from not portraying architecture as purely visional art and constructs a way for us to fully

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engage with our humanity. By interacting, we experience the space with our other sensations. Through the dialogue between us and architecture, we can understand more about what it means to convey.

Architecture also provides opportunities for social encounters and space for us to have a dialogue with one and the other.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Louisa Hartley Linkedin: louisa-hartley Email: louisa1810@gmail.com

Urban Habitat The project looks to disrupt the perception that the “civilised man” and city must conquer and control nature. Instead, it questions how to meaningfully cohabitate with other living species and how to accommodate them within our urban environment.

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The proposals ambition is to connect open green areas, remnant vegetation, and forgotten public spaces with a landscape belt. A city of landscapes emerges through raised pathways and plant structures,

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which act as an impetus to question how our urban environment might interact with natural systems in a meaningful way. The project offers an architecture that catalyses the repair of Indigenous landscapes as a process of healing. And centres broader ideas on how architecture can engage with urgent environmental, cultural and economic issues. In doing so an architecture emerges which might act as a catalyst for a re-imagined city of Urban Habitats.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Lauren Rolley Email: lauren.n.rolley@gmail.com

Right to Her City In mid-February this year (2021), Brittany Higgins revealed to the public not only her story of sexual assault, but the appalling rhetoric we accept in society with regards to women’s safety, rights, and voices.

Inspired, thousands of women began sending in letters to news outlets sharing their stories of sexual harassment. These heartbreaking letters only solidified that there is no scope to pretend we don’t have a problem.

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This project looks to past feminist study and precedent, aiming to reconfigure societies morals and values, reinforcing the ethic of care and the value of everyday

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life which is so often lost in modern society.

The bold statement of the Watering Woman aims to interrupt, confuse, and shock daily city life, encouraging people to look beyond what is immediately apparent. As you follow her stream of water through the underground site, commuters are placed to the periphery of activities replicating and performing private ‘women’s work’ usually hidden away in the household. At the end of the stream lies the Hall of Herstories- a sombre underground gallery displaying stories and letters. An opportunity to heal by sharing as much as a reminder of why this shift in society is needed.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Peggy Harris Linkedin: peggy-harris-567148b9 Email: peggyharris1996@hotmail.com Instagram: @peggyharriss

Love Lottoland Love Lottoland uses interactive art experiences to create awareness of Sexuality Discrimination through Architecture.

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The pop-up architecture is currently located at Town Hall in Sydney, but will continue to travel around the world to continue to spread the awareness of the issue that people can often feel pressured

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to fit in with society’s conventional ideas of sexuality, mainly being so they don’t face discrimination.

It was created off true stories I’ve experienced and heard to tackle the issue by immersing the viewers into a range of emotions and thoughts to be stimulated through using light, sounds, materials, movements and space.

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Kalpana Sagar Email: k.sagar@student.unsw.edu.au Instagram: @untether.design

Protest | The Act of Being Heard This project is about how architecture empowers people to unite and fight for social change. We walk down this journey together as people, to a space to share with others and raise awareness.

We need a space for our voices to be heard. A constant reminder about the discrimination faced by each group in the community.

influence on the people participating and people witnessing the event. This empowers people and gives hope for others who are in need of support. The string of voices that are misrepresented, mistreated and silenced, who needs to be encouraged to step out as others will follow. To narrate this project and its great potential, I had to ask myself.

The act of protest is an expression of people feeling discriminated by society.

This has a strong social-psychological

“How can architecture create a space for social activism to take place?”

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Yujing Chen Email: yujingccchen@hotmail.com

Humans of Sydney Once upon a time, there was a building appeared in a city called Sydney. The façade of this building is composed of humans’ faces. Standing in town hall with new faces occurring every day, this building becomes a magical fairy tale attracting everyone to enter and have a look.

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This design is composed of two parts: duality and reflections. Through doing research on duality, why discrimination

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exists could be explained; and also, presenting reflections could be considered as one way of reducing discrimination.

Then, by designing a place for humans of Sydney to draw, to photograph, to college, and most importantly, to tell and listen to stories. During this process, reflections of faces will appear on the building facade and discrimination will be unlearned and humans of Sydney will be brought together friendly.

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Jinlong Li Email: robot.color@gmail.com Instagram: @robot.color

Lantern Lighting flowing over the ground, a radiance hanging in the air: the lantern of the city. My dream is to have a “lantern” lighting the city. The Lantern was built on George Street, we design the building to remember the stories of discrimination that happened in the city and connect the surrounding underground structure and train station.

blurry city images flood the panel. The polished concrete wall stands on the other side, reflecting this light and displaying the artwork and story on the discrimination.

At the top of the tower, when a volume of lighting enters the dark space through the dome-like ceiling, a sensuous image of physical experience translates into the space and lighting and material.

In the nighttime, the panel diffused the interior lighting and illuminated to surrounding, which becomes an identity of the place, the soft diffused lighting attracts people to discover the inner of building. In the daytime, when tourists stand on the ramp, diffused daylight and

When finish the tour of the tower, I’d love to have a sunken garden for people to rest. a modern garden with water, the lighting reflected by the surface inspired the viewers’ thoughts. A feeling of peace was revealed.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Taylor Joffe Linkedin: taylor-joffe Email: taylor.joffe13@gmail.com Instagram: @taylorjoffe_arch

What We Might Lose The project proposal for “What We Might Lose” was a process of an evolution of thinking, researching and questioning and is a culmination of aspects from each iteration of the concepts explored and presented throughout the two terms. Therefore, the design process has also been an evolution informed by the transformation of the concepts and has impacted the final design proposal presented at the end.

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This portfolio demonstrates this evolution of concept and design to best highlight

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how “What We Might Lose” came into fruition.

The overarching theme that continued to be present throughout the development of the project was the importance of bringing people together and instilling a sense of community within times of hardship. As well as looking to the future as a means to wonder how we live and what the future will look like.”

Master of Architecture Urban Conditions Studio

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Student Work

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Urban Conditions Studio

Raffaele Pernice

(UNSW)

Shaowen Wang

(UNSW)

Sydney [Water] Rising The theme of the UC graduation studio in 2021 will focus on the design of a resilient multi-functional community on selected sites along the waterfront of Sydney Harbour as model of a water urban community suitable to withstand threats posed by high-sea level rise, floods, extreme weather caused by the Climate Change in the next decades. Ideally the project features will be flexible enough to be adapted or serve as reference to other Australian and Pacific Rim cites.

This is an experimental design studio which aims at integrating the 2 scales of architectural and urban design processes whilst investigating the notion and feasibility of proposing innovative and structured urban model as a prototype to

orchestrated future developments as well as conserving and improving the city of the 21st century. Students will articulate their theme/research question of how water cites can manage the current and future challenges related with the climate change and the high sea level threats.

While formulating their hypotheses for their projects, students could initially respond to the site with possible 2 design approaches: one is to engage the site with an urban intervention inspired by the current urban regeneration strategies implementing more conventional techniques in the waterfront design; the other is to envision alternative (and radical) futures scenarios with the generation of more experimental urban architectures.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Jeffrey Ng Linkedin: ngjeffreycheukhai Instagram: @trynottooverthink Website: https://jeffreyng.myportfolio.com/ Email: ngjeffreycheukhai@gmail.com

Urban Datum URBAN DATUM is... a common ground for all. Defined by the adjoining program while the goal is to orient people towards the harbour. The moment where different programs crushed into each other and emerge. The place where different people meet the connector between Pyrmont and Sydney CBD

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Taken from the larger urban context, the urban grids of the adjoining neighbourhood helped me formulate the site’s massing.

The visual connection and access have also been taken into consideration. Orient users’ views towards the Darling Harbor and connect them physically from the

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Darling Square neighbourhood towards the Pyrmont neighbourhood, the form of the urban datum fully maximizes multilevel access points and connections.

In search of the knitting piece, I have studied the notion of datums. Based on the analysis, the project’s vision is to challenge the harborside shopping centre from mono function to diversity in terms of programs and openness. It changes from a mono-function shopping mall to a new waterfront. It connects different programs through a two-level datum and extends it towards the more extensive urban fabric.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Shen Lim Linkedin: lim-shen Instagram: @limshen93 Website: https://limshen1993.wixsite.com/portfolio Email: limshen1993@gmail.com

Skeletal Structure for Adaptive Reuse After over a century of industrial occupation, Camellia faced numerous challenges in its redevelopment into a waterfront precinct amidst an ongoing threat of climate degradation. The low topography invites the substantial risk of flooding, a scenario further compounded by the soil contamination left behind by heavy industrialisation.

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Drawing upon Habraken’s Open Building concept in the 1960’s, a skeletal structure offers longevity and adaptability - highlighting the division between building elements as support

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and infill, while minimising soil disruption.

Straddling the boundary between river and wetland, wherein tide, rain or flood dictate the ground conditions, spaces are differentiated into transient or permanent functions for civic-commercial programs.

The skeletal structure, by offering an alternate post-flood reparation process that reduces cost and repair time, promotes a model of interchangeable building elements and programs to suit the needs of Camellia’s newly created population.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Duy Khiem Nguyen Instagram: @ndkhiem94 Email: kent.nguyen93au@gmail.com

Village Farm Lab ‘’The experience of a farm building in the city was a way to raise awareness and change behavior towards more environmental and social responsibility’’

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My main idea is to create a self-sufficient neighbourhoods to adapt to climate change. When sea-level rise, some strategies are provided like floodable squares, floating structure for recreational facility. Revitalizing river is one of the main urban intervention, which floating market is connected with the river to create a different ambience of shopping experience for residents, restoring the connection between people and the water.

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For design strategies, stacking up the building increases the land efficiency where value could be generated through more variety of activities. The programme is composed of three main elements of producing, consuming and decomposing, which completes a food chain with this scheme. Including vertical farms, a restaurant, a workshop, a communal space, and a market, the building performs as a community complex providing fresh food and promoting healthy lifestyle for local residents.

Architecture Program, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

Jia Yi Lai Linkedin: Brinley Lai Instagram: @brinley_arch Website: https://issuu.com/jiayihaha/docs/working_file_2021 Email: brinleylai@gmail.com

Wetland Kindergarten The belief that ‘conservation starts with education’ inspired me to rethink a pedagogical environment where kids can learn in and from the immediate they are supposed to. Eventually, kids will grow up with an emotional connection with the setting, which helps to improve environmental preservation.

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With that in mind, I came out with a new kind of typology, a kindergarten +

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library that is informed by the formation of wetland, where the community will be educated on how river floodplain is restored and rehabilitated under different climate conditions. Wetland is the mediator that exposed people to the notion of environmental change.