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Message from the Dean Professor Alec Tzannes Dean UNSW Built Environment I congratulate all the students who have completed their degree at UNSW Built Environment and now become our alumni.

This catalogue conveys through selected study themes and projects from our final year studios something about the unique student experience at UNSW Built Environment along with the outstanding skills of our students and academic staff.

UNSW Built Environment is a knowledge leader in the design, delivery and management of the C21st city and its elements. Our research is directly relevant to the development of knowledge within built environment professions and underpins our curriculum. Embedded in the curriculum are core values centered on the thinking and practices required to deliver sustainable urban environments of deep cultural value. Design education in all of its forms, including evidence-based design processes is at the centre of our degrees. This is complemented by the development of discipline knowledge with interdisciplinary design and research orientated projects.

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These projects align with advanced contemporary practices in industry, ensuring that as graduating students you are at the forefront of the built environment professions as innovators and leaders.

This year celebrated the establishment of our new school structure comprising ASA+D, the Australian School of Architecture and Design, and AGSU, the Australian Graduate School of Urbanism. ASA+D is the most comprehensive built environment school in Australia with a complete range of undergraduate and postgraduate professional degrees.

ASA+D’s sister school, AGSU, is tailored to post-professional study.

AGSU is the research engine of the Faculty and was created to fill the gap in the number of leading thinkers on urban issues. This is an exciting time to be part of the UNSW Built Environment community.

I wish every graduate a successful and satisfying career. In many respects, our relationship is just beginning. As you travel the world through your work you will meet many alumni and make special bonds of lasting value.

We look forward to your ongoing participation in the life of our university and the mutual benefits this brings.

“ I WISH EVERY GRADUATE A SUCCESSFUL AND SATISFYING CAREER. IN MANY RESPECTS, OUR RELATIONSHIP IS JUST BEGINNING. AS YOU TRAVEL THE WORLD THROUGH YOUR WORK YOU WILL MEET MANY ALUMNI AND MAKE SPECIAL BONDS OF LASTING VALUE.”

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Message Message fromfrom the Program the Program Director Director Harry Margalit Harry Margalit Program Director Program Director The Master of Architecture degree at UNSW is the culmination of the academic pathway offered to becoming an architect. Graduates have completed their formal education, and they now proceed to professional experience to fulfil the requirements for registration.

The architectural skills and learning they achieved in their undergraduate years has been refined and expanded at postgraduate level to encompass themes and projects of greater complexity.

Students have also been introduced to architecture as a profession, with its conventions and obligations. The projects presented in this exhibition are thus framed to test a series of propositions drawn from current practice.

Students select from a suite of projects proposed by leading architects and practices, and senior UNSW academics.

The projects in this catalogue are the culmination of a year-long cycle, with the first half devoted to detailed research on the site, building type and program, and the second half to producing an architectural design that tests the range of skills and understanding imbued over five years of architectural education.

The final year of the Master of Architecture is an intense experience for both tutors and students. Ambitions are high for both, and the prospect of displaying a graduating piece of work in the final year exhibition and catalogue encourages exceptional student effort. For the architecture program at UNSW, the exhibition is a reflection of who we are, and what we value.

This year the exhibition is part of LuminoCity, a faculty-wide series of events showcasing all programs. The Master of Architecture studio is delighted to be part of this event, and acknowledges the efforts of Faculty of Built Environment staff to create this rolling spectacle and celebration of the cumulative and earnest efforts of our students to understand contemporary urban issues, and to play a role in shaping them into the future.

In that respect, this catalogue documents a start rather than an end. It is a snapshot of a complex collection of urban concerns, tutor expertise, student ambition and a desire to capture a sort of informed idealism that will drive many significant projects undertaken by our graduates in Sydney, and further afield, in coming decades.

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“ THE STUDIO THEMES, BROADLY FRAMED BY STAFF KNOWLEDGE AND RESEARCH INTERESTS, EXAMINED THE IDEAS, RELATIONS AND DEBATES BETWEEN ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURE, TECHNOLOGY OR AGENCY.”

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Message from the Studio Convenor Dr. Dijana Alic Studio Convenor The aim of the 2013 Graduation studio was to provide a context for the culmination of the students’ academic studies and the transition to architectural practice. In this year-long course, students engaged in research and design based investigations of the contemporary city and pursued their independent interests in their design propositions. Throughout the year the studio community benefited from the supportive and creative input of practicing and academic architects, prominent guests, community activists and other interested parties. The diversity of involvement and responses from multiple disciplines allowed the students to develop individual propositions that responded to the layered realities and experiences of urban life.

The studio themes, broadly framed by staff knowledge and research interests, examined the ideas, relations and debates between architecture and culture, technology or agency.

The studio projects deliberated and negotiated the specific topographic and geographic conditions and the broader social, cultural and political contexts of sites located within metropolitan Sydney. The tension between the architectural form and human and daily experience provided the foundations for design explorations

and expressions that built upon a wide range of design practices. The emerging possibilities span across the various urban scales and include the speculative and ambiguous aspects of architecture. With the locations varying from pristine and beautiful to marginal and peripheral the student proposals offered visions for the transformation of various Sydney sites. They included: the Avalon Beach Surf Club; the Macquarie Street Justice Precinct; and exploration into the hybridity and density of the Sydney CBD. The 2013 Graduation studio propositions demonstrate the positive potential embedded in combining academic studies with professional practice.

They mark the foundation of the students’ future creative endeavours.

With a student community of 90 students of diverse educational and cultural backgrounds we acknowledge the student studio representatives who play an important governance role in this year-long experience and in their contributions to the planning of their exhibition [in] tension.

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ADJUNCT PROFESSOR DIANE JONES, ANN QUINLAN, MARK SZCZERBICKI, DR ANURADHA CHATTERJEE AND LINDSAY WEBB

Agency + City Macquarie Street Justice Precinct When you think you know you should look again.

In grasping a point (an object, an idea, a theory) we first see vaguely, indistinctly, then we look again and again, varying perspective and distance, focusing on a particular segment, returning to patches of indistinctness, seeking clarity.

Looking again and again is a way of minimizing self deception1 An enduring social institution, justice is a cornerstone of civil society and democracy. In contemporary society there is renewed attention to justice and its agency through investigation of its jurisprudence, adjudication and its civic, spatial and symbolic representation.

Restorative and therapeutic approaches to justice increasingly inform judiciary settings for socio-medical, environment, mediation and inquisitorial matters. In NSW, such settings include the Land and Environment Court, Coroner’s Court, Indigenous courts and Drug Court, Mental Health and Industrial Relation tribunals as well as Royal Commissions and ICAC. Guiding the architectural design in this project is Katherine Fischer Taylor’s2 reflection that judiciary settings and their associated activities offer “a theatre for social activity in which architecture interacts with the institution to shape its meaning”.

Alongside the town hall and market place (agora), court buildings, with their symbolic and architectural typology, have anchored active engagement with civic institutions since Plato’s Republic.

When viewed as a construct of citizen’s aspirations for a civil society, they give identity, character, pride and hope to our cities. Such were the enlightenment aspirations of Governor Macquarie in his vision for Sydney as a city of citizens and civic buildings. In building upon Macquarie’s vision, this project is fittingly located in the Macquarie, Albert and Phillip Streets precinct of Circular Quay with its legacy of heritage buildings, steep topography and views to Sydney Harbour and the Botanic Gardens.

36 students ambitiously engaged with this architecturally complex graduation project. Informed by co-operation between their research, stance and concept in relation to justice and its agency in the city, each student developed a distinctive architectural approach. Guided by principles that informed the design of a selected judiciary setting, the students proposed a program of activities that attends to the engagement of citizens with the places and spaces of a civic public building in the city of Sydney.

Anglea Brew, ‘Moving beyond Paradigm Boundaries’, in J. Higgs, (ed.) Writing Qualitative Research, Hampden Press, Sydney, 1998, pp. 29 -35.

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Katherine Fischer Taylor,In the Theater of Criminal Justice: The Palais de Justice in Second Empire Paris.Princeton University Press, 1993.

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Student Reflection Adjunct Professor Diane Jones This project required us to propose a new model of delivering civil justice in a city context. Through rigorous study, the status quo was quickly found to inhibit justice through spatial, programmatic and interpersonal barriers, and a new restorative or therapeutic vision was needed to uphold contemporary values of justice.

Therefore, the underlying significance brought forward in this studio is in the manner in which architecture and social agency are explored to create a justice setting that is accessible, accountable, and responds to ideals that we uphold as individuals and as a people.

To expand on these values, an understanding of the abstract, technical and cultural aspects of inserting a justice precinct on the northern end of Macquarie St was imperative. Also in rejecting the status quo, the understanding that this project was much more than about the ‘courtroom’, even to deconstruct and redefine the process of justice, was a liberating force. For many of us it quickly became clear than we had not yet encountered a project with such complexity of program, theory, symbolism, and context.

Zhuang Chao Patrick Griffin Yanfeng Li Choo Yih Ong Nicholas Papas Mengxuan Qu Li Tang Hang Po Boris To Wanhong Wang Miller Xinchi Zhang

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The understanding that justice is a multifaceted ideal allowed for a richness of thinking and create a variety of concerns that were developed. These included perception and justice, the needs of the individual and the collective, the meaning of transparency in a justice setting or the dichotomy between law and justice.

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Zhuang Chao Email Zhuangc86@gmail.com Phone 0404 363 604

The Justice of ‘Transparency’ Transparency is not necessarily synonymous with openness in the physical respect, a fact that solves the alleged contradiction: the environs of the house are indeed drawn in optically through the large glass walls, but nevertheless remain spatially excluded.

Mies Van Der Rohe The notion of transparency being brought to architectural language has multiple characteristics, it not only implies a form of optical quality, simultaneously, it offers perception of complexity in unity, ambiguity and clarity, and multiple readings.

The Macquarie Street Justice Precinct in order to advocate democracy and principal of justice is to be realized with the concept of ‘transparency’.

The objective of the project therefore is to achieve

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in 3 aspects, the Clarity in Program, the Clarity in Process and Multiple Layers of Circulation.

The programs selected for the project is the Land & Environment Court, Fairwork Australia and ICAC for which the above three courts are all state courts and cover three different aspects of justice, social, environment and economy. In regards with the concept of transparency, each program is housed in a massing with its size tuned proportional to the required area, the massing is then stacking on top of each other and at certain level shifting offside from the central core to make external circulation around the spaces at lower levels. The structure is also exposed to articulate and enhance the idea of ‘transparent’ movement.

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Exterior View from Macquarie Street Entrance from Police Museum External Circulation Outside the Office Theatre Space

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Patrick Griffin Email patrickallangriffin@gmail.com Phone 0431 249 241

Newcastle Crossroads - Youth Outreach & Justice Centre This project was developed through interpreting the Children’s Care Court as a point of crossroads and confluence in young people’s lives. This involved re-interpreting the existing paradigm of the Children’s Court as a place of healing and learning through the analysis and adaptation of Montessori and alternative education principles.

The principles and ideals which guided the development of this design are intended to support needs and experiences of the court user, especially children. These include the notions of community connectivity, legibility of space, connection to nature, and a sense of play.

The resulting design enables a series of spaces supportive of the local youth, community, and the urban life of Newcastle through engagement with numerous support agencies such as a Youth Centre and Youth Mental Health Centre on the ground plane.

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The form of the building is defined by a large internal courtyard which establishes a threshold of light between key programs of the court. This enables the “legibility of space” within the building, extending thresholds between programs and punctuating circulation paths with natural light; providing young people with visual cues, prospect and retrospect, and awareness of place.

Judicial and authoritarian symbolism is avoided as the facade narrative is characterised by a motif of intersecting forms and a sense of playfulness & colour. Green spaces and organic timber court modules visible from the street convey the values of institution though non-hierarchical means. These design outcomes respond to complex social & emotional issues to create a supportive environment for young people.

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Burwood Street perspective - legible spaces Courtroom model - democratic & organic form Assembly model - Arrangement of programs around courtyard Design principles - crossroads, confluence, connectivity, nature

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Yanfeng Li Email yanfengrk@hotmail.com Phone 0422 112 939

Bridging Justice In the criminal justice community, here is a move towards problem-solving and assisting defendants to gain second chances for being effective members of society. Questions of guilt or innocence are not the only important considerations. Due to the rapid innovation of problem-orientated courts, there is a need to consider not only the immediate priorities of current functions, but also to respond to the changing demands of stakeholders and participants.

Hence the principles of my design can be concluded as flexibility, sustainability, intimate space and interactivity. The courts I focused on

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are Drug court and Community courts which are mainly health-related and problem-solving courts.

The programs are varied in my design. There is a proposed auditorium located on the ground floor as an extension of the existing Police Museum, a community library connecting with children’s library, childcare centre, agency office, social support, addiction rehab clinics, courtrooms of different sizes and intimate mediation rooms, etc.

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A. Figure Ground and Perspective B. 1:200 Floorplate model (inclusive of the Former NSW Health Department Building and the Justice & Police Museum) & 1:50 sectional model C. Albert street entry perspective and north-south section D. Design principles diagrams

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Choo Yih Ong Email chooyih@gmail.com Phone 0468 863 373

Justice Village This project aim towards the development of Macquarie Justice Centre as a new model to replace the intimidating experience of a traditional courthouse with a unique courthouse typology that works best to help people in need. As a justice system is to function in the best interest of the people it serves, the proposal is for a health-related justice system. The new centre includes a Drug and Addiction Court, a Dust Disease Court, and a Medical Tribunal that not only reflects the government’s commitment to public welfare, but also shows the different facets of justice in NSW. The proposed functions will also elevate Macquarie Justice Centre as a Health Care and Justice Precinct in Sydney with the collaboration of a public court clinic and a healthcare complaint centre.

With the core aim of helping people to recover, reconcile and reduce the rate of reconviction in health-related crime, the design idea of “Villages” is

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incorporated to create a multi-layered function Justice Centre with visual and connective transparency, cultivating a strong sense of community. Court users are free to roam around the centre through a range of multi-level communal spaces placed carefully to encourage the interaction between the court users, court program participants, legal professionals and the public, in line with the idealism of justice and democracy. On top of formal court functions, supportive programs such as court supporting agencies, hospitality, retail, public fitness and health agencies, are inserted as other functions of the Macquarie Justice Centre to model the idea of “Villages”.

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A. Macquarie Street Elevation B. Perspective View from Circular Quay C. Sectional Perspective

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Nicholas Papas Email n_p_89@hotmail.com Phone 0401 909 411

The Phenomenal Individual This project is concerned with the dynamic needs and standing of the ‘individual’ in a justice setting.

Drawn from phenomenology, the victim, offender, community and authority are represented in the thinking that each person inhabits his/or her own body, has their own way of experiencing the world, and their own needs and requirements.

As a public building is like a society, the collective needs are balanced with those of the individual for public good and control. Also, along the spectrum of therapeutic jurisprudence, the collective needs of the stakeholders are significantly different.

For example, the collective needs of the Royal Commission are more extroverted, and are about ‘having your say,’ whereas the Homeless Court is more introverted and is concerned with discretion

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and the dignity of the person in question. As such, the collective needs determine the program, while an understanding of this balance and the different needs of the many and varied individuals helps to determine the spatial variety and qualities.

This allows justice to be spatially, contextually and interpersonally accessible for the many.

This balance is articulated using Steven Holl’s Stone and the Feather as a haptic formula. The building is designed as a vertical gradation between these two polar conditions, one of the ground and the other of the sky. The degree of sensed platonic mass and perceived gravity affects the perceptions of space, and directly connects to the collective needs of each program, whether they be extroverted, introverted or somewhere in between.

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Addictions Court Interior Royal Commission Upper Viewing Floor Addictions Court Floor Spatial Model Showing Gradations

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Mengxuan Qu Email jenny629_jolin@hotmail.com Phone 0450 523 629

Justice Cohesion The real centerpiece of restorative justice is the “community conferencing” process, which involves mediated dialogue and collective problemsolving involving drug offenders and community representatives. “Restorative Justice aims to heal the community bonds and to have a humanizing effect on the system of punitive justice”. Furthermore, the proposition of rule of law is to forbidden certain acts or practice which threatens social cohesion.

Then it can be said the justice agency is built fundamentally to maintain social cohesion.

The circulation in a justice center is special that all the people will finally meet in the courthouse and the courthouse acts as social bond to improve cohesion. In ancient time, the interrogation first

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appears to be held in a stone circle or under a tree. They all present the gathering intention in a circle. Circles were commonly used to symbolize the fact that justice was administered in the name of the whole community. Also court around a circular table gives the defendant and other stakeholders space to discuss the rehabilitation of the offender.

As the result, the concept of my design is the circular court rooms in the center of each level and all circulation happens around them.

There are stairs around the court rooms that connect each floor’s public waiting area to improve the vertical cohesion. The circle in the center drives people in, around and up.

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Model of Macquarie Street Faรงade Model of Big Amphitheatre Perspective from Macquarie Street Plans Showing Circulation

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Li Tang Email tld128@gmail.com

Therapeutic Justice - where law meets justice To create a healthy justice setting for therapeutic justice, the design program needs to include a range of public facilities. Three principles need to guide the design: accessibility, equality and transparency.

This proposal explores a new courthouse typology that addresses the needs of the local community in Sydney’s CBD. It incorporates courtrooms, community centre and a wide range of support facilities, including art training, childcare, gym and a 24-hour clinic.

The open public plaza utilizes a green terrace to facilitate accessibility as well as visual connection between Circular Quay and the Botanic Gardens. People traverses through public space that incorporates spaces for art exhibition and social interaction. The design intention is to create

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social identity, shared responsibility and user/ community identification/ attachment with the place. At lower ground are located justice agencies and social support with convenient access for the public, complementing the functions of the justice rooms located on the upper levels.

The atrium space acts as the hub within holistic environmental system and gives clear way finding and mutual surveillance. It acts as a connector as well as separator between the east and west wings of the building and provides a transition space.

Overall, the intention is to create a design that provides individuals with choice, voice and equality within the justice system - a confluence of law and justice.

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Street Wall Infill Diagram Ground Plan Circulation Diagram Atrium Waiting Zone Sectional Diagram

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H. P. Boris To Email boris.to@hotmail.com Phone 0401 100 773

Centre of Counter - Justice Justice is never black or white. According to Laura Valentini, justice is controversial, and therefore, democracy is instrumentally and intrinsically required as means to discover truth and equality.

This suggests that community participation in and exposure to judicial processes are necessary.

However, scholars observe that courthouses have become increasingly intimidating, socially marginalising and functionally segregated.

The project responds to this social phenomenon by, firstly, programmatically reinterpreting Plato’s city and justice model (where merchant activities and entertainment occurred along with public hearings in a public setting) to reintegrate the courthouse into the public sphere. Furthermore, Linda Mulcahy purports that justice has been increasingly commodified as consumable objects of popular culture. When viewed in conjunction with Harvard

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Design School’s (2010) observation that “shopping has become one of the many means by which we experience public life”; it seems reasonable to combine retail activities with the courthouse to better engage with the public. Courtrooms also operate as multifunction rooms/halls for after-hour public use.

Secondly, dematerialisation of the courthouse by 21st Century digital technology opens up the possibility of public participation. The project responds to this by providing a public space in the form of an amphitheatre facing a media façade that broadcasts hearings and enables public interaction in a virtual forum for live chat and debate. Courtrooms are suspended, transparent pods with circulation and waiting spaces ramping around them such that images superimpose to emulate a virtual experience of immateriality and informational transparency.

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Process massing models Rendered floorplans Schematic section Explanatory diagrams

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Wanhong Wang Email 150wwh@163.com Phone 0425 828 208

Therapeutic Justice center Problem solving courts are selected in the justice centre. In the project, every floor is the “home” of the courtroom, waiting area, registry office, glazed meeting room, supporting social services so that participant can receive direct support to cut the vicious circle of crime. How this “problem-oriented” justice centre as a public facility engages social interaction in the building; and as a public building interact with the surrounding environment is the

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matter of concern for the project. By addressing the matter of concern, this building 1. establish an access which enhances the pedestrian activity between the Quay and Rose Park area; 2. creates a breezeway through the building, enabling cross ventilation for and penetration of natural light to all levels; 3. the void and platform spaces are created for social interactions and public engagement.

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Miller Xinchi Zhang Email safka12@hotmail.com Phone 0425 857 009

AIR - Community Justice in Sydney City By focusing on justice as a therapeutic agent and its impact on the well-being of the city and its residents, workers and visitors, this project proposal aims to create a neighbourhood justice centre in the city of Sydney. Statistics show that an increasing number of citizens are choosing to live in the city. However, there is an increasing trend in crimes related to drug and alcohol since 2008.

Research into the Collingwood neighbourhood justice centre demonstrates that neighbourhood justice centres are vital civic buildings to inner city citizens, not only providing essential legal services but also multidisciplinary support services to meet their often complex financial, cultural, workplace,

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industrial, and socio-medical needs. Therefore, this project proposal is designed to facilitate a safe and welcome environment of well-being. An aspect of this is that all mediation rooms are located on the upper levels to capture the air, sky and city views.

The project title AIR expresses the important role of the building on Macquarie Street, in the justice precinct and in the city. To ensure the sustainability of the centre and its services as a civic public building, airspace will be sold at market rates so as to generate income to support services. AIR proposes a new approach to the traditional judiciary building type, court building as a therapeutic agent to impact on the wellbeing of the city and its citizens.

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A. Macquarie Street figure-ground and skyline study.

B. AIR - perspective view from Circular Quay.

C. Design diagrams: from square enclosed by heritage building.

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Student Reflection Ann Quinlan Sydney has grown in a particular way in response to its extraordinary location, geography, and cultural, political and economic history. Located close to Sydney Cove and with its distinctive topography, the setting for this project is rich in memory and history. A yearlong graduation studio is set to investigate architectural and urban design propositions for involving a mix of judiciary agencies in a public building associated with investigating, examining and advocating justice in NSW.

ideas, opinions and information and their delicious weekly baking; this reflects the reality of the architectural workplace where people work with each other to achieve a creative and resolved outcome.

The project presents challenges through complex program requirements and conflicting hierarchical relationship in planning, as well as the intricacies of integrating it into the prominent heritage context in which it sits. It was the research nature of the studio that allowed coherent yet creative approaches to inform design process, students were constantly encouraged to explore and elaborate their distinctive design thinking in relation to justice and its agency in the city.

Hengameh Seradji Alamdari Amanda Daysh Vincent Hsu Winny Leung Christopher Loong Lynette Neo Ben Paterson Xiaonan Quan Rebecca Louise Smith Johnny Tsai Keena Kathleena Vazquez Vanessa Yu Angel Yi Zhang

Project leader Ann Quinlan, who has been truly inspirational and generous in teaching and offering architectural aspects, leads the studio, guiding and encouraging us to be self- directed, allowing independent thinking and developing design concepts.

The structure and approach to the design project also drove people to help and communicate with their peers in sharing

As a result, each student has developed a thoughtful scheme anchored by a design stance that re-establishes the relationship between judiciary system of civil society, civic public building and citizens.

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Amanda Frances Daysh Email Amanda.daysh@gmail.com Phone 0439 789 537

Sovereign Justice - collapsing the boundaries of nation, state and local Globalisation, Migration and Ecology are issues of international interest as they transcend and challenge concepts of national and cultural sovereignty.

Informed by a Eurocentric justice tradition, the International Justice and Human Rights, Criminal and Arbitration Courts at The Hague, attend to state and national sovereign justice matters. In advancing the vision of Justice as an international jurisdiction, this project celebrates the distinctive natural and cultural jurisdictional context of Pacific Rim countries; the interdependence of individual and collective rights - indigenous, cultural and international through the union of a Ceremonial Court and Court of Human Rights in one building.

Located in Sydney, this civic court building attends to traditional Aboriginal people’s distribution of justice, community involvement, and their sovereign relationship to land and sky through a ceremonial court anchored within the topography.

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The indigenous people’s dialogue with nature is wrapped in the cultural dialogue of the Human Rights Court, sitting above the historical context, looking across the Harbour to the Pacific Ocean, connecting nations in the Pacific Rim. With both courts recognizing the right to justice for the individual and the assembly, form and program of the project aspires to encourage interdependence the coming together of individuals to form a collective, through the progression of spaces from the street level, to waiting spaces, mediation and courtroom.

This project seeks to build on the established international values, by combining Australia’s unique relationship with our natural landscape, to deliver a sovereign justice for a broader collective of global cultures.

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Vincent Hsu Email Vincent.h.hsu@outlook.com Phone 0404 886 063 URL www.vincenthsu.me

Informed Justice - NSW Coroner’s Court and Forensic Laboratory The coroner’s court is an investigative court where inquests are increasingly reliant on advancements in science and expert knowledge to determine the cause of unexplained deaths.

Australian law requires the legal system to be practised in the open in front of its citizens, who further demand transparency of the system and its procedures. In particular, the public require affordable forms of informal education as opposed to consultations with costly legal professionals.

Historically, the coroner’s court and its associated forensic laboratories have encountered significant limitations in achieving transparency of its procedures, both literally and metaphorically.

According to the Australian Inquest Alliance, studies

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indicate that the public, and in particular involved parties, have little knowledge of how the coroner’s court and associated forensic services operate. A key reason for this is the exposure of highly graphic content, including blood and bodies of the dead.

This project proposal aims to design a program of investigative courts and associated laboratories that incorporate a high degree of transparency, while attending to an effective arrangement of space to limit the unnecessary exposure of sensitive graphic content. Set within a complex of heritage buildings, the objective of the design was to allow for citizens to tour the court complex so as to increase and assist their understanding of the system, its procedures and context, particularly for those in times of grief.

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Winny Leung Email z3347058@student.unsw.edu.au Phone 0451 577 189

Stitching of old and new - Community Theatre at Old King’s School Parramatta Dating from 1830s, the Old King’s School located on the Parramatta River was the first private boarding school in New South Wales. Today, it is an irreplaceable collection of significant historical buildings.

In response to the significant role that the Old King’s School heritage buildings have played in the history of Parramatta, this new community theatre project proposal is seeking to: (1) Retain the original appearance of the heritage buildings and sports ovals for collective memory and for future generations to continue to enjoy this cultural precinct. In meeting this goal, the heritage buildings will be ingeniously reused for a program of activities associated with community theatre;

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(2) To design a new meaningful public place formed and characterized by insertion of new contemporary spaces, places and enclosures into the existing heritage structures; (3) Modify the interiors to adapt the old spaces for the new program creating a clear circulation pattern through the existing structure, to create spatial connections and sensuous experiences for differing people, visitors, performers, artists and staffs; (4) Through the repetition of courtyards, sunken and risen lawns, extend the sporting oval towards the northern part of the site to direct visitor’s circulation through the site in a gentle manner and so as to connect the Old King’s School site with St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

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Ai-Lin Lynette Neo Email neoailinlynette@gmail.com Phone 0425 551 727

Justice Ecology A city and its built environment morphology and culture, influences and impacts upon the wellbeing of citizens and our environment. Through an agency approach that accentuates collaboration between the fields of planning, architecture and public health; people’s well-being, quality of life and environment can be improved and sustained.

This Justice Ecology project proposal with its program emphasis as the NSW Design Council will be a dedicated centre for design excellence and environmental jurisprudence, aspiring to be a role model for future developments and cater to environmental and ecological concerns in NSW. Courts and Tribunals related to the judiciary of ecology include the Land and Environment Court, Dust Diseases Tribunal and Mental Health Tribunal.

As ecology is about interaction, explorations to create harmonious branches of systems between elements are investigated where they could mutually

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benefit and be self-supporting. This ecological approach starts at an urban context scale and right into attention to detail in the indoor environment where integration of symbiotic relationships between elements of nature, infrastructure, services, structure and habitation take place.

In planning, a calculated geometry following the Golden spiral placed in 90° opposites, revolve from the building’s middle core to address two separations; support and main function spirals. These act as the catalysts of the indoor environment and are just one example of flexible spaces that can accommodate programmed or spontaneous activities, energizing the facade and its context at all times. As such, functionalism in spaces drives the project.

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Ben Paterson Email z3186307@student.unsw.edu.au Phone 0345 022 336 URL http://bpaterson.blogspot.com.au/

Advice on Tap Kings Cross undoubtedly represents the hub of drug, alcohol, and domestic problems within the greater Sydney area. The conceptual theory behind my project is based on the common needs between what are essentially three separate, but related agencies. These three agencies specifically being; an alcohol rehabilitation centre, an alcohol mediation court-based setting, and a ‘sober bar’.

The fact that these issues of alcohol related harm are so visible within the area has resulted in the view of them as an accepted part of the social fabric of ‘The Cross’. As per the project title, therapeutic advice has come to form a major part of my architectural position. These therapeutic

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qualities emerge in all aspects of the project, from the conceptual ‘bandage’ that wraps the three towers together, the fact that the three towers lean on each other for support both in a physical and conceptual sense, through to the sense of therapeutic justice applied to the mediation-based justice settings.

While the O’Farrell government had promised the introduction of 3 ‘Sobering-Up Centres’, which would have proved a useful precedent to this previously unexplored program , this promise is yet to be enacted. As such my design intent could also be looked at as a means to provide a precedent for this style of ‘Pilot System - Sober Centre’.

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Xiaonan Quan Email xiaonanquan@gmail.com Phone 0430 656 777

Justice - Truth Reborn NSW Coroners Court Stories which come before coroners highlight the eternal mystery and human drama surrounding the many and varied ways in which we die unnaturally. The success of television shows such as Silent Witness and CSI indicates the public fascination with uncovering the truth about unknown death or death caused by crime.

An important role of state coroners is to investigate the cause of death to protect our lives and wellbeing by bringing to the attention of government and relevant authorities; practices, policies or laws which should be changed to prevent future deaths.

It is recognized that the current Coroner’s Court in Glebe does not meet the scientific investigative needs of contemporary forensic medicine, morgue accommodation or courtroom facilities. It’s

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solemn, dark and unwelcoming spaces adversely affect the wellbeing of scientists and judiciary staff who are responsible for investigating and adjudicating deaths which are often horrific and violent. It is also a foreboding place for families and visitors at a time of emotion and fragility.

In its program arrangement and formal presence this project proposal aims to reveal to citizens and the city the important role of the coroner and investigative science to the well being of our lives; while being attentive to the sensitivities surrounding dead bodies and death; as well as the emotional and psychological needs of those who work and visit the building. Located in the Circular Quay and Macquarie Street precinct the building is an inviting ornament to the city, providing opportunity for people to learn about the eternal mystery of death.

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Hengameh Seradji Alamdari Email hengameh.seradji@gmail.com Phone 0416 273 118

Resonating justice + heritage - land and environment court When considered the permanent, yet adaptable armature of the city, streets have structured cities over time, regardless of period or culture. The street is unreservedly a public space; a social space of communication; symbol and celebration; address and frontage. A street is open to citizens.

Named after governor lachlan macquarie, macquarie street is the easternmost street of sydney’s cbd. It is the street that locates the intersection of the city’s topography with its street grid. Designed as a ceremonial thoroughfare; this street’s enduring legacy is as the setting for sydney’s first permanent public buildings. From its first marking as an antipodean colonial town street macquarie street has been central to important civic aspects of sydney life. It’s been the centre of society: medicine; and ceremony.

Most importantly with its museums, gardens, churches, conservatorium, historic houses, libraries and opera house it’s been the centre of culture.

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The proposed precinct for the new land and environment justice building is marked by macquarie street and its intersection with albert street; phillip street to the west and bridge street to the south. This new civic building, together with the existing heritage buildings embraces its setting, linking the visitor’s court and tribunal experience with the australian landscape and heritage, with views to the royal botanic garden and sydney cove from courtrooms and offices. The building’s exterior massing resonates with the form of the heritage building on the site. The ground floor lobby offers occupants and visitors a naturally acclimatized public space with landscaped areas, outdoor and indoor seating spaces celebrating the importance of the heritage precinct.

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Rebecca Louise Smith Email bec_smith8190@hotmail.com Phone 0421 652 696

Justice Encircled - A transformation of justice, people and place This project proposal seeks to act as a catalyst for change, a mechanism to transform current adversarial justice towards the contemporary trends of non-adversarial mediation and resolution.

The project facilitates exchange within the setting of mediation, where conflicting values and options arrive at a common ground represented not by competing sides but in a setting of equality drawing the parties towards a central resolution.

The program incorporates the NSW Land and Environment Court, the Industrial Relations Commission, the Native Title Tribunal and the Administrative Decisions Tribunal; jurisdictions that seek to facilitate and encourage mediation.

Located in a context with a rich historical narrative; the project acts as a connection between the civil precinct of Macquarie St and the public precinct

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of Circular Quay. The podium levels link the datum of the existing fragmented heritage buildings and provide access between the city and the harbour.

The building aims to conceptualise the interactions within traditional native dispute settlement settings as represented by the circle, where the parties retain equality with a focus towards a central point or common core. These derived circular ‘cores’ not only delineate program activities and functions they also reflect the intersections between the different users of the building. The building seeks to remind all that while there are conflicts of self interest there is always the opportunity for resolution. Justice Encircled.

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Christopher Tran Email Chris_vtran@hotmail.com Phone 0423 850 177

Connective Justice The purpose of justice settings is to create, promote and sustain healthy and righteous, social relationships between citizens. The quality and success of maintaining these relationships is dependent on the ability of public justice buildings to facilitate and connect citizens not only to the judiciary system, but also to other people, civic places, historical contexts and natural environments in the city. This justice precinct project proposal investigates the role of justice in relation to social sustainability and its goal of improving the inclusivity and wellbeing of people through connectivity.

In positioning justice as a dynamic, public agent for sustaining and promoting healthy citizen-city relationships, the theme of connectivity is explored and realised across multiple levels in a program that includes the Land and Environment court, community justice centre, indigenous courts, as well as addiction and mental health tribunals.

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Improving and maintaining social relationships between people, program activities, places, spaces and the city is informed by a design generated from attention to circular geometry. This provides opportunity to create visual, spatial and psychological experiences which connect people to each other.

It also allows for visual connections to the fabric and form of adjacent heritage buildings, Sydney Harbour and the Botanical Gardens as well as the sky. Circular geometry also informs the design of courtroom settings so citizens are connected to each other ‘in the round’ emphasising equality and democracy. In this way public citizens may observe and connect with the process of justice as a system that sustains civic social relationships.

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Johnny Tsai Email johnnybrot@hotmail.com Phone 0406 858 808

Longevity Ageing population has been a serious concern of our age. The project proposes to develop a multi-generational sustainable model in urban context in Bondi Junction. This project empathizes on care of well-being and healthy lifestyle. The concept of ‘longevity’ with the aim in investigating how architecture can create a supportive setting through all ages and stages of life from childcare to aging in place for seniors with the possible presence of dementia.

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In achieving a supportive setting, the project encompasses a health clinic with therapeutic classes and an intergenerational community arts centre. The project is nurtured by integration of gardens, plants and interactive horticulture enticed spaces which is scholarly research proven to have beneficial outcome in creating a therapeutic environment. This project also endorses a healthy lifestyle through communal facilities of gardens and gym by a healthy diet and exercise with a health clinic and community arts centre.

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Maria Kathleena Vazquez Email keena.vaz@gmail.com

Tapestry of Justice Customarily, cities are considered an exclusive domain for supporting economic, political, social and cultural activity. However the digital age expands this exclusivity by delivering ‘virtual’ infrastructure for these activities . The digital age redefines the way in which citizens engage in the life of the city – emphasising the individual voice of the citizen as well as the choir of voices of a larger tapestry or network , one that transcends physical boundaries. This challenges the traditional morphology of the city, systems, business and organisations, and opens up opportunity to foster interconnectedness and accessibility in civic buildings such as the proposed justice centre project.

In imaging interconnectedness, this project identifies the architectural and programmatic moments of synergy for a weaving of haptic/ physical and plastic/virtual to take place – urban, socio-judicial and personal scale. Located on the intersection of the significant civic precincts, the project proposes to integrate within the city fabric a

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media plaza, which becomes a place of technological experience as well as of civic gathering and activity.

In the socio-judicial domain, the project stiches a new interdisciplinary setting for the intersection of the Land and Environment Court, the ICAC and the IRC. The proposed program respects distinctions between the three jurisdictions, while also experimenting with networking these visually and spatially through folding floor plates and shared auxiliary spaces.

The proposal aims to enhance interconnectedness through places for personal retreat or ‘plugging in’; and advance negotiation and resolution in settings that accentuate a greater awareness of the ‘whole’ through an interplay of light, volume and views.

Using technology and digital society as a pattern for spatial experimentation, the developed proposition aspires towards a programmatic model for a justice centre that intersects the city, networks jurisdictions and connects citizens within a Tapestry of Justice.

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Christopher Wong Email christopher.wong.sl@gmail.com Phone 0404 108 926

Second Chance Justice Guided by a therapeutic approach to justice, the Second Chance Justice Centre aims to provide a setting to remedy the negative association of the law and social exclusion of citizens who are involved in drugs and other additive behaviours; and who wish to change and improve their lives. The complex socio –medical needs of these individuals are frequently misunderstood by society because of their criminal actions and misuse of illicit substances. In turn, their actions influence the lives of people around them, leading to a constant struggle to establish stability in their families and most importantly, to rehabilitate their own social well-being.

Drawing upon the natural and cultural attributes of the location to accentuate the process of healing of the mind, body and soul, the Centre’s design and program offers tranquil ambient spaces and places,

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whether in the courtrooms, consultation rooms or waiting areas that resonate with the Royal Botanic Gardens and views to Circular Quay. Rather than a closed form to the building, the building’s design aims to articulate a transparent quality of openness and outreach to the broader community. This aim is also explored in the rehabilitation of the heritage buildings, offering a second chance for these buildings with a revitalized program of community activities.

Rather than sending individuals to prison, giving those citizens who commit misdemeanours fuelled by socio-medical behaviours a second chance through the judiciary process of therapeutic justice, provides hope for their active transformation.

The aspiration of the Second Chance Justice Centre is to provide a setting in the city of Sydney to make this transformation possible. tt

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Vanessa Yu Email vanessayu@live.com.au Phone 0433 791 869

Re[new]able Justice Sustaining and demonstrating the interconnected well-being of citizens; culture; work and the environment is the focus of this low-carbon project proposal that celebrates Justice and its civic agency in the city of Sydney. In attending to the legal needs of NSW citizens, this project realises a progressive model of symbiosis between restorative and sustainable approaches to Justice.

The restorative approach to Justice underpins the program of this project, positioning the NSW Land and Environment court as the centrepiece. Incorporation of renewable infrastructure and considered assembly strategies promotes a composite structure that allows for contingency, flexibility and future adaption. Activating the multidisciplinary contributions of symbiotic systems, the Re[new]able Justice building aims to encourage a change in people’s behaviour as they experience the distinctive and multivalent sequenced settings within the building.

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Questioning the impact and footprint created by materials and construction demands a search for architectural design solutions for our urban environment that activate and foster an agency of care and amenity. This civic social building targets public policy entrepreneurship in order to bring the public and private sectors together for city well being.

With increasing global urbanization, it is vital to search for innovative techniques, services and technical systems in order to build tall buildings in a carbon neutral manner. Sparked by a worldwide interest in engineered timber high-rise buildings, the project builds upon current research, which presents an abundance of opportunities to restore our profession’s commitment to the global issue of sustainability through leadership and considered architectural design.

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Angel Yi Zhang Email angelzhangyi@gmail.com Phone 0432 243 642

Velvet justice - Ethos - topos - pathos - civilitas The timeless task of architecture is to create embodied existential metaphors that concretize and structure a person’s being in the world.

Architecture is the catalyst of a city’s transformation.

Located close to Sydney Cove and with its distinctive topography, the setting for this project is rich in memory and history with a heritage that reveals the discourse of vision and hardship involved in the making of Macquarie’s Sydney.

The Velvet Justice Centre is a project proposal that seeks healing resonances between the city and its citizens; the meaning of justice: and the phenomenology of architecture.

As a theme, ‘velvet justice’ involves the reconciliation between the intellectual aspect of judiciary system and the forgotten emotions of participants, introducing mindful caress into justice where the Justice Centre is a place that encourages public discourse, while recognizing individual differences in reconciling disputes. With

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attention to multi-judiciary civic agencies justice is activated through consultation, mediation, persuasion, participation and collaboration. With the building programed accordingly, associate community activities such as: Justice TV show, Library, Justice Exhibition, also anchor civic engagement with the city and its social institutions.

Velvet Justice is a reaction to the soulless urban context of cities; to evoke in citizens sensitivity, love and compassion within the multi-sensory experience of architecture through places of congregation, places of separation and places of interaction. Fittingly in a location of rich significance the architectural language of the Velvet Justice Centre is coherent yet dynamic, with attention to assembly methods, materials and fenestration.

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Student Reflection Dr Anuradha Chatterjee, Mark Szczerbicki and Lindsay Webb “ Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.”

- Plato, The Republic “ It is the humanity of others that inspire responsibility” - Carol Heimer “ Justice that love gives is a surrender; Justice that law gives is a punishment.”

- Mahatma Gandhi “ Justice is what love looks like in public.”

- Cornel West STUDNETS Ellie Gutman Jabez Ho Nicholas Kwok Hoong Ho Ethan King Mei-Ning Lin James Maroun Siren Meng Emiliano Miranda Mahroo Moosavi Cecelia Tao Jenny Tran Maggie Yong Wilfred Yong

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Ellie Gutman Email angelzhangyi@gmail.com Phone 0432 243 642

Fostering connections - People - place - justice The proposed justice precinct, located in the historic heart of Sydney’s CBD, incorporates addiction and mental health forums, a Royal Commission facility, judges chambers and public amenities and support services. The governing concept is ‘fostering connections’ between people, place and justice. My intention is to explore whether judicial architecture can meet the contemporary practice of justice towards a more democratic and user-oriented approach.

The design acknowledges the significance of the historic setting and the civic responsibility of the site. Historic buildings are revitalised through additional functions, improved access, light and ventilation. Public entry is facilitated through a permeable concourse that establishes connections between Phillip, Albert, and Macquarie Streets. This concourse provides opportunities

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for interaction as well as retreat. The new buildings respond to the materiality of the historic precinct as a means to foster a connection between Sydney’s rich history and its future.

Key elements of the design are the creation of public space and integration with the existing urban context, and flexible spaces to allow for a multiplicity of uses. The courtroom is reinterpreted as the Forum or ‘assembly, meeting place, and centre of judicial affairs. Unlike traditional law courts, the proposed forums are supportive spaces filled with natural light in which all participants enter as equals. In contrast to the traditional courthouse, physical segregation is minimal. The scheme accommodates diverse psychological needs through a user-oriented approach to encourage therapeutic jurisprudence over the long term.

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A. Sketch of Public Lobby; Light Enters Sandstone Base from above B. Section Through Public and Private Towers C. Concept Diagram of the Concourse

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Nicholas Kwok Hoong Ho Email honicholaskh@gmail.com Phone 0423 013 728

Centre of Forensics Justice The aim of this project is to create a Justice Precinct on our site, the course allows us to write and create our own program based on our research, and my research led me to create a brief with a program that incorporates the major forensics laboratories that will aid in a coroner’s investigation and a number of courtrooms for the coroner to hold inquisitions and forensics investigations.

At the same time, the site space also allows us to incorporate a therapeutic centre to support the people who have lost their loved ones and relieve the stress of the staff that will work here.

The site on the corner of Macquarie St and Albert St, is this project’s designated site, the Sir Stamford Hotel at Circular Quay is to be taken down to make way for the project, with the Health Building and

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the Justice and Police Museum is to be treated as a heritage listed building which have incorporated into the program, creating a Justice Precinct. The Museum is also included in one of the cultural hotspots in the Sydney 2030 strategy. The forensics labs, coroner’s court and the Justice and Police Museum acts as one to allow the coroner to convey the findings from the forensics labs the public.

The timber themed courtyard created between the main building and the health building works as a therapeutic garden for the people who lost their loved ones, to mourn and rest before entering the courthouse. The forensics labs block takes the form of a black and white floating mass, representing Justice and respect for the deceased.

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Yincheng Kang Email yinsen_kahn@yahoo.com Phone 0450 590 526

Edge of the City - Macquarie St. Courthouse Community Centre The image of the courthouse in society was of primary concern in the design of the building.

As matter of concerns, the program has to be broken into specific components to reduce the perceived footprint and to result in an appropriately scaled community touchstone.

The new courthouse, the existing heritage buildings and associated landscape re-establishes the city block, and creates a welcoming and digniďŹ ed presence for the courts within the city and its surrounding neighbourhoods. The integration of the ground plane of the building into the heritage has organized complex new program elements to help restore the integrity of the city block and urban neighbourhood in which it sits. The design

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of the building entrance draws the public into the space by creating a welcoming atmosphere and the glazed atrium has become a new civic space, visible from the outside while inviting the public inside.

The design, in its facades with vertical fin, curtain wall and solid concrete panel, attempts to create excellence in courthouse design that functions to the highest standard of the modern expression of justice and articulate the building’s functional purposes clearly, which has connected the contemporary city to its past and intimate a promising future.

The functional planning optimizes courthouse operations, and the clear organization allows visitors to intuitively orient themselves and navigate within the building and to move naturally among functions.

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Mei Ning Lin Email meining.lin@gmail.com

The Civic Icon In contemporary society, the balance of power between the public and government has shifted.

Issues such as marginalisation, equality, morality and ethics are gaining a stronger voice and momentum thereby creating a need to shed the attached outdated notions of power and authority. The underlying qualities of Justice iconography: purity, courage, self-governance, balance and truth are reflected in the proposed precinct through form and materiality in order to create an agency for Justice as well as an agency for the individual and the civic realm.

Two cylindrical towers on Macquarie Street and Albert street act as anchors, establishing the civic presence of the courts within Sydney as well as providing a consistent courtroom destination for way-finding. The circular form invites multiple users to be involved and heard in

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a setting which promotes respect and a balance of power, thereby subverting the status quo which segregates the Judiciary from the public.

The Justice Precinct promotes a connection with the natural environment outside (views of the harbour and the botanical gardens) and within (reflection pool and greenery throughout) to facilitate the psychological wellbeing of users in a highly stressful setting.

The Precinct aims to create a nurturing environment with its primary focus on therapeutic jurisprudence and restorative justice. This involves a holistic approach to the processes of justice, which includes mediation settings, specialised courts and support services located within the restored health building. Adaptive reuse of the heritage buildings on site promotes social and environmental sustainability.

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James Mark Maroun Email james.maroun@gmail.com Phone 0401 761 177

Justice Network At present, negative perceptions of the law and poor courthouse design constitute contemporary issues of insecurity and segregation within justice settings. Traditional typologies are linear, isolating the courtroom and making the people and processes of the law exclusive through hierarchical spatial arrangements. Through a re-organisation of these spatial relationships along a vertical axis, the design relocates the courtroom in a centralised cluster of spaces, celebrated in section as a space of cultural and political exchange. Using layering and juxtaposition to create deep spaces, the courtroom becomes an internal ‘courtyard’, allowing the individual to see through one domain into the next. This multilayering provides for an all-inclusive networking of spaces, whereby the courtroom serves as the interface of communication.

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Allowing people to see through the building and its layers, immerses the individual in space and connects them visually as a collaborator in the judicial process.

In doing so, the agency serves to empower people as a society, rather than demean; through architecture of place, heritage and humanity. A valid memory in the city skyline.

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Siren Xiangyu Meng Email Meng_siren1@hotmail.com Phone 0407 188 068

Justice and agency - Warm you up in the coldest part of life When the suffering taken places, what will you do? And where will you go?

Will the insight of life and the wisdom of humanity challenged? If a word “court “somehow snick into your life, we know that she or him is hoping you will be fine.

If here is the warmest sunshine in that room, will you sit under and pray? If there is the most peaceful moment while you listen, will you be moved and change?

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spatial perceptions. Aiming to create a place that helping users gaining more positive energy though the experience in the architecture. The gardens becomes the key aspects of the project, it once again play the role of the media that transforming the atmosphere which is created by the function of the place into a peaceful pleasant journey.

The Journey takes place once entered the site, the volume of grand garden is located though 3 levels, has become the gate of the experience, the relationship between the exterior and interior space is blurred, by the transparency as well as the direct and indirect connection between inside and outside.

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Emiliano Miranda Email emilianomirandaym@gmail.com Phone 0405 298 550 URL http://issuu.com/emilianomirandaymiranda/docs/academicportfolio

Customising Sustainability - Macquirie Street Justice Centre This project is an attempt to understand the term ‘sustainability’ as a dynamic concept, a concept that needs to morph and respond in different ways according to specific project conditions, instead of sustainability setting design and performance benchmarks, the project’s brief, location and typology will mould sustainability’s definition, that way the performance, character and spatial quality of the building will exponentiate its capacity as an agent of positive social, environmental cultural and economic impacts in a more holistic way.

The site and brief conditions presented in the project were a mix of complexities that needed diverse responses, three major focus points were spotted from which the project finds its foundations.

First the challenges of the typology - exploring technical performance of high rise buildings, second

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from an Eco-Cultural perspective, to understand the importance of Circular Quay and Macquirie Street as public and civic spaces respectively, and how to respond to this condition with 3 heritage listed buildings within the site; the concept of resilience is applied to ensure the conservation of historical buildings is understood not only as a physical concern, therefore make a careful intervention to connect these buildings to reinvigorate the site. Lastly analysing the social component of public buildings/ justice centres, exploring user dynamics and interactions to generate an environment where justice is enhanced by social unity, control of emotional intelligence and a collaborative working environment.

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Exploration of structural elements for maximisation of daylight.

Configuration of court rooms exploring biophilia for emotional control.

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Mahroo Moosavi Email mahroo.moosavi@gmail.com Phone 0451 799 107

Inhabiting the Edge The proposal is for a ‘Justice Centre’ building comprising ‘therapeutic’ justice settings of ‘Drug Court’, ‘Dust Diseases Tribunal’, ‘Medical Tribunal’ and dependant therapeutic functions.

The design breaks the building into two meanings of the ‘core’ and the ‘edge’. It considers the centre as a simplified block and the edge to place the courts and other primary spaces to hang off it.

The exterior of the building reflects a trend in public buildings to incorporate warm, natural materials with high performance facades. Limiting the number of materials used creates an air of simplicity, honesty and transparency, which

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is a characteristic of ‘Justice’ in a democratic society, while the sophistication of the design symbolizes the traditional sacred nature of that.

The modern aesthetics harmonize with the surrounding sandstone and red brick heritage materials. The terra cotta’s natural burnt red integrates to the historic texture of Macquarie Street while the glass curtain wall signifies transparency and openness between Justice and citizens.

People standing between the ‘centre’ and the ‘edge’ are offered a panoramic view of some of the most important places in Sydney history.

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Cecelia Tao Email ceceliatao@gmail.com Phone 0422 323 818

A Transparent Jurisprudence In order to restore and cultivate communal trust and understanding between society and our evolving justice system, current psychological and social barriers between isolated courthouses and their community must be broken. To implement this catalyst of change we must first look into our community, urban space and heritage to reinterpret these inherited memories along with the future aspirations of our city.

Proposed on a historic and culturally significant site a new multi-judicial centre attempts to address key social issues of the current justice system.

Through the centralisation of currently scattered courts (ICAC, Royal Commissions, Drug Court and Mental Health Court) and by promoting individual, communal and ecological wellbeing, a “one-stopshop” justice centre is produced. To re-familiarise the public with the typology of the courthouse,

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emphasis is on public and community spaces, urban connectivity and a public reconnection with the court.

To address the physical and psychological needs of the community, underlying concepts of “transparency”, “place-making” and “inclusion” are explored. By bringing pedestrians into the centre of the site an array of communal activities can occur, creating an adaptable social and cultural hub within the area. The use of bridges, allowing internal circulation visibility and layering of copper mesh in the façade, reinterprets current ideas of “transparency” in courthouse design and adds new dimensions to the site’s history as the material weathers. To satisfy psychological and ecological needs, natural elements, serviced by sustainable technology, are provided to create self-sufficient and therapeutic spaces that appeal to individual needs.

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Jenny Tran Email jennytranarchi@gmail.com Phone 0450 669 101 URL http://issuu.com/jennytran

Social justice hybrid We are living in an era where we have an abundant of information about the past and the present. This is particularly made evident when one walks through the Police and Justice Museum at Circular Quay.

It here where the public experiences decades of innumerable criminal incidences that is often sheltered from the public eye. Yet this museum shows how a simple artefact or image could tell a complex story for a whole range of people involved - from the victim, witnesses, offender and police to the lawyers, clerks, reporters and Magistrates.

By accident or by fate, the Museum becomes a testimony to the impact of crime and brutally reveals Sydney’s cultural and social problems.

The question proposed is what are we going to do with this information? Do we continue collecting and representing facts without processing the data and addressing Sydney’s social issues? Or is there an opportunity to change, to understand, to help, to give a chance to the society’s “outcasts“??

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According to the theory of natural law where certain rights or values are universally cognizable by virtue of human reason or human nature, the latter option is be more appealing. By proposing a drug rehabilitation center and a health retreat resort, an agency can occur which benefits all stakeholders and addresses restorative justice. Drug users need communities, and communities need rehabilitated drug abusers: rehabilitation is enjoined on society not simply by their needs or deficits, but by their strengths, assets and potential contribution. occur, creating an adaptable social and cultural hub within the area. The use of bridges, allowing internal circulation visibility and layering of copper mesh in the façade, reinterprets current ideas of “transparency” in courthouse design and adds new dimensions to the site’s history as the material weathers. To satisfy psychological and ecological needs, natural elements, serviced by sustainable technology, are provided to create self-sufficient and therapeutic spaces that appeal to individual needs.

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Siew Mun Maggie Yong Email maggie.smyong@gmail.com Phone 0451 799 107

Coronial re [in] form Courthouses are physical entities which symbolize justice and democracy , to serve and to empower the democratic civilization. However, the tendency of its setting to contain public with segregation and surveillance challenges its perceived fundamental role as a public and civic building. The proposed project challenges to reinvent justice precincts which encourage egalitarian and non-adversarial justice, to educate and to re-engage the public.

Coronial investigations are too often being assume as a ruthless and controversial processes by the public due to high media consumption. In actual fact, they are formally inquisitorial rather than adversarial, they are obliged to respect, protect and fulfill the human right of life.

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Throughout the investigation, effective communication is crucial to enable the appropriate implementations to be made and then to be able to reach out to the public to avoid any unnecessary deaths. Therefore, the proposed courthouse is synthesize with Forensic Labs and a Justice Community Centre to encourage and enhance communication between the coroner, the victims, family members, respective professionals, the police and the public. It is also a setting to heal and aid those who seeks justice, and to educate, striving to achieve a more approachable justice system for the public.

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Wilfred Yong Email wilfred@wydo.com.au Phone 0402 727 506 Phone www.wydo.com.au

Future Judicial Icon My design begins with the consideration of the community in creating an iconic setting set to increase the cultural value of the location. It utilises the principles of permeability, connectivity and legibility to integrate the local community into the site. This is done through the establishment of useful site links to create a widely accessible appreciation of the buildings along with vertical hanging gardens unique in this part of the city.

The expressive character of a singular sculptural form makes a civic gesture in the company of the commercial and heritage buildings surrounding it.

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environmental devices connected in an integrated network to achieve maximum efficiency. Interiors are composed to prioritise access to view and sunlight to allow uninterrupted vistas from the waiting areas.

The Justice Centre is representative of the democratic role of life as a public citizen that is fundamentally about engagement in civil debate.

Courtrooms are flexible open spaces suited to current proceedings as part of wider social, public, commercial, and government activity where the insulation of the legal elite and the public sphere is broken down. Court layout increases the visibility and audibility of proceedings for spectators, enabling the public to move from passive spectator to critical observers of adjudication.

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DR DIJANA ALIC AND JOHN DIMOPOULOS

Cultures on the Margins Designing Cultural Buildings in Suburban Sydney The Cultures on the Margins design studios focused on the architectural exploration of the capacity of buildings to represent the specific identities, be they cultural, ethnic or religious in a multicultural setting. Considering such buildings as important mediators between evolving and inserted dominant cultural forces, the studio projects engaged in the complex debates on the role of identity in architecture, in an around Sydney.

The students explored the existing and past community buildings that facilitated the establishment of ethnic and religious groups in various parts of metropolitan Sydney and mapped the emerging forces that are evolving in these areas.

These in-depth analyses of emergent needs allowed the students to draw upon knowledge and their understanding of the past, and reintegrate these needs through the architectural possibilities of the modern multicultural city.

The freedom to locate their own sites and to then explore, evaluate and construct their own briefs led to a wide range of design proposals. The projects present new ways of integrative thinking about the changing community and the way that architecture responds to that community.

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- Made in Fairfield - cultural incubator; - Education centre and market place in the suburb of Bonnyrigg.

- Numerous projects that address the role of sport in active community engagement; - Numerous projects that address the role of art as cultural mediator in migrant environments; - Soup kitchen and charitable centre, Zakat, in the ethnically mixed suburb of Auburn; - Rainbow crossing – a centre for the expression of sexual diversity; - Singing the songlines with the land and its people - an Aboriginal community cluster that attempts to educate through experience and; - A microbrewery that uses the act of making local beers, by locals, with local ingredients, to create a sense of identity through craft.

The proposed designs demonstrate the depth of the students’ engagement in contemporary urban debates on multiculturalism, intense contextual analysis between site and the psychology of site - and their implications on architectural process and production.

Student Reflection Dr Dijana Alic In a city that is as culturally rich as Sydney, Architecture is considered an important mediator between immigrant groups’, their cultures of origin and those of their new country. The aim of this studio was to explore the capacity of cultural buildings to represent specific identities, be they ethnic or religious, in relation to the statement that modern and contemporary cities are defined by globalisation.

Our initial task was to identify areas within greater Sydney that are rich in culture and steeped in immigrant history.

Once identified, we then examined the diverse communities in relation to their built form and urban fabric, including social clubs and religious buildings.

Through this examination, we gained an understanding of the intricacies of certain cultural groups and determined an appropriate direction for the future.

Important to all projects was the balance in representing various cultures and cultural heritage into the existing urban fabric.

Sydney’s population in comprised of a wide range of ethnic and religious groups, consequently, students derived

proposals of a varying nature to better facilitate the growing diversity present within our communities. Proposals ranged from culturally specific agendas through to multicultural arrangements, all addressing the needs of the community, paying particular attention to areas of conflicting and contradictory demands.

The projects bring varying forms of these cultures to the fore, including performing arts, sporting facilities, history, and celebration. At the heart of each project was the aim to mix cultural and ethnic lifestyles with that of local residents, and reinforce the word ‘community’.

STUDENTS Helen Chan Jansen Che Ryan Dharmansyah Nicole Dunbar Danielle Hynard Cissy Kang Alexander Lay Ximing Liang Ryan Murray Rebekah Palma Krishna Selvarajah Joon Shim

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Helen Wing Wa Chan Email h.c@live.com Phone 0437 508 897

Diminuendo - Softening the barrier in communication Set at West Ryde which is central to many large Chinese communities in Sydney, this architectural proposition was in response to the language barriers which they faced, both for the Chinese people who have been in Australia for generations who have forgotten or never learnt Chinese and for new Chinese migrants where English is their second language. According to a study conducted in the West Ryde area, almost 70% of migrants thought that language was the biggest issue when first arriving.

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language and music learning where overlap between the two exists mainly on the syntax and tonal aspects.

In the proposition, occupants of the music and language buildings are encouraged to interact and share knowledge through the placement of circulation and common space. Learning spaces for language and music are placed together to allow the spaces usually utilised for a specific function such as a music studio to be interchanged and used for its spatial and acoustic properties. A poetic approach was utilised to inspire the overall form and organisation of the design that linked the site to the proposed functions of language and music by using water cymatics – patterns and forms produced in water by sound vibrations.

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Jansen Che Email JansenChe@gmail.com Phone 0419 633 323

Youth Re:creation Youth Re:creation is a proposal for a community and sport centre in the suburb of Auburn. The youth centre not only provides facilities that allow for physical and social engagement of youth, but it also acts as social hub for the rest of the community.

Auburn has the largest percentage of people from non-English speaking backgrounds. It’s the most diverse LGA in the whole of Australia. Yet it is one of the most disadvantaged LGAs in NSW, it’s one of the poorest in greater Sydney and also holds some of the highest crime rates in NSW. The community had expressed a disconnection between the younger generation and older generation, and that there were tension between various cultural and ethnic groups.

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This project was inspired by my research on the positive impacts of active social engagement in local communities. I particularly wanted to focus on the youth, as there were areas in auburn which have up to 29% of disengaged youth, meaning that they are both unemployed and not attending school. Further to that, local crime statistics indicate that for many of the crimes committed, the most common offenders were males, aged 10-17.

Along with providing for a diverse range of physical activities, I believe that intensifying public use and active engagement with the community is vital for the success of the youth centre, as the ultimate goal is to integrate the youth into the society.

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Ryan Dharmansyah Email ryandharmansyah@gmail.com ryan@ministrylogdoc.com Phone 0434 391 202

Indonesian Square Indonesian square is situated in the quiet residential area that is located between main commercial blocks of Maroubra junction and Maroubra beach. The project is intended to create a new kind of public space that is able to re-activate the area and provide opportunities for social gatherings and encourage an active social interaction within the area.

A large central courtyard provides an ideal place for communal events to take place. It is intended to facilitate greater sharing of cultural knowledge, stimulate art and culture within city, creating

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sustainable lifestyle within multicultural society.

Located across the street from the Indonesian Consulate General office, the proposed design offers to provide an extension to the consulate activities especially in promoting Indonesian culture to the local society, providing a place that allows the locals to experience Indonesian culture.

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Nicole Dunbar Email nicole.unsw@gmail.com

Civic Unfolding The site will pay a tribute to the memory of the past history of the original Auburn Civic Theatre, thus providing a nostalgic theatrical anchor to the past which was steeped in creativity and social cohesion.

Exaggerated curvilinear lines interwoven into the design of the building provide this understated tribute to the Art Deco form of the previous Civic Theatre as well as providing a theatrical poetic presence to the street.

The interwoven curvilinear structure also symbolises the concept of a journey through the building; creating a feeling of adventure and excitement as one encounters different spaces. The programme is encompassed in the fluid structure of the building, this being a metaphor for the concept of Auburn’s cultures coming together under one roof.

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Each of the cultures in /auburn embraces their own unique way of story-telling, a common thread being oral story-telling, dance, puppetry, visual media. Such creative spaces provide connection points between all cultures, offering a linkage to their own past and traditions. This venue would facilitate a more creative educational learning experience through creative workshops for the children and youth of Auburn.

The building appears to float above the ground, providing space for outdoor civic cultural activities.

This also allows a welcoming gesture at the entrance in Queen Street, as well as pedestrian connection points to Park Road to the South-East and a connection to St. John’s Primary School.

The cantilevered extremities of the building also provide gesture/acknowledgement to St. John’s Church to the north-west; to the commercial district as well as a gesture to Park Road.

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Cissy Kang Email cissy.kang@gmail.com Phone 0412 798 562

The Edge in Flux The Edge in Flux proposes that the history of a suburb can be read through its urban fabric and that fixed building stock can remain relevant to rapidly changing communities. Fairfield City Centre presents diverse heritage in its transition from a 19th Century agricultural community to today’s eclectic mix of migrants. Fairfield’s potential to become a major future Western Sydney City Centre also simultaneously presents the challenge of how to densify city living and increase efficiency within the confines of its aging fabric.

The masterplan restores clarity to Fairfield’s historical layers by proposing 4 North-South axis which echo the city’s North-South development over time. The story of a suburb can be read through a continuous street edge as different building styles reflect the periods of major development and

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together reveal a narrative of the city’s expansion.

The axis provide a clear pathway through time while the point of arrival dictates how the story begins. Thereby the masterplan returns emphasis to arriving in the city’s historic centre by integrating all modes of transport in an underground hub.

The architectural proposal functions as the Northern gateway to the city. The program consists of a commercial perimeter and public centre with residential above and carparking below. The existing fabric is capable of accommodating the expansive program through the transformative street edge which fluctuates in response to street culture and movement patterns. In accordance with OMA’s essay ‘The Generic City’, 4 modes of dynamic experience are proposed; renewal, contradiction, expansion and interpretation.

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Alexander Lay Email mralexanderlay@gmail.com Phone 0424 973 254

Made In Fairfield Representation of culture in Fairfield exists in the margins of the ethnic makeup of its citizens. Culture in Fairfield exists in the repetition of traditional habits and practices. It lives in its ability to translate regional traditions from its country of origin across temporal and geographical contexts and is continually regenerated and redefined in this mutually affecting relationship between tradition and place.

This process of adaptation to a new environment proceeds with the intention of transforming ‘space’ into ‘place’. Within Fairfield, cultural structures are brought from their origin and transposed into the new context in order to create a sense of familiarity in everyday life. The result is a malleable process of adaptation that forms an intercultural identity.

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Fairfield’s large ‘unskilled’ and ‘unqualified’ community with the public street culture which exists in the interstitial public domain by providing an outlet for the expression of traditional artistry unrecognised by the census.

The Cultural Incubators occupy the urban byproduct in order to revitalise the street culture within the site and reveal the mutual relationship between spatial practices and cultural structures. It acts as a community curated shared workspace allowing community members to display to the public their artistry through markets analogous to the traditional Middle-Eastern bazaar and street culture of Asia where culture flourishes in the public domain.

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Ximing Liang Email xml_randy@hotmail.com Phone 0433 806 600

The Chinese element Contemporary Chinese Arts Facility in Parramatta The proposal of the Contemporary Chinese Arts Facility in Parramatta is conceived as a growing and lively laboratory of contemporary artistic and cultural practices. The complex accommodates in house artist’s residents and facilities for long term exhibitions and display.

Belonging vs. inhabiting The Lennox Bridge Car Park site is currently surrounded by the back of adjacent buildings and 3m walled edge limited its connection to the Parramatta riverfront. The introvert character of the site offers a comfortable setting for the Contemporary Chinese arts facility. I propose to transform the elements of Chinese garden (corridors, lounges, yards, etc.) and graft it onto the site with a contemporary layout featuring the garden experience. The idea of architecture mingles with nature allow landscape flow into the building, free the walled edge and create a more walkable riverfront. It also develops a sense of belonging and connectedness for the contemporary Chinese artists in Parramatta.

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To surprise, fun lies in the unseen Underlying the spatial organization of the building is Chinese concept of ‘bie you don tian.’… [Translate] Its main principle promotes gradual revealing of sights. The surprise is one of the main concepts behind the spatial organization of Chinese garden. Instead of a straightforward view, it reveals a mere fraction of the whole enchantment. The joy lies in the unseen.

Following a line of movement inside the arts facility, the visitor meets with points of views and always in unpredicted ways. The Chinese memory brings back by the carefully composed senses or space between the structure to create curious and playful atmosphere whilst hiding and revealing the elements of activities and landscape by which allow one to explore the beauty of the site at the same time relating the contemporary art experience with the Chinese architectural tradition.

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Ryan Murray Email ryan.murray@hotmail.com

Grass Roots “In my culture and my religion we preach tolerance and acceptance of all people, so it doesn’t matter what my neighbour believes in, I accept them, but we don’t talk very often.”

(A quote from a patron of the Bonnyrigg Turkish Mosque, when asked about interactions between the neighbouring Presbyterian Church and Buddhist Cultural Centre.)

Our urban surrounds can often tell us something of how we see ourselves, our neighbours and the way in which we interact with each other. “Grass Roots” is a multifunctional neighbourhood sports and recreation precinct. From the main football fields at its heart, to the gymnasium, auditorium, basketball courts and climbing wall, it is a site that is committed to sports

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and an active lifestyle. This is exemplified by the development of a large ten hectare parkland site, the re-invigoration of an existing creek and the creation of boardwalks and cycle paths which serve to link a series of recreational spaces throughout the town.

The “Grass Roots” project questions what it means to create a sports building within an Australian suburban context and proposes that a sporting facilities are able to provide a link to the community that allows for deeper and more meaningful community integration. How it may establish a culture and community through exercise and how it might unite the surrounding community in a common agenda, giving them a platform from which to interact and foster conversations and friendships.

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Rebekah Palma Email z3366182@zmail.unsw.edu.au

Collaborating Cultures Collaborating Cultures is a proposal for COFAs Western Sydney Campus. The proposal engages the traditional methods of crafts of the migrant cultures of Bonnyrigg to educate/inform/inspire contemporary objects created by COFA students.

This campus is a collaboration between the people of Bonnyrigg and the wider community with the aim of creating a place where people can gather and tell their stories through the subject of art.

Informed by four key design concepts, the design resonates with the surrounding suburban hinterland and addresses issues imposed by a disjointed community with no space to share.

Community Connections Areas for weekend markets and craft workshops have been created for use by the entire community to enable a connection that overcomes religious, ethnic, and social boundaries.

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Linking with Water Water is introduced to the site as an extension to a Fairfield City Council community scheme, Crossing Waters, encouraging people to use the site, reflect, and feel that they have a deeper connection to the site.

Building as Craft Spaces are created specifically for particular metal, wood, textile, ceramic and visual art and craft, and the building is itself a work of art.

Overcoming the Institution This building leaves behind the traditional institutional Architecture that would normally be applied to it and takes a new approach that will encourage the wider community to use the building with the overall aim of the proposal to bring the entire community of Bonnyrigg together.

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Krishna Yasodra Selvarajah Email yasodras@gmail.com Phone 0402 596 247

Accommodating charitable giving - Zakat Centre, Auburn Charitable giving or Zakat, (in Arabic) is one of the five pillars of Islam. Through mandatory practice of charitable giving, Muslims contribute to the community and improve the lives of those in need.

The practice allows believers to spiritually purify their earnings that are over what is required to provide the essential needs of a person or family.

The design of a Zakat Centre provides an opportunity to connect diverse communities in Auburn by showcasing the principle of charitable giving – a notion identified as being significant to people of all backgrounds. Central to the design is a soup kitchen which allows wide participation in the preparation and partaking of free or affordable wholesome meals – for Muslims and non-Muslims, and all walks of life. The building also accommodates other social and community needs such as extra curriculum education and counselling.

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The suburb of Auburn is recognised for its diversity, with the presence of large migrant groups (53 per cent of its residents are overseas born, while twenty per cent of the population of Auburn comes from a low income household). A strong Middle Eastern presence is evident in the area, in its demographic and built form – the biggest landmark of Auburn being the Auburn Gallipoli Mosque.

Run by the Gallipoli Mosque community, the Centre allows everyone to experience aspects of Turkish Islamic culture, functionally, by uniting people through food, charity, education and social interaction; and architecturally, through the spaces in the centre, which are an interpretation of principles of Islamic architecture.

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Joon Bom Shim Email jbshim88@gmail.com Phone 0432 773 732

Re-cycling Hub The proposed Re-Cycling Hub is aimed to revitalise and reactivate the existing street condition of Frenchs Forest. Warringah Road is the main connector between the residents to the business district yet the pedestrian link has not been properly addressed.

Re-cycling Hub aims to bring the culture of cycling and walking into a series of interweaving path and interactive programs in promoting the use of bicycles.

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The constant engagement of the walkers and cyclers to the internal programs shapes an environment where one is constantly aware of the surrounding activities. The idea of circulation has been dealt by a simple method of opening, closing and overlapping of elements along a continuous axis.

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Tibu Ninan Thomas Email tibu_thomas@hotmail.com Phone 0404 578 669

The Soul Retreat - “Where Cultures come to Heal�

All Cultures hail from different backgrounds and are unique in their own way. That being said, each of us function differently with respect to needs, wants and beliefs and having various aspects of physical, mental and spiritual levels and the pace at which all this is carried out. The idea was to create a space that enables these different cultures to come together, to form one entity as a whole. As a result, the concept of healing spaces came to mind, and a vision of bridging these cultural connections was formed. With the combination of open and closed spaces, public and private spaces and the use of water bodies to create a sense of serenity, the Soul Retreat aims at delivering an experience on a day to day basis that originate through a better understanding of space and

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boundaries between an individual and that space.

The site is located along the intersection of Bonnyrigg avenue and Bibby’s place and would house a retreat consisting of a main healing centre anchored down on either side by a water therapy zone and a therapy zone respectively, a reception block, a central meditation spot which is located in the middle of the site, equidistant from all other structures, a cottage complex for visitors to reside in from time to time and a commercial block having a gym and a restaurant. The principles of Vaastu Shastra have been incorporated in determining the location of each building on site in order to channelize positive energy.

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Davin Turner Email davinwturner@gmail.comv

Nurture Through Landscape - Re-interpreting Indigenous Justice The Indigenous population of Australia is currently over represented in our judicial system. Indigenous Australians are 12 times more likely to be exposed to the justice system than Non-Indigenous, despite only making up 3% of the population. The introduction of circle sentencing courts in 1997 offered an alternative. The program brought together the offenders, elders, victims, magistrate and lawyers to break the cycle of Indigenous law offending.

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providing a safer and less confronting environment in which offenders and victims can come together to tackle the underlying problems. Immersed within the landscape this building aims to work with the slope of the land, engaging the porosity of water by cutting through layers of history of the site.

Multiple points of entry are created, along with places to wait, place to pace and places of refuge.

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HyoJin Yoo Email hyojinjamieyoo@hotmail.com Phone 0452 229 277

Cinematheque: Centre for [Lost] Australian Films Australian Cinema is a very significant way to present and inherit Australian identity. Despite the fact that going to cinema is the most popular cultural activity in Sydney, there is an existing gap with the industry. The need for a public cultural building for cinema has grown where past, present and future of the Australian film can be shown at glance. In this context the city has the idea to offer a possibility for intercultural premises where you can expect a cultural network. Proposing ‘Cinematheque’ in Parramatta will enhance the diverse quality of urban life by offering communality experience for locals and support young emerging film makers to have a freedom to challenge their creativity to contribute to the development of industry. The intention of the project was to insert

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a new cultural venue to absorb usability of the existing car park on site and suggest new typology that could superimpose the new idea and image for Parramatta. Solid space is occupied with private activities for film makers and audience while the negative space remains open for public to access 24hours. Voyeuristic journey of the private space will stimulate production of information beyond consuming it. Cinematic experience is created by the optical movement throughout the space. The movement is triggered by the hints of the next space and promotes non-linear random access to the various scenes which demands visitors to search for a new understanding of the site based on their experience.

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Student Reflection John Dimopoulos Almost one third of Sydney inhabitants were born overseas, making it one of the most culturally diverse cities on earth. This studio was therefore incredibly appropriate. Being that cultures are so intrinsically varied, each student’s project is rather unique. We were encouraged to engage in multidisciplinary strategies to form a rounded understanding of our respective communities.

Having this base of knowledge, students were then able to make informed architectural decisions that congenially related to the needs of the culture in focus; such as site location and programmatic requirements, as well as how the architecture engages with its physical environment and local community.

I’m sure every student in this studio has learnt greatly about how to generate an emotional link between the history and importance of culture, and the way in which architecture can enhance and tangibly unite this with humanity.

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Matthew Argent Email argent.matthew@gmail.com Phone 0404 272 489

hortus conclusus A successful contemporary society is one where cultural diversity leads to social inclusion, where public spaces and events are the catalyst for people drawing closer together. This is true for Newtown.

The proposal takes hold of the old tram-sheds and looks to transform the site into a new creative district. Detaching the tram-shed off the ground plane allowed for a new public plaza below. This is a hybrid space, a mixture of several public programs that co-exist; exhibition openings, weekend markets and potential for an open air cinema/concert.

The public realm is treated as an extension of the street, integrated seamlessly into the existing fabric.

Disused garages along Railway Lane are inhabited, activating the lane as a vital link to Newtown Station.

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The original brick skin of the tram-sheds is kept intact to keep what is essentially familiar and recognisable. The skin however is transformed with depth, and inhabited with the more private elements of the program through successive eliminations; individual rooms/voids are carved out of a more solid brick volumetric expression.

Rising up off the public realm are the workshops, each held by their own artist residence, auditorium and ancillary spaces. These all operate as their own independent entities before spilling out onto the communal courtyard. It is here the canopy of the garden below is experienced and people come to sit together around its periphery.

‘Split’ from the world below, artists are able to reinterpret their own worlds beyond what their cultural ‘outline’ has taught them to be.

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Jocelyn Fu Email jclnffu@gmail.com Phone 0410 340 810

Brewing Culture in Homebush Brewing, cultivation and sharing beer provide a multifaceted insight into cultures throughout the world and through time. Derived from yeast culture, beer can bring different people together in different settings.

The project is a series of microbreweries run by a collection of brewers from various ethnic backgrounds. It includes an event space, studio, gallery and bars where people of all cultures can interact. This is a place where

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people can sample locally brewed beer with foreign flavours and begin a conversation.

The building takes the form of the brewing process with entities immersed and extracted. Circulation is meandering and a reflection of the migrant experience; liminal spaces bound by familiar places.

Located in Homebush, the project is at an intersection in Sydney where ethnic concentrations and the city meet halfway in a growing entertainment precinct of Inner Western Sydney.

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Jie Gao Email jie.gao@live.com.au Phone 0433 710 660

Children’s Palace The project explores the issue of how do the young immigrants, who grows up in Australia but still maintain their heritage language, cultural traditions and ethnic identity?

The place is the major neighbourhood intersection at Epping, surrounded by the complicated community structures. Children’s Palace investigates the second generations of Asian children who immigrated with their parents to Australia.

The aim of the project is to create a welcoming and fun environment where they can form trusted relationships, participate in community activities, and feel supported by peers and families. In the long term goal, children palace gives them the confidence and opportunities to return back to their homeland, to live or work.

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The core concept of Children’s Palace is based on the welfare of children in order to cultivate the innovative spirit and practical ability, with emphasis on the colourful mass cultural and educational activities.

The architectural program is to explore and express these ideals via the architectural expression of an integrative intervention. It divided into 4 key programs, science and technology, art and sport, through open studio spaces that emphasis centrality and individuality through meeting and sharing in a natural setting.

The architectural proposition is driven from the idea “place via purpose” and community through context. The purpose of the 4 programs allowed the building to separate into 4 towers, to achieve the individual function needs, environmental control, and architectural emotions.

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Sun Mi Kang Email smk0203@gmail.com Phone 0405 398 139

The Tempo One day the music died and lost in music legacy in Sydney. The independent music scene appears to be vanished in the glory days since it has been drifted apart from its popularity. However, there is still a hope to re-birth of live music scene to flourish through growing in the venues and people’s desire. In sync with the Sydney 2030 vision, the project seeks the possibility of creating a contemporary cultural precinct to revitalise Sydney’s independent music scene and boost the cultural diversity, supporting the improvement

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of integrated social and cultural experience. The site is located in the boundary of Leichhardt and Marrickville along the Parramatta Road. The aim is to create a cultural heart of music precinct by rejuvenating an urban wasteland of Parramatta Road into a vibrant and active cultural precinct in Sydney.

The live music theatre and the public square are blended into an urban playground, becoming a representative of what Parramatta Road makes a rich in diverse culture and creativity through music.

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Desmond Leung Email leungmanhin@hotmail.com

Singing the Songlines with the Land and its People For over 60,000 years, Aboriginal Australians have inhabited in the land of Australia. They have a strong spiritual connection to the land, through their rituals and beliefs of dreaming. With the arrival of the European’s colonization, the Aboriginal land right was forcefully taken by the new arrivers. Being evicted from their land, the Aboriginal population became a cultural group on the margin; their languages, rituals and traditions are endangered.

With aims to rebuild the Aboriginal culture and serve as a reconciliation medium, an Aboriginal Community Cluster is designed at Captain Cook’s Landing Place at Kurnell. The site marks the first chapter of conflicts between Aboriginal and colonial Australian, and is now a major site of reconciliation at the national level. I wish to provide an integrative spatial landscape that re-interprets the Aboriginal experience via modern technology and structure.

Ideas of temporality and infinite are explored parallel to a sense of family, continuity and belonging.

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Prior to visiting the cluster, visitors are encouraged to experience the liminal quality of the bushwalk entry, appreciate the spirituality of the site, and put themselves in the Aboriginal Australian’s perspective.

The cluster is protected by the surrounding landscape and a campfire place is anchored at the heart of the site. To the Aboriginal Australians, a campfire is a key element of their culture, where the stories and tradition are passed down to the youngsters. The pavilions are configured in relation to the campfire and the surrounding landscape, and a high degree of connection between the indoor and outdoor spaces is maintained.

The damage having already been done to the Aboriginal Australian, the project hopes cure the scars with a greater amount of sensitivity and respect.

Treasuring the Aboriginal heritage, Australia will complete their missing chapter of cultural diversity.

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David Lindaya Email davidlindaya@outlook.com Phone 0410 776 016 URL www.facebook.com/davidlindaya

Southeast Asia Contemporary This project explores how architecture, the union of contemporary art and food, may promote crosscultural engagement through the lens of Southeast Asia. The scheme is sited in Parramatta, a central hub for Sydney’s west where many migrant communities thrive. The aim was to bring together different nations of Southeast Asia, collectively house these cultures where boundaries may be blurred, and in the process provide a sense of cultural identity through insertion and ideas of placemaking. The building accommodates galleries, artist’s residencies, workshops and a food market.

Now and into the future, Parramatta is facing an onslaught of high-rise commercial development.

The design proposition is an ‘anti-tower’, to take all the money and greed of all the rich people and make a place for art, and to rub it in, make it Asian. To balance the vertical tower forms of power, a horizontal floating form was imagined that gave presence to

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an alternative way of seeing the landscape. The horizontal mass goes against the river, and what is left of the site is public space for food and gathering.

The building was angled to adjoining heritage buildings, and split in plan and section for tension and to reflect the riparian environment.

People circulate at the periphery to experience snapshots of the river and suburbs beyond, and filter into day-lit gallery spaces. The experience is that they move between worlds, like the migrant experience where home is neither here nor there.

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Dwiyasa Nugraha Putra Bin Rojis Email putrarojis@gmail.com Phone 0404 135 854

CMAC - Rehabilitate Cabramatta This is a final year project which focuses on the exploration to rehabilitate Cabramatta BASED ON a study on the historical evolution of the suburb coupled with investigations of present day culture. The suburb is not only a network for a variety of cultural communities; it is also a reflection on the fragmentation of society.

Due to diversity of cultures and difficulty in communication between people of different social background, cohesion becomes a problem.

The proposed design aims to MITIGATE THE RISING VIOLENCE IN CABBRAMATTA by taking advantage of its vibrant cultural community’s PHYSICAL INTERESTS. Through the introduction of martial arts philosophy, it seeks to emphasise, through NATURAL IDEAS OF SPIRIT AND DISCIPLINE, THAT RESPECT THROUGH A RE-FOCUSSING OF ENERGY, AND CONTROLLED AGGRESSION, CAN LEAD TO CALMER AND LESS INSECURE INDIVIDUALS.

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Martial arts is not about violence but using violence when necessary and exercising restrain.

Located along Dutton Lane, the project lies in the heart of Cabramatta’s commercial centre. The project aims to promote two cultural aspects which is the creation of a safer community from crime and by introducing mixed martial arts as a catalyst to the deal with the social issues. The design proposal aims to incorporate the demands of increasing connectivity while retaining the identity of Cabramatta. It promotes the idea of a building typology that IS ADAPTIVE AND FLUID and goes beyond form, focusing more on USER-END INTERACTIVITY AND EXPERIENCE. “Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, let it grow, BE LIKE WATER. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes a cup; put it in a teapot it becomes a teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. BE WATER, MY FRIEND”. Bruce Lee

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Felix Saw Email felixsaw@gmail.com Phone 0426 454 554 URL http://felixsaw.com

The Stoma - Herb Bank Stoma : an epidermal pore, present in large numbers in plant leaves, that controls the passage of gases into and out of a plant.

Cabramatta is one of the largest ethnic enclaves of Vietnamese people in the southern region of Sydney. Shortly after WWII and the Vietnam War, Australia abolished the White Australia Policy and opened its door to Vietnamese refugees. Within a mere 40 years, Cabramatta survived a series of socio-political issues which stemmed from the mass-migration of Vietnamese refugees, and now the Australian society at large have already embraced its vibrant and distinctive ethnic culture.

The scheme proposes a Herb Bank, highlighting the value of herbs in the commercial ventures of Cabramatta, which derives from the Vietnamese cultural root and ranges from culinary, medicinal, sacred and reflexology. The nexus of the proposal is a community nursery, where herbs and plants

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are gardened by the community as a collective effort. The community nursery will encourage visitors to learn, experience, and engage in the process of growing and nurturing herbs.

In addition to the nursery, spaces such as a community kitchen, herbarium, research lab and apothecary, complement the narrative of herb growing and their cultural significance to the Pan-Asian community. The scheme also proposes a sunken plaza which extends from the existing Freedom plaza, creating a bigger public space that restructures the existing traffic and pedestrian network system. By re-presenting traditional knowledge of the humble herb, Herb Bank aspires to mediate intergenerational differences and intercultural divisions between Cabramatta and Greater Sydney, cultivating interaction and communication.

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Najwa Tasin Email najwa.tasin@yahoo.com

Refugee Life Centre The total number of refugees globally has increased to 11.4 million refugees with a further 26 million internally displaced persons. In Australia, there are 1.1 refugees for every 1000 people. Recent cases of boat people have attracted media attention and have put both Australia and refugees in bad light. Refugees’ experience is the same with immigrants however they are forced to leave their place and they usually went through traumatic experiences before they arrived in Australia. Apart from establishing essentials, they would also try to establish their own ‘sense of place’.

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However it takes a long time for the refugees to assimilate due to the traumatic event that most of them went through. Before they are assimilated, the refugees are in ‘thirdspace’. They oscillate between different states, coming to rest within a form of hybrid identity. This is often the most confusing state and dangerous if they do not get proper help.

My proposal would explore the concept of ‘thirdspace’ or ‘in-between’ state of the refugees.

This centre would also serve as the ‘thirdspace’ for the refugees until they are properly settled down.

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William Hua Tran Email w.huatran@gmail.com URL whuatran.tumblr.com

Garden of Chinese Art The Garden of Chinese Art is an exploration of Chinese identity as it evolves expression and needs in Australia.

Australian born Chinese experience Chinese cultures through diaspora, giving them the unique position to be cultural mediators. The proposal looks to engage with the new generation of Australian Chinese and to rethink their place in the world through the making and exhibiting of visual arts.

Located in Parramatta along the river’s edge, the project is about bringing together Chinese and Australian cultures and a re-connection of the built environment through ideas of a series of landscape and spatial interventions.

An artist in residency program will invite a contemporary Chinese artist to live and work with the local community and local artists as a means of cultural exchange.

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This will provide opportunities for local artist to learn and share thoughts on contemporary Chinese cultures through the making of art.

The act of making art thus becomes a critique on living Chinese cultures in Australia.

The proposed gallery challenges the traditional ‘white cube’ gallery by breaking it and offering new spaces for public art that is reconnected with its context.

Inspired by traditional Chinese Gardens, the Garden of Chinese Art becomes a new public urban space that connects the city to the river.

Visitors travelling through the gardens are granted vistas of the Parramatta River and also offer spaces that engage with the river. Through this journey, art is experienced and mediated in a context that introduces a new typology of art space.

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Pouwel Wind Email pouwel.wind@gmail.com

Anti-Babel In Sydney’s South-West, Fairfield is set to emerge as a new centre among the ever expanding sprawl of the suburbs. With increased population comes an increased need for public amenity, especially in relation to transport and safe and useable public spaces. This scheme for a new cultural and transport precinct is sited in the heart of Fairfield at the train station site.

The train line currently bisects the city centre.

Pedestrian links across the railway are scarce and unsafe. The new scheme for this precinct addresses this problem by allowing the ground plane to pass under the railway line by excavating away large areas of the site, and creating a new rail-bridge to allow trains to pass over the altered ground plane. This bridge is the only built element on the site and accommodates various programs

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while allowing the land around it to become a large park. The city centre is no longer divided.

The programs that occupy the precinct relate back to the demography and history of Fairfield itself: to its condition as a concentration of different cultures, and its past of market gardening and agriculture. A new fresh produce market, places to cook and eat, areas to grow and learn about growing are all woven through the park that passes beneath the new rail-bridge. The concrete arches of the bridge interact with the landscape in different ways providing passage, shelter, places to gather or perform, and a large area for markets.

Food is celebrated in the fullest sense, from seed to mouth, and becomes a unifying element in an extremely diverse environment: an Anti-Babel.

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Derek Wong Email dlsw2221@hotmail.com Phone 0404 182 889

Coexisting in nature A Nature and Environmental Educational Centre within the Georges River National Park. Characterised by the Georges River and its natural surroundings, the Georges River National Park has long served the local and wider community as a place of gathering, relaxing and recreation. However, remarkably absent from the usual perception of park visitors, is the most pristine and beautiful natural bush land of the area that has become a mere scenic backdrop to the river.

Addressing this directly, the proposal is to recasting a spotlight on the area by inviting the local, and more broadly, the international community to experience and reflect upon the landscape in new ways and contexts, across multiple platforms – gallery, exhibitions, performance projects, education and public programs. The design restates the importance of nature and culture as being not mutually exclusive, but interrelated and reliant upon each other. The response is to insert

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new and revitalised connections between the land, water and its people in order to provoke reflection in order to consider our interconnectedness, our individual histories and our shared future.

Home to diverse cultural demographics including large and established Asian and Middle Eastern communities, the nature of changing demographic requires continual strategic considerations for cultural exchange in order to deal with the diversity of social and cultural practises that the community engages with. Examining our contemporary relationships with river systems through contemporary art creates a new platform that helps us to raise new questions about how we can sustainably manage these dynamic and changing landscapes in which culture and nature are intertwined.

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Josh Wrathall Email joshies@gmail.com Phone 0433 123 801 URL http://www.linkedin.com/in/joshwrathall

Rainbow Crossing – A Centre for the Expression of Sexual Diversity The perception of there being hetero or homonormative regions segregates people of different sexual orientations, which leads to struggles with identity and fitting in, contributing to 30% of all youth suicides being related to sexual identity.

Central Barangaroo’s 50 years as a concrete slab renders it rather sexually neutral. This lends itself as a perfect site for an all-inclusive Centre for the Expression of Sexual Diversity, to showcase the talent of Sydney artists and performers in an unprejudiced environment.

The main lineal structural form echoes the long ships that previously docked there, as well as being a recreated bridge, linking pedestrians safely and efficiently from High Street over Hickson Road to Central Barangaroo, while also giving commuters an opportunity to engage in the Centre’s programs and the coastal beauty of Sydney’s working harbour.

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as ‘blobs’ to make a dynamic and fluid interior and proudly integrate with the rigid structural expression.

These ‘blobs’ are linked by angled footbridges and respectively encase a performance theatre, art gallery and exhibition space – programs conducive to individual artistic expression. The column-free 24/7 space flexibly caters for public dining and socialisation, as well as space for larger public exhibitions. A steel mesh facade blurs the lines between what is an enclosed and outdoor space, also preventing the need for air-conditioning. The roof slab is a grassed viewing platform, where the public experience the ‘blobs’ emerge from below.

The ground level contains artificial grass mounds to create interesting glimpses and experiences with the building’s underbelly, and to maintain a smoother walking transition to parts of Barangaroo.

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Avalon SLC

Architecture on the Edge

Avalon Beach on the northern fringes of Sydney is a quintessential Australian coastal suburb where life revolves around the local school,the shops and the beach.The Surf life Saving Club is the hub of community activity for the residents in their leisure time. Part of a distinctly Australian tradition surf life saving has been around ever since bathing in the sea became legal 100 years ago. Nearly every habitable beach in Australia has some form of surf life saving club.

The current club house at Avalon was built in the 1940’s is located on the beach surrounded by a vegetated sand dune. Unlike most beach suburbs, development has been excluded from the dune retaining a large area of natural vegetation and the original topography for the entire length of the beach. The current building is in poor condition and does not meet the needs of the community.

The studio aims to develop an architectural proposal for the site that reflects current Australian conditions ,customs and history .In particular a contemporary response to the extreme environmental conditions and visual prominence the SLC has to the beach. The studio will be seeking innovative solutions grounded in a deep appreciation of the place ,the importance and needs of the community as reflected in the traditions of the surf life saving movement. These often conflicting expectations will need to be interwoven with the fragile beach environment.

The studio encourages critical thought with a focus on the process of making in particular the use of physical models as the tools of study, along with sketch book drawing and highly resolved 3 dimensional presentations with a rigorous and demanding weekly schedule to hone the students skills as thinkers, designers and presenters.

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Student Reflection Avalon SLSC studio began with an in depth study of the site to grasp a knowledgeable understanding of the place, the environment, the community and The Surf Life Saving Club. This allowed us to challenge the brief and go beyond the programmatic and functional needs, testing innovative ideas whilst being mindful of the fragile beach environment, and most importantly appearing and feeling as if our solutions were growing from the site and belonged in its environment of rugged cliff face, sand dunes and crashing waves.

Throughout the year we have been encouraged to communicate and test our ideas through physical models and hand sketching whilst learning to think critically about our projects and develop a level of craftsmanship which has allowed us all to exceed the standard of any design project we have done prior and finish our 5 years of education on a high as well as move forward into our careers with a passion for thinking through making and drawing.

In semester two we integrated this holistic approach and range of ideas into architectural solutions and were pushed to focus on its relationship to site, practicality in terms of spatial arrangement, sequence, human experience, atmosphere, building materiality as well as construction.

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Hu Chengyuan Charlotte Francis Ella Lilley Gasteiger Jin Chen Lee Jesselyn Lim Xiaoqian Liu Ye Peili John Toth

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Angelithin Email angelithin@gmail.com Phone 0425 888 018 URL http://issuu.com/angelithinang

Liquid Stone “The aim of architecture is always the creation of an environment where the logic of nature and the logic of architecture are in fierce conflict yet coexist.” – Tadao Ando The sea, mountain, and sky; those are the three essence portraying Avalon landscape. In a site where closeness to nature is treasured, a responsive design is significant. So as not to take over the beach, the designed structures are buried under the hill and sand dune. The natural flowing building form inspired by the landscape gives an intimate and visceral connection to the people who inhabit them with the site amidst which they sit. The natural form is taken further as sculptural elements at both the exterior and interior. Seen in the landscape, the slit window opening and continuous skylight wall sculpt the hill into a piece of art. At night, they will illuminate the otherwise unlit suburban sky and become a whole different piece of light installation.

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While in the inside, curved ceilings and sculptural detailing give life to the design. Experience of the building is enhanced by design directed movement through a flowing journey starting from the foot of the hill and finishing at the hill top. Through framed window, rising wall and sculptural three dimensional space, visitors will not just come into contact with nature but actually be subsumed by it as they walk through it, evoking their emotion and self reflection.

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Henry Zhihao Chen Email zh.henry.chen@gmail.com Phone 0405 307 167

Journey on Avalon My design is focusing on the experience of people.

All space is connected by one pathway, all functions are linked by it like beads on a string. However tourists and local residents will be directed to the beach by a wider set of stairs, all functions for them such as cafe and public change rooms will locate close to beach with easy access. Club functions will be sitting on the cliff with a separated entrance from Surfside Ave. A long corridor hidden in the cliff with both end marked by small courtyards is created to connect the club area with public area.

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point, your view will be opened, the lovely scenery of Avalon Beach will suddenly jump in front of your eyes, such a contrast is created to enrich people’s experience. Small courtyards can be found along the journey to break it down into several parts also as a method for letting in more natural light. Skylight and sidelight are introduced for the same purpose and to created more interesting visual features. Locations of the building blocks are following the cliff all the way up to the top to create an ascending feeling; when be seen from beach level, building blocks will be overlapping each other with a seemingly high building density which form a village-like building complex.

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Yu Zheng Chiew Email yz1stcoy@hotmail.com Phone 0404 151 445

New Avalon Surf Life Saving Club The design intent looks at the robust and sturdy characteristic of the rock cliff. The rock cliff is an element that is outstanding and noticeable but at the same time sits in well with the surrounding site. Studying the erosion pattern of the rock cliff it creates horizontal pattern and the cracks and slits seem to create opportunities to fit things in.

The erosion pattern causes rock to crack and split which also creates a pathway in between, which in turn can become the potential of being link ways and entries in the club house. From these cracks, it reflects to as being horizontal elements to the building with variations in height, angle and shape to give a sense of the openings being part of the building. Floor slabs and walls

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are recessed and angled to create a hierarchy of horizontal layers to give depth to the building.

To acknowledge the natural headland and integrate with the surrounding landscape as the idea is to preserve the permanence of landscapes and link to the characteristic feature of the area.

Using a language from the movement and erosion of water to the rock, Avalon SLSC has been eroded and generating a sequence of spaces which is carved from the intertwining of architecture and nature. Continuity of spaces makes it a suitable place for any form of movement and activities and providing intersection between public and private spaces. Pathways and ramps overlap and connect in order to create a dynamic and interactive space.

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Charlotte Francis Email charlotte.a.francis@googlemail.com

Avalon Surf Life Saving Club Avalon Beach, a contemporary piazza for a quintessential Australian society, has been historically recognized as the ‘Ultimate Escapists Fantasy,’ a refuge for the talented and eccentric. The new Avalon Surf Life Saving Club requires a solution that not only protects the community it serves but also embraces and celebrates the ocean and the act of public bathing in Australia. Extending the possibilities of the proposed club as a public ocean bath house in turn acts as an extension of the true existence of Avalon.

A place that, whilst nestled in the cliff, stands the test of time, where it becomes impossible to distinguish between life and architecture in a complex of interconnected caves and caverns. The Ocean Bath House is a place of discovery and imagination creating an extended ritual for beach goers, a

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place to rejuvenate and become in tune with the sensual experience of Avalon’s raw natural beauty.

The concept of an Ocean Cathedral: a place that truly celebrates water, and a community that relishes the ocean an inherent part of their minds and souls.

‘Stepping into another existence’: a place between architecture and landscape, a sensuous escape that attempts to capture the true essence of the Australian beach, living alongside nature embedded within nature. The water dreaming bathhouse becomes a cherished dream and relics of a slower existence connecting the past and present with the future.

‘An escape from the emotional and intellectual tyranny of the visual landscape.’

Avalon Beach returns to its Bohemian roots.

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Dominique Hill Email domh5254@gmail.com Phone 0450 014 409

The Dune Avalon Beach has long been known for its earthy and eccentric nature, being named after the medieval Avalon, which was described as an ‘earthly paradise’.

The aim for the SLSC at Avalon was to provide a backdrop for public life, to enhance and enrich daily life and the simple presence of the beach. It achieves this by instilling an innovative and minimal approach grounded in a deep appreciation of the place, the importance and needs of the community as reflected in the traditions of the surf lifesaving movement. There is simplicity in the design that will allow the structure to be constructed using the natural topography, mimicking the organic fluidity of the dune.

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having a minimal impact on the fragile ecosystem through sustainable design. By embedding the surf club into the edge of the dune the scale is reduced to allow for a stronger sense of growth from the place. The long linear form that wraps around the dune is designed so that the building depth in most parts reaches only seven meters to allow natural light to fill the individual spaces.

The transition between the exterior and interior of the surf club is accomplished by the design of the façade. The transparency between building and beach is built through the deconstruction of the façade. The organic and fluid membrane takes shape under the effect of the sand dune above.

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Chengyuan HU Email chengyuanhu1214@gmail.com Phone 0424 589 283

Revitalizing Avalon Beach What attracts me the most of Avalon Beach is the steadily rising cliff next to it. My concept is to make the building unfold from the landscape rather than impose it on the site. This design is also focusing on creating a rare experience for people, by the way of introducing human activities into the cliff.

This design aims to achieve the balance by harmonizing the clubhouse and the nature. The open ground between the sand dune and the cliff on the south end of the site is a significant feature.

The strategy is to place the major building block of the SLSC on the cliff, maintain the open ground for outdoor human activities and to preserve as many natural elements of the site as possible. Most

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spaces are to facing north where the sun rises. In order to prevent spaces from overheating, sliding windows and louvers would be used, and narrow skylights would provide brighter internal spaces.

The new SLSC is intended to be not only a building for surf lifesaving, but also to provide for local residents in general. The clubhouse is an iconic landmark along the cliff area with the concept of turning open based on a central traffic core. The core space is treated as Central meeting point with a light well on the top.

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Jin Chen Lee Email jinchen_ljc@hotmail.com Phone 0430 370 394

Between Heaven and Earth “Art (and by extension architecture) must have begun with nature itself, as a relationship between the human being and nature, from which we cannot be separated.” – Carlos Marti Aris.

Avalon is in a bohemian suburb with a unique beach framed by two headlands to its north and south and a sand dune along its western side. The new surf life saving club, while required to be very functional, tries to embrace these natural features and attempts to bring out the grace and excitement of being by the edge of the Pacific Ocean.

Inspired by the stratification and texture of the rock cliffs, the building nestles into the Southern rocks, hiding the bulk of the building from the landscape,

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while protecting it from the harsh environment.

Following the topography, it wraps around and up the cliff, appearing as a small crack in the cliff an extension of the sandstone layer from beyond the site.

Spaces punctured rhythmically by sculpted skylights, coupling with framed views across the horizon, evoke the experience of being between sky and earth. Walking along the building, visitors are constantly teased with views beyond. The informal auditorium at the top of the cliff rewards visitors with carefully framed view towards the northern headland, and hopefully allows them to leave with a renewed experience and appreciation of the site.

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Ella Lilley-Gasteiger Email ellalilley.g@gmail.com Phone 0410 977 759

Between Humans and Nature: Avalon Surf Life Saving Club Avalon, ‘an earthly paradise’, has long been an inspiration for artists, architects and like-minded thinkers whose work expresses its whimsical past as a bohemian haven where the human connection to nature was paramount. The rich historical foundation of the site coupled with the iconic Australian establishment of Surf Life Saving, sees the new club blurring the edge between members and the public, the beach and Avalon village and strengthening the relationship between humans and nature.

Inherent to the site are themes of movement; a coming together of the club, community and public and the striking natural features of the place. Visitors to the SLSC are drawn into the existing flow of circulation and frenetic energy, through a building that filters and funnels people through the site. Conceived in two parts, the main club building tunnels into the protective hill of the Southern headland and flows out in a sweeping motion towards the dune which

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houses storage and the surveillance tower. This coming together of two site conditions speaks not only of a physical necessity to be sheltered from the elements, but is an expression of the uniting potential that a SLSC has within its community. To celebrate both the narrative of movement across the site and the existing lay of the land, a play of light and shadow has been articulated whereby spaces deep within the hill are moody and top-lit, becoming gradually lighter, brighter and more open as one moves away from the solidity of the Southern headland.

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Jesselyn Lim Email jesselyn.lim89@gmail.com Phone 0468 863 310

New avalon slsc The proposed design of the new Surf Life Saving Club was inspired by the sweeping views of the beach and its natural elements: headlands, sandstone cliffs and natural sand dunes. These elements can be said to be too overwhelming when left ‘in the open’: thus, the idea of framing.

Each space frames a view uniquely, and each space is encased within its own frame, creating a visual link between the building and the site.

In an attempt to break off from the ‘traditional’ club typology, the new club is designed as individual pavilions, linked to each other by pathways. These individual pavilions become sculptural elements on the site that sits comfortably along the cliff and the beach. Each pavilion is made up of a heavy concrete frame, reflecting the solidity of the sandstone cliff, with beautifully crafted timber structures within

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the frame. These timber structures are ‘viewing boxes’ aligned to the northern views of the beach, allowing the spaces to be open to natural sunlight and beautiful views of Avalon Beach while being protected from the harsh climate of the site.

This deliberate design allows people to enjoy the natural beauty of the beach, sea, sand and open space in between each pavilion. As the pavilions move down towards the beach, its materiality changes from heavy exposed concrete to light timber frames, blending in with the softness of the beachscape.

The concrete frames blend well into the sandstone cliffs and will also withstand the weather for years to come. In contrast, the timber structures create a tropical paradise for surfers and beach goers and will age beautifully and gracefully with the landscape.

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Xiaoqian Liu Email momodaily69@gmail.com Phone 0420 528 869

A Communicative Landscape @ Avalon Beach Research into the history, culture and environment of Avalon led to my aim of creating a new surf life saving club as a community hub integrated with the surrounding landscape.

The proposed building follows the contours of the site and is attached to the north side of the cliff for natural protection. The wall height at the Westernentrance raises gradually from the ground level, leading people to flow into the building and making the building seem growing

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from the earth, be part of Avalon Beach.

The massing of the proposed building is divided into two parts to minimise environmental impact and to form a central gathering place. To enhance the connection between the building and outdoor activity area, the boundary between interior and exterior is blurred by utilising folding doors, so that the building can be fully opened up

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Stefania Petridou Email s_petrides@yahoo.gr

Objects in an evolving landscape This scheme is an investigation into the potential for architecture at an ‘edge condition.’ This specific site provided an opportunity to develop a building or series of structures that could engage with the unique spatial qualities of a highly specific context with a transient quality.

Instead of creating a singular building I have fragmented and scattered the brief amongst the site to create a collection of spaces. I refer to the buildings as ‘Sculptural objects in an evolving landscape.’ A submerged sequence of spaces which play with ideas of body/space relationships, and sight lines, whilst deploying light, shade and texture.

The buildings act as objects and spaces, gathering energy through nature’s and people’s constant fluid movement. They provide a refuge from the harsh elements whilst enabling them

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to remain immersed with the landscape.

The vocabulary is of a steel frame and taut corten metal skin. Acting like a “ribbon,” the corten skin wraps around the spaces as a hard protective shell.

It acquires a patina as people use it; changing it over time in parallel to natures constant change.

The aim has been to heighten an awareness of natural cycles and of the fragile beauty of this landscape with Avalon’s well being at the heart of a community. These three fragments come together in harmony to provide an exciting and intriguing intervention. There is an expression of solidity and permeability throughout emphasizing porosity and that the ‘The beach belongs to everyone.’ There become spaces of reflection, of memory,and simply a space with a view to the sea.

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Christopher Thorp Email cthorp@gmail.com

Avalon Dunes Ecological Park and S.L.S.C Since its inception, the suburb of Avalon has been the focus of two seemingly divergent philosophies; that of the developer and the conservationist. Plans for the redevelopment of the Avalon S.L.S.C . sparked a flood of community opposition when first revealed and over the years the project emerged as a manifestation of the two opposed philosophies at the heart of development in Avalon.

Avalon Dunes Ecological Park and S.L.S.C seeks to reconcile these two groups by overcoming the false dichotomy between landscape and architecture.

Rejecting the traditional modernist notion of an object building that sits discretely on the land and instead manipulating the ground to fuse building and landscape. The integration of built form with

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land form allows for a greater area of restored plant communities reinvigorating local ecology with new habitat. A typical conservationist approach creates “untouched� naturalistic reserves that deny any history of human occupation and propagate the illusion of virgin landscapes. Avalon Dunes Ecological Park and S.L.S.C acknowledges the history of human interventions at the site and uses it as a catalyst for ecologically minded creativity and events, enabling the greater site to be a valuable resource for the community as well as the environment.

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Johnny Toth Email jonnitoth@gmail.com Phone 0419 112 723

Silhouettes of the Surf A surfer seeks to hide in the glass tunnel of a barrel wave.

A local seeks for a moment of reflection as she gazes towards the horizon above the waves, whilst taking a sip from her coffee in the shade of the pines. A lifeguard seeks for any persons within a strong current or potential rip.A lifesaver returns a surfboard to the store. A child seeks to find a pretty stone along the ‘Hole in the Wall’.

Stones hide in a gabion basket.

They are free but contained within a place, within a wall.Along edges that channel into a sunlit courtyard with a perspective facing out to the ocean. The sharp edges of in-situ concrete walls are hidden.

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The Avalon SLC seeks to hide too, just as the people that enjoy Avalon Beach, hide or seek something in some way. They become the silhouettes of the surf.

“No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it.” - Frank Lloyd Wright The undeveloped grass hill presented an opportunity to hide the Avalon SLC. Protected from the strong southerly, camouflaged behind the Norfolk Pines, whilst maintaining a northern aspect, it became the ideal hiding spot. Natural protection & outward visibility of the landscape were the qualities my player seeked. But the primary motive was a minimal disclosure in this beautiful place.

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Peili Ye Email renata_ypl@hotmail.com Phone 0430 865 928

Promenade on the beach The Surf Lifesaving Club of Avalon beach calls for a community venue that incorporates recreational, educational and sporting facilities. The general intention is to facilitate community activities and to stimulate activities on the beach. There is also an intention for the new building to be use for And introducing the culture of surf lifesaving to visitors.

The design proposes a promenade platform for beach lovers. The use of ramps creating the experience of walking on top of building, which allows people move freely around the site without disturbing visual connection. And also it encourages people and buildings interaction through different transition of outdoor and indoor spaces. The zigzag movement creates a euphoric effect for one to experience a heightened emotion for arriving beach.

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The new proposal of the project is to enhance the connection of the activities and facilities around the site; to create the transition from town centre to the beach nature; to integrate people with the building and site through different ways of interaction; and also to minimize impact on the site landscape in order to achieve harmony with the site context, responding to the site elements such as wave, cliff, sand dune, sand‌ making building as an open and welcoming environment for all.

The location of building is designed according to the solar access, and for wind protection, aiming at providing good surveillance and lifesaving access or facilities.

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The Graduation Design Studio tackled an amalgam of two sites: the Menzies Hotel, incorporating the Wynyard Railway Interchange and the neighbouring heritage listed Shell House. Situated in the centre of Sydney’s main pedestrian and vehicular artery of George Street, it may be argued that the site’s most significant asset is and will continue to be its function as the city’s most vital public transport interchange.

The premise for this studio is urban complexity and connectivity, which aims to conceptualize, question, and clarify the relationship between living habitats, transportation, and work. Students were asked to re-imagine the autonomous vertical tower typology as a piece of hybrid infrastructure vital for the effective movement of people, goods and services throughout the city.

Coupled with the philosophical exploration of high density development, students were also required to consider the technical complexities of high rise construction and the complex urban fabric established by the presence of the Wynyard Railway Station.

Through a process of self-directed field work, directed reading and in house tutorials, students defined a working design proposal unique to their own line of research. Following these investigations, students prepared a series of high rise and transport propositions, underpinned by technical inputs from a number of expert services consultants.

The completed proposals by the students are a culmination of two semester’s work. They demonstrate a sound synthesis between the challenges of designing a well resolved high rise development and the ambition to remake and reinvent a key part of the city into a landmark worthy of its importance within the city.

Student Reflection The project provided a multitude of design issues that became increasingly more complicated as the site was uncovered over the course of the studio project. The scale of such a large urban design problem created a variety of issues at both the master-planning level of a city precinct to the intricate detailing level of high-rise buildings. The diversity of the hybrid schemes produced, ranging between civic, commercial, tertiary, residential, hospitality and infrastructure, are a testament to the complex nature designing tall buildings in the Sydney CBD. The studio also offered various opportunities to interact with industry professionals, such as structural and mechanical engineers, ESD consultants, lifting service and facade consultants.

This encouraged a valuable and engaging design process and a greater appreciation for uniting the technical requirements of high-rise buildings with the architectural intent of each student’s proposal.

The large body of work developed by each student reflects a level of richness and quality attainable in an intensive and collaborative studio atmosphere shared between the university studios and the offices of Architectus.

STUDENTS Tanisha Ameen Jun Wai Chai Terrence Chau Jun Jie Chia Kevin Hanurata Wei Heng Chin Zhen Xun Chin Alvin Prathama Kevin Mak Kelvin Ng Sarrah Mae del los Santos Thu Zaw

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Tanisha Ameen Email tanisha15@hotmail.com Phone 0423 658 249

1 Carrington - Agile workspace tower The site is located at the heart of Sydney CBD, positioned between George and Carrington street, making the tower a prominent addition to the Sydney skyline. The proposed project is a critique and re-work of the exposing site. It encompasses various pedestrian and public transportation networks criss-crossing the site, incorporating retail, social and commercial aspects. The urban gesture in this project proposal is to envision a new commercial tower elevated above the ground plane allowing a once constricted site to function as a porous and free flowing ground plane .

The tower features a series of curved floor plates and a rounded atrium in the centre of the building, which not only visually connects people but also allows natural light and ventilation into the darkest areas of the site. The cores are placed on the south end, leaving an open and flexible floor plate capable of sustaining multiple workplace configurations. Stairs

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connecting each floor make these floor plates flexible, allowing tenants to make agile or typical work spaces.

The building features a number of Ecologically Sustainable Design initiatives which include the use of a double skin faรงade, which encases the entirety of the building and features automated blinds to reduce glare within workspaces. Above and below each faรงade panels, slotted openings control the flow of air from the cavity allowing air heated by the sun to escape, thereby reducing heat gain to workspaces, while allowing natural light into the building creating a vibrant and well-lit work environment. Additionally, triple height winter gardens situated in the north side of the building aid in the flow of fresh air through the atrium and office spaces, providing pleasant green break out spaces for workers to enjoy.

The smooth faced exterior provides the building a seamless and transparent finish, which is in contrast to its neighbouring towers in and around the precinct.

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Jun Wai Chai Email junwai89@gmail.com Phone 0401 766 626

1 Carrington - PERMEABLE LIVING GROUND PLANE Situated above a transportation hub, the project helps to realign and liberate the ground plane in order to celebrate a new sense of the urban ‘connectivity and dynamism’ of Wynyard Station between the existing urban condition and the new addition of Barangaroo & Wynyard Walk.

PODIUM The podium level includes a mixture of commercial entities such as premium grade offices, boutique offices and retail shops that responds to the significance of the area as a part of Sydney’s CBD. It pursues the preservation of character of George Street and Carrington Street by articulating the elevation with a series of recessed and extruded elements as well as by placing a new glass box over the existing façade of Shell House.

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TOWER The tower is concerned with the issues of urban living beyond the simple notion of urban densification. The goal is to strike a balance between suburban living and city apartment lifestyle.

The concept of permeability was implemented to breed a system of modular configurations. Modules stack and interlock with each other to create a variety of negative spaces that allow sufficient natural light, ventilation and views throughout the residence tower. The variation of negative spaces are like fields of pixels that intensify and deteriorate all over the tower to interact between the blur boundaries of inside and outside that serve as a recreational source for the occupants in the form of sky courts and elevated park.

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Terrence Chau Email terrence08@gmail.com Phone 0434 231 500 URL http://issuu.com/terrencechau1/docs/test_305ed504376c8d

The New Hybrid - Vertical Community “The biggest social problems in the case of the high-rise are isolation and the increasing alienation of inhabitants from each other...�

The key theme of my research is Vertical Community.

The programme called for a hybrid building, and I felt that acknowledging human factors in a socially, economically and environmentally sustainable future is perhaps the most important element neglected by modern tall buildings. Instead of being unavoidable urban masses for generating income, tall buildings might be approached as inspirational structures in terms of aesthetics and as positive human environments. They are opportunities for visions of urban utopia, where spaces reflect human desires for live, work and play.

The proposed hybrid building envisioned the tower as a series of vertical villages, with areas for work, research, training and leisure. Recognizing

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that today we inhabit indoor spaces for 90% of our lives, there are also vegetated areas such as the vertical garden, which helps to re-establish a positive bond with nature. The intervention of public and private routes enhances the vitality and interconnectivity between towers and the public.

Different types of street activities are extended vertically through the proposed building. Parks, shops, community centre, commercial and residential activities can all be found inside (and outside) of the building.

Different sections of the building are activated in different times of the day and the programme changes depending on the activation cycle.

The activation cycle of the building provides programmes for different kinds of people living and working in the city. It makes the city works more effective and sustainable.

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Jun Jie Chia Email Gonmar15@hotmail.com

Communal2 Social interaction, an important trait that could be found in suburban areas was seemingly lost in the bustling city.

It might seem ironic to note that social interaction is more common in the lesser populated suburban regions then in the densely populated city.

Opportunities for social interaction are lost when high-rise buildings become rooms or pockets in the sky where the structure of the situation just simply does not allow for social interaction.

What that has been proposed in this project is to allow for opportunities for interaction to happen on multiple fronts and scales ranging from mega-size communal spaces which are fully public to much smaller spaces for a small cluster of families within the building.

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pools, bars, cafĂŠs and gardens are lifted off the ground and brought within the tower to separate themselves from the busy city.

Large communal spaces such as semi-public, with BBQ areas, gyms and miniature parks allow for interaction among tenants of the building.

Intimate communal spaces allow for users within apartment units that share a common deck to interact at a smaller scale.

What the tower responds to are issues that had been troubling cities for a long time and hopefully it will help remedy some problems.

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Brandon Wei Heng Chin Email brandoncwh@gmail.com Phone 0430 221 707

Vertical Tranquility According to the Sydney 2030 plan, until the year of 2030, 75% of the Sydney’s population would be living in the urban areas of Sydney. As such, there would be an increase towards 75% of the population living in an urban environment of the Sydney CBD. The shift of population towards the urban areas was determined by the proximity of workplace and transport efficiency to the urban setting. With the possibilities of walking distance towards work and recreation, hence, addressing the shift towards the urban environment.

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by introducing sustainable softening spaces that allows hybrid interactivity and social enhancement for the high-rise typology. 3 interfaces were introduced to create an engaging vertical fabric, namely, Sanctuary, Oasis and Sky gardens. Sanctuary ensures environmental sustainability in living spaces such as cross ventilation, maximise solar access and intimate interactive spaces. Oasis explores the placement of water elements to enhance the cooling possibilities and calming pockets for busy environments.

Finally, Sky Gardens allows interaction between multiple programs or multiple vertical clusters.

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Zhen Xun Chin Email czx312098@hotmail.com Phone 0433 478 933 URL http://zhenxunchin.blogspot.com.au/

Hybridity in Rhythm This proposal for a hybrid tower is inspired by the fluidity of the place, particularly the flow of Tank Stream. We understand that flows make buildings work, indeed flows allow things in general, such as settlements, machines and people, to work. We all need a flow of nourishment, of energy and water. The flow of water generated life and fostered the activity of populations along Tank Stream. This is part of the story of the establishment of first settlement in New South Wales, Australia. Later, population growth and fickle weather conditions prompted Governor Phillip to install storage tanks in the surrounding sandstone to contain the flow of water. These tanks gave the

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stream its name. Whenever there is a flow, there will be a containment of flow, thus forming a rhythm. The word rhythm (Greek: ruthmos) combines two etymons*RH = flow (Greek: rheo = flow; river, rave) and *TH = stop, stand (step, station, install). Rhythm is the standing and reiteration of flow, not its elimination or closure, but a momentary poise, which brings flow back into itself. The concept of rhythm inspired by Tank Stream is incorporated in the proposed hybrid tower, in which the flow of people and activities between multiple hybrid programs is continuously contained and heightened by a series of catalysts including greenscape, waterscape and solarscape.

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Kevin Hanurata Email hanurata@hotmail.com Phone 0425 155 771 URL www.archilovers.com/kevin-hanurata

Exploration in Hybridity and Density This project is situated above Wynyard station at the heart of Sydney’s CBD. The site calls for office towers that respond strongly to the high demand of flexibility in floor plates for accommodating multi-tenancies.

In addition, there is also an increasing trend of city living with a variety of family types. It creates challenges in providing a favourable environment that embraces community living in the city.

Program – Mass Development The retail program is elevated off the ground to provide for a generous public domain. It is then flipped to a vertical position to act as a billboard of attraction and complemented George St. This strategy avoids conventional podium layout. In which attaining good lighting is an issue due to its

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large floor plate. As the retail program is flipped vertically, it emphasises and accommodates circulation from George St to Carrington St as well to the Wynyard Station main concourse level.

Residential program is then consolidated into one tower oriented towards Wynyard Park. This strives for an optimum view of Sydney Harbour. The two towers are then shifted away from each other along a North-South line to provide opportunity for obtaining views and to gain more solar access.

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Kevin Mak Email contact@kevinmak.com.au Phone 0406 624 660 URL www.kevinmak.com.au

Unbound Ground In Sydney’s CBD, quality spaces for human interaction are limited to the ground plane, allowing commercial giants and global businesses exclusive domination of the skyline. The city currently lacks a synergy between its economic and social spheres where communities have become fragmented and cultural activities have polarised to separate precincts. The proposed scheme is an exploration of public space breaking free from the ground plane and challenging the vertical density of Sydney’s CBD. ‘Unbound Ground’ subverts the traditional ideologies of high-rise towers by restructuring the organisation of vertical programming. The ground plane of the tower exists as both a social condenser

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along George Street (Sydney’s future public spine and a transportation portal) to Wynyard Station below. At the podium level, the civic function of a library frames one of Sydney’s last remaining urban rooms, Wynyard Park. The element of a book spiral acts as a vertical link between the existing public ground plane and a new public square established within the high-rise. Additional library functions penetrate the commercial tower and establish a presence for public activity in the sky. The hybrid skyscraper, along with a redesigned Wynyard Station, references the roots of Wynyard Park as a historically significant civic space in the heart of Sydney City.

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Si Hoa Ng Email Kelvin1988@gmail.com Phone 0413 196 323

Exploration of Hybridity in Density Sydney is forecasted to reach a population of 6 million people by 2030 and the pressure for housing, especially in the CBD is increasing.

Since the mid-19th century, Wynyard Park has been a place for life and activity. After the barracks relocated to Paddington in the 1850s, the space was converted for residential use. These were homes fronting the urban square, which once stretched from York St to George St. However, due to the changing urban landscape, Wynyard Park gradually shrunk to what it is today.

With the rapid growth of Sydney, Wynyard will be one of Sydney’s major transportation hubs, connecting Barangaroo to the rest of the city and in anticipation of a new light rail transport infrastructure along George St; connection through the site is of utmost importance.

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The proposed building consists of retail shops and offices at podium level to provide convenience for the residents of the apartments above. Pockets of green spaces are created throughout the tower, mimicking Wynyard Park, integrating with the apartments, but these green spaces are private for the residents.

From the concourse, one could walk to George St or Hunter Connection. A three storey high space greets visitors both from George St and the concourse, while a clear and straight connection from George St and Carrington St maintains the link between Wynyard Park and George St. Another bridge which spans over Carrington St connects Wynyard Park into the retail plaza on the second storey.

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Alvin Prathama Email alvprathama@gmail.com Phone 0430 131 188

The Wynyard Tower Context Sydney as one of the capital cities of Australia always strives to improve its position as a global city. In a way, the brief for the project is to improve the city’s global status which could be achieved by providing better quality workforce and workspaces, supporting ideas and knowledge sharing, and improving amenities through sensitive development at people scale.

Ground Plane Located right next to the Wynyard Station and George Street, the project sits among a number of qualities that is the city of Sydney. The tower opens up at the ground level to allow for fluid visual and physical connections between George Street, Wynyard Park and the Wynyard Station concourse

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level. Library is then located at the podium level, which acts as a public domain that relates to the Wynyard Park as well as a program that supports knowledge and idea sharing for the office tower.

The Tower There is a tendency for large businesses to move towards Activity Based Workplace as a means to maximise efficiency by promoting a more vibrant and flexible workspaces, which is made possible by the rapid progression of technological innovation. The project challenges the concept of traditional tower typology by incorporating the fundamental principles of ABW environments into a high density setting.

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Sarrah Mae De Los Santos Email smbdlsantos@gmail.com

Work / Learn / Collaborate This tertiary and commercial hybrid high-rise explores the potential for collaborative work between educational institutions and private enterprise.

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the idea that collaboration promotes productivity as well as innovation and that the relationship between worker and learner is symbiotic rather than linear.

In aiming to encourage collaboration, the project celebrates the individual identities of the institutions and enterprise as well as the power of their exchange.

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Thu Zaw Email thuzaw11@gmail.com Phone 0402 167 324

CoWork Wynyard The theoretical research of the project began with exploring the ideas within Sydney 2030 Vision, leading to the topic of Sydney as a creative global city and the plan to encourage start up cultural and creative enterprises in the city. This lead to the discovery that there is a huge deficiency in support infrastructure for start up businesses not only in Sydney but throughout Australia. As a result, lack of connectivity, early stage funding and exposure to target markets are real issues for start ups in Sydney.

In response to the findings of the research, the proposal aims to create a support infrastructure for start ups in Wynyard, funded by large corporations

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investing in infrastructure to foster innovation.

This collaboration between start ups and large corporations can lead to start ups gaining the support, education, funding and exposure that they need. By coworking with young and daring start ups, the corporates are also exposed to fresh ideas and methods that they may not normally be able to obtain. Therefore, the collaboration and social interactivity between this duality of commerce has the potential to foster innovation that can benefit both parties and push Sydney towards becoming a more creative global city.

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ALUMNI PROFILE

Juliet Byrnes Bachelor of Architecture (1999)

Juliet is a Development Manager, working with the NSW State Government’s Barangaroo Delivery Authority “I chose the Architecture Program at UNSW because of its leading reputation and high-calibre graduates. There was a genuine buzz of excitement and learning around the Faculty. Within weeks of starting the program, I knew that I’d made the right choice. There was fantastic diversity and a healthy tension of ideas amongst the lecturers. The environment stimulated intense discussion and output, leading us in entirely new directions.

My advice to anyone considering studying architecture is to select a university with good networks in industry and academia.

Have a look at the guest lecturers they are attracting. The teaching culture at UNSW balanced the value of both practical and academic experience and, in my opinion, equipped us for the realities of working in industry. Also have a look at the ‘extra-curricular’ activities available (and I don’t just mean the Roundhouse!).

A highlight of my time at UNSW was taking part in an architectural survey to Udaipur, India and in my final years I was employed by UNSW’s SOLARCH research group, to help represent Australia on an international solar energy research task led by the International Energy Agency (IEA). During this time, I also contributed to developing the first sustainability policy of the Australian Institute of Architects NSW and was on the board of the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) and Chair of its Education Committee.

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My research work and first class honours degree from UNSW gave me the edge over hundreds of other people applying for a graduate trainee programe with Lend Lease. The interviewers were impressed that I had already been published in academia and presented at conferences.

Since graduating from the Architecture Program at UNSW Faculty of Built Environment in 1999, I‘ve held senior management roles in developing and delivering $2.8 billion dollars worth of award-winning property development in Australia and the United Kingdom. I’ve worked directly with leading advocates of design excellence such as Jean Nouvel, Sir Richard MacCormac, Sir Terry Farrell, Simon Allford, Mark Whitby and Peter Rogers, former chair of the UK’s ‘Constructing Excellence’.

Between 2002 and 2007 I played a key role in delivering the London portfolio of the UK’s largest developer Land Securities. In collaboration with different sections of the industry, I fostered new practices and legal agreements whereby multiple parties could share cost and time risks whilst maintaining a common and overarching approach to design excellence. These initiatives involved changing attitudes towards the responsibilities for design quality. Several of the projects received awards including the RIBA Regional Architecture Award 2011; Winner International Property Awards 2010, Best Mixed-Use; RIBA National Architecture Award 2008; Civic Trust Award 2008; and the RIBA National Architecture Award,2004.

Faculty of Built Environment The University of New South Wales Online be.unsw.edu.au Phone +61 2 9385 4799 Email fbe@unsw.edu.au