Projects
Fredericia Seaside Community Centre
Footscray Central Residential Development
Docklands Officefarm
Jacana Gothic Bank
Point Cook Sports Hall
RMIT Design Hub Melbourne
Southyarra ResidenceSeaside Community Centre
‘Architecture as landscape’
Designed whilst studying at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Denmark the proposal consisted of a multipurpose hall and cafe, kayak club and a spa and sauna catering to the Danish tradition of winter bathing.
The site was located along a sprawling and rather desolate coastline just outside the town centre of Fredericia in Denmark. The massiveness of this landscape became a major theme in the project. The design response was to try and merge the building’s as much as possible with the landscape, whilst still remaining as functional as possible.
The goal of the design was to make users feel both part of the landscape as well as being dwarfed by it. The organic nature of the design offering contrast to the rational order of Fredericia’s grid based town centre.
Designed as part of coursework at the Danish Academy of Fine Arts, 2010.
Footscray Central Development
‘Increasing density, maintaining diversity’
Responding to the goals and policies of Melbourne 2030 and the Maribyrnong planning scheme the development focused on increasing density by utilising the abundance of unused above ground space in Central Footscray.
One of the main goals of the development was also to maintain the cultural and socio-economic diversity of Footscray. This was done by creating a mix of units within the development to match the current tenancy of the area; including 30% of units dedicated to low income households and 15% dedicated as social housing.
Footscray has always been a suburb consisting of a high percentage of recent immigrants and refugees to Australia. The diversity and strong cultural influences in the suburb were something it was felt should be preserved and this was done through the use of a mixed style, cost and type of architecture.
The proposal strongly follows the theory of Belgium architect Lucien Kroll:
“Diversity encourages creativity, while repetition anaesthetises it... homogeneity makes it difficult for the users to add anything of their own.”
“New housing developments tend to be dull, unsurprising, lifeless... This should remind us that it is inhabitants who really create the city and not the planners.” Lucien Kroll, The Architecture of Complexity, 1986.
Above: design precedent ‘La Meme’, Lucien Kroll, 1969, Brussels.
Designed as part of RMIT coursework, 2009.
Officefarm
'New possibilities through new architecture'
Featured in Practical Hydroponics & Greenhouses Magazine, Issue 106, May/June 2009. The concept behind the OfficeFarm building was to look at new ways of bringing agriculture back into the urban environment. By combining hydroponic farming and commercial office programs the building represents an efficient use of space and resources.
By combining these programs to create a new working environment a new working model is also made possible. A working model whereby the office workers within the building also care for the crops grown there.
Below: Christine Paul, Towards a Carbon-Free Future, Practical Hydroponics & Greenhouses, Issue 106, May/June 2009. P.16-21.
Designed as part of RMIT coursework, in association with the Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab, 2008.
Contemporary Gothic Bank
‘Rethinking Gothick’
With a brief to create a contemporary Gothic style bank the gothic principles of efficiency and exposure of structure were used as the basis of the design.
Taking the idea of efficiency of structure to the extreme a tensile membrane roof was utilised for the main banking chamber.
The building’s plan and elevations were based on the gothic motifs of the trefoil and flying buttress respectively.
Design as part of RMIT coursework, 2008.
Timber Sports Hall
‘Elegance through simplicity’
Located on a site adjacent to the school’s sports field the design of the timber High School Sports Hall was based on the relationship between field and gymnasium.
The similarities of these two programmes are expressed through the building’s use of a single cladding material, timber, and mirrored structure and form. The difference in requirements of these programmes, primarily that of scale, is expressed through the difference in scale of the building’s two main forms.
RMIT Design Hub
‘A connected building for connected students’
All aspects of the design of the campus building were focused on the idea of connectivity. The building was split into smaller forms in order to maximise the connection between interior and exterior, by improving natural lighting and ventilation, and these forms were located to connect the building to the street at key points.
A moveable partition wall system was utilised within the building to create an open and interconnected internal space. The openness of the interior is designed to facilitate more social interaction between students and staff members.
Casa Malaparte Redesign
‘Looking backwards to look forwards’
Looking at ways to improve the energy efficiency of the Casa Malaparte design meant the addition of only sustainable design elements which kept with the original theme of isolation.
Design considerations included; the reduction of house size, addition of green roof, addition of in-slab water storage tanks and improvements to cross ventilation.
Eave Detail
Designed as part of RMIT coursework, 2007.
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