Address: Geelong, Victoria Instagram: gogginarchitecture
Hello!
My passion for architecture came at a young age through traveling overseas, Lego, Minecraft, and reading Star Wars Spaceship incredible cross-section books.
This later led me down the path to study Building and Design in Bendigo, Victoria where I grew up. After completing the course I decided I wanted to further my studies and go down the architecture pathway.
I chose to study architecture to help enhance the life of people through large design considerations or small ones. Now completing my studies, I am keen to gain architectural industry experience and start my career in architecture.
Education
03/2024 - 10/2025
Master of Architecture, Deakin University
03/2024 - Present Archimarathon Studio Member (Current), Melbourne
03/2022 - 10/2023
Bachelor of Design (Architecture), Deakin University
02/2019 - 07/2021
Advanced Diploma of Building Design (Architectural), Bendigo Tafe
Courses
01/2023 - 03/2023
Professional Training Master3D Lumion Rendering
01/2024 - 03/2024
iPad for Architects Masterclass Mastering Procreate on the iPad
Competitions
2025 Solo Entry SuperStudio
Experience
03/2025 - 06/2025
Kelly Architects, Geelong Internship
Contributed to community-focused projects across education, healthcare, and civic sectors in regional and rural Victoria.
Developed documentation using Revit in line with industry standards, improving speed, accuracy, and digital literacy.
Applied critical thinking to design decisions, aligning academic knowledge with real-world project constraints.
07/2020 - 04/2022
My Elusive Design, Bendigo
Draftsperson
Designing residential houses from concept stage to working drawings stage.
Professionally communicating with clients.
Ensuring that the Australian Building Codes are met while providing accurate documentation.
Contributing to layout design and redefining drawing sets to meet the customer’s needs and desires.
Software
Key Skills
Self-Discipline
Problem-Solver
Results-Orientated
Time Management
Teamwork
Positive Attitude
Initiative
Ownership
Adaptable Fast learner
Declan Goggin
01 Trestle Bridge + Moments of Gold
Reinterpreting memory of place for contemporary use.
Steiglitz is a gold mining stopover town between Geelong and Ballarat with a population of 61 people back in the gold rush era there use to be 2000 people there.
I proposed a wellness centre, restaurant and accommodation space relating to the stop over nature of steiglitz. Aiming to get people back to the place.
My design strategy involved identifying the title boundaries from the past and referencing them to anchor my proposal to.
Using Barry’s street to place the trestle bridge along the street and spanning over Sutherland creek to the last tombstone of Steiglitz, this links to the last spirit of Steiglitz and provides easy access to the Meredith road. Acting as a mining language inserting it self into the landscape.
The next strategy was to place the other programs within the title boundaries from the past relating to the civic activities that were once there.
The third strategy illustrates circular pools or wells and irregular shapes relating to the water cisterns, buried mine shafts and natural landscape.
The Art of Time Travel Barry’s Street, Steiglitz, Victoria.
Mr Clow’s
Mr Clow’s Residence
Trestle Bridge
Mr Snugg’s Blacksmith
Water Cisterns
Minogues Grocery Store
Steiglitz Courthouse
St Thomson Roman Catholic Church
Robert Duncanson Tombstone
Trestle Bridge
1. Wellness Centre Pools
2. Spa
3. Water Overflow Collection 4. Bathrooms
Sauna
Water Tanks
Water Cisterns
Accomodation
9. Private Spas 10. Mr Clow’s Restaurant
Hall Space
Lift
13. School Accomodation
14. Viewing Platform
15. Last Tombstone in Steiglitz (Robert Duncanson)
1. The Wellness Centre
2. Geelong Side Entry Point
3. The Last Tombstone in Steiglitz
4. Private Guest Accomodation Spa
5. Decay of the Trestle Bridge
6. Under the Trestle Bridge
Trestle Bridge + Moments of Gold 1. Wellness Centre Pools
Spa 3. Trestle Bridge
Accommodation for ghosts of the past
Water Cistern
1. Walking with the Last Spirit of Place 2. Mining Infrastructure Detail of Trestle Bridge
3. Bike Storage, Foyer, under the Restaurant
Upper Entrance to Restaurant
02 Living Light
A healing journey
The site is located in CBD Geelong, on the land of Wadawurrung people the traditional owners of the land. Previously a wool-store
The proposal is a mixed-use space defined by a centralised atrium space This provides natural light and ventilation to enter the building.
In contrast, the rooftop garden on the second floor offers a space for long-stay residents to participate in horticulture therapy that allows them to maintain their own personal garden space and also help out with the communal garden.
The proposal respects the existing structure and uses an architectural gesture of designing custom furniture with the design inspiration coming from the existing column details.
Adaptive Reuse 20-28 Brougham Street Geelong, Victoria.
Identifying the two existing services targeted to support homeless people helped develop my concept.
issue is the building was not designed for humans to live in it.
03 Axis
Design Resolution
Adaptive Reuse
The intersection of Gheringhap Street and Brougham Street Geelong, Victoria.
The purpose of this proposal was to explore architectural language and tectonics.
The proposal explored resolving an area from a previous design studio.
The design explores pealing back the corner of the Living Light building along Gheringhap and Brougham Street.
The corner was chosen as it had the least amount of footpath space in the area and the existing city grid dominates the CBD, Therefore the proposal explores alternative language compared to the past.
The Why? Need & Importance
The floor plan highlights the 45 degree rotation to the existing grid. Clearly defining a new order for the space.
Gaps between new and old walls help to visually distinguish the difference.
Circular columns are used to be more approachable and friendly to people walking by. The new thin roof catches rain water and acts as a shelter for people walking past. The effort to peal back the existing corner aligns well with the City of Greater Geelong’s proposed green spine project along Gheringhap Street.
04 Buckley Pier
20 Years into the Future
The brief was focused on the future of urban design developments and research through site analysis for programs that will still be around in 20 years’ time.
The concept leads into developing a broader master plan layout. The proposal was focused on creating an active precinct along Cavendish Street with a main green spine through the center of the street to reduce the wide roads and allow for human scale to be considered with the new exhibition center being developed near the site.
The proposal focuses on the pier area and offers a market space, indoor and outdoor hospitality, accommodation, and a ferry depot.
The proposal represents a large yacht on the ground that everyone can access.
green spine connects to the proposed infrastructure representing a connection between land and sea. Creating a new arrival point from sea.
The
Waterfront Development Western Beach, Geelong.
New Arrival Points from the Green Spine Path and from Sea
1. Proposed Market Space
2. Proposed Ferry Depot
3. Proposed Restaurant
05 Golden Square House
Residential, Bendigo.
The aim is to practice my heritage detail modeling skills, while potentially creating an extension near the pool on the newer section of the house. With the potential to renovate the attic level to host an addition of a games room space.
So far I have measured the house up with the laser measurer and aim to conceptalise ideas for a proposed house on the subdivised tennis court block in response to the existing house.
