Regional Area Community, Creativity and Connection
Indigenous Flora & Faun
Sustainability
Materiality
Co-living
Housing Expectation
New mode of living
People Relationship Encounters
Shared-living
Adaptive Reuse
Urban Intervention
Community-based Design
Master Planning
Housing Standards Rules and Regulations
Housing Purpose Emotions Anomaly
Sustainability
Education
Rules & Regulations
Architectural Details
Cultural Integration
Urban & Architectural Intervention
Community Engagement
Social Assistance
Adaptive Reuse
People-Centred Design
SKETCH
Care for Land and People
Regional Area Community, Creativity and Connection
Indigenous Flora & Faun
Sustainability
Materiality
Pre*Form Hastings The Slope Cohabit aPartMate
Co-living
Housing Expectation
New mode of living
People Relationship
Encounters
Shared-living
Educational Architecture
Sustainability
Education
Rules & Regulations
Architectural Details
Educational Interventions Urban Planning
Adaptive Reuse
Urban Intervention
Community-based Design
Master Planning
Housing Standards
Rules and Regulations
Housing Purpose
Emotions
Anomaly
2024
Major Project Supervised by Prof. Mark Jacques
Individual Work
/Themes/
Cultural Integration
Urban & Architectural Intervention
Community Engagement
Social Assistance
Adaptive Reuse
People-Centered Design
/Software/ Rhino, Vray, Adobe Suites, 3D Printing...
The process of “making heimat” tests a new urban and architectural typology that goes beyond the physical place of home, fostering deeper social and cultural connections within the arrival place.
This typology forms a community-based service loop and incorporates a variety of architectural interventions and agencies, offering arrival assistance, engagement with the host community, opportunities, integration, joy, and much more. The architectural scheme incorporates an universal design solution that has potential for further application.
Making ___ , ___, ___, home & HEIMAT
A new urban and architectural typology for newcomers that goes beyond the physical place of home
“Heimat”—a term with no direct English equivalent. It most closely translates to “home,” yet it carries a deeper emotional resonance and reflects who we are and what we value:
The necessities of life;
Our identities;
Our ways of communicating;
The things we are emotionally connected to...
So, it comes to the questions how can newcomers, who have left their familiar environments, settle with these needs? What role can architecture and urban development play in supporting this transition?
/Scenarios & Findings/ What’s happing between the sites? What adjacencies contribute to forming the neighbourhood loop? Making Heimat in public realm turns small and large infrastructures and amenities into street navigations and public facilities under its brand, providing directional indications and ensuring a continuity of involvement and inclusiveness across all places along the route.
3.1
Take a proactive role in fostering reciprocal relationships between local residents and asylum seekers, aiming to provide positive experiences and resources while working collaboratively to fulfill each other's needs.
3 Activities and items were reported for this output
•Making Heimat project creates spaces for asylum seekers to contribute inversely to the community. They are given opportunities to enhance the local workforce, run their own businesses, and leverage their skills and experiences for the benefit of the community.
•Council continues to advocate for people seeking asylum and refugee rights in the community.
•Council attended the ‘Right to Thrive’ forum in the S.E to address the diverse needs and challenges of our community.
Action Area 4 - Facilitation of Communication & Inclusiveness
Support the development of inclusive, respectful and equitable connections that foster identity, communication and welling No. Action/OutputProgressComments
Facilitate community events which influence greater understanding and recognition about refugee rights, journeys and experiences
Encourage public engagement in formal and informal programs held for Asylums Seekers
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Content”
3 Activities and items were reported for this output
•Storytelling at community infrastructures during Cultural Diversity Week encourages people, including asylum seekers, to come dressed in their traditional outfits, providing a platform for expressing the diverse cultural backgrounds within the municipality.
•Making Heimat project designs a set of language signage as part of its branding to preserve the identity of newcomers and promote the acknowledgment of cultural and linguistic diversity within the community.
•Making Heimat project designs interventions at exsiting community service providers like Springvale Neighbourhood House and St Joseph’s Church to provide delighful and inclusive gathering and event space for newcomers and community members.
1 Activities and items were reported for this output
•A series of informal activities in Springvale, led by Making Heimat, creates opportunities for casual involvement for both newcomers and local residents, including a chess corner, book swaps, and movie nights...
•Council will continue to advocate for inclusive and engaging activities that foster communication among various groups.
A method for adaptative & economic intervention installation
A staged plan for the new typology to adpat in the district
A way for newcomers to understand and recognise
A manner to create a familiar environment
A mode to support, connect and interact Business Hours: Run
Community” Some curated opportunities for inclusive collaboration & exchange of “resources”
The Overpass
Djerring Trail, Pedestrian Overpass
Pre*Form Hastings
The Slope --- A New Performing Arts Centre on Western Port
/Themes/ Care for Land and People
Regional Area Community, Creativity and Connection
Indigenous Landscape Preservation
Local History
Sustainability
Materiality
/Software/ Rhino, Vray, Enscape, Adobe Suites, Hand Modelling...
“A tall forest of eucalyptus (mostly stringy barks) with thick swards of native grasses and wildflowers would have clothed the slopes as they descended to the coast. Small creeks, with thickets of paperbarks, blackwoods and dense swathes of sedge, dissected these forests and drained towards the sea, resting in small estuaries, or spilling over with heavy rains. In some areas the gullies formed, damp and cool under canopies of large trees, and supported ferns and small rain forest climates. Near the coast in sandier soils, tall white Manna Gums formed open forests, with grass trees below, giving way to banksias and sheoaks on the more exposed bluffs. Down the tussock grass bound escarpment, banksia, beard-heath, and boobialla braced against the wind, and below, more banksia forests and low woodlands of ti-tree and wattle reached out to the open beach, where binding plants and grasses like the layering spinifex held the shifting sands.” Mr Bass’s Western Port The Whaleboat Voyage, 1997
The new Performing Arts Centre is designed to bolster Hastings's history, local arts and culture scene.
The development incorporates responses to the brief, site, cultural context, and precedents. Located centrally in Hastings amidst bustling streets and historical sites, the centre aims to activate the main roads and accommodate versatile programs along the coast.
The design preserves local indigenous flora, including sheoak trees, and incorporates a publicly accessible sloping roof landscaped with indigenous plants, offering panoramic views and serving as a multi-functional space.
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Fig 1.
/Scenarios & Findings/
Starting from the idea of retaining Hastings's natural landscape, a publicly accessible sloping roof, landscaped with grass and indigenous plants, makes the art centre a blend into its environmental setting besides offering an exciting viewpoint over its surroundings. It also acts as a main entrance to access café, function room and the foyer.
The sheoak trees are preserved on site and planted into a grid before planning the programs. The fine and delicate foliage of black sheoak provides light shade over summer and produces a gentle whispering sound in a breeze.
The new arts centre will be an important driver to further activate Hastings's town centre, providing formal spaces like auditorium, function room, gallery, workshop etc.
Axo Diagram --- Surroundings and programs
/Scenarios & Findings/
The design process responds to the strategies by analyzing the "black and white" spaces, this idea is further realized through the mapping of the program timetable(Time Diagram). By defining the uses of formal activities, informal activities can occur between spaces at the appropriate times.
The project aims to use local materials that mirror the relationship between the site and Hastings (Material Diagram). The use of material not only form the place for people but also the home for various fauna and insects. Some of the grid on the breeze brick facade become the boxes for local bird and small mammals. The stone seatings around the sheoaks offer great communal spaces and homes to insects. These habitats celebrate the unseen workers of nature, ensuring their vital roles continue to enrich Hastings ecological system.
Time Diagram --- Black and White Spaces
First Floor & Roof Plan
Project Diagrams
East Side-Entrance to Auditorium And The Kiosk
West Side-Entrance to Auditorium & Seating Around A Sheoak
Hastings Lookout- Foreshore & Natural Reserves
Fluid Exhibition Space
Main Entrance on Slope to Foyer
aPartMate
A new co-living experience for home and lover finders
Finding your home and partner with Melbourne’s number 1 housing project dedicated to single people has never been easier.
Are you looking for true love? A nice place to live in, or do you just want to make friends? With aPartMate, you can search for rooms that match the lifestyle you want, explore the facilities and programs designed just for singles. Now is time to move in to aPartMate !
Here is the place that spark encounters, encourage communications and interactions, the project takes a more active stand in providing a unique setting for our single people !
aPartMate
Hayball Practice Studio:
Work
Are you ready to meet your new friends?
The building is designed with public and collective programs, shared living experience and versatile interventions that encourage conversations and interactions. They are designed to help to make the first step of finding your loved one, and fulfill different roles like sitting, dining, playing, washing clothes, taking a bath, working , cooking and reading.
The project re-imagines how building enhances people's wellbeing and the way they live and communicate while providing unique architectural response towards social problem and relationship. By integrating interactive applications, the design ensures an adaptive and dynamic relationship between the building and its users, creating an environment where new connections can flourish.
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Angled Facade --- Industrial Background(Mix-Use Zone) and More Northern Sunlight
Co-living Collages
Ground Floor Plan --- Public Programs
/Scenarios & Findings/
The project is activated by the hospitable laneways and programs on GF, you can pick up you Macca’s and return home, run to the neighbouring buildings on the track or take a shortcut from the laneways by passing the shared market fair. And here is also the entrance to the upper Bridge. Up onto the bridge, it is open for all the public, feel free to grab the food from Macca’s and view the nice shows from the terror tower or sit down and have a chat with our residents near the boundary.
The 4 layers of spaces on the upper levels enable various of activities and privacy levels to happen in one place, which stimulate interactions and encounters between residents, neighbourd and strangers.
Co-Cooking Tray View
C0-Pet Wash View
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RMIT Art Centre
Work set:
01 DOCUMENTATION SET
1.0 AXO
1.1 PLANS
1.2 ELEVATIONS
1.4 SECTIONS
1.4 DETAILS
02 SCHEDULES AND LEGENDS
2.0 DOOR AND FLOOR SCHEDULES
2.1 MATERIAL SCHEDULES
03 NCC REPORT
04 RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS
4.0 SITE ANALYSIS
4.1 MASS STUDY
4.2 FACADE RESEARCH
4.3 DETAIL RESEARCH
4.4 NCC RESEARCH
05 MATERIAL & SYSTEM RESEARCH
5.0 CURTAIN WALL RESEARCH
5.1 CEILING SYSTEM RESEARCH
5.2 PRECAST PANEL RESEARCH
5.3 ROOF SYSTEM RESEARCH
5.4 PROGRAM RESEARCH
06 CONCEPT SKETCH AND FEEDBACK
6.0 SKETCHES
6.1 FEEDBACK
2021 Technology
Group Work of 2 with Jessemyn Chiew
Sustainability
RMIT Art center is situated in Carlton. We have chosen to focus on the use of precast concrete panels and curtain wall system as our main source of facade material. Being an Art center, which requires large volumes for programs such as theatres and studios, the design is carefully thought out to achieve maximum space for the efficiency and versatility of programs.
/Scenarios & Findings/
The central core features wrapping stairs and accessible lifts, enhancing circulation and accessibility. Programs are thoughtfully planned to ensure convenience for students and the public, with ground-floor access designed for gallery visitors.
Curved plates of varying sizes provide thermal insulation and thresholds on upper levels, while a curtain wall system creates openness and inviting views. All materials and details were selected in compliance with regulations and building codes, reflecting the standards of an educational facility. The design process challenges efficiency and sustainability, aiming to redefine the goals of educational architecture.
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6.
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Extremely Small and Very Loud
This is a studio that will tackle two clichés of urban thinking directly – the very big scale and the guiding master plan. In the place of super scale, we will explore how economical and small-scale moves can change the behaviour of large territories. In the place of the staged master plan, we’ll explore the agency of catalysts and the consequences of connection over a long time.
Mark Jacques (Studio Leader), Brief for this Studio
For the new district, the goal is:
1. Activate Street Condition ---> A Small Opportunist Part that requires care
2. Maintain Continuity
---> Elements from Adjacent Sites that keep the Brunswick Language
3. Create/Make Depth ---> As the New Spatial Qualities
The design process is deeply attuned to the existing urban fabric, its surroundings, and the prevailing architectural language. The new structures, materials, and functions are thoughtfully integrated, adapting to and activating the existing elements to create dynamic opportunities for engagement by students and the public. These subtle yet deliberate interventions collectively weave a new "skin" over the broader Brunswick area, resulting in a distinctive and harmonious response.
2023
Master Studio
Tutor: Mark Jacques
Individual Work with selected sites
/Themes/ Adaptive Reuse
Urban Intervention
Community-based Design
Master Planning
/Software/ Rhino, Vray, Adobe Suites...
3.
2. Hope St
Sydney Rd
Brunswick Station
Opportunistic Drawing
Opportunistic
Part 1 Group work with Sienna Ectoros
Part 2 Individual Work
In exploring this idea throughout the semester, I have witnessed how neighborhood responsibility caused the ruin of a house, how a piece of joinery was designed to fulfill multiple uses, and even how home became a camouflage of commercial and illegal activities. For other objects in the world, this theory also works. Like the folding chair, it was created due to dissatisfaction with the large space that it originally occupied.
These symptoms finally distort the house into an unfamiliar status where different variations may obstruct you. The underfloor coil will emit heat from the sides. Windows provide multiple
CONSPIRACY
With the continuous expansion and development of cities, peoples definition of a house is not just a self-contained residence. A house needs to be equipped with more facilities, meet different standards such as res code and planning scheme, and even rely on a gorgeous appearance to become a status symbol of their owner. Therefore, under the influence of a high-pressure environment, an object/person’s physical form, external structure, ideology, and internal organ will be stimulated, transformed, and distorted.
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2021
Bachelor Studio Tutor: Allan Burrows
EXPLOSIVE ENMITY
The occupant of 212 Blyth Street is quite content with his small home. Or he was. Mr Ryckfield, an odd and private man, has many irritations, some of which border on insanity. But one thing that enrages him beyond all means ; people. The way they talk, the noise they create, just their general presence is enough to ruin his day. Some would say it might have been a disorder of the brain, however, Mr Ryckfield saw it as a crime to be so annoying.
Lot 212 first piqued Mr Ryckfield’s interest because of its somewhat isolated location. Positioned on a corner block amongst scattered industrial facilities and caught between a neighbouring alleyway and a dead-end street, he was distanced from the typical nuisances that accompany the inhabited residential dwelling. And because of this, he purchased the house outright. No overbearing neighbours. No fake smile to hide his true disgust. No hospitable expectations whatsoever. He was undisturbed and it was the privacy he so dearly craved. For someone as easily vexed by the human species as Mr Ryckfield, one could even say that this was absolute bliss. Until disaster struck and Mr Ryckfield’s world exploded into pieces. Literally. His dreams and plans for a secluded lifestyle with no prying eyes blown away like dust in the wind.
A truly horrifying revelation had been exposed. Mr Ryckfield would have a neighbour. In fact, not just one, but three. The Chatman’s he would unfortunately soon come to learn. A family of three ; Mr and Mrs Chatman and their son. He didn’t care. He ignored them at all costs. In the coming year, Mr Ryckfield would further learn the nature of their habitancy. The Chatman’s had taken up residence in the adjacent alleyway. Was that even possible ? It was utter delusion. Mr Ryckfield hadn’t realised that vacant lots had become so dire that one now had to result to inhabiting laneways. And the sickening surprises didn’t end there. The Chatman’s had constructed a monolith for a house. A genuinely excessive waste of space. They had managed to squeeze it onto the site, but being four storeys high, it towered over Mr Ryckfield’s dwelling. Watching him. Enveloping him. A constant shadow he couldn’t escape. Gone was his privacy, the peace and quiet that he desired. It infuriated him to no end. And the noise. They didn’t shut up. The Chatman’s were constantly making sound, so much so that his ears were on the verge of bleeding. Hosting parties, arriving home late at night, a shout from outside to convey they’ve forgotten the car keys in the house. Mr Ryckfield heard it all. And didn’t like it one bit.
Mr Ryckfield came to the conclusion that this was a problem that needed to be fixed. Permanently. He had put up with it for several months and could not go on like this for much longer. As he couldn’t stand to involve another in the issue, Mr Ryckfield took matters into his own hands. The Chatman’s had taken his long-term solitude and obliterated it irregular fragments. And now he would do the same. He would obliterate his enemy with dynamite. An explosion that would be sure to scare them so that they leave and never come back. And he could return to the way things were. How they should be. And so, Mr Ryckfield did just that. He targeted the Chatman’s house, right in its centre, so that there would be no way for them to inhabit it after he was through. And in his wake, a ringing explosion, leaving nothing but ruin, a gaping wound, a house cleaved in two. Satisfied, Mr Ryckfield returned to his own home next door and was welcomed by a long-awaited silence.
Annex of "Patients"
/Part 1 The
Explosive
/Scenarios & Findings/ We mapped sound, foot and vehicle movement and the arrangement of windows and how they can revoke one’s sense of privacy.
This process looks at the surrounding neighbourhood and chose to implement nearby sites that are often loud and imposing, such as the adjacent pub, tram stop, local shops and the Brunswick east primary school to highlight a buildup of annoyance that would ultimately provoke the ruin to occur through an act of retaliation.
We aim to reveal Mr Rickfield’s enmity by forming comparative views between the ruined house and its neighbour(Mr Rickfield’s house). After the bomb, the structures on the site were splited into pieces, leaving a chaotic scene on the street. However, Mr Rickfield’s house was showing a calm and peaceful scene where food lying on the bench. Probably he was preparing his victory dinner.
Part 1 Axo --- Explosion
/Part 2 Diagnosis/ /Scenarios & Findings/ The causes of anxiety disorders remain unclear, often arising from a complex interplay of social, psychological, and neurological factors.
In this work, I re-imagine an unexpected patient: a suburban house in Melbourne, diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. This phenomenon stems from the excessive expectations placed on houses by rapid urban development.
Houses are burdened with responsibilities beyond their function—providing security, symbolizing status through luxury, and integrating seamlessly into communities. These external pressures relentlessly shape the house, leaving it uncertain of its identity. This imagined diagnosis explores the consequences of these societal demands, shedding light on the fragility of spaces under the weight of expectation.
