Regional Area Community, Creativity and Connection
Indigenous Flora & Faun
Sustainability
Materiality
Co-living
Housing Expectation
New mode of living
People Relationship Encounters
Shared-living
Sustainability
Education
Rules & Regulations
Architectural Details
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Making ___ , ___, ___, home & HEIMAT
Public Architecture Urban Planning
Cultural Integration
Urban & Architectural Intervention
Community Engagement
Social Assistance
Adaptive Reuse
People-Centred Design
Public Architecture 14-19 20-25
Technology
RMIT Art Centre
Educational Architecture
Sustainability
Education
Rules & Regulations
Architectural Details
Pre*Form Hastings The Slope
Care for Land and People
Regional Area Community, Creativity and
Connection
Indigenous Flora & Faun
Sustainability
Materiality
SKETCH SKETCH
26-31
SKETCH SKETCH
Cohabit aPartMate
Residential Architecture
Co-living
Housing Expectation
New mode of living
People Relationship
Encounters
Shared-living
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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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
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.
North & East Elevations
/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.
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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/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
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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: Cohabit
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.
