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Portfolio:
On display are selected works, ranging from the schematic,
to documentation (hand drafted and CAD), computer aided design,
three dimensional work (physical and digital), presentation
pieces and furniture design and manufacture.
It should be noted that all featured architectural works are
University based schemes, and have not been constructed.
Australian Consulate - Schematic design & 3D exploration
project (2000)
Australian Consulate to be sited in Valparaiso, Chile. This
project explored the notions of home and the integration of
cultures. Having only a slender piece of the site available
for the building footprint, this scheme offered the challenge
of dealing with an awkward site, and offered a significant
landscape architecture component, which required extensive
analysis and resolution. This scheme was worked to a completed
design development stage, and then explored through a comprehensive
three dimensional study. A secure environment was sought for
various consulate departments, and diplomatic accommodation,
however, a light, simple aesthetic was still achieved. This
is highlighted with an extensive tilted glass curtain wall
on the southern facade, offering a connection to the landscaped
consulate grounds, and a series of three glass light wells,
running through the full height of the building. This was a
group project in conjunction with Adam Dyson, Ling Kang and
Murry Brittan.
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Le Cordon Bleu - Contract documentation project
(2001)
International cooking school, Le Cordon Bleu', combining commercial
restaurant and bar facilities to be sited in Adelaide, South
Australia. This project asked for a comprehensive design, with
a high degree of resolution, and worked through to a contract
documentation stage (hand drafted). A restrictive CBD site
was selected, adding to the challenge of resolving and incorporating
a multi use building, combining a professional cooking school,
on site accommodation and commercial facilities. Concrete structure
was selected, with the feature of the facade highlighted through
thin twisting copper strips, screening the glass encased restaurant
and bar facilities from the outside, delivering an intimate,
human scale. The feature internal element is a spiralling ramp
servicing the cooking school facilities, offering a view through
ceiling windows into the commercial kitchen below. This was
a group project in conjunction with Brett Julian and Claire
Watkins.
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Residential - Contract documentation project
(2002)
Four person residence to be part of a communal site at Willunga,
South Australia. Rather than exploring the typical 'house'
as we have come to know it, this project was directed at finding
alternative means to define a 'home'. The result is a residence
to house two couples, each with their own 'home' within the
single structure, however the two sperate homes can be converted
to a single large 'house' at the inhabitants discretion. This
project required a comprehensive design with complete resolution
ultimately developing into contract documentation (CAD drafted).
Construction chosen was timber framed and rammed earth, with
the aim of sourcing materials locally. A communal site offered
the major challenge of this project which resulted in, a strong
landscape design component, and the ensuing notions of private
vs. public on such a site.
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Port Adelaide Shopping Complex - Completed Design
Development (2003)
Major shopping complex, inclusive of six department stores/supermarkets, 200
specialty stores, restaurant and cinema, to be sited at historic Port Adelaide,
South Australia. The site offered the unique advantage of being on a disused
wharf, allowing for river views in an area cited for strong commercial and residential
development. A spiraling glass encased ramp is the centrepiece of the scheme,
linking all areas of the complex, including a number of public rooftop areas.
Contrary to the cliche' shopping complex designs we often see, a high degree
of porosity was sought, with the end result being a bleeding effect, throughout
the structure, and encompassing the site, often questioning the notion of what
is deemed inside and out. Landscape design was a major component in addressing
the waterfront, and the wharf extending to the major traffic and pedestrian thoroughfare
of Port Adelaide, resulting in a promenade, market area and stepped levels softening
the transition between structure and waterline.
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Furniture Design and Manufacture - Display Case (2003)
Similar to how one frames a precious picture, this furniture piece explores that
notion, on a larger scale, resulting in a piece which frames a select few precious
items. A plinth allows for the display and storage of a small collection, or
special items which one may wish to display. The outer structure serves as the
'frame', with a routed groove eluding to the inner display. Materials chosen
were 16mm pre-laminated medium density fibreboard, with contrasting colours selected,
architectural white and lemontree. Only two jointing systems have been implemented,
routed butt joints for the inner structure, and mitre joints for the outer frame
assembly, which results in a clean, simple yet effective piece. Special thanks
to Les McIntosh and Ian Bonney for their experience and assistance in the manufacturing
process.
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Landmark Tower - Completed Design Development (2003)
The nature of this project was to answer an Architectural
competition brief for the Landmark Tower / U2 Studio in a
mixed development at Britain Quay, Dublin, Ireland. A urban
strategy was offered, addressing the re-development of the
entire Dublin Dockland region, and in turn using this strategy
to resolve an architectural statement at the tip of the development.
Deriving from the text "Programming
the Urban Surface", Alex Wall and bleeding these ideas with "The Capsular
City", Lieven de Cauter, the U2 tower looks to involve these ideas through
developing the 'capsular'. Dissecting the notion of the 'generic city' across
the peninsular, in what is almost a physical contradiction, the tower embraces
the literal capsule, through the built form. Challenging the notion of 'capsule
architecture', the tower looks to exploit the physical capsules in their program,
and cross programming, folding diverse programs together within the capsular
environment. Folding and thickening are two key principals, which have been implemented
across the site, and the tower, to create a dynamic, smooth geology, and combined
with the materiality of the tower, play on the 'spectacle' within the city. Gradually
applied across the site, capitulating at the tower, the urban strategy looks
to combine the flow of people, breaking down traditional zone separations across
the site, in order to develop a more fluid and interactive layering of planes
and spaces.
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