(re)Collecting Rural

(re)collecting rural. Memory Heritage and a Rural Identity Under Threat In a climate of expansion and homogenisation of culture and the built environment, the continuing urban bleed of Melbourne into its surrounding rural towns threatens to supersede and suppress a local identity. This thesis examines the role of architecture and the museum typology in maintaining […]

Mestre Market Square

Mestre Market Square Rediscovering Apprenticeship, Craft and Useful Work The scheme seeks to saturate the heart of an abandoned and underutilised block between the new M9 development and the Piazzale Donatori di Sangue creating a series of connected public outdoor spaces, one of culture, one of vibrancy and one as a buffer to the street. […]

Lost in Machine Hallucinations

Lost in Machine Hallucinations. “What is advertised as an exact reproduction is actually a distortion of these duplicated surfaces; wherein lies the opportunity to investigate problematic moments and frictions within these solids.” Zeina Koreitem The schism between the digital and the real is closing. Technologies progress and bring pixels closer to atoms. Despite this increasing […]

Oculus of the Hand

Oculus of the Hand. Rediscovering Apprenticeship, Craft and Useful Work Blistered and calloused. I notice their hands first, fingers like pistons. The chiseled crevasses of their palm brush away sawdust. It hangs in the afternoon light. Oak thuds onto the bench. They see the table leg beneath its surface, I see only a block of […]

Procession of Detonations

Procession of Detonations. The Last Nuclear Bomb Memorial A sequence leading to detonation. An exploration of an experiential memorial in outback South Australia at the detonation site of one of Australia’s abandoned Nuclear Bomb projects. The site bares the scars of the testing which informs the labarynthine sequence of spaces and connecting walkways. The visitors […]

Resonate

Art Waves. A re-purposed quarry site in rural Victoria near the town of Colac. The site is revitalised through the creation of a festival precinct which will operate during the summer months along with a year-round program — a School of Art which provides for traveling students from Melbourne to stay on site in accommodation […]

To Learn and to Frame

To Learn and to Frame (Fire). This project looks to the devastated landscape of East Gippsland after the 2019-20 summer Bushfires. The land now bears the scars of the fire; houses now ruins, trees now blackened. We drew out the imagery of the twisted remnants of the dwelling and the inherent allegory in the bushfire […]

Red House

A House for Red. Thresholds of retreat from the laneway The red house, or a house for red. The site, an existing red brick soap factory building in Clifton Hill, Melbourne is the retreat of public figure of Red Symons. This home represents an internal environment even in its current state it is a place […]

Design Visualisations

Design Visualisations. A series of rendering tasks undertaken in the final semester of the Bachelor of Design at the University of Melbourne. Module 1 depicts a frantic scene of a disrupted still life, with spilt wine and a knife embedded into the table, the elements crashing into the scene from the window in the background. […]