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Perth has a valuable and unique urban and architectural character. The city is changing rapidly, and I believe this is an exciting time be working in the field of architecture, in this city.

Engaging spaces and buildings provide tangible contributions to shaping the future of Perth. My passion for architecture began during a six-month stay in Europe, which revealed the cultural, social and spatial possibilities which powerful architecture creates.

Perth ‘City Proper’

Subiaco

MANY 6160

Claremont

Fabric City / Field City

Extraordinary Ordinary Office Building

“Heirloom by Match” Space

CLASH Housing

Boya Quarry / Exchange Plaza Centre for Modified Landscape

Fabric City / Field CityPerth ‘City Proper’.

Observations of Perth’s figure / ground informed the construction of a Rule Book, creating the framework for an urban scheme. The scheme evolved into the speculative deployment of a series of new streets across the City Proper. These streets inject new mass and programme, supporting the Fabric City’s desire for density, and the Field City’s qualities of permeability and openness. Cloisters St, in Fabric City, becomes the site for further exploration of the overall urban scheme.

[The Rule Book]

[Cloisters Street]

[Observation]

[Observation]

[Speculation]

[Speculation]

[New Streets in Fabric/Field City]

Spatial Ecology Fragment: CanyonThe spatial ecology operates along Cloisters St, with the Basins, Caves, Cliffs, and Canyons, The canyon forms the urban and spatial experience of the reinforced fabric edge at street level.

Spatial Ecology Fragment: BasinA place for collection occurring at the base of the canyon, for mass public activity.

Spatial Ecology Fragment: CaveA place of refuge, above ground level, relating across Cloisters St, and across the city.

Spatial Ecology Fragment: CliffA vertiginous perch above the city, where the new density can be felt bodily, at the edge of the street.

Extraordinary Ordinary Office BuildingRoberts Rd, Subiaco.

This project explores spatial intelligence developed through study of a memorable space – a small house in Northcliffe; originally built by the artist Howard Taylor. Its odd scale exaggerates the sense of shelter, and counterpoint the exposure to the elements in the broader site. The office building explores the spatial effects of this space through a central core, open to the weather, and office space enveloped in the exaggerated shelter formed by the elaborate facade.

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[Northcliffe House]

Exposure to the Elements Articulated PlanThe ‘articulated plan’ creates the interior void space: the circulation becomes exposed to the elements (right), which is countered by the exaggerated shelter to be found in the office space.

[Northcliffe]

[Subiaco]

Gradient / Exaggerated Shelter Elaborate FacadeThe elaborate facade was developed through iterative, large-scale models, to test its spatial effects, developed from experience of the Northcliffe House. Howard Taylor’s art practice explored the sublime and liminal states of his forest surrounds, blurring the edges of discs and spheres, creating gradients between the part and the whole.

[Northcliffe]

[Subiaco]

Exposure, Shelter The spatial character of Northcliffe becomes present, in a vastly different context, programme, and scale.

Exposure, Shelter In the end, the differences in scale, programme, and context made the resulting connections between the projects more powerful.

“Heirloom by Match” SpacePost- ArchitectureMANY6160, Fremantle.

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The client requested a “baited hook,” to encourage patrons to visit a design suite located in the Heirloom Apartment development. The space aims to engage visitors with fly-through videos and brochures of the apartments, within a space that resonates with the tastes and aspirations of potential buyers.

Following completion of Stage One of the project in April; the client initiated Stage Two in late July, with completion occurring in early August.

[Stage One]

[Stage Two]

CLASH HousingLapsley Rd, Claremont.

The project caters for residents across varied demographics: Claremont’s Livable, Affordable, Sustainable Housing. The site is located between the variable density of established Claremont, and the higher density of the proposed Claremont Oval redevelopment. The housing complex mediates between these two conditions, and offers an alternative to established modes of building.

The studio was divided into schematic, development application, and contract documentation stages, mirroring how the project would be undertaken in practice.

two bedroom live / work unitone bedroom unittwo bedroom accessible unit

CLASH: Schematic Stage

Heritage cottages directly opposite the site illustrate the manner in which typical suburban housing’s mediates between the public and the private realms. The front yard allows neighbourly interactions; the verandah buffers between public and private, exposure and shelter. This project explores this mediation between public and private realms; searching for new ways of dwelling in the spectrum between sociability and solitude.

[typical: yard] [mass divides] [initial court] [plan development: courtyard]

CLASH: Schematic Stage

During the Schematic Stage the site planning was developed, to establish how dwellings would relate to one another across the site. These relationships were established at the scale of the individual dwelling, and the overall site.

[Community Buildings]

[Universally Accessible Homes]

[Communal Gardens]

CLASH: Development App. Stage

The Development Application stage focussed on the design of the public access programme, and determining how the complex related to its surrounds to satisfy, or challenge, planning regulations.

[Defines the Zones]

[Shifted Mass]

CLASH: Contract Doc. Stage

The final stage was the production of contract documentation for a single dwelling. Assembling, detailing, and refining - consistently re-working drawings and fleshing out details.

[Floor Plan]

[Brick Walls]

[Structure]

[Cladding]

[Roof]

The contract documentation stage finalized the development of the project as a collective, and as an individual dwelling unit.

The Individual and the Collective

Assembling, Detailing, Refining

[Window: Plan Detail]

The final stage involved designing and documenting the project in greater detail, whilst striving to maintain the original design intent.

Centre For Modified LandscapeDissertation ProjectBoya Quarry / Exchange Plaza

Architecture’s primordial act was to enclose. To shelter. To describe a boundary between in here … and out there. This dissertation explored architecture which exaggerates this act of enclosure: cutting off interior space from its surrounds. Studies of two sites: Boya Quarry and Exchange Plaza were undertaken, through a process of indexing - recording and archiving the sites physical qualities before any intervention.

[Boya Cast]

[Boya Mould]

[Boya Index]

[Boya Quarry]

Centre For Modified LandscapeDissertation ProjectBoya Quarry / Exchange Plaza

The indexes informed the design of the Centre for Modified Landscape, which is dedicated to the documentation and research of human intervention into Australia’s landscape.

[Plaza Cast]

[Plaza Mould]

[Plaza Index]

[Exchange Plaza]

Centre for Modified LandscapeBoya QuarryThe Boya Quarry Centre carves into the embankment formed by the remnant quarry spoils. The archives extend into the earth, protecting their contents, creating rarefied spaces removed from the surrounding context.

[Boya Quarry]

Centre for Modified LandscapeExchange PlazaExchange Plaza’s Centre creates a space removed from the everyday, hidden in a quotidian niche within the city.

[Exchange Plaza]