I'm Mark, a spatial designer who bases his work on digital drawings, models, and virtual environments. I blend the environments of graphic design and technological practices in order to facilitate successful spatial design work. This focus feels the most natural to me, as it allows creation of both conventional work as well as abstract and conceptual ideas that can be a challenge to visualise. I feel that digital creation is essential in spatial design, as combining the perfect balance of communicating architectural influences with contemporary visual solutions to produce designs that can be utilised across multiple courses.
Rooftop Play
Rooftop Play explores where we play in a future fuelled by ever-evolving technological advances and expanding urbanisation. In this future, people's absorption in immersive virtual worlds and constant connectedness has resulted in a detachment from serious real-world concerns such as overcrowded and polluted cities. Utilising existing architecture, I have developed public spaces that emphasise the traditional notion of play atop city rooftops as an alternative to these arising issues. In this concept, cities can easily develop social and natural spaces by repurposing building rooftops without intruding on limited ground level space.
Transforming Play into Power
These rooftop designs will also include playground equipment such as seesaws, rockers, and swings that harvest kinetic energy from play. This innovative approach combines traditional play with sustainability. These energy-generating equipment allow people to play while simultaneously generating power that can be used within the rooftop community.
Traversing Open Rooftop Cities
The concept of traversable walkways connecting city rooftops allows the people to find their way between different rooftop spaces, enhancing belonging and social interactions. This distinctive approach for urban connectedness can also create sustainable energy generation when equipped with Piezoelectric floor tiles. These are designed to transform mechanical pressure from footsteps into electrical energy, which can be used or stored for a variety of uses.
Traversable Walkways
Example illustration showcasing connecting walkways.
In the spirit of reconciliation Monash University acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
