Joshua Monks

Fisherman's Bend has a history of large-scale industrial manufacturing and wastelands, causing it to be entrenched in the roots of contamination.

Starting out as a research and development space, this project will expand into education and outreach, providing valuable hands-on research and learning spaces for students of Unimelb's Architecture and Engineering campus, planned to open in Fisherman's Bend in 2026.

This project focuses on contaminated soil, more specifically; utilising bioremediation as the process of decontamination, transforming the resultant soil into a useful construction material and allowing the tectonics of the resultant soil inform an architectural outcome.

The floor plan describes the programs of the project and their spatial relationship to one another.

The roof plan outlines the geometric nature of the rooves while detailing how the rooves can be accessed by users through the flat walkways connecting to the existing ground level of the site.

This section reveals the internal space of the import/export facility. It also showcases the structure's relationship with the removed, previously contaminated ground.

A view at the end of the private tram tracks that import and export contaminated and decontaminated soil via minecart.

A look at the future expansion of the West Gate Park with the project superimposed multiple times.