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Monash Art, Design and Architecture Graduate Exhibition 2024

Best in Studio

Most outstanding design project in the studio: Quarry Futures

The Vertical Factory

The Vertical Factory offers a carbon-efficient solution to the future of industrial precincts, creating a regenerative and materially conscious alternative to conventional carbon-intensive factories. This is achieved by reusing quarry waste such as calcinated clay to construct the facility, using existing on-site infrastructure and smart technology to operate the production that occurs, and reducing the ground footprint allowing for the regeneration of the quarry site. Fundamentally, the vertical factory creates an environmentally and materially sensitive solution to today’s energy-intensive industrial precincts, while also assisting in the redevelopment of decommissioned quarries.

A cluster of functions - Perspective Section

Sacrificial Formwork - Detail Section

Catalogue of Parts

A series of processes - Axonometric

A structural grid - Ground Plan

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