Architecture

Working within the Melbourne CBD, this studio involves the development of a range of public projects that seek to generate politically autonomous or troubling “gaps” in the capitalist logic of the city.

This studio explored new approaches to residential accommodation for special needs older Australians within the inner-city suburbs of Melbourne.

This studio was part of a suite of MADA studios exploring the impact of the global phenomena of climate change and the pandemic on regional coastal settlements along the Great Ocean Road.

This studio forms part of a multi-university initiative that aims to articulate a range of speculative design ideas for the future of the Great Ocean Road, involving Monash, Melbourne, RMIT and Swinburne Universities.

Monash University plans to turn the Clayton Campus into an Innovation Precinct branded ‘Monash Technology Hub’. The studio unpacked criteria for successful innovation precincts rooted in a synergetic interaction with their contexts, and distinct identity rooted in place.

The School Assembly Studio forms the foundation of a student-led Design/Make Initiative being undertaken in collaboration with Dandenong Primary School.

This studio investigates the role of public art in reimagining what public space can be. Exploring a diverse range of approaches to public art, the studio shifts between scales, moving from exploring the role of public art strategies at a precinct scale, to developing detailed proposals for public art works.

Multi-residential construction continues to rely on labour intensive on-site processing despite advances in prefabrication. This studio investigates a different approach to the design of walls and residential construction.

This studio offers students the opportunity to reflect upon the accelerated transformation of our cities and explore the possibilities for connection, reactivation, and consolidation of areas that are currently isolated.

This studio is an exploration of how we can transition to decarbonised communities.

The suburbs of Metropolitan Melbourne are currently undergoing an incredible change. How will we adapt to a world with an atmospheric CO2 level of over 1000 ppm? What could be the spatial outcome of such a world and how do we as designers contribute, influence or manufacture it?

Spencer 2 Spring (S2S) is interested in understanding Melbourne - particularly the Hoddle Grid - by cataloging the moments and events that make our city so unique. We see the city as our main source of knowledge and inspiration; Melbourne as precedent for intent.

This studio is focussed on the empty, disused, abandoned, borderless, contentious and hidden places of our cities. Amplifying this is the setting of a post-covid urban landscape.

Flow State turns distribution into a civic process. Each student designed a distribution centre which features some form of public amenity. In doing so, they examined the ways in which architecture can reconfigure global distribution and logistics networks.

Bendigo has a shortage of housing and a desire for stronger communities. Students were encouraged to propose new cohousing and mixed-use residential models.

Macquarie Point in nipaluna/Hobart is one of the last large infill redevelopment sites adjacent to a working port in an Australian Capital City. After decades and numerous design ideas, construction is commencing onsite under the direction of a development plan that aims to create a new arts, culture, tourism and science precinct.

If Not MITA looked at the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) in Broadmeadows, and looked at ways of developing alternate possibilities for both its occupants and how it connected back to the wider community.

Investigating the urban spine of the Merri creek in Melbourne’s North, the studio rethinks the connections between the creek and the urban experience in order to understand and speculate on the possible futures for the city.

The Eco City planning project studio focuses on the planning and design of ecologically sensitive urban environments by addressing such issues as climate change impacts and changing economies.

The Inclusive City planning studio focuses on social and community planning and design issues with the primary challenge of creating people-centred cities.