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Wildfowl Cottage
No full textRESEARCH BACKGROUND: The Wildfowl Cottage project is an extension to a former derelict waterside inn. It saves a listed house and provides an innovative response to flood risk, establishing a new model for this topical challenge. It was awarded the 2014 RIBA East Small Project Award and the RIBA Regional Award. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: Designed to complement the rescue of a derelict former waterside inn, the new room provides a refuge above the 100-year flood level. Through an exceptionally long gestation, with prolonged exchange with the planning and conservation authority, a single room has been created which responds carefully to the rich contexts of the listed house and the remarkable surrounding landscape. It rejects the notion that conservation work should be bland and bloodless. According to RIBA Awards, 'It's seldom that a panic room is considered a thing of beauty, but ... this small addition achieves the feat consummately.' This project draws on Holbrook's ongoing design research in developing approaches to strategic thinking that explores the dynamic between architecture and the scale of infrastructure and landscape, particularly within conservation, environmental sustainability and regeneration projects. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: The project's significance is evidenced through its two RIBA awards. Championing the best architecture in the UK and around the world, RIBA Awards are the most rigorously judged awards for architectural excellence in the UK. The project also featured extensively in Architecture.com, Architects' Journal and Dezeen magazine
The Blurred House
No full textBACKGROUND In 2009, the researcher was commissioned to design alterations and additions to an existing residence in Northcote, Victoria. The work contributes to Architectural Design, specifically the adaptation of Australian suburban residential typologies and in design for evolving urban environments. The project contributes to areas of research that have been explored by Aldo Rossi, Christopher Lee, Series Architects, NMBW & Atelier Bow Wow. CONTRIBUTION The Blurred House is one of a series of projects situated in a reading of the city as an emergent system, where 'new' constituent elements are not introduced as radical departures from existing states, rather as mutations of existing conditions. These experiments in typological deformation explore how existing architectural types can be 'evolved' via mutation, hybridisation or grafting in response to new demands. The Blurred House reacts against conventional juxtaposition of existing 'old' and introduced 'new' elements, offering an alternative proposition - that of a blurring between 'old' and 'new' to produce a grafted condition. The new/additional building elements, emerge from the retained portions of the house through a series of extrusions that are folded and warped to enclose the volumes of the new portions of the building. Resulting in a condition where the old and new portions of the house are clearly differentiated, yet the demarcation between the two is not discernible. SIGNIFICANCE The Blurred House's significance is demonstrated through peer review in a variety of periodicals, including Architectural Review Asia Pacific ('Angular Drama', Toby Horicks, Oct/Nov 2012), The Age ('White Decision', Jenny Brown, 18/10/2010), Reforma (Mexico), Revista Etiquita (Venezuela), Wonen (The Netherlands). The work has also been highlighted as a case study by glass manufacture Viridian/CSR for innovative use of glass in residential construction. ('Blurring Old and New Architecture', John Power, Viridian, October 2
Walumba Elders Centre
No full textBACKGROUND: <br>In 2011, a flood overwhelmed the remote Aboriginal Community of Warrmarn in Warmun, Australia. Over 300 community members were relocated whilst rebuilding took place. The architects were tasked with rebuilding the aged care facilities. Working with the dramatic landscape of Warmun, the challenge was multifaceted: how to build a facility that was ecologically, culturally and socially sensitive, whilst satisfying the Commonwealth Flexible Aged Care requirements.<br><br>CONTRIBUTION:<br>The design of the Centre coheres the ecological, social and cultural needs of the community: accommodation for both self-care and high level care; a focal point for knowledge and cultural exchange enabled by careful design of both communal and limited access spaces; and spaces for funerary practices. The Centre functions both physically and conceptually as a bridge, a passage of knowledge between generations, and as a place of rest and respite before passing from this existence to the next. The Centre addresses the critical need for an architectural practice that is culturally and environmentally specific, by attending to the ecological, social and cultural needs of the community, with an environmentally sensitive design approach.<br><br>SIGNIFICANCE:<br>This project won several major awards: 2015 World Architecture Festival (Health category); 2016 Architecture of Necessity international competition; 2016 AZ International Award ( Social Good category); and the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies international Architecture Award 2016. It also received a Commendation for Public Architecture at the 2015 WA Awards (AIA)
Mongrel Rapture: The Architecture of Ashton Raggatt McDougall (book design)
No full textBACKGROUND Contemporary art and design publishing is concerned, on the one hand, with the efficacy and poetics of the codex form (De Bondt and Muggeridge, 2009; Kinross and Hochuli, 1996). On the other hand it is concerned with making tacit practice knowledge explicit (Schön, 1983; Carter, 2004). And finally it is navigating the new context of post-digital print (Ludovico, 2012). In the cross section of these concerns, and in this specific antipodean context, this research asks: what new possibilities are there for architectural book publishing? CONTRIBUTION Mongrel Rapture addresses this question through hybridity and multiplicity. It proposes a new hybrid book through the combination of many kinds of book-monograph, journal, illuminated manuscript, comic, photo book, index. In doing this it becomes a research project and object-lesson in the form of the book and also in the possibilities of the architectural monograph. This involved collaborative and speculative practice-based research as well as archival research (into both the form of the book as well as the relationship between the book and architecture practice). SIGNIFICANCE Mongrel Rapture was published in an edition of 2000 and distributed internationally through Oro Editions (San Francisco). In 2015 Mongrel Rapture won the Victorian award for architecture in the media (AIA), and a pinnacle award (AGDA)-the highest honour awarded by that organisation (it was also the Judges Choice of the awards for two jurors). In 2016, it won two awards in the Australian Book Designers Association awards including Designers' Choice Book of the Year (voted by the ABDA membership), and was named as one of the 50 books of the year in Design Observer's 50 Books | 50 covers competition (an international survey award). It was also the subject of features in The Age and Australian Design Review, and formed a substantial part of a Reputations Profile on the researcher published by Eye Magazine in 2016
Pleat Pavilion
No full textBACKGROUND All registered Australian architects were invited to participate in the 2016 Architecture Commission Design Competition. They were asked to consider innovative ways to activate the Grollo Equiset Garden with an evocative work of temporary architecture. The competitive process selected 3 finalists and 4 commendations out of 93 entries. My submission received a commendation in the first stage. CONTRIBUTION Pleat Pavilion is a collaboration between architecture and textile design that looks to techniques in fashion and textiles to transform ordinary shade cloth material into an extraordinary piece of architecture. I explored the idea of using fashion techniques to create an intricate piece of architecture that functions as shelter as well as public space. The gap in knowledge lies in the testing of ideas around this fusion of architectural scale and fashion techniques. Using digital tools to simulate fashion techniques I was able to show an alternative solution to how architectural fabrics can be conceived, extending the idea of a big umbrella. This success allows me to further pursue industry partners in the architectural fabrics area to rethink or extend how we think about these materials and how we can apply architectural methodologies to them to produce something novel. SIGNIFICANCE The jury that peer reviewed the entries included significant figures in architecture, art and design. The audience of the competition is the architecture and design community nationally and internationally. The success of my entry saw a payment made to the value of $1000. This award gives my research attention and will allow me to forge new research relationships. There are very few competitions for practitioners to engage with and this is a significant effort by the NGV to create discourse around our built environment in terms of ideas
On Nobby Seymour's Etherium
No full textRESEARCH BACKGROUND 'On Nobby Seymour's Etherium' is an essay included in the catalogue documenting the exhibition 'Etherium: An Exhibition of Framed Space' by architect and mural painter, Nobby Seymour. This exhibition investigated Bachelard's 'Poetics of Space', expressed through a series of sculptural models. Van Schaik's essay (pages 15-18), which includes an original ideogram, provides both an overview of the works represented in the catalogue and a broader context in which the artist's explorations sit. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION This textural work describes the qualities and origins of Seymour's work through discussing intersections between architecture and art, and the ways in which sense making and spatial relationships are constructed through individual interpretation and practice. This work contributes to Van Schaik's ongoing research practice and contribution related to the importance of spatial thinking and intelligence to architectural design. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE The publication 'Etherium: An Exhibition of Framed Space' was available in limited print and a copy is held by The National Library in Canberra. A PDF of the catalogue is publically available at Nobby Seymour's website
Parallel Exhibitions: Meeting at the Building and Ingredients & Cakes
No full textRESEARCH BACKGROUND: Flores & Prats (the architecture practice of Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores), were invited to create the complementary exhibitions: 'Meeting at the Building'- Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (KADK), Copenhagen, and 'Ingredients and Cakes' - Leth & Gori. Interdependent works at the two sites presented an extensive body of research material produced during the 6 years of designing Building 111. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: The two exhibitions shared the same interest: The Social Dimension of Housing. 'Meeting at the Building' documented the collective housing project Building 111, including original drawings, models and photos, and 1:1 scale mock-ups. 'Ingredients and Cakes', in collaboration with British artist Soraya Smithson and local bakery Escriba, exhibited four projects: Museum of the Mills (2002), House in a Suitcase (1994), Plaza Pio XII (2005) and Casa Providencia (2008) - as 'Ingredients' of Building 111, whereby investigations into domesticity, public space and natural light subsequently appeared in the latter project. The work demonstrates the reflective nature and collaborative dimensions of Prats' practice-based research investigations. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: KADK's exhibition building is a vibrant, experimental exhibition venue for new architecture and design, hosting 5-6 exhibitions annually involving recent research. The gallery space of Danish architecture firm Leth & Gori is a converted bakery in the eclectic Vesterbro district in central Copenhagen. The exhibitions attracted an audience of approximately 2000 and were accompanied by a catalogue including critical essays by KADK academics and Karsten Gori - principal of Leth and Gori. The exhibitions were critically reviewed in Arkitekten, Denmark's most significant architecture journal
Youth Area at the Border, Gorizia
No full textRESEARCH BACKGROUND: 5th Studio - Holbrook's architectural practice - proposed the redevelopment of the former Civic Hospital in Gorizia for the competition, 'Youth Area at the Border'. The associated exhibition - 30 x 1, Thirty projects one exhibition - showcased the work at Galleria Dora Bassi (10 March - 3 April 2011) alongside the entries from other international design practices. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: The competition called for strategic, urban planning to activate a currently disused area on the northeastern, Slovenian border of Italy. 5th studio proposed investment in transport to catalyse a new urban quarter that celebrates the diverse cultures between two previously, politically divided towns. Repurposed buildings create new host structures, incorporating adaptable spaces that will accommodate and foster creative events, enterprise and research. This project draws on Holbrook's ongoing design research in developing strategic thinking that explores dynamics between architecture and the scale of infrastructure and landscape, particularly within conservation, environmental sustainability and regeneration projects. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: Led by the Comune di Gorizia (Department for Youth Policy) in partnership with the Friuli-Venezia Giulia city council, the project involves the significant establishment of a new youth hub for the town of Gorizia. The competition was adjudicated by a panel of experts and stakeholders including Giovanni Fraziano (Professor, faculty of Architecture in Trieste) and Maruša Zorec (Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana). 5th studio's contribution features in the exhibition catalog and a review of the event and the exhibition appeared in 'Il Giornale Dell Architettura' - a significant Italian architecture journal
Birrarung Marr Stormwater Harvesting and Landscape Integration Project
No full textRESEARCH BACKGROUND: This project involves the creation of an irrigation source for the long term sustainability of the 8 hectare park to keep green the upper and middle terraces of Birrarung Marr, the historic landscape of Speaker's Comer and the trees along the banks of the Yarra River. It was designed by Ron Jones through his practice Jones & Whitehead, with Cardno, Urban Initiatives and the City of Melbourne. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: This project has successfully integrated a large water processing facility into a major urban park with minimal interruption to existing uses. It has capitalised on the insertion of this infrastructure by redesigning the upper terrace landscape for improved amenity and better connections in the park. Jones was principal designer for Birrarung Marr in 2000 for the City of Melbourne, and has since been reviewing and managing the design of the site. This project extends Jones' ongoing innovation in public landscape and urban design projects and developing Melbourne's urban design strategy. In 2010, he received the AILA (Australian Institute of Landscape Architect) Victorian President's Award, acknowledging his contributions to Melbourne's public realm and the profession. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: This project was awarded High Commendation (Landscape Design) in the 8th Sustainability Awards (2014) by Building Products News (BPN) - the nation's most respected design awards program devoted to sustainable building. According to the jury: "Inner city land restoration projects usually have a high level of difficulty, and Birrarung Marr is no exception. The project partners have achieved a very technical standard, and at the same time improved both the aesthetic of the Yarra bank and the amenity of this important site." It was also a Finalist in the 2014 Victorian Premier's Sustainability Awards in the Cleaner Yarra and Bay category. It is published online by the City of Melbourne, Architecture and Design and Greening the West
Sighting
No full textRESEARCH BACKGROUND: 'Sighting' was an intervention project by artists Robbie Rowlands and James Carey. Surveying the physical history of two soon to be demolished 1960s houses as source material to create artwork, Rowlands and Carey manipulated, reconfigured and removed interior surfaces and found materials to transform our universal understanding of domestic spaces. Commissioned by surgery directors Heathcote Wright and Nima Pakrou as part of the MCES (Merri Creek Environs Strategy) development in Darebin, this exhibition aimed to connect the history of the site, its future potential and the broader community. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: Carey's contribution to the exhibition extends upon his material 'rendering' techniques developed in previous works - intensively engaging with materials and surfaces through sanding, breaking and marking and leaving remnants behind within the space. Through this slow material/immaterial engagement, deep explorations of durational methods, processes and outcomes are investigated, offering slow and extended experiences for audiences. The work foregrounds duration, an attentiveness of being in time. It considers time as method, time as content and time as material. The project extends Carey's research practice, which contributes new understandings of material engagement with site, and ways of reconstructing, observing, occupying and honouring interiors, especially sites in transition. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: The significance of this project is evidenced by it being independently commissioned. It was presented by Blackartprojects, a leading contemporary art institution, that rather than presenting projects in conventional gallery spaces, seeks to engage the contemporary art community in unusual presentations of creative work