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This project is for a small scale hotel in central London. Designed by Denton Corker Marshall, it incorporates a blurred screen frontage that forms a focal point from the Soho Square vista. The remainder of the elevation is a series of square portal windows that allow for additional floors within the hotel, masking the misalignment of floor levels of the neighbouring heritage buildings. This was one of the main projects I was privileged to work on while at DCM London.
Team
Architects: Denton Corker Marshall
Clients: Base2Stay

This project is for two luxury villa residences on Magnetic Island off the coast of Townsville. Designed with Brutal Art Design + Build, these dwellings incorporate steel framing with timber infill panels and dramatic pitched rooflines to reflect the steep topography of the site. Currently the project is at frame stage.
Team:
Designer: Brutal Art Design + Build
Project manager: Esther Sugihto

This quick sketch design highlights the opportunities of an internal street to a community townhouse proposal. Located in regional Victoria, these townhouses utilise rear access via a communal driveway whereby the carparking is open (rather than a garage) and adjacent to pedestrian access. A large balcony is above one of the carspaces, allowing views across the site and providing passive surveillance to the communal gardens. Instead of fencing, there are painted timber pergolas interspersed with climbers on a trellis frame. Bold signage provides easily identifiable entries. Instead of hard surfacing within the carspaces, grasscrete is used as a method to reduce stormwater runoff and provide a greener outlook.
This proposal subverts ResCode by encouraging overlooking over privacy; we think it encourages a community spirit amongst close neighbours. This project currently is awaiting town planning approval.
Team:
Architects: Buckerfield Architects
Project manager: Esther Sugihto

A residential alts and adds project that subverts the linear progression of space in an Alistair Knox house in Park Orchards. This small extension also caters for two double garages. One of the first architectural projects I’ve worked on at Staughton Architects while at uni. Won several awards, including an Architecture Award at the RAIA Victorian Chapter awards for residential alts and adds in 2004.
See more details here. The two brothers behind Staughton Architects have since gone their separate ways to become two practices – Workshop Architecture and Staughton Thorne Architects.
Team
Architects: Staughton Architects
Builder: Sheracon

 

This submission for a ‘sense garden’ as part of the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show has been picked up by MIFGS as one of 4 show gardens, to be constructed in March/April 2012. Winner to be announced late March.

The proposal derives from the genius loci of Carlton, and embodies a shrine to coffee. ‘Coffee Street’ is essentially a vertical grid of steel mesh that is erected to the proportions of a terrace house facade. The mesh is interspersed with grasses in take away coffee cups, arranged according to their foliage colour to represent the bluestone patterning of a traditional terrace house. The theme of coffee continues further into the front ‘yard’ with an abstracted giant cappucino of grasses changing colour from browns to white, with some neo po-mo additions of milk cartons, milk crates and hessian coffee bags. It will be a tall fabricated structural element amongst a sea of soft landscaping. Some further competition entry images below.

Team:

Esther Sugihto – designer

Jenni Eaton – mentor/teacher at NMIT Fairfield

Julie Edmonds – coordinator, Landscape Victoria

Steve Syphers – builder, Birchwood Landscapes

Kathleen Rushford – MIFGS project manager, IMG