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The new RMIT Design Hub on the corner of Swanston and Victoria Street is an important new site for design research, innovation and production. The building is an important new representation of design in a university setting and the city. In this studio an opportunity was provided to redesign a new design hub for RMIT.

The issues of university identity, site identity (based in ritual, location and memory), the neighboring contextual legacy of architect-designed encounters with history and the mosaic pattern of small scale artisanal production in the central business district were explored. After the issues on site and its vicinity were recognized research was done in order find an appropriate way to approach design. Precedents were found, sketches were done and the ideas which came out of it were developed which lead way to the final design.

Before RMIT Design Hub building was built on site their used to be a brewery on site. This brewery building was very famous in Melbourne. There used to be a hotel on the corner of the brewery site. The main purpose of the hotel was to provide a place to exhibit and sell beer.

After RMIT took over brewery building on site was demol-ished, but its spirit remains. As time passes, the occu-pants move on and are replaced by new occupants. The memory of the previous occupants of the spaces echoes in the hollowness of space. The basic concept for design is that this spirit or ghost of the old building is taking over the body of the new one.

Upon further exploring the traditional concept of spirit I found that spirit is:- Formless, but possess the body of the new.- Reminds of the old.- Uncanny and unexpected from the usual.

The intention of the thesis is to integrate the memories of the inhabitants of a site as an ingredient to build.

By overlaying RMIT design hub building over old brew-ery layout, those parts of RMIT building are kept intact where there are remaining parts of brewery on site and the parts destroyed is where ghost of brewery takes over. This ghost deforms everything it touches producing uncanny spaces.

Concluding, sites get their meaning and identity from the memories that people have had of them. A new forced built intervention on a site deprives it of its desire to hold back certain collective memories and eventually the historical identity that used to unite the community of the place, gets erased from the city. This project is a re-collection of all those memories integrated with the new ideas for a healthy future.

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University of MelbourneTutor: Peter Raisbeck & Karen BurnsYear: 2012Location: Cnr Victoria & Swanston St.

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View of Interior from RampImage shows the interior urban space

and the atrium above.

Legend:1. Public Space2. Bicycle Stand3. Lecture Theatre4. Exhibition Space5. Design Cemetry6. Service Core7. game Area8. Timber Workshop

Initially, there used to be a brewery on the site. When RMIT bought this land they demolished everything that was there, thus depriving site of its original memories.

Since, the old brewery build-ing wasn’t repected so the design concept is that ghost or spirit of this building is now haunting the new RMIT design hub building.

DESIgn CEMETRY

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glass box collecting design waste

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Repititive factory like facade.

Assymetry Smoothing to de-formed skeleton.

Elephant Man

Elephant man’s deformed skeleton

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Draping cloth from deformed skeleton.

Strectching & opening skin to reveal defor-

Overlapping Rmt facade with the deformed ghost.

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Floors above contain com-puetr labs, workspaces and student lounges. The open plan allows for better col-labration between students encouraging group discus-sions and cross-pollination of ideas from one design faculty to the other.

Atriums and open spaces provide visual access be-tween different floors, thus keeping you in touch with your surroundings and mak-ing the user aware of things happening around him. This is done so that students can be inspired from their peers work.

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3D pRintED phYSical MoDEl

Enlarged view of middle floors

Victoria & Swansto street intersection etrance

Bird Eye View

Front ViewEnlarged View of Cantilevered Spaces

Swanston Street View

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ctUniversity of MelbourneTutor: Mikel RomanYear: 2012Location: Lonsdale Street

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The aim of this building is to celebrate different cultures in Melbourne.

Hawker style markets, stalls and booths are proposed for the proj-ect so that retail can flourish.

The retail areas are divided into different zones (using different level for each zone i.e: making use of the natural slope). Each zone is assigned with a different culture that is found in Mel-bourne e.g: Chinese, Aboriginal, greek, Koreans etc.

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A performance space with a stage is also given to celebrate festivals of all these different cultures. The intention is to make this building a “Cultural Hub in Mel-bourne.”

It has been observed that people of Melbourne love places like stalls or booths with a casual setting. Few of such examples are night markets in Melbourne and setup by Crown Casino at Chinese new Year. Keeping these things in mind this building seeks to celebrate diversity and cultures of Melbourne within an urban setup by welcoming it into the centre of the city.

3RD Floor Landscape View

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Legend:Landscape/Paved Areas

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Second Floor Plan Typical Aparment Floor Plan

Typical 1-Bedroom Units

Typical 2-Bedroom Unit Typical 3-Bedroom Unit

View from Lt. Bourke Street China Town

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Idea Architecture[Office Work]Year: 2014Location: Brisbane, Qld.

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The 9 - storey high apartment building is being proposed in a residential suburb of greenslopes in Brisbane. It will have a total of 103 apartments and a car space for 153 cars.

The building is divided into 3 vertical parts so that it doesn’t appear as a huge block of mass. Darker colour and a different material is used for the top floor to make it less visible. Also, building is divided horizontally by dif-ferent visual elements to reduce the appearance of the building as a huge block of mass.

The aim is to blend in with the neighbouring buildings, while improving the general character of the neighbour-hood.

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Site extruded to allow-able 8 - storey height

Mass pushed in to go with neighbourhood character

Courtyards on ground floor

Further offset to divide mass into 3 parts

Offset on top floor to create common areas with city views

As shown in section, car park for the units is provided on a split levels underground in the basement. The total number of car parks is 153.

On ground floor space is provided so that rub-bish truck can easily move in, collect rubbish and drive out.3D north - West View

3D north - East View

3D South - West View

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West Elevation

Shadow Diagram 0900 (21 June)



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West Streetscape Elevation Along Lincoln Street

Typical Floor Plan Level 8 Floor Plan

Street View fron north - West corner

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East Elevation

Street View fron South - West corner

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ground Floor Plan

The general concept for the design and arrangment of apartments is as follows:

1. The units on ground floor will have entrances from the lobby and through the front yard from the street.

2. Other units on a typical floor plan will have access from the central lobby via lift.


north Streetscape Elevation Along Flora StreetWest Streetscape Elevation Along Lincoln Street

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The 8 - storey high apartment building is being proposed in a residential suburb of Upper Mt gravatt in Brisbane. It will have a total of 49 apartments and a car space for 73 cars.

After the re-zoning of the area by Brisbane City Council, half of the site falls in the medium residential zone and the other half falls in the high residential zone. Keeping these zoning restricitions in mind a concept is proposed for the site where building steps back to form common area on level 5. Level 6 steps back even further giving big balconies to the penthouses on this floor.

Concept Diagrams

north- West Corner 3D View

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Arial north - West View

Arial South - West View

Apartments are arranged in a way to have the minimum circulation area with a central core which inhabits a lift core, fire stair case, fire hydrant room, mechanical ventilation chute and a bin room.Effecient circulation area allows to have bigger apartments on each floor, and in some cases an extra bedroom. This helped in generating a yeild much higher than what client initially wanted.

Level 5 has an access to the common area with bbq facilities, and Level 6 has penthouses with big balconies. The number of units towards front boundary are high so that more units can enjoy the mountain view on north side while getting the maximum sunlight.

Lower ground Floor Plan

Front - north Elevation Side - East Elevation

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Typical Floor Plan

Level 05 Floor Plan

Level 6 Floor Plan

Rear - South Elevation

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north East Corner 3D View

Arial Soth - East ViewArial north - East View

Side - West Elevation

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Street View fron north - East corner


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This was a quick design excercise to produce a building concept for the developer with retail on ground floor and apartments on upper floors. Client wanted to test the market and see if there is a demand for such project in a developement with alot of townhouses.

The building is divided into two parts so that there is a direct view from the site to the park at the rear.Ample parking is provided on ground floor for retail. An access is also provided on ground floor through ramp to the parking in basement.

Site Plan

Revit Concept Model

Initial models

Using revit file, a model was printed using an in house 3D printer for marketing purposes.

Testing colours

Final model in developer’s offfice

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