http://www.bild.com.au bild architecture Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:17:27 +0000 http://www.bild.com.au en http://www.bild.com.au/Surf-St http://www.bild.com.au/following/bild.com.au/Surf-St Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:17:27 +0000 bild architecture 2641919 .<img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/2641919/Bild_Surf-Street_01.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/2641919/Bild_Surf-Street_01_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/2641919/Bild_Surf-Street_04-10.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/2641919/Bild_Surf-Street_04-10_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/2641919/Bild_Surf-Street_6.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/2641919/Bild_Surf-Street_6_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/2641919/Bild_Surf-Street_08-09.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/2641919/Bild_Surf-Street_08-09_o.jpg" align="left" /> Surf StreetMornington Peninsula, Australia“When our first encounter with some object surprises us and we find it novel, or very different from what we formally knew or from what we supposed it ought to be, this causes us to wonder and be astonished by it”. A point of departure….. The Mornington Peninsula Township of Merricks Beach; gravel roads, manna gums and the quintessential ‘Beach Shack’; fibro clad, skillion roof, eve gutters and the corrugated rain water tank. 26 Surf Street inherits it all, understated, atypically local; a coastal Victorian, ‘born and bred’. The vernacular is placed at the centre of our attention; a dislocation is manifest, an aim to create a sense of the familiar / unfamiliar, a second glance, a glitch. Perhaps nostalgic but not romantic, 26 Surf St does not employ a set of symbolic associations instead it attempts to turn the familiar on its owners, suddenly to become de-familiarized, “a disquieting slippage between what seems homely and what is un-homely”. At the rear of the site a grove of twisted tea tree once stood. Once again the trees are rendered visible, embedded within the polycarbonate wall cavity, ghosted, as though growing with the bedrooms. The mismatch of the beach house is celebrated internally, rooms like walking into a sepia photograph, wall colours as if cigarette stained, wall paper patterned like grand-pas brown stripped pyjamas, furniture recycled from existing cabinets and wardrobes, a 50’s kitchen of pastel colours and loud laminex, bathrooms with bright vinyl floors and drop in shower bases, bedrooms adorned in faded 60s wall paper, 70s Acrylic dome lights and chocolate brown carpets. http://www.bild.com.au/Allied-Health http://www.bild.com.au/following/bild.com.au/Allied-Health Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:13:59 +0000 bild architecture 2590013 <img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/2590013/Bild_alied-health_1.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/2590013/Bild_alied-health_1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/2590013/Bild_alied-health_2-8.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/2590013/Bild_alied-health_2-8_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/2590013/Bild_alied-health_3.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/2590013/Bild_alied-health_3_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/2590013/Bild_alied-health_4-5.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/2590013/Bild_alied-health_4-5_o.jpg" align="left" /> Allied Health Melbourne, Australia“When our first encounter with some object surprises us and we find it novel, or very different from what we formally knew or from what we supposed it ought to be, this causes us to wonder and be astonished by it”. 2001 Space Odyssey meets late 19th century Victorian; ‘Allied Health’ is an unusual health clinic comprising of Podiatry, Physiotherapy, Pathology, Dietetics and Psychology. Victorian cornices, skirting boards, ceiling roses and chandeliers combine to present the interior as classically ‘Victorian’. Placing the ‘Victorian vernacular’ at the centre of our attention, a dislocation is then manifest; Medical = Molecular; glossy white molecules or futuristic pods interlock between the floor plates attempting to turn the familiar on its owners, the space becoming defamiliarised creating a “a disquieting slippage between what seems homely and what is un-homely”. In response to the sterile, disinfected norm of clinical surgery space, the interiors of the consulting suites harbour a third condition; walls, floors, ceilings and joinery are entirely clad in plywood, finished in clear lacquer with maximum wood grain, creating a rich, warm, womb like interior. http://www.bild.com.au/Bonded-House http://www.bild.com.au/following/bild.com.au/Bonded-House Mon, 05 Sep 2011 02:40:15 +0000 bild architecture 1823046 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/1823046/Bild_Bonded-House_02.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/1823046/Bild_Bonded-House_02_o.jpg" align="left" /> Bonded HouseMelbourne 2011-The bonded house is an exciting new project exploring the possibilities of responsive brick bonding and pattering through a residential alteration and addition. Stay tuned for more info and the project develops.... http://www.bild.com.au/Inversions http://www.bild.com.au/following/bild.com.au/Inversions Mon, 05 Sep 2011 02:40:12 +0000 bild architecture 1823508 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/1823508/bild_install_inversions_1_1.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/1823508/bild_install_inversions_1_1_o.jpg" align="left" /> InversionsMelbourne, 2009The ‘inversions’ installation continues a series of works investigating the potential for photographic space, or the ‘space’ in-between architectural and photographic practice. A manipulated image of the stairwell space that forms a photographic/spatial inversion— the space is photographically bent, so that the viewer is looking back at where they are standing. Objects in Space showcases the work of over twenty young artists and architects in as many gallery spaces throughout Melbourne. The works in this exhibition defy the expectations of a conventional group show, by creating a network across the city, a network that forms a parasitic and miniaturized version of the 2008 Next Wave Festival. http://www.bild.com.au/Pungoll-Parametric http://www.bild.com.au/following/bild.com.au/Pungoll-Parametric Mon, 05 Sep 2011 02:35:20 +0000 bild architecture 1823037 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/1823037/Bild_Pungoll_1.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/1823037/Bild_Pungoll_1_o.jpg" align="left" /> Pungoll ParametricSingapore, 2009The Pungoll Parametric project has been designed to demonstrate a new benchmark for urban sustainability in public residential developments in Singapore. The project approaches urban sustainability from the basis of a triple-bottom-line definition, in which social and economic concerns are taken into account alongside considerations of the environment. Sustainability is therefore taken as a unifying focus of the project, integrating the design through the urban design to the architectural scale. Cities bring together people along with the means of production. As well as maintaining a balance with the environment and building social infrastructure, healthy cities also therefore provide the framework for communities to develop their own local economies. Local economic benefits can be derived from initiatives such as Urban Agriculture. The entire masterplan has been considered as an integrated urban ecology that supports social, economic and environmental sustainability principles. Within this framework a cohesive and rich urban fabric has been proposed that allows for variations in density, housing typologies, household mix, landscape experiences, and social/ community infrastructure. The ribbon form articulates the masterplan from east to west across the site, allowing each building to be appropriately north-south oriented. Within the ribbon landscapes, the housing is clustered in groups of approximately four residential blocks or towers around a shared podium deck. Arranging the buildings in clusters creates neighbourhood adjacencies, allowing the residents to identify with a smaller section of the site. Across the masterplan the Housing Ribbons transform and mutate, emerging in some places as residential blocks and in other places taking on the form of residential towers. The residential slab block has been selected for the Public Housing due to its inherent efficiencies – regularised planning and low ratio of façade area to floor area. The maisonette configuration allows for a very high degree of privacy within the apartment. This configuration gives rise to double height balconies, natural cross-ventilation and daylighting. http://www.bild.com.au/Linear-Monument http://www.bild.com.au/following/bild.com.au/Linear-Monument Fri, 05 Aug 2011 08:59:18 +0000 bild architecture 1823515 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/1823515/BiLD_Research_Linear-Monument.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/1823515/BiLD_Research_Linear-Monument_o.jpg" align="left" /> Linear Monument Research ProjectOpen agenda Competition, 2010"Despite the pressures of a booming population — much of it driven by overseas students and new migrants wanting to settle close in — growth in the inner and middle suburbs declined significantly, as rising costs and council opposition blocked many residential redevelopments." The Age, "Pressure grows as Melbourne rockets to 4 million", TIM COLEBATCH, April 24, 2009 Urban futures in Australia are currently a source of anxiety both within the profession, media and general public. The perfect storm of rapid population growth and the increasingly accepted un-sustainability of continued urban growth at the fringe, has delivered a pressing need for increased urban density within existing suburbs. Numerous solutions are put forward to 'solve' the issue of densification within the inner suburbs, where wealthy, and increasingly vocal residents agree with the arguments and benefits of increased density with the existing urban ; but oppose any changes to the character of 'their' neighbourhoods. Few if any of these solutions deliver the scope of new housing and other services required to meet the needs of our cites. Linear Monument proposes to occupy and build over the hundreds of thousands of square meters of railway corridors within the most sought after and valuable inner urban land. While this idea is not new, but what has changed is the ability to use parametric systems to link demographic, real estate, topographic and legal information sets, to feasibility analysis/form generation effecting radical architectures from a simple premise. Linear Monument forms a nexus of the unfashionably poetic utopian mega structure with an intensely pragmatic/rationalist, a solution for urban densification expressly formed by the forces shaping the contemporary Australian urban condition. The Linear Monument project was awarded a Honourable Mention in the inaugural Open Agenda competition. http://www.bild.com.au/Mill-Managers-House http://www.bild.com.au/following/bild.com.au/Mill-Managers-House Fri, 05 Aug 2011 08:58:04 +0000 bild architecture 1823510 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/1823510/Bild_Mill-Managers-House_01.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/1823510/Bild_Mill-Managers-House_01_o.jpg" align="left" /> Mill Managers House Melbourne, 2011- The Mill Managers House is a new residential project in inner-Melbourne, altering and extending one of Collingwood's original homesteads. Originally the home of the manager of Digits Mill, one of Melbourne’s early landmarks, over the years the house has been compromised with successive add-ons and minor alterations. Bild’s vision for this project strips away these additions and celebrate the original building. Stay tuned for more info and the project develops…. http://www.bild.com.au/OneTwoOne http://www.bild.com.au/following/bild.com.au/OneTwoOne Fri, 05 Aug 2011 08:55:04 +0000 bild architecture 1823504 http://www.bild.com.au/Little-Babylons-1-20 http://www.bild.com.au/following/bild.com.au/Little-Babylons-1-20 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 08:38:25 +0000 bild architecture 1823460 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/1823460/Bild_Install_Little-Babalyons_1_2.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/1823460/Bild_Install_Little-Babalyons_1_2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/1823460/Bild_Install_Little-Babalyons_1_1.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/1823460/Bild_Install_Little-Babalyons_1_1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/1823460/Bild_Install_Little-Babalyons_2_1.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/1823460/Bild_Install_Little-Babalyons_2_1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/1823460/Bild_Install_Little-Babalyons_2_2.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/1823460/Bild_Install_Little-Babalyons_2_2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/1823460/Bild_Install_Little-Babalyons_12.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/1823460/Bild_Install_Little-Babalyons_12_o.jpg" align="left" /> Little Babylons (1:20) Berlin, 2008 The photograph is guilty of many miss-deeds, lies and fabrications. As our culture increasingly visualizes, pictures pimp every product imaginable from bikinis to beach houses. But, the medium is innocent, it is our implicit assumption that the photograph is ‘real’ that leads us astray. The 1:20 project originated as an open investigation of the possibilities of collaboration between an architect and photographer/artist. A collaboration that attempts to re-frame the typical, linear relationship of : Architect > photographer : object > documentation Into a true collaborative process of: Architect photographer: artifice real(site) Using the collaborator’s familiar techniques; digital and physical model making, image production and manipulation, in unfamiliar ways to establish hybrid methodologies. The transit lounge gallery was taken as the site of experimentation – the ‘transience’ of the project being the temporary occupation of, focus on and transformation of the ‘site’. The site was photographically recorded at a variety of scales, physically modelled, transformed via installations and alterations to the model. Re-photographed and presented within the site (gallery). The re-presentation of the ‘artificial’ images of the ‘real’ space, within the real space de-stabilizes the conventional ‘reality’ of the photograph and in particular the architectural photograph. This project was made possible through the support of Transit Lounge: a series of overlapping residencies for Australian and German artists and architects in Berlin. With Tanja Milbourne (nee Kimme) http://www.bild.com.au/Sedimentary-House http://www.bild.com.au/following/bild.com.au/Sedimentary-House Fri, 05 Aug 2011 03:59:57 +0000 bild architecture 1823029 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/1823029/BiLD_Sedimentary-House_01.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/1823029/BiLD_Sedimentary-House_01_o.jpg" align="left" /> Sedimentary HouseMelbourne 2011-The sedimentary house project is a new renovation and extension project exploring the layering of occupation within a small domestic project in inner-northern Melbourne. Similar to way that depositing sediment in rivers and oceans over time forms new types of rock, buildings undergo gradual transformation over time, and absorb traces of their history throughout their lives. Like stripping back wall paper to reveal the layers of fashion – the sedimentary house project reveals and celebrates this layering, or historical sedimentation, and makes it explicit, via formal transformation and visual cues in the interior. The house sits within a heritage protected street scape of 19th Century timber workers cottages. The existing building is stretched along its long narrow site, pressed hard against its western boundary, with rooms hung of the interior corridor, and like many of typology struggles to gain access to daylight. The form of the heritage building is taken as the point of departure for the new work, extending this shape along the length of the site, but flipping it to the eastern boundary - drawing light and air deep into the plan and introducing a courtyard at the center of the plan. This formal transformation is effected as a gradual transition as you move through the length of the building from old to new – a timeline of the building’s evolution, expressed formally and via detailing particular to the stylistic strata along the path from 1820 to 2011. While the street frontage of the house restored, respecting its contribution to the heritage streetscape, the gradual transition from old to new goes full circle with the rear elevation arriving back to the shape and proportion of the street frontage with a contemporary interpretation of it’s materials and composition.