http://www.bild.com.au bild architecture Thu, 03 May 2012 03:04:59 +0000 http://www.bild.com.au en http://www.bild.com.au/UnWaste-Bookcase-1 http://www.bild.com.au/following/bild.com.au/UnWaste-Bookcase-1 Thu, 03 May 2012 03:04:59 +0000 bild architecture 3328101 <img src="http://payload51.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3328101/BiLD_UnWaste-Bookcase_03_View-From-Living.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload51.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3328101/BiLD_UnWaste-Bookcase_03_View-From-Living_o.jpg" data-mid="17087413" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload51.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3328101/BiLD_UnWaste-Bookcase_04_View-From-Living.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload51.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3328101/BiLD_UnWaste-Bookcase_04_View-From-Living_o.jpg" data-mid="17087415" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload51.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3328101/BiLD_UnWaste-Bookcase_05_View-From-Living.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload51.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3328101/BiLD_UnWaste-Bookcase_05_View-From-Living_o.jpg" data-mid="17087419" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload51.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3328101/BiLD_UnWaste-Bookcase_06_View-From-Living.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload51.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3328101/BiLD_UnWaste-Bookcase_06_View-From-Living_o.jpg" data-mid="17087423" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload51.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3328101/BiLD_UnWaste-Bookcase_07-8_View-From-Living.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload51.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3328101/BiLD_UnWaste-Bookcase_07-8_View-From-Living_o.jpg" data-mid="17087429" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload51.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3328101/BiLD_UnWaste-Bookcase_09_View-From-Bedroom.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload51.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3328101/BiLD_UnWaste-Bookcase_09_View-From-Bedroom_o.jpg" data-mid="17087433" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload51.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3328101/BiLD_UnWaste-Bookcase_10_View-From-Bedroom.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload51.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3328101/BiLD_UnWaste-Bookcase_10_View-From-Bedroom_o.jpg" data-mid="17087436" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload51.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3328101/BiLD_UnWaste-Bookcase_12_Shelf-Detail.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload51.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3328101/BiLD_UnWaste-Bookcase_12_Shelf-Detail_o.jpg" data-mid="17087441" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload51.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3328101/BiLD_UnWaste-Bookcase_01-11_Salvaged-Ply-Shelf Detail.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload51.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3328101/BiLD_UnWaste-Bookcase_01-11_Salvaged-Ply-Shelf Detail_o.jpg" data-mid="17087411" border="0" align="left"/> UnWaste Bookcase Melbourne, VictoriaThe UnWaste bookcase, a collaboration between architect Ben Milbourne (Bild Architecture), eco-designer Leyla Acaroglu (Eco Innovators) and specialist furniture designer David Waterworth (Against the Grain); is the inventive response to a challenging brief and an adventurous client, resulting in a sustainably designed full-wall rotating library. A split-level open plan warehouse conversion in Melbourne’s CBD needed a flexible solution to divide the open space into 2 rooms, while retaining the option of keeping the larger combined space when needed; an answer that would allow for light and airflow throughout the spaces but also a division between living and sleeping areas. The James Bond inspired solution involves a 4.6 metre high by 3.8m wide rotating library allowing books to be stored and accessed from either side and maximising air-flow and light when needed by simply pushing on the corner to allow for full 360 degree rotation. Producing the least environmental impact possible was paramount with this project. Conventional ‘virgin’ MDF, Timber or Melamine all came with unacceptable environmental impacts, leading to an impasse that threatened to derail the project. The solution came via the collaboration with David Waterworth who specialises in reclaimed and recycled materials in his designs. Reclaimed plywood from construction site hoardings (the temporary barriers at the edge of construction sites) were sourced and the material’s unique characteristics of posters, weathering, graffiti and mismatched paints was incorporated into the design. The ply was sealed with natural beeswax, and with the construction processes minimising off-cut waste, 30 sheets of plywood were saved from landfill for this project further limiting its environmental impact. The UnWaste Bookcase demonstrates the innovation possible through collaboration across disciplines. Alone, none of the collaborators would have arrived at anything like the finished project – but together, a truly innovative outcome was achieved. Proving how simple it is to find an innovative sustainable design solution that is functional, aesthetical and certainly in this case unique. <img src="http://payload51.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3328101/Bild_UnWaste-Bookcase_Animation-1.gif" width="266" height="400" width_o="266" height_o="400" src_o="http://payload51.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3328101/Bild_UnWaste-Bookcase_Animation-1_o.gif" data-mid="17266517" border="0" align="left"/> photography: TM Photo (www.tmphoto.co) http://www.bild.com.au/Pungoll-Parametric http://www.bild.com.au/following/bild.com.au/Pungoll-Parametric Wed, 28 Mar 2012 06:31:23 +0000 bild architecture 1823037 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/1823037/Bild_Pungoll_1.jpg" 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" data-mid="9702428" border="0" 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/Dusk http://www.bild.com.au/following/bild.com.au/Dusk Wed, 28 Mar 2012 06:30:59 +0000 bild architecture 3093906 <img src="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3093906/Bild_dusk-bar_1-3.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3093906/Bild_dusk-bar_1-3_o.jpg" data-mid="15789344" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3093906/cable reel_2_e_2.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3093906/cable reel_2_e_2_o.jpg" data-mid="15789442" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3093906/dusk-bar_2.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3093906/dusk-bar_2_o.jpg" data-mid="15789348" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3093906/dusk-bar_4.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3093906/dusk-bar_4_o.jpg" data-mid="15789349" border="0" align="left"/> Dusk Melbourne, Australia Dusk challenges architectural materials and models with 'the found object.' Dusk captures the resourcefulness of this method which embodies notions of sustainability. This is all very retro, anti-techno, and NOT really where it's at..... In an age of Catia and YouTube, of stereo lithography and Google Earth, 'Dusk' finds comfort in life's simple things - sitting on a cable reel and having a beer. Dusk is a confused montage of architectural refuse, of off cuts, and out-dated technology. However; Dusk isn't about the recycled. Dusk celebrates unusual usages of the mundane, of the outdated, and of the 'off the shelf'. There are glitches everywhere; from the objects that disguise themselves as architecture and furniture; lights created from compact discs, a jigsaw puzzle floor recanting our childhood; too the large tattoos inspired by the shadowy underbelly of the film Faust adorning the walls. Located on the ground floor of the Ritz Mansions, Fitzroy St, St Kilda, Dusk celebrates unusual usages of the mundane, of the outdated, and of the 'off the shelf'. There are glitches everywhere; from the objects that disguise themselves as architecture and furniture; lights created from compact discs, a jigsaw puzzle floor recanting our childhood; too the large tattoos inspired by the shadowy underbelly of the film Faust adorning the walls. The project has been published locally and internationally and was entered in the 2007 Interior Design Awards, winning the premier award for Interior Design Excellence and Innovation as well as the award for Hospitality Interior Design. Project Completed by DireTribe (Campbell Drake) http://www.bild.com.au/Section-8 http://www.bild.com.au/following/bild.com.au/Section-8 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 05:38:24 +0000 bild architecture 3093780 <img src="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3093780/Bild_Section-8_8.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3093780/Bild_Section-8_8_o.jpg" data-mid="15788501" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3093780/Bild_Section-8_3.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3093780/Bild_Section-8_3_o.jpg" data-mid="15788493" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3093780/Bild_Section-8_5-6.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3093780/Bild_Section-8_5-6_o.jpg" data-mid="15788497" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3093780/Bild_Section-8_7_4.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3093780/Bild_Section-8_7_4_o.jpg" data-mid="15788653" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3093780/Bild_Section-8_1.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/3093780/Bild_Section-8_1_o.jpg" data-mid="15788490" border="0" align="left"/>Section 8 Melbourne, AustraliaThis urban molecule brings the city fringe into the CBD; it is the meeting of a shipping yard with the central urban situation of China town. The conjoining of the two, in the open air, with the Melbourne CBD towering above, creates a theatre where the punter is performer; a congregation of towers forming an urban spectatorship. Melbourne's first truly temporary bar eschews the niceties of fashion; responding instead to context, weather, and the unforgiving reality that the 'designer bar' in Melbourne is all too quickly usurped by the next in a domino line of designer bars. By the time Melbourne is sick of the temporary bar, the temporary bar will be sick of Melbourne; it will have moved on. Section 8 is a tough response to an effete typology. Bar culture in Melbourne is notably anti-urban, cocooned from the city. The scheme responds to the temporal brief and restricted budget by showcasing the theme of the temporary. The project is imbued with the city, the designers hand buried in the undersigned urban realm. 100 pallets are transformed into decking, seating, and tables; 50 suspended umbrellas achieve a surreal sense of partial enclosure; 1 container installs a bar; 1 container provides amenities. Responding to context, weather, the temporal brief and restricted budget the venue is constructed of 100 pallets; transformed into decking, seating, and tables, 50 suspended umbrellas creating a surreal sense of partial enclosure, 1 shipping container installs a bar; 1 container provides amenities. A cryptic crossword spray-painted across the ‘modular landscape’ grid talks to the workers in the office towers above. Section 8 went on to be published numerous times, both locally and internationally, featured in television documentaries and advertisements, found its way to the Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale and was awarded runner up in the Idea Interior Design Awards 2006. Project completed by DireTribe (Campbell Drake) 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" 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" data-mid="13373806" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/2641919/Bild_Surf-Street_04-10.jpg" 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" data-mid="13373808" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/2641919/Bild_Surf-Street_6.jpg" 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" data-mid="13373809" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/2641919/Bild_Surf-Street_08-09.jpg" 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" data-mid="13373811" border="0" align="left"/>Surf StreetMornington Peninsula, Victoria“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. photography: TM Photo (www.tmphoto.co) 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" 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" data-mid="13092458" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/2590013/Bild_alied-health_2-8.jpg" 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" data-mid="13092461" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/2590013/Bild_alied-health_3.jpg" 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" data-mid="13092462" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/2590013/Bild_alied-health_4-5.jpg" 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" data-mid="13092562" border="0" align="left"/> Allied Health Melbourne, Victoria“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. photography: TM Photo (www.tmphoto.co) 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" 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" data-mid="9619329" border="0" align="left"/> Bonded HouseMelbourne, Victoria 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/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" 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" data-mid="9648103" border="0" 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" 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" data-mid="9647698" border="0" 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 OneTwoOneBerlin 2008-For this project, the second of the transit lounge residency, we were joined by new media artists’ Kristina Matovic, Benjamin Ducroz and sound artist Michael Prior, in exploring similar themes to the 1:20, Little Babylons project: The perceived reality of the photographic image, the establishment of artificereal feedback loop, the loss/gain of information in the transition from 2D to 3D, and the space for creative misinterpretation this opens up. While the conceptual direction was similar, with the expanded collaboration the project moved in a very different direction. This project again originated with a scale model of the project gallery – although this time the desire was to spatially manipulate the site rather than icongraphically intervene. Through photographing the 1:20 scale model and installing the photographs at full-scale in the space – we introduced artificial spaces into the real space. These new spaces used the architectural elements of the site to reinforce the illusion (walls became floors etc) and blurred the distinction between the real and artificial. This image acted as a set/stage for the work of Kriss, Ben and Michael who introduced live video and audio feeds into the image – the viewer became the actor – interacting with recorded video, live video and the base ‘stage-set’ image. This project was made possible through the support of Transit Lounge: The Transit Lounge is a series of overlapping residencies for Australian and German artists and architects in Berlin.