http://www.bild.com.au bild architecture Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:33:20 +0000 http://www.bild.com.au en http://www.bild.com.au/Inversions http://www.bild.com.au/following/bild.com.au/Inversions Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:33:20 +0000 bild architecture 1823508 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/1823508/bild_install_inversions_1_1.jpg" 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" data-mid="9530509" border="0" 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. InversionsMelbourne, 2009The ‘inversions’ installation continues a series of works investigating the potential for photographic space, or the ‘space’... http://www.bild.com.au/Hotel-Liesma http://www.bild.com.au/following/bild.com.au/Hotel-Liesma Thu, 01 Nov 2012 02:25:41 +0000 bild architecture 4357756 <img src="http://payload102.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4357756/Bild_Hotel-Liesma_Aerial.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload102.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4357756/Bild_Hotel-Liesma_Aerial_o.jpg" data-mid="23046778" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload102.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4357756/Bild_Hotel-Liesma_Conferance.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload102.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4357756/Bild_Hotel-Liesma_Conferance_o.jpg" data-mid="23046780" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload102.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4357756/Bild_Hotel-Liesma_LEasure.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload102.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4357756/Bild_Hotel-Liesma_LEasure_o.jpg" data-mid="23046782" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload102.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4357756/Bild_Hotel-Liesma_Lobby.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload102.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4357756/Bild_Hotel-Liesma_Lobby_o.jpg" data-mid="23046784" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload102.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4357756/Bild_Hotel-Liesma_View-from-Entry-1.jpg" width="670" height="433" width_o="960" height_o="621" src_o="http://payload102.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4357756/Bild_Hotel-Liesma_View-from-Entry-1_o.jpg" data-mid="23046789" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload102.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4357756/Bild_Hotel-Liesma_View-from-Entry-2.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload102.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4357756/Bild_Hotel-Liesma_View-from-Entry-2_o.jpg" data-mid="23046790" border="0" align="left"/>Hotel LiesmaJurmala, LatviaBild, in collaboration with INDEX Architecture, has completed a proposal for a new hotel on the beach side of a resort in Jurmala, Latvia. The design is located a short walk from the beachfront and includes 130 rooms, a restaurant, conference and health club facilities. The brief called for a design based around the theme of music that reused an existing tower on the site. The ground floor is to be constructed from a curved timber LVL framed roof structure, which was drawn from the waveforms of Handel’s ‘Water Music.’ The tower reuses the existing concrete structure with a new curtain wall featuring a white ceramic interlayer pattern. The human experience of nature’s rhythms; the ocean, the wind, is intrinsically tied to music, with these natural frequencies, resonating at some level within us. The coastline and surrounds of the hotel site is in many ways a musical landscape, both in terms of its aural qualities (the sounds of wind and waves) but also in its natural forms – the shapes of waves and sand dunes physically capturing their frequency; their natural music. Waveform captures this notion of natural music; translating a musical sample to physical form, one that echoes and harmonizes with this coastal landscape ‐ a building that is both physically and poetically embedded in its landscape. The point of departure for the project is the opening sequence of Handel’s ‘Water Music’, a piece expressive of the power and majesty of the ocean. This musical sample was graphically visualized and then used in a variety of forms throughout the design. The graphic visualization, or Waveform, is aligned to the site and extruded to provide the roof shape and undulating ceilings of the hotels public spaces. Viewed from the exterior these forms the white dunes of Jurlama’s coastal landscape. The existing site of hotel has a number of significant trees and other vegetation that is well worth preserving. The key site strategy is to identify these key moments, and celebrate them The key site strategy for the project was identifying where to locate the building, but rather identifying where not to build – moments of preservation within the site. These zones are subtracted from the extruded wave form, creating courtyards within the building, drawing light deep into the floor plate and providing entry and car parking facilities. Although the ground level public areas of the building appear formally dynamic, the construction technology to achieve this effect is conventional and therefore cost effective. The waveform roof is a simple extrusion along the short axis of the building, allowing for the use of curved Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) beams and a simple column grid as the primary structure, supporting timber roof purlins, layered plywood and roofing membrane as the roofing surface. Insulation appropriate to the climatic conditions to be integrated into the roof construction to ensure thermal comfort and the environmental performance of the building. The tower façade translates the Waveform motif vertically, though the application of a ‘fritted’ ceramic interlayer embedded in the glass. Although an extremely conventional glass curtain wall, with all the advantages of ease of construction, integration of insulation and cost, the façade is strikingly original and visually arresting. Design Team: Ben Milbourne (Bild Architecture), John Doyle, Laura Mártires, Edmund Carter (Studio Inex) Status: Competition Project Year: 2011 Hotel LiesmaJurmala, LatviaBild, in collaboration with INDEX Architecture, has completed a proposal for a new hotel on the beach side of a resort in Jurmala,... http://www.bild.com.au/Split-House http://www.bild.com.au/following/bild.com.au/Split-House Thu, 01 Nov 2012 01:34:33 +0000 bild architecture 4242943 <img src="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4242943/BiLD_Split House_02_View from Yard.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4242943/BiLD_Split House_02_View from Yard_o.jpg" data-mid="23046377" border="0" align="left"/>{i<img src="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4242943/Bild_Split-House_03_View-from-Yard.jpg" width="670" height="447" width_o="960" height_o="641" src_o="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4242943/Bild_Split-House_03_View-from-Yard_o.jpg" data-mid="23046375" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4242943/BiLD_Split-House_01-05.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4242943/BiLD_Split-House_01-05_o.jpg" data-mid="23046373" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4242943/BiLD_Split House_04_View from Deck.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4242943/BiLD_Split House_04_View from Deck_o.jpg" data-mid="23046380" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4242943/BiLD_Split-House_06-11.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4242943/BiLD_Split-House_06-11_o.jpg" data-mid="23046376" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4242943/BiLD_Split House_10_Kitchen-Dining.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4242943/BiLD_Split House_10_Kitchen-Dining_o.jpg" data-mid="23046371" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4242943/BiLD_Split House_12_Living - Dining.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4242943/BiLD_Split House_12_Living - Dining_o.jpg" data-mid="23046372" border="0" align="left"/>The Split HouseFootscray, VictoriaThe split house is a major renovation and addition to a typical inter-war period house in Melbourne’s western suburbs. As is common for many houses of this period, it had a deep floor-plate compounded by numerous additions and modifications, contributing to an antiquated layout and an extreme lack of natural light and ventilation. Most of the original house was retained, while it’s numerous add-ons removed, and replaced with a new kitchen & dining zone, laundry/bathroom, living room and upper level study/guest room. Referencing artist Gordon Matta-Clarke’s 1970’s New Jersey series of projects, where buildings were sculpturally ‘carved’ to creating unexpected apertures and incisions; a deep axial cut was introduced in the house, effectively splitting it down the middle, with light from the incision invading the interior and uniting the rooms with a swath of brilliance. This new splitting axis extends from the ground level to the roof and from the rear to the center of the house, producing double height void that draws light through the new zones of the house and deep into the houses’ retained older sections. The new zones of the house have strong links to the expansive garden, drawing the outside in and spilling onto the expansive deck and gardens beyond. Bild’s design process is committed to collaboration as a key strategy for innovation. In this case our clients were very active in the initial design, and took on the supervising role in the execution of the building. Handing over the design prior to construction can be like playing a game of Chinese Whispers; you never know what you will get back in the end; it could be a disaster but in this case it was a triumph, with our clients introducing numerous innovative environmental initiatives to minimise the impact of the project; including a green roof above the central light and ventilation spine, extensive use of recycled and up-cycled timbers and structural elements, solar water heating and extensive rainwater harvesting for use in the expansive garden. The Split House is could be described as a playful example of Exquisite Corpse, the surrealist parlour game, where the outcome is both unexpected and yet transcended the sum of its parts. Photography: www.tmphoto.co The Split HouseFootscray, VictoriaThe split house is a major renovation and addition to a typical inter-war period house in Melbourne’s western suburbs. As is... http://www.bild.com.au/Green-Square-Library-Plaza http://www.bild.com.au/following/bild.com.au/Green-Square-Library-Plaza Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:48:56 +0000 bild architecture 4304302 <img src="http://payload100.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4304302/Bild_GreenSqaure_ExteriorRender.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload100.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4304302/Bild_GreenSqaure_ExteriorRender_o.jpg" data-mid="22729200" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload100.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4304302/Bild_GreenSqaure_Interior---Detail.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload100.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4304302/Bild_GreenSqaure_Interior---Detail_o.jpg" data-mid="23046286" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload100.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4304302/Bild_GreenSquare_Urban-Strategy.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload100.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4304302/Bild_GreenSquare_Urban-Strategy_o.jpg" data-mid="23046285" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload100.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4304302/Bild_GreenSquare_Program-Axo.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload100.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/4304302/Bild_GreenSquare_Program-Axo_o.jpg" data-mid="23046288" border="0" align="left"/>Green Square Library & Plaza Sydney, AustraliaThe library is a pivotal community asset, both in terms of the library’s traditional role as a repository and destination for gathering information, but also acting as a meeting place for the community. As a gathering place, the library holds enormous potential for acting as a symbolic emblem for the community, a marker of identity, a ‘place holder’ if you will. Bild’s proposal for the Green Square Library and public plaza competition, presented a public art strategy is deeply embedded within the design of the building as a whole; entwined and inseparable from the aesthetic, function and environmental performance of the plaza and building as a unified design proposition. The key element of this strategy is the use of text as an aesthetic motif, acting as a functional and environmental performance element within the design. In the library’s traditional role as the community’s repository for and interface with information, text and typography have enormous historic resonance and offers significant potential in negotiating the project’s interaction in the wider urban domain. Text is imprinted in the building façade, on multiple levels. Across the western, northern and eastern facades a source text is arrayed across the facade with individual letters scaled subject to the cumulative heat load the façade experiences from the summer solstice to the equinox; the scaling of the letters increases or decreases the total solar permeably of the screening element; providing a highly calibrated passive solar screen fixed to the outer face of the building’s mullions. The scaling of the text also varies the legibility of the typography, oscillating between legibility and pattern – often teetering between decoration and content, but never fully either. A place for the community, the plaza design is considered as a fluid series of discreet yet interconnected outdoor ‘living rooms’ for the community. Referencing the site’s heritage as a wetland, the design utilises a hydraulic generative analogy of eddies and flows. A series of variously sized gathering static (eddie) spaces are distributed throughout the plaza, where the current of urban life turns inward and slows down; accommodating different scale groups and activities; from spaces for farmers markets, a speakers corner, pockets for quite enjoyment of the sunshine, etc. The eddie spaces are interwoven with dynamic flow spaces, connecting key access points to the plaza; in a non-direct way, established a complex, interactive relationship between the static (eddie) and dynamic (flow) spaces; encouraging the community to meet, linger and develop a sense of ownership of the community’s living room. Sustainability is integral to Bild’s vision for the library and community plaza. Whole of building life thinking has been applied to both the planning and façade design for the building, to minimise the long term impact of the project. This mode of decision making is proposed to be used for all future design decisions; prioritising onsite re-use or demolition waste, low-embodied energy materials, grey water recycling and further optimising of passive solar and natural ventilation strategies. Project Team: Ben Milbourne, John Doyle, Laura Martires Status: Competition Entry Green Square Library & Plaza Sydney, AustraliaThe library is a pivotal community asset, both in terms of the library’s traditional role as a repository and... http://www.bild.com.au/UnWaste-Bookcase-1 http://www.bild.com.au/following/bild.com.au/UnWaste-Bookcase-1 Wed, 02 May 2012 22:04:59 +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) UnWaste Bookcase Melbourne, VictoriaThe UnWaste bookcase, a collaboration between architect Ben Milbourne (Bild Architecture), eco-designer Leyla Acaroglu (Eco... http://www.bild.com.au/Pungoll-Parametric http://www.bild.com.au/following/bild.com.au/Pungoll-Parametric Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:31:23 +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, 2009Bild in collaboration with Anna Tweedale Architecture and Dyskors The 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. Pungoll ParametricSingapore, 2009Bild in collaboration with Anna Tweedale Architecture and Dyskors The Pungoll Parametric project has been designed to demonstrate... http://www.bild.com.au/Bonded-House http://www.bild.com.au/following/bild.com.au/Bonded-House Sun, 04 Sep 2011 21:40:15 +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.... Bonded HouseMelbourne, Victoria The bonded house is an exciting new project exploring the possibilities of responsive brick bonding and pattering through a... http://www.bild.com.au/Linear-Monument http://www.bild.com.au/following/bild.com.au/Linear-Monument Fri, 05 Aug 2011 03:59:18 +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. Linear Monument Research ProjectOpen agenda Competition, 2010"Despite the pressures of a booming population — much of it driven by overseas students and new... http://www.bild.com.au/Mill-Managers-House http://www.bild.com.au/following/bild.com.au/Mill-Managers-House Fri, 05 Aug 2011 03:58:04 +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…. 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... 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 03:38:25 +0000 bild architecture 1823460 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/1823460/Bild_Install_Little-Babalyons_1_2.jpg" 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" data-mid="9538502" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/1823460/Bild_Install_Little-Babalyons_1_1.jpg" 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" data-mid="9538556" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/1823460/Bild_Install_Little-Babalyons_2_1.jpg" 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" data-mid="9538539" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/1823460/Bild_Install_Little-Babalyons_2_2.jpg" 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" data-mid="9538561" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/84638/1823460/Bild_Install_Little-Babalyons_12.jpg" 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" data-mid="9538509" border="0" 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) 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...