The Goddard Residence, located in the small coastal sea side town of San Remo in Victoria’s Bass Coast, overlooks the Bass Strait and the southern seaside entrance of Western Port Bay. The home is set back into the property with beautiful gardens and a warm welcoming atmosphere. From the access road on the northern side of the residence, the home displays an unassuming modern styling with high roof lines whilst strategically concealing it’s coastally aspects to the south. Utilisation of mixed materials and clever design draws focus to the fully double glazed boardwalk entrance. At night the boardwalk entrance and garden are spectacularly lit, offset on the east with rich timber panelling and a high natural stone wall that continues inside on the west.

The Hill Residence is located on the suburban fringe of the Leongatha Township; in the dairy region of South Gippsland, Victoria. The home sits atop the north west hills on a wedge shaped block overlooking the town with visual corridors to the south and east. The first appearance of the home presents clean modern lines combined with an older bagged style rendering, merging aesthetics of old and new. The house was designed to provide multiple viewing aspects of the town and extended farm land from within specific areas of the home. Other key requirements were to maximise the floor area in relation to the usable green space and this was achieved by stretching the façade around the front boundary curve, creating a sizeable back yard.

The Murrays Bay change facility was a conceptual development to replace an existing underused and deteriorating change facility located near the main beach front access of Murrays Bay, New Zealand. I produced this concept whilst working for an architectural firm in New Zealand, with the concept submitted to the local council and public for consideration.

Concept 01 is a developed concept based on digital iterations of fragmented geometry. Under a series of pre-determined controls acting upon the original geometry, segmented sections of the original model were extracted for individual development under more refined controls. Following further refinement of the segments and removal of peripheral facets of geometry that were not joined into the model, useable space and form started to appear. Finally weaving the multiple segments together showed how coherent faceted geometry could form buildable complex volumes.

Concept 02 is an initial digital concept based on continuous replications of simple geometric forms. Each layer consists of a length of track to represent the building length and three ‘blocks’ wide to represent the building width. Block segments where randomly generated along the track and the multiple layers blended together to create a collection of various volumes.

Concept 03 is a developed design exploring the various properties and ephemeral effects of ‘the wall’ on a space and the impact of ‘the wall’ on interactions occurring within the spaces. The ideas investigated were based between glass and transparency, solid walls and moveable walls and the ambiance of the space when the materials were altered or rearranged in other configurations.