[{"id":"R_2FncDVmso7M9jma","title":"Aquatic Archives","abstract":"An architecture museum should reflect the cultural and architectural identity of its place. In Australia, this identity is inseparable from water. From backyard pools, public aquatic centres, ocean pools, and beaches, swimming is a collective experience that shapes the Australian way of life. Pools serve as vital community hubs for exercise, gathering, and learning, while for Indigenous Australians, water remains deeply connected to land, law, and spirituality. Responding to this layered heritage, this project proposes a hybrid institution that combines an architecture museum with a public aquatic centre, positioning ‘the pool’ as both a lived and a curated cultural experience.","students":[{"unikey":"tmic0816","firstName":"Tomislav","lastName":"Micetic","fullName":"Tomislav Micetic"}]},{"id":"R_3dsbE4rK7V1Ir7w","title":"Highway To Health","abstract":"We were tasked with developing an innovative solution/strategy that targets and engages priority populations to increase adoption of the SFD, and strengthen trust in virtual care. While the SFD has been successful so far, uptake among priority populations, remains lower due to low awareness, low system literacy, and entrenched reliance on EDs. By catering to the specific groups and their unique needs, we can tackle this wicked problem. This report will focus on CALD communities in NSW. Our solution focuses on streamlining & simplifying the journey to the SFD for CALD populations. We aim to embed “navigational aids” at key touch points along this journey,  to consistently guide consumers towards the SFD from the time they enter Australia, and throughout their residency.  These “navigational aids” act as clear signals that build awareness, reduce confusion, and strengthen trust in not only the SFD, but the entire healthcare system.","students":[{"unikey":"krec0262","firstName":"Krish","lastName":"Recinto","fullName":"Krish Recinto"},{"unikey":"jcho0872","firstName":"Joseph","lastName":"Zachary","fullName":"Joseph Zachary"},{"unikey":"mmil6082","firstName":"Margie","lastName":"Milne","fullName":"Margie Milne"},{"unikey":"hngu0504","firstName":"My","lastName":"Nguyn","fullName":"My Nguyn"}]},{"id":"R_408cFwlTOsLecYx","title":"Less is More.","abstract":"This thesis has not attempted to resolve a singular problem. It has instead proposed a shift in approach: one that treats heritage as a living framework and participation as a form of institutional permanence.\n\nIn a city where rising costs and consolidated institutions limit cultural agency, doing less becomes an institutional strategy. It opens the door to an alternative model that resists closure, that leaves room for negotiation, and that creates conditions for culture to emerge from the bottom up. The Deopt is not a museum or a gallery in the traditional sense. It operates as something looser, more porous, and perhaps more truthful to the cultural condition of Sydney.\n\nTo do less is not to withdraw. It is to make room.","students":[{"unikey":"rles0943","firstName":"Rowan","lastName":"Le Sueur","fullName":"Rowan Le Sueur"}]},{"id":"R_41TNfauyyMGpbMM","title":"GROUNDS FOR COMMONS","abstract":"Architecture operates within systems of power that structure ownership, visibility, and exclusion, yet it also carries the capacity to unsettle these regimes. Collective labour and the reuse of discarded materials position architecture as a medium of resistance and civic agency. Treating waste as a renewable commons and engaging participants as Gesamtarbeiter disrupt capitalist value formations and enable more inclusive spatial practices. Such cooperative acts demonstrate how shared production can reconfigure resource distribution and enrich the urban commons. Together, they point toward post-capitalist urban futures grounded in sustainability, solidarity, and collective responsibility.","students":[{"unikey":"yuli3808","firstName":"Snowy","lastName":"Li","fullName":"Snowy Li"}]},{"id":"R_41g4Pygjf33rnUM","title":"FRAGMENTS OF THE PAST & PRESENT: TRACING THE LOSS AND TRANSFORMATION OF LANGUAGE","abstract":"Language is more than a system of words and sentences—it is a living archive of culture, heritage and identity; it embodies thought, expression and emotion, shaping how one interacts with each other and the world. Yet globalisation has diminished the perceived need for diversity. This thesis proposes a pavilion for the Osaka World Expo 2025 that uses spatial pedagogy to prompt visitors to 1) recognise the importance of language diversity and the richness, beauty and history behind it; 2) remember and honour lost languages; and 3) revitalise sleeping and endangered languages, to reverse the universalisation of language.","students":[{"unikey":"fguo3929","firstName":"Felicia","lastName":"Guo","fullName":"Felicia Guo"}]},{"id":"R_40VMbPGgBCCQ1rj","title":"Gaming for Rehabilitation","abstract":"Corrective Services NSW (CSNSW) faces challenges with inmates engagement and motivation in its correctional education programs. This project proposes a innovative intervention: integrating a serious game, \"Saving the Tree,\" into the existing Success Ladder LMS. The strategy transforms the learning management system from a static repository into an immersive, narrative-driven platform. By framing educational modules as quests within a rehabilitative story, the project aims to boost intrinsic motivation, enhance pro-social skill development, and improve overall participation, thereby supporting more effective rehabilitation outcomes and contributing to reduced recidivism.","students":[{"unikey":"hfen0901","firstName":"Huan","lastName":"Feng","fullName":"Huan Feng"},{"unikey":"rmin0574","firstName":"Raghu","lastName":"Mina","fullName":"Raghu Mina"}]},{"id":"R_42G1pPxsDLSpBam","title":"Stonepath","abstract":"Set within the terrain of Katoomba on Gundungurra Country, Stonepath explores how architecture can rebuild through the language of the land. The design follows the natural contours, allowing the building to grow with the slope rather than resist it. Three terraces express the site’s layered character: limestone defines the raw ground, basalt cobblestones form the crafted path of human movement, and reclaimed brick preserves the memory of what once stood. A sandstone wall grounds the gallery, linking the building to the geology and time of the place. The structure is carried by gum and spotted gum timber columns\nand trusses, their strength and warmth binding the architecture to the forest ecology. Stonepath becomes a journey — a renewal, memory, and belonging that listens to the Country.","students":[{"unikey":"ckwo7012","firstName":"Chun Fung","lastName":"Kwok","fullName":"Chun Fung Kwok"}]},{"id":"R_40SSmExihTiFVhP","title":"Living Country, Living Culture","abstract":"Living Country, Living Culture reimagines a former carpark as a place to learn from and engage with Country. Guided by Indigenous led principles, it honours First Nations people and invites diverse communities into ongoing cultural exchange. Reinstated pre-colonial plantings restore ecological memory and position Country as the primary teacher. A central courtyard supports storytelling, ceremony and deep listening, with circulation shaped by natural desire lines. Rammed earth and timber balance grounding and flexibility, creating a place of Country where landscape, culture and architecture unite.","students":[{"unikey":"imur2325","firstName":"Ilankumaran","lastName":"Murugappan","fullName":"Ilankumaran Murugappan"}]},{"id":"R_42JlGuJfRrVvCPN","title":"Healing Through Engagement","abstract":"Amidst rising youth anxiety and disconnection, this project reimagines mental health architecture as an ecosystem of care rather than a clinical facility. Designed for Headspace in Moore Park, the Youth Community Mental Health Centre blends therapy, play, and social spaces through participatory and modular design catering to 12-25 year-olds. Treehouses become sanctuaries for reflection, courtyards host informal interactions, prefabricated and reconfigurable modules enable growth and outreach, fostering agency and inclusion. Co-designed with young users, the centre celebrates adaptability, nature, and belonging, challenging the boundaries of institutional architecture to create a living, evolving framework for collective healing.","students":[{"unikey":"skot0722","firstName":"Shreya","lastName":"Kotkar","fullName":"Shreya Kotkar"}]},{"id":"R_42PvtXldex5XkkL","title":"Auburn Movement Centre","abstract":"This project proposes a Multicultural Dance and Movement Centre in Auburn, transforming the former Civic Theatre site into a new civic landmark for cultural expression. Reviving the suburb’s lost performance identity, the centre supports Chinese, Nepalese, Turkish and contemporary dance through eleven studios and a flexible public performance space. A double-skin polycarbonate façade reveals silhouettes of movement, turning daily life into a visible choreography. Operating as a gradient of public to intimate spaces, the design celebrates storytelling and community. Through adaptive reuse of the existing Salvation Army building, it preserves structural memory while creating a vibrant cultural future for Auburn.","students":[{"unikey":"jwar7903","firstName":"Jasmine","lastName":"Warhaftig","fullName":"Jasmine Warhaftig"}]},{"id":"R_42Q6J1hdncYUDWm","title":"Common Ground","abstract":"Common Ground is an exploration of the safety and security experienced at home, regardless of one’s culture. The site has provided a home through millennia, from pre-colonisation when turpentine ironbark forest was home to the Gadigal people and innumerable plants and animals, to recent history with the domesticity of International House student accommodation. Common Ground takes a minimalistic architectural approach, prioritising the heritage of existing structures and clearly delineating between old and new. Strong structural organisation and verticality provide order and stability, facilitating safety and security within the home of Common Ground and encouraging dialogue and cultural exchange.","students":[{"unikey":"drub5409","firstName":"Dena","lastName":"Rubinstein","fullName":"Dena Rubinstein"}]},{"id":"R_42W8gE8DGpXG6xX","title":"The Coolth Hub in Hombush","abstract":"This cooling centre employs softness as a climate strategy, creating coolth through layered shading, ventilated façades, and radiant cooling. Flexible boundaries such as curtains, movable partitions, and lightweight membranes allow spaces to breathe, shift, and adapt to changing conditions. Designed for Homebush’s young and diverse community, the centre functions as both a heatwave refuge and an everyday social hub, offering children’s play areas and multilingual learning spaces. \nSoft design here means adaptability and care—an architecture that cools, shelters, and connects people through responsive spaces and shared comfort.","students":[{"unikey":"xhan5784","firstName":"(Amy) Xiuyuan","lastName":"Han","fullName":"(Amy) Xiuyuan Han"}]},{"id":"R_42aHbDCqNuaWHXD","title":"Clairvaux Community Centre","abstract":"This community centre traces its sacred landscape to reconnect people, place, and Country. Designed with Country, the project integrates Aboriginal principles throughout its layout. Lot 2 features men’s and women’s workshops arranged around a communal courtyard and central hub to support cultural practice and gathering. Lot 3 provides 28 modular cluster homes for Elders and families, fostering intergenerational connection. The landscape is central to the design, with windbreak walls incorporated to mitigate the region’s harsh winds. These walls also function as communal fire pits, creating warm, sheltered places for families to gather, share stories, and strengthen community ties.","students":[{"unikey":"mcho5310","firstName":"Mahjabin","lastName":"Chowdhury","fullName":"Mahjabin Chowdhury"}]},{"id":"R_42aiIIKuxd2hjBn","title":"HERE, HER","abstract":"HERE, HER is a temporary civic house in Sydney’s CBD, linking Queen Square and Hyde Park Barracks and stitching institutions to everyday life. Conceived as a commons, it brings care, co-learning and mutual aid into public view, letting small acts endure at city scale. For sixty days, grassroots women’s organisations gather to support migrant women while an embedded press—writers, editors and printers—works on site, reporting, publishing and building a shared archive that seeds a durable network. The house’s legible silhouette signals that common life is civic; the bolder act—crossing the road—gives it ground.","students":[{"unikey":"huyi8938","firstName":"Sonya","lastName":"Yi","fullName":"Sonya Yi"}]},{"id":"R_432XAVIaKqAG5dD","title":"RE-DWELLING","abstract":"Dwelling and the way we inhabit the world is made up of habits, measures, and relations. Our dwelling [verb] is often unreconciled, infringed upon and obscured from us. Architecture has a capacity to accommodate dwelling and re-centre it as a relational practice that resists forgetting and marginalization. To prove and explore this capacity, this project positions architecture within object relations theory and applies these concepts to transitional housing for people released from prison. Upon release an ex-inmate is confronted with re-defining the patterns of their dwelling amidst sudden reintegration into the world of others.","students":[{"unikey":"hmar0618","firstName":"Hannah","lastName":"Martin","fullName":"Hannah Martin"}]},{"id":"R_43V7R5BbaAxRO5Z","title":"Agrarian Reuse","abstract":"The relationship between human settlement and food production has been dislocated by the industrial revolution and continuously decentralised as economies globalise. Contemporary Western examples of urban farming are often limited by horizontal space, sunlight access and are for educational purposes rather than a profitable business model. Meanwhile, globally, there are many examples of animal protein farming adapting to urban environments. Often these models are extrapolations of existing subsistence farming methods which are scaled to provide income, social value and to compete in the global market.\n\n \n\nThe city is home to various empty shells – too expensive to upgrade for human use or neglected whilst aspirations for development evolve. Agriculture offers an alternative architecture which utilises fast and rough assembly of systems at any stage of life; during temporary vacancy, abandonment, demolition and can even propose a demolition scheme which improves the flexibility for future uses.\n\n \n\nFor a decaying urban shell there is a different form of stakeholder, ready to trail under these neglected shelters. Already possessing their own home, a leaking roof, a broken lift and a failed air conditioning system does not phase the snail. The snail does not ask for glamour, but it does provide its own glisten.","students":[{"unikey":"vatt4852","firstName":"Vita","lastName":"Attrill","fullName":"Vita Attrill"}]},{"id":"R_43qr5J1t698bIMV","title":"Shop-top Co-operative","abstract":"This project investigates three housing forms - medium-density, mixed-used and cooperative - to suggest a renewed model for the sensitive densification of our existing cities. Through the adaptive reuse of two high-street commercial buildings, a new housing model is introduced into an existing town centre: a cooperative development for 45 residents in Bankstown, Sydney.","students":[{"unikey":"wjob5775","firstName":"Bill","lastName":"Job","fullName":"Bill Job"}]},{"id":"R_44MCoiSG7H3iFui","title":"MyLease","abstract":"With long repair delays undermining tenant wellbeing and housing quality, the NSW Landlord Licensing scheme transforms renting into a fair, transparent, and accountable system. Rooted in revised minimum living standards, a state-wide landlord licensing framework, and enforceable repair deadlines through the digital MyLease app, the reform spearheads the issue at its core. By embedding compliance and education within existing infrastructures like Service NSW and Fair Trading, it shifts housing from being treated as a commodity to a regulated right. \n\n*All visuals are illustrative. NSW Government references are for proposal context only and not an affiliation.","students":[{"unikey":"sath4924","firstName":"Sarah","lastName":"Athar","fullName":"Sarah Athar"},{"unikey":"nche4382","firstName":"Nicole","lastName":"Chen","fullName":"Nicole Chen"},{"unikey":"clia6692","firstName":"Cindy","lastName":"Liang","fullName":"Cindy Liang"},{"unikey":"hyua4170","firstName":"Hannah","lastName":"Yuan","fullName":"Hannah Yuan"}]},{"id":"R_44P17D46h5AHRWF","title":"RESONANCE","abstract":"Acknowledging that this land is, was, and always will be Aboriginal land, my design RESONANCE explores how sound persists within space, echoing, fading, and transforming to embody memory, presence, and continuity. It considers architecture as a vessel that holds traces of the past while shaping new experiences, asking how the voices within a place can endure and challenge static design. Inspired by Indigenous songlines, the project maps space through meandering paths that encourage autonomy, reflection, and connection to Country. Ultimately, it envisions a Centre of Excellence that resonates with inclusivity, allowing all voices to be heard and carried forward.","students":[{"unikey":"asid6518","firstName":"Arya","lastName":"Siddique","fullName":"Arya Siddique"}]},{"id":"R_44iAqEBFDbrncLD","title":"Shelter on Country","abstract":"Located at 14 Oak Street, Katoomba NSW, this project proposes a low-impact precinct that integrates public, educational, and residential spaces within a restored natural landscape. A central Yarning Circle with a water feature acknowledges Indigenous traditions of gathering and learning, supported by a timber playground, outdoor classrooms and a plant nursery. Clustered dwellings follow the site's contours to promote integenerational living, passive design and strong connections to Country. The proposal offers a contemporary framework for ecological restoration, cultural continuity and community-focused living in the Blue Mountains.","students":[{"unikey":"ycho4235","firstName":"Yehyun","lastName":"Cho","fullName":"Yehyun Cho"}]},{"id":"R_4645sAEW81K9PTy","title":"Thermal Equitable Future","abstract":"This project proposed a social infrastructure for equitable heat relief. The Community Cooling Centre, located at 55-57 Parramatta Road, Homebush, NSW, is established for maintaining coolth and reducing heat related disease of the community. It articulates how orientation, shading, ventilation, thermal mass, vegetation and public participation could be integrated to provide thermal comfort as a shared experience rather than an individual consumption, embodying strategies for coolth and equity. It reconsiders and redevelops sustainable design approaches that do not rely on mechanical solutions, but return to architectural strategies rooted in form, climate and place-based design.","students":[{"unikey":"yali5203","firstName":"Bianca","lastName":"Li","fullName":"Bianca Li"}]},{"id":"R_46mT84QRHn3rfxN","title":"Reframing Sydney Fringe","abstract":"The Sydney Fringe Base Camp reinterprets the spirit of the Edinburgh Fringe within Queens Square and Hyde Park North, making the festival more visible, open, and publicly shared than the currently dispersed Sydney Fringe. By rotating the site’s original rectangular orientation, new cross-street circulation emerges, creating multiple informal corners for performance. An open-access booking system allows anyone to take the stage. Every second weekend, the intersection is closed from midday to evening, forming a temporary civic plaza where smaller stages gather toward a central one. The project softens the authority of surrounding institutional buildings, allowing a localised, Sydney-specific form of Fringe freedom to unfold.","students":[{"unikey":"rlia5379","firstName":"Ruiqing","lastName":"Liang","fullName":"Ruiqing Liang"}]},{"id":"R_47MjEHR6ZBDFHWh","title":"Tapestry: Lebanese Embassy","abstract":"Tapestry presents the design for a Lebanese Embassy in Nusantara, Indonesia. The concept of a tapestry is derived mainly from Lebanon's long history of different cultures, religions, and historical time periods, weaving together to create the identity and architecture of the country today, similar to a tapestry. The concept is also influenced by the tapestry characteristic of tension, which is strong in present Lebanon, and throughout its history politically, religiously and culturally. Overall, these characteristics drove the design, in particular through its weaving form, creating a modern interpretation of a mashrabiya facade, also influenced by the thesis research.","students":[{"unikey":"than0381","firstName":"Thomas","lastName":"Hanna","fullName":"Thomas Hanna"}]},{"id":"R_47e69Oc1xtXSv4I","title":"Community Cooling Center","abstract":"The Midnight Star Community Cooling Centre reimagines a heritage building as a climate-responsive public refuge. Learning from the Alhambra, the design uses water, wind, and shade to create natural coolth through a dual-mode passive system: evaporative cooling during dry conditions and ventilation-driven cooling when humidity is high. A large public pool, porous ceramic façade, open courtyards, and stack-effect chimneys work together to reduce reliance on mechanical cooling. The project transforms a former entertainment venue into a community hub—combining comfort, resilience, and shared public life—offering a new architectural response to Sydney’s increasingly extreme summers.","students":[{"unikey":"yzha3859","firstName":"Yangyi","lastName":"Zhang","fullName":"Yangyi Zhang"}]},{"id":"R_47vaFS897Zl6UJb","title":"Liminal Silence","abstract":"Liminal Silence is designed for headspace National Youth Mental Health Foundation. This project, inspired by Tadao Ando’s concept of “nothingness”, explores how liminality in architecture enhances spatial experience, acting as a vessel for perception through ambiguity and in-betweenness. This reframed perception makes it possible to unveil the “silence”. Mental health struggles can remain unnoticed until brought into focus. This leads to transformative self-discovery where silence becomes the stillness of mind that one can seek - a resolution born from awareness and acceptance. Ultimately, the project demonstrates how architecture can shape psychological experiences promoting well-being through moments of pause and reflection.","students":[{"unikey":"nhvo3123","firstName":"Dang","lastName":"Vo","fullName":"Dang Vo"}]},{"id":"R_4A8t764k9lnuPjb","title":"Baby Circle","abstract":"Baby Circle is a support app that helps first-time parents navigate the unpredictable routines of early parenthood.\n\nWorking gently behind the scenes, Baby Circle lets parents pre-organise a trusted circle of family and friends and automates coordination, so the act of reaching out feels effortless. Through features like mass help requests, task syncing,  wellbeing check-ins, and a “Baby ID” that celebrates milestones, Baby Circle turns everyday caregiving into shared moments of connection.\n\nBy reducing emotional and logistical barriers to support, this system helps parents stay grounded with their community and ensures children grow up in calmer, more supported homes.","students":[{"unikey":"nngo0042","firstName":"Nghi","lastName":"Ngo","fullName":"Nghi Ngo"},{"unikey":"angu2013","firstName":"Angelina","lastName":"Nguyen","fullName":"Angelina Nguyen"},{"unikey":"jeng8615","firstName":"Jason","lastName":"Eng","fullName":"Jason Eng"},{"unikey":"npng0429","firstName":"Natasha","lastName":"Png","fullName":"Natasha Png"},{"unikey":"vhan6694","firstName":"Vivienne","lastName":"Han","fullName":"Vivienne Han"}]},{"id":"R_47QioEMKkqpNOQb","title":"Village for the Mother/Death of the Single Family House","abstract":"The point of departure for this thesis is through an engagement with a specific and highly complex architectural typology - the single family house. This architectural schema and accompanying written work  is concerned with the role played by the house in the institutionalisation of reproductive labour and the employment of architectural type as apparatus to the perpetuation of social and\nbiological diagramming. By identifying domestic spatial type - and by extension, human type - as endemic to the patriarchal structures of industrial capitalism, this work proposes that both the fields of architectural inquiry and the continuing feminist project must engage with a matricentric reading of contemporary spatiality.","students":[{"unikey":"apit2984","firstName":"Anastasia","lastName":"Pitt","fullName":"Anastasia Pitt"}]},{"id":"R_4B4h6WBISSKouZS","title":"Before the Play","abstract":"In late 2023, Connor Stalions — a former U.S. Naval Academy student and Michigan Wolverines coach — became known for decoding NCAA sideline signals, applying military training to gain a tactical edge. In architecture, signalling regulates discernibility, determining what is visible or obscured. Imagining an occupied Australia, drawn from John Marsden’s Tomorrow, When the War Began, Glebe Markets becomes a resistance base where signalling operates as a mask. This investigation examines how signals shape perception, using media as a tool for coordination and protest. Architecture becomes a medium of bluff, deception, and anticipation, constructing resistance through intent as much as form.","students":[{"unikey":"echu8816","firstName":"Ethan","lastName":"Chung","fullName":"Ethan Chung"}]},{"id":"R_4BcV2s8zOO9DZTP","title":"in ordinary life (*all in lowercase)","abstract":"Dementia presents a growing spatial challenge, yet care environments remain dominated by institutional models that disconnect people from everyday life. In Ordinary Life asks: what if care meant deepening the ordinary rather than relocating it? The thesis proposes a neighbourhood-based framework where dementia is supported within familiar domestic and civic settings. Through reworked thresholds, communal backstreets, and small-scale spatial cues, colour, planting, gardens, and courtyards, care becomes embedded in the rhythms of daily life. The project operates across immediate and future needs, positioning architecture as a rehearsal for living well with cognitive aging, and advocating continuity over containment.","students":[{"unikey":"ikim0944","firstName":"Isabelle","lastName":"Kim","fullName":"Isabelle Kim"}]},{"id":"R_4BmunHC8NwSnrrI","title":"The Gadigal Centre of Excellence","abstract":"The Gadigal Centre of Excellence reimagines International House as a place where learning begins with listening to Country. The design counters the building’s history of colonial enclosure through a hydrological act of subtraction, opening the brick shell to reveal the submerged ecologies and cultural systems that have long shaped Gadigal land. A renewed water spine gathers the performance, teaching and exhibition spaces into a continuous whole, allowing light, air and story to circulate between them. Through this transformation, the centre moves from monument to an architecture that restores permeability, and repositions Country as the project’s central teacher.","students":[{"unikey":"xili4221","firstName":"Cindy","lastName":"Li","fullName":"Cindy Li"}]},{"id":"R_4C1PCY2zzitOzWp","title":"Track to Terrain","abstract":"A relic of early twentieth-century industry, Newtown Tram Depot remains in a state of decay. This project challenges the static preservation approach of “repairing” to an original image, instead encouraging experimental programs within the context of natural ageing. A new structure encloses the old tram shed, suspending walkways and objects within a rewilded native undergrowth. The old converter room transforms into an intimate performance space. A series of pavilions is inspired by the architectural collective Atelier d’architecture Autogeree (AAA). These self-managed spaces reinterpret sites through acts of occupation and encounter, exploring heritage as an ongoing process of reconfiguration and assemblage.","students":[{"unikey":"cshe2241","firstName":"Christian","lastName":"Sheridan","fullName":"Christian Sheridan"}]},{"id":"R_4CUwVpHla2fOgcc","title":"Memory Threads","abstract":"The present International House exists as an echo of its aspirations to foster community across cultures. Yet, its identity is not one of absence or abandonment. It is a part of the holistic landscape, and it speaks of a past where students found belonging within its shelter. And beyond that, of a past where the land was untouched and full of native flora and fauna.\n\nAs such, this project intends to view the existing International House and the landscape upon which it stands not as a distant past, but as an identity built upon layers of memory within a continuum.","students":[{"unikey":"seyu6450","firstName":"Serena","lastName":"Yu","fullName":"Serena Yu"}]},{"id":"R_4CVg8z8IwuCPa9P","title":"Absence & Presence","abstract":"Slow down and listen to the wind, it is Country breathing.\n\nAbsence & Presence invites life back onto Country to reconnect with and rebuild the ecosystem.\n\nIt challenges the dominant presence of architecture in our surrounding urban environment. What happens if the building acts as the background instead of the foreground, and allows the presence of life to flourish organically? The building's gentle presence as a grandmother tree support life around and inside, providing space for ceremony, connection, and collaboration. In return receiving care from the life it supports, for we are part of Country.","students":[{"unikey":"pwan4958","firstName":"Cindy","lastName":"Wang","fullName":"Cindy Wang"}]},{"id":"R_4CVu1s16qRnu9cB","title":"Agriculture Design Innovation","abstract":"FarmSafe reimagines agricultural safety through human-centred design. Farmers often resist safety technologies that feel invasive or controlling, perceiving them as threats to autonomy and expertise. This redesign applies Thoughtful Interaction Design to build trust and agency using ethical prompting—“Did you know?” messages that explain risks and leave the choice to the user. Through transparency dashboards, adaptive feedback, and inclusive design for real farm conditions, FarmSafe transforms compliance into collaboration. By turning monitoring into meaningful interaction, the system empowers workers to make informed safety decisions—aligning technology with farmers’ values of independence, trust, and respect.","students":[{"unikey":"lala0231","firstName":"Lina","lastName":"Alawieah","fullName":"Lina Alawieah"},{"unikey":"slyu0220","firstName":"Shuai","lastName":"Lyu","fullName":"Shuai Lyu"},{"unikey":"szha0601","firstName":"Shihan","lastName":"Zhang","fullName":"Shihan Zhang"},{"unikey":"czha0683","firstName":"Makayla","lastName":"Zhao","fullName":"Makayla Zhao"},{"unikey":"hfen0810","firstName":"Edi","lastName":"Feng","fullName":"Edi Feng"}]},{"id":"R_4CYmnJqU5ICn3JT","title":"Understorey","abstract":"The conceptual narrative for my project, Understorey, is inspired by the symbolic and natural significance of the native Casuarina. Maze Crescent rests upon a historical ridgeline, where the slope lined by Casuarina trees once fell gracefully into small creeks and swampland connecting to Blackwattle Bay. My design grew from the premise of stories of Indigenous identity whispered by the sway of branches, establishing an architectural motif of gathering in the sheltered understorey of the Casuarina foliage. Just as the Black-Cockatoo assembles at the Casuarina, the Gadigal Centre shapes a meeting place for cultural reciprocity and celebrating Aboriginal custodianship of Country.","students":[{"unikey":"lrob2937","firstName":"Lucy","lastName":"Robertson","fullName":"Lucy Robertson"}]},{"id":"R_4Cb8VgrAxJtNIsN","title":"Clairvaux Graft","abstract":"The Clairvaux Graft is shaped by Darug and Gundungurra Country and guided by First Nations principles of care, cooperation, and collectivism. The design fosters renewal through connection and provides flexible spaces that shift between work, ceremony, teaching, and gathering. It supports cultural and ecological repair, restoring native habitats and building around existing trees. The ground level establishes custodianship, with existing structures rooted in the terrain and community. Above, the graft level offers light-filled spaces for learning and cultural exchange, extending visitors into the surrounding canopy. The Clairvaux Graft works with Country, forming a living graft between memory and renewal.","students":[{"unikey":"mgau8081","firstName":"Monique","lastName":"Gaul","fullName":"Monique Gaul"}]},{"id":"R_4Ccp9zfmIV5edeV","title":"Rewilding Urban Spaces","abstract":"Rewilding as a practice relies on the autonomy of nature to reinstate ecological cycles and counter the damage driven by urbanisation through adverse climate change. Cities, despite their small footprint, consume the most global energy and generate a majority of emissions. This report explores mitigation that is targeted at brownfield sites, the most contaminated spaces in cities, developing a six-theme assessment framework to analyse the outcomes and benefits of urban  rewilding in this context. Aside from ecological outcomes, the framework also captures social and cultural co-benefits to showcase how re-wilding can outperform more conservative remediation methods.","students":[{"unikey":"isar0021","firstName":"Irene","lastName":"Sarah","fullName":"Irene Sarah"}]},{"id":"R_4CdxM4rJWmkbUpt","title":"My Centre","abstract":"My Centre is a modest building shaped by my Filipino heritage, where landscapes have been covered, erased, and rebuilt in the name of progress. The project responds to a brief written without Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander consultation, revealing the limits of a Western framework imposed on Country. It centres on belonging by keeping architecture secondary and allowing landscape, memory, and story to lead. Recycled brick and mass timber ground the design in care and reuse. Spaces remain open for Aboriginal people to define their own uses, reclaim presence, and rebuild connections to histories disrupted by extraction and progress.","students":[{"unikey":"dpor7605","firstName":"Dirsten Jude","lastName":"Pornel","fullName":"Dirsten Jude Pornel"}]},{"id":"R_4Ck7OmYNNF7BYy7","title":"Kamilaroi Trip","abstract":"The wisdom of the Kamilaroi begins with the totems of the earth, extends to the emu constellation in the sky, and ultimately continues \nthrough the Bora coming of age ceremony. They symbolize the profound connection between humans and the land, humans and the cosmos, and humans and Bora.","students":[{"unikey":"zhua0030","firstName":"Lily","lastName":"Huang","fullName":"Lily Huang"},{"unikey":"xtan0843","firstName":"Liana","lastName":"Tang","fullName":"Liana Tang"},{"unikey":"wzho0193","firstName":"Freya","lastName":"Zhong","fullName":"Freya Zhong"},{"unikey":"zzha0024","firstName":"Ellie","lastName":"Zhang","fullName":"Ellie Zhang"},{"unikey":"jixu2013","firstName":"Jingxuan","lastName":"Xu","fullName":"Jingxuan Xu"}]},{"id":"R_4Cq698AiSqEZjP0","title":"Walking on Country","abstract":"The Gadigal of Excellence embodies a contemporary approach to learning and cultural dialogue, grounded in the spirit of Country and the richness of Indigenous heritage. Drawing from the Aboriginal practice of Walking the Country, it reflects a way of life shaped by movement, seasonal rhythms, and deep respect for the land. The project uses temporality and fluidity as design drivers, creating spaces that open to Country while maintaining a sense of continuity within place. Inspired by the ancient routes once traced along Parramatta Road, the building becomes a platform for connection, cultural exchange, and an ongoing relationship with Country.","students":[{"unikey":"jhal7827","firstName":"Jessica","lastName":"Halim","fullName":"Jessica Halim"}]},{"id":"R_4D1QVP8SCcQez7l","title":"Tracing The Landscape","abstract":"The Gadigal Centre of Excellence is conceived as a place of confluence, shaped by terrain, flora, and movement. Situated on Gadigal Country, it becomes both a place of learning and a source of learning, grounded in deep listening. A central lightwell follows the natural contours of Maze Crescent, drawing light inward and guiding circulation. The building yields to mature trees, creating pockets for vertical gardens planted with native species, while terraced rooftop gardens extend ecological continuity. Concrete columns, brick walls, and timber elements express an honest structural rhythm. Public spaces gather around the lightwell, with quieter learning areas positioned above.","students":[{"unikey":"eldi6658","firstName":"Ella","lastName":"Dickey","fullName":"Ella Dickey"}]},{"id":"R_4DVcaTFVsYM6jpP","title":"Woven Synergy","abstract":"“If illness and health are nouns, then healing is a verb.” Esther Sternberg. ‘Woven Synergy’ is a concept that embodies the notion of interconnectedness, bringing together individuals with mental illnesses who experience feelings of isolation or tend to withdraw from social settings, and reintegrating them into society by forming synergy with organic forms between those with mental health issues and the local community. The proposal creates a mental healthcare centre for 'Headspace,' prioritising the waiting room and the therapeutic landscape to create healing spaces for the community, and to constitute the autonomous healing of the mind for individuals.","students":[{"unikey":"bmin0278","firstName":"Barbara","lastName":"Mintzas","fullName":"Barbara Mintzas"}]},{"id":"R_4DnVsLyUbxak0XE","title":"Narrative Networks","abstract":"The Cadigal Centre of Excellence champions the preservation of site memory to foster a sense of stewardship for nature. Lake Northam in Victoria Park and Cadigal green, once connected through Blackwattle creek, become nodes that are connected stretching across the site, and the existing columns of International house now uphold a solid form that provides a third space and encapsulates supportive learning and performance hubs. The design hovers over the open ground as if earth is overturned with porous hit and miss brick to allude to the histories of its previous built form to demonstrate enoughness.","students":[{"unikey":"yhua4939","firstName":"Nancy","lastName":"Huang","fullName":"Nancy Huang"}]},{"id":"R_4DvItizhmlLxrc3","title":"Continuum","abstract":"Continuum is a cultural hub designed to honour the ongoing presence of Darug and Gundungurra Country while revitalising the existing built fabric of Katoomba. The project weaves new lightweight timber structures between the retained buildings, all beneath a unifying perforated roof that diffuses dappled, canopy-like light and settles naturally into the site’s topography. Guided by Indigenous principles of public and private spatial hierarchies, yarning spaces, and connection to Country, Continuum creates a space for gathering, learning, and cultural exchange. Material and landscape strategies emphasise local, sustainable, and native elements, ensuring the site remains grounded, resilient, and future-focused.","students":[{"unikey":"tang4817","firstName":"Theone","lastName":"Angelopoulos","fullName":"Theone Angelopoulos"}]},{"id":"R_4EFtLrVSAcXixri","title":"CONFLUENCE","abstract":"Confluence is a proposal for a Centre of Excellence on Gadigal Land. It is framed as part of an ongoing story. It represents a desperately needed public third space within the university: a confluence for the work of Indigenous students, practitioners and researchers at the university, playing a dual role of public exhibition space and culturally safe space.\n\nThe project’s approach is presented in triptych, it involves; \nconfronting the colonial narratives embedded in International House; \nto renew the site as a confluence of people, landscape and community;\nthrough the reframing site through the lens of non-hierarchical design.","students":[{"unikey":"tsma3855","firstName":"Thomas","lastName":"Smark","fullName":"Thomas Smark"}]},{"id":"R_4E4V0DfICHN2wfH","title":"Aged care reimagined","abstract":"A co-design initiative to reimagine the process of aged care SOP. To show how design initiatives can support, rather than hinder, the direct delivery of person-centered, holistic care to older adults.","students":[{"unikey":"rmis0684","firstName":"Rishabh","lastName":"Mishra","fullName":"Rishabh Mishra"},{"unikey":"hngu0504","firstName":"My","lastName":"Nguyen","fullName":"My Nguyen"},{"unikey":"rmis0684","firstName":"Rishabh","lastName":"Mishra","fullName":"Rishabh Mishra"}]},{"id":"R_4EQIWLzPtVJLwWa","title":"Water Commons","abstract":"Sea levels in Sydney are projected to rise by up to two metres by 2150, threatening thousands of coastal properties and the communities around them with erosion and inundation. People will lose their favourite seaside parks, backyards and eventually their homes. Water Commons is a space to prepare for this future. It is a forum where coastal property owners exchange their visions of soon-to-be-submerged lands with diverse knowledge holders and mediate with government on future planning. Here, water is not a backdrop but a central stakeholder. Through these exchanges, participants imagine not resistance, but adaptation and reciprocity with water.","students":[{"unikey":"kkim6891","firstName":"Kangyun","lastName":"Kim","fullName":"Kangyun Kim"}]},{"id":"R_4ENh5earF5xrg6f","title":"Canopy","abstract":"Headplace thesis studio explored a contemporary approach to health architecture and the design of a Headspace counselling facility at Moore Park. The Canopy project lead from the research compiled in my final master's thesis ''Beyond the Clinical''. Canopy aims to\ncreate a holistic healing environment going beyond traditional clinical healing, through a sequence of escape, dwell and connect. The architecture aims to remove the users from the hustle and bustle of the city and place them into the natural environment, encouraging\nthem to find a moment of stillness to create community connections.","students":[{"unikey":"afre5813","firstName":"Amy","lastName":"Freeman","fullName":"Amy Freeman"}]},{"id":"R_4EhKXmxxmTVZSIJ","title":"fossil","abstract":"What can architecture achieve when we design for change, not conclusion?\n\nThis project reframes the existing International House as occupying a continual embryonic state of ‘becoming’. By surrendering control to collective authorship and self-determination, the design honours Indigenous knowledge systems through architecture that is not fixed, rather responsive, relational, and regenerative across time.\n\nThis loosening of design’s grip unsettles the dominant narrative as an active practice of uncolonising. Here, adaptive reuse exposes the slow violence of material extraction, creating a moiré-like collision of conflicting histories.","students":[{"unikey":"bann5657","firstName":"Bridget","lastName":"Annand","fullName":"Bridget Annand"}]},{"id":"R_4F9DEU1gsn00PTe","title":"Cabramatta Rooftop Commons","abstract":"Set in Cabramatta’s suburban CBD, this project transforms the Dutton Plaza rooftop car park into a multifunctional public park that stitches together fragmented streets, markets, and the train station. Guided by biophilic and sustainable urbanism, the 15-minute city, and the 24/7 economy, the design introduces layered green terraces, sports courts, community gardens, and exhibition spaces across two elevated levels. New vertical and horizontal connections enhance walkability, shade, and safety while extending activity into the evening. By reframing underused infrastructure as civic landscape, the project strengthens local identity and creates a generous, inclusive urban commons above the market for Cabramatta’s community.","students":[{"unikey":"ygon7438","firstName":"Young Bin","lastName":"Gong","fullName":"Young Bin Gong"}]},{"id":"R_4FLUHnNirezO97r","title":"Columbarium 153","abstract":"Columbarium 153 explores how spaces can mediate death and memory through architectural atmosphere. The project leads visitors from a grounded, earth-lined interior into a lighter, metal-clad realm, allowing shifts in material and changing sky conditions to gradually alter perception. A narrative Ferryman introduces the journey, but the meaning emerges through the visitor’s own act of carrying a candle, which leaves soot at the meditation slit as a quiet mark of time. By shaping how light, matter, and movement are experienced, the columbarium offers a reflective passage that approaches mortality with restraint and attentive spatial care.","students":[{"unikey":"tkim9848","firstName":"Taehan","lastName":"Kim","fullName":"Taehan Kim"}]},{"id":"R_4FSqVjCtl6wAm5z","title":"Auburn Sport Centre","abstract":"The proposed intervention redevelops 166–170 South Parade into an indoor sport and aquatic centre that addresses Auburn’s lack of public recreational space. Designed as a community “third space,” the facility offers swimming, open sports courts, climbing, a gym, and yoga within a compact vertical layout. To meet the structural needs of large-span sport and aquatic spaces, the design uses a steel truss system for major activity areas and an additional concrete tower for support services such as café, seating, bathrooms, and small-group programs. The intervention aims to provide accessible, multifunctional facilities that support Auburn’s diverse community.","students":[{"unikey":"cpat9747","firstName":"Chanon","lastName":"Pattananuphab","fullName":"Chanon Pattananuphab"}]},{"id":"R_4FwFeefyyUqZnsR","title":"Becoming Water","abstract":"What if that water could return, not as liquid, but as humans, us, whose steps and presence ripple through the site like currents, tracing the lost river's path? The project begins with exactly that idea. The project grows by listening to those traces of its old currents. Spaces form through gradual shifts, much like water changing state, settling where the ground allows and rising where light gathers. Circulation becomes a slow tide through voids and thresholds, letting air and sound drift in between. Eventually, the water remains; it might have changed in form, but it is constant in presence.","students":[{"unikey":"dset6319","firstName":"Devina Putri","lastName":"Setiawati","fullName":"Devina Putri Setiawati"}]},{"id":"R_4HvqZDl2IZMRKhx","title":"St Marys Green Spine: A Climate-Resilient Mixed-Use Village for a Connected Community","abstract":"The St Marys Master Plan envisions transforming the Town Centre Precinct into a vibrant, inclusive, and climate-resilient urban neighbourhood. Anchored by a mixed-use village centre, the plan promotes diverse housing, active street life, and generous public spaces connected by a pedestrian-friendly green spine linking to South Creek. It prioritises ecological health, walkability, and social inclusion while celebrating local heritage. Drawing inspiration from global precedents like Las Salinas in Chile, the design integrates green infrastructure, wetlands, and communal open spaces to foster sustainability, community connection, and a strong sense of place within the Greater Western Sydney growth framework.","students":[{"unikey":"xgao2773","firstName":"Gloria","lastName":"Gao","fullName":"Gloria Gao"},{"unikey":"xgao0625","firstName":"Xu","lastName":"Gao","fullName":"Xu Gao"},{"unikey":"yuhu0826","firstName":"Yucheng","lastName":"Hu","fullName":"Yucheng Hu"},{"unikey":"lcho0722","firstName":"Liang","lastName":"Chong","fullName":"Liang Chong"}]},{"id":"R_4HMl2qkKsNkYJDV","title":"No. 151","abstract":"This project revolves around Sydney's electricity substation\nnumber 151, located on the corner of Illawarra Lane and Calvert\nStreet in Marrickville. Designed and built in 1924, the substation\nis an exact replica of three others throughout Marrickville. They\npresent an Arts and Crafts-style façade to the main street; all\nother sides are sealed. Sydney’s substations were not designed\nfor people; rather, they were built to house heavy machinery. The\nSubstation 151 project seeks to open the buildng and\nsurrounding spaces to people, culture and ideas; to build a node\nfor these vital human currents at least; and perhaps as\ntransformative of city life as the arrival of electricity once was.","students":[{"unikey":"vers6478","firstName":"Vito","lastName":"Erson","fullName":"Vito Erson"}]},{"id":"R_4I3GReVx8ObZVYX","title":"Auburn Weaving Room","abstract":"Auburn Weaving Room examines the potential of textiles and textile making on constructions of identity, social networks and mental\nwellbeing in migrant and refugee communities in highly multicultural\ncontexts. Examining successive waves of migration and refugee\nsettlement to Auburn from the post-War to present day, the project\nseeks to honour the unique textile traditions, skills and material\ncultures, brought with these communities. Positioning migrant and\nrefugee women as active agents and sharers of cultural knowledge,\nthe Weaving Room aims to bring together women of different\nbackgrounds and generations to engage in practices of collective\nmemory, art activism and resilience through textile-making.","students":[{"unikey":"skre9439","firstName":"Stella","lastName":"Kretzas","fullName":"Stella Kretzas"}]},{"id":"R_4IFx4QIlcDZrS2m","title":"Farmsafe - Farm Safety Reimagined","abstract":"The new FarmSafe is a digital platform that connects farmers and brokers, making it easier  to manage safety incidents, track premiums, and monitor farm well-being. FarmSafe bridges the gap between farmers, brokers and insurers through an integrated safety platform.","students":[{"unikey":"Ajai0513","firstName":"Anusha","lastName":"Jaiswal","fullName":"Anusha Jaiswal"},{"unikey":"rdso0719","firstName":"kbha0994","lastName":"Dsouza","fullName":"kbha0994 Dsouza"},{"unikey":"kbha0994","firstName":"Kavya","lastName":"Bhatt","fullName":"Kavya Bhatt"}]},{"id":"R_4IY3e7svzL3MDfD","title":"Designing Community Through Music: The Backstage Mentorship Program","abstract":"We designed the Backstage Music Peer Mentorship Program to help emerging artists grow together through creativity and community. Remembering how isolating early music journeys can feel, we built a space that encourages collaboration, curiosity, and confidence. Over six sessions, musicians explore sound, share ideas, and co-create performances guided by mentors. Every step—from jam sessions to self-branding workshops—helps artists find their voice while supporting each other. The program ends with a live showcase and an ongoing alumni network, ensuring the journey continues. Backstage Music celebrates growth, connection, and the joy of making music together.","students":[{"unikey":"kbha0994","firstName":"Kavya","lastName":"Bhatt","fullName":"Kavya Bhatt"},{"unikey":"wzul0520","firstName":"Rani","lastName":".","fullName":"Rani ."},{"unikey":"livi0518","firstName":"livia","lastName":"angelica","fullName":"livia angelica"},{"unikey":"Yrin0275","firstName":"yulia","lastName":"rina","fullName":"yulia rina"},{"unikey":"nwat9855","firstName":"nigel","lastName":"wato","fullName":"nigel wato"}]},{"id":"R_4IKP2oDEYvnCfnm","title":"Gadigal Centre of Excellence","abstract":"This project seeks to rekindle a site shaped by colonial presence, allowing Country to breathe through it once more. Timber becomes a language of layered protection, charred, warm, and open, forming spaces without taking from it. Light filters through the structure like sun through canopy, carrying the outside inward in shifting patterns of shadow and renewal. The ground, once hardened and stripped, is re-contoured to catch water, regrow native species, and let life return. Openings frame Cadigal Green and the surrounding landscape, grounding the building in the living presence of Country. Here, architecture becomes a quiet act of giving back.","students":[{"unikey":"zlin8972","firstName":"Zhaoxi","lastName":"Lin","fullName":"Zhaoxi Lin"}]},{"id":"R_4IY5Hvxm9E3sVwo","title":"Oasis of Care","abstract":"Oasis of Care transforms International House into a regenerative youth mental health hub based on neuroarchitecture. The project replaces institutional features with open, biophilic, and multisensory spaces that promote well-being, creativity, and empathy. Three wings, featuring a cafe, a Headspace clinical programme, and an art therapy rotunda, are connected by restorative green corridors that act as therapeutic thresholds. The design utilises adaptive reuse, landscaping, tactile materials, and circadian-responsive environments to reduce stress and encourage connection. Integrating research on mirror neurons, embodied perception and biophilia, Oasis of Care creates a healing environment where care, community and creativity flourish.","students":[{"unikey":"lzha2372","firstName":"Stella","lastName":"Zhang","fullName":"Stella Zhang"}]},{"id":"R_4In6jo25mOFWNHq","title":"Threads of Country","abstract":"The Gadigal Centre of Excellence provides a ‘home away from home’ for Indigenous students living and learning at the University of Sydney. Its form responds to three significant Indigenous landmarks: the hill at St Andrews College, Missenden Road and Parramatta Road. This form creates a poetic connection to Indigenous history and stories for those visiting the building. Positioned at a key campus gateway, the building draws people through native landscaping to a central Indigenous garden created for study and storytelling. The Gadigal Centre is envisioned as a poetic, generous, and culturally safe environment that places Indigenous students at its heart.","students":[{"unikey":"sbak0144","firstName":"Sophie","lastName":"Baker","fullName":"Sophie Baker"}]},{"id":"R_4IcxPqaiaPKPiYR","title":"Adaptive Reuse at Old Clairvaux","abstract":"Upon visiting the site I recognised the need to preserve the existing fabric and history. This resulted in a design approach that aimed to reconcile the expanded program for an Arts and Culture Centre with a desire to preserve historical continuity on the site. The resulting architecture aims to be an expression of this process of recreation, interpretation and listening.","students":[{"unikey":"shar8290","firstName":"Simon","lastName":"Harris","fullName":"Simon Harris"}]},{"id":"R_4J1TUdEwIj82KeV","title":"The Common Ground","abstract":"This project aims to explore the architectural potentials of co-location as a speculative tool for increasing accessibility within mental health services. This inquiry is situated within Katoomba, the largest township within the Blue Mountains, where the withdrawal of health services has persisted, placing pressure on the Katoomba township. The research proposes an architectural intervention that integrates mental health support into a broader community framework by co-locating Headspace with the Police Citizens Youth Club (PCYC). The focus is on softening the edges of access to mental health services through spatial design strategies that assist to reduce stigma and encourage participation. By embedding mental health services within a recreational and community setting, the project will explore how architecture can decentralise clinical care and reframe it into a more approachable and familiar experience. The investigation adopts co-location and co-design as a design methodology, examining access, circulation and shared spaces to facilitate overlap between community activity and support services.","students":[{"unikey":"acha6338","firstName":"Amira","lastName":"Chahrouk","fullName":"Amira Chahrouk"}]},{"id":"R_4JDG6BkmYH6MxdP","title":"LOOP'D","abstract":"LOOP’d is an interconnected, multifaceted design system fostering civic engagement among young Australians. It unites a digital app that builds community around civic events, a modular charm bracelet rewarding participation through tangible customisation, and interactive discussion cards that spark curiosity and connection. Together, they form a loop of motivation, recognition, and belonging creating a journey from apathy to action, transforming civic involvement from something distant and alienating into a personal, social, and rewarding experience that strengthens belonging and shared purpose across communities.","students":[{"unikey":"aber7833","firstName":"Ariel","lastName":"Berger","fullName":"Ariel Berger"},{"unikey":"JHAR0027","firstName":"Jess","lastName":"Harding","fullName":"Jess Harding"},{"unikey":"Iran7508","firstName":"Iman","lastName":"Rana","fullName":"Iman Rana"},{"unikey":"prao7325","firstName":"Prarthana","lastName":"Rao","fullName":"Prarthana Rao"}]},{"id":"R_4JJCCheQAn2hfpp","title":"HAVEN OF HOPE_Healing Community Centre and Youth Accommodation","abstract":"This thesis proposes ‘Haven of Hope,’ a Healing Community Centre and Youth Accommodation for young survivors of family, domestic, and sexual violence aged 15–21. The project focuses on transforming conventional shelter models into long-term restorative environments through Trauma-Informed Design supported by neuroscience and evidence-based strategies. Drawing on salutogenic, biophilic, and mental and behavioural health frameworks, the design applies three core strategies: creating physical and emotional safety, enabling autonomy and personal agency, and providing enriched, stimulating environments that support psychological recovery. The aim is to rebuild the meaning of home as a space of healing, dignity, and renewed identity.","students":[{"unikey":"blee0642","firstName":"Bokyung Ashley","lastName":"Lee","fullName":"Bokyung Ashley Lee"}]},{"id":"R_4K8SONFMGc66EPX","title":"LMI Cooling Center","abstract":"This project is a conversion of the Morrison’s 100 year old dilapidated Midnight Star Theatre \nin Homebush, western Sydney, into a Community Centre with integrated cooling-centre \nfunction - LMI Homebush Community Centre. The heritage renovation responds to increasing \nsummer heat and rejuvenates and reconstructs local social fabric. Design vision The design \nvision is to develop a multi-functional public building that functions as long-term cultural \nand arts hub, which transforms into a safe, cool and inclusive sanctuary during prolonged \nheatwaves. The cooling role of the centre will be well articulated in architectural form and \nspatial organization through passive and active cooling strategies, a range of external and \nsemi-external gathering spaces, as well as flexible interior layouts that can accommodate \nmultiple modalities of community use. Meanwhile, the intervention considers and perpetuates \nthe historical memory of the site, through which it causes a mediation between exploitation \nand current community life and reinforces to a sense of place identity as well as artistic \nactivity.","students":[{"unikey":"szha6090","firstName":"Shiyuan","lastName":"Zhao","fullName":"Shiyuan Zhao"}]},{"id":"R_4KwhabWbctMgr8c","title":"Auburn Kiln Project","abstract":"This project explores the cultural and social relationships between fire and architecture. It examines the generative nature of fire to create community. The ritual of fire is explored through the design of a wood fired kiln in the Western Sydney suburb of Auburn. With this, the project provides an opportunity to reintroduce the ritual of fire into the lives of the Auburn community. The act of firing clay as a collective is the means by which people of this diverse community might create a sense of belonging and an enhanced sense of community.","students":[{"unikey":"pfra2407","firstName":"Penny","lastName":"Fraser","fullName":"Penny Fraser"}]},{"id":"R_4L5PypZ4DqKzCWm","title":"As the Rain Comes In","abstract":"For First Nations Custodians, rain withholds living knowledge. Ancient rainmakers called up the rain and heard the languages of Country...\n\nWhen the rain pours and unearths the smell of the soil, and the light flood echoes of Blackwattle swamp, the path of the Gadigal Country is reclaimed.\n\nExcellence, in this scheme, is a shift away from the colonial desire to control space, and the anthropocentric hierarchy that equates human discomfort to inadequacy. The rain is invited into the building through the Waterway system, and eventually floods the ground.\n\nThe built form is temporary, but, as long As the Rain Comes In, Country remains.","students":[{"unikey":"cche7393","firstName":"Cheng","lastName":"Cheng","fullName":"Cheng Cheng"}]},{"id":"R_4LSWgHf4sEu9p9X","title":"Dindarra","abstract":"Dindayya, in the Kuku Yalanji language, celebrates Country and creates spaces that foster movement, dialogue, and cultural exchange. This proposal revitalises the cultural hub in Katoomba, addressing the need for affordable creative studios, workshops, and meeting spaces for local artists and community groups. The building also brings life back to the land, with varied brick patterns offering habitat for insects, geckos, possums, and birds. Native landscaping further supports local species while guiding visitors toward the building’s entrances, reconnecting people and Country.","students":[{"unikey":"yleu0842","firstName":"Chloe","lastName":"Leung","fullName":"Chloe Leung"}]},{"id":"R_4LZwat2Ajztsxfr","title":"Flexible Family Frames","abstract":"This project aims to challenge the current rigidity of the built environment by re-imagining design approaches for intergenerational housing. As our spatial needs continually evolve, architecture often fails to adapt in response - leaving us to adjust our lifestyles around static structures. We are adapting to our structures instead of the other way around. The pavilion design for the Osaka World Expo acts as a platform to explore diverse strategies for flexible architecture, illustrating how the built environment shapes the way we live. It questions the conventional notion of static housing design and advocates for adaptable structures that support multigenerational living, accommodating diverse family typologies through different seasons of life.","students":[{"unikey":"scho8614","firstName":"Shu Ya","lastName":"Chong","fullName":"Shu Ya Chong"}]},{"id":"R_4LjkW9rt9Ei7EOJ","title":"Synapse","abstract":"SYNAPSE is an AI-driven Life Operating System designed to combat student burnout and social isolation. We move beyond passive productivity apps by creating an autonomous Digital Twin (Heartie) for every user. Built on the OCEAN Big Five model, this agent uses its validated personality profile to fuel all functions: optimizing chaotic schedules, autonomous Social Mapping, and personalized Career Mentorship. Our multi-platform exhibit, including a 3D concept film and physical IP, showcases a new paradigm for human-AI co-creation.","students":[{"unikey":"xzha0171","firstName":"Tata","lastName":"Zhang","fullName":"Tata Zhang"},{"unikey":"xiyu0131","firstName":"Xiaoyang","lastName":"Yu","fullName":"Xiaoyang Yu"},{"unikey":"zliu0454","firstName":"Viki","lastName":"Liu","fullName":"Viki Liu"},{"unikey":"jzha6441","firstName":"Jianbo","lastName":"Zhao","fullName":"Jianbo Zhao"}]},{"id":"R_4LyP186sCbeX09X","title":"Circl","abstract":"By desensitising users to the real humans behind profiles and reducing them to an endless stream of swipes, current dating apps have contributed to rising gender-based resentment among young adults. This has left Gen-Z fatigued by dating as a whole, with 78% reporting dating app burnout. Circl provides an answer by offering limited, curated matches and facilitating real-life interactions. Its AI matches users with three compatible people each week to break the scrolling habit. When they’re ready to meet, Circl recommends group events, removing the pressure of planning a date and easing intimidating one-on-one first meetings.","students":[{"unikey":"eare0976","firstName":"Emily","lastName":"Arens","fullName":"Emily Arens"},{"unikey":"kgee3124","firstName":"Kita","lastName":"Geeves","fullName":"Kita Geeves"},{"unikey":"jlee2557","firstName":"Jessica","lastName":"Lee","fullName":"Jessica Lee"},{"unikey":"yhar5390","firstName":"Yasmine","lastName":"Harvey","fullName":"Yasmine Harvey"}]},{"id":"R_4MA1EdjyjcWCvpD","title":"Cyanotype","abstract":"This exhibition transforms the traditional cyanotype printing process into an immersive, sound-guided experience. Visitors journey through six interconnected stages, each aligned with a step of the cyanotype workflow. Through sound, light, touch, and interaction, audiences become co-creators: actively participating in image, making as a ritual of chemistry, nature, and time.","students":[{"unikey":"ywan0772","firstName":"Inna","lastName":"Wang","fullName":"Inna Wang"},{"unikey":"zhli0255","firstName":"Zhuoran","lastName":"Li","fullName":"Zhuoran Li"},{"unikey":"rzen0962","firstName":"Ruisi","lastName":"Zeng","fullName":"Ruisi Zeng"},{"unikey":"ylin0363","firstName":"Kimmi","lastName":"Lin","fullName":"Kimmi Lin"}]},{"id":"R_4NBMztmIiAcTwgF","title":"Towards Inclusion","abstract":"This strategy addresses the exclusion of low-literacy users from the Success Ladder platform by embedding inclusiveness into organisational governance, collaboration, and design. Grounded in a three-phase roadmap, Phase 1 focuses on transforming inclusiveness into an institutional priority, establishing accessibility and usability standards, and mobilising cross-functional collaboration. By tackling root causes and implementing evidence-based principles, the strategy aims to create a sustainable, self-reinforcing inclusive system. Anticipated outcomes include improved learning experiences, enhanced user autonomy and confidence, and expanded educational access for previously excluded populations.","students":[{"unikey":"RXIO0372","firstName":"Rui","lastName":"Xiong","fullName":"Rui Xiong"},{"unikey":"MUZA0843","firstName":"Manahil","lastName":"Uzair","fullName":"Manahil Uzair"},{"unikey":"YSON0459","firstName":"Melody","lastName":"Song","fullName":"Melody Song"}]},{"id":"R_4NXlbCR2UG5Vgiu","title":"Culture as Territory","abstract":"Pacific Island nations face the loss of their homelands to rising seas, making embassy territories vital places where sovereignty, culture, and community can continue. In Nusantara, a shared Pacific embassy forms part of a global network that supports cultural continuity as people move between host countries and embassy sites, living nomadically or settling as needed. Hard architecture becomes a scaffold for soft, evolving practices—woven traditions, food preparation, storytelling, and the ceremonial rebuilding of vernacular forms. Through movement, memory, and collective making, the embassy sustains identity and belonging in a post-island future where territory endures through culture, not land.","students":[{"unikey":"mcha0929","firstName":"Mietta","lastName":"Charlwood","fullName":"Mietta Charlwood"}]},{"id":"R_4NYUXKGGWJYYpLb","title":"Valued (A)lot","abstract":"Sydney’s housing market is pushing its younger residents to the fringes, or out of the city entirely. A model catering to their needs would, beyond providing affordable homes, become a nexus of street parties, creativity, exhibitions and markets. It would contribute to a diverse city and enrich daily urban life. Valued (A)Lot illustrates a method to create these mixed-use spaces by adapting Sydney’s ‘ugly ducklings’ – the unremarkable commercial buildings punctuating the inner-suburban carpet. These lots are not often attractive to private sector players, but hold value for acupunctural redevelopment, performing the right amount of intervention in the right place.","students":[{"unikey":"cste6852","firstName":"Chris","lastName":"Stelzer","fullName":"Chris Stelzer"}]},{"id":"R_4Nf5M8DF1XJfDGh","title":"Madang Cultural Threshold","abstract":"This project reimagines the Korean Madang as a living diplomatic threshold for the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Nusantara. Through dual courtyards, extended timber eaves, and a contemporary reconstruction of Hanok structural hierarchy, the design unfolds as a sequence of spaces that gather, shelter, and connect. Blending Korean cultural memory with Indonesia’s new capital, the embassy becomes a spatial narrative of openness, ritual, and belonging. It proposes diplomacy not as a distant formality but as an experience shaped through shared space, cultural resonance, and the quiet architecture of human presence.","students":[{"unikey":"dkan0617","firstName":"Donghwa","lastName":"Kang","fullName":"Donghwa Kang"}]},{"id":"R_4NxNE9V5vC0vN34","title":"Rydalmere Weaving Riverfronts","abstract":"The Master Plan repositions the precinct as an extension of the Parramatta River Corridor, integrating landscape, built form, and mobility to support Dharug Country principles and ecological restoration. Through a Green-Blue Mixed-Use Corridor and Movement-Activity Local Centre, the proposal strengthens sustainable connections between the riverfront, Light Rail, and surrounding neighbourhoods. Public benefits include expanded open spaces and connected walking and cycling links, new housing, enhanced ecological systems, and adaptive reuse. The outcome is a future-ready precinct that celebrates Country, reinforces community identity, and contributes to Parramatta’s vision for a more liveable river city.","students":[{"unikey":"froj0374","firstName":"Alonso","lastName":"Rojas Figueroa","fullName":"Alonso Rojas Figueroa"},{"unikey":"ssaw0689","firstName":"Shriya Ninad","lastName":"Sawant","fullName":"Shriya Ninad Sawant"},{"unikey":"jelc0717","firstName":"Jack","lastName":"Elcombe","fullName":"Jack Elcombe"},{"unikey":"ntha0125","firstName":"Nainesh Manoj","lastName":"Thakur","fullName":"Nainesh Manoj Thakur"}]},{"id":"R_4NxsT417p8eUVK9","title":"Re-cover","abstract":"This Gadigal Centre of Excellence seeks to provide The University of Sydney with an informal, approachable and inclusive space where students, staff and the public can gather, learn, listen, observe or pause while acknowledging more-than-human existences. The project proposes a relational attitude towards landscape, program and built environment. The design and construction of this project involve the excavation of the existing Maze Crescent Carpark and planting of native flora on the ground surrounding and roof above the structure. In turn, ground previously covered in asphalt is allowed to breathe and an ecosystem of native flora and fauna is supported.","students":[{"unikey":"jayl5822","firstName":"Jedda","lastName":"Ayling","fullName":"Jedda Ayling"}]},{"id":"R_4OVNMeSM1Xpszhq","title":"Build & Bloom","abstract":"Build & Bloom is a mindful growth companion that helps young-adults cultivate healthier digital habits. When users place their phone in the dock, it detects their disconnection and nurtures virtual flowers within the paired app. As their time away from screens grows, the flowers blossom, and the dock itself ‘blooms’ in harmony, creating a tangible reflection of personal-growth. \n\nBy linking action with both physical and digital feedback, Build & Bloom turns moments of mindful pausing into flourishing. The shared garden and goals features extend this growth beyond the individual, fostering collective wellbeing as friends encourage and support each other’s progress.","students":[{"unikey":"yhua7540","firstName":"Joseph","lastName":"Huang","fullName":"Joseph Huang"},{"unikey":"ajai3345","firstName":"Ankusi","lastName":"Jain","fullName":"Ankusi Jain"},{"unikey":"kngo8683","firstName":"Mari","lastName":"Ngo Bui","fullName":"Mari Ngo Bui"},{"unikey":"pevu2672","firstName":"Peter","lastName":"Vu","fullName":"Peter Vu"},{"unikey":"kewu4987","firstName":"Kevin","lastName":"Wu","fullName":"Kevin Wu"}]},{"id":"R_4OfwxxQbjeUtoIb","title":"Fractured Grounds","abstract":"Fractured Grounds is conceived as a meeting place carved into the topography, articulated through locally sourced stone and timber. As the Gadigal Centre of Excellence, it forms a campus landmark, its mass broken into two towers and a courtyard. Embedded in the site’s contours, the building responds to its surroundings with warm, gridded timber interiors that support learning and collaboration. Organised by a disciplined structural rhythm, the scheme strategically fractures to create voids that enhance vertical connectivity. A sunken auditorium anchors the project, while the rooftop terrace framed by skillion roofs and native plantings offers a reflective, elevated gathering place.","students":[{"unikey":"fmon0784","firstName":"Frances","lastName":"Monaghan","fullName":"Frances Monaghan"}]},{"id":"R_4PCWGsCVWbk86k1","title":"Turning ground","abstract":"A journey through the paradox of lightness and weight unfolds the natural terrain of Maze Crescent Carpark. The haptic qualities of rammed earth act as a heavy base, with a steel-framed and polycarbonate structure sitting on top with a sense of openness. Each passage and threshold reverberates with the surrounding architecture, histories and the natural environment. Here, the centre does not merely house education; it becomes a place of gathering, an invitation for “coming together,” to listen and to care for the places we create and inhabit.","students":[{"unikey":"cwan6383","firstName":"Crystal","lastName":"Wan","fullName":"Crystal Wan"}]},{"id":"R_4PItmgkXP2j2JQB","title":"Stay A While","abstract":"‘Stay A While’ is an adaptive reuse proposal of the decommissioned International House, reimagined as a gathering place for learning and cultural exchange. The delineated walking paths guides visitors through a culturally safe entrance, the extension’s columnar language extending skyward echoing the memory of the ironbark–turpentine forest that once rooted the ground. The façade’s louvres are kinetic, alive in conversation with rain, wind, and light shaping the oyster-shell tiles in an ever-shifting performance. Where colonial architecture once sought to dominate the landscape, the new façade yields instead, allowing nature to become visualised.","students":[{"unikey":"agup8957","firstName":"Arnav","lastName":"Gupta","fullName":"Arnav Gupta"}]},{"id":"R_4Pk5a9ASf0xvpDa","title":"Architecture of Exile and Blackbirding","abstract":"“They recall back to the bad times ... bad treatment, low\nwages, small food and water, hard labour, foreign language.\nSo they said ‘watch out for Australia.”\n\nThe project envisions the Bridge stairs as a commemorative\nlandscape that unveil the silences stories of blackbirding\nand aims return sovereignty in the exile of the\nsouth sea islanders as a way of truth telling and healing.\nExile is manifested in the fragmentation of memory and\ndiscontinuity of place. The proposal aims to counter-point\nthe grand narrative of imperialism in the urban fabric of\nthe rocks and subverts that to highlight the untold chronicles\nof sugarcane slaves.","students":[{"unikey":"sche7081","firstName":"Shuhang Chen","lastName":"Chen","fullName":"Shuhang Chen Chen"}]},{"id":"R_4Pv1Yn0e8rAori9","title":"Codesigning our suburbs","abstract":"Our project aims to better integrate Sydney residents into their local planning process. Residents face complex planning proposals and are ill-informed on local projects, resulting in suburbs designed without community in mind. Beginning with a codesign workshop, participants learn more about their local council’s planning process and make suggestions for their area. These suggestions are then reviewed by the council, who will then install temporary popups stemming from the workshop ideas. Feedback is then collected, allowing the council to propose a final, permanent change. The desired result is stronger communities that feel empowered to make changes around them.","students":[{"unikey":"alhe6026","firstName":"Alice","lastName":"He","fullName":"Alice He"},{"unikey":"mzha4681","firstName":"Melody","lastName":"Zhang","fullName":"Melody Zhang"},{"unikey":"kehe2444","firstName":"Kevin","lastName":"He","fullName":"Kevin He"},{"unikey":"mcho7242","firstName":"Matthew","lastName":"Cho","fullName":"Matthew Cho"}]},{"id":"R_4QGaELSuhSY71SA","title":"Modular Cluster Housing","abstract":"A small neighbourhood of 28 modular homes arranged in clusters around shared courtyards for yarning, play, and everyday care. The plan moves simply from public to private, with front doors and kitchen windows facing the commons for natural safety. Homes favour north light, cross-ventilation, winter sun, and small green edges; layouts are adaptable and easy to build. Sustainability is practical: retain and reuse where possible, use low-carbon materials, and back up low energy demand with solar. Paths are walk- and roll-friendly, with short-stay accessible parking near the community room and safe service/fire access around the edges.","students":[{"unikey":"ycha4276","firstName":"Sudy","lastName":"Chau","fullName":"Sudy Chau"}]},{"id":"R_4QL6hveL3XipDgc","title":"Eye of Katoomba","abstract":"The “Eye of Katoomba” is a homage to the area, taking inspiration from its key characteristics such as the basin-like structures created by the plateaus and the vast canopies that blanket over the landscape. These characteristics inspired the unconventional external walls and layout of the site, creating in between spaces that separate the public and private gathering areas. The building takes advantage of the changing typology to create an amphitheatre-like main area creating the “eye” where everything can be seen and traditions can be witnessed and passed on.","students":[{"unikey":"hlho4550","firstName":"Hana","lastName":"Lhotka","fullName":"Hana Lhotka"}]},{"id":"R_4QVS6pRIy5tZ6Z9","title":"Newtown Crateworks","abstract":"This project reimagines the suspended Newtown Tram Depot as a living framework for collective authorship, an architecture grounded in Henri Lefebvre’s Right to the City. Against the forces that fix and commodify urban life, the depot becomes a scaffold for participation, improvisation and play. Through the humble logic of the milk crate, adaptable & open, architecture resists closure, sustaining the conditions for the city to be continually remade. Here, space is not consumed but co-created; not preserved but lived. The depot transforms from relic to commons where production and encounter entwine, the city rediscovers its capacity to imagine itself anew.","students":[{"unikey":"scha2352","firstName":"Sam","lastName":"Chapman","fullName":"Sam Chapman"}]},{"id":"R_4Rg8ZCqYw1VZHQS","title":"Shared Shadows","abstract":"The result of an investigation into the Australian shade house. Shade, a state of in-between, neither light nor dark and somehow both at once. An underutilised resource that could provide solace in a heating climate. Historically, an element that fostered communal interaction, prompting people to take charge of their own comfort. Interactive shading elements are used throughout this project with a focus on textiles as shading elements. Textiles have been heavily used in both Indigenous shelters and post-colonial architecture, and element that creates a bridge between two materials cultures is placed in-between structural elements to foster communal care and interaction.","students":[{"unikey":"rmat4620","firstName":"Ruby","lastName":"Matthews","fullName":"Ruby Matthews"}]},{"id":"R_4QoPDL1l2CBB81H","title":"BOCO","abstract":"BOCO Lighting Cubes are a modular lighting system designed to help young people create emotional comfort and structure in new or unfamiliar living spaces. With their innovative features, the cubes create and reinforce organisation and personality to encourage a homely environment. Through the attachment and lighting features, zones can be formed in rooms of any size, allowing spaces to serve multiple functions cleanly. The touchscreen face encourages use from the moment the user receives it, with additional settings available through the connected app. Our cubes aim to nurture feelings of safety, confidence and growth in all spaces.","students":[{"unikey":"naan3489","firstName":"Anna","lastName":"An","fullName":"Anna An"},{"unikey":"nwon7183","firstName":"Natalie","lastName":"Wong","fullName":"Natalie Wong"},{"unikey":"chua9235","firstName":"Christie","lastName":"Huang","fullName":"Christie Huang"},{"unikey":"mnas4946","firstName":"Maria","lastName":"Nasikwala","fullName":"Maria Nasikwala"}]},{"id":"R_4ScxfupY4UZV6XD","title":"GRASS [ROOTS]","abstract":"Grass Roots begins where sun, water, and land intersect. It understands connection with Country through light and shade, the sound of footsteps against flowing water and the quiet conversation between human and non-human.  At the heart of the design, a winding boardwalk drifts down the slope. Beneath, water follows the same rhythm as the user, flowing along a narrow gutter that swells into reflective pools at moments of stillness. Through the holes of the perforation, small tussocks start growing into and above the path, and the material that was once known becomes a whisper, quietened by the wild native grasses.","students":[{"unikey":"akla8387","firstName":"Anusha","lastName":"Klair","fullName":"Anusha Klair"}]},{"id":"R_4SxzujeC2HKpltS","title":"Layers of Softness","abstract":"Layers of Softness is a cultural learning centre on Gadigal Country shaped by walking, landscape, and the gentle filtering of light through foliage. Two linear buildings frame a central alley, connected by slow ramps that guide movement through layered spaces. In plan, linear partitions cut through the building to create parallel, overlapping zones that reinforce its spatial logic. Planted niches are embedded throughout, bringing filtered light and softness into circulation areas. A raised tree level introduces a soft canopy environment where the boundaries between inside and outside dissolve, producing a third-space atmosphere. Together, these spaces create an open, inclusive environment that welcomes diverse communities and honours First Peoples.","students":[{"unikey":"cwoo8589","firstName":"Jene, Cheuk Yan","lastName":"Woo","fullName":"Jene, Cheuk Yan Woo"}]},{"id":"R_4TC4lmr8fSEsNlB","title":"Earth, Sky & Inbetween","abstract":"The Gadigal Centre of Excellence grows from the landscape, honouring Gadigal stories while inviting the community to learn, create and share. Its flowing form and kinetic façade respond to the seasonal wind and light so the rhythms of Country can be felt throughout. A stone path carries movement from Gadigal Green through the building, dissolving the boundary between campus and nature. At its heart, a vertical void draws in light, connecting earth and sky. Shaped roof openings trace the shifting seasons, allowing the Centre to become a living part of Country where culture and learning continually evolve.","students":[{"unikey":"jyan7807","firstName":"Juliana","lastName":"Yan","fullName":"Juliana Yan"}]},{"id":"R_4TH33XH6rATPHT5","title":"The Gadigal Centre of Excellence","abstract":"The Gadigal Centre of Excellence draws inspiration from the deep relationship the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation hold with water, a source of life, culture and identity. Central to this connection is the Nawi, a lightweight and resilient bark canoe crafted from folded stringybark and used to travel across rivers, harbours and bays. More than a mode of transport, the Nawi represents balance, care and kinship. Reimagining this form in architecture, the Centre adopts a flowing parametric curved façade that echoes the canoe, capturing the movement of water and expressing the enduring bond between people, place and Country.","students":[{"unikey":"dmar8171","firstName":"Dylan","lastName":"Marvel","fullName":"Dylan Marvel"}]},{"id":"R_4TIUQp00sMvLtaV","title":"Cabramatta Mediator","abstract":"Tensions in Cabramatta arise from enforcement actions that conflict with daily local practices, causing communication between residents and authorities to stall. This project proposes an architectural installation as a neutral mediator, allowing both parties to learn from the informality found in local arcades, where strong community ties form through everyday interactions initiated by shop owners. The installation offers a temporary platform for dialogue around a local development, aiming to rebuild trust and re-establish meaningful connection between the community and municipal authorities.","students":[{"unikey":"ccha6898","firstName":"Elena","lastName":"Chan","fullName":"Elena Chan"}]},{"id":"R_4TMgyiqm12hjqYd","title":"Sydney's Under-crofts","abstract":"This project interrogates the creative and pragmatic possibility of renewal of under-crofts in Sydney. Under-croft spaces are the often empty, functionless and detractive voids below elevated roadways, bridges and viaducts. These spaces will become more prominent as the city expands in the midst of population growth and with limited land availability, there is a real potential for under-crofts to transform into productive and vibrant public spaces. The projects calls architects, designers, artists, enterprises and governments to action, to realise the potency of under-crofts as a new urban typology for activation.","students":[{"unikey":"sshi2917","firstName":"Samuel","lastName":"Shin","fullName":"Samuel Shin"}]},{"id":"R_4ToNw9ocRCUWCj3","title":"Hear, Hear!","abstract":"Anthropogenic underwater noise pollution has been recognised recently as a significant issue impacting marine ecosystems globally. Since the industrial revolution, reliance on the ocean as a commodity increased human activities including shipping and coastal developments, contributing to greater levels of underwater noise pollution. \n\nAs sea levels rise, changes in the coastal zone will inevitably occur. To maintain balance with the marine ecosystem, understanding the priorities of non-human stakeholders becomes crucial to sustaining our relationships with the natural world. This proposal at Sydney’s Farm Cove involves a multifaceted restorative framework to address anthropogenic underwater noise pollution through co-design methodologies.","students":[{"unikey":"cshi5528","firstName":"Carol","lastName":"Shi","fullName":"Carol Shi"}]},{"id":"R_4TyFgslweZeZDTQ","title":"Project Clairvaux","abstract":"Clairvaux is an Indigenous Youth Centre located in Katoomba, NSW. Clairvaux aims to create a design solution which contributes to the local environment, benefiting the lives of not only humans, but plant species and animals which live upon it. This is achieved by prioritizing these elements, engulfing the roof structure, using a 270 degree grass ramp, which wraps around the external walls. Skylights protrude from the roof structure providing solar access into the main building. Meanwhile, the original community center is retained on the south side of the site, being retrofitted.","students":[{"unikey":"mhar9316","firstName":"Marcus","lastName":"Haroulis","fullName":"Marcus Haroulis"}]},{"id":"R_4VBEu1MemFDggRH","title":"SEnario","abstract":"SEnario, a narrative-based Systems Engineering simulator, reimagines how SystemsEngineering (SE) can be communicated and understood. Through multiple rotating discswith dynamic projections on one screen, and a concise interactive narrative animation onanother, users experience the chain reaction where every change triggers another withinthe system. Through the demo story, Saving Shadow, we demonstrate how SE helpsrestore order amid chaos and turn complexity into clarity—mirroring its impact in real-worldcontexts. As both an educational medium and a narrative artefact, SEnario bridgesengineering precision and human empathy.","students":[{"unikey":"yfei0054","firstName":"Yu","lastName":"Fei","fullName":"Yu Fei"},{"unikey":"yyan0431","firstName":"Yera","lastName":"Yan","fullName":"Yera Yan"},{"unikey":"bliu0480","firstName":"Bibei","lastName":"Liu","fullName":"Bibei Liu"},{"unikey":"tili0698","firstName":"Tianshun","lastName":"Li","fullName":"Tianshun Li"}]},{"id":"R_4WYqpRqYlA3picV","title":"SoundShare","abstract":"SoundShare is a digital platform that makes accessing musical instruments simple, safe, and convenient. The app connects owners with curious learners through verified tone samples, clear borrowing steps, and transparent conditions that minimise risk and create trust. It unlocks the value of underused instruments while giving beginners an affordable way to try before committing. The SoundShare Booth serves as a supporting touchpoint in public spaces, offering quick, hands-on trials that attract new users and extend the brand experience. Together, they form a service ecosystem that turns instrument sharing into an accessible, scalable, and demand-driven model for musical exploration.","students":[{"unikey":"zzha5744","firstName":"Ziyu","lastName":"Zhang","fullName":"Ziyu Zhang"},{"unikey":"peqi3428","firstName":"Gabriel","lastName":"Qi","fullName":"Gabriel Qi"},{"unikey":"zche5741","firstName":"Ming","lastName":"Chen","fullName":"Ming Chen"},{"unikey":"cjia2228","firstName":"Hans","lastName":"Jian","fullName":"Hans Jian"},{"unikey":"yuxu7270","firstName":"Ruby","lastName":"Xu","fullName":"Ruby Xu"}]},{"id":"R_4WzmfHgrETtnkzf","title":"Visualising Complexities","abstract":"Visualising Complexities is a three-tier communication toolkit that helps Australians understand the energy transition as a connected system rather than a set of isolated technologies. In partnership with Frazer-Nash Consultancy, our team designed:\n\nA tactile public exhibit that sparks energy literacy,\n\nLayered technology blueprints that illustrate how solar, wind, nuclear, and legacy sources work, and\n\nA web-based Energy Comparison Tool that enables users to compare energy sources across cost, environmental, technical, and social criteria.\n\nBy revealing trade-offs, synergies, and long-term implications, the toolkit transforms dense analysis into clear, actionable insights, fostering evidence-based conversations among citizens, educators, and policy stakeholders.","students":[{"unikey":"skar0566","firstName":"Shashank","lastName":"Karnad","fullName":"Shashank Karnad"},{"unikey":"ddem0434","firstName":"Daniela","lastName":"De Mora","fullName":"Daniela De Mora"},{"unikey":"cgam0638","firstName":"Cara","lastName":"Gamo","fullName":"Cara Gamo"},{"unikey":"spat0102","firstName":"Shrutidhar","lastName":"Patadia","fullName":"Shrutidhar Patadia"}]},{"id":"R_4XgFhyjNyvZiA7u","title":"Solace","abstract":"Solace, a moment of contemplation on a busy campus, aims to call upon the aboriginal concept of circular time, to retire the norms of how we live in and yield to Country. In the context of colonial history which tore through songlines, circular time offers a positive perspective where nothing is truly lost, and everything remains within the cycle, silently waiting to be known again.\n\n\tRather than make obscure the history of this unceded land, this project seeks to inspire visitors to question the present and approach Country with reverence, taking one step towards circling back to the past.","students":[{"unikey":"sang0428","firstName":"Sophia Yong Zhi","lastName":"Ang","fullName":"Sophia Yong Zhi Ang"}]},{"id":"R_4YrmxzTh1ylKN3A","title":"Catoptric Defence & Assault","abstract":"To smuggle 120 kg of .30 calibre rounds through the markets, the event is understood as a series of vectors: each sequence, surface and threshold configures the terminus. To obfuscate either extremity is to delocalise the vector. CCTV transforms logistical chaos into a legible time-stamped pixelated grid. The tactic is infrastructural: reconfiguring the market’s logistical sequencing to produce ambiguity in surveillance data – [digitally] camouflaging the ammunition. At 0800hrs a defensive ‘invisible’ barrier is deployed, eventuating an un-control-able noise. Then at 1550hrs a parabolic mirror will assault a camera with a focused glare. Together [in/ex-]filtrating the unconcealed ammunition undetected.","students":[{"unikey":"omac6917","firstName":"Oliver","lastName":"Maclean","fullName":"Oliver Maclean"}]},{"id":"R_4ZjLtcpVLKzoOMV","title":"Reassembling Care","abstract":"The revitalisation of Anderson Stuart fosters a dialogue between memory and innovation,transforming a heritage site into a mental health hub. Exploring regenerative principlesthrough kit of parts and modular construction was the centre point of the scheme, takingthe form of temporary satellite hubs, acting as detached limbs, and supporting the primaryheritage building’s functions, and as a continuum of extensions that wrap around existingedges. The kit of parts becomes a framework for renewal through a series of modular,lightweight, and reversible components that can be inserted into and around the existingfabric of the site. Quick to assemble, easy to relocate, and can be fitted with privateconsultation spaces. Exposed timber creates honest materiality that combines functionand aesthetics. Polycarbonate emulates and enhances the timber, drawing inspirationfrom the existing finish of the Anderson Stuart facade but delineating clear differencesbetween the old and new, portraying clear contrasts between heavy and lightness.","students":[{"unikey":"jtha3940","firstName":"Josh","lastName":"Thai","fullName":"Josh Thai"}]},{"id":"R_4aFTyUktIPOtW0t","title":"Not Just a Pretty Face","abstract":"Shell House has been mummified by facadism. Its organs have been extracted and the pretty face restored, rendering the architecture incorporeal and deceptive under strangling preservation practices. The project condemns this arrested condition and advances an alternative predicated upon generative violence and reconciliation, as seen in art. The work of Arp and Dubuffet depends on wounding and reimagining the idealised body to generate the ambiguity and indeterminacy that constitutes art. If art teaches that beauty is born through transformation, then architecture must also reveal the mark of its maker, or re-maker. Not everything must be at face value anymore.","students":[{"unikey":"sara2133","firstName":"Sofia","lastName":"Aranega","fullName":"Sofia Aranega"}]},{"id":"R_4allOJdID2P9fkl","title":"The Coolth Observatory : Learning weather literacy","abstract":"“Summer All Over the World” imagines a near future where heat settles permanently over cities, revealing deep inequalities in comfort, knowledge, and care. In response, The Coolth Observatory transforms the abandoned Midnight Star Theatre into a civic meteorology lab, cooling centre, and public instrument of atmospheric understanding. Through radiosonde launches, interactive weather displays, and layered passive-cooling strategies, the building translates the invisible dynamics of air into shared literacy. This project proposes that resilience begins with literacy—arming communities with knowledge to confront a warming world together.","students":[{"unikey":"jchu6270","firstName":"Jin","lastName":"Chu","fullName":"Jin Chu"}]},{"id":"R_4bUdNui2votbY1M","title":"Current","abstract":"Current explores connection between land, water, and knowledge. It recalls the stream that once crossed Gadigal Green, allowing water to move through the site again during rain, creating a gentle reminder of what once existed. The name reflects time and movement, a link between the present and what continues to shift. Materiality grounds this idea: concrete forms a stable base, whilst copper cladded surfaces catch and change with light and weather. Inside, spaces invite stillness through subtle shifts in sound, light, and texture. Current becomes a place of observation and reflection, where water quietly guides understanding and presence.","students":[{"unikey":"ndev4128","firstName":"Nishtha","lastName":"Devnani","fullName":"Nishtha Devnani"}]},{"id":"R_4aOUeIpHJPOLxWn","title":"Layers of Coolth","abstract":"This project takes Homebush as its site of research and design, responding to Western Sydney’s escalating challenges of extreme heat, rising humidity, and the erosion of public space. Through the concept of “layered thresholds,” it constructs a climatic journey that guides visitors from heat toward coolth. \n\nHere, mist, water, and air are regarded as touchable, visible, and shareable \"atmospheric media\". The project eliminates its dependence on mechanical cooling, understands \"coolth\" as a public resource and care practice. It proposes a socially inclusive urban cooling model for Western Sydney, which is about to face a hotter, more humid future.","students":[{"unikey":"yche3732","firstName":"Yihui","lastName":"Chen","fullName":"Yihui Chen"}]},{"id":"R_4c0CZ7qwHSsIvzX","title":"Embassy of Vietnam in Nussantara","abstract":"Connecting with the features of traditional Southeast Asian houses, the thesis continues to analyze the aspects of a common Vietnamese boardgame - the Xiangqi Chess - including its board grid, structures, rules and characters. These quad of each will be matched with one and another to reveal the shared values and choreographs, touching upon both trio-grids, strong protocols, and differentiations in zones. Together, the thesis will strengthen the argument that both systems relate back to a deep cultural instinct to the community structure through boundaries that are both physical and symbolic.","students":[{"unikey":"mngu0701","firstName":"Minh","lastName":"Nguyen","fullName":"Minh Nguyen"}]},{"id":"R_4d0JPCuKKJsWKD8","title":"Darkroom","abstract":"The Darkroom reimagines Substation No. 342 in Paddington as an adaptive-reuse project where industrial heritage and analog photography intersect. The project critiques how technological transitions leave industrial heritage underused while celebrating the tactile materiality of analog image-making. Architectural strategies—Zooming-in, Apparatus, and Shutters—recast the substation through acts of scaling, nesting, and re-framing light, echoing core photographic processes. A fourth strategy, Greenscreen, extends this narrative into the backyard by transforming the remaining industrial frame into a flexible courtyard for open-air cinema and community gatherings. Together, these operations redefine preservation as cultural renewal, turning an underused existing substation into a site for collective memory-making.","students":[{"unikey":"nili0617","firstName":"Nian","lastName":"Li","fullName":"Nian Li"}]},{"id":"R_4dI6O2vH4QdFWBH","title":"Deprescribing from supplement","abstract":"This project aims to bridge the communication gap between clinicians and older adults regarding deprescribing by reimagining the waiting room experience. Focusing on patients who are open yet hesitant about reducing medications, we design gentle, inclusive materials that spark curiosity and self-reflection, shifting the message from “you should stop” to “you can explore.” Waiting rooms serve as low-cost intervention sites where multimedia prompts engage patients before consultations, encouraging proactive, collaborative, and curiosity-driven conversations.","students":[{"unikey":"rwan0734","firstName":"Ruiqi","lastName":"Wang","fullName":"Ruiqi Wang"},{"unikey":"zmoh0697","firstName":"Zarah","lastName":"Mohammadi","fullName":"Zarah Mohammadi"}]},{"id":"R_4dWOFrHC3ZJ904o","title":"Restoring Water Country","abstract":"This project follows the ancestral pathway of the former Orphan School Creek, restoring its buried watercourse as the central learning spine of the school. Once a living part of Gadigal Country, the creek shaped movement, ecology and seasonal knowledge before its burial in the early twentieth century. The design aligns circulation, gathering spaces and visual corridors with the original waterline, allowing students to walk the memory of the creek. Reinforced concrete forms carved landform terraces, while recycled brick façades emerge as exposed strata. Through form and material, the project restores a relationship deeply rooted in the land.","students":[{"unikey":"jlee2927","firstName":"Jiwon","lastName":"Lee","fullName":"Jiwon Lee"}]},{"id":"R_4dgKVwFZCSpKkMS","title":"The Collective Depot","abstract":"Newtown Tram Depot Redux imagines the depot as a living ground for the Creative Collective and the wider community. A new civic street threads through the historic structure, carrying the rhythm of Newtown and Erskineville into a shared cultural spine. Light, sound, and movement flow between old brick and new interventions, inviting artists, performers, and neighbours to co-create the life of the place. The depot’s triangular geometry is reinterpreted as playful markers that guide wandering and spark curiosity. The project frames architecture as an evolving story, where memory, collaboration, and imagination continually reshape the future of the site.","students":[{"unikey":"abal0213","firstName":"Adithya Krishnan","lastName":"Balaji","fullName":"Adithya Krishnan Balaji"}]},{"id":"R_4dkEcW5KCoC943L","title":"Seawalls Evaluation Framework","abstract":"This project develops a comprehensive evaluation framework for seawalls, repositioning them from single-purpose protective structures to multi-functional coastal infrastructures. Synthesising academic literature, coastal management guidelines, and urban assessment models, the framework assesses seawalls across five dimensions: Physical/Technical performance, Environmental Sustainability, Social and Functional outcomes, Economic viability, and Governance alignment. Applying the framework to eight international and Australian case studies highlights the superiority of adaptive and hybrid designs, which outperform rigid structures across ecological, social, and policy measures. The framework offers a holistic, context-sensitive tool that supports resilient, environmentally restorative, socially inclusive, and economically responsible coastal protection planning.","students":[{"unikey":"tsaw0326","firstName":"Tanmay","lastName":"Sawant","fullName":"Tanmay Sawant"},{"unikey":"asur0359","firstName":"Adwait","lastName":"Suresh","fullName":"Adwait Suresh"},{"unikey":"hdre0812","firstName":"Henrik","lastName":"Drevs","fullName":"Henrik Drevs"},{"unikey":"vkha0817","firstName":"Vinayak","lastName":"Khare","fullName":"Vinayak Khare"}]},{"id":"R_4dytVYAH8fxFMuB","title":"Memory Rings","abstract":"This project aims to design a sustainable and culturally meaningful site for the Darug and Gundungarra people, drawing inspiration from the symbolism of a tree stump. Burnt and cut stumps across the site inform a design that acknowledges memory, resilience, and deep connection to Country. Each home embodies layered history like the rings of a stump, elevated on stilts supported by gabion footing made from reclaimed building remnants. Circular arrangements echo growth rings, while varied heights follow the stump’s natural contours. Together, these forms create a grounded, communal landscape that honours cultural storytelling, ecological renewal, and enduring relationships with place.","students":[{"unikey":"yfar6946","firstName":"Yasna","lastName":"Farazmehr","fullName":"Yasna Farazmehr"}]},{"id":"R_4eJfvxDy2m14vvi","title":"Field Of Belonging","abstract":"The goal was not just to win, but to remember who you are, no matter where the game is played. Field of Belonging is an architectural exploration of exile, play, and the human need to feel seen. Rooted in the universal language of football, the project transforms fragmented geometries of the pitch into spaces of refuge, joy, and collective energy. The architecture becomes an evolving landscape rather than a fixed solution. This is not a building, and it will never be one. It progresses on evolving landscape where refugees and anyone displaced can find moments of dignity, freedom, and home.","students":[{"unikey":"zlee0607","firstName":"Zheng Yi","lastName":"Lee","fullName":"Zheng Yi Lee"}]},{"id":"R_4eQJfQpdpBOFyJH","title":"Walking The Story","abstract":"Katoomba's community and cultural hub is envisioned as a site for journey, connection and preservation of culture. Embedded in its landscape and stories, the design celebrates Aboriginal character through materiality, movement and spatial rhythm. Whilst acknowledging cultural customs in the arrangement of the spaces, the heart of the hub lies in the courtyard and fire pit, a place to pause amidst the walk of Country throughout the spaces. Encapsulating adaptability and inclusivity, 'Walking The Story' is a living narrative - where architecture, culture and Country exist in unity.","students":[{"unikey":"abui4531","firstName":"Angelina","lastName":"Bui","fullName":"Angelina Bui"}]},{"id":"R_4eQPtp0B9kxZGTL","title":"The Living Edge","abstract":"The Living edge aims to transform the waterfront of Farm Cove to create a dialogue between people and the water under the impact of global sea level rising.","students":[{"unikey":"qzha0573","firstName":"Andy","lastName":"Zhang","fullName":"Andy Zhang"}]},{"id":"R_4eqsyR72vZHbm09","title":"Mapping Connections","abstract":"The design has a strong focus on connectivity and accessibility through the lens of First nation's History. It is curated using songlines, trade routes and star maps, visualizing the use of celestial navigation for movement.","students":[{"unikey":"zpog8956","firstName":"Zia","lastName":"Pogalva","fullName":"Zia Pogalva"}]},{"id":"R_4er2raBd1aoMHux","title":"Flows Matter","abstract":"Flows Matter is an emotional wellbeing app designed to ease the transition from rest to work, addressing “Sunday anxiety” and weekday burnout among young professionals. It provides a calm platform that visualises mood trends across weeks and features a reflective function for users to write short messages to their future working selves after uploading weekend highlights. The To-Do List then integrates these reflections into weekly planning, turning emotions into actions, while a built-in breathing exercise helps users maintain focus and relieve stress during the transition. Flows Matter transforms the abrupt shift between leisure and productivity into a calm, structured experience.","students":[{"unikey":"ywan3945","firstName":"Yixin","lastName":"Wang","fullName":"Yixin Wang"},{"unikey":"jiwu0009","firstName":"Jiayi","lastName":"Wu","fullName":"Jiayi Wu"},{"unikey":"jzha0519","firstName":"Jiling","lastName":"Zhao","fullName":"Jiling Zhao"},{"unikey":"ywan4074","firstName":"Edina","lastName":"Wang","fullName":"Edina Wang"},{"unikey":"jzha6537","firstName":"Jiahao","lastName":"Zhang","fullName":"Jiahao Zhang"}]},{"id":"R_4fiRi24r54NRd8B","title":"Dulwich Hill Precinct","abstract":"The Dulwich Hill precinct will build on its existing suburban village character, establishing a vibrant community link connecting to and complimenting the civic heart at Dulwich Hill Village. Leveraging the GreenWay Project, the precinct will connect to the Cooks River and surrounding communities through green links. It will be a place that builds upon the relationship between the community and the environment with a renewed connection to Country.","students":[{"unikey":"imar8927","firstName":"Imogen","lastName":"Marosz","fullName":"Imogen Marosz"},{"unikey":"gnic0592","firstName":"Georgina","lastName":"Nicol","fullName":"Georgina Nicol"},{"unikey":"jihe0598","firstName":"Jialin","lastName":"He","fullName":"Jialin He"}]},{"id":"R_4gmMd5bNYaMRKlH","title":"Splintered Gums","abstract":"'Splintered Gums' blurs thresholds between landscape and structure, allowing bushland to move inward and inhabit the built form. Spaces unfold organically, inviting light, materials, and landscape to shape experiences that mirror the cycles of growth, decay, and renewal intrinsic to Country. Rooted in the site’s existing fabric, the design reclaims materials and stories, treading lightly along the land’s contours and carrying forward the tactile memory of place. Spaces remain fluid and transformative, dissolving boundaries between indoors and outdoors, private and communal, stillness and movement, offering a responsive, ever-evolving framework for connection between people, nature, and the passage of time.","students":[{"unikey":"fpow3077","firstName":"Freya","lastName":"Power","fullName":"Freya Power"}]},{"id":"R_4fkX9xnMWIFGzI1","title":"Traces of Fire","abstract":"\"Traces of Fire\" treats fire as living knowledge, not just a symbol. A real bonfire at ground level forms a yarning circle for sitting, storytelling, and ceremony, with galleries and public circulation arranged. A tall fired-clay chimney carries smoke and heat through the section, keeping the building's centre warmer. This gradient of temperature, sound, and social activity follows Indigenous understandings of fire as a tool for care, orientation, and seasonal change. Through its massing, materials, landscape, and separated movement paths for performers and visitors, the project responds to and protects fire as a cultural and spatial organiser.","students":[{"unikey":"xdin3355","firstName":"May Xuemei","lastName":"Ding","fullName":"May Xuemei Ding"}]},{"id":"R_4gnicocsdrRd91q","title":"Gadigal Centre","abstract":"The Gadigal Centre of Excellence reimagines the 1967 International House through an ethic of restraint and respect for Country. Rejecting demolition, the project retains and exposes the original concrete and brick structure as evidence of embodied energy, inserting minimal steel and glass interventions to bring light, ventilation, and permeability. Reoriented access through Maze Crescent creates a slower, more grounded entry that acknowledges Gadigal land. Open slabs and external circulation spines foster spatial continuity, visual connection, and cultural exchange. Through material honesty and adaptive reuse, the project proposes architecture as care, where transformation arises from exposure, recognition, and continuity rather than replacement.","students":[{"unikey":"cdri8884","firstName":"Claudia","lastName":"Drinnan","fullName":"Claudia Drinnan"}]},{"id":"R_4h3moDLjyScidlL","title":"Shanty House Pavilion","abstract":"This thesis proposes a new low-income housing model that balances government responsibility with inhabitant agency. Informal settlements offer affordability and adaptability but often lack safety and security, while highly regulated public housing can overlook ownership, autonomy, and community. By examining how people build and live in extreme low-income conditions, this research identifies core housing principles drawn from global informal practices and effective government and private approaches. The resulting framework is flexible across cultural contexts and unifies informal and institutional roles. It also informs the design and educational aims of The Shanty House pavilion for the 2025 Osaka World Expo.","students":[{"unikey":"mcha5195","firstName":"Merry","lastName":"Lin","fullName":"Merry Lin"}]},{"id":"R_4hojVVqNoK8wUXD","title":"The Garage","abstract":"Auburn, much like the rest of Australia since colonial settlement, has been defined by the typology of the single suburban home. A detached house, with a big backyard, a front yard, large living spaces, and a garage. Spaces that are synonymous with Australian culture. As density increases across Sydney, the suburban landscape is slowly stripped of these defining characteristics. Private outdoor spaces shrink or vanish, swapped out for balconies and shared courtyards. Living spaces half in size. And the garage, a space open to play, creativity, and experimentation, disappears into basements or is lost entirely. It is the loss of the garage that this thesis narrows in on, tracing its emergence, domestication, and eventual disappearance, examining these stages as both an architectural and cultural condition. It ultimately asks the question; as Sydney moves towards a housing model that overlooks the garage, how can we design public spaces that facilitate the same unprescribed freedom this typology provides.","students":[{"unikey":"nsch0434","firstName":"Nicholas","lastName":"Schultz","fullName":"Nicholas Schultz"}]},{"id":"R_4hrT54Kd9RpGPL3","title":"Clairvaux Corroborees Central","abstract":"‘Clairvaux Corroborees Central’ fosters a gathering place of remembrance, learning, and regeneration, grounded in Country through rituals and ceremonies. Situated in Katoomba, within the Blue Mountains, the land’s dark Stolen Generations history is gently purified by the continuous flow of water weaving through the site. The project aspires to guide future generations to collectively celebrate and commemorate Aboriginal culture, while embedding these practices within the living community. These spaces are not only physical, but symbolic, embodying healing as a journey towards becoming “whole”. Where the land and people unite in reconnecting self, community, Elders, and Country through resilience and renewal.","students":[{"unikey":"jahe9704","firstName":"Jacinta","lastName":"He","fullName":"Jacinta He"}]},{"id":"R_4ibhCuu8d5oM0ox","title":"House of Nations","abstract":"Situated on Gadigal Country, the House of Nations seeks to embody a living and continuous dialogue between place, people, knowledge, and history. The International House, now a contemporary ruin on the corner of campus, was once a prominent gathering space for students who have come to study from abroad that presented an opportunity to reimagine its legacy of cultural exchange through an Indigenous lens. It is reimagined into a space of cofluence, where communities of different nationalities, cultures, and perspectives meet, welcoming those who have come to learn, share, and grow; a revitalised gathering place for the House of Nations.","students":[{"unikey":"mche6438","firstName":"Jhunhei","lastName":"Chen","fullName":"Jhunhei Chen"}]},{"id":"R_4ilNDKR6eW1eotv","title":"Collective Storage","abstract":"Collective Storage reimagines the Australian Glass Manufactures building on South Dowling St. into a co-operative housing project of 54 apartments of various types, a public market hall and commercial tenancies. The approach to converting the now Kennards Self-Storage, is predicated on ‘taking stock’, wherein elements, materials, occupants, objects and uses are recorded and taken as ways into design and decision. \nIn these conditions, the architecture is not derived from an overarching, all-encompassing aesthetic approach, but from listening to the dialogue of things that exist and takes place at the AGM, a dialogue that establishes a meaning that is circumstantial.","students":[{"unikey":"fhol9081","firstName":"Finn","lastName":"Holle","fullName":"Finn Holle"}]},{"id":"R_4imQbMoW4IaGllP","title":"A Changing Picture","abstract":"The driving concept for my project, A Changing Picture, was the cyclical passage of time and the way that it manifests physically in a building. My approach to this was framing of views, inwards and outwards, with people within having a view of the changing landscape over the seasons while those outside have views of specific pockets of movement within. The concept emerged during the campus walk as we noticed details we hadn’t before moving mindfully allowing us to truly appreciate things we pass by daily. And that’s what I wanted to embody in my project: attention to detail, mindfulness.","students":[{"unikey":"anas7374","firstName":"Areeha","lastName":"Nasir","fullName":"Areeha Nasir"}]},{"id":"R_4ixofFKmfV62eKF","title":"The Weight of Knowledge, the Lightness of Exchange","abstract":"The Gadigal Centre of Excellence is envisioned as a living, relational landscape where fragmented stories and cycles of Country are recomposed into an unfolding architecture of learning and renewal. Grounded in Karen Martin’s Ways of Knowing, Being, and Doing, the building establishes a triadic structure through which diverse knowledges may be experienced and enacted. The heavy interstitial core of circulation and institutional learning is held in balance with lighter “knowledge spaces”: the gallery, performance space, and custodian garden. The building harnesses this interplay to become a place that listens to Country, honours its weight, and gives it back in light.","students":[{"unikey":"jper6677","firstName":"Josephine","lastName":"Perry","fullName":"Josephine Perry"}]},{"id":"R_4jE6rHT8l3rh0SE","title":"Living Material Bank","abstract":"This proposal reimagines the University of Sydney’s Maze Crescent carpark as a living material bank, an evolving archive that gathers, stores, and displays fragments from surrounding demolition sites. Rather than masking the violence of extraction, the building exposes it, treating each salvaged element as an artefact of Country carrying memory, history, and trace. By constructing with what has already been taken, the project challenges linear material lifecycles and honours the stories embedded within place. Guided by principles of placing people, tactile mnemonics, and clustering, the centre becomes a site for gathering, learning, and conscious design on Gadigal Country.","students":[{"unikey":"Jmas9243","firstName":"Jessie","lastName":"Massoud","fullName":"Jessie Massoud"}]},{"id":"R_4k5cXBNGidTY3JL","title":"Craft of Weaving","abstract":"Western classrooms have historically been designed with care to eliminate external stimuli that may interfere with a person’s senses, portraying learning as an isolated experience. The centre diverges from this line of thinking by engaging different parts of the body and senses to participate with the process of learning. This is achieved by actively facilitating spaces to grow, harvest and collect sedge grasses, where one uses different parts of the body to understand, interpret and practice skilful activities related to the craft.","students":[{"unikey":"mmet0707","firstName":"Mei-En","lastName":"Metzger","fullName":"Mei-En Metzger"}]},{"id":"R_4kmRzTqRN8qA59f","title":"PLAN9064 Poster Board","abstract":"The Singapore OCBC Bank x Charge+ EV Charging Hub exemplifies a comprehensive integration of urban infrastructure, private–public collaboration, and sustainable energy transition within a compact city context. Located strategically in Singapore’s Central Business District, the project demonstrates how EV infrastructure can be\neffectively embedded in existing mixed-use places without requiring new large-scale land allocations.","students":[{"unikey":"bixu0692","firstName":"Billy","lastName":"Xu","fullName":"Billy Xu"},{"unikey":"qili4302","firstName":"Qitao","lastName":"Li","fullName":"Qitao Li"},{"unikey":"hhua4484","firstName":"Huilin","lastName":"Huang","fullName":"Huilin Huang"},{"unikey":"alen0208","firstName":"Ao","lastName":"Leng","fullName":"Ao Leng"}]},{"id":"R_4l0G1eCqxCxB6Lo","title":"Colours of Wellnes: Threshold to a brighter future","abstract":"Colours of Wellness envisions a sanctuary where architecture becomes a vessel for healing, growth, and connection. Designed for young people, it uses colour as an emotional language that shapes soothing, uplifting atmospheres. Textures and materials form sensory layers that guide movement and deepen the user’s bond with their environment. At its centre, a luminous greenhouse serves as the project’s living heart, blending nature, therapy, and community. The surrounding spaces balance openness and intimacy, supporting both shared experiences and quiet retreat. Through the harmony of colour, texture, and nature, the design fosters restoration, inspiration, and a sense of belonging.","students":[{"unikey":"ssiv0752","firstName":"Sneha","lastName":"Sivagurunathan","fullName":"Sneha Sivagurunathan"}]},{"id":"R_4l6xdc59kYmwtg4","title":"pip.","abstract":"Pip is a smart companion that helps first-time growers cultivate fresh produce at home. As cities expand and access to local food declines, Pip supports urban residents as they reconnect with growing through a guided experience. Combining intelligent sensors, LED feedback and a mobile app, Pip tracks plant health across moisture, temperature, light, humidity and fertility, translating data into simple, actionable insights. With guided lessons and gamified progress tracking, users learn, grow and gain confidence in caring for their plants. Designed for busy lifestyles, Pip makes plant care easy and rewarding, encouraging a more sustainable and self-sufficient way of living.","students":[{"unikey":"lcal0634","firstName":"Lachlan","lastName":"Callender","fullName":"Lachlan Callender"},{"unikey":"hpid2641","firstName":"Hayden","lastName":"Pidgeon","fullName":"Hayden Pidgeon"},{"unikey":"ande7114","firstName":"Angelo","lastName":"de Leon","fullName":"Angelo de Leon"},{"unikey":"nhug5040","firstName":"Nawar","lastName":"Hughes","fullName":"Nawar Hughes"},{"unikey":"tken3499","firstName":"Tyler","lastName":"Kennedy","fullName":"Tyler Kennedy"}]},{"id":"R_4lGKeHVTnFTUcGw","title":"Inner Bloom","abstract":"Inner Bloom transforms the historic Manning House into a calming and supportive mental health centre for teenagers. The design preserves the building’s original character while introducing transparent glass volumes that connect heritage with new growth. Natural light, greenery, and outward-looking platforms create gentle spaces for reflection, comfort, and emotional release. By blending old and new, solidity and openness, the project becomes a safe sanctuary where young people can heal, reconnect, and gradually find their own sense of renewal. It aims to offer a place where inner stability can quietly grow alongside personal transformation.","students":[{"unikey":"yzha0868","firstName":"Yuting","lastName":"Zhao","fullName":"Yuting Zhao"}]},{"id":"R_4ls9Xs7mF75AsmZ","title":"Spacelessness","abstract":"Proposed as an antithesis to the discipline itself, the term questions the very embodiment of space and the conditions that produce it.  This thesis speculates on the possibility of spacelessness as both critique and proposal: an ethical and architectural condition that rejects the totalising nature of human production. Through a macro lens, this study interrogates architecture as a product of human desire to occupy, define, and control the natural world. The micro lens shifts toward the Production of Osaka Bay, reading it as a microcosm of global spatial politics and material transformation.","students":[{"unikey":"nsel7132","firstName":"Nithya","lastName":"Selvaraj","fullName":"Nithya Selvaraj"}]},{"id":"R_4mFuidy3as7Zpc0","title":"Carving Space","abstract":"The Gadigal Centre of Excellence explores the convergence of sorrow, resilience, and storytelling, and considers how architecture can create spaces that honour the Gadigal people while engaging diverse communities. It is not only a building for learning but a source of learning itself; a cultural landscape that holds memory and story. At its core, the project acknowledges Australia’s violent history and recognises the need to create space for sorrow. The exhibition hall is tall and open, carved within heavier surrounding masses, providing a fluid space for art as Indigenous activism. A draped steel mesh embedded with Ashfield shale filters light and rain, evoking the weight of history. Through form and material, the Centre holds sorrow, honours story, and fosters connection.","students":[{"unikey":"vtri4680","firstName":"Vishwa","lastName":"Trivedi","fullName":"Vishwa Trivedi"}]},{"id":"R_4matiNIdT3WpNFA","title":"duga","abstract":"In the Dharug language, 'duga' incorporates brush, forest, water and to give.\n\nBy embracing Australia's 60 000 year old Indigenous history and listening to the stories of these communities, we create design outcomes that benefit not only Indigenous people, but the broader community. \n\nThis concept aims to respect and celebrate country, inclusive of the sanctity of water, awareness of seasons, sacredness of space, and sharing the site with ‘other than human’. \n\nDuga aims to give back through the creation of an interconnected and innovative space that is conducive to healing and belonging, particularly for children.","students":[{"unikey":"clou6116","firstName":"Cilla","lastName":"Louis","fullName":"Cilla Louis"}]},{"id":"R_4mhoidjQYQzYuWW","title":"On Common Ground","abstract":"A line of bare ground bissecting two halves of the building, the intervention responds with the metaphor of a scar - a symbol of trauma but also survival and resilience. A minimal concrete building serves to highlight the Gadigal land on which it sits. In the absence of access to direct consultation with Indigenous groups for this brief, this design seeks to respond to a 'Gadigal Centre of Excellence' with a human narrative, rather than a cultural one, and remind us of our commonality as people.","students":[{"unikey":"tyua5543","firstName":"Tiffany","lastName":"Yuan","fullName":"Tiffany Yuan"}]},{"id":"R_4p07ZhmK3zkx5IZ","title":"Gadigal Centre of Excellence","abstract":"The project transforms International House into a Gadigal Centre of Excellence by strengthening its relationship to both City Road and surrounding landscapes. A counter-mapping of native trees shaped a design centred on seasonality and connection to Country. An operable glass skin wraps the rotunda, creating a flexible circulation layer that choreographs movement, frames changing light and air, and moderates climate. Public-to-private program gradients support education, gathering, and storytelling. Repositioned cores improve wayfinding and increase spatial openness. Light steel interventions complement the existing structure, forming a building that breathes with its landscape.","students":[{"unikey":"lgar2513","firstName":"Lily","lastName":"Garratt","fullName":"Lily Garratt"}]},{"id":"R_4ptAdNgGFpJSeOA","title":"Conjuring Clairvaux","abstract":"This meditation on home wrestles with Country, with built and organic matter, to engender the very constitution of ‘home’ itself. Country is neither spatial nor temporal; it exists beneath modernity, difficult to even think of agitating. This project extends a hand toward Old Clairvaux, seeking to rejuvenate the site and breathe new air into a place where people might cultivate their own lives—coalescing as individuals, families, and children. In doing so, it proposes an antithesis to the ways the site and its occupants once operated, toying with preservation of previous structures in tandem to the new.","students":[{"unikey":"mbad7290","firstName":"Mannav","lastName":"Badal","fullName":"Mannav Badal"}]},{"id":"R_4pzKYOIQ8ohHghC","title":"The Architecture of the Novel","abstract":"One summer day, Virginia Woolf wrote Vita Sackville-West an intimate, lighthearted letter in which she jokingly declared that she had engaged herself to “write a book on architecture with a man.” While this may have only been meant as a lighthearted quip, this thesis asks: What if Woolf had indeed written a book on architecture? What would her architectural theory be? This thesis posits that Woolf has a specific and unique architectural theory within her body of literature, providing a unique lens positioned at the intersection of architectural and literary theoretical discourse. The thesis collates a taxonomy of different building types, rooms and architectural elements present across five of her major fictional works. A complementary painting series correlates to each chapter of the taxonomy.","students":[{"unikey":"slov7874","firstName":"Sophie","lastName":"Lovell","fullName":"Sophie Lovell"}]},{"id":"R_4rI2kU9ccSxg2Mp","title":"Dwelling Together","abstract":"This research project explores why intergenerational dwelling remains uncommon in Australia, despite its value. Amidst housing unaffordability, increasing urban density, and an epidemic of loneliness, it supports dignified aging and social connectivity. In Australia, it is pursued for economic necessity and care arrangements, hindered by unsuitable housing stock and restrictive policies. This research focuses on a long-term, community-oriented, flexible, and universally designed dwelling that challenges preconceived notions of suburban living. Through engagement with attitudes, constraints, and case studies, it develops an adaptable housing prototype that reimagines domestic togetherness, where shared space, agency, and belonging are essential to socially connected living.","students":[{"unikey":"sfit4916","firstName":"Sarah","lastName":"Fitzgerald","fullName":"Sarah Fitzgerald"}]},{"id":"R_4rI9XlC4tg0tgxy","title":"Sydney Architecture Museum - Between Concept and Manifestation","abstract":"Conceived as an educational and cultural campus, this project proposes a Sydney Architecture Museum that foregrounds the often overlooked relationship between architectural drawing and construction. Design and construction are positioned as interconnected stages of architectural manifestation. Through drawings, models, material palettes, and full-scale mock-ups presented as both artifacts and processes, it challenges conventional divides between concept and execution, negotiating the space between imagination and materialisation. As a teaching resource complementing tertiary institutions and professional organisations, the museum offers the public, students, and practitioners a way to engage with architecture as a discipline grounded equally in speculative thought and material knowledge.","students":[{"unikey":"jche0571","firstName":"Joyce","lastName":"Chen","fullName":"Joyce Chen"}]},{"id":"R_4rSj0LyFVFWTMDv","title":"Fluid Grounds","abstract":"Cities are stories written in water, yet modern urbanism has forgotten how to read them. Jakarta’s sinking and Nusantara’s emergence reveal a nation caught between damaged ground and imagined futures. Raised lightly above the forest floor, the embassy becomes a quiet participant in the hydrology of Nusantara. Where most buildings seal and suppress the ground, this architecture holds itself back—letting the forest breathe, letting rain slow, pool, and seep. Rather than claiming the land, the embassy borrows it. It stands not as a fortress, but as a sponge—an architecture that yields so the land may heal.","students":[{"unikey":"alee7726","firstName":"Anika","lastName":"Lee","fullName":"Anika Lee"}]},{"id":"R_4rV3vQtBraYz8CT","title":"Australian Ice Museum","abstract":"Set within the former Midnight Star building in Homebush, the Australian Ice Museum reimagines cooling as an architectural act of care. Through the creation and melting of ice, it reveals how comfort, industry, and climate are intertwined. The museum performs rather than preserves, producing coolth without consumption, and leaving no lasting trace. Spaces of production and exhibition coexist: ice is formed, cut, and dissolved in view, turning hidden labour into quiet grandeur, and fleeting experience into tactile memory. Here, the ephemeral becomes architecture, a building that feels, breathes, and quietly disappears back into the cycle of air and water.","students":[{"unikey":"msun9399","firstName":"Arabella","lastName":"Sun","fullName":"Arabella Sun"}]},{"id":"R_4sNlULIKjFercbf","title":"Gadigal centre of excelence","abstract":"The Gadigal Centre of Excellence is conceived as a place of gathering, learning, and connection  a building that grows from the landscape and celebrates the cultural continuity of Country. The design reflects upon the natural slope of the site, using it as a spatial driver to define levels and movement.Every element — from the vertical rhythm of the columns to the stepped section and open stair — reinforces a central design principle: architecture as a shared journey. The project celebrates movement, connection, and learning through space, using the slope, material honesty, and communal form-making to reflect the continuing story of Gadigal Country.","students":[{"unikey":"aman5399","firstName":"Aadityaa","lastName":"Maniar","fullName":"Aadityaa Maniar"}]},{"id":"R_4u6MXRNyR5O9xDz","title":"ABC iView: GenZ","abstract":"Our project was the design of a new iView channel specifically for Generation Z, aimed at younger audiences. We aimed to boost engagement among Gen Z viewers and reshape ABC’s brand image beyond being seen solely as a news organization.","students":[{"unikey":"xliu9983","firstName":"Xiaoran","lastName":"Liu","fullName":"Xiaoran Liu"},{"unikey":"jsha0625","firstName":"JInxuan","lastName":"Shao","fullName":"JInxuan Shao"},{"unikey":"yche0084","firstName":"Yifan","lastName":"Chen","fullName":"Yifan Chen"},{"unikey":"cwan0042","firstName":"Cheney","lastName":"Wang","fullName":"Cheney Wang"}]},{"id":"R_4uGlTG9VO9OLUtz","title":"Embassy of Italy","abstract":"The design for the Italian Embassy in Indonesia reflects a diplomatic relationship defined by openness, mutual respect, and dialogue between the two nations. The design operates through three lenses: Tradition Reinterpreted, Cultural Dialogue and Sustainability. The Italian portico is reinterpreted as a civic and environmental interface, while the piazza is paired with the Indonesian Alun-Alun to form a shared public space. Also, the double-skin façade mediates heat, humidity and privacy. These elements are re-scaled and adapted to the local context, creating a spatial framework that expresses cultural openness, enhances environmental performance, and reflects a responsibility toward the future.","students":[{"unikey":"boxu2357","firstName":"Bowen","lastName":"Xu","fullName":"Bowen Xu"}]},{"id":"R_4upLV2rFXGCHiGl","title":"The Space Between","abstract":"The Space Between manifests as a counter-monument to the sandstone tectonics of the University of Sydney, offering an alternative definition of monumentality. Situated on Gadigal Country, it recognises the embedded memories of the site and negotiates between institutional authority and the continuity of Country. Meandering shale paths form spaces for gathering and ceremony, while performance areas along Maze Crescent and Gadigal Green activate the site’s edges. Vertically segmented programs, curved rammed earth walls and a central lightwell align movement with a dialogue between earth and sky. Through porosity, visibility and cultural exchange, the project becomes an architecture of collective negotiation.","students":[{"unikey":"dmad9196","firstName":"Daena","lastName":"Madon","fullName":"Daena Madon"}]},{"id":"R_4vsGTEzZmpKG0h3","title":"Echoes Between","abstract":"The new Indian Embassy in Nusantara reinterprets diplomacy through the architecture of thresholds, drawing from both Indian and Indonesian vernacular traditions. The design strategically uses the site's natural topography to create a gentle separation between public cultural zones at the lower levels and secure diplomatic and residential functions at the upper terraces. Informed by Christian Norberg-Schulz’s idea of architecture as a place of existential belonging, the embassy unfolds through courtyards, pavilions, and shaded edges that encourage encounter while maintaining dignity and security. It becomes a living cultural projector, fostering dialogue, shared identity, and meaningful public engagement.","students":[{"unikey":"akot0899","firstName":"Amal Raza","lastName":"Kottapurayil","fullName":"Amal Raza Kottapurayil"}]},{"id":"R_4wN3B5d7oHG2xtH","title":"Arched Avenue","abstract":"My design emerges from an existing arched avenue of trees at the University of Sydney’s Ross Street gateway — a shaded, filtered space that hints at past human presence and inspires its reactivation as a shared outdoor environment. Designed as an Indigenous cultural centre for the Gadigal and wider community, the building adopts the tree arch as its guiding motif, most clearly expressed in the double-height gallery formed by interlocking steel arches that invite visitors in from both the street and campus. Events, exhibitions, workshops, ceremonies, and conversations extend into sheltered outdoor spaces, maintaining a connection to Country and ensuring Indigenous voices and practices remain visible and valued in urban Sydney.","students":[{"unikey":"mboy9688","firstName":"Megan","lastName":"Boyce","fullName":"Megan Boyce"}]},{"id":"R_4wumbAEtITDWKsp","title":"SAM+ The Parlour","abstract":"Australia’s architectural history has long centred on male architects, leaving the contributions of women and other underrepresented communities overlooked. My thesis project, Archive Party: SAM + The Parlour, proposes a retrofitted museum at the Torin Factory in Penrith to preserve and showcase the work of women architects across generations. Combining archival conservation with advocacy, the museum addresses fragmented architectural records in New South Wales and the risk of their erasure. Through The Parlour, a dedicated space for dialogue and community engagement, the museum actively promotes equity, empowerment, and greater recognition of women’s contributions to architecture in NSW.","students":[{"unikey":"ssea0110","firstName":"Janeen","lastName":"Seah","fullName":"Janeen Seah"}]},{"id":"R_4xEFyy0VXELxrsy","title":"CoCare Documentation System","abstract":"This project, CoCare, responds to the brief “Making Invisible Carework Visible” by\naddressing communication gaps between aged care workers and families. Through\ninterviews and research, our team identified that aged care nurses spend excessive time\ndocumenting care, while families often feel uninformed and anxious. To address this,\nCoCare introduces a streamlined documenting tool and a family-facing app that provides\ntimely, accessible updates about residents’ wellbeing. The system reduces nurses’\nadministrative burden, supports multilingual communication, and strengthens trust\nbetween families and staff. The CoCare system was designed to contain multiple parts\nthat address the needs of different stakeholders: the aged care workers, registered\nnurses, family members and aged care residents. By making everyday care activities\nvisible, CoCare helps maintain emotional connection, relieves stress, and reinforces the\nvalue of caregivers’ essential but often overlooked work.","students":[{"unikey":"hngu0504","firstName":"Huyen My","lastName":"Nguyen","fullName":"Huyen My Nguyen"},{"unikey":"asin0154","firstName":"Ayushi","lastName":"Singh","fullName":"Ayushi Singh"},{"unikey":"rmis0684","firstName":"Rishabh","lastName":"Mishra","fullName":"Rishabh Mishra"},{"unikey":"alam0583","firstName":"Angelina","lastName":"Lam","fullName":"Angelina Lam"}]},{"id":"R_4xVq7U5KjJnxSW9","title":"The Land Resounds","abstract":"The Gadigal Centre of Excellence at Maze Crescent Carpark acts as a dynamic mediator between the historical layers of the site and its current users, where the conditions of the site itself manifest materially. As they enter into the land following a meandering trajectory, yielding to the contrast of light and dark, users are immersed in moments of both communal and deeply personal reflection and contemplation. The architecture listens to rather than imposes on Country, becoming a body of superimpositions and retellings of stories. It weaves memories of past eras whilst transforming users in their cultivation of new experiences.","students":[{"unikey":"asas3880","firstName":"Angela","lastName":"Sassine","fullName":"Angela Sassine"}]},{"id":"R_4ydqgPdbZuVHoNo","title":"Permission to Destroy","abstract":"Sydney’s development trajectory is accelerating unsustainably, driven by ongoing deregulation that enables rapid redevelopment with limited government oversight. \n\nThis has intensified demolition, weakened urban psychogeography, and increased embodied-carbon loss. Through historical analysis the thesis examines how political culture shapes these conditions, and proposes a staged planning-policy framework that prioritises demolition reduction, establishes benchmarks, and supports adaptive-reuse pathways. A case study at 201 Elizabeth Street tests the framework against a live DA, quantifying embodied-carbon impacts of demolition versus reuse.\n\nThe thesis asks, what would it take to make total\ndemolition the exception, not the rule.","students":[{"unikey":"itho0632","firstName":"Inès","lastName":"Thomas","fullName":"Inès Thomas"}]},{"id":"R_7Dwmi6fR5BWw5u3","title":"Coolth is not a Luxury, It is a Common Right","abstract":"With the rapid development of climate change, urban heat, and a global ener\u0002gy crisis, people’s thermal comfort and their mechanical systems are becom\u0002ing increasingly stratified. It is clear that the privilege of access to air condi\u0002tioning and cooling systems not only perpetuates social inequality but also \nintensifies the environmental burden. Therefore, this project aims to break the \nrepetitive and restrictive structure by exploring a passive method of cooling \nthrough architectural design. The project aims to create a shared, ecological \n“coolth” that is generated by social activities and natural phenomena, yet \nremains open to the public.\nThis project utilizes a micro-site and employs an underground water-cooling \nsystem and earth-coupling to passively cool and regulate the microclimate \nof the site and its surrounding environment through evaporation. This is not \nonly a climate control technique but also lowers the air temperature of this \nzone through evaporative condensation, hence introducing the term “shared \ncoolth.” Platforms, sitting areas, wide, shaded open spaces, as well as small \nparks, are clustered around the water channel to activate this site, encourag\u0002ing children, food sellers, residents, and others to share the “coolth” through \npublic activities and interactions.\nThis project is an exploratory project that experiments with an ecological ar\u0002chitecture resisting heat without mechanical merits, such as the mass of the \nearth, shading, and passive cooling principles, tries to shift the architectural \nculture from indoor coolth to urban public coolth, and hopes that, in the future \ncity, everyone will have equal access to comfort, and in this city, the coolth \ncan be produced, collected, and distributed, but not consumed","students":[{"unikey":"cxio1000","firstName":"chenxi","lastName":"Xiong","fullName":"chenxi Xiong"}]},{"id":"R_90C42htDJALlqAV","title":"Small Business Futures Conference","abstract":"Small Business Futures Conference (SBFC) is a coordinated engagement system designed to strengthen resilience and policy responsiveness in Australia’s small business ecosystem. It connects small business owners, state governments, and federal policymakers through structured, AI-assisted workshops and feedback loops. By transforming fragmented consultations into an integrated, traceable process, SBFC shortens policy-response lag, improves fairness and representation, and enables data-driven decision-making. Developed through iterative testing and co-design, the platform acts as a continuous learning infrastructure - helping governments anticipate change, not just react to it - and giving small businesses a tangible voice in shaping Australia’s economic future.","students":[{"unikey":"svek6932","firstName":"Sanika","lastName":"Vekhande","fullName":"Sanika Vekhande"},{"unikey":"kjin4038","firstName":"Alina","lastName":"Jin","fullName":"Alina Jin"},{"unikey":"ykok9988","firstName":"Nicoe","lastName":"Kok","fullName":"Nicoe Kok"},{"unikey":"yche3626","firstName":"Lily","lastName":"Chen","fullName":"Lily Chen"},{"unikey":"efer0647","firstName":"Emma","lastName":"Ferguson","fullName":"Emma Ferguson"}]},{"id":"R_90FRdXZzUWXUSTT","title":"Recipro-city","abstract":"‘Recipro-city’ is a landscape project and marine science campus situated on Farm Cove at the intersection between the centre of governance (CBD) and the Sydney Harbour. As part of a history of Terra Nullis and industrialisation, water is reduced from a complicated and sensitive force into a resource that can be subordinated and commodified for personal gain. By blurring the colonial, historic and water narratives across multiple spatial scales, and considering the future impacts of climate change on the site, a new narrative that values humans - interconnectedness with nature, can emerge to reciprocate and co-exist with our existing governance.","students":[{"unikey":"wteo7496","firstName":"Wei Ling","lastName":"Teo","fullName":"Wei Ling Teo"}]},{"id":"R_90U7HaoWc0koqMD","title":"UniHarbour","abstract":"UniHarbour is a multilingual healthcare navigation service designed for international students who often face information overload, language barriers, cost uncertainty, and low trust when using Australia’s medical system. Grounded in an in-depth study of the current Healthdirect platform — including autoethnography, usability testing, and interviews — we identified critical gaps in clarity, accessibility, and cultural inclusiveness. UniHarbour reimagines the Healthdirect experience through step-by-step guidance, personalised AI assistance, a cost estimator, multilingual summaries, and a privacy-friendly interface. The design aims to make official health information more accessible, trustworthy, and actionable for international students.","students":[{"unikey":"ezhu0814","firstName":"Enyi","lastName":"Zhu","fullName":"Enyi Zhu"},{"unikey":"xxia0360","firstName":"Xingyu","lastName":"Xiao","fullName":"Xingyu Xiao"},{"unikey":"xwan0510","firstName":"Xinye","lastName":"Wang","fullName":"Xinye Wang"}]},{"id":"R_90ZsJprOIkg2RyD","title":"Nestwell Healing Haven","abstract":"The Mental Health and Integrated Community Centre redefines traditional institutional typologies by creating a warm, home-like environment that promotes healing. Inspired by Maggie’s Centres, the design replaces clinical rigidity with open, flowing spaces that encourage movement, interaction, and a sense of belonging. A communal kitchen and adaptable indoor–outdoor areas foster community engagement and well-being through social, physical, and contemplative activities. Sensitive to its heritage context, the centre employs timber, brick, and soft landscaping to blend seamlessly with its surroundings. The project ultimately envisions a therapeutic environment that feels less institutional and more like a haven of refuge, connection, and renewal.","students":[{"unikey":"namr0773","firstName":"Namrata","lastName":"Sunand","fullName":"Namrata Sunand"}]},{"id":"R_90cmzQgWjdSHclz","title":"Tension & Harmony","abstract":"Chinese embassies often seek to project strength, stability, and endurance; values central to Chinese identity, through monumental facades drawing on traditional forms. Yet the mismatched combination of traditional elements with over-simplified contemporary components undermines the intended authority, creating an impression of imbalance inviting criticism rather than admiration. This leads to the question: how do elements of tension and harmony expressed within the Chinese’s philosophy inform diplomatic architecture? Perhaps the recognition that tension, stemming from the mutual existence of contrasting sides exhibits itself in the creation of harmony, is one of the key philosophies that should be highlighted within Chinese culture.","students":[{"unikey":"hwan0555","firstName":"Helen","lastName":"Wang","fullName":"Helen Wang"}]},{"id":"R_91BoGUMkvYcWory","title":"Places of Cultural Production","abstract":"The project looked closely at the artist-run initiative in Sydney as a highly creative condition of cultural production, though in a state of extreme precarity. The acts of labour behind running artist spaces with limited means hold curious repercussions for the spatial practice of artists, often finding root in retrofitted post-industrial warehouses or in unusual spaces between commercial leases. Collected in the project are a series of responses to existing conditions, an attempt to redirect resources away from the labours of affording and maintaining spaces, giving access to materials and tools, keeping proximity to pre-established social networks, among other considerations.","students":[{"unikey":"dfro4107","firstName":"Dylan","lastName":"Froude","fullName":"Dylan Froude"}]},{"id":"R_91TKjJpWHDkoleb","title":"Susurrus","abstract":"The traces of Country that have since been paved over with skyscrapers continue to murmur beneath our feet. To design here on Gadigal Country is to communicate with place, to engage with place, and to respond to place: the flora, the fauna, the sky, the wind, and the rain that have always spoken and continue to speak. ‘Susurrus’ reflects on these traces of Country as more than remnants of land, but as a living dialogue between people and place, gradually revealing what has always been speaking through the cyclical process of Listen, Voice, Echo, and Resound.","students":[{"unikey":"szha6426","firstName":"Sophia","lastName":"Zhang","fullName":"Sophia Zhang"}]},{"id":"R_91XYDgM8Jmnm2hM","title":"Clandestine Surgery Room","abstract":"The Clandestine Surgery Room is within a “hidden field hospital” in Glebe Markets for injured Ironbark Resistance members, assuming patients arrive on foot or by public transport and generally excluding T1 (immediate, life-threatening) cases. Using Lykke’s Ends–Ways–Means, it treats infiltration, exfiltration and care as the Ends. Advanced mapping techniques informs the Ways by mapping behaviours, sightlines and critical times in the market. Three architectural Means follow: orchestrated disarray masking concealed surgery operations; mobile travel cases as covert medical infrastructure; and a Thai massage parlour disguising the surgery room to manage detection.","students":[{"unikey":"tqui9238","firstName":"Troyce Garrett","lastName":"Quimpo","fullName":"Troyce Garrett Quimpo"}]},{"id":"R_91YKh8saSSFMXGq","title":"Sydney Architecture Library","abstract":"This thesis addresses the increasing influence of architectural media as a public face of professional architecture. Publications have served as a mechanism to handle new architectural ideas, continuously inventing the architectural present and being productive agents of meaning. This thesis argues for a consolidated and accessible archive of architectural discourse within a new Sydney Architecture Library. It puts forward a veneration of the public reading room as a method of preserving and projecting historical lines of Australian discourse and posits the necessity of in-depth collections and robust reference tools as a prerequisite to stimulating new, informed and involved discourse.","students":[{"unikey":"awon7944","firstName":"Alicia","lastName":"Wong","fullName":"Alicia Wong"}]},{"id":"R_91bquPOi2wlhSDl","title":"Heart Of The Flock","abstract":"In the Blue Mountains and across Australia, first nations people are seeing their land destroyed by modernisation. People are forgetting about the importance of our country's ancestors and their connection to country. This reinspired communal and residential facility inspired by the Black Cockatoo, Often viewed as a symbolic mother figure, a messenger and a guardian in dreamtime stories. The design embodies key characteristics of the bird as the journey begins in the nest (Communal space), moving through the wavy paths (Flight pattern) past the creative workshops and through the residential housing (The Flock) Individuals can exist within the bird's habitat.","students":[{"unikey":"jscr6585","firstName":"Jayden","lastName":"Screen","fullName":"Jayden Screen"}]},{"id":"R_91hgxxEKZvehtkn","title":"Nangami","abstract":"Designed as “in-becoming,” the Gadigal Centre is a transitional threshold, a living system never resolved but transforming as the ground upon which life unfolds. Tapered cylindrical forms rise gently toward the sky, mediating the tension between the vertical and horizontal to create a spatial whole. Four free-standing volumes remain separate yet form an interconnected constellation, a rhizomatic field of exchange and relations. Entangled with the cyclical rhythms and transformations of the landscape, these spatial conditions bring visitors into closer contact with the living processes of Country, reminding us of our belonging within an infinite and unfolding continuum of the cosmos.","students":[{"unikey":"ysin4254","firstName":"Yejoo","lastName":"Sin","fullName":"Yejoo Sin"}]},{"id":"R_91jpH0zEEiCYHiJ","title":"Cutting International House","abstract":"This project reimagines the former International House as the Gadigal Centre of Excellence, a place of cultural connection, learning, and belonging. By preserving the core structures while cutting new spatial channels through the building, the design challenges colonial rigidity and invites openness, light, and movement. Adaptive reuse, layered history, and Country are central themes, with bridges linking three distinct forms: rotunda, tower, and yarning circle. These connections foster narrative-driven circulation and gathering. Native landscaping restores ecological integrity and honours Gadigal land. The result is a living framework that listens to place, amplifies stories, and repositions architecture as an act of care.","students":[{"unikey":"jber2302","firstName":"Jake","lastName":"Bertram","fullName":"Jake Bertram"}]},{"id":"R_92X3SIj3mgMwZaS","title":"Centre of Excellence","abstract":"This project proposes a Gadigal Centre of Excellence at the University of Sydney;an educational, cultural, and exhibition space that acts as both a place of gathering and an instrument of sound. Rooted in Gadigal knowledge and the principles of Architecture as Memory, Reading the Unseen Ground, and Choreographies of Continuity, the design becomes a resonant landscape where movement, light, and acoustics shape learning. Flexible galleries, outdoor performance spaces, and warm timber interiors create pathways for knowledge, memory, and connection to Country. The Centre is conceived not as a monument, but as an instrument; listening before it speaks, and allowing stories to travel through sound.","students":[{"unikey":"kmyr8490","firstName":"Katherine","lastName":"Myrizas","fullName":"Katherine Myrizas"}]},{"id":"R_92n9PdbUQo5uvZK","title":"Connecting Voids","abstract":"'Connecting Voids' takes the form of a Centre that honours First Peoples and welcomes diverse communities. \n\nLocated adjacent to Parramatta Road, the site of the centre flanks the once busy indigenous thoroughfare, and therefore naturally proposes the opportunity for the Centre to act as a gateway building on campus whilst responding to themes of indigenous navigation, such as Sky Country.\n\nConnection with Sky Country is developed within the interior of the Centre through utilising void spaces and relating interior functions placed below. Voids frame of views upwards and allows light to enter, while also facilitating the transfer of knowledge and stories.","students":[{"unikey":"mcha3234","firstName":"Moses","lastName":"Chan","fullName":"Moses Chan"}]},{"id":"R_947PFG3Hlt0QOkj","title":"PMDs + Cycleways","abstract":"Our project studied and analysed four types of PMDs: e-Bikes, hoverboards, segways and e-Scooter, and its use across five different places: Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Singapore. This was done through examining the case studies through five key aspects, which are policy and regulation, urban development, social and environmental impact, user and technical specifications, and cost and value, it will compare the usage patterns of different PMDs across these areas. The aim of our study is to collect existing experiences for future infrastructure and PMD development, offering fresh perspectives.","students":[{"unikey":"sawi0301","firstName":"Salima","lastName":"Awis","fullName":"Salima Awis"},{"unikey":"czha0354","firstName":"Ashley","lastName":"Zhang","fullName":"Ashley Zhang"},{"unikey":"sche0270","firstName":"Sylvia","lastName":"Chen","fullName":"Sylvia Chen"},{"unikey":"chwu0296","firstName":"Chenxu","lastName":"Wu","fullName":"Chenxu Wu"}]},{"id":"R_94f7ZPQdPAqCJs3","title":"Common Matter - Rethinking Material Value","abstract":"Architecture sits at the intersection of systems and stories, shaped as much by regulation and logistics as by the values and attitudes that guide them. Explored through two frameworks — the practical and the cultural — this project maps the systems and infrastructure needed to facilitate mainstream material reuse, while considering how community engagement and education can nurture a broader cultural shift in material values. It culminates in the design of a Material Reuse Precinct, located in Camellia: a civic site of learning, experimentation and knowledge exchange where community is reconnected with material processes. Here materials weigh not in tonnes, but in consequence, memory, and future potential.","students":[{"unikey":"hacr0025","firstName":"Hannah","lastName":"Carlon","fullName":"Hannah Carlon"}]},{"id":"R_94iSwPcSTRVjQSe","title":"Plants of Clairvaux","abstract":"Katoomba Cultural and Community Centre. A design studio project that promotes aesthetic design harmonious with its environment. A piece where creativity and logic come together from concept through to detailed design.","students":[{"unikey":"lbea5308","firstName":"Lilian","lastName":"Beattie","fullName":"Lilian Beattie"}]},{"id":"R_95XjZ1eoD7lJtkn","title":"With the Land","abstract":"The Gadigal Centre of Excellence begins with Country, shaping an architecture grounded in the land and its topography. The project is composed of two buildings for cultural learning and community gathering. Though distinct in program, they share a unified structural grid, continuous sloping roofs, and a concrete plinth that anchors them into the site. Split and rotated, the forms frame a central threshold connected by a meandering ramp. Through sectional variation, controlled lighting, and a refined material palette, the buildings offer a coherent spatial language that strengthens the connection between people, program, and place.","students":[{"unikey":"aals7047","firstName":"Amal","lastName":"Alsalhi","fullName":"Amal Alsalhi"}]},{"id":"R_96EojK4lzOuj693","title":"The Canopy Project","abstract":"Schofields is rapidly growing, yet its public transport infrastructure is lagging, leaving users exposed to rising temperatures and lacking community space. The Canopy Project addresses these community-identified challenges of heat stress, car dependence, and weak identity with a modular, climate-responsive bus stop design, inspired by nature and adaptable to diverse needs. This scalable, three-tier living system (Canopy, Sapling, Seedling) features rounded forms and muted colours, integrating skylights, cooling systems, and vertical gardens that enhance both form and function. Rooted in life-centred design and resilience, these stops are cooler, safer, and more inclusive. The project fosters community and a lasting sense of place, designed to grow with Schofields.","students":[{"unikey":"jcho0872","firstName":"Joseph Zachary","lastName":"Chong","fullName":"Joseph Zachary Chong"},{"unikey":"acla0841","firstName":"Alannah","lastName":"Clark","fullName":"Alannah Clark"},{"unikey":"tari5851","firstName":"Tamara","lastName":"Ariyandi","fullName":"Tamara Ariyandi"},{"unikey":"sbud4101","firstName":"Sanita","lastName":"Budihardjo","fullName":"Sanita Budihardjo"},{"unikey":"dram0020","firstName":"Daksha","lastName":"Ramprasad","fullName":"Daksha Ramprasad"}]},{"id":"R_96XHVjpWNopySoF","title":"Kinori - Bridge to Belong","abstract":"Migrant families in Australia face invisible struggles where children are forced into parentified translator roles, facing immense pressure to translate accurately in high-stakes situations. Simultaneously, parents often feel unable to autonomously manage essential daily tasks. Kinori is an interactive learning kit designed to stabilise and support families during this transition. It empowers parents to navigate daily life confidently in new languages, while freeing children to engage in play and explore their cultural roots. Kinori is a new member of the family, blending screens and hands-on tools for consistent, joyful support in the home.","students":[{"unikey":"toga9295","firstName":"Tiegan","lastName":"OGallagher","fullName":"Tiegan OGallagher"},{"unikey":"nlia4413","firstName":"Natasha","lastName":"Liang","fullName":"Natasha Liang"},{"unikey":"ktra5598","firstName":"Karla","lastName":"Tran","fullName":"Karla Tran"},{"unikey":"aoey0699","firstName":"Alex","lastName":"Oey","fullName":"Alex Oey"},{"unikey":"bhuy7500","firstName":"Steven","lastName":"Huynh","fullName":"Steven Huynh"}]},{"id":"R_96pdVAeMjbKfqKZ","title":"Time In Place","abstract":"This project repositions the Gadigal Centre of Excellence within Indigenous conceptions of time, where rhythm, season and Country form an interconnected cycle. Temporal atmospheres mapped across the site informed the building’s structure, materiality and sequence of spaces. A corten skin filters changing light, while concrete voids mark recurring moments in the temporal rhythm. Rather than treating time as linear or historical, the design seeks to hold multiple temporalities at once. The centre becomes a place of learning, gathering and cultural continuity, offering an architecture shaped by Country, change and deep time.","students":[{"unikey":"aree8959","firstName":"Alex","lastName":"Reeks","fullName":"Alex Reeks"}]},{"id":"R_96xF5IHS5dgUodH","title":"The First Nepalese Embassy in Indonesia","abstract":"Inspired by the gentle ethos of the dharamasala - those quiet resthouses that punctuate Kathmandu and were once built as acts of piety - the Embassy becomes their contemporary counterpart, a refuge for Nepalese far from home. Emerging from new beginnings - a small expatriate community, a young diplomatic relationship, and a shifting political landscape - its presence in Indonesia becomes both symbolic and strategic. Conceptually, the design draws from two national pillars: the Sherpa, embodying resilience and collective strength, and the mountain, whose quiet monumentality evokes steadiness as Nepal steps toward a more assured diplomatic future.","students":[{"unikey":"ijon7600","firstName":"Illiana","lastName":"Jones","fullName":"Illiana Jones"}]},{"id":"R_97Kn1xs4zIURC7I","title":"The Ridgeline","abstract":"Guided by the natural ridgelines, the design positions shared commons and clustered dwellings along the ridge, following existing ecological patterns and movement across Country. The Ridgeline becomes a connective spine, shaping arrival, gathering and reflection while honouring cultural narratives embedded in the land. The natural landform shapes the architecture, ensuring native regeneration and minimal disturbance to existing systems. Pathways weave through threshold spaces, nurturing everyday encounters and deepening community cohesion. Framed through principles of custodianship and restoration, the built form acts not as an imposition but as a bridge in strengthening connection to Country and enabling cultural continuity to thrive.","students":[{"unikey":"lema8171","firstName":"Leyana","lastName":"Ma","fullName":"Leyana Ma"}]},{"id":"R_97dHbMTuqeaoBdb","title":"Co-Lab","abstract":"Co-Lab is a collaborative hub where CSNSW, educators, universities, and industry partners co-design and test learning content through rapid, low-cost prototyping. Each iteration builds evidence for funding and creates scalable pathways for learner growth and employment.","students":[{"unikey":"yoli0551","firstName":"yongyi","lastName":"li","fullName":"yongyi li"},{"unikey":"samr0582","firstName":"Hana","lastName":"Amran","fullName":"Hana Amran"},{"unikey":"cahe0769","firstName":"Zane","lastName":"He","fullName":"Zane He"}]},{"id":"R_97jpeSnxhtYtQSC","title":"'The Public House'","abstract":"Proposing the insertion of a mixed-use building, both recreation and local business' together a public/private space in the main street. Guided by community study and public space research. Bankstown’s Chapel Road is a microcosm of immigrant-led cultural economies, where public space is creatively occupied, sidewalks double as shopfronts, informal economies thrive. TK Plaza, the former pub-turned-arcade at the project’s centre. Now largely vacant, this project proposes two levels of recreational spaces over an evolving street arcade ground floor. These open adaptive spaces continue the spirit of the recreational school hall acting as a refuge for so many across the world.","students":[{"unikey":"kjon0338","firstName":"Katherine","lastName":"Jones","fullName":"Katherine Jones"}]},{"id":"R_98mSlWi6yB12Mkp","title":"Subaltern Sydney_Hyde Pocket","abstract":"This project, situated at Sydney's Hyde Park North and Queen's Square, critiques how modern urban “politics of legibility” creates situations where people are “seen but not acknowledged.” Through deployable pocket units, a bonfire plaza, and casual conversation circles, it constructs a scalable, interchangeable public stage. This enables Indigenous peoples and other marginalized groups to gain spaces for voicing opinions, negotiating, and preserving ambiguity within the highly monitored commemorative axis.","students":[{"unikey":"jzha9326","firstName":"Jinzhao","lastName":"Zhang","fullName":"Jinzhao Zhang"}]},{"id":"R_997hVUBAyDLuSp0","title":"Dappled Narratives","abstract":"Dappled Narratives is conceived as a place of peace, reflection, and cultural confluence - a threshold between structured city and living rhythms of country. The guiding concept of the design is Komorebi; the Japanese term describing sunlight filtering through leaves. Inspired by the casuarina glauca in the centre of the site where its canopy produces shifting light patterns, the design has bridges and balconies weaving at multiple levels, creating fractured light, shadow, and layered perspective as people move through the spaces. The building treads lightly on country and frames the existing casuarina as the heart of the centre for excellence.","students":[{"unikey":"sdav3015","firstName":"Sophie","lastName":"Davis","fullName":"Sophie Davis"}]},{"id":"R_9AFmLwsX2O9G6Fl","title":"Cascade Kadumba","abstract":"Cascade Kadumba, located at 14 Oak St, Katoomba NSW, 2780, currently operates as a wild plant nursery that reintroduce native flora across the Blue Mountains region. The propsed design continues this function while creating spaces for cultural and artistic activities that celebrate local Aboriginal culture. Due to the site’s steep elevation, the design draws inspiration from the movement and flow of the nearby Katoomba Cascades. Using local materials and natural forms, it features central gathering and yarning spaces surrounded by native planting, blending the themes of landscape restoration, community connection, and cultural expression.","students":[{"unikey":"lche7085","firstName":"Long In","lastName":"Cheng","fullName":"Long In Cheng"}]},{"id":"R_9AMQRjgFgoH6Yfl","title":"Threads of Coexistence","abstract":"The Gadigal Centre of Excellence acts as the threads of coexistence by fundamentally reshaping the relationship between architecture and ecology. The design actively returns the ground to the earth, restoring the terrain and building a green corridor between Victoria Park and Cadigal Green.\n\nThis living framework is not just for people. It is a shared habitat, consciously designed for native species such as possums and microbats to nest, forage, and travel. By weaving these essential species into the very fabric of the building, the Centre makes coexistence tangible. It transforms the site into a vibrant, shared territory, acknowledging humans, animals and the natural world as integral and inseparable.","students":[{"unikey":"jche6041","firstName":"Jacqueline","lastName":"Chen","fullName":"Jacqueline Chen"}]},{"id":"R_9AMurEVQ8HMdAof","title":"Free Flow","abstract":"Free Flow celebrates the continuous relationship between people, place, and movement. Guided by the principle of open passage, it honours the natural rhythms of Country and the freedom to move without restriction. Set on Maze Crescent, the project preserves the site’s open, public character through five lightweight pavilions dispersed among existing trees. Their forms respond to Country, creating open ground planes that invite nature and people to flow freely beneath. Blurring boundaries between inside and outside, Free Flow embodies an Indigenous spatial sensibility of openness, continuity, and coexistence—transforming architecture into a living field of connection, movement, and belonging.","students":[{"unikey":"salt7836","firstName":"Sibelle","lastName":"Altiparmak","fullName":"Sibelle Altiparmak"}]},{"id":"R_9B3xk7kjBlwGZAl","title":"MealMind","abstract":"MealMind is a smart food management app that helps households save time, money, and reduce food waste. It combines meal planning, fridge tracking, ingredient reminders, cooking guidance, and waste visualization to turn daily routines into sustainable habits.\n\nYour food can even “talk” to you—reminding you before it expires. Finished meals become happy foods, while wasted ones turn into sad foods, turning data into emotion. With smart scanning, expiry alerts, and playful reminders, MealMind makes sustainability effortless, emotional, and fun.\n\nIt empowers users to act consciously and build a sustainable lifestyle where technology, empathy, and positive change come together.","students":[{"unikey":"bliu0114","firstName":"Katrina","lastName":"Liu","fullName":"Katrina Liu"},{"unikey":"zzhu0757","firstName":"Jenny","lastName":"Zhu","fullName":"Jenny Zhu"},{"unikey":"yche0336","firstName":"Silvia","lastName":"Xiao","fullName":"Silvia Xiao"},{"unikey":"yche0336","firstName":"Bianca","lastName":"Chen","fullName":"Bianca Chen"}]},{"id":"R_9BDnJHwF8xkTHRD","title":"Intertidal Ecologies: Research and Exhibition Centre","abstract":"This project seeks to reconcile the nature–culture divide embedded in intertidal landscapes, where hard coastal infrastructures reduce the shoreline to a fixed line. Situated in Farm Cove, the design’s program encourages deeper public understanding of intertidal ecologies through a research centre that studies and exhibits how marine-friendly concrete can support biodiversity. The surrounding landscape expands the land–sea threshold with stepped sandstone edges, rockpools, and wetlands that emphasise porosity and tidal exchange. Together, the architectural and landscape interventions demonstrate how designing with ecological processes can create environments that sustain both marine life and meaningful human engagement with the coastal edge.","students":[{"unikey":"ssur7676","firstName":"Sbika","lastName":"Surendiran","fullName":"Sbika Surendiran"}]},{"id":"R_9BQSyFWTj82VKzY","title":"ABC Weekly","abstract":"With the rise of digital platforms, the media landscape has shifted away from traditional formats. Young Australians now turn to social media for content that is engaging, personalised, and easy to access. However, many avoid the news, finding it overwhelming and emotionally exhausting. Our research highlighted a need for news experiences that feel lighter and easier to manage. ABC Weekly is designed to reimagine how young Australians engage with the news. It is a personalised weekly digest that helps users stay informed without feeling overwhelmed. By simplifying updates and adding interactive elements, it encourages ongoing engagement without burnout.","students":[{"unikey":"suli0089","firstName":"Zoe","lastName":"Li","fullName":"Zoe Li"},{"unikey":"bxue0412","firstName":"Bethany","lastName":"Xue","fullName":"Bethany Xue"},{"unikey":"mson0798","firstName":"Minha","lastName":"Song","fullName":"Minha Song"},{"unikey":"mmil6082","firstName":"Margie","lastName":"Milne","fullName":"Margie Milne"}]},{"id":"R_9BRRwlcSkDVY5rz","title":"Unscripted Youth","abstract":"This project introduces a temporary structure in Queen’s Square that enables young people to participate directly in the life of the city. Located within Sydney’s most symbolically charged institutional precinct, the design responds to a long history in which youth were positioned as objects of regulation rather than civic actors. The structure uses a lightweight scaffold system to create adaptable spaces for making, dialogue, gathering, and quiet retreat. It operates as a practical civic tool rather than a monument, translating research on youth perception, surveillance, and trauma-informed design into spatial strategies that support agency, visibility, and collective authorship.","students":[{"unikey":"tcho0607","firstName":"Daisy","lastName":"Choi","fullName":"Daisy Choi"}]},{"id":"R_9BsxePoTESE1gWi","title":"On Gadigal Ground","abstract":"On Gadigal Ground aims to embrace the responsibility of listening, understanding, and building on Country. This highlights the University of Sydney’s responsibility toward acknowledging and celebrating Indigenous Australian heritage. \n\nThis design project does not attempt to and cannot claim to decolonise; rather, it recognises its position within an ever-continuing story, seeking to create a respectful, inclusive environment. It aims to cultivate the Land’s rich history and ongoing presence through a focus on education and cultural exchange, creating public spaces that uplift Indigenous leadership and support cross-cultural collaborations and exchange.","students":[{"unikey":"grhe2192","firstName":"Grace","lastName":"He","fullName":"Grace He"}]},{"id":"R_9BwL9spPmYeoO8V","title":"Birrawung: Common Grounds","abstract":"Inspired by the mist over Redfern’s former swamplands and the steam of its industrial era, the project blends large and fine-grained adaptations, granting users spatial agency to reshape their environment. The proposal facilitates a common ground between two contrasting forms: a rectilinear former student housing block and the circular rotunda, joined by a sky bridge that represents the ongoing exchange between Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledge systems. Ultimately, the project embodies a democratic ethic, offering an adaptive reuse model for universities to engage Indigenous knowledge through genuine spatial dialogue and care, and cooperative stewardship.","students":[{"unikey":"vpha4785","firstName":"Vivien","lastName":"Phan","fullName":"Vivien Phan"}]},{"id":"R_9CPLd1zAzjQSvZ1","title":"Metastasis","abstract":"This project reconceives International House through a parasitic–metastatic framework, transforming an obsolescent structure into a renewed cultural organism. The design stages—extraction, renewal, and revascularisation—reimagine the building’s body as one whose spent energies are harvested, reorganised, and reintroduced as new architectural “cells.” Public programs anchor the ground plane while elevated, increasingly private functions culminate in the Sky Yarning Circle, a place of gathering, reflection, and Indigenous continuity. Circulation operates as a vascular system, linking organs, landscapes, and histories. The proposal becomes both architectural and cultural repair: a living structure that restores connection, regenerates site memory, and sustains future growth.","students":[{"unikey":"mtse0148","firstName":"Marcus","lastName":"Tse","fullName":"Marcus Tse"}]},{"id":"R_9CPLvUhSj3VDaaO","title":"Covered Ground","abstract":"Covered Ground acts as a cultural graft between the Dharawal community and the shack settlements of the Royal National Park, south of Sydney, reframing heritage and memory on Country. The proposal weaves together a series of significant sites, each marking moments of presence and practice. These are places to engage with the subtlety of materials and the landscape’s quiet authority, places where culture endures, guided by the wisdom and conversation of Elders.\nThrough this act, knowledge is embedded and preserved in shared connection, granting agency to community and fostering reciprocity between the shack dwellers and the world’s oldest living culture. In this exchange, both may sustain and repair one another, bound by a common care for place and material continuity","students":[{"unikey":"nsun0794","firstName":"Noah","lastName":"Sunderland","fullName":"Noah Sunderland"}]},{"id":"R_9CWxY45MqZKFYDE","title":"Earthen Forms","abstract":"Earthen Forms proposes the intertwining of ceramic art therapy and Headspace, envisioning a grounded and spirited intervention on the university campus. The proposal addresses student well-being through the therapeutic characteristics of clay. The materiality of clay is inherently grounding, it forces users into the present through the material’s balance between malleability and resistance, which allows connection from the mind to art. Through repetitive motions, the clay facilitates awareness of the body, which calms anxiety. Earthen Forms is a space for grounding, reflection, making and care. It reshapes the current mental health support, allowing care to be an everyday, shared practice.","students":[{"unikey":"nsit4651","firstName":"Natania","lastName":"Sitoe","fullName":"Natania Sitoe"}]},{"id":"R_9CggjfEwEGoD79Q","title":"The Modular Community","abstract":"The modular community project focuses on creating pre-fabricated modules that are combined on-site to create clusters of houses that adapt to typography, environmental conditions, orientation, and function. With a large emphasis on private vs public space, the clusters create opportunities for people to meet and build a community, with opportunities for people to retreat to more private areas for more intimate moments. The community centre is the heart of the site, and the existing layout has been adapted slightly to preserve the existing building, whilst adding more facilities and opportunities for community socialisation.","students":[{"unikey":"llar8605","firstName":"Liam","lastName":"Larman","fullName":"Liam Larman"}]},{"id":"R_9CwbYSJL530vns5","title":"Campbellfield Strategic Plan","abstract":"The project explores how a future High-Speed Rail station at Campbellfield could catalyse development by leveraging multi-modal transport integration to establish a highly accessible mixed-use gateway for Greater Melbourne and Regional Victoria. The precinct will connect regional rail services, tram routes, and a future light rail link to Melbourne Airport, positioning Campbellfield as a strategic destination for living and working.\nBeyond mobility, the proposal uses the transport infrastructure to strengthen and reconnect ecological systems. Building on existing site conditions, the green network framework improves public realm quality, supporting both residential and employment areas while fostering more resilient and sustainable urban growth.","students":[{"unikey":"htse5555","firstName":"Hsiao Yun","lastName":"Tseng","fullName":"Hsiao Yun Tseng"},{"unikey":"isar0021","firstName":"Irene","lastName":"Sarah","fullName":"Irene Sarah"},{"unikey":"yubo0841","firstName":"Yuxin","lastName":"Bo","fullName":"Yuxin Bo"},{"unikey":"ssek0170","firstName":"Suvarnalatha","lastName":"Sekar","fullName":"Suvarnalatha Sekar"},{"unikey":"vcha0197","firstName":"Vidhu","lastName":"Chaudhary","fullName":"Vidhu Chaudhary"}]},{"id":"R_9DY4u6fNwGHBaix","title":"The Waterline","abstract":"The Gadigal Waterline Centre of Excellence gathers water, terrain, and play into conversation, creating a landscape where care, movement, and learning intertwine. Reviving the site’s buried creekways, the design invites water to return and find new paths through pools, channels, and cascades that breathe through the ground. Flow becomes a way of moving and knowing, shaping how people cross, rest, and gather.\n\nArchitecture rises lightly above the slope, leaving the terrain open to water and vegetation. Beneath it, the land remains alive and porous, a surface for reflection and play. Terraces step with the contours of Country, while stone crossings guide slow, attentive movement.\n\nHere, water speaks of renewal and play becomes a form of listening. The Centre exists as a living landscape, where the cycles of Country are felt through every sound, surface, and shift of light.","students":[{"unikey":"maro8033","firstName":"Muskan","lastName":"Arora","fullName":"Muskan Arora"}]},{"id":"R_9DYzopsO4OakiqW","title":"Mess & Mass","abstract":"The Midnight Star Theatre is reimagined as a hybrid space for recreation and emergency. The design stages a thermal dialogue between the body, objects, local narratives, and the climate. At its core is the idea of socialising coolth, which resists technocratic and singular solutions, and proposes coolth, not as a fixed output of mechanical systems, but a lived condition shaped by activities and collective presence. Architecture here becomes a scaffold for wind; through the shared “mess” between sports and emergency, the intense thermal loads and emotional surges, the invisible, responsive coolth is portrayed via the “mass”.","students":[{"unikey":"yzha8074","firstName":"Sophia","lastName":"Zhao","fullName":"Sophia Zhao"}]},{"id":"R_9DZr94BDJLdbIpK","title":"Instagram Circles","abstract":"Instagram Circles reimagines Instagram as a healthier social space, transforming comparison culture into opportunities for reflection and genuine connection. Developed through research on the quarter-life crisis, it supports young adults as they navigate shifting friendships and social uncertainty. The update enables users to create personalised Social Circles (casual friends, influencers etc) and filter their feed to match their needs. Visual insights reveal how time and attention are distributed across these circles, while subtle prompts encourage meaningful reconnection. By embedding wellbeing within Instagram, Circles promotes self-awareness and connection, giving users the agency to reshape their online space during the quarter-life transition.","students":[{"unikey":"elon7002","firstName":"Eva","lastName":"Loncar","fullName":"Eva Loncar"},{"unikey":"mwha4472","firstName":"Mia","lastName":"Whalley","fullName":"Mia Whalley"},{"unikey":"bsch5505","firstName":"Bo","lastName":"Schroeter","fullName":"Bo Schroeter"},{"unikey":"jhug4947","firstName":"Jazz","lastName":"Hughes","fullName":"Jazz Hughes"}]},{"id":"R_9EbpQrEAPIKy2Rc","title":"'Where we Meet'","abstract":"‘Where We Meet’ reimagines International House as a Gadigal Centre of Excellence grounded in the idea of listening to Country. The design responds to the sandstone ridges of Sydney Harbor, treating Hawkesbury sandstone as an active presence and materiality as cultural continuity. Adaptive reuse allows past and present to coexist, with generous thresholds and layered circulation encouraging dialogue and exchange. The project is organized into three parts: the original Rotunda, the Footbridge as a connective passage, and the New Dormitory building. Together, they form a host environment that holds stories and sustains relationships between people, time and Country.","students":[{"unikey":"aben0994","firstName":"Ashlee","lastName":"Beneke","fullName":"Ashlee Beneke"}]},{"id":"R_9Ey0aHvsWwuCnfC","title":"Alchemy of Fermentation","abstract":"Alchemy of Fermentation proposes an architectural journey shaped by atmospheric transformation, beginning in a dark indigo dyeing studio carved from the humid sandstone of the Argyle Cut. Here, cool shadows, water, and fermenting indigo create a dense, atmospheric ground condition. From this depth, the project ascends gradually through dye gardens, a water reservoir, and a lightweight pavilion toward upper levels of translucent residential and communal spaces. Through this transforming atmospheric journey, the design demonstrates how architecture can choreograph shifting atmospheres through matter, air, senses, affects, and time, mirroring the slow alchemy of fermentation itself...Never static, always transforming, like a poem, written by time.","students":[{"unikey":"hzha8881","firstName":"Hailey","lastName":"Zhang","fullName":"Hailey Zhang"}]},{"id":"R_9FfUwFHLkh16bbC","title":"BetterCare","abstract":"In 2020, nearly 2.2 billion hours of informal care were provided, valued at almost $78 billion. This demand continues to grow as Australia’s ageing population places increasing pressure on hospitals and an already overwhelmed healthcare workforce. To address this, BetterCare, a pilot program under Services Australia, is a service designed to support family carers who face the emotional and physical strain of caring for a loved one. By connecting users to a trusted network of sub-carers, personal commitments and wellbeing needs are no longer sacrificed.","students":[{"unikey":"mngu2120","firstName":"Mary","lastName":"Nguyen","fullName":"Mary Nguyen"},{"unikey":"etch9116","firstName":"Ethan","lastName":"Tchan","fullName":"Ethan Tchan"},{"unikey":"bpho4856","firstName":"Bethany","lastName":"Phoon","fullName":"Bethany Phoon"},{"unikey":"kouc8754","firstName":"Kim Heang","lastName":"Ouch","fullName":"Kim Heang Ouch"},{"unikey":"rlee5207","firstName":"Rebekah","lastName":"Lee","fullName":"Rebekah Lee"}]},{"id":"R_9GCv3ryjZHzsIos","title":"Big Kids Yard","abstract":"The Big Kids Yard is a project created at the meeting point of mental health care and play. The project toys with the unique pattern recognition held within the psyche of the individual by using the quality of liminality within the designed form to guide these cerebral ideas out into the physical world. In this way, the user is asked to play pretend with the objects around them and make the design their own. To sit, stand, climb, or lay down on the surfaces around and follow these actions to the places they lead.","students":[{"unikey":"wroe4597","firstName":"William","lastName":"Roebuck","fullName":"William Roebuck"}]},{"id":"R_9GqAbilfjYtijLi","title":"The Remnant Basin","abstract":"This project begins with an unseen creek and a demolished rotunda. The remaining fragments of sandstone lifted from the past gathers into a gabion vessel that holds light, water and silence gives the lost basin a melancholic structure. Guided by the idea of Barzakh, a place separating the past and present, the work sits between what was erased and what endures, between the weight of stone and the memory of flowing water. The gabion wall becomes a living threshold, absorbing rain, growing moss, and carrying traces of a story long buried beneath the campus. It stands as a human scale act of care, rebuilding from what was lost and giving form to the in between.","students":[{"unikey":"naho9136","firstName":"Noshin Nowar","lastName":"Ahona","fullName":"Noshin Nowar Ahona"}]},{"id":"R_9HNcg0QYluDTzdN","title":"Formed From Earth","abstract":"Formed From Earth is a contemporary response to country, culture, and memory. Sitting on the former International House site, the project reuses bricks from the original building and draws inspiration from the old rotunda, linking past and present. Curved forms, warm materials, and diffused natural light create spaces that feel grounded and welcoming. A timber curtain wall softens noise from City Road, supporting calm learning environments. With integrated greenery, open study areas and a rooftop garden featuring an amphitheatre and yarning circle, the building becomes a place for storytelling, collaboration and cultural exchange.","students":[{"unikey":"dmai0925","firstName":"Daniel","lastName":"Maio","fullName":"Daniel Maio"}]},{"id":"R_9HjJvEGTKZdI9ws","title":"Go Piss Girl","abstract":"Women can wait up to 34 times longer than men to access public toilets, making queuing an expected part of daily life. Men often receive double the facilities, placed more conveniently and clearly signed, yet long female queues are blamed on women “taking too long” rather than on male-biased design. Public toilets, as essential infrastructure, expose whose needs are prioritised and whose are ignored. This research draws on feminist spatial theory and examines historical, legislative and cultural contexts, using co-design to identify barriers in existing amenities. Go Piss Girl proposes architectural interventions that centre women’s experiences, promoting equity, dignity and spatial justice.","students":[{"unikey":"samm0997","firstName":"Sabine","lastName":"Ammit","fullName":"Sabine Ammit"}]},{"id":"R_9HjkrJINWzuIsVw","title":"Intersections","abstract":"Cities function as layered palimpsests, continuously overlaid through architecture’s ability to hold past, present, and future events. ‘Intersections’ mirrors this condition in fostering and prioritising creative exchange, allowing occupants’ practices and experiences to actively inscribe new layers into the building itself. Positioned at the western gateway along Parramatta Road, it occupies a critical threshold—mediating movement between the city’s intensity and the University of Sydney’s vibrant campus. A dynamic ramp system perforates the uniform volume, doubling as a gallery for student and local artworks, while celebrating creativity through indoor and outdoor performance spaces and galleries, alongside dedicated practice and creation spaces.","students":[{"unikey":"maal3141","firstName":"Maria","lastName":"Al Kousi","fullName":"Maria Al Kousi"}]},{"id":"R_9IWZdAX6Wok6pPf","title":"Textures of Place","abstract":"As we move through Gadigal Country, we become aware of the textural comfort of the places we walk across or dwell within. Each surface offers clues about what came before, allowing layers of history to be read through subtle marks and traces. This design seeks to create a culturally safe environment for learning and gathering, grounded in material honesty and belonging. Along the site’s boundary, a winding wall introduces rhythm and tactility, establishing a give-and-take between the site and the public realm. It forms moments of invitation, safety, and stillness, weaving old and new into a living and honest record of place.","students":[{"unikey":"jtyz2839","firstName":"Jessica","lastName":"Tyzack","fullName":"Jessica Tyzack"}]},{"id":"R_9IwxjX7mV77cakx","title":"Public Faith Spaces","abstract":"How can sacred places within the city be re-imagined to better serve a pluralist society? \n\nPublic Faith Spaces is both a provocation and an exhortation that imagines a new typology of religious architecture. Emerging from the devout diaspora within Auburn, contributing to the continuation of creation, and following a process of design discovery; the proposal for a new public faith institute experiments with urban design principles, architectural language, para-religious programming, and adaptive reuse strategies to transform the former data center, current Salvation Army site into one of religious expression, exploration and exchange.","students":[{"unikey":"chay0651","firstName":"Cooper","lastName":"Hay","fullName":"Cooper Hay"}]},{"id":"R_9JfKyetgusDODq0","title":"Nothing to see here","abstract":"The suburbs in Australia are so ubiquitous as to be invisible. This is to such an extent that they are consistently overlooked as an area for densification. The average new detached house sits at a size of 250m2 – equal to three three-bedroom apartments. It’s therefore no surprise to learn that 76% of households in the country, or the equivalent of 7.5 million dwellings, have more space than they need. In response, this project asks, can we create greater density within the volume of the ordinary suburban home? Or in other words, can we have our cake and eat it too?","students":[{"unikey":"hcul7305","firstName":"Harry","lastName":"Culican","fullName":"Harry Culican"}]},{"id":"R_9JyqyBfYjnpnXv5","title":"SettleSync","abstract":"SettleSync reimagines the moving journey as a connected, caring system rather than a stressful task. Designed for international students and workers who frequently relocate, it provides a simple, safe way to pass things on locally while building trust through community exchange. Through our digital touchpoint Awa-y and physical ones like donation stations and e-trolleys, people can easily give, find, or request what they need. With features such as “Help & Share”, “Donate”, and “Sell & Buy”, SettlleSync turns everyday moves into opportunities to support one another.","students":[{"unikey":"zwan7181","firstName":"Zuyn","lastName":"Wang","fullName":"Zuyn Wang"},{"unikey":"jhua5403","firstName":"Jessica","lastName":"Huang","fullName":"Jessica Huang"},{"unikey":"jili0276","firstName":"Olivia","lastName":"Li","fullName":"Olivia Li"},{"unikey":"jyua0547","firstName":"Carmen","lastName":"Yuan","fullName":"Carmen Yuan"},{"unikey":"jyao8798","firstName":"Vincent","lastName":"Yao","fullName":"Vincent Yao"}]},{"id":"R_9JqLhw1i5o8wWtX","title":"Colab","abstract":"CoLab is a team-building and collaboration platform designed for university courses. It helps students create skill-focused profiles, match with classmates in the same unit, and form groups based on shared goals rather than chance. CoLab also centralizes lecture and tutorial interaction, offering real-time discussion, resource sharing, and simple task tracking. The aim is to make group work clearer, fairer, and more efficient, especially in fast-paced studio subjects.","students":[{"unikey":"xyan0421","firstName":"Aiden","lastName":"Yang","fullName":"Aiden Yang"},{"unikey":"Jliu0970","firstName":"Tommi","lastName":"Liu","fullName":"Tommi Liu"},{"unikey":"yzhu0781","firstName":"Yan","lastName":"Zhu","fullName":"Yan Zhu"},{"unikey":"xshi0520","firstName":"Robin","lastName":"Shi","fullName":"Robin Shi"}]},{"id":"R_9K0SdaL3wtOyPVK","title":"Gadigal Community Centre","abstract":"The interpretation I took with this process is – Caring.\nCaring for what exists now, Caring for what has been lost, but who’s shadows remain & Caring for the future. \n\nI envision a series of unique connected experiences – drawing on our senses to place us on Country. The design works with Country by utilising the perfections and imperfections of nature – hoping to inspire  beauty and belongingness.\n\nInternational House provides a structure that can be appropriately eroded in response to the changing program and allow reconnection to its context. Circulation provides an experiential role to expose shared use and provoke care.","students":[{"unikey":"htwy9135","firstName":"Harry Olivier","lastName":"Twyford Hutchinson","fullName":"Harry Olivier Twyford Hutchinson"}]},{"id":"R_9Ks0qfEmjUhkbOp","title":"Interconnected Cycles","abstract":"The Gadigal Centre for Excellence is designed as a place of care, learning and respect for Country. The project keeps much of the existing building and works gently with the site, reducing its impact on the land. Water, plants and animals are central to the design, turning flooding problems into opportunities for ponds, habitat and gathering. The landscaping and auditorium change with rain, sun and seasons, allowing people to meet, reflect and take part in ceremony. Moving through the building becomes a way of learning, shifting from shared spaces to quieter areas. The centre supports connection, culture and community through everyday acts of care.","students":[{"unikey":"vwei5685","firstName":"Vanessa","lastName":"Wei","fullName":"Vanessa Wei"}]},{"id":"R_9LJI7I6SImBRlyp","title":"Botanic Land Ceremony","abstract":"The Botanic Land Ceremony in Katoomba is designed as a quiet place of cultural expression, reflection, and connection to Country. Blending with the surrounding canopies through low forms and natural materials, it creates a sense of safety and belonging. The layout separates private creative spaces from public areas, supporting both focused work and community engagement. Exhibition rooms, studios, garden paths, and a native nursery immerse visitors in Indigenous cultural arts and botany. A café and flexible events hall host gatherings, ceremonies, and celebrations. The architecture prioritises restraint, material authenticity, and seamless transitions, fostering renewal, cultural continuity, and\nconnection to nature.","students":[{"unikey":"njay6338","firstName":"Nevan","lastName":"Jayatillake","fullName":"Nevan Jayatillake"}]},{"id":"R_9Lp3bJXk5xs7pm5","title":"Ataraxia","abstract":"Ataraxia began with a simple belief: complex ideas can create spaces that feel calm, safe, and human. The project explores how neurodiverse design, modular construction, and environmental responsiveness can work together to support mental well-being. It focuses on affordable prefabrication to reduce cost and disturbance, while adapting to sunlight, climate, and natural surroundings. Materials are chosen for low carbon impact and for how they shape sensory experience. Above all, the space respects the varied needs of young people seeking support. Ataraxia becomes more than a building; it’s a quiet, thoughtful companion in the healing process.","students":[{"unikey":"asar0598","firstName":"Abhigyaan","lastName":"Sarangi","fullName":"Abhigyaan Sarangi"}]},{"id":"R_9MAMf0peotTgvF6","title":"Infinite Archive","abstract":"This thesis confronts the persistent tension within Australian museums and archives, institutions caught between the utopian promise of preserving everything and the blunt reality of limited space. Drawing on Derrida’s Archive Fever, Le Corbusier’s Museum of Unlimited Growth, and the melancholic clarity of Brodsky & Utkin, it reimagines the archive as a metabolic system shaped by accumulation, erasure, and the quiet labour of selection. A speculative proposal - The Infinite Archive - explores an architecture of modular, rail-bound capsule rooms that salvage endangered artefacts while revealing the psychological unease of endless growth. Ultimately, it acknowledges the inevitability of deaccessioning.","students":[{"unikey":"sioh7581","firstName":"Eric","lastName":"Oh","fullName":"Eric Oh"}]},{"id":"R_9MKVnuFn0F87Med","title":"Living Water, Living Knowledge","abstract":"Situated on Gadigal Country at Maze Crescent, my project Living Water, Living Knowledge acknowledges the rich Indigenous History and culture laying on the site. By introducing an artificial waterway, my project aims to educate people of the Indigenous history and culture deeply intertwined in our community. It took reference to the nearby Gadigal Green, which was a Indigenous water source and the now hidden Blackwattle Creek, used by Aboriginal people for fresh water, fishing and other activities. Drawing inspiration from the way water diverges and converges, my project seeks to illuminate the interplay of division and connection within our community.","students":[{"unikey":"yyeu8832","firstName":"Marissa","lastName":"Yeung","fullName":"Marissa Yeung"}]},{"id":"R_9MnXADPFUs9DGH3","title":"Rewired Typologies","abstract":"Rapid urbanisation in areas of dense migration\nnecessitates innovative Architectural Interventions\nto address widespread food insecurity resulting from\nglobally strained food import chains. Multicultural areas\nlike Auburn in Sydney are particularly important to\nconsider in this context. By utilising the Architectural\nprocess of adaptive reuse, the typology of a building is\nleveraged to establish integrated forms and functions\nthat serve a community, rather than adhering to its\nintended proprietary use. The concept of ‘Rewired\nTypologies’ aims to focus on this approach, repurposing\na former high-energy data centre into a facility for urban\nmicro-farming. Through a carefully considered design\nlanguage and distinctive typology, the proposal aims\nto support and enhance the broader community of its\ncontext.","students":[{"unikey":"leva8507","firstName":"Luke","lastName":"Evans","fullName":"Luke Evans"}]},{"id":"R_9NELv18rXEE7Upo","title":"Gadigal Centre of Excellence","abstract":"\"The weaving of us\" seeks to become a place to come together, to listen deeply, and to learn from what has always been here. The building is imagined not as a monument to learning on an institutional ground, but as a living framework for exchange. It is a place that celebrates differences as strength, and belonging as an ever-unfolding relationship. A starting point that acknowledges the lines of our past that continue to guide us as custodians of this moment in time, so that we may create new surfaces for new stories to meet.","students":[{"unikey":"zhua5353","firstName":"Gordon","lastName":"Huang","fullName":"Gordon Huang"}]},{"id":"R_9N9NnWmwK7gjyNZ","title":"Urban Advocacy","abstract":"Recognising the impact of architecture museums abroad, my thesis proposes a new museological institution for Sydney, centred around an architecture and urbanism archive. The museum reduces the physical and bureaucratic hurdles that hinder archival research through a multiplicity of programs not presently available in Sydney — facilitating a new form of criticality and political agency that is necessary in Australia to imagine future-minded, equitable policies which address the many challenges facing our urban realm. In adaptively reusing Marcel Breuer’s Torin factory in Penrith, the interfacing between past, present and future takes place inside as well as on the building itself.","students":[{"unikey":"jhem0295","firstName":"Junior","lastName":"Hemakiatikul","fullName":"Junior Hemakiatikul"}]},{"id":"R_9NJsBJoM4fwgvHW","title":"Gadi Place","abstract":"Gadi Place is designed as a welcoming place for Indigenous community, grounded in a deep connection to Country. The building dissolves the hierarchy between built and natural environments, embracing the Indigenous understanding that all living beings are interconnected. Preserved existing trees shape the project’s form, allowing the architecture to settle lightly into the sloping landscape. Recycled brick grounds the lower level, while slender, tree-like columns and a permeable façade create a sense of hovering within the canopy. The result is a gentle, integrated place where architecture, landscape and community coexist in balance and respect.","students":[{"unikey":"dyan5132","firstName":"Charlotte","lastName":"Yan","fullName":"Charlotte Yan"}]},{"id":"R_9NnnLy3D8tR8OrY","title":"Moon meets Shore","abstract":"The Gadigal Centre draws attention to what is normally overlooked, reconnecting people with Sky Country. Its design transforms the site from a shortcut into a space for curiosity, guiding visitors inward and encouraging moments of pause. Shafts of light pierce the interior, linking underground spaces to the exterior and creating a dialogue between Earth and sky. By day, sunlight animates materials and spaces; by night, the building glows from within, revealing a different version of itself. Ultimately, the Gadigal Centre invites people to pause, look upward, and reconnect with Sky Country.","students":[{"unikey":"cjan9435","firstName":"Chloe","lastName":"Jan","fullName":"Chloe Jan"}]},{"id":"R_9NnA0KbJcSDVwL2","title":"Exile Without Departure","abstract":"Drawing on Edward Said’s notion of exile as an “unhealable rift” , this project frames theTaiwanese condition of “exile without departure,” where layered histories and competingvoices fracture any single identity. Soft, adaptable architectures—fluid opera stages andban-do wedding canopies—have long woven these tensions into shared belonging. Theseideas meet Sydney’s Argyle Cut, a site fragmented by overscaled urban planning. Byrehabilitating the disused Argyle Railway Substation and Switch House, the projectproposes textile-inspired, soft architectures that reinhabit voids and weave unutilizedurban fragments back together, reimagining both place and identity across rupture.","students":[{"unikey":"chyu0100","firstName":"Chiu-Shui","lastName":"Yu","fullName":"Chiu-Shui Yu"}]},{"id":"R_9NypXdAJijUgbSy","title":"Unfinished Histories","abstract":"This thesis investigates how ruins can operate as living frameworks rather than static monuments. It explores the atmospherical ruin, where adaptive reuse sustains cultural continuity and memory while enabling contemporary life. Grounded in research across the United Kingdom, the study examines how ritual, national symbolism and identity intersect with heritage preservation to propose a reactivation-led approach to conservation. The castle’s layered history and fragmented architecture are interpreted through lenses of unfinished histories, atmospherical ruin and dynamic heritage. Overall, the project demonstrates that historic sites can evolve through adaptation and continuity, becoming active participants in contemporary society today.","students":[{"unikey":"char0079","firstName":"Christian","lastName":"Hart","fullName":"Christian Hart"}]},{"id":"R_9ODieRpZH9JyIl1","title":"Ngarala: Learning Together","abstract":"The adaptive reuse of USYD International House critiques the existing rigid structural grid as a colonial imposition that seals the building from Country. While promoting native greenery, the design facilitates ecological reclamation by intentionally de-structuring this grid. This strategic removal and redistribution create spatial porosity, transforming the building's envelope into a permeable scaffold. This allows Country to be woven back into the site through a living double-skin facade and a conceptual \"forest\" of native flora. The result is an architecture that shifts from a human-centred hierarchy to a Country-centred network, creating culturally and ecologically functional spaces for gathering and belonging.","students":[{"unikey":"gulu8205","firstName":"Alan","lastName":"Lu","fullName":"Alan Lu"}]},{"id":"R_9ONfSBfzexSrGSV","title":"Hyperkey: Infinite Possibilities","abstract":"What slows a creator down…the idea, or the interface? \n\nImagine working in Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma, After Effects - designing ANYTHING without hundreds of clicks, digging through menus, and the constant hunt for the tool that derails your momentum. \n\nNow, imagine a workflow where your hands keep up with your ideas, and every action is instant. \n\nEndless menus, the clicks, the searching, the friction — all condensed into a single click.","students":[{"unikey":"lduo2510","firstName":"Lily","lastName":"Duong","fullName":"Lily Duong"},{"unikey":"kngu7096","firstName":"Kieu-An","lastName":"Nguyen","fullName":"Kieu-An Nguyen"},{"unikey":"nnaw2559","firstName":"Nafia","lastName":"Nawer","fullName":"Nafia Nawer"},{"unikey":"tsua4375","firstName":"Taylor","lastName":"Lee","fullName":"Taylor Lee"}]},{"id":"R_9OTQUgGfrsHi5rF","title":"Maze Crescere Centre","abstract":"The Maze Crescere Centre embodies a living dialogue between Indigenous and non-Indigenous worlds, guiding visitors on a deliberate journey through knowledge, history, and cultural understanding. Shaping space into moments of reflection and encounter, learning unfolds as a collective ascent, deepening with each step. As an embodiment of Country, the centre breathes, evolves, and weaves itself into the rhythms of life around it. Connections are nurtured through shared presence, conversation, and storytelling, creating a “chaotic harmony” of exchange. Beyond a building, it is a meeting ground, a vessel for reconciliation, and a testament to the enduring vitality of culture.","students":[{"unikey":"dkim6389","firstName":"David","lastName":"Kim","fullName":"David Kim"}]},{"id":"R_9OuOdiJTkKWBjcB","title":"Choreographies of Thresholds","abstract":"Situated between the vibrant intensity of King Street and the calm rhythm of Erskineville, this project reimagines the disused Newtown Tram Depot as a civic centre that mediates between contrasting urban temperaments. Adaptive architecture and kinetic systems choreograph a spectrum of spaces ranging from public plazas and performance zones to quiet gardens, studios, and reflective courtyards. A connective ramp weaves through the site, stitching together extroverted and introverted energies into a living, responsive organism, a civic landscape that balances spectacle with stillness, community with contemplation, and the expressive with the serene.","students":[{"unikey":"ssab0426","firstName":"Shahin","lastName":"Sabu","fullName":"Shahin Sabu"}]},{"id":"R_9PR9Jkhux7QUOym","title":"Maybe, A Better Way","abstract":"This project is a counter-proposal to the imminent demolition of the Compass Centre in Bankstown. It utilises the building as a speculative object for a broader critique on the loss of agency of our civic spaces, and their replacement with commercial overdevelopments. Operating at the urban scale, it calls for the reclaiming of the more profound idea of the project: to propose an alternative vision of the city rather than confirming its existing conditions. By engaging critically across multiple layers, systems and ecologies, the project attempts to reassert the role of civic space as a contributor to the ongoing cultural and political discourse of the city itself.","students":[{"unikey":"tpap3595","firstName":"Thomas","lastName":"Papetti","fullName":"Thomas Papetti"}]},{"id":"R_9Pi3YXXvpt93gTq","title":"Sydney Architecture Museum: A Focus on Education","abstract":"My proposal for the Sydney Architecture Museum (S.A.M.) emerged from recognising a gap in Sydney’s cultural and educational landscape: the absence of a collection dedicated to architectural pedagogy and student work. S.A.M. reconsiders how future designers of the built environment are taught, seeking to bridge academia, practice, and the public.\nBy the collection of student work and academia, we can critically examine outdated educational structures and propose new models of learning. With active collection and exhibition of student projects alongside lectures and public programs, S.A.M. fosters a culture of reflection, experimentation, and life-long engagement with the built environment.","students":[{"unikey":"iche5380","firstName":"Ivy","lastName":"Chen","fullName":"Ivy Chen"}]},{"id":"R_9PpYsEsUYc2EI6d","title":"The Journey of Unmasking","abstract":"The Journey of Unmasking reimagines Manning House at USYD as a new Headspace centre for the youth. Through a guided journey, the design aims to soften the psychological masks that young people are forced to wear in their social lives. By designing with filtered sunlight and natural wind, occupants are offered a choice to move from open commons to private therapeutic rooftop gardens as a healing journey. Ultimately, this project imagines people walking out of the building without pressure and burden; without a heavy mask.","students":[{"unikey":"syan0370","firstName":"Frank","lastName":"Yang","fullName":"Frank Yang"}]},{"id":"R_9Pq6eMPrOfijzfb","title":"Shared Ground","abstract":"Shared Ground is an architectural proposal that transforms the Bridge Stairs in The Rocks into a vessel that reveals the long-shared histories between Aboriginals and Chinese people. Drawing from histories of gold rush migration, market gardening, and displacement. Bamboo structures, woven calligraphy paper screens, sandstone and native planting shape a sequence of spaces for making, truth-telling, and performance. Programs such as the lomandra Chinese lantern workshop, theatre learning space, vegetables and fruit market, and fire yarns support community dialogue and cultural continuity. Together, these elements form a living archive that reinstates Country and illuminates a rare chapter of Australian history.","students":[{"unikey":"kcha0563","firstName":"Ernst","lastName":"Chan","fullName":"Ernst Chan"}]},{"id":"R_9PtJAMGsqu0L2ek","title":"Returning Civic Stages","abstract":"“Multiculturalism is a feeble acknowledgement that cultures have lost their moorings in definite places…” (Gupta). In an era of expanding multiculturalism, identities migrate, overlap, and form new collectives, yet this beauty coincides with demolition, the loss of voids, spaces, and architectural enclosures that once upheld communal significance. In Auburn, high-density living has reduced personal space and erased venues for hosting and cultural expression. The closure of large communal halls has stripped communities of opportunities to celebrate and represent themselves. This thesis investigates how generous volumes can restore a place for cultures to gather, perform, and reclaim presence within contemporary redevelopment.","students":[{"unikey":"jsum3453","firstName":"Jackson","lastName":"Sumich","fullName":"Jackson Sumich"}]},{"id":"R_9PyZljPgEyxBNxR","title":"Object Mystique","abstract":"‘Object Mystique’ deals with the facilitation of a clandestine nurse triage in the Glebe Markets, focusing on creating a camouflaged entry into the concealed triage through the endowment of mystical powers onto the mundane. The market stalls typically adopt a three-by-three metre boundary to accommodate their sales, but often engage a spill-zone into the outer perimeter, within which miscellaneous objects produce an informal clutter of items. To capitalise on this phenomenon, the stall typology which is used to front the nurse triage is a palm-reading stall, as this aesthetic lends to the cluster of eccentric items within this recognised spill-zone.","students":[{"unikey":"nnar8820","firstName":"Nishal","lastName":"Narayan","fullName":"Nishal Narayan"}]},{"id":"R_9QF6lyq0PgThUIJ","title":"Common Ground","abstract":"Common Ground focuses on creating “third spaces” to facilitate connection and learning. To accomplish this idea, the building mass was disconnected to create a series of pavilion-like buildings with the area between these masses acting as outdoor/indoor public space. The three building masses are connected by a polycarbonate greenhouse-like shell that can be opened and closed based on weather conditions and different program uses. This shell is made from light weight polycarbonate with a steel framing system. The polycarbonate material allows for a translucent facade that blurs the threshold between building and landscape. A major theme of this project is connection with the history of the land underneath University of Sydney’s campus. In the collage you can see the main campus roads are isolated with artwork underneath. One of those pieces was created by artist Kate Constantine (Konstantina) and is made with natural pigments foraged from Gadigal Country and made on acrylic. The piece depicts oyster shells that are found locally and symbolize a connection with water and country. To connect the building to country, parts of the ground floor are lifted allowing for spaces to form underneath which have a gravel flooring made of recycled oysters shells.","students":[{"unikey":"atra0693","firstName":"Alexandra","lastName":"Trapanese","fullName":"Alexandra Trapanese"}]},{"id":"R_9QL3UWg4m9s161z","title":"The Model Museum","abstract":"Despite their role as effective instruments of architectural imagination, models rarely survive the long-term, destined for recycling bins and the top of dusty storage cupboards. Ironically, the models in this exhibition may soon share that fate as there is currently no Sydney-based institution that is actively collecting architectural models. This project proposes a Sydney Architecture Model Museum through the adaptive reuse of Marcel Breuer’s Torin Factory, reimagining its industrial gantry as a system for circulating and displaying models. Equal parts critique and celebration, the museum would be an archive for the preservation, study and making of architectural models.","students":[{"unikey":"nwen6734","firstName":"Nicole","lastName":"Wen","fullName":"Nicole Wen"}]},{"id":"R_9QXyeFEOqba9oLq","title":"Stories for Independence","abstract":"This storybook, designed for children aged 5–8, gently supports early independence. The protagonist is a little robot with personalities such as curious, cautious, and confident, representing children’s emotional growth. Through simple challenges, the robot learns to make decisions, try new things, and build confidence step by step.\n\nUsing a robot as the main character creates a safe emotional distance, helping children see themselves in the story without feeling pressured. The book encourages young readers to take small risks, explore at their own pace, and understand that it’s okay to feel unsure. It aims to support both children and parents on their shared journey of growth.","students":[{"unikey":"zson5750","firstName":"Zhiyao","lastName":"Song","fullName":"Zhiyao Song"},{"unikey":"dawa0732","firstName":"Syaza","lastName":"Awang Daud","fullName":"Syaza Awang Daud"},{"unikey":"apla4001","firstName":"Sasha","lastName":"Platonova","fullName":"Sasha Platonova"},{"unikey":"yama2020","firstName":"Yangguang","lastName":"Ma","fullName":"Yangguang Ma"},{"unikey":"zkwo0111","firstName":"Zoe","lastName":"Kwok","fullName":"Zoe Kwok"}]},{"id":"R_9T5zPTyi4zS6fPH","title":"Visible Care","abstract":"Homelessness—especially for women—remains socially invisible in the city. In response, the feminist “public living room” introduces safe rest, childcare, and shared support, pairing public openness with private retreat. The living-room metaphor is used because a living room naturally carries a dual character in everyday life, offering both an open area for guests and more intimate corners for household members. This familiar spatial logic helps humanize civic space, using everyday care and comfort to counter exclusion and foster visibility and belonging across Queen Square and Hyde Park.","students":[{"unikey":"yuwu0726","firstName":"jessie","lastName":"wu","fullName":"jessie wu"}]},{"id":"R_9TpFIJtDsvr8EP8","title":"BKK Repair Commons","abstract":"“Knowingly or unknowingly, intentionally or unintentionally, we regard our possessions as part of ourselves.”\n\nTo repair means the refusal of erasure. It is a stance against consumption, demonstrating that the broken still matters, memory can be preserved and identity can be reinforced through human connection and time. Repairing transcends simple upkeep. In mending a broken chair, we do more than restore its function, we pour in our labor, creativity, and time. This co-creative act leaves the imprint of our hands and choices on the object, elevating it to a new realm of value. The BKK Repair Commons reimagines Cabramatta’s Bangkok Shopping Centre as a community-led repair, skills-exchange and reuse hub that reconnects people with their possessions, cultivates repair cultures, and offers a compact, sustainable model for urban living and community wellbeing.","students":[{"unikey":"yhun4409","firstName":"Samuel","lastName":"Hung","fullName":"Samuel Hung"}]},{"id":"R_9U5RUWUOLeU0FL0","title":"Everywhen","abstract":"The Gadigal Centre of Excellence is positioned as a place of encounter, where learning, culture, and Country converge and inspire ongoing dialogue. The design of the site engages with the Indigenous understanding of the passing of time and “deep history,” a way of knowing, being and doing that starkly contrasts the Western interpretation of a calendar. The design is grounded by the constantly living and evolving tiled Ashfield shale roof form, and invites the site surroundings, flora and fauna to bleed across into the site boundaries to provide moments of encounter, growth and renewal.","students":[{"unikey":"lman9873","firstName":"Lucinda","lastName":"Mann","fullName":"Lucinda Mann"}]},{"id":"R_9Vx4WHIN9JKZAyu","title":"Sharing Bembul","abstract":"The redemption of the historical Clairvaux community site project has endured a meticulous and thoughtful process of design with elders and their story telling, giving us insight to the most fundamental aspects of their land, Country. Starting with Country is an ideology that is followed thought the formulation of the new centre, respecting the existing land and topography of the site, but additionally the non-human kin of native flora and fauna that all exist harmoniously.The project \"Sharing Bembul (Earth in Dhurag), is tucked into dense bushland with a rich habitat in Katoomba on Ngurra Country of the Aboriginal Dhurag people.","students":[{"unikey":"Jarm7605","firstName":"Julia","lastName":"Armstrong","fullName":"Julia Armstrong"}]},{"id":"R_9WNEEhqChW3t9K1","title":"Student Circular Exchange","abstract":"UniNest is a student-centered second-hand furniture platform that helps international students buy and sell furniture quickly, safely, and sustainably. It solves key challenges like frequent moves, language barriers, and unreliable marketplace experiences, while promoting circular economy values in a city that discards over 48,000 tons of furniture annually. Every transaction reduces waste, extends the life of furniture, and contributes to our partnered Community Tree Nursery in Morocco—supporting reforestation and local job growth. With UniNest, every simple trade becomes a meaningful step toward a greener world.","students":[{"unikey":"xche2349","firstName":"xinyi","lastName":"chen","fullName":"xinyi chen"},{"unikey":"jhan0884","firstName":"Jiangpiaoyue","lastName":"Han","fullName":"Jiangpiaoyue Han"},{"unikey":"pili0051","firstName":"Ping","lastName":"Li","fullName":"Ping Li"}]},{"id":"R_9WZOnFP9VlWmLMB","title":"Gadigal Centre of Excellence","abstract":"The first threshold visitors must pass on their way to the GCE is a veil of casuarinas that trace the perimeter of the site. These trees are known to some Indigenous groups as ‘babysitter trees’ for their distinct appearance and the soft bed of needles their foliage creates. Indigenous poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal has written of them: “The she-oak will shift its branches in the breeze and sing and that’s when you know you’re being watched.” This idea then sets the tone for the building’s premise: that it may function as both a landmark and meeting place; a design that demonstrates the possibility of an architecture of care.","students":[{"unikey":"gcoo2942","firstName":"Georgina","lastName":"Cooke","fullName":"Georgina Cooke"}]},{"id":"R_9WYIOiQhgmTnoE9","title":"Gadigal Centre","abstract":"Through adaptive reuse of the former International House, the proposed Gadigal Centre makes way for new programs in conversation with the complex institutional history of the university. A partial extension of the facade opens circulation and visually separates public spaces toward City Road from more private spaces within. Ground level interventions create a layered and continuous thoroughfare between the university and the street, while internal structures emphasise spatial transitions and connections. Reflecting abstractly a view of Indigenous cultural succession where Indigenous connections to land are continuous but ever-changing, the building's scars and additions evidence a connected past and future.","students":[{"unikey":"Trot6079","firstName":"Tina","lastName":"Rota","fullName":"Tina Rota"}]},{"id":"R_9WG9XusQouyM7el","title":"EVERYARD","abstract":"In Sydney, transport heritage is increasingly commodified, its civic significance reframed in terms of market potential. This reflects the expanding dominance of the private sector in public-private partnerships (PPPs). Eveleigh is transforming under rezoning that favours commercial expansion over community and collective memory. EVERYARD counters this narrative, reimagining Eveleigh as everyone’s backyard connecting Indigenous histories, working-class heritage, and contemporary public life. A new tensegrity bridge links North and South Eveleigh, improving access and cohesion, and the adaptive reuse of the Large Erecting Shop (LES) explores how PPPs can better sustain inclusive third places that prioritise social value alongside economic viability.","students":[{"unikey":"aada6105","firstName":"Alicia","lastName":"Adamson","fullName":"Alicia Adamson"}]},{"id":"R_9WvxJ9LJ80jKSMo","title":"Yarning & Ngra","abstract":"My project builds a counter-narrative from Country’s cues—\nIndigenous symbols and songlines, expressed through timber—\nto resist the single script staged by Georgian/Victorian sandstone\nfronts,7 royal statues, and the Law Courts’ glass at Queens\nSquare.Without altering the existing material inventory, it runs\nshort, event-like programs that turn everyday surfaces into\npages for storytelling. Two channels carry the work: an exhibition\ngrammar (flags, timber-framed temporary skins, compact\ndisplays, food, and architectural forms) and an immersive micro-\ntheatre cycling multilingual soundscapes and brief testimonies\nwithin daily windows. The aim is to recompose the site’s\ndominant narrative so that all publics learn layered histories and\nmarginalised groups can speak and be heard.","students":[{"unikey":"tili0899","firstName":"Tian","lastName":"Li","fullName":"Tian Li"}]},{"id":"R_9X4E7TgEY0FYgIn","title":"Interchange","abstract":"“Interchange” is envisioned as a cultural gateway that restores the University of Sydney’s connection to Parramatta Road. The project transforms a neglected threshold into a place of performance, learning, and cultural exchange grounded in Gadigal narratives. Movement becomes the organising principle: circulation, structure, and program form a vertical journey that echoes the layered histories of the road. Music which is central to Aboriginal storytelling and resilience, shapes both spatial intent and programmatic arrangement. With its exposed mass-timber structure and protective aluminum skin, the building emerges as a contemporary songline where memory, culture, and collective learning intersect.","students":[{"unikey":"robr0847","firstName":"Regan","lastName":"obrien","fullName":"Regan obrien"}]},{"id":"R_9XiIf8RFOS8HTED","title":"The Meeting Place","abstract":"The Meeting Place is a project shaped not by parliamentary conventions, but by the governance of the tide. Sited at Farm Cove, it allows water to reclaim its agency; arriving, withdrawing and interrupting, ultimately controlling the very institution that seeks to commodify it. The monumental Chamber of Authority stands powerful, yet its debates remain vulnerable to the rising sea. Surrounding, the Chamber of Surrender embraces protest, play and the fluidity of nature. Together they form a dynamic performance, positioning architecture as mediator between ecological rhythms and institutional authority, and proposing a future in which we collaborate, rather than defy, the natural world.","students":[{"unikey":"kvan6293","firstName":"Kyla","lastName":"Vanderlaan","fullName":"Kyla Vanderlaan"}]},{"id":"R_9YYrP19r1hNXfHo","title":"Disorientation","abstract":"Culture is a palimpsest of knowledge, laughter, happiness and pain and to concentrate the essence of these human experiences into a singular motif that narrates the wonders and heartaches before and during Australian invasion would create an unresolved symbol for an unresolved history. This design posits itself from the mindset of chaos to capture the intensity of human emotions as we navigate through the lapses in time and the mutilation of histories. We lull ourselves into those picturesque illusions of certainty, cage our fragile hearts into liminal realms of comfort, but in reality, it is yet another form of disorientation.","students":[{"unikey":"wlai0349","firstName":"Wanyi","lastName":"Lai","fullName":"Wanyi Lai"}]},{"id":"R_9YspR7iAkn4tTmg","title":"Negotiating Comfort","abstract":"Negotiating Comfort reconceives comfort not as a fixed, air-conditioned metric but as an adaptive, relational dialogue between body, climate, and architecture. Transforming the Midnight Star Theatre into a climatic commons, the project deploys chimneys, skylights, pocketed thresholds, and off-axis walls to choreograph airflow, shade, and temperature. Three interdependent thermal bands—Eat, Medical, Sleep—replace conventional zoning, structuring occupation through environmental gradients rather than sealed stability. Playful overlaps, nested thresholds, and porous facades cultivate sensory awareness and climatic literacy. Cooling becomes a spatial and cultural practice, positioning architecture as an active mediator that performs climate as a collective, continuously negotiated experience.","students":[{"unikey":"jche2422","firstName":"Vanessa","lastName":"Chen","fullName":"Vanessa Chen"}]},{"id":"R_9aDodE9eqsorBNy","title":"The Gadigal Gateway","abstract":"The Gadigal Gateway is envisioned as a permeable structure, dissolving the rigidity between interior and exterior spaces to draw connection with Country. Conceived as a lightweight timber intervention, it preserves the existing building and surrounding land, ensuring what is already present remains respected and undisturbed.  As a fundamental gateway to the university campus, the site fosters interaction and engagement, inviting community presence. A hierarchical yet fluid layout guides users through spaces of exhibition and connection as they move to their intended destinations. The design cultivates engagement with culture, fostering learning through curated showcases and incidental encounters.","students":[{"unikey":"ehor3903","firstName":"Emily","lastName":"Hornby","fullName":"Emily Hornby"}]},{"id":"R_9aIxHq0rGHNKshr","title":"FNC as an integrator in a system of systems","abstract":"Fraser-Nash Consultancy (FNC) is at a pivotal stage where it can redefine its role from a systems engineering organisation to a systems integrator. As an integrator, FNC would operate across interconnected systems, sensing relationships, connecting partners, and translating human, environmental, and economic insights into informed action.\nThe proposed solution, the Life-Centred Transition Lab, provides a framework for FNC to convene stakeholders from industry, education, policy, and community to co-design transition pathways. It enables continuous exchange of insight across technical, social, and ecological layers and ensures that local perspectives guide decision-making.","students":[{"unikey":"rdso0719@uni.sydney.edu.au","firstName":"Riona","lastName":"Dsouza","fullName":"Riona Dsouza"},{"unikey":"hima0869","firstName":"Himani","lastName":".","fullName":"Himani ."},{"unikey":"jasn0934","firstName":"Jasnoor","lastName":"Kaur","fullName":"Jasnoor Kaur"},{"unikey":"chuy0357","firstName":"Danny","lastName":"Huynh","fullName":"Danny Huynh"}]},{"id":"R_9aWCfnBI518lLaQ","title":"SPARC","abstract":"SPARC is a seminar program designed to increase awareness, communication and the preparedness of communities and emergency services towards disasters and crisis management.\nThe seminar, led by first responders, invites participants to engage in playbuilding activities that simulate theoretical disaster scenarios based in their hometown, allowing for the sharing of personal insights and local solutions under the guidance of professionals.\nThese responses are then collated and incorporated within the emergency services' regular audits of current crisis procedures, leading to community-recommended changes to processes that keep everyone aware, involved and – most importantly – safe.","students":[{"unikey":"jave9100","firstName":"Jack","lastName":"Avery","fullName":"Jack Avery"},{"unikey":"nhuy0944","firstName":"Natalie","lastName":"Huynh","fullName":"Natalie Huynh"},{"unikey":"clon6492","firstName":"Cassie","lastName":"Long","fullName":"Cassie Long"},{"unikey":"smoo6283","firstName":"Seoyoon","lastName":"Moon","fullName":"Seoyoon Moon"}]},{"id":"R_9ayPUuiW4Td14Va","title":"Pavilion of Echoes","abstract":"Sydney Harbour rarely offers an opportunity to amplify and celebrate the voice of the underwater. My project, Pavilion of Echoes, is a bespoke listening space that educates visitors, facilitates introspection, and supports practical Sound-Lab research on this underrepresented, submerged soundscape.\n\nThe architectural form emphasises the contrast between internalised structure and a billowing, lightweight fabric facade. This envelope mirrors an arching diaphragm, a tensile curtain of lightweight luminosity. \n\nThe pavilion pursues dialogue with other architectural pearls occupying pinnacles of wharf fingers; notably through the structural and functional inversion of Utzon's Opera House, subverting both its form and marine-based source of sound production.","students":[{"unikey":"kvul4842","firstName":"Kaya","lastName":"Vuletic","fullName":"Kaya Vuletic"}]},{"id":"R_9b43kFnASqUYLne","title":"Unmasking Solitude","abstract":"Isolation extends beyond the absence of others, emerging as a spectrum of physical and emotional withdrawal shaped by personal, social and structural forces. This thesis examines what it means to retreat from participation in society and considers how architecture might support those who withdraw. Drawing on Laing’s view of isolation as preservation and Durkheim’s framing of it as a rupture of collective bonds, the project positions architecture as a quiet infrastructure of care. In dialogue with Winnicott’s transitional object, the Museum of Loneliness translates literary portraits from Dazai, Murakami and Murata into spatial responses that gently negotiate withdrawal and reconnection.","students":[{"unikey":"ylim6134","firstName":"Yue Wen","lastName":"Lim","fullName":"Yue Wen Lim"}]},{"id":"R_9cYd2ktndkcgXZP","title":"YASS!!! HSR Interchange","abstract":"This strategic plan positions Yass as the central Interchange Nexus along Australia's first High-Speed Rail (HSR) corridor, connecting Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, and the Central West. Strategically located, Yass will link major cities with regional areas through integrated HSR and Tram-Train systems, enhancing accessibility and fostering regional development while decentralizing urban populations. This 30-year framework balances long-distance travel with regional connectivity and addresses station placement to preserve local character in under-developed towns. Yass will transform from a pass-through town into Australia's critical interchange—an Economic Catalyst for freight, a Regional Gateway supporting Canberra's growth, and Civic Spine enhancing rural access and resilience.","students":[{"unikey":"jleo0854","firstName":"Jeremy Huey","lastName":"Leong","fullName":"Jeremy Huey Leong"},{"unikey":"swon0290","firstName":"Eunice","lastName":"Wong","fullName":"Eunice Wong"},{"unikey":"llin0563","firstName":"Long (Ashley)","lastName":"Lin","fullName":"Long (Ashley) Lin"},{"unikey":"yton0839","firstName":"Ryan","lastName":"Tong","fullName":"Ryan Tong"},{"unikey":"thng0735","firstName":"Thuy An","lastName":"Nguyen","fullName":"Thuy An Nguyen"}]},{"id":"R_9ccPuhH6BYyKJGt","title":"CareConnect","abstract":"CareConnect is a design innovation to help CALD parents become aware of Healthdirect—and trust it. We researched the drivers of low awareness and mistrust, then developed an integrated solution that meets people where they are:\nAwareness (video pathway) at physical touchpoints — short, multilingual explainer videos in clinics, community centres, and pharmacies.\nSmart QR codes — instant access to Healthdirect via phone, placed on posters, flyers, and service counters.\nSocial messaging with AI chatbots — guided help inside familiar apps (e.g., WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger).\nBilingual callback support — reassurance and follow-up from trained health workers.\nTogether, these touchpoints aim to make Healthdirect visible, relatable, and trustworthy at the moment families need it most.","students":[{"unikey":"Hcai5235","firstName":"Roy","lastName":"Cai","fullName":"Roy Cai"},{"unikey":"rmin0574","firstName":"Raghu","lastName":"Mina","fullName":"Raghu Mina"},{"unikey":"hche5275","firstName":"Ada","lastName":"Chen","fullName":"Ada Chen"},{"unikey":"shhu0232","firstName":"Shuang","lastName":"Hu","fullName":"Shuang Hu"}]},{"id":"R_9cd6BbAGjBCvTBA","title":"The Living Terrain","abstract":"The importance of culture and how knowledge can be communicated from one to another, educating generations of all diversity, shapes the significance and thoughtful intentions throughout design processes. ‘The Living Terrain’, provides cultural security, being paramount to the residents living within the site, as well as an area where thoughts, views and education can be shared safely. As such, designing an environment that divides the spaces into private and public sectors, was a strategic decision in emphasising my vision, whilst still creating an opportunity for community engagement and connection throughout the winding pathways that lead to carefully fabricated gathering areas.","students":[{"unikey":"lpan3319","firstName":"Lara","lastName":"Panetta","fullName":"Lara Panetta"}]},{"id":"R_9d9tZFv3REV9xkJ","title":"Nibble","abstract":"Using pet care as a playful learning tool, Nibble is a gamified educational app that encourages children to build sustainable food habits. Through AR guidance, interactive lessons, collaborative quizzes with parents, and framing household tasks that reduce food waste as a way to care for their virtual pet, Nibble fosters family bonding while nurturing children’s sense of responsibility, awareness, and motivation to lead their household’s reduction of household food waste. By instilling sustainable habits early, we help them grow into adults who see mindful food use as second nature.","students":[{"unikey":"awri9576","firstName":"Alyssa","lastName":"Wright","fullName":"Alyssa Wright"},{"unikey":"acha4104","firstName":"Ann","lastName":"Chang","fullName":"Ann Chang"},{"unikey":"sari0132","firstName":"Sayu","lastName":"Ariani","fullName":"Sayu Ariani"},{"unikey":"zhli5235","firstName":"Alice","lastName":"Li","fullName":"Alice Li"}]},{"id":"R_9dKUVFrPalXDTaA","title":"Museum Of Transflux","abstract":"The past informs the present, and the present shapes how we re-imagine the future. The\nMuseum of Transflux retrofits Marcel Breuer’s Torin Building to explore Sydney’s architectural\nevolution through the lens of migration. The project began by questioning the building’s\noriginal function, materiality, and modernist context, particularly its link to Harry Seidler.\nIts preserved structure, despite a history of functional changes, inspired a vision for repurposing\nit into a museum that reflects Sydney’s complex, layered architectural narrative.\nSydney’s urban fabric is a mosaic shaped by generations of migrants. From Aboriginal\nshelters to modern high-rises, each shift mirrors changing needs, values, and innovations. The\nmuseum invites visitors to reflect, Collaborate and re-imagine the city’s evolving built identity.\nThe Museum of Transflux addresses this gap, offering a platform where visitors engage with the\nunseen transformations shaping their present. How, then, can the museum serve as a dialogue\nplatform, bridging past, present, and future through spatial experience?","students":[{"unikey":"dmaj0090","firstName":"Dharmil","lastName":"Majethia","fullName":"Dharmil Majethia"}]},{"id":"R_9e1ZSHHDnc6kKZ4","title":"The Porous Between","abstract":"Set within the sandstone cuts of The Rocks, this project reimagines the Bridge Stairs and undercroft as a ceramics cultural centre where making becomes a shared act of remembering and becoming. Rooted in Taiwan’s exiled condition, the project treats clay as material of memory—shaped through pressure and time; once fired, it holds every trace. A tunnel gallery places Taiwanese ceramics—floral tiles, window grilles, earthen glazes—into dialogue with other cultural practices. Porous timber–ceramic assemblies, a suspended tunnel-bridge, and public kiln chambers inhabit the void beneath the highway, dwelling within the site’s fracture and allowing identity to remain open, unfinished, and evolving.","students":[{"unikey":"hwan8694","firstName":"Cassey","lastName":"Wang","fullName":"Cassey Wang"}]},{"id":"R_9e8fYbxTyGOHTCn","title":"Commonscape","abstract":"Commonscape reimagines Oak Street, Katoomba, as a connected and inclusive neighbourhood grounded in Country and community. The design brings together 28 multi-storey affordable cluster homes arranged around yarning circles and community centres to foster social interaction and belonging. Scattered cultural hubs, a plant nursery, and storytelling nodes enrich daily life while celebrating Indigenous knowledge and the natural landscape. Step-free routes, accessible amenities, and visible transport connections prioritise walking, cycling, and public transit, while art, signage, and lighting enhance wayfinding and identity. This living environment honours place, promotes sustainability, and strengthens the connection between people, culture, and Country.","students":[{"unikey":"Qchi0741","firstName":"Paul","lastName":"Chin","fullName":"Paul Chin"}]},{"id":"R_9enyBH7TPRHavS1","title":"Architecture as Ceremony","abstract":"This design employs light towers that rise above the adjacent Bioscience Building to capture sun. The building's curved form negotiates with existing trees, breaking from colonial grids. Operable walls require two people to open, transforming architecture into shared ritual that fosters connection through participation. Each tower embodies site memory through material: ironbark (rammed earth and timber), fire (charred timber evoking cultural burning). In a world that once valued strength and now values knowledge, this project proposes architecture that values the heart where ceremony flourishes through transformation and connection.","students":[{"unikey":"drya7509","firstName":"Donovan","lastName":"Ryan","fullName":"Donovan Ryan"}]},{"id":"R_9eRkKKAQUHBiPcM","title":"Architecture Post-Architecture","abstract":"To build is to destroy. This is the inconvenient truth that faces contemporary architectural practice. The brief proposes a radically different approach to sustainable construction, suggesting instead the path forward is to not build at all. What could architecture look like in this post-extractive future?\n\nThe concept of a ‘Repair Factory’ was developed as a programmatic response to a Moratorium on New Construction. Co-opting existing construction infrastructure, it functions both as a cultural hub and a place of work, a space where care and repair extend across multiple dimensions, reframing the discipline of architecture from one of authorship to stewardship.","students":[{"unikey":"epri0570","firstName":"Enzo","lastName":"Pritchard-Carniato","fullName":"Enzo Pritchard-Carniato"}]},{"id":"R_9e9BeZhx0hlTymt","title":"Maldives Sinking","abstract":"In the wake of Rising Sea Levels, the Maldives lacks insight into the cultural identity of its citizens, risking loss of architectural identity as land becomes uninhabitable. This project seeks to speculate how we can define this identity and apply it at an urban and residential scale.","students":[{"unikey":"mshu9829","firstName":"Mazaya","lastName":"Shujau","fullName":"Mazaya Shujau"}]},{"id":"R_9fI3XW4L0yYODXn","title":"The Tide Returns","abstract":"Lacing the edge of the Sydney coastline, shell middens stand as quiet monuments to millennia of Gadigal life. These rhythms of sea and tide are accumulated through the shells and sand of the local environment. Here, a reciprocal relationship between Country and the human hand was born. Designing in their spirit means allowing the earth to rise to meet the building, from the land’s own strata instead of carving into it. In this way, the building becomes an act of continuity.. The façade material — concrete and stone infused with crushed oyster shell — carries this philosophy forward.","students":[{"unikey":"nkim2099","firstName":"Natalie","lastName":"Kim","fullName":"Natalie Kim"}]},{"id":"R_9fcCyMCQjNIKOdw","title":"Ballooned!","abstract":"Ballooned! is an emotional, value-driven stroll through Australia's energy transition. Using balloons as metaphors for values that are light yet heavy with meaning, the experience makes abstract beliefs tangible through color and form. Players walk a journey where they choose what they believe in, encounter authentic voices from real people carrying different colored balloons, and discover they are not alone on this complex path. As users progress, their balloon transforms, reflecting what they have heard and felt. The dialogues are not mere text but layered voices carrying care, frustration, hope, and conviction. This interactive experience grounds participants in shared understanding.","students":[{"unikey":"aset0894","firstName":"Alicia","lastName":"Setiawan","fullName":"Alicia Setiawan"},{"unikey":"LDAI0199","firstName":"Boris","lastName":"Dai","fullName":"Boris Dai"},{"unikey":"mwan3889","firstName":"Meijun","lastName":"Wang","fullName":"Meijun Wang"},{"unikey":"RXIO0372","firstName":"Rui","lastName":"Xiong","fullName":"Rui Xiong"},{"unikey":"boyu3922","firstName":"Bo","lastName":"Yu","fullName":"Bo Yu"}]},{"id":"R_9ffwUfgtK4OuZtL","title":"Among Us","abstract":"This project presents an architectural intervention that transforms Sydney's Argyle Stairs into a cross-cultural sanctuary addressing the dual exile experiences of geographical displacement and neurodivergent alienation. Titled \"Among Us,\" the proposal reinterprets Jiangsu's cultural elements—Suzhou garden frames and textile weaving—through a contemporary architectural language of steel frames and threaded chains.\nIntegrating cultural memory with autism-friendly sensory design, the space fosters safety through adjustable boundaries, calming geometries, and embodied belonging. Ultimately, it creates a shared refuge that bridges Jiangsu exiles and neurodivergent individuals, cultivating a profound sense of place and mutual presence.","students":[{"unikey":"yzha0527","firstName":"Yipin","lastName":"Zhang","fullName":"Yipin Zhang"}]},{"id":"R_9g6QadCzuxsMVZD","title":"Excellence Gadigal Centre","abstract":"The Gadigal Centre of Excellence is founded on sharing and learning as a collective spatial practice. Drawing from Gadigal traditions of deep listening, the building creates conditions for exchange, gathering, and reflection. Upward-folding doors and operable mesh façades open the halls toward Gadigal Green, extending activity into the landscape. Adaptable rooms, movable panels, and curtain partitions support multiple modes of learning, from quiet study to communal engagement. Soft thresholds, filtered light, and breathable materials foster encounter and care. The Centre becomes an open framework where knowledge is shaped through participation, and where people, culture, and Country remain deeply connected.","students":[{"unikey":"zwan8738","firstName":"Zi","lastName":"Wang","fullName":"Zi Wang"}]},{"id":"R_9gBdUDURN3yhbwd","title":"Spodo","abstract":"Medical clearance may signal the end of an injury, but true recovery takes more. Many athletes face an emotional gap that fuels hesitation and fear of re-injury. Spodo is designed to bridge that gap. This compact pod system, featuring motion-tracking and AI voice support, serves as a smart, reliable recovery companion. With personalised onboarding, precise form correction, targeted ability tests, and integrated journaling, Spodo delivers both physical and emotional feedback, helping athletes achieve recovery goals, restore confidence, rebuild self-trust, and return stronger than ever.","students":[{"unikey":"lhan3377","firstName":"Leana","lastName":"Han","fullName":"Leana Han"},{"unikey":"stal7191","firstName":"Somya","lastName":"Talwar","fullName":"Somya Talwar"},{"unikey":"jgal8248","firstName":"Jolene","lastName":"Galloway","fullName":"Jolene Galloway"},{"unikey":"chui5688","firstName":"Glenn","lastName":"Hui","fullName":"Glenn Hui"},{"unikey":"rwon2577","firstName":"Renee","lastName":"Wong","fullName":"Renee Wong"}]},{"id":"R_9gLowDC6MPqMQsV","title":"Narragunnawali","abstract":"Community oriented housing that aims to preserve existing structures as meeting points for the community with housing designed around these spaces. Renovated courtyard does not alter the design but bring new life to the space, the center of community. Homes are tucked away along gravel paths and nature offering a retreat for residents. Decking in front of the home allows residents to interact with neighbours whether it's their morning cup of tea or a chair and table set out to encourage conversation.","students":[{"unikey":"ceng6739","firstName":"Christopher","lastName":"Eng","fullName":"Christopher Eng"}]},{"id":"R_9gWP3C07r3GX5sd","title":"Interwoven","abstract":"Interwoven: Gadigal Centre of Excellence reimagines International House through the framework of weaving people, knowledge and materials. Once built to foster cultural exchange, the building is unpicked and rewoven into Storytelling and Stewardship Hubs that honour Indigenous culture and the Gadigal land they stand on. Central to this transformation is a dedicated land management facility, where care for Country shapes learning and innovation. Water is reintroduced as a guiding thread, its passage through the site recalling the course of Blackwattle Creek that once flowed through adjacent Victoria Park. Interwoven renews the site as a porous fabric, opening to light, air and water, and blurring thresholds between inside and outside, grounding learning in immersion and fostering a deeper connection with the land.","students":[{"unikey":"agal5121","firstName":"Alessia","lastName":"Gallimore","fullName":"Alessia Gallimore"}]},{"id":"R_9hFgPU0jW7ACuin","title":"Woven by Water","abstract":"The Gadigal Centre of Excellence emerges where land and water meet, a place shaped by flow and botanics. Three buildings, each marking a threshold of campus in different directions, rest along a serpentine timber walkway that traces the contours of Gadigal Green. Wetlands gather at heart, where seeds draw life back into ground. Birds return, plants take root and people wander slowly through spaces of reflection and exchange. Here, architecture listens to Country, its stories carried in water and its knowledge held in land. Woven by Water becomes a living landscape of restoration and connection through shared ecological care.","students":[{"unikey":"cwon8007","firstName":"Hermes, Chun Yan","lastName":"Wong","fullName":"Hermes, Chun Yan Wong"}]},{"id":"R_9hN028IDZeBGnzb","title":"‘The Posidon's Awe Dive’","abstract":"In Posidonia, the sea has risen and become home. Posidons live with the ocean, not against it. Architecture is not built but grown by collective custodianship. The marine parliament drifts between land, tide and reef, where all can gather. Through the ritual of the Awe Dive, Posidons learn to listen to current, creature, and silence.\nSlowly descend...\nSense...\nFind Awe...\nFocus on more-than-human...\nWonder...\nFloat...\nEmerge...\n\nThis is not fantasy, but a counter-myth, an allegory for a future where governance is care, and to live is to listen and learn with water, and all that moves within it.","students":[{"unikey":"rbab2544","firstName":"Rachael","lastName":"Baber","fullName":"Rachael Baber"}]},{"id":"R_9iBWLYi6fjf0mti","title":"Interconnection","abstract":"Earth, water and sky are inextricably connected. The Centre of Excellence begs for familiarity from its visitors. Three buildings - each representing a facet of Country through materiality, weight and form. Water flows between each, collected in the Sky building, filtered through the Earth building, and deposited in the Water reflection pavilion. The heaviness of rammed earth contrasts the light, metal frame structure that floats, cantilevered atop it. Harmonious with its generously landscaped surroundings, the Centre facilitates the sharing of knowledge and offers continual points to pause, consider and give back to the system of Country that it admires.","students":[{"unikey":"ekin5723","firstName":"Eden","lastName":"King","fullName":"Eden King"}]},{"id":"R_9iJCy5hmnOY1MEE","title":"Relight- Reimagining Clairvaux","abstract":"Situated on Gundungurra and Darug Country, the redesign of Clairvaux Cottage transforms the site into a place of renewal grounded in cultural and ecological connection. A Country-first approach guides low-impact, net-zero modular homes elevated to protect wildlife corridors and embed residents within natural rhythms. Native planting, green roofs, and rainwater harvesting strengthen relationships between people and land through everyday interaction with Country. The community centre and shared outdoor spaces support gathering, storytelling, and cultural practice, nurturing social bonds and belonging. Together, the homes and communal spaces create a resilient landscape where people, land, and culture remain deeply interconnected.","students":[{"unikey":"Ktsi7734","firstName":"Klairi","lastName":"Tsirli","fullName":"Klairi Tsirli"}]},{"id":"R_9ib4pxa6d5ugzK8","title":"Coolth as a Cucumber","abstract":"Responding to the intensifying heatwaves in Homebush, Inner-Western Sydney, collective rituals of gardening, cooking, and dining are reframed as climatic mediators. By reimagining obsolete modules from the Flemington Markets as communal spaces, the project ‘cultivates coolth’ by integrating the former Midnight Star Theatre into the Sydney’s ‘Green Grid.' A case study into cucumbers as a cooling recipe provided the foundation for the project to investigate food as medicinal and cultural moderator. Food is argued as the basis of design, not merely as sustenance, but as a spatial system where cultivation and consumption generate a network of climate resilience.","students":[{"unikey":"asap2538","firstName":"Abigail","lastName":"Saputra","fullName":"Abigail Saputra"}]},{"id":"R_9irhYZ7IC18O0CY","title":"Nganaga Centre","abstract":"Reclaiming the former International Building at the University of Sydney, this project redefines cultural exchange through an Indigenous lens. The design transforms the rotunda into a modern sanctuary, a place for ceremony, storytelling, and reflection where the smoking ceremony is brought into the heart of urban life. Guided by the idea of play, the building creates an experiential journey that invites people of all ages to explore and connect with Country. It becomes a space of re-emergence and belonging, where Indigenous culture and global awareness coexist within the city.","students":[{"unikey":"hbon0423","firstName":"Leo","lastName":"Bong","fullName":"Leo Bong"}]},{"id":"R_9isQtWMw7mbqHLJ","title":"Ashfield Reconnected","abstract":"This project reimagines the Ashfield Station precinct as a more connected, walkable, and climate-responsive centre. A north–south green spine forms the backbone of the proposal, improving accessibility by opening impermeable blocks and creating continuous shade, biodiversity, and pedestrian comfort. Liverpool Road is renewed through wider footpaths, active frontages, and a stronger mix of businesses to support social and economic vitality. Three new plazas and a park provide space for culture, community life, and recreation as the population grows. The design balances density, heritage, and public space to create a more inclusive and resilient Ashfield.","students":[{"unikey":"ccla0942","firstName":"Carolina","lastName":"Claros Padilla","fullName":"Carolina Claros Padilla"},{"unikey":"eraz0262","firstName":"Elham","lastName":"Razavi","fullName":"Elham Razavi"},{"unikey":"hhua4484","firstName":"Huilin","lastName":"Huang","fullName":"Huilin Huang"},{"unikey":"oraf0630","firstName":"Omid","lastName":"Rafsanjani Feizabadi","fullName":"Omid Rafsanjani Feizabadi"}]},{"id":"R_9iyuAHjDn5TJk9m","title":"Foreign Affairs","abstract":"This thesis proposes a Taiwanese Embassy in Nusantara, Indonesia as an exploration of veiled architecture and soft power. In response to Taiwan’s diplomatic sensitivities, the design employs layered spatial and material strategies that maintain a careful balance between visibility and discretion. A sequence of veils, including scaffolding, bamboo screening and planting, shapes a diplomatic environment grounded in restraint, cultural clarity and atmospheric subtlety. Rather than asserting identity through monumentality, the embassy performs diplomacy through spatial negotiation and controlled transparency. The result is an architecture that embodies political delicacy while sustaining a composed yet meaningful presence in the host nation.","students":[{"unikey":"tche0180","firstName":"Dawson","lastName":"Chen","fullName":"Dawson Chen"}]},{"id":"R_9j6q3zWTC8NCG7X","title":"EnerWorld","abstract":"This project turns Australia’s complex energy transition into a clear, engaging, playable experience. Through an interactive strategy game, young adults learn how decisions on energy, emissions, cost, and public approval shape the future. The aim is to help 18–35-year-olds understand, discuss, and share energy issues in an accessible and meaningful way. \nEnerWorld is a strategy game lets players run a country’s energy system, juggling power demand, carbon emissions, public mood, and tight budgets. Real events shape each round, revealing how tough—and essential—smart energy planning really is.","students":[{"unikey":"rdua0918","firstName":"Eins (Ruisi)","lastName":"Duan","fullName":"Eins (Ruisi) Duan"},{"unikey":"pshu3830","firstName":"Peijie","lastName":"Shuai","fullName":"Peijie Shuai"},{"unikey":"xgao4745","firstName":"Xushu","lastName":"Gao","fullName":"Xushu Gao"},{"unikey":"ycai2342","firstName":"Yutong","lastName":"Cai","fullName":"Yutong Cai"},{"unikey":"reba0740","firstName":"Renhao","lastName":"Ba","fullName":"Renhao Ba"}]},{"id":"R_9jdm8f0vebOeAzA","title":"Rhythmic Instruments","abstract":"Rhythmic Instruments unfolds within the pulse of the market, using time itself as camouflage and rhythm as its architecture. Through rhythmic synchronisation it drifts between visibility and disguise, blurring causality through temporal alignment. Built from timber and steel, its tectonics speak through material honesty. Every bolt, bracket and joint remains exposed, revealing how structure holds itself together. Nothing hides, yet everything hides in plain sight. This project acts as an experiment in architectural rhythm through signature manipulation, logistics choreography, functional clarity and visual expression.","students":[{"unikey":"jtan2288","firstName":"Joey","lastName":"Tang","fullName":"Joey Tang"}]},{"id":"R_9k07qOtdklstyHe","title":"Clairvaux Renewal","abstract":"This proposal reimagines the Clairevaux site in Katoomba with a renewed sense of purpose — creating community spaces that foster connection while honouring the memory of the place. Responding to the site’s layered histories and its connection to Dharug and Gundungurra Country, the proposal balances preservation with regeneration through adaptive reuse, lightweight construction, and a clustered housing model. Buildings are gently elevated to protect ecological systems and encourage water flow, while shared gardens, laundries, and communal spaces foster everyday encounters and social support. The design prioritises thermal comfort, landscape regeneration, and cultural continuity, creating a place that holds stories of the past while supporting resilient, inclusive futures.","students":[{"unikey":"jsma5648","firstName":"Jasmine","lastName":"Small","fullName":"Jasmine Small"}]},{"id":"R_9k1IXZ9bg0cROno","title":"P R E S E N C E    O F    A B S E N C E","abstract":"The Gadigal Centre of Excellence explores the binary between absence and presence, recognising the intimate nexus between the intangible solidity of people, memory, and micro-organisms inhabiting the voids of place. Embodying the pursuit of symbiosis and balance, the project encourages a conscious awareness and homogeneity in status between people and the living world, amplifying what is often overlooked or unseen to reveal the quiet interdependencies that sustain coexistence.","students":[{"unikey":"jngu7810","firstName":"James","lastName":"Nguyen","fullName":"James Nguyen"}]},{"id":"R_9kGKmXB8GCTWHmC","title":"Dance against A.I.","abstract":"Responding to the dangers of the rise in humanizing A.I., this thesis project prescribes dance as a powerful reminder of our humanity, creativity and collective spirit within us. It proposes a dance pavilion that counters this technology at the center of the Osaka World Expo; aiming to facilitate and celebrate group, folk, and social dances, encourage empathy while making obvious the adverse effects of A.I. By extracting qualities & elements shared in dance and architecture, the pavilion is spatially choreographed to encourage dynamic participation, improve social cohesion and connection, and serve as a key to multicultural understanding and appreciation.","students":[{"unikey":"aber0410","firstName":"Joyce","lastName":"Berago","fullName":"Joyce Berago"}]},{"id":"R_9kR0XeFsxZBLaZH","title":"Converging Boundaries","abstract":"As cities expand beyond sustainable limits, the vitality of ecological systems further deteriorates.\n\nThe thesis challenges conventional land zoning practices, suburban typologies, and positions architecture as a catalyst for ecological renewal. Reinstating the intrinsic relationship of the city-territory, the framework dissolves the boundaries of the built and natural environments. A restructuring of the urban environment releases tension between nature and suburbia, shifting through the seasons, like an object in light.\n\nDecommissioned Substation 77 becomes the foundation for a cyanographic exploration of the city-territory. Converging Boundaries reimagines private industrial infrastructure as a public space; a regenerative herbarium integrating architecture and Country through cyanography.","students":[{"unikey":"nluc2923","firstName":"Nicholas","lastName":"Lucchese","fullName":"Nicholas Lucchese"}]},{"id":"R_9lAkfPsffDchXCN","title":"Pedestrian Loop · Block Interface","abstract":"Our master plan for St Marys envisions a connected, mixed, and resilient town centre shaped by Country, landscape, and community life. A compact urban structure of fine-grain blocks and blue–green corridors is anchored by Queen Street and the transport network. A central pedestrian street forms the social heart, supporting cafés, local retail, and flexible community uses, while a transit-oriented street near the interchange accommodates offices and mixed programs. Together, they integrate ecology, active mobility, and culture into a cohesive public realm, promoting walkability, adaptable density, and climate-responsive landscapes for a sustainable and inclusive St Marys.","students":[{"unikey":"xzen0396","firstName":"Xiaowei","lastName":"Zeng","fullName":"Xiaowei Zeng"},{"unikey":"bdin0160","firstName":"Bingnan","lastName":"Ding","fullName":"Bingnan Ding"},{"unikey":"sliu0484","firstName":"Liu","lastName":"Shuman","fullName":"Liu Shuman"},{"unikey":"zzho0972","firstName":"Zitong","lastName":"Zhou","fullName":"Zitong Zhou"}]},{"id":"R_9lLGf6O0iVgwbOE","title":"tidal regrowth.","abstract":"This project reimagines Farm Cove as a place where land and water enter into a conversation, a Liquid Parliament, an exchange of opinion rather than control. With the hope to bring back marine life and human interaction into Farm Cove, a reef system is proposed. New seagrass farm forming a reef flat and existing sea wall is reimagined, working together to slow down the waves entering and calming the current for living organism to shelter. Together, these intervention create a living threshold where humans, water, and ecology deliberate side by side, each shaping the future of the cove.","students":[{"unikey":"krod0929","firstName":"Saria","lastName":"Rodmala","fullName":"Saria Rodmala"}]},{"id":"R_9ltlO2NlfQRP2Fz","title":"TIDAL CLOCK","abstract":"Tidal Clock addresses sea-level rise as both a spatial and temporal phenomenon. Drawing on Pace Layering and Indigenous calendars, it reveals fast environmental changes to highlight slower climatic change. By opening and reforming sections of the existing seawall, tidal rhythms previously obscured become perceptible. Weathering materials register temporal change, shifting perception from passive awareness to embodied experience. By clarifying everyday rhythms of tide and climate, the project makes natural time legible and repositions the coastline as a living indicator of ongoing environmental change.","students":[{"unikey":"yugu2284","firstName":"Yu","lastName":"Gu","fullName":"Yu Gu"}]},{"id":"R_9m7uDv5uzPyEFuk","title":"REFRAMED","abstract":"REFRAMED seeks to foster spiritual and physical connection with country in order to reframe the past traumatic narrative underpinning Clairvaux. Consideration towards a design outcome that touches lightly on the land ensures the preservation of country.\n\nConnection with community shapes the way REFRAMED has been designed. Private, semi-private and public areas facilitate communal connection by providing unique spaces where individuals can pause for reflection and seek refuge, alongside areas for communal gatherings. Community connection is further strengthened through creating moments for accidental conversation. Communal boardwalks across different levels promote connectivity between neighbours as well as the community as a whole.","students":[{"unikey":"wste0858","firstName":"Will","lastName":"Stewart","fullName":"Will Stewart"}]},{"id":"R_9mIHuKHe4CUgjVT","title":"Between Two Trees","abstract":"The Gadigal Centre of Excellence seeks to reawaken the dormant Maze Crescent carpark, transforming a ground silenced by concrete and asphalt into a place of renewal and belonging. Centred on the idea of RECLAIMING, the project embodies a reclamation of land through establishing new memory and amplifying a presence in community. By evoking the once prevalent Turpentine-Ironbark forest, silenced narratives emerge and the site reconnects with the surrounding community. Ultimately, the architecture becomes an interface between people, memory and place, inviting people to engage with the land and its material memory.","students":[{"unikey":"xzhu9786","firstName":"Leanne","lastName":"Zhu","fullName":"Leanne Zhu"}]},{"id":"R_9mLmctXgSGlY0oh","title":"One Last Trip","abstract":"Situated 569-kilometres north-west of Sydney is a railway line and its eighteen disused railway stations indefinitely closed for over three decades. Like a patient with a terminal diagnosis, the line exists in paradoxical liminality; living but not quite alive, closed but not yet erased, suspended between utility and obsolescence.\n\nAn architect gives life to buildings, and like humans, they must inevitably pass. Adopting a palliative approach to architecture, this thesis draws parallels between the declining health of people and place through narrative and storytelling to reimagine decline not as loss, but as a poetic, ceremonious ending.","students":[{"unikey":"lgaf7298","firstName":"Larissa","lastName":"Gafa","fullName":"Larissa Gafa"}]},{"id":"R_9mLrAMrP76Ky7s8","title":"Scaena Obscura","abstract":"The proposed performance stage module leverages semiotic ambiguity to naturalise concealed function within an otherwise familiar apparatus. Its conventional timber structure cultivates an immediate, uncritical reading, while an articulated internal void supports a secondary layer of operation withheld from public view. The fifty-kilogram ammunition payload for the resistance movement is suspended within the stage core until a specified point of detachment. Through deliberate structural deception and carefully staged deployment, the module oscillates between visible purpose and latent capacity, foregrounding how architectural form can choreograph perception, mediate attention, and quietly manipulate the assumed transparency of civic infrastructures within contested urban environments.","students":[{"unikey":"slol9315","firstName":"Shaelem","lastName":"Lolesi","fullName":"Shaelem Lolesi"}]},{"id":"R_9mNUqtDToA4IVjP","title":"Rhodes Boat Ramp","abstract":"The proposed Superhub serves as a catalyst for urban cohesion, creating a multimodal transit interchange that integrates rail, cycling, walking and ferry services. This new civic landmark enhances mobility and activates the riverfront. Surrounding mixed-use developments and green infrastructure strengthen connections between people, ecology, and water systems. These interventions promote biodiversity, embed active transport, and create a vibrant public realm for community interaction. A new harbour pool on the eastern shore reclaims the waterfront as a vibrant social and recreational landscape. Together, these initiatives position Rhodes as a model of sustainable urban regeneration- bridging communities, restoring ecology, and celebrating its river identity.","students":[{"unikey":"cche0408","firstName":"Chen","lastName":"Chen","fullName":"Chen Chen"},{"unikey":"gket0146","firstName":"Gillian","lastName":"Keto","fullName":"Gillian Keto"},{"unikey":"jweb2001","firstName":"Juliette","lastName":"Webster","fullName":"Juliette Webster"},{"unikey":"yliu0912","firstName":"Yuanhui","lastName":"Liu","fullName":"Yuanhui Liu"}]},{"id":"R_9ml652JmpwJ0rXY","title":"Gathering Lines","abstract":"Gathering Lines is a journey-based architectural proposal that reclaims a site long shaped by the trace of Parramatta Road, restoring its significance as an Indigenous pathway. Guided by the concepts of gathering and the ridge, the design fragments solid, grounded forms to create a sequence of rising, opening, and reflective moments. Heavy concrete walls and light timber structures choreograph a movement of looking in and looking out, echoing ridgeline navigation and the layered histories of shell middens. The building becomes a living place of knowledge-sharing, where circulation, landscape, and community intertwine through Country.","students":[{"unikey":"gbon0138","firstName":"Grace","lastName":"Bong","fullName":"Grace Bong"}]},{"id":"R_9n5zqGnC9bb8Wqd","title":"Formalised Informality","abstract":"Set in Barakau, Central Province, Papua New Guinea, this thesis proposes a civic anchor that provides key amenities and community space around which a new settlement can self-organise. Drawing on Manuel DeLanda’s Assemblage Theory and Henri Lefebvre’s notions of urban reproduction, the project reframes informality, often used to reduce complexity in the interest of power, as an antidiscipline that enables urban space to emerge despite state imposed boundaries. The anchor acts as a catalyst for growth, allowing settlement to form on its own terms, offering infrastructure that supports uplift without overwriting the dynamics of everyday ‘informal’ life.","students":[{"unikey":"rhug2851","firstName":"Robert","lastName":"Hughes","fullName":"Robert Hughes"}]},{"id":"R_9ndT7dleX3jCis5","title":"Second Ground","abstract":"This project responds to the former marshland of Blackwattle Creek in the design of a Gadigal Centre of Excellence. A new raised and porous datum supported by three vertical cores allows a swamp-like landscape to return beneath, forming an undercroft that reconnects the building to the site’s earlier ground conditions and supports a more-than-human architecture. The platform holds more public and outdoor programs, while the upper levels accommodate the auditorium, gallery and enclosed learning areas. Filtered light, overlapping circulation and a continuous ‘third space’ edge condition produce a series of adaptable spaces for study, gathering and exchange.","students":[{"unikey":"cwhi8849","firstName":"Deedee","lastName":"White","fullName":"Deedee White"}]},{"id":"R_9nfRGZ1nSdGqDnP","title":"Gadigal Community Centre","abstract":"The Gadigal Centre of Excellence is imagined as a Listening Ground, a place where sound and architecture breathe together. It listens before it speaks, echoing Gadigal traditions where stories, songs, and ceremonies pass through voice, wind, and land. Here, sound is knowledge, the rustle of leaves, the pulse of footsteps, the murmur of connection. The centre gathers these voices into form, allowing Country to speak through space. Within its walls, silence holds memory, and echoes carry meaning. It is a vessel for listening, to people, to place, to time itself, where every whisper of wind or call of bird becomes an act of understanding.","students":[{"unikey":"isun5159","firstName":"Izzy","lastName":"Sun","fullName":"Izzy Sun"}]},{"id":"R_9oA0KLG11l9WpdA","title":"Rooted in Resonance","abstract":"Rooted in Resonance is conceived as a sensory journey, where architecture becomes a meditative exchange with Country. Grounded in the elemental languages of earth, water and sky, each space invites occupants to listen, touch, taste, smell and move through environments shaped by the Gadigal Country it stands on. Rammed earth caverns hum with grounded performative echoes, rippled glass refracts shifting light on exhibitions, and elevated sky rooms breathe with filtered air and soft, moving fabric to enhance storytelling and learning. By drawing on material and atmospheric cues, the design cultivates an immersive dialogue celebrating Indigenous excellence and resonance with Country.","students":[{"unikey":"Vedg2294","firstName":"Veronica","lastName":"Edge","fullName":"Veronica Edge"}]},{"id":"R_9oCgIrK4aB2sbGp","title":"To Land: the Highs & Lows","abstract":"To Land: the Highs & Lows is a sanctuary for visitors and the stories that the site and the people who experienced them carry. Using a rigid layout inspired by temple designs, circular geometries, and the landscape's vibrant color palette to portray the imagery of a box filled with written and unwritten stories of the land, documenting all the highs and lows that have occurred in the past and those that will occur in the future.","students":[{"unikey":"yche2381","firstName":"Iverson","lastName":"Chen","fullName":"Iverson Chen"}]},{"id":"R_9oGl9Q0M2UlN60N","title":"St. Mary's Town Park Precinct","abstract":"The St Mary’s sits at the junction of the T1 rail line and future M2 Metro, linking Western Sydney Airport with the wider region. The Town Park Precinct,~1 km from the upcoming metro station, builds its own identity around local amenity, access, and community life. Designed for 4,100 residents and 1,500 jobs, it envisions a vibrant, mixed-use centre. The former St Marys Shopping Complex is adaptively reused into a lively mixed-use hub. New east–west connections transform a once car-dependent area into a walkable, bike-friendly environment. Flood-sensitive design with bioswales, diverse frontages, permeable passages, and a multi-layered Central Park anchor a resilient, connected, and people-focused precinct.","students":[{"unikey":"asai0433","firstName":"Abhay Singh","lastName":"Saini","fullName":"Abhay Singh Saini"},{"unikey":"gdra6639","firstName":"Luca","lastName":"Dragone","fullName":"Luca Dragone"},{"unikey":"ytan0887","firstName":"Danielle","lastName":"Tang","fullName":"Danielle Tang"},{"unikey":"jgas0859","firstName":"Jonathan","lastName":"Gassoub","fullName":"Jonathan Gassoub"}]},{"id":"R_9oX5IY4aTjh5Gnf","title":"Roamy","abstract":"Roamy is a travel app designed to bridge the gap between travellers and locals by transforming tourism into meaningful cultural exchange. It addresses the challenge of finding authentic, trustworthy experiences abroad by connecting users with verified local hosts through a safe and engaging platform. \n\nCore features include curated experience discovery, itinerary management, verified host badges, QR ticketing and a social “Roamers” network to meet other like-minded travellers. By empowering locals to share their culture and earn income, Roamy creates mutual value while fostering trust, inclusion and lasting connections that make travel more authentic and socially sustainable.","students":[{"unikey":"rsuw9183","firstName":"Ruben","lastName":"Suwargo","fullName":"Ruben Suwargo"},{"unikey":"atoo2957","firstName":"Amorino","lastName":"Toongart","fullName":"Amorino Toongart"},{"unikey":"tabr9714","firstName":"Tyler","lastName":"Abrahams","fullName":"Tyler Abrahams"},{"unikey":"khoy3047","firstName":"Kittu","lastName":"Hoyne","fullName":"Kittu Hoyne"}]},{"id":"R_9oYjPSfoGkznSWR","title":"The Multicultural Embassy","abstract":"In a city shaped by continual migration, Sydney’s civic spaces reveal tensions between visibility and marginalisation. This thesis examines how architecture can renegotiate belonging by transforming public space into a site of empathy and encounter. Drawing on Richard Sennett’s philosophies, it frames belonging as an evolving dialogue shaped through shared spatial experience. The design proposal reimagines St Mary’s Cathedral Square as an adaptable platform for cultural exchange, using modular timber structures and circular arrangements inspired by Minsuk Cho's Serpentine Pavilion. Through an architecture of thresholds, the project envisions a future Sydney that celebrates diversity and nurtures humane, participatory civic life.","students":[{"unikey":"mkao0594","firstName":"Michael","lastName":"Kao","fullName":"Michael Kao"}]},{"id":"R_9pKhR0WPCGl3QSS","title":"Mari Giba Centre","abstract":"With the orientation of the main buildings considered, the spatial relationships between the masses, and a notion of the circulation that evolves from the spaces between masses, it therefore became possible to advance the project. To begin the process of carving out the mass inside the monolithic structures to make them habitable and traversable.\n\nWith the triptych of masses arranged at the sites northeastern edge, then came the process of weaving together the spaces between. Composed of three obelisk-like structures, they function as the guiding beacon, rising above the nearby structures to orient individuals in the landscape, and to work as a common reference point to signify from a distance where the western gate of the campus is. Between the slanted walls and jagged angles resembling fissures in the stone, these canyons are bridged by small spans of ramps or stairs and complement the serpentine circulation that encourages users to engage with the spaces in a linear manner. The south building, by contrast, works in the horizontal plane.","students":[{"unikey":"lkup8674","firstName":"Luke","lastName":"Kupka","fullName":"Luke Kupka"}]},{"id":"R_9q1wYNVTrlV0svy","title":"Fun Palace-New Town Tram Deport","abstract":"In Newtown’s inner west, local vibrancy is fading as rising rents push independent shops out, replacing them with uniform chain stores. Cultural life has thinned, and community identity has weakened. This project explores how to revive “fun” through Caillois’s ludic theory, using structured play to restore spontaneity. By adapting the long-neglected Newtown Tram Depot, the design proposes a flexible, experimental “fun palace” that reshapes the community and offers an alternative to gentrification.","students":[{"unikey":"ysha3117","firstName":"Shan","lastName":"Yiran","fullName":"Shan Yiran"}]},{"id":"R_9q8WzAx4WKNw9fp","title":"The Childs Gaze","abstract":"A child, unaccustomed to the world, has an odd ability to perceive even the most ordinary of things with a rare sense of freedom. A skill that most adults lose when they grow up. \n\nCurious and unfiltered - children offer an alternative interpretation of our busy world. Perhaps one that is more colourful? Less serious. More fun! This project examines how the consideration of a child’s perspective could offer meaningful insight for contemporary architecture. Reminding us of the playful, emotional, and sensory dimensions of spaces that make environments feel alive and engaging.","students":[{"unikey":"ssha5250","firstName":"Sophie","lastName":"Shaw","fullName":"Sophie Shaw"}]},{"id":"R_9qIiJ6qS6jat23d","title":"HSR CORRIDOR - STRATHFIELD 2060","abstract":"What if Strathfield were Australia’s integrated High-Speed Rail urban centre?\nThis project explores a design where underground infrastructure drives above-ground transformation. Centred on the idea of “the station as a city,” the proposal unites four connected precincts - Education, local centre, mixed-use, and residential - through a network of pedestrian corridors, green links, and vibrant public plazas. Each precinct responds to Strathfield’s urban character, enabling new density, permeability, and economic diversity. By embedding high-density living, active frontages, and multimodal connectivity around the future HSR hub, the plan transforms a commuter interchange into a dynamic destination bridging regional mobility with local identity.","students":[{"unikey":"mmur0810","firstName":"Malavika","lastName":"Muralidharan","fullName":"Malavika Muralidharan"},{"unikey":"kkim8486","firstName":"Kanghyun","lastName":"Kim","fullName":"Kanghyun Kim"},{"unikey":"xzha0539","firstName":"Xuechen","lastName":"Zhai","fullName":"Xuechen Zhai"},{"unikey":"dali0592","firstName":"Danyue","lastName":"Li","fullName":"Danyue Li"},{"unikey":"xzhu0685","firstName":"Xiaoning","lastName":"Zhu","fullName":"Xiaoning Zhu"}]},{"id":"R_9qUzGJIWBubZbl7","title":"Nura","abstract":"This project revisits the layered stories of International House, extending them through a renewed spatial structure that invites spontaneous and informal gathering. The rotunda serves as a pavilion for performance and gathering, encouraging learning through performance. Programs rise through the former dormitory, with offices and learning spaces weaving with one another to encourage relaxed interaction between staff and students. Behind a façade of latticed brick – repurposed from the original building—the interior unfolds with a quiet openness which converges knowledge, culture and community. Nura aspires to contribute to the building’s narrative of shared stories and reciprocal learning.","students":[{"unikey":"aflo0293","firstName":"Anevay","lastName":"Florizal","fullName":"Anevay Florizal"}]},{"id":"R_9qZJ9Jko3kMbaU7","title":"Interwoven: Where Paths Weave","abstract":"A Centre of Excellence that embodies a physical and metaphorical weave; A living tapestry on Gadigal land, where knowledge, culture, and community are interwined together across time. Translating the traditional practice of weaving into material, form, and spatial rhythm, each programmatic element is carefully positioned and interlaced to encourage the flow of ideas, conversations, and spontaneous encounters. The functions spill from interior to exterior, inviting people into the building and through the site. Ultimately, it is more than a building; it is a woven community, where past, present, and future threads converge in a continual act of learning and belonging.","students":[{"unikey":"jlim2124","firstName":"Jiayi","lastName":"Lim","fullName":"Jiayi Lim"}]},{"id":"R_9qdZCfyxuNGlkeI","title":"Whispering Currents","abstract":"The Newtown Tram Depot, once an immense and silent monument to motion, lingered in abandonment, unsure of itself after utility. Outside, the neighborhood moved with a human rhythm on the streets unfolding, voices drifting, gestures shaping culture over time. The depot watched but could not keep pace. This project proposes its transformation into a public bath house, using water as a phenomenological tool to humanize industrial scale and reconnect architecture with the body. Through droplets, steam, light, and breath, the building is invited to receive stillness and presence. A sanctuary emerges quietly, its reawakening beginning with a single, deliberate ripple.","students":[{"unikey":"vrav0132","firstName":"Vengatesh","lastName":"Ravichandren","fullName":"Vengatesh Ravichandren"}]},{"id":"R_9qf0PW8gJJvMGfQ","title":"Interlocking","abstract":"Traditional wooden carpentry joints are an integral foundation of historical Japanese architecture, melding meticulous craftsmanship through both structural strength with detailed ornamentation. Each individual timber member interconnected embodies an architectural form marrying function and beauty, but this care for artistry has faded over time. This pavilion design for the 2025 Osaka World Expo proposes how the essence of traditional Japanese joineries can continue to be preserved in modern architecture in a simplified manner - essentially the entire building consists of a single repeating three-way bridle joint. The adaptable prefabricated pieces create a flexible systemization unit accommodating a variety of sizes, pattern configurations, and forms. This user-friendly approach to building allows anyone and everyone to be hands-on in the construction process like assembling lego blocks.","students":[{"unikey":"eama7737","firstName":"Emi","lastName":"Amaki","fullName":"Emi Amaki"}]},{"id":"R_9qrtVnW2Br32LGq","title":"Following the Land","abstract":"Following the Land reimagines urban design through Indigenous understandings of movement, belonging, and reciprocity, grounded in Dharug knowledge of the Katoomba region. The project connects ridge and waterway, drawing on traditional gendered spatial practices to create dialogue between protection and care. Through five key methodologies - firebreak walkway, adaptive typology, community spaces, temporary living, and ridge-to-waterway connection - it integrates ecological resilience with cultural continuity. Water-sensitive systems, flexible structures, and seasonal gathering spaces reflect Country as the primary designer, guiding the site’s form and rhythm. The result is a landscape-led framework that balances safety, sustainability, and storytelling through living with, rather than over, the land.","students":[{"unikey":"rdaw7447","firstName":"Ryan","lastName":"Dawson","fullName":"Ryan Dawson"}]},{"id":"R_9qwLJmBja1svuTR","title":"Rights of Water","abstract":"To notice is to engage with the temporal dimensions of place, to understand landscape as process rather than form. At Woggan-ma-gule (Farm Cove), structures are designed for transformation: to flood, to host, to erode. The project repositions the built environment as an instrument of attunement, responsive to the harbour’s shifting boundaries and evolving habitats. Through acts of uncovering and rewilding, it proposes a framework where design and governance occur within time itself, a tidal chamber, a living archive and a biorock jetty, as an evolving negotiation between human and more-than-human systems.","students":[{"unikey":"anxu4838","firstName":"Angela","lastName":"Xu","fullName":"Angela Xu"}]},{"id":"R_9rk0Dm3hqSmCHG4","title":"South Creek Precinct","abstract":"This project aimed to create an alternative to the current master plans for St. Mary's. Our design for the South Creek Precinct aims to reduce flooding, accommodate future housing needs with the new Western Sydney Metro connection, and adopt a lower density approach to harmonise with the neighbourhood's existing character. Large parklands facilitate stormwater treatment and storage, and offset the built form. Influenced by international case studies, the design prioritises unique architectural form and diversity while ensuring the built form sits within the surrounding context. The neighbourhood features WSUD elements and is focused on reducing the impacts of climate change.","students":[{"unikey":"tmcb0379","firstName":"Trevor","lastName":"McBrayne","fullName":"Trevor McBrayne"},{"unikey":"zche5246","firstName":"Sky","lastName":"Chen","fullName":"Sky Chen"},{"unikey":"yixu0315","firstName":"Yifan","lastName":"Xu","fullName":"Yifan Xu"},{"unikey":"yche0387","firstName":"Yang","lastName":"Chen","fullName":"Yang Chen"}]},{"id":"R_9rl6hZZgjqycF31","title":"Between Walls","abstract":"This project begins with what has been forgotten, the closure of international house and the distant journeys students once made to its Belanglo Forest Cabin. Rather than looking elsewhere, the architecture makes space for Country to look in, brick facades are pulled back and returned to the site as boundary walls that let wind, trees and light settle into places of gathering and exchange. By retaining memory embedded in the site’s materials and protecting what is already present, the project forms gentle thresholds between greenspaces and the neighbouring Seymour Centre, inviting care for Country and a remembering of its stories.","students":[{"unikey":"hgoo7024","firstName":"Harper","lastName":"Goodman","fullName":"Harper Goodman"}]},{"id":"R_9sdbffv951Yyime","title":"Everything, Therefore Nothing","abstract":"Camouflage’s condition is not static; to Deleuze and Guattari it is neither a state of connection nor a state of distinction, rather misinterpretation - 'becoming-imperceptible' where boundaries dissolve into the milieu's “abstract lines”. A confectionary cart masquerades, adopting camouflage-as-deterritorialization embedding covert media production/distribution capabilities with the logistical signatures of Glebe Market. Through its materiality, behavior and operational rhythm, the cart performs within 'zones of indiscernibility': hosting ghost-WiFi networks, encoded packaging and micro prints circulating the Resistance’s message, meanwhile subversive of the 'state apparatus'. Reduced to the \"average values\" of its environment, this nomadic device, is everything and nothing simultaneously, “becoming-everybody/everything”.","students":[{"unikey":"twoo0799","firstName":"Thomas","lastName":"Woodthorpe","fullName":"Thomas Woodthorpe"}]},{"id":"R_9siDu03g4aGPqI1","title":"threadways","abstract":"threadways positions the Gadigal Centre of Excellence as a landscape-oriented project shaped by the existing conditions of Gadigal Country. Drawing on Maze Crescent’s contours, desire lines, and native canopy, theatre and learning areas are nurtured naturally from the embedded structures. Rammed earth, trickling light, and outdoor walkways create moments to remind us of the songlines tracing this land. By working with the site, threadways offers an experience where movement, learning, and place remain closely intertwined, encouraging visitors to recognise the land’s influence on how the Gadigal Centre of Excellence is shaped through the Country it inhabits.","students":[{"unikey":"zsak3824","firstName":"Zafi","lastName":"Sakellaris","fullName":"Zafi Sakellaris"}]},{"id":"R_9snb05ygPkJV3T9","title":"Ludus//Paida : play in adaptive reuse","abstract":"The dynamics of games and play range on a spectrum from ‘Paida’ – active, exuberant, and spontaneous - to ‘Ludus’ – calculated, contrived, and subordinate to rules.  Adaptive reuse engages heritage buildings in architectural play, and our choice to adhere to, or reject their established order corresponds with our current cultural perceptions of that fabric.\n\nLudus//Paida explores this spectrum of architectural play-dynamics in the adaptation of Newtown Tram Sheds into a facility for cultural exchange through food. The scheme combines radical and conservative strategies to deliver a space that borrows from established traditions and transforms them into something endemic, and contemporary.","students":[{"unikey":"ngra3150","firstName":"Niamh","lastName":"Graham","fullName":"Niamh Graham"}]},{"id":"R_9swrtZeorKSQZMZ","title":"Nextwave","abstract":"Project “Next Wave” improves the waiting experience by addressing real discomforts faced by commuters in extreme weather. Shaded seating, breathable structure, clear signage, and inclusive features turn waiting into a dignified, comfortable, and accessible experience — not a temporary struggle.\n\nThe shelter also brings environmental and community benefits. Its permeable form minimises heat buildup, while the form soften the structure’s presence within the street. The distinctive roofline and rhythm of repeated modules contribute to a modern, recognisable streetscape that resonates with the identity of Schofields’ growing community.\nThis is not a neutral structure — it’s a positive statement in the public realm.","students":[{"unikey":"zche0245","firstName":"Ziqian","lastName":"Chen","fullName":"Ziqian Chen"},{"unikey":"zwan0645","firstName":"Zhaosen","lastName":"Wang","fullName":"Zhaosen Wang"},{"unikey":"jxue0800","firstName":"Jiaye","lastName":"Xue","fullName":"Jiaye Xue"},{"unikey":"fliu0820","firstName":"Fengyuan","lastName":"Liu","fullName":"Fengyuan Liu"}]},{"id":"R_9szSj0qveZ0HbnH","title":"SLXB","abstract":"Sydney Laboratory for Architecture and Building (SLXB) is a proposal for the adaptive reuse of Marcel Breuer’s Torin Factory in Penrith as an architectural research institute with a focus on building, construction and materiality. The mission of SLXB is to promote architectural research and discourse beyond traditional architectural institutions through fabrication, exhibition and archiving. \n\nSLXB is composed of three zones:\ni. SLAB – Laboratory (fabrication/testing space and material storage)\nii. SLEB – Large scale Exhibition Bridge (climate controlled gallery space)\niii. SLIB – Library (archival storage space, studio space and library)","students":[{"unikey":"ksug0160","firstName":"Keita","lastName":"Sugimoto","fullName":"Keita Sugimoto"}]},{"id":"R_9t8doGwO9sNQ8dr","title":"Tricentennial Diaspora","abstract":"For two centuries, people around the world have immigrated to make home on Country. As newcomers, we inherit a colonial past that undercurrents the love of our home. The Australian bush, beaches and sun draws people of all ethnicities, cultures and religions, outside. For no matter what reason we gather, it is in the harbour of Country that we do. As a speculative love letter to 2088 Australia, Tricentennial Parklands subverts Sydney’s centennial parks through Le Guin’s “Utopiyin, Utopiyang”, proposing what is no longer a park but instead a surrender to Country and celebration of multiculturalism.","students":[{"unikey":"yliu5974","firstName":"Yanchin","lastName":"Liu","fullName":"Yanchin Liu"}]},{"id":"R_9upSKfgyx5Tbp6E","title":"Rydalmere Rivulets","abstract":"Breakwater Studio reimagines Rydalmere as a flood-resilient neighbourhood centre that places Parramatta River at the heart of its design. The masterplan integrates diverse development around the future light rail with enhanced riparian habitats and cultural landscapes. An interconnected blue-green grid features a series of proposed green space, swales, and a mangrove boardwalk encouraging active movement.\n\nKey interventions include a civic centre and library, an activated waterfront with community gardens and swimming pool, north-south green corridors along existing creek lines connecting South Street to the river, and the adaptive reuse of the light industrial zone into a creative hub.","students":[{"unikey":"CPap2092","firstName":"Christopher Evan","lastName":"Papaioannou","fullName":"Christopher Evan Papaioannou"},{"unikey":"lsca6972","firstName":"Lucia","lastName":"Scanlan-Bloor","fullName":"Lucia Scanlan-Bloor"},{"unikey":"lbee0976","firstName":"Lewis","lastName":"Bee","fullName":"Lewis Bee"},{"unikey":"edar4085","firstName":"Elsa","lastName":"Darmalingum","fullName":"Elsa Darmalingum"}]},{"id":"R_9vB1rHy0D6XBFyF","title":"SUKIMA","abstract":"SUKIMA explores the architecture of concealment and revelation, inspired by the hidden lives of the Taira clan after their defeat in the Genpei War. Their quiet resilience and dual existence shape the project’s central concept of the hidden and the seen. Situated within the dense fabric of The Rocks, the design uses thresholds, shadows, and subtle spatial gaps to weave public and private realms together. While offering open spaces for gathering, performance, and community engagement, the project simultaneously creates concealed zones where an exiled community could preserve rituals, identity, and cultural memory.","students":[{"unikey":"cgaz7186","firstName":"Caitlin","lastName":"Gazzard","fullName":"Caitlin Gazzard"}]},{"id":"R_9vaECCXiSnVZ5G9","title":"Groundline","abstract":"Groundline is conceived as an architecture of confluence, where water, land, and community interweave through a continuous spatial and ecological armature. Informed by the accumulated histories embedded within the site, the project advances essential interventions, allowing the ground’s inherent rhythms to remain legible. A bioswale operates as an organising spine, treating water as a shaping intelligence and a cultural thread that unifies movement, program, and landscape. By amplifying the site’s existing logics, the design cultivates conditions for learning, gathering, and reflection. Groundline proposes an adaptive, open-ended, and receptive framework, through which Country’s presence can be sensed, engaged, and continually reinterpreted.","students":[{"unikey":"asha3747","firstName":"Anoushka","lastName":"Shah","fullName":"Anoushka Shah"}]},{"id":"R_9vbGmfSr110g9DH","title":"Interwoven","abstract":"The Gadigal Centre of Excellence is envisioned as a breathable sanctuary, where architecture becomes a mediating layer between campus life and Country. Anchored by existing trees and open landscape, it forms a sensory threshold that transforms a harsh edge into a place of reflection and renewal. A porous mesh skin filters light, air, and sound, while rammed earth walls ground the building. Circulation weaves through exhibitions, interstitial galleries, and protective auditorium walls, rising toward teaching spaces aligned with the ridge, where sky and ground meet to foster cultural exchange and deeper belonging for all who gather here.","students":[{"unikey":"sgup5995","firstName":"Sudipti","lastName":"Gupta","fullName":"Sudipti Gupta"}]},{"id":"R_9wbrfixYA0JEagf","title":"The Island","abstract":"The pavilion forms part of the Floating Island thesis that reinterprets Metabolism thinking for contemporary conditions of mobility, uncertainty, and develops a dual-mode floating settlement capable of operating as a civic environment in everyday life and transforming into a resilient refuge during emergencies. A modular pentagonal megastructure allows the pavilion to grow and expand. Visitors move through three capsules—Old, Liminality, and New—each defined by distinct material atmospheres: timber lattice with Shoji screen, shimmering mirror fragments, and CLT panels. This spatial sequence expresses a journey of transformation, inviting visitors to experience the transition between memory, displacement, and new belonging.","students":[{"unikey":"yzha0236","firstName":"Yue","lastName":"Zhang","fullName":"Yue Zhang"}]},{"id":"R_9whpVkmb1YMUAuZ","title":"Roots of Belonging","abstract":"My design for the Clairvaux Cultural and Community Centre, Roots of Belonging, focuses on creating a series of timeless and sustainable spaces that maintain a strong connection to Country. Guided by insights shared by local Elders, the community centre has been designed for both current and future generations. Four design pillars – regeneration, continuity, connection, and creativity, also guided many of the design decisions that were made throughout the project. Each of the spaces were carefully designed to foster a sense of belonging and connection through thoughtful spatial organisation, engagement with the natural environment, and the integration of sustainable practices.","students":[{"unikey":"hben9857","firstName":"Holly","lastName":"Bence","fullName":"Holly Bence"}]},{"id":"R_9wnVoQ1mg7qmWKw","title":"Inhabiting the In-between","abstract":"This process began with a collaborative Counter Map reflecting on our journey to Katoomba capturing its layered colonial history and subsequent fragmented built environment. Recognising the need for change my design engages with the Connecting to Country framework, acknowledging that a truly Country-centred design is unattainable without listening to Country. Thus, I focused on creating indirect behaviours that encourage users to be intentional with their movement through Country to invite meaningful, ongoing engagement with it. This was explored through connecting pathways across the site that leads users to pause as changes in height and material reimagined a traditional walkway experience.","students":[{"unikey":"Alev2338","firstName":"Alia","lastName":"Levi","fullName":"Alia Levi"}]},{"id":"R_9wt5k53mtSbPIWx","title":"Mumate","abstract":"Mumate is a financial planning app designed for single mothers during solo-parenting transition, simplifying complex money management into clear, guided steps. It features Budget Analysis, Reflection Report, and Goals to help users track income, expenses, and savings progress. With child profiles, bill reminders, and visual reports, Mumate makes financial planning intuitive and less stress. Focused on privacy, trust, and emotional support, it empowers single mothers to build confidence, develop healthy financial habits, and achieve long-term stability.","students":[{"unikey":"jchi4632","firstName":"mabel","lastName":"chi","fullName":"mabel chi"},{"unikey":"shhu2383","firstName":"Hellen","lastName":"Hu","fullName":"Hellen Hu"},{"unikey":"mwan6334","firstName":"Mia","lastName":"Wang","fullName":"Mia Wang"},{"unikey":"jhua5598","firstName":"Kevin","lastName":"Huang","fullName":"Kevin Huang"},{"unikey":"ydin2688","firstName":"Daisy","lastName":"Ding","fullName":"Daisy Ding"}]},{"id":"R_9yItl3w3CidoKgF","title":"Seven Generations","abstract":"Taking the Indigenous concept \"Designing for Seven Generations\", this urban renewal project interlinks human and non-human inhabitants. This harmony is extended to unite the past, present and future of the site, inviting change and preserving natural character.","students":[{"unikey":"eand2036","firstName":"Eve","lastName":"Andersonrayner","fullName":"Eve Andersonrayner"}]},{"id":"R_9z8PmsGvV1B391H","title":"(RE)FRAMING","abstract":"(RE)FRAMING is an adaptive-reuse project designed upon the existing International House site, aiming to celebrate Indigenous weaving and the act of seeing architecture anew. The once-colonial structure becomes a place of dialogue, where subtle shifts in orientation, light, and enclosure open new cultural readings of the site. Woven shading elements reinterpret traditional weaving practices, grounding the building in Country and expressing reciprocity and connection. Reassembled brick lattices, new roof forms, and chimneys of light soften the rigid modernist grid weaving a narrative of relationships between people, material, and place inviting renewed ways of gathering and understanding upon Gadigal land.","students":[{"unikey":"AMOS6873","firstName":"Gus","lastName":"Moses","fullName":"Gus Moses"}]},{"id":"R_9wgUQLeqno4m5xL","title":"THE UNDERCURRENTS","abstract":"This project recalls the lost hydrology and layered histories of Blackwattle Creek, a tidal watercourse that once flowed through the grounds of the University of Sydney. Drawing from counter-mapping, Indigenous custodianship, and the presence of stone artefacts found on campus, the design repositions the site as a place of memory and renewal. A zigzag ground plane evokes the slowed rhythm of a creek, while rammed earth and porous stone walls anchor the building to Country. Through principles of layering, circular ecology, and porosity, the project reconnects land, water, and culture, revealing what urbanisation has long overlooked.","students":[{"unikey":"ccha7052","firstName":"Carly","lastName":"Chan","fullName":"Carly Chan"}]},{"id":"dsus8821","title":"Between Land & Sky","abstract":"Between Land & Sky is a cultural and learning place shaped by the stories and movement of Gadigal Country. The design aims to reconnect historic pathways with contemporary circulation, weaving a central thread that guides people through light-filled courtyards and curved forms that soften shadows, opening up to Sky Country. Rammed earth, timber, and native vegetation root the project in Place, allowing the architecture to rest lightly on Country, inviting reflection, gathering, and learning. Through its elevated lookouts, gentle transitions, and grounded materiallity, the project offers a space that honours history, community, and celebrates the relationship between land, light, and culture.","students":[{"unikey":"dsus8821","firstName":"Dylan","lastName":"Susanto","fullName":"Dylan Susanto"}]},{"id":"qlyu5174","title":"ATMOSPHERE, GROUND, and CULTURE IN RECIPROCITY","abstract":"Katoomba's atmosphere shapes the project. Fog, smoke, filtered light and shifting wind create conditions where edges soften and movement becomes layered. This environmental rhythm sets the foundation for the precinct's spatial character. Care, gathering and respectful separation inform how spaces open, compress and reconnect, forming a sequence shaped by Country rather than imposed on it. The massing follows landform, thresholds remain porous, and each node is tuned to cultural presence and everyday use. Together, these relationships create a civic landscape where atmosphere, ground, and culture operate in reciprocity","students":[{"unikey":"qlyu5174","firstName":"Athena","lastName":"Lyu","fullName":"Athena Lyu"}]}]
Yass emerges as a powerful interchange nexus: linking Melbourne and Sydney by high-speed rail, unlocking regional growth, strengthening connections to Canberra and the Central West, and ultimately, to Australia.
YASS!!! HSR Interchange

Jeremy Huey Leong, Eunice Wong, Long (Ashley) Lin, Ryan Tong, Thuy An Nguyen
MUD/MU
CareConnect

Roy Cai, Raghu Mina, Ada Chen, Shuang Hu
MDes
Nibble

Alyssa Wright, Ann Chang, Sayu Ariani, Alice Li
BDesComp
Spodo

Leana Han, Somya Talwar, Jolene Galloway, Glenn Hui, Renee Wong
BDesComp
Honouring the Past, Sustaining the Future
Clairvaux Renewal

Jasmine Small
BAE
View from the Watchtower looking back on Woggan-ma-gule (Farm Cove), framing the Parliament House, Living Archive, and rewilded archipelago as a shifting sequence shaped by water and time.
Award Winner
Rights of Water

Angela Xu
MArch
Mumate

mabel chi, Hellen Hu, Mia Wang, Kevin Huang, Daisy Ding
BDesComp
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