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A place to engage with, learn from, and experience Country.

Living Country, Living Culture

Ilankumaran Murugappan
BDesArch
The protective underbelly of the extruded theatre is the main gathering place, a refuge looking out over the native garden and sheltering the outdoor amphitheatre within vertical concrete spines.

Common Ground

Dena Rubinstein
BDesArch
Final model of RESONANCE, expressing how sound, memory, and movement shape space. Meandering forms invite reflection and connection to Country, allowing past and present voices to coexist and converge.

RESONANCE

Arya Siddique
BDesArch
Arrival from City Road occurs through Country itself. Gadigal landscape forms a living threshold that opens International House to story and renewal.

The Gadigal Centre of Excellence

Cindy Li
BDesArch

Memory Threads

Serena Yu
BDesArch
Award Winner

Absence & Presence

Cindy Wang
BDesArch
Gathering in the understorey of the Casuarina tree

Understorey

Lucy Robertson
BDesArch
The façade is quiet and translucent, with polycarbonate and recycled brick creating a muted backdrop. It softens the building’s presence, allowing the landscape and stories within to come forward.

My Centre

Dirsten Jude Pornel
BDesArch

Walking on Country

Jessica Halim
BDesArch

Tracing The Landscape

Ella Dickey
BDesArch

Narrative Networks

Nancy Huang
BDesArch
View from City Road

CONFLUENCE

Thomas Smark
BDesArch

fossil

Bridget Annand
BDesArch
The exterior facade catches the first warmth of the sun, its surfaces shifting with colour and time. Openings glow from within, like ripples of light across dark water.

Becoming Water

Devina Putri Setiawati
BDesArch
Charred timber, filtered light, and soft landscape contours revive a once-colonial edge. The building opens to Country, framing green space and inviting renewal through shadow, structure, and land.

Gadigal Centre of Excellence

Zhaoxi Lin
BDesArch
The exterior of the building exists harmoniously with the existing architectural landscape and is formed with local, sustainable materials. Perforated edges create a seamless conversation between inside and outside.

Threads of Country

Sophie Baker
BDesArch

As the Rain Comes In

Cheng Cheng
BDesArch

Re-cover

Jedda Ayling
BDesArch
1:100 Model

Fractured Grounds

Frances Monaghan
BDesArch
1:500 site model, an extension of the existing site, deepens the monolithic typologies

Turning ground

Crystal Wan
BDesArch
As water migrates through the landscape, the water pools and becomes stagnant in lakes and reservoirs, known as ‘Stay-A-While’ places. These become spaces for communities to gather, reflect, and celebrate.

Stay A While

Arnav Gupta
BDesArch

GRASS [ROOTS]

Anusha Klair
BDesArch
Axonometric Drawing of Site

Layers of Softness

Jene, Cheuk Yan Woo
BDesArch

Earth, Sky & Inbetween

Juliana Yan
BDesArch

The Gadigal Centre of Excellence

Dylan Marvel
BDesArch
Circular time is tied closely to nature. Although it is winter, spring will come again, just as it once did. Everything has happened, and will happen again.

Solace

Sophia Yong Zhi Ang
BDesArch
A passage carved by water, terraces descending, columns rising, and the horizon held gently between them.

Current

Nishtha Devnani
BDesArch
Students gather along ground terraces shaped by the former creek, walking and dipping their legs into the water in summer as the internal street becomes an informal shared learning landscape.

Restoring Water Country

Jiwon Lee
BDesArch

Traces of Fire

May Xuemei Ding
BDesArch

Gadigal Centre

Claudia Drinnan
BDesArch

House of Nations

Jhunhei Chen
BDesArch

A Changing Picture

Areeha Nasir
BDesArch

The Weight of Knowledge, the Lightness of Exchange

Josephine Perry
BDesArch

Living Material Bank

Jessie Massoud
BDesArch

Craft of Weaving

Mei-En Metzger
BDesArch

Carving Space

Vishwa Trivedi
BDesArch
Perspective section, viewed from Cadigal Green

On Common Ground

Tiffany Yuan
BDesArch
1:100 Model and 1:40 Sectional Model

Gadigal Centre of Excellence

Lily Garratt
BDesArch

Gadigal centre of excelence

Aadityaa Maniar
BDesArch
Perspective Section

The Space Between

Daena Madon
BDesArch
An avenue of arched trees, an outdoor space that invite conversation and connection.

Arched Avenue

Megan Boyce
BDesArch
Exterior Perspective Drawing | View from Butlin Avenue

The Land Resounds

Angela Sassine
BDesArch

Susurrus

Sophia Zhang
BDesArch

Nangami

Yejoo Sin
BDesArch
Cutting International House, Creating Channels of Belonging

Cutting International House

Jake Bertram
BDesArch
The Centre is envisioned as a place of confluence, allowing celebration of diverse stories, fostering Indigenous education and leadership, and creating spaces for cultural exchange, listening, and community belonging.

Centre of Excellence

Katherine Myrizas
BDesArch

Connecting Voids

Moses Chan
BDesArch

With the Land

Amal Alsalhi
BDesArch
Gadigal Centre of Excellence - A Time in Place, A Place in Time Exterior Visualisation - From Parramatta Road Entry viewing the Eastern Facade

Time In Place

Alex Reeks
BDesArch
Ground Floor Plan

Dappled Narratives

Sophie Davis
BDesArch

Threads of Coexistence

Jacqueline Chen
BDesArch

Free Flow

Sibelle Altiparmak
BDesArch

On Gadigal Ground

Grace He
BDesArch
Birds Eye view

Birrawung: Common Grounds

Vivien Phan
BDesArch
The cover render reveals the building’s renewed life: parasitic forms emerging from the existing structure, opening toward Victoria Park and the city. Light, movement, and gathering define its cultural presence.

Metastasis

Marcus Tse
BDesArch

The Waterline

Muskan Arora
BDesArch

'Where we Meet'

Ashlee Beneke
BDesArch

The Remnant Basin

Noshin Nowar Ahona
BDesArch

Formed From Earth

Daniel Maio
BDesArch
Intersections

Intersections

Maria Al Kousi
BDesArch
Handcut balsa and watercolour paper

Textures of Place

Jessica Tyzack
BDesArch
The buildings themselves are drawn from Country. Bricks from Enfield Brickworks are reused – forming connected, interwoven spaces that strengthen relationships and sustain dialogue between people and place.

Gadigal Community Centre

Harry Olivier Twyford Hutchinson
BDesArch

Interconnected Cycles

Vanessa Wei
BDesArch

Living Water, Living Knowledge

Marissa Yeung
BDesArch
1:200 Physical Model

Gadigal Centre of Excellence

Gordon Huang
BDesArch
The healing amphitheatre weaves Indigenous garden beds throughout its stepped form, restoring local ecosystems while offering a calming, nature-immersed space for cultural gathering, reflection, storytelling, and community healing.

Gadi Place

Charlotte Yan
BDesArch
The circular outdoor amphitheatre with pinholes allow light to flow underground into the indoor performance space during the day. At night, interior light radiates outward, signaling activity below.

Moon meets Shore

Chloe Jan
BDesArch
Building Render; View from Victoria Park

Ngarala: Learning Together

Alan Lu
BDesArch

Maze Crescere Centre

David Kim
BDesArch
Interior Perspective

Common Ground

Alexandra Trapanese
BDesArch

Everywhen

Lucinda Mann
BDesArch
The auditorium as yarning circle.

Gadigal Centre of Excellence

Georgina Cooke
BDesArch

Gadigal Centre

Tina Rota
BDesArch
Façade render from Parramatta Road

Interchange

Regan obrien
BDesArch
Disorientation and the Illusion of Certainty

Disorientation

Wanyi Lai
BDesArch

The Gadigal Gateway

Emily Hornby
BDesArch

Architecture as Ceremony

Donovan Ryan
BDesArch

The Tide Returns

Natalie Kim
BDesArch

Excellence Gadigal Centre

Zi Wang
BDesArch
A stream encircles the Storytelling Hub, weaving around its edges and creating a dynamic relationship between the built and natural realm

Interwoven

Alessia Gallimore
BDesArch

Woven by Water

Hermes, Chun Yan Wong
BDesArch
The weight of the Earth building contrasts the light, floating form of the Sky building above. The cast concrete Water reflection pavilion invites exploration.

Interconnection

Eden King
BDesArch

Nganaga Centre

Leo Bong
BDesArch

P R E S E N C E O F A B S E N C E

James Nguyen
BDesArch

Between Two Trees

Leanne Zhu
BDesArch
Mapping historic Indigenous ridgelines and gathering sites reveals the cultural pathways that shape this project, reconnecting Country through contours, movement, and stories embedded within the landscape.

Gathering Lines

Grace Bong
BDesArch

Second Ground

Deedee White
BDesArch
The exterior forms hold a stillness, allowing the courtyard between them to breathe, carry sound, and welcome community in.

Gadigal Community Centre

Izzy Sun
BDesArch
Resonance with Water, Acknowledging Indigenous Excellence.

Rooted in Resonance

Veronica Edge
BDesArch
Mari Giba Centre, Night

Mari Giba Centre

Luke Kupka
BDesArch

Nura

Anevay Florizal
BDesArch

Interwoven: Where Paths Weave

Jiayi Lim
BDesArch

Between Walls

Harper Goodman
BDesArch
Exterior view from Gadigal Green.

threadways

Zafi Sakellaris
BDesArch

Groundline

Anoushka Shah
BDesArch

Interwoven

Sudipti Gupta
BDesArch

(RE)FRAMING

Gus Moses
BDesArch
section cut model

THE UNDERCURRENTS

Carly Chan
BDesArch
TThis perspective section slices through the amphitheatre, library, and gallery to show the core of the project. These spaces bring together learning, culture, and history, creating moments for gathering, reflection, and shared understanding.

Between Land & Sky

Dylan Susanto
BDesArch