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Architecture of Exile

MArch

Reimagine the Argyle Stairs as a space of dignity in displacement, exploring how architecture can honour memory, identity, and belonging after loss.

The heart of the project captures a moment where play overcomes exile, and a community gathers to reclaim joy, visibility, and belonging.
Perspective view of Argyle Street showing the rehabilitated Switch House and re-facadedArgyle Railway Substation, with newly introduced multi-directional pedestrian connectionsintegrated into the existing urban fabric.

Archive Party

MArch

This studio begins with the objects within an architecture museum and aims to celebrate the archives and collections as a foundational and integral part of an architecture museum.

The project merges museum and aquatic centre, connecting two distinct yet thematically linked functions, making aquatic culture simultaneously experiential in its live and curated form.
A 1:100 sectional model presenting the design as an ensemble of architectural characters, each element contributing a distinct spatial, structural, or material role within the museum’s overall composition.
The new Parlour extension uses curtains to shape flexible, dynamic spaces for conversations and events, positioning SAM + The Parlour as a central archive and advocacy centre celebrating women’s architectural contributions.

Art, Instruments, Communication and Public Space

MArch

A design studio exploring art and architecture as instruments in public space, set in Auburn.

Coloured polycarbonate panels on the façade echo the vibrant costumes and props of Auburn’s cultural dances, offering glimpses of movement and transforming the building into a living archive of memory, energy, and performance.
External Image - A textured, protruding brick facade acting as a draped textile cloaking the building, subtly nodding to the brick textile factories of Western Sydney's industrial past.

Foreign Affairs

MArch

In 2022, Indonesia started construction of its new capital city, Nusantara, on the island of Kalimantan.

Connected eaves guide the movement of the gaze, creating a gentle visual flow that frames spaces, links Madang, and draws visitors effortlessly through the architectural sequence.
Embassy building - Rain render - generated via Lumion

Head Place

MArch

Explore how regenerative architecture can support youth mental health through speculative design for Headspace at the University of Sydney.

Axonometric - Proposed Healthcare Centre for Headspace, positioned within the site of International House, City Road.
Rotunda art therapy hub render: a calming, circular sanctuary that integrates light, texture, and nature, supporting creative expression, collective healing, and sensory engagement through open, adaptable art therapy spaces.
View on site approach focusing on the streetscape view during early morning from Eastern Avenue, highlighting building materiality, skin transparency and overall lightweight structure.

Liquid Parliament

MArch

Sited at Wahganmuggalee/Farm Cove, one of Sydney's most complex waterfronts, the studio challenges participants to design a Water Council: a new civic institution where the governance of water, climate adaptation, and collective stewardship are made spatially and culturally explicit.

In Water Commons, as people move through series of mediation chambers, each shaped by a different encounter with water, new ways of living with rising sea begin to take form.
Farm Cove seawall 2500
External Render of Marine Science Campus

Newtown Tram Depot Redux

MArch

Reimagine the abandoned Newtown Tram Depot as a flexible cultural hub using play as a design method for community transformation.

Rather than impose use, the architecture focuses on the cultivation of conditions.The project works through two complementary spatial logics. Anchors and fields. Together they organise the Depot as a relational framework.
Render. A vertical tension between suspended walkways, staircases and a new natural terraim.The former tram depot is to exist in a constant state of flux, promoting experimentation over static preservation.
Within the depot’s quiet shell, the first environment intertwines with structure. Unfolding crates rise as a scaffold for shared play, recasting the depot as a living terrain of participation.
The depot’s saw-tooth geometry is reinterpreted as a spatial device. Triangular handrails and partitions mimicking the original structure, guiding circulation and producing tactile interactions that weave the historical memory with contemporary use.

Head Place – Moore Park Precinct

MArch

Explore how regenerative architecture can support youth mental health through speculative design for Headspace in Moore Park.

The centre offers its first glimpse through the waiting area that opens into a central courtyard, which is a vibrant social hub for interactions, play, community events, and workshops.
Lounge room – Space of Uncertainty, at the centre of self-discovery journey, offers moments of pause, introspection capturing the tension between internal struggle and emerging awareness in ever-changing natural elements.

Structure and Expression

MArch

Is a building’s structural system purely the remit of the engineering team, a ‘necessary evil’ of applied technology, which allows the architectural forms and façade materials to remain intact?

Subaltern Sydney

MArch

Set in Sydney’s historic centre, adjacent to civic and commercial power, the project proposes the temporary reoccupation of a central public site.

Axo
Legibility Politics and Indigenous Urban Public Space Identity: Pocket Space

Summer All Over the World: Designing for Coolth

MArch

The Summer All Over the World: Designing for Coolth explores how architecture can respond to rising global temperatures and the growing scarcity of public spaces that offer refuge from extreme heat.

Employing "softness" via flexible shading and boundaries, this Homebush centre functions as an adaptable cooling refuge and social hub, connecting the diverse community through responsive, breathable, and caring architecture.

Switch Box

MArch

The project also integrates supporting spaces such as an atelier/workshop/darkroom, reference library or archive, gallery or exhibition space, a bathroom, kitchen, ensuring the intervention remains both conceptually rich and practically grounded.

Type Dissolution 5: Sectional Axonometric
The candle shimmers through the absence of light, drawing out a quiet presence that settles on brick and air, letting memory surface as the small flame walks gently toward stillness.
The Healing Community Centre and Youth Accommodation is designed with the belief that architecture can surpass shelter to support trauma recovery, offering spaces that nurture stability, dignity, and healing.

The Arcades Project

MArch

Reimagine Sydney's forgotten suburban retail arcades as hybrid cultural and commercial centres that honour memory and serve diverse communities.

Programmatic zoning separates exercise courts, contemplative gardens and exhibition plazas, supported by universal access, microclimate planting and solar-powered lighting, enabling intergenerational rituals,cultural storytelling and safe occupation from day into night

Tomorrow, When the War Began

MArch

So what do we do today to prepare for tomorrow?

All elements in action. Marshal patrol route, intervention, human surveillance, and the operation of the Glebe Markets.
Both Prototypes
Just any other "palm reader."

Your Own Briefs

MArch

Pursue deeply personal, research-based design projects developed from self-authored architectural briefs that explore spatial questions of passion and care.

paintings of daily habits, oil on canvas paper sleeping, dressing, owning, breastfeeding, changing nappies, focusing, resting, unpacking, repacking, bathing, brushing, washing, soaking, drying, tidying, organizing, practicing, pleasuring, defining, being, having…
normalcy beyond diagnosis
External image
Architectural visualisation, Bidgee Bidgee under-croft, Rosehill.