USYD Architecture, Design and Planning Graduate Exhibition 2025

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Building Render; View from Victoria Park

This project aims to engage in deep dialogue with the site by manipulating existing structure and landscape features, working with greenery and interlocking spaces to permeate the interior and exterior.

Photorealistic Render of the Theatre; operable stage screen allows the performance to visually connect with the centre of the rotunda pavilion.

Sectional Axonometric Diagram

Internal Floor View - Level 6 Southside

Sectional Perspective

Ngarala: Learning Together

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.

Ngarala: Learning Together