USYD Architecture, Design and Planning Graduate Exhibition 2025

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Mari Giba Centre, Night

Mari Giba Centre, Parramatta Rd

Mari Giba Centre, Concert Hall

Model

Mari Giba Centre

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. With 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.

Mari Giba Centre