Designed whilst at dKO Architecture.

Too often we become engulfed in routine. We wake up and routine begins. We train and tram even though it’s less hassle to walk that last bit to work. We would rather sit than stand.  It is a shame that we are predominately sedentary and inactive in a city that has so much to offer.

Fast Track proposes a re-stimulation for physical activity, a new starting point for Melbournians. We have become too serious, too overwhelmed with work and life to enjoy the little spontaneous moments that change how we feel.  Melbournians have forgotten how to see the city as a place to explore.

Fast Track plays upon the yellow fin-shaped balustrade in evolving them into painted graphical arrows, whilst a flying fox soars overhead. The steel structure is embedded as a part of the bridge by integrating existing elements that flow from Southern Cross Station to the Docklands. It aims to lure a simple change in routine and ignites a spark of physical activity within Melbournians, allowing them to fly down Collins Street Bridge. The proposal invites greater activity for pedestrians traveling between Southern Cross Station, Central Melbourne and the Docklands but predominantly encourages a sense of fun.

Designed whilst at dKO Architecture.

Waste value is a proposal for a transient living unit – or ‘architectural organism’ – that emerged through an exploration of environmental pollution accompanied by architecture as an organism and speculative utopias in architecture.

Waste value enacts a productive collision of house and garbage truck. Retaining its function of garbage collection, it also functions as a mobile home, aiming to reconfigure domestic spatial experience into a truck-house-organism in which movements of waste and pollution become
inherent to a pattern of living.

This architectural organism, much like the living body, processes material and brings to life the act of recycling.

Each Waste value unit is part of a functional social network, proposing a way of living as part of larger system of such ‘architectural organisms’.

While speculating upon a radical possibility for living, the units are derived from recycled materials that would normally go to landfill.

Awarded
‘The Antonia Bruns Prize’
Shortlisted
‘Woodhead Graduate Prize’

Designed whilst at dKO Architecture.

Designed whilst at dKO Architecture.

Styled whilst at dKO Architecture.

Designed whilst at dKO Architecture.

After working with Koko Black for many years now, it has been an exciting step forward in providing a new look for the brand. The palette is dark and exquisite. 

Designed whilst at dKO Architecture.

Bus Projects Gallery space in Collingwood during construction.