MASH Project (Model)

Exterior view of the Cafe Courtyard - space encourages staff & public to interact with one another from all levels & departments.

Rear end view of the building exterior - view from the public carpark (showing all 3 levels.)

Exterior view from the street corner - Graphics Design Co. (showing only 2 levels)

MASH Project - a synergistic 'hub' of ideas

The above 3 images are the final presentation boards for my proposal of the Mash Project. The brief required the redesigning of a multi-level business complex that inhabited a 'Mash' of synergistic tenants. My tenants comprised of a Cafe, Events & Function Co-ordinators, Graphic Design Company and a Dental Spa. My rationale for chosing these tenants derived from scrutinisingly allocating each tenant an Element; (Cafe = Air, Events & Functions Co = Fire, Graphic Design Co = Metal, Dental Spa = Water, Circulation Space = Earth.) From here, with the analysis of each of the individual elements I was able to explore the possibilities of having a synergistic hub of tenants that functioned like a natural organism.

Library Design - the emerging 'body of knowledge'

The intention of this Library Project was to provoke the notion of the virtual "third" dimension. I wanted to create a temporary space where the virtual and the real could exist as a body of knowledge. I was also intrigued by the idea of association-location, where the books could be found according to what anatomical association it had.

The stairway leading up the exterior 'skin' of the body was intended as a place of retreat. Directly below is the Womb, where the Childrens Learning Area would exist.


With the human form covered in a semi-transparent kevlar fabric, the body would appear from the exterior as a large skeletal mass. At night it would emerge as a glowing monument, as a protector and projector of knowledge.