'CITY TRANSLATIONS' ---- Mike Thomas

'CITY TRANSLATIONS' SLA Final Model ---- Mike Thomas

Folper : Melbourne Opera House Video

Folper : Melbourne Opera House

Folper : Folding as Performance Space, The Melbourne Opera House

The one thing that drives urban and economic growth in the cities of the future is creativity, imagination, experimentation and appreciation of difference – can all be found in the arts. The creative industries make an enormous contribution to Victoria’s knowledge economy. These industries model creative thinking, stimulate imagination and create a dynamic environment that is attractive to business, residents and tourists.

Despite all the built cultural capital assets, none of which was directed towards housing an Opera House within Melbourne. With funding for Opera Australia at the second highest (below orchestra and music) it is only essential that Melbourne establish its own Opera House, and to further strengthen the role of Melbourne as the leading innovative and creative city in Australia.

This project aims to explore the potential of giving the people more opportunity to experience the Melbourne arts scene, with its very own Melbourne Opera House, instead of the relying on the scattered venues.

Using folding as a generative process in architectural design as an experiment, to formulate the formal outcome of the Opera; a non-linear and bottom up approach to design.

Saving the Great Barrier Reefs Phillip Cheung

This Thesis proposes an intervention on the extinction of the great barriers reef predicted in 2050. To build a nomadic floating structure to rehabilitate damage coral areas within the great barrier reefs. the Key features of the building will be to:

· Research on climate change, pollution, and overfishing.

· Rehabilitate marine life, coral, and mammal with in Great Barrier Reef.

· Educate the general public on the importance the reef to Australia and the world.

Animation link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBUykEK6qXQ

SLA Model Phillip Chueng

Prominent Hill Habitat

Final Animation Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7lw-lAvoXY

This thesis proposes a new typology for the workforce and family of the pending Prominent Hill underground mine in outback South Australia. The problems associated with the 'fly-in fly-out' mining protocol that this thesis is responding to can be categorised as follows:

1. Social/physical health impact on miners

2. Impact on partner/family relationships

3. Impact on towns supporting mining villages

The architectural solution will endeavour to redefine the current lifestyle of the FIFO miner by providing a new type of semi-permanent living community on site, for both miners and their immediate family. The proposed brief will inject social, institutional, private, service and agricultural programme into the site to facilitate the growth of a new sustainable living habitat.

Prominent Hill Habitat