On the Board:
Designing a forever home on a narrow urban site
Narrow sites are a challenge particularly when considering local council setbacks and height envelopes.
Working closely with our client we have exploited a gentle fall across the site to reduce amenity impact to neighbours and sculpted our brief into an engaging flow of spaces.
Bargoonga Naganjin
North Fitzroy Library and Community Hub
(Principal designer and project architect while working for Group GSA)
What stands out as different in this project is beyond the built result, was the length and consideration that went in to the community consultation process led by the City of Yarra. Many lessons were learnt and taken to heart during consultation, to be used again to great effect on similar, but shorter consultations to follow.
With practically a North point as a site footprint, whatever was built here would be architecturally prominent as St George’s Rd cuts a slim angle through the local urban grid. We channelled our North Fitzroy introduction to Melbourne to craft a response that resonated with the spirit of the area while incorporating Universal access and Environmental sustainability as our design cornerstones.
The entire journey from concept to documentation was modelled in 3d (ArchiCad). 3d renders were crucial to our stakeholder communication. When it came to seeing the building finally come into reality was like seeing an imaginary friend come to life.
Artificial Intelligence for Creatives
AI is making a significant impact on the creative world, but what is it and how should we use it?
As a creative foil for ideas, it is a gold mine but it brings up many important questions:
What has the neural net you area using been trained on or for and how does this influence the outputs?
Will this lead to an echo chamber of derivative or convergent design?
Join us on the journey. There is power here but we must use it wisely.
Blog post: We need to talk about AI. …Now
Background image created using Stable Diffusion, Stylistic references - none. Art direction and curation by Alex Marfleet.