josh bucknall - architecture folio 2014
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Selected ProjectsTRANSCRIPT
ARCHITECTURE FOLIO/2014
JOSH BUCKNALL
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x. Civic Arm Plans (Borderline Alien)
PROJECT INDEX
ABOUT
EDUCATION EXPERIENCE
001/ BORDERLINE ALIEN
002/ HARPO HAIR
003/ MALIGNED ICONIC
004/ BATTEN
I am a young Graduate Architect from Melbourne, Aus-tralia. My interests have always focused on questions of the everyday, of the local and of an architecture suited to the context and lives of those that inhabit the site.
During the last two years of study I worked part time for a small design and development fi rm before shift-ing into a full time role post graduation in 2013. Pro-jects were predominately small scale residential, mul-ti unit development and commercial fi t-outs. These projects centred around the inner city and suburbs of Melbourne and required a nuanced and rigorous un-derstanding of local planning, heritage and building regulations. Working within a small team allowed me to quickly gain experience and responsibilty in all phases of each project.
During 2013 I also completed a number of jobs inde-pendently.
2009 - 2012 RMIT, Melbourne Master of Architectural Design with Distinction 2007 - 2009 RMIT, Melbourne
Bachelor of Architectural Design with Distinction 1995 - 2006 BGS, Melbourne
Completed VCE
2010 - 2013
Homeworks Design
2013
Independent Projects
- Albert Park Extension (in construction)
- Harpo Hair Salon (completed)
- Hampton Extension (Design Stage)
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BORDERLINE ALIEN
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x. Pub/Police Tower and Housing Arm
Moranbah Mining Machine
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Moranbah is a single purpose coal mining town in central Queensland. Built in the 1960’s, the town has undergone a latent reconfi guration and den-sifi cation of both the social and built fabric. These shifts are refl ections of broader alterations to the operation of the mining industry.
Namely a shift from a permanent workforce to a transient fl y-in fl y-out one. Compiled with the cur-rent boom, Moranbah has become unrecognisable as an insular rural town and with rents at $3400 a week it is the most expensive town in Queensland. Anything or anyone non essential to mining has been stripped out, both expanding under the re-sources boom and contracting into the prescribed annals of a set workforce of young men. Moranbah is a drive-thru masquerading as a town. A suburban husk propped by larger industry and fi lled with men treading water. These are the bor-derline aliens. The project responds with a liv-ing apparatus for FIFO workers, consisting of the following: housing, police station, boxing gym, swimming pool, pub, cricket club, football oval, and community hall. The apparatus is fi tted to the shopping centre; the towns current civic heart and is an attempt to both humanise the FIFO experi-ence as well as orientate the town. The language is drawn from recognisable elements placed and expanded within the strange context of the town with the hope of generating a civic response that is both familiar and alien.
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x. Mining Diagram
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x. Pub
x. Community Hall
x. Cellar
x. Cricket Pitch + Nets
x. Gym
x. Running Track
x. Bathrooms
x. Library
x. Swimming Pool
x. Football Oval
x. Police Station
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x. Civic Arm Axonometric
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x. Pub & Workers Hall
x. Cross Section
x. Long Section
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x. Swimming Pool & Pub
The housing arm proposes a reworking of the current donga housing solution for FIFO (fl y-in-fl y-out) workers. The whole arm was suspended over a new arterial route from the highway to the centre of town. This allowed workers to move in and out of town with their shifts. It also referenced the predominant housing typology in town - the queenslander. This typology allows for free move-ment of air and the units were suitably orientated to take advantage of the prevailing site winds.
The units were split into two variations. A 1 man donga with car park and a 4 man “hotbed” donga with two rooms and shared communal space. This was a response to the existing practise of workers sharing single beds on alternating shifts. It utilised a lockable bunk system to offer some relief from the temporary state of their housing while still en-gaging with the reality of industry practise.
x. 1 man donga
x. Cross Sectionx. Ground Floor Plan
x. Housing Arm
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HOUSING ARM
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HARPO HAIR
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This project involved the fi t-out of a new hair sa-lon in Melbourne. The budget was tight and a few simple moves were pursued.
3 plywood elements were inserted into the space. A pair of blocks to form a front desk/servery and larger pitched storage to form a back of house/treatment area. The back of house preserves ac-cess to a row of highlight windows, These provide critical natural light and ventilation within the nar-row confi nes.
x. Storage Detailx. Concept Axo
FIT-OUT
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3XFBV_75 ANDO
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MALIGNED ICONIC
x. Train Station Use Case
“Unlike the abstract, which a empts to neutralise the specifi city and establish the universality of the ar fact , the literal connects with history, gives the exis ng (elements and fragments) the aura of authen city by repe on, refl ec on or cri que.”
The Maligned Iconic is a processed based investi-gation into the subversion of iconographic images/types/buildings/practises over time and through popular culture. This subversion is often a result of the popularity within segments of the community and a resulting alteration to the way the original is viewed as it becomes maligned, fetishized or both.
The project started broadly as a way of investigat-ing this occurrence within Australian architectural types and communities. Looking fi rstly at the ma-ligned triple fronted brick veneer house - a ubiquity within post war Australian suburbs - and then at the fetishized Japanese residential typology.
These examples were then modeled. A typical post war brick veneer (3XFBV) and a specifi c iconic Japanse home - Tadao Ando’s Glass Block House (ANDO). A spatial interlacing of the two types ex-plored the gradual subversion from recognisable to unrecognisable (as original). With the original model pulled to fi t the spatial confi guration of the added model. These varying spatial arrangement presented new use cases and possibilities for the once understood object. This was then applied as a testing ground for a new kind of Australian suburban building - the multi use train station and suburban hub.
THE MALIGNED ICONIC
1. Darth original 2. Soggy pas che 3. Fully subverted from central pop cultural zeitgeist to margins of mainstream culture
Ian Mcdougall - “Dispersion and the Encyclopedic: Towards New Techniques for the city”, 1992
Howard/Kronborg Medical Clinic- ARM Architects, 1994
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3XFBV_75 ANDO
3XFBV_75 ANDO
ANDO_50/50
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3XFBV_75 BV
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TRIPLE FRONTED BRICK VENEER GLASS BLOCK HOUSE - TADAO ANDO
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BATTEN
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x. Laneway to China Town
x. Public/Private
The brief called for a mixed use insertion into the Melbourne CBD. This included an Asian grocery, bathhouse, bike storage and workshop, greek travel agent, bar, apartment tower and mobile pancake man. The site boarded and eventually en-compassed a lane which linked China town to a key arterial road.
The diverse program requirements led to an inves-tigation into the daily fl ux of the city, a question of how to live comfortably within this fl ux and ul-timately how to offer a variable threshold for the inhabitants of the site.
MIXED INTENTIONS
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x. Cross Section
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x. Long Section
x. Lonsdale Street
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The apartment tower formed as a critique of the existing bolt hole, hotel-room-esque typology that is prevalent in current developments. In these in-stances the apartment is formed as an extension of the corridor and the level of separation from public space is only as sound as the quality of your front door.
To offer greater separation the apartments are shifted over two levels, wrapping around the corri-dor and offering cross breeze as well as a gradiated public threshold. Engagement with the fl ux of the city as such becomes a choice rather than a given state. The dweller is further given agency over this state by a continuous operable timber skin.
CLOSED DOOR
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x. Cross Section
x. Ground Floor Plan x. First Floor Plan x. 1 Bed Apartment
(G) - Corridor
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