The design of this architecture academy for one hundred students is an exploration of educational function, geometric construction with digital drawing tools, perspectival manipulation, and minimalist architectural aesthetics. Within the school are studio spaces, a shop, a library, a lecture room, faculty studies, and outdoor building yards. Itself technologically derived and constructed, this project fits into the framework of the modernist architectural movement. But like a wayward atom in an otherwise rigidly determined crystalline matrix, the building's form inserts itself into this stanchion at a point intended to commence a generative rift of new possibility. The goal for the institution is to foster an environment of exploration and progressive innovation through exchange and collaboration. This charge would fall squarely on the faculty of course, but hopefully the building itself would act as a catalyst for the search. Through its programmatic organization as well as its perspective-warping angular form, the building is designed to encourage or at least accommodate a participatory, dialectic way of studying and making architecture. Open studio spaces and the proximity and availability of the faculty studies are intended to foster ease of communication and collaborative interchange within the academy. Exchange of knowledge across multiple levels and points of view would occur both intellectually and spatially. The specific outcome of such a dialectically educational environment cannot be accurately predicted, and therein lays the vibrant potential of the proposal. The rigid predictability of enlightenment rationalism has outlived its modality and a new model is needed in order to move forward. The goal of the contemporary architecture academy should not be to establish the primacy of one mode of operation but to invite a plurality of approaches to the table. / Master of Architecture

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, Dept. of Architecture, 2000?

One hundred documents of one hundred performances. / Department of Architecture

The first part states the reasons for the disappearance of the body: the influence of modern technology, effects on self-perception and on the perception of reality. It questions how to deal with the shift from physical reality as reference of existence toward an infinite spectrum of virtual realities. The second part concerns a way of thinking - a fiction to explain the phenomena of disappearance - in drawing a parallel to recent thinking models in physics formulating the disappearance of matter. This shift of thinking is so fundamental that it literally reverses our notion of body and materiality. The thesis tries to imagine and to explain a reappearance of the body, the birth of the concrete out of the immaterial. The last part images and models necessary, ambiguous spaces in a world where inside and outside, weight and lightness, solid and immaterial are no longer clearly defined positions but zones, uncertainties, overlays. / Department of Architecture

2 v. ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / This thesis examines deconstructive writings, employing those strategies as a basis for re-forming approaches to architecture. A theory is posited that a distinction must be made between architecture as idiom and architecture as medium, expressed as a separation between architecture as a built form, Architecture the Idea and A(a)rchitecture as a new direction for framing an approach to its discourse. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Architecture, 2000?

Thesis (M.Arch.) - Carleton University, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-97). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Includes bibliography. This thesis examines deconstructive writings, employing those strategies as a basis for re-forming approaches to architecture. A theory is posited that a distinction must be made between architecture as idiom and architecture as medium, expressed as a separation between architecture as a built form, Architecture the Idea and A(a)rchitecture as a new direction for framing an approach to its discourse.

Main task was to create architectural design of city wellness building. Building is situatec beetween hotel Voroněž and the river Svratka. Building contains entrance space, swimming pools, changing rooms, rest room, service space. Sauna, massage, fittness, restaurant is also part of building. Structure respond to several fenomens- car transport system, style of hotel Voroněž, urban situation-relationship beetween city and river. Shape of mass was inspired by elements of deconstructivism style. Building construction is created by reinforced concrete frame, non-bearing part of walls is wooden frame. The detail of city wellness building is included in low-energy standard. Technical equipment is based on modern trends and technologies.

This report details a design process that generates new forms from mundane materials and tools. By utilizing a structure of limitations to establish artificial constraints, making becomes a sort of game where the designer must negotiate the rules and objects in order to achieve a solution. The best results come from setting up explicit limitations about the type of manipulation permitted, establishing design objectives, specifying the material or tool to be explored. Throughout the process of designing a structure of limitations affords the designer a critical distance from the assumed uses of common materials and familiar tools resulting in new forms, and often unexpected results. Self-assigned parameters help the designer gain control over rules and constraints established by clients. / text

I detta Kommunhus ville jag utforska den offentliga platsen. I Tensta, likt andra förorter, finns ofta en brist på utrymmen man kan umgås på. Det kan ofta lösas med små medel genom att skapa offentliga rum. Tomten präglas av en 4 meters höjdskillnad mellan Tenstagången och Taxingegränd. Tenstagången ligger överst och är en väg som fungerar som passage till centrum och torg. Taxingegränd är nedsjunket och är utrymmet där Tensta konsthall ligger tillsammans med ett litet torg och parkering. Jag hade en idé om att utjämna höjdskillnaden och använda taket på min byggnad till torg. Resultatet blev två offentliga utrymmen, ett på taket och en i den stora entréhallen. Byggnadens tak är böjt och har en organisk form som påminner om ett landskap. På undre plan finns en stor entréhall med stor takhöjd. Den stora hallen ska fungera som en öppen plats att vara på. En offentlig inomhusplats där man kan sitta och umgås, studera eller äta mat. Personalens kontor är i en kubformad byggnad och är upphöjd med pelare. Kontoren är enkla i sin utformning. Detta kanske tråkiga kontorslandskap kompenseras med en stor och ljus reträttzon. / In this City Hall I wanted to explore the public place. In Tensta, like other suburbs, there is often a shortage of gathering spaces. I wanted to solve this by turning my City Hall into a public space.The Tensta site is characterized by a 4-meter height difference between Tenstagången and Taxingegränd. Tenstagången is 4-meter above Taxingegränd and is a road that serves as a passage to the small city center. Taxingegränd is the space 4-meter below, where Tensta Konsthall is located along with a small square and parking lot. I choose to work with this height difference and incorporate it into the design. By creating a new space on top of my building I could increase the public space. The roof is used as a public square, which also works as a connection between Tenstagången and Taxingegränd. The roof of the building has an organic shape reminiscent of a landscape. On the lower level there is a large entrance hall with a high ceiling. This entrance hall should serve as a public indoor place where you can sit and socialize, study or eat food. There is also a reception with waiting room and visiting room for the grant applicants. The staff offices are in a cube-shaped building and is raised with pillars. The offices are simple in their design. This slightly mundane office landscape is contrasted by a large and bright retreat zone.