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PORTFOLIOREBECCA D. MAHONEY

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ABOUT MEI am 20 year old ar-chitecture major from sydney current-ly living and studying at the University of Melbourne. I studied architecture to un-derstand the way in which the built form can evoke a sub-conscious response in someone ad the importance of phe-nomenology in de-sign. I am interested in the-atre and production design, having stud-ied both over the course of my under-graduate degree.

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PARAMETRIC DESIGN DESIGNING AN ARCHIVE DESIGNING A GALLERY

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[email protected]

PARAMETRIC DESIGN 001

PARAMETRIC EXPLORATIONS MODEL PROTOTYPING

Designed for the European capital city Copenhagen, the LAGI (Land Art Generator Initiative) design project is an international brief that aims to create an engaging and visually aesthetic form that generates onsite renewable energy for the city as well as ed-ucating users and creating a discussion around the future of re-newable energy generation. My project is the result of generative design in parametrics and computation, taking a set of parame-ters relevant to site and design style and creating a viable form. In response to the LAGI brief requirements we have decided to cre-ate a series of greenhouses of different form and use across the en-tirety of the site as a means of attracting, engaging and educating users. My form was parametrically derived and site responsive to the climate and solar patterns that Copenhagen experiences. Each greenhouse has a different type of ecosystem on display. These green houses are placed on Refshaleoen, the site defined by LAGI to the north east of the city, on a former ship yard by the harbour. Through using parametric design I were able to not only cre-ate interesting forms but make our building solar responsive and energy generative. I decided to use an up and com-ing solar energy technology to create clean, renewable energy. This technology is called dye sensitized solar cells.The cells will have good application to my design as they are lightweight and come in a range of colours that will suit our want to have a colour gradient over our greenhous-es. The main advantage of these cells is there application in low and diffuse light, their ability to work in a range of light over a greater time period makes them a better choice.

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2000 KWhProduced anually by the

Swiss Tech convention centre with 355 active solar panels on the west facade

240 Inhabitants worth of elec-tricity will be offset anually.

equivalent to 60 four person households

163,200 Kg of carbon dioxide will be anually offset by our

green house

306,892 KwhProduced onsite by green-house’se 2000 active solar

panels

ENERGY EFFICIENCY DIAGRAMS

2200 Kwh/ m²

913 Kwh/ m²

570 Kwh/ m²

228 Kwh/ m²

SOLAR OUTPUTANNUAL SOLAR PATHS

JANUARY APRIL AUGUST DECEMBER

SECTION

SOUTH ELEVATION

NORTH ELEVATION

EAST ELEVATION

WEST ELEVATION

SECTION

PINE TREE GREEN HOUSE WEST EXTERIOR

CIRCULATION SPACES JUNGLE GREENHOUSE

WEST ELEVATION

WEST ELEVATION

SCALE MODELS

3700 mm

ALUMINIUM CHANNEL FOR WIRING

ALUMINIUM GRIDSHELL FOR WIRINGA ND SOLAR PANEL SUPPORT

HOLLOW ALUMINIUM SECTION FOR WIRING

1:20 SCALE

0 50 100 CM


STEEL HOLLOW SECTION SUPPORT ARCH

C- CHANNEL FOR GLASS CLEANING AND MAINTAINANCE

3700 MM

5400 MM

1:50 SCALE

0 200 CM3700 MM

5400 MM

1:50 SCALE

0 200 CMCONSTRUCTION DETAILS

3700 mm

ALUMINIUM CHANNEL FOR WIRING


HOLLOW ALUMINIUM SECTION FOR WIRING

1:20 SCALE

0 50 100 CM


STEEL HOLLOW SECTION SUPPORT ARCH

C- CHANNEL FOR GLASS CLEANING AND MAINTAINANCE

100 MM

DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLELECTRICAL ANODE

ELECTRICAL CATHODE

C- CHANNELWIRING CHANNEL

WIRING CHANNEL

1:1 SCALE

DESIGNING AN ARCHIVE 002

An archive is an interesting hybrid of a library, museum and a warehouse. The objects housed in archives sometimes have unique associations, such as the typewriters owned by a famous author, rather than say, any old type writer. The aim of this project has been to design a new building for the University of Melbourne Archives, currently housed in a rather uninspir-ing-looking warehouse in Brunswick West. By using the sculpture Fair (2011, John McCracken) as a start point, I strove to create a space of simplicity and sparseness, emphasised by the phenomenology created through planarity and void. The archives here become a space that gives back to the community in that is has reintro-duced public green space into Brunswick.

JOHN MCCRACEN‘FAIR’

PLANAR SURFACES INTERSECTION OF PLANES

DESIGNING AN ARCHIVE 002

RECEPTION + LIBRARY

AXONOMETRICSCALE 1:250

OUTDOOR CINEMA

ENTRANCE GALLERY

WALL EXTRUSION

1 CM PVC PIPING

MOISTURE MEMBRANE

DRIP IRRIGATION

POLYMIDE FELT POCKETS

VERTICAL GARDEN CONSTRUCTION DETAIL

ENTRANCE GALLERY

ROOFTOP GARDEN

SCALE MODELS

DESIGNING A GALLERY 003

The Outré Gallery is self described as “Australia’s original alternative gallery dealing in contemporary international pop, lowbrow, pop surrealism and underground art”. The Outré Gallery principally sells artworks, but it also publishes books on various related quirky topics. This project looks at creating a new gallery and multi purpose space for the business, including a a cafe and book store. I aimed to look at new relationships between retail spaces by varying the amount of opacity and transparency in a space. I wanted to explore the phenomenology that comes from visible invisible and opaque through layered surfaces, patterns and textures.

OVERLAYING OF TRANSPACRENT SURFACES TO CREATE DEPTH AND OPACITY

TRANSFORMATION OF CONVENTIONAL STORE SPACES SECTIONING OF SPACES REMOVAL OF SPACIAL HEIRARCHIES

UP

UP

38 m

OUTDOOR SEATING

GROUND FLOOR CAFE+ BOOK STORE

BOOK STORE MEZZANINE

FIRST FLOORGALLERY

GALLERY HANGERS

UP

UP

UP

DN

DN

STAFF OFFICE+ LUNCH ROOM

SECOND FLOORGALLERY

THIRD FLOORGALLERY

MANAGERS APARTMENT

GALLERY HANGERS

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900

400BESPOKE GALLERY COUNTER DESIGN+ ELEVATION

1900030

000

SCALE MODELS

CONSTRUCTIONAXO

ENTRANCE BOOK STORE SECOND FLOOR GALLERY

SECOND FLOOR GALLERY CAFE CAFE OUTDOOR

GALLERY

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