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master of architecture

dan Dorocic

43 Vaskerelven5014 Bergen,

Norway+4792502097

dorocic@gmail.com

2011 M.Arch Bergen Arkitectskole

2010 M.Arch Melbourne School Of Design

2009 B.Des OCAD University,Toronto 2007 B.Sc McGill Universty, Montreal

2002 HS De La Salle College, Toronto

Academic Background

Cold War Ends

trajectory Space timelin e

Chernobyl Disaster

Australia gets medicare

19841984 19901990 19951995 19961996

Bill Clinton

Gorbachev

Helmut Kohl

19841984 19901990 19951995 19961996

Gave grandma a fright

Learned to Ski

Moved to GermanyRaumlabor berlin, de Student Architect

Will Alsop London, UK Student Architect Brennan Architects Melbourne, AUS Student Architect

Fabrication Lab Melbourne, AUS Laser Cutting Technician

Studio 505 M elbourne, AUS Student Architect

recent work experienceVenice Bienalle 1985

croatian

Manifesto Art Space Toronto,ON Volunteer curator

UNRWA Palestinian Refugee Camp Ramallah, PS Volunteer Art Teacher

Bustan QaraaqaFarm Betlehem, PS Volunteer Geologist

2012

Summer 2011

Winter 2011

Winter 2011

2010-2011

fall 2009

Summer 2008

Summer 2007

Volunteer action

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The European Court of Human Rights is instituted

9/11 attacks

BUSHSARS

TSUNAMI

Large Hadron Collider

Swine FluIceland Erupts

20012001 20072007 2011201120012001 20072007 20112011

Experience line

Creativity

Education line

attended 8 different high schools

Moved To Canada Moved To Australia

Hitchhiked the balkans

McGill

OCAD

Melbourne uniEnglish

Learned to sail

Learned to Ski

became Snowboard Instructor

Moved to Germany

First art Exhibition

out of body experience

First ‘Architecture‘ Project

Taught art class in Palestine

First Design Col-lective

decolonizing Architecture

occupy wallstreet

Moved To norway

met ALsop

studio 505

raumlabor

saw hundertwasser

BAS

croatian

german

Manifesto Art Space Toronto,ON Volunteer curator

UNRWA Palestinian Refugee Camp Ramallah, PS Volunteer Art Teacher

Bustan QaraaqaFarm Betlehem, PS Volunteer Geologist

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toured the red center

recent work experience

Student architect

Student architect

Student architectIntern

Toronto Melbourne

Melbourne

London Summer 2011

Summer 2010

Spring 2011Fall 2009

Worked on projects of different scales with a team of architects. Won a competition with RMJM for Sheffiedl University, UK. Participated in the design process and docu-mentation developement for a condominium proposal with Will Alsop. Specifically worked on the preparation of documents for thee developer showing the building logic, massing and relationship to surroundings, total and net floor coverage, build-ing cost, floor plans, renders and overall design.

Oarticipated on a number of projects within the office of 20 architects. Got hired by helping to win a comission for the Delta Tower in the center of Melbourne. Also worked in the documentation and design for a community center in Wujin, Jiangsu, China, and a residential project in Brisbane, Australia.

Student architect

Spring 2012

http://www.pixelbuilding.com.au/

Designed by Studio 505 Architects in association with environmental sustainability design consultants Umow Lai, Pixel ticks just about every “green” box imaginable. You could say the book of sustainability has been thrown at it just to prove how easy - or hard - it is to be green. Some of the features packed into its four storeys include a roof planted with native grasses for water collection and filtering, fixed and sun-tracking photovoltaic panels on the roof, a bank of three vertical wind turbines (interestingly, locked down on the day I visited the building, despite a gentle breeze), reed-bed ledges around each of its four storeys to filter grey water and shade windows, night purging of warm air for cooling of interiors, ammonia refrigeration, vacuum toilets, radiant cooling and development of a structural concrete, with a high proportion of recycled and reclaimed aggregates in its mix, that uses about half the embodied carbon in its manufacture.

Studio 505

Spring 2012

Melbourne Summer 2010

I find that my experience across different offices and different schools has taught me the obvious dichot-omy architecture experiences getting from ideas to practice. In school what I learn and produce is ideas based around equality, re-appropriation, and ideals.

In the workplace, I have learned that, depending on the office, the business side tends to take over. Ideas get distilled to the point where the ideals and concepts lose their edge or meaning -where one is hardpressed to transform a concept into a built project. And where the built project generally falls short its purpose.

Because of this reason, currently I enjoy the freedom of exploration an architecture school offers.Recently I have also come to the conclusion that the age of a school is an important factor in how flex-ible and open the teaching is. I belive that architecture needs to be practiced without mental restraints. The physical world will restrain the archtiecture by itself. This is why I chose to go to Bergen Arkitekt-skole, where I found that the open form of the school really speaks to me. Now, since I want to practice in Canada, I am applying to Ryerson.

philosophy

Delta Tower

1:100 Model

The $100 million building will be made from soft-wood panels imported from Europe and fitted together in weeks to make 50 apartments over 10 storeys.

The Grocon building, including its lift shafts, will be all timber, and will use similar technology to the nine-storey residential Stadthaus at Hackney, East London. The building,to be known as Delta,will be carbon neutral and have its own gas-fired electrical generator powered by waste woodchips, and a rainwa-ter and a grey-water recycling system.

Student architect Melbourne

Summer 2010

While studying in Australia in 2010, I obtained a position at Studio 505 by building this model over a weekend and winning the project for an unresolved component of CUB10 (the most high profile development block in Melbourne.) This showed me the business-minded logic some of using one project to create new opportunities/territory which Studio 505 used to win more work for the office.

Street perspective render

Completion Date: 2014Client : grocon developersCost : caD $100millionArchitect : studio505

details

Sketch Model1:200

2Nd floor

Ground Floor

Basement

The project is part of a series that includes the Pixel zero carbon build-ing at the Carlton Brewery site in downtown Melbourne. The 50-unit

residential tower will stand 10-12 stories tall atop a heritage bluestone building. The tower will be composed of prefabricated laminated FSC

timbers that will be locally sourced.

My participation in the design of Delta goes from concept sketches, conversations with the lead architects on effective use of space. Formal

exploration of the sculptural support columns and the constructuion and presentation of the models to the developer.

Concept

Design SKETCHES

process

“Studio505 are the architects for an exciting new project in Australia being developed by Grocon. Plans are being developed for Delta, a “Passive House” apartment building that will be carbon neutral and built entirely from timber within the former Carlton Brewery

site in Melbourne. The residential tower is 10-12 storeys tall. The timber tower will sit atop a 6 storey podium building designed by studio505 to house a super modern flexible

commercial and cultural space.

Delta will be based on the “Passive House” standard, well known throughout Europe and the first to be conceived in Australia.”

from: “The Herald Sun”

Press

development sketch

inspiration

Iteration 1

iteration 2

for a residential screen

laser-cut double sided mirrorsCreating a seemingly endless eyescape

Brisbane, Ausralia

physical model (1:50)

1:750 site Model

wujin Hall

lotus Hall

Wujin, China

1:1000

Student architect Melbourne

Summer 2010

Completion Date: 2012Client : Wujin District Peoples GovermentCost : caD $12millionArchitect : studio505

details

phoenix Valley

Endless Forest Fence

recent construction photo

section

Plan

perspective1:1000

1:1000

1:1000

The Wujin Planning and Exhibition Centre is set for a magical and stunning facelift with the addition of the Lotus Conference Centre and Exhibition wings. Set on an existing 10,000m2 artificial lake and fish pond, the complex shows the three stages of

the lotus flower, from the new young bud, to the full ripe flower through to the opened bloom with a seed pod within.The structure houses exhibition spaces, conference and meeting rooms, and will become an iconic attraction symbolising the

growth and prosperity of Wujin.

Press

PHOENIX VALLEYCompletion Date 2013Client Wujin District Peoples GovernmentCost AUD $70millionArchitect studio505Local Design Institute Nanjing University Design Institute

Currently under construction, ‘Phoenix Valley’, The Wujin Grand Theatre and Youth Palace is a new cultur-al icon and hub housing the new Wujin Grand Theatre for 1000 patrons, a cinema complex, sports halls,

and educational Youth Palace for 4000 students. There is an Art Gallery, Retail Hub and Public Square with canals, screens and children’s playgrounds. The complex is covered with a green roof, solar panels

and is targeting China’s highest rating in sustainability.I participated in the modelling and design of the Youth Palace from an early stage.

physical model

Wujin District chose Studio 505 for various designs; from a Mas-terplan to specific de-velopment and refine-ment of varied projects. Working on different stages of the design processes allowed me to really understand the logic behind win-ning comissions, and the business side of the

architecture office.

recent construction photo

http://www.theage.com.au/

Student architect London

Summer 2011

VERTICAL ACCESSSHOPPING

HOTEL

PEDESTRIAN

CAR access

CAR PARKING

access

access

Vehicle access

1:500 model

TOTEM TOWER

Balcony tower

circulation Logic

3d exploration

access

1ST FLOOR

2ND FLOOR

3RD FLOOR

4-7TH FLOOR

8TH FLOOR

PROGRAM

CONDOS

PODIUM

HOTELOFFICE

'crown' suite

officehotel

Collaborated with a team of 3 architects, including the prominent Will Alsop on a pro-ject for a sculptural mixed-use complex with a condominium tower.

Academic Background

Melbourne University

canvasPOD 2010

ocad University

Mcgill university

models

sketches

bergen arkitekt skole

2010 M.Arch

2009 B.Des

2007 B.Sc

2011 M.Arch

Canvaspod is the product of a visual representation studio where everything had to be drawn by hand to represent ideas

for a temporary architecture workshop space.

I always hijacked my education and sought to create my own program instead of fitting into a pre-determined one. At McGill

I fashioned a broad program of my interests in Environment, Spactial processes, Geology, and Biology and in the end coined

a new program at McGill - the Bachelor of Science in Geography.

The only student in the program.

I undertake my architecture education along a similair vein and it has already taken me across 3 continents, from Toronto to

Melbourne and most recently to Bergen, Norway.

PROJECT LOGO Plan 1:500

section

construction timeline

site map

axo1

axo2

section 1:100

perspective

models

Melbourneomadism 2030 qwqx

masterplan 1:5000

bird's eye perspective

In this studio I explored a scenario of a low-energy, oil-free future for Melbourne. I focused on urban farming, seasonality, nomadism, the city as a landscape, the reap-propriatin of abandoned spaces, the recycling of the Cebtral Busi-ness Core with the squatting of abandoned condominum towers.

Here is a 3d render of a slum dwelling parasitically taking over Melbourne’s Eureka tower ( the tallest residential tower in the southern hemisphere). In the background we see another squatted tower.

Nomadic Architecture Typologies

shanty

wagon rafttent

shipping container

40m

30m

20m

10m

0m

30m

20m

10m

0m

0m

10m

20m

30m

40m

REORIENTATIONS 2016MURMANSK

aliosha tatter souvenir

de-assemblage

‘The pattern which connects is the metapattern - it is the pat-tern of patterns”

- Gregory Bateson

Murmansk is about to celebrate it’s 100 year anniversary. It has been a quar-ter century since the break-up of the Soviet Union. Yet, although the Soviet Union has dissipated 25 years ago, it’s legacy still lives on.

There is a need to celebrate the future of the city, but without forgeting the ancestors.

Schedule

Event Map

Event Section

For the duration of the event, a number of workshops, talks, concerts, film nights and so-cial events will raise money for a youth center.

BanksInfrastructure

Private Investors

NGOs

Oil Fishing

Military

SocialMining

SecurityEnvironent

Youth Center

Government

Fundraiser

Aliosha

Film Screen

Stageworkshop

SeatingAssembly tent 1:500

1:1000

Aliosha

Stage

workshops

ticket booth

ticket booth

footpath to town

ticket booth

Driveway

workshops

Fundraising Concept :

event IncomeInvestment

The youth of the city of Murmansk need a creative outlet.Unfortunately, there is no existing framework in place to support a youth center in Murmansk. This project proposes a new hierarchy to create room in the municipality of Murmansk to fund a space within a short timeframe.

The concept is to engage young artist and creatives of Murmansk in order to create an event-intervention at the Aliosha Monument to coincide with the 100 year anniversary of the city. The intervention involves the mapping of the city, in fabric, on the 35 meter tall Soldier.

Centennial

Derivé

lift

Prototype surfaces 33 surfaces making up one side of Aliosha

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1:200

Dan dorocic

There is a lack of support infrastructure from the government for the funding of creative outlets for the youth

Our field trip took us to Murmansk, Russia. I focused on the ‘unworking’ of the architectural apparatus used by the now abandoned Soviet system. Finding inspra-tion in the Situationists, Keller Easterling and Ecological thinking, I proposed a new framework for the future of Murmansk by creating a platform for change and reorientations at the monumental Alijosha soldier overlooking the city.

Volunteer actions

PERMACULTURE FARM

The Bustan Qaraaqa mission propagates a grassroots environmental movement in the Pales-tinian Territories to help combat ongoing humanitarian and environmental crises.

During the same trip in the Middle East, I volunteered with other geologists for a week at Bustan Qaraaqa in the design process, logistics, landscaping and all physical work required to

establish a sustainable, slef-sufficient permaculture farm.

The Jalazone camp was established in 1949 on 0.25 square kilometres of rocky hillside 7km north of Ramallah.

Most of the original refugees came from 36 villages in the Lydd and Ramleh areas. Like other West Bank camps, it was established on land UNRWA leased from the government of Jordan.

The camp came under joint Israeli-Palestinian control following the Oslo agreements.

All shelters are connected to public water and electricity, but many are not connected to the sewerage system, instead using private latrines connected to percolation pits or allowing waste

water to flood into the roads.

While travelling and dwelling in the Middle East, I rented a room in Ramallah for a month and volunteered at the school in Jalazone teaching art classes to Plestinean children.

JALAZONE REFUGEE CAMPArt Teacher/ Volunteer

Volunteer/ Geologist/ Farmer

More than 11,000 registered refugeesTwoovercrowded schools, one running on a

double-shift basis Lack of sewage system

SITUATION

BuStan Qaraaqa

2000 km

issue covered:re-forestation

JALAZONE Schoolramallah

betlehem

Participated and Volunteered in other Social platforms such as the one held in Malmö, Sweden in 2008.

http://esf2008.org/

Currently organizing a project with Decolonizing Architecture with Alesandro Petti and Eyal Weizman in Beit Sahour, Palestine.

http://www.decolonizing.ps/site/

Art Teacher/ Volunteer

travel exeperience

desert trek 2010

central australia

2008 hitchike balkan peninsula

2000 km

hitchike

issue covered:roma slums

4000 km drive

2000 km

issue covered:re-forestation

issue covered:introduced specied

and pests

photojournalism

2009 converted

camper trip

D A N D O R O C I C 43 Vaskerelven

5014 Bergen, Norway

+4792502097 dorocic@gmail.com

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Worked as a Journalist for various inde-pendent magazines AROUND AUSTRALIA + Vice

Photojournalist

Traveled around central and eastern Australia investigating the history, customs and environmental pest degradation (specifically in the Cape York

Australia

2009-2011