2012 TEACHING

Top Student Presentations

Cockatoo Island - The cultural transformation of a world heritage site 
Studio Master: Rob Brown
2012 l ARCH 7201 Research Studio
2012 l ARCH 7202 Graduation Studio
UNSW Masters of Architecture Programme Architecture + Design

 

Student work
Camilla Persson

Student work
Manus Leung

 








Australian Institute of Architects NSW Student Design Medal (Joint Winner)

Jury Citation

The jury was impressed by Manus Leung’s alternative theatre, which deftly engages temporal metaphor and sensitive adaptation, to re-present aspects of Cockatoo Island’s fabric.

This evocative presentation transformed Cockatoo Island’s robust harbour topography and familiar industrial fabric into a dramatic and grounded yet ephemeral performing arts stage. The familiar industrial/arts transformation is offered a fresh interpretation via Leung’s sensitive insertion of an elegant new circular form suspended delicately above the chasm of the Sutherland dock.

The concentric layers of the new spatial rotunda assemble spectators; actors and storytellers alike suspended above water and nestled amidst the robust adjacent rectilinear warehouses transformed respectively into front and back of house. The hovering rotunda echoes the suspension of disbelief inherent in the contract between audience and actor, as the eternal circular horizon of the theatre; suspended, exposed and harbourside- beautifully delivers drama from the outset.

2012 TEACHING

Course Description
 
Cockatoo Island - The cultural transformation of a world heritage site
Studio Master: Rob Brown
2012 l ARCH 7201 Research Studio
2012 l ARCH 7202 Graduation Studio
UNSW Masters of Architecture Programme Architecture + Design

 

XXL TABLE PHOTOGRAPHED

XXL Table
Designed by Caroline Casey
Collaboration: Jeffrey Broadfield, Steve Moxham of McConaghys Boats, Anibou
Photography by Kerry Wilson

L 4200mm x W 1100mm x H 710mm
6mm Solid Zebrano top, carbon fibre, nome
55 kg

Available made to order. Inquiries @ Casey Brown. P 02 9360 7977. E cb@caseybrown.com.au or
Anibou. P 02 9319 0655. W www.anibou.com.au

2011 TEACHING

Top Student Presentations
 
Over the Border - Architecture for Humanity

Studio Master : Rob Brown

2011 | ARCH 7201 Research Studio
2011 | ARCH 7202 Graduation Studio
UNSW Masters of Architecture Programme Architecture + Design

Student work
Mitchell Thompson & Jemima Retallack
UNSW Architecture Nominee for AIA State Student design medal

Winner of the
Gold Medal (Degree Thesis Division) for
2012 International Prize for Sustainable Architecture Fassa Bortolo 
(9th Edition, awarded by Ferrara Faculty of Architecture, Italy & sponsored by Fasso Bortolo, Italy)
Read more here

Student work
Jakub Beseda

EAGLES REST WINERY MODEL

Casey Brown Architecture have completed a beautifully executed Display & Presentation Model of the Eagles Rest Winery and Cellar Door.

The buildings are solid bronze castings and the site model is crafted from Keyaki timber imported from Japan.

Design Architect: Rob Brown, Project Architect: Misha de Moyer, Project Team: Carly Martin, Claudia Pickering

AUSTRALIA HOUSE FOR THE ECHIGO-TSUMARI ART TRIENNALE

'Australia House', an art project which was launched on the occasion of the fourth Echigo-Tsumari Art  Triennale in 2009 as a base for exchanges between Australia and Japan, collapsed in the wake of the earthquake on March 12, 2011.

An international open call for design proposals aimed to select an appropriate designer or team of designers for the new Australia House as one of the main art projects of the upcoming Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale in 2012.

Casey Brown Architecture partnered up with Akira Yoneda of Japanese firm Architecton and in collaboration submitted following design proposal.

FILM FESTIVAL APPEARANCES

Our short film on the Mudgee Tower, also known as Permanent Camping, created by the talented film production company Traces Films, has been selected to screen at two international architectural film festivals:

Architectuur Film Festival Rotterdam / Cinema LantarenVenster October 6 – 9, 2011 and

Architecture and Design Film Festival / New York / Tribeca Cinemas October 19 – 23, 2011
The film was also recently screened by Kyle Bergman (Architecture+Design Film fest founder & fesitval director) at the
Festival Internacional de Cine De Barichara in Colombia on invitation (June 30 – July 4).

The film was skilfully crafted and is immensely evocative due to the intimate tailoring which resulted from a process of close collaboration and interpretation in order to find the essence of the project.

See the film at caseybrown.com.au in publications / video or at traces films in films.

EAGLES REST WINERY DA

The Eagles Rest Winery Development Application has been submitted to Cessnock City Council. The documentation includes drawings, photomontages, perspectives and several specialist reports addressing the unique conditions of the site such as floods, bushfires and the existing flora and fauna. 

Design Architect: Rob Brown, Project Architect: Misha de Moyer, Project Team: Carly Martin, Claudia Pickering

EAGLES REST

This project encompasses a new 250 tonne gravity-fed winery clad in cor-ten steel. The cellar door is located in a 17m tall limestone tower linked to the winery by a recycled timber pergola. DA documentation is currently being developed with construction start scheduled for early 2012.
  

Design Architect: Rob Brown, Project Architect: Misha de Moyer, Project Team: Carly Martin, Claudia Pickering