‘Gummer’

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‘Gummer’
Living around the forest

Project: Aquarevo
Location: Lyndhurst, Cranbourne VIC Australia
Urban & Architecture designed by: Xpace.cc
Client: CRC Water Sensitive Cities
Image illustrated by: Duy Phan

The proposal seeks an upscaled low-rise perimeter block approach that suggests a large open space at its centre. ‘Living around the Forest’ aims to combine density in suburban contexts while increasing the scale and quality of the public amenities. The proposal includes linked housing typologies that benefit from a huge landscape that brings cooling, ecological lifestyles and additional amenities in the backyard. The housing typologies are flexible within their footprints following the natural boundaries of the site.

– Building footprints are minimised over multiple storeys to maximise interaction with the forest. This allows for a flexible arrangement of sleeping and living.
– Buildings compactness and multiple-orientations allow for optimized solar gain and loss, cross ventilation and unrestricted views and privacy.
– Large centralised facilities in the forest have the possibility to incorporate and meet external demands to benefit the larger community.

The Rain Water Catcher

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TYPOLOGY: Exterior
STATUS: Completed
LOCATION: San Jose, CA, USA
CUSTOMER: Nuru Karim
VISUALIZATION: Omega Render
COMPLETION TIME: 3 weeks
Today we are sharing with you a very beautiful and unusual project – The Rain Water Catcher in San Jose. The basic concept of the rain catcher is to address the global impact of climate change by advocating the need for water conservation towards the reduction of carbon footprint guided by net-zero design principles.

This is a competition project whose idea was inspired by the San Jose Electric Light Tower, the competition was not intended to replicate or reimagine this structure. Applicants were encouraged to use unique but sustainable lighting in their work. However, everyone had to consider the original light tower only as a source of inspiration.

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Rifra Fly Kitchen

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The idea for this kitchen came from the Italian brand Rifra. I came across some kitchen images from this Italian brand from Milano and was instantly inspired. After diving into the #Rifra world I decided that my point of inspiration would be the Fly collection with a metallic finish; such an elegant and luxurious piece. The rest of the scene is set in New York. Who wouldn’t want to cook in this kitchen ;)?

After creating the kitchen, I felt that the room would be more complete with a dining table. I wanted to continue with that modern, minimalist and elegant style. The curtain table from the German brand Zeitraum came as a flashback. I feel that the flowing bottom resembling a curtain is quite unique. The chairs are from the same brand. The lighting on the other hand is inspired by the Italian brand Panzeri.

Duke Street Hotel

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The images themselves are 90% CGI with some photography filling in some of the more distance and iconic buildings on Duke Street which leads down to the docks and the far end of Liverpool One. We even got to model the famous Wolstenholme Square “balls-on-stems” sculpture! We went for a muted tonal pallet overall with soft light/shadows and, as the streets are quite narrow, in order to get more light and interest in the lower parts of the images, we opted for post rain streets so we could bring down sunny highlights into the shaded areas through reflections.