Place Craft Passage

DAVID ISAACSB.Architectural Design

place / craft / passage

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Studio house with stone walls encourages contemplation and meandering through the natural and historic landscape Private studio, Vaughan, Vic.

1. Mute stone wall - mediates landscape and semi private internal courtyard space. 2. Passage. 3. Living with walls. 4. Site plan showing the proposed studio and old stone ruin found on site

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Regeneration leads to craft and place making opportunities

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Regeneration, Eco-tourism and multi - use buildings for Arapiles Na-tional Park1. View of existing camping and Mt. Arapiles. 2. Mulit-use building for long-term campers and rock climbers staying at Mt Arapiles. 3. Retaining walls, toilet, climb-ing deck proposed for a typical high use climbing area on the mountain 4. Plan shows a toilet and climbing deck with regenerated landscape.

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The past1. Stone Clapper Bridge - Jamison Creek Crossing, Wentworth Falls, NSW. 2. Lookout - Barrenjoey Lighthouse, NSW. 3. Retaining of talus slope and track - National Pass, NSW. 4. Laying stones on memorial seat, West Head, NSW. 5. Sketch study of a road in Vaughan Springs, Vic.

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Examples of stonemasonry done before architecture studies

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Medium density - Port Melbourne1. Fortify. 2. Penetrate. 3. Privacy from lane way 4. Community. 5. Courtyards and habitable masonry wall derived from Scottish medieval castles 6. Site model.

14th century Medieval Scottish Castles was used as a starting point for apartment living and community spaces

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Transitional housing for the rural city of Castlemaine, Vic.1. Location studies used to compare the city grid, Barkers Creek and the site. 2. Long section through part of the site is used to compare relationships with adjacent historic buildings. 3. The main entry of the housing tries to integrate with adjacent residential houses. 4. Site plan.

Drawings done at a range of scales to test the urban impact of introducing a large housing development in a historic rural town, Castlemaine, Vic.

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Threshold spaces in the St Lukes crisis housing proposal for Castlemaine Transitional housing for the rural city of Castlemaine, Vic.

1. Outdoor seat is oriented to morning sun. 2. Interstitial space between units in the afternoon sun. 3. Careful integration with historic buildings. 4. Section study of the threshold condition between two typical units.

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Proposed additional gallery / installation pavilions for the Heidi Museum of Modern Art precinct, Bulleen, Vic.

Alterations to Heide Museumof Modern Art1. Study model of one of the pavillions 2. Long context section . 3. Exterior view of proposed pavillions . 4. and 5. Study diagrams showing the relationship between existing and proposed. 6. View showing key views of existing Heide II building with the proposed addition

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Thank you for taking the time to look through my sample portfolio

This sample portfolio is intended to show a range of skills and interests including work done as an apprentice stonemason prior to architectural studies

Early inspiration is drawn from architects and artists like Peter Zumthor, Andy Goldsworthy, Steven Holl and Enric Miralles. An intimate study of these architects and many others has enabled me to reflect on the resulting thread that has emerged through work done so far - a love for place, craft and journey. I look for these attributes in all things and when they’re not there I try to create them.

Seat and lookout, West Head, Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, NSW