The winner for the Robin Boyd Basis’s Partitions Round Us Scholar Competitors has been revealed from a shortlist of 9 people. Ming Hin Chung, who graduated from the Melbourne College of Design with a Bachelor of Design (Structure) in 2024, has been named recipient of the prize and can journey to Venice for the Biennale Architettura Vernissage in Might this 12 months.
The jury – comprising nationwide enterprise growth supervisor at Brickworks Eve Fortress, senior lecturer in structure and concrete design at RMIT College Christine Phillips, and director of Terroir and professor of observe on the UTS College of Structure Gerard Reinmuth – agreed that Hin Chung’s proposal was a intelligent, multifaceted response to the transient.
Penned by Hilary Duff, undertaking architect at Kennedy Nolan, the competitors transient invited college students to think about a brand new way of life on the Boyd Home II/Walsh Avenue website by considering critically about materials use via minimising portions, being tactical in composition, and increasing the lifetime of each constructions and supplies.
The jury commented that Hin Chung’s profitable scheme, titled Rising Home, “cleverly proposes an inversion of Boyd’s authentic design by putting the home inside a backyard and rethinking the brick partitions as permeable screens. This spatial sophistication is strengthened in a collection of particulars that present a readability of intention proper all the way down to the meeting of particular person parts.”
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One excessive commendation and two commendations have been awarded by the jury. Additionally from the Melbourne College of Design, Andy Wilson’s proposal, titled Hyperlink-Home, acquired a excessive commendation because of the readability of its “singular intervention [that] forges a significant hyperlink between previous and future design approaches, bodily uniting the 2 constructions whereas embracing Robin Boyd’s tight-fit spatial strategy.”
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Genealogical Timeliness within the Anthropocene by RMIT College pupil Connor Harris, and 12 Rooms for Walsh Avenue by Melbourne College of Design pupil Je Yen Tan each acquired commendations.
