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MIMAW and Studio Ocho Ocho were recently featured in Etsy’s Inspiring Workspaces.
Photo by: Devika Bilimoria
The Site, Interior Building 124 (Image courtesy of Sydney Harbour Federation Trust)
We’ve been keeping it a secret for the past two months but SUPERSCALE is proud to announce that we have won the Open Agenda Competition 2015 organised by Open Agenda, University of Technology Sydney and the Biennale of Sydney. Read more…
Patrick Macasaet will be teaching at RMIT Architecture for the Bachelor Program 2016, Semester 1. Part of the SUPER series that explores process based experiments and contaminating typologies, SUPERWORK will be the third iteration continuing from past design studios led with Helen Duong, SUPERNORMAL 1 and SUPERNORMAL 2.
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We recently had the pleasure of being visited and interviewed by Karli-Jade Fontiverio-Hylton and Darcy Summerton from, ‘The Future Laboratory’, UK.
Located in Brighton, Victoria, our first residential interior alterations project is now complete. Envisioned as a series of residential upgrades over three stages, Myrtle St Residence stage one redesigns the kitchen, living, study nook and storage spaces.
SUPERSCALE is currently assisting PMA with construction documentation on a series of educational facilities upgrades.
The SUPERSCALE + MIMAW family are very thrilled to announce the stage one opening of our recent creative venture, OCHO OCHO.
OCHO OCHO will be a collaborative and creative hub located at the Docklands Cotton Mills beside the Maribyrnong River in Footscray. It will be a place of making, creativity, collaboration, creative entrepreneurship and endeavours.
We have commenced demolition on our new Creative Hubs project in Footscray.
Footscray is currently experiencing an exciting period of growth especially with its local arts scene led by the Footscray Community Arts Centre. We’re very thrilled to be a part of this exciting time in Footscray! Some demo progress pics!
Sound Pods coming down.
We are currently teaching at RMIT Architecture – Bachelor Program 2014 with Helen Duong.
This studio is a workshop of strategies and techniques for architectural production, influenced by type, culminating in the design of a speculative hybrid public library. The studio aims to simultaneously expose students to two design methodologies to produce a ‘toolbox’ of strategies, techniques and ideas through rigorous site investigations, generative techniques and precedent research to inform their propositions and formulate a critical position. The studio will attempt to develop speculative proposals for the contemporary public library focusing on the design of; (A) the public space and civic edge, (B) form and facade, (C) spatial and programmatic arrangements.
Masters thesis project by Patrick Macasaet featured on Suckerpunch Daily.
At SUPERSCALE, we love to diversify and get our hands on different things as much as possible.
Recently, we went on a site visit to Norstar Steel Recyclers at their head office at Laverton North where the largest steel recycling machinery in Australia will be constructed. They process ferrous and non ferrous metal through a variety of methods to include: sorting, shredding, shearing, oxy cutting, baling and compacting. It was a privilege to be shown around by Managing Director, Paul Sailah and giving us a detailed tour of the processes involved.
We’re very excited to be involved with this project. We’ve always been inspired by these steel giants and we’ve admired the industrial and techy aesthetic of these things from far away. Now, we get to help build these big boys’ toys!
After a hectic month, we’ve now moved in to our studio at the old Docklands Cotton Mills. Opened in 1920’s as the Bardford Cotton Mills, it’s now an awesome hub of creative small business, design studios, artists and much more. We’ve got big plans for our humble studio and we’re still under construction but feel free to visit us anytime!
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We have found a new home! Hooray! We’re in the process of designing and moving in to our new studio space. In light of this, we wanted the space to be, in large part, a place of desktop manufacturing experimentation. Hence, we’ve been recently designing and prototyping 3d printed furniture components to go within our studio. We’re trying to mix customised 3d printed components with off-the-shelf materials from the local hardware store and we’re attempting to use no glue, pegs, nails, screws, etc. They simply slide and lock into place. We quite like the blend of high-tech printing with lo-tech processes.
3D Models of prototypes
A year ago we launched MDVP as an experimental design practice to primarily continue our research from our Masters Thesis’ and since then we’ve been experimenting with quite a lot of facets of design besides architecture to include: prototyping, graphics and products. We felt like we were still navigating our way and wanted to experiment more beyond the boundaries of architecture. Thus, SUPERSCALE was born. We envisioned Superscale as a massive umbrella where we can operate, test, explore and investigate through varying fields of scales, mediums and areas of design. We’re very excited and can’t wait to launch a few things we’ve been researching and working on later in the year. Thank you everyone!
