Nickola Gorgioski

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I am a Master of Architecture graduate with a Bachelor of Design (Architecture) and an Advanced Diploma in Building Design, combining a strong academic foundation with hands on project delivery experience. I have used each project through my academic career to develop my ability to effectively problem solve through architectural expression.

Confluence

Client Brief: How can we re-imagine how we use and view current data centres, specifically the Lonsdale Exchange Building (447/457 Lonsdale St, Melbourne VIC 3000)?

Response: We redefine what a data centre can be. I utilised the site context and influenced the data centre with law, incorporating law and Ai into a building to create a public domain for free financial help, data storage and additional court facilities for Melbourne.

Incremental

Client Brief: How do we incentivise new families and couples to staying within the inner suburbs of Melbourne?

Response: We reduce housing costs through incremental modular design. An apartment space that can expand within an exo-skeletal structure, according to residents' financial circumstances.

Reciprocal

Client Brief: Create a sustainable Advanced Manufacturing Shed that can also be built remotely.

Response: We designed a construction methodology that uses recycled timber to create a reciprocal structure that is able to hold itself. This shell structure can be then pre-fabricated in sections and assembled on site remotely.

Acknowledgement of Country

The School of Design and Architecture respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and knowledge-keepers of the lands, waters and sky that surround us, where we work, learn, create, communicate and make place. We recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded and this always was and will always be Wurundjeri Country. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who continue to make a better world through design.

We extend our acknowledgement to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, students, alumni, real-life clients, and knowledge keepers, who have contributed to our own education diversity and growth. We will continue to ensure that staff and students respectfully honour ancestral connection to Country and Place in everything that they do.

We are dedicated to the notion of design to make a better world and we acknowledge that making tools, shaping place, sharing stories, making meaning, wayfinding and collaborating have long been and continue to be both central and integral to First Peoples' cultures. We recognize that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ cultural contributions have continued relevance to design practice and commit to: reconciling ancestries of design and contemporary practice as well as pursuing culturally and professionally appropriate ways to engage with a diverse population of colleagues, industries and clients. In a time of treaty-making and voice we understand that there are overlaps between caring for Country and the sustainable production of goods, services, experiences, products and buildings.

Guided by the principles of respect, reconciliation, and reciprocity we undertake to indigenising and decolonising design practice by dismantling colonial structures and challenging biases that have marginalised Indigenous voices and design.

As students of SoDA you will be given opportunities to both engage with and educate yourself in Indigenous creative practices and cultural protocols through a lens of inclusivity, diversity, respect, mutual understanding, inter-cultural dialogue in all aspects of design practice. Indigenous people have been telling stories, making tools, and connecting to Country through visual media, placemaking and place marking for more than 60,000 years and these practices are part of an ongoing, evolving and live tradition.