Shoreline
RMIT Graduate Student - March to June 2024
I designed a set of 3 concrete 3D-printed benches with one team member for the City of Melbourne’s Fishermans Bend urban renewal project in Wirraway along Plummer Street and the JL Murphy Reserve.
My team member and I presented this design to instructors and a member of the Fisherman’s Bend urban renewal project.
We developed our design language from the inspiration of fluid dynamics, as Wirraway was originally comprised of sand dunes. Furthermore, this area also contained the factories that manufactured Wirraway planes.
I created the designs in Rhino using Grasshopper to parametrically define the curves of the furniture.
We planned to 3D print the center of the benches vertically, so I ensured the Grasshopper code would not allow for an overhang of more than 15 degrees, the outer limit for concrete 3D printers.
While prototyping the form of the benches, we continued our exploration of fluid dynamics by ensuring there was no chance for water to pool in our final design, as the image on the left shows. Instead, we made sure any rain that falls on our benches would flow off the bench as shown on the right.
The designs were 3D printed and showcased at a design exhibition.