Profile


As an experienced graduate of architecture with two years of local experience in Australia, with strong proficiency in Revit, Enscape, Rhino, Grasshopper, D5 render, and Adobe suite, ranging from small-scale cafe and single dwelling design to large-scale towers and multi-residential projects, together with interior design, I am well experienced in all design stages, from conceptual design, design development, DA(TP)/BP submission, and associated coordination works across multiple project scales. I'm passionate about architectural design, and I can bring a collaborative mindset, with strong visual communication and cross-cultural project exposure within a teamwork environment.

Projects

Scaffolding Nest
Amber Nexus
Brunswick Venthouse
Infinity Station
Boomerang


+61 499 989 218

Barryhan1109@gmail.com

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Link to my portfolio.pdf

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Scaffolding Nest

VIC Boort
Culture & Heritage
2025
Small scale community project

Steel & timber frames
exhibition & bird watching
not been built

Lake Boort, on Dja Dja Wurrung Country, is an intermittent wetland where the rhythms of water and cultural memory intertwine. The landscape supports a diversity of birds and holds around two thousand scarred trees, forming one of the most significant living archives of Aboriginal heritage in Australia. This thesis proposes a Keeping Place that touches the ground lightly through demountable structures and adjustable frames, inviting visitors to engage with cycles of movement, observation, and care. The design envisions architecture as a participant in cultural continuity, keeping through adaptation and attentive coexistence with Country.

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Amber Nexus

VIC North Melbourne
Community & Industrial
2025Mid-scale mix project

Concrete & steel
Beer brewery/ Bar/ Bottle recycle
Not been built

Located in North Melbourne, this project is an innovative brewery complex that integrates production with public activities. Centred on sustainable brewing processes, recycled material applications, and diverse community engagement, it aims to seamlessly connect industrial facilities with urban life. Drawing on the ecological value of Moonee Pond Creek, the project emphasizes environmental protection and cultural heritage while establishing a new urban landmark that combines sightseeing, sports, and social functions. Through the organic integration of production spaces, sports fields, and leisure areas, the public can observe the brewing process, enjoy outdoor activities, and experience creative culinary offerings—presenting a new model of urban renewal and community development that leads the future of industry–culture integration.

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Brunswick Venthouse

VIC Brunswick
Multi-purpose community hall/ESD
2025Mid-scale community hall

Steel
Multi-purpose
Not been built

Brunswick Venthouse is designed as a climate-responsive community hall that provides a cool and inclusive civic space during Melbourne’s increasingly intense summer heat waves. The project integrates passive ventilation, whole life carbon reduction, and design for disassembly as its three key environmental strategies. Instead of treating the building as a fixed object, the design frames it as a flexible and reversible system that can adapt over time while minimising operational energy use and embodied carbon. The passive ventilation system includes a north-facing solar chimney, cross and stack ventilation, and night purge strategies to support natural airflow. Ventilated buffer zones, shaded foyers, and covered walkways moderate temperature fluctuations. ETFE cushions modulate solar gain dynamically, while climbing plants provide seasonal shading and evaporative cooling.

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Infinity Station

VIC Werribee
Transport & Landscape
2024Large scale transport centre

Reclaimed timber
Train station/community garden/bike station
Not been built

Sited in the fast-growing Harpley lakeside neighbourhood near Werribee, this project answers the absence of planned public transport with a community micromobility hub that stitches new housing to everyday services and open space. The ground level combines a bike-hire and repair station (reception, workshop, storage and return bays) with a convenience store and generous bike parking, concentrating short-stay activity on a safe forecourt. A timber-framed open elevator lifts riders to an elevated launching platform and steel mesh catwalks, creating friction-free last-mile links while doubling as a lookout and social deck. The structure prioritises reclaimed timber posts and precast elements, clamp-able components and adjustable lifting columns for rapid assembly, maintenance and future reuse, while a roof garden provides shade and storm-water capture. At ground, a wildlife underpass corridor maintains habitat continuity across paths and drainage lines, coupling mobility with ecology. In sum, the hub is a light, reversible civic armature—part transport, part public room—built to evolve with the suburb’s demographics and movement patterns.

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Boomerang

VIC Melbourne
Office & hotel tower
2024High-rise mix-use project

Concrete core & steel frame
Hotel/ office
Not been built

Can a tower shaped by the boomerang’s “go-and-return” logic become more than a sign—can it be a working environmental instrument? How do we keep the base–tower–crown legible while staying structurally honest with a tapered mid-section, outrigger/core action, mega-columns and WB beams over composite decks?
 If the west façade is both glare and view, can an algorithmic field of vertical panels trim heat without killing outlook—and shift into PV spandrels at hotel levels to generate power?  Could the north face harvest prevailing winds with embedded turbines, while corner double façades drive a buoyant natural-vent loop through the plan?  And across office plates, sky lobbies and hotel floors, can envelope, structure and services align so each level remains clear, safe and adaptable over time?

Barry’s Portfolio