166 Kerr St Concept Restaurant
2021

Masters of Architecture Thesis

Amid contemporary concerns for finding building methods with lower embodied energies, I have been exploring how curbside polyurethane matteresses can be soaked in concrete and transformed into a new architectural material: Matrecrete.

This thesis aims to explore the architectural potential of matrecrete through its development into a non-structural cladding system, challenging contemporry modes of approaching wastestream & adaptive-reuse design tectonics.

Seeking not to exploit the foundness of materials and their novelty, my thesis aims to deploy waste material into architecture in such a way that is transformative - not only formally but also to the material’s social status. My research was conducted through the design of speculative architectural projects: namely a restaurant.