Michael Avramopoulos

My name is Michael Avramopoulos and i have complete all of my Building Design Dimploma, Bachlor of Architecture and now Mastes of Architecture, where my work is driven by a genuine passion for discovery, exploration, and continual refinement of architectural thinking. What motivates me most is the opportunity to engage with new project types and unfamiliar design challenges, using each as a catalyst to deepen my understanding of space, form, and the role architecture plays in shaping experience.

I consider myself highly flexible in my approach, both conceptually and technically. I enjoy pushing beyond conventional solutions, experimenting with form, structure, and digital communication to uncover ideas that are expressive, purposeful, and responsive to context. Whether working through iterative digital modelling, visual storytelling, or diagrammatic studies, I value processes that broaden my skillset and enable new ways of seeing and understanding a project.

My design interests span across residential, commercial, and speculative typologies, and I am particularly energised by projects that challenge existing assumptions and propose more meaningful ways for people to interact with the built environment. I approach my work with curiosity, commitment, enthusiasm and a willingness to evolve, always aiming to create architecture that is thoughtful, engaging, and attuned to the needs and experiences of its users

VERTICAL VILLAGE / north south section

The Vertical Village studio tackles the ongoing conversation around housing within Melbourne. Located off Swan St in Richmond my project aims to target young creatives by providing artistic public programs that residents gain access to by living in this building. Spray booths, Kilns for pottery, Laser Cutters for model making, Digital licenses for software are amoung the things that the target audience wouldn't have access to if they didn't live here without a large financial commitment.

VERTICAL VILLAGE / east west section

The Vertical Village extends upon an exisitng warehouse and provides 3 different living typologies to suit different needs. Shared loft apartments, studio apartments, 2 bed apartments and 3 bed apartments.

DATA MATTERS / dual reality

Data Matters within our ever evolving society. Dual Reality is an adaptive reuse data center project that looks to make a statement on data use within our lives and how data can be translated into architectural forms that can influence users phsycological experience within a space. The stature of this project also looks to create a statement within the city sscape and its very traditional urban environment.

DATA MATTERS / section perspective

Dual Reality is tied together through its suspended core structure which becomes the focal point of the project. Blending the idea of exhibition of data with those of phsycological manipulation, adaptive reuse and situational self sufficency makes for a complex project with many different layers.

GRAFTING / dal zotto winery

The Dal Zotto Winery Project stemmed from the concept of Grafting. A studio where i explored a sculptural elongated typology for the redevelopment of the exisitng Dal Zotto Winery located in the King Valley. Exploring the concepts of sight lines and developing a project the satifies the needs of the breif when the main feature of the site is not the architecture but the landscape surroudning it and looking at how that can be celebrated while provide a successful arhcitectural form.

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.