Harry Mason
As an aspiring architect, and avid moviegoer, I’m driven by a passion to create imaginative and engaging spaces that blur the line between reality and fiction. While, also exploring how design can merge creativity with sustainability to create a unique human experience, within the built environment. My work reflects a curiosity of architectural possibilities that are playful, yet purposeful, using design as a medium to inspire wonder, emotion and connection. I’m constantly inspired by how architecture can shape the way we see, feel and interact with the world around us.

Harry Mason

PROJECT OVERVIEW

 


2 Fitzwilliam St, Parramatta This project explores the intersection between imagination, urban living, and modular design, while exploring how architecture can evolve beyond its initial form. Beginning as a rigid concrete frame, that gradually transforms into a living, breathing environment over time. The project reimagines high-density housing not as static infrastructure but as an adaptable organism capable of growth, decay, and renewal. It examines how modular design, imagination, and urban living can intersect to create environments that are both personal and collective, dense yet humane. Inspired by cinematic worlds and the fragmented nature of cities, the design employs repetition, variation, and offset geometry to produce an ever-changing architectural experience. Each module functions as a self-contained pod that interlocks and adapts across multiple configurations, dissolving the boundary between structure and dwelling. The stacked arrangement forms a rhythmic façade defined by shifting depths, light, and shadow, challenging the monotony of conventional apartment towers. Over time, the architecture invites nature to intervene. Vegetation spreads across terraces, façades, and bridges. Softening the tower’s mass and transforming its material identity. What begins as industrial becomes organic. What is hard becomes habitable. This transformation embodies that architecture should collaborate with nature, not resist it. Through planted terraces, porous circulation, and micro-ecosystems, 2 Fitzwilliam St envisions a vertical habitat where people and the natural world coexist in balance. Situated in the heart of Parramatta, the project responds to its dense urban context by introducing terraces, voids, and communal bridges that foster social interaction and spatial breathing within a compact environment. It proposes a future where time and ecology are active design agents, where architecture is no longer fixed but continuously evolving. Ultimately, 2 Fitzwilliam St reflects my fascination with blurring the line between reality and fiction. Creating imaginative, sustainable spaces that grow, adapt, and inspire wonder.


Harry Mason