Abedian School of Architecture Review Yearbook 2015

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Four Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s students have created the book you hold in your hands developed and edited in a publishing seminar led by the editors of UME magazine. This represents the range of direct experiences students of the Abedian School are able to undertake during the course.

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Foreword

Dr Soheil Abedian Patron

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As we begin a new era at the Abedian School of Architecture, this first Review coincides with the graduation of the first cohort in the Master’s degree of Architecture.

Following the official opening of our School in late 2013, it is remarkable how in such a short period of time the School has been able to achieve national and international recognition as a centre of learning. This early recognition is testimony to the progressive and visionary nature of the faculty, expressed through the building design (by Sir Peter Cook and CRAB Studio), as well as the efforts of distinguished colleagues who provide guidance to the students.

We need to remember that attraction to beauty is one of the spiritual forces that lifts us up to the higher realm of existence. It is this force that compels us to seek harmony in our daily lives and in our relationships with others. The visual arts, music, craft and architecture are expressions of this essential longing of the human soul.

The vision of our School is best explained in the words of Karim Rashid: ‘Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially and emotionally.’

To look into the future, we must first understand the pathways created by the fathers of modern architecture. Visionaries such as Oscar Niemeyer: ‘My work is not about form follows function, but form follows beauty’.

Frank Lloyd Wright: ‘An idea is salvation by imagination’. Mies van der Rohe: ‘Less is more’. And Antonio Gaudi: ‘Man does not create … he discovers’.

The pioneers of modern architecture paved new ways of thinking. They will always be remembered for their will to evolve architecture as we experience it today and into the future, and for their passion for architecture.

It is my ardent hope that one day our students will also be in the ranks of the great creators and continue the path of inspiration for future generations.

My heartfelt congratulations on the first edition of the Review and my sincere gratitude to all the academic personnel, graduates and students for their dedication and commitment.

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Introduction

Bond University welcomes its Architecture students and staff and acknowledges the contribution they make to the life and culture of the campus.

The University has benefited enormously from the generosity and advice of Dr Soheil Abedian, and the decision to embark on architecture has added to the University’s stock of creative disciplines, augmenting existing programs in film, television, multimedia design and the built environment.

Since its inception over 25 years ago, Bond University has cultivated the conditions necessary to produce high-quality education in a small-scale and intimate environment, with a highly favourable staff-to-student ratio.

The discipline of Architecture follows this Bond tradition.

The Abedian School of Architecture is housed in a building that is itself a tribute to creative design. The building adds to the University’s noteworthy architecture and acts as an encouragement and inspiration to students throughout the campus.

‘A WIDE VARIETY OF INTERCONNECTED BUT DISTINCT INTERIOR SPACES, FROM SOCIAL TO PRIVATE AND FROM INTERACTIVE TO CONTEMPLATIVE.’ Andrew Mackenzie, ‘Abedian School of Architecture’, The Architectural Review (London), 28 Jan 2014

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Pro Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean Faculty of Society and Design

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Program overview

The Abedian School of Architecture is formed as a response to the question ‘What should an architecture school be today?’ We answer with a curriculum that is design-driven and has a professional focus.

We aim to graduate students who will have an impact on society, capable of transforming the profession and grasping new opportunities to apply architectural thinking.

We place strong emphasis on studio-based learning that is collaborative, discursive. There is a high degree of engagement with program staff. The pedagogy has a learning-through-making ethos at its core.

We equip our students with the techniques, as well as critical analytical skills, to enable them to leverage opportunities that will emerge for architects practising in the 21st century.

This education will enable students to work globally as architects, or in other forms of professional activity, as dramatic transformations and technology transfers shape our world.

The program is structured across a ten-semester sequence: a sixsemester undergraduate degree — the Bachelor of Architectural Studies (BAS) — and a four-semester, professionally accredited Master of Architecture (MArch).

Delivered at the pace of the University trimester system, the full sequence can be completed in three and a half years — which is enabled by the studio-based pedagogy.

Visiting Associate Professor, Andrew Kudless (MATSYS/ California College of the Arts), exhibition, 2014

Chris Knapp Aff RAIA, MArch, Princeton University, USA

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Architectural discipline leader (2014) and assistant professor; current PhD Candidate at RMIT — subject: digital fabrication applications in design practice; Director, Studio Workshop

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The building The new School of Architecture building was designed by Sir Peter Cook and Gavin Robotham of London practice CRAB Studio.

The building’s primary organisational device is a broad internal ‘street’.

Along one side are four dramatic sculptural concrete ‘scoops’, forming intimate seminar spaces at their base. The rich array of top-lit volumes forms the backdrop to the public life of the School.

Two levels of studios are located along the glazed southern edge of the building. Students have dedicated workstations and 24/7 access to the School’s many facilities.

Finalist, RAIA National Public Architecture Award 2014 Winner, RAIA Queensland Public Architecture Award 2014 Winner, RAIA Gold Coast and Northern Rivers ‘Building of the Year’ 2014 Winner, RAIA Gold Coast and Northern Rivers ‘People’s Choice Award’ Winner, INSIDE Awards — Higher Education category 2014 Images from left: Sketches, Sir Peter Cook, CRAB Studio Sketches, Gavin Robotham, CRAB Studio

‘IT IS AN ICONIC, LANDMARK BUILDING DESIGNED TO INSPIRE THE ARCHITECTS OF TOMORROW.’ Lisa Rapley, ‘Abedian School of Architecture’, Architecture & Design, 12 Feb 2014

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The Fab Lab The Architectural Fabrication Research Laboratory — or Fab Lab — occupies a primary role in the School’s day-to-day design and making activities. This digital design workshop has a broad range of facilities including a full woodwork shop; digital fabrication facilities such as CNC milling, laser cutting and 3D printing; and a newly installed architectural robotics laboratory, with three multi-axis industrial robots.

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Students are required to use these production facilities throughout their design education, ensuring that they graduate with a strong understanding of the increasingly significant role that these technologies play in the creation of architecture in the 21st century.

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The thesis work shows an impressive effort by the first graduating class of the burgeoning Master’s program, validating the notion that design is indeed a research activity … executed with depth and motivated by an altruistic spirit.

Guest critics Sean Anderson Michael Banney Naomi Stead Academic team Brit Andresen Adrian Carter Michael Keniger Chris Knapp

The Architecture Thesis Studio is the ultimate studio in the Master’s sequence. This studio-based subject posits design as a research medium. Students focus on a single project that explores subjects related to a contemporary cultural, environmental, technical or political context. They complete the work over two semesters: first in a seminar to develop a body of knowledge related to their topic, and then during a 14-week design and resolution phase. The work is supported by the thesis subject coordinator and an individual academic staff adviser.

Students write a summary of their design proposition to situate the work critically in a broader context and describe its impact on the field and/or society at large.

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Students Dane Asmussen Amoz Boon Scott Deppeler Nicola Freeman Jordan Mulherin Michael Parsons Jarryd Pearson Collette Skinner Megan Stuart Dylan Robinson Daniel Wood

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Dane Asmussen Extreme Adaptations In one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s remotest and harshest environments, a journey is envisaged between the once-thriving cargo port of Punta Arenas in Chile to the booming tourism destination of the South Shetland island group on the Antarctic Peninsula. The project consists of the port building (a ground-up design); repurposing an existing cargo ship (keeping its structure and refitting the interior to accommodate and transport up to 140 tourists); and relocating an oil rig to be a permanent research base in the South Shetland island group.

Thesis adviser Sarah Lindsay

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Amoz Boon Field Connectivity Analysing how various field conditions could interrelate and act to create a highly contextual architecture: between the field and the object.

This is tested through a design proposition on Brisbaneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Roma Street railway precinct.

Thesis adviser Haig Beck

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Scott Deppeler Urban Fortitude A proposal for a socialistic project in Fortitude Valley, an inner-city suburb being consumed by Brisbaneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CBD. Social conflict and lack of integration of public space set up an opportunity to intensify the nexus between transport and urban fabric, to create thriving civic space that brings people together and celebrates what makes the Valley distinctive.

Thesis adviser Brian Toyota

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Nicola Freeman Event, Space, Landscape Music festivals transform spaces into alternative realities. They are ephemeral places yet retain long-lasting symbolic value in peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memories. Would it be suitable to house activities that occur in festival grounds in a permanent assembly?

A structure proposes a vertical performance arena deriving from the hierarchical layering of events, giving new meaning and an alternative way of perceiving and experiencing festivals.

Thesis adviser Vanessa Menadue

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Jordan Mulherin Compounding Shenzen The Louhu district of Shenzhen is in the rapidly urbanising Pearl River Delta in China. Investigating existing regions, networks and hot spots provides insights to drive design of new examples of urbanity, from micro to macro.

Regions are zones of occupation, from the scale of a room to the city; networks link individuals and groups; hot spots are defining (though often insignificant) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;architecturalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; characteristics of a region.

Thesis adviser Matt Eagle

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Michael Parsons Formalising Informality It is predicted that by 2050, informal settlements in Africa alone will triple. Informal settlements have their own distinctive character and pattern, like a social fingerprint. Applying an algorithmic pattern language to unplanned settlements, this thesis tests the viability of using computational control while trying to preserve the existing formal pattern. The result is a series of formal explorations that establish a viable modular construction system for informal dwellings. These are well-built homes rather than temporary shacks.

Thesis adviser Jonathan Nelson

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Megan Stuart Evolutionary Micro Housing Tea estate workers in Sri Lanka, mostly women, live in poverty and misery.

To ameliorate their circumstances, this project proposes a series of small, low-cost, bottom-up interventions: existing rooms reconfigured to maximise space, natural ventilation and sunlight; kitchens relocated; safe bathing facilities installed; and a gathering place made to cater for community activities, religious festivals and schooling the estateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s children.

Thesis adviser Justin Twohill

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Daniel Wood Education in the Urban Domain Outside teaching hours, most schools have little public interaction. The objective here is to improve the utility of the standard model for educational institutions through connection with the broader local community.

Taking advantage of the vertical separation necessary on a modest urban site, the programmatic layout balances public interaction with a studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sense of ownership. Underused school facilities are given a second life while strengthening the social fabric.

Thesis adviser Ben Carson

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Jarryd Pearson Hong Kong XYZ Half of Hong Kong lives in public housing, nearly a quarter of which is vacant.

In high-rise eyries, residents feel isolated and unsafe, disconnected from vibrant street life below.

A hybrid typology for highdensity living in subtropical Hong Kong is premised on a new datum 30m above sea level: an elevated network of streets and public transport.

Vertical connections between ground plane and elevated streets are moments of intense activity to be mined for architectural and programmatic potential.

Thesis advisers Kerry Clare and Lindsay Clare

Dylan Robinson Humanitarian Intervention Australia has an obligation to allow in more refugees.

Proposition: a built-form oasis near a large watering hole in an existing ghost town, Betoota, Queensland.

Homes, jobs, recreation and tourism facilities.

A prototype for the future, the built-form oases can be reproduced. The resulting city will accommodate refugees of war, famine, disease, climate change and rising tides.

Thesis adviser Jasper Brown

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Opportunities to explore and refine techniques in digital design and fabrication are embedded throughout the program sequence.

Students are given access to highend computers and software and in-house plotting capability; a very low student-to-equipment ratio ensures plenty of access to digital fabrication output.

The Architecture Research and Fabrication Laboratory – Fab Lab – is a leading facility in Australia featuring a range of computercontrolled robots, routers, laser cutters and 3D printers. Students are introduced to the possibilities offered by this equipment at an early stage coinciding with fundamental introductions to conventional shop equipment, leading to a comprehensive approach to designing and making.

Project work is carried out predominantly using Rhinoceros 3D and is aimed at developing a student’s sense of control over process, detailing, assembly and craft.

Projects Cross-sectional prototypes Digitally-crafted Eggs Materials study 3D printing Surface experimentation Staff Andrew Kudless Jonathan Nelson Chris Knapp Postgraduates/Undergraduates Image this page: Bodies in Formation exhibition by Andrew Kudless, 2014

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The foundation curriculum in the School places equal emphasis on digital and analogue techniques.

Specifically, hand-crafted drawing, model-making and exploration at 1:1 with raw materials form the basis of the first two semesters of study. The work in this section is representative of the range of approaches to hands-on learning through making.

Projects are often object-focused: a chair made from a shirt and little else; devices for experiencing the landscape; various prostheses and other wearable elements that, importantly, address the scale and proportion of the body.

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Projects Armatures Hat parade Landscape device Shirt-chair Symbolic timber Staff Chris Knapp Christopher Hill Haig Beck David Buck Undergraduates Michael Parsons _ Shirt-chair _ FIG 1 First year hat parade _ FIG 2 Scott Deppeler _ Symbolic timber _ FIG 3 Emerson Reece _ Shirt-chair _ FIG 4 Second year armatures _ FIG 5 Emerson Reece _ Landscape device _ FIG 6 Jordan Mulherin _ Landscape device _ FIG 7

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Drawing is a fundamental tool in architectural design and the foundation of design thinking.

It is necessary to master both 2D and 3D drawing techniques, both digitally and through traditional means of representation.

Students develop skills in expressive and analytical drawing methods and strategies to communicate ideas clearly.

Drawing is also understood as medium for design in itself.

In some cases, drawings are produced through the extension of the robotic armature; in others, the connection to the author is more immediate.

Like all technologies, drawing is a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;tool in the boxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; yet is also the most essential.

Projects Design communications Drawn logic Mangroves Pine forest Robotic fabrication Speculator The Spit Staff Chris Knapp Jasper Brown Brian Toyota Amoz Boon Undergraduates Shane Collins _ Pine forest _ FIG 1 Dana Kittel _ Pine forest _ FIG 2 Joshua Bowkett _ The Spit _ FIG 3 Shannon Thompson _ FIG 4 AIP27 Excellence Award, 2012 Samara Hayes _ Drawn logic _ FIG 5 Image this page: Samara Hayes, K-Rob winner, 2013

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The first two cohorts of the Abedian School of Architecture completed the Cardboard pavilion project in the first semesters of 2011 and 2012, respectively. Students gained experience and understanding of materiality, spatiality, scale, teamwork â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and developed skills without using digital fabrication to deliver attributes requiring mass repetition and full-scale assembly.

The Cardboard pavilion was the first 1:1 scaled architectural object students had encountered in their academic lives.

Constructing the pavilions demanded creativity and ingenuity, and required students to solve the intricate and formal problems by hand, leading to familiarity with workshop tools and also the material properties of a ubiquitous and under-utilised material.

Projects Decadence pavilion Nice to meet you Refreshment Silence pavilion Sushi stand

THE CARDBOARD PAVILION PROJECT FORMS ARE A DESIGN RESPONSE TO GIVEN THEMES SUCH AS REFRESHENT, NOURISHMENT, SILENCE, SONG, AND SUSHI STANDS.

Staff Chris Knapp Undergraduates Michael Booth, Hannah Kidd and Kay Ma _ Sushi stand _ FIG 1 Taylor Fernance, Annari de Jonge, David Plumb and Werner Schmidt _ Sushi stand _ FIG 2 Dane Asmussen, Scott Bowden, Kamran Granfar and Joel Hutchines _ Silence pavilion _ FIG 3 FIG 1

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A substantial research area of the School is in the area of digital fabrication and architectural robotics. A series of small-scale pavilion and prototype projects have been the locus for this activity in recent years, catalysed by project opportunities to bring this work into the real world within modest means for material realisation. This includes the Sydney Vivid Festival, the Wellington LUX Festival, Gold Coast GLOW, Bleach Festival and the Bond Vice-Chancellorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Research Grant Scheme.

These projects allow for staff-led opportunities for computational design, digital fabrication and hands-on assembly, creating a learning opportunity for students both in the classroom and as an extracurricular activity. The work has been published at international conferences (ACADIA, CAADRIA) and in international journals and industry publications (Architecture Bulletin, International Journal of Interior Architecture+ Spatial Design).

Projects Arclight Atmospheric tessellation Cellular tessellation Synthetic mangrove Staff Andrew Kudless Jonathan Nelson Chris Knapp Research Image this page: Arclight, Sydney Vivid Festival, 2015. Nicholas Allen, Dane Asmussen, Joshua Bowkett, Matthew Brabeck, Alvedin Hukicevic, Jordan Mulherin, Jarryd Pearson, Dylan Robinson, Mitchell Schultz and Collette Skinner

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Hypothetical and built pavilions were designed by undergraduate and postgraduate students in several workshops and studios typically run over a short, intensive period of production.

A tight time-frame pushed students to rapidly prototype and swiftly produce work.

Some of the pavilions were designed during two one-week workshops run by Sir Peter Cook and Yael Reisner, in 2011 and 2014: Beauty on Campus and Life on Campus. From this, Shannon Thompson’s drawing won the top prize in the student category of the 2012 American Society of Architectural Illustrators international competition.

THE PAVILIONS WERE MADE DURING SIR PETER COOK’S WORKSHOPS AND THE BACHELOR’S GRADUATING STUDIO

The graduating undergraduate studio in 2012, led by Chris Knapp, designed pavilions for real clients on the Gold Coast, yielding The Wreck for Surfers Paradise and Pavilions for the Bleach Festival.

Projects Bike shed Bleach Festival Cook workshops The Wreck Staff Sir Peter Cook Yael Reisner Chris Knapp Undergraduates Amoz Boon _ Cook workshop _ FIG 1 Nicola Freeman, Joel Hutchines, Michael Parsons and Brendan Walker _ The Wreck _ FIG 2 Samara Hayes _ FIG 3 Amoz Boon _ Cook workshop _ FIG 4

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This annual event kickstarts each academic year at the Abedian School, providing inspiration and energising students in preparation for the year ahead. An esteemed national or international architect presides. The 2015 charrette was led by Sydney architect Rick Leplastrier, and Tasmanian architects Mathew Hinds and Poppy Taylor.

HAND DRAWINGS AND MODELMAKING ARE ENCOURAGED AS MEANS TO QUICKLY DEVELOP AND COMMUNICATE IDEAS GENERATED DURING THE INTENSIVE TWO-DAY COLLABORATION

The 2014 charrette was led by Swiss/Spanish architects, Arabella Mason and Csaba Tarsoly from EFPL Lausanne.

Students across all years are brought together in several small groups. Hand drawings and model-making are encouraged as means to quickly develop and communicate ideas generated during the intensive two-day collaboration.

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What role may architecture play in establishing a cultural and civic heart? Bachelor students and members of CRAB Studio collaborated on ideas for the future of Evandale Parklands, Southport, envisaged as the cultural hub of the Gold Coast.

The speculations were presented in a combined exhibition at Surfers Paradise. Proposals were suspended from an installation beside Evandale Lake, complemented by an exhibit created by CRAB, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Wrapâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

The array of architectural design possibilities and culturally inspired concepts provoke rethinking of the existing suburbia, proposing architecture as the hallmark of the Gold Coast heartland.

Project CRAB Studio Speculator exhibition Staff Gavin Robotham Mark Bagguley Chris Knapp Undergraduates Anna Vallero _ FIG 1 Jordan Mulherin _ FIG 2, 13 Michael Parsons _ FIG 3, 12, 16 Marko Trifunjagic _ FIG 4 Brendan Walker _ FIG 5 Emerson Reece _ FIG 6 Jordan Hunter _ FIG 7 Nicola Freeman _ FIG 8, 17 Gordon Smith _ FIG 9 Collette Skinner _ FIG 10 Dane Asmussen _ FIG 11 Alicia Costan _ FIG 14 Amoz Boon _ FIG 15

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The diversity and complexity of modern metropolitan regions defy easy categorisation and analysis. Globally there are significant shifts in patterns of urban growth and decline.

In this dynamic context, architecture offers new urban strategies, including ways to generate urban clusters and building types.

Undergraduate housing project studios led by full-time staff have helped to establish fresh proposals in the context of Australian housing. These have been developed through investigations of micro-compact housing, low, medium and high-density public housing, and through more diverse experiments with the notion of dwelling.

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Projects Filmmaker studio â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Smallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; house Student housing Thriller Tower module Urban study Staff Matt Eagle Chris Knapp Vanessa Menadue Jasper Brown Undergraduates Scott Deppeler _ Thriller _ FIG 1 Sofia Zuccato _ Housing _ FIG 2 Stephanie Stockwell _ Housing _ FIG 3 David Gray _ Housing _ FIG 4 Ingrid Templonuevo _ Housing _ FIG 5 Nicholas Palmer _ Housing _ FIG 6 Lazuli Farrell _ Housing _ FIG 7 Michael Parsons _ Filmmaker _ FIG 8

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The Sticks+Stones studio set MArch students two exercises in linearity. In Linear house, the task was to stretch the program for a weekender at the beach horizontally into a long narrow plan; most activities to have solar access and effective cross ventilation. Plan and section to be rationally developed along an architectural promenade so that form follows function.

The Tiny tower â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an exercise in linearity but in the vertical plane â&#x20AC;&#x201D; used the same program and site as the linear house. Circulation is stretched vertically to form an architectural promenade up and through a series of miniature stages on which the rituals of sleeping, bathing, cooking, reading, sharing food are performed. The tower is a type, and to preserve the formal tower essence meant constantly manipulating the relationship between circulation and activities to make sure they continued to fit (inside) the tower concept.

Here, form does not readily follow function but rather function must follow form.

The Tiny tower was a timberframed building. Students were required to identify and follow the aesthetic logic of the expression of the frame and a timber tectonic.

Projects Linear house Tiny tower Staff Haig Beck Ben Carson Visiting critic Paul Butterworth Postgraduates Melanie Miller _ FIG 1 Rory Spence _ FIG 2 Joel Hutchines _ FIG 3 Matt Brabeck _ FIG 4 Joao Douglas Ramos _ FIG 5 Alexandra Bogdanova _ FIG 6 Emma Raunik _ FIG 7

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As places become more urbanised and densely populated, a dearth of effective design investigations into high-rise live-work typologies becomes apparent.

The postgraduate Tower module project led by visiting professors Kristen Whittle and Jonathan Brenner of BatesSmart explored room-based types that blur the line between living and working environments.

Students designed live-work towers for sites in the Brisbane CBD. There was emphasis on the formal outcomes of the tower type, with investigations also into unit-scale spatial qualities, parametric modelling, rapid physical prototyping and digital fabrication which can enable new processes for on-site delivery.

Project Live-work Staff Kristen Whittle Jonathan Brenner Chris Knapp Postgraduates Jordan Mulherin _ FIG 1 Collette Skinner _ FIG 2 Daniel Wood _ FIG 3 Nicola Freeman _ FIG 4 Rory Spence _ FIG 5 Scott Deppeler _ FIG 6 Amoz Boon _ FIG 7 Jordan Mulherin _ FIG 8 Jarryd Pearson _ FIG 9 FIG 1

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All over the globe, the overwhelming presence of built form and dense infrastructure produces the displacement and estrangement of individuals and communities. Such urban pressures unsettle older use patterns of the city, and in particular, the ways public space can be experienced.

Civic interventions investigates the core of civil institutions like parks, libraries, city halls and cultural facilities. Projects critically question identity, design and the boundaries of civic space, seeking to connect public spaces and the diverse demographic groups using them. Key studio projects in this sequence have been led by visiting professors Lindsay and Kerry Clare.

Projects Bathhouse Highline Museum School of the Arts Volatile hybrid Staff Lindsay Clare Kerry Clare Chris Knapp Jonathan Nelson Raymond Quek Vanessa Menadue Jasper Brown Jonathan Nelson Postgraduates Amoz Boon _ School _ FIG 1 Scott Deppeler _ School _ FIG 4 Dane Asmussen _ School _ FIG 5 Jarryd Pearson _ School _ FIG 7 Undergraduates Sofia Zuccato _ Bathhouse _ FIG 2 David Plumb _ Highline _ FIG 3 Simran Dhillon _ Bathhouse _ FIG 6 FIG 1

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The Hong Kong Maker-hive is a contemporary commercial environment. The growing ‘maker’ culture of digital and urban artisans has different programmatic and architectural requirements from those of a conventional commercial building.

The Master’s studio led by visiting professor Andrew Kudless focused on digital and analogue craftsmanship. The programs included 3D printing, traditional carpentry and metal working as well as robotics fabrication.

A parallel undergraduate project for a regional winery investigates the confluence of cultural and industrial activity with areas of landscape sensitivity.

Project Maker-hive Urban threshold Wineries Staff Andrew Kudless Chris Knapp Jasper Brown Jonathan Nelson Lindsay Clare Kerry Clare Postgraduates Michael Parsons _ Maker-hive _ FIG 1 Rory Spence _ Maker-hive _ FIG 3 Jarryd Pearson _ Maker-hive _ FIG 5 Scott Deppeler _ Maker-hive _ FIG 6 Nicola Freeman _ Maker-hive _ FIG 8 Dane Asmussen _ Maker-hive _ FIG 9 Emma Raunik _ Maker-hive _ FIG 10 Dylan Robinson _ Maker-hive _ FIG 11 Undergraduates Theona Kessaris _ Winery _ FIG 2 Lachlan McKelvie _ Winery _ FIG 4 Rory Spence _ Urban threshold _ FIG 7

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Afterword

Adrian Carter MAA Head of Discipline Professor of Architecture

Photo: Patrick Boland

Installation, Vivid Festival, 2014.

Chris Knapp, Jonathan Nelson, Nathan Freeman and Michael Parsons

As our patron Soheil Abedian observes, architecture is a major pillar of any great civilisation.

From its inception in 2011, the Abedian School of Architecture has sought to exemplify what an architectural education ideally should be. We nurture, inspire, educate and mentor a small, select number of architecture students and prepare them for professional practice worldwide, as leaders within a dynamic, ever-changing field.

Since October 2013 the education has been enhanced by a specifically designed building conducive to a close, collaborative studio culture. It evokes appreciation of how architecture can move and inspire us â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to which aim the students are motivated to aspire. Good architecture not only establishes cultural identity and defines our place in the world but also provides an appropriate and enhancing frame for human activities and interactions. Our sculpturally tectonic building designed by Sir Peter Cook and CRAB Studio provides the tone and inspirational setting for our education.

Students of the Abedian School have access to an unparalleled studio environment as well as an international cadre of practising architects and academics. A generous ratio of fewer than ten students to each member of staff allows students to be individually supported in their own trajectory.

It is appropriate that the Abedian School of Architecture is within the Faculty of Society and Design, as the essential role of an architect is to contribute to the improvement of society through design. To become capable and successful, architecture students need to learn from all that the world, past and present, has to teach. In their project work they are then encouraged to propose designs that creatively, innovatively and responsibly answer real-world needs.

This aesthetic, cultural, experiential and ethical social understanding of architecture is complemented by appreciation of the tectonics and practical knowledge of making architecture using the most innovative technology, with all students having full access to excellent workshop facilities and state of the art robotic fabrication.

This first Review conveys a flavour of their work, at a wide range of scales and complexity, produced since the Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inception until graduation of the first cohort of Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s graduates. It is an opportunity to reflect on the values, spirit, strengths and aspirations of the Abedian School of Architecture, now and into the future.

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PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES

Lecture series speakers 2013 Michael Banney Michael Holt and Marissa Looby Christopher Hill Owen and Vokes and Peters Virginia San Fratello Rory Hyde Sigrid Brell-Cokcan and Johannes Braumann David Hertz Haig Beck and Jackie Cooper 2014 Arabella Mason and Csaba Tarsoly Sir Peter Cook and Gavin Robotham John Choi Kristen Whittle Dave Pigram and Iain Maxwell Skylar Tibbits Paul Minifie Sean Godsell John Wardle Dagmar Reinhardt Erik L’Heureux Lindsay Clare and Kerry Clare Andrew Kudless 2015 Rick Leplastrier Thomas Bailey Takeshi Katagiri Juhani Pallasmaa Neil Durbach Adrian Carter David Erdman Rachel Neeson Kerstin Thompson Li Hu and Wenjing Huang

Now in its third year at the time of this printing, the Abedian School of Architecture Lecture Series has established a dialogue and wider context for the emerging program, exposing students to a greater range of ideas and themes, and more significantly, establishing a locus for conversation in the professional community of the southeast Queensland region.

Each year of the series has a thematic underpinning. The 2013 Series – ‘Discipline’ – invited academics and architects whose work explores the edge condition of disciplinary boundaries, tools and techniques. ‘Design Is Research’ in 2014 featured a collection of speakers investigating and speculating through the medium of design in the context of scholarly and professional activity.

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THE ARCHITECTURE PROGRAM OF THE ABEDIAN SCHOOL IS INTENSE. STUDENTS ENROL IN THREE SEMESTERS EACH YEAR AND CAN COMPLETE THEIR DEGREE IN THREE AND A HALF YEARS.

Curriculum

The curriculum follows a tensemester overall sequence through the six-semester undergraduate BAS to the four-semester MArch. Students can follow the full pathway, or enter into the Master’s from an accredited equivalent Bachelor’s degree obtained elsewhere. The BAS is rigorously sequential, with entry in January only each year. The Master’s is designed to be flexible, accommodating students who work professionally part-time, and allowing for entry in any term starting January, May or September.

Students in the Master’s are given scope to focus their study around their interests, culminating in a design-based thesis studio.

Students complete the program in the dedicated, 24/7 studio space in which all students are given permanent desk spaces and access to the Fab Lab.

Bachelor of Architectural Studies (BAS) Term 1 January Design Studio 1 (+ Construction Technology 1)

Design Communications 1 (Freehand Drawing)

University Core 1

University Core 2 Term 2 May Design Studio 2 (+ Construction Technology 2)

Design Communications 2 (NURBS Modelling)

History and Theory of Architecture 1 Term 3 September Design Studio 3 (+ Construction Technology 3)

Design Communications 3 (BIM Modelling)

History and Theory of Architecture 2 Term 4 January Design Studio 4 (+ Environmental Technology)

Design Communications 4 (Parametric Design)

University Core 3 Term 5 May Design Studio 5 (+ Urban Studies 1)

Architectural Structures

Architecture Elective Term 6 September Design Studio 6 (+ Urban Studies 2)

Philosophy of Design

Architectural Practice Methods Master of Architecture (MArch) Term 1 Design Studio 7

Supervised Independent Study

Special Topics in Design Communication Term 2 Design Studio 8

Contemporary Theory of Architecture

Special Topics in Design Technology Term 3 Design Studio 9

Professional Practice 1

Research, Analysis and Representation Term 4 Architecture Thesis Studio

Professional Practice 2

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The Architecture program offers undergraduate and accredited Master’s programs.

There are five streams: design studios; technical studies; professional studies; communications; and history and theory.

The course structure is intensively designfocused, with particular emphasis on cutting edge fabrication techniques.

The Bond University structure of three 14-week semesters per year enables students to obtain their undergraduate qualification in two years instead of three, and their Master’s in one-and-a-third years instead of two.

Student numbers are kept low, which ensures optimal class sizes. Each student has the opportunity of regular and extensive access to the design insights of tutors, including some of Australia’s leading architectural practitioners.

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People

Academic staff Sarah Aldridge BA(Hons), DipArch, Bartlett School of Architecture, London Adjunct associate professor Registered architect, UK Director Space Studio Jasper Brown

BA(Hons), DipArch, Bartlett

School of Architecture, London Teaching fellow Director Jasper Brown Architects

Dr Soheil Abedian Patron Raoul Mortley AO FAHA Pro Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean Faculty of Society and Design George Earl Dean 2008â&#x20AC;&#x201D;2013 Institute of Sustainable Development and Architecture Philip Follent LFRAIA Head of School 2011â&#x20AC;&#x201D;2012 Professor of Architecture Raymond Quek Head of Discipline 2013 Professor of Architecture Chris Knapp Aff RAIA Architecture Discipline Leader 2014 Assistant Professor of Architecture Adrian Carter Head of Discipline 2015 Professor of Architecture

Ben Carson BArch, QUT, Brisbane Teaching fellow Director Ben Carson Architect Adrian Carter Architect MAA, Denmark BArch, DipArch, Portsmouth School of Architecture, UK Head of Discipline Professor of Architecture Matthew Eagle

BArch, QUT, Brisbane

Assistant professor Director ME Nathan Freeman

UTAS, Hobart

Workshop manager Chris Knapp MArch, Princeton, USA Aff RAIA Current PhD Candidate at RMIT Assistant professor Director Studio Workshop Sarah Lindsay

MArch, UTAS, Hobart

Teaching fellow Director Lindsay Crossin Vanessa Menadue

BArch, PhD, University of Adelaide

Teaching fellow

Jonathan Nelson BArch, Oregon, USA Current PhD Candidate at USYD MConstruction Management, Bond University Assistant professor Director Studio Workshop Brian Toyota

BArch, University of British

Columbia, Canada Adjunct associate professor Director of design, ML Design Justin Twohill BArch, UQ, Brisbane Teaching fellow Director Buro Two < 138

Academic staff 2011-2015 Sarah Aldridge Brit Andresen Michael Barnett Rod Bligh Jasper Brown Ben Carson Adrian Carter Amy Degenhart Matthew Eagle Philip Follent Nathan Freeman Christopher Hill Michael Holt Mark Jamison Michael Keniger Chris Knapp Peter Kuhnell Leah Lang Sarah Lindsay Josh Neale Jonathan Nelson Dan Plummer Raymond Quek James Russell Marja Sarvimaki Brian Toyota Jason Trisley Justin Twohill Christina Watterson Tracey Woods Visiting staff Haig Beck Jonathan Brenner David Buck Kerry Clare Lindsay Clare Sir Peter Cook Jackie Cooper Rob Keen Andrew Kudless Yael Reisner Gavin Robotham Kristen Whittle Industry advisory panel Brit Andresen Michael Banney David Brown Amy Degenhart Philip Follent Christopher Gee Thomas Hanrahan Ed Haysom Tom Heneghan Barry Lee Virginia Rigney Brian Toyota Kristen Whittle

External examiners 2013-14 Carey Lyon Nigel Westbrook Kristen Whittle Visiting critics Sean Anderson Deborah Ascher-Barnstone Lindy Atkin Kim Baber Thomas Bailey Adam Beck Robert Beson Andrew Brakley Simone Brott Alexandra Brown Anthony Burke Paul Butterworth Christina Cho Ian Clayton Graham Crist Rob DiBlasio Jose Do Damian Eckersley Paul Emmonds Greg Ewart Dominic Finlay Jones Chris Gee Chris Gildersleeve Jonathan Goh Harley Graham Stephen Guthrie Matthias Haeusler Mathew Hinds Olivia Hyde Rory Hyde Tory Jones Joanne Kinnibaugh Rick Leplastrier John Mainwaring Arabella Mason Domenic Mesiti Silvia Micheli Juhani Pallasmaa Tayna Parker Rohan Patil Malcolm Rae Virginia Rigney Ziad Salemeh Belinda Smith Naomi Stead Paul Stoller Phil Tait Poppy Taylor Csaba Tosoly Marcus Trimble Gabriel Ulacco Ben Viele

Students 2011-2015 Jinan Ahmed Abdullah Al Kindy Nicholas Allen Amirah Alnafisah Mosaab Alsharif Georgia Althoff Dhruv Arora Dane Asmussen Bertel Aukema Ashley Bamford Jaime Bass Nicola Blakey Alexandra Bogdanova Amoz Wu Quan Boon Scott Bowden Joshua Bowkett Matthew Brabeck Lily Brand Liam Budd Michael Bugelli Juliana Castelo Branco Godoi Moreira Akhil Chaudhry Shane Collins Brittany Cooke Milivoj Cosic Alicia Costan Rhett Cowen Grant Crighton-Williams Jake Dargan Vincent Rhon David Annari De Jonge Scott Deppeler Simran Dhillon Joao Miguel Douglas Da Silva Ramos Abbey Eglington Evange Epa Alexander Ewart Lazuli Farrell Ryan Fell Brodan Fernance Amelia Fernandez de Viana Levi Fletcher Nicola Freeman Rebecca Freeman Roman Ghaemi Kelsey Godwin-Smith Kamran Granfar David Gray

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Marc Haack Samara Hayes Enlong He Anna Heath William Hickman Mattea Horthy Rosabel Horthy Alvedin Hukicevic Harrison Hume Jordan Hunter Joel Hutchines Richard Jedryas Kyle Jonsson Bikram Jeet Kaler Sasha Kauffman Theona Kessaris Suraj Khandve Hannah Kidd Megan King Stuart King Dana Kittel Michael Knight Jane Lane Bin Li Ryan Louie Jock Lovell Kay Ma Lachlan McKelvie Sam McLintock Richard McRae Harley Messersmith Yucheng Miao Melanie Miller Andrew Morris Jordan Mulherin Nathan Murray Sarah Kukkiriza Ndagire Spencer North Nicholas Palmer Michael Parsons Jarryd Pearson David Plumb Thomas Puc Emma Raunik Emerson Reece Dylan Robinson Anthony Rosengren Steven Rowell Sidney Russell Ari Sandalciyan Renae Scanlan

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Mitchell Schultz Tom Sefton Harrison Segat-Stallan Collette Skinner Gordon Smith Francois Sneeden Rory Spence Stephanie Stockwell Megan Stuart Abbey Summerville Lily May Ingrid Templonuevo Joanna Wei Lin Teo Shannon Thompson Jere Toivonen Marko Trifunjagic Anna Vallero Charmaine Waldie Brendan Walker Olivia Whitt Jaden Williams Ryan Wirth Daniel Wood Andrea Zatta Jiehui Zhu Sofia Zuccato

Credits Editorial direction Haig Beck Managing editor Chris Knapp Editorial advisers Jasper Brown Adrian Carter Copy editor Jackie Cooper Design direction Jane Mooney

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Printing GunnTaylor

Postgraduate editorial and design team Amoz Boon Scott Deppeler Nicola Freeman Michael Parsons Photographers Dane Asmussen Peter Bennetts Patrick Boland Johannes Braumann Scott Deppeler Paul Dielemans James Horan Remco Jansen Chris Knapp Andrew Kudless Michael Parsons Daniel Wood

This publication is realised with the generous support of the School patron Dr Soheil Abedian

Abedian School of Architecture Faculty of Society and Design Bond University Gold Coast 4229 Queensland Australia architecture.bond.edu.au Copyright Š 2015 All rights reserved ISBN 978-0-646-93858-5

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