Design Studio Gamma + Studio Water Semester 2, 2020
Accademic Team Coordinator Dr. Amanda Achmadi
Accademic Collaborators Prof. Alex Felson - Chair of Landscape Architecture Program Assoc. Prof. Rochus Hinkel – Architecture and Design
Senior Tutors Joel Benichou and Brendan Josey
Tutors Mark Casey-Losewitz Kate Corke Grant Divall Faith Freeman Sarah Kahn
Lucas Koleits Dhanika Kumaheri Andrew Murray Anneke Prins Yui Uchimura
Studio Introduction Studio Gamma explores the relationship between the dynamics of dwelling and urban landscape, between cohabitation, density, and integration of systems in an urban setting. We explore and speculate on the “missing middle” of Melbourne by proposing strategies of incremental densification and intensification of an urban neighbourhood with a strong heritage characteristic. This was approached by interrogating the existing urban morphology, civic and ecological system and forming landscape and architectural responses to them. The MacArthur Place precinct in Carlton is the urban site of the studio. Students work on three neighbouring house plots and their associated backyards, laneways access routes, adjacent greenways and other interstitial spaces. The design outcome consists of a schematic spatial and massing configuration of an interconnected multi-unit residences of up to 3 levels and associated landscapes tied to the public realm, and the development one of these residences into a compact and adaptable multigenerational dwelling. Integration of landscape and architecture are explored at the scale of the urban precinct, neighbourhood, and through inside-outside spaces of the dwelling unit. Ultimately, students are challenged to respond to the following design agenda of Studio Gamma: “Plan for a future in which people have witnessed the impacts of sea level rise and daily temperature increases, as well as droughts and instances of heavy precipitation. A future in which the COVID-19 pandemic led to global rethinking of how we should live in terms of population density and green space access.”
Part 1. Mapping + Analysis: Urban Ecology, Landscape, Place, Dwelling
In the ďŹ rst stage of the design project, students were asked to map and analyse two neighbourhood segments of the MacArthur Place precinct in Carlton. They were required to consider the areas as a conďŹ guration of three interrelated systems: built system, ecological system and civic system. Students used online resources and 3D digital data of the sites. They were required to prepare a series of multiscalar maps, SWOT analyses and precedent studies. They were also requireed to prepare a preliminary design framework to help inform the subsequent design schemes of Living Neighbourhood and Living House.
Mapping + Analysis: Urban Ecology, Landscape, Place, Dwelling
Jingqi Zhou - Jamie Zhuang - Shing Shing Ho - Feng Yang
Mapping + Analysis: Urban Ecology, Landscape, Place, Dwelling
Jingqi Zhou - Jamie Zhuang - Shing Shing Ho - Feng Yang
Mapping + Analysis: Urban Ecology, Landscape, Place, Dwelling
Jingqi Zhou - Jamie Zhuang - Shing Shing Ho - Feng Yang
Mapping + Analysis: Urban Ecology, Landscape, Place, Dwelling
Wendy Lin - Keyun Yan - Tanya Dadlani
Mapping + Analysis: Urban Ecology, Landscape, Place, Dwelling
Changyu Wang - Chenxi Wang - Sandra Fu
Mapping + Analysis: Urban Ecology, Landscape, Place, Dwelling
Changyu Wang - Chenxi Wang - Sandra Fu
Mapping + Analysis: Urban Ecology, Landscape, Place, Dwelling
Changyu Wang - Chenxi Wang - Sandra Fu
Mapping + Analysis: Urban Ecology, Landscape, Place, Dwelling
Jordan Knox - Thierry Fong - Yun Hao
Mapping + Analysis: Urban Ecology, Landscape, Place, Dwelling
Chuyin Qi - Keyun Sheng - Shruti Raman
Mapping + Analysis: Urban Ecology, Landscape, Place, Dwelling
Chuyin Qi - Keyun Sheng - Shruti Raman
Mapping + Analysis: Urban Ecology, Landscape, Place, Dwelling
Madeleine Granland - Storm Bell
Mapping + Analysis: Urban Ecology, Landscape, Place, Dwelling
Thomas Daniger - Hyunwoo Bae - Dorothea Yannoulidis - Yip-Lam Forrest Lai
Mapping + Analysis: Urban Ecology, Landscape, Place, Dwelling
Genevieve Cassidy - Magdeline De Witt - Michaella Majdan - Li Zhou
Mapping + Analysis: Urban Ecology, Landscape, Place, Dwelling
Genevieve Cassidy - Magdeline De Witt - Michaella Majdan - Li Zhou
Mapping + Analysis: Urban Ecology, Landscape, Place, Dwelling
Zonglei Mao - Zeqi Lu - Winslet Dsouza - Zhiyan Sun
Mapping + Analysis: Urban Ecology, Landscape, Place, Dwelling
Zonglei Mao - Zeqi Lu - Winslet Dsouza - Zhiyan Sun
Mapping + Analysis: Urban Ecology, Landscape, Place, Dwelling
Zonglei Mao - Zeqi Lu - Winslet Dsouza - Zhiyan Sun
Mapping + Analysis: Urban Ecology, Landscape, Place, Dwelling
Daina Minchenko - April Lachal - Tara Durkin
Mapping + Analysis: Urban Ecology, Landscape, Place, Dwelling
Daina Minchenko - April Lachal - Tara Durkin
Part 2. Living Neighbourhood: Densify + Intensify
In the second stage of the semester, students were required to reďŹ ne and implement their design framework for the MacArthur Place Precinct in densifying and intensifying the three properties, 2, 4, 6-10 MacArthur Place North, turning them into an integrated Living Neighbourhood. Students were asked to densify and intensify the three neighbouring property plots and develop conceptual massing strategies for the site. Careful consideration of how to add 1 to 2 dwelling units into each plot was required. In intensifying the three plots, they were to design shared amenities, productive outdoor green spaces, a better integration between building and landscape, ecological enhancement strategies, and activation of laneway interface. The original single occupancy residential dwelling was to be transformed into an interconnected 1-3-storey dual (or triple) occupancy (courtyard compound/townhouse/duplex typology); Dweling size, massing composition, site plan and dwelling conďŹ guration were critical in the development of the three plots.
Living Neighbourhood: Densify + Intensify
Chenxi Wang
Living Neighbourhood: Densify + Intensify
Emma Prowse
Living Neighbourhood: Densify + Intensify
James Goldby
Living Neighbourhood: Densify + Intensify
Kleo Guthrie
Living Neighbourhood: Densify + Intensify
Li Xie
Living Neighbourhood: Densify + Intensify
Li Xie
Living Neighbourhood: Densify + Intensify
Evan Jape
Living Neighbourhood: Densify + Intensify
Evan Jape
Living Neighbourhood: Densify + Intensify
Evan Jape
Living Neighbourhood: Densify + Intensify
Evan Jape
Living Neighbourhood: Densify + Intensify
Evan Jape
Living Neighbourhood: Densify + Intensify
Ripley Callahan
Living Neighbourhood: Densify + Intensify
Ripley Callahan
Living Neighbourhood: Densify + Intensify
Stephanie Wills
Living Neighbourhood: Densify + Intensify
Stephanie Wills
Living Neighbourhood: Densify + Intensify
Storm Bell
Living Neighbourhood: Densify + Intensify
Storm Bell
Living Neighbourhood: Densify + Intensify
Sunny Brearley
Living Neighbourhood: Densify + Intensify
Sunny Brearley
Living Neighbourhood: Densify + Intensify
Sunny Brearley
Living Neighbourhood: Densify + Intensify
Tara Durkin
Living Neighbourhood: Densify + Intensify
Tara Durkin
Living Neighbourhood: Densify + Intensify
Tara Durkin
Living Neighbourhood: Densify + Intensify
Wendy Lin
Living Neighbourhood: Densify + Intensify
Xuan Lu
Living Neighbourhood: Densify + Intensify
Xuan Lu
Living Neighbourhood: Densify + Intensify
Xuan Lu
Part 3. Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
In the third stage or their projects, students were asked to refine and further detail their ideas for the Living Neighbourhood by developing a design for the property at 2 MacArthur Place North. Building upon the schematic massing/composition and site plan of the living Neighbourhood, they were required to develop their ideas in greater detail by moving from the neighbourhood scale to the human, residential scale. They were required to design a programmatic, spatial and massing configuration of a compact and adaptable dual occupancy residence. The ‘Client’ for this project was a multi-generational household. The household consisted of a working couple with 1 young child and the grandparents from one side of the family. The scenario presented the grandparents as downsizers who have retired and would like to live closer to their children and grandchild, as well as to Carlton’s abundant urban amenities.
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Chuyin Qi
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Chuyin Qi
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Chuyin Qi
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Chuyin Qi
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Chuyin Qi
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Tara Durkin
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Tara Durkin
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Kleo Guthrie
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Kleo Guthrie
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Storm Bell
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Storm Bell
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Katherine Thomas
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Emma Prowse
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Crystal Zhu
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Xuan Lu
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Varatchaya Thumnithikul
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Varatchaya Thumnithikul
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Yip Lam Forrest Lai
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Yip Lam Forrest Lai
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Zonglei Mao
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Zonglei Mao
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Sarah Lau
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Wendy Lin
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Wendy Lin
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Wendy Lin
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Wendy Lin
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Wendy Lin
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Sunny Brearley
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Sunny Brearley
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Sunny Brearley
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Sunny Brearley
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Maya Welsch
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Maya Welsch
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Maya Welsch
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Maya Welsch
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Maya Welsch
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Jingqi Zhou
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Jingqi Zhou
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Jingqi Zhou
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Thin Myat Noe
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Thin Myat Noe
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Thin Myat Noe
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Thin Myat Noe
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Adrian Mikus
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Tahli Hogberg
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Tahli Hogberg
Living House: Adaptive Dual Occupancy
Tahli Hogberg
Part 4. Design Journal
Sketching, diagramming, and drawing were crucial in the development of the projects in Studio Gamma. Throughout the semester, students were required to sketch, diagram and draw to analyse design problems, to observe, map and discuss site conditions, to learn about precedent, to explore and experiment with ways of solving design problems and address the studio brief. Thoughtful ideas and good design are outcomes of a rigorous process of iteration unfolding through cycle of sketching, diagramming, modelling and drawing. The Studio Gamma Design journal shows documentation of the weekly exercises and their design-in- progress.
Design Journal
Cayley Chan
Design Journal
Cayley Chan
Design Journal
Cayley Chan
Design Journal
Cayley Chan
Design Journal
Cayley Chan
Design Journal
Cayley Chan
Design Journal
Cayley Chan
Design Journal
Dorothea Yannoulidis
Design Journal
Dorothea Yannoulidis
Design Journal
Dorothea Yannoulidis
Design Journal
Dorothea Yannoulidis
Design Journal
Dorothea Yannoulidis
Design Journal
Dorothea Yannoulidis
Design Journal
Dorothea Yannoulidis
Design Journal
Dorothea Yannoulidis
Design Journal
Jingqi Zhou
Design Journal
Jingqi Zhou
Design Journal
Li Zhou
Design Journal
Li Zhou
Design Journal
Li Zhou
Design Journal
Li Zhou
Design Journal
Li Zhou
Design Journal
Li Zhou
Design Journal
Li Zhou
Design Journal
Steph Wills
Design Journal
Steph Wills
Design Journal
Steph Wills
Design Journal
Steph Wills
Design Journal
Steph Wills
Design Journal
Maya Welsch
Design Journal
Maya Welsch
Design Journal
Maya Welsch
Design Journal
Maya Welsch
Design Journal
Maya Welsch
Design Journal
Storm Bell
Design Journal
Storm Bell
Design Journal
Storm Bell
Design Journal
Storm Bell
Design Journal
Storm Bell
Design Journal
Storm Bell
Design Journal
Storm Bell
Design Journal
Sunny Brearley
Design Journal
Sunny Brearley
Design Journal
Sunny Brearley
Design Journal
Sunny Brearley
Design Journal
Sunny Brearley
Design Journal
Sunny Brearley
Design Journal
Thierry Fong
Design Journal
Thierry Fong
Design Journal
Thierry Fong
Design Journal
Ziyuan Cui