RMIT ARCHITECTURE BACHELOR DESIGN STUDIO BALLOTING POSTERS SEM 1 2015
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Enza Angelucci Small/Large Monday & Thursday 6 - 9pm
DESIGN STRATEGIES FOR AN ARCHITECTURE OF LIVEABILITY
GENEROSITY Architecture clothes the culture of the city; architecture prompts the city’s imagination and has a profound impact on civic amenity. The proliferation of human activity in our cities has given rise to the nature of cities as a place of exchange and surplus, a place of urban generosity.
the architecural outcome is to be housed. Through a series of group and individual esquisses the studio will become a process of discovery in how architecture can extend beyond an object/place paradigm, into a place of civic surplus.
‘nature correctednesss’ to design a medium density housing proposal located in the inner city suburb of North Fitzoy.
LOCAL EDGE CONDITIONS THAT INFLUENCED THE MASTER PLAN
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The studio is prefaced by the phrase ‘no homo’. The term relieves an accused of any suggestion of homosexual tendencies, whilst permitting homosocial activities to occur. It is both a contemptible claim to an outward heteronormativity and an inward expression of same sex empathy. What is of interest to the studio is not the suggestion of suitability or inappropriateness of such a term but how the problematizing of the threshold between inside and outside as such contributes new insights into the production of space and the implications this problematizing has for new architectures.
Such a space constitutes a site of social enterprise that cannot be formally recognised due to its often hermetic production and the prejudiced economies of the world, but that has existed and has been considered historically from the mid 1800’s onwards. There has been an extraordinary examination of the thresholds – social, culture and economic – that constitutes the production inside and outside of the quiddity of this space. Attempts to describe it reÁect on the other, abjection and campness. But it is also by these same mechanisms with which any examination of this space is itself subverted and appropriated. Consequently this space is contingent and thus the mechanisms by which to engage with it can only ever be improvised. The studio confronts how the practice of improvisation and its associated instruments of production could be tasked with elucidating the difÀcult plurality of concerns that tentatively outline this space whilst countering homogeneity.
The studio will develop two-fold; from the consideration of literary, philosophical, Àlmic and architecture precedents that extend our understanding of this space as a potent conceptual force; and through design processes that engage with aleatory alignments between image, text and scales of operation. The intention is to examine the substance of a space whose very nature is to hover between an elusive material presence and the concrete realities of the world. Any understanding is thus contingent, and requires viewing, doing and thinking at the periphery of coherence. What is to be imagined will, as a consequence of an architecture design studio, be represented convincingly as architecture. The representational slippages between architectural, Àlmic, literary and philosophical precedents will be utilized in the founding of weekly architectural operations that proceed from the detailed drawing and modelling of the conditions of the conceptual space. These operations will take the form of small to medium scaled interventions that negotiate the complex network of thresholds – from the closet to the prison, from the inside of an eyelid to the lovers embrace, from a room to an object and back again. SpeciÀc readings will address the speciÀc space of the intervention that develops across the potential of a room whilst leaving room for errors. The site will consist of the horizon, and only the horizon.
The studio intends to develop a convent for the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a worldwide order of drag artists that, parodying judeo-christian institutional structures and imagery, publically raise awareness of gender and sexual intolerance whilst in the guise of nuns.
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RMIT Bachelor of Architecture Design Studio - Semester 1 / 2015
Tutor: Anna Tweeddale
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Trajectories Image - “Untitled” from photo series “Wiederaneignung / Reappropriations” by Anna Tweeddale & Javier Callejas Sevilla
This studio will ask students to take a deep analysis of concrete - its material properties, working processes, aesthetic and sensorial qualities, manufacturing, logistics, and broader cultural interpretations - as the foundation to construct a design process, develop communications skills, and as the formwork for an architectural project. These material, formal, spatial and aesthetic expressions of concrete processes will be developed through a medium-scale public architectural project for an urban bathing facility in central Melbourne.
Class times: Monday 2 - 5pm Thursday 2 - 5pm Location: Building 45 Studio C
Workshops and esquisses with guest artists will investigate creative practices (such as dance choreography and moving image) to develop skills for engaging with dynamic processes and events in space and time. Students will look at architectural precedents that have explored the possibilities of concrete as well as how the material has permeated our cultural psyche.
Anna Tweeddale is an architect, urbanist, and artist. She has a Master of Architecture and Urban Culture from the Metropolis Postgraduate Program (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and CCCB Barcelona). Anna is actively involved in research and writing on architecture, cities and urban culture. She has taught architectural design at RMIT, Monash and Melbourne University and has been an invited critic at schools in Australia, Canada, Germany and Spain.
Anna is Director of architecture and urbanism practice Studio Apparatus www.studioapparatus.com
IMAGE: Perry Hall
GWYLLIM JAHN MON+THURS 2pm_5pm ROOM B.45.B
AGENDA: Antifragile is a speculative design studio concerned with the relationship between computational models and design creativity, natural and built environments, fictional scenarios and design activism. In an effort to critique predominant notions of environmentalism and sustainability, we will consider design propositions and scenarios that gain from vectors of environmental change and instability (both beneficial and harmful) rather than attempting to be efficiently resilient to them. BRIEF: These scenarios will be investigated in pairs through short esquisses culminating in a submission for the Field Constructs competition. During the second half of semester we will develop designs for a small urban observation center and educational facility for monitoring environmental change and simulating fictional responsive scenarios. TECHNIQUES: The studio will emphasise design iteration and extend skills from Architectural Communications 3. Students will develop generative models capable of simulating complex change and working with some autonomy in the exploration and expression of colour, texture, pattern and form. The studio will provide the opportunity to build simple hardware prototypes for sensing and interacting with specific environmental conditions and urban habitats. KEYWORDS: generative design, fiction, post environmentalism, emergence, agency, slow robotics
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Bachelor Architecture Design Studio Semester 1, 2015 BKK Architects Tuesday/Thursday afternoons from 4:00pm BKK Architects Office (L9 180 Russell St) A key component of successive Victorian Governments’ Transport Policy is the removal of the most dangerous and congested level crossings on the metropolitan rail network. By and large this separation is to be achieved by burying train tracks at road crossings, freeing up land at ground level for other development opportunities and uses. This studio will explore the often contentious interface between urban infrastructure and suburban character through the consideration of Design as a negotiation between often competing forces. Students will investigate high priority crossing sites through a series of weekly design exercises and across a range of scales. Using real project briefs students will consider how private development (such as apartment buildings) and traditionally utilitarian buildings such as public toilets can make a meaningful contribution to the public realm. Throughout the semester these projects will form the basis for a more developed and considered vision for each site at an urban/suburban scale. The class will be run as a practice based studio by BKK Architects, with a range of guest critics from within and outside contributing to ongoing sessions. Students will have the opportunity to test ambitious design proposals within a practicing studio environment.
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THE LAKES PROJECT CLAIRE SCORPO + NIC AGIUS - MON & THURS 6:30-9:30 100.7.6 & 8.12.42 Beeac is a town in the Western District of Victoria. The town is located on the shore of the hypersaline Lake Beeac in the Colac Otway Shire local government area, 160 kilometers south of Melbourne. The studio aims to foster a relationship with the local community and draw upon local context past and present to develop a brief + funding strategy for a short stay residential artist retreat/research post. Students will unpack and understand the history of the area through the lens of a specific material component (stone, concrete, brick etc.). This will then form an integral part of their small scale design response as they develop a tectonic agenda to their material, the site and the project brief. There is a field trip to Beeac in the first half of the semester where students will immerse themselves in the town, and gather first hand research through measured drawings, and site observation. Building technology and detailed tectonic resolution is an integral part of the studio. The final project is to have a resolved and integrated structural component and a rigorous development and analysis of the assigned material.
Image: Murray Fredericks
Water Theatre by Richard Black, commissioned installation, visual arts program, Melbourne Festival 2002.
Ephemeral Architecture Lower Pool Design Studio semester 1 2015
How little needs to be done? ....For how long is this useful? ..... Architecture is too slow to solve problems. Cedric Price Agenda: Ephemeral Architecture privileges the life of a work over its formal appearance. To invite time into a work is to also open it up to external forces acting beyond the scope of the site boundary. Landscape and ecological systems, and urban flows can provide a dynamic context for creative works. Within the everyday use of a building its spaces can also invite relationships with site phenomena, such as light, the weather and seasonal change. Here buildings are no longer conceived as static objects, instead becoming places to stage change over short and long spans of time – where the notions of the incomplete and the transitory hold more significance than permanence. How might architecture stage ongoing change? See https://xfieldexhibit.wordpress.com/introduction Issue: “Saving Small Towns from Fading Away…. There are towns like Nyah West all over Australia, once bustling but now dying a slow death. Should they be saved or allowed to disappear?” (The Age, Tuesday 23 December, 2014, p12-13). The studio will explore design strategies for the regeneration of a small rural community: a handson-urbanism to plot a sustainable future; a regime of care; small scale actions to facilitate regeneration. Site: Fryerstown (a small township, population 300 people, 12kms south of Castlemaine, and 110kms north west of Melbourne). A town in danger of fading away. Fryerstown is a case study location to explore strategies for small town regeneration. Project: the design of new civic infrastructure (rather than a building) for Fryerstown to trigger a process of regeneration. It is to provide amenity for the local community, tourists and track users (Goldfields Walking Track connecting Bendigo to Ballarat). Your design response will be derived from a careful reading of the town and its landscape as well as the opportunities afforded by the: weekly visit of a mobile library / outdoor cinema (seasonal) / sports precinct / antiques fair - 12,000 people, over three days (annual) / town dinner (monthly) / anticipated passage of hikers and cyclists / and other uses as determined by you. The overlay of the ephemeral – is a siting strategy to forge common ground between the past, the present and future. The town is to be examined from a range of different perspectives, to discover opportunities of long and short durations of change. The semester is structured into 3 parts: 1: (3 weeks) a series of structured tasks introducing you to the conceptual concerns of the studio, key precedents in art, landscape, urbanism and architecture. Full attendance required at the site workshop / 10.00am Saturday 7 March to Monday 9 March. 2. (4 weeks) Sketch design proposal that addresses the brief and architectural agenda of the studio 3. (4 weeks) Detail development of your design proposal This studio challenges you to develop a design response that changes and transforms over time, a fast and slow pace of change: an ephemeral architecture
Richard + Michelle Black
Studio Times and Room: Monday 6 - 9pm & Thursday 2 - 5pm Room 45A Studio Type: Medium Scale Studio Leaders: Nick Searle & Suzannah Waldron Searle x Waldron Architecture sxwa.com.au
/$67 5(6257 URBAN RESORT: From its early origins, St. Kilda was founded for recreation and escape from the grit of the city. It rapidly became known for bohemian behaviour and densely populated rooming houses. The studio will examine the architecture of tourism via the Hotel and will locate the moment of the short stay in the cannon of accommodation; Questioning the consumption of the icon and its urban placement. TRANSITORY COLLECTIVE: The studio will research and experiment with transitory activities and collective spaces. Design explorations would look at conditions of shared space with overlapping public and private uses. Investigating particular specificity and contrast a heterogeneous community against the back drop of voyeuristic development. ACROSS SCALES: Design strategies will be tested and developed across scales. The studio will analyse and engage with a site masterplan and zoom into designing medium scale programs embedded into the site context. Initial massing strategies will lead into exploring and resolving smaller scale relationships. MAPPING IDENTITY: Students will demonstrate understanding of the urban relationships via heritage, economic and sociological phenomena by documenting the built fabric using photos, maps and drawings to capture the specific identity of place.
little Bachelor Design Studio Semester I: 2015 Martin Musiatowicz + Tobias Pond
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Small - Medium Medium complexity building and public space Kindergarten + Community Spaces Inner Northern Suburbs
STUDIO OUTLINE/CONCEPTUAL GROUNDING The studio will focus on the ways that children interact with space; how spaces impact, limit or facilitate learning experiences; ideas of exploration and play with, and in, spaces, as well as the notion that freedom is a fundamental experience of how we define ourselves in the places we inhabit. We are interested in links between the design and theories of learning, creativity and growth - both intellectual and physical. We will explore how these childhood experiences form our sense of community life, public space and buildings as points for social exchange. In thinking about public space, the studio will survey the sorts of places where people encounter difference, exchange concepts of value and define what it is to be one person among many, and to be in one place as distinct from any other. Within this context, the studio will also interrogate the nature of community and public space in response to the density and scale of the inner city. Our design work will deal with play spaces and a kindergarten, community building and garden in the inner suburbs of Melbourne. We will research, visit and map key local and overseas examples in the development of kindergartens, schools and play spaces and relate them to current and past ideas of how learning happens and how it relates to the design of spaces which house it.
CENTRAL THEMES 1. Contemporary definitions of public space: Children’s Space - Play, exchange, encounter and exploration Informal public spaces Openness and freedom Small moves – Big outcomes 2. Definition of community – how do you build community? 3. Fitting together – combining traditionally unrelated programmes 4. Landscape architecture, urbanism, engineering, architecture and government as integrally related and collaborative disciplines in building the city. SKILLING & APPROACH The studio runs through a series of structured exercises with a heavy focus on modelmaking and iterative drawing. You will be encouraged to develop and resolve your ideas through various scales throughout the semester. PROJECTS Part 1: Playspace Part 2: The Child’s Garden
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Students will design parts of houses and houses. The design of the house is a condensed form of architecture. The studio is not about form, site, lifestyle, or reflection of the client’s personality or status. Through a range of activities the students will increase their vocabulary of techniques, elements and ideas. These activities will include reading, model building, design, site visits, preparation and presentation of research. The first part of the program will involve week-by-week tasks and research. The studio will not start with coherence or a big idea. Instead, the elements of architecture, such as the stair and window, will be explored. Students will also investigate and develop designs of rooms and spaces which will extend to sequences of spaces. Key References Elements of Architecture, Architectural Biennale 201, Rem Koolhaas et al On Architecture, Vitruvius A Pattern Language, Alexander et al House with earth floor, Kazuo Shinohara Bordeaux House, OMA Dutch Embassy Berlin, OMA Villa Savoy, Le Corbusier Stanford University Prison Experiment, Phillip Zambardo Prisoners of Utopia, Rem Koolhaas Garden of Reversible Destinies and House of Reversible Destinies, Arawaka and Gins Casa Malaparte, Curzio Malaparte All those quirky Japanese houses of the Twentieth Century Rachael Whitread Lloyd Hotel, MVRDV
PRO CESSOR NEXT GENERATION AIRPORTS TITLE: Processor This studio will explore the changing role of and emergence of next generation airports, airport architecture and their aesthetics. Students will develop awareness of the different paradigms that have informed airport architecture and explore approaches to consider the next generation of airports. The studio will facilitate a better understanding of how to generate large-scale airport architecture. And address and investigate individual approaches to design and design generators. The studio will help/encourage students to become aware of and understand how it is that they perVRQDOO\ JR DERXW PDNLQJ DUFKLWHFWXUH 6WXGHQWV ZLOO EH HQDEOHG WR HPEDUN RQ D UHà HFWLYH DQG FULWLFDO process on how they think about architecture, the city and air transportation through the process of creating airport architecture. Students will address contemporary issues of design with regard to mass public air transport. What: This studio will explore the evolution of airports and mass public air transportation within the context of many contemporary airports now effectively being small cities in their own right. We will break airports into their functional/programmatic constituent components and consider the separation of Landside and Airside functions in large-scale airports i.e. the separation of the Terminal Processor/concourse from the Terminal Piers/runway functions. We will question what happens to the city and the airport when the separated Terminal Processor faculties are relocated into the CBD, connected to traditional mass transport infrastructure (road and rail) and combined with retail. We will explore what happens to air travel when the Airside of airports are geographically separate from the Landside and operate 24/7. Next Gen airports will likely involve the merging of domestic and international air travel, with no distinction between the two groups – improving security for travellers by using Swing Terminals. 7KH VWXGLR ZLOO FRQVLGHU WKH DUFKLWHFWXUDO UHVSRQVHV SRVVLEOH WR WKHVH FRPSOH[ FRQà LFWLQJ DQG shifting paradigms. Why: To speculatively explore the possibilities for the next generation of air transport architecture is timely. Increasing populations and resulting projections for increased traveller numbers demand ODUJHU DQG PRUH HIÀFLHQW DLUSRUWV ZLWK JUHDWHU KDQGOLQJ FDSDFLW\ DQG LPSURYHG WUDYHOOHU safety, for more sustainable air travel. The purpose of airports is shifting from purely processing points for the arrival and departure of planes and people to substantial retail, commercial and industrial hubs – small city like centres. The commercial ownership of modern airports is driving greater focus on the FRPPHUFLDO UHWDLO FRPSRQHQW RI SURÀW GULYHQ DLU WUDQVSRUWDWLRQ KXEV Communities prefer noisy, polluting airports located further away from residential neighbourhoods. Melbourne airport, like many is located in what was formally a city fringe area, which is now a middle suburban area. We will question what future airports will be and what a new airport for Melbourne could look like. How: We will address the issues above by proposing a new International and Domestic airport for Melbourne by: ‡ ([SORULQJ WKH LPSDFW RI QH[W JHQHUDWLRQ DLUSRUWV RQ WKH FLW\ DQG LWV LQWHJUDWLRQ LQWR D EURDGHU transportation network/ infrastructure and retail/ commercial hub. ‡ 6HSDUDWLQJ $LUVLGH DQG /DQGVLGH IXQFWLRQV ‡ 3URSRVLQJ WKH FRQQHFWLQJ WUDQVSRUW V\VWHP RI DLUSRUWV WR H[SORUH WKH QH[W JHQHUDWLRQ RI mass transit air travel. ‡ (QJDJLQJ ZLWK ODUJH VSDQ VWUXFWXUHV ‡ ([SORULQJ WHVWLQJ DQG UHÀQLQJ IXWXUH SRVVLELOLWLHV IRU WKH QH[W JHQHUDWLRQ $LUSRUWV ‡ 4XHVWLRQLQJ ZKDW QH[W JHQHUDWLRQ DLUSRUWV FRXOG ORRN OLNH ‡ (QJDJLQJ ZLWK ZLGHU UHWDLO GHVLJQ ZLWKLQ WKH DLUSRUW ERWK /DQGVLGH DQG $LUVLGH Outcome: A design for a future Airport for Melbourne – Landside, Airside and connecting transport infrastructure, including: ‡ 'HVLJQ IRU UXQDZD\V WD[LZD\V DQG DLUVLGH FRQFRXUVH IDFLOLWLHV RI DQ DLUSRUW ‡ 'HVLJQ IRU FRQFRXUVH UHWDLO FRPPHUFLDO DQG LQGXVWULDO ODQGVLGH IDFXOWLHV RI DQ DLUSRUW ‡ 'HVLJQ WKH WUDQVSRUW V\VWHP EHWZHHQ WKH $LUVLGH DQG /DQGVLGH IDFLOLWLHV ‡ ,QWHJUDWH QHZ DQG VHSDUDWHG /DQGVLGH IDFLOLWLHV LQWR H[LVWLQJ UHWDLO DQG WUDQVSRUWDWLRQ infrastructure.
Tutor: Sean McMahon When: Monday & Thursday 2:30 - 5:30pm B45D Scale: Large
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STUDIO TUTOR EDMUND CARTER BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO MONDAY AND THURSDAY EVENINGS, 8.12.36 REMNISCENT will explore the complex junctions in Melbourne’s urban fabric through the research and mapping of site specific phenomena at a sample location in Williamstown. The character and idiosyncracy of this phenomena will be used to drive the creation and selection of generative, digital and non-digital processes and tools that can be used to speculate on architectural form and material. Processes and tools will be tested on two fronts: firstly, iteratively against themselves so as to form an understanding of their architectural potential, and secondly against the realities of site, including program and the practicalities of planning. Image: photomontage of Williamstown with images from Maya Cochrane www.mayacochrane.com
The position of this studio is that these complex, highly contested junctions have become so overwhelmingly saturated with competing constraints and opportunities that conventional urban design methodologies are inefficient in addressing them. New, emergent and generative methodologies are required, and in these methodologies is the potential for environment and context to be more innately inscribed into landscape and architecture.
The outcome of the studio is two fold: (1) an overall reconfiguration of the site (in the form of a masterplan or urban strategy) and (2) one part of this reconfiguration explored in detail and taking the form of a mid-scale public building suitable to the area (examples include a surf life saving club, a sports pavilion, a theatre or a car park). How can the complex inputs of the site be negotiated through the use of generative tools? How can complex mappings of space be synthesised into urban and architectural design? How can competing environmental phenomena be better brought to bear in the formal and material articulation of the city?
Bodies
A studio by Stasinos Mantzis
Life Guard Showering, by Ross Watson 2014
“A swim in the pool is a complex and curious activity, one that oscillates between joy and fear, between domination and submission, for the swimmer delivers himself with controlled abandonment to the forces of gravity resulting in sensations of weight and timelessness.” This studio will be investigating leisure and architecture through the design of a new Aquatic centre and civic facility in Rosebud on the Mornington Peninsula. This studio will be run in collaboration with the Mornington Shire Council who are planning to develop a new facility on this site.
This is a LARGE SCALE studio Lower Pool studio and will be held on Monday 6-9pm and Thursday from 6-9pm.
The studio will be structured around the production of biweekly esquisses that will be carried out by students both collaboratively and individually. The esquisses will broadly cover the following: - Phenomenology and the body in architecture. - Leisure and architecture. - Australian identity, popular culture and leisure. - Cultural and historical readings of the site and typology. - Relationships to existing urban fabric. The studio will teach students a number of skills including form-making techniques, model making skills, photomontage techniques, research skills and drawing development.
A series of different investigations will explore the following: 1. CONTEXT/EXISTING PHENOMENA: This study will explore the way the history and existing phenomena of an area can inÁuence the design process. 2. PRECEDENT STUDY: This is an architecturally speciÀc investigation of building typology via the architectural precedent. The studio will be both questioning and exploring this notion through a study of precedents. 3. CULTURAL & PROGRAMMATIC STUDY: This study will investigate the nature of leisure in architecture, particularly the relationship between water and bather, as well as life saving, food and building.
THIS STUDIO IS A WORKSHOP OF STRATEGIES AND TECHNIQUES FOR ARCHITECTURAL PRODUCTION CULMINATING IN THE DESIGN OF A SPECULATIVE HYBRID PUBLIC LIBRARY. THE STUDIO AIMS TO SIMULTANEOUSLY EXPOSE STUDENTS TO TWO DESIGN METHODOLOGIES TO PRODUCE A ‘TOOLBOX’ OF STRATEGIES, TECHNIQUES AND IDEAS THROUGH RIGOROUS SITE INVESTIGATIONS AND PROCESS-BASED EXPERIMENTS TO INFORM YOUR PROPOSITIONS AND FORMULATE A CRITICAL POSITION. THE STUDIO WILL ATTEMPT TO DEVELOP SPECULATIVE PROPOSALS FOR THE CONTEMPORARY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOCUSING ON THE DESIGN OF; FORM, SPATIAL ARRANGEMENTS AND LANDSCAPE Footscray is at once a banal inner city suburb with a rich eclectic and culturally specific use of space and appropriation. It will be a fertile testing ground for seeking out both “found” phenomena and ordinary typologies in order to amplify them through rule based processes. The studio aims to create innovative proposals that supersize, exaggerate and heighten these normal qualities.
HELEN DUONG & PATRICK MACASAET Monday 6:00 - 9:00pm & Thursday 6:00 - 9:00pm
* Background composed of layered process and catalogue drawings from last semester’s SUPERNORMAL students: Facade Process by Harry Ha, Form Process and Ramp/Canopy Types Catalogue by Yang Ren & Amplified Bus Stop Typology Plan by Phoebe Wong
“John? Lorne Guyland.” “Lorne!” I said. Christ, what a croak it was. “How are you?” “Good,” he said. “I’m good, John. How are you?” “I’m fine, fine.” “That’s good, John. John?” “Lorne?” “There are things that worry me, John.” “Tell me about them, Lorne.” “I don’t happen to be an old man, John.” “I know that, Lorne.” “I’m in great shape. Never better.” “I’m glad, Lorne.”... This studio concerns itself with an architecture that has its genesis in a distortion, or absurdity, but finds lucid clarification in its final architectural form. Through an ongoing exploration of form making, ideas and maybe some falsehoods, are woven through to characterize what that form may represent. This process will be iterated through a series of other processes through which to layer-up and overwhelm the hapless form until it drips with sensibility. At this point the transition to a building is made with another chance to start again with the
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layering-up of ideas and hard-won mistakes. The architecture we wish to promote in this studio is ambitious and provocative - provoking not just visual reaction, but the sense that spatially and materially the architecture proposed would stimulate the senses. Once the velvet smoking jacket has been doned, the cucumber sandwiches taken away, the business of designing an Embassy will proceed. The programmatic concerns will be private residence, official public and un-official public spaces, with the thresholds between them of particular importance. The site for the Embassy is created and curated through the context that the architecture demands. To arrive at our destination, we’ll use a series of form building exercises using hand and Rhino 3D modeling, a series of marquette exercises that will find their stimulus in a range of films, theatre, music, dance, words and experiences. The classes will be run more as workshops, with thick pens and yellow trace and food. Travesties is about exploring architecture through non-architectural sources, understanding scale, being outraged at the cost of trousers and taking it all very, very seriously...