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occasionally the river floods these places. “Floods” is the word they use, but in fact [the river] is not flooding; it is remembering. Remembering where it used to be. All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get to where it was. T. Morrison a building is not an end in itself; it frames, structures, gives significance, relates, separates and unites, facilitates and prohibits. J. Pallasmaa
Site: Jack’s Magazine + Maribyrnong River Floodplain Scale: Medium + Large Project: Archive | Outdoor Library | Public Park Unbound introduces students to a site-specific design approach site agency - with a particular focus on the relationship between architecture and landscape. The studio is part of a series of studios that explore this set of ideas at the intersection of river landscapes and urban conditions, and investigates new opportunities for reciprocal connection and use across multiple scales and spans of time. Studio preoccupations include: inhabiting dynamic landscape contexts, site histories, physicalizing memory, civic narratives, and architecture as index and register of the phenomena of time and change – an architecture that remembers. The project explores opportunities to re-animate the site as a dynamic flood prone landscape and reveal and amplify the unique remnant qualities of Jack’s Magazine. Inviting the flood into the site acts as the dynamic conceptual and physical catalyst of excavation and transformation. A series of design insertions working across the scales of landscape and building progressively curate the site as a dynamic context comprised of mulitiple layers inviting new opportunities for activity and use. Students work with art, land art, landscape and architecture precedent. The studio places a strong emphasis on the role of drawing and making - explorative, iterative, rigorous, adventurous, elegant.
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How does one deal with an architecturally significant building? What does one do when that building is a multi-storey carpark? TOTAL interrogates the value we put onto heritage, and explores the relationship between architectural merit, programme, and the public realm. Looking at the iconic Total House on the corner of Russell and Little Bourke, the studio will examine the force of the architectural relic, and question its relevancy in present-day social and urban contexts. The studio raises the following questions: How important is the architectural narrative if the function is no longer relevant? Who has authority in determining significance? Should we put people first, or prioritize form in the name of architectural merit? Does programme matter in generating quality public space? The studio will explore the way we read a city through artefacts of the past. We will look at the cause-effect nature of architecture and human behaviour, and speculate on the long-term trajectory of carparks in the public realm. We will investigate modes of occupation, the human experience, issues around preservation, and processes in adaptation, reappropriation, and erasure.
TOTAL Yvonne Meng Mon/ Thurs 6-9
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This studio will examine the vertical farming typology and its potential architectural consequences. The world is urbanising at an incredible rate. While the population expands rapidly, more and more people are living in cities. As of recently more than half of the world’s population live in cities, and the megacity is the fastest growing urban type. At the same time man made climate change is drastically reducing the world’s arable land, jeopardising the world’s food supply. The future of food production lies in intensive industrialised processes that make maximum use of land and other resources. While not yet practical, or economically feasible, this future might include high density vertical farming. Since the turn of the century, more towers have been built in the world than the entire human history that preceded it. While the farming tower has not come to be, it is worth imagining a future in which it might exist and considering the broader implications of folding productive space into the tower type. The studio will depart from an understanding of different contemporary tower typologies (particularly in Asia), and then begin to speculate how the addition of food production and farming might operate as a catalyst for the adaptation and deformation of these types. We will be drawing on generative techniques, both digital and analogue, to extrapolate from farming and biological paradigms and to speculate on the future form of high density vertical farming. The studio will not attempt to solve the scientific, engineering or economic challenges of vertical farming, but rather to think through the architectural and urban implications of this new building typology.
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INVESTIGATION 1: RULE-BASED PROCESS EXPERIMENTS + CONTAMINATING TYPES The studio will be a workshop of typological experiments looking at how contaminations of ‘other’ typologies can assist in re-imagining core architectural elements (form, circulation, program, spatial arrangement, ornament, etc.) to generate new propositions and/or prototypical models for the contemporary working environment. Rule-based process experiments will be deployed to assist in manipulating, distorting, amplifying, shattering, dispersing, [insert action here] the behaviours and qualities of existing types to affect the architectural elements of the office typology. The studio will not only be interested in a process based approach but more so, explore what could be generated in terms of architectural propositions and ideas in this specific design methodology. INVESTIGATION 2 : VERTICAL CORPORATE CAMPUS + EXPERIMENTAL WORK ENVIRONMENTS The vertical corporate campus is an emerging typology for urban development. Largely built in suburban areas where land is cheaper and larger, corporate campuses and business parks do little for social cohesion; and the self-contained suburban work environment is being challenged as new work models and the rise of a new generation of workers are seeking alternative ways of working. The studio will explore the changing nature of work, its continued evolution and contribution to our cities. NO TYPICAL [Plans] As the studio positions itself to a more vertical condition with speculative outcomes, (generally) no ‘typical plans’ will exist. Students will be strongly encouraged to go beyond the ‘diagram-world’ of the early process experiments and develop their projects beyond diagrammatic formal and spatial/programmatic outcomes producing projects that also investigate practical concerns such as; vertical circulation, programmatic adjacencies, and site. Site: Footscray
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Bachelor of Architecture Studio Second Semester 2016 Supervised by Rowan Opat
In this studio you will develop architectural ideas around perception, perspective and time. You will compose narratives and the most fanciful of forms. You will use generative design tools. You will translate your forms into the realities of simple building. You will design 4 medium scale commercial buildings divided throughout the semester. The first three schemes will be for medium scale commercial buildings set on a regional freeway site. The fourth will be a culmination of the ideas from the first three schemes and be set on an inner city site. We will be looking at local examples of commercial architecture. We'll study artists Francis Bacon, Brett Whitley and Daniel Crooks. Assessment will be based on all weekly tasks and experimentation. Background still from video Train No. 8 by Daniel Crooks
Mondays 6 - 9pm & Thursday 10am – 1pm
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Preparing the Ground
….site is a collection of scales, programs, actors, and ecologies that includes past imprints as well as future changes (Andrea Kahn) ….A minimal intervention to trigger regeneration, the least possible to start the process….the essence of urbanism (Alison + Peter Smithson) Architectural Agenda: sites are considered to be spaces full of meaning. We endeavor to uncover their thick description imbued with past imprints, histories and narratives made by those who have been there before us, by geological and environmental forces, and from memory and desire. There is no such thing as an empty site. We design the site as our first move – to prepare the ground and the context for our actions. The subsequent marks that we make mediate between architecture and landscape, the body and the environment, between inside and outside, and occur between, in, on, above, and below the skin of the earth. The responses we make become reintegrated into site to become a new found terrain that will generate new narratives, be weathered by time and the environment and become memories of the future. (Sand Helsel and Richard Black, X Field Exhibition, Melbourne 2013) https://xfieldexhibit.wordpress.com/introduction Issue: “Saving Small Towns from Fading Away…. There are towns like Nyah Western 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 a small rural community: a hands-on-urbanism, to plot a sustainable future; “a regime of care” (Leon van Schaik); small scale actions to facilitate regeneration. Site: Maldon (population 1000 people, 130kms North West of Melbourne) is a small town situated at the base of Mt Tarrengower – it is a case study location to explore strategies for small town regeneration. The site is on the edge of Maldon’s Historic Reserve and the town’s main street. The Historic Reserve is a terrain vague, of ruined mine sites dating from the gold rush period: a landscape evoking the complexity of Andrea Kahn’s quote (above). It is a place scarred by past mining excavations, contaminated ground, scattered with remnant buildings, fragments of industrial infrastructure and a still functioning mine site. The site is part of a much larger network of nationally significant gold rush heritage sites identified by the State Government as having significant tourism potential. The studio will explore this this potential for a longer term sustainable future for Maldon. Tools + Techniques. The studio will introduce you to a range of design strategies and techniques around the theme of site scholarship. This will include: on site and off site operations, careful observation informing action, the section drawing and model making as key design tools, processes of subtraction and addition, displacement, layering, accretion, slippage, designing at strategic scales to address a range of siting relationships. Key case study projects by architects: Carlo Scarpa, Enric Miralles and Sverre Fehn. Project: the design of a hybrid …museum / education space / community infrastructure…building. Your design response will be derived from a careful reading of the town and its landscape as well as the opportunities afforded by the overlay of site based design strategies. The overlay of Preparing the Ground – is a siting strategy to forge common ground between the past, the present and future reading of a location. It is a process that privileges siting as a way to bring a range of things into a relationship over time. This studio challenges you to develop a design response that is derived from a careful reading of the sites full complexity. The semester will be structured into 3 parts: Week’s 1-3 introduction to the conceptual concerns of the studio, through site visit, key texts and case study projects. Mandatory Site visit 23rd and 24th July, 2016 Weeks 4- 7 develop a design strategy for the hybrid museum / education / community / building that addresses the architectural agenda of the studio. Weeks 8-12 detailed design of a fragment of the building –a threshold between inside and outside Michelle Black, RMIT University, Bachelor of Architectural Design, Design Studio, 02 > 2016. Teaching: 2.30pm-5.30pm, Monday and Thursday. Room:TBC
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Studio- Bachelor of Architecture studio The Architecture Underground The project considers Melbourne University’s car park as a site for architectural speculation. The iconic car park designed by Civil engineers Loader and Bailey in 1972 We will devise a spurious ruse for doing this, a new library student lounge/union/ space/ a teaching hall gallery , maybe all of these or combinations, Enough to necessitate a course of action by us to overcome what are obvious environmental deficiencies- lack of light, ventilation space volume access as a prelude to any form of habitation . so obviously we will be doing this so that we can do that. All of which is, as I suggested, a ruse so that we can explore problems that are internal to architecture, the architecture of Architecture. The intention is to run a series of design esquise exploring those necessary technical, programmatic and logistical problems in parallel with workshops to develop a competence in making and manipulating virtual models. It is envisaged that design explorations and the project of representation will( awkwardly) overlap , as with competing demands or a divided loyalty; that there be some confusion, an un- decidability as to the nature or extent of the problems; as to the conception or of representation of architecture , Ultimately the studio will consider if representing a virtual architecture virtually is What Hal Foster sugest; The return to the real[i]. The studio Will run from week 1- 14 Tuesday and Thursday Morning ? http://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/3808/download-report[ii] [i] Hal Foster, 1996. The Return of the Real Art and Theory at the End of the Century [ii] What is significant? The Underground Car Park is located in the heart of the University of Melbourne’s Parkville campus. The car park had been provided for in the Campus Master Plan which was prepared by Bryce Mortlock in 1970. The scheme provided a solution to the problem of too many cars on the campus whilst simultaneously providing a landscaped area above. It was designed by the architectural firm Loder and Bayly in association with Harris, Lange and Partners. The engineer in charge of the project was JL van der Molen. Excavations commenced in May 1971 and the car park was completed by November 1972. Landscaping of the South Lawn area above the car park and areas adjacent to the Baillieu Library and John Medley Building were carried out by the firm of Stones and Rayment. The Underground Car Park is constructed of reinforced concrete shells with parabolic profiles supported on short columns. The columns contain drainage pipes which allowed for the planting of the lawn and trees of the South Lawn. The east entrance contains a door from a 1745 house in St Stephen’s Green, Dublin whilst the west entrance is framed by two Atlas figures from the demolished Colonial Bank, Elizabeth Street.
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paramnesia.2 / gwyllim jahn / Paramnesia is a Bachelors design studio interested in the sensual formal languages and fabrications that arise through conflations of digital and physical material, volumetric sculpting and algorithmic design. Agenda
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With the recent explosion of commonly accessible computational techniques, algorithms and tools, deja vu may be familiar to those casting a discerning eye towards a parametric design proposal, as students struggle to overcome steep learning curves, limited numbers of exemplary case studies, and dogmatic performance criteria. This studio is fundamentally about open ended exploration of digital design tools, free from the constraints of constructability, performance, cost and critical theory. Instead we will develop methodologies for observing, characterising, judging and curating the outcomes of generative algorithms in order to build an argument for design agency, novelty, wonderment and delight. This will form the basis of esquisses, physical models, precedent studies and readings during the first 5 weeks of the studio.
In contrast to a parametric process in which outcomes are typically the result of linear and deterministic sequence of operations, Paramnesia will develop tools that are non-linear and exhibit unpredictable effects, forms and organisations. This does not mean we are undertaking a stochastic mode of practice but rather will investigate relationships between behaviours, objects and artifacts and how these relationships can take on agency for a so-concerned architect or designer. The studio will undertake a number of esquisses that study how to articulate, synthesise and analyse the artifacts of these processes though 3d-sculpting software (as a means of engaging with design objects in a tactile and in a top-down fashion) and pattern generation techniques (that draw out implicit qualities in objects and processes without subjective direction from a human designer).
Paramnesia reserves the right to conceal its intentions for a final project. Suffice to say that throughout the semester you will produce 1:1 prototypes of jewellery and exhibition designs and eventually resolve a space for the study and instruction of Architecture. The studio will ask you to consider fundamental design challenges of designing at material scale, resolving relationships between elements and wholes, considering strategies for expressing envelopes, and pondering computer aided processes of making and assembly. We will fabricate chunks of your designs for end of semester presentations and exhibitions. As such we may become interested in the conflict between generative processes and the desires of the architect as we push these formal languages to take on their own unique properties, qualities, approaches and quirks in response to fundamental architectural criteria.
THE LAND BETWEEN NIC AGIUS + CLAIRE SCORPO - MON & THURS 6:30-9:30 This is the third iteration of a studio that draws focus on material language within the Western district of regional Victoria. The interest lies in uncovering the value of site through thorough investigation of local archaeologies. By means of a parallel investigation of local tectonics and site histories we aim to tease out vestigial narratives that give us agency to develop a strategic brief to engage with the Lake Pertobe Reserve. Warnambool is located 3hrs South West of Melbourne at the end of the Great Ocean Road and forms part of the ship wreck coast. There is a 3 night field trip to Warnambool from the 4th-7th of August. Students will immerse themselves in the town and its locals and gather first hand research through measured drawings, site analysis and guided tours. An exhibition of the student work will be held in Warnambool at the end of semester. There is a focus on developing material understanding through rigorous model making exercises and testing broader contextual relationships through considered drawing.
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This studio will focus on the design of an new indoor sports building and community precinct master plan for the former North Fitzroy Gasworks Precinct. This is a live project and Places Victoria are currently running a community consultation about the future possibilities of the site. The City of Yarra have already identified a need to rejuvenate the site through the provision of an indoor sports centre that would provide facilities for basketball, netball, badminton, futsal and squash. We will be taking this on board as a brief but also see an opportunity to master plan the existing buildings and activate the outdoor spaces to provide public amenity and community spaces. The studio will form part of our ongoing research into the idea of building type and how this can be reinvented, in this case, the sports facilities as civic and public spaces. We are also interested in the cultural, historical and material conditions of a site and how an examination of these conditions can help construct a new civic narrative for the area. We are not interested in the craft of a building for craft’s sake but rather how a building can tell a story, both in the way it deals with the site and what it can contribute to the questioning of a particular building type.
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The studio objectives are: • Research and develop a critical architectural response to the sports building as a type. • Research and respond to the cultural and historical context of the North Fitzroy Gasworks site. • Research and respond to the civic and social conditions of the site. • Research and explore the rich history of sport in Australia how this might inform an architectural proposition. • Explore the materiality and façade treatment. • Explore the sectional and circulation possibilities of the sports building type. The studio will be structured around the production of bi-weekly esquisses carried out by students both collaboratively and individually for the first half of the semester. Working in pairs, the second half of semester will focus on the development of the final project. Classes will run on Monday evenings 6.30-9.30 and Thursday evenings 6-9pm
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LOWER POOL STUDIO ROLAND SNOOKS & MARC GIBSON This studio will explore the design of intricate forms, their atmospheric affects and strange qualities. Advances in robotic fabrication and building-scale 3D printing is about to radically change the relationship between cost and form, with highly intricate geometries becoming cheaper than conventional fabrication of rectilinear geometry. What does this mean for architecture? What are the ethics of aesthetics when formal complexity is separated from expense in a time of supposed austerity. This studio will explore the notion that form is no longer descriptive of the socioeconomic status and instead shifts the focus onto the qualities of form itself. Within this context the studio will develop a design process that combines painterly direct operations with emergent algorithmic approaches to create a strange hybrid of the two. Architectural forms will be interrogated for their affects, poise, and strangeness. A constant interaction between painterly and algorithmic strategies will be encouraged within the studio, so rather than a linear or sequential relationship between various aspects of the design process - these will be explored simultaneously, interacting within a continuous feedback. No experience with algorithmic tools is required, however a willingness to engage in these tools and highly iterative processes is essential.
MONDAY 1PM - 4PM | 100.08.01 (Design Hub) THURSDAY 1PM - 4PM | 100.08.01 (Design Hub)
In a world where we are striving for public space to cater for many uses and dualities, the studio looks at the role of the city square and how this becomes a key driver in the requirement of other spaces to service it and define it. City squares are traditionally an open plaza boarded by buildings, colonnades defining an occupiable and traversable in-between landscape. They are also representative of a meeting place for public gatherings and political demonstrations. What role does the city square play when establishing a new precinct, a new collection of buildings, a new place? What role do the surrounding buildings play in the definition of this space? The role of the precedent is always regarded highly within the design studios. The precedents will be utilised as a mechanism for testing various programs on the site and will then assist in forming a variety of building typologies utilised to reconsider the role of the city square. What might the city square then become? Students will be engaged with model making, rigorous site, program and precedent analysis reviewing the role of the civic gesture verses that of the utilitarian condition of place making. Sections, sections, sections. BA Design Studio S2 2016
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‘The limits of my language mean the limits of my world’, Ludwig Wittgenstein, 5.6, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
Fortify will continue the trajectory of our form based studios aimed at developing a diverse formal vocabulary. The semester will start with the exploration of defensive structures, fortifications, castles, bunkers and polystyrene. Students will then develop strategies to fortify the threatened Nylex Silos in Richmond. The studio will explore form both generated and found through a series of esquisses to interrogate and uncover their architectural potential. The first half of semester will focus on research and development exploring digital and analogue tools related to form and form making. They will be composed as a ‘triptych’ of digital craft, history & architectural elements; by way of exploring the fundamental forms that comprise a building. Outcomes will be communicated through drawings and formalised with both physical and digital models. In the second half of semester, students will develop a building design for the assigned site, incorporating the strategies explored earlier in the semester. Students will need to consider the suitability of their forms and evaluate their potential. There will be an emphasis on using the computer to generate outcomes although no experience with the software is required. Software covered: Rhino, Grasshopper, 3D Scanning, Meshmixer, 3D Coat, Vray.
Monday & Thursday evenings 6-9 Anna Jankovic & Andre Bonnice