WE ARE THE WORD (SEM 2, 2020) by Bom Kitrawee

KITRAWEE RUDEEJARUSWAN PORTFOLIO S3754613 SEM 1 2020

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT 03 Critical Reflection 04 Studio Brief 07 08 12 13 14 15 18

City is a political ground Week 06 Week 08 Week 09 Week 11 Week 12 Final Crit

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Inordinate iterations Week 02 Week 04 Week 10 Week 12

CRITICAL REFLECTION “WE ARE THE WORD” studio introduces students to the literacy process and four tenets. Although they are entirely new for students, the organization and procedure of these new skills proofed to be highly practical and useful for students, in this short introduction, the challenge, strength, and weakness during working the whole semester will be demonstrated. Looking at the challenge, the most challenging thing is understanding problems and origin source problems. There are various urban issues introduce in this studio; however, solving the visible issues might not alleviate the civic issues. Proposing intellectual proposition need a design that challenges the social norm to make people to see a problem with a clear eye and enlighten to see what the real issues. Moving to the strength of this studio, the first and most important one is understanding the four tenets “Subject, Object, Brief, and Site”. These four tenets introduce by studio leader helps students to organize their thought using four different drawings such as Axonometric, Details, Programmatic Diagram, and Site ground plan. These drawings must help students to support their literacy process and statements. Tenets make students think comprehensively within various dimension in a physical process. Steven’s reading resources and Background readings are another strength for this studio. The resources introduce to students with new inputs every week, leading to a broader and more profound in not only architectural design, but also economic, cultural and environment dimension that affects the built environment. This gives students a more in-depth and referenceable resource to support student literacy process. Although there are many strengths in this project, there is some weakness student found while working on this project. The first weakness is that some problems are intangible such as in this folio “Political Power” it is a thing that not tangible and connected to citizen thoroughly visible only in the balloting. This makes the project to be highly challenged to visualize and make the audience believe that it can be changed. In conclusion, although the design outcome might not reach the level that I do not satisfy, the skills and knowledge receive in this studio is making all the time spend in this studio worthwhile. I want to use this place to pay gratitude toward my studio leader STEVEN CHU. Kitrawee Rudeejaruswan 14 JUNE 2020

WE ARE THE WORD STUDIO BRIEF

The agenda of this studio is to engage with the complex and contradictory nature of architectural design and to instill the ethic of working with structure and rigour during the design process to study and generate multiple, articulated positions for an ideas-led venturous design practice leading to speculative spatial outcomes for urban environments. Through a literary-process-based exploration, students will be introduced to the curation and purpose of critical design where speculative visions and detailed resolutions are interdependent, to produce thoughtfully executed propositions that catalyse new interpretations of the practice of architecture as intellectual and cultural production. Students will be introduced to a literary process of designing, guided with a tangible framework aimed at generating openly speculative yet thoughtfully executed architectural propositions. The word will be identifi ed as the generator of architecture. Each student will work on crafting a major proposition for cities using the Central Business District in the City of Melbourne as a departure point, specifi cally focusing on one city block. Loaded with creativity and aspirations to address, critique or challenge social, cultural and environmental issues and existing urban design policies and framework, this studio seeks to promote the role of the architect and the skill of architectural thinking beyond the traditional boundaries of architecture.

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CITY IS A POLITICAL GROUND Built environment is a machine of control. The city is designed intentionally following the dreams of people who understand how to control the flow of power. Resulting in a disproportionate influence on political power to manage limited resources in the urban area. The cities become a tool of mass control, transforming the citizen into a docile body who ignore and opt-out from formal politic. The reduction of confidence in political of new generation citizen is one of the most solid evidence. People are being discriminate and systematic racism from the current political system. The time for a change is coming. The city that designed from the citizen who live in the bottom of social structure is our aim for this project proposal which will be demonstrate through design development.

WEEK 06 The lack of public space from the original urban planning from Robert Hoddle is the started point of institution discrimination on the citizen. To express and resolving this issue, this proposition focuses on elevating platform to express the need of freedom of speech out of the influence from formal political institution. The design iteration uses the area of laneway as an act of rebellion.

READING LIST Dogma “Stop City” Archizooms “Programming After Program” Retrospective “Archizoom and No-Stop City” Gaston Bachelard “The Poetics of Spaces” Everyone, everywhere: the global challenge of Climate change

Laneways are developed unintentionally from the local citizen from land division out of the speculative of local institution. This area would be used to elevate human right and freedom for people of minority, race, colors and refugee.

AXONOMETRIC VIEW

SITE GROUND PLAN

PROGRAMMATIC ZONNING

PLAYGROUND PERSPECTIVE

SECTION PERSPECTIVE

WEEK 08 The urban proposal needs to consider urban development where proposal is opened for development and customize. The urban encroachment take growth and deform into consideration by giving an open framework for future development. This proposal give instruction to emerging buildings to share private space to public space. The public space will become a co-own area between public and private, hoping that this would enhance the public responsibility between people of money and minority people. However, this is not solving the problem of uncollaborative between governments and citizen. READING LIST Rem Koolhaas “Why I wrote delirious New York and the other textual strategies” Chris Stulpin “Diversity & Inclusion: The new Approach needed to avoid cultural irrelevance” CABE “Inclusion by Design” Aldo Van Eyck “Neglected Legacy: Amsterdam’s seventeen Playgrounds” Grid Plan – Wikipedia Hoddle Grid – Wikipedia Angus Kingston “How the Kids of Melbourne fought for their playgrounds” State Library of Victoria “Melbourne City Grid” Matt Smith “Robert Hoddle’s grid and the birth of Melbourne” Yina Sima “The historical transformation of Melbourne’s City Centre” Maren Elias “The Hoddle grid as the emergence of Modernity of Melbourne” Michael Lahanas “Town (or Urban) Planning in ancient Greece”

AXONOMETRIC VIEW

WEEK 09 To express the freedom of thought in public, the balloons are used to represent different ideology in public sphere. Each ideology that has been supported by the public would be fill with nitrogen gas to increase the size of balloon to wider audiences in public. The ideologies that got less support until fade away from public interest would be put in archive and research by researchers. With this method, even the smallest idea would mean something to society or future generations. Everybody will be heard and respect.

AXONOMETRIC VIEW

WEEK 11 This proposition experiment on the built environments that free people from control by using different level on ground plane to divide area. Using the area above the heritage buildings as a place of independence from the institution. This iteration would advocate people to understand how live equally in an space that is free to roam around without any partition or typical space division. This experimental living space program would dedicate for civic literacy, making an active citizen from a docile body citizen to raise awareness on the importance of formal public institution.

READING LIST Libby Porter “Coexistence in cities: The Challenge of Indigenous Urban planning in Twenty-first century” David Cunningham & Jon Goodbun “Propaganda architecture: interview with Rem Koolhaas and Reinier de Graaf”

AXONOMETRIC VIEW

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WEEK 12 This iteration is a development from previous week, by disperse the civic platforms onto all space above heritage buildings. This would change the way how control streetscape level by heritage buildings to a place of expressing social movements to stir a shift of perception of the formal institution to local institution. The form that use to express this idea is a continuous floor that change form according to optimize space requirement. This would change the way built environment designing from a ready made to adaptive environment that is free of control, but supporting a self-govern act of individual.

READING LIST John Ploger “Foucault’s Dispotif and the city” M. Foucault “Discipline and Punishment the Birth of the Prison” Foucaul “Power is Everywhere, Understanding the power for social change” S.Moghadam & M.Rafieian “If Foucault were an urban planner: An epistemology of power in planning theories” Aeon Essays “Why Foucault’s work on power is more important than ever”

AXONOMETRIC VIEW

Funtion Shape Zone

Arrange on site perimeter

Drape

Trim with heritage plots

Skin to expose hidden power in the city

PROGRAMATIC ZONING

LANEWAY SECTION Center Section

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16M 8M

CIVIC PLATFORM LAYOUT

FINAL CRIT The final iteration develops a way that the emerging built environment can neutralize the existing built environment by understanding how current system effecting on citizen perception of institution. By using elements in the proposition such as 3D civic printings, Civic platform, Recycling plants and Promenade ramps. These elements help to neutralize each POWER elements from the governments that disperse in our society. Each element will help the citizen to learn about the art of citizenship. The art of citizenship is a study program that advocate for stopping the illiteracy in civic activities. Since people who wield disproportionate influence on power used the old-guard of current political system.

SITE GROUND PLAN

CIVIC PRINTING FUTURE CITY IN PRINTING AFFORDABLE

HOUSING

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ACTIVE AREA

CIVIC PRINTING FUTURE CITY IN PRINTING

MEETING

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CLASS ROOM

STORY TELLING

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Middle of Street Scape Control Level

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ACTIVE AREA

WORKING

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HOUSING

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ASSEMBLY AREA PLAYGOUND

WORKSTATION GLOBAL NETWORK POLITICAL NETWORK INFORMATION GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION DISCOURSE AREA STUDY ROOM ART OF CITIZENSHIP MULTIMEDIA NEW GENERATION AUDITORIUM POLITIC CAFE ASSEMBLY AREA DEBATE ARENA LISTENING WHISTLE BLOWER NARRATIVE NEUTRAL AREA WORKSHOP

HEARING AUDIENCE

CONVERSATION

CONVERSATION DISCOURSE AREA

NEUTRAL AREA

MUSEUM

PUBLIC RELATION TEMPORARY EXHIBITION

POLITICAL ACHIVE

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PUBLIC SPACE CRUSHING

RECYCLING

HEARING

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NEUTRAL AREA PUBLIC RELATION

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CIVIC PLATFORM LAYOUT

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This proposition endeavor to establish an ecosystem that support learning from bottom up. At the lower level, citizen will learn about the existing power elements in the built environment to understand what things are controlling them. Then at the civic platform in the middle, this place would be a place where citizen practice their power in an open area where citizen is free and inviolable built environment. This way will citizen will practice decision making system, promoting the sense of agency where action and consequence of every decision is clearly see in the built environment.

FORMING DIAGRAM

CITIZEN TOWER DETAILED SECTION

PRINTING DECK SPACE

RESIDENTIAL AREA SPACE

DEBATE AREA SPACE

INORDINATE ITERATIONS Although there are some iterations that might not directly related to design development, these radical iterations usually show an extreme case of each idea to the point where it is not successful anymore. These designs give us a better understanding how the current education on politic power can disillusion our understanding of a better freedom of speech or power free built environment. Some iterations try to allocate power into the machine where citizen are the person in charge, or some iteration that extremely divide people into cell in hoping that it would promote individuality and freedom of speech for a citizen; however, these resulting in a prison like built environment which is on the other opposite of freedom.

WEEK 2 The first iteration focus on the leftover space inside city block. The leftover space is a place where it is highly humid and accumulate of unpleasant things in the city. The laneways space become a place of crime and vandalization to give architectures or city block a sensor that will indicate the health of built environment using fungus bricks.The more the fungus grow the higher indicator of lack of sanitary in the built environment. However, this small intervention is not going to change the way build environment is built or how the future city will be organized. READING LIST Allegory of Cave Etymology - Wikipedia Plato Theory of Forms The World Cities in 2018 Robert Kennedy “A tiny ripple of Hope” Le Corbusier “Toward an Architecture” The Strategist Canary in a coalmine

WEEK 2 PRESENTATION PLATE

WEEK 4 Humankind cannot unify into a mass under a ruler who is a person because person when effecting with power of control will corrupt absolutely. This iteration experiment on a society that put their faith into a machine that helping citizen to live with the need to machine to contact without side world. This is what I believe on that time the only way where human can reunite as one base on the sense of survival. However, this show a negative future development where all hopes and dreams corrupt, leading to people unify not for the sake of human development but for survival.

READING LIST Fear of loneliness “How the state uses insecurity” Europe and the Virus “The Battle of Narrative” Lebbeus Woods “War and Architecture” How COVID-19 is altering our Perception Walter Benjamin “The work of Art in the age of Mechanical Reproduction”

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2. Residential area cover with car doors 3. Roof garden on collonial building 4. The pit for worship and ceremony 5. The pilgrimate tower 6. THE CRANE

AXONOMETRIC VIEW KITRAWEE RUDEEJARUSWAN (S3754613)

AXONOMATIC

WEEK 10 This iteration based on the design of megastructure that combine the units of living into the structure of this proposal to bind every element into single entity. This place would advocate the freedom of speech by uniting personal public space in a room to a greater public space outside. Expecting that combining the space in this manner would blur the boundary of ideology to a point where all thoughts are easily discussed in public area. Unfortunately, this iteration is identical to a prison where space is distributed by partition, activities of people filled the space, citizen share a communal space in the center where everyone can see. This way of design will reduce all the individual thought to only thought that accepted by the public which may reduce the freedom of thought in general. On the other hand, promoting a place where different ideology can occur might be a more appropriate way of design. READING LIST Dogma “Pretty Vacant” Pier Vittorio Aureli “Living/ Working: How to live together” Pier Vittorio Aureli “Production/ Reproduction: Housing beyond the Family” Christophe Van Gerrewey “How Soon is now? Ten problems and Paradoxes in the work of Dogma” Fosco Lucarelli “Reinventing Monumentallity: the competition for the district of Les Halles in Paris by A. Moestroli” Dogma “LIVING AND WORKING: How to live together” Karen Mundine & Richard Weston “Telling the truth about Australia’s past will be painful – but it will be liberating”

TYPICAL FREEDOM OF SPEECH UNIT

WEEK 12 This iteration criticizes the top down policy making system where the head of state direct what the society should be by proposing a policy that overlook the pre-existing citizen of Melbourne people. Governments usually mange by focusing on the numbers; however, this way on designing and managing overlook the life and cultural value of people. This iteration design a space promoting a civic literacy on an original plots division from Robert Hoddle. To show that all line that governments propose on the policy paper, there are people life in there. This design calls out for a more considerate on a line on paper that ruler draw on the policy as same as the architect who propose a new design of urban design that should be a human centric method.

READING LIST K. Griffiths, C. Chivers, D. Wood “Influence in Australian politics need an urgent overhaul – here’s how to do it” Margot O’Neill “Poll Data reveals Australia’s waning interest in politics, decline in support for democracy” Katherine Murphy “The big tune-out: few Australians follow politics closely, Guardian Essential poll shows” Dr.James Arvanitakis & Siobhan Marren “Putting the politics back into Politics: Young people and democracy in Australia Discussion Paper” The Strategist Canary in a coalmine

AXONMATIC VIEW

SITE GROUND PLAN

PROGRAMATIC DIAGRAM

PROPOSED SECTION OF ONE TOWER