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008.11.018 045.01.005C 100.5. MUD space
Jane Dash Conrad Hayman Graham Crist
100.7.2-8 008.12.038 045.01.005A 008.12.036 100.07.002-8 008.10.024 008.10.028 045.01.005B 8.11.18 008.10.028 008.12.039 008.12.041 008.12.036 008.12.038 008.07.079 008.12.042
Diane Peacock Leanne Zilka Ben Milbourne Christina Bozan Gwyllim Jahn Jan Van Schaik Peter Brew Jean Paul Rollo Paul Van Herk Ian Nazareth Vicki Lam John Doyle John Cherrey Amy Muir John Cherrey Patrick Macasaet Ben Akerman/Vanessa Mooney Roland Snooks
Monday 20th July 11am location to be advised
Emma Jackson
Research Elective Richard Black and Anna please email black@rmit.edu.au or anna.johnson@rmit.edu.au if interested this is not Johnson balloted
title Tourism Architecture Eco Urban Practices Collage Pattern Building Prof Prac 3 - elective mode min/max living Slowbotics Material On being difficult Biggie Smalls My Xmas Bonus Retcon Cartoonish worlds Dog Box Putting the Pieces together Structuring It Reflections on making Typeshifter Xtra! Sacrificing Form PRP
Tourism Architecture
masters research elective jane dash mon 9.30pm -12.30pm
The evolution of the city is generally not mindful of the interests of the tourist. Architecture with an urban or public conscience is more concerned about the permanent inhabitants of the city over the inauthentic visitor. The city however, provides opportunities for secret journeys, which in the case of Melbourne has great visitor appeal. Typically the city is built and tourist routes are overlaid. The result is often an indifferent, isolated collection of events or places that the tourist must draw together into a narrative. If we were to take a more conscious approach, could architecture play a role in guiding, linking and becoming destinations on the tourist route, capitalizing on opportunities of adjacency? This research elective looks at ways of mapping, discovering and connecting tourist routes through the city. There are three parts to the elective: research, mapping of existing journeys and proposing new architectural briefs for possibile new, broken or incomplete routes to occur. The outcome of this elective will be a folio of analysis, brief and architectural proposal. The focus of the elective is on adaption and reuse, in response to changing patterns of use and understandings of the city.
CONRAD HAYMAN URBANISM/HISTORY ELECTIVE Tuesday 9.30‐12.30 – building 45/c
GRAHAM CRIST IAN NAZARETH
SEMESTER 2 2015 MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE / MASTER OF URBAN DESIGN WEEKS: 1-8 TUESDAY 2:30 - 5:30 LOCATION: DESIGN HUB 100.05.002
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BICITY
This is the third of the eco - urban seminars offered to master of urban design, architecture and landscape masters students. It will build on the projects of last year’s work. Eco-Urban Practices introduces you to the key skills, methods and practices of the urban design professional from a multidisciplinary perspective, and with a particular focus on environmental sustainability. The relationship between urban design and global pressures of population and climate change is a key focus, as well as urban shifts in infrastructure, technology and transport. You will explore the implications of these issues on urban design processes, projects and practices, while acquiring insight from industry and government professionals, following the sustainability paradigm. We will view design practice from a global perspective, with an equal emphasis on the local. This elective will also investigate precedents, utopias, theories and manifestos in order to understand the multiple scales and networks within the city.
Bicity The City of Melbourne has been promoting cycling and more recently motorcycling as energy efficient, space saving and sustainable modes of transport. The seminar will explore the role of two wheels: bicycles, scooters, motorbikes, electrics, hybrids etc as the primary mode of commuting in the central city and thus its impact on the disciplines of architecture and urban design. The transformation will be physical, economic and cultural. Eco Urban Practices will critically engage with precedents: projects, cities and policies to unpack the potentials and limitations implicit in this model. What if two wheelers were the primary mode of commuting in the city? How would this shift impact the street, the sidewalk, the civic realm? Would this fundamentally change the way we experience the city? Might this stimulate new forms of development and programs? What would a city hooked on bikes look like?
From COLLAGE to ARCHITECTURE Communication Elective, semester 2, 2015. Dianne Peacock: dianne.peacock@rmit.edu.au Wednesday 1:30 - 4:30 pm 100.07.002-6
Malin Gabriela Nordin, 2014, collage, title unknown
El Lissitsky. WolkenbĂźgel (Cloud Stirrup) 1924-1925, photomontage, retouched, 40 x 55.5 cm, Russian State Archive for Lireature and Art, Moscow
This subject develops formal and conceptual skills for creating compelling architectural imagery. It draws upon the transformative strategies of collage and from a history of photomontage in architecture; a history linked on the one hand to the avant-garde and its experiments with the media of its times, and on the other, to the development of artistic and commercial applications of photography and film. Photomontage is employed whenever we combine photographic images with our design renderings in order to illustrate to illustrate a design proposal. Despite widespread use, this form of photomontage does not suit every situation or design approach, nor does it make the most of what collage and other media, both old and new, can offer designers. Lectures on the history of collage in art, Dada photomontage and on architects’ photomontage provide a basis for student research into ways they might employ diverse media in their own work.
The acquisition of skills acquired through weekly studio projects and exercises is to culminate in an individually devised collage based project to be presented via a chosen medium: print publication, action, animation, installation, zine or electronic media, to name a few possibilities. Students of this subject should develop: confidence in experimentation and the development of creative processes; skills for the exploration and representation of design ideas and the visualization of problems and arguments; visual editing skills and processes of image sourcing and selection; an overview of relevant issues around copyright and the fair use of source material; the ability to create compelling and articulate visual images and by the production of these images, extend their design processes. Students shall submit a folio containing a series of weekly research and visual projects plus documentation of their final project.
Conceptual and critical skills will be developed through structured group crits and attention to the challenges and opportunities presented to art, visual culture and architecture by developments in visual media. The course is conducted in a studio environment and uses hands-on and computer based techniques. (However the use of specific computer programs is not taught in this subject.) Collage will be used in class to experiment with design and visual ideas, materials, metaphor, scale and spatial orientation.
Dianne Peacock is an architect, artist and researcher. Her PhD research focuses on spatial mystery and collage.
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE 3 (ELECTIVE MODE)
Due to the recent change in the structure of Professional Practice Three, this semester we are offering PP3 as a stand-alone course and an elective for students who have previously completed PP3. The new Professional Practice 3 course investigates innovative project delivery and digital tools. Within the building industry there is a growing interest in innovative project delivery methods and the role that digital design/collaboration tools can play in promoting integration among building professionals and improving design outcomes. This course will investigate how digital design and collaboration tools, in particular BIM (Building Information Modelling), can catalyse significant changes in the practice of architecture and the way the building industry works. By the conclusion of this course you will understand the key differences between traditional and emerging collaborative project procurement methodologies, and with have the basic skills for operating with a collaborative design and project procurement team. BEN MILBOURNE
You will be able to creatively apply problem-solving within the context of project procurement, and will be able to: • Solve problems and work creatively in a group in a design practice context; • Implement and communicate design changes within a digital project environment • Collaborate within a diverse project team, facilitated by digital modeling and information exchange tools. • Analysis design performance in relation to environmental criteria • Analyse project cost and lifecycle cost relationships. • Implement a digital fabrication/rapid prototype workflow and understand risk allocation in relation to design/fabrication services. • Analyse and apportion risk in relation to collaborative project procurement, specifically within the establishment and management of project teams and digital project information. Assessment will include individual and group projects simulating practice and project management problems within the Revit software environment. Note: This elective is open to masters students only. WEDNESDAYS, 9:30-12:30 PM, BUILDING 45A
Min. Living Max. Open to all
Wednesday 5:30 - 8:30pm 0 0 8 . 1 2 . 0 3 6 tutor:
Christina
Bozsan
Housing is a fundamental human need, important to health, emotional and social well-being. The nature, quality and form of housing is incredibly varied and raises many questions as to what our minimum and maximum expectations can and should be of the places we reside. This elective seeks to undertake a survey of housing, to be investgated and expressed through mapping, diagramming and evaulated against a core set of criteria defined by a student lead interest. Students will be set weekly research tasks with the aim of building an understanding of housing in its various forms. We will be looking at examples from: housing astronauts in space, prisons/ hospitals, developer lead housing versus the virtues as espoused by new Architect-as-developer lead models. Key ideas to be explored over the semester are: What constitutes good living? Is smallness enabled by density? How does Australia compare against international exemplars? How do we house the sick and disadvantaged? Does this tell us something about ourselves as a society?
Overview:
Developing autonomous systems for real time robotic fabrication ( Masters elective ) Wednesday - 9:30am - 100.7.2 Gwyllim Jahn
Slow Robotics will provide students with the opportunity to contribute to existing robotic research projects that seek to imbue physical material with a new digital agency using real time robotic control and computer vision systems. These include the design and fabrication of intelligent end effectors for extruding and depositing polyurethane foam and pelletised plastic, the implementation of scanning and vision systems using a Structure IO scanner, the prototyping of ELVIS - an open source desktop robotics platform, the design and development of generative algorithms for operating on physical material using robotic behaviours, and the construction of small physical prototypes using these capabilities.
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Requirements:
The elective is project based and will not be running seminars or tutorials on robotics or programming. Instead support will be provided in the form of extensive workshop and fabrication time and one-one collaboration with tutors. Prototypes will be exhibited and capabilities developed in the elective will contribute to an RMIT lead workshop at RobARCH 2016. Students will be expected to produce individual folios.
The elective will conduct experimental research and students should be comfortable with independent learning. Students should have extensive experience with at least one of the following prior to undertaking the elective: Scripting (grasshopper, python or processing) Robotic Fabrication Voxel based modelling Electronics (arduino)
material the stuff that architecture is made from A single brick is mundane, but hundreds and thousands of them
in large quantities from large outlets and some are only available
stacked together are a deeply moving and fascinating phenomenon.
through bespoke fabricators. Navigating all these variables is daunting.
- What are the materials that buildings are made from? - How do architects decide which ones to use?
This subject will teach you what to look for, where to look. It
- Where do they come from?
will outline the pitfalls and arm you with the skills necessary to
- How do they go together?
communicate with suppliers and contractors, to articulate your
- How long do they last?
choices to your clients and to expand your knowledge to empower
- How are they priced?
you to create compelling architectural languages.
- How are the detailed, general and urban decisions we make during the design process affected by material choice and development. Each material has its own constraints and qualities defining how they react to the environments we place them in, how long they last and what their ecological footprint is. Each has its very own look, touch, feel, smell and temperature. Some can only be ordered
Each student will undertake material research, create a sample-
Alvaar Aalto’s Kulttuuritalo Helsinki, 1955 - 58
board, and develop a project from a current design studio to a high level of material resolution. Final submission will take the form of
when: WEDNESDAYS, 9:30 am
a printed poster, a physical sample board and a printed booklet, the
Where:
8:10:24
tutor:
jan.vanschaik@RMIT.edu.au
digital version of which will double as a folio. Work from this elective will be included in the end of semester exhibition.
note: Masters students only
Jan van Schaik is a registered architect, a lecturer and researcher at RMIT University, and a director of MvS Architects - please visit mvsarchitects.com.au for more information.
Bachelors and Masters Elective- Wednesday 12.30-2.30 PETER BREW
on BEING
DIFFICULT
Who has not put down a book in annoyance or tossed one in disgust, to then read it
without putting it down. Reading is not nearly as straightforward as its made out to be, we skip words, repeat sentences, miss pages and search for words in a box full of them, We are compromised by reading, we are just as likely to be emboldened as insulted or diminished. we encounter difficulty; we experience doubt, and on occasion we give up. To look at books as repositories of knowledge says nothing of the experience of reading, after all it is not our knowledge of doubt but the feeling of doubt that causes books to shut and be returned to the shelf. And it is not what we know about anger but anger that causes a book to be thrown aside. Is it ironic then that the feeling of doubt is a prerequisite to understanding the modern text ? . “I am a thinking (conscious) thing, that is, a being who doubts, affirms, denies, knows a few objects, and is ignorant of many- (“cogito” dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum—res cogitans) Rene Descartes’ 1641 That the very sensation that causes the book to be returned to the shelf is all that we needed to realise its purpose. It followed from Descartes that modern philosophy is the phenomenology of reading, The” I “who doubts; the reader, who mouths the words, is the instrument of knowing that recognises truth. From Descartes truth is not known but experienced; the experience of the reader reading. This project will carefully read a number of primary texts from Philosophy, Aesthetics and Architecture. A reflection on each weeks reading will be the basis of a journal, This will be collated and submitted for assessment at the conclusion of the semester. Text to be exerts from; 1 Aristotle; Poetics (Commentary Giorgio Agamben The friend) 2 Rousseau; The Social Contract (Foucault commentary) 3 M Tafuri; Humanism Technical Knowledge and Rhetoric; The debate in renascence Venice. 4 J von Goethe – On German Architecture (commentary by J Pevsner, E H Gombrich and VonMuke and Purdy et el) 5 Alois Riegl; The Modern Cult of Monuments . 6 Wilhelm Worringer; Abstraction and Empathy. 7 Walter Benjamin; On translation. The storyteller. 8 Ludwig Wittgenstein ;The blue book. 9 Roland Bathe; Mythologies . 10 Foucault; What is an Author- (Giorgio Agambon The Author as Geasture) Michael Speaks 11 Kuhn; The structure of Scientific Revolutions .Agambon What is a paradigm 12 Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari – What is Philosophy 13 Michel Serres; The Natural Contract 14 Jan Turnovsky; The poetics of a wall section
“What matter who’s speaking, someone said what matter who’s speaking” Samuel Beckett – texts for nothing
Empathy (Einfuhlung): ... How the body in responding to certain stimuli in dream objectifies itself in spatial forms - and with this also the soul - into the form of the object. Robert Vischer On the optical sense of Form a Contribution to Aesthetics Before we as individuals are even conscious of our existence we have been profoundly influenced for a considerable time (since before birth) by our relationship to other individuals who have complicated histories, and are members of a society which has an infinitely more complicated and longer history than they do (and are members of it at a particular time and place in that history); and by the time we are able to make conscious choices we are already making use of categories in a language which has reached a particular degree of development through the lives of countless generations of human beings before us. . . . We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong -
karl Popper
The plant contemplates water, earth, nitrogen, carbon, chlorides and sulphates, and it contracts them in order to acquire its own concept and fill itself with it (enjoyment). The concept is a habit acquired by contemplating the elements from which we come……p 106 Gilles Delueze and Felix Guattari What is philosophy Paul Valéry wrote in a very remote context. “Artistic observation”, he says in reflections on a woman artist whose work consisted in the silk embroidery of figures, “can attain an almost mystical depth. The objects on which it falls lose their names. Light and shade form very particular systems, present very individual questions which depend upon no knowledge and are derived from no practice, but get their existence and value exclusively from a certain accord of the soul, the eye, and the hand of someone who was born to perceive them and evoke them in his own inner self.”
Aristotle briefly defended them in his fragmentary Poetics. In particular, Aristotle defended the arts from Plato’s charge that they are cognitively useless, trading in mere images of particulars rather than universal truths, by arguing that it is precisely the arts, or at least poetry, that deliver universal truths in a readily graspable form, unlike, for example, history, which deals merely with particular facts (Aristotle, Poetics, chapter 9, 1451a37–1451b10).
From a door handle, to a chair, to a house, to a gallery, to a tower, to a city, architects are often faced with working on projects across many scales. What happens to an idea once is ‘pumped up’ and reprogrammed? From a door handle, to a chair, to a house, to a gallery, to a tower, to a city, architects are often faced with working on projects across many scales. What happens to an idea once its is ‘pumped up’ and reprogrammed? Students will work through a series of case studies of selected projects by architects at extreme scales with the outcome of understanding the language of the architect – spatial, formal, material, cultural and contextual. Investigations will be tested through comparative drawing studies, planning analysis, 3d modelling and material cataloguing before finally formatting a booklet of the research. Wednesday 9:30 am - 12:30 pm 045.01.005B Jean-Paul Rollo
CREATIVE WRITING W.R.T. PROPOSING SOME FAIRLY POLITICALLY INEXPEDIENT ARCHITECTURES
MY XMAS BONUS EACH week in this course you will write and present a creative writing piece and accompanying design charrette as an amoral & improbable response to a text, graphic, building, urban space or larger ‘wicked problem’. Each student will publish their 12 sets of provocations into a unique folio book at the end of the semester that they will craft themselves and probably not show to their parents. The initial strategy will be the use and abuse of the language of late-capitalist consumer culture in order to dismantle its hegemony from within. That then becomes a model by which to explore the potential for architecture to keep dominant cultural ideas in flux and on the run. With effort, students will learn to identify, question, laugh at and swing dance with their own cultural assumptions and writing skills - with an eye towards discovering fresh architectural forms from fresh written language (and vice versa). This elective is ideal for pre-major students and just about anyone else.
an RMIT Architecture Elective w/ PAUL VAN HERK ..on WED 6.30-9.30PM .. in 08.11.18
RETCON
Semester 2, 2015, RMIT Architecture Elective
IAN NAZARETH
FORMS, TYPES, OBJECTS, FIELDS...
Is the city understood holistically or by the episodic nature of its urban projects? Does the notion of the city emerge from a confluence of ideas, ideologies and spatial orders? Or the continued interactions of political will, infrastructure and environment? What is the city? This elective engages with the form of the city, particularly metropolitan Melbourne, dealing with the forces that shape the urban fabric. As a result of a process of more than a century and a half, the contemporary city accumulates a myriad of forms, networks and ecologies that defines its urban field. Cities are kinetic and constantly evolving as a result of urban projects that simultaneously operate at multiple scales, intensities and densities. Through its buildings, land divisions, infrastructure, ecologies etc., the city demonstrates collective wills. The course will attempt to decode and isolate layers and narratives embedded within the city. Cycling through a collection of lenses, juxtapositions, manifestos and precedents, the course aims to highlight the urban dynamics of Melbourne, and build an operative image of it.
Image Credit: The Analogous City, Aldo Rossi, 1977
‘Retcon’ or retroactive continuity refers to a situation in popular fiction where an alteration to the storyline changes previously established facts, attaching new significance to it. It is a device used to introduce new scenarios, events and test propositions. The seminar deploys this tactic at the scale of the city, to understand and critically engage with a series of urban conditions. The projects will have two distinct phases: The Strip: Delaminating the City and Provocations and Speculations: Visions and Strategies for Future Urban Scenarios. This elective is open to Bachelors and Masters Students. The course is structured around individual design and research projects accompanied by theoretical frameworks. In-progress presentations will take place every week followed by a final exhibition, review, and portfolio of the entire project. Thursdays, 09:30 - 12:30, Location: 8.10.028
Cartoonish Worlds MANIFESTOES FOR THE CITY
The visual language of cartoon and comic strips has been a powerful tool for architects to convey narrative, temporal qualities, and their theoretical agenda. The immediacy (and humor) of this type of representaton have made images of Archigram, the Venturis and even Le Corbusier’s Modular Man iconic manifestoes in themselves. The drawings of more recent architects like Jimenez Lai, BIG, and Atelier Bow Wow have also influenced the way we think about architecture and the city. Assessment: Phase 1. A series of drawing and research exercises through the study of artists and designers. These exercises will focus not only on drawing technique but also on the design of urban form. Phase 2. You will develop a style of drawing to represent unbuilt proposal that we agree on. It can be a project from your portfolio or another urban scale speculative project with significant complexity. You will build a narrative and a set of drawings that you will present to the class. A digital folio will be submitted.
Elective open to Bachelor and Master of Architecture Thursdays 9:30am- 12:30pm 8.12.39 Tutor: Vicky Lam
DOGBOXES
The majority of Victoria’s newest apartments are so small they would be considered unliveable in Sydney, and only one in 20 has three bedrooms or more, according to a state government report. As Melbourne’s high-rise construction boom hurries on, Planning Minister Richard Wynne has released a discussion paper seeking input on how to address growing concerns about poorly designed units. By the middle of next year Victoria’s long-awaited apartment guidelines are expected to be handed to the minister. The reforms could see new regulations on access to daylight, ventilation, noise, accessibility and the size of units and their balconies. It comes as government research reveals that more than three-quarters of new one-bedroom apartments built across the state are 50 square metres or less, which means they probably would have been illegal in Sydney, London and Adelaide. And only 5 per cent of units currently being constructed or marketed meet the needs of households with children, who tend to prefer more than two bedrooms. Victoria has no minimum apartment size, and Mr Wynne is concerned the recent apartment boom has seen the creation of homes, often referred to as “dog boxes”, with little or no storage or outdoor space. - The Age 14 May 2015
In the context of the ongoing debate around minimum standards for apartment design in Victoria, and the recent review the SEPP65 standards in NSW, this elective will attempt to model the implications of the proposed changes and speculate on possible alternative means of providing amenity in multi-residential design. Students will familiarize themselves with the political, social and economic arguments around high density housing and housing affordability in Australia through a series of case studies. Students will examine examples of high density housing in other marketplaces outside of Australia, and will be expected to research the economic and regulatory frameworks in these contexts. The final output of the elective will be the production of a series of speculative apartment models, for sites in Melbourne, with an economic model supporting them. No specific prerequisite knowledge is required, however the course is best suited to masters students undertaking professional practice subjects with skills in revit or other BIM packages. Tutor: John Doyle Thursday Mornings
Thursdays 9.30 -12.30 008.12.036 Lecturer - John Cherrey john.cherrey@rmit.edu.au masters elective
putting the pieces together
In this course, you will explore the world of architectural detailing. If you want to understand how buildings are designed and constructed close up, then this in the elective for you. The approach is hands-on. Following an intoduction where we examine the principles of detailing, you will be commence the first of three assignments. For each assignment you will be given a set of architectural drawings and asked to complete a a selection of the missing details. The work you detail will be form award winning practices, both local and international. the class will be like working working in an office; you produce the work and then it will be marked-up for correction and improvement. During the class, you will be given the architectural & technical know-how to assist you in working through your set of detail problems. Suited to both Masters & Bachelors
St Mark’s Church - Sigurd Lewerentz, 1960
The role of structure in architecture is self-evident. However this elective will review the role of structure in defining a formal response in the generation of architectural expression and the crafting of interior spaces. The revealing of structure in order to define space. In the review of the role of structure, the elective will also focus on the single use of material to define floor, wall, structure. Each week students will be researching and reviewing particular precedents. The review of these precedents will be researched through diagramming, models or photographic montage. The weekly tasks will be presented each class and discussed. These will then be collated as a carefully considered research portfolio at the conclusion of the semester.
Elective S2 2015 Thursday 9.30AM-12.30PM
Open to Bachelor of Architecture and Masters Students Amy Muir
STRUCTURING IT
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The Argument From Authority Fallacy
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Lecturer : John Cherrey Location Level 7 workshop - 8.07.79 Times Thursday 1.30 - 4.30 & 2 x intensive MAKING weekend workshops - dates TBA Elective is suited to both Bachelors and Masters level students Assessment: folio of works & succinct journal
Architecture is all about MAKING in one form or another. In this elective you will explore one area of making in archiarchi tecture, the MAKING of physical objects. You will consider ideas about making including conception, design, scale, precision, tolerance, materials and process. MAKING is a complex task and at its best it requires a synsyn thesis of many things. To be excel in MAKING, reflection both during and after creation is essential; reflection will form a key part of the work you produce.
The work produced will range in scale from very small obob jects, to models and larger scale furniture scale designs. This is a workshop based elective. We will make use of much of the remarkable array of equipment to be found within the school. At the completion of the elective you will have broadened your skill base substantially both is making by hand and with analogue and digital equipment. You will have sharpened your sense of materials by resolvresolv ing a range of task given to you. And lastly you will have developed a far more sophisticated approach to questions and process of MAKING.
reflections on
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TYPESHIFTER P A T R I C K M A C A S A E T Thursday 9.30am - 12.30pm @ 008.12.042
OPEN LABORATORY OF TYPOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS A design elective that will be an open laboratory of typological experimentations looking at how contaminations of ‘other’ typologies can assist in re-inventing core architectural elements (form, circulation, function, etc.) to affect other types. We will view types as pliant, abstract, mutative and adaptable. We will analyse, question, and investigate existing types (small, medium, large) through drawings, diagrams and readings and ask “what else”, “what if” and “how” to produce speculative typological prototypes and ideas.
PROCESS
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EXPERIMENTS
In conjunction with types; we will understand and choreograph process-based experiments as a catalyst for discovering and opening up new possibilities. We will look at starting points, how to choreograph steps, filtering output and manipulating the process to generate a series of architectural propositions that may materialize and focus your research outcomes in various ways: programmatic adjacencies, spatial arrangements, material investigation, models, drawings, diagrams, collages.
CATALOGUE OF CONTAMINATED TYPES Collectively and collaboratively, we will produce a catalogue of contaminated types. This will exhibit individual student‘s curated works on typological analyses, process experiments (failures and triumphs), and big idea speculations.
Elective Timeline Weeks 1-4 : Typological Research & Speculations Weeks 5-8 : Process Based Experiments Weeks 9-12 : Research Development & Catalogue Subsequent to the initial research and early experiments (Weeks 1-5/6), students will be given the freedom to explore and cultivate their own interests. Students may work in groups or individually. This elective is available to both Masters and Bachelors students. No pre-requisites required. Background Base Image: Martian Terrain - Sand Dunes. Their spatial distribution and morphology are sensitive to subtle shifts in wind circulation patterns and wind strengths, causing patterns of erosion and deposition.
RMIT University has instigated an elective course in the Masters Program which enables students to be placed within a practice for 12 weeks. During that placement the student is exposed to various roles within the participating practice which creates research projects for the students to work on - these may take the form of competitions, independently derived speculative projects or possibly primary research within a particular field defined by the practice. The project is an opportunity to interact with an office and a project team, and develop skills in data gathering, analysis and visual communication.
Briefing session Monday 20th July 11am, location to be advised.
participating practices:
NH ARCHITECTURE
ARM
LYONS
ANTARCTICA
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This elective will explore the design implications of sacrificial formwork produced through robotic fabrication and large-scale 3D printing techniques. While the tools of large scale direct deposition and robotic printing have recently emerged, architecture lacks any innovative application of these and a critical examination of how these processes could influence architectural design. This course takes the position that printing buildings is less feasible than printing thin-walled sacrificial formwork which is then used to cast bulk materials such as concrete. 3D printing of the thin surface of buildings components will enable highly intricate surfaces and a new approach to tectonics. The elective will primarily be concerned with design and digital modelling, however several sessions will be held in RMIT’s Advanced Manufacturing Precinct, where we will be 3D printing small scale prototypes, and in the Architectural Robotics Lab where we will be robotically extruding larger prototypes. No specific skills are required, however good digital modelling skills would be an advantage.
DESIGN + PROTOTYPING ELECTIVE ROLAND SNOOKS + CAM NEWNHAM FRIDAY 1:30PM - 4:30PM | 8.11.46
SACRIFICING FORM
Durbach Block Jaggers, Garden House
IPH Nannup House
Wide Open Road: Living in the Landscape Two research assistants required to work closely with Anna Johnson and Richard Black on a book about architecture’s relationship to landscape - to be published in 2016. You will be involved in diagramming, drawing, coordination of drawn information, text and images from architectural practices in Australia and New Zealand and contribute to a research project as outlined below. The project is a book to be published by Thames & Hudson London. It is the first phase of a longer-term project concerning the critical re-assessment of architecture’s relationship to landscape in Australian and Asia that will situate regional responses environmentally and qualitatively. It will present outstanding contemporary houses from Australia and New Zealand architects many of whom are RMIT staff, PHD alumni or current PHD candidates. The book is unprecedented in its scope and content and will extend the current dialogues of landscape and architecture to situate a cohort of practitioners working in regional contexts whilst disseminating RMIT research. This project’s research contribution will be in its critical re-assessment of architecture’s relationship to landscape, the strategic reflection and dissemination of RMIT alumni’s research and practice outcomes in an international publication. We will extend the discussion of the shift in architect’s approach to the landscape and site conditions over the last 10 years as a response to the pressing environmental issues, the growing international presence of the Land Art movement and the landscape architecture profession which has had a direct influence on Australian and New Zealand architecture. Focused on practice-based outcomes that foreground contemporary architectural design strategies and position the work relative to historical precedent, the book will establish a critical contemporary framework in which to understand architecture’s relationship to the landscape.
Anna Johnson and Richard Black more information contact: richard.black@rmit.edu.au and anna.johnson@rmit.edu.au