RMIT ARCHITECTURE BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO BALLOTING POSTERS
SEM 2, 2019
SPECIFICI T Y SPECIFICI T Y SPECIFICI T Y SPECIFICI T Y SPECIFICI T Y SPECIFICI T Y SPECIFICI T Y SPECIFICI TY SUZANNAH WALDRON MON /THUR S 2-5PM
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This studio will explore urban renewal as a housing solution. A piece of Caulfield racecourse will be transformed into a high-density city. You will explore concepts of the picturesque as a way of responding to the existing urban setting focusing on creating form and surface. Students will develop a design response for part of the site and resolve a small portion in some detail. Drawing will predominantly using computer modelling. We will examine shadow and light and reverse engineer it as a design tool. Students are required to produce drawings on a weekly basis in combination with esquisses. You are required to engage in discussion within the studio to develop their ideas and drawings. A folio and end of semester posters will form a major part of the assessment.
Urban Orné Supervisor Rowan Opat Mondays 6.30 – 9.30pm & Thursday 9.00am – 12.00pm Bachelor of Architecture Design Studio RMIT University Second Semester 2019
Le Corbusier, plan for Rio de Janeiro, 1929
Jolimont City Mon 6:30pm & Thu 2:30pm
In this studio you will make sectional models of a new micro city replacing Birrarung Marr and rising above the Jolimont railyards. The city will run from Flinders Street, on its northern edge, all the way to the Yarra river on its southern edge.
The design process will involve dividing the site into strips (like La Barceloneta) each designed by a single student. This will enable you to speculate at an architectural scale, while testing results at an urban one.
An antidote to Federation Square, Jolimont City will connect the CBD to the river and be a vibrant district that meets the commercial ambitions of Melbourne, creating belonging for its citizens, and speculating on new modes of making Indigenous Australia manifest in the contemporary city. Tutor: Jan van Schaik - practising architect at MvS Architects, a researcher and senior lecturer at
RMIT Architecture & Urban Design, and a creative and cultural industries strategist at Future Tense.
jan.vanschaik@rmit.edu.au
LOVELY BANKS
SOPHIE DYRING + CLAIRE SCORPO | Monday Evenings + Thursday Afternoons
Lovely Ba anks is a de esign studio o inve estiga ating g housing, re esidential ne eighbourho oods and domestic con nstruc ction technologies wiith a focus on affordability. It aiims to provid de students with a board architec ctural education intto houssing and neighbourhoods thro oug gh precedent analysis, readin ngs, indusstry presenta ationss, model making, diagram mmin ng, dessign esqu uisses and la arger design pro ojects.
Through the lenss of re ele evant pre ecedents, and consstru uction techn nologies; pre e-fab briication, kit-of-parts, panelised d syste ems and volume buillders, sttudents willl invesstigate and analyysis; master plann nin ng, precinct plannin ng, house e planning, mate eriality and build dability.
Analyysis work on n prec cedentts and constrruction tec chnologie es will be completed d in grroups of four. A matrix will proviide a structure that each stude ent will have a diff fferent pairing of prec cedent and constrruction tec chnology from each otherr.
Design esquisse projectts at the e completio on of anallysis work will be individual. Mid--se emesterr and final projjectt will alsso be indivvidual work. The ae esthetic outcome is unknow wn, rath her stude ents will be encoura aged to design through lessons learn ned th hrough h theirr an naly tical work.
Supporting reading mate eria al has been ch hosen to specifically foreg ground hum man ha abittation botth within the ciity an nd the hom me. A presentation giiven by a social houssing g providerr will alsso reinforce the studio os objective to o teach stud dents abou ut hum manity in arc chitecture e.
SUPERHIGHWAY “Since the industrial revolution, innovations in transportation technology have continued to re-shape the spatial organization and temporal occupation of the built environment. Today, autonomous vehicles represent the next disruptive innovation in mobility, with particularly profound impacts for cities.” AnnaLisa Meyboom, Assoc. Prof. UBC SALA What happens when we re-think the pattern and flow of urban and inter-urban vehicular infrastructure? How do our buildings and places, and our means and methods of access, adapt and change? What new building types emerge, and which ones need to be adapted to survive? What does the new City look like? The Superhighway studio is a speculation on our urban and architectural futures in the face of rapid infrastructural evolution explored through the prism of the
autonomous vehicle revolution. Fundamentally preoccupied with one of the cornerstones of architectural thinking – how we move through space – the studio encourages novel, imaginative and futurist architectures informed by experimentation and recursive testing. The studio is non-technical - it is unconcerned with the mechanics, accuracy and technicalities of changes in vehicle use rather, it is an opportunity to imagine and dream. Students will develop a mid-scale urban architecture that grapples with a transport condition informed by research in the early half of the studio. Examples of what this project could be include the adaptive re-use of a multi-storey car park, infill development along a major arterial, a new city street, a new suburban housing typology, a pedestrian transfer facility, or something else.
Students are encouraged (but not required) to use simple generative software to enrich their process, including Anylogic (vehicle and pedestrian simulation) and Grasshopper (with plugin Quelia), with opportunities for in-class workshops to build these skills. The studio will have three phases: (1) background research, searching for sites, diagramming change, and future speculations; (2) pitching a proposition, testing of the proposition using a generative tool, and the development of both to inform a preliminary architectural idea [mid-semester]; and (3) iterative development and refining of the project towards a final project [end of semester]. Mondays 2:00pm - 5:00pm Thursdays 6:30pm - 9:30pm Tutors: Edmund Carter and Evie Blackman
Semester 2 2019 Bachelor of Architecture Studio
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Peter Brew Allan Burrows Monday Morning . Thursday Morning Over 24,000 Victorians and 116,000 Australians are homeless on any given night (ABS, 2018) Homelessness for those affected it is a vivid and urgent situation. It is little wonder that we can only think of this as an emergency calling for the most immediate of solutions. How does one respond to perpetual emergency ? Should we consider instead a plan for Homelessness ? Then instead of it being a crisis we could consider it as a situation, and from that construct a rational and thoughtful and lasting response to that. Despite evidence that homelessness is a real thing it is yet to be expressed as form The proposal is to consider ways that looks at homelessness in a way that is positive and seeks to find a form and typology for that form. We see this as something that the profession of architects has not attempted to do, choosing only to define homelessness as a lack of home , rather than a situation. Architecture recognise situations as things, Schools, houses ,factories dairies and office buildings, and in these things we recognise form. We are interested how students who share a demographic with the largest individual sample of Homeless people( 16-25) might be able to imagine a form for homelessness. We are interested in the immediate intuitive response might become the basis for a more general solution, how expression might lead towards a break in the cycle of blame and inaction.The studio will explore a number of distinct albeit related projects, An Induvial house, an apartment building with one house, an legal instrument and a rule, and a financial model As the Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) celebrates its 50th birthday, it’s actually being used less and less to withdraw cash in Australia. There are currently more than 32,000 ATMs across Australia – The conversation 2017
UN RUIN For the Bank of England commission in 1830, Sir John Soane presented the bank’s governors with three oil sketches of his proposal; The first depicted the building as ‘new’, the second of it weathered, and the third showed it in a thousand years time, as a RUIN. Through an investigation of past and present RUINS of art and architecture, this studio will explore what might take place in order to reconstruct a ‘RUIN’. The ‘RUIN’ provides a freedom to rebuild; but how do you rebuild a RUIN? How might a RUIN be reconstituted from its parts? Where does its value lie, that would otherwise be overlooked in favour of starting anew? This studio will interrogate the history of ‘the RUIN’ and ask student to consider what it means to design a building for a thousands years. Students will RUIN and REBUILD throughout the semester - to develop a final proposal that considers the RUIN and the REBUILD of the South Lawn Carpark at the University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus. The carpark has fallen into a state of ‘disrepair’ and we will question and test it’s UN RUIN. Through the exploration of geometrical ideas there will be a focus on the resolution of considered formal compositions of ways to UN RUIN. Compositions should reflect a well-considered critical arrangement to develop a rich architectural expression of relationships between form, program, site and materiality. The studio will begin with a focus on researching and developing a repertoire of design techniques through a series of culturally embedded design esquisses. These explorations will be a ‘triptych’ of digital craft, history & architectural elements; with the aim of developing students’ computer literacy, presentation skills, their application to investigation and critique.
ANNA JANKOVIC
MON 6:30-9:30PM | THU 9:00-12:O0PM
thedifferent: augmented assemblies Bachelor of Architectural Design Studio // Weeks 8 - 14 // Mondays & Thursdays 10am - 4pm // with Sean Guy The Different: Augmented Assemblies is a Bachelor of Architectural Design Studio at RMIT University that will run as an intensive during the final 7 weeks of Semester 2 2019. Augmented Assemblies will investigate the relationship between timber & woodworking craftsmanship and mixed reality construction techniques at architectural scale. Students will be using the HoloLens, an augmented reality headset, to view and build their designs at a 1:1 scale. Augmented Assemblies aims to engage in a feedback loop between algorithms, formal outcomes and HoloLens fabrication in a highly iterative design process. Workshops will be run in studio to develop students’ digital skills in Rhino and Grasshopper. Students will use these digital tools to create large matrices of designs borne out of their algorithms, and will be taught how to evaluate the qualities of their iterations through themes of emergence, pattern, composition, intricacy and assembly. Students will create algorithmically designed mass-customized timber systems as small esquisses, before testing their final designs at the scale of a pavilion at the site of the NGV Garden. Students will work intensively moving between digital models and the physical models constructed using augmented reality. Students will develop knowledge and skills in timber construction, joint detailing and assembly, and will begin by making small balsa wood models of their design, before moving into larger ‘chunk’ models showcasing the craftsmanship of their final pavilion.
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The studio will be a workshop of generative and typological experiments investigating how contaminations and transformations of diverse typologies can assist in re-imagining formal, spatial and organizational architectural elements for learning environments and re-examine civic relationships (form, circulation, program & spatial arrangement, ornament, etc).
Rule-based process experiments will be deployed to assist in manipulating, distorting, amplifying, shattering, dispersing, and {insert action here} the behaviours and qualities of existing types to affect the architectural elements of school typologies. The studio will not only be interested in a process based approach but more so, what could be generated in terms of architectural propositions in this specific way of working.
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This studio is part of a research and design led exploration of and speculation on alternative models for work/live/learn typologies through specific site conditions and typological rule-based experiments. This studio will speculate on Models for Education Alternative Typologies.
TERRITORIES (C) HAZY TERRITORIES + FOOTSCRAY LEARNING PRECINCT
(B) MODELS for EDUCATION ALTERNATIVE TYPOLOGIES [MEAT]
The studio will continue its exploration on speculative strategies for learning environments on specific site and architectural conditions. In contrast to the previous studios, we will prioritize in developing campus models for learning (secondary) environments. At an urban scale we will question civic presence and contribution to specific urban conditions; formal and ornamental strategies – exploring formal strategies, scenarios and identity; and learning spatial and programmatic arrangements – examining spatial relationships and interaction between different learning modalities and civic interface. Site: Footscray Scale: Medium - Large
The studio will be a vehicle to seek out architectural possibilities - generating experimental propositions and prototypical spatial, formal and urban models for learning environments and its relationship to civic programme and form. In contrast to the first three Learning Frontiers studios, this iteration will prioritize in developing three of Footscray’s future learning hubs that make up the Footscray Learning Precinct with a specific focus on the relationships, territories and interfaces of a learning environment to community and suburb. The studio will develop learning hubs that integrate new and existing school typologies, civic programmes and infrastructure. We will see learning hubs as a network of civic asset that could be stimulated for current, future and emerging needs. The studio questions what if learning precincts extended their value and capacity beyond learning programmes and become precincts ‘for the community’ rather than ‘in the community’? What might a dispersed learning+civic campus resemble? Although there have been numerous literature surrounding schools as civic hubs, very minor go beyond programmatic concerns nor explore what they may look like formally, spatially and experientially. Speculative explorations will merge with the practicalities of real-world conditions. The studio will curate and advance the ideas and propositions from the prior studios; building on the knowledge stream to students’ proposals. The studio will continue to explore the compositional possibilities offered by a procedural approach – going beyond learning territories.
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Architecture & Contemporary Art In 2018 the National Gallery of Victoria announced that they would be commissioning a new major gallery adjacent to the NGV International - dedicated entirely to contemporary art. This studio will take on that brief, with students developing their own propositions for the NGV Contemporary. Throughout the semester the studio will closely examine the relationship between architecture and contemporary art - looking at their interaction, overlapping influences, and points of difference. In this studio students will develop
architectural techniques for the design of art galleries. Contemporary artists often use specific techniques to produce aesthetic affects in their artworks. Students will closely examine the work of contemporary artists, abstract the techniques of these artists, and apply them to specific architectural elements to produce new types of architectural affects.
experimentation with strategies that students have gleaned from both the world of architecture and the world of art. Students will also learn to design spaces which are specifically made for particular artworks - addressing questions about how gallery spaces should relate to the artworks that they house.
Students will be required to develop an understanding of the art gallery as an architectural typology, and meet a complex brief for a significant public, cultural building. At the same time the studio will encourage
STUDIO LEADERS: AMY EVANS + CONOR TODD TIME: 6.30PM - 9.30PM MONDAYS + THURSDAYS
YIMBY! (YES (YES IN IN MY MY BACKYARD) BACKYARD)
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RMIT BACHELOR’S STUDIO_SEM 2 2019
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COMPLEXITY NIC BAO HESAM MOHAMED Robotic fabrication and 3d printing are radically changing the feasibility of constructing geometries with a high degree of complexity. Therefore emerging architectural languages that leverage the capacity of generative design and digital fabrication methods are able to create a highly intricate built architecture in the near future. This studio will re-explore concrete through algorithmic design architecture with intricate, chaotic and strange qualities. The aim is to reach an equilibrium between highly speculative architectural forms, manufacturing constraints of concrete structures and structural optimization. This design studio employs prototyping, structural performance & optimization and digital fabrication as a necessary tool kit to inform and characterize the design process, to explore new hybrid fabrication methods and to develop new hybrid materials and techniques. The studio will be parallel with master’s design studio and elective by A/Professor Roland Snooks and Natalie Alima. Mondays & Thursdays from 6 - 9 pm
SCENA
Studio Scena will explore how emerging technologies, such as high resolution 3d digital scanning and photogrammetry, can provide access to formal complexities and topological structures for the production of theatrical and performative architecture. Students will engage with the idea of semiotics and representation of space within film and how filmic representation of space can inform a new reconstructed architecture. Students will be required to reconstruct an architectural experience informed by a photogrammatric and diagrammatic deconstruction process of filmic precedents containing scenographic value. This studio will speculate on time-based architecture, through digital sculpting and animation techniques, to asses the space of film and the evolution of the architectural screen. The results of these experiments manifests into a larger understanding of semiotics and how it can be used as new designing methods in the physical realm of architecture, with a focus on re-examining the possibilities of form generation and the current performative space within the Capitol Theatre site. Studio Leader_ Mel Iraheta // Mondays 3-6pm & Thursdays 6-9pm
RMIT BACHELOR’S STUDIO_SEM 2 2019
HIGH RESOLUTION ARCHITECTURE: AUTOMATED MATTER Dr Alisa Andrasek with Joshua Lye In the world that is rapidly converted into information, physical processes are increasingly dematerialised and malleable. Recognizing that architecture is as fundamentally informational as it is material, studio will explore design systems for complexity, necessitated by the increasingly volatile state of the planet. Future constructed environments could be characterized by enhanced resiliency, plasticity, and malleability of complex interrelated systems; in short, increased designability within complex ecologies, allowing for design proposals of unprecedented nature, complexity and scale. Generative algorithms, big data, machine learning, AR, and robotic fabrication are disrupting micro to macro conditions of architecture, engineering and construction. This semester studio will be focusing on algorithmic design and physical prototyping, innovating in hybrid conditions between matter and automation. Robotics will be used for prototyping novel construction, combining extreme precision and programmability of the robots, with the natural properties of materials, including material noise. Highly intricate robotically fabricated prototypes will be used to reoriginate novel material and architectural states, searching for superperformance and fresh aesthetics. Structural and organizational patterns discovered through simulation and fabrication will then be deployed as speculative architectural sequences across multiple orders of scale, from the scale of a detail to a scale of a large architectural system applications. Students will be working in teams throughout the semester and prior knowledge of Rhino, Grasshopper and similar software is highly recommended. Mondays & Thursdays 3:30-6:30pm
(a CityX project) Exaptation is a biological term that implies a shift in the function of a trait during evolution. A character, previously shaped by natural selection for a particular function (an adaptation), is coopted for a new use - cooptation. <> A character whose origin cannot be ascribed to the direct action of natural selection (a nonaptation), is coopted for a current use - cooptation. ― Stephen Jay Gould and Elisabeth Vrba The studio will co-opt and engage with this concept within the domain of procedural architecture and urbanism, with a focus on formal and behavioural logics. Cities embody societies’ conceptual, cultural, and intellectual enterprise. Through the instrumentality of its built fabric, the city expresses an implied projection of formal and structural determinants, but is, as well, a register of cultural, religious and ideological stimuli. Urban architecture is both a critical appraisal and cognitive reflection of these values. Urban processes are the primary mechanism for transmission of patterns of social and political plurality. Cities are predicated on ideas. In architecture and the context of this studio, ‘exaptation’ relates to the broad themes of emergence, analogues and emulation. Emergence of urban form will focus on processes and procedures through which architecture is generated and critiqued. Analogues and urban emulation are prescribed as a possible mechanism and trope. Here, the phenomena by which specific building forms or its collectives, observed in a particular place or era, are transposed elsewhere and arise anachronistically. Emulations are not merely pictorial treatments, copies or reproductions, but rather are associative and attempt to imitate behaviours of buildings and precincts they reference, appropriations without neutering their context. Projects will invoke historical, canonical and contemporary precedent, forming an architectural and urban analysis tested on an urban precinct and at an architectural scale, with a mixed-use architectural proposition. We will be deploying these tactics and procedures on a site in Nansha, China, addressing future city living through explorations into the four key urban focus areas, Commerce, Knowledge, Mobility and Technology. We will harness deep learning i.e. Artificial Intelligence and ZBrush as a design technique. The studio is partnered with XZT, China and forms part of a suite of City X design studios running at leading design schools internationally. The work from this studio will be exhibited and presented at the 2020 Venice Architecture Biennale - Biennale Sessions and published by Thames and Hudson.
Ian Nazareth Semester 2, 2019, Bachelors Architecture Studio Mondays 3.30pm - 6.30pm and and Thursdays 9.00am - 12.00pm.
Image Credit: Nick Cubbin, Feather Detail - Waterbird
Made in Brunswick The Victorian Government has announced the Brunswick Design District (BDD)an agreement has been established between Moreland City Council, Creative Victoria and RMIT University. This district is currently directed predominantly through urban planning mechanisms and real estate opportunities. Studies show links between established areas of diversity and multiculturalism attracting the â&#x20AC;&#x153;creative classâ&#x20AC;? who provide creative production and in turn enterprises seek out. Gentrification and displacement in Brunswick is inevitable. Opportunities exist for students to critique this model and the motivations behind establishing districts by contributing directly to the planning and direction of the BDD from an independent position. This studio will closely examine the strip of commercial and mixed-use land bordered by the Upfield Line and Sydney Road. Typified by small masonry industrial buildings, a complexity of space and a multiplicity of function belie their relatively small footprint. They mingle seamlessly with carparks and temporary vacant lots. The absence of hard boundaries allows expansion, contraction and innovative ways of occupying urban space. Looking at traditional light and cottage industries practiced in the Upfield/Sydney Rd corridor we will speculate on what is inherent in the architectural DNA of these buildings that makes them amenable to continual appropriation. We will examine the way waves of migration to Brunswick have sustained this intricacy of use and the habits formed by its occupants. These assumptions will be tested by adapting disused buildings for the proposed migration of small creative enterprises and create new layer of use and identity whilst highlighting the existing composite urban fabric, building type and history.
Helen Duong & Tim Pyke Monday 6:30-9:30pm Thursday 9am-12pm
human emerging emerging human tutors | caitlyn parry (rmit architecture) & lucy irvine (ANU textiles, artist) Monday 0900 - 1200 Thursday 0900 - 1200 In a time when AI, computation, automation, robotic-labour displacement are ironically being designed by humans to make ourselves redundant, where can we as architects and designers place our selves? This studio presents an ethics that values the human in the design and construction of architecture. The human; as augmented with technological prosthetic and becoming, to the human as biological and as craftswoman, enabling the emergence of complex and sublime geometries. This studio seeks to explore ways to value being human and how one might start to conflate and differentiate between the body, technology and architecture. The studio will experiment with that geometric potentials are embodied and expressed that can counter the notion that architecture is typically composed of platonic / rectilinear extruded elements. We draw on the idea of prosthetics, a technological extension of the body, supplementing both structure and function, as a device to explore how we might augment the body, and where architecture is designed from the body, not just for the body. Exploring these geometric potentials will culminate with developing an armature structure that will be built as a group using AR technology. There will then be a workshop run by artist Lucy Irvine where students will construct a surface that operates across the armature. The workshop with Lucy will open up dialogue about our physical relationship to space and how forms and ideas might emerge through iterative, responsive processes. Students will then be asked to reflect on these embodied experiences, and consider how the process has influenced the way in which they design for and represent space, digitally.
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Cities are delineated by their streets and layout, but it's only by experiencing them that they become alive. We believe cities are made of out of a sequence of simultaneous -and personal- events. This studio looks at cataloging and understanding the way these events interact with the built environment. During the semeste semester, students will catalogue the events occurring at the edge conditions of the Hoddle Grid, and design a building that mitigates the seemingly hard divide occurring where the Grid collides with the inner city suburbs and their urban fabric. Group work? Yes, in pairs, during the first half of the semester. Individual final projects. The studio will work as a collective research group.
Alonso Gaxiola & Rafid Hai Mondays and Thursdays 6:30pm RMIT Design Hub