RMIT Architecture Electives Sem 2, 2011

Architecture Design Electives Posters semester two, 2011

Masters of Architecture ARCH1338 ARCH1339 ARCH1340

Bachelor of Architecture ARCH1040 ARCH1041

Both Bachelor Electives and Master Electives will be balloted for via PAPER BALLOT. This means filling out and submitting a ballot paper into the Elective ballot box on level 12, building 8.

The Ballot Box for Electives will be available from 1pm Tuesday 12th July until 12 midday the next day, Wednesday 13th July.

enquiries: Pia Ednie-Brown, Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Design RMIT University, pia@rmit.edu.au

melbourne.australia

Architecture

architecture.rmit.edu.au

Elective offerings list and schedule.

DAY Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

TIME 2.00-5.00

LOCATION 10.11.24

Paul Minifie/Gwyllim Jahn – Rumble in the Jungle

2.30-5.30

8.11.51

Susan Massey – The Five Obstructions

9.30-12.30

B45B

Marika Neustupny – Attached-Detached

12.30-3.30

B45B

Mauro Baracco – SSCC

5.30-8.30

8.11.42

Marcus Fajl – Flatland

9.30-12.30

88.6.14A

Vivian Mitsogianni - Dematerialise

9.30-12.30

10.11.27

Ivan Rijavec – Boyd’s Error – Planning's Curse

2.30-5.30

UAL – B45

Louise Wright – all change [Masters]

9.00-12.00

10.11.24.

Jane Burry/Alex Pena – Flexible 3D Modelling

9.30-12.30

88.5.6/6A

Martyn Hook – Thermomass

9.30-12.30

8.12.38

Helene Frichot – Arch + Philosophy [Masters]

9.30-12.30

8.12.42

Brent Allpress – Contemporary Ornamental Practices

9.30-12.30

level 7 workshop

John Cherrey – Make

2.30-5.30

8.12.43

John Cherrey – Putting the Pieces Together [Masters]

2.00- 5.00

9.9.13 –N Space

Peter Holmes – Design for the Sound of Architecture

6.30-9.30

8.11.39

Mei/Kelly/Kovac – Visualising the Virtual Concourse

6.30 – 9.30 8.11.58

Bruce Allen – International Practice

Intensive Electives Wk 1-6 Tues

2.30-5.30

21 Jul-18 Aug Tues + Thurs 9.30-1.30

B88 project office

Graham Crist – Lifeskills

8.7.11 project space Ephraim Joris/Riet Eeckhout –Drawing on Circumstances

Research Assistant Electives Mon

2.30-

NMBW office

Laura Harper – Melbourne Scrutiny

Thurs

9.30-12.30

ARM office

Mark Raggatt – ARM Monograph

Times negotiated

Tbc

Salter office

Salter Architects –Cold/Wet

Times negotiated

Tues 2.30 wk 1

Bld 15 Lv 2

Harriet Edquist – Homesteads of the Western District

Times negotiated

Thur 4pm Wk 0

8.12.27

Simon Whibley – 1:1 interface

SCRIPTING IN RHINO WITH GRASSHOPPER AND PYTHON

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TUTORS: PAUL MINIFIE, GWYLLIM JAHN TIME: MONDAYS 2:00 - 5:00 ROOM: 10:11:24 SIAL COMPUTER LAB

Scripting offers a whole new and exciting set of powerful generative design tools.

Students will explore parametric and code-driven design methods for producing responsive, adaptable and fabulously beautiful archi tectural forms.

Students will work in collaborative research groups with computer science students exploring ideas such as physical form-finding (think Gaudi's string models, Frei Otto's surface and fibre models) flocking and behavioural agent systems, implicit surface models, and a host of other advanced methodologies. Computer science students will develop back-end function libraries, while architecture students will use these libraries in their scripts to tackle design challenges. The kind of models produced will be suitable for cad-cam fabrication. We will focus on the Python and Grasshopper scripting languages for Rhino, but many other softwares will be available for exploration (including Maya).

PREREQUISITES: This elective is available to Masters students, and Bachelors students who have completed Communications 3. It assumes a good general knowledge of Rhino.

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PHOTOS FROM ATTACHED - DETACHED DESIGN STUDIO, SEMESTER2, 2010 / ADJACENCIES IN BRUNSWICK STUDIED BY MHAIRI MACLEOD

ATTACHED-DETACHED ATTACHED-DETACHED is a research elective investigating the charged spaces between houses and housing. ‘Attached’ and ‘Detached’ are well used adjectives for categorising housing types. But these words also indicate very physical (and emotional) ideas about how things relate to each other. We will study how attachment and detachment might occur along the length of a boundary; how considering entry into and circulation through a dwelling can affect programmatic and volumetric relations, how the precise dimension of window placement and orientation contributes to neighborliness/ privacy.

The subject hopes to help students discover interest and potential within the ‘tedium’ of suburban surrounds, at the same time providing useful architect-designed comparisons (including international modernist, current local) as an analytical tool. The process of developing analysis together should be a strategic aid for future individual design projects.

Fieldwork, including measured drawings, photographic recording and architectural analysis of found conditions will be the mainstay of the semester. Starting with each student’s home suburb, areas of Melbourne will be grouped by date and dimensional similarity to work towards an overall assessment and instructive summary. The outcomes will include drawings, diagrams and models each week. The work will be gathered together as part of an ongoing set of investigations, with the aim of future publication.

Marika Neustupny, Semester 2, 2011 B45B Tuesdays 9:30-12:30

SSCC ELECTIVE SSCC INITIATED PROJECTS:

GUESTT G LECTURE L E SERIES

T S R I F R A E Y D N HA K O O B

Tuesdays 12.30 - 3.30 pm Building 45 Room 45B Coordinated by Mauro Baracco and the SSCC

Semester Prospective Projects:

Aims:

Continue with past semester initiatives such as the Lecture Series, first year handbook and the blog.

To learn skills relevant to working in an office in the area of project co-ordination and management.

Provide a networking platform for students, staff and external professionals.

Gain an understanding of the RMIT architecture school.

Allow the opportunity to set up and implement self directed short term and long term projects and events that will contribute to architectural culture both within RMIT and in the broader community.

- Please take note that students are encouraged but not required to stay involved with the projects after the semester end as a part of the SSCC Committee.

Interviewing lecture series speakers and other design professionals for publication and radio broadcast.

To assist in monitoring the teaching and learning activities conducted within the architecture program.

Attend and contribute to architecture and design related organisations (such as the Robin Boyd Foundation) and their events.

Elective Past Projects: Design market Student run Lecture Series (ongoing) The Blog (ongoing)

Develop relationships with other programs in the school of Architecture and Design.

Planning stages of a first year handbook publication

To experience architecture and design culture in a context broader then the walls of RMIT Architecture.

Involvement in Robin Boyd foundation events, Open house and the Melbourne State of Design

This elective will involve producing architectural representations through perspective line drawings as an alternative to the use of rendering software. Students will explore various digital techniques for creating perspective drawings with pictorial clarity which communicate tonal depth and materiality in much the same way that architects produced renderings before the advent of computer graphics.

The elective will involve close examination of the perspective drawings of particular architects working prior to computer graphics as well as the work of artists representing the built environment through non-digital media. Exercises will involve 3d modeling in order to generate flattened perspective views to be delineated using a variety of digital workflows explored throughout the course of the semester.

All classes will involve computer lab time using Rhino3d, Illustrator and Photoshop.

Familiarity with these applications is advantageous but not necessary.

Tutor: Marcus Fajl.

Tuesdays 5.30 -8.30

A DESIGN ELECTIVE (advanced architecture).

Wednesdays 9:30am- 12:30pm 88.6.14A A DESIGN ELECTIVE (advanced architecture) in which we will undertake design experiments into form, design technique and process. The question of dematerialisation (formal, cultural, social, spatial) will be investigated as a red herring through which we will consider wider questions and ideas.

What can dematerialisation as a contemporary condition brought to architecture allow us to nd for architecture? What does a building look like in its dematerialised form – what propositions can be developed for architecture (surface, arrangement, spatial conditions, representation and so forth) by seeking to explore formal dematerialisation? What does the word even mean?

What can we learn from artists and scientists about materialisation (or dematerialisation)?Can we use the physical presence of architecture to explore its absence – its erosion – its void?

THE RETURN OF THE REAL**: How do we deal with representation and the difculty of the familiar and the known in process-based experimentation?

We will look to art, lm, science (and other disciplines) for techniques and processes that we can co-opt and use in architectural experiments?

We will produce: a series of architectural propositions that may manifest themselves in a number of forms; ornamental facades, spatial arrangements, models, drawings, material explorations. After initial set experiments (and tips on setting up process-based experiments in which we appropriate techniques from other disciplines to develop architectural propositions) students will be given the room to pursue their own interests and develop their own experiments.

DEMATERIALISE ALL THAT IS SOLID MELTS INTO AIR* VIVIAN MITSOGIANNI There will be no brief – no site – just the space to undertake formal explorations and experiments into the design process – no empty formalism – just loaded form (culturally, politically) – and discussion about how architecture can engage with things far greater than the necessary certainty and banality of the medium (doors, walls, roofs).

This elective would suit students interested in the following: >understanding how to develop process-based (rule based, generative) experiments that are based on techniques and processes external to architecture. >experimentation and practicing generating architectural form >embedding architecture within wider cultural/socio-political discussions >struggling with architecture and meaning >developing their skills in understanding how architecture might be judged >who like reading and doing.

Notes: Contemporary processes and techniques are not incompatible with ambitions and ideas in architecture BUT somewhere along the way (particularly in advanced architecture circles) the techniques were mistaken for the ideas….we will explore what it might mean to struggle to lead with ideas.

This elective considers architecture as being able to engage with ideas and meaning much greater than itself….it seeks to discuss how we might struggle to do this… how we might judge what we produce and how we can develop techniques to assist us to ‘load’ the architectural project.

Predator 1987

Ball-Nogues 2009

Likeness The Matrix 1999 Quaranteed

by David Mach 1994

Pixels by Patrick Jean 2010

sunken monument by Ricky Swallow Inception 2010 1999 *After Marx and Engels and Marshall Berman ** After Hal Foster

BOYD’s ERROR

PLANNING’s CURSE

HAS BOYD’s PEJORATIVE ASSESSMENT OF MELBOURNE’s INNERCITY BRICOLAGE TRANSMOGRIFIED INTO CONTEMPORARY NEIGHBOURHOOD CHARACTER REGULATION? HAS BOYD’s ERROR BECOME PLANNING’s CURSE?

Main Streets are primary urban elements. They have become fundamental to the structure of our cities and suburbs, defining their characters and identity. The adhocisms’ that typify the streets of inner Melbourne such as the one in Brunswick Street Fitzroy, above, are ignored by the heritage overlay assessments which have been deemed to apply to them. Typically these assessments look for consistency, respect and the townscape’s degree of intactness rather than iconic contrasts and ironic accidents for example, that might define a particular quarter of a city or Main Street.

This research will examine whether current assessments of “preferred urban character” as required by local councils are a viable means of determining appropriate Main Street architectures for the next half century. The objective will be to anticipate our inner urban zeitgeist proposing a new paradigm for “preferred urban character” that comprises a broader frame of reference placing more emphasis on the future.

We will also re-examine Boyd’s pejorative assessment of Melbourne “The Featurist Capital” where in his terms “every block down the entire length of every street is cut up into dozens of different buildings, cheek to cheek, some no more than twelve foot six inches wide, few more than fifty feet, some only two storeys, some now days over twenty storeys and growing higher. And every façade is a different colour, differently ornamented, and within its two dimensional limitations a different shape. It is a dressmakers floor strewn with snippings of style”. This re-examination will investigate the notion that Boyd had gotten it wrong, that his “dressmakers floor strewn with the snippings of style” is in fact a viable, new world urban expression that he had viewed through a European sensibility and therefore misunderstood.

PROGRAMME 1. The programme will begin with a photographic survey comprising every building along say five blocks of the main streets of Fitzroy, Collingwood, Richmond, and Carlton. This survey will be collaged into a continuous strip representing the streetscapes as they appear in reality. Teams of between two and four would be allocated each main street which will be represented such that it appears like a “photographic elevation” in a manner similar to Ed Rucha’s, “Every Building on Sunset Strip” and like the one of Fitzroy illustrated above.

2. Each building will be annotated describing its architectural character according to its period, type, scale etc.. Some of this information will be retrievable from online heritage data bases, though students will be required to annotate the remainder on the basis of their photographic surveys, research and observations.

3. Each group will critique the development of “their Main Street”, by making a distinction between what happen pre the proliferation of planning in the nineteen seventies versus what has happened since, proposing a theory on what should happen next. Boyd’s pejorative will be re-evaluated in these terms.

4. Using readymade contemporary designs, either exemplary ones or possibly designs authored by participating students, speculate on what the urban evolutions of these strips might be: (i) According to the prescriptions of planning regulation (ii) According to contemporary urban zeitgeist and anticipations of the future growth of Melbourne.

EXHIBITION 5. The photomontages resulting from the above will be exhibited at PinUp Gallery in Collingwood in mid October.

Montages will be mounted in tiers of three showing the progressive iterations of each team together with enlarged “Kruger” like graphic text that animates the exhibition with dialogue both posing and answering questions. Ideally sixteen students would be required to successfully complete a comparative reference between the four high streets.

TIME Wednesday’s between 9.30 and 12.30 PLACE

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Ivan Rijavec - http://www.rijavec.com/

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upper pool design studio: Tuesday 10am ­ 2pm, UAL space Bldg 45 Mauro Baracco, Melanie Dodd, Graham Crist Architectural thinking and climate change Architects are used to integrating complex systems, competing needs and seemingly polarised aims. Through the design process, they move towards the whole through research, case study, speculation, and testing. This dynamic process often leads to innovative and provocative combinations of programme, siting, and built form where outcomes can be far reaching, addressing issues beyond the traditional domain of the building. It is just the type of process and thinking that is so critical to addressing complex issues of climate change.

How and where people live, work, and produce their food and how these solutions interact with the natural environment must be re­thought to combine sustainable social and environmental solutions.

These issues land at the feet of traditional concerns of architecture: land use and urbanisation, big and small systems and relationships. What role can architecture play?

The Studio This studio will place architectural design in a leading position to develop design based solutions to climate change by considering the traditional concerns of land use and urbanisation anew. The studio will focus its investigations on the rural and urban contexts of the Wimmera region, located approximately 300 kilometres north­west of Melbourne. The studio will be orientated around three fundamental and inter­related concerns which underpin how we might continue to live sustainably and regionally. Each of these will be represented through a strand of research undertaken within the associated all change elective!"#$%"#&'(")(*+",-."/#'0'")(*"#"'1.23&#,04."5*',"1*(6.2,"($"($."()",-*.."*.&.4#$,"'0,.'"0$",-."70++.*#"%0',*02,8"9),.*",-."5*',"1*(6.2,"',3%.$,'":0&&"(1,",("2($,0$3.":0,-"($."(*"(,-.*"'0,.; theme for the duration of the semester.

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What does it means to be able to plan the topography of a single digital model that can assume many forms without altering its structure?

How can we link models together or to their environments such that they are dynamic in response to external conditions?

This course explores these and many other questions about change and structuring models for change: issues that tax designers from all disciplines

flexible 3d modelling for design + prototyping

Coordinator: Jane Burry + Alex Pena de Leon (formally Gehry Technologies) Time: Location:

Thursday mornings between 9.00am-12.00pm, starting 21st July Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory, Bld 10, Lvl 11 Room 24

Reviews Location:

SIAL Presentation Space, Bld 97 Lvl 3 Room 5

Enrolment

As this is a Quota elective open to all disciplines, and offered in the School of Architecture and Design in the Advanced Technologies pole undergraduate students should enrol with the course code INTE2108 and postgraduates with the code INTE2107 For more details, visit the SIAL website: http://www.sial.rmit.edu.au/projects or contact jane.burry@rmit.edu.au

Course Description The aim of this course is to give students from diverse disciplines expertise in linking these to physical modelling and prototyping. This will be achieved through skills-based instruction and hands - on project - based learning with an introduction to DIGITAL PROJECT parametric design software. It will serve undergraduates in areas of study including but not excclusive to architecture, design, engineering, jewellery, textiles, new media as well as postgraduates starting study and design practitioners seeking professional development. It introduces an approach to modelling that can be applied in design studio, postgraduate project work and professional practice. The course is divided into demonstrations and presentations with hands on exercises and work on a preliminary design task that introduces the main principles involved in associative geometrical modelling. The second component is dedicated to tutorial and seminar support for individual project - based work shared regularly within the class. There will be opportunities to generate physical prototypes using rapid prototyping and traditional modelling techniques. Projects will be reviewed in class as the principal basis for assessment.

Huw Wellard _ Thermomass Stackhouse

Thermomass Housing for Fire MC163 Elective (Technology) Semester 2 2011 Martyn Hook We will continue the ongoing research of this elective series in the exploration of the potential for the Thermomass insulated, prefabricated concrete panel system to provide economical housing solutions with advanced thermal performance. This semester we will focus development on a new set of constraints in the form of the new code for housing design in fire prone areas. You will design and document a small family house that complies with the BAL FZ Code and seeks innovative use of the Thermomass system. The work produced shall be presented to the Bushfire Reconstruction Authority and will be published on the Thermomass website. Reference www.wewillrebuild.vic.gov.au and www.thermomass.com.au. Thursday 10.00am > 1.00pm

Architecture Elective

Contemporary Ornamental Practices Elective Leader: Brent Allpress

“cultural evolution is equivalent to the removal of ornament from articles of everyday use.” (Adolf Loos) “Featurism is not simply a decorative technique, it starts in concepts and extends upwards through the parts to the numerous trimmings. It may be defined as the subordination of the essential whole and the accentuation of selected seperate features.” (Robin Boyd)\ “The anguish of the beautiful that shines through the fragility of ornament is atopian: displacing more than could any nudity.” (Franco Rella)

Ornament haunts architectural discourse and practice. Theories of the ornamental within the canon, those marginal though often pivotal passages, cross and interrupt the central texts of the architectural tradition, both constructing and internally dividing them. While modernist theory negated traditional ornament, modernist practices involved radical ornamental operations employing autonomous and abstract spatial surfaces. The representational role of ornament in contemporary architecture has remained complex and contested.

This elective will explore shifts in the status of ornament and figuration in contemporary architectural practice opened up by emerging digital design and fabrication technologies and practices that challenge the economies of standardisation. Diverse discourses on ornament will be presented and debated. Project based investigations of modernist and contemporary ornamental practices will be undertaken, focusing on qualitative and performative operations and outcomes. Students will be encouraged to explore the relationship between critical discourse and project based analysis through seminar presentations, a series of project case-studies and a culminating critical essay/project investigation.

Thursday 9.30-12.30 Room 8.12.42

make bachelor elective Thursdays 9.30 - 12.30 Level 7 workshop Lecturer - John Cherrey email: john.cherrey@rmit.edu.au

In the MAKE elective, will spend the semester exploring a whole range of materials and techniques - paper & card, plastic sheet, plaster, resin, metals, timberâ&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;Ś fabrication, casting, soldering, painting, vac forming, CNC maching, additive manaufacting, water and laser cutting. Making is a great way to help you develop your design ideas or as as starting point for design.

Over the course of the semester, you will discover a whole range of techniques, which will allow you to make great models with relatively little equipment in your studio space. We will also work with the amazing range of conventional and digital equipment available in the school workshops.

Everyone can cobble together a model of one sort of another but it always takes a lot of time: more than you can ever imagine. Throughout the semester you will be given the opportunity to develop techniques that really can save you time - not just minutes but days.

The assignments will be a range of exercises, models and a small furniture piece.

As a prerequisite, you will need to have basic understanding of a 2d drawing and 3d modeling software.

When: Thursday 2.30 - 5.30 Where: bld. 8 level 12 room 43 Lecturer: John Cherrey contact: john.cherrey@rmit.edu.au

putting the pieces together masters elective

In this course you will explore the world of architectural detailing. If you want to understand how buildings are assembled close up then this is the course for you. The approach in the class is hands-on.

Following a couple of introductory classes where we look at the principles of detailing you will commence the first of three assignments. For each of the assignments you will be give a set of plans, sections and elevations and asked to complete some of the details. The work you will detail will be that of some well-respected Melbourne architects. The class will be a bit like working in an office. You produce the work and then it will be marked up for you to improve and finalize. During each class you will be given the technical know-how to assist you in working through your set of detail problems. At the conclusion of the class you will be given the real solutions for you to compare with your designs.

The final set of drawings will provide a valuable resource for you in the future.

DESIGN FOR THE SOUND OF ARCHITECTURE Geometry and materials

Throughout history, the development of music and architecture have been connected by the aural experience of listeners occupying buildings.

The geometry and materials that create a building enclosure establish the aural environment that exists within the space. Whilst some buildings achieve their aural character by accident or fortune, many buildings are designed to achieve a specific acoustic aesthetic related to performance, occupation, austerity or contemplation.

This elective provides an understanding of the principles of aural design in architecture in a series of practical, non-technical sessions directed toward demystifying this black art of design.

Our experiece as we enter spaces is our conscious understanding of the proportions, geometry, colour and texture of the space and, subconsciously, the aural character of the space.

Through a series of practical examples we will explore the relationship between building function, occupation, architecture and acoustic design. These priciples will be used to consider their implications for building briefing and design where the concept of Gesamtkunstwerk will be examined.

Conceptual building designs will be developed and tested to provide an assessment of how acoustic design can be integrated into the archtiectural design process.

Subject: Elective Tutor: Peter Holmes Room: 9.1.36 N-Space Time: Thursday 2-5pm

Peter Holmes has over 20 years experience in the briefing, design and implementation of buildings for the performing arts. His projects range from music schools to large, multi-venue arts centres including the Melbourne Recital Hall, MTC Theatre, Federation Square, Singapore Esplanade, Queensland Perfoming Arts Centre and the Sydney Opera House.

VISUALIZING THE VIRTUAL CONCOURSE: Tom Kovac, Sean Kelly, Michael Mei

8.11.42 THURSDAY 06:30 - 09:30 Synopsis: the emergence of virtual learning environments has revealed short-comings in the fundamental assumptions made about learning itself, chief amongst which has been the failure to base models on learning as a socially structured activity. The same can be said of the translation of research and enterprise practices into virtual environments. Expert solutions have been proposed that address technical refinements or information delivery models of learning and that do not answer the questions being asked by users, and their need to operate in communities of practice. The VIRTUAL CONCOURSE is an Innovation concept that unites researchers and product developers in the pursuit of a long term goal, and that enables the development and application of partial solutions to the needs of a wide range of clients who share a similar long term and evolving goal. The concept begins with user perceptions and requirements and embraces, like a Portuguese man-of-war, a colony of agents who work on processing and digesting the information that the concept draws into contention.

This model is non-judgemental about participants, but provides a ‘platform for change’ (Beer, 1975) on which people can engage at their own pace, and in the company of peers.

Context: Seen from the outside that VIRTUAL CONCOURSE resembles a Portuguese man-of-war, a large complex colonial hydrozoan having an aerial float or sac-like body and long tentacles. The sac is the overarching idea that brings together the researches of individuals and laboratories. It enables those who join the colony to cooperate and collaborate on the evaluation of user needs, the development of design briefs, the design of rituals and system tools and the synergistic development of the overall design. It is not an enterprise system. It seeks out the ‘weak’ or unexpected connections between the research and practice of the individuals who find in the idea ways of combining their efforts to evolve better interactions between participants and would be participants in well-defined domains of

The VIRTUAL CONCOURSE idea currently encompasses and connects three major streams of thinking about new learning environments: • Work on user requirements, conscious or embedded in ritualised public behaviours, described in several layers of engagement.

• Design briefs that relate those needs to a model that links users and providers at each layer • Systems tools that enable self management, group interaction, and system management at each layer

The idea places certain research findings at its core • That learners seek meaningful interactions with their peers ( Kovac Interface Studio) • That the formation of communities of learners within ritual frameworks appropriate to their discipline is the necessary initial service that a provider must offer (Medeserve) • That information technology makes the pursuit of such goals in virtual environments possible, • That such virtual environments need to be related to a real environment

INTERNATIONAL PRACTICE Masters Elective: Professional Practice Bruce Allen This Elective will look at the impact of globalization on architectural and urban design on a range of countries usually determined by the experience and backgrounds of the students who attend.

The seminar is theory based and students present case studies from their home country. The preferred limit is 12 students because we have a guest on every fourth night and the seminar is held in a restaurant for the guest presentations. Restaurants are chosen for student rates ($10), proximity to RMIT and food style related to the country studied.

Assessment is based on a theory paper plus a case study. Each assignment is presented to the seminar group and forms the basis for discussion.

The Elective will run Thursdays 6 PM - 9 PM Room to be confirmed.

Bruce Allen is an extremely experienced practitioner, including in architectural practice abroad, who holds a number of key positions with RAIA and ARBV.

Intensive Electives Groups with higher weekly contact run over a shorter number of weeks

Intensive elective.

Tuesday and Thursday mornings, 9.30-1.30. Starts Thursday July 21, until Thursday August 18th (week 5). location: 8.7.11. project space.

Life Skills

This design elective will run on Tuesday afternoon with Graham Crist at the Project Ofď&#x192;&#x17E;ce space in building 88.

Lifeskills Latrobe is an organisation which provides training to people with disabilities.

They are based on the Bundoora campus of Latrobe University and are proposing a new facility on a leased campus site. This will form their administration and teaching spaces, and a 24/7 hub with ď&#x192;&#x;exible spaces for community use, including art rooms, meeting rooms and a commercial training kitchen.

This is a live project operated through the PROJECT OFFICE at RMIT Architecture. It is a project with a tight budget and real constraints. We will develop a design, examine the detail of the brief and the needs of the users, and produce beautiful drawings and models way beyond the expectations of the clients.

We will work as a project team, and intensify the process; completing the course in six weeks (weeks 1-6).

For questions contact graham crist: graham.crist@rmit.edu.au

and go to: www.life-skills.net.au

Research Assistant Electives Small groups working on supervised research/publication/exhibition projects

Melbourne Scrutiny UAL Research Assistant Elective - Laura Harper 3 Students Following on from the Melbourne based research included in the Urban Housing Scrutiny class of semester 1, research assistants will be exploring, collecting, analysing and collating data on familiar suburbs such as Coburg, Sunshine, Ringwood, Box hill, Clayton, South Yarra, W indsor.. What is it that makes these suburbs distinct from each other - why is it different living in a terrace in Brunswick to Carlton North? Students will be collecting examples of typical dwelling types, as well as typical alterations to this typical condition - how is the housing market sneakily and in a piecemeal way developing and densifying the suburbs with small scale alterations? We will find examples such as battle axe blocks, villa units, warehouse conversion, mews, townhouses, corner subdivision.. What are the new types that we need to understand?

Why do certain types occur in certain suburbs and not others what are the market, planning and physical factors that change from suburb to suburb and shape these naturally efficient and localised solutions? and how can we engage with these factors, or use these types, in positive and interesting ways?

The research will contribute to a framing or context article for the design work in the upcoming 38 south edition. T his will be a chance to scrutinise further this city in which you are going to be designing, and also to contribute work to a published document.

We will meet in NMBW offices on Monday afternoons, 2.30.

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ARM

MONOGRAPH

THE PURPOSE OF THIS ELECTIVE IS TO DEVELOP AND PRODUCE MATERIAL FOR A FORTHCOMING ARM MONOGRAPH. FULL CREDIT WILL BE GIVEN WHERE CREDIT IS DUE. THIS ELECTIVE IS CONCERNED WITH THE COMPLEX AND CONTRADICTORY PROCESS OF GENERATING ARCHITECTURAL FORM AND THOUGHT. THIS ELECTIVE IS ABOUT HISTORY. THIS STUDIO IS ABOUT WHY LOCAL HISTORY IS IMPORTANT. WE WILL BE UNEARTHING A LOCAL HISTORY THROUGH THE PRISM OF ARM’S ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE. THIS ELECTIVE IS ABOUT THE FORM AND DISPLAY OF THE PROPOSITIONAL. WHAT DOES RHETORIC LOOK LIKE? THIS ELECTIVE WILL INCLUDE SITE VISITS, GUEST LECTURES, OFFICE TIME, MAPPING, READING AND GRUNT WORK.

9.30 – 12.30 THURSDAY @ARM ARCHITECTURE LEVEL 11/ 522 FLINDERS LANE

STUDENTS WILL BE EXPECTED TO WORK WITH ARM ONE FULL DAY A WEEK.

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Alpine Architecture Research Elective Salter Architects Semester 2, 2011

Peter Muller Richardson House Thredbo 1959 Architects sketch and drawings

Course Description Australian alpine villages have many innovative architect designed buildings that will soon be altered or demolished as their Crown leases expire. Architects brought all the period styles and construction techniques to the Alps then adapted them to suit extreme weather, snow, site slope and views. This is a research course to extend the archive of material already collected

by RMIT students.

This Semester We intend to focus on the early 20C grand chalet tourist hotels such as at Mt Buffalo and Mt Kosciusko AND many unbuilt alpine projects.

Assessment & Submission You will develop skills in research and archival methodology, graphic production and critique.

You require 12h/pw working independently and supported by Salter Architects. You should diarise a reflective portfolio evidencing your research with drawings, notes, photos and correspondence.

By end of semester you will be able to prepare a draft publication of the graphic material and write a critical essay demonstrating an understanding of the period, unique alpine context and the architectural work.

Barry Patten (Yuncken Freeman) Woomargama Ski Club Falls Creek 1960 Drawings by Paul Ahern RMIT Student 2011

ASSISTANT for RESEARCH ELECTIVE Homesteads of the Western District

Lecturer: Seminar time:

Prof. Harriet Edquist to be finalised at first class 18 July 2.30pm RMIT Design Archives Building 15 level 2

1:1 Interface erface Design Elective,t tutor: Simon mon Whibley Platform Public Contemporary Art Spaces aces operate a series of shopfront galleries within the Flinders Lane precinct around DeGraves St. One of the galleries es is within Centre Place, the well-known laneway between Flinders Lane and Collins St. Over the next few months, a series of architectural projects will be exhibited in this gallery, involving emerging Melbourne architects and architectrual practices. ctices.

The title of this project is 1:1 Interface. It invites nvites architectural propositions for a new facade of the Majorca building, the location of the gallery. Participants are invited nvited to produce a 1:1 drawing, or model, for a new facade for the part of the building contained within the exhibition n display cases.

Each of the projects provides an exploration of this his prominent public space, the visual fullness of the its fabric and its overwhelming density of occupation.

A small group of student particapants are invited to work with the practitioners to develop, construct and install these installations. This elective provides an opportunity nity to work directly wtih practice and on a built poject within the public realm of the city. The elective will involve discreet, intensive working periods distributed across the semester.

Initial Meeting: This Thursday WEEK 0, 8.12.27, 4pm platformartistsgroup.blogspot.com

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