Master of Architecture Studios - Balloting Posters, Semester 1, 2023

MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO

BALLOTING POSTERS & STUDIO LEADER BIOS

Ai Accelerated Architect

Prof Dr Alisa Andrasek

https://www.alisaandrasek.com/ https://www.aiarch.ai/ https://linktr.ee/nDarchitecture

INTENSIVE STUDIO

KEYWORDS: GENERATIVE AI/COMPLEX CITIES/ COMPLEXITY/HIGH RESOLUTION/ PATTERN RECOGNITION/DISTRIBUTED/DECENTRALISED/ RESILIENCE/REWILDING/NETZERO/ECOCITY

We will explore how emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms can revolutionise architecture, enhancing students’ design strategies, accelerated workflow and sensibility. As built environments face increasing challenges due to climate change, students will work on exponential solutions for high-density living that hybridise human and non-human agencies, and machinic and natural elements - through concepts such as buildings as energy factories, high-density food production in buildings and co-living with wilderness.

With AI, students will be capturing glimpses of future architectures, co-designed with green biomass, physics of air, emergent materialities, and new social and mobility patterns. We will draw inspiration from a range of references, including Jeremy Rifkin’s Age of Resilience, Benjamin Bratton’s Planetary Computation, Liam Young’s Planetary Cities, Ludwig Hilberseimer’s stratospheric drawings of the cities, and Daniel Kohler’s Mereological city.

The computational workflow will incorporate rapidly evolving generative AI platforms such as ChatGPT and text-toimage (Dall-E/Midjourney/Stable Diffusion). Students will work in teams. Selected designs will be presented at the Ecocity World Summit exhibition at the Barbican in London (www.ecocity-summit.com), which is an exciting opportunity for students to be at the forefront of innovative, planet-friendly and AI-powered architecture.

1-5 PM | Mondays & Thursdays | 100.10.Pavilion 1

Diffusion Tectonics is to investigate the complex relationship between two opposing ways of understanding the world - surface effects and underlying models. The studio will explore the potential processes for AI machine learning and digital generative processes to create a new form of architecture that transcends traditional generative design approaches. Through an iterative design process, the studio aims to develop a messy and intricate relationship between architecture and AI.

The studio will leverage the power of text-to-image diffusion AI techniques and the simulation of emergent processes to explore new ways of imagining architecture. Rather than simply creating hybrids or collages of existing designs, the studio aims to discover something entirely novel that cannot be described by language or generative models alone.

Throughout the semester, students will focus on developing a series of workflows that allow for feedback between language-based modeling tools. This will enable them to explore the limits of description and the relationship between language and form. In the second half of the semester, the focus will shift to translating these workflows into 3D formations of architectural chunks, which will be grounded onto an imaginary site with entire architecture.

This studio offers a unique opportunity for students to push the boundaries of traditional architectural design and explore the potential of AI and digital generative processes. Through heavy experimentation, iterations and transformations, students will be challenged to think beyond conventional approaches and develop a new form of innovative architecture.

DIFFUSION TECTONICS

MASTERS STUDIO ROLAND SNOOKS + ALAN KIM

WEDNESDAY 6PM - 10PM LEVEL 10 LONG ROOM

Top Images _ Diffusion Renders from Descriptive Formation Studio Bottoom Image _ RMIT Mace by Roland Snooks

| Outline

Chameleon will explore the design of complex topologies and the translation of intricate ornamentation through panelization and aggregation. This studio will follow the lineage of “Painterly Forms” & “Hereditary” studios and look at the negotiation between generative processes and top-down modelling.

This studio will explore the intentional subversion and curation of digital tools to create adventurous forms for 3D Printing. This studio will have a particular focus on the production and post processing of physical models. Students will create, refine, and position a digital toolset that interfaces bottom up algorithmic generation of geometry and top down intervention through sculpting. During the first portion of the semester students will introduced the fundamentals of parametric logic, digital sculpting and 3d print optimization to produce a wide array of digital sculptures & Architectural tectonics.

The second half of the semester will see students design a mid-rise tower that negotiates the materiality and surrounding architectural vernacular. The weekly aggregation of objects will act as a taxonomy of formal characteristics that will be referred to when designing their architectural language.

| Software

No prior experience in ZBrush or Coding required. Communications 3 or equivalent Grasshopper experience is required.

| Evaluation

Students will be assessed on their design, visual communication and comprehension of data structure to control layered parametric procedures. Individual folios are to be submitted at the conclusion of this subject.

| 3D Print Materials

Students will be producing weekly models using 3D printers & Laser Cutting. Please note that there will be material costs for 3D printing (PLA & Resin). There are 3D print facilities at RMIT however there can be long lead times. Most students in previous semesters purchased their own 3D printer (Roughly $200-$250).

| Tectonic Formation Lab

The studio is part of a group of studios and electives run this semester that are aligned with the RMIT Architecture | Tectonic Formations Lab, which will collaborate through combined reviews and symposia.

manufacturing daegu

MANUFACTURING DAEGU

This studio will examine urban futures for the city of Daegu in South Korea. Daegu is the third largest urban agglomeration in South Korea, behind Seoul-Incheon and Busan. During the tiger economy period of accelerated growth in the 1960-1980s, Daegu was one of the most significant regions of the country – with a focus on consumer electronics and heavy industrial production. Since the 1990s the city’s manufacturing industries have steadily declined, with production moving offshore to China and South East Asia. As a consequence, the city’s population has progressively declined, with many young people choosing to move to Seoul or Busan. The population of the city is ageing, with an average of 56 – 9 years older than the national average. Faced with both an economic and demographic crisis, the city of Daegu is exploring strategies for the revitalisation of the city, focusing on the adaptive reuse of former industrial land and the development of creative and tourism industries with the ambition of attracting investment, and workers.

RMIT Architecture has been invited to participate in a global studio with schools from around the world looking at the future of Daegu. The studio will work with local partners, and in collaboration with students and academics from schools in Europe, Asia and the US to develop new urban architectural models for the city. The studio will explore strategies for the adaptation and adjustment of an existing built environment to include creative industries, tourism and emerging processes of production (industry 4.0). It will explore densification through frameworks of desire - how do miniaturise certain aspects of the city to enhance its qualities of liveability and makeability.

Students will be challenged to develop a distributed manufacturing ecology within the city of Daegu, exploring how processes of making and production can be closely coupled with living, learning and other forms of consumption in the city. This will be tested through the prototype design of a small footprint high density live-make complex in the city. The studio will explore the relationship between architecture and manufacturing, in which students will be challenged to understand buildings as a field of components, and cities as a field of buildings. This will be tested through a series of design tasks at the scales of 1:10000 1:1000 1:100 :10. Finally, the studio will understand the city through the lens’ of temporality and flexibility of the city over different timescales, exploring how the city might be intensified around a limited footprint to produce cultural and economic intensification.

The studio is intended as a travelling studio, with a 2-week intensive workshop to be held in Daegu / Seoul in Week 5 & Week 6 (27 March – 6 April). Students are required to fund their own travel – loans and scholarships may be available. While travel is not mandatory, the experience of the studio will not be as meaningful without visiting the city. Travel briefing sessions will be held on 17 February & 20 February. If you have questions on travel please email john.doyle@rmit.edu.au

It is expected that the studio will result in a public exhibition and/or publication cataloguing the work of students to be published in Korea.

NETHERLANDS

This Master of Architecture traveling studio is a collaboration between The Why Factory @ TU Delft and RMIT Architecture. RMIT Architecture students will travel to Delft during the last weeks of the studio and will work at the Why Factory @ TU Delft

The Why Factory is dedicated to creating future cities; the All Together Now studio will investiagte the urban and architectural implications of designing for a much wider range of plants and non-human animal inhabitants. Starting from a precise “What if…?” question students will develop scenarios that explore the future form of cities over the next 100 years. These changes will be explored on all scales; from global to territorial, to architectural typology, down to innovation on a building technology scale: what are the details that change the world?

This studio will challenge students to interrogate the fundamental shapers of their scenario on a 1:50, 1:20, 1:10, 1:1… scale. All Together Now will guide students through this process of formulating and visualizing their future fantasies: learning to dream big, to prepare them with the skills and tools to imagine – then effect – change. How does our life change? How do we commute and how do we consume? What is the urgency and how can we communicate this to global leaders? Refer to the Ballot session for more detail on the studio curriculum.

An information session will be held for traveling studios at 3:30pm Monday 20th of February, in 100.10.01

all togher now

Architecture

Winy Maas (MVRDV/ The Why Factory @ TU Delft), Javier Arpa (The Why Factory @ TU Delft) & Felix Madrazzo (IND/ The Why Factory @ TU Delft) Ben Milbourne & Vivian Mitsogianni (RMIT Architecture & Urban Design)

Semester 1 2023, weeks 1-7 in Melbourne, followed by intensive workshop at TU Delft during Weeks 8-11 (25/04-17/05/23).

TUTORS: PROPOSED TIMELINE: TRAVELLING TO:

Delft, Netherlands [Delft is 20 mins by train away from Rotterdam and 50mins from Amsterdam].

Financial Support: Students in this studio will be eligible for one of 3 Fender Katsalidis Architecture Travelling Scholarships [$3,300 each]. Travelling students may also be eligible for other forms of funding including OS-HELP loans. Further advice will be provided at the briefing session.

Maximum number of students: 14.

Contact: Ben Milbourne (ben.milbourne@rmit.edu.au)

ECOLOGICAL EMPIRES

PAUL VAN HERK

M ARCH STUDIO SEM 1 2023

WED 6-10 PM DESIGN HUB

This studio involves the speculative re-design of the Docklands precinct of ‘Newquay’, using counterfactual worldbuilding techniques to generate urban form and architectural character from synergetic (ecological) technologies rather than finance & stat planning. The studio will test and hone students’ command of scale and character and procedural narrative formation using specific architectural elements, spaces and compositions.

The studio will begin as a deep dive into technological ‘drivers’ of urban form in history e.g. street widths determined by transport modes, doorways determined by delivery methods, set backs determined by shadow projection methods, occupation determined by zoning paradigms. Students will first understand these drivers through research (reading, writing and diagramming), then mimick, alter or distort them in the context and scale of Newquay, through procedural experiments that maximise a particular ‘ecological’ resource or resilience (e.g. solar capture, ground cover, material supply chain, wind protection, biodiversity, flood protection, more).

Key reference texts to develop a studio lexicon will include Adrian Forty’s “Words and buildings”, Rem Koolhaas’ “Elements of architecture” and “Delirious New York”, Aldo Rossi’s “The architecture of the city” and Keller Easterling’s “Extrastatecraft”. Students will also look at open-world game design, sci-fi film and speculative fiction texts. Precedents will include critical dissections of local developments and ‘sustainable’ cities internationally (such as Saudi Arabia’s “The Line” and “Masdar City” by Foster + Partners), and polemic projects like MVRDV’s “Pig City”.

TUESDAY6:00PMATRMITDESIGNHUB

TEAMLEAD:DYLANLI&CECILIAYAO

LAPUTA:

"LAPUTA-TheGood,TheBadandTheUgly"invitesstudentstoembarkonajourneyofdiscoveryas theydelveintotheintricaciesoffuturedwellinginhigh-densityurbanenvironments.

Theeducationalambitionofthestudioistoexaminehistoricalpatternsofhumanhabitationthrougha rigorousanalysisofarchitecturalprecedents.Studentswillengageinin-depthtypologicalmapping, exploringtheintersectionofspatialplanningandformallanguageintherealizationofarchitectural propositions.Theresultsofthisresearchwillculminateinthecreationofan"ArchitecturalLanguages Catalogue,"areferenceguidethatencompassessubjectssuchastypology,formaltechniques, decorativesurfaces,andelementsofdesign.Theintentionofthisexerciseistodemonstratethatwhile ideasareessentialinthedesignprocess,understandinghowtoeffectivelyutilizethevariouslanguages ofarchitectureiscrucialinrealizingthoseideas.

Thestudiowillfocusontheexplorationofanewtypeofhabitationtypologyinahigh-densityurban context.Studentswillbetaskedwithreimaginingtheconceptofcommunalliving,challenging conventionalnormssurroundingprivacy,boundaries,andtherelationshipbetweenphysicalandvirtual socialspaces.

Thisstudioisallabouttakingtried-and-truetricksandmakingthemdothecha-chawithnewproblems. Letthegoodtimesroll.Andthereyouhaveitfolks,“LAPUTA-TheGood,TheBadandTheUgly”isa studiowherestudentslettheircreativitysoar,challengethestatusquo,anddancewiththecomplexities ofurbanliving.Fromdeepdivesintoarchitecturalprecedentstoboldreimaginingofcommunalliving, thissemesterissuretobeawildride.Sobuckleupandjoinusaswenavigatingdynamicintersectionof urbanhabitatandcreateafuturethat'sworthlivingin."

THEUGLY THEUGLY

THEBADTHEBAD

P O SSESSED Regulatory Nonsense:

a romp through worlds / words of

spectres & speculative investments

Before the architecture, there is property. We are haunted by the spectres of speculative investment opportunities; we are possessed by (aspirational, architectural) possessions; we are possessive, tense.

Property relations are constituted through written language: under regulatory capitalism, proliferating clauses, codes, standards, statutes, policies, guidelines, legislation, and regulations are instrumentalised by state and extra-state authorities to create, circulate, and accumulate capital. But if property is constituted and controlled through language, can a linguistic shift make our property relations otherwise? And what might this mean for architecture?

In Regulatory Nonsense, the written rules governing property relations are co-written by a ghostly AI-amalgamation of poets, storytellers, artists, and philosophers. Using this glitchy, linguistically thick language, we blur, nudge, and renegotiate title boundaries and thresholds of bare-minimum

compliance in novel and generative ways. Perhaps, through these new and nonsensical property relations we may also find new possibilities for architecture. This requires two broad design investigations:

1) Together, we will negotiate and co-write a new regulation for property relations, with help from a suite of glitchy linguistic bots trained on our own critically curated datasets.

2) Collaboratively, you will conduct a series of architectural design quasi-experiments to evidence the effectiveness, limitations, and possibilities of this new regulation – eventually culminating in your own resolved and cohesive architectural project

Along the way, we must be nimble in our disciplinary positioning, toggling back-and-forth between the reciprocal roles of policymaker and architect; juggling the demands of rule-making (for all, for others) and (our own) design intent; grappling with the ghosts of inherited colonial bureaucracy.

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RMIT MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE STUDIO: SEM 1, 2023

property & ghosts (in the machine)

the idea of melbourne is a studio that investigates the nature of ideas in their most fundamental form – those that affect the way we see the world

this is a metaphysical method of sorts which allows you to investigate and develop your understanding of yourself in the world as a means to operate within it

once you understand your unique way of seeing and how this affects the way you see the particular place (in this instance, a slice of melbourne), you can then operate within this understanding to have a more powerful effect on the place we’ll then seek to understand the potential for architects to help shape a place from within, or more plainly, to be affected by the place the potential is to establish a close and continual relationship with the place, its people, ecology, culture, social structure, everything that makes it meaningful or important

to recognize that architecture continues to exist well beyond the point when the architect cedes ownership to the client, and often well beyond the occupation of that client

it is part of the place and continues to be affected by it and as such has a responsibility to it from the outset through this we’ll start to understand the responsibility of the architect to the place and the public and invert the typical understanding of what we do our subject is melbourne because it is complex and conflicted and a place in a perpetual state of renewal

it is difficult to hold as a single idea and difficult to imagine affecting to me it neatly represents the very difficulty of architecture

I’ll get you to engage directly with both of these through a series of weekly projects, commencing with a landscape project and working through an assortment that could be seen to form the basis of a community through each project you will gain a better understanding of the place and through repetition a better understanding of your own architecture

the result of the projects as they compile will be more than just the sum of the artefacts but the potential effect on and of the place that they inhabit

the idea of melbourne

tues morning 9:30

with simone koch

this is by ben ellis who is one champion from semester one the others are also @theideaofmelbourne

The Architect revisits the narrative of Melbourne’s CBD from its prehistory to present day and asks what type of tower the city needs now? Equally with the profession, what sort of architect do we need to be today?

The tower is a yardstick for the architect’s life and memory amongst the form of the city. Like a Giorgio Morandi still life, that singular object is read and measured against the adjacent.

Peter Brew

Tuesday Morning 9.30

“Instruments are nothing but theories materialized” (Bachelard)

The novelty of Raymound Queneau’s “book” 100 Million poems is in the way it reimagines the idea of a book, In a conventional book pages contain lines of text and are bound, Queneau book at first appearance accepts this format and is materially identical to a conventional book in all respects other than each line is a page and it is possible to encounter each line in a different order, in a new context within the book.

It is possible to recognise in the unconventional format of 100 million poems as an invention, it facilities or allows us to encounter the world differently, there is also a discovery which takes the form of a critique with respect to the nature of the book. it is possible to think of a book content as being regulated by its architecture. That the architecture is in this sense the possibility of the book, and what the architecture of Queneau’s book demonstrates is that this is not the only possibility.

The studio aims to look at the construction of ideas and the design of architecture. The ostensible content for our study’s high density residential projects though it is not predetermined as to what object the form adopts

QUARANTINE IV

Situated at the end of the Mornington Peninsula in the Point Nepean National Park, Melbourne’s former Quarantine Station is a fitting location to host the fourth and final QUARANTINE STUDIO. Whilst we are not proposing to relocate modern-day quarantining back to the Peninsula, we are questioning and proposing future uses for the largely abandoned buildings littered throughout this beautiful site.

Given Melbourne’s extended lockdown periods and Melbournians’ inability to travel in recent times, QUARANTINE STUDIO speculates on the rebirth of regionalism by proposing new local tourism activations. QUARANTINE STUDIO will investigate the land, buildings, and structures in and around Melbourne’s original sanatorium, and proposes new uses for the currently underutilized public land, landscape, and infrastructure.

The Point Nepean National Park has been closed off for years and only quite recently been opened to the general public. Its many years of isolation have resulted in the preservation and regeneration of this dramatic landscape.

Students will be asked to research the site from Bunurong times, the sanatorium years where ships plagued by illness were quarantined, the construction of defense systems during the Gold Rush, and the first shot of the First World War. Stories of diseased early settlers, a litany of shipwrecks, and the drowning of Australia’s 17th Prime Minister Harold Holt will be unpacked, researched, mapped, and recorded to uncover programmatic opportunities and inform proposals for new usages of the land and its existing structures.

Students will be asked to review the 2017 Master Plan commissioned by the State Government and currently being implemented by Parks Victoria, question its content, and identify opportunities for new program and subsequent architectural intervention.

The studio will focus heavily on tectonics, materiality, and buildability along with the site. Active heritage conservation, rather than conservation for conservation’s sake will be the driver, eco-tourism is the intended outcome.

In collaboration with Parks Victoria and RMIT, the most relevant projects of all four QUARANTINE studios will be exhibited on site at the end of 2023.

STUDIO CONDUCTED BY RODNEY EGGLESTON AND MATT STANLEY ON WEDNESDAY EVENINGS

FROM 5PM-9PM AT MARCH STUDIO - NORTH MELBOURNE

A field trip on-site at The Quarantine Station will be organised at the start of the studio,

BUILDING Critical MASS

Building Critical Mass will explore radical design strategies for deploying a massive capital investment on CBD ground – as a positive CIVIC contribution to the evolving city.

Superannuation Investment Trusts are now funding, building and operating university buildings - universities are providing commercial space for industry partners – and the general public is encouraged and discouraged to ‘occupy’ the new vertical campus.

We will explore how to embody cultural energy into our public/private city architecture - through the deep research and subsequent manifestation of the complexity of relational politics - the dominant power at play (logos), the mediating institution (ethos) and the many contested voices (pathos) that then shape our city. We are interested in the creative heat generated when disruptive messy sub-cultural activism rubs up hard against sovereign wealth funds.

Our studio will explore Mass Timber Construction (MTC) at a super scale – how its predilection to systemic design is fertile ground for critical re-assembly - to suit the programmatic complexity arising from a multitude of competing ‘stake-holders’. Facades design research will be Active + PassivHaus.

Students will work individually then in teams as the semester progresses – culminating in a kind of real-world ‘design competition’, where an aspirational and functional brief will provide the constraints to be cleverly bent and, where argued well, deliriously broken.

We contest that our city is not yet done - that architects also need to design big new buildings of significant value as an antidote to the fear-led trends of temporary placemaking, bleached renovations and the plague of arches.

Wednesdays 6pm

Practice Studio

Neil Appleton, Adrian Stanic, Nina Wyatt, Vicky Li and Lyons studio guests

Lyons Studio - Level 3, 246 Bourke Street, Melbourne

COHABIT

the studio

The housing market is a rapidly evolving entity. Rising costs, increasing demand, limited supply chains, and a divergence of vested interests have heavily shaped the Australian urban form. The Hayball CoHabit studio will investigate co-housing residential typologies, beginning with the following points of departure:

Who are they for?

Who lives there?

Where are they located?

What domestic and international agencies and forces have affected the evolution of the typology?

Is the current trajectory of the typology truly addressing the needs of the people who use these spaces?

the challenge

On a site located in inner Melbourne, we will develop and test a mid-rise co-housing project using the Melbourne housing market as a starting point for our interrogation. We will use research, analysis, and rigorous architectural testing to develop a response to the current housing market – is this as good as it gets?

TUESDAYS 6-10PM

1/250 flinders lane, melbourne

Cities are large and complex. They are impossible to decode. They are not risk averse. They are resource and capital-intensive exploits. Their robustness paradoxically deems them passive and resistant to change. Suspended within the animated forces of economic viability, political will, post-industrialisation, contingent contextual forces, and a climate cataclysm; the urban architectural process is excruciatingly slow. Projects are instantly obsolete and perhaps even retrospective.

The Temporal City occupies a reflective, exploratory domain in an ostensibly infinite, procedurally generated world. The Temporal City is a hypothesis and model that presents the urban condition as kinetic processes that are simultaneously and synchronously enabled by the flow of data, energy, people and logistics. It proposes a spatial operating system, a stream of inputs and outputs and an organic mechanism that forestalls a chronologically-based urbanism. Traditional and static principles of the city are upturned. The Temporal City is not about absolutes or repeatable spatial products - but a context and framework that embraces and amplifies indeterminate, contradictory, combinatory, uncertain and improbable conditions. It is opportunistic. Agility instead of stability, multipliers rather than repetition. Change, difference, and time are accelerated. The complexity of its systems benefits from variability, unpredictability, and imbalance.

This semester The Temporal City (∆T)5 will elaborate on a discourse of architecture that exists beyond resilience or robustness, arguing for an architecture that benefit from randomness and disorder, designing the medium and relationship between objects and urban models that thrive when and exposed to volatility. This extends both Nassim Taleb’s concept of ‘Antifragile’ to architectural and urban projects, and Keller Easterling’s ‘Medium Design’ that will be explored through narratives and ideologies concerned with the re-forming and re-organisation of cities in response to shifting energy and production paradigms.

The Temporal City

Masters Architecture Studio Semester 1 2023 | Ian Nazareth & David Schwarzman

The Temporal City (∆T)5 will operate as part of an international research project Designing Resilience in Asia and Designing Resilience Global; and an international design competition ‘The Sea-City Interface’ in Singapore, coordinated by the Design Resilience Group, National University Singapore and the ETH – Singapore ETH Centre / Future Cities Laboratory. You will be working on a post-industrial site in the city of Singapore, conceptualising an interface between the region, the city and the sea, that deals with urban growth and the existing vulnerabilities and anticipates, prevents, and adapts to the effects of the severe and extreme weather (sea-level rise, flooding, droughts) as a consequence of climate change. Projects will be approached through the discrete methodology that combines working with APIs, data analytics and statistical reference, and spatialising the project through narrative fiction, world building and gamification, and elaborated through speculative and counterfactual design propositions. You will work collaboratively and in teams towards a submission for the design competition. Your project will be presented and exhibited internationally at a symposium. This is not a travelling studio. We will meet face to face at the Design Hub.

How does a transition to new forms of energy and production inform a new dimension of temporality for architecture and urbanism? How to we challenge orthodoxies and reorganise hierarchies within the built environment around an ecosystem of renewable energy and localised production? What if efficiency is a bug, and not a feature? Conversely and counterintuitively - can cities and architecture avoid optimisation? Could they increase redundancies? How do we design in, and for conditions that are perpetually in flux? (or one’s we do not entirely understand?) How can we operate with ideological uncertainties? How do we design the ‘background matrix’ and conceptualise an ‘antifragile’ architecture?

Wednesday evenings 18.00 - 22.00

BALNARRING FIRE

RMIT Master of Architecture Design Studio 2023

wednesday 6pm

a design project partnered with the Balnarring CFA

Balnarring Fire will explore ideas for expanding and rejuvenating the Country Fire Authority headquarters in Balnarring on the Mornington peninsula. The studio will ask: how can design meet the needs of the volunteer community organisation but also bring much more to the question than asked by it.

How can the Country Fire Authority’s building become a significant community hub? What is the future role of a fire station in more extreme weather in changing climates? How can this hub become an emergency refuge and help sustain a community?

How can we design tightly and loosely (see Supertight*) at the outer edge of the city. (We are always interested in how design can reduce our footprint and here, also dealing with the results of not reducing it.)

To do this, we will look at the architectural object more closely and more broadly We’ll pay attention to the small details, the prosaic and boring pieces of pieces of everyday life, which in this case might suddenly become frantic. We will also examine a small building like this as a piece of urban design-understanding its impact for a whole town, and as part of a network of CFA stations across the state. We will use the constraints of the project’s modesty to generate propositional design ideas. (And memorable architectural spaces)

Graham Crist Emma Donovan Max Leegel Wight with special guest TOM MURATORE

er art works, performance spaces and outdoor public space and gardens. ed adjacent to Federation Square and bounded by the Yarra River and Flinders Street, the site raises challenging urban issues which will be investigated throughout the semester. ation Square has been criticised for its poor connection to the Yarra River, how can a new gallery better connect to the river and also connect with the city and Federation Square ommodification of Australian aboriginal art has been contested by notable figures like Richard Bell, but the current lack of a major public gallery for Aboriginal and Torres Strait rks is also problematic. As architects, this building will raise the question of how non aboriginal architects should best engage with cultures and histories that are not their own a ginal architects can contribute to this complex problem. udio will form part of our ongoing research into the idea of building type and how this can be reinvented, in this case, a public gallery, as civic and public spaces. We are also inte ltural, historical and material conditions of a site and how an examination of these conditions can help construct a new civic narrative for the area. hese research questions will b d through film, readings, architectural precedents, fieldtrips, artwork, music plus more that will inform your design research throughout the semester. udio will be structured around the production of bi-weekly esquisses carried out by students both collaboratively and individual ly for the first half of the semes-ter. Working in p d half of semester will focus on the development of the final project.

REALCLIENT! LIVEPROJECT! Thisisarareopportunityfor studentstogainexperience workingwitharealclient onaliveproject!!

On Country: FRAMLINHAM 2023

DTRIP: The studio will be run in a semi-intensive mode and will involve a 3 day fieldtrip on Country with Uncle Lenny Clarke on site at Framlingham from Satur-day March 30 –April 2019. You will need a tent & sleeping bag. The trip will cost approximately $140. A further two day trips may also be required later in the semester (dates TBC). s will be held on Mondays & Thursdays from 6-9pm (some Thursdays will be skipped due to the semi-intensive mode)

A music & perfomance venue with a cultural & life education centre

Stasinos Mantzis with Uncle Leonard Clarke & the Kirrae Whurrong Community

Classes

Working with a real client for the semester, students in this studio will be asked to design a international standard music and performance centre along with a cultural/life education centre at Framlingham. This is a response to an in invitation received from a highly respected Aboriginal Elder, Uncle Leonard (Lenny) Clarke, to conceptualise a vision he has for his familyʼ s Aboriginal owned land on Kirrae Whurrong land in the Western District of Victoria. This vision is to create a world class cultural arts and music centre that not only celebrates and showcases Aboriginal culture to a broad and international audience, but to also foster and provide opportunities for youth through cultural and life education programmes as an alternate to incarceration. This new centre will be called the Shara Clarke Music Centre, named after and in honour of Uncle Lennyʼs late daughter.

Key research questions:

• Tackle the notion of a colonised country and how we might design a shared future architecture charged by multiple histories and different cultures

• To consider what Aboriginal sovereignty means within architecture

• To consider how the history, culture & stories of Kirrae Whurrong people and Country can be communicated and celebrated through architecture

• How to design a exible multipurpose building and consider how architecture can be performative

• To consider how architecture can facilitiate ongoing cultural and enterprise opportunities for communities

• How to incorporate First Nations caring for country principles and practices

Tuesday 5-9pm

The studio will be structured around the production of weekly esquisses carried out by students both collaboratively and individually for the rst half of the semester. Working in groups, the second half of semester will focus on the development of the nal project.

FIELDTRIP: The studio will be run in a semi-intensive mode and will involve a eldtrip on Country with Uncle Lenny Clarke on site at Framlingham over a 2-3 day weekend in March (date TBC). You will need a tent & sleeping bag. The trip will cost approximately $250.

will be held face to face on

(some classes will be skipped due to the semi-intensive mode)

STUDIO IO T IT LE

Vote Again

VOTE

STUDIO LEADER

Steven Chu

PROJECT T

Vote Again investigates how architecture can affect social, cultural, and political change using the design of a new typology, a Community Voting Centre, as a vehhicle to explore positions on how we can curate change as architects

AGENDA

The agenda of this studio is to engage with the systems in which we hold agency to affect change The political voting system is an obvious expression of this agenda, but the studio strives to go beyond and investigate other systems in which we vote, in our everyday lives Ultimately, the aim of the studio is for you to develop a way to respond in the capacity of an architect to issues you care about, producing drawings and propositions that commmunicate clearly how we can, should, or must move forward, while designing a useable building from a written brief on a real site

ME THODOLOGY

Tuesdays

6PM - 10PM

SEM 1 20 2023

Students will be introduced to a literary design process based on Plato’s Theory of Forms, organised into four parts – Object, Subject, Brief, Site We will encourage a discursive and rigorous frameework driven by intellect, analysis and narrative to form a collective, supportive and interdependent studio culture that challlenges ideological preconceptions and aspirattional moorings that leave individuals and societies impotent to enact or curate change Studio sessions will be conducted in a socratic environmennt, whereby students are expected to actively engage in group discussions and to share ideas and feedback Students will work in groups for the f irst four weeks and will ultimately compplete a f inal project individually This studio may, instead of digital rendering, emphasise the use of moore traditional methods through architectural plans, sections, details, perspectives and presentation-quality physical models of varrious scales to communicate your propositions

TEACHING T IME E

THEMES:

WHO: Simon Drysdale with occasional guests. WHEN: 6pm + Wednesday

Wednesday evenings. WHAT: Healing Centre located in the Mildura surrounds

This studio will attempt to scale both the micro and macro. We will be exploring Indigenous knowledge and the external forces that impact our built environment. The site is located North West of Mildura on Barkindji land and the studio experience will focus on regenerative thinking. The brief will explore the intergenerational opportunities for a men’s healing centre that will host programs that foster engagement with place, and the narrative of occupation.

The studio will provide an opportunity to explore themes of adjacency, Ai, decline and medicinal constructs and respite tourism

NOTE: There will be travel which will be overnight at YOUR cost. There will be additional access fees at YOUR cost. The costs will be confirmed at Ballot.

RMIT Master of Architecture Design Studios

Studio Leader Bios

RMIT Master of Architecture Design Studio Coordinators

Dr Christine Phillips is a non-indigenous architect, educator and writer who is passionate about how history, culture and understandings of place and Country can inform our built environment.

w: www.oopla.org

ig: @x10phillips

e: christine.phillips@rmit.edu. au

RMIT Master of Architecture Program Manager

Dr John Doyle is RMIT Architecture Program Manager, President of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia and Director of Common.

Design Studio: Manufacturing Future Daegu

w: commondesign.com.au

ig: @common_gram

ig: @dr_john_doyle

e: john.doyle@rmit.edu.au

Patrick Macasaet is Lecturer and PhD candidate at RMIT Architecture and Principal of Superscale Architecture.

w: superscale.com.au

ig: @superscale ig: @rmitarchitecture

e: patrick.macasaet@rmit. edu.au

Loren Adams is a disciplinary promiscuous spatial practitioner. Trained in architecture and public policy, her current work explores the “socio-spatial exploit” as an instrument for thinking-with planetary urban power structures.

Design Studio:

Regulatory Nonsense: The Vibe of the Thing

w: www.lorenadams.me

ig: @regnonbot

Neil Appleton is a design Director of Lyons renowned for his expertise in sustainable urban design, collaborative work and learning environments, and recognised across Australia as a highly innovative architectural thinker.

Design Studio: Lyons

Practice Studio: Building

Critical Mass

w: www.lyonsarch.com.au

ig: @lyonsarchitecture

Dr Nic Bao is Director of BDW Architects, ARBV Registered Architect, and Lecturer at RMIT Architecture, where he teaches and explores his research on architecture technology, computational design, structural engineering, behavioural algorithms, and robotic fabrication.

Design Studio: Coral Ig: @nic_bao

Ig: @floating.coral.reefs

Neuman Chow is Graduate of Architecture at Hayball. Neuman is interested in the microcosms of different urban conditions in cities that have been impacted by architectural design from a micro to macro scale.

Design Studio: Hayball

Practice Studio: CoHabit

w: hayball.com.au

ig: @hayball_arch

Professor Alisa Andrasek is a Professor of Design Innovation at RMIT.

Design Studio: AI SUPERBLOCKS

w: alisaandrasek.com

w: www.aiarch.ai

w: linktr.ee/nDarchitecturev

Laura Bailey is an Associate and Architect at ARM architecture. She has previously taught in the Bachelors program and last year ran the Masters studio ‘The Graduate’.

Design Studio: The Architect ig: @laura____bailey

Dr Peter Brew studied architecture at RMIT in the late 1980s, practiced architecture and returned to RMIT in 2015 as a PhD candidate and faculty member since 2017. He is committed to reimagining the possibility of architecture.

Design Studio: Instrument Architecture

Steven Chu is a BurmeseAustralian architect, woodworker, painter and educator. He is the Founding Director of Alter Atlas and the Principal Architect at the City of Casey, a local government municipality in Victoria.

Design Studio: Vote Again ig: @alteratlas

Associate Professor Graham Crist is an associate professor in RMIT architecture and the program director of the Master of Urban Design. He is a founding director of Antarctica Architects and an author of the publication Supertight.

Design Studio: Balnarring Fire ig: @antarctigram

Simon Drysdale Driven by enthusiasm, passion & inventiveness. I have typically worked in teams unified & driven by deep ecological & social outcomes. I have a particular lens on the spatial experience of place and how the spectrum of care can be enhanced through built form.

Design Studio: Counter Errorism

Marc Gibson is an RMIT Architecture Associate Lecturer & Tectonic Formation Lab Digital Lead where he teaches subjects in the technology and techniques cluster with a focus on algorithmic design.

Design Studio: Chameleon ig: @marcwgibson ig: @tectonicformationlab

Alan Kim is a Ph.D. Candidate at RMIT Architecture | Tectonic Formation Lab (Computational Design and Advanced Fabrication).

Design Studio: Diffusion Tectonics ig: @alan_arch_kim ig: @tectonicformationlab

Emma Donovan is an architecture graduate and an Associate at Antarctica Architects.

Design Studio: Balnarring Fire ig: @antarctigram

Rodney Eggleston is Director of MARCH Studio.

Design Studio: MARCH Practice Studio: Quarantine Studio w: march.studio ig: @march_studio

Paul van Herk is an Architect whose independent practice is informed by design research and writing about the histories, technologies and cultures that underpin urban development. Paul is currently an Associate at Monash Art Projects as well as a PhD candidate at RMIT University. He is a founding director of urban design studio Extracontextual. Design Studio: Speculative History: Ecological Empires w: excx.net w: www.paulvanherk.com ig: @vhporl

Simone Koch is a a registered architect working at Workshop Architecture. She has taught as a sessional tutor for over 10 years in architectural design, technology, and professional practice at RMIT Architecture at a Master’s level.

Design Studio: the ideas of melbourne

Ann Lau is Director of Hayball.

Design Studio: Hayball

Practice Studio: CoHabit

w: hayball.com.au

ig: @hayball_arch

Vicky Li is an Associate and health planner at Lyons, who explores her interests in design by directly responding to the social, civic, historical and multicultural layers of the built urban fabric.

Design Studio: Lyons

Practice Studio: Building

Critical Mass

w: www.lyonsarch.com.au

ig: @lyonsarchitecture

Felix Madrazzo is a partner in IND [Inter.National.Design] an architecture and urbanism practice founded in 2007 in Rotterdam. He is co-founder of Supersudaca, a collective of architects from Latinamerica conducting research on contemporary intersections of society and territory.

Design Studio: all together now (The Why Factory)

w: internationaldesign.nl

ig: @ind_inter.national.design

Nina Wyatt is an Associate and Design Architect at Lyons, with a distinct interest in the interaction of users and the public with the architecture and design of educational, research and healthcare facilities.

Design Studio: Lyons

Practice Studio: Building

Critical Mass

w: www.lyonsarch.com.au

ig: @lyonsarchitecture

Dylan Li is an Associate and registered Architect at ARM architecture and has taught in the ARM practice studio since 2019 at RMIT, AAVS and computational design studio at university of Melbourne. He has a distinct interest in the field performance architecture and public housing.

Design Studio: LAPUTA - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

w: www.ling.studio ig: @dylan______l

Professor Winy Maas is founding partner of MVRDV and leads The Why Factory (T?F) based at TU Delft - a global think-tank and research institute. It explores possibilities for the development of our cities by focusing on the production of models and visualisations for cities of the future.

Design Studio: all together now (The Why Factory) w: thewhyfactory.com ig: @thewhyfactory_winy. maas

Stasinos Mantzis is a practicing architect for 20 years. Stas is an experienced registered architect and educator with an interest in how culture and cultural knowledge can be integrated in all aspects of the built environment.

Design Studio: On Country: Framlingham 2023

ig: @stasman

Cecilia Yao is a talent designer at ARM architecture with a distinct interest and experience public housing sector.

Design Studio: LAPUTA - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly ig: @ceciliayao1125

Putu Permana

As a keen advocate of how design can be clearly communicated, Putu utilises and regularly explores the application of parametric design and technology, and how they can strengthen the articulation of design concepts

Design Studio: Hayball Practice Studio: CoHabit w: hayball.com.au

ig: @hayball_arch

Professor Roland Snooks is the director of the RMIT Architecture | Tectonic Formation Lab and the architecture practice Studio Roland Snooks.

Design Studio: Diffusion Tectonics

ig: @rolandsnooks

ig: @tectonicformationlab

Matt Stanley is an Associate at MARCH Studio.

Design Studio: MARCH Practice Studio: Quarantine Studio w: march.studio ig: @march_studio

Nelson Teo, with 7 years of international and local experience formerly with EDP, KG and MCR Architecture and recently started with Hayball Architecture. Interested in procedural design processes, mixed-used typologies and the impact on occupant inhabitation.

Design Studio:

Reappropriation: Fit for Purpose

David Schwarzman is an Architect at UNStudio in Amsterdam and Academic at RMIT University in Melbourne. David is interested in the relationships between the built environment, human behaviour and data.

Design Studio: The Temporal City

Adrian Stanic, a lead Design Director of Lyons, works as a creative and analytical thinker renowned for his lateral ‘idea rich’ approach to the design and development of urban design, health, education, cultural, commercial and major research projects.

Design Studio: Lyons Practice Studio: Building Critical Mass w: www.lyonsarch.com.au ig: @lyonsarchitecture

Jacqueline Tang Architect of Workshop Architecture. Have 6 years of experience in the industry, working on a wide range of projects. Interested in the journey of architectural phases and how procedure methodologies can be integrated throughout multiple typologies to serve an intention.

Design Studio: Reappropriation: Fit for Purpose

Max Leegel Wight is an Associate and registered architect at Antarctica Architects. He has professional experience working in Melbourne and Beijing on a diverse typology of projects large and small.

Design Studio: Balnarring Fire ig: @antarctigram

Dr Ben Milbourne is an architect and Senior Lecturer at RMIT where he is engaged in research on the creative potential and professional impacts of the adoption of advanced manufacturing in architecture. He is a founding partner of Common, an architecture and urban design practice focused on engaging in the common commission of the city through public and private projects.

Design Studio: all together now (The Why Factory) w: commondesign.com.au

ig: @benmilbourne_

Ian Nazareth is an architect, researcher and educator. Ian is an academic at the School of Architecture and Urban Design at RMIT and the director of TRAFFIC - a design and research practice working across architecture, urbanism and computation.

Design Studio: The Temporal City w: trafficcollective.com

ig: @trafficcollective