RMIT ARCHITECTURE MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO BALLOTING POSTERS SEM 2, 2019
WEDNESDAY 6-10 PM 100.05.05
TUTORS: ANDRE BONNICE + JEAN-MARIE SPENCER
‘BELOVED COAL’ continues on from the Master of Architecture studio ‘Dirty Coal’ run in Semester 01, 2019. The studio will focus on the La Trobe Valley’s 3 Major coal-fired power plants Yallourn, Loy Yang, the now decommissioned Hazelwood and their adjacent quarries. Despite their ‘dirtiness’ they still provide Victoria with the bulk of its electricity and are the working heart of a community that was built on the promise that coal would bring security and prosperity. In 1956, the then Premier of Victoria Henry Bolte, spoke with optimism for the future of the region labelling it the ‘Ruhr of Australia’. Today the vexed issue of coal has left this once celebrated community at a cross-roads. To meet Australia’s commitment to the Paris 2030 agreement all three of these power plants would need to (& should) be closed. Looking again to the Ruhr, ‘Beloved Coal’ will investigate what other value these industrial monuments might have beyond simply demolishing them. The studio will explore this difficult problem through visualising possible futures. There will be an emphasis on digital exploration through the themes of ENERGY, GEOMORPHOLOGY, MINING, ECONOMICS, POLITICS and the INDUSTRIAL.
In Part Whole A Discrete Architecture Gilles Retsin This studio will explore discrete design and fabrication strategies for architecture, prototyping timber sheetbased building blocks. Discrete design attempts to develop a computational understanding of the notion of the part and consequently also its assembly. While architecture invested in digital and algorithmic methods has traditionally worked its way down from complex superforms to thousands of customised parts, the discrete design paradigm reverts this process, starting from the part itself and resulting in an architecture that resists the whole. Capitalising on modularity, prefabrication and automation, discrete architecture establishes a short production chain that is versatile and prone to be distributed, automated, democratised and shared. Its resistance to the overall superform is also paired with a critical attitude exploring and questioning the implication of various degrees of resolution, heterogeneity, variability and difference. However, this remains a radical progressive project, invested in understanding the potential of computation and automation for architectural complexity. -The studio will adopt a design research driven, hands-on attitude, where students will prototype their own building blocks and discrete assembly strategies. We will make intensive use of the CNC machine, working with plywood as a base material. Parts will be physically tested on different primitive architectural and structural conditions such as beams, floor-slabs and columns. In parallel, using a series of algorithmic processes, students will explore the architectural consequences of their experiments on large-scale speculative building masses and housing blocks. -#U C Ć’PCN QWVRWV YG YKNN RTQFWEG C series of detailed prototypes of building blocks and assemblies, alongside speculative architectural drawings and renderings. 7XHVGD\V SP ,17(16,9( :HHNV
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Archie Pizzini:Rasquachismo Series Saigon 2019
RMIT Master of Architecture Design studio 2019 with GRAHAM CRIST Tuesday 6pm
scale:compression:hyperdensity:small footprint more precise:more efficient:more intimate This design studio continues the investigations of the Supertighter studios, and will run in parallel with the Supertight exhibition coming up this year. It affirms the upside of hyper density, consolidation and smallness; the dumbest but most powerful tools of the architect - distributing space. It affirms the role of design in radically improving our footprint. The projects will locate around the BRUNSWICK DESIGN DISTRICT in the City of Moreland - as a test case for new types of environment in the metropolitan middle ring, and participate in a series of studio events around this project. We will consider the collapsing, shrinking needs of new cities and minaturised programs- shrinking houses/offices/schools/clinics/streets, while shrinking food and energy production to fit into cities. We will design architectural propositions to instigate the tightest urban precinct.
the idea of melbourne
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proposition. Similar to previous semesters, we will use weekly projects as investigations and speculations as to the nature of the place as a system in perpetual Ă X[ &RPPHQFLQJ ZLWK a landscape project, the
each contributing to this vision, perhaps shifting it sideways, as it develops from a critique of the City of the present towards a proposition for the City of the future. The focus of the studio is to provide the forum for
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Greater Melbourne, I am now proposing that we take on The City of Melbourne, not just the CBD buts its municipal extents, to the ends of its boulevards. A project that is in parts comprehension, critique and operation or
students will each imagine The City of Melbourne as an idea. This may include realities of geology, climate, history, culture, economics and politics. The idea will be used as the backdrop of their weekly interventions,
each student to develop a personal architecture, of culture, of urban design, and to place themselves within not only the context, their own idea, but that of the world of ideas. Success will be judged on each student’s
future, their willingness and desire to see architecture as a way of engaging with the world beyond the discipline.
simone koch
Wednesday evenings
jan senbergs geelong capriccio (if geelong were settled instead of melbourne)
BLOCK PARTY
(big gestures, little axis)
Edges, thresholds and maximum juxtaposition are opportunities to create new architectural and urban adaptations. This studio seeks to create conditions of inbetween states, multiplicity, and complexity as a counterpoint to the new developments in the inner suburbs of Melbourne, Students will conceive of their as an urban device, and speculate new kinds of mixed use development in Brunswick that can operate as a gateway to a park, a vista terminus, a heritage precinct, while at the same time provide a framework for growth.
Vicky Lam Master of Architectuer Design Studio 2019 Semester II Tuesday Mornings
Supermodular Architecture
Set-backs & Heights
Complimentary Gardens
Directed Views
Off-set Windows
“Supermodular games are those characterized by ‘strategic complimentarities’ - roughly, this means that when one player takes a higher action, the others want to do the same.” Jonathan Levin, Stanford University The premise of this studio is that architectural design processes could become supermodular games. It is presupposed that there could be a ‘higher action’ in architecture, arrived at by shared interests and cooperation. In such a situation, buildings would benefit each other, both as neighbours and as a neighbourhood. Most architectural projects are undertaken in a forum which is, roughly speaking, selfinterested. This studio will promote the exploration of a different design process, for a different kind of architecture. Through a series of studio based workshops, students will negotiate rules, restrictions, agreements, exceptions, and boundary conditions: conditions which are usually left to governments or isolated property owners to decide. These may result in new planning envelopes, material palettes, green space, utilities and shared infrastructure strategies. Students will negotiate, design, and iterate, and finally present projects which are both deliberative and emergent.
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Lyons Office Wednesdays 6pm-10pm Level 3, 246 Bourke St
Melbourne self-identifies as a ‘sporting capital’ and has developed an urban precinct that hosts most major sports as well as entertainment. The precinct is a valency within the city, occasionally occupied by high-energy activities, most often remaining vacant and buffered from the city by parkland and rail infrastructure.
The site is large, vacant and ugly enough to entertain ambitious design proposals and students will look to aspirational precedents to enrich their conceptual outlook – think the ancient Greek gymnasium, Tschumi’s Manhattan Transcripts and Koolhaas’ Downtown Athletic Club.
This Practice Studio combines our on-going research into the transformation of urban ‘mono-precincts’ (arts, parliamentary or cultural precincts) with current STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) projects being undertaken by Lyons.
Operating within the public realm requires a different design approach, which the Practice Studio will share.
We will start with the ‘STEM philosophy’: the practice of bringing different disciplines together to create a new, previously unexpected culture. The studio will explore the social, programmatic, formal and material architectures in which these new cultures could thrive. The studio will bring together a new set of programs into the ‘sporting capital’ to investigate how vastly different architectural agendas (in this case sport and academia) could be negotiated in this place of contests.
Students will undertake a detailed study of the precinct and its history, explore how a year-long schedule of events could be re-programmed, and then propose projects that contest the site’s ‘single-mindedness’. These new programs will take the form of an Academic Centre of Excellence, licentious entertainment and persuasive media. From these projects, the new ‘Athletic Academic’ could emerge, inhabiting a city of sports and ideas, culture and broadcast.
focus 1: (how) PROCESS-BASED EXPERIMENTS / TECHNIQUES & OPERATIVE FORMAL SYSTEMS The studio will be laboratory for process-based experiments and techniques - that is designing multiple processes as choreographed experiments (aimed at establishing particular formal / organisational relationships) and investigating the possibilities for the architectural project that are discovered. We will concentrate on the behaviour of processes external to architecture and consider how they might be co-opted to inform architectural form, organisation, new ways of thinking about architecture and what it might all ‘mean’.
focus 2: (what) FUTURE UNIVERSITY LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS & SPACES FOR INNOVATION The studio will speculate on new models for university learning environments, innovation precincts and spaces for innovation. We will critically examine existing “best-practice” propositions and ask what else, what next? This project is a part of The Speculative Campus Project (led by Vivian Mitsogianni) that asks what might contemporary learning environments be like if the social spaces were the dominant type on campus.
Wonderstuff 3:
Elastica Vivian Mitsogianni & Marc Gibson
focus 3: (how 2) ELASTICA: Elastic behaviour as process and idea. Examining big box envelopes and the idea of the “elastic” as matter for the process-experiments…. Elastic irregular fields of program, Elastic form…Multiple variable elastic organisational systems…Elastic landscape (elastic field)…(elastic variable grain) stretchy …Elastic Civic ….Porous elasticity….Elastic sticky…. elastic innovation….elastic intersection…. elastic uncertainty…. elastic social….
PROJECT: New University Building(s) for design, engineering and technology. SITE: Fisherman’s Bend Innovation Precinct STUDIO: Tuesdays 9:30am
Image (detail): Yoshimitsu Umekawa [it shows behaviour NOT form]
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TECTONIC BEHAVIOR MASTERS STUDIO ROLAND SNOOKS + CHARLIE BOMAN This studio will explore the design of intricate forms and their strange qualities through innovative tectonic logics. Advances in robotic fabrication and building-scale 3D printing is about to radically change the relationship between cost and form, with highly intricate geometries becoming cheaper than conventional fabrication of rectilinear geometry. The studio will focus on tectonic experiments and investigate the DUFKLWHFWXUH WKDW WKLV JHQHUDWHV 6SHFLÂżFDOO\ WKHVH WHFWRQLFV ZLOO EH EDVHG on ceramic 3D printing. Students will be heavily involved with printing one-to-one prototypes in the robotics labs and encouraged to develop design through making. The studio will explore forms that are becoming possible with emerging building-scale 3D printing, in an attempt to articulate what the forms of 3D printed architecture might be and how these could be a radical departure from current architectural form-making. Within this context the studio will develop a synthetic design process that combines emergent algorithmic approaches and the logic of 3D printing to create a strange hybrid. No experience with algorithmic tools or robotics is required, however a willingness to engage in these tools and highly iterative processes is essential
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BARCELONA STUDIO The old neighbourhood of Poblenou in Barcelona grew under the industrial revolution during the mid 19th Century. When production started disappearing from European cities around the last decades of the 20th Century, this neighbourhood, a former major industrial area, became the scenario for the testing of different possible urban futures. The start of this process was the moment it hosted a brand new Athletes’ Village for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics that erased all the industrial pre-existences. The second step was a plan to convert former polluting industry into clean-tech businesses in the early 21st Century. The global crisis of 2007 stopped the sequence of transformations and froze a scene that survives until today. It is the image of a fragmented reality. This Studio will focus on the social and urban rehabilitation of a neglected area of Poblenou, nowadays occupied with illegal settlements, introducing a program of social housing with communal facilities as a catalyst to change this fragmented part of the city into an inclusive neighbourhood.
Master of Urban Design & Master of Architecture travelling design studio Semester 2 2019 (available for balloting in Semester 2)
TUTORS: Tutor: Professor Eva Prats - RMIT Professor of Architecture (Urbanism) - Industry Fellow RMIT Architecture & Flores & Prats
PROPOSED TIMELINE: Travel Dates - 25th November until the 5th of December
RMIT Master of Urban Design and Master of Architecture students will travel to Barcelona, Spain to work with RMIT Professor of Architecture Staff member Eva Prats from the architectural practice Flores Prats - who is a renowned Spanish architect based on our RMIT EU site in Barcelona. They will work with Eva on studying Barcelona and producing a project based in that city.
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RMIT Support: Students who successfully ballot are eligible to apply for RMIT Student Mobility Grants: http://www1.rmit.edu.au/scholarships/mobility Maximum number of students: 12 Contact: Ben Milbourne (ben.milboure@rmit.edu.au) & Emma Jackson (emma.jackson@rmit.edu.au)
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The outer edge of Australian townships and cities has typically been occupied by the cemetery, petrol stations, industry and now Bunnings. With the notion of decentralisation and truck routes defining our understanding of accessing the edge, what is the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;architectureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; that defines the periphery? These programs are utilitarian. These programs are civic. These programs at times are too large to be accommodated within the construct of the existing. Programs that service the edge based on accessibility and the ability to engage with an outer edge of landscape. With the perimeter being redefined and constantly renegotiated what is the architecture of change? Temporary or one of legacy? How do we understand the role of the edge to define place, to define an architectural outcome? Through a critical analysis of precedents this is not a proposal for remembering for the sake of remembering but rather it is about being critical of what has been and what can be an architecture of periphery. Students will be engaged with rigorous site, program and precedent analysis, reviewing the role of civic and utilitarian interventions to define place. MA ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO S2 2019 TUESDAY 9.30AM-1.30PM AMY MUIR
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mass customized hotel by
igor kebel eriko watanabe from XO Projects
Mass customization has been the “next big thing” in product strategy for a long time. How will designers balance between preconfigured and consumer’s choices? How much of architecture can be economically producedto-order rather than codified by volumes for the economy of scale? Hotels are a compressed derivate of the residential architecture, where the experience of the temporary users tries to emulate the absence of their permanent, domestic environments. Hotels undergo a renovation around the 7-10-year mark to avoid a decline in revenue and re-focus the hotel offer on a new and more relevant guest experience based on the requirements of the everchanging customer. The studio will start with the collective research about hotel architecture, economy, and technologies involved, with a specific focus on the inventory of mass-produced hotel components and interfaces. After two weeks of industry research, groups will be established to form individual design research agenda. Each group will produce a strategy for mass-customized hotel prototype, a geometrical system supporting the scale for implementation, tested at the end with the adaptive 3D printed components. Participants proficient with parametric and scripting design tools are encouraged to join the studio. MCH Studio will be running on Wednesdays.
all images courtesy ‘Nike’ @ Lemanoosh
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STUDIO LEADER: BEN MILBOURNE Image: Vacant NL, Rietveld Landscape
TUESDAYS 6-10PM
LET X = X â&#x20AC;&#x153;some malicious, powerful, cunning demon has deceived us.â&#x20AC;? Descartes
This studio will investigate the concept of faith and belief in our built environment. To most, scientific evidence says the Earth is a sphere orbiting the sun. However, there is a community that think our planet is flat. Command of social media has tripled their membership. The flat earth community uses these platforms in distinct, overlapping ways that creates a kind of eco-system around their beliefs. The studio will investigate how flat earth techniques might influence urban design, view shed analysis and vice versa. The studio will investigate the conjuring of urban experience when perspective is prioritised like an effect addiction, its impact on landuse and vice versa. Key terms: Bracketing / slow lit / cartesian doubt / urban ennui / negative capability. Tutor: Simon Drysdale. Wednesday 6pm+