BUILD your THING

Design and fabricate a compelling and dynamic architectural object to be permanently housed in RMIT’s Health Transformation and Innovation Catalyst Labs.

An applied design research team has been commissioned by RMIT’s Health Transformation and Innovation Catalyst Labs to conceive of a compelling and engaging architectural installation.

The installation will be designed in response to the lab’s ‘People, Planet & Health Visualscape’ at the Social Innovation Hub where it will be permanently housed.

Guided by Jan van Schaik, the team will consist of three design research assistants who will work together as the designers of the project.

This project is best suited to a group of three who are interested in working together to bring a coordinated design authorship to produce a built design outcome.

The project has a construction budget of $20,000 and will need to be installed before the end of June 2023.

Wk 1: Briefing on site (in Carlton)

Wks 2/3: Prepare design concept, present to client*

Wks 4/5: Develop design and present to client*

Wk 6: Finalise design

Wks 7/8/9: Prepare fabrication drawings

Wk 9: Discuss drawings with fabricators*

Wks 11/12: Amend fabrication drawings

Wk 12: Submit final fabrication drawings

Wks 14/15/16: Fabrication and installation (by fabricators)

* Meeting times will be coordinated to suit all team members

To apply, email a one page PDF containing bios of each member and a nine page joint PDF portfolio before midday Feb 23. Include a referee for each applicant. Applications will only be accepted from groups of three.

Contact: jan.vanschaik@rmit.edu.au

Jan van Schaik is an artist and architect based in Melbourne. He is the director of MvS Architects, a creative- practice researcher and senior-lecturer at RMIT Architecture & Urban Design, the founder of +Concepts, designer of Lost Tablets, and a creative sector consultant at Future Tense. More at janvanschaik.com