SEMESTER 2 | 2021
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE DESIGN ELECTIVES ARCH 1491, 1492, ARCH 1338, 1339, 1340
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ARCHITECTURE This elective will begin with a series of analogue contour drawing exercises to open up new ways of breaking down an environment visually. Students will then move onto the computer to develop 2D illustrations which will build upon the previous exercises. Finally, the students will move into Blender where they will learn how to build 2D illustrations into 3D renders, and how to use their initial drawing exercises to reframe and better compose standard architectural renders. Students will develop technical skills drawn from contemporary and historical illustration, comic making, film, and 2D-3D compositing, alongside a set of conceptual and theoretical skills focusing on re-understanding the architectural visualisation as something beyond the hero image. There will be a firm emphasis on workflow development so that these techniques can transfer to other visualisation methods. A curated selection of readings will be given alongside the tasks to help students reframe their work and understand how these illustrations exist within their contemporary practice. The final assessment will be the production of a sequence of illustrations, either of a previous studio project or of a new project of the students choosing, using the techniques developed during this elective. Classes will be spent developing drawing skills so students will need A3 plain paper and black fineliners at a minimum.
Architecture Sequential posits that the classical hero image is but one in a sequence of visualisations that cumulatively tell the story of the project, from its grandest visions, to its minutest detail. What then is the character of Architecture in the play you are staging?
ELECTIVE with laura szyman WEDNESDAYS 9.30-12.30 bachelors + masters
UNITY & C#
games engine + coding Tutor
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Caitlyn Parry
Day | Tuesday
Time | 3:30-6:30
Location | online
Equipment | MUST BYO Laptop
This elective will introduce you to Unity games engine and c# coding language. It is a beginners course which does not require previous Unity or coding knowledge. The subject will begin by stepping through Unity software and with each week will building on understanding the general principles of programming using C# language. The later parts of the subjetc focusing on more creative 2D & 3D applications that are relevant to architecture. Student must provide their own laptop with adequate capability to run Unity3D. A folio documentating all creative outcomes will be required as part of the final submission.
Architectural Publication Elective Fridays 9am-12pm Room 100.04.004
PROOF introduces you to the ins and outs of independent architectural publishing. The purpose of this elective is to generate ideas, produce original content and then edit and curate this content with the work of others to form your own publication. The course is split into two halves. The first half uses a variety of provocations (readings, talks, events, guest lectures, buildings) to encourage a critical response to issues related to the field of architecture. These weekly responses will be varied in theme and format, cumulatively building an archive of collective content. The second half of the course will see you managing, editing, curating this content to form your own publication. This will be your final submission. Throughout the semester we will have a series of guest speakers working in and around publishing. This will provide a valuable insight across a broad spectrum of local publications, both current and historical. Skills • • • • • • •
you will learn: Editing Commissioning content Graphic design Original short form essay writing Thematic development Interviewing Exhibition curation
PROOF is lead by Lauren Crockett, with support from Nicola Cortese and Stephanie Pahnis.
to view work from S2 2020: https://proofmag.online/
to view work from S1 2020: | http://try.at.studio/rmit_proof
Image by Isobel Moy, Semester 01 2020
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In this elective students will learn the basics of how owneroccupiers and small scale developers subdivide small scale inner urban sites for development. Students will learn how to find sites and how to asses a their suitability for sub-division. Each student will develop a built form envelope that takes in to account the planning constraints of building height, setbacks, crossovers, parking, heritage, neighbourhood character, cultural heritage, council contributions, construction costs, utility costs, design costs, marketing costs, taxation structures, sale prices and agent commissions. Students will learn about the development process, how to
establish title boundaries, how to process adverse possession claims, and how to structure the development financing. Students will be run their project through a mock local government planning process including pre-planning meetings, dealing with council planners, the public display and objection process and the Victorian Civil Administrative Tribunal (VCAT). The elective will also brush on how to design for the right type of builder, how to chose a builder, and triggers of the unionising of sites. The ultimate output of the elective for each student will be a series of drawings suitable for a planning application and a development flow chart.
Face-to-face Wednesdays 9.30am > 12.30pm in the RMIT Design Hub Tutor: Dr Jan van Schaik: practising architect at MvS Architects, a researcher and senior lecturer at RMIT Architecture & Urban Design, and a creative and cultural industries strategist at Future Tense.
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Architecture is increasingly transdisciplinary and enriched with information, introducing big data into design processes. Through computational processes for the first time in history we are rendering invisible visible. “Pattern recognising” possible designs out of sea of data is increasingly opaque to unassisted human cognition, and becomes a work of the machine. We will investigate Ai-assisted design search, accelerating development of student’s design sensibility emerging from this partnership with Ai and its very different kind of cognition. Built in high resolution, through large populations, systems, and patterns, we will seek to discover previously unseen, awe-inspiring aesthetics. Emancipating designers from familiar and predetermined, we will embrace discovery and re-origination of architectural expressions, asking what architecture could be with this newfound hybrid form of human/nonhuman creativity. Computational workflow will consist of training and deployment of artificial neural networks in their different forms, such as CycleGan, Image to Image Neural Translation, Convolution Neural Networks and 2D to 3d translation. Thus enabling synthesis of proto-architectural entities, sourced from natural and artificial origin, such as urban textures found in existing cities on Earth, NASA images of Mars landscapes, and structural patterns of buildings, plants, forests, and crystals.
Elective Dates Semester 2 - 2021 Thursdays 11-3pm Week 2: July 29th - First Class Week 3: 2nd - 5th August - IntensivePeriod Weeks 4-7: 12th, 19th, 26th August - Normal Classes Week 8: 9th Sep Final Presentation www.alisaandrasek.com | https://vimeo.com/user366246
Bachelors and Masters Elective- Wednesday 9.00-12.00
degrees of DIFFICULTY
Who has not put down a book in annoyance or tossed one in disgust, to then read it without putting it down. Reading is not nearly as straightforward as its made out to be, we skip words, repeat sentences, miss pages and search for words in a box full of them, We are compromised by reading, we are just as likely to be emboldened as insulted or diminished. we encounter difficulty; we experience doubt, and on occasion we give up. To look at books as repositories of knowledge says nothing of the experience of reading, after all it is not our knowledge of doubt but the feeling of doubt that causes books to shut and be returned to the shelf And it is not what we know about anger but anger that causes a book to be thrown aside. Is it ironic then that the feeling of doubt is a prerequisite to understanding the modern text? . "I am a thinking (conscious) thing, that is, a being who doubts, affirms, denies, knows a few objects, and is ignorant of many- ("cogito" dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum-res cogitans) Rene Descartes' 1641 That the very sensation that causes the book to be returned to the shelf is all that we needed to realise its purpose. It followed from Descartes that modern philosophy is the phenomenology of reading, The" I "who doubts; the reader, who mouths the words, is the instrument of knowing that recognises truth. From Descartes truth is not known but experienced; the experience of the reader reading. This project will carefully read a number of primary texts from Philosophy, Aesthetics and Architecture. A reflection on each weeks reading will be the basis of a journal, This will be collated and sub mitted for assessment at the conclusion of the semester. Text to be exerts from; 1 M Tafuri; Humanism Technical Knowledge and Rhetoric; The debate in renascence Venice. 2 Rousseau; The Social Contract (Foucault commentary) 3Gombrich from Perfernce for the primitive 4 J von Goethe - On German Architecture (commentary by J Pevsner, EH Gombrich and VonMuke and Purdy et el) 5 Alois Riegl; The Modern Cult of Monuments . 6 Wilhelm Worringer; Abstraction and Empathy. 7 Walter Benjamin; On translation. The storyteller. 8 Hegel Notes on aesthetics 9 Roland Bathe; Mythologies . 10 Foucault; What is an Author- (Giorgio Agambon The Author as Geasture) 11 Kuhn; The structure of Scientific Revolutions .Agambon What is a paradigm 12 Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari - What is Philosophy 13 Elizebeth Groz The thing 14 Agambon from The signiture of all things
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Empathy (Einfuhlung): ... How the body in responding to cer tain stimuli in dream objectifies itself in spatial forms - and with this also the soul - into the form of the object. Robert Vischer On the optical sense of Form a Contribution to Aesthetics Before we as individuals are even conscious of our existence we have been pro foundly influenced for a considerable time (since before birth) by our relationship to other individuals who have complicated histories, and are members of a society which has an infinitely more complicated and longer history than they do (and are members of it at a particular time and place in that history); and by the time we are able to make conscious choices we are already making use of categories in a language which has reached a particular degree of development through the lives of countless generations of human beings before us....We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being.The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong-
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The plant contemplates water, earth, nitrogen, car bon, chlorides and sulphates, and it contracts them in order to acquire its own concept and till itself with it (enjoyment). The concept is a habit acquired by contemplating the elements from which we come...... p 106 Gilles Delueze and Felix Guattari What is philosophy Paul Valery wrote in a very remote context. ''Artistic observation", he says in reflections on a woman artist whose work consisted in the silk embroidery of figures, "can attain an almost mystical depth. The objects on which it falls lose their names. Light and shade form very particular systems, present very individual questions which depend upon no knowledge and are derived from no practice, but get their existence and value exclusively from a certain accord of the soul, the eye, and the hand of someone who was born to perceive them and evoke them in his own inner self." Aristotle briefly defended them in his fragmentary Poetics. In particular, Aristotle defended the arts from Plato's charge that they are cognitively useless, trading in mere images of particulars rather than universal truths, by arguing that it is precisely the arts, or at least poetry, that deliver universal truths in a readily graspable form, unlike, for example, history, which deals merely with particular facts (Aristotle, Poetics, chapter 9,
Ornamental Operations Elective Leader: Brent Allpress Wednesday 9-12.00 am, Rm 100.5.7 “Cultural evolution is equivalent to the removal of ornament from articles of everyday use.” – Adolf Loos “The new decoration is orthopaedic”. – Le Corbusier “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 separate 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 cross and interrupt the central texts of the architectural tradition, both constructing and dividing them with unresolved uncertainties. Modernist theory negated the supplementary role of applied ornament. Modernist practices however involved radical ornamental operations employing abstract spatial surfaces as semiautonomous systems. The representational role of ornament in contemporary architecture remains complex and contested. This elective provides a framework for investigating the complexities of the legacy of the Modernist prescription against the ornamental. It provides an opportunity to reconsider and revise postmodern accounts of the role of ornament. Recent non-standard digital technologies that revise modernist economies of standardization also shift the debate on the role of figuration beyond representation and communication towards architectural actions. Critical readings will be made of key architectural texts on ornament. Modernist, postmodernist and contemporary precedent projects will be analysed involving questions of ornament. The Elective will examine a thematic series of ornamental operations and actions including framing, masquerade, grotesquery, interlacing, prosthesis, negation, marginalia, backgrounding and mediation. The late-Classical theorist Boethius argued the role of ornament was to mediate transitions in state from conditions of tension to resolution. Related counter-compositional strategies will be explored. This is a design project and practices focused History and Theory Elective that integrates theoretical reading and critical discursive writing with representational analysis and speculative project based design studies. This Elective provides a vehicle for research into significant architectural precedent and practices, provoking a critical and creative response that focuses on qualitative and performative design operations and outcomes.
POST CARBON CITIES IAN NAZARETH SEMESTER 2 2021 WEDNESDAYS 1 PM - 4 PM 100.04.005 AND ONLINE
Post Carbon Cities is concerned with the ‘re-forming’ of cities in response to shifting energy paradigms – from fossil fuels to renewable energy. While certain aspects like carbon footprint are quantifiable, others are more abstract. Carbon and ‘Carbon Capitalism’ has been a dominant variable in the development of cities and patterns of settlement. ‘Carbon Form’ extends beyond urban and architectural types and energy flows. It dictates and defines how global logistics, supply chains, food and energy networks and cultural artefacts proliferate. Adjacent to the discussion of carbon and the climate / ecological crisis, we now inhabit the post-pandemic city, where the hierarchy and traditional role or the central city (ie the downtown and CBD) is challenged, elevating notions of decentralisation and localisation. The seminar is focussed on the relationship between architecture, urbanism, the organisation of cities and its staged liberation from carbon. We seek to better understand new energy and the new possibilities for production and spatial organisation, that challenge the orthodoxies of cities, suburbs, precincts and architecture. We will review, analyse and speculate on the temporary and permanent transformation of the city and urban realm. How would new energy paradigms and distribution subvert the matrix of rules, formulas and relationships that underpin the contemporary city? What possibilities does this offer for economies of localised energy production? Eco Urban Practices extends attitudes and approaches to understanding, describing and speculating about an urbanism that responds to a particular ecological pressure, placed in the broader context of discussion of sustainability, liveability, mobility, transformation and counterfactual propositiosn for the city. Eco‐Urban Practices introduces you to the key skills, methods and practices of the urban design professional from a multidisciplinary perspective, and with a particular focus on environmental sustainability. The relationship between urban design and global pressures of population and climate change is a key focus, as well as urban shifts in infrastructure, technology and transport. You will explore the implications of these issues on urban design processes, projects and practices, while acquiring insight from industry and government professionals, following the sustainability paradigm. We will view design practice from a global perspective, with an equal emphasis on the local. This elective will also investigate precedents, utopias, theories and manifestos in order to understand the multiple scales and networks within the city.
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RMIT ARCHITECTURE LAB DIRECTOR ELECTIVE INSTRUCTOR
TECTONIC FORMATION LAB ROLAND SNOOKS CHARLIE BOMAN
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1:30 PM - 4:30PM THURSDAY 100.10.01 (LONGROOM)
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THIS RESEARCH ELECTIVE IS PART OF THE TECTONIC FORMATION LAB RUN BY ROLAND SNOOKS. RESEARCH WILL HAVE A MAJORITY FOCUS ON 3D-PRINTED METAL (WAAM). THE GOAL OF THIS ELECTIVE IS TO POSIT THE FULL DOMAIN OF THIS TECHNOLOGY, IDENTIFYING AND SURPASSING ITS METHOD AND MATERIAL LIMITATIONS. THREE OTHER AREAS OF RESEARCH WILL ALSO BE OFFERED TO STUDENTS. TOPICS WILL INCLUDE: 3D PRINTING MYCELIUM AND MAPPING MATERIAL DATA THROUGH DEVELOPED COMPUTATIONAL ALGORITHMS, SPATIAL GEL PRINTING, CARBON FIBER REINFORCEMENT AND RESEARCH LAB PRESENTATION MATERIAL. GRASSHOPPER AND RHINO SKILLS NECESSARY.
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE PRACTICE RESEARCH ELECTIVE S2 2021 PAST PRACTICES
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The Practice Research Elective course was launched in semester 1 of 2014. The concept was originated by Dean Boothroyd, with the intention of providing an opportunity for students to study with architects who have a history of contributing to the design culture of RMIT Architecture directly through the running of Masters Level design studios. During that placement the student is exposed to various roles within the participating practice which creates research projects for the students to work on - these may take the form of competitions, independently derived speculative projects or possibly primary research within a particular field defined by the practice. The project is an opportunity to interact with an office and a project team, and develop skills in data gathering, analysis, visual communication, and reflection.
SIX YEARS OF PRACTICE RESEARCH ELECTIVES 2015-2021
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Data visualisation and graphics Analytical diagramming and mapping Analysis of policy, research papers and media Interviews with stakeholders, consultants and practitioners Post occupancy surveys, Life Cycle assessments and analysis
Student presentions to authorities, consultants and clients Student presentation to office and working groups. Student testing new software and technology skills on real projects Student development in writing and presentation skills for industry Student exposureto office procedures, filing, standards and methods
SEMESTER 2 | 2021
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE ELECTIVE BASED RESEARCH ARCH 1491, 1492, ARCH 1338, 1339, 1340 PLEASE EMAIL THE TUTOR DIRECTLY IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING IN THE RESEARCH DESCRIBED IN THE FOLLOWING POSTERS
THE CITY AS A SERVICE THE ‘CITY AS A SERVICE’ SETS IN MOTION A WEB OF RECURSIONS, INFINITE LOOPS AND ENDLESS BINARIES: CITIES ON THE CUSP OF A SINGULARITY. IT IS A ZEITGEIST OF RUNAWAY REACTIONS, WHERE THE SYSTEMS OF THE CITY ARE OVERCOME BY TECHNOLOGIES THAT SURPASS THE CAPACITY OF REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS. CITIES ARE SHAPED AS MUCH BY HUMANS AS BY ALGORITHMS, MACHINES AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS. NEW ECONOMIES, PLATFORM TECHNOLOGIES AND REAL-TIME DATA HAVE ACCELERATED ECONOMIC EXTRACTION AND SPECULATION. THESE VARIABLES FALL OUTSIDE THE DOMAIN OF ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE. URBAN AND STATUTORY PLANNING SEEM HOPELESSLY RETROSPECTIVE. THERE ARE PHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS TO VIRTUAL AGREEMENTS THAT ARE APPARENT IN THE OPERATIONS AND BEHAVIOURS OF CITIES. TRANSACTIONAL EXCHANGES AND SERVICES AUGMENT AND INTERFERE WITH THE SOURCE CODE, THE INPUTS AND OUTPUTS AND DIDACTICISM OF THE CITY. THIS ELECTIVE WILL SURVEY METHODOLOGIES, PARADIGMS, UTOPIAS, FICTO-NARATIVES, DISPOSITIONAL PRACTICES AND SPECULATIONS AT AN URBAN AND ARCHITECTURAL SCALE TO COMPREHEND AND VISUALISE THE SYSTEMS AND FORCES AT PLAY, AND THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE FUTURE CITY. THE PROJECT SEEKS A CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPLICATION OF TECHNO-CULTURES ON THE FORM OF THE CITY, WITH AN AIM TO INFLUENCE THE DIRECTION AND INTERACTIONS IN FUTURE CITIES. IT IS ALSO AN INCENSED CRITIQUE OF ‘SMART CITIES’. THIS ELECTIVE IS NOT BALLOTED AND LIMITED TO FOUR STUDENTS. CONTACT IAN NAZARETH (IAN.NAZARETH@RMIT.EDU.AU) TO EXPRESS YOUR INTEREST. MEETINGS WEEK 1 - WEEK 12, TUESDAY MORNINGS, RMIT DESIGN HUB. MEETINGS CAN BE SCHEDULED FLEXIBLY
GRADUATE EXHIBITION ASSISTANTS
SEMESTER 2 2021
The Architecture Program requires 6 enthusiastic assistants to help with the organisation of the Semester 2 2021 End of Semester and Major Project Exhibition. You will work closely with the Exhibition Coordinator in the design and curation of the exhibition, graphic design of posters and PR materials, website, Major Project Catalogue and other items that go to make a succesful event. The majority of the work will be in the second half of semester, but you will be required to assist with organisation throughout the semester. There will be a crunch period in the week prior to the event, please confirm your availability over Week 13, Week 15, Week 16 and Week 17 prior to enrolling in the elective. The team is limited to 6 people only. You will receive credit towards an elective for your time. This is not availabe through electives balloting. If you are interested please contact the Exhibition Co-ordinator Ian Nazareth (ian.nazareth@rmit.edu.au) directly.
RESEARCH ASSISTANTS NEEDED Approximately 2-3 research assistants are required to support a new research project. The project will be exploring the design of advanced manufacturing facilities in precincts, with a specific focus on the development of facilities capable of supporting the design and manufacturing of systems and components for space flight technology. This research project is being run in collaboration with Gilmore Space Technologies, a start-up developing Australia’s first orbital launch vehicle. The ambition is to develop proposals for a future space industry manufacturing precinct in South East Queensland.
The project will be led by John Doyle Meetings will be held weekly at a time to be arranged. This opportunity is only available for a small number of students, and will not be available via the balloting form. If you are interested in joining the elective please send an email to john.doyle@rmit.edu.au
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This engagement would suit students who are interested in manufacturing and production urbanism as a research area. All participants will be asked to sign a copyright release for work to be published. Students will be credited for all work produced.
Research Assistants Needed Approximately 2-4 research assistants are required to support the Super Tight research projects. Super Tight is an ongoing research project exploring design led approaches to density in future cities. Successful applicants will assist in the final preparation of a book publication cataloguing the output of this research project, and the development of an exhibition entitled ‘Making Tight’ to be held in Seoul in 2022. Work will include the development of diagrams, drawings and renderings, as well as publication layout, and exhibition design. Students will be expected to engage with the conceptual material of the project as active participants, with a view to preparing a written response as an accompaniment to the final folio. Students will be asked to sign a copyright release allowing work produced to be published. All assistants involvement will be credited in the exhibition and published material. The project will be led at RMIT by John Doyle and Graham Crist. This opportunity is only available for 4 students, and will not be available via the balloting form. If you are interested in joining the team please contact us directly at john.doyle@rmit.edu.au or graham.crist@rmit.edu.au
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