Transitory Architecture Tutors: Richard and Michelle Black
Transitory Architecture The concept of transitory is an enduring theme running through our work. Transitory suggests the provisional dimension of things acting on one another over time – from the site and the landscape – to the building and how it allows living patterns to unfold. The studio will explore these themes. We will look closely at the relationship between light, shadow and space. Architectural permanence will be challenged, looking more towards notions of the incomplete, the transitory, and ephemera. This approach encourages the architect to consider conditions of movement and stasis, order and chance, day and night, winter and summer, past and present, hot and cold. These conditions can challenge architectures permanence in time. How might architecture stage ongoing change? Project: a building with a combined program of residence + studio/office; a new housing typology for rural towns within a 100km radius of Melbourne, where the potential of fast rail connections into the city make work on the periphery a possibility. Richard + Michelle Black
Construction Phasing axonometric camping diagrams Cynthia Yim 1
Axonometric drawing Elina Spruza 2
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Transition through the building entering and exiting spaces Sofia Sjodin 3
Floor Plan Emile Clare 4
Interior Views Jackie Chan 5
Studio Details Title: Transitory Architecture Tutor: Richard + Michelle Black Pole: Expanded Field Date: Semester 1, 2009 Students: Aminuddin Shazana Caddaye Thomas Chan Jacky Chiew Yitian Clare Emile Ding Eva Mambort Mercedes Phoon Shuyen Pratt Nick Sjodin Sofia Sowter Robert Spruza Elina Thompson Edwina Yim Cynthia Zhang Nicole This and other documented examples of design studios run as part of the RMIT University Architecture program can be found on issuu.com