RMIT Architecture Masters Design Studios Semester 1 2014

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MASTERS DESIGN STUDIOS SEMESTER 1 2014

STUDIO PRESENTATIONS TUESDAY 25th FEBRUARY 5PM IN 8.11.68 Balloting will be electronic.

The online balloting form can be accessed through the RMIT architecture webpage. http://architecture.rmit.edu.au/ Projects/upperpool_balloting.php

STUDIO + TUTORS (MUD) Ben Thanh Sector (MUD) A-Mac Wonderstuff & Turbulence Chemical Petals Pillow Talk Widget Barney Curley: Patience Amphibious Architecture Version Cream: Urban Kitbashing Jack’s Magazine Soft Shed Architecture of the Sun Placed Amazon Town House House Town New Centrality In-side X-Tremes 2112AI/100YC Spacelab Make Way for the New

Gretchen Wilkins Simon Whibley Vivian Mitsogianni & Paul Morgan Dean Boothroyd & Mark Jacques Mark Raggatt & Tim Pyke Peter Brew & Simone Koch Peter Corrigan Richard Black & Gabriela Seifert John Doyle Monique Brady-Ward & Angela Woda Nick Searle & Suzannah Waldron Graham Crist, Bernadette Zajd & Mark Lane Jan van Schaik Amy Muir Nicholas Hubicki Simon Drysdale Ferran Sagarra & Ian Nazareth Francoise Roche & Gwyllim Jahn Tom Kovac LYONS Ivan Rijavec

BEN THANH SECTOR Master of Urban Design Studio Semester 1, 2014 Workshop: March 25 - April 4 Studio: April 7 - May 27

Note: This studio is offered as part of the Master of Urban Design program. It will be open to Master of Architecture students for 2014. The studio requires travel to Ho Chi Minh City for a 10-day on site workshop.

The remainder of the tutorials will be conducted online.

Hoanh Tran, Director HTA+Pizzini, Ho Chi Minh City Archie Pizzini, Director HTA+Pizzini, Ho Chi Minh City Gretchen Wilkins, Program Director, Master of Urban Design, RMIT University

Ho Chi Minh City is Asia’s next global metropolis. As it rapidly adapts to intense pressures on all fronts - industry, transportation, tourism, technology, population - the fabric of the city maintains constant flux. But how will the future Ho Chi Minh City continue to embrace new global models without being wholly replaced by them? Ben Thanh Market will be an important testing ground for this question, sitting at the heart of District 1 in Ho Chi Minh City. Its site forms a nexus of commerce and transportation, with vibrant public space, active tourism, light industry, working class housing and mansions of the rich. A new subway system and Ben Thanh station will add an underground layer of complexity to this already intense network of urban spaces and uses. The studio will explore how the dense fabric of old Saigon can accommodate these new massive developments and infrastructure while continuing to support the rich urban street life that so defines public life in Vietnam.

Arden - Macauley will be an entirely new suburb to the North of Melbourne’s CBD. It is one of the four main urban renewal areas of inner Melbourne, together with Docklands, Fishermans Bend and City North.

Spanning between North Melbourne and Flemington Bridge, Arden - Macauley is also distinct from those other projects. Though all will inevitably address contemporary urban issues found both here and elsewhere, A-Mac is an urban space shaped, almost to exhaustion, by its local context: a congested space of landscape, road and rail infrastructure, industrial, civic and residential form.

This density of potential suggests that A-Mac really needs no masterplan at all: what it really needs is exemplars, insightful projects that together create this future city through a convergence of strategies.

A-Mac This studio will undertake a series of projects as individuals and groups through the first half of the semester: an ideas factory that then converges on a precinct to propose a future urban architecture for A-Mac. These projects will cycle through consideration, at various scales, of the elements and issues that exist in, and influence, the site. The use of precedent will figure heavily in the studio, both small and large scale architectural proposals undertaken will prefigure the future urbanism of A-Mac. This urban-architecture is particular and responds to the physical and spatial situation of the site and its future uses.

Tutor: Simon Whibley + guest presenters and citics. Wednesday 4.30-8.30pm Room 45 C

A-Mac is a UPAS + MUD Design Studio

WONDERSTUFF &

TURBULENCE THE RMIT BUILDING 36 PROJECT VIVIAN MITSOGIANNI & PAUL MORGAN with RMIT PROPERTY SERVICES, Patrick Macasaet & Helen Duong

studio focus 1: (how) FORM + EXPERIMENTS WITH GENERATIVE PROCESSES + TECHNIQUES The studio will be laboratory for experiments with generative processes and techniques and we will examine the possibilities for the architectural project that have been discovered. A thorough and nuanced exploration and focus on form will be a significant focus (including strategies for generating form, attention to what things ‘look like’, new modes and ways of thinking about composition and what it might all ‘mean’). Form will not be considered as a consequence or bi-product of other concerns (planning, site constraints, theoretical frameworks and justifications) but as operative and a vital part of the discipline of architecture - with a history in the discipline - and an important part of the craft of architecture as well as a vehicle to engage with the world beyond the discipline. studio focus 2: (what) FUTURE UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS The studio will speculate on new models for university learning environments, springing from existing “best-practice” propositions and asking what else, what next?

Project: Redevelopment of RMIT Building 36 as a new University Building Site: Cnr Swanston and Little Latrobe Streets, Melbourne The Research Project: WONDERSTUFF & TURBULENCE: THE RMIT BUILDING 36 PROJECT Master of Architecture Design studio is a union of two on-going design practice research projects: The Speculative Campus Project led by Vivian Mitsogianni (which explores speculative design propositions for University Learning Environments using process-based design experiments) and the design research projects of Paul Morgan Architects (who have long-standing expertise in the design of VET and University spaces). The projects are brought together by RMIT Property Services to develop speculative and experimental propositions for University Buildings, using the “real world” project of RMIT Building 36 in Swanston St Melbourne. The design studio will be a collaboration between RMIT Architecture Students, and the research project.

Please note: As this is an on-going design research project the students in the studio will have the benefit of knowledge and Intellectual Property of two research projects that have been developed over a number of years for their use in the design studio and their projects will be assisted by the expertise of the supervisors. “THE RMIT BUILDING 36 PROJECT” is a collaborative research project (between Dr Vivian Mitsogianni, Paul Morgan Architects and RMIT Property Services) and students will be required, before commencing the project, to formally assign to RMIT their interest in any IP which may be created as a result of involvement in the studio. Students will of course receive credit for the authorship of the projects produced in the studio if they are included in future exhibitions, publications and presentations as well as acknowledgement of the context that their work was produced in - that is the WONDERSTUFF & TURBULENCE Master of Architecture Design Studio at RMIT. Studio Time: Tuesdays 9:30am – 1:30pm (with Tuesday night classes for the mid semester and end of semester crits)

Master of Architecture Design Studio 2014

base image: “Toxic Avenger” by Yoshimitsu Umekawa

C H E M I C A L P E TA L S This studio will engage with the current trend for public authorities to hand over the focus and definition of new town centres in the five growth corridors to commercial developers. Although this approach is arguably consistent with Melbourne’s history of development, as evidenced through retail strips such as Smith Street, modern-day outcomes seem to lack a civic dimension.

The aim of this studio will be to engage this reality and employ the program to critically redeem it.

Program: sports and aquatic centre set within the larger urban gesture of the civic park Site: adjacent to Craigieburn Central –the latest brandspanking new town centre

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Through initial exercises students will be expected to cultivate knowledge of the constituent spatial and programmatic types of the sports and aquatic centre coupled with civic landscape and urban typologies.

This knowledge will be gleaned through building tours, readings and analysis. From this base tactics will be developed through iterative processes toward the producing a project which could be imagined to become the site of collective (summer) memory.

Tutors: Dean Boothroyd and Mark Jacques Tuesday Evening. RMIT

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Sex, Gender, Sensuality, Sexuality, Architecture

Pill illow Talk Ta lk A new Hotel for Mona

Tim Pyke + Mark Raggatt Tuesday 6pm,Building 45C

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Amphibious Architecture Richard Black and Professor Gabriela Seifert Upper Pool Design Studio: 01 2014 : X Field : Studio times Mondays 10.00am – 2.00pm 45.01.05B : (note: full attendance at intensive studio workshop wk 3) ….site is a collection of scales, programmes, actors, and ecologies that includes past imprints as well as future changes Kahn

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Site: west bank of the Yarra River between the Westgate Bridge and the Newport Power Station (1.5kms long, width 60 metres).

A strip of left-over land wedged between remnant industrial infrastructure and the Yarra River.

Project: what type of encounter can be designed between a river and a city edge? The site, along the river’s edge is part landscape/city/river; it has a certain “terrain vague” character. An urban scale response is required that considers the surrounding built fabric, river edge, the existing landscape and its uses. Your response may include the addition of new infrastructure, the overlay of new uses, building and landscape. Predictions of rising sea levels over the next 100years, along with periodic floods and the impact of tidal variations should be considered in your proposal.

Approach: this studio offers you a site based approach to making architecture. This approach will include a detailed site study as a way of determining how and where to intervene in a location. Site definition is a creative process that can motivate and inspire architectural outcomes. You will undertake detailed drawn explorations of the site to discover its full lived complexity, seen and unseen processes, traces and past imprints impacting over time. This process will draw upon your own observations, archival research, participation in an intensive studio workshop, key texts and case study projects. This process will lead into the production of new drawings to re-define the site. In this studio you will need to devise a carefully considered strategy for the sites future, one that emerges from your site investigations. There will be an intensive studio workshop led by Professor Gabriela Seifert in week 3 of the semester commencing 10.00am Monday 17 March and concluding noon Friday 21 March. You will need to be able to commit to a full week of attendance at this workshop.

Schedule Wk 1-4 Site: re-drawing the site - an act of description. Several projects introducing you to the conceptual concerns of the studio: strategies of approaching site, exposure to art + architecture projects, key texts, case study projects, site workshop.

Wk 4-7: where and how to intervene – the development of a sketch design proposal for the site.

Wk 7-11: detailed design of buildings, infrastructure and landscape to various scales of resolution.

Professor Gabriela Seifert: Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, is the head of Studio 2, Institute of Spatial Design, Innsbruck University. Prof Seifert is a partner with Prof. Goetz Stoeckmann in Formalhaut. Formalhaut: finalists Mies van der Rohe Award, projects exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York and the Architectural Association, London. www.formalhaut.de

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In architecture and urbanism, versioning refers to an approach through which design is carried out using rule based techniques through an open ended or evolutionary process. Design outcomes are understood as one of a series of potential solutions, with authorship applied through the act of selection, or embedded in the rules that structure the process. This process can be applied to an abstract form or begin to sample and edit existing buildings and urban artefacts.

The studio will explore generative techniques through the design of a mixed use tower in Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inner west. Students will be expected to develop their own suite of processes, and formulate a critical position on the studio themes, including the use of precedent in the design process, and the role of open ended design in the urban field.

More broadly, the studio will attempt to challenge the typology of the point tower in Melbourne and speculate on new possibilities that attempt to extend the extremely limited range of spatial possibilities currently available.

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Monique Brady Ward (WOWOWA) & Angela Woda (WOODAA)

JACK’S MAGAZINE Nick Searle & Suzannah Waldron Searle x Waldron Wednesday 6-10pm - Building 45 D

Public Works Jack’s Magazine is the largest gunpowder magazine ever built in Victoria. Twin bluestone vaulted buildings are concealed behind 10m high blast mounds and 3m high bluestone walls, with a canal connecting it to the river.

Now abandon and vacant, the site is need of a suitor. Originally known as the Saltwater River Gunpowder Magazine, it was designed in 1876 by public works Architect - William Wardell to ‘keep people out’. The studio will explore cultural programs that ‘let people in’ to discover the site for the first time.

Interstitial Armatures The project will engage with tactics of addition and subtraction; selectively editing and inserting into existing conditions with an interstitial armature of interventions or imposed array of infrastructures. It will also investigate a particular urban specificity in contrast to the back drop of surrounding generic development.

Opposing Angles The studio will also engage with Melbourne’s legacy of opposing geometries found in the work of mid-century architects such as Grounds, Boyd, McIntyre, Yuncken Freeman and others. A series of critical proofs will be tested in relation to the site geometry, with juxtapositions developed between old and new / porosity and solidity, above and below the ground.

soft shed studio sacks, boxes; envelopes, programs; composition and constraint tools for composing architectural spaces. speculating on form in a real environment

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this studio will aim to test processes for generating form and composing spaces and objects, in the context of architectural constraints.

SpeciĂ&#x2022;cally we will speculate and experiment with the slippery relationship between the envelope (the sack, or skin), and the program (the box or briefed spaces) to see what might emerge which is beautiful and unexpected.

We will work wth objects and spaces, but also the environment that shapes them.

We will look closely at the forces shaping site volumes; and interogate functional briefs to see what their manipulation can offer.

We will treat space and building skin as malleable and unexpected; we will show no bias oward to particular formal outcome. We will be open to a wide range of methods; digital and manual; scripted and scribbled.

We will work with three sets of programs: a large house, a civic library, and a medical cinic.

There will be three inner suburban Melbourne sites of varying sizes.

These will be vehicles to push and pull numbers and volumes and objects and envelopes, and to make something memorable.

wednesday 5.30-9.30 building 45 graham.crist@rmit.edu.au

images: we will be connecting these precedent works to each other 1.tom winscombe/sciarchfused joints2. tom winscombe 3. OMA Seattle library 4. Lacaton&Vassal Nanttes Architecture School 5. Lacaton&Vassal Maison Lapatie

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This studio will concern itself with investigating solar technology for buildings as a medim for the architecture of a public building.

These, however, are largely technical concerns. They do not, in themselves add up to a language of architecture.

All construction projects should be carbon neutral, in construction and operation, if not better - this is now a given.

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The cemetery A place for mourning A place for remembering A place for pausing A written and recorded history Utilitarian in nature Ornate in representation Hierarchical in nature Erosion over time A park A landscape As we are considering and developing methods for densification associated with many aspects of human occupation, it brings into question which other programs that traditionally occupy large tracks of land can be reconsidered.

The cemetery has traditionally been designed as a landscape, a park. This originates from a pragmatic response coupled with burial customs associated with the ‘resting’ of bodies.

One begins to question whether the cemetery, the associated programs and varying forms of ‘containment’ can exist in a vertical built form. What new building typology would evolve as a result? How do we rearrange a landscape into a vertical condition?

Students will be engaged with model making, rigorous site, program and precedent analysis reviewing the role of the cemetery as a civic entity while engaging with a vertical architectural condition.

The site will be located on the western periphery of Melbourne’s CBD. The precedents that will be used as key architectural drivers throughout the semester include: Brion-Vega Cemetery - Carlo Scarpa, San Cataldo Cemetery Modena – Aldo Rossi, Stockholm South Woodland Cemetery - Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz, Malmö Eastern Cemetery - Sigurd Lewerentz and Igualada Cemetery – Enric Miralles and Carme Pinos Upper Pool Design Studio S1 2014 Wednesday 6.00-10.00pm

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Urban Environment – Medium Scale Amy Muir

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PART 02 WILL FOCUS ON THE MULTIPLE applied to a typical block in the inner west of melbourne.

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THE SEMESTER WILL BE SPLIT IN TWO.

TOWN HOUSE - HOUSE TOWN WILL EXPLORE THE POTENTIAL OF HOW COMMERCIAL TOWNHOUSES CAN SAVE THE COMMON DERELICT STRIP SHOPPING ZONE FROM EXTINCTION AND WHAT THEY MAY BECOME.

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Sunshine is in flux. An industrial suburb of the early 1900s, Sunshine is rapidly evolving from a sub-regional catchment into an activity district, accommodating a culturally and economically diverse demographic. As a pivotal infrastructural node in Melbourne’s west, Sunshine has an urban significance: tethering the seaport infrastructure of Melbourne and Williamstown, linking major airports and logistical terminals, with regional rail and road connections to Bendigo and Ballarat.

Along with existing employment clusters (Monash, Parkville, Dandenong South) Sunshine, LaTrobe, and East Werribee are identified in the Victorian Government’s vision for 2050 as emerging hubs of local and national significance, offering a wide range of economic opportunities and infrastructural connections, within a complex nexus of a distributed metropolitan Melbourne. Shifts to new activity centres in the post-industrial city comprise a critical restructuring of the traditional city.

The studio will explore integrated land use and transport strategies (TODs), in the emerging Sunshine cluster. (Sunshine Metropolitan Activity Centre, Victoria University Sunshine Campus, Victoria University St Albans Campus, Sunshine Health Precinct and Western Centre for Health Research and Education). Examining fresh paradigms for metropolitan activity centres beyond their role as commercial clusters, projects will engage with the collective form of the city and network strategies.

Urban development along infrastructure corridors (existing / proposed) is accompanied by the urgency for urban regeneration, contending with broader post-industrial landscapes and sensitive ecologies. Sustainable development will be crucial in a region bound by the Maribyrnong River and the Kororoit Creek. Projects will test alternative strategies for urban intensity, across project scales, through developing an articulated territory with compact and homogenous archetypes of development.

Models for a ‘new centrality’ will emerge from specificities of place, through understanding the urban history and fabric. Projects will address various scales simultaneously: the architecture of building, infrastructure and landscape, through programmatic and spatial prototypes - like New Transport Hubs in the place of former train stations. Each activity cluster is a new hybrid ‘centre’ (of resources, logistics, demographics, commerce etc.) staging a distributed yet distinct urbanism.

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TIME / LOCATION: TO BE CONFIRMED UPPER POOL ARCHITECTURE STUDIO ARCH ARCH1006 / ARCH 1330 / ARCH 1333 / ARCH 1335

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Above - Still from Bea(u)strosity (RMIT + R&Sie Film in BKK 2013)

Francois Roche / Camille Lacadee / Gwyl Jahn

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NOTES

It s about a relationship between Human and Animal, between Jail and the freedom, protection and the danger, porous or impervious…

The relationship has to be develop as a scenario, as a story telling which could engage two types of fabrications, simultanesously….; a Fabrique[1] and a movie.

-2 weeks of scenario design on individual proposition (by two students) -2 weeks of fabrication (CNC / paper-Aluminium) + Scenario of Movie -2 weeks of Installation + Movie production in Bangkok / In a tropical garden with Large high trees.

-Continued development of the scenario as individual / group projects in Melbourne.

Students will be required to arrange their own travel to Bangkok.

In Bangkok the studio will operate out of the office of R&Sie. Their projects can be found online at http://new-territories.com/

The Animal could be real, or fictional… But it has to be included in the process of narration and production.

[1] A ‘fabrique de jardin’ (which cannot be compared to a folly in English) is an ornamental structure located in a park or garden. They usually served as stoppingplace for strollers or to indicate a ‘picturesque view’ (Wikipedia).

Location and time of the melbourne studio to be confirmed at balloting.

x-tremes 2112Ai/100YC SPACELAB STUDIO 01 2014 TOM KOVAC MICHAEL MEI The x_tremes studio is interested in exploring x_treme spatialityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, with focus on new x_treme environments and habitats challenging architectural conventions of interior exterior with a double design task; a gravity environment and non gravity environments, focusing on exterior and interior conditions on both earth ground (gravity) locations and ground conditions for terrestrial (non gravity) locations.

The technical focus will lie on adaptable and responsive structures that react to external forces. Precedents can be found in NASAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s space habitats of the late 1960s to the MIR/International Space Stations, and contemporary space industry and tourism being developed by Bigelow Aerospace, SpaceX, Scaled Composites with Virgin Galactic planned Spaceports in New Mexico, Abu Dhabi, Sweden and Singapore.

We will work on a link between x_treme ground and x_treme outer atmosphere, gravity and weightlessness. We will look at creating habitats in both x_treme environments and the advantages of these proposed terrestrial and extraterrestrial locations. i.e. spaceport commercial travel futures to non gravity biological and pharmaceutical research, solar energy and the technology innovation that should inevitably result from the prototyping of new, more efficient human architectural proposals and outcomes.

The focus of the architectural research will be the development of a highly specialized spaceport and a space station habitats. Student will select from two projects one grounded on earth and the other in the outer space. There is neither an explicit program nor spatial requirements for the studio other than intuiting the next steps from the following three problems. In the fist week students will be required to develop supporting ideas for their proposals which will become a continuation of concerns for this term.

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