RMIT ARCHITECTURE MASTER AND BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE DESIGN ELECTIVE BALLOTING POSTERS SEMESTER 1 2018
RMIT ARCHITECTURE ELECTIVES ‐ Semester 2 2017 ‐ Timetable Tutor
Name of Elective
Time
Location
Quan Tran
Cinematica
Mon 5.30‐8.30pm
100.5.8
Paul Minifie
Myriad
Tues 9.30‐12.30
100.5.2
Daniel Maunders
Revit
Wed 6‐9
100.4.6
Ian Nazareth and Emma Jackson
Innovation District 22@
Thurs 1‐4
100.4.8
Conrad Hamann and Ian Nazareth
Urbanism: History and Theory
week 1‐5& 7
lecture: 100.3.01
weeks 6,8,9
tutorial : 100.6.6
Roland Snooks and Sean Guy
Architectural Robotics
6 weeks
TBA
Sean Guy
Emergence
Fri 2.30‐5.30
100.4.3
Francois Roche and Caitlyn Parry
Bangkok Workshop ‐ Travelling elective
first meeting 26th 30th March ‐ 8th April Feb 100.10.4
Ben Milbourne
Augmented Typologies
John Cherrey
The model
John Cherrey
Reflections on Making
Thursday 9.30‐12.30 100.5.8 Thursday 9.30‐12.30 weeks 1,2,3 workshop 100.1.6 intensive weeks 15,16 Thursday 2.00‐5.00 weeks 1,2,3,7
workshop 100.1.6
intensive weeks 15,16 Tom Kovac and Sean Kelly
Visualising the Virtual Concourse
intensive week 1‐6
Level 10 Pav.1
NH architecture
Practice Research Elective
Full Day TBA
NH offices
Emma Jackson (coordinator)
Practice Research Elective
TBA
TBA
Jan Van Schaik
State Library Forcourt ‐ apply directly to Jan ‐ not balloted
Thurs 3.30 ‐ 6.30
MV56.05.94
Research assistants Emma Jackson
Please email emma directly and cc leanne.zilka@rmit.edu.au
Patrick Macasett
Please email Patrick directly and cc leanne.zilka@rmit.edu.au
Ian Nazareth
Please email Ian directly and cc leanne.zilka@rmit.edu.au
Cinematica Students in this elective will: learn about cameras, storyboard shots, shoot live action and green screen footage, add visual effects elements, edit, watch filmclips, listen to soundtracks, learn how to use after effects/premiere pro, and by the end of semester make a short film of about 1 minute in length and upload to vimeo and instagram. Abit of photoshop knowledge would be useful but not necessary.
Semester One - 2018 Leader: Quan Tran Location: Building 100.05.008 Day and Time: Tuesdays 6-9pm Open to masters and bachelors students
Student work from previous semesters
Myriad A City Drawing Workshop Drawing cities is more difficult than drawing individual buildings, because of the sheer amount of stuff. Things need to be left out, decisions need to be made about what is import, design intentions are often indicative rather than explicit. Often it is relationships between things, and flows of information rather than the appearance of physical objects that is being represented. This elective looks at drawing cities and will draw on a set of tools that can can deal with large amounts of information, looking at techniques such as instancing, data feeds and some simple grasshopper scripting. We will explore the Octane renderer in depth, drawing on its ability to instance massive numbers of objects. We will draw on a suite of other tools, depending on the drawing problems at hand. We will spend time collecting and reviewing a wide sample drawings of cities, from iconic urban drawings, from cinema and art. From this knowledge we will derive our own techniques and styles of urban representation. Students will produce very high quality large and detailed drawings, which may use a variety of different media - large prints, screen based short animations and possibly some mixed media incorporating 3d printed objects.
tutor: Paul Minifie room: 100.05.002 Wednesday 9:30-12:30
CASE STUDIES IN URBAN DESIGN / MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE / MASTER OF URBAN DESIGN
EMMA JACKSON / IAN NAZARETH The Case Studies in Urban Design course focuses directly on Innovation Districts and looks speciďŹ cally at a case study in Barcelona, the 22@ Innovation District. The course aims to immerse students in the design challenges and strategic drivers for the 22@ zone and its relationship with the Melbourne Innovation District . You will get direct real-life exposure to contemporary relevant examples of some of the urban issues that are being addressed worldwide. By looking closely at a case study in Barcelona students can contextualise the more immediate urban issues we face in Melbourne. A large part of the course will be conducted through the Telanto online platform so that students have the opportunity to interact with David Martinez Garcia, the Director of 22@ in Barcelona as he poses urban challenges to students online. Students will work in teams of 4 and collaboratively answer these challenges and upload these schemes online. The Telanto platform is speciďŹ cally designed for Industry to engage with Universities worldwide and pose real life challenges to students to undertake. The Case Studies Course is running concurrently with the MUD 2018 INNOVATION DISTRICTS SYMPOSIUM on the 23rd March. We will have a work in progress review on 22nd March, and you will receive feedback from many of the speakers from the symposium including David Martinez Garcia. The course aims to expose you to the detailed, multidisciplinary workings of urban design practice through self-directed research, and develop a comprehensive yet practical disciplinary knowledge applicable to future design practice.
Semester 1, 2018 Thursdays, 1.00 - 4.00 pm, 100.04.008 Innovation District Symposium - 9.30 AM - 5.30 PM, 23.03.2018
CONRAD HAMANN IAN NAZARETH
Image: Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis, 1927 directed by Walter Ruttmann
SEMESTER 1 2018 LECTURES: WEEK 1-5 & 7 WEDNESDAYS 15:00 - 18:00 LOCATION: 100.03.001 TUTORIALS: TUESDAYS WEEKS 6, 8-9 TUESDAYS 15.00 - 18.00 LOCATION: 100.06.006
Urbanism: History and Theory introduces you to the key ideas, precedents and theoretical discourse in urban design, both current and historical. It provides a critical understanding of the discipline and an intellectual framework through which you can establish a position on future urban design practice. Seminal texts, key practitioners, exemplary projects and speculative proposals are curated to highlight critical issues in urbanism historically and currently. These issues include: design process and urban morphology; economic and political frameworks; technological, industrial and infrastructural development; and socio-political policies in design. Course content provides you with a comprehensive overview of urban design practice and a detailed understanding of the mechanisms producing and affecting urban space. Examples from local and international contexts are presented.
THURSDAY 1:30 - 3:30 100.09 longroom
This research elective will explore the implications of large-scale 3D printing on architectural tectonics, structure and surface. The elective will be run in conjunction with the RMIT Aerospace program and Boeing, and will involve digital modeling, robotic prototyping and composite fabrication. Students will develop polymer prototypes using both industrial robots and small-scale printers, and integrate these with fiber-composites such as braided carbon fibre. Students will undertake all the work of the elective in the Design Hub lvl 9 research lab in collaboration with Roland Snooks and Sean Guy, rather than in a more traditional elective model.
PRINTED TECTONICS
ELECTIVE: ROLAND SNOOKS + SEAN GUY
emergence.
leader time location
[sean guy] [friday 2.30-5.30pm] [100.04.03]
“in each case, I didn’t design the form. I designed the process that generated the form� - michael hansmeyer. emergence is an algorithmic design elective focusing on the emergent properties of swarm intelligence. the course will examine how complex and strange qualities can materialize from the combination of a series of simple behaviours working together. a focus will be placed on two things: the design of a process which enables students to test and produce infinite outcomes, and the evaluation of the success of each outcome. the critique of each outcome will then inform changes to the process, which will then be redeveloped, driving a feedback loop between process and outcome. the elective will teach students scripting techniques within processing, however no previous scripting or coding experience is required. the elective will focus on the basic fundamentals of programming through processing in the first half of the semester, with the second half focusing on the application of these techniques.
$1000 SCHOLARSHIPS ARE AVAILABE TO 10 STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN THIS ELECTIVE.
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RMIT Intensive design / build workshop with Francois Roche (new-territories. com). OPEN TO LEVEL 5, 6 & MASTERS STUDENTS) This will be the seventh collaboration between RMIT and Francois Roche and will be offered as an intensive elective course during the first half of semester (3 weeks in Melbourne and 10 days in Bangkok). The elective is open to students in level 5 and above. The Bangkok Workshop will explore 1:1, in situ, urban robotic fabrication. In so doing we will investigate novel approaches to architectural fabrication and assembly and their implications for design. The “in situ” nature of the workshop will develop large scale 3d concrete printing procedures and “know-how” of construction by working with a “monolithic” approach rather than through component based assembly logics. Within this approach one material assumes different complexities and constraints (structural, spatial, topological) according to the control over how material is composited, extruded and deposited but a robotic arm. We will work with real-time robotic control systems and a small KUKA Agilus robot to engage with unpredictable materials and within the complex working environments of Bangkok’s chinatown. The elective will culminate in the design and construction of a structure from a 3d printed shotcrete-fibre aggregate and an accompanying short film to be exhibited as part of the 2018 Bangkok Biennale. Image Credit: François Roche
Information session will be held in 2018 refer to your student emails.
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BANGKOK WORKSHOP TUTORS: François Roche (New-Territories), Caitlyn Parry (RMIT Architecture & Urban Design)
PROPOSED TIMELINE: Proposed timeline for the travel component of the studio 30th March - 8th April First student briefing will be Monday 26th Feb - 1pm 100.10.04
TRAVELLING TO: Bangkok, Thailand RMIT Support: Students can apply for RMIT Student Travel Scholarships and Grants see: https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/life-and-work-opportunities/global-study-and-work/ costs-and-scholarships. Note that travelling students will not be eligible for RMIT Global Experience grants, however may be eligible for other forms of funding. Students may apply for OS-HELP loans. Further advice will be provided at the briefing session. Interested students can email Caitlyn Parry for further information (caitlyn.parry@rmit.edu.au) and apply through normal elective ballot process.
augmented topologies This elective will develop on the earlier Concrete Topologies research elective and will explore the design possibilities of Augmented Reality assisted carving techniques, for making concrete molds. The elective will engage with RMIT Architecture’s on-going research investigating the development of continuously differentiated form liners for pre-cast concreting, through the development of novel digital craft techniques.. Utilising bespoke pre-cast concrete form liners facilitates continuously differentiated surface treatments, rather than repeating or modular patterns. This allows for significantly expanded design opportunities; including the ability to deploy compositional strategies at the scale of multiple panels or whole buildings, which is very limited in modular or repeating form liner systems. This expanded design space in the surface treatment of concrete allows designers greater flexibility in responding to social, environmental and built-contexts. Students will produce a catalogue of pattern types, testing these through the design of a facade, and producing a range of full size prototypes. TUTOR: BEN MILBOURNE THURSDAYS 9:30-12:30PM
image: Nicholas Wong, Concrete Topologies Elective
Lecturer : John Cherrey Location Design Hub workshop - 100.01.006 Times : Thursday 9.30 -12.30pm Weeks 1,2,3 & weeks 15 -16 intensive mode Monday - Friday 9.15am - 7.00pm During intensive mode your formal classes will occur daily 9.15am -12:30pm Elective is suited to both Bachelors and Masters level students Assessment: folio of works
This elective will consider the architectural model as a physical object. Once central to the architectural design process, the physical model, seems often to languish behind the fascination with all that is digital. But the model remains unsurpassed as a device to explore spatial relationships. The process of model making can be used a generative tool for design and form making: it provides a device for exploring materials, and scale‌‌ the model is not dead. The elective will ask you to explore the myriad faces of the model and at the same time as the myriad process and materials used to make models whether they be analogue or digital. You will be given the opportunity to discover the incredible range of equipment the school workshops provide and as well learning approaches to office-based model making with the minimum of tools. During the course, you will undertake short process and material based exercises as well as larger and more complex works.
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MODEL
more than laser cutting!
Lecturer : John Cherrey Location Design Hub workshop - 100.01.006 Times : Thursday 2.00 - 5.00pm Weeks 1,2,3, & 7 &
Weeks 15 & 16 intensive mode Monday - Friday 9.15am - 7.00pm A formal period of teaching will occur each afternoon 2.00 - 5.00pm Elective is suited to both Bachelors and Masters level students Assessment: folio of works & a reflective journal There will be a material levy not exceeding $120.00
Architecture is all about MAKING in one form or another. In this elective you will explore one area of making in architecture, the MAKING of physical objects. You will consider ideas about making including conception, design, scale, precision, tolerance, materials and process. MAKING is a complex task and at its best it requires a synthesis of many things. To be excel in MAKING, reflection both during and after creation is essential; reflection will form a key part of the work you produce.
The work produced will range in scale from very small objects, to models and larger scale furniture scale designs .
This is a workshop based elective. We will make use of much of the remarkable array of equipment to be found within the school. At the completion of the elective you will have broadened your skill base substantially both is making by hand and with analogue and digital equipment. You will also have sharpened your sense of materials by resolving a range of tasks given to you. And lastly you will have developed a far more sophisticated approach to questions about and process for MAKING. NOTE: The usual schedule for this elective is to provide you the opportunity to complete the full 144 hours of work associated with this course without conflicting with the pressures of other courses.
MAKING
sean kelly
tom kovac
duan michael mei
ceo and founder corus
professor of architecture
director meitrix research assistant
visualising the virtual concourse week 01-06 (intensive) rmit design hub pavilion 1 master of architecture elective exhibition 16th venice architecture biennale biennale sessions may 28-30
Students will develop proposals for a virtual exhibition of architectural projects for the 100YC [Year City] exhibition at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. The elective will develop a platform which aims to accelerate collaboration by facilitating a richer and more intense environment for learning communities online. The emergence of virtual learning environments has revealed shortcomings in the fundamental assumptions made about learning itself, chief amongst which has been the failure to base models on learning as a socially structured activity. The same can be said of the translation of research and enterprise practices into virtual environments. Expert solutions have been proposed that address technical refinements or information delivery models of learning that do not answer the questions being asked by users, and their need to operate in communities of practice.
100YC Architecture
ENERGY OVERLAYS With Melbourne’s population expected to surpass 7 million people by the year 2050, Victoria is setting an example for the world with a goal of zero carbon emissions. In this context, it is vital to understand and speculate what renewable energy infrastructure looks like when it is woven into the fabric of the city? This semester’s practise research will focus on the area of energy infrastructure as part of LAGI 2018 Melbourne Ideas competition. You will be part of a research team lead by NH Architecture in conjunction with landscape architect Mark Jacques (Open Works) and industry partners.
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“ the superimposition of energy and art onto an emerging masterplan for urban regeneration” Students will receive guidance from, and participate in, NH’s 3 Focus Groups who meet regularly to advocate, consolidate and conduct research . The exhibition will be held at Federation Square.
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URBAN DESIGN
SUSTAINABILITY
MATERIALS
This semester will build upon previous research undertaken to explore the different metrics that make up quality urban design in Melbourne. Specifically, this semester will focus on renewable energy infrastructure and what it does when it is woven into the fabric of the city. What is the effect on the public realm and its characteristics. You will explore what makes for a high quality, usable and inclusive public space. Students will draw from an established methodology, but also formulate their own approach, hypothesis and selection of case studies.
This group will have the opportunity to meet professionals from various areas of the architectural and construction industry to gain a richer understanding in the design, engineering, structural and environmental methods and processes needed to implement resilient strategies in today’s architectural projects. Students will develop a set of skills and methods to be applied to existing projects in the office that can take many forms, from energy systems to ‘living walls’ and vertical farming.
This group will explore ways in which we as designers approach materiality and how materials and material systems inform design. The group will look at architectural projects which show development and innovation in material application and understand how materials are transformed into architecture. It will emphasise the power of understanding material qualities, material systems and production processes where students will have the opportunity to meet with consultants, material representatives and manufacturing specialists.
time 9:00am – 6:00pm one day per week, day to be confirmed location NH Architecture, Level 7 Cannons House, 12–20 Flinders Lane
E R U T L U CAP TU RE
T w o Research Assistants are required to help with the RMIT Architecture & Urban Design – C u l t u r e C a p t u r e P r o j e c t .
The Culture Capture project aims to capture, collect, curate, disseminate and make visible the culture, achievements and activities of RMIT Architecture & Urban Design to our staff, students and extended community via web, social media, digital and print. You will work closely with Patrick Macasaet and will be engaged in all capturing, curatorial, dissemination and organisational activities. Held once a week in the RMIT Design Hub, Level 9. You will receive credit towards an elective. Positions are not available through elective balloting. If you are interested please contact me directly.
patrick.macasaet@rmit.edu.au
Architecture & Urban Design
GRADUATE EXHIBITION ASSISTANTS
SEMESTER 1 2018
The Architecture Program requires 8 enthusiastic assistants to help with the organisation of the Semester 1 2018 End of Semester and Major Project Exhibition. You will work closely with the Exhibition Coordinator in the design and curation of the show, graphic design of posters and PR materials, Major Project Catalogue as well as the organisation of sponsorship, live music and DJs, catering and all of the other things 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 15 and Week 16 prior to enrolling in the elective. You will be given VIP access the pre-opening cocktail party on the night. The team is limited to 8 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.
There are 7 Research positions available to work on the Revitalisation of Newman Project as part of the PhD of Emma Jackson ‘Turn and Face the Strange’ This elective will be run in the mode of a small office and you will be working on one of 3 projects. The skills you will learn are; developing sketch/ schematic design into design development for presentation to the client, organisation and prioritisation of information for consultant feedback, marking time against task, and how an idea transfers into built form. The work you do here will match closely to that of a graduate architect in a design practice and should help prepeare you to be ‘office ready’. For more information on the work undertake in previous semesters visit:www.instagram.com/em.majack.son
TURN AND FACE THE STRANGE Time commitment:- 14 days total. Can be front loaded to the beginning of semester. Skills Required:- Rhino and rendering skills are essential, ability to work effectively in small teams. Scripting not essential. Positions available:The Great Pool Migration Project (team of 2, 1 position available) The Shed Collision Project (team of 2, 2 positions available) The Church Rumpus Project (team of 2, 1 position available) Master of drawings/QA (1 position) To Apply or ask questions: email emma.jackson@rmit.edu.au To apply please attach a few drawings demonstrating work of an appropriate standard to email (no larger than 10MB)