RMIT ARCHITECTURE MASTER AND BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE DESIGN ELECTIVE BALLOTING POSTERS SEMESTER 2 2018
RMIT ARCHITECTURE ELECTIVES ‐ Semester 2 2017 ‐ Timetable Tutor
Name of Elective
Time
Location
Ian Nazareth
Eco Urban Practices
WED 9.00‐12.00
100.006.002
Sean Guy
Artificial Artefacts
WED 9.00‐12.00
100.006.008
Caitlyn Parry
Scuplting Illusions
WED 9.00‐12.00
100.006.003
Steven Mintern and Simon Robinson
Politics of Public Space
Wed 6.30‐9.30
100.006.005
Jan van Schaik and Grace Leone
Activating Construction Sites
Wed 3.30 ‐ 6.30
56.05.095
Peter Brew
Further Difficulty
WED 9.00‐12.00
100.006.004
Vicky Lam
Block Party
Thursday 12.30‐3.30
Reflections on Making
Thursday 9:15 ‐ 12.00
100.005.007 workshop 100.001.006
Revitism
Friday 9.00‐12.00
100.006.004
John Cherrey Daniel Maunders Leon van Schaik Eva Prats
Eidetics
INTENSIVE: 27th August ‐ 2nd September (midsemester break) Pavilion 1
Second Hand
INTENSIVE: 27th August ‐ 2nd September (midsemester break) 100.006.004
Sandra Manninger
Architectural Automations
Tom Kovac
Visualising the Virtual Concourse
Ian Nazareth
Invert 2.0
Emma Jackson
Practice Research Placement
INTENSIVE: Thurs 9am‐12pm week 1‐6 100.004.007 INTENSIVE: week 7‐ week 14 ‐ Pavilion 1 1st Meeting Wed 1‐2pm level 7 near lifts Email to be sent
Research assistants Patrick Macasett
Culture Capture
Please email Patrick directly
Gantry Section D, RMIT Swanston St, Melbourne 2016-2017 Artwork: Grace Leone Photo Credit:Nura Sheidaee
Activating Construction Sites
Tutors: Dr Jan van Schaik & Grace Leone Day/Time: Wednesdays, 3.30-6.30 pm Location: Building 56.05.095 Open to Masters and Bachelors students In this cross-disciplinary art & design research elective you will engage with a renowned international construction company to create a series of artworks to activate highly visible construction hoardings installed at a CBD construction site. You will engage in a cross-disciplinary art & design work integrated learning project, working individually
and in groups to respond to an industry standard brief for a temporary artistic public intervention. You will receive and apply industry feedback in order to submit a concept to industry stakeholders with a potential opportunity to be selected to have your final concept physically realised at the CBD construction site.
artificial artefacts // sean guy // Artificial Artefacts is an elective that aims to explore the authorship of design processes through the use of artificial intelligence. The elective will be specifically interested in technique-based outcomes involving machine learning, 3D scanning and algorithmic techniques. Artificial intelligence seeks to simulate our own capabilities, allowing it to become more than just a tool. What is the result of removing our bias and judgment and allowing AI to create for us? Do we become slaves to the process, or are we suddenly collaborators with our AI counterparts? The elective will be interested in exploring a broad range of techniques to create our outcomes. Machine Learning algorithms such as style transfer, pix2pix and cycle-consistent adversarial networks with be discussed and implemented, as well as a series of high-resolution 3D scans of objects and 3D painterly operations. Students are expected to bring their own laptops to class, preferably with a version of Windows installed. No algorithmic or coding experience is required. Class will be held on Wednesdays from 9am – 12pm in 100.06.008, with a heavier workload towards the second half of the semester.
// pictured: louis sullivan style transfer
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
[ TRANSACTIONAL URBANISM ] IAN NAZARETH SEMESTER 2 2018 MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE / MASTER OF URBAN DESIGN WEDNESDAYS 9 AM - 12 AM LOCATION: 100.06.002
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 the relationship between urban design and global pressures. This semester our interest is in understanding the impact and transformation of new economies on the fabric of the city, focussing on how the shift from ‘ownership’ to ‘access’ has fundamentally co-opted the built environment through architectural and urban intervention.
Historically, cities have been challenged by other such disruptions industrialisation, health and sanitation, the automobile, post-industrialisation etc. These peer-to-peer platforms present an accelerated version of existing infrastructure systems of city. Once again this is an opportunity to leverage, reassess, and speculate about the future of the city.
Image: Sensing Real-Time City / Ruixian Made
Under the dubious moniker of the ‘sharing economy’, this peer-to-peer model of collaborative consumption of which Uber and AirBnb are examples, has commodified and intensified the city – from the spare bedroom to every back seat of every car . These platforms are vital intermediaries and augmented interfaces between ‘users’ and urban environments - how contemporary cities are experienced and valued. As cities the world over reconsider their networks, laws and regulations, in response to ‘virtual’ platforms; disciplines of architecture and urban design are now compelled to adapt and invent new ‘physical’ typologies and topologies for temporal and ephemeral infrastructures.
GRADUATE EXHIBITION ASSISTANTS REQUIRED
SEMESTER 2 2018
The Architecture Program requires 8 enthusiastic assistants to help with the organisation of the Semester 2 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, Week 16 and Week 17 prior to enrolling in the elective. 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.
BLOCK PARTY
Vicky Lam Thursdays 12:30- 3:30pm 100.5.7 Bachelors and Masters
This is a continuation of a series of electives that focus on representation of urban transformations and narratives through drawing and animation. This semester’s focus will be on relationship between health and the built environment. You will research how factors such as food distribution, disease management and transportation have created particular traits and peculiarties a chosen urban fabric, and represent this research data through visual representation in a narrative form. You will also consider current data to speculate new mechanisms for future transformation. You will produce a digital folio and a short animation. You will need to bring laptops to class and have access to After Effects. You will be working in small groups of 2 or 3 with final presentation in Week 12.
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Architectural Automations – Automate Melbourne
Master and Bachelor of Architecture Design Elective S2 2018 How can the architectural discipline engage in a conversation about automation in our contemporary world? In the last decade, the conversation on automation and robots in architecture has evolved around capabilities of tools to facilitate procedures or to create novel formal vocabularies. Conferences on robots and automation in architecture profoundly focus on the technological achievements, and the many variations of material formations that can be accomplished using automated setups. This resulted in a plethora of exciting projects that fully engaged in a technical conversation but rarely touched on the larger issues at hand, as to how automation might change aspects of cultural, social and political discourse. The elective Architectural Automations presents an opportunity to critically investigate the role of automation in a future world of building, including the conversations on its impact as a cultural technique for the production of an architectural utopia. Students will be focusing on a field of their interest. A set of research questions interrogating the topic along specific trajectories might involve: A brief history of contemporary automation Automation and utopia Automation and ecology Automation and the world of work Automation as an agent of culture Sketches of a future process. The elective will start as a research course including lectures, readings, and screenings during weeks 1-6. The outcome of the elective will be a collection of the research. Tutor Sandra Manninger Week 1-6, Thursdays 9am-12pm Room 100.4.7 Week 6-12, online meetings TBC
RMIT MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE ELECTIVE SEMESTER 2 2018
SECOND HAND
AN ELECTIVE WITH FLORES & PRATS. EVA PRATS AND RICARDO FLORES, BARCELONA Preparation: 23rd July to the 26th August 2018 Intensive workshop: 27th August to 1st September 2018
Program: The area of Kensington in Melbourne is going through a major transformation. This urban area is a mixture of old warehouses, stores, factories, workshops, car repair workshops, offices, stables and housing from different historical periods, mixed with the infrastructure of trains, the highway and the river, which produce an overlapping of programs, styles, typologies and scales with strong social implications. A perfect place to observe and to be in, to participate in its evolution. The elective propose to test on the capacity of the disused buildings to host some of the new activities that are being introduced in the area, discussing the pros and cons of giving a new life to abandoned structures. Do new programs need new buildings? Can cross-programming existing buildings with new programs be a way of discovering unexpected possibilities? The studio proposes to observe and reveal the possibility of these buildings by drawing them to learn about their spatial and constructive qualities. Participants: The elective is open to students from 3rd year to 5th year. The exercise will be developed in groups of 3 students, who will draw on site, produce six-hand drawings on large sheets of paper, and accompany the process through model making. Publication. The elective’s results will be collected in a final publication. Materials needed. A4 note book - Measuring tape - Graphite pencils - Colour pencils - Drawing triangles - Scale ruler - White paper (3 sheets of A0) - Trace paper (3 sheets of A0) - Tape - A blade and scissors - Cardboard and balsa wood - Camera or mobile phone. VENUE: Design Hub 100.6.4 Monday: 10:00am. Pre-workshop preparation led by Mark Jacques.
This Bachelor and Masters level elective will look at digital and analogue sculpting techniques. The initial few weeks will focus on digital sculpting. Subsequent weeks will involve using the Hololens augmented reality glasses to provide a holographic template that students use to aid sculpting from clay in real life. Students should bring laptops with Windows based Rhino for use with the Hololens plugins. Students are also expected to purchase their own air drying clay, or any other similar materials they would like to experiment with. The subject will introduce some grasshopper scripts however it is not a requirement that students have prior knowledge beyond Comms 3 level. The assessment is based on quality, quantity and experimental nature of digital and analogue models as well as a folio submitted on completion of the subject.
SCULPTING ILLUSIONS tutor caitlyn parry wednesdays 0900 - 1200 100.06.003
image : Hana Zakirah Binti Mohamed Imran Hurst
FURTHER DIFFICULTY
Elective by Peter Brew THURS 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.
RACHEL WHITEREAD Untitled, 2013 Resin 2 panels: 38 9/16 x 18 7/8 x 2 15/16 inches (98 x 48 x 7.5 cm) Photo by Mike Bruce
Venice 1557 - C.Sabbadino (Archivio Di Statii venezia)
“What matter who’s speaking, someone said what matter who’s speaking” Samuel Beckett – texts for nothing
Empathy (Einfuhlung): ... How the body in responding to certain 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
Paul Valéry 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, 1451a37–1451b10).
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 submitted 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, E H 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 Before we as individuals are even conscious of our existence we have been profoundly 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, carbon, chlorides and sulphates, and it contracts them in order to acquire its own concept and fill 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
Lecturer : John Cherrey Location Design Hub workshop - 100.01.006 Times : Thursday 9:15 - 12.00pm Weeks 1 - 10 a two day weekend workshop with the date to be agreed. You should, if your timetable allows, plan to spend the afternoon following the class in the workshop working on your projects. I will be in the workshop and often able to provide additional assistance 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 $150.00
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. Assessment will be based on your folio of works and a detailed reflective journal including notes, about your successes and failures, ideas, sketches, and research
MAKING
BAUM
Business As Usual Model With Melbourne’s population expected to surpass 8 million people by the year 2050, it is facing major growth challenges. In this context, it is vital to review, question and speculate on what the impact of high density development does to the quality of the public realm and the groundplane. What is the status quo and what are the new models of thinking on the horizon? This semester’s practise research will challenge the ‘Business As Usual Model’ - BAUM for Retail and Podium design of large scale developments. You will be part of a research team lead by NH Architecture in conjunction with industry partners. Students will receive guidance from, and participate in, NH’s 3 Focus Groups who meet regularly to advocate, consolidate and conduct research .
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Retail Podium Can we challenge the Business as usual model ?
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URBAN DESIGN
LIVING
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 the role of retail for high density developments . What is the effect on the public realm and its characteristics. You will explore what makes for a high quality, engaging and connected public space within large mixed use developments. Students will draw from an established methodology, but also formulate their own approach, hypothesis and selection of case studies.
This group will meet with residential experts within the NH practice. Students will explore the impact of high density residential development on the retail podium and the groundplane. The group will engage with the metrics and regulations of the Apartment Design Guidelines and speculate on new ways of thinking about the mixed use typology. Students will critically review realised projects and formulate their own learning’s on the current ‘Business As Usual Model’.
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