RMIT ARCHITECTURE BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO BALLOTING POSTERS
SEM 1, 2019
more OTHER HOUSES BAS STUDIO 2019 .Thursday* 10am - 3pm a Peter Brew studio * Thursday morning 10-12.30 will be set aside for field and lab work, Initially in and around the inner city Fitzroy, collingwood richmond ,Using FARRO 3d scanner from which we will explore and develop ways of aquiring and representing ,imaging tions . What if we thought to design other homes . which in the “expressed “ what does not exist. Theadore Adorno’s Shelter for the Shelterless Michel Foucault in his writing on essays on Heterotopias during the late 1960s suggest that
The Foucault passage continues; In the so-called primitive societies, there is a certain form of heterotopia that I would call crisis heterotopias, i.e., there are Societies could perhaps be classified according to the heterotopias privileged or sacred or forbidden places, reserved for individuals they prefer, according to the heterotopias they create. For exam- who are, in relation to society and to the human environment ple, so-called primitive societies have places that are privileged or in which they live, in a state of crisis: adolescents, menstruating sacred or forbidden … women, pregnant women, the elderly, etc. In out society, these crisis heterotopias are persistently disappearing, This studio will consider ways or situations where Homelessness might be ‘expressed’. .....Though what I mean by “expressed” is perhaps misleading or out of context, I mean it not, The Project will look at ways we might interpret Victorian as in in architecture “expressed” as that means something like Government programs to provide for transitional housing for excessive geasture , as expressed as spoken about, as policy , Youth released from state institutional programs (nominally though one may be the nescessary prcoursor to the other. detention but also care) Our question is who and where should this be first named. We recognises Homelessness expressed on the street or through the charity appeals, as a crisis in the news, an unfulfilled need, Is it possible to imagine this in a way that it is not a crisis but as normal or essential and planned, even desirable part of the city. We unthinkingly aportion space for parks, infrastructure for schools , drainage , ecological reserves electrical substa-
https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/making-things-fairer-foryoung-people-leaving-care/ Ref; Unhoused. Adorno and the problem of Dwelling Matt Waggoner
SoPo
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Gertrude Contemporary
DASH - DASH 2019-S1 BACHELOR DESIGN STUDIO Large Scale / MONDAYS + THURSDAYS 6.30 PM - 9.30 PM
Studio SoPo will explore the design of a new arts precinct located in South Preston. The recent migration of Gertrude Contemporary to High Street SoPo, signals the suburb’s potential to be energised by organisations fleeing the high rents and congestion of the inner city. SoPo can be a focal point and repository of that flight. Studio SoPo investigates propositions for a new arts-focused precinct as a new centrepoint for the suburb. 1. Urban Design_Semester first half_Group work Using urban observation and narrative, proposed a central plaza or linear activity strip for the heart of SoPo. Masterplan and site the arts buildings in a precinct setting. 2. Building Design_Semester second half_Individual work Develop either a performing arts theatre, art gallery tower or artist resource centre as edge definer or marker for the precinct.
For the Bank of England commission in 1830, Sir John Soane presented the bank’s governors with three oil sketches of his proposal; The first depicted the building as ‘new’, the second of it weathered, and the third showed it in a thousand years’ time, as a RUIN. Starting with Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art, now a charred shell, the studio will explore what it means to reconstruct a ‘RUIN’. The ‘RUIN’ provides a freedom to rebuild; but how do you rebuild a ruin? How might ‘a RUIN’ be reconstituted from its parts? Where does its value lie, that would otherwise be overlooked in favour of starting anew. The studio will interrogate the history of ‘the RUIN’ and ask student to consider what it means to design a building for a thousands years. Students will RUIN and REBUILD. Through the exploration of complex geometrical ideas there will be a focus on the resolution of considered formal compositions of ways to REBUILD. Compositions should reflect a well-considered critical arrangement to develop a rich architectural expression of relationships between form, program, site and materiality. The studio will begin with a focus on researching and developing a repertoire of design techniques through a series of culturally embedded design exercises. These explorations will be a ‘triptych’ of digital craft, history & architectural elements; with the aim of developing students’ computer literacy, presentation skills, their application to investigation and critique. In the second half of semester, Students will develop a final proposal that considers the RUIN and the REBUILD of the Glasgow School of Art.
TUTOR: ANNA JANKOVIC
MON 6-9PM / THU 3:30-6:30PM
N G V 3 Architecture & Contemporary Art In 2018 the National Gallery of Victoria announced that they would be commissioning a new major gallery adjacent to the NGV International - dedicated entirely to contemporary art. This studio will take on that brief, with students developing their own propositions for the NGV Contemporary. Throughout the semester the studio will closely examine the relationship between architecture and contemporary art - looking at their interaction, overlapping influences, and points of difference. In this studio students will develop
architectural techniques for the design of art galleries. Contemporary artists often use specific techniques to produce aesthetic affects in their artworks. Students will closely examine the work of contemporary artists, abstract the techniques of these artists, and apply them to specific architectural elements to produce new types of architectural affects.
experimentation with strategies that students have gleaned from both the world of architecture and the world of art. Students will also learn to design spaces which are specifically made for particular artworks - addressing questions about how gallery spaces should relate to the artworks that they house.
Students will be required to develop an understanding of the art gallery as an architectural typology, and meet a complex brief for a significant public, cultural building. At the same time the studio will encourage
STUDIO LEADERS: AMY EVANS + CONOR TODD TIME: 6.30PM - 9.30PM MONDAYS + THURSDAYS
REALITY AUGMENTED
Reality Augmented Studio Leaders: Jack Mansfield-Hung & Thomas Proctor Class Times: 6:30-9:30pm Mondays & Thursdays Scale: 1:1 in situ Reality Augmented will run 6:30-9:30pm Mondays and Thursdays. Studios will be run as both hands on sessions working with workshop equipment and the Hololens to fabricate full scale prototypes. As well as formal feedback sessions with design development in studio. The studio will be run in collaboration with holographic design leaders Fologram whom will act as both client, and critic. Reality Augmented is a design-build studio intent on exploring our relationship with style, and the role style plays in our understanding of architecture and it’s value. Architectural realities are understood through style. Style contains the elements of identity. We associate
style to periods of cultural production. Style defines our relationship to these periods. Style is the gateway into our understanding of history. Style is both a container for ideas, and the vessel for spreading them. The studio will question how machine generated images of style might gradually erode our understanding of the architectural value they held in the first place through an obsession with the subtle differences, anomalies, artefacts and uncanny falsehoods found in the copy. Students will design through collaboration with artificial intelligence machines, synthesising human intelligence with artificial intelligence. Students will use Hololens
headsets to represent and build their ideas through shared collaborative holograms at 1:1 and in situ, synthesising physical reality with virtual reality. The studio will focus on a specific palette of hand crafted fabrication techniques to explore design at the point of physical production to demonstrate a vision for architectural education where making is central to the act of design itself. Images: Hyper-Reality by Keiichi Matsuda & Various images of Fologram workshops
SPENCER TO SPRING Alonso Gaxiola Rafid Reasat Hai Monday & Thursday 6.30 - 9.30pm Spencer to Spring (S2S) is both, a collaborative investigation of the built environment of Melbourne’s Hoddle Grid, and an experimental architectural exercise loosely based in the surrealist theorem of the Cadavre Exquis . Which is a method by which a group of words -or images- is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule, or by being allowed to see only a section of what the previous person contributed. The aim of this studio is to test a process that will result in: A Catalogue of specific architecture events in the existing CBD, a studio generated surreal version of the CBD, and a number of architectural proposals to fit in both –the existing, & surreal- scenarios of the Hoddle Grid. S2S intends to explore different architectural “acts/ performances/ fragments” in a manner that would illustrate a deeper understanding of different co-existing architecture elements in CBD and the scales they operate in.
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SITE: POINT GREY, LORNE. GREAT OCEAN ROAD The aim of this studio is to develop an architectural language which is driven by an understanding and reading of the landscape it is situated within. The built outcomes will act as a medium for communication between people and landscape, by enriching our understanding of place and site. The architecture will seek to facilitate the emergence of a new experience of ‘nature’ which challenges the boundaries between natural and artificial environments. In order to do this, we will attempt to unpack the patterns of ecology, environment and cultural history that exist in the site at both small and territorial scales through a series of drawing workshops. Developing a suite of subjective representations that locate the project within a larger narrative of landscape and territories.
The architectural scale will seek to reinforce and amplify this narrative, through a range of landscape modifications and interventions. These proposals will be explored through a carefully curated set of drawings, which will present the ideas as emanating from the site, rather than being projected upon it. An initial program of ocean baths, fishing, diving and aquatic recreational facilities will form a basic brief. However, successful projects will tweak and evolve their own brief in response to the patterns and findings that are revealed through the research. Images:
Leça de Palmeira, Alvaro Siza Eugene Von Guerard, View of Geelong Lightning Field, Walter De Maria St Georges River estuary, Lorne
THE INBETWEENERS CLAIRE SCORPO | Monday Afternoons + Thursday Evenings
Australians have long been attached to the house and garden ideal of suburban living. While the owner occupied single storey house on a quarter acre block is still the standard of domestic comfort that most Australians aspire to, is this the reality? Over the last 40 years, Architects have done little to raise the standard for typical, low-budget homes in our newest housing estates. Comparatively, Melbourne’s established suburbs offer high levels of access and amenity, yet prices push them out of reach for most, unless we consider an alternative development model. During the first half of semester ‘The Inbetweeners’ examines how we might propose low rise, higher density housing that can be inserted into our existing suburban fabric to encourage better use and inhabitation of these sought after areas. In the second half of semester, this typology will be further tested by interpreting this as a strategy for a new housing estate. A reduced drawing style will be encouraged, and physical model making will be integral to both the research and design components of the studio.
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DESIGN STRATEGIES FOR AN ARCHITECTURE OF LIVEABILITY
GENEROSITY Tutor: Scale: Time:
Enza Angelucci Small/Large Monday
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Angelucci Architects Office 494 Rathdowne Street Carlton North
Architecture clothes the culture of the city; architecture prompts the city’s imagination and has a profound impact on civic amenity. The proliferation of human activity in our cities has given rise to the nature of cities as a place of exchange and surplus, a place of urban generosity. the architecural outcome is to be housed. Through a series of group and individual esquisses the studio will become a process of discovery in how architecture can extend beyond an object/place paradigm, into a place of civic surplus. ‘nature correctednesss’ to design a medium density housing proposal located in the inner city suburb of North Fitzoy.
SUPERHIGHWAY “Since the industrial revolution, innovations in transportation technology have continued to re-shape the spatial organization and temporal occupation of the built environment. Today, autonomous vehicles represent the next disruptive innovation in mobility, with particularly profound impacts for cities.” AnnaLisa Meyboom, Assoc. Prof. UBC SALA What happens when we re-think the pattern and flow of urban and inter-urban vehicular infrastructure? How do our buildings and places, and our means and methods of access, adapt and change? What new building types emerge, and which ones need to be adapted to survive? What does the new City look like? The Superhighway studio is a speculation on our urban and architectural futures in the face of rapid infrastructural evolution explored through the prism of the
autonomous vehicle revolution. Fundamentally preoccupied with one of the cornerstones of architectural thinking – how we move through space – the studio encourages novel, imaginative and futurist architectures informed by experimentation and recursive testing. The studio is non-technical - it is unconcerned with the mechanics, accuracy and technicalities of changes in vehicle use rather, it is an opportunity to imagine and dream. Students will develop a mid-scale urban architecture that grapples with a transport condition informed by research in the early half of the studio. Examples of what this roject could be include the adaptive re-use of a multi-storey car park, infill development along a major arterial, a new city street, a new suburban housing typology, a pedestrian transfer facility, or something else.
Students are encouraged (but not required) to use simple generative software to enrich their process, including Anylogic (vehicle and pedestrian simulation) and Grasshopper (with plugin Quelia), with opportunities for in-class workshops to build these skills. The studio will have three phases: (1) background research, searching for sites, diagramming change, and future speculations; (2) pitching a proposition, testing of the proposition using a generative tool, and the development of both to inform a preliminary architectural idea [mid-semester]; and (3) iterative development and refining of the project towards a final project [end of semester]. Mondays and Thursdays 12pm - 3pm Tutor: Edmund Carter
(A). TYPROLOGY: TYPOLOGICAL + PROCEDURAL EXPERIMENTS The studio will be a workshop of generative and typological experiments investigating how contaminations and transformations of diverse typologies can assist in re-imagining formal, spatial and organizational architectural elements for learning environments (form, circulation, program & spatial arrangement, ornament, etc.) Rule-based process experiments will be deployed to assist in manipulating, distorting, amplifying, shattering, dispersing, and {insert action here} the behaviours and qualities of existing types to affect the architectural elements of school typologies. The studio will not only be interested in a process based approach but more so, what could be generated in terms of architectural propositions in this specific way of working.
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This studio is part of a research and design led exploration of and speculation on alternative models for work/live/learn typologies through specific site conditions and typological rule-based experiments. This studio will speculate on Models for Education Alternative Typologies (M.E.A.T.)
CAMPUS EDITION (B) MODELS for EDUCATION ALTERNATIVE TYPOLOGIES [MEAT]
IN COLLABORATION W I T H R M I T S C H O O L O F E D U C A T I O N , R M I T P R O P E R T Y S E R V I C E S A N D V I V I A N M I T S O G I A N N I
The studio will continue its exploration on speculative strategies for learning environments on specific site and architectural conditions. In contrast to the previous studios, we will prioritize in developing campus models for learning (secondary) environments. At an urban scale we will question civic presence and contribution to specific urban conditions; formal and ornamental strategies – exploring formal strategies, scenarios and identity; and learning spatial and programmatic arrangements – examining spatial relationships and interaction between different learning modalities and settings.
(C) RMIT URBAN HIGH The studio will be a vehicle to seek out architectural possibilities - generating experimental propositions and prototypical spatial and formal models for learning environments and to open up design conversations for the development of RMIT’s Urban High School. Site: Arden-Macaulay
Background Image: The Book of MEAT [Models for Education Alternative Typologies] Edition 2 pages produced by Prathyuksha Acharya, Ally Bennett, Bingyan Cao, Hansi Hettikanda, Rosemary Heyworth, Nicole Kirby, Jia Li, Prativa Maharjan, Kim Mudie, Darren Shi Yang Soh, Yifan Tao, Regine Tjan, Phu Vu, Yiying Wang, Yueyue Wu, Chenxi Yang; studio cohort from ‘Learning Frontiers 2: RMIT Urban High’, Semester 2 2018.
der art works, performance spaces and outdoor public space and gardens. ed adjacent to Federation Square and bounded by the Yarra River and Flinders Street, the site raises challenging urban issues which will be investigated throughout the semester. ation Square has been criticised for its poor connection to the Yarra River, how can a new gallery better connect to the river and also connect with the city and Federation Square ommodification of Australian aboriginal art has been contested by notable figures like Richard Bell, but the current lack of a major public gallery for Aboriginal and Torres Strait rks is also problematic. As architects, this building will raise the question of how non aboriginal architects should best engage with cultures and histories that are not their own a ginal architects can contribute to this complex problem. udio will form part of our ongoing research into the idea of building type and how this can be reinvented, in this case, a public gallery, as civic and public spaces. We are also inte ultural, historical and material conditions of a site and how an examination of these conditions can help construct a new civic narrative for the area.
On Country
Banjo Clarke Cultural Arts Centre, Framlingham
Led by Stasinos Mantzis & Christine Phillips with Indigenous partner Leonard Clarke In this studio you will be asked to design a Cultural Arts Centre and festival space at Framlingham as a memorial to the late Aboriginal elder, Banjo Clarke (19232000). The centre will need to accommodate both permanent facilities and temporary facilities. One as a permanent teaching and learning cultural arts centre, the other as a temporary music festival space. It will house music and arts facilities such as recording studios, productions studios, teaching spaces, stage, performance area, seating area, amenities plus more. We will also be looking at creating a masterplan incorporating a landscape strategy rehabilitating the site and creating a working farm component Learning on Country with Banjo’s son Leonard Clarke, you will be introduced to the teachings of Banjo Clarke, the history of the Framlingham Aboriginal Mission and history of the site from an Aboriginal perspective. Key research questions: • • • • • •
How can the history, culture and physical attributes of a place can inform a civic narrative for the site Research and respond to the idea of a colonised country and how we might design a future architecture charged by multiple histories and different cultures To consider what Aboriginal sovereignty means within architecture To consider Aboriginal notions of Country versus western concepts of landscape How can the teachings of Banjo Clarke and Indigenous knowledge be integrated into a civic narrative How can the architecture accommodate different modes of operation from the temporary to the permanent and how might this inform the architecture
These research questions will be explored through film, readings, architectural precedents, fieldtrips, artwork, music plus more that will inform your design research throughout the semester. The studio will be structured around the production of bi-weekly esquisses carried out by students both collaboratively and individually for the first half of the semester. Working in pairs, the second half of semester will focus on the development of the final project. FEILDTRIP: The studio will be run in a semi-intensive mode and will involve a 3 day fieldtrip on Country with Uncle Lenny Clarke on site at Framlingham from Saturday March 30 – Monday 1 April 2019. You will need a tent & sleeping bag. The trip will cost approximately $140. A further two day trips may also be required later in the semester (dates TBC). Classes will be held on Mondays & Thursdays from 6-9pm (some Thursdays will be skipped due to the semi-intensive mode)