Bas sem 1 2018 balloting posters compiled by RMIT Architecture Studios

RMIT ARCHITECTURE BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO BALLOTING POSTERS

SEM 1, 2018

“Australia Does Not Exist” Christian Thompson, Black Gum 3 (from the series Australian Graffiti), 2008.

A National Gallery of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, Federation Square East

A By

LARGE Stasinos

SCALE Mantzis

BACHELOR’S and Christine

In this studio, you will be asked to design a new building for the National Gallery of Victoria sited at Federation Square East. It will house new and old Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art works, performance spaces and outdoor public space and gardens. Situated 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. Given Federation 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? The commodification 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 Island artworks 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 and how aboriginal architects can contribute to this complex problem. The studio 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 interested in the cultural, historical and material conditions of a site and how an examination of these conditions can help construct a new civic narrative for the area.

STUDIO Phillips

The studio objectives are: • 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 • Consider the city as a an urban Country (Libby Porter) & how this might shift the way we create, plan and occupy spaces • To consider what Aboriginal sovereignty means within architecture • To consider how or whether architecture can be political • How non aboriginal architects should best engage with cultures and histories that are not their own and how aboriginal architects can contribute to this complex problem. 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.

Classes will be held from 6.30-9.30pm on Monday and Thursday evenings

This studio will explore the design of intricate forms, their atmospheric affects and strange qualities. Advances in robotic fabrication and building-scale 3D printing is about to radically change the relationship between cost and form, with highly intricate geometries becoming cheaper than conventional fabrication of rectilinear geometry. The studio will explore forms that are becoming possible with emerging building-scale 3D printing, in an attempt to articulate what the forms of 3D printed architecture might be and how these could be a radical departure from current architectural form-making. Within this context the studio will develop a synthetic design process that combines emergent algorithmic approaches, the logic of 3D printing and painterly operations to create a strange hybrid. Architectural forms will be interrogated for their affects, poise, and strangeness. A constant interaction between painterly and algorithmic strategies will be encouraged within the studio, so rather than a linear or sequential relationship between various aspects of the design process - these will be explored simultaneously, interacting within a continuous feedback. No experience with algorithmic tools is required, however a willingness to engage in these tools and highly iterative processes is essential. 3

SYNTHETIC FORMS ROLAND SNOOKS + CHARLIE BOMAN

MONDAY 6:30 - 9:30 PM THURSDAY 3:30 PM - 6:30 PM

CITY PERIL This studio endeavours to be a critique, a celebration, an exaggeration and an observation of what makes City Square and its past so distinctive. Rather than just being a place to gather it can be just like its rich history, a place of exhibitionism, protest, controversy, memory and a place to house all multitudes of definitions of what the square and its history means without collapsing the differences between these definitions. The outcome is a proposal which â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;reeksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; of the range of experiences and atmospheres that have inhabited this unique site to date. This studio will explore the role a civic center has in an urban setting; it will endeavour to understand the complicated history of the site and the role it can play in envisioning a new city square. The nature of transition, flux and adaptation will be explored formally through a series of design esquisses culminating in a new resolution of the site. Studio Tutors: Hannah Rowe & Brett Wittingslow

Studio Time: Monday & Thursday, 6pm-9pm

NEMRUT Bachelor of Architecture Design Studio Semester 1, 2018 Michael Murdock + Michael Ferreyra

remote outpost

Monday and Thursday from 6pm to 9pm.

This semester our project will focus on the potential for extreme architecture that can survive extreme natural conditions, through efficiency in materiality, and form. The studio will focus on the research, design and documentation of a remote outpost for travelers, Eco-tourists and holiday makers alike, in an extreme location situated on the rim of a volcano in Turkey.

Students will need to consider how their design embraces the surrounding environment, how the architecture complements and frames the landscape, the siting of the project, aspect, orientation, and views. Students will also need to consider the appeal of the location as a world heritage site, the practical implications and difficulties of the site, site access, seasonal weather challenges, build-ability, and the durability of materials in an extreme and unforgiving landscape. In the first part of the semester students will undertake design research where they will be required to undertake site analysis, research architectural precedents, and develop a proposition for a research base and Eco-tourism hub. Working to a brief, students will develop a master plan and consider site opportunities and constraints. Students will then develop their design, they will work at an elemental scale investigating design elements, components, and articulation. As a design group we will workshop suitable construction methods, establish and develop design diagrams to communicate our design ideas and strategies. Final project will be a competition entry poster and an elemental scale model of a part of the building. During the semester students will focus on site research, architectural precedents, team organisation, the development and discovery of the design concept, the importance of the diagram, and presentation and graphic skills. Students will be encouraged to use digital tools such as Rhino, Grasshopper, Maya. and will be required to work in a design team of 3-4 students.

‘TRIANGLE WARS’ - ST KILDA TRIANGLE SITE The studio will explore community & public uses for St Kilda’s Triangle Site in order to enrich the life of the community. A public open space of approximately 12,000m2 and a building area of approximately 15,000-30,000m2 is imagined for the site to create an entertainment, amusement, leisure and recreation precinct. The studio will explore context as a rich mix of urban, social, cultural, political, environmental and economic concerns, and engage students with the wider forces that shape architecture. Architecture will be explored as a public act; with students asked to position themselves in relation to other individuals, and in this to define their own political and ethical nature. There will be a focus on precedent and public programme types: art gallery, market, outdoor recreation space, etc. along with other commercial uses; car park, hotel, cinema, cafes/ bars, retail, etc. Through this the urban scale of the proposal will be explored including civic consciousness and narratives.

TRIANGLE WARS

St Kilda’s Triangle Site has recently been named the design site for LAGI 2018, an international sustainable energy infrastructure ideas competition. The competition asks; ‘What does renewable energy infrastructure look like when it is woven into the fabric of the city? The competition invites participants to ‘design a clean energy landscape for a post-carbon world - a public artwork that will help to power the city and inspire the future.’ The question of how renewable energy infrastructure can be integrated into public spaces in ways that educate, inspire, and are responsive to the history, culture, and nature of place will be explored throughout the semester, and students will submit their preliminary studio proposal as a competition entry by May 6, 2018. http://landartgenerator.org/competition2018.html [There will be some group research work, with individual projects produced.] BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO - SEMESTER 1 2018 MON & THURS 3.30-6.30PM TUTOR: SAM PERVERSI-BROOKS

CONFLICT

CONTEXT

COMMUNITY

CULTURE

CATANI

CONCEPT

CONTENT

CIVIC

(RE)CREATION

CONSUMPTION

CARPARK

CARE

CONSTRAINT

CONTINGENT

CRITICAL

CRISIS

Fork vs. Spoon Suburb vs. City High Brow vs. Low Brow International vs. Local Public vs. Private Big vs. Small Tutors: Jessica Heald Kerry Kounnapis RMIT Bachelor Studio Semester 1, 2018

Utensils are, first and foremost, cultural objects. They represent a view of what food is and how we should behave in relation to it. And then there are sporks. Both the name and form are a hybrid of spoon and fork. The original design (produced using cheap, disposable plastic and given away with food of the fast variety) included the base of a spoon combined with the tines of a fork. The spork is a perfect metaphor for human existence. It attempts to function as both spoon and fork, and due to this dual nature, it fails miserably at both. The Australian version of the ‘spork’ is the ‘Splayd’ an even more ambitious eating utensil combining the three functions of spoon, knife and fork. The splayd was created in the 1940s in Sydney by William McArthur and despite its popularity as a 1970’s wedding gift, the ‘Splayd’ did not find its way into every home.

Monday & Thursday 6:30pm - 9:30pm Group research and individual projects

Similarly troublesome is the dual nature of cities meeting suburbs – the cityburb or surburbity. This condition is perfectly described in Box Hill, a suburb undergoing rapid change. The pace of development risks ignoring the history and character of the suburb. How can we design space and form which integrates the existing identity of a suburb while proposing a new future?

SPLAYD* *The Australian Spork

URBAN

DESIGN STRATEGIES FOR AN ARCHITECTURE OF LIVEABILITY

GENEROSITY Tutor: Scale: Time:

Enza Angelucci Small/Large Monday & Thursday 6 - 9pm

Studio Location:

RMIT & Angelucci Architects Office 326 Park 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. This studio will commence through the observations of the local, to define the architectural nature of the place in which 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. The studio will concentrate on three specific architectural design strategies: the edge condition, porosity and ‘nature correctednesss’ to design a medium density housing proposal located in the inner city suburb of North Fitzoy.

Map of Bunurong paths through the Mornington Peninsula

Kullurk/Kulluck/Kulluk/Kullurt/Callert/Colourt/Coolert/Coollourt/Coolurt/Coolart The Parks Victoria owned and run Coolart Wetlands sits between small coastal towns along the Westernport Coast. The wetlands provide vital bird habitat to local and migrating birds. Along this coast and crossing over the Coolart area run indigenous paths of movement. The Boon Wurrung /Bunurong used these paths to move along the coast and seasonally between ‘down country’ and ‘up country’. This design studio will work with Parks Victoria and the Coolart Wetlands to design an indigenous trail. The trail will provide a way to move over the ground, places to walk in silence, places to sit and yarn, places for gathering. A way of slowing down and listening, interacting with seasonal change, human and non‐human life. The project will introduce students to an understanding of the indigenous history of the area, knowledge of ground and country, time and life. This knowledge along with approaches and methods for documenting and mapping the site, drawing the land, walking, observing, storytelling will be developed to lead to design strategies and small‐scale design interventions. The studio classes will include guest lectures, workshops and site work including long walks. Group and class work is an important aspect of the studio. Class times: Monday 6.30‐9.30pm, Thursday 2.30‐5.30pm, with additional weekend field work. Anticipated dates for weekend field work include Sat 10th, Sat 24th March, Sat 7th, Sat 21 April. This studio will be run as an intensive studio, final class on Monday 7th May. Lucinda McLean, semester 1, 2018

POIEMA

Medium Density Housing as a form of Poiema Bachelors Design Studio, Val Austin, Mondays/Thursdays 3.30-5.30pm

The studio will investigate design as a Re-imagining of Medium Density Housing and as design for the Aesthetics of Experience.

•

Students are to make a Design proposal which addresses the question of ‘how can our suburbs and towns grow within a sustainable and meaningful way? This Studio is grounded in issues of Housing and Density and will research precedents and discuss the question of what is ‘habitable medium density housing? How for instance, do you design for growth in suburbs and towns whose residents are resistant to evolving changes to density and identity? Students will research precedents: i.e. Berlin Hinter Housing, Garden cities, Terrace Housing, planning and pattern making for new housing typologies suited to emerging cities.

•

• • •

Medium Density living as an ancient concept, typical to middle eastern cities and Chinese courtyard housing. Why is it a good idea to address the What, How and why of an increased density in an Australian context? Is there a new typology for a future city? What is the history of Medium Density Housing in outer Melbourne for instance? You are asked to design a reimagining of Medium Density Housing as a critique of the functional form of town and city? Your design proposal will hopefully act as critique of our living habitat in all its subordination to the market. Just how political are modes of representation in Architecture? Can the design and making of an Architecture offer change? Just how literally has the use of materiality as a highly visible form of entertainment in Architecture become to the detriment of the economic and social constructs of our built environment? How much of our built environment is too loud and devoid of beauty?

OCCUPATION 18S1 | Bachelor Design Studio Jane Dash | Paul Dash Monday 6 to 9 | Thursday 9 to 12 Medium | Large

The studio draws on observation and urban narrative to explore occupied space, urban space, plaza space, economically conflicted space. How we define it, edge it, empty it. How we hold back the tide of economical rationalisation at its edges, only momentarily, until we fill it up once again. This studio considers air-rights, land-rights, copy-rights. Appropriation, invasion and desertion will be used to define a public square and the buildings surrounding it. The recent M Pavilion 2017 by OMA was predicated on making a new type of urban place, one designed to bring people together physically, culturally and politically, in the increasingly individualised city. This ambition aligns with an increasing swathe of project ambitions for actual gathering space, from governments, universities and commercial entities, with the ambition .of re-creating face to face engagement as relationships increasing move online. RMITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New Academic Street is major investment in making new meeting places in order to renew and revitalise the experience of campus engagement. While the M-Pavilion and NAS are both top-down commissions of patronage, there are examples of organic urban meeting places in the city that can form models for architectural interventions. Studio projects include an urban plaza and the design of larger, more permanent buildings surrounding it. Each will lead to the forming and informing of the other. .

Image Credit: Shinjuku Calling | Yamagami Yukihiro | NGV | View Work

TIME: MONDAY & THURSDAY 6-9PM I BRIEF: STUDENT PRECINCT I SITE: UNIVERSITY SQUARE I SCALE: MEDIUM I TUTORS: ANDRE BONNICE ANNA JANKOVIC

This studio will begin by looking back at two of the formative periods of western art and architecture. Students will interrogate the Renaissance and by way of comparison its successor the Baroque - to understand the history, form and scale of a series of canonical buildings and artworks. This is not through an act of nostalgia - but through a filter of contemporary thought, with an emphasis on learning how to see and to think architecture. The main reason to study history is to rescue good, provocative and inspiring ideas that have been lost - in order to utilise them for the dilemmas and problems of our own time. The studio will begin with a focus on researching and developing a repertoire of techniques through the study of distinct Renaissance and Baroque ideas. These explorations will be a ‘triptych’ of digital craft, history & architectural elements; with the aim of developing students’ computer literacy, presentation skills and their application to investigation and critique. There will be a focus on the resolution of formal compositions and sophisticated urban responses. Compositions should reflect a well-considered critical arrangement to develop a rich architectural expression of relationships between form, program, site and the user’s experience. Students will then go on to develop designs for a ‘student precinct’ at University Square, Carlton.

K is for

KETAMINE

This studio is about.... Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.

Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.

Nothing.

RMIT ARCHITECTURE

BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

DR MICHAEL SPOONER

RMIT/thexhauted

DESIGN STUDIO SEMESTER 1 2018

MONDAY & THURSDAY

2.30-5.30pm

occasionally the river floods these places. “Floods” is the word they use, but in fact [the river] is not flooding; it is remembering. Remembering where it used to be. All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get to where it was. T. Morrison

UNBOUND Site: Abbotsford + Yarra river edge Scale: Small to Medium Studio times: Monday 3.30pm - 6.30pm, Thursday 3.30pm - 6.30pm

a building is not an end in itself; it frames, structures, gives significance, relates, separates and unites, facilitates and prohibits. J. Pallasmaa Unbound introduces students to a site-specific design approach - the agency of site - with an emphasis on exploring the relationship between architecture and landscape. The studio is part of a series of studios that explore this set of ideas at the intersection of river landscapes and urban conditions, and investigates new opportunities for reciprocal connection that stitches the two together across more meaningful everyday cycles of inhabitation and use. The Yarra river elbow that the site is situated within is subject to daily tidal fluctuations and seasonal flash flooding. The bigger floods have long since been banished and exist only in local memory and archives. The studio re-imagines the site as both an acitve flood prone landscape and one in which climate change induced events are more frequent and and forceful. This dynamic context establishes the base condition - the proving ground - that students will operate and speculate within. The flood event is used as a means of bringing architecture – and design thinking – into contact with the dynamic forces of natural phenomena and the potential of working with the agency of time and change. Rather than describing the flood event and the flux of the river landscape as a natural threat to be controlled and mitigated against, the studio asks what it might require to inhabit such a dynamic and shifting landscape. Inviting the natural phenomena of the flood in creates conditions in which the architecture is required to yield to dissolve, fragment, disburse, reconfigure, alter – and in so doing become inherently more reciprocal, porous, adaptive and resilient. One of the key interests of the studio is the idea of memory – historical, cultural, ecological – and how it might be physicalized in an architecture that remembers; an act of resistance as counter to the tendency towards amnesia . The project is a reconfigured river edge that opens up and expands opportunities for connection and use, including providing much needed additional civic space for local residents, the local primary school, cyclists and pedestrians. The new edge will house a performance/event pavilion, amenity such as cafés/bar, and a new Rivercare Centre and/or Community Library. The studio provides students with the opportunity to work with and re-purpose existing infrastructure and light industrial building stock, and design new fit-for purpose architecture. Students will be introduced to artists, architects and landscape architects working in the field. A range of local and international exemplary case study precedents will be studied and form a key component of the design process. Students will work in a variety of mediums including physical and digital modeling, montage, diagramming, site mapping, drawing (hand and digital).