SEMESTER 1 | 2020
BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN DESIGN STUDIO BALLOTING POSTERS
TECTONIC BEHAVIOR BACHELOR STUDIO ROLAND SNOOKS + CHARLIE BOMAN This studio will explore the design of intricate forms and their strange qualities through innovative tectonic logics. 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 focus on tectonic experiments and investigate the architecture that this generates. Specifically these tectonics will be based on ceramic 3D printing. Students will be heavily involved with printing one-to-one prototypes in the robotics labs and encouraged to develop design through making. 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 and the logic of 3D printing to create a strange hybrid. No experience with algorithmic tools or robotics is required, however a willingness to engage in these tools and highly iterative processes is essential
MONDAY + THURSDAY 6PM - 9 PM 100.10.001
Sacred View
Bachelor Design Architecture Studio Monday and Thursdays 6pm -9pm Jane Dash and Paul Dash This studio will be an investigation into the privileged view as a critical and architectural tool, through the lens of a contemporary urban infrastructure project. Through research into techniques of viewing, and their implication in political power and control of urban space, a set of instruments for shaping urban and architectural form will be uncovered then crucially appropriated as design tools. The studio will investigate the sacred view of Melbourne’s Shine of Remembrance, it’s relationship with the Domain gardens and St Kilda Road - the view corridor of excluded built form and recent infrastructural impositions. Students will work through a series of small design esquisses looking at single point perspective, Picturesque landscape design, M Pavilion and the privileged view, site lines, deflection and reflection, bunker archaeology and camouflage. From these outcomes a large/urban project will be proposed- a new underground shrine metro station. The practicalities of site, public space, amenities and program will be engaged with in the final beguiling building.
rmit university school of architecture and urban design bachelor of architectural design lower pool design studio
CAST AGENTS FORMING COMPLEXITY 2.0
Nic Bao & Hesam Mohamed
Robotic Fabrication and 3d printing are rapidly changing the feasibility of constructing geometric structure with a high degree of intricacy. Therefore, emerging architectural designs that leverage the capacity of generative design and digital fabrication methods are able to create a highly intricate built architecture in the near future. This studio aims to build on the historical connotation of concrete as an influential material in history of modern architecture. Through exploration of new technologies such as 3d printing and generative design process students will explore and propose new ways in which concrete form-work is produced using digital fabrication processes. Students will design a structure for MPavilion site in Melbourne botanical gardens. The structure must engage with the proposed location, surrounding landscape and ground condition. Through a series of form making studies students will generate number of design proposals for the pavilion structure. In parallel students will be prototyping their design proposals using 3d printers and casting concrete. These prototypes will develop construction techniques as well as test the design geometries, scale, structural performance, assembly and connection details. Through an iterative feedback loop between fabrication and digital design, students have to inform the design proposals to accommodate for fabrication constraints as well as aesthetical qualities and planning considering. Students are expected to combine exceptional architectural qualities such as complex formal expressions, interesting spatial qualities with innovative digital fabrication methods into their final proposals. Final studio outcomes will consist of sets of architectural drawings, series of small prototypes, and final large-scale prototypes. Other mediums such as animations and VR presentations are encouraged. Students will be working in groups Skills Required: Team work Hard working Basic Rhino modeling Grasshopper & Maya skills are encouraged Working with tools and workshop equipment
mondays & thursdays from 6 - 9 pm 100.05.004A
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Inevitably, architecture is as an irrational projection of desire into our world which is soon processed, tamed and made real. The initial projection, which has no basis in the world around it is set upon with the tools of our trade: rigour, rationality, contingency and contractual obligation. The irrational desire (the strange fabrication) is shored up, stabilised, tied into the world around it, and ultimately brought to bear. We forget that it was once a dream. -
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The site of this studio is Collins Place: an absurd imagining of the Louvre onto the ‘Paris End’, made real against a backdrop of mega-block tenancies, proto-modern space frames and top-hatted doorpeople. As Collins Place once hoped to do, we too hope to balance the mundane and the sublime. -
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The structure of this studio will be one of initial abstraction and connection, then slowly driven and tightened until the paranoid vision becomes irrefutable fact. Three small projects will be followed by one medium, then a final project to be bound into the city fabric. Techniques used will seek to combine the rigour of architectural drawing with the positive influence of happenstance. -
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This studio comprises the act of seeing the world as it is not, gathering evidence for this case, and proving it.
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Landscape in the Landscape, Castlemaine July 2016 Richard Black
Rewilding Castlemaine As each year post-settlement in Australia grinds on, how should we conceive of our place in the landscape, of the continent we have claimed as our own: are we custodians, masters, brokers, servants – and what is its place in our world of thought?’ Nicolas Rothwell, ‘The Landscape Behind the Landscape’ Eric Rolls Memorial Lecture, National Library of Australia 22 October 2014
STUDIO AGENDA: it is these questions and more that frame the agenda of this studio. As architects how should we conceive of our place in the landscape and of the landscape itself? How should we respond to it, represent it and ultimately, what should we make in it – do in the landscape? What attitudes to the landscape do you bring and what new ones can be revealed and discovered? This agenda is positioned against a ubiquitous backdrop of digital and technological inventions that pervades architectural education and that risks casting questions of landscape as irrelevant. But nature, and landscape cannot be background, or other but must be essential to any questions for the future of urban development. For this practice, a buildings capacity to belong to a wider territory, is a given. This can also be considered as a relational condition, extending beyond the built context, to include ecological systems, cultural ideas, nature and the land – a form of urbanism, but one that is free of the conventions of seeing buildings as the only reference point. Research projects (as background to this studio) – have explored architectures engagement with context in projects that work from rural and city landscapes and in the context of the cultural and environmental and the need for continued and deeper engagement with Australia’s indigenous people. The reality of climate change has provoked a critical reflection on this practice, and demands an urgent rethink of our relationship to nature, in all its forms, and for its status in the architectural profession – and that design has a critical role to play, and that the essence of design knowledges and processes can assist in navigating a new relationship to nature whilst considering dramatic shifts of the traditional frameworks of what constitutes architecture. (excerpts from Veil of Isis, 2019 Anna Johnson and Richard Black) ISSUE: writer Robert Macfarlane tells us that the ‘idea of the Anthropocene repeatedly strikes us dumb. In the complexity of its structures and the range of its scales within time and space – from nanometric to the planetary, from picoseconds to aeons – the Anthropocene confronts us with huge challenges. How to interpret, or even refer to it? Its energies are interactive, its properties emergent and its structures withdrawn. We find speaking of the Anthropocene, even speaking in the Anthropocene, difficult. It is, perhaps best imagined as an epoch of loss – of species, places and people – for which we are seeking a language of grief and, even harder to find, a language of hope. (Macfarlane, Underland, p364) This studio explores this difficult territory as well as the implications for architecture and its design knowledges. What then might be a language of hope that can yield opportunities to rethink architecture in the age of the Anthropocene? Our research continues to focus on the role of nature, of how we/you relate to it, and it is through this lens that the studio is framed. Project work aims to build your awareness of nature - its entanglement with ideologies, culture and humanity then ultimately - how might this inform ways of conceiving and making architecture? REWILDING CASTLEMAINE: design of an urban building for Castlemaine (110kms north west of Melbourne’s CDB) responding to the communities housing crisis. It’s comprised of the following components: Living (Multiple Dwellings/Lofts etc) with an equal part Landscape (or rewilding). Rewilding refers to the gradual transformation of the street, architecture and urban public space – into a new type of urban situation – a meeting of architecture/nature - a critical reworking of building, garden, and landscape – into an urban ecology. The syllabus is structured around two parts, the first, in the early weeks of the semester provides a structured set of ideas and techniques as a way into the design of this new urban type. Using literature, artworks, drawing, mark making, text, cartography along with your individual experience and encounter with Castlemaine (you are required to attend several site visits) you will explore the questions posed by the studio syllabus as a way into the major project for the semester. You should expect to develop ways of working to imagine the site and its relationship to the town, its landscape, territory as well as opening this to cultural and architectural references – equally immersed in the real and the imaginary.
RMIT Bachelor Design Studio: Semester 1> 2020. 2.30-5.30pm Monday and Thursdays
Richard Black
Made in Brunswick Police Garage This is a Cross Disciplinary Studio that questions the effect of Gentrification and Design Districts in Brunswick. Based on a brief provided by stakeholders we will use ideas around the Archive, Artifact and Industrial Archaeology to mine the existing Typology and Urban Condition of Brunswick for design potential. Tim Pyke and Helen Duong. Monday 3-6pm | Thursday 6-9pm
GLOSSARY Archive: a collection of historical documents or records providing information on institutions or a group of people. Artifact: the observable modification and adaptation of the built environment by human occupation compounded into a building. Brief: RMIT Brunswick Campus are looking to extend their campus to the Victoria Police site and become a hub for the BDD. They aim to extend the campus beyond the physical boundaries of the site, will extend use to the community 24/7, increase its Design Programs from Textiles to include Industrial Design and increase the student population. How does a major university integrate with an evolving creative cluster and seed change? Cross Disciplinary Studio: This studio is part of a collaboration with RMIT interior design and Landscape Architecture called the CAMPUS Studios. For three weeks students will be co-taught with RMIT interior design and Landscape Architecture on a collaborative team project to be presented at Mid Semester. A collaborative feedback workshop will also be held after mid semester with all students.. Design Districts: When the government capitalises on Gentrification and changing demographic and land use to encourage investment and attract growth. What are the motivations and opportunities for establishing Design and Innovation Districts? What impact do they have on the existing city? Gentrification: When an established area of diversity and multiculturalism changes in land use and demography due to low value industrial land being commodified by the “creative class” who provide creative production and enterprises and in turn displace original inhabitants. See Design Districts Industrial archaeology: the study of changes and adaptation of built industrial environments.
Role of Students: To observe, question and critique Design Districts, gentrification and the role of Architecture and Design. To be open minded, curious, critical and hard working. Role of Tutors: To impart techniques for looking, understanding, designing, critiquing and polemicising Architecture. To facilitate exchange and collaboration between disciplines through design exercises and classes.. Stakeholders: This is part of an initiative of The Victorian Government, Moreland City Council, Creative Victoria and RMIT University called the Brunswick Design District (BDD).This studio is a continuation of the Made in Brunswick Studio Series from 2019 Sem. Typology: Small masonry industrial buildings with a complexity of space and a multiplicity of function that belie their small footprint. We will look at the traditional light and cottage industries practiced in the Upfield/Sydney Rd corridor and speculate on what is inherent in the architectural DNA of these buildings that make them so amenable to continual appropriation. Urban Condition (Current and Potential): This studio will closely examine the strip of commercial and mixeduse land bordered by the Upfield Line and Sydney Road. Currently they mingle seamlessly with carparks and temporary vacant lots, forming shared relationships with adjacent interstitial spaces and buildings. The absence of hard boundaries has allowed expansion, contraction and innovative ways of occupying urban space. We will examine the successive waves of migration to Brunswick and explore how this has sustained an intricacy of use and formed specialised habits. Is there anything to learn from how the established city has been adapted and modified? Can this influence the future planning and direction of the BDD? The connections, spaces between, the edges, thresholds, and boundaries of the existing site , create links and networks of creative studios and workspaces across Brunswick and include a Library and Design Materials.
4 cortina bachelors design studio
Cor na frames the city as a texturally and materially rich subject that despite its assets, lacks a
spa al framework in which to claim temporally significant sanctuary. The studio seeks to repair the web of me where it has broken, through architecture. Cor na celebrates disorder, incongruity and uncertainty - but executed with surety, will and convic on. The studio is small to medium. The studio will plan and design a new building, and the archaeological remnants on which it's built. Cor na has these objec ves: Create documents that chart a sympathe cally fabricated history of facts for the site. Create a strong narra ve understanding of your work which allows confident naviga on through the studio material. Design an architectural response to the physical and folio based sites that nego ates those two condi ons with aplomb. Cor na focuses on non-architectural sources for precedent and content. They typically include: theatre, film, music, wri ng, pain ng, history and archaeology. These may be real or imagined. Cor na is structured around weekly exercises that move quickly across material, itera ng furiously. Work is predominantly individual.
Cortina frames the city as a texturally and materially rich subject that despite its assets, lacks a spatial framew o r k i n w h i c h t o c l a i m t e m p o r a l l y s i g n i f i c a n t s a n c t u a r y. T h e s t u d i o s e e k s t o r e p a i r t h e w e b o f t i m e w h e r e i t h a s broken, through ar chitec tur e.Cortin a celebrates disor der, incongr ui ty and uncertai nty - but ex ecuted with s u r e t y, w i l l a n d c o n v i c t i o n . T h e s t u d i o i s s m a l l t o m e d i u m . T h e s t u d i o w i l l p l a n a n d d e s i g n a n e w b u i l d i n g , a n d the archaeological remnants on which it's built. Cortina has these objectives: Create documents that chart a sympathetically fabricated history of facts for the site. Create a strong narrative understanding of your work which allows confident navigation through the studio material. Design an architectural response to the physical and folio based sites that negotiates those two conditions with aplomb. Cortina focuses on non-architectural sources for precedent and content. They typically include: theatre, film, m u s i c, w r i ti n g , pa in t i ng , h i st o r y a nd ar c h ae o lo gy. T he s e ma y b e r e a l o r im a g i n ed . C o r t i n a i s s t r u c t u r e d a r o u n d w e e k l y e x e r c i s e s t h a t m o v e q u i c k l y a c r o s s m a t e r i a l , i t e r a t i n g f u r i o u s l y. W o r k i s predominantly individual. m o n d ay + t h u r s d ay 1 8 : 0 0
rmit architecture Peter knight
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. hese research questions will b d through film, readings, architectural precedents, fieldtrips, artwork, music plus more that will inform your design research throughout the semester. udio will be structured around the production of bi-weekly esquisses carried out by students both collaboratively and individually for the first half of the semes-ter. Working in p d half of semester will focus on the development of the final project. DTRIP: 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 Satur-day March 30 – 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). es will be held on Mondays & Thursdays from 6-9pm (some Thursdays will be skipped due to the semi-intensive mode)
On Country: Framlingham A music and cultural centre
Dr Christine Phillips & Stasinos Mantzis with Uncle Leonard Clarke & the Kirrae Whurrong Community Students in this studio will be asked to design a music and cultural centre at Framlingham. This is a response to an in invitation we received from a highly respected Aboriginal Elder, Uncle Leonard (Lenny) Clarke, to conceptualise a vision he has for his family’s Aboriginal owned land on Kirrae Whurrong land in the Western District of Victoria. This vision is to create a world class cultural arts and music centre that not only celebrates and showcases Aboriginal culture to a broad and international audience, but to also foster and provide opportunities for youth and emerging musicians through music education programmes. This new centre will be called the Shara Clarke Music Centre, named after and in honour of Uncle Lenny’s late daughter. Key research questions: • • • •
Tackle the notion of a colonised country and how we might design a shared future architecture charged by multiple histories and different cultures To consider what Aboriginal sovereignty means within architecture To consider Aboriginal notions of Country within an urban context To test whether Indigenous knowledge systems might prompt new forms of architecture
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 semes-ter. Working in pairs, the second half of semester will focus on the development of the final project. FIELDTRIP: 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 over a three day weekend in March (date TBC) along with a second day trip after mid semester. You will need a tent & sleeping bag. The trip will cost approximately $200. Classes will be held on Mondays & Thursdays from 6-9pm (some Thursdays will be skipped due to the semi-intensive mode)
SIMULATIONS
For the Bank of England commission 1788-1830, 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. Through an investigation of past and present ruins of art and architecture, this studio will explore what might take place in order 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? This studio will interrogate the history of the ‘ruin’ and ask students to consider what it means to design a building for a thousand years. Students will ruin and rebuild throughout the semester - to develop a final proposal that considers the ruin and the rebuild of an inner-city Carpark. Starting with the University of Melbourne’s South Lawn Carpark, currently in a state of ‘disrepair’ at the Parkville Campus; we will question and test it’s ‘un-ruin’ through a variety of speculative SIMULATIONS. Through the exploration of geometric ideas there will be a focus on the resolution of considered formal compositions of ways to ‘un ruin’. 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 esquisses. 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. KEYWORDS; Preservation, Simulation, Ruin, Rebuild, Palimpsest
ANNA JANKOVIC
MON 3:00-6:00PM | THU 12:00-3:00PM
Spencer 2 Spring: The Archive Alonso Gaxiola & Rafid Hai S2S are interested in individual’s readings of the city, in cataloging and documenting your own experiences, and translating these into architectural intent. At Spencer 2 Spring you will test an alternative method to investigate -in our case catalogue- and transform precedents into architectural designs, by observing closely at the way the built environment around us operates. 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 Melbourne, CBD and the scales they operate in. The process of cataloging suggests the need to archive the results of an investigation. This semesters' studio will explore the idea of a City Archive; a small scale civic building meant to both, provide a forum for citizens to engage in the decision making of matters related to the spatial characteristics of the city, and archive the events that constitute the city today. Cataloging and Midsem will be done in pairs Individual final projects Monday & Thursday / 6:30 - 9:30pm
ALTER TO MAKE OTHER Design Studio Leader: Brent Allpress
Mondays 9am-12pm Thursdays 12pm-3pm
This studio investigates design questions involving practices of alteration, extension and addition. Many significant buildings constructed prior to the 1980’s have reached an age where they have needed to be renovated, refitted and otherwise altered or extended. This studio develops design strategies and responses to alteration and extension as a specific category of design practice activity. Modernist architectural theory resisted the additive and promoted the tabula rasa as a means to ensure the autonomy of the new original modernist work. Adding to and altering a modernist building presents an internal conflict and contradiction to be worked through. Ornament haunts architectural discourse and practice. Theories of the ornamental within the canon cross and interrupt the central texts of the architectural tradition, both constructing and dividing them with unresolved uncertainties. Modernist theory negated the supplementary role of applied ornament. Modernist practices however involved radical ornamental operations employing abstract spatial surfaces as semi-autonomous systems. The representational role of ornament in contemporary architecture remains complex and contested. This studio provides a framework for investigating the complexities of the legacy of the Modernist prescription against the additive and the ornamental. It also provides an opportunity to reconsider and revise postmodern accounts of the role of ornament and the status of context. Recent non-standard digital technologies that revise modernist economies of standardization also shift the debate on the role of figuration beyond representation and communication towards architectural actions. Precedent projects will be analysed involving alteration, extension and addition strategies. A specific local or international modernist architectural project will be selected as the site for a new alternation, extension or addition. Site selection will be negotiated. The design brief of this new architectural complex is to remotivate existing program and provide facilities for a proposed Institute of Architectural Design Research that includes an architectural archive, temporary and permanent exhibition spaces, an auditorium, workshop and designer in residence facilities, along with other program relevant to the specific situation. Counter compositional strategies will be explored. This Design Studio provides a vehicle for research into significant modernist architectural precedent, provoking a critical and creative design response that focuses on qualitative and performative operations and outcomes.
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THE FOLLOWING TWO STUDIOS WILL COMMENCE IN ONLINE MODE
Footscray City
In this studio you will make physical models of a new micro city on a site book-ended by Footscray Station and the Footscray City West Water building. The city will be bounded by McNab Avenue on its northern edge, and the train line to Seddon on its southern boundary. The design process will involve dividing the site into segments each designed by a single student. This will enable you to speculate at an architectural scale, while testing results at an urban one. Footscray City will seek to set in motion a central high density urban district of Footscray to rival that of Boxhill and Campberwell, meeting the commercial ambitions of those who will ultimately develop it and creating belonging for its citizens. With equal weighting, The studio will engage with the ancient cultures related to the site, the more recent histoy of the site, and the living and varied cultures evolving around the site today. In so doing it will speculate on new modes of making Indigenous Australia manifest in the contemporary city. The studio is of a medium scale, and will involve both group and individual work. This studio will run in online mode until week 7, and then in intensive mode after that.
Tutor: Dr Jan van Schaik: practising architect at MvS Architects, a researcher and senior lecturer at RMIT Architecture & Urban Design, and a creative and cultural industries strategist at Future Tense.
Week 1: 1 x 4 hour online class Week 3: 1 x 4 hour online class Week 5: 1 x 4 hour online class Week 8-14: 3 x 3 hour classes per week
jan.vanschaik@rmit.edu.au
RMIT BACHELOR’S STUDIO_ SEM 1 2020
AiC ity Tu tors: D r A l i sa A nd ra s ek a n d Sebast ian Te o (Hayb a l l) In a world that is rapidly converted into information, future cities and buildings will be characterized by enhanced resilience, plasticity, and malleability of complex interrelated systems; in short, increased designability within complex ecologies, allowing for design proposals of unprecedented nature, complexity and scale. Algorithms, big data, AI, AR, simulation, and robotics are disrupting micro to macro conditions of architecture, cities, engineering, construction and development. Studio will investigate speculative urban scenarios for a high density future city, aiming for radically new typologies based on complex systems. Design speculations will be informed by the developments in exponential technologies, disruptive patterns of global change, novel concepts for inhabitation, wellbeing, distributed and localised networks of renewable energy, green new deal economy, decarbonising, autonomous driving and new modes of transportation. We will look at the potential for the future city beyond established models, connecting its morphological patterns directly to local physics, such as dynamics of wind and exposure to sun. We will be working with the concept of distributed and localised networks of energy production, where every building and city itself is simultaneously an energy factory. This city is co-designed with big data and ai, at increased resolution and complexity, radically enhanced quality of life, and with previously unseen aesthetics. As part of a new experiment for virtual environments used for distributed global collaboration, this studio will be taught mostly online, and in an intensive format over 8 and a half weeks. It is a partnered studio with Hayball architects, connecting it directly to a global practice. There will be close collaboration and cross-link with the advanced Master’s studio also taught by Andrasek, and working on the same site at a different order of scale. This project is part of a global initiative, seeking to create a sustainable blueprint for the future evolution of urban design and architecture in China. Two partnered studios will showcase new architectural and urban design concepts for the staged development of Xiong’an New Area, which will be featured at the 17th International Architecture Biennale in Venice, alongside leading international architecture schools, visionaries and design researchers. Students will be working in teams throughout the semester and prior knowledge of Rhino, Grasshopper and similar software is highly recommended. https://www.alisaandrasek.com/ https://www.hayball.com.au/ Intensive Details Studio runs from Weeks 1- 8. Intensive begins Weeks 1-6 Online + Combination of online and face to face workshops from Week 7-8.