RMIT ARCHITECTURE BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO BALLOTING POSTERS
SEM 2, 2018
SHEPPARTON PRESERVING COMPANY
SPC MOOROOPNA
Lecturers. Peter Brew, James Hall.
Tuesdays and Thursdays 9.30am-12.30pm Scenario: The disused SPC canary in Mooroopna, a large post-war industri-al complex in the Central Victorian town of Mooroopna will be available for RMIT design students with Architecture, Industrial design and Landscape each making the site the subject for a studio this semester. The Architecture studio will explore and imagine situations events and or effects on or for the site. During the course of the semester, a virtual form of the site will be developed as a collective artefact.- The BASE. It is imagined that the BASE will combine site observations, Measure documentation, Historical re-enactments 3 d scanning. as a virtual site, will to host multiple projects and varied combinations of those projects. We will be as interested in what constitutes a project and develop a platform or Host for that. Granted this is a bit vague, our best guess as to what the BASE is will be some variation of a point cloud survey of the site ( which we will undertake as part of the studio) and a combination of Rhino objects, will be used variously as a context and as a base for projects. We envisage that as each project is hosted ‘they become ‘; available’ to other students in the studio and to those of the other studios. Students retain author-ship of projects they have and may at their discretion withdraw them, other than any portion that has wittingly or otherwise become a host for another project. - in which case it remains as a shadow. In instances of overlap superimposition and or removal, parties will be invited to seek resolution with related entities, (the agglomeration of all other projects that interest in the BASE) resolution might take many forms, co-habitat, unite or withdrawal. While the collective form of the project will be virtual we are interested in an array of non-virtual technologies, like models and drawings and obviously the town the buildings on the site are brought into this ‘Base and its status as back-ground frame or platform.
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ALTER TO MAKE OTHER Design Studio Leader: Brent Allpress Teaching Times: Mondays & Thursdays 3.30-6.30pm 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.
The ‘cemetery’ provided the first opportunity to define place, the city of the dead therefore predating the city of the living. What does place look at when we consider it as a built form? Is it an empty structure waiting to be filled? Is it an open field waiting to grow or is there no waiting just continuous building to define the place of the dead? What rules are put in place to define the parameters for defining ‘place’ for the dead? In Part 2 of Necropolis Now Studio Series, we are looking at the making of the cemetery. How is place and process defined through a constructed lens? In the first design studio the masterplan for the New Necropolis informed the manner that students considered the way that we establish place, the rules that define its evolution. Part 2 looks at the cemetery at a buildable scale. It looks at how we consider the role of making/structure to inform the manner that we consider the role and evolution of the cemetery as a built outcome. How does it evolve? How does it inform the way we read place? How is the role of landscape considered? How do we consider the cemetery as a structure? A structure which may define a perimeter, a structure that may embed itself within an existing condition. A structure that might generate a condition that is anticipated yet evolves into a condition unforeseen. But then what does this structure do? How does it define place? How do we understand the relationship of the way we construct and define the cemetery verses the manner in which townships evolve? What programs might be added to assist in defining this condition? The design studio provides an opportunity to reconsider the role of the cemetery as a landscape and as an instigator of community. Students will be engaged with model making, rigorous site, program and precedent analysis reviewing the role of the cemetery as a civic entity. Sections, sections, sections. BA ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO S2 2018 MONDAY 6-9PM, THURSDAY 2.30-5.30PM AMY MUIR
NECROPOLIS NOW PART 2
Vitruvius, Alberti, Palladio & the Machine The discipline of architecture is defined by ideas that are passed on, copied and transformed to form an accepted history of cultural production. In a world where it is becoming increasingly harder to discern what is real and what is fake - this studio seeks to find the breaking point that challenges the stability of the immutable foundation in which our understanding of architecture and its value rests. What do alternate architectural facts look like in a profession that openly accepts and is built on a visual culture of copying? Students will implement machine learning techniques through an intensely iterative feedback between designer and artificial intelligence machine. We believe that as designers/architects our relationship with technology is shifting closer to collaboration, rather than the master and her tool. This methodology will act as an enquiry into how artificial intelligence will affect the future of the architectural profession, giving students an opportunity to navigate discourse surrounding authorship and automation. No experience with algorithmic tools is required, however an interest in the capacity of algorithms and a willingness to engage with these tools in a highly iterative processes is essential.
Sean Guy & Jack Mansfield-Hung Monday 3.30 - 6.30pm; Thursday 6.30 - 9.30pm
Liminal is a process based studio which will explore the relationship between dance and architecture. Students will work with a contemporary dance pracititioner who will run a series of embodiment workshops, then focusing on developing notational and diagrammatic modes of representating movement and emotion. The subject will introduce a number of digital design tools and techniques and engage with 3D digital fabrication. Students are expected to capture all elements of the studio and produce a printed book/folio for the final presentation.
LIMINAL bachelor architecture design studio caitlyn parry | thursday + monday
W. BROUWERS B. HARTFORD-DAVIS PREVIOUS STUDIO: TRUNK
We reject the idea that consumerism is vapid and devoid of meaning. We believe not in the construction of identity through consumption, but in what consumption reflects of our identity. The items that we accumulate in our lifetimes reflect our context, echo our values and reveal our aspirations. Key to this proposition is that objects carry meaning and shared cultural memory. At is core objects hold ideas Architecture needs these ideas. In this studio we will interrogate the means of producing clothes for surprising anecdotes and rich architectural ideas. We do this because we believe that the translation is more interesting than the quote.
6.30-9.30 pm Monday Thursday
S P L A Y D 2.0
SPLAYD 2.0 - BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE Can houses be the testing ground for ideas of public architecture? And can we discover something new through this shifting of scales? Take the Grounds House. Designed in 1953, Roy Grounds turned the design of the traditional australian house on its head through the use of large, geometric moves and internalised focus. The NGV, designed a decade later, shows a clear lineage to the Grounds House with its figure ground and monumental form. So is the Grounds House a public building disguised as a house? Or is the NGV a house disguised as a public building? Or have they become something entirely new? Projects like the Grounds house and NGV prove that the humble house can be transformed by ideas bigger than its footprint and larger than it’s client. What can we discover through thinking about the in-between of the public building and the house? Where do the private gestures finish and the public ideas start? This studio will focus on ideas rather than the neatly resolved plan. The studio will study both exemplar public buildings and houses as well those projects that illustrate the in-between. The final project will be a splayd between house and public building. Tutors: Jessica Heald Kerry Kounnapis RMIT Bachelors Design Studio
Semester 2, 2018 - Monday & Thursday 6:30-9:30PM Individual Projects & Group research
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We want to challenge the ways of seeing, broadening an understanding of history, and how the past may fuel building blocks for future architecture and may establish new ways of seeing. Art movements, like architecture, have a context. They are of a time and a place. In each chosen movement, the rules of composition in picture making will also be explored, and could be used as a guide in the design of an art gallery (Medium Scale).
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Students will consider the cultural and spiritual dimensions of place, as expressed through the artist, and apply this through design. The Art of Architecture uses the history and theory of art and architecture in conjunction to reveal new ways of seeing and designing.Â
PARLIAMENT ARCHITECTURE & POWER
Government buildings not only house activities associated with political power, they also represent that power in symbolic, architectural form. This studio proposes to interrogate the relationship between architectural language and political power through a series of interventions, additions and reconfigurations within the site of the
Victorian Parliament House. From ancient Rome to the architectures that accompanied the major political ideologies of the 20th century, and everywhere in between, architectural production has constantly taken place in relation to the dominant political and economic forces of the day. Students will examine the recurrence of
this theme throughout history, as well as the attributes of the Parliament as an architectural typology, in order to develop their own positions on the relationship between architecture and power today. STUDIO LEADERS: AMY EVANS & CONOR TODD TIME: 6.30PM - 9.30PM MONDAYS & THURSDAYS
SPECTACLIST Bachelor of Architecture Design Studio
Monday + Thursday 3.30 - 6.30pm Tutor _ Mel Iraheta
This studio will propose to re-examine the possibilities of form generation as an entity / experience / performance with the objective to produce an effervescent act of architecture within the Melbourne Capitol Theatre and surrounding context. The studio is a critique of the representational in favour of ‘dirty realism’. The studio is interested in interrogating and closing the gap between representation and actuality; image and object; physical and digital; documentary and fiction. We will delve into aspects of the sensate, atmosphere, mood and the visceral as specific lenses to serve as mechanisms of observation for speculations and obsessions. The studio will investigate the theatre to speculate on a series of spaces through the scales of; the City, the Stage, and the Body. You will be asked to produce provocative objects, investigate the body through inhabitable wearables to translate into the stage for the architectural act. You will also be asked to produce an animation/film for the design of a cinematic universe in which narrative evolves, which rely on scenographic strategies and digital crafting techniques.
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‘Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.’ ― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities Atavism refers to the property of reappearance of a characteristic or previous behavior after a period of absence. The studio will engage with this idea within the domain of procedural urbanism. The studio is interested in two broad themes – emergence and emulation. Emergence of urban form will focus on processes and procedures through which architecture is generated and critiqued. The studio also hones in on the concept of urban emulation as a possible mechanism. Urban emulation is an interpretation of the phenomena by which specific building forms or its collectives, observed in a particular place or era, are transposed elsewhere and arise anachronistically. Emulations are not merely pictorial treatments, copies or reproductions. Emulations are associative and attempt to imitate behaviours of buildings and precincts they reference, appropriations without neutering their context. Projects will invoke historical, canonical and contemporary precedent, forming a architectural and urban analysis tested on an urban precinct in Melbourne, with a mixed-use architectural proposition. We will harness deep learning and AI – image and text based sampling as a strategic technique. Ian Nazareth Semester 2, 2018, Bachelors Architecture Studio Monday and Thursday 3.30pm - 6.30pm, Location: TBC
M.TPC Museum of Time Place Culture
Studio Agenda This studio seeks to understand how architectural outcomes are influenced by politics, history, society, and culture, and how we might form our own narratives and communicate our identities. Students will be tasked to design a Museum of Time, Place, and Culture at 77 Southbank Boulevard in Melbourne’s Arts Precinct, the proposed site for the new NGV Contemporary behind NGV’s St Kilda Road gallery, a site where the former Carlton and United Brewery building currently stands. We begin with the premise that we now live in a time where there is a tendency to see architecture as a global proposition. Without an overarching language that practitioners like the viennese seccessionists, the modernists, and the post-modernists had the luxury of obeying, coupled with the freedom and technology now to design buildings in any way we want, how will we highlight our own identity, how will we communicate who we are? Architecture has always been a time, place, and culture proposition, and this studio aims to introduce students to just how we might communicate who we are through architecture, and start to think about who we might be. And perhaps in time, we might begin to question Identity as Architecture, and Architecture as Identity. Encouraging a narrative-driven architecture, students will consider how we might represent ourselves through architecture in our own identities, and to navigate the ever-evolving thresholds that our collective histories and cultures confront us with, to ultimately learn to communicate Identity through architecture with clarity, relevance, and intellectual coherence. This studio focuses on the relationship between Identity, Form, and Site. Students will be introduced to design tools to communicate their proposals through physical models, drawing techniques, choice of words and images to present their architecture and to communicate their narrative-driven designs, and a variety of form-making techniques.
3.30pm - 6.30pm Mondays & Thursdays Studio Venue TBC
Steven Chu & Ton Vu Architectural Design Studio Sem 02, 2018
SHADOWS OF MEDUSA MICHAEL MURDOCK + MICHAEL FERREYRA
Monday and Thursday from 6.30pm to 9.30pm. Bachelor of Architecture Design Studio Semester 2, 2018
In 1967 Australia was the third country to launch a satellite. In 1969 Australia played a pivotal role in the moon landing. Recent developments in the space industry have resulted in increased competition and privatisation of space travel, research and infrastructure. Fast word to the year is 2067, with the formation of the relatively young ASA (Australian Space Agency) Melbourne has been chosen as the location to host the agency’s hub and interstellar space terminal. As a population our ability to survive depends on technology, ingenuity and adaptability. With the increasing population, humans will need to inhabit in these increasingly common conditions. With companies developing ground breaking technologies such as Spacex (designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft), the future of inhabiting other Planets is becoming a real possibility. In the first part of the semester students will work in small groups to develop process driven outcomes through research and investigation, analysis, architectural precedents, readings, concepts, diagrams and experimentation. The second part of the semester will be focused on developing a proposition for Victoria’s first space agency launchpad/headquarters. 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 projects will be individual work. Medium Scale Studio.
AUSTRALIAN SPACE STATION
NOCTURNAL ARCHITECTURE
V E R T I C A L B A C K YA R D
MAK E A RC HIT E C TU RE P RAC TI C E ST UDIO / M ONDAY 2 . 3 0- 6. 3 0 ( M AK E STUDI O) / THURSDAY 6. 30-8. 30 (RMI T ) This studio will investigate housing, green space and density. How do we have a dense urban environment and still maintain a large amount of green space? We want to find alternative solutions to the current housing model of the big house on a block with an oversized entertainment room, the front yard, the back yard, the air-conditioning. We want to provide the ‘Australian dream’ but reduce the footprint (site and carbon). For us, the architectural question extends beyond the building envelope. We will consider
how the backyard, can be rethought in the contemporary city where space is minimal and population densities are increasing. With so much development pressure on land the first thing to go is often the outdoor green space. Houses are more and more often being pushed to the perimeters of the block and little allowance for green space is made. We value this space and the relief it provides the city and want to find solutions that keep it. Green roofs, green houses, vertical gardens, urban agriculture and even co-opting and
exchanging with the public neighbouring conditions that bump up against our work. Borrowed backyards, shared backyards, living closer and getting more out of the experience, we are interested in how we might consider the private house as a civic place with urban generosity and social sustainability as primary goals.
CIVIL & CIVIC SPHERE & TRILON
CIVIC SYMBOLS: the Perisphere and Trylon were the motiff the 1938 Chicago World Fair. ... BUT more importantly for
WHO: Suzannah Waldron (Searle x Waldron Architecture)
this studio a version sat atop Warnambool’s Fletcher Jones
and Georgia Eade with Paul Minifie
Store adopted as a symbol of progress for an ambiƟous
WHEN: Monday Afternoon and Thursday Evenings
town with dreams of making it big. What are the NEW symbols of progress for the ‘Bool? We’re going to help this regional town rethink its civic and cultural ambiƟons again.
WHERE: TBA
‘BOOL: Warnambool is a city of 33,000 people three hours west of Melbourne at the end of the Great Ocean Road in south west Victoria. Warnambool has a rich history as an early Victorian seƩlement, and hub for the agricultural areas of Victoria’s south west. It has an acƟve aboriginal community that makes an important contribuƟon to the cultural life of the town. Warnambool has a diverse and growing populaƟon, it is a tourist desƟnaƟon with a large summer seasonal populaƟon and services a strong agricultural economy. It has a a great a gallery too! CIVIC PLANS: This studio will respond to the City of Warnambool’s 2040 (www.w2040.com.au) strategic plan with a parƟcular focus on the public spaces and civic buildings of the city, drawing on the ciƟes rich and present history. The studio will involve site visits and briefing by the community and council, and will finish with a presentaƟon of our ideas back to the Warnambool community. CIVIL STRATEGIES: We are interested in how strategies can be Civil. Civil urban moves, the Civility of responding to heritage and usefulness for CivilisaƟon! ACROSS SCALES The project will explore the noƟon that small scale projects can have an influence on a larger civic context and cultural landscape. Design strategies will be tested and developed across scales. Working in between the exisƟng and proposed, the studio will analyse and engage with the large scale city masterplan, zoom into considering small scale civil and civic opportuniƟes and finally develop a concept plan for the cultural precinct including the Civic Green and the Warnambool Art Gallery.
BUILDING THE CENTRE
Building the Centre
Paul Morgan Architects Paul Morgan / Alonso Gaxiola Class days and times: Mon 3:30-6:30 and Thu 6:30-9:30 Melbourne is one of the fasted growing cities in OECD economies. Fast growth means immigration, resulting in conflict between host culture and guest culture. ‘Building the Centre’ involves the design of a Community Centre -a medium scale civic building- for the South Sudanese community in Melbourne’s west. In doing so it will provide a locus of education, sport and art for disengaged youth, described in the tabloid press as ‘African Gangs’. In this studio, students will be requested to disregard assumptions about what a community centre should look like, and start anew. This is a real project Students will investigate the ‘brief’ by applying the following urban analysis/design strategies: - Urban typology in Melbourne’s western suburbs and South Sudan - Field conditions - Flows and conduits
RMIT ARCHITECTURE
Areas of architectural investigation will include: - Architectural theory - Postcolonial theory - Site analysis - Environmental studies - Form finding design processes
BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
Studio mode This will be an ‘industry’ studio run by Paul Morgan of Paul Morgan Architects. Classes will be held in the offices of Paul Morgan Architects where you will get a taste of real projects. Some classes will be held at RMIT. Learning & teaching modes will include group projects, peer led reviews and ethically engaged stakeholder meetings.
SEMESTER 2 2018
www.paulmorganarchitects.com
Culpra Station
Culpra Station is owned and managed by the Culpra Milli Aboriginal Corporation in south western NSW. This multidisciplinary studio is centered around the 8500 hectare property and will explore social enterprise and design systems that provide economic, environmental, social and cultural benefits to the Culpra Milli community. whilst foregrounding Indigenous knowledge . The studio has been formulated following an invitation by Aboriginal Elder Barry Pearce of the Culpra Milli Aboriginal Corporation, to collaborate in the development of infrastructure at Culpra Station. The studio will speculate across a range of practice led research methods with a focus on developing respectful partnerships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants through the adoption and implementation of cultural protocols. The studio will involve a 5-7 day research trip to Northern Victoria and South Western New South Wales to undertake collaborative field work at Culpra Station in Week 8. You will work with students from Landscape Architecture and Architecture.
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Culpra Station Studio
You will be participating in a collaborative project which builds on previous projects with Culpra Milli Aboriginal Corporation Culpra Station is situated 42km northwest of Euston and 50km south East of Gol Gol, in southwestern New South Wales. Historically used for cropping and grazing, the property covers 8500 hectares and comprises of a range of significant environmental features including mallee dune fields, extensive wetlands and riverine forests on the Murray River floodplain. Culpra Station is home to a number of significant Aboriginal cultural heritage sites including burials, hearths, scarred trees and an ochre quarry. In 2002, the Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC) purchased the property for the ‘purpose of building a secure and sustainable land base for Indigenous people’. Currently under the management of the Culpra Milli Aboriginal Corporation (CMAC), it is the intention of the ILC to grant Culpra Station to CMAC for the land to continue to be protected from practices and actions that may be detrimental to environment and heritage values.
Details:
Leader: Jock Gilbert Weeks 4-11 Fridays (all day) Field trip: Week 8 Cost $400