RMIT ARCHITECTURE MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO BALLOTING POSTERS SEM 1, 2018
and another thing As the population of Melbourne grows there is a lot of focus on the resultant shape of the city. Typical models have the inner city going skywards and the outer expanding exponentially. The middle suburbs are changing shape along busy corridors and inner suburbs like Collingwood are changing radically in demographic if not in form. While low value areas of the inner suburbs are being developed, blanket heritage overlays protect vast areas of Carlton, Fitzroy, North and East Melbourne from significant change. In a sense this pushes the problem of density elsewhere, perhaps reasonably as these areas already have idyllic densities and perfectly functioning neighbourhoods. We’ll interrogate the most liveable of Melbourne’s suburbs, East Melbourne, for its ability to sustain the same population again in step with the forecast doubling of Melbourne’s population by 2050. By imperilling this suburb we’ll test the strength of its current settings and propose new systems that enable it to survive with its current high-ranking status. We’ll see how the shape of the city might not undergo dramatic change so much as a thickening. We’ll complete weekly architectural projects contributing to a complex vision for the suburb at the end of semester. We’ll use the projects to better understand the city and the effect of growth on the part (suburb) and how this shapes the whole. All students will be alone in their work. Project area: 190 hectares Population: 5,500 x 2 at completion Residences: 3,000 x ? at completion Wednesday 6pm Simone Koch
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Alterity refers to an otherness presented through an interest in the differentiation and diversification of urban form. The studio is interested in two broad themes – emergence and emulation. The emergence of urban form will focus on processes and procedures through which architecture is generated and critiqued. The studio recognises architecture as a piece of city-making. The implicit understanding here is that the city and its buildings are diverse rather than disparate entities. 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 deep architectural and urban analysis tested on an urban precinct in Melbourne, with a mixed-use architectural proposition. Cities are premised on ideas and urban architecture is a mechanism for transmission of patterns of plurality. Ian Nazareth Semester 1, 2018, Master of Architecture Studio Tuesday 9.30 - 13.30, Location: TBC
Beyond the Workplace... Georgina Karavasil & Vicki Karavasil Tuesday 5pm What might the workplace of the future look like? Through adopting a means of process driven thinking, this studio will be looking at how we can redefine the office experience. Through the investigations in this studio, a framework will be borne out of extensive research and development for the office building of the future. Students will be encouraged to design spaces that permit diversity and connectivity, allowing its inhabitants to easily work where they want, how they want, when they want and with whom they want. The studio will be exploring at how we can adopt methods of process driven design through investigating a series of different processes in a means to create variation and complexity, but also to discover new architectural conditions that can expand the possibilities of occupation in an office setting. How can we experiment and explore new ways in which process-based architecture can allow us to create new spatial experiences and networked environments that can be imagined in a way that ‘encourage an eruption of events, social encounters and opportunities for activity? The aim is to produce a diverse architecture that can redefine how we work.
(A). TYPOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS + RULE-BASED PROCESS 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.)
(B) MODELS for EDUCATION ALTERNATIVE TYPOLOGIES [MEAT]
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The studio will explore speculative strategies for learning environments on specific site and architectural conditions (flat school, high-rise, dispersed, compact, etc.) 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. Sites: RMIT Cardigan Precinct | RMIT City Precinct | Arden-Macaulay
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THIS SEMESTER WE INTEND ON TARGETING THIS RESEARCH to a distinct group of exemplar small suburban institutions. These will be closely analysed and broken down into their constituent key principals and. The outcome will be for the students to find architectural tools to allow them to bring not only an architectural identity drawn from the culture and context of its place, but to apply an architectural ambition of beauty, dignity and wonder to the architecture of the suburbs
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IN OUR LAST STUDIO STRANGERS IN A STRANGE LAND WE explored the expressions of a newfound Australian identity in Melbourne’s small institutional architecture of the 1970’s - late 1990’s, focusing on the use of metaphor, memory and the defamiliarization of the material and matter of the suburbs. These lessons along with observations of Melbourne’s diverse Multicultural enclaves, to propose a new ‘Australian’ multicultural architectural identity.
THE GROUND FIGURE
This studio will form part of Suburban Realism, a series of studios concerned with the current trend for public authorities to hand over the focus and definition of our public spaces in the outer suburbs to commercial developers. When new Town Centres are co-located with new infrastructure, such as rail stations, the outcomes are less than civic and are manifestations of the failing of the design and procurement process. The ambition for this studio is to understand the formulae and metrics that characterise the outer suburban conditions well enough to warp their possible outcomes to re-introduce an idea of the civic and identity, character and place. The intention is to act at the scale of the urban and as such in the realm of the collective; to employ the elements of architecture in the service of the public space – reversing out the figure ground relationship. Program: A speculative new Town Centre located adjacent to the Geelong to Melbourne rail line Process: The studio will initially involve exercises geared toward understanding the reality of the suburbs – knowing the rules. If the underlying structures that produce the form of the suburbs are known then speculations toward critical re-arrangements of the component parts of the program can be proposed. It is from these speculations and new arrangements that a sense of character and place can be identified beyond the vanilla of the present situation. Tactics will be developed through iterative processes toward the production of a project which could be imagined to become the site of collective (suburban) memory. Tutors: Dean Boothroyd, Mark Jacques, Leona Dusanovic , Oskar Kazmanli-Liffen Time: Tuesday evenings 6:00pm
MASTER OF ARCHTECTURE + MASTER OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO
LEFTUNDER The politics of public space
How much say does the public have in the manifestation and occupation of public space? There are supposed mechanisms for capturing the richness of community participation, then why is this not translated into rich design outcomes? What might we need to change in the system of the city to counteract this, and what would be the result? The State Government has recently released the final concept plans for the 8km linear park to take place below the proposed elevated railway line, dubbed Skyrail. This project has been highly politicized - with bureaucracy and political motives guiding the inception, process and ultimately the outcome – a rollout of generic and hackneyed ideas that seem certain to deliver mediocre public life. Through the leftunder studio, students will investigate the impact of political forces on our cities – in all its forms, from the explicit to the more pervasive. The intent is to develop alternative models for the design and realisation of public space and amenity with in our cities. Students will use research, empirical experience and design as a basis for the exploration and critique of the proposed public space below the elevated rail corridor. Through the exploration of this project, students will gain an understanding of the pressure that politics exudes on our public spaces, and how to work with and leverage this force. Students will work from the scale of the city down to the neighbourhood, engaging with political systems at all stages and translating this into physical design propositions. The course will be run alongside a 6 week lecture series to be held in contentious public spaces around Melbourne, with a broad range of speakers invited.
TUTORS- Simon Robinson and Steve Mintern STUDIO TIME - Tuesday 18:30 - 21:30 LECTURE SERIES - Wednesday 18:30 (FIRST 6 WEEKS)
“Mid the uneasy wanderings of Palaeolithic man, the dead were the first to have a permanent dwelling.” Mumford, L., 1961, The City in History, p15 The ‘cemetery’ provided the first opportunity to define place, the city of the dead therefore predating the city of the living. In urban planning terms the cemetery initially exists as an isolated condition defining ‘a place’. With time the ‘gardens’ of acknowledgment/cities of the dead become embedded ‘in place’. The design studio provides an opportunity to reconsider the role of the cemetery as a landscape and as an instigator of community. The intent is to define an armature within an existing Austral quarry that acts as a mechanism for the establishment of a landscape and of the civic. The reuse of place. Not filling with waste to render the site flat, but rather using the existing cutting to define a new place. Township. Students will be engaged in understanding the varying cemetery typologies and questioning what the ‘perimeter’ city becomes. What constitutes the ‘new town’? What programs are added to redefine the typology of the cemetery? Students will be working in groups to develop an overall masterplan response in order to define the ‘new town’. An area of the new town will then be developed in detail. This will include the cemetery and supporting programs. Students will be engaged with model making, rigorous site, program and precedent analysis reviewing the role of the cemetery as a civic entity. Drawing, drawing, drawing MA ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE DESIGN STUDIO S1 2018 WEDNESDAY 6-10PM AMY MUIR, BENJAMIN KRONENBERG
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LYONS PRACTICE STUDIO Semester 1 – 2018 Education services have transformed Melbourne in the last 25 years. The city’s universities, RMIT and the University of Melbourne have grown and evolved, warping the surrounding city to their needs. Other universities and education colleges have entered the city, operating from makeshift campuses. The residential population boom is driven by students and the city’s workers are tertiary educated. This studio takes the premise that education services have continued to radically expand, where the entire Hoddle Grid has been transformed into a literal ‘Education City’
The studio will continue the theme of ‘negotiation’ as a design approach to create complex new urban architecture and engage with diverse issues. The studio will negotiate ideas of a single programme taking over the city, its streets, commercial, public and residential spaces. The studio will include research of the city’s education infrastructure and mapping of its effects, and an engagement with the evolution of the Australian University, as articulated in a recent book ‘The Australian Idea of a University’ by Glyn Davis. Students will work individually and in groups to speculate, through architecture, how the New Academic Metropolis will disrupt, and refashion, the city Studio Leaders Professor Carey Lyon, Adam Pustola, Nick Bourns WEDNESDAY 6 – 9PM AT LYONS OFFICE Level 3 246 Bourke St, Melbourne
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HOW DOES THEORY INFORM PRACTICE / HOW DOES PRACTICE INFORM THEORY? WHAT IS YOUR NEW IDEA? TUESDAY FROM 5.30PM @ ARM TUTORS: PETER BICKLE / ILMA ALI / ROCIO BATLLE / CONOR TODD
N E T H E R L A N D S This studio is a collaboration between The Why Factory and RMIT Melbourne. Students from Australia will travel to Delft during the last weeks of the studio and will work collaberately with TUDeft students. The Why Factory is dedicated to creating future cities; the Ball Fiction Studio will scale up this vision. Starting from a precise “What if…?” question to draw a hypothetical scenario, and continuing with global data projections and research, each student will develop one of those scenarios that will change the world (dramatically) in the next 100 years. This change will be explored on all scales; from global to territorial, to architectural typology, down to innovation on a building technology scale: what are the details that change the world? This studio will challenge students to interrogate the fundamental shapers of their scenario on a 1:50, 1:20, 1:10, 1:1… scale. Ball Fiction will guide students through this process of formulating and visualizing their future fantasies: learning to dream big, to prepare them with the skills and tools to imagine – then effect – change. How does our life change? How do we commute and how do we consume? What is the urgency and how can we communicate this to global leaders? At the end of the studio, each student will be asked to produce, among other material, a physical model -their World (i.e. their Ball)- depicting their future fantasies, as well as an animated movie exploring the implementation of their scenarios and their impacts on -literally- the horizon. The resulting collection of fictional balls will be part of an installation to be setup in Delft and other venues to be announced.
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BALL FICTION TUTORS: Winy Maas (MVRDV / t?f ), Javier Arpa (t?f @TU Delft), Vivian Mitsogianni & Ben Milbourne (RMIT Architecture & Urban Design)
PROPOSED TIMELINE: Semester 1 2018, weeks 8-12 in Melbourne, followed by intensive workshop at TU Delft during inter-semester break: 15/06-06/07/2018
TRAVELLING TO: Delft, Netherlands [Delft is 20 mins by train away from Rotterdam and 50mins from Amsterdam. RMIT Support: Students can apply for RMIT Student Travel Scholarships and Grants see: https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/life-and-work-opportunities/global-study-and-work/ costs-and-scholarships. Note that travelling students will not be eligible for RMIT Global Experience grants, however may be eligible for other forms of funding. Further advice will be provided at the briefing session. Maximum number of students: 12. Information session will be held on Monday 19 Feburary 2018 refer to your student emails. Contact: Ben Milbourne (ben.milbourne@ rmit.edu.au) and cc Vivian Mitsogianni (vivian.mitsogianni@rmit.edu.au)
LIP SYNC
This studio will focus on potential convergences when facilities planning and land use merge with style. Issues to be explored will include; neighbourhood character, civic contributions and decal. Major influences on the aesthetic agenda will be the highly mannered modern dance styles known as voguing and waacking converging with pro bull riding. Wednesday evenings 6pm+. Tutor - Simon Drysdale. Bull riding has been called by some as “the most dangerous eight seconds in sport�
Practical dreaming: informed creative process within domains of expertise This design studio is concerned with creative processes in architecture - how to learn them, how to apply them, and how to make them relevant to professional expertise. The studio will be centred around the design of medium sized project in the city of Wyndham with a mix of cultural, residential, and retail programs. Tuesdays: 9:30am, and Saturday 3 & Sunday 4 March: 10:00am > 3:00pm Phase
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Tue 27 Feb
Background presentation, starter packs, induction
Background reading, references, review exhibitions
Sat 4 Mar
Creative workshop
Review and prepare for following day, review exhibitions
Sun 5 Mar
Creative workshop
Prepare creative presentations
Tue 6 Mar
Creative presentations
Prepare for data collection workshop
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Questions: Where does creative motivation come from? Does raw talent actually exist? Is intuition an innate skill, or can it be developed? Does it matter where a creative process starts? References: Gaetano Pesce, Acute Misfortune, The NGV Design Triennale, Brian Eno, Charm School, Del Kathryn Barton, Helen Maudsley, Louise Paramor.
This phase will cover data collection, data visualisation, stakeholder engagement and public communication skills. Students will analyse a medium sized site in the City of Wyndam, its client, and the clients’ stakeholder groups. They will draw the site, make diagrams of user data, study buildings of a similar type, and write a return brief. Students will work alone, and in groups, during this phase. wk3
Tue 13 Mar
Data collection workshop
Review and prepare for data collection workshop
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Tue 20 Mar
Data collation workshop
Prepare data collection presentation
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Tue 27 Mar
Data presentations
Prepare for creative application workshop
Questions: Can data be collected without affecting it? What assumptions are you making in when setting data collection parameters? Can raw data be independent from how it is communicated? References: Edward Tufte, Thinking Fast and Slow.
In this phase students will learn how to establish creative processes which are informed by their understanding of the site as analysed in Phase 2. They will develop their creative outcomes to a point that they are defendable against the criteria of the brief and will learn to articulate how their own personal creative ambitions inform domains of expertise in relation to the provision of architectural services. wk6
Tue 10 Apr
Creative application workshop
Prepare creative application presentations
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Tue 17 Apr
Creative application presentations
Prepare for creative application workshop
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Tue 1 May
Creative application workshop (fill in CES)
Prepare creative application presentations
wk10 Tue 8 May
Creative application presentations (fill in CES)
Prepare for professional expertise workshop
wk11 Tue 15 May
Professional expertise workshop (fill in CES)
Prepare for final presentations
wk13 Tue 29 May
Final presentations
Collate raw material for exhibition design workshop
Questions: When is a design complete? Do clients care about your personal inspiration? Is creativity a dirty word? What are the metrics by which clients measure the success of their buildings? How does the politics of public funding affect what public money can be spent on? How do depreciations schedules, loan-to-value ratios, risk profiles, and other mechanisms of development affect how you design. Are you willing to discard that which is not relevant to the brief, your clients, and their constituents? What domains of expertise can your creative skills be applied to? References: The Dot and the Line - a Romance in Lower Mathematics, Edge City, Freakonmics, Elenberg Fraser.
In this phase students will learn how to collate their work in to a communicable format, how to design and prepare a folio, and how to design and install an exhibition. wk14 Tue 5 Jun
Exhibition design workshop
Prepare folios
Folios due at midnight
Prepare final artwork for exhibition
hang exhibition 9:30am - 5:00pm
Check diarys for exhibition invigilation
Fri 22 Jun
End of semester exhibition
Colate material for pre-balltoning session in sem 2
Mon 9 Jun
Semester 2 pre-balloting presentation
Fri 8 Jun wk16 Mon 18 Jun
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Location: MvS Architects, Top Floor, 181 Swanston Street 9654 6326
This phase will cover invention, development, narrative, experiment, observation and poetic form. Students will learn to develop their own internal creative engines through a series of exercises, readings and talks.
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Studio leader: Dr Jan van Schaik
Questions: What becomes of remarkable design that is illegible on paper? Can a complex concept be explained using simple words? How much energy are you expecting your audience to make before understanding your work? References: Vince Frost, Hours After, Jenny Holzer, Edward Tufte, Paul Rudolf, Sin City, Mad Men.
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Australia is renowned as one of the world’s premier surfing destinations. The country has launched corporate giants such as Billabong, Rip Curl and Quiksilver. Although it’s widely beloved sports and even recognised as a lifestyle worldwide, it is not until 2020 in Tokyo that surfing becomes the Olympic sport.
The studio will investigate material organisations from surfing industry. Prototypes for a Surf Pavilion will be formulated as a computational informing process that enhances the integration between the brand, use, and organizational form.
render source: https://lemanoosh.com/tagged/surf/
The history of architectural manifestos equals history of architectural pavilions.
SURF PAVILION
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