rmit architecture masters design studios semester 2 2013
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Upperpool Design Studio Posters. RMIT Architecture, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. http://architecture.rmit.edu.au/ Projects/upperpool_balloting.phpTRANSCRIPT
RMIT ARCHITECTURE
MASTERS
DESIGN
STUDIOS
SEMESTER 2 2013
STUDIO PRESENTATIONS
TUESDAY 16th JULY 5PM
IN 8.12.68
Balloting will be electronic
this semester unless you are
otherwise notified during the
balloting presentation. The
online balloting form can be
accessed through the RMIT
architecture webpage.
http://architecture.rmit.edu.au/
Projects/upperpool_balloting.php
STUDIO + TUTORS
Critical Mass x Urban Engine Ivan Rijavec Tuesday 6-10
Vertical Campus Lyons Thursday 6-10
Schools Martyn Hook + Natalie Robinson Wednesday 6-10
Future Ubud (Travelling Studio) Martyn Hook + Charles Dewanto Tuesday 6-10
Extra Simone Koch + Peter Brew Tuesday 6-10
(T)own Brand Dean Boothroyd + Mark Jacques Tuesday 6-10
Paradise Found Tim Pyke + Mark Raggatt Tuesday 6-10
Club Aspodel Michael Spooner + Peter Knight Tuesday 6-10
Finger and Thumb Peter Corrigan Tuesday 6-10
2112 AI: Cyberjaya Tom Kovac Wednesday 5:30-9:30
Bangkok Zoo (Travelling Studio) Francoise Roche + Gwyllim Jahn Tuesday 9:30-1:30
District 1 (Travelling Studio) Edmund Carter + John Doyle Wednesday 6-10
Future Factory Gretchen Wilkins Tuesday 9:30-1:30
MFT Simon Whibley Tuesday 4:30-8:30
Hide (Travelling Studio) Campbell Drake + Jock Gilbert TBC
Greyfields Sophie Dyring Thursday 3-7
Hamilton Arts Precinct
(Travelling Studio)
Jan van Schaik + Charles Anderson Wednesday 9:30-1:30
The Highway Roland Snooks Tuesday 6-10
Turbulence Paul Morgan Wednesday 6-10
All times are subject to change. Refer to balloting presentation for final times/locations. Please note some studios involve local and
international travel.
CRITICAL MASS x URBAN ENGINEAN URBAN EXPERIMENT
Ivan Rijavec“CRITICAL MASS x URBAN ENGINE”“CRITICAL MASS x URBAN ENGINE” alludes to the threshold of population density and urban diversity required for a progressive ‘urbanity’ to be achieved.
This studio will develop an “Urban Engine” incorporating elements of the public realm, fine grain and a diverse range of urban typologies driven by a critical mass of density.y
The block to the west of Melbourne Central will serve as a template for this experiment. Its relative under development and its ptranslation of the city grid will provide a contextual sub text to the brief.
The site will be split into segments each of which will be allocated to teams of two or three students.
The programme will incorporate ideas set in the future which will anticipate the increasing impact of the digital age incorporating a range of commercial, recreational and residential typologies.
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Lyons OfficeTuesdays, 6pm
The scenario confronting an urban university like RMIT is rather like the question for the city in general: an increasing population, with diminishing supply of available real estate. The challenge posed by this studio is to future proof the needs of the institution by designing a ‘vertical campus’, on a CBD site, that provides for the current and projected needs of the University. The studio methodology will use the Surrealist process of the ‘exquisite corpse’ to engage with ideas about the city folding in to the campus.We are looking for a studio of committed students who are keen to engage with how such a project might contribute to an urban campus that promotes the implicit value of architecture.
Schools_Changing the Architecture of Educating. Upper Pool Design Studio_Semester 2 2013_ Natalie Robinson and Martyn Hook Over five years the Federal Government Stimulus Package BER (Building Education Revolution) injected of $16.2 billion of funds into Victorian Schools. Many good things were done, some good pieces of architecture were produced, architects got projects, builders got work, suppliers kept supplying, tradies kept their jobs and as a consequence all sectors of schooling catholic, independent, private and government were able to benefit from new spaces and upgraded facilities. Generally it was a initiative that was regarded as a success. But now what? Government funding for school architecture has dwindled in recent years, with the focus shifting to modest maintenance type budgets. State Government sources will fund the focus now thrown on new Schools in ‘Growth Corridors’ in marginal Federal seats. Schools that didn’t benefit from the BER face the challenge of how to deliver a 21st Century education in superseded education environments. Education like Law and Order and Infrastructure is a key election issue that straddles the State and Federal funding structures and is one of the few points where architecture impacts directly with public engagement en masse. How we teach our children and the nature of the spaces we do it in is a charged and perplexing issue that tracks Australian architectural history since Federation. This raises questions as to how schools can adapt existing buildings to support new education pedagogies and what role new technologies will play in learning. These ideas will be explored through work with Sandringham College. This is a Prep-12 school across 4 campuses, and they missed out on government funding in the BER. The studio will investigate extensions, alterations and additions to existing school buildings on the Senior Year 11-12 Campus, to create education environments for future education directions. The site has a real collection of buildings that reflect changes in education architecture in the 20th Century; Admin Building, 1950’s template classrooms, 1970’s library and 1990’s additions. A perfect specimen to explore an architecture for educating in the next millennium. Studio will emerge in 3 phases; a detailed analysis of existing buildings and identification of opportunities for intervention including a significant workshop with staff and students at the College, a masterplan (group or individual) followed by a deep resolution of a key building. Committed interaction with stakeholders will be very important. Large scale model making will be encouraged.
(T)OWN BRAND orHenry’s Dream
This is Henry Ford, the inventor of the mass production, branding genius and dabbler on the potential on
the ‘Town’ as a place to live and participate in public life. His idea was the ‘Town’ as a complete world, a place for work, a place to live, a social condenser and a civic realm. His
singular idea of ‘Town’ has been usurped with a dis-aggregated model of expansive growth. Ford Australia’s imminent abandonment of it’s Broadmeadows site presents an opportunity to re-examine the
idea of ‘Town’ in the context of contemporary Melbourne. You will design a Neighbourhood Activity Centre (NAC) and rail station for the Growth Areas Authority (GAA) within the former Ford site. The studio will
examine and analyse the city at large. We will visit and learn from buildings and town centres. We will use models and iterative design processes. Associated studios (Brew/Koch/Pyke/ Raggatt) will be
designing schools, industrial uses and civic uses for the same site.Dean Boothroyd is an architect. Mark Jacques is an Urban Designer.
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Paradise Found...Paradise Found...This studio is for the Architecture of Ideas, of Faith, Belief and Learning.
We will study the past, to solve the present.
This studio isnt about God, or what’s in the details, but belief.
Tim Pyke + Mark RaggattRMIT Building 45 Tuesday from 6.30pm
This studio is for the Architecture of Ideas, of Faith, Belief and Learning.
We will study the past, to solve the present.
This studio isnt about God, or what’s in the details, but belief.
Tim Pyke + Mark RaggattRMIT Building 45 Tuesday from 6.30pm
district 1edmund carter + john doyle
travelling studio to ho chi minh city, vietnam
Vietnam is undergoing a period of rapid urbanisation and development. Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s largest city, is epicentre of this growth. Like China and other parts of Asia, much of this development has been driven through speculation by international investors and real estate companies. The outcome of this has been a series of green field and urban renewal projects that have begun to consolidate areas of the city into ‘superblock’ developments.
The studio will focus on the central District One area of Ho Chi Minh City. The area is an extremely dense area at the centre of the city, with a population density in excess of 25,000 people per square kilometre. While the area plays host to the corporate and financial institutions, much of the district one is made up of the traditional urban morphology of laneways and ‘tube house’ typologies.
The studio will begin to map and unpack the underlying organisational systems of District One’s existing urban structures, and begin to speculate on new models of design that can mediate the demands of rapid development in a complex urban environment. The studio will explore how generative or ‘bottom-up’ techniques of design can be used in response to a contingent and fluid context, and the potential for emergent urbanisms to be co-opted in the creation of new urban growth models. The final design project will be for a commercial mixed-use tower complex in the centre of District One.
Wednesdays 6pm Building 8 Level 12. This is a travelling studio with an intensive design workshop in Ho Chin Minh City during November 2013.
Advanced Architecture.
* F U T U R E *FACTORY
"It is only here, my friend, that buildings and machinery can be found commensurate with the miracles of modern times. They are called factories."
[Peter Beuth to Karl Frederick Schinkel from Manchester, 1823]
image: Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory
Factory buildings anticipate and celebrate change. They have accommodated changes in technology from the earliest manner of making things - from medieval forges to industrial mills to vertical mass-assembly lines to mobile robotics. As the materials and techniques of making things change, so do architecture and the city around them. Meanwhile, the image of the factory building itself, as well as how it is depicted in popular media, reflects and reinvents our attitudes toward industry, production and consumption. Although not always at the same pace.
This studio will design a space for contemporary manufacturing in Melbourne. Various models of historical and contemporary production will be surveyed, including vertical manufacturing, heavy industry, fabrication, robotics and distributed maker-spaces. Projects will propose new production/consumption combinations, advancing a series of individual positions about the status and role of manufacturing for architecture, for the public, for the city, and for the future.
GRETCHEN WILKINSUPPER POOL ARCHITECTURETUESDAYS: 930a-130p, B45C
urban architecture laboratory upds Simon Whibley building 45 UAL space 4.30-8.30 Tuesdays
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Fishermen’s Bend will be an entirely new city adjacent to the Melbourne’s current CBD. It will inevitably address contemporary urban issues found both here and elsewhere, it will be a city that:
• Grapples with a changing coast line and climate• Interfaces with redundant, existing and future infrastructures• Adapts its built fabric• Transforms and complicates existing economic activities• Brings new residents, civic and community institutions• Augments a metropolitan and regional urban network
We can envisage this new city through design at city scale, developing strategies for the entire area.Or we can imagine this city at the scale of the architectural project.
This studio undertakes this second approach, using a speculative project within Fishermans Bend to anticipate what this future city could be.The site is at the edge of the recently rezoned Lorimer precinct at the foot of the Bolte Bridge. It is also the site for the extension of Docklands to Fishermans Bend via a tram and vehicular bridge, making it the connection point between Fishermans bend, the CBD, Docklands, the River and the Bay beyond. The studio will develop a large scale project on this site for a Ferry Terminal and associated programs. It will draw upon the research conducted in the previous studio, using these projective cities as ready-made urban contexts, forcing the speculations towards the mid-century and beyond. This studio will involve group work in the form of small teams.
HIDEUganda Travel Studio
‘Omumashaka Wetlands’
Landscape Architecture
Upper Pool Design Studio
Semester 2-2013
Tutors :
Campbell Drake & Jock Gilbert
HIDE - Uganda Travel Studio _ ‘Omumashaka Wetlands’ is an interdisciplinary landscape architecture studio run in conjunction with Ugandan architecture students from Uganda Martyrs University (UMU).
Situated in South Western Uganda, the designated 40-acre wetlands site was formally an illegal brick works since regenerated by the Volcanoes Safari Partnership Trust (VSPT). Whilst the foundations of the brief are determined by the need for eco tourism infrastructure within the wetlands, participating students are encouraged to develop integrated design strategies beyond that of aesthetic and programmatic requirements that provide tangible benefit to the local community.
The studio will explore techniques and methodologies from outside conventional design practise, drawing on social anthropology and development studies with the intention of identifying key issues and needs of local communities.
Places are strictly limited, to register your interest please contact Studio Leaders ASAP :
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PRACTICE-BASED STUDIOPAUL MORGAN ARCHITECTSPaul Morgan, Michael Bouteloup, Helen Duong
The Highway will explore the negotiation of excess and necessity. The studio will engage algorithmic design and digital fabrication techniques to re-imagine the structures that define the highway, in particular bridges and sound attenuation walls and their possible inhabi-tation. Contemporary algorithmic processes are capa-ble of generating highly intricate and excessive geome-tries, patterns and organisation. The focus of the studio will be on the negotiation of these excesses with the structural and performative requirements of highway structures. Students will fabricate small prototypes of parts of their projects using RMIT’s digital and robotic fabrication tools, with the intention that material and fabrication experiments will feedback and influence the design. The studio will explore advanced composite materials and examine their performative and expres-sive capacities. VicRoads will consult to the studio re-garding the site and brief, while Bollinger+Grohmann will consult on computational structural analysis and optimisation. The studio will engage with digital design and fabrication techniques, however there is no experi-ence with particular software or tools required.
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