MACRO TIGHT

RMIT Master of Architecture & Master of Urban Design Studio 2023 Tuesday 6pm

We want to think about the whole city and use the abstraction of map-making to design at a macro scale. Can we think of a metropolis like a building or like a room? How can we have big impacts be working at metropolitan scale?

We will also drill down from extra big scale to understand the effects of a design at neighbourhood level. Travelling from 1:100 000 through to 1:100 and connecting the effects which are possible at each scale. We will focus on metropolitan Melbourne but will each bring a companion city for comparison and parallel study.

The aim of this design work is to tighten the city and to reduce its footprint – to identify possibilities within city boundaries for intensification and to inject mixed use housing into it at large volume. We hope therefore to have something useful to contribute to questions of affordable housing and of urban density.