RMIT ARCHITECTURE DESIGN ELECTIVES FOR BACHELOR AND MASTERS STUDENTS - sem1 2020

SEMESTER 1 | 2020

MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN DESIGN ELECTIVE BALLOTING POSTERS

ADVANCED FABRICATION This elective will explore a series of feedback systems between robotic fabrication and material data. Students will be testing and advancing research and robotic techniques currently being developed as part of the Roland Snooks lab. Advanced Robotic Fabrication will run an intensive elective from April : 26th- June 26th Students will be divided into groups which focus on contrasting applications.

Group 1: Material Agency _ Natalie Alima Explores the symbiotic relationship between biological materials, computational design and robotic fabrication. This group will be focusing on extracting data from the material in order to 3D print in real time. Students will be exploring the interaction of material and biological agency in order to generate new and un imaginable forms.

Fundamentals of grasshopper or coding necessary.

Group 2: Casting Complexity _ Nic Bao The exploration of design and fabrication of intricate lattice structures through the application of structure-based behavioural multi-agent algorithms and 3D printed formwork strategies. Grasshopper skills advantages Group 3: Non linear 3D printing _ Hesam Mohamed In-situ reinforced 3d printed polymer parts using vison system technologies : A methodological study on 3d printing and vision systems. Grasshopper skills advantages Group 4: Fiber Placement & polymer composites _ Hesam Mohamed Fiber-reinforced 3d printed polymer parts using Tailored carbon fiber placement technology: developing techniques for advance composite fabrication.

Grasshopper skills advantages Group 5: Real Time 3D printing _ Charles Boman The Clay Group will develop and write real time solutions and responses into the clay 3d printing process to transform situations of failure into generative catalysts.

Fundamentals of grasshopper or coding necessary.

THURSDAY 930AM - 1230PM

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Understanding the small scale property developer In this elective students will learn the basics of how owneroccupiers and small scale developers subdivide small scale inner urban sites for development.

Students will learn how to find sites and how to asses a their suitability for subdivision. Each student will develop a built form envelope that takes in to account the planning constraints of building height, setbacks, crossovers, parking, heritage, neighbourhood character, cultural heritage, council contributions, construction costs, utility costs, design costs, marketing costs, taxation structures, sale prices and agent commissions.

Students will learn about the development process, how to establish title boundaries, This elective 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.

how to process adverse possession claims, and how to structure the development financing.

Students will be run their project through a mock local government planning process including pre-planning meetings, dealing with council planners, the public display and objection process and the Victorian Civil Administrative Tribunal (VCAT).

The elective will also brush on how to design for the right type of builder, how to chose a builder, and triggers of the unionising of sites.

The ultimate output of the elective for each student will be a series of drawings suitable for a planning application and a development flow chart.

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2: 1 x 4 hour online class 4: 1 x 4 hour online class 6: 1 x 4 hour online class 8-14: 1 x 3 hour class per week

jan.vanschaik@rmit.edu.au

DE-URBAN Architecture Design Elective – ARCH 1340 Semester 1-2020 Wednesdays, 9.30 am – 12.30 pm Room 100.06.002 Tutor: Mauro Baracco

If read through the Latin suffix, the term De-Urban means: Around Urban.

This same term – De-Urban – also intends to suggest design thinking and related actions involved with the act to ‘de-urbanize’ as taking the urban away – removing urban footprint and volume inappropriately located in ecologically sensitive areas.

Analytical research, studies and initial design proposals undertaken through this elective will be focused on re-imagining cities through design alternative approaches that repair the places they are part of, at many levels: from the repair of natural ecologies to other related forms of repair towards urban, architectural and landscape spaces, as well as social and cultural conditions.

In particular, the research activities will involve analyses of ecologically sensitive water catchment areas and Western Plains Grassland vegetation type in urban and suburban precincts of Melbourne’s Western Volcanic Plains, with the aim to identify large scale masterplan directions for conservation, landscape connectivity and amalgamation to then guide locations and large and small scale strategies for building and infrastructure that will not inhibit the conservation, repair and functioning of these ecosystems.

The research project will investigate areas that are part of the catchments of the waterways of the West in Melbourne, including Werribee and Maribyrnong Rivers, and major tributaries such as Moonee Ponds Creek and other tributaries such as Stony, Kororoit, Lollypop, Laverton, Emu, Steele Creeks and Little River, amongst others.

Historical and site analyses as well as initial ideas for alternative forms of urbanization, will be produced through drawings in the form of diagrams and evocative representations.

The research outputs of this elective, undertaken in collaboration with LWCircus international organization https://lwcircus.org/ and other local government bodies, community groups and stakeholders, will contribute to an overall research project that will be presented and profiled at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of 2020 Venice Biennale, as part of the Resilient Communities exhibition at the Italian pavilion.

Students will work both individually and in groups.

The elective final class will be in wk 10 – Wednesday 13 May. There will be 2 additional classes through the initial weeks of the semester – time and related details for these 2 additional classes will be discussed with students and confirmed in the first class in week 1.

FIRMWARE./ IAN NAZARETH DAVID SCHWARZMAN

SEMESTER 1 2020 TUESDAYS 09.00 - 12.00, LOCATION: 100.10.001 Firmware is a design- research excursion on the city, approaching digital interfaces as physical environments. Firmware, draws reference to a particular class of computer software that provides a standardized operating environment for the device's more complex operations. Without firmware, a hardware device would be non-functional.

This analogy is deployed to focus on the relationship between virtual applications, digital realms and physical spaces in the city, as well as the implications they have on the temporal and permanent patterns of occupation, spaces, typologies etc. It seeks to establish a platform through which virtual (and even real-time) data can be juxtaposed from multiple sources and spatialised.

This project is empowered by a process of data scrapping – whereby geo-referenced information and data from web-based Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) can be extracted into design environments. Here raw information is co-referenced. The platform is thus a conduit between APIs and computer aided design application (Rhinoceros 3D) through an algorithmic visual programming language (Grasshopper).

The focus is to hybridise disparate datasets from public services and private entities who have a vested interest in the city. This convergence offers architects and urban designers an insight into behaviours of cities and networks, all captured through decentralised systems.

These can record and reveal patterns and offer new ways of engaging with the city.

Using metropolitan Melbourne as a prototype, we will analyse and speculate about the future of the city.The course is structured through a series of analytical and critical investigations and design-research projects and you will work in teams.

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| Marc Gibson | Tuesday & Thursday (Time TBC) | 100.04.002 (TBC) | Week 6 - 12 |

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Infrastructure as a Catalyst

The 1855 Kearney map illustrates the Royal Park as a bounding of the Hoddle Grid - an intermediary between the ordered city and the bush. The city stops at the junction of Sydney Road and Brunswick, with the Sarah Sands Hotel as a prominent outlier.

Over a century and a half later the city has spread. The Upfield Line & Sydney Road connect the Victorian city through the growing quarters of Brunswick & Coburg and a rich territory of manufacture, city logistics and servicing out to Cambellfield and the Greenvale reservoir.

Tom Holbrook is Professor of Architecture at RMIT Europe. Based in London, Tom is Founding Director at 5th Studio {www.5thstudio.co.uk} a design practice that works across the disciplines of architecture, urban design and landscape.

A current focus of the practice is the productive life of the city around innovation, spaces for industry and alternatives to modernist ideas of zoning.

The elevation of the Upfield line is the catalyst for a major shift in land use, which could also weld together slack spaces around the railway edge. How could this catalyse the City of Moreland’s vision of carbon neutrality, integrating infrastructure and green space in Brunswick and beyond?

This is an intensive elective for Masters level students only. It will be based in Siteworks, 33 Saxon Street, Brunswick.

Structure: Initial Briefing in early March (by Mark Jacques) Wednesday March 18th: Studio meets with Tom Holbrook, 10 am Attendance at Symposium in Brunswick Intensive Elective: Students will work in groups, 23rd-28th March.

Presentations on Friday March 28th with visiting critics.

MANILA INTENSIVE URBAN RESEARCH ELECTIVE The elective will focus on the future of Manila. The Manila metropolitan region is currently the most densely settled urban area in the world.

It is home to almost 23 million people, in an area approximately 15 times smaller than Melbourne. Its population density is 40 times that of Melbourne, and 3 times higher than even Hong Kong. If it continues to grow at its current rate, by 2050 Manila will be home to more than 45 million people and be one of the largest cities in the world.

This elective will work with data provided by a series of key stakeholders engaged in the development of a future vision for Manila – The Manila Bay Sustainable Development Master Plan.

This includes government bodies, private developers and major international NGOs. This information is extremely advanced, well researched and accurately presented.

This elective will explore emerging tool and techniques of urban scale analysis, and methodologies for deploying complex data sets for use in urban design. Students will be working with digital platforms – specifically the GISMO plugin for Grasshopper, and other tools to develop accurate models of present day Manila. Students will explore how this platform can enable the integration or real time or geotagged data into their model, and begin to consider how this information might be co-opted or re-purposed towards future urban strategies.

Students will work with projections of population and urban growth, and sea level rise, students will work in small groups to develop a vision of Manila in 2050. The ambition is to present these schemes to project stakeholders in Manila in April / May 2020.

The elective will run in intensive mode with two weekly sessions culiminating in a presentation in week 6, followed by a folio submission.

Students will be asked to sign an IP waiver for the project to allow the publication of materials produced. Students will be credited for all work published.

Students with strong Rhinoceros and Grasshopper skills will have an advantage.

TUTOR: JOHN DOYLE TUESDAY & THURSDAY AFTERNOONS WEEK 1-6

Bachelors and Masters Elective- Wednesday 9.30-12.30 PETER BREW 100.10.01

degrees of DIFFICULTY Who has not put down a book in annoyance or tossed one in disgust, to then read it

without putting it down. Reading is not nearly as straightforward as its made out to be, we skip words, repeat sentences, miss pages and search for words in a box full of them, We are compromised by reading, we are just as likely to be emboldened as insulted or diminished. we encounter difficulty; we experience doubt, and on occasion we give up. To look at books as repositories of knowledge says nothing of the experience of reading, after all it is not our knowledge of doubt but the feeling of doubt that causes books to shut and be returned to the shelf. And it is not what we know about anger but anger that causes a book to be thrown aside.

Is it ironic then that the feeling of doubt is a prerequisite to understanding the modern text ? .

“I am a thinking (conscious) thing, that is, a being who doubts, affirms, denies, knows a few objects, and is ignorant of many- (“cogito” dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum—res cogitans) Rene Descartes’ 1641 That the very sensation that causes the book to be returned to the shelf is all that we needed to realise its purpose. It followed from Descartes that modern philosophy is the phenomenology of reading, The” I “who doubts; the reader, who mouths the words, is the instrument of knowing that recognises truth.

From Descartes truth is not known but experienced; the experience of the reader reading.

This project will carefully read a number of primary texts from Philosophy, Aesthetics and Architecture.

A reflection on each weeks reading will be the basis of a journal, This will be collated and submitted for assessment at the conclusion of the semester.

Text to be exerts from; 1 M Tafuri; Humanism Technical Knowledge and Rhetoric; The debate in renascence Venice.

2 Rousseau; The Social Contract (Foucault commentary) 3Gombrich from Perfernce for the primitive 4 J von Goethe – On German Architecture (commentary by J Pevsner, E H Gombrich and VonMuke and Purdy et el) 5 Alois Riegl; The Modern Cult of Monuments .

6 Wilhelm Worringer; Abstraction and Empathy.

7 Walter Benjamin; On translation. The storyteller.

8 Hegel Notes on aesthetics 9 Roland Bathe; Mythologies .

10 Foucault; What is an Author- (Giorgio Agambon The Author as Geasture) 11 Kuhn; The structure of Scientific Revolutions .Agambon What is a paradigm 12 Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari – What is Philosophy 13 Elizebeth Groz The thing 14 Agambon from The signiture of all things

“What matter who’s speaking, someone said what matter who’s speaking” Samuel Beckett – texts for nothing

Empathy (Einfuhlung): ... How the body in responding to certain stimuli in dream objectifies itself in spatial forms - and with this also the soul - into the form of the object. Robert Vischer On the optical sense of Form a Contribution to Aesthetics Before we as individuals are even conscious of our existence we have been profoundly influenced for a considerable time (since before birth) by our relationship to other individuals who have complicated histories, and are members of a society which has an infinitely more complicated and longer history than they do (and are members of it at a particular time and place in that history); and by the time we are able to make conscious choices we are already making use of categories in a language which has reached a particular degree of development through the lives of countless generations of human beings before us. . . . We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong -

karl Popper

The plant contemplates water, earth, nitrogen, carbon, chlorides and sulphates, and it contracts them in order to acquire its own concept and fill itself with it (enjoyment). The concept is a habit acquired by contemplating the elements from which we come……p 106 Gilles Delueze and Felix Guattari What is philosophy Paul Valéry wrote in a very remote context. “Artistic observation”, he says in reflections on a woman artist whose work consisted in the silk embroidery of figures, “can attain an almost mystical depth.

The objects on which it falls lose their names. Light and shade form very particular systems, present very individual questions which depend upon no knowledge and are derived from no practice, but get their existence and value exclusively from a certain accord of the soul, the eye, and the hand of someone who was born to perceive them and evoke them in his own inner self.”

Aristotle briefly defended them in his fragmentary Poetics. In particular, Aristotle defended the arts from Plato’s charge that they are cognitively useless, trading in mere images of particulars rather than universal truths, by arguing that it is precisely the arts, or at least poetry, that deliver universal truths in a readily graspable form, unlike, for example, history, which deals merely with particular facts (Aristotle, Poetics, chapter 9, 1451a37–1451b10).

The RMIT Architecture Practice Research Placement Elective - offered to Master of Architecture students - provides students with the opportunity to work on design-practice research projects whilst placed in, and under the supervision of, our partner architectural practices.

The research projects are developed by each partner architectural practice. Past practices have included Lyons, ARM, Antartica, March Studio, Index, NH Architecture, NAUU, Openwork/ Muir and Minifie van Schaik.

The project is an opportunity to interact with an architectural practice -in situ - and a project team, develop skills in data gathering, analysis and visual communication and participate in design research conducted whilst in the practice.

Class Times: In consultation with the student This semester participation will be available for 3 students as follows:

Agius Scorpo Architects

Paul Morgan Architects

Aguis Scorpo Architects will look at classifying, identifying and designing standard housing alteration typologies in the outer suburbs.

Paul Morgan Architects will look at identifying new hybrid models for suburban Community hospitals.

agiusscorpo.com

Through diagramming and analysis of historical spatial layout and materiality, buildability and structure.

Partner: Residential Builder

www.paulmorganarchitects.com

As part of a VHHSBA Community hospitals project massing, progxram, connectivity, and spatial relationships will be explored for their adaptability to multiple site conditions.

Ideas around Sanitoriums and health retreats will be explored.

Potential partner: Stefano Scalzo (Director, Planning and Development VHHSBA)

UNMAPPING THE EPHEMERAL (in collaboration with N’arweet Carolyn Briggs)

This elective seeks to reveal limitations inherent in western digital modes of representation, and how privileging the experience of the body over time can establish an alternate mode of architectural practice.

Using this lens, the elective seeks to better reveal Indigenous concepts of time, space and story telling.

The first part of semester will look at the processing of mapping and unmapping, 3D scanning and using the hololens to explore augmented and dynamic modes of architectural experience.

There will be site visits associated with the subject and possible costs pertaining to 3D printing.

The assessment and final hand-in requirements will be a combination of written and verbal discussion, 3D scans, digital models and video content. We will be working with Rhino, Adobe Premiere and meshlab software. tutor: caitlyn parry day: tuesday 0900 room: 100.04.006 equipment: must BYO laptop cohort: open to undergrad and masters students

CONRAD HAMANN IAN NAZARETH

Image: Metropolis, 1927 directed by Fritz Lang

SEMESTER 1 2020 WEDNESDAYS 12.00 - 15.00 LOCATION: 100.10.001

Urbanism: History and Theory introduces you to the key ideas, precedents and theoretical discourse in urban design, both current and historical. It provides a critical understanding of the discipline and an intellectual framework through which you can establish a position on future urban design practice. Seminal texts, key practitioners, exemplary projects and speculative proposals are curated to highlight critical issues in urbanism historically and currently. These issues include: design process and urban morphology; economic and political frameworks; technological, industrial and infrastructural development; and socio-political policies in design.

Course content provides you with a comprehensive overview of urban design practice and a detailed understanding of the mechanisms producing and affecting urban space. Examples from local and international contexts are presented.

GRADUATE EXHIBITION ASSISTANTS

SEMESTER 1 2020

The Architecture Program requires 8 enthusiastic assistants to help with the organisation of the Semester 1 2020 End of Semester and Major Project Exhibition.

You will work closely with the Exhibition Coordinator in the design and curation of the show, graphic design of posters and PR materials, Major Project Catalogue as well as the organisation of sponsorship, live music and DJs, catering and all of the other things that go to make a succesful event.

The majority of the work will be in the second half of semester, but you will be required to assist with organisation throughout the semester. There will be a crunch period in the week prior to the event, please confirm your availability over Week 13, Week 15, Week 16 and Week 17 prior to enrolling in the elective.

The team is limited to 8 people only. You will receive credit towards an elective for your time. This is not availabe through electives balloting. If you are interested please contact the Exhibition Co-ordinator Ian Nazareth (ian.nazareth@rmit.edu.au) directly.

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RA/Fabrication Elective Sem1-2020 / April-July Hesam Mohamed Roland Snooks

This elective invites a small group of students to participate in the fabrication of an installation project for the NGV. The installation will be fabricated through robotic 3D printing and high-tech fiber composites.

The research will work through a series of smaller prototypes and final large scale installation, this elective investigates potentials of digital architecture, large scale 3D printing and innovative construction techniques.

Students will work with the design and fabrication team at the Snooks Research Lab at RMIT University. Working with large scale 3D printed parts, students will assist with fabricating a series of fiber infused 3D printed composites.

Photo: Cloud Affects, 2019 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (Shenzhen)

The majority of this work will be hands-on fabrication in the RMIT workshops, with the addition of some digital work.

Skills learned: • Fabrication prototyping • 3D printing and digital fabrication Skills required: • Working with tools and workshop equipment • Rhino modelling Apply via email: hesam.mohamed@rmit.edu.au