RMIT Architecture Electives semester 2 2014

CONTENTS DAY

TIME

LOCATION

TITLE

MASTERS/BACHELORS

STAFF

Monday starting week 6

10am

8.12.27

Bloom + Thrive

Masters

Pia Ednie Brown, Leanne Zilka, Gwyllim Jahn

9.30 12.30 2.30 5.30 2.30 5.30

45.1.D 45.1.D design hub 100.5.2

Typ(e)cal futures Exhibiting Architecture Eco Urban Practices

Masters and Bachelor Masters and Bachelor Masters

Scott Woods John Doyle Graham Crist

WEDNESDAY

9.30 12.30 6pm 9pm email tutor

45.1.3 100.6.2 8

Outbound A Diggers Life Practice Research Projects

Masters and Bachelor Bachelor Masters

Ferran Sagarra and Ian Nazareth Andre Bonnice and Anna Jankovic Graham Crist coordinator

THURSDAY

9.30 12.30 9.30 12.30 9.30 12.30 9.30 12.30 9.30.12.30 1.30 4.30 1.30 4.30 6pm 9pm 6pm 9pm

8.12.43 8.12.42 8.7.79 8.11.47 100.6.2 8 Design Hub Level 8 55.4.2 8.11.39 Design Hub Level 8

Experimental Robotic Fabrication Pattern Recognition reflections on making The Melbourne xtra plan Elsewhere Fibrous Assemblies Putting the pieces together International Practice 2112Ai 100YC

Masters and Bachelor Masters and Bachelor Masters and Bachelor Masters and Bachelor Masters Masters and Bachelor Masters and Bachelor Masters and Bachelor Masters and Bachelor

Roland Snooks Leanne Zilka John Cherrey Peter Brew and Ben Akerman Gwyllim Jahn Roland Snooks John Cherrey Bruce Allen Tom Kovac

11.30 2.30

8.11.18

Architecture of the Sun

Masters and Bachelor

Jan Van Schaik

Composite Fabrication Post auto city

Masters and Bachelor Masters

Roland Snooks Gretchen Wilkins

TUESDAY Intensive Mode week 3 9 tues and thurs

Intensive mode sept 8 Oct 17 Friday RESEARCH ELECTIVES

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BLOOM+THRIVE is a design-build research elective consisting of two major pavilion projects.

Students will be expected to contribute to all aspects of the design and fabrication research.

During the first week of the elective students will work closely with Alisa Andresek (director of BIOTHING) to construct the BLOOM pavilion from an existing kit of plastic components. During the second half of semester students will assist in the design, prototyping and CNC robotic construction of a set of Danpalon shingles with which to clad a small greenhouse frame (THRIVE). This will involve using generative design techniques and various scripting platforms to produce, simultaneously, a model for efficient (no waste) cutting patterns and generate a range of shingle shapes with high levels of aesthetic interest. Both projects will be exhibited as part of the Future is Now exhibition at the Design Hub.

LEADERS: Alisa Andrasek (BIOTHING), Pia Ednie-Brow, Leanne Zilka, Gwyllim Jahn KEY WORDS: Design-Build, Digital Fabrication, Recursive Aggregation, Affective Environments, Material Systems MODE: Masters Research elective TIME/LOCATION: Elective runs from week 6-13 beginning with a one week intensive with Alisa Andrasek. First Meeting August 25th in 8.12.27.

BLOOM

+ THRIVE

Architecture Elective

Elective Leader: Scott Woods

TYP(E)ICAL FUTURES “The dialectic is clear as a fable: the society that understands the reference to prison will still have need of the reminder, while at the very point the image finally loses all meaning, the society will either have become entirely prison, or, perhaps, its opposite.”

Anthony Vidler, The Third Typology.

RESEARCH: This studio will unearth, track and record changing characteristics of building types over time in preparation for a speculative ‘MICRO DESIGN’ PROJECT – a project that will anticipate building type futures. We will be particularly interested in tracing existing mutations that have occurred historically whilst activating new and previously unseen trajectories.

Each student will select and analyse 4 international projects of a similar building type (spanning the late 18th century to present day) which can include: *HOUSING, *MUSEUM, *LIBRARY, *THEATRE… Once a selection is made each student will interrogate the chosen examples to determine those: formal, programmatic, aesthetic, spatial, … traits which have flourished and become dominant, mutated to another state, laid dormant, or died out completely… In so doing students will be well positioned to speculate on a new iteration of their chosen building type – one that is active and performative within its own socio cultural and technological milieu.

Paris Opera.

1875

+ Sydney Opera House.

1973

+

DESIGN PROJECT: Each student will, after the initial research phase, propose preliminary design investigations for a present day / future iteration of their chosen building type on an imaginary site. This design phase will heavily reference and therefore evolve from the research surfaced via the 4 chosen building studies and will be tested against the evidence that was uncovered during the initial research phase. It’s hoped that this research output is coupled with a fearless future focus.

Cardiff Bay Opera House.

1990s

+

Investigations will include: Diagramming; Analysis of international Projects both built and unbuilt; A light Schematic Micro Design Project (drawings / diagrams); and a Seminar presenting your findings.

Harpa Concert Hall.

2011

**A Reader will be distributed .

= When: Tuesday 9:30 – 12:30pm // Where: Design Hub lvl 6.

Your Proposal

HERE

EXHIBITING ARCHITECTURE

Architecture has historically been a difficult medium to exhibit. While public built work is universally accessible, the majority of architectural production is inacessible, or never built and can only be experienced through exposition. There have been numerous significant exhibitions of architecture over the past 100 years, exploring a variety of different media and techniques.

This elective will examine different ways of exhibiting architecture using the RMIT Architecture & Urban Design End of Semester exhibition as a testing ground. Students will be asked to develop a curatorial strategy for the exhibition, along with a design for a display table and alteration to the Design Hub Gallery Space.

Subject to funding, one table design may be selected for the fabrication of a prototype.

Tutor: John Doyle Tuesdays 2:30 - 5:30 Building 45 Room D

SEMESTER 2 2014

GRAHAM CRIST IAN NAZARETH

MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE / MASTER OF URBAN DESIGN WEEKS: INTENSIVE WEEK 3 - WEEK 9 TUESDAY AND THURSDAY 2:30 - 5:30 LOCATION: DESIGN HUB 100.05.002 KISS Walking on the Street of New York City, June 24th, 1976

This is the second of the eco - urban seminars offered to master of urban design, architecture and landscape masters students. It will build on the projects of last year’s work. Eco-Urban Practices introduces you to the key skills, methods and practices of the urban design professional from a multidisciplinary perspective, and with a particular focus on environmental sustainability. The relationship between urban design and global pressures of population and climate change is a key focus, as well as urban shifts in infrastructure, technology and transport. You will explore the implications of these issues on urban design processes, projects and practices, while acquiring insight from industry and government professionals, following the sustainabilty paradigm. We will view design practice from a global perspective, with an equal emphasis on the local. This elective will also investigate precedents, utopias, theories and manifestos in order to understand the multiple scales and networks within the city.

Walkability The seminar will focus on the particular theme of walking, and test the view that the most sustainable city is one that is easy to use on foot. In cities like Metropolitan Melbourne we travel further and more frequently; arrangements that increase the physical distance between people and programs intensify the pressure on centralised infrastructures to handle the expansion.

Pedestrian proximity to work, services, landscape etc, has a direct relationship to liveability, health, density and quality of urban life. The seminar will explore the contemporary metropolis through mobility and more specifically ‘walkability’ with a focus on time, and the nexus of social and connective infrastructures.

We will look at methods for observing and mapping the city- from local `on the ground’ work, to diagramming the systems of the whole metropolis.

There will be three key projects, each explored through innovative analytical drawing; an URBAN CASE STUDY; 60 Minute Melbourne: (STRUTTING my Neighbourhood); Mega Metropolitan Systems

OUTBOUND// The Current Form of Melbourne FERRAN SAGARRA / IAN NAZARETH Kleine Welten IX ‘Small Worlds’, Wassily Kandinsky , National Gallery of Autralia

Cities are kinetic and constantly evolving as a result of urban projects that simultaneously operate at multiple scales, intensities and densities. Through its buildings, land divisions, infrastructure, ecologies etc., the city demonstrates collective wills.

What is the contemporary form of Melbourne?

Which projects were critical to its transformation and instrumental in its remaking? How has the and transport infrastructure shaped its urban form? What is its current process of growth?

How many ‘types’ of suburb are contained within Metropolitan Melbourne?

‘Outbound’ also engages with questions dealing historical moments and analyses the role of periods. As a result of a process of more than a century and a half, the contemporary city accumulates a myriad of forms, networks and

With Melbourne as a mainstay, the course will attempt to decode and isolate some layers and narratives embedded within the city. Cycling through a collection of thematic architectural lenses, juxtapositions, manifestos and precedents, the course aims to highlight the urban dynamics of Melbourne, and build an operative image of it.

This elective is studio based, and the course is structured around individual design based research projects informed through a series of weekly assignments and accompanied by readings. In-progress presentations will take and review, supported by a publication / portfolio of the entire project.

Outbound is offered to Master of Architecture and Bachelor of Architectural Design students.

Elective Format: Week 1 - Week 12 Date / Time: Wednesdays, 9.30 - 12.30 Location: 45.1.3

Practice Research Projects Master of Architecture Elective: Research Projects based in an architectural office. coordinator graham crist graham.crist@rmit.edu.au In this elective you will join a Melbourne architectural practice, and work on a research project run within that office in intensive mode.

In this elective you will participate in a research project formed by an architectural office,and work on that project in an flexible mode.

The projects begun last semester inlcude work on Mellbourne retail space, laboratory volume studies, rock venues, surf club design, and health spaces.

The project is a great opportuniity to interact with an office and a real project team, and develop skills in data gathering, analysis and visual communication.

participating practices include:

NH

ARM

Lyons

antarctica

Minifie van Schaik Searle Warldron

THE PROJECTS WILL BE BASED ON REAL QUESTIONS, BUT BE DIVERSE AND SPECULATIVE; EXPLORATORY IN THEIR OUTCOMES. A BRIEFING SESSION IN WEEK ONE WILL DESCRIBE THE VARIOUS PROJECTS IN DETAIL AND YOU WILL BE MATCHED TO ONE OF THESE. FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT GRAHAM CRIST .

EXAMPLLES OF THE THE PREVIOUS PROJECT FOLIOS ARE AVAILABLE.

last semester, Mitch Walker researched Melbourne Rock Venues at ARM

Tools have always defined the space of possibility for design. With the emergence of a new set of robotic tools, this space is expanding in unexpected directions.

This elective will explore the relationship between new robotic tools and their potential to create novel architectural forms, structure and ornament. Students will design and prototype an architectural installation/object in parallel to designing and making a robotic tool, with the emphasis on the feedback between the two.

The elective will explore techniques including: large scale direct-deposition (3D printing in plastic, foam, sand), composite fibre taping, and intricate timber fabrication. This elective will be highly speculative and experimental. No prior programming or robotic experience is required or assumed.

THURSDAY 1:30PM - 4:30PM | LEVEL 8 DESIGN HUB

ROLAND SNOOKS

EXPERIMENTAL ROBOTIC FABRICATION

Architecture is all about MAKING in one form or another.

In this elective you will explore one area of making in architecture, the MAKING of physical objects. You will consider ideas about making including conception, design, scale, precision, tolerance, materials and process.

MAKING is a complex task and at its best it requires a synthesis of many things.

To be excel in MAKING, reflection both during and after creation is essential; reflection will form a key part of the work you produce.

The work produced will range in scale from very small objects, to models and larger scale furniture scale designs.

This is a workshop based elective. We will make use of much of the remarkable array of equipment to be found within the school.

At the completion of the elective you will have broadened your skill base substantially both is making by hand and with analogue and digital equipment.

You will have sharpened your sense of materials by resolving a range of task given to you.

And lastly you will have developed a far more sophisticated approach to questions and process of MAKING. Lecturer: John Cherrey Location: Level 7 workshop - 8.07.79 Time: Thursday 9.30 - 12.30 This class includes one intensive MAKING weekend workshop - date TBA This elective is suited to both Bachelors and Masters level students In this class you should expect to spend about $150 in materials.

Assessment: folio of works & journal

reflections on

MAKING

In h c r Sea of

The

Melbourne

Xtra poster content:

No large city today can afford to ignore the risks of warfare, and must take all practicable precautions in its civic development to minimise loss of life and property should it be attacked.

In this, town planning can play its part. The civil defense authorities advise that planning can best help by encouraging the dispersal of population, by avoiding as far as possible the creation of worthwhile targets, and by establishing a system of communications which will facilitate movement throughout the area. This need and these authoritative opinions have been kept in mind in drawing up the planning scheme.

Public open spaces will break up the urban mass of homes and buildings and provide some degree of dispersal of the population. A comprehensive arterial road system, which would considerably aid the defense of the city in wartime, has been provided for.

Town planning of itself cannot prevent the establishment of worthwhile and vital wartime targets.

Such targets could arise by the concentration of a large number of essential factories in a relatively compact area, or by having a number of factories of the same type close together.

Plan...

description of elective including what is expected of students: Urban design + non Planning based elective concerned by issues around measuring + demonstrating resource capacity/capabilities + demonstrating resource capacity/ aand articulating vision for the cities capabilities aand a articulating a vision future. for the cities future.

It is imagined that this will become catalytic... catalytic Interactive guide/archive of Melbourne futures, (from the earliest time to the present) I Imagine or adopt a format in order to provide a means to collect, collate and project2 Variable outcomes say 1m or 20m (an archive of the cities history and possible futures) 3 A repository of useful information (providing access to history, projects, detailed studies, guidelines + resources) 4 The centre piece might be our version of the cities current plan or development guidelines.

Our best guess at what ought to happen next... (ie: studio based where students will work through design problems weekly, written submissions,research based etc)

Successful attack on such targets could result in several essential factories being destroyed at the one time or a large section of one industry being lost.

date, time and location: Thursday 9.30-12.30 8.11.47

Such undesirable grouping of industries is already occurring in Melbourne.

open to bachelor and/or masters student: Yes

1956 MMBW Planning Scheme

We are interested in exploring the relationship plans have to their territory… their sphere the plans What is the sphere ofof the plans If we can imagine a plan as being an analogue, as a voodoo doll, where Using Melbourne and its metropolitan plans as a source material we have designed a course that requires students to speculate not only about the future of the city but the future of city plans...

Program Week 1: Introduction / maps, plans games, vision, sources.

Week 2: Power of 10, Scale + extent.

The concept of an Analogue plan.

Week 3: Metrics, units base lining, proof Week 4: Todays and tomorrows…

Targets. Scenarios, multi plans Week 5: The economy of the plan – Week 6: Thresholds and breaking points, Infrastructure plans Week 7: Districts lines catchments –zones and sub zones Week 8: Melbourne Plans Week 9: Plan Games

tutor name: Peter Brew, Ben Akerman

Week 10: Scenarios: Week 11: Speculative futures/ speculative pasts Week 12: More games, Apps, Beta testing

else ware LEADER: Gwyllim Jahn KEY WORDS: Haptic robotics, autonomous construction, behavioural systems, creative computing, generative design MODE: Research driven Masters elective TIME/LOCATION: Thursdays 9:30-12:30 in 100.6.2-8 (Design Hub level 6) Elseware will investigate how complex and highly speculative algorithmic design techniques can be translated into processes for autonomous robotic construction. Students will be exposed to a repository of common algorithms and behavioural systems (agents, cellular automata, l-systems) written in Processing, and will develop schematics describing how these digital processes may evolve iin order to work with physical materials, environments and robotic agents. We will have the opportunity to collaborate with software engineering and robotics experts and experiment with prototypes using the Baxter Research Robot.

The elective will produce research in the form of a publication that speculates on how emerging haptic technology (stereo vision, depth scanners and wireless sensors) and open-source robots (ROS) might be coupled with rudimentary fabrication techniques capable of being carried out non-human construction teams to produce complex architectural form.

FIBROUS ASSEMBLAGES ALGORITHMIC DESIGN ELECTIVE ROLAND SNOOKS This algorithmic design elective will explore the generation of fibrous assemblages, the emergence of pattern and form through agent-based techniques. This methodology considers the source of form to operate at the smallest scale of matter - the interaction of individual fibers that lead to the generation of complex order and the emergence of architectural form and organization. The elective will operate primarily through the generation of drawings and three-dimensional form through scripted techniques.

The course will examine complex systems, in particular the logic of swarm intelligence, and how these systems operate through multi-agent algorithms. A methodology will be introduced that encodes simple architectural decisions within a distributed system of autonomous computational agents. It is the interaction of these local decisions that self-organizes design intention, giving rise to a form of collective intelligence and emergent behavior at the global scale.

The first half of the semester will focus on scripting technique and methodology within Processing, while the second half of the course will focus on the application of these methodologies to problems of design and speculative design research.

The course will be heavily engaged in scripting, however no scripting or programming experience is required or assumed.

THURSDAY 9:30AM - 12:30PM | 8.12.43

When: Thursday 1.30- 4.30 Where: Building 55.4.2 project pod, advanced manufacturing hub Lecturer: John Cherrey contact: john.cherrey@rmit.edu.au

putting the pieces together

Carlo Scapa - detail Olivetti showroom , Venice

masters elective

In this course you will explore the world of architectural detailing. If you want to understand how buildings are assembled close up then this is the course for you. The approach in the class is hands-on.

Following a couple of introductory classes where we look at the principles of detailing you will commence the first of three assignments. For each of the assignments you will be give a set of plans, sections and elevations and asked to complete some of the details. The work you will detail will be that of some award winning Melbourne architects. The class will be a bit like working in an office. You produce the work and then it will be marked up for you to improve and finalize. During each class you will be given the technical know-how to assist you in working through your set of detail problems. At the conclusion of the class you will be given the real solutions for you to compare with your designs.

The final set of drawings will provide a valuable resource for you in the future.

INTERNATIONAL PRACTICE Architectural Design Elective

Semester:

2, 2014

Tutor:

Bruce Allen

Location:

8.11.39

Time:

Thursday, 6 – 9 pm

International Practice is a seminar elective for 12 -15 students and is part of the Professional Practice program. The course consists of introductory sessions by Bruce Allen followed by student presentations of papers. On three occasions during the semester a guest is invited to join the class for dinner at a budget restaurant.

Course Objectives The objective of the course is to provide students with an understanding of globalization and issues of International Practice. The seminars provide an opportunity for students to share their knowledge and experience. The issues covered include but are not limited to cultural identity, cross cultural management, ethics, politics, design transfer and regionalism.

Assessment 1.

Presentation of a seminar paper covering a theoretical topic related to international design. (40 marks)

2.

Presentation paper presenting a critical case study of a building designed in the student’s home country by a foreign architect.

(35 marks)

3.

A short essay summarizing the presentations. (15 marks)

4.

Semester journal of ideas. (10 marks)

1.01

Architecture of the Sun MAKING ARCHITECTURE FROM SOLAR TECHNOLOGY - AN ELECTIVE

Icarus flew too close to the sun and melted the wax from which he’d fashioned his wings.

Do his shortcomings lie in hubris, or was it simply that he did not properly understand the medium in which his ambitions were designed?

All construction projects should be carbon neutral, in construction and operation, if not better - this is now a given.

These, however, are largely technical concerns. They do not, in themselves add up to a language of architecture.

This elective will concern itself with investigating solar technology for buildings as a medim for architecture.

WHEN:

FRIDAYS 11:30 > 2:30

WHERE:

8:11:18

CONTACT:

JAN.VANSCHAIK@RMIT.EDU.AU

Jan van Schaik is a lecturer and researcher in the RMIT University School of Architecture & Design and a director of MvS Architects, an award winning architecture practice based in Melbourne.

Visit mvsarchitects.com.au for more information.

Architecture of the Sun

Research assistants are required to work on the fabrication of an exhibition design for a major exhibition in the Design Hub. The students will work on taking the digital model and developing fabrication files as well as the hands on fabrication work in the workshop. The project is being designed by Studio Roland Snooks.

The project will run in an intensive format over the first month of the semester.

COMPOSITE FABRICATION RESEARCH ASSISTANT[S] ROLAND SNOOKS