Master of Architecture Studios - Balloting Posters, Semester 1, 2022

SEMESTER 1 | 2022

MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO BALLOTING POSTERS

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ALLAN BURROWS x ARJUNA BENSON TUESDAYS 6PM x RMIT DESIGN HUB Conspiracy is a series of architectural design studios that investigate the points of convergence between the tangle of systems, infrastructures and forms that comprise our reality.

In this studio we refuse to see the architectural object as an isolated entity, to be shaped by an omnipotent designer, rather we direct our suspicions towards the other forces that might author our city, and our contemporary life. This studio is interested in the relationship between the physical and immaterial, the built and unbuilt, the real and unreal.

We use ‘the conspiracy theory’ as a method for deliberating over the less discernible agencies and other phenomena that shape a city. We are not interested in the ins and outs of existing conspiracy theories. Rather, we are interested in how oppositional or absurd ideas might distort RU UHFRQ¿JXUH RXU XQGHUVWDQGLQJ RI VRPHWKLQJ WKDW ZH think we know, and create new spaces for action. The conspiracy theorist starts with uncontroversial data points and phenomena, arranges them in unique ways, divining patterns and assigning motivations or causal relationships amid an inscrutable world.

In this studio, we will attempt to come to terms with the city in totality. We will begin by thinking about its mass of networks and systems; the volatile and the stable, the SUHGLFWDEOH DQG WKH XQLPDJLQDEOH WKH HႈFLHQW DQG WKH incoherent. Invisible systems of management, design standards and legislation, social etiquettes and behaviours, political consensus and dispute, sustainability initiatives, data and information, news and media, manufacturing and commerce, bureaucracy and technocracy. We want to contend with all of it. All that comprises, conditions, and constitutes our reality. These all have tectonic implications, and can be read within, acted upon and explicated by the city itself.

The conspiracy theory will be the organizing thread between 3 streams of inquiry, that will be perpetually managed projects throughout the semester.

1. The Conspiracy 2. Site Analysis & Fabrication 3. Design Projects of Various Scales including: • • • • •

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| CHAMELEON | Marc Gibson | 9:00am - 1:00pm | TUESDAY | BLENDED | | Outline Chameleon will explore the design of complex topologies and the translation of intricate ornamentation through panelization and aggregation. This studio will follow the lineage of “Painterly Forms” & “Hereditary” studios and look at the negotiation between generative processes and top-down modelling.

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The second half of the semester will see students design a mid-rise tower (5-6 storeys) that negotiates the materiality and surrounding architectural vernacular. The weekly aggregation of objects will act as a taxonomy of formal characteristics that will be referred to when designing their architectural language.

| Software No prior experience in ZBrush or Grasshopper required.

| Groupwork You will work collaboratively with two classmates on a shared site however each person will produce an individual project.

| Evaluation Students will be assessed on their design, visual communication and comprehension of data structure to control layered parametric procedures. Individual folios are to be submitted at the conclusion of this subject.

| Blended Course Delivery Introduction & review classes will run face-to-face whilst interim tutorials will run online via ConceptBoards. Additional video tutorials will be provided to cover software & design concepts.

Please note that this class requires you to have access to the RMIT Melbourne City Campus.

| Tectonic Formation Lab The studio is part of a group of studios and electives run this semester that are aligned with the RMIT Architecture | Tectonic Formations Lab, which will collaborate through combined reviews and symposia.

| Core Techniques

| Topology Generation

| Develop Taxonomy of Sculptures

| Procedural Materials

| 3D Print Resolution

| Develop Panelization Systems

| View Past Hereditary Studio

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The Infratecture studio with develop on earlier research from the PostCapital and Java Predicament studios investigating

STUDIO LEADER: BEN MILBOURNE TUESDAYS 6-10PM

Desakota urbanism in Indonesia, in which urban and agricultural forms of land use and settlement coexist and are intensively intermingled.

In developing economies, investment in roads, rail, and other forms of infrastructure is often used to catalyse industrialisation in urban centres, with in-vestment in architecture an outcome of economic development.

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n D _ To w e r RMIT MASTER of Architecture Studio Semester 1 2022 Tutors: Prof Alisa Andrasek and Joshua Lye

ONLINE INTENSIVE STUDIO Due to the imminent population growth, we will continue to build new cities at high density. In this context we will be re-designing the architectural typology of a tower, in search of habitation patterns for enhanced wellbeing. To work towards decarbonising strategies for these cities, we will be looking at hybridised models of working and living happening in a localised and distributed manner. The studio will look at the potential for future living beyond established models, connecting its morphological patterns directly to local physics, exponential technologies, construction methods of CLT prefabrication, disruptive patterns, distributed biomass and smart vertical farming, emerging community spaces and social dynamics. Students will learn about design systems that are deeply computational and universal through the simplicity of discrete building blocks, connection logics and complex aggregations. Students will explore a platform of architecture that allows for virtually infinite combinatorics and emergence of complex tectonic states through the collective action of underlying elements. We will look critically at the current planning, automation, and prefabrication examples of current mass timber tower projects and emerging design intelligence platforms to evolve the next generation of scientifically enhanced buildings that are co-designed and built with big data and AI. Students will critically examine historic and current works of architects such as Moshe Safdie, Bow Wow, Daniel Kohler and others that begin to offer richer prefabricated tectonic models as a driver for design thinking rather than conventional modes of construction. Ultimately this studio will be searching for novel awe-inspiring aesthetics, intensive high density tower sequences and exploring new fundamentals of architecture that takes the opportunities for more radical innovation in both formal expression and super performance. This studio will be taught entirely online. Students will be working in teams. Prior knowledge of Rhino and Grasshopper is highly encouraged.

Studio Schedule: Week 1 - Monday 28th Feb - Friday 4th March 3 X Studio Sessions of 4 Hrs - Mon, Tue, Fri Studio Time : 1PM China, 4PM Melbourne

Week 4 - Monday 21st March - Friday 25th March 6 Hour Studio Session Tue - Project production session Studio Time : 1PM China, 4PM Melbourne

Week 2 - Monday 7th March - Friday 11th March 3 X Studio Sessions of 4 Hrs- Mon, Tue, Fri Studio Time : 1PM China, 4PM Melbourne

Week 5 - Monday 28th March - Friday 1st April 6 Hour Studio Session Tue - Project production session.

Studio Time : 1PM China, 4PM Melbourne

Week 3 - Monday 14th March - Friday 18th March 3 X Studio Sessions of 4 Hrs- Mon, Tue, Friday - Mid Semester Review Studio Time : 1PM China, 4PM Melbourne

Week 6 - Monday 4th April - Friday 8th April Final Presentation - Friday 8th April Studio Time : 1PM China, 4PM Melbourne

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dIs'pleIsm( )nt the idea of this studio is to study how architecture in its place might be implicated in a web of intention, concession and yield. Typically, this would be a singular, linear relationship understood as the intention of the architect, the conceit to a brief and the yield of the site or circumstance to the form.

What’s established here is a distinct power relationship that I’d like to dismantle or reverse in the studio in order to understand the potential for architects to help shape a place from within, or more plainly, to be affected by the place. The potential is to establish a close and continual relationship with the place, its people, ecology, culture, social structure, everything that makes it meaningful or important.

To recognize that architecture continues to exist well beyond the point when the architect cedes ownership to the client, and often well beyond the occupation of that client. It is part of the place and continues to be affected by it and as Dz

such has a responsibility to it from the outset. Through this we’ll start to understand the responsibility of the architect to the place and the public and invert the typical understanding of what we do. So the intention is of the place, to which the brief concedes and the architect is the one that must yield we’ll look at Little Collins Street in Melbourne and through this act of looking become conscious of how we see. We’ll develop a brief for a public building in this place and look at their effect on the other. The brief will take the form of a proposition with clear intention toward the place and its public. We’ll develop a concept for this place and this brief and look again at their effect on each other. We’ll Ànd a new place for this concept, on a tenuous strip of land within the Avalon Coastal Reserve. The concept will act as a found condition. We’ll develop a new brief that reÁects this relationship. We’ll develop the concept towards an outcome that should reÁect the signiÀcance of the place, an architecture that is responsible to its public simone koch

wednesday 5pm

RMIT MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE STUDIO: SEM 1, 2022

LOREN ADAMS

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As architects and spatial practitioners, our freedom to act upon or within the built environment is governed by codes, standards, policies, legislation, and regulations: well-intentioned instruments of urban governance, designed to steer our decision-making towards “good” built outcomes and protect us from nefarious actors.

The specific things our governing bodies and organisations choose to regulate – and the methods they use to measure compliance – tell a story about what we, as a society, collectively value.

But, as the space (of contingency; of possibility; of recalibration) between design intention and bare-minimum compliance collapses, the regulation – operating as both an instance of common values and a necessary precondition of spatial production – takes on greater urgency as a site of investigation, reconfiguration, and creative resistance.

Extending upon the themes explored in Regulatory Nonsense I-IV, this studio will continue to explore the relationship between architecture and the language of regulatory compliance.

We ask: What might the world be like if poets wrote our building and planning regulations?

What if regulations were written by other non-technical writers, too: not just poets, but also storytellers, songwriters, screenwriters, artists, choreographers, philosophers, an A.I.?

Perhaps, if we shed our habitual reliance on numbers, vacuous buzzwords, and prescriptive thirdperson-future-tense-passive-voice language in our regulations, it may be possible to radically transform the values instantiated in our built environment – even at the threshold of bare-minimum compliance.

In this studio, you will use a bespoke deep learning text generator bot to create a new, radical regulation for the built environment – focusing on the messy reciprocity between language and computation in constructing (and contesting) goodness. Together, we will use design to find, nudge, and renegotiate the blurry thresholds of bare-minimum compliance in a speculative world where numbers no longer exist and regulatory authorship is shared with a clumsy, poetic artificial intelligence.

And we will use design as evidence to put forward new methods for regulatory compliance: methods that incentivise goodness in the built environment and – perhaps most importantly – are resilient in the face of aggressive value management processes.

T U E S D AY S 5 P M - 9 P M , I N - P E R S O N @ R M I T D E S I G N H U B

Tuesday 9.30am * Patrick Macasaet * Face to Face Delivery

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Scale: Medium * Sites: West of Melbourne * Group Work Projects

No prior knowledge of game engines required.

METAMATTER

FUTURIUM RICHTER MUSIKOWSKI 2017

ORNAMENT & DÉCOUPAGE PHILIP SCHAERER 2019

After Here & There

PEPSI COLA BUILDING NATALIE DE BLOIS GORDON BUNSHAFT (SOM) 1960

Greenfield sites have long represented wealth, disproportionate to land mass when compared to inner city counterparts. We recognise that climate pressures will exacerbate this presumed status quo; where environmental responsibility rests (again) with the private developer.

This studio imagines a world where the suburb produces cultural capital through environmental innovation, where the suburban hallmark of strangeness remains intact - and is deliberately cultivated as a desirable outcome.

Participating in this process you will be expected to wear these decisions where the outcome is something emergent - and your argument or Idea something that becomes apparent to you in the doing.

These decisions are geared towards Typology, Materiality/Structure, ESD Principles, and Biodiversity with an eye to the effect these have on the Urban.

Students will develop alternative models for workplace by delivering mixed-use commercial buildings, co-located at Melbourne’s edge within a proposed employment zone.

In the opening weeks of the semester we will learn about these things in rotating pairs from built models (both Here and There) - through weekly research tasks, supplemented by in class lectures as well as out of class readings. This learning will then be applied to a proposal for the place as it could be now (2022) - where the scaled up final outcome speculates on the place as it might be After. (2050)

It sets the conception of these buildings as a series of choices made in sequence, enabling one trajectory whilst negating the other.

We will navigate a number of representational dialogues and seek to locate a medium-specific role for the moving image in architecture.

Leona Dusanovic & Liam Oxlade

This will involve the critical evaluation of specific histories of photography - and film - as they relate to the built environment & global suburban fringe. And this will play out through mixed media presentations, deploying static images/ drawings alongside moving images with soundtrack. With these qualities understood through physical tours of the site.

Fundamentally we are interested in the specific & real atmospheres of the suburban fringe, the studio working methodologies are analysis, empirical understanding and close observation, and hope to establish a greater understanding of Architecture’s role in the Climate/Biodiversity Crisis.

W1-W2 W3-W14

Wednesday 6pm Tuesday 6pm

W1-4 W5-14

Rotating Pairs Independent

SUPER SANGGA The 2022 Master of Architecture + Master of Urban Design Studio will focus on the city of Seoul as a case study in typological urbanism.

The city of Seoul is the largest in South Korea and the 4th largest urban economy in the world. It is a megacity with a capital area population of 12.5 million people, and more than 26 million across the greater metropolitan area. More than half of South Korea’s population lives in this area. The city grew rapidly through the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and is now undergoing a process of consolidation, gentrification and renewal.

The studio will examine the city through the lens of a typological urbanism. Ther term ‘SangGa’ describes a type of urban formation that is an aggregate of commercial and residential buildings. The urban fabric of Seoul is a patchwork of these typological ‘islands’ in which sections of the city and blocks form discrete assemblages of buildings, small thoroughfares and public space, that are separated from each other by roads, and other linear infrastructures. The city is served by an extensive public transit system, including the world’s longest and most heavily used metro system that serves to connect the islands via a vast underground megastructure or subway tunnels and pedestrian underpasses.

Seoul’s urban islands vary substantially in their urban location, formal organisation and arrangement, and programmatic mixture. At best they are selfcontained neighbourhoods that allow for walkable live-work clusters, however much of the city is made of devel often been associated with urbanisation and economic uplift, the pandemic disproportionately impacted those who had to had to commute or travel for employment. Ongoing supply chain disruptions have affected cities that rely on imports, and are unable to produce food and consumer good locally.

The studio will explore how the design of new urban islands for Seoul might respond to this condition, forming a collective body of site, archival and design research that speculates on the future of the city.

Classes will be held Tuesday morning. Location TBC. Studio leaders: Dr John Doyle (RMIT) & Rafael Luna (PRAUD: WWW.PRAUD.INFO)

Architecture

REGEN S’PORE THE DESIGNING RESILIENCE IN ASIA COMPETITION REGENERATIVE ARCHITECTURE IN SINGAPORE

TOM MURATORE and G RAHAM CRIST RMIT Master of Architecture Design Studio 2022 Wednesday 6pm

This studio is part of the Designing Resilience Global (DRG) competition organised by TU Darmstadt.

The site for the competition this year is the former Pansir Panjang Power District which is part of the Greater Southern Waterfront in Singapore. As part of the competition brief, the projects will explore principles of regeneration and resilience in architecture and urban planning. These responses will form part of a development model that aims to make this site and others throughout Singapore a carbon sink for surrounding cities in Asia. RMIT is one of several teams from around the world that will be entering the competition and taking part in the symposium. Past work, including successful entries from RMIT, can be found at the links below.

This studio will continue a series of studios led by Graham Crist and Tom Muratore that have investigated the agenda of dense cities and the means for living in proximity with others. We will use this competition as an opportunity to also look back at past studio collaborations that developed farming and food production in dense urban environments such as FARMHD and Making Vietnam.

Past studios in the series and the Super Tight publication can be found at the links below.

Part of our design research will require us to look at past competitions in architecture and urbanism: the stories, the unbuilt projects and the unsuccessful entries that have now become infamous. These models will form the background to our design responses. As part of RMIT’s entry to this competition, we will work in groups and on individual projects but submit as a team. We hope to work with and learn from other experts in sustainable design within the university as well as asking past studio leaders and local practitioners to join the studio.

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Cities are large and complex. They are impossible to decode. Obstinate and unyielding. They are not risk averse. They are resource and capital-intensive exploits. Their robustness paradoxically deems them passive and resistant to change.

Collectively, the models and tools of engagement with the city have arguably have not adapted to the plurality of the urban environment, its variables, and utter hybridity. Urban planning too, seems hopelessly retrospective in its inability to meet current demands and expectations. Meanwhile, the peer-to-peer economy and distributed platform technologies can be seen to promote the occupation of our cities according to transient, temporary and dynamic demands - a disruptive technology operating as a non-physical infrastructure that results in its nimbleness, manoeuvrability and has an extended a temporal dimension in its influence on the city and its change over time. The city is now, neither symbolic nor historical.

The city has no reference point.

How can we move beyond a conceptual framework of spatial programming and outlines, binaries and modernist scripts to embrace and engage our formal habits with the virtual and behavioural logics of the post-urban, post-rational megacity? How might we conceptualise an architecture and urbanism amid an interregnum of chaos?

The Temporal City Masters Architecture Studio Semester 2 2021 | Ian Nazareth & David Schwarzman The Temporal City is a reflective, exploratory domain in an ostensibly infinite, procedurally generated world. It is neither the post-industrial grouping of top-down, bottom-up hierarchies, nor the portentous open playable world of the metaverse. The Temporal City inhabits the ‘lack’. It seeks to capture the polyvalent and multi-causal threshold of spatial and chronological experience – between something real and something represented, between the particle and the pixel.

The Temporal City is also a kinetic organism that is simultaneously and synchronously enabled by the flow of data, people and logistics. It proposes a spatial operating system, a stream of inputs and outputs – I/O. Its intensity and form unravel and wane as an organic mechanism that underpins a chronologically-based urbanism. Traditional principles of the city are upturned. The Temporal City is not about absolutes or repeatable spatial products but a framework that embraces and amplifies the indeterminate, messy, contradictory, combinatory, uncertain and improbable conditions. It is opportunistic. Agility instead of stability, multipliers rather than repetition. Change, difference and time are accelerated. The complexity of its systems benefits from variability, unpredictability, imbalance and volatility.

The city of the extreme present. The city as a technology. Settlements and commerce that might be infinite in spatial and temporal dimensions.

Projects will utilise static and real-time data, techniques of data scrapping, hybridising urban datasets, to generate real and counterfactual propositions and scenarios for the city. Through reflections on techno-cultures, gamification and designing protocols, projects will record and reveal patterns and offer new ways of engaging with the city and its architecture.

Wednesday evenings 18.00 - 22.00

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Memorialisation refers to the process of preserving memories of people or events.

The memorial is the structure to support a form of memorialisation denoted through statues, objects, built forms, spaces to occupy. In architecture this has been widely acknowledged throw varying forms of traditional burial dating back to ancient times where architecture supports the memoralisation of those who have passed. These structures, and later defined through the cemetery, form places of acknowledgement for the individual and the collective.

These spaces are typically defined by hierarchy and historically were reserved for the elite. In more recent times the memorial has become a place of congregation defined by the collective memory. These congregation spaces are not contained within a building but rather occupy forecourts, external spaces, gardens. Memorials have defined a moment in time, a line in the sand, and in doing so attempt to remove hierarchy in order to define the collective.

Royal Commissions, a process for undertaking a public enquiry, have instigated the commissioning of memorials for matters that are not concluded but rather are in motion. The memorial not only becomes a place of remembrance but is defined as a political intervention, places for education.

The studio will explore the role of the memorial and how this supports structures for education and support. An intervention that provides more than one role.

ASSISTING is an extension of the past design studios referred to as ASSIST which were investigating the services to support the recent legislation for voluntary assisted dying. his is not about death. It is about infrastructure, an infrastructure that supports civicness; a civic intervention; a civic responsibility. This is about solving problems through architecture.

Students will be engaged with rigorous site, program and precedent analysis. A select number of cemeteries and religious, educational and health precedents to choose from will be offered for weekly investigations. These will become the basis to review the role of the memorial and the infrastructure required to support it as an assisted death facility as well as a civic entity.

Drawings, drawings, drawings.

MA ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO S1 2022 WEDNESDAY 6-10PM AMY MUIR

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Market of Ideas …or the future Arden Precinct

Practice Studio Making or curating innovation precinct ‘Innovation Precincts’ are area of cities that have been identified to host significant research, learning, and technology institutions and corporations – and whose effect to generate knowledge, new products and services, is thought to be the result of these different activities overlapping.

It's an example of the classic ‘chicken and egg’ question – which comes first, the city, the programs the ideas? And what is the new model for this type of city – the campus, the Expo, the market – or another new hybrid civic space?

Through debating different urban models and negotiating different building typologies, the studio will propose a model to critique and expand the notion of Innovation Precincts.

Rediscovering the site The site for this studio is the Arden Precinct in North Melbourne that has been envisaged as the next future innovation precinct. As one of the last large-scale undeveloped areas within urban Melbourne, the studio will speculate on design strategies for how a ‘city of ideas’ can be made.

Before colonial settlement it was in an area of shallow lakes and wetlands, and a ‘chain of ponds’ that is now called Moonee Ponds Creek. The site offers a space to encounter Indigenous knowledge, the ecology of the floodplain, and the changing nature of Melbourne as city of learning – in a postpandemic world.

Lyons Practice Studio The practice has worked across all the sectors that will be part of the future Arden Precinct – learning, research, technology, healthcare, and designing the public realm. We will work through research, individual design explorations, and group projects at the master plan and architectural scale. .

Professor Carey Lyon, Nina Wyatt, Vicky Li, Adam Pustola and Lyons studio guests

Wednesday 5 – 9pm RMIT Building 100 Level 6 Space 008