RMIT Master of Architecture Studio Posters, 2016 Semester 2

RMIT ARCHITECTURE MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO BALLOTING POSTERS SEM 2 2016

TERRAFORMER DESIGNING THE SUSTAINABLE HOUSE PAUL MORGAN ARCHITECTS

Terraformer will focus on the design of the sustainable free standing house.

The inspiration for this studio comes from a project produced by Paul Morgan Architects: blowhouse: life support unit, which assumed the design approach to be one of ‘terraforming’, or the creation of a survivable micro-ecology utilizing patterns found in nature.

Initially, students will be asked to undertake a series of exercises reviewing and examining experimental and agitprop houses, mainly from the period 1965-1979, and then to design free standing houses for both a coastal and forest location. The first part of the semester will include site visits and lectures by Paul Morgan on the subject of the design of the single house. Students

will then explore the design process of patterns in nature, completing the design of two houses by the end of semester, as well as completing 1:5 scale models of house sections in the School’s workshops.

Learning methods Learning and teaching methods will vary throughout the studio and include: • Lectures by Paul Morgan • Site visits • Peer feedback sessions • Fabrication in workshops • One on one sessions Class time: Tuesdays 9.30-1.30

let’s dense

Let’s take on the outer suburbs with their low housing and job density, poor amenity and generational poverty.

Let’s address the great australian dream and endless sprawl.

Let’s identify the problems and develop the architectural tools to create more successful urban design.

We’ll take a site in Werribee, 35km from the CBD, already being developed by Places Victoria. The proposed dwelling density is 11.4 dwellings per hectare. We’ll look at how that can only fail by promoting continuing dependence on car use. We’ll look at how we can more take that density to 26 dwellings per hectare and how that might lead to a more successful outcome. We’ll have a range of house types and add local jobs, shops and industry, cultural places, a primary school and health centre. We’ll look closely at the existing assets of the area: Werribee River, Open Range Zoo, Racecourse, sports grounds, and aircraft museum, and how we can engage them from our site with a local tram network that also connects to the train station.

Project area: 197 hectares

5,200 Residences: 2260 homes at completion.

Wednesday 5:30pm Simone Koch

robotanist / gwyllim jahn / Paramnesia is a design studio interested in the sensual formal languages and fabrications that arise through conflations of digital and physical material, volumetric sculpting and algorithmic design.

Agenda

Approach

Robotanist is a Masters design studio that will examine the effect that an intimate awareness of material behaviours and robotic fabrication constraints can have on generative techniques, architectural language and expression. It posits that the development of generative techniques that are conditioned by understanding processes of making can make strong claims to originality and authorship in an age where digital design techniques have become ubiquitous tropes. By extension, the studio is critical of the uptake of CADCAM techniques that impose form on material (such as milling, casting or 3d-printing), ignoring the heterogenous and messy nature of material, generating vast quantities of waste and preventing new understandings of craftsmanship that may be unearthed through a bringing together of designing and making.

Robotanist will utilise and apply tools and research developed by students in Robochindogu (RMIT 2016/1 Masters Studio) to develop 1:1 architectural prototypes from extruded polymer materials using a custom designed plastic extruder and the UR10 robot.

Beginning with a rethinking of large scale 3d printing techniques, we will develop generative techniques for assembling and composing architectural elements (surfaces and volumes) from the language of continuous line.

There will be an emphasis on continuous experimentation that oscillates between digital design and physical making. These experiments will be judged on their architectural resolution and application and we will speculate on possible extrapolations to building scale and an applied architectural brief (a Boschian redesign of the Botanic Gardens and associated programs). However it is important to note that the studio will not be concerned with accuracy, repeatabil-

ity, consistency, standardisation or any other modernist ideas of engineering quality. You do not need to be a computer scientist or robotics expert to take this studio, you only need the ethos of a tinkerer. This polemical position opens up opportunities for laypersons (such as architects) to become enigmatic master builders, responsible for the design of design-tools as well as their intents and purpose.

Outcomes The first half of the semester will be spent developing generative techniques that are conditioned by an understanding of polymer material behaviours and robotic fabrication constraints. These techniques will serve to generate a suite of 1:1 physical prototypes of architectural objects, culminating in a specific expression and formal language through which students can claim some design authorship and present at mid semester. The second half of the studio will develop schemes for the Gardens and work towards a single larger scale prototype.

MOVING PICTURES Semester 2, 2016, RMIT Master of Architecture Studio

IAN NAZARETH

Post-industrial modernity continues architecture’s obsession with structures, systems and facilities that collectively constitute the physical infrastructure of cities. The scale, efficiency and potential for urban transformation provide rich source material for aesthetic, material and spatial innovation.

Mass transit hubs and train stations are liminal infrastructures (architectures and landscapes) of the transitional and transitory, that resonate with wider political, social and cultural milieu. As Aaron Betsky argues, railroad stations are our contemporary architecture of democracy, that combine different scales and functions, juxtaposing them into urban collages.

The Melbourne Metro Rail Project will provide Melbourne with the capacity for its future public transport needs. It is not only a project for Melbourne’s urban future, but represents the greater role public rail will have in Australia’s increasingly urbanized future. MMRP will provide 5 new underground train stations between the inner North and South of Melbourne’s CBD. It will be the catalyst for the Arden Macaulay urban renewal project, support further residential densification around RMIT and provide future capacity within Melbourne’s metropolitan rail network to manage the city’s increasing population.

Moving Pictures repositions metro stations as sites of engaged creative production, beyond temporary containers of people and capital. These infrastructures will facilitate amenity for the public realm, augment economic

[MELBOURNE METRO RAIL PROJECT]

opportunities and create diverse public spaces and urban environments.

Through coupling transport and art infrastructure, each station provides an opportunity for creative value-adding, through a strategy for integrated public art and community engagement, each with a character that is specific to its local context.

The studio will propose a creative residency program operating through each station, that would amplify this unique intersection between infrastructure and creative practice as well as invigorate respective precincts within Melbourne’s CBD. Projects will develop through spatial experiments with subterranean architecture and an urbanism of the underground, while responding to the significance of residing, working and exhibiting and transiting within liminal structures.

The studio solicits strategies and operating models that might shape the civic and cultural identity of future infrastructure projects, stimulating a version of the city that is open to experimentation and opportunism.

Moving Pictures is part of a multi-disciplinary research project operating across RMIT University and the d__lab – Centre for Design Practice Research, and potential collaboration with the City of Melbourne and Melbourne Metro Rail Project.

Image Credit: Christopher Forsyth

THE PUBLIC LIFE OF PRIVATE BUILDINGS

THIS STUDIO IS ABOUT POLITICS, REAL ESTATE, & A/C CONDENSORS THIS STUDIO IS ABOUT PRIVATE ARCHITECTURE WITH A CONSCIENCE

TIM PYKE + MARK RAGGATT RMIT Wednesday from 6:30pm

DRIFT Genitc DRIFT is an evolutionary mechanism describing the change over time of the agregate or collective traits of a popultation.

The third in a series of studios exploring evolution in architectural and urban terms, where the city is understood as an emergent system and ‘new’ constituent elements are introduced as mutations or evolutions of existing conditions. In this context biological species are analogous to architectural/urban type, where experiments in typological deformation explore how existing urban or architectural types can be ‘evolved’ via mutation, hybridisation or grafting in response to emergent demands.

BEN MILBOURNE

These ideas will be tested through the lens of the Melbourne Metro project, where sites transformed by the program are leveraged for property development. These sites, often within areas of the city that have demonstrated high levels of community activism against increased density – present intriguing challenges to conventional notions of context.

Urban voids, a type of engineered tabular rasa –located within a network of existing urban relationships and historical occupation. Operating at the scale of the megastructure while necessarily negotiating local and existing conditions. The Drift studio will test existing building types and precedents, exploring hybrids and new evolutions that address these contradictions.

TUESDAYS, 9:30-1:30PM Image: Simon Tuckett

MEGA RAT WE KNOW WHAT A CITY LOOKS LIKE. WE KNOW WHAT A TOWN LOOKS LIKE. WHAT DOES A PUMPED UP TOWN LOOK LIKE? THIS STUDIO LOOKS AT CIVIC ARCHITECTURE FOR A TOWN THAT TRIPLES IN SIZE. EXPERIMENTING IN BALLARAT MEGA RAT WILL TEST IDEAS OF PUBLIC SQUARES, PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS FOR A PUMPED UP TOWN. THIS STUDIO WILL WORK IN PARALLEL WITH THE DREAM TOWN STUDIO. THIS EXPLORATION WILL ATTEMPT TO PRY LOOSE A SET OF VALUES, AN UNFAMILIAR SYNTAX, AND QUESTION....

HOW DOES GREAT ARCHITECTURE MAKE A GREAT (MEGA)TOWN? VON GUERARD BALLARAT 1953

MARK LANE / GRAHAM CRIST

Master of Architecture Studio Semester 02 2016 Tuesday Nights 6:30pm

A town square. Defining buildings, an edge. Public realm Public Building? Public Housing? Typology? DNA of a town?

SITE: Footscray.

A partner studio with ‘Mega Rat’, students will work in groups throughout the semester.

TIME: Tuesday from 6.30pm.

TURORS: Peter Bickle/Lance van Maanen

R E S I L I E N T E N V I R O N M E N T S M E L B O U R N E M E T R O MASTERS OF ARCHITECTURE STUDIO SEMESTER 2 2016 TUTORS: JONATHAN WARE + MAURO BARACCO WEDNESDAYS 6 - 10 PM

Cities

This studio will place architectural design in a leading position to develop design-based solutions to urban resilience by considering the traditional concerns of land use and urbanisation anew. It will investigate the role and effects of ‘infrastructural development’ applied to urban environments that are currently undergoing intensive urban transformation. The Melbourne Metro project, will be explored as a relevant case-study context that will be tested at many different scales. A range of urban, landscape, housing and infrastructural projects applied to specific station locations and the networks between will seek to transform current urban and environmental conditions into a series of integrated resilient urban/architectural/ landscape and infrastructural environments.

This studio will utilise the Melbourne Metro project as a major driver of new resilient infrastructures for the city by creating vibrant and livable urban habitats.

Our interventions will work toward incorporating new and available technologies and performative systems which help to reduce the environmental impacts of cities on their local and territorial contexts, therefore harnessing and integrating new energy sources, water filtration methods, ecological remediation systems amongst many more.

A key architectural concern will be affordable housing which is seen as fundamental to urban resilience.

What alternatives can supply an increasing demand in housing to a disenfranchised generation? By treating architecture as an infrastructure for living we will suggest adaptable and occupiable frameworks as an alternative to bespoke and aestheticised architecture which continues to drive the speculative housing market.

We will look at the values gained and the lessons learnt from the radical architecture of the 60’s + 70’s and attempt to relate these to current situations, extending the social and political agendas of these works into the contemporary realm with a focus on urban and environmental rehabilitation + landscape/ infrastructural resilience as a means to mitigate the ongoing effects of climate change. robin hood gardens - the smithsons

no-stop city - archizoom

bosco verticale - stefano boeri

the continuous monument - superstudio

G N I K FUC Y T N I A D

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MICHAEL SPOONER

This studio continues the assault on Jack’s Magazine, a colonial gun powder storage facility along the Maribyrno ng River. The 3m high bluestone wa lls and 10m high earth blast wall are as alarmi ng as anything by Lequeu, Ledoux and Boullee.

A program, as such, is described as a centre for the repatriation and distribution of indigenous objects. In part this wa s prompted by the British Museu m’s exhibition Indigenous Australia: enduring civi lization and the NMA exhibition Enc ounters and the subsequent debate around the objects, stories and peoples dis pla yed in the exhibitions, held within the collec tions of both institutions and in furt her private and publics collections around the wo rld. More importantly the studio waas struck by the word indigenous and the cur ious manner by which it could be pursued.

The intention of this studio is to consider that repatriation and distribution is a fait accompli, and that the techniques and methods of wo rking put forth in previous studios, whilst turned towards a specific que er narrative, are in fact approaches and tec hniques that can be aligned tow ards the emancipation of others.

RE TU C E IT H C R A F O S R TE S A M DESIGN STUDIO 2016

Disobey.

- developing and interfacing design and manufacturing protocols

M.Arch Intensive Design Studio Sandra Manninger with Cameron Newnham Material is still a parameter that is resisting computational control. Its complex behavior is organized by a sequence of interfacing entities that is increasing – the body immersed into the environment – and decreasing – the subdivision of the body into particles – in scale at the same time. These entities are ruled by organizational principles that we just have started to understand. At the same time, we are given tools and instruments that have the potential to connect to these new information and insights we generate and receive and that help us to develop new sensors and sensibilities based on data rather than visual information.

This studio will develop design and manufacturing protocols that unfold the potential of contemporary design and manufacturing. An existing turn of the century retail building forms the platform from which students will develop an interior for a fashion store. Material culture forms the basis for an investigation that will lead to contributing to cultural production at large.

We will work with parametric systems in Grasshopper and the RMIT Robotics Lab (prior experience not compulsory).

Schedule Week 1+2: Wednesday Week 3-5: Intensive - Monday, Wednesday and Friday meetings Week 6-10: Wednesday

Specific times and locations TBC

Georgina Karavasil & Vicki Karavasil 5pm Tuesdays

Investigating a series of different processes in a means to create variation and complexity.

This studio will be looking at how can we experiment and explore new ways in which process based architecture can allow us to create geometries that can be imagined in a way that “encourage an eruption of events, social encounters and opportunities for activity,” rather than designing with a particular hierarchy of spaces. _Architecture and freedom? innovation in the work of Koolhaas /OMA The aim is to produce a diverse architecture with a laps of coordinated and disorientated narratives through an experiential journey between variable spaces and how you move through them. This may be interpreted through a variable threshold, expanse of concourse and the relationship between the intimate environment and the public realm.

“To liquefy ridged programming into non-specific flows and events, to weave together exterior and interior spaces into a frank differential matrix.’’ _Architecture and freedom? innovation in the work of Koolhaas /OMA We will be looking at how we think of architecture as a space that can be imagined and desired, and then how that can be translated into reality.

You may be in a state of utter confusion…….. however you will be creating a functioning matrix for the future.

CATALYST 100YearCity Malaysia Design Studio Leader: BRENT ALLPRESS with Professor Tom Kovac + Jose Alfano, University of Melbourne Industry partners: MIMSB, Malaysia Tuesdays 10.00am-2.00pm; RMIT Design Hub Level 9 This studio investigates the contribution that strategic architectural design interventions can make to the staged development of the new city Medini Iskandar that is being founded in southern Malaysia, directly across the straights from Singapore. This city is being constructed on a green field site. Transportation and roading infrastructure has been implemented and some initial buildings have been constructed. The city is at a nascent stage of development. This presents a unique opportunity to make architectural proposals that could inform the future evolution of this major new urban centre. The studio will involve critical design responses through architectural interventions that work with, against and across existing urban masterplan assumptions.

Metropolitan scale urban scenarios for the staged development of the city will be investigated from the immediately implementable through to longest term projections and speculations on the viable, vibrant and sustainable future of this city and region. Architectural built fabric scaled design proposals and projects will be developed in response to and as a driver for that staged framework. Alternatives to mono-functional zoning defaults will be emphasised. Hybrid building typologies will be considered. Emerging urban economies and technologies will be investigated. Counter-compositional design strategies will be explored.

The role of anchor architectural projects with high design values as a catalyst for urban precinct scale development will be a key focus, looking at a productive contestation between the special and the generic.

The opportunistic co-option and curation of metropolitan scale infrastructure offers a potential means to gain a critical mass, intensity and quality of urban life.

This studio is being offered as part of a funded architectural design research project 100YearCity Malaysia with industry partners MIMSB who are developing the new city. Outcomes of this studio will be presented in the Venice Architecture Biennale Sessions in November 2016 and at the inaugural Malaysia Biennale in November 2017, and design proposals are expected to be of the highest exhibitable standard.

RAIL NEOPOLIS CLARA CONSORTIUM

PAUL MINIFIE + CAMERON NEWNHAM ARCHITECTURE + URBAN DESIGN STUDIO DESIGN HUB MUD SPACE - WEDNESDAY 6PM The Rail Neopolis sets out to propose a new city for rural Victoria premised around a station on the very fast rail link between Melbourne and Sydney. With the arrival of such fast connections, regional areas can be understood as very much closer to the centre of Melbourne creating enabling the development of new dense centres of occupation geographically distant, but temporally proximate to the services and opportunities of the metropolitan centre.

This studio is one of a group of four studios participating in a research collaborative with CLARA, an international consortium proposing a privately funded fast rail link: “The vision of CLARA is to build a High Speed Rail network between Sydney and Melbourne via Canberra. On greenfield sites along this corridor we will build eight of the world’s most advanced, sustainable, SMART cities. It is the largest undertaking of its kind anywhere in the world. CLARA’s plan will address the widely recognised issue of overcrowding that faces Sydney and Melbourne. Moreover, we will provide prototype SMART high-tech and sustainable cities that will meet the quality of life, housing and environmental challenges that threaten to plague modern Australia.”

The Rail Neopolis studio will develop a specific design for one of these cities, in this case a standalone city, of population 300,000 on a greenfield site, located in the northern victorian shire of Strathbogie. Design will proceed by deploying the Morpholis platform, a sophisticated digital urban model which evolves urban configurations that optimise travel times, community facilities and other urban desiderata. It will finish with a fabulously compelling and developed urban proposal, ready to be environmentally assessed by the CSIRO, and other members of the CLARA team.

Note: Attend the CLARA public launch, 11:30 Thursday 14th July, RMIT Building 80

RMIT MASTER OF URBAN DESIGN SEMESTER 2 2016 RMIT MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE SEMESTER 2 2016

THE TOCUMWAL TRAVELLER (OR YARRA YARRA YARRA)

The development of the new Australian city is a sorry tale. From the MFP to the GAA, from Docklands to Barangaroo, new cities are hampered by wish thinking when it comes to their conception and guided by a series of formulaic received ideas and empty clichés when it comes to their design. These twin habits ensure that the promise of any future metropolis as the worlds ‘most liveable’ will be still-born. Stuck in purgatory between top down and bottom up, strategies for the design of new cities have fallen off our professions psychological map. This studio will contest the generic and unquestioned orthodoxies of city making – the tabula rasa, the co-ordinating master plan, precinct thinking, planning as equilibrium - and seek to uncouple them from the venturous spatially imagined design that might be argued as the legacy of the late 19th Century’s ‘Marvellous Melbourne’.

We will examine counter arguments based on enabling infrastructure, the void and the territorial grid put our assumptions under the stress of providing the framework for a new city at Tocumwal, City 4 on the CLARA consortium’s proposed Sydney to Melbourne high speed rail project. City 4 will house 250,000 residents or approximately three times the current population of the City of Yarra.

The studio is part of three others being run this semester on new cities that might be enabled by the high speed rail project.

WHERE: MUD space (100.9). WHEN: Tuesday Nights 6:00-10:00. STUDIO LEADER: Mark Jacques.

RMIT MASTER OF URBAN DESIGN SEMESTER 2 2016 RMIT MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE SEMESTER 2 2016

INCLUSIVE CITY: VALLCARCA THE BARCELONA TRAVELLING STUDIO

Housing is a program capable of adapting to very diverse urban and social situations, and one which can help to regenerate the fractured fabric of the city. This studio will be about housing and the city: studying the city via the program of housing and studying housing from an attitude toward the city. In a situation of global crisis, collective housing can help to give stability and to restore the confidence that seems to have been lost in many layers of current society. Trust in neighbours and a belief in shared infrastructure generates a community in which one can feel accompanied and supported at any time; it is a our belief that architecture has tactics for promoting this kind of exchange and these tactics will be explored through the studio.

We care about the inclusive character of social housing, with its ability to incorporate sectors of the society at risk of exclusion, not only economically but also culturally. Collective housing can function as a first social circle within the larger structure of society and the city. That is why the multidisciplinary formation of the architect is essential to understand the social impact implicit in the housing design.

We will be working in a very fragmented area of the City of Barcelona, one which shows a great discontinuity between urban patterns: the Vallcarca neighbourhood. The site is around the valley formed by the El Putxet, the Creueta del Coll and the Muntanya Pelada Hills adjacent to the back area of the GĂźell Park.

4 Weeks in Melbourne WHERE: MUD space (100.9) WHEN: Tuesday Nights 6:00-10:00.

2 Weeks in Barcelona WHERE: Barcelona, ETSAB WHEN: 31st November - 12th December STUDIO LEADER: Eva Prats.

CONSOLIDATED LAND AND RAIL AUSTRALIA

URBAN IDENTITY AND LIVEABILITY IN THE DESIGN OF NEW CITIES WHEN: WEDNESDAY NIGHTS 5:30PM WHERE: TBC STUDIO LEADERS: DR JAN VAN SCHAIK & ESTHER ANATOLITIS WHAT: THIS STUDIO WILL EXPLORE THE POTENTIAL FOR NEW METHODS OF CITY DESIGN.

THE STUDIO WILL SET OUT TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

HOW CAN A URBAN IDENTITY BE INJECTED IN TO A BRAND NEW CITY?

HOW CAN LIVEABILITY BE GENERATED AND MEASURED?

IS THERE REALLY ANY SUCH THING AS A GREENFIELD SITE?

HOW CAN WE UNDERSTAND HIGH SPEED RAIL IN THE CONTEXT OF CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS CULTURES?

HOW CAN A CITY BE SET UP TO DESIGN ITSELF?

THE STUDIO WILL DEVELOP A DESIGN FOR A NEW CITY TO MEET A BRIEF SET BY CLARA AND THE CSIRO.

THE OUTCOMES OF THE STUDIO WILL DIRECTLY INFORM THE DESIGN OF A NEW CITY, ON THE HIGH SPEED RAIL LINE BETWEEN MELBOURNE CANBERRA AND SYDNEY.

THE OUTCOMES OF THE STUDIO WILL ALSO INFORM THE METHODS OF DEVELOPING IDENTITY AND LIVEABLITY IN ALL OTHER CITIES BEING DEVELOPED ALONG THE HIGH SPEED RAIL LINE

HOW: STUDENTS WILL INVESTIGATE NEW WAYS OF THINKING ABOUT THE CITY BY:

INVESTIGATING HOW CITIES OF DEVELOPED IN THE PAST

EXAMINING FAILED UTOPIAS AND MASTERPLANS

SPECULATING ON THE DEMOGRAPHICS AND CULTURES OF ITS FUTURE CONSTITUENTS

STUDENTS WILL BE INVOLVED IN A NUMBER OF SITE VISITS THE STUDIO WILL ENGAGE DIRECTLY WITH THE LOCAL INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES AND WITH BUSINESSES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF THE NEAREST REGIONAL CITY

SITE:

THE GREATER CITY OF SHEPPARTON

DR JAN VAN SCHAIK IS A RESEARCHER AND LECTURER AT RMIT UNIVERSITY AND A CO-DIRECTOR OF MVS ARCHITECTS ESTHER ANATOLITS IS A WRITER AND PHILOSOPHER AND THE DIRECTOR OF REGIONAL ARTS VICTORIA

Our cities have become a place and process of extreme familiarity. This studio will seek to find design potentials in the ordinary and over the course of the semester we will revisit the pre-fuzz atomic era, challenge the hi-viz neighbourhood character of new urbanism and forecast and research the possibilities of ‘The Mobility Transformation Centre’ as a proving ground for the ‘Hi-fuzz’ suburb of the future.

We will not use ‘fuzzing’ as just a technique for locating vulnerabilities.

Rather, we will embrace ‘fuzzing’ as a way to realise potential.

Be the poet, be the courier and fuzz your inner oracle.

Simon Drysdale. Wednesday 6pm+

FUZZ