RMIT Master of Architecture Studio Posters, 2018 Semester 2

RMIT ARCHITECTURE MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO BALLOTING POSTERS SEM 2, 2018

nD_Rise Alisa Andrasek In a context of densification of the cities, and sourcing from the principles of complexity theory, this studio will engage in speculatively evolving the tower typology.

High volumes of computing, computational physics simulations, discretized and adaptive algorithms, inclusion of big data sourced from multiple domains, and AI, are opening new spaces for design synthesis.

The studio will critically engage with these new developments in technology, which are rapidly changing the landscape of architecture, its social and economical role and its effectiveness in industry applications. The acute approaches to algorithms, robotics, machine learning, 3D printing, and simulation will be actively discussed and explored.

In a context of rewriting a tower ecology, we will be spanning myriad of interrelated scales - from micro enabled by new forms of robotic construction, to macro enabled by big data and simulation. Various forms of 3D printing are growing in scale, becoming increasingly relevant to architecture. Multi-material printing introduces blending material states in high definition, resulting in super-performing, lightweight yet strong structures and yielding previously unseen aesthetics. Studio will engage in crafting highly intricate building skins, deepening the surface into multi-resolution tissue.

We will seek to re-pattern largely linear organisational states found in the tower typology, into poly-scalar, heterogeneous sequencing of cloud-like neighbourhoods. We will be simulating and rendering chunks of architecture at various orders of scale, searching for the unseen, awestruck aesthetics, glimpses of tangible futures, yet to be embraced within a fabric of architecture.

Studio will use pre-written code and bespoke computational processes inherited from Andrasek’s prior research, to run design search targeted at high resolution towers.

Series of workshops will enhance the studio, converging with a design-research team proficient in code, and working on an active project to be materialised through advanced algorithms and industrial robotic manufacturing.

Prior computational and code skills are highly advantageous and encouraged for this studio.

TUESDAYS 5.30 - 10.00PM 100.05.005

and another thing As the population of Melbourne grows there is a lot of focus on the resultant shape of the city. Typical models have the inner city going skywards and the outer expanding exponentially. The middle suburbs are changing shape along busy corridors and inner suburbs like Collingwood are changing radically in demographic if not in form.

While low value areas of the inner suburbs are being developed, blanket heritage overlays protect vast areas of Carlton, Fitzroy, North and East Melbourne from significant change. In a sense this pushes the problem of density elsewhere, perhaps reasonably as these areas already have idyllic densities and perfectly functioning neighbourhoods. We’ll interrogate the most liveable of Melbourne’s suburbs, East Melbourne, for its ability to sustain the same population again in step with the forecast doubling of Melbourne’s population by 2050. By imperilling this suburb we’ll test the strength of its current settings and propose new systems that enable it to survive with its current high-ranking status. We’ll see how the shape of the city might not undergo dramatic change so much as a thickening.

We’ll complete weekly architectural projects contributing to a complex vision for the suburb at the end of semester.

We’ll use the projects to better understand the city and the effect of growth on the part (suburb) and how this shapes the whole. All students will be alone in their work.

Project area: 190 hectares Population: 5,500 x 2 at completion Residences: 3,000 x ? at completion Wednesday 5:30pm 100.04.004 Simone Koch

(A). TYPOLOGICAL + PROCEDURAL EXPERIMENTS The studio will be a workshop of generative and typological experiments investigating how contaminations and transformations of diverse typologies can assist in re-imagining formal, spatial and organizational architectural elements for learning environments (form, circulation, program & spatial arrangement, ornament, etc.)

Rule-based process experiments will be deployed to assist in manipulating, distorting, amplifying, shattering, dispersing, and {insert action here} the behaviours and qualities of existing types to affect the architectural elements of school typologies. The studio will not only be interested in a process based approach but more so, what could be generated in terms of architectural propositions in this specific way of working.

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This studio is part of a research and design led exploration of and speculation on alternative models for work/live/learn typologies through specific site conditions and typological rule-based experiments. This studio will speculate on Models for Education Alternative Typologies (M.E.A.T.)

(B) MODELS for EDUCATION ALTERNATIVE TYPOLOGIES [MEAT]

IN COLLABORATION W I T H R M I T S C H O O L O F E D U C A T I O N , R M I T P R O P E R T Y S E R V I C E S A N D V I V I A N M I T S O G I A N N I

The studio will continue its exploration on speculative strategies for learning environments on specific site and architectural conditions (flat school, high-rise, dispersed, compact, etc.) At an urban scale - we will question civic presence and contribution to specific urban conditions; formal and ornamental strategies – exploring formal strategies, scenarios and identity; and learning spatial and programmatic arrangements – examining spatial relationships and interaction between different learning modalities and settings.

(C) RMIT URBAN HIGH The studio will be a vehicle to seek out architectural possibilities - generating experimental propositions and prototypical spatial and formal models for learning environments and to open up design conversations for the development of RMIT’s Urban High School.

Sites: Arden-Macaulay | Fitzroy North

Background Image: The Book of MEAT [Models for Education Alternative Typologies] Edition 1 pages produced by Jung Jing Justin Chan, Dik Yeung Chan, Long Cheng, Xin Yan Choo, Dilan Fernando, Zhuqi Hou, Lia Fernanda Grimmer Perez, Madeleine Di Salvo, Peiwen Shang, Jacqueline Tang, Jocelyn Suat Yee Tay, Dijia Yang, Yichen Yang and Ka Yee Wong; studio cohort from ‘Learning Frontiers: RMIT Urban High’, Semester 1 2018.

Beyond the Workplace...

Georgina Karavasil & Vicki Karavasil Tuesday 5:30pm What might the workplace of the future look like?

Through adopting a means of process driven thinking, this studio will be looking at how we can redefine the office experience.

Through the investigations in this studio, a framework will be borne out of extensive research and development for the office building of the future. Students will be encouraged to design spaces that permit diversity and connectivity, allowing its inhabitants to easily work where they want, how they want, when they want and with whom they want.

The studio will be exploring at how we can adopt methods of process driven design through investigating a series of different processes in a means to create variation and complexity, but also to discover new architectural conditions that can expand the possibilities of occupation in an office setting.

How can we experiment and explore new ways in which process-based architecture can allow us to create new spatial experiences and networked environments that can be imagined in a way that ‘encourage an eruption of events, social encounters and opportunities for activity?

The aim is to produce a diverse architecture that can redefine how we work.

This studio will explore the design of intricate forms, their atmospheric affects and strange qualities. Advances in robotic fabrication and building-scale 3D printing is about to radically change the relationship between cost and form, with highly intricate geometries becoming cheaper than conventional fabrication of rectilinear geometry.

The studio will explore forms that are becoming possible with emerging building-scale 3D printing, in an attempt to articulate what the forms of 3D printed architecture might be and how these could be a radical departure from current architectural form-making. Within this context the studio will develop a synthetic design process that combines emergent algorithmic approaches, the logic of 3D printing and painterly operations to create a strange hybrid, tested rigorously through the manufacturing of large scaled 3D printed prototypes.

The relationship between architectural form, manufacturing constraints and structural logics will be the critical interrogation of this studio. Rather than a linear or sequential relationship between various aspects of the design process these will be explored simultaneously, interacting within a continuous feedback.

No experience with algorithmic tools is required, however a willingness to engage in these tools and highly iterative processes is essential.

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SYNTHETIC FORMS ROLAND SNOOKS + CHARLIE BOMAN MASTERS STUDIO

WEDNESDAY 5:30 - 9:30PM

RMIT MASTER OF URBAN DESIGN SEMESTER 2 2018 RMIT MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE SEMESTER 2 2018

MUCH MORE MACAULEY ( OR ENTREPRENEURIAL IRRITATIONS )

The State Government of Victoria has purchased and is master planning a 20 hectare city on the former North Melbourne industrial site at Arden which will be home to a new population of 50,000 people and the new Arden Metro Rail station. However, Melbourne’s recent form with urban renewal at this scale has been guided by a series of formulaic received ideas and repeated clichés that seemly likely to deliver a series of inert development sites at Arden rather than the diverse and multivalent situations that we might associate with the city.

This studio will contest the generic and unquestioned orthodoxies of contemporary precinct making and urban renewal – the tabula rasa, the co-ordinating master plan and the benign public realm - and seek to replace them with speculative strategies for entrepreneurial, spatial and disaggregated urban growth of which RMIT’s own campus expansion is an exemplar.

We will analyse RMIT’s disaggregated urban campus and speculate on designing and growing the city based on enabling infrastructure, catalytic agents and civic irritation. We will put our assumptions to the test by providing a spatial design that will act as a catalyst and plan for the Macauley precinct - to the north of Arden, but yet to be planned or rezoned by the state.

Three scenarios or armatures for growth with be tested, all based around existing state or Crown land assets: “Shinboner City”, “Resurrection City” and “Room for the River”.

The studio will be run alongside Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores’ elective in Kensington called “Second Hand” and will include a midsemester symposium where representatives from Government, practice and industry will speak about the design of new urban regeneration precincts within the city.

WHERE: (100.7.TBC). WHEN: Tuesday Nights 6:00-10:00. STUDIO LEADER: Mark Jacques.

IF MEALS PLAYED MUSE As architecture succumbs to the global forces of efficiency, exactitude, and standardisation we will be striving for an other. Where current systems demand reason over ambiguity; where the experimental has been replaced by the explainable; assurance over risk; quantity over quality; we will not. Where people have been replaced with data; technique with technology; we will place emphasis on the open-ended, non-tautological project. The studio is interested in the nature of things; the stuff of life that inhabits architecture. Like the Chinese game Wei Qi, we champion strategic encirclement.

Multiple contests taking place simultaneously in different regions of the board.

The studio seeks to use the Southbank Arts Precinct as a testing ground for propagating cultural authenticity, plurality and diversity. How can we better connect and relate to our city? Perhaps the answer lies within Melbourne’s food culture. Cuisine has evolved as the last stronghold of context. We’ll continue to use the most contemporary operative form of contextualisation – foraging – as a method of designing to create deeply resonant and particular architectural language.

Over the past two decades a number of cities have commissioned and expanded upon their arts and cultural assets, many opting for big-ticket downtown districts. Our studio will investigate the antithesis; informal cultural densities, and investigate how we can reveal, challenge and subvert the existing precinct model. For us, what is interesting about the informal phenomena is they it don’t doesn’t rely on policy and generally develops without city, state or philanthropic aid. It is the strong bonds and social networks established in grass-roots community neighbourhoods and establishments that eventually translates into economic dynamism. How can architecture facilitate this?

The projects will become places of for cultural exchange. This semester students will be asked to design a venue to host an experimental dining experience… amongst other things.

STUDIO LEADERS: Danielle Peck & Samuel Hunter TIME: Wednesday 6pm LOCATION: Design Hub, 100.05.003 Image: Pieter Aertsen Butcher's Stall With the Flight into Egypt, 1551

HKIDHD HONG KONG INNOVATION DISTRICT HIGH DENSITY

This studio will focus on manufacturing and production as a component of high density urban environments. Manufacturing and making has traditionally been a component of diverse mercantile cities such as Hong Kong. The shift towards mechanised large scale production through the 20th century has resulted in a decline of many of the artisanal and traditional ways of making that occurred as an ad hoc component of the city. In the 21st century, mass models of manufacturing are themselves progressively becoming obsolete, with new technologies and full automation changing the way things are made.

More and more it is possible for manufacturing and production to occur again in close proximity to urban centres. 3d printing and other fabrication technologies have made it increasingly possible for the production of objects, and complex assemblies to take place in non-industrial settings, however this is the tip of the iceberg. In the future it will be possible for everything from computer components to fresh food to be produced within our urban environments.

In this space the challenge for architecture is to envision how these shifts might change our cities, both through form and typology, but also in the way they are programmed, inhabited and influence our social structures. The challenge is to understand the role of the architect in designing the manufacturing spaces of the future, and to draw on technical innovation as a catalyst of architectural design innovation.

These ideas will be tested through the design of a high density mixed use manufacturing and research complex in a high density area of Hong Kong, which provides a unique set of challenges. Working through a series of design led case studies, students will familiarise themselves with the emerging urban model of the ‘innovation district,’ an agglomeration of institutional, commercial and civic programs focused around the development of new ideas, and the making of things. This will be accompanied by a rigorous examination of the historical evolution, context and urban structures of Hong Kong, its typologies and the tower type more broadly. We will be looking closely at processes of formation and making, both at the scale of the object through fabrication techniques and technologies, and at the scale of the city through the organisation of urban blocks.

Work will be carried out in pairs. In addition to the normal suite of architectural drawing techniques, the studio will be focusing on the emergent forms of representation in both in 3D via additive printing and 2D via animation techniques. A workshop on the use of animation software packages will be held in the first portion of the semester.

HKIDHD HONG KONG INNOVATION DISTRICT HIGH DENSITY

TUTORS:

John Doyle (RMIT Architecture) Vicky Lam (RMIT Architecture)

PROPOSED TIMELINE:

Semester 2 2018. Wednesday Evenings from weeks 4-7 and 10-12 in Melbourne with an intensive 2 week workshop in Hong Kong during weeks 8 & 9.

TRAVELLING TO: Hong Kong

Information session will be held in early July 2018 refer to your student emails.

RMIT Support: Students can apply for RMIT Student Travel Scholarships and Grants see: https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/life-and-work-opportunities/global-study-and-work/ costs-and-scholarships. Note that travelling students will not be eligible for RMIT Global Experience grants, however may be eligible for other forms of funding. Students may apply for OS-HELP loans. Further advice will be provided at the briefing session.

Maximum number of students: TBC. Contact: John Doyle (john.doyle@rmit.edu.au) and Vicky Lam (vicky.lam@rmit.edu.au)

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Over one in three Australians over the age of 65 were born in a non-english speaking country. These people represent Australia’s complex mix of ethnic, linguistic and cultural variation.

They have been directly affected by some of the major cultural, economic and political upheavals of the twentieth century, undergoing unimaginable emotional and physical stresses. And yet, the environments where many of these people are and will live out their dying days, in what might still be considered a foreign land, perhaps reliving the pains of their lives through dementia – are some of the most banal, institutional and dollar driven excuses for Architecture.

Helen Duong & Tim Pyke

This studio will investigate how a sense of cultural specificity can be brought to the Aged Care type. Whilst the complexity of the type will not be radically reinvented, the studio aims to understand the clients from a cultural perspective related to aging, care and lifestyle - whether this be ethnically or class based.

We will explore how domestic life is structured and the values are attributed to the home, how they occupy and place value on the public realm . These forms of occupation will be used as drivers for both a new Architectural expression and the design of the public spaces and domestic environments.

The skill of the architect will be used to examine and redesign the base product to better reflect the values and cultures of this increasingly neglected group of people.

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RMIT Master of Architecture Design studio 2018 GRAHAM CRIST Wednesday 6pm Why is the small and the close so important?

Tight = Dense: Precise: Cheap: Intimate The studio connects to the project for a Supertight exhibition looking at the intelligence of small space and Asian cities.

Where does Melbourne fit into this? Questions of scale are pressing here as in all cities.

We will work in the MIDDLE RING of Melbourne, and do designs for: 1.Small House/big block: 2.Small footprint tower: 3.Tight Public Hub, and together accumulate some propositions about a tight city.

Cross Realities

Intensive Design Studio S2 2018 Sandra Manninger w/ Sean Guy Industry 4.0 is a name for the current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies. It includes cyber-physical systems, the internet of things, cloud computing, and cognitive computing. In the light of a world in the process of transforming from an anthropocentric to a posthuman society, the question is how the architectural field can position itself - in a world without work, and a world of full automation?

The Cross Realities studio presents an opportunity to critically investigate the role of automation in a future world of building, including the conversations on its impact as a cultural technique for the production of an architectural utopia. The intent is to develop alternative design and/or fabrication protocols.

Students will be focusing on a field of their interest. Starting off with an intensive design and research workshop that will introduce the main tools used during the semester, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be working in teams to develop modes of operation.

Meeting times Week 1-6 Tuesday, Friday 9:30am-1:30pm Week 6-12 TBC Room 100.10.001

HIGH orchid Region, town and place are the scales.

Brief: Heathcote Dementia Village.

Themes: WayFORMing, deSIGN through scenario and the famiLIAR When: Wed 6pm with Simon Drysdale

LYONS PRACTICE STUDIO RMIT Master of Architecture Design Studio

Cultural Capital?

Semester 2, 2018 Melbourne proudly self-identifies as a ‘city of culture’ and the ‘cultural capital’ of the nation. The city is entertained by festivals, touring block-buster exhibitions and now a triennial of contemporary art. These cultural activities are focused on the Arts Precinct and include the NGV, Arts Centre, Hamer Hall, Federation Square, ACCA and the public spaces in their vicinity. The recently unveiled plans for Melbourne‘s Art Precinct are intended to further to city’s ambitions as a globally recognized ‘cultural destination’.

At the same time, creative activities remain subject to an ongoing ‘culture war’ over national history and identity, the accessibility or elitism of the arts, and the tension between public subsidy and commercial savvy to ‘pay their own way’. These are but a few of the debates that charge the perception of the creative arts and their relevance to diverse audiences.

The LYONS Practice Studio will explore these issues as ‘creative tensions’ for constructing proposals for new creative arts spaces. The discursive model of the debate will be used to encourage students to take a ‘strident position’ and advocate through their architectural strategies. The projects are intended to ‘talk back’ to the city and its citizens.

Recent proposals for the Arts Precinct, including NGV3 and the Arts Centre, will be a starting point for the studio to debate how culture is presented in the city, and for examiningof the model of the ‘major institution’ as patron, venue and as a form of ‘city building’. The studio will explore a range of disciplines and mediums to debate how new combinations of ‘old’ and ‘contemporary’ creative practices, could, through their creative tension, speculate on the future cultural capital of the city.

Studio Leaders Professor Carey Lyon, Adam Pustola & Nina Wyatt WEDNESDAY 6 – 9PM AT LYONS OFFICE Level 3 246 Bourke St, Melbourne