RMIT Master of Architecture Studio Posters, 2019 Semester 1

RMIT ARCHITECTURE MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO BALLOTING POSTERS SEM 1, 2019

IDENTITY, ETHNICITY, TRANSLATION, PUBLIC SPACE LOST AND REDISCOVERED

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF JOY?

Australia has a long history of migration.

These successive waves have introduced a diversity of cultures and forms of occupation.

The significance of food, entrepreneurial use of public space, extended operating hours, visible cultural festivals and activities in the public domain have contributed and helped transform our cities into complex, layered and rich urban experiences for everyone.

With people aged over 65 set to double in the next 35 years and the need for 76,000 places in the next 5 years alone, the Aged Care sector is gearing up to deliver choice and lifestyle driven products to the independent and active baby boomer generation. Yet for the 30% of the population over 70 that speak another language other than english at home, rely on immediate family support, have some or no understanding of dementia, the medical system and support networks, the need for culturally specific aged care is a big gap that providers are only beginning to understand and few a ready to capitalise on.

Current aged care providers and designs are likely to deliver either highly serviced resort and hotel style housing or universal developments that cater to all diverse cultures, leaving specificity up to at best food, language and decor. This is likely to lead to more bland, placeless developments rather than ones that reflect the sense of connectedness, specificity and complexity we associate with good cities.

The studio will contest the generic aged care type as an extension of the home, as a universal environment, as a place that prioritises privacy, choice and the individual above the collective identity, minimises risk and stifles experimentation or flexibility.

Instead the studio seeks to replace them with speculative designs that mine our adaptable cities for inspiration, maps out rituals attached to public space, explores the role of memory on space present and imported.

We will analyse a series of inner and middle ring suburban shopping strips that have served as the location of flexible adaptation and are undergoing gentrification, growth, decline or stasis. We will track their history, evolution and migrant appropriation in order to speculate on their future and design architecture that encapsulates what the microcosm of public life could look like.

Just as one actively participates in the city and seeks or creates moments that elicit familiarity, reinforce identity, foster community, facilitate wonder, stimulation, provide solace and peacefulness, why should these experiences stop once one enters an aged care facility? Can the diversity and complexity of public life be a catalyst for change? We will test these observations in the the design of cultural specific aged care home.

Helen Duong & Tim Pyke

Tuesdays 6PM |100.05.03

be not afraid of being called un-fashionable

moderation is a fatal thing. nothing succeeds like excess

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom

DEFYING THE IDEAL

LEADERS: PETER BICKLE, OLIVIA AKL, LAURA BAILEY, GEORGIA EADE, TOM JONES “Defying the ideal; public architecture and the search for ideas of secular decoration.“ In a secular culture how does public architecture express meaning. What are the sources for decoration that are relevant? A materialist se politic means that traditions are constantly being undermined by eternal change (“All that is solid melts into air”). How can decoration contribute to making a public architecture which responds to the demands of constant change. The studio will research the traditions of decoration and their underlying precepts. Consequently it will provide an underpinning to propose decorative strategies which are relevant to constantly evolving ideas of beauty, and which aren’t expressions of an idealist aspiration.

TUESDAY 5:30pm, ARM OFFICE, LEVEL 11/522 FLINDERS LANE

COMMERCE AND THE NATURE OF THE PUBLIC REALM

STUDIO LEADERS:

The studio will explore the exploitation of the ‘uneasy alliance’ through investigating the role of commerce within the ‘public realm’.

Nick Bourns with Leona Dusanovic

Using Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Market Renewal as a platform for discursive investigation.

Tuesdays, 6pm

A sense of public ownership of this site and its history has turned this into an open public debate as to what is an appropriate response to this Private business held in the Public Heart. Students will enter and explore this debate. Looking at the boundaries of what makes ‘public’ beyond a fiscal definition and how the future of the Market site might be augmented through its redevelopment.

Is the Market ‘Public’ at all? It is at its core a retail venue bound by a need to provide a facility that enables the sale of goods for profit, however it is the breakdown of obvious ownership and its very ‘publicness’ that may well be the key to its enduring success over the years.

EVOLVING THE GREY

SHANGHAI TRAVELLING STUDIO This studio will focus on the peri-urban region at the edges of the Yangze River Delta (YRD) region in China. The YRD is an urban agglomeration formed of a cluster of cities that includes Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Ningbo, Wuxi, and numerous other urban centres. It covers an area of 99,600 square kilometres (38,500 sq mi) and is home to over 115 million people.

While much of the focus of growth, capital and architectural speculation has been on the major financial and industrial centres that form its urban cores, a vast expanse of the YRD is formed of a peri-urban ‘grey zone’ that houses at least 1/3 of the region’s population and stretches along transit corridors between city clusters. The rapid expansion of the city, and the comparative absence of context specific planning or design controls over the last decade, has resulted what could be described as a featureless urban landscape that is devoid of character.

While designers seems increasingly focused on the countryside, in many parts of the world it is already too late to make a clear spatial distinction between what is city and countryside. Particularly in China hyper efficient and rigid planning systems have fuelled a complex and definition-resistant peri-urban condition. This paradox underlines the need for new planning paradigms that are viable within what is becoming a universal global condition.

The studio will seek to uncover and understand the particular qualities and organisational principles that structure this part of the city. The ultimate ambition of this is the development of a suite of tactics, generative processes, urban and architectural types and prototypes that allow for the production of a highly nuanced, specific and integrated urban formations that offer a speculative future of the ‘grey zone,’ while at the same time offering an implicit critique of the processes that led to its formation.

STUDIO WILL INVOLVE INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL. THERE WILL BE A TWO WEEK WORKSHOP IN SHANGHAI FROM 29TH APRIL TO 10TH MAY. THE STUDIO WILL INVOLVE GROUP WORK. THE STUDIO WILL BE A MIXTURE OF STUDENTS FROM THE MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE & MASTER OF URBAN DESIGN PROGRAMS. STUDIO LEADERS: DR NEVILLE MARS & DR JOHN DOYLE STUDIO TIME: WEDNESDAY EVENINGS 6PM - 10PM CLASSES START IN WEEK 3.

HIGH RESOLUTION ARCHITECTURE: DISRUPTED/DISTRIBUTED Prof Dr Alisa Andrasek with Joshua Lye and Venkatesh Natarajan Keywords: complexity theory/automation/machine learning/AR/big data/design search/superperformance/unseen aesthetics 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.

In the world that is increasingly being converted into information, we will be looking for opportunities for disruption of architecture and related industries (construction, smart cities ++). Construction is one of the largest yet also the worst performing industry in the world. Can renewed architecture understood as information packed design ecology start to rewrite protocols of constructability, simultaneous to the search for previously unseen aesthetics.

Principles of complexity theory will be introduced, in order to evolve speculative architectural language at a radically increased resolution and intricacy. 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. Architecture will be understood as a multi-scalar ecology, cutting across scales of 1:1 automated construction supported by AR, design search for previously impossible structural patterns in a form of proto-architectural chunks, and consequent synthesis of larger architectural sequences with the use of simulation and generative design. We will be replacing outdated notions of established rigid typologies, with the logics of distributed and adaptive systems within complex host environments.

The acute approaches to algorithms, robotics, automated pre-fabrication and self assembly, machine learning, and simulation will be actively discussed and explored.

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

www.alisaandrasek.com

Alisa Andrasek 2018 // Croatian Pavilion Venice Biennale

Image Source: Benjamin.Ferns_ Re-educating the City of London

Adaptation Georgina Karavasil & Vicki Karavasil Tuesday 6pm Adaptation. The process in which a living thing changes slightly over time to be able to continue to exist in a particular environment, or a change ones state to accommodate necessity and desire.

How you can create an adapted sense of place through the mappings of everyday life?

Students will be asked to design a building within the city context that explores the ideas of eat, play, sleep, work, with one of these programs as a key driver for their individual projects.

How can we design a building that continuously pulsates, adapts and accommodates for its uses? The outcome will be a building that has increased flexibility, meaning that it can really be anything, and do anything which creates a unique proposition for any future development.

Students will analyse the behaviour of something that is external from architecture that can be applied as a way to reconsider architectural relationships that will be generated and then edited. The studio will be exploring 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 a residential, office, hospitality/retail and or working environment.

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 objective is to understand how these processes can be applied and then establish a new set of rules of application in relation to the project and site. The aim is to produce a diverse architecture that can adapt and redefine how we work, live and play.

SWAG G Swag is at the confluence of multiple currents; Procedural Design, culturally specific Postmodernism and Contemporary Urbanism. Our process begins by interrogating cultural artefacts or ‘happenings’ to delve deeply into the context of a project (see Peter Corrigan, ARM architecture and m3architecture.) We are interested in decoding ‘culture and place’ into discrete and communicable ideas. We consider the diagrams produced from this research to be operative rather than presentation tools. In this way, the research directly drives the generation of procedural design techniques that create new forms, spatial relationships or urban conditions (see Eric Owen Moss, Frank Gehry and Greg Lynn.) This process requires students to discern between outcomes that are successful and those that are not. To determine ‘success’ students must judge the outcome for endurance of the culturally specific inputs, fidelity to the process and against contemporary urban ideals (see Jan Gehl.)

This studio will study the Australian cultural phenomenon of camping though both the ‘happening’ itself and its related artefacts. It will explore the spatial relationships and social dimensions of the event as well as the objects that facilitate it. It will also engage with the cross-cultural meaning of 'encampment'. The studio works on a ‘learn and apply’ model. Students will study the conceptual and formal qualities of a subject, then apply the lessons learned in test design scenarios. We will use a combination of techniques including physical modelling, analogue mapping, and animation to translate research into new architecture.

Waltzing on Tuesday 6pm with Will Brouwers & Barnaby Hartford-Davis

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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 with their work.

Project area: 190 hectares Population:

5,500 x 2 at completion

Residences: 3,000 x ? at completion Wednesday 6pm Simone Koch

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Inventing architectural techniques to allow for the simultaneous design of inner-city dwellings and urban-fringe dwellings.

The agenda of this studio is to develop design techniques that can make inner urban homes more affordable while at the same time making outer suburban homes more dynamic. Each student will be assigned both an inner city site, and an urban-fringe site, and will simultaneously design a home on each.

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TIME Wednesday 18:30 LOCATION 100.04.03

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N E T H E R L A N D S This Master of Architecture studio is a collaboration between The Why Factory @ TU Delft and RMIT Architecture. Students from Australia will travel to Delft during the last weeks of the studio and will work collaboratively with TUDeft students.

The Why Factory is dedicated to creating future cities; the Planet Maker 2 Studio will scale up this vision. Starting from a precise “What if…?” question to draw a hypothetical scenario, and continuing with global data projections and research, each student will develop one of those scenarios that will change the world (dramatically) in the next 100 years. This change will be explored on all scales; from global to territorial, to architectural typology, down to innovation on a building technology scale: what are the details that change the world? This studio will challenge students to interrogate the fundamental shapers of their scenario on a 1:50, 1:20, 1:10, 1:1… scale.

Ball Fiction will guide students through this process of formulating and visualizing their future fantasies: learning to dream big, to prepare them with the skills and tools to imagine – then effect – change. How does our life change? How do we commute and how do we consume? What is the urgency and how can we communicate this to global leaders?

At the end of the studio, each student will be asked to produce, among other material, a physical model -their World (i.e. their Ball)- depicting their future fantasies, as well as an animated movie exploring the implementation of their scenarios and their impacts on -literally- the horizon.

The resulting collection of fictional globes will be part of an installation to be setup in Delft and other venues to be announced.

An information session will be held for all traveling courses at 6pm Monday 25th of February, in 100.05.04

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PLANET MAKER 2 TUTORS: Winy Maas (MVRDV / t?f ), Javier Arpa (t?f @TU Delft), Vivian Mitsogianni & Ben Milbourne (RMIT Architecture & Urban Design)

PROPOSED TIMELINE: Semester 1 2019, weeks 8-12 in Melbourne, followed by intensive workshop at TU Delft during inter-semester break. Dates TBC.

TRAVELLING TO: Delft, Netherlands [Delft is 20 mins by train away from Rotterdam and 50mins from Amsterdam].

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. Travelling students may be eligible for RMIT Global Experience grants, and may also be eligible for other forms of funding including OS-HELP loans.

Further advice will be provided at the briefing session.

Maximum number of students: 14.

Contact: Ben Milbourne (ben.milbourne@rmit.edu.au)

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SUPER|TIGHTER Learning from : Shrinking and Tuning : again

RMIT Master of Architecture Design studio 2019 with GRAHAM CRIST Wednesday 6pm

Just scale:just compression Denser:more precise:cheaper:more intimate The studio continues the thematic territory of the [Supertight AU] studio last year, and the Supertight exhibition coming up this year. It will affirm the upside of hyper density, consolidation and smallness; the dumbest but greatest tools of the architect - distributing space.

It affirms the role of design in radically improving our footprint.

We will locate the projects around the BRUNSWICK DESIGN DISTRICT in the City of Moreland - as a test case for new type of environment in the metropolitan middle ring.

We will consider the collapsing, shrinking needs of new cities and minaturised programs- shrinking houses/offices/schools/clinics/cars - while expanding food and energy production to take their place.

We will design from the scale of the urban precinct to the tiny interior.

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International Design Competition and Symposium Master of Architecture Design Studio sem 1-2019 Mauro Baracco, with Imogen Fry Tuesday evenings, 6 - 10pm Beginning wk 1, Tuesday 5 March RMIT Architecture has been invited to participate in the National University of Singapore’s Designing Resilience in Asia International Design Competition for urban, architectural and landscape projects for the coastal town of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Students will complete both individual and group projects with one final project to be entered into the competition. 2 selected students will travel (travel + accommodation costs covered) to the National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan in July 2019 together with RMIT staff to attend a symposium focused on the topic of urban resilience. The RMIT delegation will present their project as part of a forum where presentations will be given also by other international speakers and institutions involved with the same competition.

This studio/competition will be focused on urban solutions for droughts, flooding and issues arising from rapid urbanisation affecting the city of Chennai.

The design approach encouraged through the studio will investigate resilient environments through solutions that are dynamic, unstable, flexible, fragile, malleable, thus resilient.

Image courtesy DRIA, National University of Singapore

Lyons Office Wednesday 6pm – 10pm Level 3, 246 Bourke St

In a city where we have a propensity to remove and rebuild, remove and not remember, how do we define an architecture of memory?

The memorial is defined as a place for remembering, preserving the memory of a person/past event.

What is the architecture of a memorial? What are the nuances that define it as this? How do we define a memory of architecture?

The memorial is typically a park, a building, an intervention. Is there a requirement for a civic gesture to remain in its entirety as a symbolic intervention in order to preserve its integrity? Or is it more pertinent for it to become more than one thing? More than one place?

The memorial as a typology will form the basis for this investigation. A typology of civic significance. This studio is not interested in the monument, the object but rather the adaption of place.

A memorial of place.

Students will be engaged with model making, rigorous site, program and precedent analysis, reviewing the role of the memorial as a civic entity.

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MA ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO S1 2019 WEDNESDAY 6-10PM AMY MUIR

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supercity 100YC (Year City) will focus on research in the physical, virtual and the nascent spatial conditions of the sustainable 21st century city. supercity studio seeks to create the foundations to procure and transform ideas into an urban reality making Nansha District the icon for future city living through explorations into the four key urban focus areas, Commerce, Knowledge, Mobility and Technology. supercity studio aims to promote multidisciplinary thinking and collaboration as core capacities necessary for future innovation. It recognises material science, human-computer interfaces, experience design, engineered systems and organisational dynamics as disciplinary fields offering a breadth and depth of knowledge across professional domains to address complexity and innovation in architecture, urban design and development.

100YC

THE CRUTCHY PUSH

Valentine Keating was the leader of the Crutchy Push, which ruled the streets of North Melbourne from 1895 to 1905. The Crutchy Push, with one exception, consisted of one-legged men. The exception was a one-armed man who kept half a brick in his sewn up empty sleeve. He led his followers into battle swinging the weighted sleeve around his head. Behind him came the men on crutches – each one expert at balancing on one leg. A special task force of the ten burliest policemen in Victoria were assembled called the ‘Terrible Ten’. Whilst it was recognised that the Terrible Ten brought about the end of the dominance of the suburban push, the Crutchies remained unconquered.

Themes: Street. Federation.Augmentation.Intentional neighbouring.Vitruvious. Wed6pm S.Drysdale & B.Mitchell