Metamorphosis 2 Bachelor of Design Studio by Anna Johnson RMIT University

Metamorphosis II

Metamorphosis II RMIT University School of Architecture and Design

RMIT University of Architecture and Design Bachelor of ArchitectureSchool Design Studio Semester 2 2021

Bachelor of Architecture Design Studio Semester 2 2021

Anna Johnson Dr Anna Johnson Cover Images: Yisen Jia

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‘When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect… “What has happened to me?” he thought. It was no dream.

His room, an ordinary human room, if somewhat too small, lay peacefully between the four familiar walls…’

Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis. 1914

In this opening scene Kafka sets a startling image of nature and ‘hu-man.’ Man (sic) has literally become nature: but over scaled and caught within the homely confines of a bedroom. The end of this fiction is sad: Gregor the beetle is neglected and dies, nature loses out again.

Architecture is spatial, cultural and enduring but can it also enable change? Can it be a social activator, a facilitator, or even a system from which change can occur? For this studio we take up the idea of Metamorphosis - a transformative architecture that can respond to the contextual, environmental and local concerns in the regional town of Castlemaine. Your propositions for a radical architecture will explore strategies for densifying and building into the local built fabric through the design of a mix-used public building sited adjacent to and even on local 19th century built fabric.

This studio works from the premise that architecture in 2021 is now different. What it can be and what constitutes architecture must be something new to respond to the dynamic changes our world is going through. Working online, the interface between you and me is also architecture…space, place and distance have collapsed, we can see intimately into other places – other worlds - and we bring to this our own sensibilities, our own values, intimacies and own spatial intelligences – to use a Leon van Schaik term. In the studio we will bring into close proximity you and Castlemaine and we will make a new radical architecture for this place – and for this new world.

We begin with the premise that for the environment - for us to survive Nature (whatever we decide that is) cannot lose out here but needs to be equal to or greater than architecture. We

will need to reset the way we see our environment, the way we will act and what architecture can therefore be. This will be your challenge.

Through iterative exercises and design studies, you will speculate on what a new architectural character and form could be that responds to the very mixed and eclectic local context.

This studio takes place in Castlemaine CBD adjacent to a Library, theatre and old heritage listed Bank building now without a significant program. Across the road and within the larger site are pockets of gap spaces and unused areas. You will be working with this local built fabric and these gaps spaces to design a series of public and community buildings as well as a series of micro landscapes. Remember, all site material will be provided for you.

As part of the studio we will also be exploring a what a radical solution could be that will address site and the particular nuances of the surrounding context, but will also explore an alternative way to densify the town sustainably whilst integrating landscape and sustainable solutions.

Students will be encouraged to invest in a system – a framework – that has at its core a sustainable solution that provides a base from which to house the required programs. Into this - perhaps merging with it or informing it will be an architectural language that grows from – emerges from site work.

In particular we will use the idea of metamor

3 phosis as a conceptual and operational device to rework – rethink - site, its histories, narratives, physical qualities and contextual influences. We will also be looking back to past radical architectures to help us formulate a radical architecture for now. We will be spend time undertaking thematically loaded inventive design studies, site work as well as searching out possible sustainable inventions and solutions that we bring into our solutions.

Castlemaine is characterised by a mix of building types, histories and notably, architectural types and characters From the mechanical to rural shed types to hybridized classical revival 19th Century buildings. Importantly many of the ‘significant’ heritage buildings and local public buildings are a kind of decorated shed-a hybridized transformations already of the existing vernacular. This is not uncommon for regional towns but for us can be actively engaged in for out metamorphosis strategies.

The perimeters of Castlemaine is a strange juxtaposition - a mask-like façade that speaks to a mixed past and an unknown future. This collision of infrastructures, mechanical remnants and composite facades have become a backdrop for a new generation of occupants. We will explore what defines the new conditions and language of place. We will explore the local characters - transform them to create a new architectural identity.

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Yushan Wang

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Iriana Atsyanti

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Veronica Chua

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‘Castlemaine_Blank_I” is my interpretation of Metamorphosis, nature and Castlemaine.

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Everything is in metamorphosis, but they’ll fade away and leave the ‘blank’. ‘Blank’ is the space that Castlemaine’s abundant city texture leave us to explore. The strip after the blank space which is an imitation of typing punctuation, means the blank is for people to continue writing on the story. Even though everything will finally fade away, we are trying to record, continue on the blank.

This is also a circulation of metamorphosis.

‘Blank’ is white. It leaves a pure space for nature and lights to design and for human to feel them.

‘Castlemaine’ is its open space for everything and everyone just like itself. It not only contains the memories metamorphosed from Castlemaine, it will also carry the future memories and continue of metamorphosis.

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What it means to me around Metamorphosis is summed up by making the familiar strange.

Through out the Metamorphosis engagement, my work aims to find the relationship between extreme weather changes and architecture. Beginning at the corner of the site, each building becomes taller and taller to create a gradual change that echoes the incremental extremes of the weather.

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The buildings through out the site are connected through the Miyawaki forest, thus creating a cycle.

This project was formed from the destruction and rebirth of the earth over and over again due to the effects of the harsh environment. At the same time, it fragments the ancient architecture of Castelmaine, transforming it from a familiar building to an unfamiliar one. The tension created by the symbiotic relationship between destruction and rebirth in this project is an interesting concept for me. In this studio, I am aware of the provocation of interpreting my ideas. It is an area that has a lot of room for enhancement. In future studios and projects, my goal is to develop the ability to strengthen my expression. Also, maintaining the honesty and readability of my work remains fundamental.

The design focuses on spatial change. Starting with the Bank, each building becomes taller and taller to create a gradual change to echo the increment of extreme weather. A cycle is created by connecting to the Bank through Miyawaki Forest.

This maps out the story of a world where extreme weather gradually worsens and eventually destroys and the earth is reborn, and in fact we are experiencing it all.

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Accurat - The room of change

The Room of Change Exhibition was created by studio accurate. Creating 30 meters of hand-made data tapes, in which the artists collected data on world population, average temperature, disease rate and energy consumption,, illustrating how these aspects of the environment have changed in past centuries. Also, feel the trend of environmental change from the data collection, and dialogue with the nature. In the exhibition, there are two large screens hosted to project images of our Earth changing from above from the NASA Ar Archive and covering the past 20 years, giving the audience a clear sense of the natural change.

Through the collection of the microcosm, the artists let the audience see the macroscopic changes. A large amount of data collection and satellite image recording on the big screens directly point to the purpose of the exhibition, which is to intuitively feel the changes in nature, and as humans, we can better understand the environment we are in.

By: Jiayi Gu Jingyi Sheng

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Plan

Grid Trial Distortion

Rotation + Overlap

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My fragment catalogue summarizes the landscape Inspired by John Hejduk, the fragments are conand distinctive architecture of Castlemaine. nected as an organic whole in the final project, and the gaps between them were also considered.

Stimulated by Peter Eisenman’s project, the grid system was evolved from the water map of Castlemaine area.

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Inspired by natural forms, the structure of the Grotto Facade and nursery on the west side can better interact with local plants. The indoor swimming pool replicates the topographic map of Castlemaine and integrates the artificial landscape into daily life.

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Metamorphosis is a process of transformation This project is about creating metamorphosis form an immature form into an adult form in dis- stages of Castlemaine, a rapid growing city in tinct stages. northern Victoria, which are known of its nature beauty. My aim is to bring Castlemaine into the heart of Castlemaine by crating its parts into one area, the proposed site is a block street in the city of Castlemaine which include the Castlemaine library as it one of main site, we are deemed to design a block of buildings which will be used by the community.

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My approach of this metamorphosis stage is trying to bring natural parts of Castlemaine and arranging them piece by piece into something grand and calming.

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Architecture has been against nature since its birth. As a means of transforming nature, architecture is granted the legitimacy of destroying nature. To build a house, we should first move the natural enviroment originally on the foundation, and the wood should betreated with insect, mildew and anti-corrosion treatment so that it will not be decomposed by other organisms. Conversely, buildings without regular maintenance will crack, break and divide under natural erosion.

Without human beings, architecture itself can not exist or regenerate in the natural environment.

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The primary purpose is to constrcuct the rules of nature, so as to intergrate into nature and coexist with nature.

From human perspective, they may feel lonely as human, because in nature people are maverick.

Animal and plants, they have different catergories, human have the ability to think and change. people need to keep exploring to prove thet human beings do not exist alone in this environments. But also human feel regrets and want to cover up their crime.

For this project, the site Castlemaine is could be a nature environment, could be earth, or any spatial that we want to explore and join.

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Week 5: Exercise 3: Part3a: A Catalogue of Transformations and Becoming “Architecture” Fragement Scaleless Objects

Idea: Combine the element from the site to become a new fragment.

Human bulid the site and destroy the environment, At the same time, we discovering and exploring the nature past this process of transition has often proven difficult.

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Iriana Atsyanti

Something that continually adapts and changes, to respond in an abstract and transformative way of nature and also the existing conditions of the site Castlemaine. At an architectural term, Metamorphosis is an environmental-friendly building that becomes part of the greenery in which it stands.

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In the last quarter century or so, architecture has not only changed, as it always does, in diverse and often unpredictable ways, but it has also begun to transform itself. Building in nature constitutes a contradiction, as architecture enables immersive access to the landscape, while at the same time in my scheme, represents a framework of parasite, juxtaposing, interlocking, in between spaces and the aesthetics of the uncanny architecture with nature and underlining the intrinsic qualities of all.

Role of nature incorporates concept of parasite serving as topological purpose that is public in nature and resonates with the function of its host and immediate context. Redefining and reconfiguring a built structure which provides a new perspective to the public and potentially offer a new space. Relationship of my work to existing in the scheme is to remind of all the variety, history, and experience of the territories between the change of atmosphere as you descend from the markers, and reinventing the history of Castlemaine by weaving together a playful narrative of architectural forms as spatial practice.

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Rongzhen Jacklyn Mu

Metamorphosis is a process of transformation This project is about creating metamorphosis form an immature form into an adult form in dis- stages of Castlemaine, a rapid growing city in tinct stages. northern Victoria, which are known of its nature beauty. My aim is to bring Castlemaine into the heart of Castlemaine by crating its parts into one area, the proposed site is a block street in the city of Castlemaine which include the Castlemaine library as it one of main site, we are deemed to design a block of buildings which will be used by the community.

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My approach of this metamorphosis stage is trying to bring natural parts of Castlemaine and arranging them piece by piece into something grand and calming.

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CASTLE OF CASTLEMAINE Whole Scheme

Climate Change Centre & Office

Miyawaki Forest Park

Indigenous Plant Nursary

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Sing Yee Veronica-Anne Chua

The design concept of the project is conceived and developed through the ideas of the ‘BOUNDARIES, THRESHOLDS & FACADES’ as well as integrating the existing urban fabric of site. The idea of ‘BOUNDLESSNESS’ also ties in with the connection of ‘NATURE’.

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Nature comes in many elemental forms – taking this found scale and emphasising it such that it becomes a conceivable structure. The idea of nature also takes on a bigger role such as building upon the concept of the ‘Miyawaki Forest’ and allowing plants to sprawl through, filling the gaps and in-between spaces of the project – cohesively incorporating plants back into the space.

Nature is restored and brought back as spaces are carved out from the urban fabric to provide opportunities for inhabitation and growth.

A strong connection of the many boundaries are made by drawing from the character study of fragments in Castlemaine whilst looking at distinct landmark features and brickwork conditions of buildings. Taking on this formal character and building a new novel archetype forms the concept of the Boundary!

My project focuses on using the urban fabric that cohesively incorporates nature back into the fabric giving it space to fill the gaps and grow as it sprawls through the area.

Much of nature had been long destroyed as built form has caused major disruptions and death to plants and many life forms from taking over and building upon the land.

Nature plays a role in sustaining the rapid declining state of a beautiful earth. Hence, taking the understanding of nature and ecology as well as biomimicry and biophilia we come to a greater understanding of systems found in nature in its most natural and original form.

To take better precautions in caring and protecting the earth and preserving nature and its beauty!

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The idea of metamorphosis is used as a conceptual Castlemaine’s perimeters are a strange juxtapoand practical instrument in this project to rework sition - a mask-like façade that hints to a mixed - rethink - the site, its histories, narratives, physpast and an undetermined future. ical features, and contextual influences. It also looks back at previous radical architectures for inspiration in developing a radical architecture for the present.

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Demonstrating the programs’ exploration of mixed use public buildings: Aquatic Centre/Local Climate Change Centre (Education Centre) and Micro Landscape + Native Plant Nursery.

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Junya Ishigami Project: KAIT Workshop, Kanagawa Institute of Technology Technical, Tokyo, Japan, 2008 Design Approch: Ishigami designed the Kanagawa Institute of Technology’s KAIT workshop to be flexible for both students and the general public. Behind the glass wall, more than 300 steel columns of different sizes are visible, reminiscent of trees in the forest. ‘KAIT’ reflects the surrounding cherry blossoms on the transparent facade. By providing a variety of experiences within a single open-plan volume. It is located on the campus of Kanagawa Institute of Technology on the outskirts of Tokyo. The building is designed for a variety of activities, which helps users feel flexible. Client summaries call for a place where students can work on projects. It can be self-initiated while being open to the local population.

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The Strangeness - A strange familiar enclosure created using bricks and columns from the Castlemaine Historic Market Building. By attempting to transform common objects such as bricks and columns into something new, both bricks and columns were transformed by twisting and rescaling.

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Livia Wijaya The Metamorphosis studio as the name suggest help students to develop and broaden the architectural language by transforming everyday life taken from nature into more distinct and radical stages despite being too literal but still possessing the qualities of it which makes the architectural features stronger. The studio exercises help us to develop the design thinking on sustainability and nature as well as sharpen our imagination using transformation techniques and tools. he mind mapping exercise gives the general idea of Castlemaine that it is diverse in materiality and architectural styles as well as richness in history around gold mining settlement. It focuses on the street view elements by having detailed facade in oppose to hiding simple mass behind. The catalogue of place and transformations highlights everyday things like ornamentations, general forms, materiality, and everyday nature of Castlemaine to be then developed onto small and large enclosures onto the site. The site scripts are strong elements to make the architectural features more peculiar.

Fragmenting the elements found on the site and emphasizing the qualities would be my strategies to develop the proposed final scheme.

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The strategy to nature is that nature filling up the gaps of the site by maintained process like the rooftop gardens in the nursery and natural process like in the Miyawaki forest having both vertical and horizontal way in growing the plants and it creates the ambiguity of inside and outside by presenting nature in every place as much as possible but still maintain the smooth movement and landscape experience on the site. The natural process is planned to occur in the grotto facades as well since it is designed to have stone for the facades so that the moss or plants could grow when there is moisture.

Castlemaine Studios has been very interesting. It helps me a lot in sharpening my design thinking in addition to the modelling skills. It was challenging studio for me because creating brand new concept and developing it in radical way beyond imagination was not one easy task. Moreover, I feel like my educational background from diploma constraints my imaginations to be more poetic and out of the box because we used to do lots of technical drawings and designing buildable and more realistic project.

I overcame many obstacles and had to step back few times to refining the big ideas of the site and stitching one to another. However, with the weekly critiques from tutor and friends broaden more options of possible design solutions. The studio is consisted of individual works and groupworks.

By presenting nature and fragments of Castlemaine in it, it would create intimate relationship The XChange program is one of groupworks. It is with the existing buildings and juxtapositions be- a collaboration from other studios named Rewiltween existing and new in uncanny familiar way. ding Castlemaine was also beneficial when I was short of ideas and be inspired by others’ ideas to be adapted to the site. The Broken Nature exercise The site could be accessed from multiple placis also a groupwork with one of the classmates, es from main streets and the aisles The climate change and education centre are in between build- we were dividing the task equally and sharing the outcomes between one another so that each can ings the library and the bank. It acts as defined have the archives files to be used later. entrance to the Miyawaki forest on top of the library is the office and multipurpose spaces. while the aquatic centre will be on the back comer of the All in all, I am quite pleased with the outcome street. And the Miyawaki forest for a little walk in because it possesses my strategies ideas of Castlebetween which consists of native plants which acts maine’s fragments but still speaks to the existing building and site conditions. as healing element.

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Yijing Su

In studio Metamorphosis I examine the tendency of people relating abstract forms to more familiar ones, for example nature such as fruit and flower.

The familiarity is comforting to some. In contrary why not try something uncomfortable? If making the familiar form something morbid, grotesque and scary won’t it cause a paradox of reaction?

This was first translate in my turtle skeleton transformation and how it enacted into architecture later. The reading on the Exodus by Rem Koolhaas, a constantly exchange between two parts of the city, hedonism as architecture and willing imprisonment of the inhabitants. A contrast between the new and old; raises the idea of exchange between architecture on site and the town of Castlemaine.

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The exercise on taking fragments from Cstalemine and transforming them into architecture really challenged my design ideology, it has enabled me to think differently about the space, nature, and architecture. Reading on the street observation was also interesting as it posted the question about the necessity to the design and the intension of design. All the precedent and reading was helpful in opening my mind and having a different approach to the project and the studio.

Another really grateful thing i have picked up was consideration in the details, such as facade and ornaments in design stage, as well as the material, color and line-weight in the production stage.

They all play a vital role towards the final representation.

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So, this studio, Metamorphosis, is about transformation and radical change. Metamorphosis doesn’t mean eradicating the past, but rather integrating the best of the past into the future.

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Our chosen site was in Castlemaine, Victoria.

Castlemaine are a place that has diverse architectural styles and they are rich of histories. In the other hand, nature is at centre of a new way of thinking and conceiving spaces. So, I want to create a prolific symbiosis built around the site to increase the presence of natural elements in the city while also reassessing unused resources.

My big narratives are, making Castlemaine experiencing nature through architecture, like The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. My vision was capturing the journey through site and nature from radical to being placed and sits on the site of Castlemaine. My building will be filled with drapes of vegetation, green carpets that become rooftops to walk on and places of socialisation.

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Beetle Characteristic : - Opaque - Forewings - Hard - Symmetrical - Horn-like - Strength The horn of rhinoceros beetle attracts my eyes when I first saw it, I thought it was for self defense like the horns of rhinos.

But when I took a further research, the horns of the beetles are used for driving other males away from a female beetle during mating rituals.

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Andrew Wijaya

By definition, metamorphosis is about transformation and radical change in this studio. it is a direct by-product of time and the changes are always parallel with the amount of time progressing.

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Metamorphosis does not strictly apply towards growth but it can also apply towards alteration and changes. as for the concept, I translated metamorphosis into adaptability, to create buildings that provide a possibility to be altered depending on situations.

The site complex consists of a radical architecture approach and disruptive-looking enclosures from components and elements taken from Castlemaine. The nature response to the site does not only come from implemented vegetations but also the composition of the design follows the inspiration of natural landscaping that I found from Castlemaine.

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close to home

a random trip

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where it starts...

a trip out of town golden point

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street rod centre of australia historical arches

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In my own opinion of metamorphosis, it’s something that continually adapts in changes, ensuring the harmony between architecture and the nature through continuous transformation and splicing.

Throught the whole semester study, I learnt about the history and characteristics of Castlemaine.

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For my final projects, I tried to provide a forest setting for the site and make home to significant trees and indigenous plants. My design concept is creating a forest hidden in the city. At the same time, I tried to create a symbiotic relationship between the nature and my projects. Plants work as part of the building structure in my project.

At the same time, I tried to create a symbiotic relationship between the nature and my projects.

Plants work as part of the building structure in my project.

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AXO diagram 1

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Metamorphosis - Pachyseris rugosa

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- Spatial Conditions

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The climate change centre

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AXO diagram 2

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The outdoor pool

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The open balcony

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Entrance on Barker st