Bachelor of Architectural Design, Design Studio Ballot Posters, Sem 1 2021

SEMESTER 1 | 2021

BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN DESIGN STUDIOS

BALLOT POSTERS

ONLINE STUDIOS

Knowing the Uncanny studio students will In this undertake their own research into the cultural context of a site in Footscray from three points of view.

they consist of a number of discreet abstract elements in the form of four facades, a roof, an interior and a basement.

The first will be the cultural demographics of the area as it is understood today, the second will be the most recent 200 years of the site’s cultural history, and the third will be the site’s ancient cultural history.

The studio will then undertake research into plans and sections of known apartment building types, of which plans and sections will be sourced.

Based on a study of these, each student’s knowledge machine will then be incrementally transformed from an abstract Based on this research, each architectural model, into a set student will make an abstract of plans, sections and views idea model in three dimensional of a schematic design for a virtual space generating library and cultural centre. architectural form and semiotics arising from found Through this process, objects within the cultural this studio seeks to link context. the prosaic and pragmatic constraints designing a These abstract models will functional and buildable be presented in a group scheme, with the ephemeral and discussion format, and fine intuitive process of making tuned over a period of weeks. meaningful architectural The abstract models will then languages in a specific local be incrementally added to until cultural context.

Tutor: Dr Jan van Schaik: practising architect at MvS Architects, a researcher and senior lecturer at RMIT Architecture & Urban Design, and a creative and cultural industries strategist at Future Tense. Contact: jan.vanschaik@rmit.edu.au

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On Country: FRAMLINHAM 3.0

A music & perfomance venue with a cultural & life education centre

Dr Christine Phillips & Stasinos Mantzis with Uncle Leonard Clarke & the Kirrae Whurrong Community

Working with a real client for the semester, students in this studio will be asked to design a international standard music and performance centre along with a cultural/life education centre at Framlingham. This is a response to an in invitation we received from a highly respected Aboriginal Elder, Uncle Leonard (Lenny) Clarke, to conceptualise a vision he has for his family’s Aboriginal owned land on Kirrae Whurrong land in the Western District of Victoria. This vision is to create a world class cultural arts and music centre that not only celebrates and showcases Aboriginal culture to a broad and international audience, but to also foster and provide opportunities for youth through cultural and life education programmes as an alternate to incarceration. This new centre will be called the Shara Clarke Music Centre, named after and in honour of Uncle Lenny’s late daughter.

Key research questions: • • • • •

Tackle the notion of a colonised country and how we might design a shared future architecture charged by multiple histories and different cultures To consider what Aboriginal sovereignty means within architecture To consider how the history, culture & stories of Kirrae Whurrong people and Country can be communicated and celebrated through architecture How to design a flexible multipurpose building and consider how architecture can be performative To consider how architecture can facilitiate ongoing cultural and enterprise opportunities for communities

The studio will be structured around the production of bi-weekly esquisses carried out by students both collaboratively and individually for the first half of the semester. Working in pairs, the second half of semester will focus on the development of the final project.

FIELDTRIP: The studio will be run in a semi-intensive mode and will involve a fieldtrip on Country with Uncle Lenny Clarke on site at Framlingham over a 2-3 day weekend in March (date TBC and dependant on Covid restrictions). You will need a tent & sleeping bag. The trip will cost approximately $200.

Classes will be held face to face on Mondays 6-9pm & Thursdays from 2-5pm (some classes will be skipped due to the semi-intensive mode)

23 FEBRUARY 2046 MON 6:00-9:00PM | THU 2:30-5:30PM Bachelor Architecture Studio, Semester 1, 2021

Before his death in 2004, artist Mutly Cerkez had developed a system for dating his artworks - where he included a future date in the artwork’s title to indicate when he would remake it in the future, although not necessarily in its original form. He thought about how value was attributed to particular art genres above others and the categorization of works as ‘minor or ‘major’ artworks. Through this he also challenged the idea whether a work of art should be resolved or complete or being of a singular point in time. In this way Cerkez disrupted the conventional linear timeline, both of individual works and his art practice. All works were considered of equal significance.

This studio too, looks to a process of remaking. In this, we will not think of architecture as a static, singular object, or being ‘of its time’ - but rather one that is accretive and in a constant state of flux - one that will be changed, adapted and re-built over time.

This studio seeks to further ideas of the un-built (de-construction), in-progress (re-construction) and re-built (that is perpetually incomplete).

Students will interrogate the embedded histories in the fabric of the everyday. Formed on an accumulation of architectural elements (ie. windows, doors, toilets etc); the banal to the extraordinary, the obsolete and the emerging, the standard or the few things that can claim to be original, perhaps even unique . Architecture continues to be in tension between unyielding persistence and constant change, which is particularly of interest. These elements carry qualities established thousands of years ago, while others have undergone recent and radical shifts. This interesting tension between new and old, the contemporary and archaic, is not often recognised, nor celebrated - as we will seek to do in this Studio.

As a series of works; the studio tasks will be composed as a ‘triptych’ of digital craft, history & architectural elements; by way of developing students’ understanding and exploration of fundamental elements and other objects that comprise a building. Similar to Cerkez’s own re-makes, Student will make and re-make their architecture project(s), on a site in Melbourne’s CBD. You can view work from Anna’s Studio in Semester 2, 2020, via the exhibition website:

ANNA JANKOVIC

Anna Jankovic is a practicing Architect, Director of SIMULAA, an educator and Lecturer Industry Fellow at the School of Architecture & Urban Design RMIT.

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Design Studio Leader: Brent Allpress Mondays and Thursdays 2.30-5.30 pm. Teaching Mode: Face to Face This studio investigates design questions involving practices of alteration, extension and addition. Many significant buildings constructed prior to the 1980’s have reached an age where they have needed to be renovated, refitted and otherwise altered or extended. This studio develops design strategies and responses to alteration and extension as a specific category of design practice activity. Modernist architectural theory resisted the additive and promoted the tabula rasa as a means to ensure the autonomy of the new original modernist work. Adding to and altering a modernist building presents an internal conflict and contradiction to be worked through.

Ornament haunts architectural discourse and practice. Theories of the ornamental within the canon cross and interrupt the central texts of the architectural tradition, both constructing and dividing them with unresolved uncertainties. Modernist theory negated the supplementary role of applied ornament. Modernist practices however involved radical ornamental operations employing abstract spatial surfaces as semiautonomous systems. The representational role of ornament in contemporary architecture remains complex and contested. This studio provides a framework for investigating the complexities of the legacy of the Modernist prescription against the additive and the ornamental. It also provides an opportunity to reconsider and revise postmodern accounts of the role of ornament and the status of context. Recent nonstandard digital technologies that revise modernist economies of standardization also shift the debate on the role of figuration beyond representation and communication towards architectural actions.

Precedent projects will be analysed involving alteration, extension and addition strategies. A specific local or international modernist architectural project will be selected as the site for a new alternation, extension or addition. Site selection will be negotiated. The design brief of this new architectural complex is to remotivate existing program and provide facilities for a proposed Institute of Architectural Design Research that includes an architectural archive, temporary and permanent exhibition spaces, an auditorium, workshop and designer in residence facilities, along with other program relevant to the specific situation.

Filmic representation will be employed. Counter compositional strategies will be explored. This Design Studio provides a vehicle for research into significant modernist architectural precedent, provoking a critical and creative design response that focuses on qualitative and performative operations and outcomes.

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COMPOSITE FORMATION FORMING COMPLEXITY 4.0

Nic Bao & Hesam Mohamed Emerging architectural design approaches that leverage the capacity of algorithmic design and digital fabrication methods such as robotic fabrication and 3d printing are able to offer novel approaches to some of the challenges we are facing at present times. The implication of robotic fabrication and hightech composite materials in other industries such as aerospace and automotive haaave transformed the culture and approach towards design and fabrication in these industries for many years now. Recycling plastic is one of the environmental challenges we face today has made fabrication technics such as large scale 3d printing for an architectural application not only feasible but necessary to reduce the consumption of virgin plastics.

Through generative design approaches, this studio aims to explore design and tectonic implications of recycled polymer composite systems accompanied by new fabrication techniques such as 3d printing and robotic fabrication in the architectural context.

Through the exploration of the generative design process and digital fabrication, students will explore and propose new ways in which recycled polymer composites could conceptualise new building and design culture in architectural discourse.

Students will design a series of architectural components and building systems to re-imagine an existing building in Melbourne CBD. They will also develop construction techniques as well as testing the design geometries, scale, structural performance, assembly and connection details. Through an iterative feedback loop between digital fabrication and digital design, students must inform the design proposals to accommodate fabrication constraints as well as aesthetical qualities and planning considering.

Students are expected to combine exceptional architectural qualities such as complex formal expressions, interesting spatial qualities with innovative digital fabrication methods into their final proposals. Final delivery will consist of architectural drawings, a series of small digital prototypes, and final large-scale digital prototypes. Other mediums, such as animations and AR/VR presentations, are encouraged.

Skills Required: basic rhino modeling & grasshopper zbrush or blender skills are encouraged fologram | holoLens will be applied

mondays & thursdays from 6 - 9 pm building 100 | design hub

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Our city is disconnected and discontinuous.

Rather than apply moral judgement to this statement, we are interested in exploring this condition and its potential as means of richness within our city. This studio sees the disjuncture of interior from facade and streetscape as a source of deviation in the city: shielded from its immediate context the urban interior begins to reflect the city around it as if in a fractured mirror. These many distorted instances mean we do not live in one city, but many.

As such this studio takes the approach of an artificial naturalism of the city around it, treating the city as a found object and one to be mined for its qualities which are then exaggerated or rejected.

This class builds upon the previous studio Archipelago, and is the last time the studio will engage with the site of Collins Place. Projects will be small, medium and urban in scale.

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Dale Schlosser & Michael Strack Mondays & Thursdays 6-9pm

In some ways the urban interior often seeks to become somehow more than the city, taking on notions of endlessness, continuity, a supernatural level of choice, wild swings between the monumental and the intricate, and so on.

MARL

After more that 70 years Melbourne may, finally, have a rail connection between the CBD and airport. Having historically chosen the Tullamarine, traffic, roadworks or the Skybus, to define a visitors first impressions, Melbourne now has an opportunity to create a new gateway, extending along the new rail corridor.

In this studio we will investigate past and current proposals for the Melbourne Airport Rail Link (MARL) and the design opportunities that this rail corridor provides, as a new gateway to Melbourne.

The semester will be broken into a number of studies with each asking how our individual understanding of Melbourne can be framed and applied to create a series of interventions along this new link.

The studies will be covering a wide range of scales from mapping and design of infrastructure, urban landmarks, train stations and train car interiors to create a narrative of the city for both new arrivals and for the suburbs through which they are passing.

MELBOURNE AIRPORT RAIL LINK | 1958-2029

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THE ANTI-INSTITUTION

S1_2021 Bachelor Design Studio / Amy Evans / Monday & Thursday 2pm Institutions; prisons, boarding-schools, asylums.

While these buildings were once considered essential facilities for society, they have also left a legacy of segregation and physical division within communities. The architectural typology of institutions is based on control, surveillance and segregation of individuals, which often produced detrimental environments for those housed within. This resulted in the closure of many institutional buildings, such as asylums, in the latter half of the 20th century. Today, the status of these institutions has changed, however the buildings are still with us.

generous public building for the community. The Anti-Institution looks at designing a community center, with a focus on accessible and equitable architecture - where accessible elements and programs are integral and expressive parts of the architecture itself.

Through the understanding of typology and relevant Australian Standards we will speculate on the role public architecture plays in society today. Students will actively engage in these topics to create expressive, thoughtful and accessible architecture.

Architectural elements of the institutional typology such as the; corridor, tower, ramp and facade, will be explored, scrutinised and reappropriated to create new types of architecture.

How can architecture today resist the embedded social values of segregation?

With the emphasis on equality and accessibility in architecture students will explore architectural Based on the grounds of the former Kew Asylum, outcomes where accessible features - tactile this studio will look to subvert the typology of the elements, handrails, spatial arrangements institution, re-appropriating the old asylum as a become integral and expressive elements.

URBAN GENEROSITY DESIGN STRATEGIES FOR AN A RCHITECTURE OF LIVEABILITY Tutor: Scale: Time:

Enza Angelucci Small/Large Monday & Thursday 6 - 9 pm

Architecture clothes the culture of the city; architecture prompts the city's imagination and has a profound impact on civic amenity. The proliferation of human activity in our cities has given rise to the nature of cities as a place of exchange and surplus, a place of urban generosity.

This studio will commence through the observations of the local, to define the architectural nature of the place in which the architecural outcome is to be housed. Through a series of group and individual esquisses the studio will become a process of discovery in how architecture can extend beyond an object/place paradigm, into a place of civic surplus.

The studio will concentrate on three specific architectural design strategies: the edge condition, porosity and 'nature correctednesss' to design a medium density housing proposal located in the inner city suburb of North Fitzoy.

RMIT BAS SEM01 2021

Cabinet Kerry Kounnapis & Zach McPherson Mondays and Thursdays 18:30 - 21:30

Exceprt from Dubois, Urbain; Bernard, Émile (1856), La Cuisine classique, études pratiques, raisonnées et démonstratives de l’école française appliquée au service à la Russe (2 Volumes).v

“it’s the ideas that hurt” This studio is about the city, this city in particular.

Using the city as a research repository, this studio will interrogate and reflect upon Melbourne’s content and memory through the cannon of Aldo Rossi NOT Rem Koolhaas.

Drawing is essential to the studio’s culture and will form a vital skill for students. The precedent of drawing will also be a key research question this semester; architects such as John Soane, Caruso St. John and Edmond and Corrigan will form the foundation for this component.

Whilst we are interested in the culture, history and constructed fabric of the city, we are also concerned with the implications and potential posed to the present. Through the lens of the archaeologist, our students will be tasked with research and analysis of the forgotten, the lost, and the found public spaces and buildings of Melbourne. This cataloguing of “evidence” will ultimately form a framework to assist the student in forming a repository for architectures of atmosphere, mood, and memory.

The outcome of the student will be a small public project whilst the collective studio will work towards the design of a “cabinet,” forming an armature for each of the individual projects, musings and reflections on their attitudes toward the city.

Precedents and exemplars are important pieces of content in the study of architecture; therefore, the studio will be surrounded by relevant references and readings. As such, students will be guided in studying these in a manner which is pertinent to the studio.

Farms, Burbs, Nature and Things

This studio encourages students to think about architecture beyond the envelope of the building and its immediate landscape elements. It seeks to highlight the interconnectedness of our built environment with natural systems both immediate and territorial. The studio shows a role for architects as integral to the development of ideas and realised strategies combining these complex built and natural systems to adapt to a changing world and mitigate the effects of these changes. The studio encourages students to test unconventional combinations of programs aiming to produce provocative ideas for cross programmed buildings and spaces, arguing that, by hyper-varied use, a building can be sustainable long term through efficiency and spatial innovation and flexibility.

How people live, work, learn and play in surburban spaces will be questioned with propositions being intrinsically linked with the natural systems around them. The studio will encourage highly service oriented and infrastructural buildings juxtaposed against expanded and rehabilitated landscapes.

Imogen Fry Mondays and Thursdays, 2 30 - 5 30pm Mixed Mode, Mondays Face-to-Face, Thursdays Online

CONSPIRACY ALLAN BURROWS + ARJUNA BENSON “THE PRIVATE HOME IS NOT AN ISOLATED UNIT, BUT A LIVING SYSTEM WITHIN A MASS OF SYSTEMS.” Conspiracy is a studio that investigates the dwelling as a point of convergence between the congested infrastructures that comprise our reality. In this studio we refuse to see the architectural object as an isolated entity, to be shaped by an omnipotent designer, rather we direct our suspicions towards the other agents that might author our city, and the private home.

The Beginning For architects, the term “infrastructures” may suggest transportation networks, plumbing systems, electrical grids, and other physical city-matter. However, this studio enfolds these archetypes with what Keller Easterling describes as “the rules governing the space of everyday life”. Invisible systems of management, design standards and legislation, political consensus and dispute, social etiquettes and behaviours, data and information, news and media, manufacturing and commerce; these are infrastructural components that fabricate and condition our reality. We will begin by immersing you in these infrastructures, and asking you, how is the contemporary dwelling really authored? What is it concerned with? Where did it come from? Who is it for? How much control do we really have?

The Conspiracy Students will work continuously as conspirateurs, gathering [questionable] evidence of invisible relationships in the city. Its ulterior motives, its shadowy plots, its nonsensical rituals, its inaccessible utopias, its false histories, its branching futures, and its unauthored progress will be the field of survey. Conspiracy’s orientation toward “infrastructure” is parallel to the theory fiction of Reza Negerastani, China Mieville and Thomas Moynihan. These authors deploy a conspiratorial method, taking uncontroversial data points and arranging them in unique ways; divining patterns and assigning motivations and causal relationships amid an inscrutable world. Conspiratorial thinking will be used to irrefutably connect brick to precinct, object to ideology, and science to madness.

The Site This frenetic, hyperconnective mode of thinking will be applied to the architectural site. Students will approach a site in suburban Melbourne in the manner of Forensic Architecture, documenting and recording the site in a way that captures more of the site than what is typically of interest to architects. Any piece of evidence, no matter how miniscule or tenuous, might be the key. We will compile evidence of what we already know about the city (the known knowns) and investigate further into the known unknowns. But what of the unknown unknowns? How do we deal with things that we do not even realise we don’t know?

The Project A single dwelling. In tandem with the evolution of your conspiracy theory, students will act through architecture. What will your sphere of action be as the architect? Will you solve something? Ameliorate something? Nurture something?

Or will you exacerbate your theory? Bury it deeper? Unearth something? Unhinge something?

The Documentary In the second half of the studio, you will concurrently produce a short, polemical documentary, explaining the conjecture and connections that run through your project. You will structure your documentary as your argument for your project, and depict the world and infrastructures within which it is sited.

The Ancillary Work You will frequently be writing essays, reading, watching film, curating, collecting, connecting, observing, and documenting.

The Authorship Work will oscillate between work as individuals and work in pairs.

MONDAY + THURSDAY EVENINGS S1

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non-existent realities Architecture as representative democracy or direct democracy: how architecture is shaped by regulation & systems.

What new forms for communal dwelling challenge the status quo in growing city? How do you add density in a proactive way, understanding current legislation not as an obstacle but as a design tool? This studio aims to offer collective design proposals that are proactive solutions to how we live and work in one of the youngest emerging cities in the world: Melbourne.

“In addition to the numerous pre-conditions that exist before the design of architecture can begin (gravity, geometry, program etc.) it is the power of context that we wish to focus on here.

These pre-conditions or regulations are known to planners and designers as rules, zoning, setbacks, envelopes or code and are accepted as unavoidable conditions that can be “interpreted” in the best case. Can these preconditions be considered as pro-active instruments or tools for design rather than obstacles? Can the designer be instrumental in establishing these conditions rather than the recipient of them? … How is the legal definition of privacy and common ground shaping our ideas of dwelling? how could we redefine these terms to improve dwelling and our cities? “ We will start with a brief introduction into the theoretical foundation of urban architecture, starting with Leon Battists Albertis “six elements of architecture and the metaphor of the house as a small city and vice versa - the city as a large house. Together with examining realized examples and case studies the necessity for new community focussed building typologies and dwelling concepts for the future will be addressed.

In developing your projects, three primary components will be addressed: 1. Technique 2. Legislation 3. Site Time: Monday & Thursday 14:00 - 17:30 Location: RMIT room tbc Studio Leaders: Matthew Herbert & Lucinda Mason (painting” ‘Lady with an Ermine’ (circa 1490) by Leonardo da Vinci. Also known as ‘Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani’)

STUDIO CONDUCTED MONDAY & THURSDAY EVENINGS FROM 5PM-9PM BY, AND AT MARCH STUDIO IN NORTH MELBOURNE STUDIO LEADERS : RODNEY EGGLESTON AND JULIAN CANTERBURY

A 2-day field trip on-site at The Quarantine Station - Portsea VIC 3944

will be involved with an approximate cost of $200/student.

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RMIT Bachelor Design Studio.

Peter Korkolis + Dev Mistry Monday + Thursday 6-9pm

Is there a hybrid design approach between forces of universal globalisation and local cultures?

In 1980 Kenneth Frampton’s article ‘Towards a Critical Regionalism’ postulated six points for an architectural resistance against universal globalisation. This is where the designer engages with the specificities of local culture, place, tectonic and tactile experience, otherwise the built environment will only exist of functional entities. A new critical approach towards the culture of building, stresses on “place-form” and the territory formed by the structure raised on the site and it considers architecture as a tectonic fact: poetic articulation of rational aspects of technology responding to the conditions imposed by the programme, site, climate, traditional elements, and the quality of local light.

Twenty years earlier, Robin Boyd in ‘The Australian Ugliness’ also highlighted the problem if Australia, or any other prosperous country in the modern world, had any desire to rid itself of the ugly evidence of featurism, it would have to turn to both genuine sources where design would gradually be shaped by the physical laws (the presence of construction), and formal architectural ideas that would reconcile contradictory criteria and human requirements. Both architectural critics emphasised formal architectural culture and the technique.

Students will be encourage to talk about architectural ideas, talk about the city, talk about key issues and develop their own specific design response to the site. For the purposes of exploring the above, a site has been chosen on the north west point at a junction between the city grid and Docklands to the west

SITE

CRITICAL REGIONALISM + MELBOURNE DOCKLANDS STUDIO PROGRAM

Students will be working in groups in the first half of the semester for research/ mapping/ masterplan design and then they will be working more independently to produce individual parts of the collective urban project.

STAGE 1; PART 1.

STAGE 1; PART 2.

STAGE 2; PART 1.

Case Study of Melbourne Docklands and its evolution from its origins as a colonial port to its present day as an urban and architectural artefact. This will focus on developing the techniques of observation, investigation, analyses and description of this urban phenomenon, through the use of drawings, photography etc., to establish a critique and understanding of its place making qualities or not, street typologies, private and public spaces, built form, tectonics, materiality and programme of uses.

Introduction to the proposed site for design work, programme of physical requirements and limitations of the existing site. Discussion and formulation of the relevant design criteria, priorities, ambitions, and how can we create presence and character. These will form the basis for interim and final evaluation of the design. The studio will create a project base model showing the surrounding context.

This will form an integral part of ongoing exploration of arrangement ,concepts, built form and massing.

Development of architectural formal concepts, where form is explored, interpreted, and character is extracted from the site, programme, and local context. Design Development through plans, sections, elevations, and model.

STAGE 2; PART 2.

Preparation of final graphic representation and model making as a physical material depicting the design intent and its articulation. Students may also choose to make final individual models of their design which can be inserted into the base model for final presentation, exhibition, and evaluation.

Stage 2; Part 2. Preparation of final graphic representation and model making as a physical material depicting the design intent and its articulation. Students may also choose to make final individual models of their design which can be inserted into the base model for final presentation, exhibition, and evaluation.

References and exponents of critical regionalism: Alvar Aalto, Alvaro Siza, Tony Fretton, Aldo Rossi, David Chipperfield, Alison Brooks, Yvonne Farrell + Shelley Mcnamara, Caruso St.John, Alex Tzonis+Liana Lefaivre, Robin Boyd Kenneth Frampton

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CTRL-Z[OO] LED BY JESSICA SIMONS//MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS 6:30-9:30PM

HOW TO UN-ZOO “Though people have kept wild animals for thousands of years, those collections have not always resembled modern zoos. The first zoos were created as private collections by the wealthy to show their power. These private collections were called menageries.

A zoo is a place where animals live in captivity and are put on display for people to view.”

-National Geographic Long ago society moved from menagerie to zoo. In this studio we will define the next step. This studio is about investigating behaviours.

Questioning what has come before.

A place where animals thrive, not survive. An exercise in re-zooing.

Students will engage in a series of esquisses and small scale projects prior to the mid-semester review. They will observe, analyse, interrogate and critique. They will deconstruct, reconstruct, then throw it all at the wall and start again. And again. This will be done through mapping, drawing, digital modelling and scripting. It will be messy. A wide variety of representational techniques will be investigated.

These esquisses will be undertaken in partners in a “speed-dating” scenario.

Post Mid-semester review a final brief will be interrogated.

Rhino is expected. Grasshopper will help. The more tools in your arsenal the better. Even if you don’t know how to use them.

AN INDUSTRY PARTNERED PROJECT WITH MELBOURNE ZOO

CALLUM FRASER, MATTHEW STANLEY, ALEX JACKSON & guest critics MONDAYS & THURSDAYS 2PM - 5PM ELENBERG FRASER OFFICE LEVEL 01 160 QUEEN ST

The first Elenberg Fraser studio will exist as a form of architectural time travel where we will be researching the city fabric via the removal of our favourite buildings over time.

Students will become familiar with forgotten melbourne walking tours, demolition registers and historical maps of the city. All studio research will be completed online.

Once we have selected our genre we will be pursuing a standardised architectural tower brief to be embedded as proposed built form into the city of the day. Structure, circulation and perimeter construction will be consistent with this position. All studio communication will be via Twitter.

The studio will result in a combined physical model.

It’s brief - because I’m in another meeting