SLABalogue 2019

SLAB . OLOGUE

SPRING SEMESTER, 2018 WORK FROM: RMIT . LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE . LOWER POOL STUDIOS

PRESENTED BY RMIT SLAB . MARCH . 2019

This booklet was produced in the main to celebrate exceptional work from the Lower Pool studios of RMIT’s Bachelor of Landscape Architectural Design.

We also hope the booklet will help first year students in developing an understanding of how the studio system operates and the kind of studios on offer.

This booklet was prepared by RMIT SLAB: Student Landscape Architecture Body.

Edited by Albert Rex, SLAB VP. Based on the idea of former SLAB Treasurer: Gordon Goh Student work nominated by SLAB executive team and Studio Leaders.

The work in this booklet belongs to the students who produced it. We thank them for agreeing to have it included here but extend no right to reproduce/ share/disseminate this work without the consent of its credited author.

All studio descriptions are based on the studio leader’s own studio balloting poster.

Printed 28/02/2019 - or there abouts

SLAB EXECUTIVE 2019: Molly Rose Coulter: President Albert Rex: Vice President Gerard Snowdon: Treasurer Georgie Nicol: Secretary

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CONTRIBUTORS INTERSECTION

Led by Anthony Sharples and Alistair Kirkpatrick Arwen Pichler Bridie Storton Esther Honybun Lara Damjanovic

THE ANALOGOUS CITY Led by Alice Lewis Shannon Bunworth

INTERFERENCE PATTERN Led by Philip Belesky Jackson Hill Georgie Nicol

CREATIVE VISIONING Led by Phin Murphy Anna Jarrett Molly Rose Coulter

SCALES OF MEASURMENT Led by Ben Kazacos & Will Welsh Gerard Snowdon Joshua Lee

ON COUNTRY: CULPRA STATION STUDIO Led by Jock Gilbert Albert Rex Peter Grant Scarlett McClure

FILTHY GORGEOU$ 2.0 Led by Brent Greene Angus Mitchell

GROWSHEPP . REIMAGINING THE CANNERY Led by Lisa Riamondo Agnes Ducray Lisa Reynolds

By Harrison Schmitt or Ron Evans (Apollo 17)

INTERSECTION

Led by Anthony Sharples & Alistair Kirkpatrick Intersection was a studio which looked at the multitude of layers within the landscape and the broader context of our urban environment as a way to approach the act of design.

It involved a focus on an in depth analysis of layers such as geology, history, vegetation, current use and hydrology as well as ideas of ‘terrain vague’, ‘third landscape’ framed in remnant signs of history.

By Arwen Pichler 1

By Arwen Pichler

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By Bridie Storton 3

By Bridie Storton 15

LEGEND Acacia melanoxylon

New contours (minor)

Concrete pavers

Existing contours (minor) Acacia implexa

Clearings

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New contours (major)

Ozothamus ferruginous

Existing contours (major)

Bursaria spinosa

Walking trail

Undergrowth

Hymenanthera dentata s.l Iron structure

Eucalyptus ovata

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By Esther Honybun

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UNDERGROWTH Urtica incisa Persicaria subsessilis Senecio quadridentatus Acacia novae- zelandiae Hydrocotyle hirta Stellaria pungens Veronica plebeia Oxalis carniculata s. l Dichondria repens Carex appressa Poa labillardierei Phragmites australia Juncus amabilis Cyperus spp Microlaena stipodes var stipodes Eleocharis acuta common Calystegia sepium

By Esther Honybun 5

By Lara Damjanovic 6

THE ANALOGOUS CITY Led by Alice Lewis

The Analogous City was a studio which explored appropriated uses of civic street space by engaging with the tensions caused by unplanned activity.

With a Focus on the often-marginalised urban sports of street skating, parkour and freestyle BMX�The Analogous City worked to join into an ongoing debate regarding security, programmatic segregation and the agency of the population in actively shaping their cities.

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Yarra River

By ShannonBunworth

Intervention

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By Shannon Bunworth

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INTERFERENCE PATTERN Led by Philip Belesky

Constructued and re-constructed from 1989 through 1930, the Elwood canal was a pioneering and ambitious engineering project. It helped transform the area from swampland to suburb; albeit one that suffers increasingly recurrent and severe flooding risks.

Given the canal is an almost wholly constructed artefect this studio was not an exercise in naive re-naturalisation, but instead engaged with the flux in hydrological volume and velocity that the canal must bear.

Through this studio the constraints of the site offered an opportunity to design proposals with a detial-first approach where the uniformity of the canal’s section allowed for the testing of reconfigurations of the channel.

By Jackson Hill

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By Jackson Hill

By Georgie Nicol

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By Jackson Hill

By Georgie Nicol

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By Georgie Nicol

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CREATIVE VISIONING Led by Phin Murphy

Creative Visioning: Design propostions for the Indian Cultural Precinct, Dandenong, provided an exciting opportunity to be involved in a live project. Students were introduced to a robust community engagement process developed and carried out by studio leader Phin Murphy.

The objective was for a coherent and exciting ‘blue sky’ vision for the precinct that would add to the dialogue about long term sustainability through the medium of design.

ByAnna Jarrett

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By Anna Jarrett 16

By Molly Rose Coulter

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By Molly Rose Coulter

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SCALES OF MEASUREMENT Led by Ben Kazacos & Will Welsh

Scales of Measurement explored ways in which non-traditional, but content rich datasets could be deconstructed to help inform relevant and valuable design decisions concerning landscape, from the master planning scale (how large systems work together) to the experiential scale (how people intimately engage with and use space).

Based in the urban renewal precinct of Arden-Macaulay, this studio challenges the current metrics used within landscape architecture and urban design.

By Gerard Snowdon

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By Gerard Snowdon

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By Joshua Lee

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By Joshua Lee

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ON COUNTRY: CULPRA STATION STUDIO Led by Jock Gilbert

A studio formulated following an ivitation by Aboriginal Elder Barry Pearce of the Culpra Milli Aboriginal Corporation, to collaborate in the development of infrastructure at Culpra Station. The studio focused on developing respectful partnerships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants through the adoption and implementation of cultural protocols.

The Studio involved a 6 day research trip to Northern Victoria and South Western NSW to undertake collaborative field work at Culpra Station and included students from Landscape Architecture and Architecture.

By Albert Rex

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Melbourne

Dampened area situated up wind of burning area Burn area starts this end, slowly backburning into the wind

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Autumn Burn 1: 2000 Fire Regime on Country

By Peter Grant

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By Peter Grant

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By Peter Grant

Country Culture Community

By Scarlett McClure

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By Scarlett McClure

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scale = 1:1000

STAGE THREE

scale = 1:2500

STAGE TWO

This area of land has been changed by settler agricultural practices such as grazing.

Grazing compacts the soil which reduces the surfaces water solubility thus effecting the ability for many plants to grow.

scale = 1:2500

STAGE ONE

When the food is collected, it opens an opportunity to invite more people to site- The community can cook and eat the produce together, and some stuff can be turned into boutique produce to be sold at markets in Culpra and beyond!

Planting food is an event that can involve people of all ages and abilities, and bring lots of people together with a shared goal and motivation.

The process of growing and eating food can help people learn how to care for Country, as there is a holistic balance between taking and giving.

The channel provides an opportunity to plant things that enjoy temporary innundation and needs more protection than what the surrounding pastures can provide.

During the wet season, the channel will fill up with water, thus performing as it did during settler occupation.

The River Red Gum looked very old and as if it was dying- this could be due to the changing weather conditions and effect of water distribution along the Murray, or possible just because of age.

The cartoon to the right explains this idea further...

To grow trees here, I suggest adopting a method similar to that of Yacouba Sawadogo, as well as the techniques used to build the fish traps.

By starting to plant hardy trees and shrubs such as wattle and Old Man Saltbush, a protective cover will start to emerge over the harsh pastured lands.

The channel contains a lot more plants than the surrounding pastures. Many of these plants, such as the River Red Gum depicted, enjoy some amount of inundation, which this channel would recieve during and after rainfall events.

Food can be exported off site to Mildura or other neighboring places. This will start to strengthen the network that Culpra Station has with its surrounds.

By Scarlett McClure

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FILTHY GORGEOU$ V 2.0 Led by Brent Greene

Filthy gorgeou$ investaged the spontaneous ecologies, and the terrain vague attributes, of Melbourne’s post-industrial ‘e-gate’ landscape.

E-gate has been identified by successive state governments as site for urban renewal and infrastructure development with recent government recommendations suggesting the land be handed over to toll road operators.

In contrast, this studio explored evolved frameworks of urban ecology to realise the potential of e-gate as an expansive and highly dynamic urban landscape.

By Angus Mitchell 29

By Angus Mitchell

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GROWSHEPP: REIMAGINING THE CANNERY Led by Lisa Riamondo

This studio took as its site an almost abandoned manufacturing, warehouse and storage space in Mooroopna once occupied by SPC with the aim of recreating a space that once again benefits the community.

The studio incorporated students from Landscape Architecture and Industrial Design and studies were developed under the following areas: 1. Food Ftures (Agriculture Porcessing Precinct) 2. Healthy Hearty (Healthcare and Wellbeing Precinct) 3. Cinema City (Entertainment Precinct)

Final Plan - Entire Design

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By Agnes Ducray 31

Circulation Diagrams

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By Lisa Reynolds & Agnes Ducray

Exploded Axonometric

By Lisa Reynolds

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S1 - Section 1 52

S2 - Section 2 53

By Agnes Ducray & Lisa Reynolds

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Section

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By Agnes Ducray & JiaMeng Xin

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2019

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