Swinburne Architecture Catalogue 2018

01| ARCHITECTURE 2018

Preface 2018 has been the year that Swinburne opened its new Bachelor of Design (Architecture) to its first students. I would like to acknowledge not only the wonderful architecture staff who have made this such an exciting and memorable year in the fledgling program, but also our commencing first and second year student cohorts.

In this year, you, as students, have come on a journey with us and I believe that you have learnt that design in architecture is not only something you practice relentlessly to hone your skills, but is a form of research that generates new knowledge. You have studied the design, communication, construction and history and culture of architecture. Some of you have already had the opportunity to take other electives and internships. You have understood, through repeatedly improving on what you have within the time available, that design is an iterative process responding to a series of constraints and minor failures that have to be uncovered through assiduous investigation, modelling and prototyping.

In this book, we celebrate and congratulate you on the exciting work you have accomplished in this, your, and our, first year of architecture. It is with delight that we celebrate the first steps in the journey.

Professor Jane Burry, Dean, Swinburne School of Design

Architecture at Swinburne Starting the Architecture course at the Swinburne University of Technology is an act of profound optimism.

Architects are necessarily futurists, always involved in projecting: what will the city be like in a decade, how will we live five years hence, what will the cost of materials be a year from now. Architecture is therefore a necessarily optimistic act, because while it is founded on the possibilities of today it is shaping the desires for tomorrow. A new architecture course, thus, while it may be relatively unencumbered by a legacy of the past, must necessarily reckon with monumental challenges and transformations — from the ecological to the social to the technological — that we are continually reckoning with and coming to understand, and thus can only ever partially know. We must find new materials for making a world more conducive to the health of us and our planet. We must explore the possibilities and ramifications of new ways of fabricating and assembling the built environment. We must harness these for the betterment of the human condition. We must see in the challenges which surround us new opportunities for expression and organisation.

It is thus with this sense of profound optimism, even amidst the uncertainty that continually surrounds us, that we present the first year of undergraduate architectural studies at Swinburne.

Associate Professor John Sadar, Course Director of Architecture, Swinburne School of Design

Architectural Design Studio 2 (Construction) Building by code

Studio Leader: Canhui Chen Students: Anes Abdou, Amy Nuccio, Rohit Nair, Tinotenda Mubayiwa, Ralph Santos, Tirth Nayak, Charlotte Mwaba, Jacinta Princi, Nathan Flynn, Aaron Stillitano, Claudia Siric, Jason Trajkovski, Jordan Veniamakis, Eddy Jameler De Leon, Nicholas Aylward, Shengye Yu The turn of the twentieth century has seen a progressive blossoming of computing in the practice of architecture, which has fundamentally increased architect’s capabilities and broadened the scope of their repertoires.

The advancement of computational modelling techniques coupled with simulation tools, has promoted agency in design through the inherent integration of design criteria, conditions and fabrication information. This has allowed architects to enter and initiate into unchartered design domains including robotics, computer science and material science.

This increased capability has triggered a pilot period in architectural practices, where wellestablished design workflows are re-evaluated. In many cases, a renewed relationship between architects and making is re-emerging into the physical production of buildings.

Whilst leading to new opportunities, it also creates new challenges, which bring with it the necessity to acquire new competencies. Thus, this studio, through prototyping, investigates how digital tools, hands-on making and material can complement one another. It asks students to test their chosen materials and tectonic details from structural, aesthetic, and technical standpoints, continuously alternating between the physical and the digital, making and coding, manual tools and numerically controlled machines, to develop a new understanding of materials, experimental fabrication approaches and advanced construction methods.

The aim is to ultimately prepare students for the emerging practice in architecture.

Koi _ Eddy Jameler De Leon, Nicholas Aylward, Shengye Yu

38.8 _ Anes Abdou, Amy Nuccio, Rohit Nair

38.8 _ Anes Abdou, Amy Nuccio, Rohit Nair

NewWave _ Tinotenda Mubayiwa, Ralph Santos, Tirth Nayak

Verde _ Charlotte Mwaba, Jacinta Princi, Nathan Flynn

Lattice _ Aaron Stillitano, Claudia Siric, Jason Trajkovski, Jordan Veniamakis

Koi _ Eddy Jameler De Leon, Nicholas Aylward, Shengye Yu

The Void: Anes Abdou, Amy Nuccio, Ralph Santos, Eddy Jameler De Leon, Tirth Nayak, Nicholas Aylward

The Void: Anes Abdou, Amy Nuccio, Ralph Santos, Eddy Jameler De Leon, Tirth Nayak, Nicholas Aylward

Architectural Design Studio 3 (Socio-economic contexts) The FESTA Studio

Swinburne University was invited to participate in the 2018 Festival of Transitional Architecture (FESTA) in Christchurch, New Zealand. This live project, offered an authentic learning experience in a post-earthquake city. Under the major theme of FEASTA a public feast of architecture, design and food in the city, Architecture students were responsible for the picnic area which comprised, entry to the site, a seating area, and surrounding to the performance stage. Following individual designs, three group projects were developed and prototyped in Melbourne ensuring they complied with a range of community and council guidelines, health and safety, build program, and sustainability aspects. Arriving in Christchurch materials were collected and transformed over a three-day build period for the main day/night event held on Saturday 20 October. The project for the stage comprised a fragmented geometrical structure made from coat hangers with LED lights, whereas the main picnic area included pallet platforms and tables finished with carpet and fabric, and topped by a coat hanger and LED table light. Entryway into the site included an aromatic enclosure made from cardboard boxes, with six fragrant scents blowing into the space. Over 150 design and architecture students from seven universities participated, with an attendance of 12,000 people.

Studio Leader: Professor Mark Taylor Students: Anes Abdou , Nicholas Aylward , Eddy Jameler De Leon, Nathan Flynn, Charlotte Mwaba, Rohit Nair, Tirth Nayak, Amy Nuccio Jacinta Princi , Sebastian Rylander, Ralph Santos, Claudia Siric, Aaron Stillitano, Jason Trajkovski, Jordan Veniamakis , Shengye Yu

FESTA stage design & construction

FESTA seating and picnic area design & construction

FESTA event night

FESTA event day

IaaC | Global Summer School Bio-digital Futures: From Coding to Cultivating Can the living replace the non-living?

Can the natural replace the artificial?

Can the growing be grown?

In collaboration with the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC), Swinburne hosted a Global Summer Studio in July. The studio aimed to seek future solutions to the environmental impact of a world of cities developing at unprecedented growth rates.

Support systems struggle to keep up with demand, and existing built environment and manufacturing models exploit natural resources, physical and biological, making it imperative to seek a new paradigm that finds an equilibrium between the natural and the artificial in an effort to reduce non-renewable consumption.

As designers and architects, the decision to ‘make’ often has a two-fold side-effect of consuming resources and harming the environment. Therefore, how do we make and what can we make that mitigates these sideeffects. Can we build and manufacture with low energy processes? Can we make with renewable materials? Can buildings be grown, with open processes that embrace the variability of the natural world?

Local and international participants collaborated with biologists, designers and architects to experiment with biomaterials and explore their fabrication potential.

They used parametric design tools and computational modelling techniques to develop scaffolds and moulds that support the growth of biomaterials.

Studio Leader: Canhui Chen, Linus Tan , Tracey Nguyen , Associate Professor John Sadar Participants: Eddy Jameler De Leon, Tirth Nayak, Ralph Santos, Wen-Xin Yeunh, Ruby So, Lili Zhang, Darren Vuong, Alison Estabaya, Gordon Goh, Saibal Dutta, Leixin Du, Pak Ying Tsang

Mycelium prototype _ Wen-Xin Yeunh, Lili Zhang

Microscopic studies at Swinburne Chemistry and Biotechnology Laboratory

Mould fabrication

Biodegradable Casket _ Ruby So

Mycelium hanging chain _ Eddy Jameler De Leon, Ralph Santos, Ruby So

Acoustic panel prototype _ Leixin Du, Pak Ying Tsang

Mycoustic concept acoustic wall _ Leixin Du, Pak Ying Tsang

Prototype _ Alison Estabaya, Leixin Du (above) Pak Ying Tsang, Leixin Du (below)

Prototype detail _ Eddy Jameler De Leon, Ralph Santos

FabPod II impression

Professional internship FabPod II Swinburne students have the opportunity to undertake professional internships and work on industry-linked projects. Professional internship projects allow students to experience workplace challenges directly related to their future careers. All projects are team-based and guided by industry professionals.

FabPod II development followed a series of already established design proposals to create an innovative design to fulfill fabrication process, sound performance, and architectural aesthetic requirements. The construction system has been developed with a lightweight thin modular steel metal structure. Individual cells are custom cut in sheet metal and folded in a cellular arrangement for increasing structural strength and stacked together to provide the overall system framework that can be covered later with acoustic panels. A double layer skin is developed with a grasshopper script with an exterior diverging structure and interior converging shape. The double skin geometry was simulated in Odeon to verify the sound performance of the system and to rank the iterations for the sake of improving speech privacy.

There is a dramatic improvement in the speech privacy of the open interior from the initial design with 100% of the space having full speech intelligibility to the final iteration, where almost 55% of the space has STI below 0.6. Acoustics can be applied as a design driver at early stages of design and the interaction between auditory analysis and other design imperatives such as fabrication constraints can play an active role in shaping the architecture.

Internship supervisor: Canhui Chen Students: Anes Abdou , Nicholas Aylward , Eddy Jameler De Leon, Tirth Nayak, Amy Nuccio, Ralph Santos

FabPod II metal frame design & fabrication

FabPod II robotic fabrication

FabPod II prototyping @ Swinburne Protolab

FabPod II test in office environment @ Aurecon

After a challenging year of exploration and experimentation in 2018, we now look forward to 2019, which will see the unveiling of the third year of the undergraduate course and the introduction of dedicated coursework for the architectural engineering course, as well as the launch of a suite of postgraduate courses, including: • Master of Architecture • Master of Urban Design • Master of Architecture and Urban Design • Graduate Certificate in Urban Design • Graduate Certificate in Urban Informatics

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