SEMESTER 2 | 2021
BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN DESIGN STUDIO BALLOTING POSTERS
CONSPIRACY REDUX
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. This studio is interested in the relationship between the physical and immaterial, the built and unbuilt, the real and unreal.
ALLAN BURROWS & ARJUNA BENSON SEMESTER 2 MONDAY & THURSDAY EVENINGS
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.
The method of the conspiracy theory will be used to make sense of the totality of the city. The conspiracy theorist takes uncontroversial data points and arranges them in novel ways. Whether this arrangement is “true” or not is unimportant. What we are interested in is in what it may lay bare and in the opening it may create for action. The dwelling will act as evidence of the theory, as an actor within it or as reaction against it. The studio will be structured as a series of esquisses, done in groups and individually. These will include traditional architectural exercises but will also explore filmmaking and other representional techniques.
PLATO’S CAVE The Greek Philosopher Plato, in his work Republic, uses the allegory of a cave in which prisoners are unknowingly trapped. Their understanding of reality is created by images on the walls of the cave. These images are in fact shadows cast by a light that the prisoners cannot see. In Plato’s allegory, a philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows are actually not reality at all. This studio frames architecture as the tool for releasing all the prisoners from the cave, and exposing higher levels of reality, and the mechanisms that create the constrained levels of reality in which all of us are trapped.The studio will design the New NGV Contemporary on the old Testing Grounds site on City Road. Students will work in pairs to create a project that has two competing realities. Working in pairs will start in week two, and run up to two weeks before midsemester presentation. Students will work on their own for the two weeks prior to mid semester presentation. Working in pairs will commence after mid semester presentation, and will continue up until two weeks prior to final presentations. In both presentations, students will present their own individual work, and feedback will be given after each pair of presentations.
The students will develop their proposals through a series of design exercises based on analytical drawings of prescribed known buildings from both recent and ancient architectural history. The studio will treat these items of historical built form, from around the world, as found objects, and cut and paste them into a new architectural collage where the result is something not seen before, yet holds recognisable architectural tropes within the fabric of its built geometry. Each week students will need to write 500 words about their own design work. The studio will have weekly reading that will need to be completed prior to the Monday class. Required reading to be completed before first class: The City and the City by China Miéville.
Face-to-face Mondays and Thursdays 2.30 > 5.30pm in the RMIT Design Hub Tutor: Dr Jan van Schaik: practising architect at MvS Architects, a researcher and senior lecturer at RMIT Architecture & Urban Design, a creative and cultural industries strategist at Future Tense, and the designer of Lost Tablets.
BEYOND SYNTHETICS Exploraঞon of Early Learning Environment in High Density Urban Context Studio Leader: Yichen Yang | Mondays & Thursdays 6.30 -9.30pm
An increasing number of children start their pre-schooling period inside high-rise buildings without enough exposure to the natural outdoor environment in Melbourne CBD. Densificaঞon of our city is inevitable, but what does this mean for our young children and their early learning environments? What happens when our children are asked to sit down in a dimly lit classroom for a lengthy period without a breeze? What is happening when digital screens replace the smell of falling leaves? Cooperating with property developers, early-learning centres are comfortably fit and hidden in high-rises, attempting to convince young parents with makeups such as syntheঞc grass and arঞficial plants, etc. This studio seeks to explore alternaঞve pathways of curaঞng contemporary urban early-learning environment mode and how these new imaginary prototypes can provide a place be er support with children, educators, parents and potenঞally heighten the awareness of the early learning environment of the public. The studio focuses on two architectural lenses: • High-density urban context and its relaঞonship with the early learning environment. We are keen to critique and interrogate the tangible boundaries between nature and artificiality in a high-density urban context. We are interested in finding new spatial imagination beyond the roof balconies for our future generations. Referencing Stan Allen’s ‘Field Conditions’ and looking at external systems beyond architectural disciplines, students will explore new approaches for discovering the possible design proposal of an early learning centre in Melbourne CBD. The imaginary vision of the early learning environment allows new thoughts of concerns and opportuniঞes to emerge. • New models of early learning environment based on the exploraঞon of procedural typological design. The studio challenges the notion of considering the early learning process as a kinder readiness journey or a skill drilled practice. Based on individual and group research, students will be invited to seek their own answers to this question, reimagining and seমng a speculaঞve vision of future urban early learning behaviours, exploring the new type of pedagogical environment encouraging play engagement, social and emoঞonal well-being, and new forms of supervision, etc. Students will further develop their manifest in a specific local context/ selected site whilst seamlessly integraঞng into the changing urban fabric of Melbourne CBD, speculaঞng and visually arঞculaঞng what the future early learning could be. Image Source: https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Ffavim.com%2Fimage%2F418184%2F&psig=AOvVaw0zlAQyIiRG-agxPBey8gBq&ust=1621244462914000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCOj_7T0zfACFQAAAAAdAAAAABAU
Gwyllim Jahn, Mon/Thurs 6-9pm
Slowbuild is a design build studio exploring the relationship between technology and slowness. Like the slow food movement, slowbuilding is a design ethos and value system centered on nourishment, delight, quality and sustainability. The studio will work with mixed reality environments to reinterpret, reinvent or reapply older, slower craft techniques to meet new challenges of more human centric, high-skill, digital construction. The agenda of the studio may be taken literally by applying technology to processes of making that occur over timescales beyond human attention or ambition, taking a long view towards environmental impact and future requirements for our built environment. Or we could serve to define an aesthetic by utilizing technology to control, guide, coax or otherwise generate wabi-sabi effects that emerge gradually over time; weathering, eroding, wearing and aging.
Designs will favour adaptable, wide-tolerance, intricate, implicit, spatial, ad-hoc, materially conditioned and differentiable forms and systems over optimized, explicit, repetitive, standardised 2D panels and parts. Weekly technical seminars will develop skills in topological modelling, design for production, digital simulation of physical material constraints, photogrammetry and 3D scanning to enable students to quickly generate highly intricate and varied design iterations that can be realised physically. A brief for a small residential building and park in Melbourne will be introduced early in the semester and there will be an emphasis on extensive design development of specific building systems and details. Projects will be completed in small groups, documented through short videos, and fabricated using hybrid digital-physical environments on the HoloLens 2.
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An Arts, Cultural & Treaty Centre
You will be asked to design an arts, cultural & treaty centre in the heart of Melbourne’s arts precinct. The design of Australian cities post colonization have failed to include Indigenous Australians voices, cultures and traditions within them. The studio examines a future Melbourne where the cultures and traditions of our First Nations people are made visible within our colonized city. The studio fits into a lineage of Australian architecture that is ideas based, figurative and pluralist and favours expressive forms.
Mondays 6-9pm & Thursdays 2-5pm
Led by Dr Christine Phillips & Stasinos Mantzis partnered with Aboriginal Boonwurrung Elder N’arwee’t Dr Carolyn Briggs AM The studio will draw on a range of design techniques such as extrusion, subtraction and collage to tackle the following 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 Aboriginal notions of Country within an urban context How to design a cultural building vertically on such a tight urban site. How can the history and culture of the site and its surrounds inform the design of the building? How can we engage with the urban surrounds and create links. How can we add to the current civic narrative of this Arts Precinct How might a better understanding of the importance of the site to the people of the Kulin Nation make us consider how this new civic building should be sited within the context of Melbourne as a colonial city?
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 along the length of the proposed 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 and how these interventions can engage with their immediate and greater contexts simultaneously. 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.
BArch | SEM 02 | 2021 TODD DE HOOG
MON | 2:30-5:30pm THURS | 6:00-9:00pm
This studio will explore the design of intricate tectonics through algorithmic design processes and the logic of 3D printing. Specifically the studio will explore the potential of an experimental metal 3D printing technique, Wire-Arc Additive Manufacturing, known as WAAM. Advances in robotic fabrication and building-scale 3D printing is about to radically change the relationship between cost and form, with highly intricate geometries becoming cheaper than conventional fabrication of rectilinear geometry. The studio will focus on tectonic experiments and investigate the architecture that this generates. This studio will have a particular focus on developing and refining tectonic architectural elements and their details. Particular attention will be paid to tectonics at a small scale through digital modeling and drawing. The studio will explore forms that are becoming possible with emerging building-scale 3D printing, in an attempt to articulate what the forms of 3D printed architecture might be and how these could be a radical departure from current architectural form-making. Within this context the studio will develop a synthetic design process that combines emergent algorithmic approaches and the logic of 3D printing to create a strange hybrid.
WAAM! BACHELOR STUDIO ROLAND SNOOKS + CHARLIE BOMAN
MONDAY + THURSDAY 5:30PM - 8:30PM LEVEL 10 LONG ROOM
nD a r c h i t e c t u r e Au tom ated h i gh re s o l u t i o n tec tonics R M IT Ba ch elors of Archi tec ture S t u dio Se m e ste r 2 2021 Tu tors : Prof A li sa An drasek wi th Josh u a Lye ONL I NE I NT EN S IVE STUDIO Due to the imminent population growth, the demand for housing will continue to grow. New ways of living and working accelerated by the global pandemic, upcoming revolutions in mobility and shared economy, distributed and localized green energy production, new materials, and automation are all part of a larger ecology in which to rethink architecture that could house this newfound complexity. Students will work on new residential typologies based on complex systems, through the interaction of larger populations of discrete building blocks and higher resolution complex aggregates. Those design systems are deeply computational and universal, allowing for virtually infinite combinatorics and emergence of complex tectonic states through the collective action of underlying elements. Prefabricated systems driven by data and algorithms offer great diversity for residential clusters, while being highly adaptable to local conditions, including topography, solar, wind, and earthquake resilience, and programmatic and aesthetic variability. Rendering previously unseen aesthetics, novel expressions of architecture are scientifically altered, in search of habitation patterns for enhanced wellbeing. Students will critically examine historic and current works of architects such as Moshe Safdie, Bow Wow, Daniel Kohler, as well as current prefabrication and CLT construction industry examples.This studio will be taught online in an intensive format. Students will be working in teams. Prior knowledge of Rhino and Grasshopper is highly encouraged. It is recommended to also take the “Ai Altered Architect” elective taught by Prof Andrasek in intensive 10 day format, since it will support the work for this studio with use of Ai in design search.
Studio Time: Mondays and Thursdays 2.30PM-5.30PM | ONLINE Studio Schedule: Week 1-5 - 19th July - 20th August - Studio meetings as per normal Week 6 - 23rd - 27th August - Intensive week - Meeting Every day | Morning Session - 10.00AM - 1.00PM | Afternoon Session 2.00PM - 5.00PM Mid Semester Break - 30 Aug - Sep 3 Week 7 - Monday 6 Sep Mid Semester Review | Thursday 8th Sep Studio Meeting Week 8 - 13th,15th Sep - Studio meetings as per normal Week 9 - Monday 20th Sep - Final Studio Meeting | Thursday 23rd Sep - Final Presentation
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Big Austra lia Party This studio will investigate the links between political media, graphic design and architectural space; via the design of an election campaign and media headquarters for a new political party geared towards the visualisation and metrics of a ‘green new deal’ for Australia. Every week, students will produce complementary graphic and architectural proposals that test the research and translation of broad value propositions, large-scale spatial mapping and media production spaces into a building and its immediate surrounds. The studio will be heavily skills-based and be driven primarily by looking at precedents. High quality architectural drawings (plans, sections, views) as well as maps and promotional graphics will be produced every week. The studio will have a significant creative writing component that will call upon students to form a complex understanding of the subject material and architectural precedent. The site will be the same size as the RMIT design hub and surrounds. STUDIO LEADER: PAUL VAN HERK IN PERSON MON & THU 6PM
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“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.”
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.
-National Geographic
These esquisses will be undertaken in partners in a “speed-dating” scenario.
Long ago society moved from menagerie to zoo. In this studio we will define the next step. This studio is about investigating behaviours and understanding patterns. Questioning what has come before and understanding how this can inform what comes next.
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.
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.
AN INDUSTRY PARTNERED PROJECT WITH MELBOURNE ZOO
NON-EXISTENT REALITIES II a studio that requires broadmindedness, and determination to uncover connections
What new forms of occupation challenge the status quo in growing city? What is density and how do you add density in a proactive way. This studio aims to offer collective design proposals that are proactive solutions to how we live and work in an emerging city: “In addition to the numerous pre-conditions that exist before the design of architecture can begin (gravity, geometry, program etc.) Specifically, it will deal with the question of the ownership of land (data), and the effects of these ownership relations on the production of space. Who owns the land? Who occupies the land? who uses the land ? This question is of crucial importance for all societies and their coexistence. This is because the availability of land (space and property) controls the production of space and the social order. The fact that land (space) is as vital to life as air and water. We will start with a brief introduction into the theoretical foundation of urban architecture, starting with Leon Battists Albertis “metaphor of the house as a small city and vice versa - the city as a large house. As a team you will then define your sites preconditions; a curation of experiences, data, readings of site, context, and place, both formal and informal to help reveal the differing cultural and political systems that affect occupation and land use. We will then look at how design, beyond architecture and urbanism alone, can address issues around density, urban growth, custodianship (private and collective property), sustainable economy and social cooperation and how your preconditions can 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 definition of privacy and common ground shaping our ideas of land use? how could we redefine these terms to improve the occupation and use of our cities? “ In developing a project, three primary components will be addressed: 1. Discovery Phase & Mapping - Context, Data Collection, Building typology & Character 2. Technique - division of space and land/space use 4. Time - proactive and generous design solutions for the youth and future of our cities tutors: Lucinda Mason , classes will be held on Mondays & Thursdays from 2.30-5.30pm (painting “Der Architekt”, by Luc Tuyman 1997-98
DIGITAL MEANING tutor | caitlyn parry
MON & THU 2:30-5:30PM
ON-LINE STUDIO We live as if we have an infinite amount of resources at our disposal. The 20th century saw an 23-fold increase in the use of natural resources in the construction industry alone. We also have no lasting relationship to objects or the place where they came from. This studio will explore digital tools and techniques to provide the potential reuse of construction materials and to enable the communication of a relationship to the primary resources that acknowledges building on Country. These techniques are situated in the speculative future of Australia where we have reached a point in time where we have depleted all natural resources. We must build by reconfiguring, dissambling and reimaging. We must also embed and communicate the Indigenous story of materials from Country to provide a more meaningful and lasting connection with that which we build with.
Important details Group work and some online workshops Grasshopper and some coding will be used. Previous knowledge would be helpful but not a requirement A smart phone that is < 3 years old
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BOOTLEG Bachelor Architecture Studio, Semester 2, 2021
ANNA JANKOVIC
MON 6:00-9:00PM | THU 3:30-6:30PM
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 in-complete). Never complete, this studio will explore the adaptive, the discarded, the re-used to assemble an architectural palimpsest - a BOOTLEG. Students will interrogate the embedded histories in the fabric of the everyday. Formed on an accumulation of architectural elements (ie. windows, doors, walls 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 - and BOOTLEG - their architecture project(s), on a site slated for demolition. You can view work from Anna’s previous Studios in Semester 2, 2020 and Semester 1, 2021 via the exhibition website: 23FEBRUARY2021.STUDIO
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 2.30-5.30 pm 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.