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Crit Week 2015 Semester One

Project Reviews June 01 ~ 05 2015

Welcome

Thank you for contributing to Crit Week for Semester One 2015, an important event in the UQ architecture calendar.

This document provides an overview of our courses, including the primary course profile from which studio leaders prepare specific projects each semester as outlined in the abstracts. We have included information for all of the studios presenting during the week to help demonstrate the breadth and depth of the work being undertaken in the school. We trust this material assists you in participating in the review process and providing constructive feedback for our students.

These are the final presentations for this semester thus the comments made to students will, we hope, inform their work in future design studios.

It is particularly exciting to have international guests working with us this semester including award-winning architects Jinhee Park and John Hong of SSD architects (Seoul, NYC and Boston). John and Jinhee are have expanding their research in Micro-Urbanism with students form Utopian Urbanism Studio in our Masters of Architecture program. Through John and Jinhee we have been introduced to Rafael Luna and Dongwoo Yim of PRAUD (Seoul & Boston).

Dongwoo and Rafael will present their work in a public lecture at 5:00pm on Friday June 05 in the Hawken Building 50-T105 (St Lucia Campus). Following their presentation there will be drinks in the Exhibition Space in the architecture building.

A special Thank You to our professional staff who continually toil away behind the scenes to arrange food, drinks, transport and more.

Studio Reviews - Semester 01 2015 REV_01. 02.06.15

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semester one reviewsInternational Critics: Dongwoo Yim & Rafael Luna, PRAUD, Seoul / Boston.

public lectureDongwoo Yim & Rafael Luna, PRAUD, Seoul / Boston.Friday 05 June - 5:00pm.Hawken Building 50-T105 UQ St Lucia Campus.

drinksFriday 05 June - 6:15 pm.Zelman Cowen Building UQ St Lucia Campus.

crit week events01 ~ 05 June 2015

First Year Design StudioLeonie Matthews & Nicole Sully.

Second Year Design StudioAshley Paine, Jonathan Kopinski, Zuzana Kovar, Nick Skepper & Dirk Yates.

Third Year Design StudioTim O’Rourke, Kelly Greenop, Lisa Lambie & Richard Buchanan, Aaron Peters, Nicholas Skepper, Brian Donovan & Jared Bird.

Masters Studio: Adaptive CapacitiesEmily Juckes, Kahn Neil & Susan Holden.

Masters Studio: Utopian UrbanismJinhee Park & John Hong (Seoul / Boston / NYC) with John de Manincor.

Masters Studio: MasterclassBrit Andresen, Mara Francis & Michael Barnett.

Masters Studio: Dwelling and DensityDoug Neale & Elliot Harvie.

Masters Studio: Architecture and CommerceAndrew Steen & Martin Bignell. Masters Studio: Institutions and IdeologyElizabeth Musgrave & Gerard Murtagh.

Masters Studio: Landscapes and ArchitectureThomas Lenigas & Liza Neil.

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People

Alexandra Brown

Andrew Campbell

Andrew D’Occhio

Amelia Hine

Angus Munro

Bek Vallance

Brant Harris

Brant Tate

Brian Donovan

Bruce Wolfe

Bud Brannigan

Chi Tang

Chris Skinner

Cr George Seymour

Damien Eckersley

Don Watson

Eloise Atkinson

Emily Juckes

Emma James

Georgina Russell

Gerry Murtagh

Greg Bamford

Hamilton Wilson

Hamish Lyon

I-wen Kuo

James Davidson

Jared Bird

Jo Case

John Hockings

John Macarthur

John Price

Josh Spillane

Justin O’Neill

Justin Twohill

Kahn Neil

Karen Ognibene

Katie Hawgood

Kim Baber

Laura Listopad

Laura Pascoe

Libby Watson-Brown

Lisa Edwards

Martin Reason

Marty Bignell

Michael Gunn

Mick Keniger

Paul Butterworth

Paul Quatermass

Peter Leeds

Phillip Lukin

Seth Remaut

Suzie Wiley

Tahnee Sullivan

Tamarind Taylor

Tersius Maass

Tim Morgan

Tyson McCulloch

Yohei Omura

Zoe Ridgway

Thank you to the following people for giving up their time and energy this week to support our teaching staff students.

This list was prepared a few days in advance of presentations. If we have missed anyone, please accept our sincere apologies.John de Manincor - Design Stream CoordinatorStudio Reviews - Semester 01 2015 REV_01. 02.06.15

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First Year

Abstract:The aims of Architecture Studio 1 are to introduce students to design processes for the development of three-dimensional form and architectural spaces. In project 2, using a set of prescribed spatial typologies – centric, courtyard, cloister, linear, spine and serial progression – students developed a set of studies of each typology and then selected one of these to develop as the final rest stop project. The studio project is being run concurrently with a competition sponsored by RACQ for the design of a short to medium stay rest stop that the students can elect to enter. The working methods of the project included physical modelling, sketching, diagramming hard-line drawings and photography as a means of exploring space and form through an iterative process, as well as developing skills in architectural visual communication.its material effects, and its visual pleasures.

Profile

Form and SpaceThis course introduces the foundations of architectural design through short exercises that engage issues of space and form in relationship to human scale, movement and inhabitation.Processes of deriving and refining responses to architectural questions are introduced. Physical and digital modelling and drawing are used to develop skills in observation, visualisation and representation

Studio LeadersLeonie Matthews & Nicole Sully.

AssistantsCecilia Bischeri,

Cong Guo,

Mark Hiley,

Lisa Kuiri,

Anna O’Gorman,

Josh Spillane,

Brant Tate.


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Second Year

Profile

Site and SurfaceThis course expands the scope of architectural design to include site and architectural surface.Techniques of mapping past and present occupation, topography and environmental qualities are used to derive the planning and placement of buildings. Processes of visual composition and techniques for mediating external conditions are employed to achieve responsive and considered facades. Descriptive and interpretive representations using physical and digital models are used.

Studio LeadersAshley Paine & Jeffrey Bradley

Zuzana Kovar & Lynn Wang,

Nick Skepper & Laura McConaghy,

Jonathan Kopinski & Reece Neumann,

Dirk Yates & Sam Charles-Ginn.

OverviewThis semester’s course consists of a coordinated series of design studios that will examine the strategic transformation of five key sites on the Brisbane River, through the design of small to medium sized architectural projects. While modest in scale, the projects aim to have a big impact: they are intended as catalysts that provide critical urban infrastructure to realise a greater potential for the city and its urban spaces.

The projects re-make problematic river edges, and provide new connections and amenity in often ugly and undervalued parts of the city. These “riparian repairs” set a challenge therefore be seen as a challenge to imagine a new image, identity and purpose for these key river sites, using the agency of architecture.

All of the river-edge sites are of a similar size, are generally long and thin in proportion, and require imaginative design solutions to address new and existing circulation routes, level changes and a complex combination of different programmes. All sites also offer opportunities to examine linear forms and planning techniques.

Connecting the five studios is a common focus on issues concerning “site” and “surface”.

In this course, the concept of site is expanded to include a combination of conditions: physical and immaterial; natural and man-made. In fact, the division between natural and artificial environments is dissolved. Everything becomes site, everything becomes landscape. Site may also be thought of as a surface: a topographic condition made up of natural and built objects. But unlike the concept of site which is defined in a very broad way, the idea of surface is more particular. It emphasises the exploration of the building envelope—its façade and skin—and not what lies behind. The studios encourage the search for an architecture that is of the surface, and not of substance, questioning how we see architecture, its material effects, and its visual pleasures.

Ashley Paine, Co-ordinator


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Second Year

MonoscapeStudio LeadersAshley Paine & Jeffrey Bradley

Abstract

techniques for a unified building surface.

The Queen Street Wharf Project envisions the re-making of some 400 metres the river’s edge in a prime location of the CBD. Conceived as a complimentary development to the current Howard Smith Wharves proposal, the project is intended to improve public amenity and river-front infrastructure, but to also make Queen Street Wharf a lively destination in its own right: a new kind of wharf for twenty-first century Brisbane. It might also be thought of as a new public square—only unfolded or stretched out into a thin band along the river bank. However, key to the success of such as project lies in its creation of a new public connection between Queen Street and the river.

The programme brief for this project might be considered a “Stage 1” development: a small seed project with minimal built space, but which puts in place the strategic infrastructure for future development. This “Stage 1” will include a tourist information centre, various moorings for tourist boats and watercraft, public toilets, a restaurant & bars, as well as a new, re-designed riverwalk: these things all make up the new “Queen Street Wharf” project


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Second Year

City Market.Studio LeadersDirk Yates & Sam Charles-Ginn.

AbstractThe City Market project, located adjacent the Commissariat Store off William Street in the CBD, addresses approximately 250 metres of under-utilised river edge beneath the Riverside Expressway. To be considered a complimentary development to the adjacent north bank casino proposal, the project aims to improve the river-side infrastructure in the CBD and provide a permanent facility for the inner-city’s food and produce market. As a lively transport edge to the the CBD the intention for the project is to insert a commercial node adjacent these routes while also enhancing the public amenity of this prominent area of the city. Rather than being conceived of as a riverside park, much like Southbank parklands, the project is concerned with developing the commercial imperatives of both this edge of the CBD and the river itself. The project will include a permanent food & produce market, a number of piers for commercial and leisure water crafts (think moorings for fishing boats from Moreton Bay, a place to launch a kayak), and venues for eating / social activities.

While the site has significant constraints due to the imposing structure of the Riverside Expressway, important heritage structures (the Commissariat Store, National Trust House, and Old State Library), significant trees, and the Bicentennial Bikeway, these constraints also offer significant opportunities to be explored. The provision of civic amenities and urban infrastructure to this edge of the CBD aim to activate this neglected and historically significant portion of the river’s edge while altering the manner in which the river and its use is currently perceived.


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Second Year

Texture, Scale & MaterialStudio LeadersZuzana Kovar & Lynn Wang

AbstractWorking within the overarching theme of Site and Surface, the Studio has placed an emphasis on developing three key qualities: texture, scale and material. The studio introduced a broad range of interpretations of these qualities and explores how they relate to both site and surface, and further considers how these qualities might be deployed within a work of architecture. How can, for example, material textures affect our experience of space at the scale of a person, or be used to create an architectural language across an entire façade? How does the scale of a material texture affect the way we perceive a site or surface? What might we mean when describing the texture of a city or a site when analyzing it through large-scale site mapping? These considerations and others have been explored through the design of a medium-scale public building in inner city Brisbane.


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Second Year

PorosityStudio LeadersNick Skepper & Laura McConaghy.

AbstractThis Studio has placed an emphasis on considering surface porosity. This theme opens up a number of questions such as; how do we make openings in a surface? Do openings disrupt the integrity of a surface? How do we compose openings in a surface? How does a window as an opening differ from a surface with multiple, scattered perforations or punctures? What is the ratio of solid to open in a surface? What purpose do openings serve – framing of views, access to light and ventilation, providing opportunities to occupy a threshold, connecting interior to exterior, connecting interior to interior etc.

The notion of porosity can be considered not only at the scale of a material surface, but also at the scale of the site. How might we make a building that is porous to flows of people or to lines of sight for example? This theme has be explored through the design of a medium scaled public building for the cultural centre forecourt at South Bank. This new building accommodates the various activities and events that already occupy this space, but which are inadequately provided for, including temporary markets, festivals, performances and other large gatherings. A key emphasis in the project has been on the ‘mending’ of the existing poorly made river edge.


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Second Year

Contested Ground + Constructed Landscape

Studio LeadersJonathan Kopinski & Reece Neumann

AbstractThis studio tests the application field condition theory, surface fluidity and territorial programming in an attempt to construct a synthetic landscape terrain that generates agonistic tension within a broader context.

Situated in a residual territory outside the productive structures of the networked city, the studio considers how public and private influence can be understood as a physical condition and thus explicitly revealed through the operative articulation of site and surface.

Through these investigations, the studio has sought to define landscape as a fluctuating construction of physical and non-physical relationships that condition all forms of inhabitation. As Alex Wall writes:

“Landscape invokes the functioning matrix of connective tissue that organizes not only objects and spaces but also the dynamic processes and events that move through them. This is landscape as an active surface, structuring the conditions for new relationships and interactions among the things it supports”.

— Alex Wall, Programming the Urban Surface

Critically, the studio has tested ways in which architecture might be produced as landscape as opposed to merely being placed within it.


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Third Year

Profile

Clients and CultureThis course starts with the development of an aspirational brief that accurately registers the culture and needs of existing and /or potential users.Skills are developed in the respectful apprehension of cultural and physical diversity and in the effective deployment of the budget through clever planning and programming. Methods of communication that are accessible to lay audiences and which convey experiential qualities are employed at all stages of the design process.

Studio LeadersTim O’Rourke

Kelly Greenop & Amy Learmonth,

Lisa Lambie & Richard Buchanan,

Aaron Peters & Nicholas Skepper,

Brian Donovan & Jared Bird.


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Third Year

AbstractThis Studio investigates different types of aged care accommodation in an urban context. Given the demographic projections of an aging population, there is a pressing need for architects to reflect critically on current architectural types and models of aged care. Both government and private sector groups are seeking housing solutions to aged care that maintain dignity and quality of life. The studio considers the use of prefabrication in the delivery of medium density aged care housing.

BVN Studio

Studio LeadersBrian Donovan & Jared Bird


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Third Year

AbstractThis studio examines the design of aged care housing and facilities for Aboriginal people on North Stradbroke. The studio project focuses on an existing facility called Moopi, which provides different types of aged care accommodation for local Quandamooka people. Driven by demographic and funding pressures, the North Stradbroke Island Housing Co-operative (NSIHC) need to reconsider types of care and expansion of the facility. Located on edge of the small town of Dunwich, the site and surrounding area are both culturally and historically significant to Quandamooka people. Students have engaged directly with the staff of the Cooperative and the carers at Moopi, as well as Quandamooka residents and elders. The studio has posed questions about the influence of social and cultural factors on the design of housing for the aged.

Architectus Studio

Studio LeadersLisa Lambie & Richard Buchanan


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Third Year

AbstractThe Social Housing Studio has required students to design a housing scheme for a social housing client group, that is low-cost housing subsidised by government or charity bodies for a site in Newstead.

The challenge of the studio lies not only in the design of the apartments, but in developing a strategy to incorporate social housing into an increasingly up-market suburb of Brisbane, reasserting the right to the city for people of all incomes and adding non-commercial amenities in a place dominated by retail consumption and developer housing. Part of the brief requirements are that a shared space for use by the public and the housing residents be provided, which could be anything from a laundrette to a childcare centre to a local library. The studio has included a trip to Melbourne to examine recent award winning buildings that address social housing needs. Students also visited services providers that support social housing clients who often have complex physical, mental and emotional health issues to learn more about the needs of many users beyond housing. ‘Senior peers’ from the final years of the masters who have been undertaking a research topic on aged social housing occupancy worked with this studio, attending and commenting on critiques and some also travelled to Melbourne, encouraging cross-year learning.

Social Housing Studio

Studio LeadersKelly Greenop & Amy Learmonth


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Third Year

AbstractThe Middle Scale is a design studio focusing on low/medium scale multi-residential mixed�use buildings in the inner city of Brisbane. The nominal ‘client’ is a speculative private developer. Students have been be asked to examine the requirements of multiple ‘users’ including prospective occupiers and the local community, who have a considerable stake in the cultural shift precipitated by gentrification of the area. The focus has been on low/medium scale multi residential buildings within the studio is a reaction to the perceived lack of appropriate building stock at this scale within the city. The studio has asked the question: What demographic(s) within our community would benefit from a more accessible middle scale in our city and how might this type of development respond to concerns of widening accessibility to development opportunities, home ownership and affordability and promoting cultural and demographic diversity within the city?

The major project of the semester has been the design of a low/medium density residential complex in South Brisbane and/or West End.

The Middle Scale.

Studio LeadersVokes and Peters & Zuzana & Nicholas


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Third Year

AbstractThe Sri Lanka studio examines relationships between cultural practices and the design of domestic space, with a particular focus on courtyard housing. Courtyard housing is common to both vernacular and contemporary Sri Lankan domestic architecture. In Australia, this type is marginal in both mainstream and architectural housing, despite particular advantages variants of the approach might offer in response to urban or climatic conditions. The travel component of the studio has examined the social, cultural, climatic and tectonic characteristics of this housing type in Sri Lanka. Comparing typological variants of the courtyard house across cultures and climates, students have used the Sri Lankan study to make design proposals for housing displaced people in a sub-tropical region. The studio has explored what can learned about domestic cultural practices from a close examination of architecture. Questions about housing types, and cultural translocation, have guided the studio in developing and medium density project, using a limited pallet of materials.

Sri Lanka Studio

Studio Leader

Tim O’Rourke


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Masters StudioArchitecture and Commerce

Profile

A course that explores architecture’s role in commercial development and global consumer culture. Students learn to work with the quantitative language of financial speculation and, in parallel, the terms through which architecture’s relationship to commerce has been theoretically considered, from the populism of `Learning from Las Vegas’ (1972) to corporate branding and `starchitecture’. Design proposals are expected to critically balance the expectations of commercial development against broader societal needs for sustainable and accessible cities. Designing with the material technologies of commercial developments, is an integral part of this course.

Studio LeadersAndrew Steen & Martin Bignell.

Abstract

Learning from the Moorooka Magic MileRobert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Robert Izenour’s Learning from Las Vegas (1972) is based on the architectural and iconographical elements of that city’s glitter strip. Our studio will revise this celebrated work. It learns from one of Brisbane’s own commercial strips: the Moorooka Magic Mile. The projects will confront a specific local context beset with zoning and funding issues – a block fronting onto the Magic Mile. In addition, the studio demands projects interrogate consumption practices revolutionized in the past decade; consider contemporary modes of cultural interaction and habits of movement; and challenge architectural theories based on conceptions of symbol and icon. Architecture’s communicative and ideological capacities will inform a complex mixed-use retail-warehouse-residential development, constrained by the demands of governmental policy, commercial viability, and architectural discourse.


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Masters StudioLandscapes and Architecture.

Profile

Fixed or mobile architectures that sustain or shape familiar or unfamiliar landscapes are designed in this course. The idealisation of wilderness, agrarian and (post) industrial landscapes through historical concepts such as the picturesque, as well as contemporary ideas about nature as a casualty of human activity, are the conceptual backdrop for revisiting the relationship between buildings and their environments. Design research in this course includes extensive fieldwork, documentation of natural processes and systems, and reference to other genres in which landscapes and nature are portrayed. Students explore active and temporal relationships between architecture and its environment.

Studio Leaders:Thomas Lenigas & Liza Neil.

AbstractThe studio unpacks how architecture can compose and respond to landscape systems via a speculative embassy on Macquarie Island (in the Sub-Antarctic region of the Southern Ocean) and seed the mythical super continent of Terra Australis. The change in climate and the complex ecosystem shifts will extend architectural design thinking and technical resolution beyond preconceived approaches to form.

Students began the semester with a presentation in a cold room -25’C, thanks to Roger Cold Store.

The studio included online micro-lectures from the following:

Prof Anuradha Matur + Dilip da Cuhna, UPenn (USA)

Keehyun Ahn AnL Studio (South Korea)

Phil Harris Troppo Architects (SA)

Susan Dugdale Susan Dugdale & Associates (NT)

Alex Hoffman Group GSA (QLD)

Philip Leeson + Wendy Christie Philip Leeson Architects (ACT)

Tim Black B-K-K (VIC)

Dr Steve Rintoul CSIRO (TAS)

Rob Clifton Australian Antarctic Division (TAS)

Adrian Young HIG (QLD)

Margaux Ellis Sunshine Coast Council (QLD)

Abbie McLean Masters Student (QLD)


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Masters StudioInstitutions and Ideology

Profile

Students in this course negotiate the ideological underpinning of existing and future institutions in the design of buildings and precincts for governance, justice, diplomacy, education or culture.Students learn the dynamic and contested nature of exterior and interior public space and are challenged to develop compelling architectural expression for organisations that play a significant role in public life. Design proposals engage with the political structures and processes that drive regional infrastructure and the regulatory context for building. Designing with the complex briefing and planning requirements for institutional and public buildings is essential to this course.

Studio Leaders:Elizabeth Musgrave & Gerard Murtagh.

Abstract

framing a critical practiceBy its nature, architecture is propositional and projective that is, architecture embodies ideas, values and images that anticipate possible futures.

Institutions are where a community’s cultural and material values are given physical expression. Demetri Porphyrios defines institutions ‘as a system of norms or rules that is socially sanctioned.’ Kahn argues that institutions come about by ‘human agreement’ and that the city is ‘a place of assembled institutions.’ He elaborated further by saying that the ‘city is measured by the character of its institutions.’ The design of institutions provides an opportunity to critique agreed or normative conditions and to recalibrate or tune a community’s understanding of its own cultural, social and material values [ideology] and systems.

This studio has sought ideas that challenge existing thinking about education and training and the relationship between educational institutions and the individuals and collectives that comprise their community through the design of a tertiary level arts campus in Maryborough, a regional city in transition. Students have explored the potential of an institution and its community as a transactional relationship. Whilst institutions ideally come about because of community need and agreement [although these days they are more likely to reflect political and economic policy], they also gather community and generate community life, address community need. Education institutions are capable of expressing a community’s aspirations. The creative arts, in particular the performing arts, have remarkable capacity for achieving this ambition. The studio has explored the role that architecture plays in articulating relationships physically constructing territory and the relationships of territories to each other and to the wider context – that give expression and meaning to communities aspirations and values. Students have investigated architecture’s capacity for critique of existing educational models and the role that architecture plays in enabling structural, social and cultural change.

Further, studio has posited that the relationship between architecture �understood as embodying the ideas, aspirations and values of people and its social and material context is articulated through ideas. The studio has aimed to develop a conscious awareness of the ‘ideas,’ and ‘images’ directing design propositions, the origins and meanings of those ideas, and the appropriateness of their application in an educational setting.


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Masters StudioAdaptive Capacities

Profile Students in this course operate on, in or alongside existing built fabric, analysing its heritage and material qualities, and formulating architectural proposals for its re-use, adaptation or conservation.The historical legacy of places is considered broadly, embracing the modern and industrial, cultural heritage and memorialisation as well as designated heritage sites. The design process takes in past and present uses of the site, as well as regulatory parameters, conservation policies and methodologies, stakeholders and economic viability. An expanded range of technologies, such as digital scanning, is used in the documentation of the site and the communication of proposed interventions.

Studio Leaders:Emily Juckes, Kahn Neil & Susan Holden.

AbstractThis studio examines the future possibilities for a disused parcel of land within Roma Street Station. The slice of territory is the site of FDG Stanley’s original Roma Street Passenger Terminus (1873-5). Obscured by 120 years of development the former heart of the station complex is now dilapidated and disused.

The ambition of the studio is to rediscover this lost heart through a series of urban and detail scale investigations, to make proposals that return Stanley’s building to use and reactivate the site. Working outwards from the station building the studio seeks new perspectives on this part of the city and on the contested agendas of adaptive reuse. The project offers a rich context for the exploration of adaptive reuse as a generator for architectural ideas and has the potential to reinvigorate debate about the renewal of the transit centre


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Masters StudioDwelling and Density

Profile

Diverse solutions to the challenge of accommodating rapidly growing, urban populations in Australia and Asia are explored in this studio. Based in research and fieldwork into formal and informal housing in cities, issues such as density and amenity, privacy and community, climate and cultural appropriateness, affordability, disability, ageing and changing household demographics are considered in the design of innovative housing. The relationship between individual housing projects and their effects at the urban scale in increasing or decreasing segregation, gentrification and suburban sprawl are explored. The design of individual dwellings as well as the design of common spaces is expected.

Studio Leader:Doug Neale & Elliot Harvie.

Abstract

provocations for the room, the building and the streetDensity and Dwelling aims to extend students’ ability to formulate and implement design strategies within the constraints and opportunities of housing

The strategies formed in this studio have questioned the determinism of density-based formulae for developing housing volume. In so doing we have saught to look beyond the conventional modes of urban analysis and develop understanding of landscape, urban morphology and typology, for design propositions that explore the connection between the architectural-ness of building design and their fit with, and production of, the city. Students have drawn from a diverse range of material available on the city, including models of development economics; contemporary and canonical texts and conventional and experimental analytic tools. Students have been given the opportunity in their project work to develop propositions that reveal the ‘possibilities’ of architecture in shaping cities.


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Masters StudioUtopian Urbanism

Profile

In this studio students anticipate future scenarios for the city and develop architectural responses to forecast global challenges, such as climate change, population increase and diminishing resources.The impetus for positing alternatives to the present is treated seriously through critical review of the history of utopian proposals in architecture and urban design. This research grounds the formulation of future scenarios and is the basis for the design of alternative visions for cities. The course emphasises the agency of architecture in effecting change. Studio activities may include field trips to cities in Australia and abroad.

Studio Leaders:Jinhee Park, John Hong & John de Manincor

AbstractThomas Moore’s original Utopian concept was based on an island and its contemporary example Masdar was also built in the desert in isolation. Instead Micro Urbanism offers radical flexibility within existing cities in the face of rapid change caused by political, economic, and cultural forces. Micro Urbanism reformulates relationships between the essential elements of a city at a finer grain. Instead of the broad generalist descriptions of housing, retail, culture, etc. that current modes of urbanism are based on, understanding spatial and programmatic relationships as a activities a t the micro-scale opens up new possibilities of collaboration, environmental performance, and urban efficiency.

Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea is relevant and powerful for the application of Micro Urbanism because as a realized failed utopia it becomes a site for reinvention. As expert predictions see the imminent opening of North Korea, how this change will occur without negatively destabilizing the existing city and culture is an urgent question. Not only is this paramount for North and South Korea but also for the entire region, as North Korea will become the missing link between Europe and Asia through the connection of the Asia transcontinental high-speed rail.

Students will be asked to analyse Utopian city-making strategies, invent upon emerging concepts of Micro Urbanism then project an architectural and urban future for Pyongyang. The questions will be:

How can the Stalinist diagram of Pyongyang act as an initial layer for radical reinvention?

How can we re-characterize the city so that its symbolic spaces serve the public?

How can we leverage the underutilized infrastructure, buildings, and open areas into new spaces that allow it to become a sustainable keystone in the international network?

Finally, how can it become a prototypical city for other cities or nations that have undergone periods of isolation due to political, religious, or cultural conflict?


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Masters StudioJapan Studio

Profile

Students in this course engage critically and intensively with the distinctive formal commitments, theoretical position and modus operandi of a leading practitioner or practice. Their example is used as a springboard for advancing new directions in which students can formulate and demonstrate a related but independent position responsive to their own time, place and culture. Studio activities are typically conducted in an intensive mode to enable significant national and international guests to lead the studio

Studio Leaders:Brit Andresen.

Assistants:Michael Barnett & Mara Francis.

AbstractThe studio offered a course of study in constructing architectural space including architectural design, applied research and travel.

In addition to attending lectures and analysing buildings, sites, gardens and texts the students participated in a collaborative workshop with students at the Tom Heneghan Lab at Geidai, Tokyo.

Students were invited to identify spatial concepts and propositions to serve selected places and occasions in Tokyo and to be demonstrated in three interrelated design projects namely:

1 “Five Small Rooms and a Stair” studies and sketch proposals for micro sites in Taito Ku Tokyo.

2 “Tokyo Workshop” group sketch designs for a site in a central Asakusa neighbourhood.

3 “Askusa Ryokan” a mixed-use brief tested through sketch designs and developed to demonstrate spatial propositions in selected areas


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