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DAY TIME LOCATION TITLE MASTERS/BACHELORS STAFF

Monday 10am 8.12.27 Bloom�+�Thrive Masters� Pia�Ednie�Brown,�Leanne�Zilka,�starting�week�6 Gwyllim�Jahn

TUESDAY 9.30Ͳ12.30 45.1.D Typ(e)cal�futures Masters�and�Bachelor Scott�Woods2.30Ͳ5.30 45.1.D Exhibiting�Architecture Masters�and�Bachelor John�Doyle

Intensive�Mode 2.30Ͳ5.30 design�hub�100.5.2 Eco�Urban�Practices Masters� Graham�Cristweek�3Ͳ9�tues�and�thurs

WEDNESDAY 9.30Ͳ12.30 45.1.3 Outbound Masters�and�Bachelor Ferran�Sagarra�and�Ian�Nazareth6pmͲ9pm� 100.6.2Ͳ8 A�Diggers�Life Bachelor Andre�Bonnice�and�Anna�Jankovicemail�tutor Practice�Research�Projects Masters Graham�Crist��Ͳ�coordinator

THURSDAY 9.30Ͳ12.30 8.12.43 Experimental�Robotic�Fabrication Masters�and�Bachelor Roland�Snooks9.30Ͳ12.30 8.12.42 Pattern�Recognition Masters�and�Bachelor Leanne�Zilka9.30Ͳ12.30 8.7.79 reflections�on�making Masters�and�Bachelor John�Cherrey9.30Ͳ12.30 8.11.47 The�Melbourne�xtra�plan Masters�and�Bachelor Peter�Brew�and�Ben�Akerman9.30.12.30 100.6.2Ͳ8 Elsewhere Masters� Gwyllim�Jahn1.30Ͳ4.30 Design�Hub�Level�8 Fibrous�Assemblies Masters�and�Bachelor Roland�Snooks1.30Ͳ4.30� 55.4.2 Putting�the�pieces�together Masters�and�Bachelor John�Cherrey6pmͲ9pm 8.11.39 International�Practice Masters�and�Bachelor Bruce�Allen

Intensive�mode 6pmͲ9pm Design�Hub�Level�8 2112Ai�100YC Masters�and�Bachelor Tom�Kovacsept�8ͲOct�17

Friday� 11.30Ͳ2.30 8.11.18 Architecture�of�the�Sun Masters�and�Bachelor Jan�Van�Schaik

RESEARCH refer�tutor Composite�Fabrication Masters�and�Bachelor Roland�SnooksELECTIVES refer�tutor PostͲauto�city Masters Gretchen�Wilkins

CONTENTS

LEADERS: Alisa Andrasek (BIOTHING), Pia Ednie-Brow, Leanne Zilka, Gwyllim Jahn

KEY WORDS: Design-Build, Digital Fabrication, Recursive Aggregation, Affective Environments, Material Systems

MODE: Masters Research elective

TIME/LOCATION: Elective runs from week 6-13 beginning with a one week intensive with Alisa Andrasek. First Meeting August 25th in 8.12.27.

BLOOM+THRIVE is a design-build research elec-tive consisting of two major pavilion projects. Students will be expected to contribute to all aspects of the design and fabrication research. During the first week of the elective students will work closely with Alisa Andresek (director of BIO-THING) to construct the BLOOM pavilion from an existing kit of plastic components. During the second half of semester students will assist in the design, prototyping and CNC robotic construction of a set of Danpalon shingles with which to clad a small greenhouse frame (THRIVE). This will involve using generative design techniques and various scripting platforms to produce, simultaneously, a model for efficient (no waste) cutting patterns and generate a range of shingle shapes with high levels of aesthetic interest. Both projects will be exhibited as part of the Future is Now exhibition at the Design Hub.

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Each�student�will�select�and�analyse�4�international�projects�of�a�similar�building�type�(spanning�the�late�18th�century�to�present�day)�which�can�include:�*HOUSING,�*MUSEUM,�*LIBRARY,�*THEATRE…�

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Each�student�will,�after�the�initial�research�phase,�propose�preliminary�design�investigations�for�a�present�day�/�future�iteration�of�their�chosen�building�type�on�an�imaginary�site.�This�design�phase�will�heavily�reference�and�therefore�evolve�from�the�research�surfaced�via�the�4�chosen�building�studies�and�will�be�tested�against�the�evidence�that�was�uncovered�during�the�initial�research�phase.�It’s�hoped�that�this�research�output�is�coupled�with�a�fearless�future�focus.�

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EXHIBITING ARCHITECTURE

Architecture has historically been a difficult medium to exhibit. While public built work is universally accessible, the majority of architectural production is inacessible, or never built and can only be experienced through exposition. There have been numerous significant exhibitions of architecture over the past 100 years, exploring a variety of different media and techniques.

This elective will examine different ways of exhibiting architecture using the RMIT Architecture & Urban Design End of Se-mester exhibition as a testing ground. Students will be asked to develop a curatorial strategy for the exhibition, along with a design for a display table and alteration to the Design Hub Gallery Space.

Subject to funding, one table design may be selected for the fabrication of a prototype.

Tutor: John Doyle

Tuesdays 2:30 - 5:30 Building 45 Room D

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GRAHAM CRIST

IAN NAZARETH

SEMESTER 2 2014MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE / MASTER OF URBAN DESIGNWEEKS: INTENSIVE WEEK 3 - WEEK 9 TUESDAY AND THURSDAY 2:30 - 5:30LOCATION: DESIGN HUB 100.05.002

This is the second of the eco - urban seminars offered to master of urban design, architecture and landscape masters students. It will build on the projects of last year’s work. Eco-Urban Practices introduces you to the key skills, methods and practices of the urban design professional from a multidisciplinary perspective, and with a particular focus on environmental sustainability. The relationship between urban design and global pressures of population and climate change is a key focus, as well as urban shifts in infrastructure, technology and transport. You will explore the implications of these issues on urban design processes, projects and practices, while acquiring insight from industry and government professionals, following the sustainabilty paradigm. We will view design practice from a global perspective, with an equal emphasis on the local. This elective will also investigate precedents, utopias, theories and manifestos in order to understand the multiple scales and networks within the city.

Walkability

The seminar will focus on the particular theme of walking, and test the view that the most sustainable city is one that is easy to use on foot. In cities like Metropolitan Melbourne we travel further and more frequently; arrangements that increase the physical distance between people and programs intensify the pressure on centralised infrastructures to handle the expansion. Pedestrian proximity to work, services, landscape etc, has a direct relationship to liveability, health, density and quality of urban life. The seminar will explore the contemporary metropolis through mobility and more specifically ‘walkability’ with a focus on time, and the nexus of social and connective infrastructures.

We will look at methods for observing and mapping the city- from local `on the ground’ work, to diagramming the systems of the whole metropolis. There will be three key projects, each explored through innovative analytical drawing; an URBAN CASE STUDY; 60 Minute Melbourne: (STRUTTING my Neighbourhood); Mega Metropolitan Systems

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OUTBOUND//The Current Form of Melbourne

FERRAN SAGARRA / IAN NAZARETH

Kleine Welten IX ‘Small Worlds’, Wassily Kandinsky , National Gallery of Autralia

Elective Format: Week 1 - Week 12

Date / Time: Wednesdays, 9.30 - 12.30

Location: 45.1.3

Cities are kinetic and constantly evolving as a

result of urban projects that simultaneously

operate at multiple scales, intensities and

densities. Through its buildings, land divisions,

infrastructure, ecologies etc., the city

demonstrates collective wills.

What is the contemporary form of Melbourne?

Which projects were critical to its transformation

and instrumental in its remaking? How has the

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form? What is its current process of growth?

How many ‘types’ of suburb are contained within

Metropolitan Melbourne?

‘Outbound’ also engages with questions dealing

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century and a half, the contemporary city

accumulates a myriad of forms, networks and

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With Melbourne as a mainstay, the course will

attempt to decode and isolate some layers and

narratives embedded within the city. Cycling

through a collection of thematic architectural

lenses, juxtapositions, manifestos and

precedents, the course aims to highlight the

urban dynamics of Melbourne, and build an

operative image of it.

This elective is studio based, and the course is

structured around individual design based

research projects informed through a series of

weekly assignments and accompanied by

readings. In-progress presentations will take

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of the entire project.

Outbound is offered to Master of Architecture

and Bachelor of Architectural Design students.

Practice Research Projects

THE PROJECTS WILL BE BASED ON REAL QUESTIONS, BUT BE DIVERSE AND SPECULATIVE; EXPLORATORY IN THEIR OUTCOMES. A BRIEFING SESSION IN WEEK ONE WILL DESCRIBE THE VARIOUS PROJECTS IN DETAIL AND YOU WILL BE MATCHED TO ONE OF THESE.FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT GRAHAM CRIST . EXAMPLLES OF THE THE PREVIOUS PROJECT FOLIOS ARE AVAILABLE.

last semester, Mitch Walker researched Melbourne Rock Venues at ARM

Master of Architecture Elective:

Research Projects based in an architectural offi ce.

coordinator graham crist graham.crist@rmit.edu.au

In this elective you will join a Melbourne architectural practice, and work on a research project run

within that offi ce in intensive mode.

In this elective you will participate in a research project formed by an architectural offi ce,and work on

that project in an fl exible mode.

The projects begun last semester inlcude work on Mellbourne retail space, laboratory volume studies,

rock venues, surf club design, and health spaces.

The project is a great opportuniity to interact with an offi ce and a real project team, and develop

skills in data gathering, analysis and visual communication.

participating practices include:

NH ARM Lyons antarctica Minifi e van Schaik Searle Warldron

Tools have always defined the space of possibility for design. With the emergence of a new set of robotic tools, this space is expanding in unexpected directions. This elective will explore the relationship between new robotic tools and their potential to create novel archi-tectural forms, structure and ornament. Students will design and prototype an architectural installation/ob-ject in parallel to designing and making a robotic tool, with the emphasis on the feedback between the two.The elective will explore techniques including: large scale direct-deposition (3D printing in plastic, foam, sand), composite fibre taping, and intricate timber fabrication. This elective will be highly speculative and experimental. No prior programming or robotic experi-ence is required or assumed.

THURSDAY 1:30PM - 4:30PM | LEVEL 8 DESIGN HUB

EXPERIMENTAL ROBOTIC FABRICATIONROLAND SNOOKS

Architecture is all about MAKING in one form or another.In this elective you will explore one area of making in architecture, the MAKING of physical objects. You will con-sider ideas about making including conception, design, scale, precision, tolerance, materials and process. MAKING is a complex task and at its best it requires a synthesis of many things. To be excel in MAKING, re!ection both during and after creation is essential; re!ection will form a key part of the work you produce.

The work produced will range in scale from very small objects, to models and larger scale furniture scale designs.This is a workshop based elective. We will make use of much of the remarkable array of equipment to be found within the school.At the completion of the elective you will have broadened your skill base substantially both is making by hand and with analogue and digital equipment. You will have sharpened your sense of materials by resolving a range of task given to you.And lastly you will have developed a far more sophisticated approach to questions and process of MAKING.

Lecturer: John CherreyLocation: Level 7 workshop - 8.07.79 Time: Thursday 9.30 - 12.30 This class includes one intensive MAKING weekend workshop - date TBAThis elective is suited to both Bachelors and Masters level studentsIn this class you should expect to spend about $150 in materials.

Assessment: folio of works & journal

re!ections on MAKING

No large city today can afford to ignore

the risks of warfare, and must take all

practicable precautions in its civic

development to minimise loss of life and

property should it be attacked.

In this, town planning can play its

part. The civil defense authorities

advise that planning can best help by

encouraging the dispersal of population,

by avoiding as far as possible the

creation of worthwhile targets, and by

establishing a system of communications

which will facilitate movement

throughout the area. This need and these

authoritative opinions have been kept in

mind in drawing up the planning scheme.

Public open spaces will break up the

urban mass of homes and buildings and

provide some degree of dispersal of the

population. A comprehensive arterial

road system, which would considerably

aid the defense of the city in wartime,

has been provided for.

Town planning of itself cannot prevent

the establishment of worthwhile and

vital wartime targets.

Such targets could arise by the

concentration of a large number of

essential factories in a relatively

compact area, or by having a number

of factories of the same type close

together.

Successful attack on such targets could

result in several essential factories

being destroyed at the one time or a

large section of one industry being

lost.

Such undesirable grouping of industries

is already occurring in Melbourne.

1956 MMBW Planning Scheme

poster content:

description of elective including what is

expected of students:

Urban design + non Planning based elective

concerned by issues around measuring

+ demonstrating resource capacity/

capabilities aand articulating a vision

for the cities future.

It is imagined that this will become

catalytic

Interactive guide/archive of Melbourne

futures,

(from the earliest time to the present)

I Imagine or adopt a format in order to

provide a means to collect, collate and

project-

2 Variable outcomes say 1m or 20m

(an archive of the cities history and

possible futures)

3 A repository of useful information

(providing access to history, projects,

detailed studies, guidelines + resources)

4 The centre piece might be our version

of the cities current plan or development

guidelines.

Our best guess at what ought to happen

next...

(ie: studio based where students will work

through design problems weekly, written

submissions,research based etc)

date, time and location:

Thursday 9.30-12.30 8.11.47

tutor name:

Peter Brew, Ben Akerman

open to bachelor and/or masters student:

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We are interested in exploring the

relationship plans have to their

territory…

What is their sphere of the plans

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Using Melbourne and its metropolitan

plans as a source material we have

designed a course that requires

students to speculate not only

about the future of the city but the

future of city plans...

Program

Week 1: Introduction / maps, plans

games, vision, sources.

Week 2: Power of 10, Scale + extent.

The concept of an Analogue plan.

Week 3: Metrics, units

base lining, proof

Week 4: Todays and tomorrows…

Targets. Scenarios, multi plans

Week 5: The economy of the plan –

Week 6: Thresholds and breaking

points, Infrastructure plans

Week 7: Districts lines catchments

–zones and sub zones

Week 8: Melbourne Plans

Week 9: Plan Games

Week 10: Scenarios:

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Week 11: Speculative futures/

speculative pasts

Week 12: More games, Apps,

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We are interested in exploring the

relationship plans have to their

territory…

What is the sphere of the plans

description of elective including what is

expected of students:

Urban design + non Planning based elective

concerned by issues around measuring +

demonstrating resource capacity/capabilities

aand articulating a vision for the cities

future.

It is imagined that this will become

catalytic...

LEADER: Gwyllim Jahn

KEY WORDS: Haptic robotics, autonomous construction, behavioural systems, creative computing, generative design

MODE: Research driven Masters elective

TIME/LOCATION: Thursdays 9:30-12:30 in 100.6.2-8 (Design Hub level 6)

Elseware will investigate how complex and highly speculative algorithmic design techniques can be translated into processes for autonomous robotic construction. Students will be exposed to a repository of common algorithms and behavioural systems (agents, cellular automata, l-systems) written in Processing, and will develop schematics describing how these digital processes may evolve iin order to work with physical materials, environments and robotic agents. We will have the opportunity to collaborate with software engineering and robotics experts and experiment with prototypes using the Baxter Research Robot. The elective will produce research in the form of a publication that speculates on how emerging haptic technology (stereo vision, depth scanners and wireless sensors) and open-source robots (ROS) might be coupled with rudimentary fabrication techniques capable of being carried out non-human construction teams to produce complex architectural form.

elseware

This algorithmic design elective will explore the generation of fibrous assemblages, the emergence of pattern and form through agent-based techniques. This method-ology considers the source of form to operate at the smallest scale of matter - the interaction of individual fibers that lead to the generation of complex order and the emergence of architectural form and organization. The elective will operate pri-marily through the generation of drawings and three-dimensional form through scripted techniques.

The course will examine complex systems, in particular the logic of swarm intelli-gence, and how these systems operate through multi-agent algorithms. A method-ology will be introduced that encodes simple architectural decisions within a dis-tributed system of autonomous computational agents. It is the interaction of these local decisions that self-organizes design intention, giving rise to a form of collec-tive intelligence and emergent behavior at the global scale.

The first half of the semester will focus on scripting technique and methodology within Processing, while the second half of the course will focus on the application of these methodologies to problems of design and speculative design research.

The course will be heavily engaged in scripting, however no scripting or program-ming experience is required or assumed.

FIBROUS ASSEMBLAGES

ALGORITHMIC DESIGN ELECTIVE ROLAND SNOOKS

THURSDAY 9:30AM - 12:30PM | 8.12.43

putting the pieces together

In this course you will explore the world of architectural detailing. If you want to understand how buildings are assembled close up then this is the course for you. The approach in the class is hands-on. Following a couple of introductory classes where we look at the principles of detailing you will commence the first of three assignments. For each of the assignments you will be give a set of plans, sections and elevations and asked to complete some of the details. The work you will detail will be that of some award winning Melbourne architects. The class will be a bit like working in an office. You produce the work and then it will be marked up for you to improve and finalize. During each class you will be given the technical know-how to assist you in working through your set of detail problems. At the conclusion of the class you will be given the real solutions for you to compare with your designs. The final set of drawings will provide a valuable resource for you in the future.

masters elective

When: Thursday 1.30- 4.30Where: Building 55.4.2 project pod, advanced manufacturing hub Lecturer: John Cherrey contact: john.cherrey@rmit.edu.au

Carlo Scapa - detail Olivetti showroom , Venice

INTERNATIONAL PRACTICE Archi tectura l Des ign E lect ive Semester : 2, 2014 Tutor : Bruce Allen Locat ion: 8.11.39 T ime: Thursday, 6 – 9 pm

International Practice is a seminar elective for 12 -15 students and is part of the Professional Practice program. The course consists of introductory sessions by Bruce Allen followed by student presentations of papers. On three occasions during the semester a guest is invited to join the class for dinner at a budget restaurant. Course Object ives

The objective of the course is to provide students with an understanding of globalization and issues of International Practice. The seminars provide an opportunity for students to share their knowledge and experience. The issues covered include but are not limited to cultural identity, cross cultural management, ethics, politics, design transfer and regionalism. Assessment

1. Presentation of a seminar paper covering a theoretical topic related to international design. (40 marks)

2. Presentation paper presenting a critical case study of a building designed in the student’s home country by a foreign architect. (35 marks)

3. A short essay summarizing the presentations. (15 marks)

4. Semester journal of ideas. (10 marks)

Architecture of the Sun

All construction projects should be carbon neutral, in construction and operation, if not better - this is now a given. These, however, are largely technical concerns. They do not, in themselves add up to a language of architecture. This elective will concern itself with investigating solar technology for buildings as a medim for architecture.

WHEN: FRIDAYS 11:30 > 2:30

WHERE: 8:11:18

CONTACT: JAN.VANSCHAIK@RMIT.EDU.AU

Jan van Schaik is a lecturer and researcher in the RMIT University School of Architecture & Design and a director of MvS Architects, an award winning architecture practice based in Melbourne. Visit mvsarchitects.com.au for more information.

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Architecture of the SunMAKING ARCHITECTURE FROM SOLAR TECHNOLOGY - AN ELECTIVE

Icarus flew too close to the sun and melted the wax from which he’d fashioned his wings. Do his shortcomings lie in hubris, or was it simply that he did not properly understand the medium in which his ambitions were designed?

Research assistants are required to work on the fabrication of an exhibition design for a major exhibition in the Design Hub. The students will work on taking the digital model and developing fabrication files as well as the hands on fabrication work in the workshop. The project is being designed by Studio Roland Snooks.

The project will run in an intensive format over the first month of the semes-ter.

COMPOSITE FABRICATIONRESEARCH ASSISTANT[S] ROLAND SNOOKS