RMIT - Landscape Arch - Semester 1, 2012 - Upper Pool Studios

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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Upper Pool Studios - Semester 1, 2012

Friction - Rosalea Monacella Future Hanoi - Graham Crist Kerb - Rosalea Monacella Maribor 2012AI - Cath Stutterheim PLOTting - Kate Church Terra Lander - Craig Douglas


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material

resistance+surfaceaffectsFRICTION

tutor Dr Rosalea Monacella, OUTR Research Lab

time Thursday 12-6 (note: class commences week 05)

room 88.5.14

Lake Eyre is the largest ephemeral lake in the world. It is a pluvial lake that

experiences significant increase in depth and extent as a result of increased

precipitation and reduced evaporation. It exists within the Lake Eyre Basin

which is a drainage basin that covers one-sixth of all Australia. It is one of

the largest internal drainage systems on Earth, and covers 1,140,000 square

kilometers. At15m below sea level, it is the lowest point in Australia, and on

the rare occasion that it fills, it is the largest lake in Australia. This coupled

with the fact that the basin is an endorhic one that does not allow outflow to

other bodies of water such as rivers or oceans exemplifies the landscape as a

dynamic medium in a constant state of flux.

The concept of wetness and its relationship to migrational patterns of both

man and nature will be the key design generator in forming new habitats for

this itinerant landscape.

The design studio will look at the life of the lake from the point of view of the

landscape as a shifting, living, material phenomenon, and a re-mapping of it.

This is explored through mappings, drawings, aerial photography, and models

that explore a meaning for the landscape that suggest both landscapes and the

way we construct them through representation are constantly evolving.

Particular to this studio investigation of re-making the landscape through

representation will be the employment of the various territorial scanning

devices and rapid-prototyping technologies that interrogate the nexus between

physical and virtual modeling.

The work produced in the studio will be submitted into the student IFLA

competition 2012


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speculations onspeculations onan RMIT Vietnaman RMIT Vietnamcampuscampusuture HanoiFuture HanoiUpper Pool Studio with Graham Crist and the office of antarctica.Wednesday night 6pm in 8.12.36, with an intensive in Vietnam at mid-semester

Future Hanoi is offered to students of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.It is possible to take this studio without travelling; preference will be given thoughto those who will travel.For more information contact Graham: [email protected]

This design studio project will examine speculative ideas for an RMIT University campus in Hanoi.The designs will aim to test a campus as a model for good urban design (an ideal piece of the city), andenvironment which is responsive to the particular climate of Hanoi, and be conducive to innovative learning.We will ask the question: How can architectural design contribute to a university environment which isurbane, innovative and sustainable.

Specifically, how can this design studio provide useful testing of potential outcomes for a real project?We will produce urban scale designs, and zoom in to examine the architectural and landscape spacesof the campus and its learning environments.Future Hanoi is part of a larger set of questions: RMIT Universitys presence in Vietnam and the region,the nature of Asian urbanism, and the nature of sustainable urbanism.


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image: Animal Superpowers by Chris Woebken and Kenichi Okada

Kerbjournal

tutorDr Rosalea Monacella

timeWednesday 10am-5pm

class commences Wed 7th March

room88.05.01

credit36 credit points

(equivalent to 1 Design Studio + 01 Eelctive)

vol 20

speculative storiesnarrative in landscape architecture

publication launch 30.08.2012


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MARIBOR

CITYN

EXTREMIS

2112AI

Studio Leaders

Professor Cath Stutterheim(RMIT University / SAALA)

Dr Charles Anderson(RMIT University / SAALA)

Times:Fridays9.30am 1.30pm

Place:B45 D

SAALA has been invited by the School ofArchitecture & Design to conduct a practice ledstudio to develop one of the Universitys projectproposals for Maribor 2012Ai, a global design

research and exhibition project conducted aspart of the 2012 European Capital of CultureProgram. The outcomes of this studio will beincluded in the Australian Pavilion at the VeniceArchitecture Biennale 2012 and in a largeexhibition and symposium in Maribor, Slovenia.

The SAALA studio will explore the potentials ofcomputational design techniques and tools forgeneratingmeaningful landscape architecturaland urban design propositions for the City ofMaribor. Through an engagement with variousdynamic modeling methods the studio aimsto effectively model future scenarios whichrespond to the ambitions of the Maribor 2112Aibrief.

Of particular focus for this studio will beecological urbanism, patterns of growth, andthe exploration of various spatial and temporalorganizational strategies through which athriving and resilient city of the future mayemerge and evolve.

Throughout the semester there will be anemphasis on experimentation, testing, designthrough making, and the production of rich andbeautiful drawings and models.

This studio will navigate its way throughfour interrelated and overlapping phases:

Phase 1 : Tools & Techniques

A series of mini workshops exploring dynamicspatial organisation and systems modeling.

Phase 2 : Urban DreamingInvestigation of the rich history of future visionsof the city from from utopias to dystopias, fromprehistory to the 21st Century and beyond.

Phase 3 : Data PoolingGleaning information about the various historicaland contemporary forces which constitute Maribor.Through data accumulation, readings and analysiswe will generate a pool of relevant base material toenable a close engagement with both the existingconditions of Maribor as well as its predictedfuture scenarios.

Phase 4 : Design PropositionsGeneration of design provocations / proposals/ visions for the city of Maribor in the year 2112.NB: All design work will be developed in groups.

SAALA is assembling an interdisciplinaryconsultation team for this studio. Participantsinclude Roland Snooks (RMIT / Kokkugia), TimSchork (Monash / MESNE), Jerome Frumar (RMIT/ MESNE) and Clark Thenhaus (RMIT / Endemic).Additional guest presentations by a range ofdesign professionals will run through the course ofthe studio.

RMIT UniversityLandscape Architecture Program

Upper Pool Design StudioSemester 01 2012


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plot (n)the order of events in a narrative

or any other type of story

A measured piece or parcel ofland

plot (v)to plan secretly a scheme to

accomplish some purpose

to make by drawing

PLOTTINGFictions, fabrications + horticultural hijinks

Narrative is typically used in relation to LA as a way of

re-telling the story of a site either through the lens of

an earlier time (ie: history) or through other eyes (eg:

indigenous, migrant). This studio explores the potentialof narrative structures to be spatially generative and

temporally projective to suggest futures, possibilities

and alternate realities.

Plotting is a speculative, scenario-driven studio that usesnarrative devices to generate formal design outcomes. As

its name suggests the studio employs drawing to both drive

the plot and unravel the resultant narrative; revealing a

subterranean cartography and hoarded specimens of the

everyday.

Kate Church

Thursdays 12.30-4.30pm

room 45D

The Collector of Natural Curiosities is glimpsed

fossicking around the urban fringe - trailing his mobile

emporium

The Yarras depths are plunged once more,

deposits of dredged waste transform a half-

forgotten artificial island into a sublime landscape

of silted knolls and grottos.

From this, a parallel landscape imaginary

emerges

Yet nothing is quite as it seems.

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terra lander

erra frma, is the Latin phrase meaning solidearth, reers to the dry land mass on the earthssurace and is used to dierentiate rom the sea orair.

erra Australis (southern land), hypotheticalcontinent appearing on maps rom the 15th to the18th century.

tutor Craig DouglasOUR rseaerch lab

time thursday 4-8pmclass will commence in week 02

room 88.6.14

Tis studio will explore design as theemergence o ideas through the activityo making. We will be considering siteand the design response to, and through,site as a complex and dynamic set omaterial and corporeal relationshipscontinually constructed and destroyedthrough the time and space o drawingsand models.

Te laboratory through which this designresearch will be conducted is Victoriascoal mining and energy production heart,the La robe Valley. Te project brie isthe design o the Hazelwood cemetery

through a negotiation o a collection o

... I thought they were with you!

seemingly disparate, yet intrinsicallyrelated adjacent programs that include- to name a ew - the Hazelwood opencut coal mine, the power station, thesteaming cooling ponds (pictured), acamping ground, a boat shed, powerlines, an Anzac memorial, etc

Making, as a design approach, is tochallenge our ideas and understandingthrough the act o their becoming, andenable the generation o ideas and theirdevelopment through the translationsaected when moving rom one mediumto another.

erra incognita, unknown land, or regions thathave not been mapped or documented.

erra nullius, land belonging to no one, nobodysland, empty or desolate land.

erra pericolosa, dangerous land, or regionsbelieved likely to put travelers in jeopardy.

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