DESIGN STUDIOS - Melbourne School of Design - SEMESTER 2, 2016

SEMESTER 2, 2016
DESIGN
STUDIOS
Master of Architecture B
Master of Architecture C, D, E
Master of Architecture Thesis
Master of Landscape Architecture
Master of Urban Design
Master of Urban Planning
MSD International Travelling Studios
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Melbourne
School of Design
DEANS
LECTURE
SERIES
2016
MATERIAL
PRACTICES IN THE
ANTHROPOCENE AGE
John Wood
GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

30 March
Jing Liu
SO-IL, NEW YORK

17 May
Karen MCloskey
+
Keith VanDerSys
PEG Office of Landscape + Architecture, PHILADELPHIA

2 August
Judith Innes
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

11 October
7:00pm
Theatre B117, Basement
Melbourne School of Design
Register at msd.unimelb.edu.au/events
FOREWORD
DARYL LE GREW
Dean
STUDIO MSD - WELCOME

A warm welcome to the Melbourne School of Design, ranked
among the world's top schools of the built environment.Here at
the MSD, through research and creative practice, we explore new
ideas for the future of our cities, regions, landscapes and buildings,
leading the built environment professions into new conceptual
territory. How fortunate are we to work in the living laboratory of
Melbourne, the epicenter of design education and practice in
Australia
2017 will see our Studio program once as the most exciting core
of the MSD - new projects will see staff and graduate students
working together to create, prototype and test design ideas, with
the overarching intent to challenge orthodoxy and to innovate. The
Studio is the key to the high reputation and ranking of the MSD. As
a place of exploration and co-creation the Studio is by no means
new - the Medieval mason's workshop, the Renaissance bottega
and studiolo, the Beaux Artes atelier, the Bauhaus laboratory, the
1980's art factory are inspiring. These prior models shape our
thinking about design learning and teaching. As with these historical
exemplars, MSD Studios are places for collaborative and individual
contemplation and production of ideas and artifacts, of generating
representations for the future realities.
Individualistic or otherwise, all of us admit that we are stimulated
by the buzz creating with others, of thinking freely, generating ideas
collectively, arguing and debating the merits of design propositions.
This is the nub of Studio - mutual exploration and speculation,
making and challenging propositions, creating new realities,
representing the world as it might be. And a better world at that.
In MSD Studio you will work with the best designers - academic
staff, professional practitioners and visitors who are drawn to the
School because they, too, wish to be challenged. A broad range of
different Studio projects, problems and opportunities are designed
to challenge you - from the speculative and fantastic to the most
pragmatic real world problems. Projects test your thinking, disrupt
your comfort zone and require you to think and create prolifically.
You will need to reassess your most cherished beliefs, develop
strong ideas, represent them cogently, be subjected to equally
strong critique and hold your own under strong critique -it's under
the fire of a critique jury of seniors and peers that your ideas hold
up, or not. This helps, not just to assess, but to illuminate where
you are in your design thinking. You will be expected to vigorously
defend and enter the dialectic that surrounds all design ideas, good
and not so good. Embrace the criticism, incorporate it in the next
iteration of your thinking. It's how all designers learn.
Our multi-award winning MSD Building will play an important

role in your development. The building is a learning system
in that it responds to the pulse of life in the School; it is at
the same time project space, intimate and group space,
workshop, laboratory, learning common, exhibition hall, star
and debating chamber, niche and communal space, all rolled
into one.It's magic architecture in which to work. Look
carefully though, the MSD is designed with high levels of
spatial, aesthetic and structural innovation. The building is both
as one with the zeitgeist, yet ahead of its time. As you should
be.
So, study hard, up the ante in your thinking, address Studio
with forethought and intelligence; but be daring, break away
from the orthodox, be avant-garde, respecting, but not
necessarily accepting, of the past.
The networks you build with Studio colleagues will be there
for life in many instances. Enjoy the collective creative spirit.
Studio is the place, perhaps the only place remaining in global
and impersonal world, where you can safely suspend reality,
where you can tolerate contradictions and hold contrary views,
where you can play with ideas, where you can springboard
from the ideas of others.
Studio is the place where you can blossom in an environment
that both supports you and delights in your success.
FOREWORD
ALAN PERT
Director MSD
Welcome to semester 2, 2016 where MSD starts from a

position of exceptional strength augmented by the unique
breadth of disciplinary expertise housed within our faculty and
across our sessional teaching staff cohort. The MSD promotes
positive changes and creates new ideas and values through
its diverse studio teaching. Semester 2 provides brand new
challenges, while the evolving city context remains at the
centre of the schools design research agenda. MSD promotes
critical thinking, visual skills development, creative research,
and data analysis as well as technical research in attempting
to tackle the problems facing Australia, its cities, its growing
population and its unique landscape environment. Our studios
as such promote broad speculation, independent thinking as
well as collective work with the aim of positioning architecture,
landscape architecture, and urban design into a broader
social, cultural, political, and economic context. Design studio
agendas as such attempt to cast a wide net around the
problems of our day. Our studios encompass the questions
as well as the solutions and everything in between; design in
the context of our studios is about the freedom to explore,
testing the boundaries in order to deliver a definition of, and
insight into, the question as much as the solution, the context
as much as the artifact. MSD recognizes that design has
never been more important than it is today and the challenges
of our time require architects, urban designers, landscape
architects and planners as well as the full range of disciplines
involved in shaping and reshaping the built environment to
focus their abilities not simply on how things look but on how
things fundamentally are and, more to the point, how they
could be. We are framing design not simply as a collection of
professions, disciplines or techniques, but as a vantage on
the world from which things can be seen and achieved. Our
studios will frame problems and test solutions from different
perspectives, and they will be as much about the complex
systems of the city as they will be about resolving things at a
building scale and a human scale.
As students, you will get the opportunity to think across

boundaries, unpacking contemporary trajectories of urban change
while exploring the ways in which architecture, design & planning
is being re-configured to foster transformative change in an era
of social and ecological polarization. Being socially and spatially
embedded is, crucial to engaging with the complex constellation
of knowledge and practices that seek to change cities and to
instill new capacities to act in a transformative, effective and
ethical manner. It is a matter of building upon MSDs geographical
and disciplinary diversity to steer a, way through the local-global
relationships that are essential to the work we should be doing as
a globally relevant faculty who wants to make a real impact.
Beyond the studio program we would encourage students
to fully engage and consume MSDs events, workshops,
lectures and social media platforms. We finished semester 1
with an incredibly optimistic Deans lecture by Brooklyn based
SO IL (Solid Objectives Idenburg Liu). The lecture and
conversations afterwards captured their optimistic belief in the
power of architecture in catalyzing exchange and the realization
of ambitiously progressive ideas. We start semester 2 with a
talk by celebrated Indian architect Bijoy Jain, the founder of
Studio Mumbai, shortly followed by another Deans lecture on
2nd August by Philadelphia-based PEG office of landscape +
architecture. These events are important extensions of the studio
learning environment and a further opportunity to access as well
as disseminate ideas.
Importantly MSD is open to local, national and international

communities with some studios traveling overseas to engage
in the social, cultural, political, and economic complexities of
Asia, Europe and Latin America. So while many of our studios
will focus on the Melbourne context our work also has to be
embedded in a wider context: We cannot be remote observers
of the changes faced by cities and citizens across the globe.
As students, you will develop new responses to pressing world
issues living up to our ambition to be a global design school
inside a global university. Students, staff and researchers as
such represent a world-leading, multidisciplinary faculty, united
by a radical spirit of creative endeavor and individual ambition.
STUDIO DAYS AND TIMES
Correct at the time of printing. Please check the handbook prior to classes.
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE STUDIO B

Lecture
Studio
Monday
12:00 - 13:00
PAR-Engineering C-413 (C2 Theatre)
Monday
18:15 - 21:15
PAR-MSD-140, 142
Thursday
18:15 - 21:15
PAR-MSD-140, 142
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE STUDIO CDE
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST1/1
Monday
12:00
15:00
PAR-MSD-213 (Studio)
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST2/1
Thursday
12:00
15:00
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST1/4
Monday
17:15
20:15
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST2/4
Wednesday
17:15
20:15
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST1/5
Monday
15:15
18:15
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST2/5
Thursday
15:15
18:15
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST1/7
Wednesday
17:00
20:00
NH Architecture
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST2/7
Friday
14:00
17:00
NH Architecture
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST1/8
Monday
18:15
21:15
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST2/8
Thursday
18:15
21:15
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST1/9
Monday
18:15
21:15
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST2/9
Thursday
13:00
16:00
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST1/10
Monday
10:00
13:00
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST2/10
Thursday
14:15
17:15
Yui Uchomura +
Jang Yun Kim
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST1/13
Monday
18:15
21:15
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST2/13
Thursday
18:15
21:15
STUDIO 14
Virginia Mannering +
Yvonne Meng
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST1/14
Monday
9:00
12:00
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST2/14
Thursday
9:00
12:00
STUDIO 15
Paul Loh, David Leggett +

Josh Russo-Batterham
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST1/15
Monday
15:15
18:15
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST2/15
Thursday
15:15
18:15
STUDIO 16
Joel Benichou
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST1/16
Monday
15:15
18:15
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST2/16
Thursday
15:15
18:15
STUDIO 17
Daniela Mitterberger +
Tiziano Derme
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST1/17
Monday
18:15
21:15
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST2/17
Thursday
18:15
21:15
STUDIO 19
Ben Waters
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST1/19
Tuesday
9:00
12:00
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST2/19
Thursday
9:00
12:00
STUDIO 25
Michael Trudgeon
ABPL90111
Thursday
9:30
16:30
STUDIO 26
Colby Vexler +
Pricilla Heung
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST1/26
Monday
18:15
21:15
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST2/26
Thursday
18:15
21:15
STUDIO 27
Peter Hogg
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST1/27
Monday
18:15
21:15
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST2/27
Thursday
18:15
21:15
STUDIO 29
Anna Nervegna
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST1/29
Monday
14:15
17:15
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST2/29
Thursday
17:15
20:15
STUDIO 30
Gideon Aschwanden
ABPL90260
Monday
18:15
21:15
ABPL90260
Thursday
18:15
21:15
STUDIO 32
Johnannes Van Rijnberk +

Gerhana Waty
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST1/32
Thursday
14:15
17:15
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST2/32
Thursday
17:15
20:15
STUDIO 01
Rebecca McLaughlan +
Stephanie Liddicoat
STUDIO 04
Laura Martires
STUDIO 05
Stanislav Roudavski +
Alex Holland
STUDIO 07
Martin Heide + NH
Architecture
STUDIO 08
Scott Woods
STUDIO 09
Robert Polglase, HingWah Chau + Tom Alves
STUDIO 10
Dominik Holzer
STUDIO 13
STUDIO DAYS AND TIMES
Correct at the time of printing. Please check the handbook prior to classes.
ARCHITECTURE DESIGN THESIS

STUDIO 01
Amanda Achmadi
STUDIO 02
Christina Bozsan
STUDIO 03
Graham Brawn
STUDIO 04
Katherine Sundermann +
Andy Fergus
STUDIO 05
Qinghua Guo
STUDIO 06
Janet McGaw
STUDIO 07
Jeremy Mcleod
STUDIO 08
Toby Reed
STUDIO 09
Ivan Rijavec + Jason Twill
STUDIO 10
Anna Tweeddale +
Kris Green
STUDIO 11
Paul Walker
ABPL90169/U/1/SM2/ST1/01
Thursday
9:00
12:00
ABPL90169/U/1/SM2/ST2/01
Thursday
14:15
17:15
ABPL90169/U/1/SM2/ST1/02
Monday
9:00
12:00
ABPL90169/U/1/SM2/ST2/02
Monday
13:00
16:00
ABPL90169/U/1/SM2/ST1/03
Thursday
9:00
12:00
ABPL90169/U/1/SM2/ST2/03
Thursday
16:15
19:15
ABPL90169/U/1/SM2/ST1/04
Monday
18:15
21:15
ABPL90169/U/1/SM2/ST2/04
Thursday
18:15
21:15
ABPL90169/U/1/SM2/ST1/05
Tuesday
14:15
17:15
ABPL90169/U/1/SM2/ST2/05
Friday
13:00
16:00
ABPL90169/U/1/SM2/ST1/06
Friday
10:00
13:00
ABPL90169/U/1/SM2/ST2/06
Friday
13:00
16:00
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST1/07
Monday
18:15
21:15
ABPL90169/U/1/SM2/ST2/07
Thursday
18:15
21:15
ABPL90169/U/1/SM2/ST1/08
Thursday
15:15
18:15
ABPL90169/U/1/SM2/ST2/08
Thursday
18:15
21:15
ABPL90169/U/1/SM2/ST1/09
Thursday
14:15
17:15
ABPL90169/U/1/SM2/ST2/09
Thursday
18:15
21:15
ABPL90169/U/1/SM2/ST1/10
Monday
18:15
21:15
ABPL90169/U/1/SM2/ST2/10
Wednesday
18:15
21:15
ABPL90169/U/1/SM2/ST1/11
Tuesday
14:15
17:15
ABPL90169/U/1/SM2/ST2/11
Thursday
12:00
15:00
MASTER OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE STUDIOS

Studio 02
Site and
Design
Jack Langridge Gould
Studio 04
Strategies
Siqing Chen +
Christopher Newman
Landscape
Architecture
Thesis
Anna Hooper, Andrew Saniga,

Margaret Grose, Sidh Sintusingha,
Siqing Chen, Wendy Walls, Sareh
Moosavi + David Heymann
ABPL90176/U/1/SM2/ST1/01
Monday
10:00
13:00
MSD Rooms 144, 226
ABPL90176/U/1/SM2/ST2/01
Monday
13:15
16:15
MSD Rooms 144, 226
13:15
16:15
MSD Rooms 146, 216
16:15
19:15
10:00
13:00
ABPL90170/U/1/SM2/ST1/01
ABPL90170/U/1/SM2/ST2/01
Thursday
ABPL90375/U/1/SM2/ST1
Monday
ABPL90375/U/1/SM2/ST2
13:00
16:00
MSD Rooms 215, 216,

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MASTER OF URBAN DESIGN

Studio B
Katherine Sundermann +
Andy Fergus
Urban Design
Thesis
Robyn Pollock
ABPL90169/U/1/SM2/ST1/04
Monday
18:15
21:15
MSD Room 241
ABPL90169/U/1/SM2/ST2/04
Thursday
18:15
21:15
MSD Room 236
ABPL90376/U/1/SM2/ST1/1
Tuesday
17:15
21;15
MSD Room 118
ABPL90376/U/1/SM2/ST2/1
Friday
09:00
11:00
MSD Room 117
MASTER OF URBAN PLANNING

Studio 01
Yina Sima
Studio 03
Tom Alves
ABPL90384/U/1/SM2/ST1/1
Monday
17:15
20:15
MSD Room 448
ABPL90384/U/1/SM2/ST2/1
Tuesday
17:15
20:15
MSD Room 117
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST1/9
Monday
18:15
21;15
MSD Room 124
ABPL90115/U/1/SM2/ST2/9
Thursday
13:00
16:00
MSD Room 139
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE
STUDIO B
Coordinator: Dennis Prior
DISCIPLINE
/dIs plIn/
This studio is concerned with investigating

the rules, codes, conventions, and techniques
that define and support the practice of
architecture.
Leveraging the multiple meanings of the
word discipline, Studio B will encourage
students to work with rigour, repetition,
and refinement, as we search for an
understanding of the field of knowledge
within which we operate. We will be
disciplined in our pursuit of the discipline.
Through careful (drawn) analysis of selected
precedent works, and the development
of a structured design project, students
will engage directly with the potential of
architectural representation, in so doing
coming to terms with the nuanced and dense
language of our discipline.
In broad terms we will argue that creative,
meaningful, and thoughtful practice can
be achieved by engaging directly with the
specificity of our field.
This is a studio about the discipline of
architecture.
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PROF. DONALD L. BATES
Chair of Architectural Design

Director of LAB Architecture Studio
CDE Design Studios Semester 2_2016

In Praise of Abstraction
Architecture is real. Architecture is a real world phenomenon.

The materiality of architecture is real, as is the reality of space
and time, embedded in all architectural works. The affects of
architecture are also real, though less determined, less controlled,
and more subject to uncertain attribution. Still, we cant say they
are not real.
Within architectural education, the real becomes more
problematic. That abstract concept the real world impinges
upon almost all actions, attitudes and production within a school
of architecture. It is a constant threat this real world. The one
just outside the campus, the one just outside the building, the one
just outside the studio. The real world that stands in opposition to
everything we do, because, well, this is only a school, this is only
an education of the architect not yet a real world architect.
What we do is not real because we dont have real clients. What
we do is not real because we dont have real budgets. The list of
our unreal reality goes on and on suspect structures, invented
sites, make-believe briefs, disregarded building codes, fantasy
materials, speculations, and leaps of faith to name just a few.
The apparent lack of reality bestows a freedom of expression, but
with the guilt of irrelevance.
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Should it be otherwise? Should schools be more real? (If by

more real, we mean more like the outside world, the professional
world, the world we are not yet). Should our projects be more
like professional, real world projects with budgets, and clients,
and timelines, and consultants, and market forces, and profit and
loss, and ? In which case, maybe 12 weeks a semester - for
a project is unrealistic. How far must we go in replicating the real
world to become real?
Before we consign architectural education to unreality or mere

irrelevance, we might also ask how real is the real world?
Dont all architectural projects act as speculations on future
possibilities? In fact, could we not define architecture true
architecture as only that which proposes something that is not
yet and by that very nature, is unreal. We debate and dispute
if a project is just a building and not really architecture. The
definition of what is architecture versus merely building, is often
tied to typology, or scale or who has produced it or what role it
performs. Perhaps we can shift this determination to one based
on the presence (or lack) of a speculative agenda within a project.
Those project that merely repeat and accept the given are nonarchitectural (irrespective of how they look or who has produced
them), while any project that questions again and again what it
means to occupy space, to forge new social relationships, to
invest materials with new sensibilities these are architecture.
If we can indeed use such a test, such a set of criteria to define
and announce architecture (and I truly believe we can), then we
can begin to move away from the reduction of the world into real
and not real real worlds and unreal worlds. The production
of new architectural effects and affects as the defining measure
allows architecture to remain both relevant and ever-changing.
It demands a constant, critical and reinvigorated engagement
at all times not just when it is convenient. Speculative and
transformative, architecture is necessarily inconvenient as it resists
becoming one thing in order to remain open to all things.
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The constant return to the question of the status of the real in
architecture, goes beyond the artificial division between school
and not-school, between education and professional practice.
Paradoxically, the very possibility of architecture emerging as
a real human consequence, as a particular achievement, is
by means of a process that by its nature is defiantly not real:
abstraction.
For a discipline so fixated on being part of the real world, it is a
shock and bewilderment to discover that architectural thoughts
and ideas are at their most generative, their most fecund when
they operate by means of abstraction and abstract mechanisms
and processes. Plans, sections and elevations are machines of
abstraction, measurable and precise but not the real thing.
The practice of architecture is almost always undertaken by
non-direct, non-linear processes that involve multiple levels of
abstraction and ideation.
Drawing by hand or drawing by computer both actions are
fundamentally analogue, in that the graphic production (the
drawing) provides an analogy of something else to come (the
building). This necessary condition of a remove, a stepin-between, a translational passage is possible because of
abstraction. Abstraction and the process of abstraction allows for
the transfer between different realms of reality, between different
forms of materiality.
STUDIOS CDE
Drawing systems, representational systems, notational systems

all of these are a necessary and fundamental part of architectural
thinking. Although they are taught (and therefore have beginnings
and originations) they are most profound, most operative when
they are in the body that is to say, when they are incorporated
(when these external processes become corporeal or bodily). As
systems - drawing, representation, notation - act as techniques
and technologies that we employ. But by becoming incorporated,
they also become part of how we think, to the point at which it is
our body that thinks, not our mind.
Abstraction is not the opposite of reality it is the possibility of
the real. Abstraction is a fundamental condition and prerequisite
of architectural thought and production. We are deluded when
we think that our new digital processes provide us with more
real, more life-like reality views of the world. These simulations
of a believable, rendered reality suggest more direct and less
mediated connections and experiences. But at the level of
architectural thought (as opposed to sales and marketing) we
need more abstraction, not less. We need the distance, the
off-set engendered by abstraction to be able to understand
relationships and patterns, connections and linkages and spatial
orders that are not yet present in our all too real world.
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CDE STUDIO ALLOCATION + SCHEDULE
CDE STUDIO ALLOCATION
CDE SCHEDULE
JULY
Balloting for CDE Studios ends

15:00am close
First day of studio : Monday 25th
Week 6: Mid-Semester Crits
Moderation
09
17
End of Exam Period
18
02
12
08
Exhibition
17 Nov - 02 Dec (tbc)
Final result released
SEPTEMBER
07
0105 07
END OF SEMESTER REVIEWS
06
OCTOBER
10
11
12
31
Submission of semester work
05
19 26 - 02 03 10 11 21 2428
SWOT VAC
04
12
Deans Lecture Series: Judith Innes
03
05
Please note, you are NOT guaranteed your first

preferences in the nomination. We urge you to
select eight studios that will best suit your interests
and aspirations and ensure that all eight studios are
offered at times you can attend.
Non-Instruction Period
02
08 15 22 29 - 03
Deans Lecture Series:

Karen MCluskey + Keith VanDerSys
01 02
Over the weekend (23 - 24 July), you will be

allocated to a studio, and a final list of allocated
studios will be posted on the LMS by (and hopefully
before) 9am on Monday 25 July. Studios will
commence from Monday 25 July so please ensure
you check the LMS so you know to which studio
you have been allocated.
01
AUGUST
Late submissions will not be accepted.

You will be required to select 8 UNIQUE studio
preferences via the online form, and you must only
complete the online nomination form once. Please
ensure you read and follow the instructions on the
nomination form; any invalid entries may affect your
final studio allocation.
WEEK
23
15:00 on Friday 22 July until 15:00 on Saturday 23

July
Balloting for CDE Studios begins

15:00 start
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Following the conclusion of Studio Presentation

Day, you will be required to submit your studio
preferences via an online form available through the
subjects Learning Management System (LMS) and
the website. This will be open for 24 hours from:
CDE Studio Presentation Day

MSD Theatre B117 10:00 start
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Studio Presentation Day will take place on Friday

22 July from 10:00 - 15:00 in the B117 Theatre,
MSD Building. During this day all studio leaders
will present their studios and will also be available
to answer questions outside the lecture theatre
immediately after their presentation. Information
about the studios available this semester is also
available on the MSD Studio Website (http://edsc.
unimelb.edu.au/msd-design-studio) as well as in a
hard copy brochure, available from the theatre on
the day of the presentations.
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
CDE SEMESTER 2 STUDIOS
CLUSTERS

LEGEND
PAGE
STUDIO 01
Rebecca McLaughlan and Stephanie Liddicoat: I Remember, You Remember
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STUDIO 04
Laura Matires: LX Assembled
15
STUDIO 05
Stanislav Roudavski + Alex Holland: Wind Architecture
16
STUDIO 07
Martin Heide + NH Architecture: Magic Mountain
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STUDIO 08
Scott Woods: Gift to the City VII
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STUDIO 09
Rob Polglase + Hing-Wah Chau: Home @ Atherton Gardens, Fitzroy
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STUDIO 10
Dominik Holzer: Squeeze
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STUDIO 13
Yui Uchimura + Jang Yun Kim: SMALL the new big
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STUDIO 14
Virginia Mannering + Yvonne Meng: DIG
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STUDIO 15
Paul Loh, David Leggett + Josh Russo-Batterham: Machining Aesthetics v,4,0
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STUDIO 16
Joel Benichou: Compact House: Can less be more
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STUDIO 17
Daniela Mitterberger + Tiziano Derme: AMAL.GAM2 Fest[val.]
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STUDIO 19
Ben Waters: 1 Plus 3 Architectures
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STUDIO 25
Michael Trudgeon + VEIL: Urban Eco Acupuncture Netherlands - Travelling Studio
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STUDIO 26
Colby Vexler + Priscilla Heung: Critical Centres: For wasting time on the internet
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STUDIO 27
Peter Hogg: Tooradin Airport
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STUDIO 29
Anna Nervegna: Zoom: ACMI Gallery Annex/Design Hub/Sculpture Hub
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STUDIO 30
Gideon Aschwanden: Tourism & Urbanism Java Travelling Studio
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STUDIO 32
Johannes Van Rijnberk + Gerhana Waty: Architecture as Memory
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Civic
Senses
Technologies
Cities
Living
Process
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CDE STUDIO 01
Rebecca McLaughlan + Stephanie Liddicoat
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CDE STUDIO 03
Laura Matires
LX
assembled
Conventional architectural and urban design

strategies generally view the city as static,
when in fact the urban environment is a dynamic field of interrelated elements that are in
a constant process of change, resulting in the
continual production of new hybrid architectural types and forms.
The studio will examine the relationship between the architectural (typological) object
and the urban field and begin to test how different techniques of editing and deformation
can result in the production of new architectural types and formations.
This will be tested through two scales. At the
urban level through acts of distortion, deformation and editing, and at the scale of the
building through processes of iterative accretion, aggregation and agglomeration.
The focus of these investigations will take
place in a downtown area within the City of Lisbon. The studio will engage with the specific
material culture of the city and begin to speculate on techniques for the hybridisation and
production of new versions of the city.
These ideas will be tested in urban and architectural terms through the design of a makers
assembly.
More broadly the studio will examine emergent
design technique, both digital and analogue
as a means of working with and acting upon
dense existing fields of matter and material
both through editing the existing and speculating through the architectural element to the
scale of architectural typology.
It will introduce students to nomadic or international practice and remote site analysis,
with a particular focus on an understanding of
the typological and material culture of a city as
a generative agent.
It is expected that at the culmination of the first
half of the studio students will have assembled
a suite of tools and design prototypes that
they can draw on to develop their final project.
Students will be encouraged to continue designing through the use of their generative
toolset, augmenting these through further research while considering design as a multi-valent process, much the same as the city, where
form emerges as a field accretion of localised
actions, rather than a single response.
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CDE STUDIO 05
Stanislav Roudavski + Alex Holland
Wind Architecture
acquired when making such structures can be useful in many other

forms of design, now and into the future.
Stanislav Roudavski, MFA/MArch, MSc CABD, PhD Cantab, assisted by

Alex Holland BEnv, MArch
Specific learning outcomes of the studio will include:

1. Research and design skills, including speculative design and prototyping, performance-oriented and evidence-driven design, as well as
recent approaches to ethics, aesthetics and practices of creativity;
2. Knowledge of history, utilisation, technology and future of inflatable
structures, including their design and making;
3. Knowledge of kites, their making and flying;
4. Traditional and digital model-making skills, algorithmic and parametric modelling, digital simulation, digital fabrication, interactive
media; and
5. Photography and film-making, traditional and using flying robots.
Participants of this studio design, make and put to use fly stateof-the-art kites and others experimental inflatable structures.
The studio begins with kite-flying lessons and an intensive prototyping workshop led by a world-leading kite designer Peter Lynn in
collaboration with a maker and writer Simon Feidin. It continues by using generative and parametric design, physical and digital simulation,
hand crafting and digital fabrication to design and build speculative
prototypes of architectural structures that can be supported or animated by air. Selected designs are produced at full scale and used on
location with real publics. The resulting performances are documented
and exhibited as moving images.
Past and emerging examples of air-supported structures take form
of personal garments, individual shelters, mobile guerrilla installations, large-scale building skins, power-generating installations and
means of transportation. Their uses can range from emergency rescue
shelters to dance performances and their sites span the broad range
from indoor environments to stratosphere. The broad blend of skills
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Past work of conceptually aligned studios has been broadly exhibited,

received multiple awards and resulted in a range of academic and design
publications.
Scheduling Note
Students will be expected to attend an intensive full-time workshop
7-11 August. Students will also be encouraged to participate in practical
kite-flying lessons.
CDE STUDIO 07
Martin Heide + NH Architecture
MAGIC
MOUNTAIN
THE PROPOSITION
Melbournes Arts Centre precinct is the
cornerstone of the citys cultural life and
part of its evolution from Victorian past
to contemporary global city. It holds
a symbolic resonance as a Melbourne
place represented by its white spire that
can be seen from all points of the city.
The Arts Centre also belongs to a network
of public spaces and civic buildings
dotted along the Yarra River corridor, from
cultural to sporting, transport to tourism
and it plays host to an annual calendar of
acclaimed performers and visiting artists,
all of whom contribute to Melbournes
International identity.
However, much of the Arts Centres
current identity, activity and energy are
hidden from the daily life of Melburnians
behind concrete facades and deep interiors.
Any sense of the surrounding rhythm of

the city seems unable to penetrate into the
buildings major interior spaces.
This studio will challenge these existing
parameters and explore the opportunities
for the Art Centre activities to be liberated
into the wider precinct: to engage with the
street life that flows past the building on
a constant basis.
THE PROGRAM
The design program will be centred
on a proposal for a new multi-purpose
performance venue for 300 people to
be located within the existing Art Centre
Precinct. Each student will complete
both an urban design response and
a detailed architectural design.
THE STUDIO
The format for the studio will be practice
based, with NH Architecture as the host.
Students will operate from the NH Studio
in Flinders Lane and become part of the
working rhythm of the office.
Design reviews will also be held in the
NH design studio.
STUDIO LEADERS
Hamish Lyon
Dean Boothroyd
Martin Heide
Helen Duong
TIME Wednesday 17:00 20:00
Friday 14:00 17:00
LOCATION NH Architecture Studio
Level 7, Cannons House,
1220 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
CDE STUDIO 08
Scott Woods
Gift to the City VII And Barcelona. You should see Barcelona.
[Mon / Thurs 6:15-9:15pm]
And Barcelona. You should see Barcelona. How is it? It is still comic opera. First it was the paradise of the crackpots and the
romantic revolutionists. Now it is the paradise of the fake soldier. The soldiers who like to wear uniforms, who like to strut and
swagger and wear red-and-black scarves. Who like everything about war except to fight. Valencia makes you sick and Barcelona
makes you laugh. Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls. 1941.

th
Gift to the City VI students: Carl Areskoug, Ben Quilty Gallery. Ruofan Lei, Composition 3: Balance. Melany Hayes, The 4 Other. Melany Hayes, Sammulung
Boros Art Museum. (background)
Gift to the City
(overview)
Gift to the City promotes experimental, speculative and gestural forms of resistance to the hegemony of the white-walled
Art Gallery and Art Museum. How to be more White Cube than White Cube?
Gift to the City INTERVIEW ARCHIVE is an ongoing project to develop and record a body of knowledge around the
contemporary ART MUSEUM. Each semester students interview artists, curators and architects of art institutions to direct
their projects. Students also explore past interviews from the ARCHIVE which include: Odile Decq (Paris), Tatiana Bilbao
(Mexico City), Liam Gillick (NY), Javier Peres (Berlin), Marja Sakari (Helsinki), Assume Vivid Astro Focus (So Paulo)
Gift to the City VII

< 1 World >< 2 Museums >< 2 Galleries >
Gift to the City VII asks how long can the ART MUSEUM & ART GALLERY endure its own rhetoric once it is
intensified, replicated, expanded, redistributed or rewired? Each student will deploy abstract or figurative constructions
via modes of their choosing: fictional bodies, machines, narrativesas model, drawing or spatial installation to make
some kind of intervention into the real space of architecture (Krauss, 1979).
Phase A: 2 Galleries for 2 artworks.
Phase B: 2 Art Museums for 2 Galleries
Phase C: 1 World for 2 Art Museums and 2 Art Galleries
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CDE STUDIO 09
Rob Polglase + Hing-Wah Chau
Home @ Atherton Gardens, Fitzroy

[Re-Designing Social, Affordable, Mixed Market Housing with Mixed Use]
Public housing in Victoria is set for sweeping change. New residential precinct mixes of community,
commercial with other functional uses, together with a range of accommodation markets are being
considered to support diverse neighbourhoods with activities for more optimal land use to meet
current and future needs.
Atherton Gardens Liveability Studio will focus on urban living quality by re-thinking planning and
design for social, affordable, and mixed-market housing at precinct, neighbourhood and
architectural scale. Atherton Gardens Housing Estate (AHE) Fitzroy is a 4.8 ha, residential
community, bounded by Brunswick, Gertrude, Napier Streets containing 4x20 storey towers, with
large, surrounding open space. Each tower is constructed from pre-fabricated concrete panels
consisting of approximately 200 apartments, providing a total 793 dwellings, with very modest
housing quality. The studio will examine site typologies, site context and planning issues for
opportunities to provide transformative housing and hybrid solutions for socially engaged, culturally
mixed communities with site responsive planning and design.
This studio is being offered as an interdisciplinary studio with both Masters of Architecture and
Urban Planning collaborating together with complementary programs.
Site and Studio Design and Planning Objectives : The studio will . . .
I. Analyse how to plan for and design for a sustainable community with a vibrant neighbourhood:
Consider a diverse range of new social, private and affordable housing, where design does not
differentiate forms of ownership, residents are proud to call home and people want to visit.
II. Investigate provision of well-designed housing, with facilities and outdoor spaces that:
maximise amenity and liveability, improve safety, support social interaction, with a range of
shared facilities and outdoor spaces for residents and visitors.
III. Re-integrate neighbouring areas: blurring site boundaries, re-connecting road, bike and
pedestrian networks, re-introduce community, retail or commercial (hybrid) spaces to activate
sites and create amenity.
IV. Incorporate sustainable design that promotes health and quality of life.
Studio Leaders: Rob Polglase and Hing-wah Chau will lead Masters of Architecture with Tom
Alves leading the Masters of Urban Planning. Each studio leader has extensive experience leading
design studios, design teams and urban scale planning and architecture, including residential and
mixed use precincts in Australia and Asia. Site stakeholders and industry specialists will present a
range of topics to inform students planning and design briefs.
Studio Times: Monday: 6:15pm-9:15pm + Thursday: 1:00pm-4:00pm.
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CDE STUDIO 10
SQUEEZE
Dominik Holzer
Studio Outline:
CDE Studio SQUEEZE will search for radical new proposals
for medium-density residential developments in the inner
fringe of Melbourne. Only few projects currently ll the gap
in the market between high-rise residential towers and the
single (or double) storey terrace typology. Those projects
that get realised often fail to promote place-making and
the establishment of a strong identity. Too often design responses cater for a developer-driven market where squeezing out the last bit of rentable oor space takes priority.
Within the 13 week semester we will question this

mainly market-driven approach and put strong emphasis
on exploring residential (and mixed-use) building typologies that foster social interaction as well as a bespoke
response to the prevailing local environmental conditions (orientation/sun/wind/daylight/...) Using high-end
technology to test different morphological congurations, students will advance their projects with building
performance and associated analysis in mind.
Learning Outcomes:
Students delve deeply into the design of medium-density housing precinct with great sensitivity towards the
surrounding urban context. Students will learn how to
use digital tools to analyse key environmental factors
that inuence their projects typology and ultimately
impacts on the layout of each residential unit. They will
learn how to advance their design thinking with multiple
performance criteria in mind. In class we will discuss optimisation techniques and their interface with geometry
manipulation.
Process:
The semester will kick off with group-research about the
site, its urban context, and mixed-use options for its development. Digital tools and associated tool-ecologies
will be introduced that help to analyse the environmental factors that impact on the projects morphology. Following an intensive workshop in week 4 students will
individually develop speculative responses to the design
challenges at hand.
Prerequisites for this studio:
A curious and open mind

Expert Rhino Skills
Grasshopper/and or scripting Skills
Hands-on with digital tools
A basic understanding of optimisation
Studio Leader:
Dominik Holzer is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Architectural

Design at the University of Melbourne. Dominik completed a
Masters and PhD degree at RMIT where he investigated the
nexus between architecture and design technology. Dominiks
interests centre around the use of parametric and other rulebased techniques. Next to his role in academia, Dominik consults on various Design Technology related matters in practice.
Image: Society for Community Organization (SoCO)
CDE STUDIO 13
Yui Uchimura + Jang Yun Kim
SMALL
the new big
Y U I U CHIM U RA + JA N G Y U N KIM
The studio focus will be on: Bigger is better or Is it?

We live in a society which creates rules that define the
minimum limits of the spaces we live in, in order to
preserve a minimum quality of living. Minimum sizes,
minimum daylight, minimum natural breeze. But does
size really matter? If so, how? In Melbourne we face
an increasing number of (and desire for) apartment
dwellings, where conflicting desires for bigness, light,
prospect - and more height - often compromise the
quality and diversity of a greater multitude of small
apartment dwellings.
Studio SMALL will challenge societal perceptions of
small, and seek to re-establish our values with a finer
sense of scale, attuned to the tactile cues around us.
This studio will focus on diverting our attention to other
methodologies of achieving spatial happiness and well
being, redefining small as the desirable.
Studio SMALL will begin with small design / research
explorations, which:
1. Examine the current perception of small. 2. Understand
the scale of small. 3. Challenge the perceived idea of
apartment living. 4. Identify advantageous qualities of
Small. 5. Identify different scales of small appropriate to
different types of people. 6. Identify strategies of small
which negate its weaknesses.
The studio will then focus on manipulating this knowledge
to design a living space within a significantly reduced
percentage area, departing from the current established
boundaries of small. The final project will:
7.Redefine the quality of small living. 8.Redefine the
perceived value of small living. 9.Produce simple,
qualitative resolution of details which encourage rich
experience. 10. Use small as a tool to transform the
interior individuality & character of a single multiresidential unit.
Aligned with these notions, the studio will be ambitious
in exploring a new level of detail and tactile appreciation,
challenging the conventional curation of living spaces.
Studio Time : Monday and Thursday 18:15 - 21:15pm
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CDE STUDIO 14
Virginia Mannering + Yvonne Meng
DIG.
To look forward, we might need to first look
back... Lets look down before we build up...
How can architects use an exploration of
archaeological and heritage sites to inform
their reading of the city?
This studio will use Melbournes
archaeological and historical sites as
catalysts for an architectural proposition.
Together the class will explore the sites
around the Little Lon archaeological
site (Little Lonsdale St/Casselden Place).
Students will research, and respond to,
the cultural, historical and archaeological
aspects of the sites, focussing on their
vibrant and complex lives; firstly as
indigenous landscapes, then, in the case
of as a slum, a migrant centre, a place
of larrikinism and disrepute, and finally
commerce.
Students will be asked to examine the
relationships between architecture and
archaeology, viewing these sites as layered
and dynamic - not stale - and marked by
processes of construction, excavation,
agitation, and erasure. They will be asked
to view the sites from the micro (tectonic) to
the macro (urban) scales.
Studio themes include: archaeology,
architectural heritage, materiality,
colonialism, landscape, feminism, the
unseemly and the dirty.
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STUDIO TIMES
TBA
TUTORS
YVONNE MENG is an architect practicing
in Melbourne. In 2015, Yvonne launched
her own practice, Von Atelier. Prior to this,
she spent several years at the City of
Melbourne where she was Project Architect
for a variety of community buildings across
a range of different scales. Yvonne is
interested in the role of public buildings
in Melbourne, and believes that healthy
social spaces are centred around a strong
engagement with its users.
VIRGINIA MANNERING is a graduate
architect working in small practice, a
teacher and writer. She has a long-standing
interest in issues of phenomenology and
human occupation/experience, which she
explores through design and the production
of related texts and publications.
CDE STUDIO 15
Paul Loh, David Leggett + Josh Russo-Battherham
Machining Aesthetics Studio v.4.0

Semester 2 _ 2016
Technology is the answer but what was the question?

Cedric Price
Tutors:
Paul Loh, David Leggett & Josh Russo-Batterham
Studio time: http://powertomake.tumblr.com
Mediatic, Barcelona Cloud 9, 2010
Agenda:
Studio 15 continues to question the future of making. This semester, we return to making at 1:1 scale; examining
making through technology and design as an self-referential workflow. We are interested in the perpetual ability of
machine to generate iterative material output from which as architects, we can abstract and interpret as door, window,
wall, floor, roof and stairs. We invite you to radically re-image the fundamental language of architectural components.
This semester, we ask: How can technology facilitate social and climatic interaction? Studio 15 will design a responsive
pavilion that acts as social incubator, an urban lounge, a playground, a cinema, a place to rest and work. Working in
teams, students will design an architectural intervention that has potential to be environmentally and socially responsive.
Successful projects will develop strategies to deal with dynamic changes of events through material and/or technological
media as well as articulating the relationship between ground and envelope.
Studio Structure:
The studio is divided in two phase. The studio will commence with a series of intensive tooling workshops on robotics and
Arduino, the first robotic tooling session will take place on Saturday 30th July. Phase 1 brief is to design a machine that
fabricates architecture. We will explore through precedent study as well as digital input and output procedures to design
and make a machine (quasi or actual) that has potential to fabricate architectural components (parts or whole). The
component will start to articulate a particular understanding of ground and envelope. By mid-semester, design teams
will present their first proposals for a reactive pavilion.
In Phase 2, we will put your machine to the test. Working in group, students will design a pavilion based on the brief
for the annual NGV pavilion. The pavilion will be environmentally and socially responsive using your fabricated parts.
In addition, the design will need to satisfy the brief and criteria for the Laka competition which each design team will
submit on Monday 1st November.
1:25 model, prototypes, axonometric drawings, plans and sections together with rendered images will be key deliverables
as group work. Each student will have their own individual journal documenting and reflecting their progress of the
semester. This studio requires students to be able to use Rhino and have a basic understanding of Grasshopper. Teamwork
is compulsory and collaborative design will form part of studio assessment.
Students who are offered a place in the studio must email a 5 page (max) PDF of your portfolio containing mostly
academic work to the studio leader: paul.loh@unimelb.edu.au by Monday, 25th July _11am. Studio E students may
apply to continue their thesis as independent candidate. Readings for our first day seminar is available on the studio blog
site:
http://powertomake.tumblr.com
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CDE STUDIO 16
Joel Benichou
COMPACT HOUSE
The topic of housing in Australia regularly sparks strong discussion.
A desire exists amongst home owners to live close to the attractions of
the city, while holding on to the benets of the suburban lifestyle. This
inexhaustible demand for land and houses has led to prices of the
inner suburbs reaching record prices, while the cheaper alternatives
continue to sprawl further into the outer reaches of the city.
CAN LESS BE MORE?

Exploration into the inefciencies of our suburbs is required to
provide new options for the demands and preferences of the
wider community. Studio COMPACT HOUSE, in collaboration with
Cedar Woods Property Developers and the students of the Master
of Property degree, will consider notions of compact living in real
world conditions to explore the issues of urban sprawl, housing
y, cchange in demographic and adaptation to the new
affordability,
world of technolog
technology and globalisation.
STUDIO 16
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Studio run by Joel Benichou in

coordnation with Piyush Tiwari, Jyoti
Rao, Cedar Woods and the students of
Innovations in Property.
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CDE STUDIO 17
S.17 I Daniela Mitterberger Tiziano Derme
he second instalment of Amal.Gam - Amal.Gam (2)

FEST situates itself within the realm of festivals, feasts
and carnivals and will continue to redefine the required
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individually but is inherited within the psyche of the ritual, evoking a potential language of the mind adjacent to
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PAPER EDGE
The semester will be dedicated to design an architectural artefact within different existing festivals. This process
will follow two streams of research : festivals and anthropological studies, Design and Fabrication research.
Each student will be studying a given festival ( Giant Kites
of Sagami Festival, Mask festival in Burkina Faso,..) trying
to indicate main spatial elements and their relationship
within a social context. This analysis will be used to identify a design intervention within the hypothetical framework. The second phase will follow a material driven
logic, students through a series of workshops and seminars, will learn how to create feedback from the digital
to the analogue using innovative fabrication techniques
and software(i.e. algorithmic design and robotic fabrication). Students will conceptualize, design and construct
a new notion of ritual-space re-associating the notion of
context with festivals and carnival imaginary.
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This Studio would be suitable for students interested in new

methodologies of design, algorithmic modelling and programming, digital and robotic fabrication. Specifically Studio
17 requires students to be able to use Rhino and have a basic
understanding of Grasshopper. Collaborative design research
and teamwork will form part of studio assessment.
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AMAL.GAM
Daniela Mitterberger + Tiziano Derme
CDE STUDIO 19
Ben Waters
Studio Session Times:

Tuesday 9am - 12noon
Thursday 9am - 12noon
One and Three Architectures

Archives for Endangered Ideas v2.0
Arguably, critical and conceptual ideas are dying in the contemporary context. In a world over-saturated
with material and images, complex ideas are overlooked, or worse, reduced to stylised appropriation. This
studio seeks to develop a methodology to generate process based outcomes which expose, project and
display critical ideas.
Using the programmatic context of an archive, students will encapsulate selected precedent work of Architects, Artists and Writers through a process of exploration. A new working methodology, the 'One and
Three' relational method will be deployed. This method seeks to explore and synthesise three fundamental
forms of articulation; language, visual and spatial.
The studio will be broken into two parts. Students will first examine a selected work, extracting and distilling the precedent's concept. Looking at the works of Diller and Scofidio, Kazuyo Sejima and El Lissitzky,
and many more, this studio will use these precedents as frameworks to develop a working concept used
throughout the semester. This will ultimately be transformed into a contemporary reformation of the precedent concept, through the programmatic outcome of an archive.
These archives will highlight and re-establish the relevance of cross disciplinary explorat, history and
precedent in the contemporary design process and practice.
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CDE STUDIO 25
Michael Trudgeon
Urban
Eco Acupuncture
Netherlands: 2016
Travelling studio
MSD VEIL ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN TRAVELLING STUDIO
Semester 2 2016. Studio Leaders: Michael Trudgeon, Chris Ryan
IMPORTANT DATES
Applications Close: Friday 08 July
Pre-Trip teaching dates: Thursdays 04, 11, 18, 25 August, 01, 08, and 15 September 2016
Occupational, Health and Safety Information Session: 25 August
Overseas Travel dates: 24 September 09 October 2016
Post-Trip teaching dates: Thursdays 13, 20 and 27 October 2016
First Submission/Presentation: 11 August
Final Submission/Presentation: 3 November 201
Leeuwarden city centre
Leeuwarden Water Campus
Rotterdam food market hall MVRDV
Copenhagen Orestad district
SUBJECT OUTLINE
Students will take part in an international studio in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden in collaboration with students and academics from the
Technical University of Delft and Aalborg University. The studio will develop design projects for the European Cultural Capital program
for 2018, a year long program of intense artistic and cultural activity in Leeuwarden. We will focus on 2-3 urban sites. These sites
have been selected by the city as key sites for the European Cultural Capital program and now require design development with the
intention of realising projects on these sites for 2018.
The design projects include:
Pop up modular small scale accommodation
3D printing labs to explore new manufacturing possibilities for the northern Netherlands
Light weight, high performance pavilions for an Energy park and expo showcasing new resilient energy technologies
Refurbishing and repurposing existing urban infrastructure
The projects take in the disciplinary expertise of architectural, landscape and urban planning strategies along with wayfinding and
service design. Students will develop design interventions to transform the existing built environment and systems of provision (energy,
water, food, transport, information) for a sustainable, low carbon, resilient future What steps must be taken today to get there?
Building on the master planning achieved by the 2015 VEIL studio we will develop detail designs for the identified sites to shift the path
of innovation on a new trajectory: towards sustainable, resilient conditions. There will be an emphasis on physical model making in this
studio and we will hold an introductory session in the Fab Lab at MSD. The studio will travel to Copenhagen for a 2 day architectural
and design study tour. There will be opportunities to visit and explore Rotterdam, one of the worlds pre-eminent architectural and
design laboratories.
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CDE STUDIO 26
Colby Vexler + Priscilla Heung
Critical Centres:
for Wasting Time on the Internet
"The world is full of objects, more or less interesting;

I do not wish to add any more."
Douglas Huebler, 1969.
"The world is full of texts, more or less interesting;
Kenneth Goldsmith, 2001.
"The Internet is full of content, more or less interesting;
Critical Centres:
for Wasting Time on the Internet, 2016
The Internet has established unprecedented

relationships between space, information,
time and culture.
"Faced with an unprecedented amount of available
[information] the problem is not needing to [make]
more of it, instead we must learn to negotiate
the vast quantity that exists. How I make my way
through this thicket of information-how I manage it,
how I parse it, how I organise and distribute it - is
what distinguishes my [architecture] from yours."
Kenneth Goldsmith, Uncreative Writing,
Managing language in the digital age, 2001.
Within this over-saturation of content,
rigorous and complex ideas are lost in the
depths of the Internets domain.
Has Archdaily, Instagram, Pinterest and
various other Internet platforms created an
insatiable appetite for more, reducing our
ability to deeply engage with content?
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This studio simultaneously tackles the vastness of the Internets

scale as content and context; creating architecture that argues for
curatorial agency between culture, reference and space.
Using Internet based derives as a departure point, we will
navigate, mediate and critique our journey through the Internet.
Speculative organisational strategies will create a complex
network and framework to host a physical Centre.
These Centres will become containers for data concerning ideas
from selected art and architectural precedent which have critically
contributed to the dialogue of Cultural discourse. Within the
process of collating this content, students will not only critique the
content of the reference material but its medium of delivery and
the field (the Internet) in which it sits.
This studio is concerned with using the contemporary
culture of the Internet to re-establish connections with
architectural histories of radical experimentation, theory,
reference and rigorous critique.
This studio will be conducted in dialogue with Kenneth Goldsmith
(UBUWeb,Uncreative Writing), Tutor of Wasting Time on the
Internet at UPenn. Additionally, the studio will involve a number
of workshops with web-developers, philosophers, text-based and
digital-based artists.
CDE STUDIO 27
Peter Hogg
Studio 27: Tooradin Airport

Studio Leader; Peter Hogg Semester 2 2016
Tullamarine Airport, will struggle to cope as Melbournes population climbs towards 6 to 8

million later this century. Plan Melbourne envisages a new airport near Tooradin, north of
Western Port Bay.
This studio will explore the architectural possibilities of that airport.
This studio will be for the design of a new airport terminal at or near Tooradin. It will look at the
history of flight and airport design and at the possibilities of a contemporary airport as symbol of
Melbourne as Metropolis and as a transport interchange for the 21st Century.
The studio will commence with a series of talks and a group master planning exercise (30% of
total marks) before students start on their main design project for the semester (70% of total
marks).
Excellence in design is an expected outcome of the semesters work.
Peter Hogg is a director of PHTR Architects, an award winning research and design focussed practice. He
studied for a Masters of Urban Design RMIT in the early 90s and has an ongoing association with
community groups with a focus on urban design and planning. He is Chair of Residents About Integrated
Development and past Vice-President of the Inner Melbourne Planning Alliance and was on the board of
Architeam Cooperative for 7 years.
Peter has taught design at Melbourne University for the past 13 years, and lectures Architectural History
and Urban and Community Planning in the new Bachelor of Architecture course at Melbourne Polytechnic.
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CDE STUDIO 30
JAVA-TRAVELING STUDIO
TOURISM & URBANISM

taught together with
ETH Future Cities Laboratory

learned together with
SEM | 2 | 2016
ITB Institute Technologia Bandung

Erfurt Univeristy of Applied Science
Limited to 16 places
For Master of Architecture; Master of Landscape Architecture; Master of Urban Design; Master of Urban Planning students
How does tourism in South East Asia influence the urban fabric? What does travel mean for
architects? How does travel inform our perception? How can we link seemingly discontinuous phenomena, and how can we tie together and represent issues of architecture, urbanism, economy, landscape, the past, the present and the future?
Application to Dr Gideon Aschwanden gideon.aschwanden@unimelb.edu.au
MELBOURNE BANDUNG
ERFURT
ZRICH
CDE STUDIO 32
Johannes Van Rijnberk + Gerhana Waty
Architecture as
Memory
ince its first quadrangle building, the University

has developed and consolidated its position as
one of Victorias key educational and cultural
institutions and as a major player on the national and
the international stage. As Melbourne continues to
evolve and strengthening its role as an urban node, the
University has evolved correspondingly.
Even though the original footprint of the 1853 campus
has spread out and ideas about the position and use of
the campus have changed, it continues to reiterate its
status and significance as the historical and physical heart
of the University.
In 2008, the University latest campus Master Plan
identified Grattan Street as the new heart of the
continuously expanding campus ground. To realise this
vision, the University has sought to establish a student
precinct at the corner of Grattan Street and Swanston
Street and thereby improving the student experience
and facilities. The new student precinct will house the
UMSU, the GSA, Student Wellbeing, the Student Centre
and other university-run student services. In many ways
this means the replacement of the Union House which
has been the student hub of the University for more than
a 100 years. In spite of multiple additions, changes and
upgrades in that time period, the current building is not
able to support the many clubs, student organizations
and services and has been targeted by the University as a
potential location for affordable student housing.
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Union
House
We see this departure from the insular, centrally
positioned old heart to be an exciting opportunity to
rethink the relevance of the Union House in today and
future contexts.
Its history as one of the oldest occupied sites on campus
and it connections to some of the most prominent
persons in the Universitys 163 year lifespan needs
to be considered when looking at its numerable
transformations (both physical as programmatic) over
that same time, its questionable architectural significance
and its incapability of adapting to future needs.
The importance of Union House as a cultural institution,
its political activism and its social relevance to
generations of students as a meeting space needs to be
considered against future ideas of campus housing, the
current Master Plan, food and retail strategy, the new
Student Precinct and the Melbourne Metro Parkville
Station.
The current relationship with the surrounding open
spaces such as Union Lawn, Deakin Court etc., needs to
be considered against new interpretations and scenarios
for Tin Alley and Professors Walk.
Ogni generazione dovra fabbricarsi la sua citta

(each generation will have to build its own city)
[SantElia and Marinetti, 1914]
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THESIS SEMESTER 2 STUDIOS

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STUDIO 01
Amanda Achmadi: Insertion / Juxtaposition / Reinvention /
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STUDIO 02
Christina Bozsan: Flirting with Space
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STUDIO 03
Graham Brawn: Forms and Materiality
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STUDIO 04
Andy Fergus + Katherine Sundermann: Opportunistic Urbanism (Studio with travel component)
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STUDIO 05
Qinghua Guo: Erdaojingzi: Archaeological Museum, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia
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STUDIO 06
Janet McGaw: DOr
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STUDIO 07
Jeremy McLeod: Nightingale Night School
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STUDIO 08
Toby Reed: Waterscraper
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STUDIO 09
Ivan Rijavec + Jason Twill: Boyds Error - Plannings Curse
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STUDIO 10
Anna Tweedale + Kris Green: Toxic Exuberance
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STUDIO 11
Paul Walker: Suburban Art Ark
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DESIGN THESIS STUDIOS SCHEDULE

JULY
Thesis Studio Presentation Day
MSD Theatre B117 15:15 start
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15:00 start
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09:00am close
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Exhibition
17 Nov - 02 Dec (tbc)
SWOT VAC
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Moderation
Deans Lecture Series: Judith Innes
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Students must submit their hardcopy A4/ A5 studio

booklets to studio leaders at the final review
Non-Instruction Period
This ballot form is to be returned to the

subject coordinator by 09:00am on Monday
25th July. The subject coordinator will upload
the studio allocations to LMS the next day.
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Karen MCluskey + Keith VanDerSys
Week 09: Interim Crits 10%
Students will be given a ballot paper form to

complete after the Studio Presentation Day.
A pdf version of this form will be available on
the LMS and website.
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Week 6: Mid-Semester Crits 10%
THESIS STUDIO ALLOCATION
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THESIS STUDIO 01
Amanda Achmadi
Insertion/
Juxtaposition/
Reinvention/
Adaptive Reuse of the Old Jakarta Post Office Building by Andra Matin Architect
Contemporary Architecture in Historic Urban Environments
Key questions
What is the role of contemporary architecture in a historic urban environment?

How can contemporary architecture mediate a meaningful encounter with the history of a place?
What is the role of built heritage in the context of a transforming social and urban landscape?
Urban context
The urban historical environment explored in this studio is the old town district of Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia and the largest megacities
in the Southeast Asia region. The citys long history, dating back to 1527, entails contestation between diverse indigenous states and their
subsequent encounters with the Portuguese, Dutch, English colonialism. Today, the sprawling metropolitan Jakarta is a home of a socially and
ethnically diverse population of around 22 million people. The old town district is in a stage of decay for most of part of the contemporary era and
a site dominated by urban informality. Since 2014, the district has been subjected to a collaborative design intervention involving leading
international architects such as MVRDV and OMA and leading Indonesian architects, such as Andra Matin and Han Awal & Partners.
Site
The site is situated on the north-western corner of the Fatahilah Square in North Jakarta (previously the Town Square of Batavia) on the southern
side of Kali Besar Timur 4 Street. CAD drawings of the urban setting and the heritage building will be made available in week 1 studio.
Studio Leader
Dr. Amanda Achmadi is a lecturer in architectural design at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning. She holds a Bachelor degree in
Architecture and a PhD in Architectural history and Asian Studies. Amanda has worked as practicing architect in Indonesia, China, and Germany.
Her research works explore the interaction between identity politics and architectural discourses with a particular focus on postcolonial Southeast
Asia. Her reviews of contemporary architectural designs from Southeast Asia region have been published in Architecture Asia, T+A, and
Architectural Review. She is one of the contributors to Houses for the 21st Century (edited by Geoffrey London), New Directions in Tropical Asian
Architecture (edited by Philip Goad and Anoma Pieris), and The Past in the Present: Architecture in Indonesia (edited by Peter Nas). She has also
published her research works in academic journals such as Fabrication (Journal of the Societies of Architectural Historians, Australia and New
Zealand), JSEAA (Journal of Southeast Asian Architecture) and RIMA (Reviews of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs).
Research resources and visual data of the site
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A comprehensive list of readings as well as site-specific visual data and drawings has been compiled for this studio to ensure that you can make a grounded and
informed start in undertaking your research and design exploration. More references will be introduced in Week 1
Key texts for the studio include:
Beynon, D. (2010) Architecture, Identity and Cultural Sustainability in Southeast Asian Cities, in RIMA (Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs), Vol 44. No. 2,
Association for the Publication of Indonesian and Malaysian Studies Inc.
Kusno, A. (2010) The Appearances of Memory: Mnemonic Practices of Architecture and Urbanism in Indonesia, Durham: Duke University Press.
Labadi, S. and Long, C. (2010) Heritage and Globalisation, Oxon and New York: Routledge.
TIMES:
13:00
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314 and
Thursday
13:00University
- 16:00Press.
MSD Room 140
The Disappearing
AsianMonday
City: Protecting
Asias
Urban MSD
HeritageRoom
in a Globalizing
World
, New York: Oxford
Logan, W. (ed.) (2002)STUDIO
Roy, A. and Ong, A (eds) (2011) Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global, Malden: Wiley-Blackwell.
THESIS STUDIO 02
Christina Bozsan
F L I R T I N G W I T H S PA C E
SPACE TOURISM, ITS ETHICS & THE ROLE OF ARCHITECTURE
PREMISE: TOURISM IS A BOOMING BUSINESS, LOCALLY AND GLOBALLY

In Australia tourism represents 6% of GDP (or $90.7 billion), employs 929,000 (8% of total employment) and has been
experiencing continuous growth. In 2012-13 tourisms output multiplier was valued higher than the following industries;
Retail trade, Mining, Healthcare and Social Assistance, Finance and Insurance Services and Education and Training.
This is a trend seen throughout the world.
Space, the final frontier, is being seen as the next playground for adventure/ explorer tourism. Several start-up companies such as Virgin Galactic, XCOR Aerospace and Space Adventures have emerged in the hope of creating the first
space tourism industry. These outfits are offering a range of experiences with some lasting minutes, others replicating
Apollo style expeditions or longer stays aboard the International Space Station. The price for being a non-professional
astronaut starts in the 6 figures.
Despite early predictions of success, only 7 people have enjoyed a trip to the International Space Station. Overwhelming however the sentiment is still that commercial space tourism is inevitable. This positive outlook is bolstered by the
following factors:
> The availability of cheaper and better technologies,
> the high demand for recreational space travel. Initial market research conducted within the U.S.A. suggests that as
many as 60% of Americans want to visit space themselves and would be prepared to pay high prices to do so and
> expanding commercial opportunities in contracting shuttle services for institutes like NASA, whom have seen huge
shortfalls in their government funding.
To all this add the prevalence of space within the public conscious. Two space reality TV shows are scheduled for
production, the first Space Race, which is an NBC and Virgin Galactic collaboration where people compete for a seat
aboard the Virgin spacecraft. The second, Mars One, is a one way trip to Mars for four people with the aim of starting
a settlement in 2018. Celebrity musicians are also competing for bragging rights to be the first to shoot a music video
in space.
THE STUDIO FOCUS
There are several ethical and environmental issues with space tourism and solar system settlements. What is the role
of Architects and architecture in response to these issues? Given the commercial inevitabilities how will architecture
inform these new space typologies? How should Architects situate themselves within this market?
The architectural language of the studio is not to be limited to only high tech or futuristic visions. Students will be
encouraged to explore many architectural languages and forms which build on other traditions for example humanistic
and mythological readings of space and the universe.
THE STUDIO PROJECT
Students are to find their own project within the studio. Some possible design projects could include: An airport terminal, Mars settlement (for reality TV), Space resorts and hotels or an alternative speculation on the next frontier for
tourism
Students are expected to find their project through a series of studio set design esquisses. These will be conducted at
the beginning of the semester to inform and direct the end of semester project.
THE STUDIO LEADER BIO
Christina Bozsan is a Melbourne based Architect and co-founder of her own practice BOarch. Before BOarch, Christina worked with Lyons as a Design Architect on numerous public and institutional buildings including the Melbourne
Brain Centre, New Horizons Faculty of Engineering at Monash University, Baillieu Library Redevelopment and the
Sylvia Walton building at La Trobe University.
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THESIS STUDIO 03
Graham Brawn
FORMS AND MATERIALITY

Design for
Living in the
Victorian
Coastal
Town of
Lorne
Architecture then differs
with every circumstance
and site and the final
measure of architecture
lies in its perceptual
essences
Steven Holl
A Design Studio in planning and designing

environmentally sensitive and ecologically
responsible cluster housing or a student camp
backpacker accommodation, on a wooded site
overlooking the entrance to the town of Lorne
on the Great cean oad.
The se ng is a small town that hugs the coast line
between the sea and tway anges and one that has
been a favourite place to live and have a holdiay home
for over a centrury. Lornites are very protective of the the
sense of the forests meeting the sea. The town is currently
challenged by the need for more permanet and long term
rental housing for key workers such as teachers, nurses,
chefs, tradesmen and staff for the many businesses.
In this studio students will be expected to step out of the
familiar, urban(e) se ngs for various residential building
types and rethink the house as a type in order to establish
appropriate building forms and materiality, all in response
to:
The character and qualities of the Great cean
oad coastal se ngs,
The different lifestyles of those who will live in, or
have holiday homes in Lorne ,
The character and features of the natural, hilly,
heavily-treed landscapes, and,
The special needs for safety of property and
people in times of wild bush fires.
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During the research and conceptual design stages

students, working with extant research findings and with
clients and scholars, will learn how to
Establish a performance based brief though
interviews, workshops and interrogation of Planning
Schemes and Town Strategy documentation and
research to clarify the environmental and town character
performance aspirations,
Creatively interpret planning schemes, building
codes and national standards,
Interact with Landscape and planning practices
and concerns,
Interrogate present and historic precedents of
passive form making and construction techniques, and,
Practice effective team work and conduct user
workshops.
Meet with a number of local architects with
experience in designing for and living on the coast in bush
fire prone areas, such as ohn Wardle
ce, erstin
Thompson, and C .
ESEA CH TH UGH DESIG
Graham rawn has spent his teaching, research and
practice career in orth America and across Australia
working with clients to create architectures that support
new futures, blending the generic and universal with the
specific and particular, by focussing on the generative and
restrictive architectural aspects of the projects situations
and circumstances.
THESIS STUDIO 04
Katherine Sunderland + Andy Fergus
OPPORTUNISTIC
URBANISM
A travelling studio to the Netherlands investigating

metropolitan living environments in Melbourne
and South Holland
This travelling studio open to Thesis and Architecture Studio
E students acts as two-way exchange between Melbourne
and South Holland, taking in the cities of Rotterdam, Delft,
the Hague and Leiden. The studio has two main components:
comparative studies of existing inner urban areas in South
Holland and Melbourne, and the design of new integrated
housing environments for sites within the existing city
boundaries of Delft and Rotterdam.
Confirmed collaborators and guests in Melbourne:

Alan Pert (MSD)
Rob Adams (City of Melbourne)
Penny Barnes (City of Melbourne)
Leanne Hodyl (Hodyl + Co)
Andrea Sharam (Swinburne University)
Nigel Bertram (MADA / NMBW Architecture Studio)
Jeremy McLeod (Nightingale / Breathe Architecture)
Clare Cousins (Clare Cousins Architects)
Based in the Netherlands for two weeks in September,

students will participate in workshops at TU Delft, studio visits
to leading architecture and urbanism offices, and field trips
to exemplary projects by bike. As this studio is open to both
Master of Architecture and Master of Urban Design students,
participants may choose to place more emphasis on the city
region and precinct level strategies or the detailed design of
individual dwelling or building typologies.
Confirmed collaborators and guests in South Holland:

Anastasia Chranioti (Deltametrapolis Association)
Paul Gerretsen (Deltametropolis Association)
Daan Zandbelt (TU Delft)
Birgit Hausleitner (TU Delft)
Vincent Nadin (TU Delft)
STIPO
Winy Maas (MVRDV)
Travel weeks: August 29 - September 9

Studio leaders:
Katherine Sundermann (MGS Architects)
Andy Fergus (City of Melbourne)
THESIS STUDIO 05
Qinghua Guo
Erdaojingzi: Archaeological Museum, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia

Erdaojingzi was a Neolithic settlement site (NS190m, EW140m) on a hill excavated in 2009. More than 150 building
remains are preserved; it is the largest settlement of round earthen buildings in Eurasian Steppe exposed so far.
This studio would be suitable for students who are interested in heritage and exploring the theme of old and new. The
principle investigation of this studio is: how to design a new museum to protect the old site? Can the new complement the
old in a creative, progressive and sophisticated manner? To engage the new with the old and to enhance the heritage
value are the core theme of the studio.
Studio Outcome
Reading and Reference Materials
To prepare students to design a new building in a historic

site with heritage preservation in mind;
Chris van Uffelen, Contemporary Museums: Architecture,

History, Collections. Braun, 2011
To acquire knowledge of both history as well as

contemporary facets of architecture;
Arthur Rosenblatt, Building Type Basics for Museums. New

York: Wiley, 2000.
To analyse the precedents, to explore the potential for

manipulation of these principles and methods;
Li Zhi, Archaeological Museums (in Chinese), Xian 1995.
To understand material, structure and construction.
http://www.aedes-arc.de/cms/aedes /de/programm?id=
16818836
Studio will be held in Room 227 on Tuesdays 14:15-17:15; Room 244 Fridays 13:00-16:00
Studio leader: Qinghua Guo, Professor in Asian Architecture, Faulty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of
Melbourne. Room 345, Tel: 8344 0062, Email: qinghua@unimelb.edu.au
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House no. F62 (Digital documentation)
Detail of House 62: Wall was made with coiling technique
THESIS STUDIO 06
Janet McGaw
DOr: spatial, material and programmatic thresholds

Studio Leader: Janet McGaw
Studio Description:
In 1992 Jennifer Bloomer wrote a paper entitled Dor that considered what was othered the either/or in
architecture.1 From her perspective the other included the second term in the binary pairs visual/experiential,
structure/ornament, and form/matter amongst others. Her essay was situated within a critical discourse informed by post-structuralism which was in turn shaped by the exigencies of its time and place. She opened the
essay with a quote from artist Robert Smithson:
words and rocks contain a language that follows a syntax of splits and ruptures. Look at any word long
enough and you will see it open into a series of faults, into a terrain of particles each containing its own
void.
and proceeded to mine the word dor for its possible meanings:
dor: of gold, or of the now (French)

ore: a lacy network of (g)litter embedded in rock
or: the other, an inferior category
door: a way out
Twenty-five years later we conceive of the world through conceptual multiplicities rather than binaries, and yet
we still have exclusionary zones, both spatial and material. Materials flow freely across spatial borders, capitalising on weak labour laws and low currency values in newly industrialised countries. Yet we are fearful of allowing
people the same freedoms. Border patrols are becoming more stringent and digital surveillance is ever increasing. Global manufacturing grows apace powered by burning fossil fuels despite concerns about climate change.
Architects enjoy the availability of many of these materials for the structural and decorative freedoms they afford
at low monetary costs with little awareness of the hidden social and environmental implications. Nationalism,
terrorism, materialism, global warming, are the catch-cries across the media. The either/ors have become increasingly apocalyptic.
This studio asks you to reconsider dor to find possible spatial and material ways out of global dilemmas. What
are the inferior categories? Where are the fault lines in our urban terrains? What unexpected materials might
become precious to us?
We will explore programmes for excluded citizens (refugee processing, resource centre, and venue for events
around cultural exchange) on threshold sites (borderlands or indeterminate spaces that are currently unoccupied
by architecture but latent with other emergent phenomena) using vibrant matter (bio-actant materials that
might be enlisted as co-creators of architectural form). These are both challenges and opportunities; seams of
gold that we will mine for their architectural opportunities. As Bloomer says, doors may be exits but also entries
into new ways of thinking and practicing.
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Jennifer Bloomer, Dor in Beatrice Colomina, (ed.), Sexuality and Space New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992, pp. 163-184.
Bio:
Janet is currently Architecture Pathway coordinator in the Bachelor of Environments and subject coordinator of
Design Research in the MSD. She has taught masters and thesis studios in the past, co-coordinating Thesis from
2008-2010. Janet is also an award winning architect.
Contact details: mcgawjk@unimelb.edu.au; ph. 8344 3038; mob. 0412 659 161
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THESIS STUDIO 07
Jeremy McLeod
with Jeremy McLeod
Mondays
6:15pm - 9:15pm
Thursdays 6:15pm - 9:15pm
The status quo development model

is aimed at delivering buildings with
maximum financial yields rather
than focusing on the people who
will live there or their impact on the
environment and local communities.
Jeremy is the founding director
The Nightingale Model aims to
This studio will explore in depth
of Breathe Architecture, a team
provide housing for Melbournes
the process of architect-led
rapidly growing population in
development that Breathe
high quality design and sustainable
well-connected, community-driven,
Architecture has researched and
architecture at all scales. Breathe
medium density apartments all
practiced over the past 10 years,
Architecture has recently
delivered to people through means
while pushing the boundaries of
outside of the existing paradigm
multi-residential architectural
of developers, marketers and real
design to create meaningful
estate agents to make them more
contributions to the city and
socially, environmentally and
exceptional spaces for living in.
of dedicated architects that have

built a reputation for delivering
been focused on sustainable

urbanisation and how to deliver
more affordable urban housing to
Melbournians.
Breathe were the instigators
economically sustainable.
of the The Commons housing

project in Brunswick and now
are collaborating with other
Melbourne Architects to deliver
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Each student will be given the tools to undertake a Nightingale
the Nightingale Model. Nightingale
development and use these as a foundation to design in detail a medium
is intended to be an open source
density apartment building on a real site in Melbourne as a prototype of
housing model led by Architects.
their vision of the future of urban housing.
THESIS STUDIO 08
Toby Reed
WATERSCRAPER
THESIS STUDIO BY TOBY REED
The concept behind this studio is to design a water-scraper, a building on the bay. If our planet is
becoming a drowned world, as in J.G. Ballards novel, then we might as well practice designing
buildings on the water. This studio will explore the possibilities of providing new areas for urban
growth by constructing buildings in Port Phillip Bay. Rapid urban growth around the planet is
forcing us to reconsider architecture and urbanism and devise new fluid strategies for intervening
in the ever expanding modern city.
This project allows for a level of propositional experimentation, depending on each students
inclinations. Students can decide their own brief but most likely brief combinations will include:
apartments, hotel, offices, restaurants, entertainment facilities, floating beach, etc...
This is not an urban design project. Every building is an idea about the city. Students will be
designing a building in the bay with indoor and outdoor space and connection to the land. So the
project will be architectural with urban implications.
Reference:
Rem Koolhaas Whatever Happened to Urbanism / Junkspace
Rem Koolhaas + Hans Ulrich Obrist - Project Japan Metabolism Talks...
Peter Davidson and Donald L Bates Architecture After Geometry
Alejandro Zaera-Polo The Politics of the Envelope
J.G. Ballard The Drowned World (1962)
Bio:
Toby Reed is a director of Nervegna Reed Architecture and PHTR Architects. Recent projects
include large scale urban design for a city in Sichuan province and the recently shortlisted entry
to the National Gallery of Victoria 2016 Summer Pavilion Competition. Reeds work has been
widely published around the world, most recently in Practical Poetics and Nanotecture
(Phaidon), and the Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture. The precinct Energy
Project in Dandenong lead the way in Australian architecture for green power solutions, being the
first precinct in Australia to be powered by co-generation. Toby also makes architectural videos,
the most recent being Future Happiness (with Callum Morton) for the Occupied exhibition at
RMIT Design Hub.
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THESIS STUDIO 09
Ivan Rijavec + Jason Twill
BOYDS ERROR - PLANNINGS CURSE

HOUSING LIVE WORK MAKER SPACES RETAIL FITZROY
Ivan Rijavec
About Melbourne, Australias Featurist capital Boyd wrote, every block down the entire length of every street is
cut up into dozens of different buildings cheek to cheek, some no more than twelve foot six inches wide, few more
than fifty feet, some only two storeys , some now days over twenty storeys and growing higher. And every facade is
a different colour, differently ornamented and within its two dimensional limitations, a different shape, it is a
dressmakers floor strewn with the sniping of style.
Persuasive invectives like this one have made The Australian Ugliness the mordant cliche it is today perpetuating
outdated notions of both how Australian Urbanism is interpreted and what it could become. Over the past two
decades we have witnessed a debate between various types of urban economic extrusionists including developers
and architects and planning regulators who have derived their principles from European prototypes that have had
limited relevance in Australia. Here the urban and economic disruption consequent of a new world economy, climate
and culture, perverted European urban models amplifying the extremities of styles and scales to levels unforeseen.
Boyds Error will unravel the myths of The Australian Ugliness, and those our planning regulation currently
fosters provoking the reinvention of inner urban architectural and urban design models.
Boyds error:
Plannings curse.
Reflections
on The Australian
Ugliness.
Ivan Rijavec
The programme for this studio is a mixed use development comprising approximately 250 apartments/maisonettes,
live work, retail, and maker spaces on the Fitzroy Urban Block, bounded by Napier, Kerr, Argyle and Young streets.
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THESIS STUDIO 10
Anna Tweeddale + Kristin Green
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE - DESIGN THESIS STUDIO
TOXIC EXUBERANCE
Fossil fuels are the remnants of past vibrant life. Through the age
of extraction, Victorias rich geological history has been mined
as cheap fuel for industrial production and urbanisation, leaving
behind toxic environments. As dialogues around human impacts
on geological and biosphere processes thicken, architecture is
challenged to explore its own complex and messy relations to all
life, rather than exclusively human needs and desires.
Kristin Green
(KGA ARCHITECTURE)
Anna Tweeddale
(STUDIO APPARATUS)
Studio topics:
Aluminium production
Bio-Diversity
Coal mining
Exuberance
Interspecies architecture
Local / global economies
Power generation
Students will develop a building project that responds to the site Regeneration
of the recently decommissioned coal mine and aluminium plant Soil remediation
at Anglesea - along with its complex and biodiverse context - Speculative futures
Toxicity
speculating through design on possible interspecies futures.
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THESIS STUDIO 11
Paul Walker

This Master of Architecture Thesis studio investigates the conversion of three 1950s suburban brick
& tile, double- and triple-fronted houses in South Road, Moorabbin, into a centre for the exhibition,
conservation, and study of the art works of Howard Arkley. The studio will offer opportunities for
students to undertake individual investigations into such issues as the transformation of the house
type through formal and programmatic operations; the history of suburban and regional art
museums in Victoria; exhibition strategies for art works to engage multiple audiences; cross-overs
between art and architecture, particularly bearing in mind the range of Arkleys strategies (arrays;
fields; iconism; pop; hyper-realism; street art & graffiti); house museums fictional and real. These
investigations will occur in parallel with the development of a design strategy for the Art Ark, with
the design and investigation work mutually informing each other.
The studio leader, Paul Walker, is a professor of architecture in the Melbourne School of Design. His
research interests include the history of natural history museum architecture and contemporary
post-colonial museums. Contact details: room 426, MSD building; email walkp@unimelb.edu.au;
phone 83448839. Jason Nunn will co-teach.
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Master of Urban Design: Katherine Sunderland + Andy Fergus: Opportunistic Urbanism
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Master of Urban Design Thesis: Robyn Pollock: Urban Futures
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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO
Katherine Sunderland + Andy Fergus
OPPORTUNISTIC
URBANISM
A travelling studio to the Netherlands investigating

metropolitan living environments in Melbourne
and South Holland
This travelling studio open to Thesis and Architecture Studio
E students acts as two-way exchange between Melbourne
and South Holland, taking in the cities of Rotterdam, Delft,
the Hague and Leiden. The studio has two main components:
comparative studies of existing inner urban areas in South
Holland and Melbourne, and the design of new integrated
housing environments for sites within the existing city
boundaries of Delft and Rotterdam.
Confirmed collaborators and guests in Melbourne:

Alan Pert (MSD)
Rob Adams (City of Melbourne)
Penny Barnes (City of Melbourne)
Leanne Hodyl (Hodyl + Co)
Andrea Sharam (Swinburne University)
Nigel Bertram (MADA / NMBW Architecture Studio)
Jeremy McLeod (Nightingale / Breathe Architecture)
Clare Cousins (Clare Cousins Architects)
Based in the Netherlands for two weeks in September,

students will participate in workshops at TU Delft, studio visits
to leading architecture and urbanism offices, and field trips
to exemplary projects by bike. As this studio is open to both
Master of Architecture and Master of Urban Design students,
participants may choose to place more emphasis on the city
region and precinct level strategies or the detailed design of
individual dwelling or building typologies.
Confirmed collaborators and guests in South Holland:

Anastasia Chranioti (Deltametrapolis Association)
Paul Gerretsen (Deltametropolis Association)
Daan Zandbelt (TU Delft)
Birgit Hausleitner (TU Delft)
Vincent Nadin (TU Delft)
STIPO
Winy Maas (MVRDV)
Travel weeks: August 29 - September 9

Studio leaders:
Katherine Sundermann (MGS Architects)
Andy Fergus (City of Melbourne)
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URBAN DESIGN THESIS

Robyn Pollock
urban futures
. . . . campus/neighbourhood
The Proposition
The Studio
This studio seeks to challenge the status quo for

university campus growth and revolutionize the
intensification of Melbournes inner city. As the
private realm is compressed and intensified, what
role should public institutions play in meeting our
evolving needs? How can new infrastructure trigger
this outcome? Where and how do we convey our
civic values? How can the future of public
institutions support this revolution?
There are three phases to this thesis studio.

Initially students will define their position
(hypothesis) on the future of cities and the role
public institutions play 15%. Students will test this
hypothesis through an ideal campus -neighbourhood
design - a masterplan 30%. In the final phase
students will develop a portion of this masterplan
to identify a clear strategy for transitioning from
current neighbourhood (status quo) to the proposed
ideal 45%. This studio is collaborative to develop
essential professional skills. On-going collaboration
in studio, sharing and engagement with studio
agenda attracts a 10% grade.
The studio site is the existing Melbourne University

(Parkville campus) and surrounding
neighbourhoods. How can your design proposition
trigger change? Consider the role that urban design
plays in inspiring the shape of future community,
establishing integral environmental sustainability
and enhancing the overall neighbourhood amenity.
The communities identity and experience is to be
understood and expressed at all scales.
Through collaborative research, conceptualising
and sketching, students will develop a
sophisticated understanding of urban designs role
in defining our citys future, evolving campus
practice, change management and neighbourhood
systems. The studio will work closely with the
University Melbourne City Council, Melbourne Metro
Rail and other local institutions, building upon
current projects.
Students will define their capstone design research

within a framework of guest lectures, independent
research and design workshops culminating with a
presentation to professional panel for each phase.
The final project will consist of maximum 4x A1
presentation boards (to encourage editing),
powerpoint presentation and A5 booklet recording
the semesters research, reflection, positioning and
project development.
Contact
Tuesday 5.15-9.15 and Friday 9-11.
Studio leader
Robyn Pollock is an urban designer and architect.
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archite
studio
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ecture
os

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Landscape Architecture Studio 02: Site and Design
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Landscape Architecture Studio 04: Strategies
Siqing Chen + Christopher Newman
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Landscape Archtiecture Thesis
Anna Hooper
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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE STUDIO 02

LANDSCAPE STUDIO 2
SITE AND DESIGN
SITE AND DESIGN
The challenge of understanding a site that is presented to the landscape architect
is twofold; how to filter the endless information and variables down to something
that is meaningful without being reductive? and then how to apply that analysis as
a design tool not just a context? In this studio we explore strategies to respond to
these challenges, somewhat unconventionally by exploding the typical sequence
of site assessment followed by design response, instead we will be exploring
feedback loops between assessment and design intervention.
This studio takes a multi-process based approach to exploring the relation between
site and design in landscape architectural practice. Through site exploration,
conceptual approaches to site transformation are introduced, alongside digital
modelling, physical modelling, testing and iteration.
Our site lies at the pointy end of Moonee Ponds Creek, located at the end of
Docklands road, on the northern shore of the Yarra River and beneath the Bolte
Bridge. On the threshold of developed space; programmed for human activity safe and comfortable recreation with designer playgrounds, a sporting field and
fancy street planting, it experiences frequent usage by local inhabitants. Adjacent
lies the Moonee Ponds Creek. Overshadowed by the Bolte Bridge, exposed to the
Yarra and occasionally inhabited by social fringe dwellers, this site does not induce
a call for further human activity yet its atmospheric, geographic and climactic
conditions are compelling.
Which leads us to the conceit of the studio - How do we design when human
usage and habitation do not lead our agenda? Can site conditions, the invisible
physical forces existing in a dynamic site drive a design agenda?
HOW TO DESIGN WITHOUT PROGRAM?
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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE STUDIO 04
Landscape Architecture Studio 04

Images: Esther Ziebell + Xi Xu

Landscape Architecture Studio 04: Strategies


Studio 4 Strategies (previously Landscape Planning Studio) introduces a range of GIS techniques
including spatial overlay, watershed analysis, 3D modelling, etc. for data collection and integration,
site inventory and analysis, and scale thinking.
These spatial skills will then be applied to critically analyzing Melbournes urban growth from the
metropolitan scale down to a suburb scale. Based established planning goals aiming at social,
economic and environmental sustainability, a series of spatial overlay tools will be used to identify
the most suitable urban growth areas (UGA). Students will then choose a suburb from their
identified UGA for comprehensive planning at the neighbourhood scale.
The studio is supported by a lecture series which introduces GIS history and development, major
concepts and main theories in landscape planning. Significant national and international
precedents will be carefully examined for students to understand landscape planning processes,
and gain confidence in dealing with broad scale urban issues.
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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE THESIS

Anna Hooper
COORDINATOR: Dr Anna Hooper

TEACHING STAFF: Dr Andrew
Saniga, Dr Margaret Grose, Dr Sidh
Sintusingha, Dr Siqing Chen, Ms
Wendy Walls, Ms Sareh Moosavi,
and Mr David Heymann
The Master of Landscape Architecture program culminates in a semesterlong Design Thesis. A research-focussed investigation, the thesis may take
the form of theoretical and/or philosophical propositions, the testing of
hypotheses, or even experimental design responses using a variety of
media. Students are supervised by staff with expertise and experience in
their field of exploration. They are matched to potential supervisors based on
the thesis statements (the proposed ideas for investigation), their intended
research approaches (methodologies) and the systems of thinking they wish
to use (epistemologies). Although supervised, this studio is self-directed
and requires the student to work independently, carrying out research and
demonstrating its application in a design response to a site, either determined
by the supervisor or by the student depending on the thesis.
In semester 2, 2016, students may take up the option of individual supervision
or they may prefer to work on an individual project in one of 3 peer studios
being offered: Digital Landscape Thesis: Hot Cities, Cool Sites; The Aftermath
of the Rising Tide; or Take a Walk on the Wilder Side of Landscape.
IMAGE: MASTER OF LANDSCAPE

ARCHITECTURE THESIS 2015
SERENA (JING WEN)
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IMAGE: MASTER OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

THESIS 2015 JASON TOH
Before the semester starts, students are required to have spent some time
doing some preliminary research: thinking about an idea/issue/hypothesis
and then preparing an annotated bibliography based on academic work
about this. They will also have to choose a site (or be given a site) and
become familiar with it. In week 1, a thesis statement is formally presented
to their supervisors and peers and, when approved, further research is then
undertaken throughout the semester to build on this initial work. The final
design will have this research embedded within it.
During the course of the semester, students are expected to both visually
demonstrate and orally articulate a comprehensive understanding of the
theoretical and/or philosophical framework of their thesis, the issues being
examined, the design outcomes expected through this process of research
and application, and how this is related to their site (and, site specificity
notwithstanding, whether this has potential applications further afield).
Students will present their research-to-date in the associated design
response to their site at an interim presentation in week 7 (worth 30% of the
total mark) and final presentations (worth 70%) will be held in in week 13 to
an external panel of invited guests.
urban
planning
studios

STUDIO 01
Tom Alves: Home @ Atherton Gardens, Fitzroy
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STUDIO 03
Yina Sima: The City in Transformation: Layers and Strategies
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MUP STUDIO 01
Tom Alves
Home @ Atherton Gardens, Fitzroy

[Re-Designing Social, Affordable, Mixed Market Housing with Mixed Use]
Public housing in Victoria is set for sweeping change. New residential precinct mixes of community,
commercial with other functional uses, together with a range of accommodation markets are being
considered to support diverse neighbourhoods with activities for more optimal land use to meet
current and future needs.
Atherton Gardens Liveability Studio will focus on urban living quality by re-thinking planning and
design for social, affordable, and mixed-market housing at precinct, neighbourhood and
architectural scale. Atherton Gardens Housing Estate (AHE) Fitzroy is a 4.8 ha, residential
community, bounded by Brunswick, Gertrude, Napier Streets containing 4x20 storey towers, with
large, surrounding open space. Each tower is constructed from pre-fabricated concrete panels
consisting of approximately 200 apartments, providing a total 793 dwellings, with very modest
housing quality. The studio will examine site typologies, site context and planning issues for
opportunities to provide transformative housing and hybrid solutions for socially engaged, culturally
mixed communities with site responsive planning and design.
This studio is being offered as an interdisciplinary studio with both Masters of Architecture and
Urban Planning collaborating together with complementary programs.
Site and Studio Design and Planning Objectives : The studio will . . .
I. Analyse how to plan for and design for a sustainable community with a vibrant neighbourhood:
Consider a diverse range of new social, private and affordable housing, where design does not
differentiate forms of ownership, residents are proud to call home and people want to visit.
II. Investigate provision of well-designed housing, with facilities and outdoor spaces that:
maximise amenity and liveability, improve safety, support social interaction, with a range of
shared facilities and outdoor spaces for residents and visitors.
III. Re-integrate neighbouring areas: blurring site boundaries, re-connecting road, bike and
pedestrian networks, re-introduce community, retail or commercial (hybrid) spaces to activate
sites and create amenity.
IV. Incorporate sustainable design that promotes health and quality of life.
Studio Leaders: Rob Polglase and Hing-wah Chau will lead Masters of Architecture with Tom
Alves leading the Masters of Urban Planning. Each studio leader has extensive experience leading
design studios, design teams and urban scale planning and architecture, including residential and
mixed use precincts in Australia and Asia. Site stakeholders and industry specialists will present a
range of topics to inform students planning and design briefs.
Studio Times: Monday: 6:15pm-9:15pm + Thursday: 1:00pm-4:00pm.
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MUP STUDIO 03
Yina Sima
The City in
Transformation:
Layers and Strategies
Melbourne is changing constantly. Being initiated as a

rustic frontier, the city was conceived through decades of
natural growth and maintained its charismatic over nearly
two centuries.
On completion of this subject, students

should be able to:
The purpose of this studio will be on the production of an

urban design vision at the scale of a sustainable urban
district or a new settlement in Metropolitan Melbourne
of Victoria. Students will focus on recognizing the citys
existing character, and developing principles and practices
for urban futures: economic analysis, urban design
frameworks, spatial practices, functional mix, place
identity, population and density. This studio will have an
emphasis on relating the fields of urban design and urban
planning.
Develop the ability to collect, analyze

and interpret data
Demonstrate an ability to generate
a variety of planning strategies and
design possibilities for a given situation
Develop skills in various two, three and
four-dimensional media
Demonstrate an understanding of
relationships between urban design and
urban planning through the application
of the above
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internati
travelling
studios
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g

STUDIO 01
Michael Trudgeon: Urban Eco Acupuncture Netherlands
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STUDIO 02
Gideon Aschwanden: Tourism & Urbanism Java
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NETHERLANDS INTERNATIONAL TRAVELLING STUDIO
Urban
Eco Acupuncture
Netherlands: 2016
Travelling studio
MSD VEIL ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN TRAVELLING STUDIO
Semester 2 2016. Studio Leaders: Michael Trudgeon, Chris Ryan
IMPORTANT DATES
Applications Close: Friday 08 July
Pre-Trip teaching dates: Thursdays 04, 11, 18, 25 August, 01, 08, and 15 September 2016
Occupational, Health and Safety Information Session: 25 August
Overseas Travel dates: 24 September 09 October 2016
Post-Trip teaching dates: Thursdays 13, 20 and 27 October 2016
First Submission/Presentation: 11 August
Final Submission/Presentation: 3 November 201
Leeuwarden city centre
Leeuwarden Water Campus
Rotterdam food market hall MVRDV
Copenhagen Orestad district
SUBJECT OUTLINE
Students will take part in an international studio in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden in collaboration with students and academics from the
Technical University of Delft and Aalborg University. The studio will develop design projects for the European Cultural Capital program
for 2018, a year long program of intense artistic and cultural activity in Leeuwarden. We will focus on 2-3 urban sites. These sites
have been selected by the city as key sites for the European Cultural Capital program and now require design development with the
intention of realising projects on these sites for 2018.
The design projects include:
Pop up modular small scale accommodation
3D printing labs to explore new manufacturing possibilities for the northern Netherlands
Light weight, high performance pavilions for an Energy park and expo showcasing new resilient energy technologies
Refurbishing and repurposing existing urban infrastructure
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The projects take in the disciplinary expertise of architectural, landscape and urban planning strategies along with wayfinding and
service design. Students will develop design interventions to transform the existing built environment and systems of provision (energy,
water, food, transport, information) for a sustainable, low carbon, resilient future What steps must be taken today to get there?
Building on the master planning achieved by the 2015 VEIL studio we will develop detail designs for the identified sites to shift the path
of innovation on a new trajectory: towards sustainable, resilient conditions. There will be an emphasis on physical model making in this
studio and we will hold an introductory session in the Fab Lab at MSD. The studio will travel to Copenhagen for a 2 day architectural
and design study tour. There will be opportunities to visit and explore Rotterdam, one of the worlds pre-eminent architectural and
design laboratories.
JAVA INTERNATIONAL TRAVELLING STUDIO
JAVA-TRAVELING STUDIO
TOURISM & URBANISM

taught together with
ETH Future Cities Laboratory

learned together with
SEM | 2 | 2016
ITB Institute Technologia Bandung

Erfurt Univeristy of Applied Science
Limited to 16 places
For Master of Architecture; Master of Landscape Architecture; Master of Urban Design; Master of Urban Planning students
How does tourism in South East Asia influence the urban fabric? What does travel mean for
architects? How does travel inform our perception? How can we link seemingly discontinuous phenomena, and how can we tie together and represent issues of architecture, urbanism, economy, landscape, the past, the present and the future?
Application to Dr Gideon Aschwanden gideon.aschwanden@unimelb.edu.au
MELBOURNE BANDUNG
ERFURT
ZRICH
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events of note
DEANS LECTURE
SERIES 2016
KAREN MCLUSKEY + KEITH
VANDERSYS
PEG Office of Landscape + Architecture,
Philadelphia
7pm, Tuesday 2 August
SEMESTER 2
EVENTS
PROFESSOR JUDITH INNES
Director, Institute of Urban & Regional
Development, University of California,
Berkeley
7pm, Tuesday 11 October
Dynamic Patterns
Dynamic Patterns will discuss the work
of Philadelphia-based PEG office of
landscape + architecture. MCloskey and
VanDerSys will examine a range of projects
and techniques that enable a multivalent,
multilayered understanding of pattern as
both expression and shaping influence of
environmental processes. The projects
range from small-scale fabrications that
explore the capacity of geometry to
articulate site functions, such as water
collection, to computational modeling and
hydrodynamic simulations. MCloskey and
VanDerSyss work explores the relationship
among digital media, fabrication
technology and construction.
Judith Innes holds a PhD from MITs

Department of Urban Studies and
Planning and an undergraduate degree
in English from Harvard University. Her
work focuses on planning and public
policy making processes, with an
emphasis on collaborative dialogues and
cooperative efforts of many kinds. Her
goal is to find out whether, how and why
these work and to build theory about
these with an eye to informing practice
and other scholars. Her research has
looked at growth management, regional
transportation planning, water planning
and management, and voluntary civic
regionalism.
Karen MCloskey and Keith VanDerSys

are founding partners of PEG office of
landscape + architecture. Established in
2004, PEG is an award-winning design
and research office based in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. They engage a variety of
projects in terms of content, scale, and
medium, ranging from immersive interior
environments to large public spaces.
Her most recent work has been on

governance of large-scale fragmented
regions, and makes the case that this
cannot be done by formal, hierarchical
government alone because of the
complexity and rapid evolution of such
regions. The future will depend on
networks, informal actions and a wide
range of players working in concert and in
collaboration. In the last decade her work
has been joint with David Booher. This
includes particularly their book, Planning
with Complexity: An Introduction to
Collaborative Rationality, Routledge 2010.
PEGs work explores the relationship

among digital media, fabrication
technology and construction. Through
new media and fabrication technologies,
PEGs work explores methods of systemic
patterning to expand landscapes
expressive agency in the shaping of the
public realm. Their projects experiment
with formal and temporal patterns; in all
cases, these methods are used to craft
variation in surface appearances, as
well as participate in site functions, such
as water collection, plant growth, and
maintenance zones. These incremental
infrastructures have implications for more
integrative thinking about natural systems
in relatively dense urban environments
and offer new expressive potential for
landscape via new combinations of
organic and inorganic materials. The use
of these tools and techniques has created
a signature aesthetic, establishing PEG as
part of the next generation in the field of
landscape design.
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She was director of the Institute of Urban

and Regional Development at Berkeley,
a campus-wide organised research unit
addressing an array of topics through
externally funded faculty and student
research. In her capacity as director she
also directed the Community Partnerships
office (former the University Oakland
Metropolitan Forum) and was involved
in managing a variety of community
development efforts, action research,
and community-based learning projects
in partnership with localities, foundations
and NGOs. She is author, editor or
co-author of more than 50 articles and
book chapters, four books and two major
monographs.
SONA SUPER STUDIO

SONA is full steam ahead in organising
this years SuperStudio competition. The
competition will run across the country
with students responding to a brief in
teams of three in 24hrs. Teams will be
aiming win in their state to go through to
the national shortlist. The national winning
team will receive flights to the Biennale
Architeturra 2018 in Venice.
How it works: Your register for the event
below individually. On Friday 5th August
youll receive a participant pack with all of
the details for your specific event. Teams
will be formulated on the night and you
can ask to be with your friends. Teams of
three are handed the brief at 7pm (AEST)
Friday 12th Aug. Most locations will have
the facility for students to stay over night
in sleeping zones, however, please be sure
to check the participant document that you
will receive a week before the event in case
your states university will require students
to sleep elsewhere, especially if you are
travelling for the event. Final presentations
will be held from 7pm Saturday 13 August.
The winners of their state go through to
the national shortlist and have 10 days to
finesse their presentation. The number
of teams who go through to this shortlist
depend on the number of schools in that
particular state. For example, two teams
will go through from SA as there are two
schools and four from Victoria as there are
four Victorian schools.
Date and Time:
Friday 12 Aug, 7pm Saturday 13 Aug,
9pm (including presentations)
Register at:
http://wp.architecture.com.au/sona/
competitions/superstudio-2016/
OTHER NOTABLE EVENTS

18-Jul - 9-Sep PEG Landscape +
Architecture : Dynamic Patterns
15-Aug - 9-Sep Digital Furniture
Exhibition
12-30-Sep GAP Global Architecture
Profiling Puebla, Mexico Exhibition
3-Oct - 11-Nov Pholiota UNLOCKED:
From Canberra to Castlecrag Exhibition
msd.unimelb.edu.au/events
Welcome to the Fabrication Workshop!

The Melbourne School of Design Fabrication Workshop (FabWorks) is a stateof-the-art interdisciplinary space for making. The facility houses technology
that aims to create a hands-on and inspiring environment, encouraging
experimentation with machinery, materials and processes of making. All
information is available via our website:
https://msd.unimelb.edu.au/fabrication-workshop
FABLAB
MACHINE WORKSHOP
ROBOTICS LAB
Lasercutting
OPEN ACCESS
every afternoon
1 - 4.30pm
Robots
Robots
Consultations
Saws
Planars
Tools
WETWORKS
PRINTROOM
PHOTOGRAPHY
& MEDIA
Printing
Cameras
Binding
Lighting
Scanning
Multimedia facilities
3D Printing
CNC Milling
Robots
Casting
Plastering
Concreting
How do I get in?
How do I get started?
I need more help!
Access to the spaces and

equipment is moderated by a 3
level safety induction system.
After completing the required

inductions, refer to the equipment
webpage to learn about the
machine workshop equipments.
Speak to a Workshop staff or email us

at fabworks@unimelb.edu.au for any
enquiry.
Lvl 01 Safety Induction (Online)

Lvl 02 Safety Induction (In Person)
Lvl 03 Safety Induction (Machine)
For more details, go to:

http://msd.unimelb.edu.au/
training-access
You can also read the free

guidelines that were made for the
FabLab machines.
We have free introductory sessions
at the start of each semester. If
your class is using the facilities
extensively, we can provide tailored
group sessions for you.
Where can I store models?

Models can only be stored under the
Workshop tables and in the cabinets.
Make sure you have Model Making
Card on them!
Model Making Card

If we cant read it or call you, your
model and materials will be cleared.
Name & ID
Refer to:
msd.unimelb.edu.au/equipment
msd.unimelb.edu.au/fablab
MODEL STORAGE POLICY

Models & Materials must be stored on
the shelves under the work counters.
Models & Materials left on the work
bench and the floors may be thrown out.
CLEAR OUT SCHEDULE
The model making space will be cleaned
every Friday evening throughout
semester. This includes final models
and items stored on tables.
Phone Number
Email
IF YOU DO NOT LABEL YOUR WORK, IT

WILL BE THROWN OUT. NO QUESTIONS
Collecting on /
Print finish time
ASKED.
UNIVERSITY OF
FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE
MELBOURNE
MELBOURNE
BUILDING & PLANNING
SCHOOL OF DESIGN
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THIS COMPILATION OF STUDENT

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GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

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PEG Office of Landscape + Architecture, PHILADELPHIA

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

STUDIO MSD - WELCOME

Our multi-award winning MSD Building will play an important

Welcome to semester 2, 2016 where MSD starts from a

As students, you will get the opportunity to think across

Importantly MSD is open to local, national and international

STUDIO DAYS AND TIMES

MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE STUDIO B

PAR-Engineering C-413 (C2 Theatre)

MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE STUDIO CDE

Paul Loh, David Leggett +

Johnannes Van Rijnberk +

Robert Polglase, HingWah Chau + Tom Alves

STUDIO DAYS AND TIMES

ARCHITECTURE DESIGN THESIS

Ivan Rijavec + Jason Twill

MASTER OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE STUDIOS

Jack Langridge Gould

Anna Hooper, Andrew Saniga,

MSD Rooms 144, 226

MSD Rooms 144, 226

MSD Rooms 146, 216

MSD Rooms 215, 216,

MASTER OF URBAN DESIGN

MSD Room 241

MSD Room 236

MSD Room 118

MSD Room 117

MASTER OF URBAN PLANNING

MSD Room 448

MSD Room 117

MSD Room 124

MSD Room 139

Coordinator: Dennis Prior

This studio is concerned with investigating

Chair of Architectural Design

CDE Design Studios Semester 2_2016

Architecture is real. Architecture is a real world phenomenon.

Should it be otherwise? Should schools be more real? (If by

Before we consign architectural education to unreality or mere

Drawing systems, representational systems, notational systems

CDE STUDIO ALLOCATION + SCHEDULE

CDE STUDIO ALLOCATION

Balloting for CDE Studios ends

Week 6: Mid-Semester Crits

End of Exam Period

Final result released

END OF SEMESTER REVIEWS

Submission of semester work

Please note, you are NOT guaranteed your first

Deans Lecture Series:

Over the weekend (23 - 24 July), you will be

Late submissions will not be accepted.

15:00 on Friday 22 July until 15:00 on Saturday 23

Balloting for CDE Studios begins