THE/09
OPEN STUDIO: HERITAGE
STUART HARRISON
Studio Description
This Masters studio seeks to critique, through thesis projects, the building conservation movement and provide an alternative framework for re-using, re-working and re-making existing buildings and landscapes. This is an alternative to the dominant heritage paradigm, and seeks a generational shift in influence. Looking at concepts of elective heritage, sustainability through retention, interim use and adaptive re-use, it promotes a layered histories approach.
Talks at the start of semester will outline historical and current approaches to conservation, as well as more progressive heritages practices. Students will develop a position on how to work with existing buildings. Research into national and international precedents will inform approaches, as part of a more structured start to the semester. Detailed site research will be undertaken, and then radical propositions for the future of these sites developed by students as a self-directed thesis project.
The studio will be run in-person, with remote sessions when required.
Studio Outcomes
Students will develop their project proposals - selecting sites in Victoria with existing building(s) and landscapes, and work with existing elements to develop a new version of the site. Non-listed / elective heritage projects will be encouraged. Elective heritage is an approach to re-using buildings that are not protected from demolition through heritage controls. New programmes will be proposed and developed, and the sustainability benefits of re-use presented as an equal to the historical and heritage benefits.
Students will then design an architectural project that re-uses an existing building/structure. This will be described in architectural drawings. The required thesis statement will act as accompanying position paper on the approach to re-use. Students will develop an approach that builds on both traditional and progressive models, and be aware of the sustainability impacts of re-use.
Drawings typically required include: site and context plans, floor plans, sections, elevations, diagrams, axonometrics, photomontages and renderings.
Studio Leaders
Stuart Harrison is an architect, design advocate and communicator. He has collaborated broadly – on architecture and media projects, including several books. He hosted Restoration Australia on ABC-TV for two seasons.
He is director of the award-winning architectural practice Harrison and White, and has worked on masterplanning, housing, public and education projects.
He consults on design excellence and is a member of several design review panels, including the WA State Design Review Panel, the SA Design Review Panel and the Victorian Design Review Panel. Stuart has taught and assessed design widely, including at RMIT, Monash, University of Melbourne, UTS and UWA.
Readings & References
Barasch, D, Ruin and Redemption in Architecture, Phaidon, 2019
Plevoets, B., & Van Cleempoel, K. (2013). Adaptive reuse as an emerging discipline: an historic survey. In G. Cairns (Ed.), Reinventing architecture and interiors: a socio-political view on building adaptation (pp. 13-32). London: Libri Publishers.
Reclaim – Domestic Actions, a+t publishing, 2013
Austin, R, Adaptive Re-Use, Issues and Case Studies in Building Preservation, Van Nostrand Rienhold, 1988
Australia ICOMOS Charter for Places of Cultural Significance, The Burra Charter, 2013
https://australia.icomos.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Burra-Charter-2013-Adopted-31.10.2013.pdf
Harrison, S, 2021, Elective heritage: Town Hall Broadmeadows, Architecture Australia, March 2021 and at: https://architectureau.com/articles/town-hall-broadmeadows/
Architecture Victoria, Spring 2019, Siting Heritage
https://www.architecture.com.au/vic-chapter/architect-victoria-2019-spring/
Harrison, S / ODASA, Adaptive Re-Use Guidance Note, July 2014
https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/her-conservation-adaptive-reuse-guide-odasa.pdf
Adaptive Reuse of Industrial Heritage: Opportunities & Challenges –https://heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/HV_IPAWsinglepgs.pdf
Restoration Australia, season 2, Episode 1, 3 and 6.
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/restoration-australia/series/2
Koolhass, R, Preservation Is Overtaking Us, Columbia GSAPP
https://www.arch.columbia.edu/books/reader/6-preservation-is-overtaking-us
Tschumi, B, Spaces and Events from Architecture and Disjunction, 1944, MIT
Schedule:
Monday 3:15-6:15pm in MSD 141
Thursday 12:00-15:00 in MSD 240
Off-Site Activities: