Semester 1 2017 Thesis 6
Waterscraper
Toby Reed
Concept
The concept behind this studio is to design a water-scraper, a building on the bay. This building will be like a micro-city.
THIS IS NOT A SKYSCRAPER
If our planet is becoming a ‘drowned world’, as in J.G. Ballard’s 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... (ie: all the elements of a mini-city)
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)
Kengo Kuma - Anti-Object
Studio Leaders:
TOBY REED is a director of Nervegna Reed Architecture. Recent projects include large scale urban design for a city in Sichuan province and the shortlisted entry to the National Gallery of Victoria 2016 Summer Pavilion Competition. Toby’s work such as the Whitehouse Prahran, The Arrow Studio and the Precinct Energy Project Dandenong (PEP) have been widely published around the world. 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.
ST1/06 Tuesday 2:15pm - 5:15pm, MSD Room 140
ST2/06 Tuesday 5:15pm - 8:15pm, MSD Room 140