Studio 25
Plug-In (Rural) Living
Graham Brawn and Hans van Rijnberk
Studio Description
The design task is focussed on researching about, and then designing for how people make and use space in a compact living area and its immediate surrounding area, such as in and around a ‘Tiny House’ or a ‘Wicked Van’. Secondly, the studio is focussed on planning and designing extended living spaces and places for clusters of tiny houses or wicked vans. The planning and design is to adhere to sustainable design principles, within an off-the-grid services network, using macro land use planning done by Thesis Design students in 2015 and 2016.
The studio, based on a real need in the Victorian coastal town of Lorne for permanent housing for singles and young couples working in Lorne and for seasonal workers looking for somewhere to rent or to live out of their camper vans, will afford students opportunities to work with clients and users, and involves a required weekend visit to Lorne.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
- The field trip to Lorne, on the Great Ocean Road, will be the weekend of week 3, using the Friday studio session to travel there and Sunday afternoon to return to Melbourne ($22.80 return concession). Accommodation will be in the back-packer accommodation used in 2015 and 2016, at $40 a night plus meals. Local transport will be in the Community Bus.
- There will be visits to at least two modular and panelised Tiny/Nano house manufacturers in suburban Melbourne and various inner Melbourne architects’ offices.
- There will be four overlapping stages: Group and Personal Research and Design Brief, weeks 1 -4; Group Masterplanning , weeks 2 – 5; Concept design, weeks 2 – 7(8); Design Development, weeks 6 -12 (14).
- Extended Learning Opportunities include: Developing a Design Brief; Researching extant knowledge in changing living and lifestyle models and types; Ditto with “off the grid” services; Ditto with creating shared and private settings, working directly with clients and users, including interviewing techniques
http://www.tinyhousedesign.com/off-grid-scandinavian-style-tiny-house/
http://www.fablabhouse.com/en/
https://inhabitat.com/stunning-finnish-micro-cabin-built-for-just-10500/
https://www.designboom.com/architecture/dmva-blob-vb3/
https://getaway.house
Studio Outcomes
The studio will require a site master plan and precedent research done in groups: personal design briefs for tiny house/mobile home living; concept design for two of three sizes – single person, young couple, and young family, and, detailed design of one of the two concepts carried through to full interior design and fit out/ furnishing details to afford the maximum amount of liveability in a small house and its immediate environs. Our two sites were well researched by students in 2015 in terms of topography, tree cover, water courses, views and Bush Fire Attack Level.
This studio should be attractive to students who want to learn more about creating design briefs; Master Planning/Site Planning; working with clients and users, and to work seriously with detailed interior design for living in compact spaces.
There will be site visits to architects’ offices and to some manufacturers to assist and focus the group and personal research.
With permission, some of the student work will be presented to the community as examples of a possible new form of housing for the permanent residents and seasonal workers.
Studio Leaders
Professor Emeritus Graham Brawn, Professor of Architecture from 1980 – 2008, is a design focussed practising architect, motivated by how the architecture of our lived world can promote and support change in how and where we want to live, work, learn, recreate and, support and protect ourselves. His commitment to making and describing architectures suitable for change, based on performance based thinking, has been applied in North America, New Zealand and Australia and is the basis of his approach to teaching and research.
He was Awarded the 2008 Neville Quarry Architectural Education Prize by the AIA for his contribution to architectural education and research in Australia, in particular his inspirational teaching of design in the studio environment.
Hans van Rijnberk is a Dutch architect with experience in architecture and urban design in Europe and Australia. He studied architecture at the Technical University of Eindhoven and tutored at Utrecht University College. He is currently working as an urban designer and has been a studio leader at the University of Melbourne for three years.
Reading & Reference
Marcus, Clair C., Sarkisian, Wendy, 1986, Housing as If People Mattered. Zeisel, John, 2006, Inquiry by Design, revised edition, WW Norton & Company, NY NY***
Dovey, Kim, 2010, Becoming Places: Urbanism/Architecture/ Identity/ Power, Routledge, London. chapters 1 – 4, 7 and Especially 8.
Tschumi, Bernard, 1994, Architecture and Disjunctiuon, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. The Architectural Paradox; Chapters on Questions of Space; Disjunctions and especially Spaces and Events
Hertzberger, Herman, 1991, Lessons for students in Architecture, G.J. Thieme bv, Nijmegan, Netherlands.
Hes, Dominique, Du Plessis, C., 2015, Designing for Hope, Pathways to Regenerative Sustainability, Routledge, Abington OXON
Pallasmaa, Juhani, 2012, The Eyes of The Skin, Architecture and the Senses, Wiley, Chichester, UK especially Part Two .
Grosz, E., 2001, Architecture from the Outside, Essays on Virtual and Real Space. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
Royal Academy of the Arts, 2014, Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined, Royal Academy of the Arts, London. This is a beautiful catalogue of the exhibition of the same name, January to April, 2014. Especially the forward by Kate Goodwin and Presence: the Light Touch of Architecture, by Philip Ursprung.
Holl, S., Pallasmaa, J., Perez-Gomaz, A., 2006, Questions of Perception, Phenomenology of Architecture, William Stout Publishers, San Francisco All chapters, but especially pages 7-37
Tiny House Floor Plans / Michael Janzen
Tiny House Living / Ryan Mitchell
Tiny Houses / Mimi Geiger
Nomadic Homes / Philip Jodidio Papers:
It Takes a Village: Designating "Tiny House" Villages as Transitional Housing Campgrounds / Ciara Turner
“The World is my Backyard”: Romanticization, Thoreauvian Rhetoric, and Constructive Confrontation in the Tiny House Movement / April Anson
Are Tiny Homes Here to Stay? A Review of Literature on the Tiny House Movement / Jasmine Ford - Lilia Gomez-Lanier Sustainable Architecture
14 patterns of biophilic design / Terrapin Bright Green
TRAVEL Week 3 | $105
ST1/25 Thursday 6:15-9:15PM, MSD Room 142
ST2/25 Friday 2:15-5:15PM, Baldwin Spencer 109