Studio 3
Building A New City
Raymond Mah and Peter Stasios
Studio Description
This practice lead studio is a platform to challenge the misconceptions, accepted norms and orthodoxies that reside in architecture & urban placemaking. Using housing as the primary medium Building the new City will seek to examine these aspirational hangovers and seek new methods of housing and living for future generations.
Interested in the density the studio will seek new models of growth within the suburbs of Collingwood & Fitzroy; as we lay down the gauntlet for students to stitch new housing typologies into the rich urban fabric of these suburbs. Seeking alternatives to the prevalent status quo Building a New City will encourage divergent thinking as we challenge the typology of the apartment tower, and boldly address how we will live in the future.
Studio Outcomes
Part 1 of the studio will be committed to research. Students will be required to visit and map out the grain, uses and built form of these suburbs to distill the essential elements. This will be a group exercise. The aim of this exercise is also to isolate areas for potential housing densification and public intervention. Part 2, students will individually isolate an area and design a mixed use tower. Design propositions must consider urbanity, amenity and form.
ST1/03 Thursday 12-3PM, MSD Room 240
ST2/03 Thursday 3:15-6:15PM, MSD Room 240