Studio 19
IMG.ING - A Museum Made Digital
Ben Waters
Studio Structure
Week 1: Image Capture 01 - “Photo & Photocopy” Students will be asked to photograph the museum, using the camera lens as a way to critically observe the architecture and landscape of the site. Photographs will be reproduced using a process of photocopying. Students are asked to diliberately displace the images whilst copying, developing new distortions and edits of the images.
Week 2: Image Capture 02 - “Photogrammetry” Students will be asked to produce 3D digital models of details and objects using 2D images. This process of modelling is known as photogrammetry. Students will produce a digital inventory of objects and details and represent and curate these through multiple mediums.
Week 3-4: Imaging Capture 03 - “Scanning” Week 3 and 4 will see students begin developing skills and expertise in 3D scanning. The site and building of the Ian Potter Museum of Art will be scanned using a terrestrial LiDAR scanner, producing a digital 3D model of the site. Students will be asked to reproduce this data using multiple mediums, including 3D printing.
Week 4-5: Mid-Term Review: Mid semester presentations will be in multi-medium format, communicating the 3 design esquisses above. This review will ensure that the students are confident with generating the forthcoming design using the new imaging systems.
Studio Outcomes
The propositional phase of the semester will include students designing and curating an online digital exhibition of the content captured in the first half of semester. This will be represented via virtual, interactive 3 dimensional models that can be observed online. Each student will be asked to design a ‘virtual room’ inside the digital model of the 3D scanned building which houses an art object and its related archival material. These rooms will be collectively represented on a web site, allowing visitors to navigate around, in and through the digital scan data and experience museum content through screens and virtual reality equipment.
Studio Leader
Ben WATERS is principal at OSK Architects and founder of SIII Projects. He graduated with a Master of Architecture from RMIT University, and studied at Parsons School of Design, New York. In 2014, Ben was awarded a residency position at Berlin’s Centre for Art and Urbanistics (ZKU), and currently holds a residency at ACMI X Melbourne. He has taught masters design studios at MSD since 2015.
Reading & Reference
- Simulacra and Simulation [Jean Baudrillard]
- Digital Culture in Architecture - Augmented Reality- Event, Simulations and Scenarios [Antoine Picon]
- Nefertiti Hack [Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles]
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams [Werner Herzog]
- Italy’s Invisible Cities BBC [ScanLab}
ST1/19 Mondays 18:15-21:15 in MSD Room 240
ST2/19 Thursdays 09:00-12:00 in MSD Room 140