Studio 5
Channel Surfing
Proposal for the St Kilda Triangle
Anna Nervegna
Studio Description
STUDIO AIMS: This is a studio where each student develops various strategies of designing space and form through a series of design techniques and operations while at the same time looking at various urban morphologies. These class investigations will culminate over the semester in a proposition for the St Kilda Triangle site through the relocation of the ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art) and an annexe for a film exhibition canter for ACMI. St Kilda is the birthplace for the first feature film world-wide so it seems appropriate to add this to the program and use some theoretical concerns from film theory in our research. Students may also select to undertake some possible associated foreshore proposals for the St Kilda Pier / pool redevelopment currently being undertaken by the City of Port Phillip Council.
The concept behind this studio is to design a building which investigates the changing nature of architectural surface and space in the modern world, particularly as it has changed since the influence of conceptual art and the advent of the cinema, television and subsequent screen technologies (as personified in this brief with the inclusion of video art). The project is an opportunity to explore new artistic techniques and methodologies for generating buildings, while aiming at a very clear output of a functional museum / public building.
PROJECT: MOCA: MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: The students will be designing a museum for contemporary art in the seaside suburb of St Kilda at the ‘Triangle site’. The museum will include exhibition spaces, administration, gallery shops, café/restaurant, a public plaza with video art projection spaces and commercial design hub.
Studio Outcomes
OUTCOME: The students shall develop a sound understanding of different spatial techniques designers adopt and how these may communicate ideas and concepts through architectural design. These studies shall be fostered and developed by each student after conducting site and brief investigations in order to establish a particular design process. The studio shall work in class through class discussions, lectures, and exercises adopting different medium which shall include: mapping exercises, and various model making exercises (physical and digital -Rhino etc). All activities shall be work towards a final professional folio / booklet documenting the work in a professional manner including a final presentation layout which will explore various graphic techniques adopted by architects and designers in addition to a developed verbal and written design statement.
Studio Leader
Anna Nervegna is a director of the award winning practice Nervegna Reed Architecture. The firms architecture has been widely published includes projects in Australia and China. In addition to their commitment to higher education Nervegna Reed also works at the intersection of architecture, media and art such as their 2018 screening of films for the Mpavilion. Anna’s art practice has been awarded by the Australia Council and the Gertrude Comporary Art Studio Program where she was also a board member.
Reading & Reference
Omar Calabrese - Neo-Baroque the sign of the times
Hal Foster – The Art Architecture Complex
Rem Koolhaas - The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping (Junkspace)
Hal Foster- The Art-Architecture Complex
TRAVEL Week 2 | $0
ST1/05 Tuesday 2:15-5:15PM, MSD Room 140
ST2/05 Tuesday 5:15-8:15PM, MSD Room 140