Studio 10
WATERSCRAPER
Toby Reed
Studio Description
CONCEPT
The concept 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.
Studio Leader
Toby Reed is a director of Nervegna Reed Architecture. Toby Reed’s projects include the Arrow Studio and the PEP Dandenong (Precinct Energy Project) as well as urban design and master-planning in China. The PEP Dandenong lead the way in Australian architecture for green district energy, being the first precinct in Australia to be powered by co-generation. NR also makes architectural videos many of which have been recently featured at the MPavilion.
Reading & Reference
- Reference: J.G. Ballard - The Drowned World (1962)
- 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
- Kengo Kuma - Anti-Object
- Kevin Lynch – The Image of the City
- Stan Allen - Field Condition
- Richard Serra – Verb List Compilation: Actions to Relate to Oneself
- Peter Eisenman – Unfolding Events
- Paul Virilio – The Overexposed City
- Hal Foster – Image-Building
ST1/10 Mondays 09:00-12:00 in MSD Room 237
ST2/10 Thursdays 09:00-12:00 in MSD Room 240