Studio 9
NGV-C
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 New NGV Contemporary Art Gallery Southbank site. The concept behind this studio is to design a proposal which investigates the changing nature of architectural surface and space in the modern world, particularly looking at how it has changed since the influence of conceptual art and the advent of the cinema, television and subsequent screen digital technologies. The project is an opportunity to explore design techniques and methodologies for generating buildings, while aiming at a very clear proposal for a contemporary gallery of including the open civic space and gardens. Students will also investigate the Roy Grounds NGV International complex (1962) and the role of art and its impact on contemporary society and Melbourne’s culture including the culture of the Block Buster exhibitions and art programs within the city.
PROJECT: NGV CONTEMPORARY GALLERY will be a landmark, new purpose-built gallery dedicated to displaying local and internationally significant contemporary art and design located in the Southbank Arts Precinct. The students will be designing a contemporary art gallery within Melbourne Art’s Precinct in Southbank. The proposal shall include exhibition galleries, sculptures spaces / gardens, digital galleries / projection spaces, administration, gallery shops, café / restaurants, art storage including performance and public art areas and plazas.
Studio Outcomes
The students shall develop a sound understanding of different spatial techniques through their development of operative design iterations gaining knowledge in how different designers 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 mediums which shall include: design iterations, various research and mapping exercises, model making exercises (physical and digital -Rhino etc) and 3d animation. All activities shall work towards a final professional layout and booklet documenting the work conducted while looking at various graphic techniques for architectural representation. Students shall also develop a developed verbal and written design statement.
Studio Leader
Anna Nervegna, director of the award winning practice Nervegna Reed Architecture working on projects in Australia and China. In addition to their commitment to higher education Nervegna Reed also works at the intersection of architecture, producing project in digital media and art including their films on architecture which were screened at the 2018 Mpavilion. Anna’s art practice has been awarded by the Australia Council + Gertrude Contemporary Art Studio Program where she was also a board member. www.n-r.com.au
Reading & Reference
- Paul Virilio - The Over-Exposed City,
- Omar Calabrese - Neo-Baroque the sign of the times
- Farshad Moussavi - The Fuction of Style + The Fuction of Form
- Hal Foster - The Art-Architecture Complex
TRAVEL: Week 2
ST1&2/09 Mondays 15:15-21:15 in MSD Room 144