Studio 14

Making and Living

Ellen Terrill

Studio Description

‘Studio 14; 'Making and Living’ focuses on the hybrid opportunities between the makings of the creative industry and dwelling; and the regenerative interplay between the two. The studio will investigate how mixed modes can be artfully woven to create an alternative model of ‘co-working/co-dwelling’ space, with a cherished, but oft-forgotten, heritage precinct on the Melbourne CBD fringe.

Studio Outcome

The iterative based studio will operate in two segments.

1. The first segment shall focus on the macro scale of the West Melbourne site, investigating its latent histories and complexities, and interchange with the built fabric around it, before launching into a comprehensive architectural position for the site. Students will be focusing on research-led understandings of urban, context-founded proposition, and how the creative process informs a design proposition, supported by social, commercial and communal collateral.
2. The second segment will propose creative and sophisticated solutions to the contemporary urban challenge of living and working. Exploring the dualities and inter-dependencies of creating and expressing, labour and living and the public and private realm. Current socio-urban and technological influences will be investigated in order to inform a new mixed used typology of studio/office supported by education, dwelling and event space. This will be undertaken with the recognition that new environments are also required to support emerging modes of production.

Image reference: https://faithincreation.com/project/art-classes/

Studio Leaders

Ellen Terrill is an Architect with over 15 years’ experience across Australia and Asia. She has an interest in urban sociology, pedagogy, the creative interplay between the civic and the individual and civic and cultural contributions to the city. Her studio teaching is ground in the propositions that delve into complex, contemporary (and predominantly) socio-urban challenges.

Schedule Mondays 15:15-18:15 in Room 216; Wednesdays 15:15-18:15 in Alice Hoy Room 223

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