Studio 07

Desire III

Gumji Kang | Living + Process Focus

This studio is available to students enrolled in ABPL90142 Studio C, ABPL90143 Studio D, and ABPL90115 Studio E.

Studio Description

Can architecture create places where desire can recognise itself, where it can live forever? Studio desire explores the idea of desire through narrative-based design process. Studio will invite the students to investigate the motivation, the execution and the psyche behind it in the context of living/dwelling. During the early phase of the studio, each student will be asked to choose an action, or an outcome, or an attribute under their chosen desire, that they wish to speculate and experiment with. In the context of contemporary urban structure, it is becoming increasingly difficult to recognise idiosyncratic desire within homogeneous nature of high density dwelling. Students will explore the contemporary high density dwelling typology to investigate, critique and adapt the architecture of chosen desire at varying scales, within its continuous and coherent narrative.

Studio Outcome

Studio will be split into three phases;

1. Motivation : Articulation of “desire” and detailed typology study on dwelling, housing model, resulting in a short manifesto and a series of architectural detail drawings.
2. Speculation : Experimentation on the typology, exploration of design concept in various narrative forms.
3. Representation : Exploration and visual representation of spatial qualities through various scales of moments in the form of models, drawings and writings.

In addition to this, students will be asked to produce a package of research materials, series of mapping exercises, narrative analysis of existing conditions, and individual design proposal addressing both the macro and micro conditions on the chosen site.

Studio Leaders

Gumji Kang is a practising architect and has taught a number of architectural design studios at the University of Melbourne. Her interest lies in the architectural design strategies and interventions on the public space, and public architecture with strong focus on research driven practice.

Schedule Fridays 09:00-15:00 in MSD Room 237

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