Studio 28

Ensemble

Charlotte Algie | Cities + Technology Focus

This studio is available to students enrolled in ABPL90143 Studio D and ABPL90115 Studio E only.

Studio Description

Despite the newer urgencies of the global discipline today, one persistent factor seems to define and delimit almost all generative architectural production - the cultivation and defence of a design process. For what ever its hangovers or assumed properties, inherited traditions of process, i.e. the sketch, the montage, the intelligent computational procedure, whatever etc., always occupy a similar destiny to become implicit in the single material architectural outcome, the physical thing at one site of whatever scale, for one set of stakeholders, by one architectural author. This notion of design process is increasingly imprecise in its assumption of dollar value: More specifically and of concern to us, it is deeply uncritical and hegemonic in its monolithic assumptions of architectural disciplinary value. This studio is posed to engage in a sustained interrogation of this structural condition of architectural design legitimation. The studio Ensemble will experimentally model other, extensive design possibilities, ensembles in which multiple, perhaps imperfect, dynamic or interractive realms could exist, but more specifically where design can be used to explore new global relational possibility and potential.

Our project will use the gaming platform Unity as a modelling tool to masterplan and programme a temporary three week event in the city of Geelong. This temporary three week event will superimpose and interconnect with the existing city and be designed to be dismantled at the end of the event period. Students will study assembly and disassembly processes. We will be working with technical tutors in the Unity software package to develop our skills. We will connect with the broader university and its significant resources in the histories of the western district to better understand the determined but illegal, in terms of both crown and indigenous law, occupation of the state that is the historical precursor for our current regulatory planning process. Students will be asked to develop, via drawings and diagrams, an individual and idiosyncratic masterplan scheme for the temporary event, considering both the graphic and indexical properties of the urban plan and questions such as distribution, homogeneity and heterogeneity, seriality and time. Next, students will be asked to calibrate the detailed resolution of the design of the festival spaces or structural units considered in terms an advanced contribution to the architectural theoretical discourses of skin and frame assembly.
Ensemble

Schedule Mondays 12:00-1500 and Tuesdays 13:15-16:15 in MSD Room 227

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