Studio 02

NGV_C

Anna Nervegna

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 NGV_C site. The proposed NGV_C site in the arts precinct on Southbank shall look at the Roy Grounds NGV collection of buildings and more recent additions by ARM, Wardle and Thompson. The concept behind this studio is to design a building which investigates the changing nature of architectural surface and space in the modern world, particularly as it has changed since the influence of conceptual art and the advent of the cinema, television and subsequent screen technologies (as personified in this brief with the inclusion of video art). The project is an opportunity to explore new artistic techniques and methodologies for generating buildings, while aiming at a very clear output of a functional museum / public building.

Project

NGV_CONTEMPORARY: The students will be designing a museum for contemporary art including exhibition spaces, art storage workshops, administration, gallery shops, café/restaurant, with video art projection spaces, a public plaza spine which runs towards the Spire and the Yarra River.

Studio Outcome

The students shall develop a sound understanding of different spatial techniques designers adopt and how these may 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 medium which shall include: Research, mapping exercises, and various model making exercises (physical and digital -Rhino etc). All activities shall be work towards a final professional folio / booklet documenting the work in a professional manner including a final presentation layout which will explore various graphic techniques adopted by architects and designers in addition to a developed verbal and written design statement.

Studio Leader

Anna Nervegna is a director of Nervegna Reed Architecture based in Melbourne and has won several awards. Nervegna Reed's architecture has been widely published including projects in Australia and China. In addition to their commitment to higher education Nervegna Reed also works at the intersection of architecture, media and art such as their 2018 screening of architecture films for the Mpavilion program ( Screen Test). Anna’s art practice has been awarded by the Australia Council and the Gertrude Comporary Art Studio Program where are was also a board member. www.n-r.com.au

Readings & References

• Omar Calabrese The Neo Baroque Sign of the Times.
• Farshid Moussavi The Function of Style, The Function of Form
• Hal Foster – The Art Architecture Complex Paul Virillio The over Exposed City
• Guy Debord – The Society of the Spectacle /
• Marshall McLuhan – The Hot and the Cool
• Peter Eisenman – Ten Canonical Buildings 1950 - 2000

Schedule Tuesdays 15:15-21:15 in Room 138
Travel Week 2

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