Studio 14
HyperNormal
Ooi Wei Yap and Rutger Pasman | Global Socio-Political Focus
Studio Description
What do we as architects have to offer? This studio aims to find relevant types of social, civic and public interventions in an urban environment that is constantly changing and under pressure by multiple disciplines. The studio is framed through 3 programmatic themes: 1.Natural and built environment – changing ecology and rising sea level 2.Migration, displacement and the role of civic spaces 3.Future uncertain economies The fringe site forms the narrow 3km northern border of Fishermans Bend along the Yarra river connecting Lorimer Precinct to Westgate Park; which fall short of the Fishermans Bend Framework. The studio leaders will determine three sites of approximately 5,000sqm to select from; as an individual site or three smaller sites (still at 5,000 sqm in total) for your intervention.
Studio Outcome
You will search for other ways of analysing a site by research, mapping, drawing, diagramming, model making, reading and re-drawing. You will design across scales between the individual and the city, between different user groups and programmes. You will imagine, propose and test strategies that can be both pragmatic and visionary. This will require diligence, analytical and projective abilities and possibly lots of physical models.
Studio Leaders
Rutger has been in Australia since 2004. Trained in the Netherlands he has worked at international practices and universities before founding CHORDstudio in 2008 and spatial investigators in 2018. His work has been awarded and exhibited internationally, most recently at the 2018 Venice Biennale. He has taught MArch design and thesis studios since 2009 at the University of Melbourne, RMIT, Monash University and Deakin University.
Wei Yap is the 2nd recipient of the AIA Student Prize for the Advancement of Architecture. He also received the 2001 University Medal from the University of Newcastle. Wei has taught at the University of Melbourne, RMIT, Deakin University, the University of Singapore and Newcastle University since 2003. Wei has worked for local and international practices that span across several sector and scale.
Readings & References
Schedule Wednesdays and Fridays 18:15-21:15 in MSD Room 118
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