Studio 14

Making+Living

Ellen-Mary Terrill and Ronan Reid

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

Studio Description

‘Studio 14; Making + 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. The studio is iteratively led, phenomenologically conscious and research driven. Students will receive regular lectures on Architectural best practice, current trends, heritage adaptation, conceptual design, placemaking, master planning, form finding and communication techniques. They will be expected to produce work on a weekly basis for studio contribution over the course of the semester. External visiting lecturers may include creatives, architects, cultural consultants and engineers.

Studio Outcome

The iterative based studio will operate in two segments.

1. The first segment of ‘Making and Living’ will focus on the latent histories and complexities of the nominated West Melbourne site and it’ssymbiotic exchanges with the commercial hub of the city. Students will focus on research led understandings of context-founded opportunity, and on their own observations, to inform an urban founded position. Supported by social and commercial collateral. In parallel the class will explore an intimate scaled and reflective trajectory, using their own making modes to explore where phenomenology meets the digital. During this first half of the studio students will be producing and presenting their work on a weekly basis.

2. The micro and macro studies undertaken start to culminate into a sophisticated architectural proposition to the contemporary urban challenge of living, making and working in the second segment of the studio. Current socio-urban and technological influences will be deeply considered in order to inform a new mixed-use typology of making workplace supported by dwelling, learning and event space. During this time students will explore the dualities and inter-dependencies of creating and expressing, labour and living, technology and craft and public vs private realm.

Studio Leaders

Ellen-Mary Terrill’s architectural career has been founded on human-centred and context-aware design solutions. This underpins her diverse portfolio that ranges from small scale residential to large scale infrastructure projects, leaning towards pedagogical space and public architecture. Having worked within some well-recognised architectural practices, both in Melbourne and overseas, she is particularly interested in architectural propositions founded in the public realm. That, when realised, exist somewhere between the familiar and the unfamiliar. She responds to the haptic, the future and the invisible influences that form our civic life and cities. Her studio teaching is ground in design propositions to complex, contemporary (and predominantly) socio-urban challenges.

Ronan is a practising architect who has delivered projects in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Ireland, for some of the world’s leading practices in environmental design. As an Associate and BIM Manager at McIldowie Partners, his recent work has focussed on advanced pedagogical facilities across Australia and New Zealand. He has a particular interest in the benevolent environmental and social contributions buildings can make in their urban contexts. He has taught and mentored through his practice and the Australian Institute of Architects for a number of years.

Readings & References

• Urban choreography, edited by Kim Dovey, editor (select chapters)
• The Inevitable, by Kevin Kelly
• 10 faces of innovation, by Tom Kelley
• Dark Emu, by Bruce Pascoe (select chapters)
• The eyes of the skin, by Juhani Pallasmaa
• The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human, by Jonathan Gottschall
• Making Marks, by Will Jones

Schedule Mondays 18:15-21:15 in MSD Room 139 and Wednesdays 09:00-12:00 in MSD Room 141

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