Studio 36

NGV_C

Anna Nervegna

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

Studio Description

STUDIO AIMS: The studio will explore design processes for generating architectural form and space to include conceptual ideas which manifest in the final architectural experience.

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

Studio Outcome

OUTCOME: The students shall develop a sound understanding of different spatial and graphic 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 Leaders

Anna Nervegna is a director of the award winning practice Nervegna Reed Architecture. The firm's architectural projects have been widely published includes 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 2019 screening of films for the Mpavilion. Anna’s art practice has been awarded by the Australia Council and the Gertrude Contemporary Art Studio Program where she was also a board member. n-r.com.au

Readings & References

• Richard Serra – Verb List Compilation
• Hal Foster – The Art Architecture Complex
• 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
• A de Masi Spatial verbs, Operative Design
• Guy Debord – The Society of the Spectacle

Schedule Mondays 15:15-18:15 in MSD Room 140 and Thursdays 15:15-18:15 in MSD Room 215

Travel Southbank Melbourne | Week 2

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