Studio 21

The Pool Loop

Toby Reed | TECH + CIVIC

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

Studio Description

CONCEPT: Aquatic centres are notoriously heavy users of energy. Their extended operating hours, large heating loads and subsequent large energy costs are terrible for the environment and represent a significant drain on council finances. As public buildings with a recreation agenda there is also considerable pressure to provide open architecture with large areas of glass façade etc.

BRIEF: Students will design an aquatic centre in the St Kilda Triangle site as a prototype for experimentation in zero carbon form which can be tried later in other suburban areas around Melbourne. The program will include indoor and outdoor swimming; diving pool; café; gym; park and some rentable offices or shops. Other functions may be introduced to help create a zero-carbon energy loop.

Studio Outcome

LEARNING OUTCOMES: The design of an aquatic centre The design of a hybrid program zone to achive a zero carbon loop The investigation into various possible zero carbon loops Research into the space and and form of a post carbon architecture Exploration of the morphology of the aquatic centre, including surface and space. Exploration of architectural cultural issues of aquatic centres.

Studio Leader

Toby Reed is a director of NERVEGNA REED ARCHITECTURE. NR’s projects include the recently completed Melbourne Quakers Centre (above middle and R), the Precinct Energy Project Dandenong, (above L) and urban designs in China. The PEP Dandenong lead the way in Australian architecture for green power solutions, being the first precinct in Australia to be powered by co-generation. NR also make architectural videos which have been screened at the MPavilion and recently at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA). www.n-r.com.au

Readings & References

REFERENCES: Architecture And the Death of Carbon Modernity - Elisa Iturbe / Junkspace – Rem Koolhaas / The Politics of the Envelope – A Zaera-Polo / Image Building - Hal Foster / The Society of the Spectacle – Guy Debord / Frei Otto

Schedule 18:15-21:15 Mondays, 15:15-18:15 Thursdays

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