Studio 42

CO2_Zero

Patricia Stocca and Josephine Lettieri | TECH

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

Studio Description

At COP 21 in Paris, on 12 December 2015, Parties to the UNFCCC reached a landmark agreement to combat climate change and to accelerate and intensify the actions and investments needed for a sustainable low carbon future.

This studio is a continuation of last semester’s body of work exploring ways to reduce energy usage in the built environment and reach carbon neutrality. Through the education program lens, students will learn to adapt, reuse and explore new spatial configurations to synthesis existing and new building fabric over a full building life cycle. You will investigate how building performance can assist Australia’s response to the 2015 Paris Climate Accord. This studio will test ideas of how public-school education learning environments need to adapt to meet emerging challenges around pedagogy, technology and the climate.

You will be guided by the same studio leaders as last semester, supported by multidisciplinary design consultants to challenge conventional interdisciplinary thinking between engineering and architecture in order to promote integrated design outcomes. This studio is a collaborative approach to innovation and sustainability that dismantles traditional hierarchy between engineering and architecture as both disciplines are reliant on each other to foster integrated design led thinking. You will be guided by practicing architects, Patricia Stocca and Josephine Lettieri on how integrated design outcomes need not compromise architectural expression.

Integrated Design Studio

CO2_Zero is one of three integrated Design Studios offered in MSD Semester 2, 2020. You will be exposed to state-of-the-art research from the LEARN research hub as well as other industry specialists in education design. You will engage with a real client (the ACT government’s Education Directorate) using existing school building stock as case studies.  The studio will include a select number of students from Melbourne School of Engineering (MSE).

Students will develop a design portfolio on a real project, based on an actual client, guided by practising architects and engineers from leading industry multidisciplinary firm, Jacobs Group, representing both architecture and engineering.

More broadly, this studio will contain a renewable focus with industry experts to guide your research and integrated design led thinking and will include a research agenda that aims to change current paradigms around how architecture and engineering interact.

Learning Outcomes

In this studio, students will acquire the necessary technical knowledge to integrate architecture and engineering design led thinking in a collaborative manner. Specifically, students will analyse building systems and construction types through historical and contemporary design case studies. Through exploration of experimental approaches to siting, open space, orientation and building volumes, you will develop a design response to site and master planning, considering building stock and its strategic role in the broader urban context including streetscape, neighbourhood and community.

The studio will examine innovative conceptual design techniques exploring building performance using digital and physical models to test architectural ideas of scale, form and materiality with an emphasis on reducing fossil fuel reliance. Students will learn to identify areas for improvement of existing building fabric and apply conceptual thinking to propose alternatives to conventional engineering, through understanding energy consumption in order to improve efficiency across lighting, cooling and heating.  This will be considered using both active and passive systems such as thermal mass, cross ventilation, stormwater reuse, active landscaping, and other lower energy mechanical systems such as automated sun shading, geothermal, solar and wind generation

Studio Leaders

Patricia Stocca and Josephine Lettieri are experienced in multidisciplinary design and bring a wealth of industry knowledge in education projects with a focus on ESD.  They have both tutored at universities previously including Melbourne, Monash and Deakin Universities across various subject areas and jointly led Semester 1 as Studio Leaders.

Josephine Lettieri is a practising architect and Principle at Jacobs Group, with a qualified background in Civil Engineering. Her approach is design led with over 20 years’ experience in integrated design projects and will be collaborating with Patricia Stocca as the industry consultant.

Patricia Stocca is Principle at Stocca Architects, an ESD led practise and brings over 20 years industry experience in design and constructability and has previously worked as a Senior Education Architect at SKM/Jacobs.  She will be leading the studio this semester with support from Josephine Lettieri as the architectural industry consultant.

Readings & References

• Gina Tsarounas, September 20, 2014, Green Walls Green Roofs: Designing Sustainable Architecture.
• Kiel Moe and Ryan E. Smith. 2012. Building Systems: Design Technology and Society. Routledge. New York.
• 7group (John Boecker, Scot Horst, Tom Keiter, Andrew Lau, Marcus Sheffer and Brian Toves) and William Reed. 2009. The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building: Redefining the Practice of Sustainability. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
• Peter Silver and Will Mclean. 2008. Introduction to architectural technology. Laurence King, London.
• Brenda and Robert Vale. 2000. The New Autonomous House. Thames and Hudson. London.
• R.O. Phillips, CSIRO Publishing, 7th Edition, Dec. 1999.  Sunshine and Shade in Australasia.
• Brenda and Robert Vale. 1996. Green Architecture: Design for a sustainable future. Thames and Hudson. London.
• Lisa Heschong. 1979. Thermal Delight in Architecture. MIT Press. London.

Schedule 14:15-17:15 Mondays and Thursdays

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