Studio 21

Screenspace

Toby Reed

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

Studio Description

VIDEO-ART GALLERY + APARTMENT BUILDING MELBOURNE CBD

BRIEF: Students will design a hybrid apartment building with an art gallery dedicated to video art and a small rooftop cinema. The project requires a design that is propositional about the morphology of the gallery and apartment block, as well as concepts surrounding the influence of the media and the screen (cinema, television, video-art, advertising and social media) on architectural form and space.

CONCEPT: The concept behind this studio is two-fold: the influence of the cinema and media in the shaping of architectural space, image and form in the contemporary city, and the design of an apartment building and video-art gallery that will explore the relationship between domestic space and the video screen.

Studio Outcome

ISSUES / LEARNING OUTCOMES: The design of a small hybrid apartment building The planning of apartment buildings and gallery The morphology of the contemporary city The organisation and design of social activity in relation to the screen and architectural space and form A critique of the contemporary city and social activity in relation to a screen-saturated society The role of the image in the public building in the 21st century city The design of public spaces that explore our relation with media and the screen Students will study the evolution of the cinema and screen in relation to architectural design methodologies

Studio Leader

Toby Reed is a director of Nervegna Reed Architecture. NR’s projects include the Whitehouse Prahran, the Arrow Studio, the PEP Dandenong (Precinct Energy Project, pictured aabove R) 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 makes architectural videos such as “Future Happiness”  which have been screened at the MPavilion and recently at Monash University Museum of Art. www.n-r.com.au

Readings & References

REFERENCES:

• Delirious New York – Koolhaas
• 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (film) Jean-Luc Godard
• Blow Up (film) Michelangelo Antonioni
• The Society of the Spectacle – Guy Debord
• Tarzans in the Media Forest – Toyo Ito
• Made In Tokyo - Kaijima, Kuroda, Tsukamoto
• The Art Architecture Complex - Hal Foster
• Verb List – Richard Serra
• Vertical Village – MVRDV

Schedule Mondays and Thursdays 10:00-17:00 (and occasionally Fridays) in MSD Room 241

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