Studio 36

The Endless Summer

Anna Nervegna

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

Studio Description

Brief: Lifesaving Club and Brookes Jetty Ideas competition for Port Phillip Bay *(jetty design due Jan 31 with $5000 prize money) Architecture is not only supposed to negotiate the real, but it is also supposed to negotiate the imagined.

Concept: In this studio each student shall use a shared design tool-kit, in which they apply design and graphic-spatial techniques to a series of architectural organizations. This will be achieved through proposing a series of lineal interventions along the Port Phillip foreshore. Students will be encouraged to explore architectural design as an intervention within the surrounding bayside context. There will be a series of architectural interventions, centring on the lifesaving club. This will include participating in the ideas competition for Brookes Jetty in St Kilda (due Jan 31), while also focusing on a proposal for the Lifesaving club and other foreshore activities and elements such as a swimming pool and pavilions.

Studio Outcome

The students shall learn spatial planning, brief generation, and the design of public spaces (both internal and external). Students will become familiar with context and critical reflection, generating ideas, site responsiveness and creative exploration. In addition to the concept design and spatial planning, students shall learn how to interpret and translate ideas including pragmatics of brief and circulation, while working towards a detailed resolution within the proposal. Students will then learn to refine their projects in a professional manner in a short time-span. The studio will work in class through group discussions, lectures, and group and individual assignments. Students shall undertake design and site research, mapping exercises, design iterations, 3 D and physical modelling, 2D drawing, renders and animations. All activities form a professional booklet in addition to the final presentation layout. Students shall also explore various graphic techniques in addition to a written design statement.

Studio Leader

Anna Nervegna is a director of the award winning practice Nervegna Reed Architecture. The firms architecture has been widely published and 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. Their architectural films were screened at the Mpavilion in 2017 - 2019. Recently they exhibited and spoke about Real / Material / Ephemeral at the MUMA gallery Monash University for the ADR conference. www.n-r.com.au

Readings & References

• Omar Calabrese - Neo-Baroque the sign of the times
• Anthony Di Mari – Operative Design
• Parent and Virillio - The Function of the Oblique
• Bernard Tschumi – Architecture and Disjunction
• Rossalind Kraus – The expanded field

Schedule Mondays and Thursdays 10:00-13:00 and 14:00-17:00 in MSD Room 448

Travel St Kilda | Weeks 1-12

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