Studio 01

Lost in Translation

Mark Healy

Studio Description

Architects have clear responsibilities to the users of our buildings, the wider community and the sustainability of the planet. We are a Melbourne based firm that works across a broad variety of building types and programmes. We tend to approach design with a heavy emphasis on the user experience. We also believe in the ability of architecture to lift the human spirit. If you like the sound of that, read on.

The objective of the studio is to answer two questions.

1. Who have you really designed this project for?

2. Should you be allowed to build this project?

These two questions will be interrogated through the design of a Hotel Project.

Six degrees will provide a dedicated studio environment within their office for you to test ideas, design process and thinking. Students will work with different members of Six degrees at different times, gaining specialist skills.

Studio Outcome

The structure of the studio will require you to exhibit the ability to develop a complex brief and follow through with a highly layered response, resulting in a ‘built’ expression.

‘Who have you really designed this project for?’ Students will develop the ability to critically test their designs through multiple points of view, (ie, putting themselves in the ‘shoes of others’).

‘Should you be allowed to build this project?’ Students will research and present the environmental considerations of their design with particular focus on understanding choice of materiality.

We believe thesis is about drawing all the components of your architectural education into a coherent position, with this Studio providing you with a measurable understanding of your ability to express personal beliefs in built form.

Studio Leader

Mark Healy is a founding Director of Six Degrees.

Readings & References

• Let my People go Surfing’, The History of Patagonia.
• Talking Heads ‘Remain in Light’.
• Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep.  Phillip K Dick
• Pulp Fiction,  Lost in translation, The Grand Budapest Hotel,
• Anything by Lina Bo Bardi
• Sid Vicious, The Chelsea, William S Burrows. The Japanese love Hotel, Mona Lisa Overdrive

Schedule Tuesdays 10:00-13:00 and Thursdays 14:00-17:00 offsite at Six Degrees Office, Fitzroy | some sessions Tuesdays 10:00-11:00 in MSD Room 140

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