Space For Hire

Mark Ng

Studio Description

Multi-purpose halls are an integral part of the social life of cities — they offer flexible space for events, performances, celebrations and other group activities that cannot be done in the home, workplace, commercial spaces or outdoors. At their best they are egalitarian spaces that are used richly by many, but they come with complex challenges in accommodating a wide variety of people and functions.

This studio uses the hall typology as grounds for experimentation into environmentally responsive architecture for community.

Studio Outcomes

The studio aims to develop a nuanced approach to designing with consideration of culture, history and ecology. At the same time it will build skills in dealing with practical constraints such as constructability, access and servicing, which are inextricably tied to the social/cultural position of the project.

Being based on a speculative brief, the studio also aims to build initiative to propose self-determined projects that may be provocative, but which are well-informed, sensitive and respectful.

Through its methods of designing and representation it aims to build skills in drawing, (both digital and hand), photography, model-making and graphic design, with a strong emphasis on elegant, highly curated presentation.

Studio Leader/s

Mark Ng is a multi-disciplinary creative working in architecture, design teaching, graphic design, music and art. He is currently a studio leader in Studio Epsilon in the Bachelor of Design program and has led past Masters studios such as Nightingale Night School, the Future Homes Competition, The New Third Place, and An Ephemeral Frame and Sydney Road Opera House.

In practice, Mark has worked with practices including Breathe and Freadman White on a wide range of sustainable, socially-conscious projects with a culturally sensitive approach. Some of these include the winning proposal for a Market Pavilion at Queen Victoria Market, the Nightingale Village precinct, and Paramount House Hotel.

Readings & References

Energy-efficient performance spaces prioritizing artists’ comfort and sustainability — Energy5

Participatory Culture and the Social Value of an Architectural Icon: Sydney Opera House — Cristina Garduno Freeman

Creating Inspiration: How Visual and Performing Arts Shape Environmental Behaviour — Nick Reed, Ian Reeve, David Curtis

Introduction: making Indigenous place in the Australian city, Postcolonial Studies , Volume 15, 2012 - Issue 2: Making Indigenous place in the Australian city — Aunty Margeret Gardiner & Janet McGaw

James Turrell: The Art of Light and Space, Craig E. Adcock, James Turrell

Schedule:
Tuesday 12pm-3pm in MSD 241
Friday 12pm-3pm in MSD 241


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