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 STATE OF DESIGN INSTALLATION EXHIBITION One two One - Urban Installations Exhibitors: Leanne Zilka, Gretchen Wilkins, John Cherry, RMIT Architecture & RMIT Master of Architecture (professional) students: Mak Alex, Nik Kellina Bakti, Jonathan Barzel, Maximilien Forget, Timothy Heron, Ashini Erangi Kulatunge, Bronwyn Litera, Mathilde Lucas, Xiaozhou Qin, Oscar Sainsbury, Shann Ching Lee Yi Ting, Pei Yong Exhibition Opening: Monday, July 19th, 6pm Venue: Bowen Street, RMIT (at the Latrobe Street end by the tall light pole) Exhibition Dates: 14 – 25 July, 2010 Exhibition Times: Monday – Sunday, 24 hours Exhibition Locations: Bowen Street, Bowen Lane, RMIT University & City Square, Swanston Street (see State of Design website for map locations) State of Design Website: One two One One-two-One design studio at RMIT Architecture proposed to bridge the gap between London and Melbourne with “twin” installations constructed from recycled laminate sheets. The projects were designed for sites in Bankside, London and central Melbourne, conceived as a single space split by a 10,000-mile section cut. Laminate sheet material, a mass-produced paper-based product popularlised in the post-war period, is highly discarded each year for reasons unrelated to performance but due to shifts in consumer preference, manufacturing processes or surface appearance. The One-two-One project proposes a series of full-scale projects for two international sites which reclaim this material from the local waste stream and retool it for architectural use. The process of lamination used in making the sheet material is experimented with at a variety of larger scales, from joinery to panel systems to architectural spaces. As such the projects introduce new applications for laminate sheets beyond the conventional surface veneer, including component-based systems and structural panels. Each project develops a unique method of flat-packable assembly which conforms to standard international luggage dimensions and weights, designed from repeatable modules and light-frame structures as a form of ready-made architectural cargo. Sponsored by RMIT Design Research Institute, The Laminex Group Contact: Gretchen Wilkins Phone: +61 3 9925 3515 Email: gretchen.wilkins@rmit.edu.au This event is being held as part of:      LONDON FESTIVAL OF ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION RMIT Architecture: 1:1 One [two] One - Urban Installations from Melbourne in the International Architecture Student Festival London Festival of Architecture 19 June - 4 July, 2010 Exhibitors: Leanne Zilka, Gretchen Wilkins, John Cherry, RMIT Architecture & RMIT Master of Architecture (professional) students: Mak Alex, Nik Kellina Bakti, Jonathan Barzel, Maximilien Forget, Timothy Heron, Ashini Erangi Kulatunge, Bronwyn Litera, Mathilde Lucas, Xiaozhou Qin, Oscar Sainsbury, Shann Ching Lee Yi Ting, Pei Yong 1:1 ONE [two] ONE design studio from RMIT Architecture bridges the gap between London and Melbourne by producing full-scale installations for "twin" sites across both cities, exhibited as part of the London Festival of Architecture and the State of Design Festival in Melbourne. Using laminate sheets reclaimed from the local waste stream, the projects revisit the post-war “Make Do and Mend” culture of creative reuse and material harvesting, finding alternative applications for a highly discarded architectural product. Designed in Melbourne and shipped overseas, each project devises a way to digitally reprocess the sheets into flat-packable assemblies which conform to standard international luggage dimensions and weights. The ready-made architectural cargo is scheduled to arrive in London in June as part of the International Architecture Student Festival. Sponsored by RMIT Design Research Institute, The Laminex Group The International Architecture Student Festival asked design students from all over the UK and internationally to create a series of site-specific interventions in two key public spaces in London responding to the theme of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, exhibited as part of the London Festival of Architecture. PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS: RMIT Architecture, Melbourne University of Innsbruck, Austria Kyung Won and Dong Yang Universities, South Korea Parma University, Italy Cambridge University, UK Cardiff University, Wales, UK Arts University College Bournemouth, UK Central Saint Martins, UK Oxford Brookes, UK Ravensbourne, UK Canterbury School of Architecture, UK Kingston University, UK London Metropolitan University, UK  ABOUT 1:1 ONE TWO ONE 1:1 One [two] One was a fast-paced superstudio offered by RMIT Architecture in the first semester of 2010 that worked toward the design, fabrication and installation of full-scale architectural constructions sited in Melbourne and London. The studio was sponsored by Laminex. The work focused on the use of reclaimed materials in architectural production at an urban scale. The superstudio was comprised of two studios with complimentary agendas: one focused on the urban conditions of the sites and programmatic opportunities and the other focused on material and technological explorations. Following an initial research period these studios worked collaboratively to design and test their proposals in the two sites. Four projects were produced and installed in Melbourne and London. The challenge of this work was to couple material resourcefulness with technological abundance, i.e. to channel the infinite possibilities afforded by digital fabrication tools towards idiosyncratic materials reclaimed from the building waste stream. These materials may be freely available but their use needs to be reinvented if they will have a life beyond their original intention and market. How can the techniques of digital fabrication enable this second life? What new architectural opportunities can this coupling produce? The projects will engage this question from the scale of the joint to full architectural systems. This research could not be tested without direct application, with a site and program. The twin sites of London and Melbourne informed this aspect of the work, where proposals wiere installed virtually and physically. Projects needed to identify particular qualities, infrastructures, activities or other conditions of the sites concurrently, and develop a singular proposal that could operate similarly in both locations. The studio considered what architecture can add to, change or reveal about this site, how the work was integrated, and what it actively does? Documentation of both sites were in the form of digital and physical models, drawings, analytical drawings and speculative representations. The work will also subsequently be exhibited at the Shanghai Biennale. Sponsored by RMIT Design Research Institute, The Laminex Group   .jpg) RMIT Master of Architecture (Professional) Students: Mak Alex, Nik Kellina Bakti, Jonathan Barzel, Maximilien Forget, Timothy Heron, Ashini Erangi Kulatunge, Bronwyn Litera, Mathilde Lucas, Xiaozhou Qin, Oscar Sainsbury, Shann Ching Lee Yi Ting, Pei Yong Project Leaders: Gretchen Wilkins, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer gretchen.wilkins@rmit.edu.au Leanne Zilka, RMIT Architecture Lecturer leanne.zilka@rmit.edu.au John Cherry, RMIT Architecture Lecturer john.cherry@rmit.edu.au | ||||||||
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