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 BEYOND MEDIA EXHIBITION RMIT Architecture + Design Installation with Studio Prix, die Angewandte, Vienna RMIT Curator: Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Research Director Spot on Schools Exhibition Curator: Paola Giaconia in Visions: Beyond Media International Festival of Architecture and Media, 2009 Festival Director: Marco Brizzi. Organized by Image Venue: Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy Dates: July 9-17, 2009 RMIT Architecture + Design Installation Catalogue Notes (below) RMIT Exhibitors: Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Research Director. Studio Leader Jane Burry, SIAL Research Fellow. Elective Leader Ed Carter, RMIT Architecture graduate. Studio Tutor Jerome Frumar, RMIT SIAL PhD candidate. Studio Tutor Niels Jonkhans, die Angewandte. Workshop Leader, Studio Tutor Sean Kelly, Director: Quicklinks, collaborative software system. Elective Leader Tom Kovac, RMIT Architecture Prof. Practice Director: Kovac Architecture. Studio Leader Farzin Lotfi-Jam, RMIT Architecture graduate. Studio Tutor Alvin Low, RMIT Architecture graduate. Studio Tutor Paul Minifie, RMIT Architecture Assoc. Prof. Practice Director: Minifie Nixon. Studio Leader Greg More, SIAL Research Fellow. Studio Leader Wolf D. Prix, die Angewandte Prof. Practice Director: Coop Himmelb(l)au. Studio Leader Tim Schork, RMIT SIAL PhD candidate. Elective Tutor Reiner Zettl, die Angewandte. Workshop Leader, Studio Tutor RMIT Architecture Students RMIT Interior Design Students RMIT Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL) Students Studio Prix die Angewandte Students Biographies of the RMIT Architecture + Design Exhibitors  "The third edition of the SPOT ON SCHOOLS exhibition, curated by Paola Giaconia, involves some twenty architecture and design schools which in the world distinguish themselves for their research and experimentation in the field of new media of communication. The invited schools will tell, through the experience of the students and of the instructors, how the new technologies influence the various phases of a design, starting from the very act of creative conception. The exhibition highlights energetic lines of research that fuel architectural education with new life. Some of the most innovative and prestigious architecture programs in the world have been invited to showcase work that investigates recent developments of the use of digital technologies for design research." - Visions: Beyond Media website INVITED SCHOOLS: RMIT Architecture + Design, with die Angewandte, University of Applied Art, Vienna; SCI-Arc, USA; Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC), Spain; Rhode Island School of Design, USA; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Asia University, Taiwan; Ball State University, USA; California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, USA; Clemson University, USA; École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, ENAC School, Switzerland; Facoltà di Architettura di Pescara, Italy; NABA, Italy; Politecnico di Torino, Italy; Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA; Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal; University of Calgary, Canada; University of Florida, USA; University of Hong Kong; University of Thessaly, Greece.   EXHIBITION FORUM Spots on Schools Exhibition Forum Invited Speaker: Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Research Director "Non-Standard Pedagogy for Advanced Technologies and Emergent Practices in Architecture" Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy, July 11, 2009 Chair: Antonino Saggio. Exhibition Forum Speakers included: Branko Kolarevic, Vera Parlac, University of Calgary; Mahesh Senagala, Kevin Klinger, Ball State University; Sarah Lorenzen, California Polytechnic State University; Jonathan Solomon, Jason Carlow, University of Hong Kong; Jeffrey Huang, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne VISIONS SYMPOSIUM Convenor: Pietro Valle. Speakers included: Furio Barzon, Beatriz Colomina, John Frazer, Derrick De Kerckhove, Lars Krückeberg, Peter Lang, Marcos Novak, Paul Polak, Felicity Scott, Peter Wilson, James Wines VIDEO SCREENINGS Practices included: MVRDV, Zaha Hadid Architects, UNStudios, OMA, Superstudio  CATALOGUE Visions, Edited by Marco Brizzi, Paola Giaconia, 2009; paperback; 210x270 mm; pp. 264; 300 color illustrations (English). Price €22,00. Buy the book online RMIT Architecture + Design Installation Panels digital prints on artist grade canvas    Extremes Project - Catalogue Notes (below)   Systems of Exchange Project - Catalogue Notes (below)  Exhibited Digital Video (20 min loop) hosted on YouTube in 4 parts:
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More Exhibition Photos in the Flickr image set of the RMIT Architecture + Design Installation CATALOGUE NOTES RMIT Architecture + Design ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES & EMERGENT PRACTICES
Teaching within the undergraduate and professional degree programs is curated through the commissioning of vertically integrated, balloted design studios and electives, aligned with one or more of the poles. The Advanced Technologies stream allows any student to engage with or specialise in this area of study. Pathways are provided to postgraduate supervision of design research by project within the RMIT Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL), a trans-disciplinary research facility focusing on the role of digital design technologies. The student projects in this exhibition are drawn from electives and design studios developed by RMIT Architecture academics and SIAL researchers within the Advanced Technologies stream. This non-standard pedagogical framework brings together differentiated, contested positions on the role of digital technologies, situated in relation to other core architectural scholarship concerns. Brent Allpress RMIT Architecture Research Director Extremes Studio Leaders: Tom Kovac, RMIT Architecture Professor Wolf D. Prix, die Angewandte Professor, Director of Coop Himmelb(l)au Studio/Workshop Tutors: Niels Jonkhans, Reiner Zettl, die Angewandte Jerome Frumar, Farzin Lotfi-Jam, RMIT Architecture Students: RMIT Architecture - Tom Frauenfelder, Will Hosikian, Jessica In, Sarah Papadoupollous, Hally Ongkasandjojo, Jenna Emmanouilides, Chern Yang Loo die Angewandte - Stefanie Theuretzbacher, Phillip Reiner, Lukas Allner, Alexander Haid, Marte Ringseth Helgeland, Jelena Vukmirović, Anna Stuerzenbecher, Aleksander Oniszh, Daniela Krohnert, Melanie Kotz, Luis Muniz, Christoph Pehnelt, Uli Schifferdecker, Anna Kokowska, Sille Pihlak, Nora Varga, Andrea Sachse, Nikolay Emilov Uzonov, Carla Shiecza Neufuss Cardenas, Kadri Kerge, Yi-Chen Lu, Anutorn Polphong, Oliver lössser, Moritz Heimrath, Damjan Minovski The Extremes Studio deals with the notion of architecture and building in extreme environments. The functional focus of the buildings develops gradually from a small Research Station, as a single highly specialised live/work unit, to a Hotel as an agglomeration of these units. The technical focus of the Extremes Studio is on adaptable and responsive structures that react to external dynamic forces. The adaptation to, or the deformation by, external influences are driven by aspects of energy and information, in connection with sustainability and performance. Students have created visionary projects that respond to environmental conditions and aspirations. The studio focused on the transformability and adaptability of the building in extreme conditions and how the Research Station could deal with dynamic external forces through avoidance and absorption. It searches for deeper resonances and definitions of the transformation process with a focus on locations that have been researched and defined as a starting point. The Extremes Studios are being run in parallel at RMIT Architecture, Melbourne and die Angewandte, Vienna, led by Tom Kovac and Wolf D. Prix, with Melbourne and Viennese students and staff interacting and communicating online. The RMIT students travelled to Vienna for a joint 10-day workshop with die Angewandte students in January, 2009, followed by a workshop review and exhibition at Dessa Gallery, City Museum in Ljubljana, Slovenia. A second iteration of the studio continues in 2009. Courses: Extremes, Architecture Upperpool Design Studio, 2008-9, RMIT Master of Architecture (Professional); Extremes, Studio Prix, die Angewandte, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, 2008-9. Website: http://architecture.rmit.edu.au/Projects/Extremes.php Software: Surface Evolver; Evolversaurus plug-in for Rhino, developed at RMIT; Evolutionary Structural Optimisation (ESO) software  Design Archipeligos Studio Leaders: Greg More, SIAL Research Fellow Ed Carter, RMIT graduate Students: Thomas Emrys-Evans, Saif Kattan, David Christianoz, Hun Lin Neo, Cortney Bruch, Duangkaew Bangsakun, Leung Kin Man, Adam Pisana, JoeYeon Kim, Aziana Firdaus Rossdy, Lucas Martin-King, Minh Thong Huynh, Melissa Nathania Santoso, Yvonne How, James Houlihan, Georgina Karavasil, Manishka Gunatilake, Ambrose Willis, Katie Georgiadis, Ben Qi, Adam Zainudin, Eun bi Go, Lim Zi Yang, Ngoc Bui, Jenya Itskovich, Samantha Villella, Maisarah Zakaria, Theresia Noviana Utama, Marleena Mustaffa, Yangzi Li Linden Lab’s Second Life presents a persistent digital world where inhabitants create and exchange digital artefacts. A series of interdisciplinary digital design studios have been using Second Life as a design vehicle for RMIT Architecture and Design students to co-author virtual environments that can be scripted live from within, promoting the development of new spaces synthesising cinema, architecture and video gaming. This approach is not focused on prototyping physical buildings. It is more concerned with acculturating sudents to the digital realm as a collaborative platform for the design of meaningful virtual environments. Participants are encouraged to explore innovative notions of space through the digital medium, spaces that are informational and atmospheric, constructed from atoms of logic. These studios are sited on RMIT University’s Francis Ormond Island in Second Life. Over time this precinct has amassed a collection of distinctive designs and developed its own unique design culture. These environments are harbingers of future architectures developed solely as a digitally mediated immersive visual, spatial and auditory experience. Courses: No Country for Old Avatars; Meta Make, Architecture/Interior Design - SIAL Lowerpool Design Studios, 2008, RMIT Bachelor of Architectural Design, Bachelor of Design (Interior Design) Website: http://architecture.rmit.edu.au/Projects/advanced_environments.php Software: Second Life; Vastpark  Visualising the Virtual Concourse Studio Leaders: Tom Kovac, RMIT Architecture Professor Sean Kelly, Director: Quicklinks, collaborative software system Alvin Low, RMIT Architecture graduate Students: Daniel Griffin, Adam Paikos, Charlotte Pan, Duan Wan, Effy Yuan, Eric Werner, Maasa Yamashita, Simon Pearce, Sio Lim, Suby Liu, Tom Frauenfelder This project focuses on public behaviours that sustain creative communities. It promotes the creation of digital environments for virtual communities to participate in a spatial paradigm shift in formal and spatial production. Virtual environments, when supported by a spatially unifying concept, offer the possibility that learning communities can be both more dispersed and more intensely interrelated. While sites such as Facebook allow viral clustering of individuals with like interests, this project examines what kind of relationships between real and virtual environments might offer support to learning communities. The project has been exploring relationships between real environments, rich in sensory and spatial information and virtual environments developed around emerging communication software applications such as quick-links that are information rich. This project proposes the creation of user information generated pavilions, web 3.0 visual models for engagement and self-monitoring. The gathered data of user interactions and information exchange sourced from collaborative software systems is transformed into a dynamic spatial environment offering an emerging tool for transforming information to create qualitative 3D spatial intelligence. Course: Visualising The Virtual Concourse Architecture Elective, RMIT Master of Architecture (Professional) Website: http://architecture.rmit.edu.au/Projects/biacs3.php Software: quick-links  Trilateral Dynamic Supervisors: Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Research Director (Design Thesis Major Project) Jane Burry, SIAL Research Fellow (SIAL Flexible 3D Modelling Elective) Student: Tamara Friebel ‘Three vocations unite: the Modular, Metastasis and the Philips Pavilion.’ This final year Design Thesis in the History Theory stream involved a project-based design research investigation into the collaborations between Le Corbusier and the composer/architect Iannis Xenakis, culminating in their design for the Philips Pavilion. CATIA was employed as an analytical tool to reverse engineer the various permutations of the pavilion. The prehistory of the geometry of the pavilion was retraced back to the diagrammatic schema of Xanakis’ Metastasis music composition. A comparative analysis was undertaken of the role of the modular proportional system across the differing sketch design variants of the pavilion and in the design development of the built project. Its compositional use was examined in defining the visual impact of the aesthetic form and the efficient engineering balance of the built scheme. The curatorial schema of the multimedia promenade was reconstructed as visual, spatial and auditory vertical montage sequences. The Philips Pavilion is resituated as modernist precedent for a process of parametric collaboration. Courses: Final Year Design Thesis (History Theory) RMIT Master of Architecture (Professional); Flexible 3D Modelling for Design and Prototyping, SIAL Architecture + Design Elective. Websites: http://architecture.rmit.edu.au/Projects/Tamara_Friebel_Major_Project.php http://www.sial.rmit.edu.au/Projects/Flexible_3D_Modelling.php Software: CATIA  CloudNets Elective Leaders: Paul Minifie, RMIT Architecture Associate Professor. Practice Director: Minifie Nixon Tim Schork, RMIT SIAL PhD candidate Students: Patrick Eberle, Scott Crowe, Choon How Gan, Nash Sooranna, Halley Ong, Jessica In, Charles Peter, Tom Frauenfelder, Thomas Wirtl This project involves investigations into emergent urbanism and architectural form through the use of RhinoScripting. Cities consist of discrete buildings set in relation with one another, responding to existing situations. A type of specific shop responds to adjacent shops. Convenience stores want to be far away from other convenience stores, but fashion stores want to cluster close together. Other attributes such as typology, height, colour, material, and program similarly have relationships to other buildings within the city. Graphs are a general way of describing the overall relationships of connectedness (cities) in a system of nodes (buildings). Cellular Automata (CA) are a grid of entities where the state of each entity responds to the state of adjacent entities, and have properties of emergence. Low-level rules by which each entity (buildings) decides it's current states do not describe the higher-level phenomena of the overall system (cities). Cloudnets is a means of making a graph of relationships and deriving emergent properties based on those relationships via Rhino NURB modeller software. Scripts can build and visualise structures controlled by the attributes of each node. A city can be grown, and regrown with different rules of emergence or starting conditions. Beginning with a map of an existing city, new elements can be grown to relate to these existing patterns. Landscapes, spaces within a building, elements of a facade, or abstract representations of data can be similarly represented. Cloudnets is a workbench for exploring emergence in general three-dimensional space. Elective students employ scripting techniques to give form to these relationships and examine how they could lead to certain patterns within cities. Outcomes are visualised and rendered using the AIR plug-in for Rhino to test architectural and urban implications. Course: Cloudnets Architecture Elective, 2008, RMIT Master of Architecture (Professional Degree) Website: http://architecture.rmit.edu.au/Projects/cloudnets.php Software: Rhino + VBA; graphCA plug-in for Rhino, developed at RMIT; AIR plug-in for Rhino  Systems of Exchange Supervisor: Paul Minifie, RMIT Associate Professor Student: Farzin Lofti-Jam This final year design thesis project curates a system of particles that interact with each other in ways governed by thermodynamic forces using RealFlow software. Programmatic and formal intention is seeded as a set of rules and parameters in a cloud of particles that respond to each other and the site. In moving towards a dynamic equilibrium, a threshold is negotiated between programs that acts as a new vertical public realm - one not based on precise programmatic placement but a mapping of variable intensities. This public space is an infrastructure of spatial and surface manipulation that does not dictate programme specifically but rather encourages or enables certain types of activities and events to emerge. Form follows intensities; but so too does activation and occupation. The urban image of the project is articulated by unruly ornament that is not applied but emerges from the generative process, with form and ornament operating on different gradients that shift out of phase. Courses: Final Year Design Thesis, RMIT Master of Architecture (Professional) Website: http://architecture.rmit.edu.au/Projects/Major_Project_Design_Thesis.php Software: RealFlow; 3D StudioMax; Rhino & custom scripts developed at RMIT Related Pages: » Biographies of RMIT Architecture + Design Exhibitors » Flickr image set of the RMIT Architecture + Design Installation » Media and Internet coverage of the Beyond Media Festival | ||||||||
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