LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Upper Pool Studios Semester 2, 2012

Aggregate Natures Craig Douglas A Sahara in the Head Michael Hornblow For Now Sofia Anapliotis and David Morison San Remo Foreshore Ivan Rijavec The Emergent City CJ Lim and Martyn Hook The Oculus Studio Mark Jacques and Claire Martin

aggregate natures
... what DO bees know?
tutor Craig Douglas OUTR Research Lab This is an Intensive Studio: weeks 01-04 Tuesday Friday weeks 05-08 Tuesday weeks 09 Installation

This is an intensive Design + Construct studio that will explore the translation of ideas from the imagined to the made.
1:30-5:30, room 88.5.20 9:30-1:30, room 88.5.02 1:30-5:30, room 88.5.20 Melbourne Exhibition Centre

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This studio is responding to an invitation from the Grand Designs television series to participate in the Grand Designs Live Melbourne Exhibition, 21-23 September, to be held at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre. As such, the outcome of this studio will be a set of 1:1 installations that celebrate and challenge innovative Landscape Architectural Design. Making will be foregrounded as a design approach that is to explore the translation of ideas and understanding through the act of their becoming, and challenged by the laws and natures of a material existence. This will be considered through the following matrix: Natrual Forms - bloom\ - bubble - branch - gill Digital fabrication - contour - wafe - tessallation - striation Material - card - ply - foam Rapid Prototyping - laser cut - cnc Vegetation - plant type 01 - plant type 02 - plant type 03 - plant type 04 Environment - water - light - temperature - humidity The aggregated natures of their being require that the installations act simultaneously as landscapes that generate their own micro climate, act as an infrastructure to celebrate and support specic vegetation, be a recorder of space, and alter ones experience of the space beyond materiality that is grounded in intellect and emotion. Systemisation + Geometric Governance + Material + Material Fabrication + Performative Requirements

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Installation + Experience

Paper Morphologies_Achim Menges + Andrew Kudless

R&Sie_Green Gorgon

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SAN REMO FORESHORE

ARCHITECTURE + LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE + URBAN DESIGN
Ivan Rijavec
The Bass Shire Council has prepared a preliminary draft for a master plan of the San Remo Foreshore area comprising a Shopping Strip, parking, jetty, and foreshore areas. This cross disciplinary studio of landscape and architecture students will research precedents, establish a brief and prepare master plans, landscape, urban and architectural designs to inform the San Remo Foreshore Committee. Participants will be divided into teams comprising both disciplines that will research coastal typologies and establish a palette of ideas specific to San Remo. A Panel of architects, landscape architects and urban designers who are familiar with San Remo will inform the studio with critiques and guest presentations. The locale is one where nature, recreational tourism, a blended community of youth, local business and retirement cultures overlap in the usual maelstrom of competing vested interests. This will be a rare opportunity to gain an insight of the numerous stake holders operative in coastal communities and how they participate in place making. It will also be an opportunity to vision the future of a unique geographic locale where the nature, the spirit of youth and the spirit of age, not to be mistaken for cynicism, collide.

The Food Parliament London_CJ Lim 2012

The Imaginarium of Urban Impossibilities_THE EMERGENT CITY_CJ LIM & Martyn Hook
Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.' Alice, in Lewis Carroll's 'Through the Looking Glass' In the world of the built environment today, utopian ideals are met either with incredulous admiration or lofty condescension (sometimes both), and an overview of professional periodicals of the past decade reveals a marked shift away from fantastic speculative propositions in favour of constructed reality. The floating, walking and flying propositions of Buckminster Fuller, Archigram, the Metabolists et al have all but floated, walked or flown away. The works of fiction can stimulate new forms of sustainable infrastructure, and the potential for urban spatial occupation. Ebenezer Howards garden city, for example, was inspired by the utopian tract, Looking Backward: 2000-1887, by American lawyer, Edward Bellamy. The third largest bestseller of its time when published in 1888, Bellamys novel immediately spawned a political mass movement and several communities adopting its ideals. Letchworth Garden City and Welwyn Garden City, UK, founded on Howards concentric plan of open space, parkland and radial boulevards that carefully integrated housing, agriculture and industry, remain one of few recognized realizations of utopia in existence. There are a number of recurring spatial tropes in fiction of cities. One such trope is the artificial island, a meme that has appeared in stories ranging from Jonathan Swift's Laputa (1726), featuring a manoueverable floating island with an adamantine base, to the millionaire enclave of Jules Verne's Lle hlice. In the real world, Kansai became the first airport to be constructed on an entirely artificial island, and in the 21st Century, the Nakheel Corporation has developed the Palm Island Projects, featuring man-made landmasses surrounded by hemispherical reefs. This intensive studio will explore Greater Melbourne as a site for the realisation of fictional concepts into real world applications. This research requires creative spatial contextualisation and refinement what previously exists only as words. Formed as an intensive workshop with CJ Lim from 13 August to 13 September culminating in a large exhibition. In the balance of the semester you shall develop your own project guided by Martyn Hook to a portfolio of beautiful drawings of urban speculation. Try, like Alice, to speculate of alternative spatial realities, creating utopian impossibilities. CJ Lim is Professor and Vice-Dean at the Bartlett UCL, and the Pro-Provost of University College London. His area of expertise is in sustainable urban planning, architecture and landscape, focusing on interpretations of social, cultural and environmental programmes. He is also the founding director of Studio 8 Architects in UK a multi-disciplinary and international award-winning practice. His award-winning book Smartcities and Eco-warriors (2010) focuses on issues of healthy living and food sustainability in ideal 21st century cities. www.cjlim-studio8.com

UPPER POOL DESIGN STUDIO SEMESTER 2 2012

THE OCULUS STUDIO

OCULUS is a design practice that is preoccupied by the making of public space. The studio has a commitment to projects that bolster social interaction, provide public amenity, are inclusive, delightfully individual and that respond cleverly to their particular site. The studio brief will be to develop design propositions that enable the occupation of a non-public site with a new program; and will be delivered in four parts. Each part will be informed by a study of an exemplar, practitioner or precedent that is signicant to our practice: Part 1 Selecting and documenting site Gordon Matta-Clarkes Fake Estates Part 2 A design proposition for public exchange Richard Sennetts The Open City Part 3 Public space prototyping Recetas Urbanas Studio Part 4 The affects of intervention on public behaviour Whytes The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

Tutors Mark Jacques / Claire Martin Day/Time Thursday 3:30pm-7:30pm Room OCULUS Studio, Level 2, 33 Guildford Lane, Melbourne Teaching Schedule Weeks 4-12 (including 2x workshops)