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NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS » current | 11 | 10 | 09 | 08 | 07 | 06 | 05 | 04 | 03 | 02- 2009  Will Hosikian, RMIT Architecture student RMIT ARCHITECTURE ACADEMICS AND STUDENTS PARTICIPATED IN A SCI-ARC EXCHANGE STUDIO x_tremes Studio SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, USA Semester 2, 2009 Studio Leader: Tom Kovac, RMIT Prof of Architecture; Director, Kovac Architecture Studio Tutor: Farzin Lofti-Jam, RMIT Architecture Alumni A group of RMIT Architecture students travelled on exchange to SCI-Arc and participated iwith SCI-Arc students in the x-tremes studio led by RMIT Professor Tom Kovac who is a SCI-Arc Visiting Faculty member. PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS: RMIT Architecture, Melbourne SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, USA  RMIT ARCHITECTURE ACADEMIC AND ALUMNUS INVITED KEYNOTES Intensive Fields 2009 Conference: New Parametric Techniques for Urbanism Taper Hall 101, USC, LA, USA 12 December 2009 Invited Speakers include: Tom Kovac, RMIT Professor of Architecture/SCI-ARC Visiting Faculty, Semester 2 2009 Roland Snooks, UPenn Lecturer in Architecture/USC George Isaacs Distinguished Fellow, RMIT Bachelor of Architecture (Professional) Alumnus, 2002  RMIT ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN STAFF AND ALUMNI WIN DESIGN CHALLENGE COMPETITION 2009 Design Challenge: Fire Competition and Exhibition Presented by the Design Research Institute, RMIT University The 2009 Design Challenge: Fire has brought together a diverse range of more than 75 researchers and experts to generate innovative transdisciplinary design projects in response to bushfires. This exhibition of the finalist teams' ideas is an insight into the role of design in fire prevention and planning, emergency response and the mitigation of fire impact and post-fire regeneration in our communities. Design Competition Winners: Polytactics, Team members: Firoz Alam, Jordi Beneyto-Ferre, Nigel Bertram (RMIT Architecture), Laura Harper (RMIT Architecture Alumni), Professor David Mainwaring (RMIT Applied Chemistry), Professor Robert Shanks, Victoria Smith and Associate Professor SueAnne Ware (RMIT Landscape Architecture) The winning team received the RMIT Design Research Institute Challenge Award, a grant contribution to the value of $25,000 toward research and development of the proposal in 2010. EXHIBITION DATES: 11 Nov 2009 - 28 Feb 2010, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM EXHIBITION VENUE: Melbourne Museum, Discovery Centre, Lower Foyer, Nicholson St, Carlton Shortlisted Exhibited projects included: Communication and Community Shelter Networks. Team Members: Luke Adams, Travis Dean, Jacqueline Edge, Rory Fort, Stuart Harrison (RMIT Architecture), Marcus White (RMIT Architecture) and Matt Tonner Judges: Gavin Jennings, Victorian Sate Government Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Innovation Professor Margaret Gardner AO, RMIT Vice-Chancellor and President Jenny Bonnin, City Director, Clinton Climate Change Initiative Naomi Brown, CEO, Australian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council Brandon Gien, Executive Director, Australian International Design Awards and General Manager, Corporate Services, Standards Australia Justin Leonard, Research Scientist, CSIRO Tim Shannon, Managing Director, Hassell Architects The competition is supported by: Standards Australia Australian International Design Awards State of Design Festival Victorian State Government RMIT NEWS ARTICLE Design challenge searches for fire solutions RMIT ARCHITECTURE POSTGRADUATE ALUMNI WIN WORLD BUILDING AWARDS IN THE 2009 WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL World Architecture Festival, Barcelona, 2009 Awards: World Transport Building of the Year: Bras Basah MRT Station, Singapore Architects: WOHA, Singapore World Housing Development of the Year: The Met, Bangkok, Thailand Architects: WOHA, Singapore Richard Hassell and Wong Mun Summ, Practice Directors: WOHA, Singapore are alumni of the RMIT Masters of Architecture (Research by Project) Invited Stream, 2002, Supervised by Prof Leon van Schaik. World House of the Year: Klein Bottle House, Mornington Peninsula Architects: McBride Charles Ryan Architects, Melbourne Rob McBride, Practice Director: McBride Charles Ryan Architects, Melbourne, is an alumnus of the RMIT Masters of Architecture (Research by Project) Invited Stream, 1994, Supervised by Prof Leon van Schaik. RMIT Architecture Postgraduate Invited Stream Alumni RMIT ARCHITECTURE ACADEMIC AND ADJUNCT PROFESSORS INVITED TO EXHIBIT AND SHORTLISTED FOR AWARDS AT THE WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL, BARCELONA 2009  The Elwood House project by Nigel Bertram, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer and Director of NMBW with partners Marika Neustupny and Lucinda McLean, has been shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival Awards, Barcelona, 2009.  The Melbourne Recital Hall and Melbourne Theatre Company projects by RMIT Architecture Adjunct Professors Howard Raggatt and Ian McDougall, Directors of ARM with partner Steve Ashton, have also been shortlisted for awards. The projects will be exhibited at the World Architecture Festival, Barcelona, 4-6 November, 2009 and winners will be announced at the event. The awards attracted "over 630 entries located in 81 different countries entered by architectural practices based in 62 different countries making this a truly global awards scheme." Photography by Peter Bennetts  RMIT ARCHITECTURE HEAD APPOINTED CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF AIA NATIONAL CONFERENCE Mel Dodd, RMIT Architecture Program Director, Practice Director: Muf, London/Melbourne Appointed Creative Director:  extra/ordinary 2010 National Architecture Conference Australian Institute of Architects. 22 - 24 April 2010, Sydney The 2010 national conference program showcases innovative local and international architects who are resolving ordinary problems in extraordinary ways, with four main themes: extra/ordinary people; extra/ordinary things; extra/ordinary living; extra/ordinary cities Mel Dodd is an architect and academic, currently Associate Professor and Program Director, Head of Architecture at RMIT University and previously at London Metropolitan University, the Royal College of Art and Cambridge University. She is a member of the international art and architecture collaborative, Muf, a multi-disciplinary and research based practice operating across socially-engaged art practice, landscape architecture, urban design and architecture. She has co-authored This is What We Do: A Muf Manual (2002), and the work of Muf has been included in numerous international architectural publications including 10x10_2 by Phaidon (2006) RMIT ARCHITECTURE STUDENT WINS NATIONAL HP CITYSCAPE 2020 DESIGN COMPETITION BROKEN +ReMADE Tom Morgan, RMIT Master of Architecture (professional) student, Practice: Sharkmouse winner: HP Cityscape 2020 Citylife Design Competiton Competition open to all Australian architecture students and new architectural professionals Results announced 6 Aug 2009 Judges: Paul Berkemeier, National Councilor RAIA; Tom Kovac, RMIT University; Shane Lucas, Director, HP Graphic Arts South Pacific Competition Organisers: HP - www.hp.com.au/cityscape2020  RMIT ARCHITECTURE INVITED TO EXHIBIT IN INTERNATIONAL BEYOND MEDIA FESTIVAL RMIT Architecture Exhibition with Prix Studio, die Angewandte, Vienna Spots on School Exhibition in Visions: Beyond Media Festival, 2009 RMIT Curator: Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Research Director Venue: Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy Dates: July 9-17, 2009 INVITED SCHOOLS: RMIT Architecture, Melbourne, 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 Invited Speaker: Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Research Director "Non-Standard Pedagogy for Advanced Technologies and Emergent Practices in Architecture" Antonino Saggio, chair Venue: Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy Dates: July 11, 2009 Forum Speakers included: Branko Kolarevic (University of Calgary), Mahesh Senagala, Kevin Klinger (Ball State University), Jonathan Solomon, Jason Carlow (University of Hong Kong), Jeffrey Huang (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Symposium 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  RMIT ARCHITECTURE ACADEMIC WINS AIA (VIC) AWARD FOR DESIGN OF RMIT BUILDING 45 ARCHITECTURE STUDIOS Nigel Bertram, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer Practice: NMBW Architecture Studio Project: RMIT Building 45 winner: Australian Institute of Architects (VIC) Award for Public Architecture, Alterations and Additions category  THREE RMIT ARCHITECTURE STUDENT PROJECTS JOINT WINNERS OF AIA (VIC) STUDENT IDEAS COMPETITION Jack May, RMIT Master of Architecture (professional) degree student Project: "18% unfinished" Tristan Burfield, RMIT Master of Architecture (professional) degree student Project: "Greening the House" Jileqa Azman, RMIT Master of Architecture (professional) degree student Project: "Building into the Landscape" Joint 1st Prize winners: Revitalising the House: AIA (VIC) 2009 Student Ideas Competition Jury: Shelley Penn, Kai Chen, John Wardle and Daryl Jackson The brief was for a 21st Century completion of the Victorian State House of Parliament. 35 students from 3 Victorian architecture schools entered the blind competition, including 12 RMIT students. 3 of the 4 joint equal 1st Prize winning projects were by RMIT students. $3,000.00 of prize money was provided by the Heritage Council of Victoria.  RMIT ARCHITECTURE STUDENT WINS INTERNATIONAL BUSHFIRE HOUSE COMPETITION Competition Entry: Tanked - download full submission (pdf) Tom Morgan, RMIT Master of Architecture (professional) student. Practice: Sharkmouse Winner: International Re-Growth House Competition Supported by Tarkett and InDesign Magazine, Announced 11 May 2009 1st prize $2500 RMIT Architecture student Tom Morgan has won an international competition for the design of a family house for Kinglake residents hit by the bushfires. The competition is based around the idea of a “House re-growth Pod”, a robust pre-fabricated concrete structure which in the short term acts as a habitable starting point for the building of a new home. In Morgan’s design, Tanked, the “suppression system is gravity fed, reducing reliance on fickle, two-stroke fire-pumps at the crucial juncture. Eaves and under-crofts are banished, reducing the chance of stray ember spot-fires.” The scheme was described by judges as having a “high level of creativity and innovation... A simple, intelligent and level-headed approach to bushfire mitigation”. INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH WORKSHOPS Invited Workshop Convenors: Prof Leon van Schaik and Prof Richard Blythe, RMIT Architecture & Design Design Practice Research Workshop 2009 Research Training Sessions (RTS) Sint-Lucas School of Architecture, Brussels, 02 to 04 April 2009 Professor van Schaik and Professor Blythe were invited to run a workshop on RMIT’s design practice research culture as well as provide critiques of current PhD researchers at Sint-Lucas. This is the second time they have been invited to the annual Sint-Lucas Research Training Sessions.  PROPOSED RMIT CAMPUS PROJECT RMIT Swanston Academic Building Architects: Lyons Practice Director: Carey Lyons, RMIT Architecture Adjunct Professor, RMIT Master of Architecture alumnus Project under development, 2009-2011 Budget: $200 million. RMIT’s $500 million capital works program will create at least 2,000 jobs over the next five years, including 800 at the Swanston academic building and 200 at the nearby Design Hub on the former CUB site. Key features of the RMIT Swanston Academic Building include: * A two-storey cantilevered student social space, or “portal”, overhanging Swanston Street. * A further nine double-height student portals for study and recreation, featuring landscaped indoor gardens and curated spaces for public art. * 12 lecture theatres, 64 teaching spaces and 10 specialist learning areas. * An innovative mix of teaching and office space on all levels to facilitate interaction between staff and students. * A minimum 5-star environmental design under the Green Star Education Rating Scheme, including greywater recycling, solar hot water and a natural ventilation system. . Video Fly-Through RMIT NEWS First look at innovative Swanston project March 18, 2009 RMIT University has unveiled plans for a landmark $200 million development that is set to transform the northern end of Melbourne’s CBD. RMIT PROPERTY SERVICES PROJECT PAGE RMIT Swanston Academic Building includes details of the project brief and early concept strategies MEDIA ARTICLE Ten-storey RMIT campus to change face of Swanston Street by Mex Cooper theAge, March 18, 2009 MEDIA ARTICLE RMIT has all angles covered as architects put students in place Andrew Trounson The Australian, March 18, 2009 VICTORIA BUSHFIRES Tuesday February 10, 2009 Our thoughts are with the communities, families and friends affected by the Bushfires that have taken a horrific toll in lives and property across Victoria since Saturday. Michelle Black, architecture design studio staff member and partner of RMIT academic Richard Black, has been in the frontline fighting the Bushfires in her role as a Castlemaine CFA volunteer. Our support goes out to the fire and emergency services and volunteers who are battling the blazes threatening towns and communities across regional Victoria and providing relief to the survivors. Victoria Bushfire Appeal donations can be made to the Red Cross by phone or online: ph: 1800 811 700 http://www.redcross.org.au Bushfire Support Volunteer registration information: ph: 1300 366 356 Victorian Bushfire Support - Register State Government online information: http://www.vic.gov.au/ News and Media Releases on the Victoria Bushfires: Victoria Bushfires: news, tributes, photos, video, audio The Age, 2009 Photographs of the Aftermath Bushfire information for staff and students RMIT Openline News Article, Feb 09, 2009 Finding answers to our darkest day RMIT Openline News Article, Feb 09, 2009 "RMIT University Adjunct Professor of Architecture Norman Day said design solutions needed to be found for people living in bushfire zones. “There must be cheap, quick alternatives for getting people safely undercover when a fire is looming,” Professor Day said. “People living in these areas only need protection for a short time, while the fire passes through. We should look at ways to offer emergency protection, places where families could shelter and survive.” Professor Day, who has worked on rebuilding projects in devastated East Timorese communities, said emergency housing options need to take into account the trauma people have suffered. “The design of these spaces must work on two levels – the physical relocation for day-to-day survival, but also their mental and emotional state,” he said." Architect calls for bunkers in fire zone homes ABC News, Wednesday 11 February 2009 "Architect says fire bunkers should be included when rebuilding communities affected by Victoria's worst bushfires. Retiring Victorian Police Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon will run a new agency that will help bushfire ravaged communities rebuild. Professor of Architecture at RMIT Norman Day says a simple and inexpensive concrete bunker in the ground next to or underneath each house would be the best protection from fierce fires. He says little can be done to give new houses more protection. "Once you get a fire bomb it really wouldn't matter, this is more like the Gaza Strip," he said. "We're not just talking about a little bushfire here, these are serious war zone problems and there's nothing you could build that could possibly survive a fire bomb of the order that's happened on the weekend." " Bushfire tragedy rewrites rules for architects By Oscar McLaren ABC News, Thursday 12 February 009 Architects Respond to the Victorian Bushfires RAIA Victoria Chapter Article, 20 February 2009 Toyo Ito leads donations to Australia bushfire recovery by Anna Winston Building Design, 23 Feb 2009 Message from the RAIA Victoria Chapter President Karl Fender on the Victorian Bushfires Karl Fender, RAIA Victoria Chapter President RAIA Victoria Chapter Article 13 March 2009 Buffer zone planned to protect Marysville Michael Bachelard The Age, March 29, 2009 Richard Blythe, the head of architecture and design at RMIT University, has called on all parties to "slow down" to allow time to think about how the town might be rebuilt. "We are seeing a gross overreaction and willingness to jump to solutions while, at the moment, it's not clear what successful solutions might be," Professor Blythe said. He called on the architectural community to come together with authorities and residents to talk about the issues. "There is a huge willingness among universities, the professions themselves, to participate in that process of reimagining," Professor Blythe said. "But it's about the people who live there realising their dreams, visions, aims about how they feel about their place."... | ||||||||
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