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ARCHITECTURAL COMMUNICATIONS PROJECTS  EXHIBITION Nascent Present Exhibition Works from the RMIT Architecture - Advanced Architecture Polarity Curator: Paul Minifie, RMIT Architecture Associate Professor. Practice Director: Minifie Nixon Architects STATE OF DESIGN FESTIVAL 2009: Sampling the Future Venue: RMIT Building 45, 33 Lygon Street (corner of Earl Street opp Trades Hall) Dates: 15-25 July 2009 Invited exhibitors include: Mark Burry, RMIT Innovation Professor, Director, RMIT Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory. Director, RMIT Design Research Institute Pia Ednie-Brown, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer, Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory Tim Schork, RMIT Master of Architecture (professional) alumnus Phd in Architecture (SIAL) candidates. Practice Director: Mesne James Gardiner, Phd in Architecture (SIAL) candidate Tom Kovac, RMIT Architecture Professor of Design. Practice Director: Kovac Architecture Farzin Lotfi-Jam, Sam Rice, RMIT Master of Architecture (professional) alumni. Practice Directors: Cache Paul Minifie, RMIT Architecture Associate Professor. Practice Director: Minifie Nixon Architects Vivian Mitsogiani, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer. Practice Director: M@ Architecture Greg More, Research Fellow, RMIT Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory Paul Morgan, Practice Director: Paul Morgan Architects Gretchen Wilkins, RMIT Architecture Lecturer Leanne Zilka, RMIT Architecture Lecturer  INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION CURATION 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   EXHIBITION FORUM Invited Speaker: Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Research Director Venue: Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy Dates: July 11, 2009  BIACS3: INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART BIENNALE, SEVILLE Visualising the Virtual Concourse Installation Invited Exhibitor: Tom Kovac, RMIT Professor of Design, Practice: Kovac Architecture DESIGN YOURSELF Exhibition 3rd International Contemporary Art Biennale, Seville Spain, Oct 2 2008 - Jan 11 2009 Curator and artistic director: Peter Weibel RMIT Exhibitors: Prof Tom Kovac, with Sean Kelly, Prof Leon van Schaik, Alvin Lowe Project team: RMIT Architecture Professional Degree students Visualising the Virtual Concourse Elective RMIT Master of Architecture Professional Degree, Semester 01/02, 2008 BIACS Tom Kovac Exhibitors Page: Visualising the Virtual Concourse, 2008, Installation VVC Installation Exhibition (Facebook photos)  COMMUNICATIONS ELECTIVE CloudNets 2 Elective RMIT Master of Architecture (professional degree), Semester 02, 2008 Elective Leaders: Paul Minifie & Tim Schork with Andrew Burrow and Luke Howson Investigations into Emergent Urbanism and Architectural Form through the use of RhinoScripting . . VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT MASTERCLASS PRESENTATION Speaker: Greg More, Lecturer, RMIT School of Architecture and Design, Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory Virtual Worlds Down Under - Part 3 of 4 - RMIT Architecture VastPark MasterClass, on Vimeo.  EXHIBITION Synthetic Environments An exhibition showcasing synthetic environments as contexts for design, learning + research Curator: Greg More Design Team: Greg More, Louis Wong, Edmund Carter Venue: Level 11 Galllery, Building 8, RMIT University City Campus, Melbourne Dates: Opens 2nd October 2008 @ 5:30. Exhibition is on till 10th October. Synthetic Environments features a range of design studios and research projects utilizing 3d digital realtime environments. The aim of the exhibition is to promote these environments as new contexts for design activity. For example RMIT University's Ormond Island, first Australian University island utilized in Second life, and the outcomes of a series of design studios that have occurred on the island since February 2007. Also featured is the DMOD project. DMOD, directed by Greg More and supported by a RMIT Learning + Teaching Investment Fund $25K grant (Learning to Design in Synthetic Environments | Greg More and Andrew Burrow), is a future collaborative design and learning space for participants to navigate and explore design content, creating a social 3d realtime environment for design activity. DMOD is being developed utilizing Vastpark http://www.vastpark.com/, an innovative virtual world platform developed in Melbourne. The exhibition will also showcase the Panonrama.AU Worshop held in July of this year. COMMUNICATIONS ELECTIVE Terrestrial Scanning: Redesigning Melbourne Architecture/Landscape SIAL Communications and Technology Elective, Semester 02, 2008 Supervisor: Brad Marmion, SIAL This elective focuses on the use of high resolution large scale 3D scanning as a site documention tool.  DESIGN STUDIO Meta Make Studio RMIT Architecture and Interior Design Lowerpool Design Studio Semester 1, 2008 Studio Leaders: Greg More and Edmund Carter Virtual Design project undertaken in Second Life on RMIT's Francis Ormond Island, involving RMIT Architecture and Interior Design students.  WORKSHOP Panonrama.AU Worshop RMIT Architecture & Design 9 July, 2008 Convenor: Greg More, SIAL Research Fellow Leading designers, artists and educators from around Australia and New Zealand met to present recent projects and discuss future collaborations. Participants included: Erik Champion - Massey University, Russell Lowe - UNSW, Adam Nash - RMIT, Sean Pickersgill UniSA, Bruce Joy Vastpark, Melinda Rackham - Director ANAT, Andrew Burrow - RMIT SIAL, Greg More - RMIT SIAL (Convenor). The Panorama.AU Workshop was hosted by Greg More as part of the successful LTIF grant (Greg More, Andrew Burrow, RMIT SIAL) 'Learning to Design in Synthetic Environments'. Visiting members of the New Media Consortium (USA) joined the workshop in the afternoon.  COMMUNICATIONS ELECTIVE CloudNets Elective RMIT Master of Architecture (professional degree), Semester 01, 2007 Elective Leaders: Paul Minifie, Ross Heywood, Luke Howson Comunications elective that investigated the emergent properties of running Cellular Automata like algorithms across graphs of arbitrary topology.  ARC GRANT FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS Sagrada Familia ongoing projects As part of an ongoing involvement with the Sagrada Família Church in Barcelona researchers in SIAL lead by Professor Mark Burry are currently working on the following projects: Investigation into Antonio Gaudi's final design models
Sagrada Familia research website New into Old: Flexible 3D computer modelling to aid geritage building restoration, recycling and extension The Rose Window in the West Transept The Collonade and Gable of the West Transept  ARCHITECTURAL COMMUNICATIONS/TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR Flexible 3D Modelling Communications/Technology Seminar Master of Architecture (professional) - SIAL stream Ongoing offering Tutors: Jane Burry - SIAL with Julian Canterbury + Adam Jackson Aims is to give students from diverse disciplines expertise in creating flexible (associative geometric) computer models for design and linking these to physical modelling and prototyping. Software: CATIA parametric engineering design software.  ARC GRANT FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECT Spatial Knowledge and the Built Environment The Design Implications of Making, Processing and Digitally Prototyping Architectural Models ARC Discovery Project, 2005-2007 RMIT School of Architecture + Design Chief Investigators: Mark Burry - Innovation Professor of Spatial Information Architecture (SIAL) Peter Downton - Assoc Professor of Architectural Theory, School Research Director Andrea Mina - Assoc Professor of Interior Design Michael Ostwald - Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture, Head, University of Newcastle  MODELLING DESIGN RESEARCH EXHIBITION Homo Faber: Modelling Ideas Curator: Prof Mark Burry VENUE: Melbourne Museum OPENING: 9th August, 6 pm EXHIBITION TIMES: 10th August - 16th September, 2007 Melbourne Museum - Homo Faber Exhibition webpage EXHIBITION SYMPOSIUM Homo Faber: Modelling Ideas VENUE: Age Theatre, Lower Level, Melbourne Museum TIMES: 3-5 pm, 6-8 pm, 13 Aug 2007 MODELLING DESIGN RESEARCH EXHIBITION Homo Faber Exhibition Melbourne Museum Curator: Prof Mark Burry 31 May to 15 July 2006 Homo Faber Exhibition Catalogue pdf Homo Faber Exhibition Outline, RMIT DSC Portfolio Events List Homo Faber Melbourne Museum webpage REVIEWS: , Review: Homo Faber Exhibition, Craft Culture Peter Skinner "Review: Homo Faber Exhibition," in Architecture Australia, Sept/Oct 2006 Homo Faber Exhibition, Current News Article, University of Newcastle, 2006 ARCHITECTURE + PHILOSOPHY LECTURE SERIES "Haptic/Optic" Peta Carlin, RMIT SIAL CONVENORS: Esther Anatolitis, Express Media, General Manager Helene Frichot, RMIT Architecture VENUE: Federation Square BMW Edge Theatre TIME: 6.00 pm Thursday 08 November 2007 Architecture + Philosophy Series  PHD BY PROJECT EXAMINATION EXHIBITION Matthias (Hank) Haeusler (PhD by project) “Spatial Dynamic Media System-Amalgam of form and image through use of a 3D light point matrix to deliver a content-driven zone in real-time” Supervisors: Mark Burry and Brent Allpress Digital Gallery Building 91 Tuesday 23 October, 2007 ARCHITECTURE + PHILOSOPHY LECTURE SERIES "Urban Screens Project" Scott McQuire CONVENORS: Esther Anatolitis, Express Media, General Manager Helene Frichot, RMIT Architecture VENUE: Federation Square BMW Edge Theatre TIME: 6.00 pm Thursday 13 September Architecture + Philosophy Series  RMIT ARCHITECTURE/INTERIOR DESIGN STUDIO SL LOST+FOUND RMIT Architecture + RMIT Interior Design Lower Pool Design Studio - SIAL stream Site: Second Life RMIT Island Studio Supervisors: Gregory More, RMIT Interior Design Lecturer, SIAL Researcher Andrew Burrow, SIAL Research Fellow In this studio participants will consider architecture as territory, object and atmosphere. The studio will examine the use of new media (Second Life) within design scenarios and encourage the exploration of this media to combine cinema, interactivity and architectural space.  AA PRIZE FOR UNBUILT WORK, 2007 Michael Spooner, RMIT Architecture final year student A Clinic for the Exhausted (also online as screen res pdf + high res pdf + flickr slideshow) RMIT Architecture final year Design Thesis Major Project, semester 1 2007 Supervised by: Peta Carlin Winner: Architecture Australia Prize for Unbuilt Work, 2007 The AA Prize for Unbuilt Work recognizes excellence in unbuilt architectural projects. It will draw attention to works that have the potential to contribute to the development of architectural discourse and debate in Australia. The AA Prize for Unbuilt Work seeks conceptually rigorous, inventive responses to contemporary architectural issues. There were 99 entries, by architectural pratices and architectural students.  INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE DESIGN WORKSHOP SMART GEOMETRY Workshop & Conference, New York, Jan 2007 Invited Workshop Instructor: Jane Burry, RMIT SIAL Research Fellow Project Presentation: Expanding Retreat House Rory Hyde, PhD in Architecture - SIAL, Practice: BKK The Smart Geometry workshop and conference was held in New York from the 26th to the 29th of January 2007. It was an opportunity for around 100 professionals, educators and students from across the world to come together and share ideas on parametric and computational design through real project work. SIAL was represented by Jane Burry who was invited as an instructor, and Rory Hyde who attended as a participant.  ARCHITECTURAL COMMUNICATIONS SEMINAR Flatlines Communications Seminar, 2003-2007 RMIT Bachelor of Architecture Coordinator: Stuart Harrison This drawing seminar examines the relationship between 3D imagery and 2D instrumental drawing. Students studied precedent for combining 2D and 3D representations in one single composite drawing. This then informs composite drawings of a chosen work of architecture by the students that arrange different modes of representation in a productive critical dialogue.  ARCHITECTURAL COMMUNICATIONS SEMINAR Strange Procedures Communications Seminar - Advanced Architecture stream, 2003-2007 RMIT Bachelor of Architecture Tutor: Paul Minifie - Architecture (AAL) with Kynan Woodman, Peter Ryan Digital techniques to describe the shape of things by the internal methods (algorithms) and to define, manipulate and translate formal representations (data structures), examining to what extent these techniques change the way in which architecture can make sense to us. Software: Visual Basic Scripting with Autocad, Microstation, rhino, and Excel.  ARCHITECTURAL COMMUNICATIONS SEMINAR Atmosphere Communications Seminar - Architecture + Interior Design SIAL stream, 2003-2007 RMIT Bachelor of Architecture + RMIT Interior Design Tutor: Greg More - Interior Design (SIAL) Game engines as a dynamic design media supporting new forms of representation. Software: UnReal2 and Runtime.  ARCHITECTURAL COMMUNICATIONS SEMINAR Kenneth What is the frequency Communications Seminar - Architecture SIAL stream, 2003-2007 RMIT Bachelor of Architecture Ongoing offering Tutors: Paul Nicholas & Tim Schork - Architecture (SIAL). Practice: Mesne Advanced modeling and rendering techniques. Software: rhino3d, lino and 3dmax.  DOCUMENTARY FILM PROJECT Thinking Modelling Making Temple Sagrada Familia, Barcelona Antoni Gaudi's approach to thinking, modelling and making 2006 Documentry Film produced, directed and filmed by Mark Burry, Foo Chi Sung, Duncan Burry  VIDEO EXHIBITION MAELSTROM: Gazes into the digital abyss Sean Pickersgill, University of South Australia, Adelaide, RMIT PhD in Architecture candidate Gregory More, RMIT Interior Design Lecturer, SIAL Researcher John Power, RMIT Animation and Interactive Media (AIM) Kaurna Gallery, 5th - 14th July, 2006, Adelaide. The work presented in Maelstrom collectively identifies and presents an exploration of digital space as a form of philosophical topology, a lens and a window onto an unknown world. The possibilities within the digital field have not yet begun to be understood in terms of the ontology of presence. The work of the three artists seeks to give substance to some of the opportunities available within the immersive context of the first-person environment. Disruptions of form, aberrations of physics and geometry all present the fact that we can exist in these worlds within another gravitational logic.  ARCHITECTURAL COMMUNICATIONS SEMINAR Beyond Representation Communications Seminar - Architecture SIAL stream, 2004 RMIT Bachelor of Architecture Tutor: Inger Mewburn - Architecture (SIAL) Digital rendering technique to enable students to bend the rules with impunity. Software: 3dsVis, Photoshop.  RESEARCH PROJECTS VIRTUAL WORLDS Games research, projects, teaching and learning, at RMIT University Researchers: Leon van Schaik, RMIT Innovation Professor of Architecture Gregory More, RMIT Interior Design Lecturer, SIAL Researcher Jerome Frumar, RMIT PhD in Architecture (SIAL) candidate, RMIT Architecture Alumni Virtuals Worlds showcases the diverse work at RMIT University into games research. Exhibited at the Lab3000 Digital Design Biennial, Melbourne Museum, as part of the Tertiary Masters section, it features the work of staff and students, undergraduate and post-graduate, from the following RMIT departments: Animation and Interactive Media (AIM) | Applied Communication | Communication Design | Computer Science and IT | Creative Media | GeoSpatial Science | SIAL | RMIT Architecture | RMIT Interior Design  RESEARCH PROJECTS THE GAMES COLLECTIVE The Games Collective is a prototype portal for ‘game design’, 'games culture' and ‘game technology’ research at RMIT University. The Games Collective directs interested parties to personnel and facilities that are involved in teaching, research, and applying game technologies in industry within RMIT University. RMIT is engaged in a diverse range of game related projects located within various departments and faculties of the university including: Animation and Interactive Media (AIM) | Applied Communication | Communication Design | Computer Science and IT | Creative Media | GeoSpatial Science | SIAL/School of Architecture & Design  ARC GRANT FUNDED PROJECT EUREKA Prototype n-Dimensional Presentation Environments ARC Dicovery Grant funded SIAL research project Researchers: Mark Burry, Innovation Professor of Spatial Information Architecture Gregory More, RMIT Interior Design Lecturer, SIAL Researcher In recent years Gregory More and Mark Burry have been exploring nonlinear systems for presentations. Steering away from what Edward Tufte would say is the 'evil of powerpoint', these systems encourage the presenter to navigate freely through multimedia assets, allowing fluid contextual narratives to emerge. This abilty to transverse material is especially valuable during group discussion and question time.  NEW MEDIA EXHIBITION & RMIT ARCHITECTURE STUDIOS BEYOND MEDIA03 FLORENCE - INTIMACY International Festival of Architecture in Video Florence October 2-12, 2003 Beyond Media 2003 comprises an international congress, "Media and new sense of place in architecture", talks shows and exhibitions. SIAL, together with the School of Architecture at the University of Auckland, was invited to participate in the SPOT ON SCHOOLS exhibition, devoted to some of the most distinguished schools of architecture in the world. The exhibit, curated by Paola Giaconia, offers a first survey of courses that explore the topic of communication in architecture and, in particular, the influence that new media plays in this field. Exhibited work was undertaken in two Architecture Design Studios - SIAL stream: Memory Games RMIT Architecture Upperpol Design Studio - SIAL stream Semester 2 2002 SYNTHETICscapes RMIT Architecture Lowerpool Design Studio - SIAL stream Semester 1 2003  RMIT ARCHITECTURE/LANDSCAPE DESIGN STUDIOS SYNTHETICscapes RMIT Architecture & RMIT Landscape Architecture Lowerpool Design Studio - SIAL stream Semester 1 2003 Studio Supervisors: Gregory More, RMIT Interior Design Lecturer, SIAL Researcher Sue Anne Ware, RMIT Landscape Architecture Research Coordinator SYNTHETICscapes explored various architectural and cinematic concepts of the 'synthetic' within the generation of space, form, and materiality: via the media of animation, web interfaces, realtime environments, game engines. This studio involved a collaboration between a RMIT Landscape and RMIT Architecture design studios. With focus on the 'Waterfront City' development at Docklands, the studio addressed the futurescaping of Melbourne's urban fabric and spaces in the year 2030 and beyond. Students worked in groups of four, with two from each discipline, in the design of contextual landscapes and a proposition for a 'Lost theatre' architectural intervention. The final outcomes from this phase of the studio see hybrid design statements addressing contemporary issues pertinent to both the disciplines of landscape and architectural design.  VIDEO EXHIBITION THUMPA Short Film Director/Animator: Gregory More, SIAL Research Fellow Director/Compositor: Mathan Ratinam, RMIT Architecture Master of Architecture (Research by Project) candidate Sound Design: Jeremy Yuille, RMIT Communication Design Exhibited at: THUMPA at Melbourne International Animation Festival (MIAF) in International 4 and Australian Panaroma Sessions, 2003 THUMPA in RESFEST 2003 'By Design', screening at ACMI on 7,8 December, 2003 THUMPA is an experimental architectural animation. THUMPA explores the emotions of intrigue and fascination with a 'new' animate form. This form is generated as an abstract rereading of the ancient Greek notions of Chronos and Aion, which provide a dualistic metaphor for the enduring and the provisional, the anticipated and the unexpected, the bodily and the incorporeal. The form engages with humans who interact by movement and touch. The mood then shifts, as the human agents become less interested in the form and its efforts to gain attention. This becoming disinterested and being indifferent leaves the characters alienated by the form within the amorphous abstract landscapes. The production concludes with a collage | ||||||||
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