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HOUSING PROJECTS residential housing design research, teaching and practice » page 1 | page 2 | page 3 RMIT ACADEMICS AND ALUMNI WIN ARCHITECTURE HOUSING AWARDS Paul Minifie, RMIT Architecture Assoc Professor. Jan van Schaik, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer. Practice Directors: Minifie van Schaik Architects  Project: Wattle Avenue House Winner: Australian Institute of Architects (VIC) Award for Residential Architecture - Alterations & Additions, 2012 Mauro Baracco, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer Louise Wright, Alumni, RMIT B.Architecture – Professional (Hons.), 1999; RMIT PhD candidate. Directors: Baracco + Wright Architects  Project: Rose House Winner: Australian Institute of Architects (VIC) Award for Residential Architecture – New, 2012  Project: Garage + Deck + Landscape Winner: Australian Institute of Architects (VIC) Award for Small Project Architecture, 2012  HOUSING BOOK Antonino Saggio Louis Sauer, The Architect of Low-rise High-density Housing Publisher: ITools - Officina Edizioni August 2012 ISBN: 9781291005417 Through research on different aspects of housing typologies, habitation experience, and developmental economics, Louis Sauer developed architectural systems for low-rise high-density housing. This book presents the major ideas and principles of Sauer architecture and explores his work in Society Hill (Philadelphia) where his many exemplary projects are built. These have become landmarks for the City and for the lovers of contemporary architecture. The stature of his architecture, therefore, is one of a great innovator. Although his contemporaries did not immediately understand Sauer’s design strength and originality, his work is now recognized for its architectural intelligence, usefulness and beauty. Antonino Saggio is currently the coordinator of the PhD program in Architectural Design and Theory in the Dipartimento of Architettura e Progetto. He is the founder of the book series "The IT Revolution in Architecture" (Birkhäuser and Edilstampa) and he lectures worldwide. Lou Sauer has been an invited Design Studio Leader at RMIT Architecture since 2006 and runs studios on housing in the Master of Architecture (Professional) Program. Louis Sauer, Design Studio Leader, RMIT Architecture, from 2006- Practice: Director of Urban Design, Daniel Arbour and Associates, Montreal (1989-1996) Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Colorado (1985-89) Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture at Carnegie-Mellon University (1979-1985) Practice: Louis Sauer Associates, Philadelphia (1961-1979)  HOUSING PROJECT PUBLICATION Simon Whibley, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer. Practice: SWA (former practice: Antarctica) Project: "Roofscape House, Antarctica" in Stuart Harrison (2011). Forty-Six Square Metres Of Land Doesn't Normally Become A House. Melbourne: Thames And Hudson. Stuart Harrison is an alumni of the RMIT Architecture Professional and Masters by Research programs and is a former RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer (1999-2011) and is the director of the award winning practice Harrison and White Architects.  RMIT ACADEMIC WINS ARCHITECTURE HOUSING AWARD Graham Crist, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecture, Practice Director: Antarctica Project: Habitat 21 Adaptable House Practice: Antarctica + MAS Partner: Vic Urban Winner: RAIA VIC Architecture Award: Small Project Architecture, 2011 Publications: "Habitat 21 Adaptable House: Antarctica + MAS" in Architect Victoria: Victorian Architecture Awards 2011, July 2011 Shelly Penn, "Habitat 21" in Architecture Australia, May/June 2011   Dayne Trower, RMIT Master of Architecture (Professional) student URBAN ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION Peripheral Living Installation Project Leaders: Nigel Bertram & Gretchen Wilkins - RMIT Architecture Urban Architecture Laboratory with RMIT Master of Architecture (Professional Degree) Urban Architecture Design Studio students & RMIT Master of Architecture (Research by Project) Urban Architecture candidates. exhibited in: Bushfire Australia Tarrawarra Museum of Art Healesville, Victoria 28 March - 25 July 2010 Peripheral Living Exhibition Catalogue Pamphlets: In this design study we took as our starting point design issues raised by the recent Victorian bushfires, from a personal to a regional scale. We considered this tragedy as a catalyst for broadly re-thinking the limitations and possibilities of community life within such bush environments on the fringes of our cities. The communities of Kinglake, Flowerdale, Healesville, Yarra Glen and others in Melbourne’s north-east are neither truly rural nor urban, but exist in an overlap zone of low-density peri-urban settlement, physically detached from, but still reliant on the metropolis for jobs and services. We researched contemporary and historical physical manifestations of this type of ‘peripheral living’ both in Australia and around the world, while considering the liberties, restrictions and possible future directions for life on the edge of the city. Design projects ranged from landscape interventions on the scale of a township to architectural strategies for individual properties and structures.  TarraWarra Museum of Art presents: STATE OF DESIGN PUBLIC LECTURE "Reconstruction - Peripheral Living" Nigel Bertram and Gretchen Wilkins, RMIT Architecture, Urban Architecture Laboratory Date: Saturday 17 July, 2010 Time: 3.00pm Venue: TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville State of Design website: Reconstruction Peripheral Living Lecture Bushfire season is now an annual occurrence on the Australian calendar. With Australia’s growing population pushing communities further into the natural environment the yearly looming threat of bushfire has now become ingrained in the Australian psyche; its devastation etched into the memories of all those who have witnessed it. Many people within these locales have experienced great trauma, yet have indicated their desire to rebuild their lives in the region. The brief from these clients means that architects will face not only the challenge of considering the lifelong environmental impact of the buildings they design, but the safety of those building within a bushfire prone area. This informal forum with Nigel Bertram and Gretchen Wilkins, Senior Lecturers in Architecture, Urban Architecture Laboratory, RMIT will facilitate a discussion on good design within the current constraints of the planning code and the relationships between architecture, infrastructure and landscape. Each speaker proposes that despite the challenges, bushfire can be seen as a catalyst for design innovation. Fire can be as much a cultural issue as a technical or scientific one, and in accepting this challenge designers are afforded the opportunity to rethink conventional building typologies.  Antonino Saggio Five Masterworks By Louis Sauer Lulu, 2010 64 pages in color Isbn: 978-1-4461-4559-3 Paperback (Full Colour) Paperback (B&W) E-Book Download Book Preview Louis Sauer is known in the US as one of the greatest housing experts. He achieved national fame when many of his innovative designs were built in Society Hill, the historic colonial neighborhood in Philadelphia. The quality, variety and reasoning behind his creative solutions for the renewal of large areas of old and derelict urban context were the exemplars for those who followed him in this field. The five designs included in this book are selected from the period (1961-79) when Sauer practiced in Philadelphia. His work is exceptional for its variety and wealth of solutions. Some examples are his modernistic forms, intelligent understanding of the history of the locale and the requirements of diverse urban scales. The five works Antonino Saggio is presenting in this publication give a picture of his outstanding design and the ingenuity of his solutions when faced with diverse design challenges and scales. YouTube Interview: Antonino Saggio talks with Paolo Allegrezza on this book. Louis Sauer Bio Design Studio Leader, RMIT Architecture, 2006-ongoing Practice: Director of Urban Design, Daniel Arbour and Associates, Montreal (1989-1996) Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Colorado (1985-89) Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture at Carnegie-Mellon University (1979-1985) Practice: Louis Sauer Associates, Philadelphia (1961-1979) Louis Sauer is a prolific practicing architect whose extensive body of work across the 1960's and 70's in the USA focused on innovative low-rise high-density housing and community developments. He subsequently took on a series of high profile academic leadership roles as the Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture at Carnegie-Mellon University (1979-1985), and Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Colorado (1985-89). In 1984 Sauer was given the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Promoting Architectural Education. Between 1989 and 1997 Sauer returned to professional design practice in Montreal, Canada, as Director of Urban Design at Daniel Arbour and Associates, an urban planning office. There, he did 50 urban design master plans that included large-scale residential on green-field sites, structure plans for the redevelopment of brown-field sites, high-density mixed-use urban infill, and a master plan for structuring public and private sectors for a new town. He retired from practice in 1997. He is currently based in Melbourne and teaches regularly as a Design Studio Leader in the RMIT Architecture program, offering design studios focusing on High Density Low Rise urban housing. These include: Cohousing Upperpool Design Studio, Semester 1, 2008. Studio leader: Louis Sauer Other resources: Louis Sauer - Wikipedia Profile Jim Morgan, The Work of Louis Sauer, Toshi Jukatu Japanese Press, 1980 - website with book extracts including a critical essay and detailed design project documentation Louis Sauer Associates - design project information Antonino Saggio, "Absorbing Venice: Low-rise High-density Housing by Louis Sauer", in G. De Carlo, C. Occhialini a cura di Ilaud, Territory & Identity, Comune di Venezia-Maggioli editore, Santarcangelo Romagna, 1998 pp. 74-79 RADIO INTERVIEW  Audio Podcast: The Architects-Louis Sauer.mp3 Louis Sauer interviewed by Simon Knott and Rory Hyde The Architects - Show 131 - Louis Sauer RRR Radio Show: The Architects Tue, 23 October 2007  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 HOUSING EXHIBITION Kazunari Sakamoto, Tokyo Institute of Technology House: Poetics in the Ordinary RMIT Design Research Institute Exhibition Melbourne Curator: Nigel Bertram, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer; Co-Director: DRI Urban Liveability with Sue Anne Ware; Director: RMIT Urban Architecture Laboratory; Practice Director: NMBW Exhibition Dates: 08.04.09–02.05.09 Public Lecture: Wednesday 29.04.09 at 6 pm (see below) Exhibition Closing Party: Wednesday 29.04.09 at 7:30pm Venue: The Atrium, Federation Square, Corner Swanston & Flinders St, Melbourne Prof. Sakamoto, of the Tokyo Institute of Technology is an internationally renowned Japanese architect. He was a student of Kazuo Shinohara and the teacher of Kaijima and of Tsukamoto of Atelier Bow-Wow, also of TITech. This exhibition presents Sakamoto's major works in residences and collective housing from the past 30 years. Kazunari Sakamoto’s architectural works emerge at the boundaries of everyday life. These consciously inconspicuous forms, both in a haphazard suburban setting or in the density of Tokyo, provide an entirely new spatial sensation. This exhibition continues the Design Research Institute’s interest in the discussion that expands the conventional focus on “housing” as a general economic or social condition to include examination of the individual dwelling and its spatial contexts. Moving beyond the large scale and the spectacular, this exhibition will demonstrate the importance contemporary Japanese culture attaches to the activities and environments of everyday life.  PUBLIC LECTURE Kazunari Sakamoto "House: Poetics in the Ordinary" RMIT Design Research Institute Public Lecture Introduced By Prof Geoffrey London, Victorian Government Architect Date: Wednesday 29.04.09 Lecture Time: 6:00pm Exhibition Closing Party: from 7.30 pm onwards Venue: ACMI Cinema 1, Federation Square, Corner Swanston & Flinders St , Melbourne VIC 3000 The RMIT Design Research Institute invites you to a public lecture by visiting Professor Kazunari Sakamoto of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. It is an opportunity to hear Professor Sakamoto discuss his architectural composition and how it finds greater significance in everyday life than in aesthetic expression. It is this ‘absolute commonness of the everyday’ that presents to him a space of freedom that enables a communication between the body and the world. This lecture is followed by an exhibition closing party and drinks. Spatiality in Contemporary Japanese Housing Lowerpool Elective, RMIT Bachelor of Architectural Design, Semester 2, 2009 Elective Leader: Sean McMahon My Vertical Backyard Studio Leader: Mel Bright and Shelley Freeman Lowerpool Design Studio RMIT Bachelor of Architectural Design, Semester 02, 09 RMIT Tiro Rise: RMIT affordable highrise student housing. Studio Leader: Enza Angelluci. Lowerpool Design Studio, RMIT Bachelor of Architectural Design, Semester 01, 09.  TIMBER DESIGN AWARDS Martyn Hook, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer Adrian Iredale, RMIT Master of Architecture (research by project), 2008 Finn Pedersen, RMIT Master of Architecture (research by project), 2008 Practice Directors: Iredale Pedersen Hook Project: Sheep House, Victoria Winner: Environmental Commitment Award at the Australian Timber Design Awards, 2008  RMIT URBAN ARCHITECTURE LABORATORY PUBLICATION RE: HOUSING Shane Murray, Diego Ramirez-Lovering, Simon Whibley (Eds) Melbourne: RMIT Press, 2008 REHOUSING examines recent transformations in the contexts surrounding housing in Australia and reconsiders architecture's involvement in, or contribution to the general provision of housing. It presents a survey of 24 illustrated case studies and 3 thematic essays focusing on the relationship between architecture and housing and the opportunities for architecture to contribute to these conditions. Publication project leader: Simon Whibley, RMIT Architecture Lecturer, RMIT Urban Architecture Laboratory RMIT Architecture student publication project team: Allison Claney, Karim Chami, Mariana Jahufer, Rachel Soo, Rueben Kuah and Samantha Chang Related event: reHousing: UAL International Housing Conference and Exhibition RMIT, Melbourne, October, 2006 Co-Convenors: Shane Murray, Diego Ramirez and Simon Whibley DESIGN STUDIO HOUSING TRANSFORMATIONS: Low-rise High-density Housing in Footscray Upperpool Design Studio Semester 2, 2008 Studio Leaders: Louis Sauer and Anna Tweeddale  RAIA VICTORIA STATE AWARDS 2008 Nigel Bertram, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer Director, RMIT Urban Architecture Laboratory Practice: NMBW Architecture Studio with Marika Neustupny, Lucinda McLean "Elwood House" winner: RAIA VIC State, Residential Architecture, Alterations and Additions, Architecture Award, 2008  RAIA VICTORIA STATE AWARDS 2008 Peter Corrigan, RMIT Architecture Lecturer, Adjunct Professor Practice: Edmond and Corrigan with Maggie Edmond "Lux Residence Alterations," Caulfield winner: RAIA VIC State, Small Project, Architecture Award, 2008  COHOUSING DESIGN STUDIO Cohousing Architecture Upperpool Design Studio, Semester 1, 2008 Studio leader: Louis Sauer Open the online Co-housing studio publication
excerpted from: Urban Livability Collective Exhibition Catalogue, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, October, 2008 -------------------------  FORUM Cohousing Forum, RMIT Building 8, Sat 8 March, Sat 19th April, Sat 14 June 2008 Forum Director: Hans Tilstra Participants: Cohousing Architecture Upperpool Design Studio students, Semester 1, 2008 Studio leader: Louis Sauer Partners: Melbourne Cohousing Network Resources: Cohousing Melbourne Discussion List VIETNAM AT RISK YOUTH HOUSING DESIGN STUDY TOUR ELECTIVE Building the Community: At Risk Youth Housing, Vietnam, 2008 Hoi An, Quang Nam Province, Vietnam International Travelling Design Elective, Semester 1, 2008 RMIT Architecture; RMIT Industrial Design; RMIT Interior Design; RMIT Property, Construction & Project Management Elective Supervisor: Mel Dodd, RMIT Architecture Lecturer, Practice: MUF Project Leader: Esther Charlesworth, RMIT Post-Doctoral Research Fellow; Director, Architects Without Frontiers Partners: Lifestart Foundation RMIT University Vietnam Architects Without Frontiers Australia OzQuest  CONSTRUCT - RMIT ARCHITECTURE TECHNOLOGY LECTURE SERIES "Concrete Architecture" Tim Jackson, Practice: Jackson Clements Burrrows CONVENOR: Martyn Hook, RMIT Architecture VENUE: RMIT Building 8, Level 11, Lecture Room 8.11.68 TIME: 12.30 pm Thursday 03 April 2008 Jackson Clements Burrrows is a multi award winning Melbourne based practice with a strong design focus motivated by a desire to create sensitive and stimulating environments. Their design methodology is often informed by making intelligent decisions about perceived constraints. Tim Jackson will discuss a range of projects predominately constructed from concrete and will explore the development of ideas through construction that demonstrate an innovative approach to sustainable design principles for the multi level apartment buildings. » page 1 | page 2 | page 3 | ||||||||
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