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SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE sustainable » news | postgrad | projects | publications | teaching | staff | partners | resources PROJECTS ARCHITECTURE ESD COURSE Architectural Technology 3: Sustainable Architecture Core Architectural Technology ESD Course RMIT Bachelor of Architectural Design Coordinator: Graham Crist recurring offering, 2003- This course provides students with a knowledge of structural, constructional, environmental, and servicing requirements for buildings coupled with an appreciation of associated materiality of these technologies as they are translated into building form, particularly in relation to environmental sustainability. It is intended that students be not only provided with a technological information base but also an understanding of the architectural design implications of these technologies. This course is taught by project through a key applied task where students select a canonical modernist house, resite the project in Melbourne, conduct an ESD audit of the project, and then redesign the project to bring it up to a 5 star ESD rating, while responding critically to the design aspirations and qualities of the original scheme. WORKSHOP/ SYMPOSIUM All Change Inaugural workshop for: Designing the New World: Developing architectural education in response to climate change (DARC) RMIT workshop leaders: Mauro Baracco, Mel Dodd and Graham Crist Poster pdf Distributed systems and local networks are increasingly seen as a new paradigm by which urban designers can re-consider the provision of critical resources like food, energy, and transport. Focussing our investigations on the rural and urban context of the Wimmera region, located approximately 300 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, our design projects will question whether the growth of regional towns could form an important alternative to the expansion of the Melbourne suburbs. Projects will consider the programmatic frameworks of land, food and work for propositions in the towns of Mitre, Goroke, Natimuk and Horsham. This is an opportunity to rethink urban design from an ecologically empathetic position. Workshop Studio presentations 17-18 Oct 2011 RMIT Bldg 8, level 12 Studios 36-38 Symposium 18 Oct RMIT Bldg 8, level 11, Rm 8.11.68 Partners: RMIT Architecture and Design University of Technology, Sydney Queensland University of Technology Escola Tecnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB), Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Ecole Nationale Superieure d’architecture de Toulouse, France Politecnico di Torino, Italy EU Industrialised Countries Instrument Education Cooperation Program (ICI ECP) The objectives of this Joint Mobility project are to exchange students between EU and Australian partners and develop a “Designing the New World” workshop. Students undertake lectures, exercises, studios, practical case studies in courses and workshops, and study of building types on the implementation of sustainable architectural designs. This will facilitate crucial research and practice employment opportunities. Students will also participate in a “Designing the New World” workshop which will be reviewed by industry partners. A total of 27 students each from the EU and Australia will study at an overseas partner for a semester. Graham Crist, Peter Johns, Brendan Jones, and Simon Whibley, Practice: Antartica "The Contributions of Design to Questions of Sustainability," in Brent Allpress and Michael Ostwald (Eds), Architectural Design Research, Vol 3, No. 1, 2008, p 43-56 Graham Crist and Simon Whibley are RMIT Architecture Academics and Brendan Jones is a design studio leader. - Architectural Design Research website  INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP + DESIGN STUDIO Post-Oil Cities: International Architecture Workshop 7, Institut d’Arquitectura Avancada de Catalunya (IAAC), Barcelona, 2008 RMIT Architecture Advanced Architecture Upperpool Design Studio, Semester 2, 2008 Workshop hosts: Institut d’Arquitectura Avancada de Catalunya Workshop website: www.iaac.net Design workshop collaborations will be undertaken with students and faculty from RMIT Architecture, Melbourne, France, Japan and Spain. RMIT Architecture Workshop Leaders: Paul Minifie, Jan van Schaik, Gretchen Wilkins, RMIT Architecture with Ignasi Perez Arnal; Ricard Fayos; Josep Anton Acebillo; Vincente Guallart; Vincens Arrablo; Borja Ferrater; Carlos Ferrater; Benedetta Tagliabue; Manuel Castells; Miguel Barcelo; Manuel Sangenis; Josep Maria Rosello; Alica Framis; Manuel Bailo; Lluis Sabadell; Belinda Tato; Jospe Lluis Mateo; Edward Bru; Hitoshi Abe PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS: RMIT Architecture, Melbourne Australia Institut d’Arquitectura Avancada de Catalunya (IaaC), Barcelona, Spain Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier (ENSAM), Montpellier, France Migayi University, Sendai, Japan Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan Tohoku University of Technology, Sendai, Japan Universtitat Internacional de Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain  RMIT Architecture SIAL Upperpool Design Studio, Semester 02, 2008. Studio Leader: Pia Ednie-Brown. Project Archive Blog: Cultivating Life ONLINE PUBLICATION REMOULDING LIFE online studio pamphlet publication (Issuu flash viewer) keywords: educational spaces, school masterplanning, sustainable architectural design, reggio emelia, composition, biological models, emergence, field conditions This studio involved the students designing a masterplan and new facilities for the Wales Street Primary School in Thornbury, Melbourne. It address a community desire for future expansion of the school to involve the greening of the campus along more environmentally sustainable principles while responding to the project based educational philosophies of Reggio Emelia. The remoulding of the grounds was concieved in terms of Stan Allen's analogous notion of "field conditions". related project: ARC DISCOVERY GRANT, 2009-11 Ethics and aesthetics as criteria for innovation: A design research study of biological art and digital architecture Chief Investigators: Dr Pia Ednie-Brown, Prof Mark Burry, Dr Andrew Burrow, Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory, RMIT School of Architecture + Design Orin Catts, University of Western Australia  RMIT Design Hub Architects: Sean Godsell Architects in association with Peddle Thorp Architects Under construction 2009-10 Sean Godsell, Practice Director: Sean Godsell Architects. RMIT Master of Architecture (research by project), 2001 This large high-rise urban project on the old CUB site is to house the new RMIT Design Hub, an interdisciplinary design research facility. The building has been designed to attain the highest standards of sustainable design and will employ an innovative operable solar cell cladding system forming a climactically responsive second skin that will reduce the need for cooling in summer and heating in winter. It is integrated with the other new building developments on the CUB site to contribute to a comprehensive water recycling system. RMIT PROJECT OUTLINE RMIT Design Hub RMIT Property Services webpage that provides further details of the project NEWS MEDIA RMIT's eco-friendly campus unveiled The Australian, 2 July RMIT's new $56 million Design Hub building in Melbourne will incorporate evironmentally responsible design with an outer skin of 16,000 sand blasted glass cells, some of which will be photovoltaic solar power collectors to help shade and power the building. International Media: INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION NEWS ITEM ON RMIT DESIGN HUB BUILDING More than 210 million TV viewers across China and south-east Asia have watched this Phoenix Satellite Television news segment on RMIT University’s innovative Design Hub, designed by RMIT Architecture alumnus Sean Godsell DESIGN HUB AWARDED FEDERAL FUNDING December 12, 2008 It has been announced that RMIT will recieve $28.6 million from the Federal Government’s Education Investment Fund to build a collaborative research facility, the Design Hub, and $16.7 million from the new one-off Teaching and Learning Capital Fund for Higher Education. RMIT Openline Article  SUSTAINABLE & AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMPETITION WINNER Housing design for two families, competition entry Designers: Graham Crist, RMIT Architecture, Practice: Antartica - Metropolitan Housing Laboratory with Shane Murray and Diego Ramirez, Monash University Winning commission: VicUrban Sustainable and Affordable Housing Competition, 2007-2008 VicUrban intends to build the first three display homes in metropolitan Melbourne in Autumn 2008. Partners: VicUrban Department of Sustainability and Environment Office of the Victorian Government Architect VicUrban Media Release RMIT Architecture - Housing Projects  WORKSHOP New Food Solutions 2032 Exploring new food solutions in Sunshine and the Docklands October 4, 2007 VEIL Workshop article Workshop leader: Francois Jegou Participants included RMIT Architecture & Design staff: Malte Wagenfeld, RMIT Industrial Design Graham Crist, RMIT Architecture Melanie Dodd, RMIT Architecture Craig Douglas, RMIT Landscape Architecture and Michael Trudgeon, RMIT PhD invited candidate, Practice: Crowd Productions with Mick Pearce, David Mayes, Kirsty Fletcher, John Sadar, Simon Drisler, Steven Mushin, Kate Pears, Mark Richardson, Bonnie So, Kathleen Turner, Fiona Barker-Reid and VEIL staff members Prof Chris Ryan (VEIL), Dianne Moy, Ferne Edwards and Kirsten Larsen.  ROUND TABLE FORUM Visions - Graham Crist and Mel Dodd present at the Sustainable Cities Round Table Future Melbourne Forum 31 October, 2007 includes video archives of presentations by RMIT Architecture staff Graham Crist and Mel Dodd and links to the presentations of all the other invited presentations. SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIOS VEIL Studio Series: Sustainable Futures Coordinator: Graham Crist  ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO 3007: Designing buildings to last 1000 years Studio Leader: Graham Crist VEIL/RMIT Architecture Design Studio Semester 1, 2007, Semester 1, 2008 VEIL 3007 design studio project archive -------------------------  ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO Tactics and Strategies: Building a sustainable future for Hastings Studio Leader: Mel Dodd VEIL/RMIT Architecture Design Studio Semester 1, 2007 -----------------------  Related Blog entries: Prof Chris Ryan, Director of VEIL Nisham Ratinam, RMIT Architecture student  Partner: Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab (VEIL) Director: Prof. Chris Ryan. Cross-institutional project funded by the Victorian Government Sustainability Statement and Sustainability Fund, and hosted by the Australian Centre for Science, Innovation and Society, Melbourne University. RMIT Architecture is offering two VEIL affiliated Architecture Design Studios in semester 1, 2007 as part of a cross-institutional initiative to commission research-led teaching projects addressing innovative sustainable architecture and design practices in architecture and design schools and programs across Victoria.  WORKSHOP VEIL Hub 1: Sustainable Futures Workshop, Jan 23-27, 2007 Convenor: Chris Ryan, VEIL Director Graham Crist, RMIT Architecture, Workshop Participant Ralph Horne, RMIT Centre for Design, Workshop Participant The Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab (VEIL) Cross-institutional project funded by the Victorian Government Sustainability Statement and Sustainability Fund, and hosted by the Australian Centre for Science, Innovation and Society, Melbourne University. VEIL, an ACSIS project funded as part of the Victorian Government Sustainability Statement and the Sustainability Fund, hosted by Melbourne University - started its first "Hub" on January 23, with a workshop bringing together government, design and architecture staff and researchers from participating universities across Victoria. The Hub came up with innovative visions for a sustainable future, which will form a starting point for students in design schools across Melbourne, who will participate in VEIL affiliated Design Studio projects throughout semester one, 2007. The second VEIL Hub is scheduled to start in March and to run for several months.  BOOK Richard Black and Martyn Hook Mobile Landscapes RMIT University Press, 2006 Design investigations and research on the implications for towns on the Murray River of managed environmental flooding of the Murray Darling River system, with Wentworth as a primary case-study. This book features essays and project-based research along with RMIT Architecture projects exhibited at the 1st International Architecture Biennale, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2003.  BOOK Imaging Sustainability Helen Lewis and Chris Ryan (Editors) Melbourne: RMIT University Press, 2006 Sustainability has become more than a topic of technology and performance, as its meaning continues to be understood in various social, political and cultural levels. This publication is a collection of critical essays by Australian and local contributors on the current condition of the relationship between sustainability, design and the built environment. BOOK CHAPTER Graham Crist, RMIT Architecture "Invisible Sustainablity" in Imaging Sustainability Helen Lewis and Chris Ryan (Editors) Melbourne: RMIT University Press, 2006.  BOOK CHAPTER Graham Crist, RMIT Architecture "CH2: The Effect of the Image is the Real Effect" in Imaging Sustainability Helen Lewis and Chris Ryan (Editors) Melbourne: RMIT University Press, 2006.  BUILT PROJECT Merrijig Olive Farm, Merrijig Graham Crist, Practice: Antartica under construction, 2006-7 Straw-bale buildings in Merrijig near Mount Buller, with an autonomous water supply and power supply, a water recycling system, and solar power and hot water generation.  LOCAL GOVERNMENT RESEARCH PAPER Graham Crist, RMIT Architecture "The Green Aesthetic Object" Darko Radovic, Melbourne University "The Manners of Sustainable Architecture- on the Behaviour of CH2 in Urban Fabric of Melbourne" in Nature and Aesthetics in the Sustainable City (pdf file) Council House 2, Technical Paper CH2, AusIndustry Research Papers, Melbourne City Council, 2006  EXHIBITION Made in Germany: Architecture + Ecology Exhibition RMIT Gallery 31st August – 30th September 2006 Opening Adress: Graham Crist, RMIT Architecture Program Director Made in Germany: Architecture + Ecology showcases nine building projects which demonstrate the diversity of German-designed ecological construction methods in recent years. Amongst these are factories, child-care centres, sports halls, private homes in various locations around Germany, as well as major projects such as the new construction of the central railway station in Stuttgart. Designed by the Goethe-Institut in collaboration with the Aedes Gallery in Berlin. RMIT Gallery media release  INDUSTRY/EDUCATION RESEARCH PROJECT Digital EcoLab Lab.3000, 2003-2004 ARTICLE Eco-Sense, Lab.3000, 2004 BOOK Ryan, Chris Digital Eco-Sense: Sustainability and ICT - a New Terrain for Innovation Melbourne: RMIT Press/Lab.3000, 2004 Subjects: Sustainable development; information technology - technological innovations; communication - technological innovations; technological innovations - environmental aspects & economic aspects. This book documents research-led Design Studios commissioned across a number of institutions and disciplines to investigate the themes above, involving 100 design students (industrial, architecture, interior, fashion) at three leading Universities in Australia (RMIT and Swinburne in Melbourne, and University of Technology, Sydney).  ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO Hamilton: welcome to reality Upperpool Design Studio semester 2, 2003 Tutor: Graham Crist This studio, based in the regional town of Hamilton, Victoria involved students working on a very challenging design project with a real brief, client and users. The project involved alteration and extension of an existing building, the Mulleratarong Centre, to better house people with mental disabilities. Students considered current social research on the area and the sanitorium as a historical architectural type. The schemes were all required to demonstrate an effective approach to environmental sustainability and consider the implications of situating these technical performance criteria within a qualitative social sustainability agenda.  ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO "Digital Eco-Sense" Studio Leaders: Prof Chris Ryan (Lab.3000) and Malte Wagenfeld (RMIT Industrial Design) RMIT Upperpool Design Studio, 2003 RMIT Architecture & Industrial Design Students This design studio was one of a series commissioned across a number of institutions and design disciplines investigating sustainable development in the context of emerging digital technologies. partners: Lab.3000 Digital EcoLab, hosted by Lab.3000, 2003-2004  van Schaik, Leon Ecocells: Landscapes and Masterplans by Hamzah & Yeang London: Wiley-Academy, 2003 ISBN 0 470 85119 9 The ecocell is a vertical integrating device to bring landscape elements, daylight, rainwater, natural ventilation and sewage recycling vertically across all levels of the builtform. The concept is explained in two masterplan projects by Hamzah & Yeang (registered T. R. Hamzah & Yeang Sdn. Bhd.) the Amsterdam Center of Science & Technology and the West Kowloon Waterfront Development.  BUILT PROJECT Broome Sustainable House, 2002 Graham Crist and Stuart Harrison, Practice: Harrison & Crist Architects, -2004 Current practice: Graham Crist, Antartica; Stuart Harrison, Stuart Harrison Architect BUILT PROJECT Windsor Environmentally Sustainable Housing design Competition entry, 2001 Graham Crist and Stuart Harrison, Practice: Harrison & Crist Architects, -2004 Current practice: Graham Crist, Antartica; Stuart Harrison, Stuart Harrison Architect SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE TEACHING RESOURCES Passive Solar Student Resources, 2001 RMIT Architecture online student reference materials Prepared by: Michael McKenna, Morgan McKenna Architects Doug Evans, Gavin Perrin, RMIT Architecture SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE PRACTICE INTERVIEWS Imaging Sustainablity Practice Interviews, 1999 Interviews with Melbourne architects on sustainablity as a design question in contemporary architectural practice. Architects: Peter Corrigan, RMIT Architecture Adjunct Professor, Practice: Edmond & Corrigan Ian McDougall, RMIT Architecture Adjunct Professor, Practice: Ashton Raggatt McDougall Architects | ||||||||
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