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ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS Technology Research, Teaching, Practice Projects, Lectures, Exhibitions FAB-PAK Design Studio, RMIT Master of Architecture (Professional) Studio Leaders: Gretchen Wilkins, Senior Lecturer, RMIT Architecture Leanne Zilka, Lecturer, RMIT Architecture John Cherrey, Lecturer, RMIT Architecture Exhibited in: RMIT Architecture: Advanced Technologies and Emergent Practices RMIT Architecture Curators: Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Research Director & Gretchen Wilkins, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer in Students Exhibition ABB Co-Curators: Neil Leach and Xu Wei-Guo Machinic Processes: Architecture Biennale Beijing ABB 2010 Venue: 798 Space, Beijing Dates: 15 October – 31 October 2010 Exhibited in: RMIT ARCHITECTURE STAFF AND STUDENTS EXHIBITING IN THE LONDON FESTIVAL OF ARCHITECTURE RMIT Architecture: 1:1 One [two] One - Urban Installations from Melbourne in the International Architecture Student Festival (IASF) London Festival of Architecture, 19 June - 4 July, 2010 Fab-Pak seeks to produce a series of full scale flat-packable structures by coupling reclaimed laminate sheet material and advanced digital fabrication techniques. Designed as urban installations for both London and Melbourne, the work explores systems of digital unfolding and physical re-folding, while keeping within the constraints of international shipping logistics such as weight-to-volume efficiencies and time-to-cost ratios. The projects also explored the relationship between localised material harvesting and remote manufacturing, proposing work that might proliferate across international networks and collaborative labor. Two projects demonstrate a series of new structural and architectural possibilities of reclaimed laminate sheets, an expandable urban bench and an urban wall of interlocking wave units. RMIT Architecture students: Mak Alex, Nik Kellina Bakti, Jonathan Barzel, Maximilien Forget, Timothy Heron, Ashini Erangi Kulatunge, Bronwyn Litera, Mathilde Lucas, Xiaozhou Qin, Oscar Sainsbury, Shann Ching Lee Yi Ting, Pei Yong, RMIT Master of Architecture (Professional)  4.1 Fab-Pak: Slice Form, Jonathan Barzel, Maximilien Forget, Ashini Erangi Kulatunge, Bronwyn Litera, Mathilde Lucas, Design Studio, RMIT Master of Architecture (Professional). Studio Leaders: Gretchen Wilkins, Leanne Zilka, John Cherrey.  4.2 Fab-Pak: Slice Form, Jonathan Barzel, Maximilien Forget, Ashini Erangi Kulatunge, Bronwyn Litera, Mathilde Lucas, Design Studio, RMIT Master of Architecture (Professional). Studio Leaders: Gretchen Wilkins, Leanne Zilka, John Cherrey.  4.3 Fab-Pak: Slice Form, Jonathan Barzel, Maximilien Forget, Ashini Erangi Kulatunge, Bronwyn Litera, Mathilde Lucas, Design Studio, RMIT Master of Architecture (Professional). Studio Leaders: Gretchen Wilkins, Leanne Zilka, John Cherrey.  4.4 Fab-Pak: Slice Form, Jonathan Barzel, Maximilien Forget, Ashini Erangi Kulatunge, Bronwyn Litera, Mathilde Lucas, Design Studio, RMIT Master of Architecture (Professional). Studio Leaders: Gretchen Wilkins, Leanne Zilka, John Cherrey.  4.5 Fab-Pak: Wavewall, Mak Alex, Nik Kellina Bakti, Timothy Heron, Xiaozhou Qin, Oscar Sainsbury, Lee Yi Ting, Shann Ching Pei Yong, Design Studio, RMIT Master of Architecture (Professional). Studio Leaders: Gretchen Wilkins, Leanne Zilka, John Cherrey.  SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS Sustainable Architecture Projects Coordinator: Graham Crist  PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES CONSTRUCT - RMIT Architecture Technology Lecture Series, 2008 Lectures by invited practitioners and academics on architectural technology and design development Convenor: Martyn Hook, RMIT Architecture Technology Coordinator  ARCHITECTURAL COMMUNICATIONS/TECHNOLOGY ELECTIVE Flexible 3D Modelling Architecture + Design SIAL stream recurring 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. ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGY ELECTIVE Putting the Pieces Together Architecture Technology Elective, recurring offering, 2005-2009 Master of Architecture (professional degree) Supervisor: John Cherry, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer This elective focuses on detailing and design development. ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGY ELECTIVE Thermo Mass Housing Architecture Technology Elective, recurring offering, 2006-2008 Bachelor of Architectural Design (pre-professional degree) Supervisor: Martyn Hook, RMIT Architecture Technology Coordinator This elective focuses on environmentally sustainable housing models. ARCHITECTURAL COMMUNICATIONS/TECHNOLOGY ELECTIVE Generative Components Architecture SIAL Communications and Technology Elective Semester 01, 2008 Supervisor: Ben Doherty, SIAL  ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGY ELECTIVE LONGSPAN & HIGHRISE RMIT Architecture Technology Seminar Project - SIAL Stream semester 2, 2007 Supervisors: Andrew Maher, SIAL Research Fellow Saman De Silva, RMIT Civil Engineering - Innovative Structures Group In Semester Two 2007 SIAL and the RMIT Innovative Structures Group are offering a collaborative seminar between Architectural and Engineering students focusing on conceptual approaches to structural design. This Seminar follows our pilot project, ReEngineering.  ARC LINKAGE GRANT, 2006-2008 Delivering Digital Architecture in Australia Chief Investigators: Prof Mark Burry, Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory, RMIT School of Architecture + Design Prof. Mike Xie, RMIT School of Engineering Linkage Partner: Arup Sydney Administering Institution RMIT University Project Summary: - architect/engineer collaboration using structural models, with a fresh look at analogue methods, including variations on rapid prototyping, and then comparison with digital models - the development of digital design tools and linkages (analysis/optimisation/representation) for structures and façades - lessons from parallel industries ARC DISCOVERY GRANT 2006-08 Acts of electronic negotiation: Overcoming communication barriers to transdisciplinary innovation in design Chief Investigators: Prof Mark Burry, Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory, RMIT School of Architecture + Design Assoc. Prof Lin Padgham, RMIT School of Computer Science and Information Technology Prof Mike Xie, RMIT School of Engineering Andrew Burrow, Research Fellow, Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory, RMIT School of Architecture + Design 2006 : $150,000 2007 : $145,000 2008 : $140,000 Primary RFCD 4104 DESIGN STUDIES APD Mr Andrew Burrow, Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory, RMIT School of Architecture + Design Administering Institution RMIT University Project Summary Improved collaboration between the diverse contributors to design in the construction industry is urgently needed to reduce waste, streamline production and improve performance. It is also a key to better and more advanced design. The quality of human to human interaction in computer mediated environments is critical to the occurrence of innovation between design disciplines. This project will create a pool of highly qualified personnel in this area in Australia, including participating designers introduced to novel empowering approaches to network communication. It will develop and apply knowledge from other disciplines to developing tools for the design community.  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  PREMAJOR & MAJOR PROJECT DESIGN THESIS STREAM RE-ENGINEERING RMIT Architecture Final Year Design Thesis Premajor/Major Project - SIAL Stream RMIT Civil Engineering Semester 2, 2005 Co-ordinators SIAL: Jane Burry + Andrew Maher Civil Engineering: Professor Mike Xie + Dr Saman De Silva SIAL offered a pre-major design studio to bring together students from architecture and structural engineering to explore the organisation, development and fabrication of built systems in co-rational collaboration. Co-rationality is neither an approach to design in which a structural system is the starting point (“pre-rational”) or one in which structure is designed in reaction to formal resolution (make it stand up please, or “post-rational”) but an opportunity to explore structural systems in synthesis with other design drivers. This work was featured in: BEIJING BIENNALE EXHIBITION Advanced Architecture - RMIT Architecture Exhibition RMIT Curator: Paul Minfie, RMIT Architecture - Advanced Architecture Laboratory Australian Curator: Tom Kovac, RMIT Architecture Adjunct Professor Emerging Talent, Emerging Technologies: Students Exhibition Curator: Neil Leach 2nd International Architecture Biennale, Beijing, 2006  ARCHITECTURAL COMMUNICATIONS/TECHNOLOGY ELECTIVE PARAmetric Design Architecture SIAL stream Offered 2004 Tutors: Jane Burry, Yamin Tengono - SIAL Guest Lecturer: Tom Kovac The aim of this course is to give students expertise in modelling designs parametrically. Software: CATIA parametric engineering design software.  INTERNATIONAL MIT/RMIT ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO Digital Mockups Architecture SIAL stream Offered 2002 Tutors: Mark Burry, Andrew Maher, Jane Burry, Grant Dunlop, Gregory More - SIAL with MIT Department of Architecture & Gehry Partners Architects, LLP (USA) A collaborative venture involving teams of RMIT and MIT Architecture students, with tutors from SIAL, MIT Department of Architecture and Gehry Partners Architects, LLP exploring the potential for both remote collaboration and the application of advanced computer modelling techniques (parametric design/associative geometry) within a design and design development context. Software: CATIA parametric engineering design software. Related Research Projects ENGINEERING & ARCHITECTURE - SIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH PROJECTS RMIT INNOVATIVE STRUCTURES GROUP - RMIT Civil Engineering/SIAL Members include: Professor Mike Xie, Professor, Head of Civil Engineering Peter Felicetti, Director, Felicetti Pty Ltd Consulting Engineers, RMIT Architecture Alumni Andrew Maher, Research Fellow, SIAL Jane Burry, Research Fellow, SIAL Dominik Holzer, Research Assistant, SIAL ENGINEERING & ARCHITECTURE - SIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH PROJECT Evolutionary Structural Optimization Professor Mike Xie; Peter Felicetti; Mark Burry, Innovation Professor, Director of SIAL  ENGINEERING/ARCHITECTURE - SIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH PROJECT Ikon Tower Melbourne Architect : Tom Kovac, RMIT Architecture Adjunct Professor, Practice: Kovac Malone Structural Engineer : Felicetti Pty Ltd Cross Bracing Optimization : Professor Mike Xie, Jiwu Tang + | ||||||||
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