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Key recent Lowerpool Studios from 2007 and earlier include:




Louis Sauer Associates, Penn's Landing Square, Philadelphia

"Community Housing"
Lowerpool Design Studio
Semester 2, 2007
Studio leader: Visiting Prof Louis Sauer
Practice: Louis Sauer Associates, Philadelphia (1961-1979)
Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture at Carnegie-Mellon University (1979-1985)
Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Colorado (1985-89)
Practice: Director of Urban Design, Daniel Arbour and Associates, Montreal (1989-1996)
Louis Sauer was 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). He is semi-retired and based in Melbourne where he led an RMIT Architecture Upperpool Design Studio with Mel Dodd in Semester 1 2007 on community architecture and urban design. He is offering an RMIT Architecture Lowerpool Design Studio on community housing in Semester 2, 2007.

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

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

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Architectural Pedagogy
Lowerpool Design Studio
Semester 2, 2007
Studio Leader:
Enza Angelucci, RMIT Master of Architecture Candidate; Practice: Norman Day Architects
This studio will test the grounds of contemporary architectural pedagogy through the design of an undergraduate architecture school within the proposed RMIT Design Hub precinct on the CUB site.

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Future Dwelling
Lowerpool Design Studio
Semester 1, 2007
Studio Leader:
Enza Angelucci, RMIT Master of Architecture Candidate; Practice: Norman Day Architects

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RMIT ARCHITECTURE/INTERIOR DESIGN STUDIO
SL LOST+FOUND
RMIT Architecture + RMIT Interior Design
Lower Pool Design Studio - SIAL stream
Semester 1, 2007
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.

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'Life in Brunswick'
RMIT Architecture Lowerpool Design Studio
semester 2, 2006
Design Studio Leader: Stuart Harrison and Marcus White
Studio Exhibition
RMIT Brunswick
Opens Wed 16 Nov 2006, 5pm

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Stranger than Fiction
RMIT Architecture Lowerpool Design Studio - SIAL Stream
Semester 2, 2006
Design Studio Leaders:
Jane Burry
Paul Nicholas
Tim Schork
‘StrangerthanFiction’ focuses on the investigation of tectonics and the relationship of architectural components and details to the building as a whole. How does the part inform the whole? The main project for the studio is the design of a small to medium scale documentary film library for the Jean Painlevé collection (film, books and artifacts) on a waterside site in Melbourne docklands. The dual themes of immersive reading(s) and sub aquatic environments provide the evocative and qualitative leads for developing an expressive architecture, considering in some detail the tectonic qualities, assembly of the building and use of materials.
Final Student Project Presentations (flash archive)

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RMIT ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO
LIMINAL
RMIT Architecture Lowerpool Design Studio
Semester One 2006
Studio Supervisors:
Andrew Maher
Jerome Frumar
This studio investigates architectural process at three scales. The main design agenda for Liminal revolves around a site which is to be shared by a hawkers market and a gallery of aboriginal art that will be explored in exercises at an urban scale, a building scale and at the scale of a detail. The liminal is the threshold between the two programmes both metaphorically and physically and students can address how modern Australia might locate itself both regionally and locally. Students will will be introduced to a computational process which must be applied at each scale and identify the constraints and parameters which are useful for each scale. This is through use of Ken Brakke's Surface Evolver, a minimal surface (soap film) generating software. We access Surface Evolver in Rhino3D via Evolversaurus, a plug-in coded by Kynan Woodman, to a design by Paul Minifie with Jono Podborsek.

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RMIT ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO
AGENTSPACES
RMIT Architecture Lower Pool Design Studio, 2005
Studio Director: Gregory More, RMIT Interior Design Lecturer, SIAL Researcher
In the first phase of the studio participants worked as individuals designing ‘urban agents’ that would perceive and react with the urban environment. In the second phase this reactive-ness is portrayed in the manner in which each design group has had to deal with the evolution of an architectural proposition within a future context-less site, developing scenarios to which the architecture would react to. In the second phase of the ‘Agent Spaces’ studio participants have been working in groups (2-3 people) to advance their propositions for a ‘Lost Theatre’, located in the future-scapes of Melbourne’s Docklands in the year 2030 and beyond.
Related Exhibition:
AGENTSpaces
Lab.3000 Digital Design Biennale Exhibition
Melbourne Museum, 2005

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BOOK
Topography
Richard Black and Martyn Hook
RMIT University Press
2004.
Introduction by Peter Cook
This publication frames project-based teaching and research through the discussion and documention of twelve collaborative lowerpool and upperpool design studios offered by RMIT Architeture academics Richard Black and Martyn Hook from 1996 to 2001.

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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.

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Lowerpool Design Coordinator:
Richard Black, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer
richard.black@rmit.edu.au