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8/9/2019 Foundation Design Studio - City Limits
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Maidy Lewis
A RC H 1142 / A RC H 1154Fo und a t io n Desig n Stud io
C i ty Lim i tsRM IT LA N D SC A PE A RC HITEC TURE SEM ESTER 01 , 20 10 STUDIO PA M PHLET
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Foundaton
1. the basis on which something is grounded
2. the fundamental assumptons from which
something is begun or developed or calculatedor explained
3. the act of startng something for the first tme;
introducing something new
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This course is the first Design Studio in the Landscape
Architecture degree program at RMIT. In this founda-
ton course, students are introduced to the discipline,
discourse and culture of Landscape Architecture:
what it is, how it is theorised, and how it is practced.
The thematc basis of this semester is the concepton
of urban space as a phenomena produced within a
system of inter-relatons. These relatonships will
be explored in the City Limits studio through three
projects which introduce students to a series of ap-
proaches to landscape architectural design. Each
project will be driven by a specific design generaton
technique allowing students to experience and en-
gage with a range of design methods. This is an inten-
sive studio which aims to introduce a number of key
approaches to designing. The projects are intendedto foster creatvity, imaginaton and experimentaton.
Throughout the semester students are required to
re-imagine the City or city-ness - through design
projects that engage with Melbournes CBD at three
distnct scales.
1. (Sml) Urban Explorer
2. (Med) Urban Surface
3. (Lge) Near Futures
Hamish Smillie
Giles Redward
BretFrost, Heath Blair, Jake Orvad
st u d io a b st ra c t
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Found a tion Stud io Co od ina tor: Ka te Churc h
Tuto rs: Roha n Buc kley, Joc k Gilbe rt, ClaireMartin, Andrew Miller, Caitlin Perry, SaskiaSc hut
Carl Hong
Carl Hong
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This is the first of three projects which engage with
the city and ask you to stretch students imagin-
ings about the urban landscape. It asks students to
explore the city as a laboratory of different types of
spaces, to learn ways of seeing and drawing space,
to experiment with ways of modelling or materialis-
ing spaces. The Urban Explorer project is a four week
project which explores the city at the small scale,
introducing students to the micro, the detailed and
the fleetng aspects of the urban environment. This
project utlises narratve as a tool to generate and de-
velop design - drawing from art, literature and film to
consider ways engaging with space, movement and
tme. The tasks students undertake are aligned with
partcular drawing and making techniques such as
mapping, model making, film and collage. The project
includes camp,workshops and culminates in a public
exhibiton.
Maidy Lewis, Michael Ryan, Tom Chapman
u rb a n e x p lo re r
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As Landscape Architects, our medium is the land-
scape itself: the ground, the surface, the terrain. This
second project engages with the city at a somewhat
larger scale. This project asks students to design a
new surface alongside Federaton square, over the
rail tracks to the Exhibiton Street bridge. In this proj-
ect students are literally creatng a new ground, a
surface where there was previously just air. What can
this new surface, this urban terrain offer to the city?
What does it change?
This project asks you to explore and develop your un-
derstanding of surface and through this to challenge
the assumpton that surface is two dimensional, flat,
thin or statc. Urban Surface is framed around ap-
proaches to bringing students individuality to the
design process and considering the ethics of the re-
latonship between the designer and the public. It is
intended to build on techniques from the first project
and introduces ideas of (formal) compositon.
Carl Hong
u rb a n su rfa c e
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ima ge (s)
THE FUTURE IS NEAR...
and the Melbourne CBD is not how you remember
it. It is now almost entrely inundated by sea water.
There are great fluctuatons in climatc conditons
with long dry winters followed by searing summers
during which there are frequent storm events. There
is no clean water source. There is no petrol. Global
trade networks are no longer operatonal, promptng
an economic crisis far worse then the recent
GFC. These changes have induced a mass exodus
from the city.
Most buildings have been abandoned and are no lon-
ger configured by corporate spatalisaton.
BUT:
A group of people have recently returned and are re-
appropriatng the abandoned spaces of the CBD.
These inhabitants are all young. Their ages range
from 18-30. They have survived this massive change
through their resourcefulness and ability to adapt
their living habits.
HOW DO WE (RE)MAKE THE CITY?
HOW DOES THE CITY OPERATE?
WHO IS THE CITY?
NEAR FUTURESn e a r fu t u re s
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ima ge (s)
Upon their return, they have notced:
The entre city and its related infrastructure has
changed.
Open space has entrely transformed.
Food producton has become localized.
Water collecton has become a necessity
The power grid is non-operatonal
New micro economies and systems of exchange
have emerged.
The entre transportaton system has adapted
and new forms of transport have materialised
For this scenario-driven project students create an
enclave for these inhabitants in one of Melbournes
abandoned buildings. The enclave must respond to
the new climatc conditons and produce food, clean
water and energy for 100 inhabitants as well as recre-
aton spaces and living space.
How will these inhabitants reappropriate the city?
What opportunites exist within the present infra-
structure that express themselves in the future?
This final projects is based around around conceptual
thing and understanding systems.