LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Lower Pool Studios Semester 2, 2012

15/50/500 Matt York New Frontiers Anke Schmidt Campus City Hanoi Thierry Kandjee & Petra Pferdmenges Compound Briget Keane Emotional Place Miki Mitsuta In the Shadows Rhys Williams Plexus Ed Silveira & Niki Schwabe How the West Won Leanne OShea & Astrid Huwald Close Encounters (third) Scott Mitchell and Saskia Schut Araucaria Cottage Garden Design Jane Shepherd Swell Rob Roggema

We have a 1 hectare parcel of land zoned public open space. This parcel abuts a proposed medium density site that will contain either 15 lots per hectare, 50 lots per hectare or 500 lots per hectare. This will bring somewhere between 60-2000 residence, all relying on our 1 hectare parcel for different reasons. 15/50/500 will investigate the range of forces presented to our site from each housing density, and how Landscape Architecture could respond. What is the role our your 1hectare parcel, how does it cope, what is prioritized and what is denied, what is the value of this landscape? We will investigate through site inspection, model making, hand drawing over CAD base, use of section and plan. We will review cost as a design parameter. You will be asked to consider the role of our 1 hectare space given the different housing (population) densities presented, you will be required to formulate a design proposition for the site, and present a design (for each density) that responds to your proposition. You will employ landscape as the medium of responding to your proposition (a piece of string is how long?). This is an intensive studio delivered between weeks 1 and 4. Final presentation will be held in week 7.

15/50/500 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE. LOWER POOL INTENSIVE STUDIO SEMESTER 2 2012. TUTOR. MATT YORK CLASS TIMES: WEEK 1: TUESDAY 17 JULY-FRIDAY 20 JULY WEEK 2: TUESDAY 24 JULY-WEDNESDAY 25 JULY WEEK 4: TUESDAY 7 AUGUST-WEDNESDAY 8 AUGUST WEEK 7: PRESENTATION

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// Background

Cities all over the world change as Melbourne and its growing metropolitan areas do. This studio aims to address the case of peri-urban areas within the metropolitan region of Greater Melbourne and the ongoing processes of transformation and change. New land use and settlement patterns, growing transportation infrastructure as well as new large-scale industrial areas have transformed former agricultural land and natural landscapes. Peri-urban areas are the result of dynamic spatial processes with a multitude of stakeholders, institutions and actors involved. Hence, designing future (sustainable) landscapes requires comprehensive understanding of the human use and processes that have formed our urban environment nowadays. These processes take place against the background of climate change and the need for more sustainable adaptation approaches. Who is involved in the the new frontier? What are the specific potentials of the peri-urban within metropolitan areas? What are design visions for future peri-urban patterns?

// Approach

Designing new ways of interaction between different stakeholders and the landscape will lead to productive scenarios for the fringe. Starting point of the design process will be creative site-explorations with interviews, mapping time-space relationships, portraits of stakeholders and daily networks to unfold vernacula knowledge, hidden spatial potentials and talents. Individual / group research and design periods alternate with group discussions and inputs. Areas / routes of investigation will be collectively selected at the beginning of the studio. Three phases structure the continuous design research process and focus on different aspects.

// Outcome

Atlas of protagonists and spatial potentials The studio will introduce methods for a design practice that uses the perspectives and knowledge of different protagonists / stakeholders to inform the design process. Results of the research expeditions will be portraits of spatial patterns of urban lifestyles and mappings of spatial characteristics. The results will be the starting point to develop design proposals for the future of the peri-urban fringe.

Metropolitan storylines Design proposals show ideas for future lifestyles and concepts for new peri-urban patterns and interactions within the metropolitan area. They will be developed and described through visual-narrative methods based on storytelling approaches.

// lecturer Anke Schmidt is an architect with her own office landinsicht based in Hannover, Germany. Within office project and
research as part of the STUDIO URBANE LANDSCHAFTEN, a transdisciplinary research, teaching and pactical network she works on strategic designs for riverslandscapes, infrastructural improvements, large-scale regional developements. Visual methods such as drawings, mappings and more, play a key role in finding ideas, concepts and strategies.

// Classes

workdays from 1rst October - 26th October from 9:30 - 16.00

CAMPUS.CITY HANOI
exploring experimental design methods on how knowledge society can inform the city
27.08. - 07.09.2012 Intensive workshop in Hanoi, Vietnam 17.09. - 12.10.2012 Communication of outcome through Campus magazine Costs: +/- 1.300$ (flight 800$ + accommodation/food 500$)
for information contact send an email to info@alivearchitecture.eu for inscription please bridget.keane@rmit.edu.au

CAMPUS.CITY HANOI seeks for 16 ambitious studio participants (Undergraudates of Landscape Architecture & Architecture 1/2 ) to investigate how knowledge society can inform the city through experimental design methods. Over an intensive workshop in Hanoi we will investigate different infrastructures to design scenarios for the citys future RMIT Campus. In week one each of the infrastructures will be explored through two teams of two students: One team applies a tactical method by designing and realizing educative actions in / along the given infrastructure. The other team applies a strategic method by designing processes in / along the given infrastructure. In week two the two teams will join their findings to inform a future scenario for the campus city. Back in Melbourne we will make and publish a campus newspaper in order to communicate the outcomes of your projects. Besides the mappings, images of actions, collages and final scenarios developed in the workshop each student will write a reflective article on the applied method and / or outcome to nourish the publication.

Tutors:
Thierry Kandjee is a landscape architect co director of Taktyk, lecturer in ENSP Versailles, editor and state adviser, based in Brussels. His research investigates the notion of landscape skeletons as the construction of socio spatial and geopolitical frameworks.Taktyk is a transnational multidisciplinary practice that engages in city making through practice, research, design studio, editing and art installation. Our field of operation is the metropolitan condition, from diffuse to compact urbanity. Responding to heterogeneous and complex challenges in the intersection of landscape, infrastructure and the city, the practice acts as a conductor, curator, and mediator of complex transformation processes. Projects range from the design of public space, city campus strategic plan, urban renewal, post- industrial/agricultural scenarios to prospective studies Petra Pferdmenges is an architect running the research-based practice Alive Architecture (www.alivearchitecture.eu). The multidisciplinary platform reclaims the public role of designers by making social challenges explicit through unsolicited projects. Since 2010 the approach is developed further through a PhD (design research @ Sint-Lucas Architectuur & RMIT Melbourne). Petra Pferdmenges teaches design & theory at Sint-Lucas Architectuur & at the ULG. Previously, Petra worked for five years in renowned architecture offices throughout Europe (Edouard Francois in Paris, Josep Llinas in Barcelona, Architecten Cie in Amsterdam and ARJM in Brussels) after having completed the International Master in Architecture at the TU Delft, Netherlands. .

+ Theoretical position This studio takes as its starting point that environment is a uid condition - one that uctuates materially, qualitatively and quantitatively. The site is seen as the laboratory within which we will question and recongure the material relationships through ground over time. + Techniques the notion of compound requires an understanding of the behaviour of the existing conditions and the development of a strategy for compounding. There are two key techniques that will be used to do this; 1. observation of material performance 2. reording device + Tools The studio will focus on model making and drawing, where the act of making is seen as a means to producing knowledge. Two denitions of model will form a framework to oscillate between the abstract and physical: a. As a means to question, hypothesise and abstract, b. The physical act of making, with physical limitations, failures and material performances that are non-abstract. + Outcomes From your understanding of the formation of the landscape over time, you will generate a set of formal structures that reorder the existing landscape. This will be demonstrate through a complete drawing set + associated models. + Structure: Workshops: Fridays 9.30-3.30pm Tutor: Bridget Keane

compound 1. To combine so as to form a whole; mix. 2. To produce or create by combining two or more ingredients or parts.

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Emotional Place
Physical places reinforce and amplify certain emotions and intertwine our mind with memory and desire. Through our visceral connection to the outer world, minds make sense of our own existence. The studio explores a concept of form, meaning and metaphors as well as the inuence of physical experience on our minds and memory. In studio tasks, students are asked to design with steps, slopes or both to work on visitors mental landscape and leave a strong impression and memory.

Broader issue: Form making, topographic exploration, landscape pattern & perception Theoretical position: spacious quality & emotion, Form, meaning & metaphors, design through programming, pattern recognition, projection of bodies and minds onto landscape, landscape imagination & visualization, use of digital media in landscape Techniques: Quick tasks for design exploration, hybridized and composite diagram, graphic design Tools: Physical models (compulsory) and 3D software (optional), site visit Readings: Recovering landscape / James Corner, editor (Princeton Architectural Press 1999), Spatial Recall Memory in architecture and landscape / Marc Treib, editor (Routledge 2009), The Meaning of the Body / Mark Johnson (The University of Chicago Press 2007), Theory in Landscape Architecture / Simon Swafeld, editor (University of Pennsylvania Press 2002), Taking Measures Across the American Landscape / James Corner, Alex S. MacLean (Yale University Press 1996) Key precedents: Holocaust Memorial in Berlin Topography of Terror (Peter Eisenman), Barcelona Botanic Gardens (Carlos Ferrater & Bet Figueras), Yokohama International Ferry Terminal (FOA), Lovejoy Fountain Park (Lawrence Halprin), Nicholas Felton (Graphic Design) Outcomes: Two graphically designed booklets (steps and slopes), two landscape designs (steps & slopes) for Site A, a nal design for Site B and an associated hybridized and composite diagram. Tutor: Miki Mitsuta

IN THE SHADOWS

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNS ON SHADE

A studio led by RMIT PhD candidate: Rhys Williams

1. AIM This studio will investigate the condition of shade as both a landscape phenomenon and design concern. Through the use of an experimental design process it aims to arrive at a typology (classification) of distinctly landscape architectural approaches to the conditions design. 2. BROADER ISSUE The provision of shade in public landscapes is typically regarded as a utilitarian matter: its provision being driven largely by practical, rather than poetic concerns. At its best it is typically the product of coincidence, its existence determined upon the results of design moves deemed of greater importance, or, at its worse, the unintentional outcome of untested ideas. In approaching its definition one walks a fine line between creating too much or too little: the plunging of a place into the physical and psychological margins of the city, or, the creation of a celebrated locus for individuals and groups seeking respite from the sun.

3. THEORETICAL/teaching POSITION This studio will experiment with an approach to design teaching that aims to assist you in productively occupying the curious conceptual and physical distances that exist between a preexistsing site and a design proposition. In doing so, the studio employs a process of designing that responds to the following questions: How do landscapes perform? How are we to learn about what landscapes do? How can such an understanding inform design decision making? How can we simulate, with accuracy and control, a landscapes performance through design representations (e.g. drawings and models)? These questions respond to a series of interests that the studio deliverer is currently exploring in a landscape architectural doctoral project at RMIT.

4. TECHNIQUES In the pursuit of designs for shade that are distinctly landscape architectural the studio will focus on working with and in relation to fundamental aspects of the medium of landscape and the pre-occupations of landscape architecture; these include, but are not limited to: topography, vegetation, aspect, exposure, composition, and circulation. 5. TOOLS The studio places an emphasis on 2 and 3 dimensional modes of working for the purposes of observation, description and analysis, conceptual inquiry, design development, and critical reflection upon the studio itself. Alongside orthographic drawing, sketching and photography, the use of physical scale modelling will be dominant. Approaches to the use of these representational modes will form a taught component of the studio.

6. OUTCOMES a. Shade: a typology Visual documentation accounting for the peformance of shade as it is found in designed and non-designed environments across Melbourne. b. Shade: designs on Visual documentation of itterative design investigations exploring your landscape architectural approach to designing shade. c. Shade: a revised typology Diagrammatic and written reflection on the studios design outcomes in the context of the findings of exercise a. Shade: a typology. 7. SCHEDULE Duration: 9 week semi-intensive studio. Days: The studio will run on Tuesday (6hrs) and Friday (3hrs) - times to tba.

RMIT LOWER POOL DESIGN STUDIO LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE SEMESTER 2 2012

Any questions about the studio can be directed to: rhys.williams@rmit.edu.au

P L E X U S
Reimagining Suburban Laneway Infrastructure

Where + Why
This studios laboratory is situated in the suburban laneways of Brunswick and Coburg - a hotbed of contested development, local pride and creativity. Moreland City Council is founded on conventional principles of zoned stability and assumed permanence of development projects with an emphasis on engineering solutions. Unexpected ephemeral conditions, blurring of boundaries and urban forms that are rich in complex landscape systems are seen as chaotic, costly and erroneous. Such conditions are routinely erased, filled, levelled, undone normalised. The shortcomings of this approach recently came to light with the public outcry over failings of the councils Right of Way (ROW) policy. The studio will be conducted in view of this public protest and media attention. Students are required to respond to this approach by applying principles of flexibility, dynamism and adaptation to their design process. As the semester unfolds, students must re-make site using a language appropriated from another discipline. At two points during the course of the semester, an unexpected future scenario is layered onto their proposals requiring that they reconsider site and adapt their language and design propositions accordingly. Using the taxonomies, students will intervene in the laneway through a series of design propositions communicated at various scales in plan, diagram, section and collage. Plan is the primary medium for describing the system. Students are required to work on a base plan at 1:2000. This encompasses the entire site and provides a consistent scale to apply scenario inputs over the course of the semester. Students are required to determine appropriate drawing scales to refine and communicate their proposals at smaller scales of operation. There will be a strong emphasis on high quality hand drawing throughout the semester.

What + How
The studio embraces change as a given condition. Emphasis therefore is placed on the catalytic power of dynamic responsive systems of urban design over the convention of fixed-vision master planning. Throughout the studio, students focus on the ongoing development of suburban laneway infrastructure driven by dynamic productive processes and associative analogies such as electronics, knots, plumbing... ; a landscape design based evolution of the laneway. It seeks to understand the extent to which analogy is an effective tool in the development of hybrid and flexible design propositions. Through a structured framework of design tasks, students are introduced to techniques of taxonomic categorisation, dynamic modelling, representational drawing and social media (blogging) to identify, describe and represent the ecologies that continuously evolve and shape the laneway and its immediate context. Through this process, students develop skills to critically engage with analogy as an effective design structuring technique. Taxonomies become the primary vehicle for associating the analogous language with moments in the laneway network, representing the connections explicitly. The taxonomic collections will be a structured compilation of image, small working models and diagrams. The taxonomies will evolve with the project as hybrid situations begin to emerge through the introduction of scenarios.

Location + Time
Tuesdays 1.30 - 4.30pm Fridays 1.30 - 4.30pm Building: 45 Lv: __ Room: __ Building: 45 Lv: __ Room: __

Who?
Ed Silveira (MLA)

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Niki Schwabe (MLA)

How the West was won

Leanne OShea, Astrid Huwald
The Land Grab currently under way in Wyndham City is the greatest in Victoria, the relentless expansion of tract housing into the Western Plains surrounding Melbourne requiring, on average, a new Kindergarten in the Shire every 2 weeks! The Impetus for this studio came from a request from the Wyndham City Council Community Strengthening Officer for ideas and input in remediating largely dystopian residential and commercial built environments. This studio is an ideas testing workshop/ partnership with the Council, and will be asking what role can Landscape Architecture as a discipline play in the creation of community resilience and cohesion? To answer this, specifically, the studio will examine the following: PLACE- MAKING / RE-CLAIMING ( reconfiguring) PUBLIC SPACE , via development of strategies to create visual and spatial coherence , with an emphasis on breaking up the visual and physical dominance of the car. RESILIENCE: (1) climate change, water scarcity: creation of permeable landscapes/harvesting, storage, re-use (2) Edible landscapes as part of re-localisation of food production / local networks (3) Climate change: higher summer temperatures: creation of cooling/ transpiring landscapes where Landscape Architecture plays a major role in passive solar strategies for conditioning built structures. (4) Fire retardant landscape creation as a response to the fact that there are no mitigating structures / features between new housing and vast tracts of grass-land in fire sectors. (Note, species selection wise, the demands of 2, 3, 4 above tend to neatly overlap) (5) Public space as an opportunity for all the above (1, 2, 3, 4) to support and create community and social cohesion.

Theoretical Position
The studio will engage systems ecology strategies and analysis and urban design analysis and strategies, necessary to translate broad scale issues to site specific spatial outcomes.

Techniques & Tools

Grasp of broad scale issues : interpretation of systems analysis through mapping exercises Grasp of broad scale urban design issues : issues analysis and mapping exercises Scalar thinking: constant cross referencing between 1: 10,000 mapping, 1: 200 plan, section and 3d image: no plans to be drawn in isolation as a studio discipline! Spatial understanding to be underscored by extensive use of 3-d modelling, models photographed to gauge solar geometry/passive solar performance of design.

Close Encounters (third) KIND

with Scott Mitchell & Saskia Schut Tuesdays Fridays 1:30 - 4:30pm 1:30 - 4:30pm

Broader issue This studio contemplates the wilderness within the domestic environment, as something of an everyday occurrence. We will be developing research strategies and design outcomes that orchestrate an encounter between human and the other in order to develop complex understandings of nature. Theoretical position We are drawing on two main bodies of thought. One is the conceptualisations of nature from the romantic movement through to contemporary understandings such as subnatures, the Third Landscape (Clement), corrupted biotopes (Roche). The second is from Elizabeth Groszs theory on the body as the central organising site through which encounters are ordered as a way to challenge the basis of Cartesian space that presents a disembodied vision. Tools and Techniques We will be exploring several methods of recording and designing (including film/photography), drawing, modelling and 1:1 encounters to enable a deep immersion into site and into the other, as well as to develop an understanding of creative practice. Scale and Outcome We will be compiling a catalogue of ongoing research and design over the semester that includes: * a design that orchestrates an encounter within your own domestic environment * researching and designing empathy for the other * researching and designing notation for human and other patterns/movement

Goldfield Studio:

araucaria cottage garden design

lower pool landscape architecture studio by jane shepherd class times: tuesday afternoons and friday mornings / sometimes all day fridays studio site and fieldtrips: Maldon: 140 kilometres north west of Melbourne accessible by train & bus/steam train

This is a garden design studio. We will explore how to draw from the histories of garden design to create new gardens of delight. The site is a 1/3 acre with a weatherboard miners cottage, a few established trees and lawn. It is located in the historic township of Maldon, 140 kilometres north west of Melbourne.

Outcome By semesters end you will have produced a garden design including planting and contour plans, sections and images of your proposal. In addition, you will produce a book that documents your proposals throughout and at the conclusion of semester. The garden has recently been surveyed and a CAD contour and feature plan produced for your use.

Method and structure In the first half of semester we will use particular design periods/themes for generating contemporary concepts. Examples include: Theatricality of High Victorian including a visit to Ripon Lea ; Rococo rocks & the grotto: Maldon and district is a geologically rich area with some beautiful examples of stonework in everyday infrastructure- we will visit a local stone supplier; Arts and Crafts through to new perennial planting movement; Australian bush garden to the indigenous movement.

At mid semester you will select one of four client briefs and prepare a concept for that client. Each client will have an interest in differing aspects of projects produced pre mid semester.

Throughout semester you will work between plan and sections, working models & vignette drawings to develop and test your design proposals. You will need to select plants for your designs and work with the form, massing and spatial potential of planting design to develop your proposals.

Araucaria Cottage

 S W E L L The design of surge resilient landscapes

The dynamics of the Port Phillip Bay in combination with sea level rise may enforce danger to communities and towns around the bay. In this studio we will explore design solutions and interventions that increase the resilience of these areas to deal with future storm surges. In the studio the landscape is seen as a system, functioning on a large scale, with many subsystems, such as water, ecology, transport, energy and the urban fabric. All systems together determine the resiliency of the area. Resilience is a basic concept for landscapes at the higher scales to accommodate natural processes allowing the landscape to deal with external factors and impacts such as climate change. In the studio we will use the concept in a cyclic way of growth and decline and growth again. This makes it possible to design the landscape in every phase of the design studio towards ongoing increasing resilience. The design studio is organised in several phases and starts with researching the main topic of sea level rise and its potential impacts, will analyse the existing networks and examine potential ways to respond to a rising sea level. After this research phase a preliminary design is conceived for the case study area: Hobsons Bay (Williamstown- Altona-Point Cook). On the basis of your initial design proposals you will then formulate and develop your own design project, which needs to emphasise how the resiliency of the area is increased. You will develop your own story, formulate your ambition and design it. In the design phase we will zoom in and out, designing for the whole landscape of Hobsons Bay as well as for specific places, where you have determined design interventions that imply a positive change. In this phase you will also create a 3D model of your design, using locally collected material during the site visit. The studio process is based on collaborative design, in which you will be working intensively together with your fellow designers. It gives you the responsibility to contribute to the group process, take actively part in design discussions and critiques. It also gives you the opportunity to learn from each other, create joint design projects and design by experimenting and interacting. There is no set design assignment, but you are expected to define your own design project. This gives you the freedom to explore your design ambitions.

The case study of Hobsons Bay offers the potential to work as a Landscape Architect in an existing urban environment, threatened by potential storm surges from the Bay. During the studio several guest lectures from practitioners in the field will provide surpluses of practical information and food for thought. The expected results of the studio are an innovative way to design for sea level rise at the scale of the entire landscape system and at the scale of specific design interventions. We take the perspective to design in anticipation of future sea level rise instead of defending the area against it. Concrete results consist of your design proposal in the form of maps, visualisations, collages and models. Readings we will use during the studio include: Panarchy by Holling et al Resilient Cities by Newman et al Resilience thinking by Walker and Salt Resilience and Transformation by Cork Roggema et al. 1 (1) 29- 58 www.resalliance.org www.ecologyandsociety.org Tutor: Rob Roggema