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THE LIVABLE CITY
HUMAN SYSTEMS
BUILT SYSTEMS
- EXTREMES
- DIY CITY
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MOBILITY SYSTEMS
EXTREMES
Presented by RMIT School of Architecture and Design
Directed by Tom Kovac, Professor, RMIT Architecture. Practice Director: Kovac Architecture (Biography), with Jerome Frumar Farzin Lotfi-Jam
Wolf D. Prix, Professor for Architecture, Head: Studio Prix, die Angewandte, University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Practice Director: Coop Himmelb(l)au (Biography), with Niels Jonkhans Reiner Zettl
Saturday 18 July, 10am - 6.30pm
Invitation only
EXTREMES Design Laboratory Studio explores the notion of architecture and building in extreme environments. The functional focus of the buildings considered in the studio has been developed gradually, initially starting with design considerations for a small research module, effectively a single highly specialised live/work unit, the studio then extrapolates the design process expanding scale and complexity to design a small hotel, which is essentially an agglomeration of the single units. Behind the function of the building the technical focus of the studio is on the creation of adaptable and responsive structures that are able to react to dynamic external forces.
As a broader field of research the studio investigates the ways that architecture must adapt to or be deformed by external influences. Influences such as energy availability, or the amount of information flowing into and out of a building quickly effect ecological performance and the level of connection that a building can offer to the surrounding world – by considering these influences, in relation to speculative projects in study sites the project anticipates and extrapolates future environmental conditions and aspirations.
Using this process the studio’s main focus is on the transformability and adaptability of buildings in extreme conditions such as inner urban locations, examining how architecture deals with these dynamic external forces and influences through both ‘Avoidance’ and ‘Absorption’. By focusing on starting locations that have been researched and well defined the research of the studio searches for patterns of resonance and triggers of transformation that can be linked directly to key influences – then the researchers can transfer locations and apply their process of ‘mapping’ to more generic situations.
The output of the EXTEMES studio will be a dissemination of research, which strives to demonstrate how and why architecture is transformed and influenced by its surrounding environment – illustrating considerations that can be made as we imagine the interaction of existing and new architecture, and the interaction of architecture with social and environmental conditions of the extreme urban environments of the future.
The EXTREMES Studio is being run in parallel simultaneously at RMIT Architecture, Melbourne and die Angewandte, Vienna by Tom Kovac and Wolf D. Prix respectively, with Melbourne and Viennese students and staff communicating via Skype and Quicklinks. Niels Jonkhans, Reiner Zettl, of die Angewandte and Tom Kovac of RMIT Architecture led a workshop with die Angewandte students, held in Günther Domenigs Steinhaus, Steindorf, Carinthia, Austria in November 2008. The RMIT Architecture studio group of students travelled to Vienna for a joint ten-day workshop at the die angewandte led by Wolf.D Prix Tom Kovac with Niels Jonkhans Reiner Zettl was preceded by a three day seminar in Gunther.Domenigs Steinhaus.
PARTICIPANTS
COLLABORATORS
Farzin Lofti-Jam, Jerome Frumar, RMIT Architecture
Niels Jonkhans, Reiner Zettl, die Angewandte
Presented by RMIT School of Architecture and Design
Directed by Tom Kovac, Professor, RMIT Architecture. Practice Director: Kovac Architecture (Biography), with Jerome Frumar Farzin Lotfi-Jam
Wolf D. Prix, Professor for Architecture, Head: Studio Prix, die Angewandte, University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Practice Director: Coop Himmelb(l)au (Biography), with Niels Jonkhans Reiner Zettl
Saturday 18 July, 10am - 6.30pm
Invitation only
EXTREMES Design Laboratory Studio explores the notion of architecture and building in extreme environments. The functional focus of the buildings considered in the studio has been developed gradually, initially starting with design considerations for a small research module, effectively a single highly specialised live/work unit, the studio then extrapolates the design process expanding scale and complexity to design a small hotel, which is essentially an agglomeration of the single units. Behind the function of the building the technical focus of the studio is on the creation of adaptable and responsive structures that are able to react to dynamic external forces.
As a broader field of research the studio investigates the ways that architecture must adapt to or be deformed by external influences. Influences such as energy availability, or the amount of information flowing into and out of a building quickly effect ecological performance and the level of connection that a building can offer to the surrounding world – by considering these influences, in relation to speculative projects in study sites the project anticipates and extrapolates future environmental conditions and aspirations.
Using this process the studio’s main focus is on the transformability and adaptability of buildings in extreme conditions such as inner urban locations, examining how architecture deals with these dynamic external forces and influences through both ‘Avoidance’ and ‘Absorption’. By focusing on starting locations that have been researched and well defined the research of the studio searches for patterns of resonance and triggers of transformation that can be linked directly to key influences – then the researchers can transfer locations and apply their process of ‘mapping’ to more generic situations.
The output of the EXTEMES studio will be a dissemination of research, which strives to demonstrate how and why architecture is transformed and influenced by its surrounding environment – illustrating considerations that can be made as we imagine the interaction of existing and new architecture, and the interaction of architecture with social and environmental conditions of the extreme urban environments of the future.
The EXTREMES Studio is being run in parallel simultaneously at RMIT Architecture, Melbourne and die Angewandte, Vienna by Tom Kovac and Wolf D. Prix respectively, with Melbourne and Viennese students and staff communicating via Skype and Quicklinks. Niels Jonkhans, Reiner Zettl, of die Angewandte and Tom Kovac of RMIT Architecture led a workshop with die Angewandte students, held in Günther Domenigs Steinhaus, Steindorf, Carinthia, Austria in November 2008. The RMIT Architecture studio group of students travelled to Vienna for a joint ten-day workshop at the die angewandte led by Wolf.D Prix Tom Kovac with Niels Jonkhans Reiner Zettl was preceded by a three day seminar in Gunther.Domenigs Steinhaus.
PARTICIPANTS
COLLABORATORS
Farzin Lofti-Jam, Jerome Frumar, RMIT Architecture
Niels Jonkhans, Reiner Zettl, die Angewandte
STUDENT PARTICIPANTS
Tom Frauenfelder, Will Hosikian, Jessica In, Sarah Papadoupollous, Hally Ongkasandjojo, Jenna Emmanouilides, Chern Yang Loo
EXTREMES: Architecture Upperpool Design Studio, 2008-9 - Advanced Technologies
RMIT Master of Architecture (Professional Degree)
Stefanie Theuretzbacher, Phillip Reiner, Lukas Allner, Alexander Haid, Marte Ringseth Helgeland, Jelena Vukmirović, Anna Stuerzenbecher, Aleksander Oniszh, Daniela Krohnert, Melanie Kotz, Luis Muniz, Christoph Pehnelt, Uli Schifferdecker, Anna Kokowska, Sille Pihlak, Nora Varga, Andrea Sachse, Nikolay Emilov Uzonov, Carla Shiecza Neufuss Cardenas, Kadri Kerge, Yi-Chen Lu, Anutorn Polphong, Oliver lössser, Moritz Heimrath, Damjan Minovski
EXTREMES: Studio Prix,
die Angewandte, University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
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