6CPT 11362 Special Project (Technology): Enviro Research

Dates 18^th June – 23^rd July.

Subject Co-ordinator: Tarsha Finney

Lead Tutor: Ben Wollen

In partnership with ARUP

This special project has been set up to run in parallel with 11518 M.Arch Winter Design Intensive:  Sydney’s South Central Creative Quarter.

The intention of this special project is to give students a broad range of skills and experiences concerning the collection and deploying of various kinds of environmental data, in addition to producing information to support the design research being undertaken in the winter intensive design studio 11518.

Students will initially participate in a series of workshops and presentations with specialists in Enviro, Wireless data capture and several other areas from ARUP Sydney.  Following this, and having participated in the initial two day briefing process that opens M.Arch studio 11518, special project students will work in small teams with design studio students, producing relevant information to support the design work.   This elective presents an excellent opportunity to skill up on specific data collection skills working with experienced practitioners; it is an opportunity to really explore the architect/consultant relationship – moving back and forth between being an architect and acting as consultant.  All of this while being involved in spatial research specific to the City of Sydney and the institutions and organisations that form it and make it.

TIME COMMITMENT:

18 June: 4hour workshop ARUP    

20th June: 4 hour workshop ARUP

25^th June: 4 hour workshop ARUP

28^TH/29th June ALL DAY STAKEHOLDER BRIEFINGS

Additional direct contact time to be advised.

ASSESSMENTS:

Data collection Methodology report 20% Due  by 28^th June

Delivery of Data to Design groups, report 50% Due  TBA

Final report as part of M.Arch presentations 23^rd July  30%

ENROLLMENT

Enrolment in this subject is by e-request and is for Credit average and above students only.

At the time of making e-request, could you also please Notify Tarsha Finney by email Tarsha.finney@uts.edu.au .

‘Reframing Architecture’

This will be held at 6pm on Wednesday, 30th May 2012, Level 5 School of Architecture – UTS Faculty of DAB (Building 6), 702 – 730 Harris St, Broadway 2007

The practice of Choi Ropiha Fighera has evolved through series of design competitions. A significant part of their approach has been to ‘re-frame’ projects to look beyond any given site and brief to bring broader design opportunities and aspirations to its projects. This lecture will cover the design strategies deployed by the practice which has enabled them to extend beyond the normal parameters of problem solving or form giving and bring forth architecture’s capacity to pose issues, value and meaning.

John Choi is founding partner of Choi Ropiha Fighera. Established in 2000, the practice’s founding design, TKTS, has been widely recognised for its design excellence and innovation, from fields as varied as planning, architecture, branding, public space and tourism. Awards include New York Art Commission Award, World Architectural Festival Award, Jørn Utzon Award for International Architecture, and has been cited as New York’s Building of the Decade.

Other key projects include Macquarie Street Tower, Lune de Sang – a private rural estate in the Byron Shire hinterland, Ballast Point Amenities, Manly 2015 Master Plan, Green Square library which was part of 2008 Venice Biennale Traveling Exhibition, and Parramatta Road Strategic Plan. In 2009, the practice received 3 Commendations in AR Award for Emerging Architecture.

He is Adjunct Professor of Architecture at University of Sydney and serves on the board of 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.

Leena Thomas, UTS Senior Lecturer, writes for U:UTS

India may be one of the world’s fastest growing economies, but that doesn’t mean its greenhouse gas emissions need to follow suit. Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture Leena Thomas explains how a collaborative research project involving UTS, India’s CEPT University and the University of Sydney is combining local knowledge with international research to create a unique thermal comfort model.

Over the last decade India has experienced an unprecedented rate of urbanisation with the building sector accounting for the largest share (47 per cent) of India’s final energy use between 1995 and 2005. Increased energy consumption has fuelled a 60 per cent increase in greenhouse gas emissions during the same period.

The mind-boggling projections for the future reiterate the energy intensive consequences of the built environment.

While Australia and other developed economies in the western world contend with a scenario where 80 per cent of the buildings that will be with us in 2050 have already been built, projections for India, by global management consulting firm McKinsey and Company suggest 70 to 80 per cent of the India of 2030 is yet to be built. And as that country shifts from 30 per cent (in 2008) to 40 per cent of its population living and working in urban areas by 2030, they forecast greenhouse gas emissions in Indian cities could increase to 1.6 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (up from 230 million tonnes in 2005, and more than two-and-a-half times Australia’s net emissions in 2007).

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This article appears in the May 12 Issue of U:UTS

Read the full article online here at the Newsroom website: http://newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2012/05/climate-control

A site for active exchange and discussion, Parlour brings together research, informed opinion and resources on women, equity and architecture in Australia. It seeks to expand the spaces and opportunities available to women while also revealing the many women who already contribute in diverse ways.

Parlour is an outcome of the Australian Research Council-funded research project Equity and Diversity in the Australian Architecture Profession: Women, Work, and Leadership. The research team is led by Dr Naomi Stead. Team members are Dr Karen Burns, Justine Clark, Professor Sandra Kaji-O’Grady, Gill Matthewson, Dr Amanda Roan, Professor Susan Savage, Professor Gillian Whitehouse and Professor Julie Willis.

In collaboration with the Shanghai Tongji Urban Planning and Design Institute (TJUPDI), the UTS School of Architecture is pleased to announce a call for expressions of interest for current architecture masters students to undertake a two week internship position in Shanghai with Urban Design Studio no. 5, in the July winter semester, 2012. The purpose of the internship is to give the selected students experience in the architecture and urban planning processes of China, while experiencing one of the most dynamic and sophisticated cities in the world.

This internship is not paid, and internees will have to cover their own flights and spending money, however accommodation will be provided in Shanghai for two weeks, and students will be shown Shanghai by the directors and staff of the Urban Design studio no. 5. We are currently exploring additional funding support through the UTS International BUILD program.

Shanghai Tongji is one of the most respected universities for Architecture, Design and Planning in China, and has affiliations around the globe. You will be working in a fast paced sophisticated design studio environment on real urban and architectural projects.

Interested students should submit a maximum 6 page portfolio as well as a copy of their academic record a two page CV, and a letter explaining what the students are looking to gain from the internship addressed to the head of the School of Architecture. Mandarin is not a requirement for this position. Successful applicants may apply for a special research project subject code for 6 cp.

Applications are to be delivered to Nalisa Mam’s office (Level 5, room 5.91) by 5pm 24th May 2012. Interviews will occur for up to 5 places in the following week for shortlisted candidates. For additional information, please contact Anthony.Burke@uts.edu.au

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Bold, frank criticism can only nourish architecture   Elizabeth Farrelly. Sydney Morning Herald. May 10th 2012.

To catch up:

MS4A_MCA Open Conversation.

UTS School of Architecture May 3rd 2012.
Panelists: Sam Marshall, Andrew Donaldson, Paul Berkemeier, Philip Cox, Elizabeth Farrelly, and Imogene Tudor. Moderated by John de Manincor.

Audio available here

MCA’s chequered reception Heath Aston March 4th 2012  Sydney Morning Herald.

Spatial delight gets lost at MCA  Elizabeth Farrelly March 27th 2012, Sydney Morning Herald.

MCA: Open Conversation or Guarded Debate? David Neustein May 4th Australian Design Review

Critical thinking Gerard Reinmuth May 7th Australian Design Review

Lines of division: The new MCA in Sydney Gillian Serisier May 9th Australian Design Review

MS4A_MCA:   Audio recording of the discussion now available.

Audio of the May 5th Conversation at UTS now available here:

http://vimeo.com/41695262

Project details available at Architect Marshall

http://www.marshall.net.au/

Find reviews of the event on Architecture Design Review 

Thanks to Make Space For Architecture for holding this event and the excellent people at BVN for co-hosting.

Get involved.

Australian Design Review

OPINION: Critical Thinking

Gerard Reinmuth  7th May 2012

“As a major launch event, Open Conversation: MCA was an excellent choice. The Museum of Contemporary Art project and its procurement (two abandoned competitions and the subsequent appointment of Sydney architect Sam Marshall) has long been the topic of debate and criticism within the Sydney architecture scene and since the completion of the project the volume of critique has only increased. By successfully enticing Marshall and two of the prominent voices to have critiqued the project in the media – writer Elizabeth Farrelly and architect Philip Cox – to debate in the same room, MS4A pulled off a coup. The generous agreement by all three to participate in the open conversation created the potential for a direct, mature discussion between intelligent adversaries with different points of view; a rarity within the Sydney architecture crowd, where debates are too often carried out in private and are mostly fuelled by personal jealousies rather than differing intellectual positions……“

For more information on Make Space:  http://www.ms4a.org/

Image:  Liane Rossler ‏ @lianerossler

May 4, 2012

More here:  http://www.australiandesignreview.com/opinion/19562-mca-open-conversation-or-guarded-debate

‘Aformal Architecture’

This will be held at 6pm on Friday, 18th May  2012, Level 5 School of Architecture – UTS Faculty of DAB (Building 6), 702 – 730 Harris St, Broadway 2007

Aformal Architecture explicates a spatial logic for the city of Hong Kong through architectural products that can be explained neither by mainstream understandings of formal or informal processes, and explores the consequences for public space in a dense city. Coinciding with the publication of Cities Without Ground, a book that maps the complex three-dimensional connectivity of Hong Kong’s pedestrian passageways, this lecture explores general conditions of the aformal through specific exploration of three buildings in Hong Kong that while outside mainstream histories of the city’s development exhibit unique qualities and three architectural proposals that exacerbate them

Jonathan D Solomon is an American architect based in Hong Kong, where he is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. His work explores public space and the contemporary city, through design projects such as Ooi Botos Gallery, a shophouse in a Hong Kong street market converted into a gallery for contemporary Chinese photographic art; research projects such as his 2004 book 13 Projects for the Sheridan Expressway, the 26th volume in the Pamphlet Architecture series; curatorial projects such as 2010’s Workshopping in the US Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale; and publication projects through 306090 books, where he has served as a founding editor since 2001. His latest book Cities Without Ground, coauthored with Adam Frampton and Clara Wong, explores the relationship between climate and public space in the unique three-dimensional urbanism of Hong Kong.