STUDIO OUTCOME & OBJECTIVES:

To propose new forms of teaching spaces, places & facilities within existing and projected future technologies and equipment.

This studio will initially commence with a series of short esquisses, which will constitute 35% of the overall assessment. These equisses establish precedence for the final architectural outcomes.
They are used to develop a series of processes and tools in which to design. The precedence for this studio will be based on historical and theoretical investigations.

BUILDING PROGRAM AND SITE:

The program will house a student population of 1500 students with the potential expansion of an additional 500 students.
The program will consist of the following spaces:
Places of Interchange,
Classrooms, seminar & review spaces
Studio and Student project spaces
Workshops and laboratories
Faculty offices and Meeting spaces
Research Program Spaces
Administrative Offices
Student and faculty support services
School wide support spaces.

INVESTIGATIONS:

The studio will investigate the existing Architectural teaching and learning models at RMIT through historical and contemporary precedence, a series of guest lecturers, lectures, field trips and workshops with a view to develop future educational models.

CONCEPTUAL AGENDA:

The educational institution has developed as a system of interconnected organisations, less self-contained and more flexible to a variety of different economic and service based opportunities, through its virtual and physical infrastructures.

Despite evolving teaching and learning models, through the incorporation of IT based technologies, the “real space/ the built environment” becomes a nexus for an ever-growing need to create space that facilitates the processes of learning, research and sharing.

With the advent of the new RMIT Design Hub on the CUB site, this studio will test the grounds of contemporary architectural pedagogy through the design of an undergraduate architecture school within this site.