un-performance

R M I T L A N D S C A P E A R C H I T E C T U R E S E M E S T E R 0 2 , 2 0 1 0 S T U D I O P A M P H L E T

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The studio sought to rede� ne the term ‘natural systems’ to include that which is usually excluded - humans and their various products.

Understanding the landscape as made up of a series of movements, in � mes scales from the geological to the momentary. The studio proposes to inves� gate rubbish as a mechanism to understand the distribu� on of material and its physical, spa� al e� ects through the landscape.

The students inves� gated a range of landscape architectural projects in order to evaluate their understanding (and subsequent designs) in rela� on to the term ‘nature’ and speci� cally look at movement and materiality through the designs.

Students also explored modes of mapping that allowed an understanding of the system of produc� on, consump� on and disposal in terms of movement and e� ect.

James Fong

James Fong

James Fong

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John Williams

Simon Meade

Paul Clarke

Ryan Iudica

Zoe Loomes

Kenny Nguyen

Dohyung Kwon

Bridget Keane

Cassandra Lucas and Caitlin Perry

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My project is a response to the globalisa� on of sys-tems of produc� on, consump� on and disposal. A disconnec� on has emerged over the last century be-tween people and these systems, my project seeks to re-connect them through decentralisa� on and locali-sa� on. It is my project’s conten� on that de-centralis-ing and localising systems makes them more adapt-able and resilient. My project addresses our reliance on petroleum and the interna� onal freight of goods by exploring scenarios such as peak oil. This project

began for me by examining the last consumer item that I had purchased, a jacket. Through the lifecycle of this single item I was able to trace global systems of clothing produc� on, consump� on and disposal. From this inves� ga� on my project took two separate but interconnected trajectories, � rstly to intervene in clothing systems by designing a decentralised cloth-ing recycling, sewing workshop and secondly to apply the logic of decentralisa� on to the city.

John Wil l iams

Pinch

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Fat City inves� gates the need for a change in landscape consump� on habits on the site of Caroline Springs. For me, Caroline Springs represents what is wrong with the process of urban growth and sprawl. My design interpreta� on a� empts to remodel the current processes of growth in areas such as Caroline Springs, crea� ng a dystopian ideal that blurs the boundary between the developed and rela� vely undeveloped landscape on either side of the unde� ned edge.

Through inves� ga� ons of systems associated with the cow, I have used the consumable system of the cow as a design tool to reimagine urban growth on site. Inves� ga� ng real occurances of failed systems such as Detroit and Chernobyl I a� empt to be� er understand the individual systems and establish a new system which takes into account the ability for shi� within landscape, infrastructure and popula� on on site.

Simon Meade

Fat City

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This project began with looking at the func� on of glass. How it was made, distributed, recycled and wasted, essen� ally what it is to be a waste product.

Through this, my research took me on a journey into the realm of the ubiquitous amber glass bo� le and its reluctant signi� cance in building emergency housing as a response to disaster relief. Sounds like a stretch…..

I wanted to create movement using a fracturing on the surface of a dome and thus was born ideas about the � at packed or pop up landscape.

4 strategies for disaster relief:- The opera house- el Jefe- The lotus- twist and grow

Paul Clarke

Glass with care

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....an interac� ve installa� on, Ltl Bourke St; alters ways in which people move within a par� cular space in re-sponse to a waste of space....

Beginning the studio with a fascina� on with polystyrene this studio has formed this fascina� on into an interac� ve space in which people can walk through air-� lled space, controlled by � me and people density.

The project has been formed physically with the ma-terial quali� es and structure of the typical polysty-rene ball but originated from the huge waste contri-bu� on of polystyrene take-away containers.

Ryan Iudica

Shif t-a-bal ls

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In considera� on of the studio aim to ‘rede� ne natural systems’ and include that which is usually excluded - my project proposal relates to de� ning waste across increasing scales throug the tracing of a waste item, for the purpose of a system scale interven� on that explores the designed integra� on of waste systems with ecological systems. An ini� al considera� on of waste in my local suburb of Collingwood led me to the disposable co� ee cup, a common item of street li� er in an inner city suburb dominated by contem-

porary cafe culture. The cup ends up on the street and enters the storm water system. The realisa� on of storm water as a sub-nature and as a waste system that could be enhanced through design to operate as a resource brought me to my � nal design concept. The conversion of an urban storm water system to one that provides water as a community resource. Filtra� on phases gradually increase water quality as the water travels through the system to be acessed at ‘leakage points’ and a bathing pool beside the Yarra.

Zoe Loomes

S.W.I .M

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What was new has become normal and what is normal is unperforming. Landscape architects have fallen into a state of unperformance and need to address their designs and sites thoroughly. Through past success and failures. Through one-to-one tests and research of the people in the site. Hampshire road is an example of this poor performance and it is one big waste of space as it is � lled with many instances of waste.

Kenny Nguyen

Rethinking the unperformance

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De� ni� on of Classi� ca� on is to sort something by par� cular criteria. For example, city can be classi� ed by basic func� on, such as, infrastructure, building, street, energy and residents. This can be a new star� ng point of design process. Therefore, my design work started from classi� ed a general street, which located in CBD, then, crushed exis� ng criteria and reclassifying these. Generally, the street is constructed by round the tram. I crushed these criteria and remade a new form of street round the

accessibility of surface. As a result, Proposal Street designed round the pedestrians because human can access most types of surface, for example, slope and stair. The street is formed 6 di� erent tunnels and 3 layers. Pedestrians use ground and top layers. My proposi� on suggests the e� cient, relax and safe circula� on for pedestrian. It also tries to solve tra� c problem in the city by separa� ng car and tram. Furthermore, it will be an alterna� ve interpreta� on for the shape of city.

Dohyung Kwon

re-classi f ication

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