CATCHMENT HYDROLOGY
Vertical Design Studio | Landscape Architecture - Sem 2, 2005
Studio Coordinators: Paul Nicholas + Tim Schork
studio wiki:
http://phpwiki.sial.rmit.edu.au/archiTecture?pagename=CatchmentHydrology
course Code: ARCH 1161, 1163, 1166, 1168, 1171, 1175
mode of delivery: Lectures, Exercises, Readings, Tutorials, Technology Classes, Workshops, Reviews, Desk Critiques and Field Trips
class times:
Tuesday : 5.30 - 8.30 pm [8.12.39]
Friday : 2.30 - 5.30 pm [8.12.43]
Understanding landscape as a system that is responsive to time and flexible in its relationships and connections, this vertical studio will explore strategies for negotiation, transition and transformation.
Within the framework of ‘WATER’ students will investigate the relationships and dynamics of a landscape that is seen as a field of operations - a system of parts that is exposed to internal and external forces and exhibits a changing response over time.
Simple in its chemical definition and internal logic, and in its pure state tasteless and odourless, water is a medium that, in its different states, exhibits diverse qualities, behaviours and material properties.
These transformations are brought about through the interaction of an internal logic with a broader environment, and the resulting behaviours open up new possibilities for landscape design investigation.
Using the Yarra river system as a thread of linked, propositional sites, the vertical studio will perform a series of experiments that explores site, the meaning of the river and strategic response through differing scales, contexts and programmatic activities (agricultural, suburban, urban, river edge, water level, topography etc.)
Experimentation informs the system, overlaying the existent with the emergent.
Some questions that will be addressed through the semester include:
- What are potential methods and processes for understanding the complex set of relationships that exist in our environment?
- How can we utilize them to generate design propositions/outcomes?
- How do transitions occur?
- How might a change of state be reflected through use and experience?
- How does a landscape and its activities transform over time?
- How are systems, structures and boundaries adaptable within these environments?
- How do these conditions inform a design process?
- How do dynamic systems such as water frame a landscape?
- What tools are available to demonstrate and communicate these ideas?
Suggested Reading List:
Kwinter, Sanford, Landscapes of Change
Corner, James, Eidetic Operations and New Landscapes
Lynn, Greg, Animate Form
Cash, Bernard, Earth Moves
Morales, Ignasi, Differences, Terrain Vague
DeLanda, Manuel, Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture
Massumi, Brian, Parables for the Virtual
Wall, Alex, Programming the Urban Surface
Van Berkel, Ben, essays from ANY, Move
Rajchman, John, The Deleuze Connections
Jules Verne,
FOA, Phylogenesis
Kelly, Kevin, Hive Mind: Out of Control
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