LIMINAL



Studio Directors
Andrew Maher + Jerome Frumar

In Semester One 2006 SIAL is offering LiminaL, a lower pool design studio that will investigate architectural process at three scales. The main design agenda for Liminal revolves around a site which is to be shared by a hawkers market and a gallery of aboriginal art that will be explored in exercises at an urban scale, a building scale and at the scale of a detail. The liminal is the threshold between the two programmes both metaphorically and physically and students can address how modern Australia might locate itself both regionally and locally.

Students will will be introduced to a computational process which must be applied at each scale and identify the constraints and parameters which are useful for each scale. This is through use of Ken Brakke's Surface Evolver, a minimal surface (soap film) generating software. We access Surface Evolver in Rhino3D via Evolversaurus, a plug-in coded by Kynan Woodman, to a design by Paul Minifie with Jono Podborsek



Work by Tom Frauenfelder Studio Level 4

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