Bedroom
RMIT Interior Design Sem02, 2011
I developed and lead ‘Bedroom’, a RMIT Interior Design Specialisation studio examining my personal practicing methodologies of the interior ‘sketch design’ phase. The agenda was to use my design process as a way imparting knowledge whilst critically examining my own design practice.
The overall brief was to design an experiential bedroom space for a hypothetical client. Students assigned themselves a celebrity client and were limited to their personal bedroom as the site. First half of the semester students undertook a systematic process of client research, concept research through vigorous trigger word and image studies and the second half of semester developing the design proposal through a series of iteratively handcrafted installations.
Extremely experimental outcomes were developed and students were required to prepare a design pitch poster that incorporated design drawings and experiential imagery to ‘sell’ the proposals to their celebrities. The students organised an end of year exhibition to present their beautiful installations and ideas… Only one celebrity attended.
Performance
Monash Interior Architecture Sem02, 2011
‘Performance’ was a third year Interior Architecture Design Studio, co-developed and co-lead with Third Year Coordinator, Lecturer Nicole Kalms. Students developed theoretical and critical positions of historic, contemporary and non-traditional performance space through precedent research, theoretical readings and onsite urban investigations.
With a strong conceptual position and a hypothetical performance in mind students proposed a resolved urban event space within the rooftop space of Melbourne CBD’s Loop Bar.
Varied, innovative and experimental proposals manifested with success expressed through three important lenses - at an urban scale, building scale and human scale. Students resolved and represented their proposals with beautifully handcrafted models, design drawings, mappings, diagrams and experiential imagery.
Domed
RMIT Interior Design Sem01, 2010
‘Domed’ was a second and third year RMIT Interior Design Studio, developed and co-lead with artist Michelle Hamer. The studio examined domestic interior environments, focusing on seemingly banal everyday suburban space & décor whilst considering their inhabitants’ everyday habits and rituals. Experiential qualities of ornamental dome interiors were also examined as a counterpoint to the domestic, cross-pollinating scale, texture and program.
With access to a dilapidated suburban interwar bungalow, the students mapped existing spatial, textural and ritualistic conditions of the site, with a focus of both ephemeral and physical ornamental qualities. The semester concluded with student propositions of amplifying and critiquing these qualities with renovation proposals to the bungalow. Handcrafted installations, process diagrams, design drawings and experiential imagery visualized their concepts.
Sanctum
RMIT Architecture Sem02, 2010
‘Sanctum’ was a RMIT Architecture Lower Pool Design Studio that I developed and lead in association with a then current installation residency at Dancehouse, titled ‘The Tracey Thredbo Project’. This project was a collaboration with artist Phillip Adams and funded by the Besen Family Foundation.
The studio topic centered on ‘sanctuary space’ and life vessel architectures in the face of adverse natural climatic disasters… Students began by researching the architecture of organic modernism and responded by developing small-scale secure residential proposals in climatically dangerous sites.
The semester concluded with a two-week onsite program at Dancehouse where students developed a large-scale installation with Phillip Adams and select VCAM students that kinetically responded to simulated natural disasters. A public performance and lecture at Dancehouse concluded the studio.
Staginess
RMIT Interior Design Sem02, 2009
‘Staginess’ was a second and third year RMIT Interior Design Studio, I developed and lead, assisted by designer Nilika Nammuni. The topic examined stagey qualities of artificially themed environments, with a focus of scenographic and performance space. Michel Foucault’s essay ‘Of Other Spaces’ (1967) was utilized as a theoretical positioning and became a backbone to the studio topic. Students were asked to develop a series of vignette style models as a response to the Foucault’s multiple principles of liminal space.
The studio concluded with student propositions of themed mobile caravans, designed with a hypothetical performance client in mind. Each caravan took on the dual role of both performance space and domestic accommodation, with the climax of the caravan form unfolding into an open-air stage. The travelling circus style train, of eighteen caravans travelled the RMIT campus in the form of an ongoing exhibition.
Matter
RMIT Interior Design Sem01, 2009
‘Matter’ was a second and third year RMIT Interior Design Studio, I developed and lead, assisted by designer Nilika Nammuni. The topic examined interior architectural retail space through revaluing left over and offcut building site materials. Parasitic organic structures and their transformative form and energy values were also examined and informed the student’s critical thinking of sustainable material practice.
The major part of the semester studio was developing an onsite group installation within the upper level of the Lonsdale Street glass pedestrian bridge at Melbourne Central. The large public installation was created from leftover heavy duty corrugated cardboard and conceptually responded to existing parasitic ephemeral and physical conditions operating within the site. The students worked closely with centre management, held an opening to the installation and gathered significant feedback from pedestrians.
RMIT Interior Design Sem02, 2011
I developed and lead ‘Bedroom’, a RMIT Interior Design Specialisation studio examining my personal practicing methodologies of the interior ‘sketch design’ phase. The agenda was to use my design process as a way imparting knowledge whilst critically examining my own design practice.
The overall brief was to design an experiential bedroom space for a hypothetical client. Students assigned themselves a celebrity client and were limited to their personal bedroom as the site. First half of the semester students undertook a systematic process of client research, concept research through vigorous trigger word and image studies and the second half of semester developing the design proposal through a series of iteratively handcrafted installations.
Extremely experimental outcomes were developed and students were required to prepare a design pitch poster that incorporated design drawings and experiential imagery to ‘sell’ the proposals to their celebrities. The students organised an end of year exhibition to present their beautiful installations and ideas… Only one celebrity attended.
Performance
Monash Interior Architecture Sem02, 2011
‘Performance’ was a third year Interior Architecture Design Studio, co-developed and co-lead with Third Year Coordinator, Lecturer Nicole Kalms. Students developed theoretical and critical positions of historic, contemporary and non-traditional performance space through precedent research, theoretical readings and onsite urban investigations.
With a strong conceptual position and a hypothetical performance in mind students proposed a resolved urban event space within the rooftop space of Melbourne CBD’s Loop Bar.
Varied, innovative and experimental proposals manifested with success expressed through three important lenses - at an urban scale, building scale and human scale. Students resolved and represented their proposals with beautifully handcrafted models, design drawings, mappings, diagrams and experiential imagery.
Domed
RMIT Interior Design Sem01, 2010
‘Domed’ was a second and third year RMIT Interior Design Studio, developed and co-lead with artist Michelle Hamer. The studio examined domestic interior environments, focusing on seemingly banal everyday suburban space & décor whilst considering their inhabitants’ everyday habits and rituals. Experiential qualities of ornamental dome interiors were also examined as a counterpoint to the domestic, cross-pollinating scale, texture and program.
With access to a dilapidated suburban interwar bungalow, the students mapped existing spatial, textural and ritualistic conditions of the site, with a focus of both ephemeral and physical ornamental qualities. The semester concluded with student propositions of amplifying and critiquing these qualities with renovation proposals to the bungalow. Handcrafted installations, process diagrams, design drawings and experiential imagery visualized their concepts.
Sanctum
RMIT Architecture Sem02, 2010
‘Sanctum’ was a RMIT Architecture Lower Pool Design Studio that I developed and lead in association with a then current installation residency at Dancehouse, titled ‘The Tracey Thredbo Project’. This project was a collaboration with artist Phillip Adams and funded by the Besen Family Foundation.
The studio topic centered on ‘sanctuary space’ and life vessel architectures in the face of adverse natural climatic disasters… Students began by researching the architecture of organic modernism and responded by developing small-scale secure residential proposals in climatically dangerous sites.
The semester concluded with a two-week onsite program at Dancehouse where students developed a large-scale installation with Phillip Adams and select VCAM students that kinetically responded to simulated natural disasters. A public performance and lecture at Dancehouse concluded the studio.
Staginess
RMIT Interior Design Sem02, 2009
‘Staginess’ was a second and third year RMIT Interior Design Studio, I developed and lead, assisted by designer Nilika Nammuni. The topic examined stagey qualities of artificially themed environments, with a focus of scenographic and performance space. Michel Foucault’s essay ‘Of Other Spaces’ (1967) was utilized as a theoretical positioning and became a backbone to the studio topic. Students were asked to develop a series of vignette style models as a response to the Foucault’s multiple principles of liminal space.
The studio concluded with student propositions of themed mobile caravans, designed with a hypothetical performance client in mind. Each caravan took on the dual role of both performance space and domestic accommodation, with the climax of the caravan form unfolding into an open-air stage. The travelling circus style train, of eighteen caravans travelled the RMIT campus in the form of an ongoing exhibition.
Matter
RMIT Interior Design Sem01, 2009
‘Matter’ was a second and third year RMIT Interior Design Studio, I developed and lead, assisted by designer Nilika Nammuni. The topic examined interior architectural retail space through revaluing left over and offcut building site materials. Parasitic organic structures and their transformative form and energy values were also examined and informed the student’s critical thinking of sustainable material practice.
The major part of the semester studio was developing an onsite group installation within the upper level of the Lonsdale Street glass pedestrian bridge at Melbourne Central. The large public installation was created from leftover heavy duty corrugated cardboard and conceptually responded to existing parasitic ephemeral and physical conditions operating within the site. The students worked closely with centre management, held an opening to the installation and gathered significant feedback from pedestrians.