Architecture & Building

2005, Sustainable design education: teaching, learning and assessment in collaborative group design projects, in Fabricating sustainability : unofficial ABSTRACT: Changes in the funding of tertiary education resulting in less one-to-one staff/student contact time mean that we cannot continue to teach as we have historically been taught. If design schools are unable to implement strategies that successfully overcome resource intensive studio teaching programs, then current architectural education may for many higher education providers be based on an unsustainable course structure. Rather than spreading their time thinly over a large number of individual projects, an increasing number of lecturers are setting group projects. This allows them to co-ordinate longer and more in-depth review sessions on a smaller number of assignments. However, while the group model may reflect the realities of the design process in practice, the approach is not without short comings as a teaching archetype for the assessment of individual skill competencies. Hence, what is clear is the need for a readily adoptable andragogy for the teaching and assessment of group design projects. The following describes the background, methodology and early results of a Strategic Teaching and Learning Grant currently running at the School of Architecture and Building at Deakin University. The project is evaluating two design programs at Deakin and it is envisaged that the results of the investigation may inform other project-based teaching disciplines experiencing a similar need for new knowledge and skill-based delivery due to increasing staff-student ratios.

In 2002 the State Government of Victoria, in partnership with the City of Greater Geelong and Deakin University, initiated an Urban Design Framework to explore development opportunities of a series of redundant industrial sites adjacent to Geelong's central Activities Area (CAA). One of the objectives of the framework was to explore a range of initiatives based on the expansion of the Deakin University Waterfront campus from 700 students to an expected cohort of 5000+ students. Working with a set of predefined constructs for different types of city based user groups -such as net floor space requirements and time/travel distances between facilities -the following paper presents a simple computational approach to assist in identifying, mapping, and spatially exploring different development scenarios.

In the following paper, ratios which correlate aged care places with physical infrastructure requirements are developed for the regional Victorian Local Government Area of Greater Bendigo, by analysing its existing aged care facilities. These ratios are then used in conjunction with the federal government's population based measures to model scenarios of future aged care infrastructure requirements for Greater Bendigo. Strategies for the provision of additional residential aged care facilities are explored using a matrix governed by size and configuration. Variations in these two aspects are shown to affect the location options for future facilities in Greater Bendigo. The research is funded by a double ARC APAI grant between the Built Environment Research Group at Deakin University, The Centre for Sustainable Regional Centres at La Trobe University, the City of Greater Bendigo and the City of Warrnambool.

Changes in the funding of tertiary education resulting in less one-to-one staff/student contact time mean that we cannot continue to teach as we have historically been taught. If design schools are unable to implement strategies that successfully overcome resource intensive studio teaching programs, then current architectural education may for many higher education providers be based on an unsustainable course structure.

As information expands and comprehension becomes more complex, so the need increases to develop focused areas of knowledge and skill acquisition. However, as the number of specialty areas increases so the languages that defi ne each separate knowledge base become increasingly remote. Hence, concepts and viewpoints that were once considered part of a whole become detached. This phenomenon is typical of the development of tertiary education, especially within professional oriented courses, where disciplines and sub-disciplines have grown further apart and the ability to communicate has become increasingly fragmented. One individual and visionary who was well acquainted with the shortcomings of the piecemeal development between the disciplines was Professor Sir Edmond Happold, the leader of the prestigious group known as Structures 3 at Ove Arup and Partners, who were responsible for making happen some of the landmark buildings of their time, including Sydney Opera House and the Pompidou Centre, and the founding professor of the Bath School of Architecture and Civil Engineering in 1975. While still having a profound respect for the knowledge bases of the different professions within the building and construction industry, Professor Happold was also well aware of the extraordinary synergies in design and innovation which could come about when the disciplines of Architecture and Civil Engineering were brought together at the outset of the design process.

The advent of sustainable approaches to managing an increase of population in our urban centres, such as the Melbourne 2030 planning policy, has led to questions regarding their successful implementation at local government level. Issues relating to the location of sustainable built form and infrastructure are of particular importance considering Melbourne 2030's direction regarding intensification around existing activity nodes. The following paper embarks on an investigation into the impact of the projected population growth set out in the 2030 policy, focusing particularly on the consequent implications of increased residential densities in and around activity centres within the inner Melbourne region. Utilising various mapping techniques, a series of comparative built form/density scenarios will be generated that begin to explore the issues of implementation faced at a local government level.

As population change places pressure on expanding regional and metropolitan urban boundaries, so the threat of bushfire at the rural/urban interface increases. This paper presents a range of 2D and 3D 1:40 and full scale modelling investigations. Various relationships are explored between the urban and rural interface with respect to: air pressure; changes in wind pattern; vectorial velocity; and the deposition of hot ash and firebrand deposits around single story building forms, both as standalone and within an orthogonal array and cul-de-sac relationships.

2013, Working with 'housing variance' to model urban growth futures with inner metropolitan Melbourne, in SOAC Abstract: Continued population growth in Melbourne over the past decade has led to the development of a range of strategies and policies by State and Local levels of government to set an agenda for a more sustainable form of urban development. As the Victorian State government moves towards the development of 'Plan Melbourne', a new metropolitan planning strategy currently being prepared to take Melbourne forward to 2050, the following paper addresses the issue of how new residential built form will impact on and be accommodated in existing Inner Melbourne activity centres. Working with the prospect of establishing a more compact city in order to meet an inner city target of 90,000 new dwellings (Inner Metropolitan Action Plan -IMAP Strategy 5), the paper presents a 'Housing Variance Model' based on household structure and dwelling type. As capacity is progressively altered through a range of built form permutations, the research attempts to assess the impact on the urban morphology of a case study of four Major Activity Centres in the municipality of Port Phillip.

Ratios which correlate aged care places with Land-use requirements are developed by analysing the existing aged care facilities in the regional Victorian Local Government Areas of Greater Bendigo and Warrnambool. These ratios are used in conjunction with the government's population based measures to model scenarios of future aged care infrastructure requirements for Greater Bendigo and Warrnambool.

implications and tradc.-offs against time and quality factors can be investigated at frequent intervals during the construction period. The possibilities are endless. These scenarios are explained incrementally over the teaching semester to reflect the way that issues are encountered and dealt with in practice. It is intended to progressively use Deakin Studies Online (WebCT Vista) to help manage the scenarios and to enable students to collaborate.

2005, Sustainable design education: teaching, learning and assessment in collaborative group design projects, in Fabricating sustainability : unofficial ABSTRACT: Changes in the funding of tertiary education resulting in less one-to-one staff/student contact time mean that we cannot continue to teach as we have historically been taught. If design schools are unable to implement strategies that successfully overcome resource intensive studio teaching programs, then current architectural education may for many higher education providers be based on an unsustainable course structure. Rather than spreading their time thinly over a large number of individual projects, an increasing number of lecturers are setting group projects. This allows them to co-ordinate longer and more in-depth review sessions on a smaller number of assignments. However, while the group model may reflect the realities of the design process in practice, the approach is not without short comings as a teaching archetype for the assessment of individual skill competencies. Hence, what is clear is the need for a readily adoptable andragogy for the teaching and assessment of group design projects. The following describes the background, methodology and early results of a Strategic Teaching and Learning Grant currently running at the School of Architecture and Building at Deakin University. The project is evaluating two design programs at Deakin and it is envisaged that the results of the investigation may inform other project-based teaching disciplines experiencing a similar need for new knowledge and skill-based delivery due to increasing staff-student ratios.

The question of whether or not design can be considered research has perplexed schools of architecture ever since they were fi rst introduced into universities. It was at the center of the Oxbridge union debates in the early 1900s. It formed one of the corner stones of the Oxford conference on education organized by the RIBA in 1958 and came under scrutiny again in the UK with the introduction of the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) in 1992. While the arguments both for and against are considerable, 1 "in order to understand the questions and the possibilities of architectural research and to respond to the diffi culties that confront us now, we have to have a model which acknowledges what schools of architecture really are, and could be, and then work with that". 2 Drawing on professionally oriented research models, such as qualitative 'clinical research', from Medicine and the Health Sciences -where the processes of exploration, observation, investigation, recording and communication are conducted insitu by the 'practitioner-as-researcher' 3 -the following paper outlines an initiative introduced in 1999, referred to as the 'Urban Heart Surgery'. 4 The program actively integrates students entering their second degree program into a studio based design research culture and allows them to engage in critical discourse by working on high profi le strategic design projects in three areas signifi cant to Victoria's future growth: Metropolitan Urbanism, Urbanism on the Periphery, and Regional Urbanism. OPERATING A STUDIO WITHIN A RESEARCH CULTURE: THE 'URBANHEART' © DESIGN RESEARCH FORUM Abstract: DESIGN + RESEARCH AASA 2003 John Rollo Operating a Studio within a Research Culture Page 3 DESIGN + RESEARCH AASA 2003 John Rollo Operating a Studio within a Research Culture 1

Once upon a time, Australia was a terrific country. I remember being particularly fond of it in the mid-1990s when, as a nation, we were rocketing towards a number of quite spectacular milestones in our history and, indeed, in global history. We were looking forward to the Centenary of Federation, many thought we were looking forward to the republic, we were looking forward to putting out the welcome mat at the Olympic Games and we were The next step PHILLIP ADAMS 9 T he I de as B ook looking forward to a new century as well as a new millennium. This was a remarkable convergence and it was necessary to think about these things as a community and as a nation. What we needed at that time -as we still do -were ideas. We needed, and continue to need, interesting thinking in all aspects of this nation's life.