Semester 2 2016 Studio portfolio

During my second semester in ARC2001 2016, I have attended a num-
ber of lectures and undertaken a series of shopping analysis tasks such
as Emporium analysis, Melbourne Central analysis and city analysis.
The studio assists us to bring in a lot of thorough researches, mappings,
diagrams and analysis about the real issues that found from shopping
centrals.
They challenged us to raise questions in these areas instead of answer-
ing questions how to mend the problems.
From the growth of population, constraints of environment to the
changes of city over time were noted and taken in analysis.These
studies assisted us to understand the progress towards the final layout
proposals.
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Studio Reflection:

The 1st interesting site across both stores is lighting design between different
departments. David Jones (DJ) uses enormous light bulbs with elegant design to
create high-end and luxurious vibe across the mature clothing department while
a lighter and more playful light bulb is chosen for kid level. DJ purposely
produces shady effect in the undergarment level and the home ware level. This
effect creates a mood to the target customer and attracts them. Increasing level
of desire of the customer. This shopping mall focuses on the sale and appearance
of individual store. On the other hand, Myer maintains the illuminated lighting
throughout their building that captures people’s attention to the building design
and showcases the stores inside the building. They force people to draw in the
building design rather than the store’s product. This captures different groups of
people to come to their building who are not only in need of buying products but
also those who have a desire of buying products. Therein, as soon as they step in
the mall because of curiosity due to the light distribution, the chance they buy
the products in the mall will be increased.

The 2nd site is café and restaurant area. DJ chooses to place cafés in the corner of
their mall where it’s separate to the other activities and people. Customers and
new visitors hardly find it except the regular café customers. Even though, the
café sits next to the lift area and there is no particular scene in the café, the café
customer seemed to not care of the fact and usually, they sit in pair. On the other
hand, Myer places café next to the escalator and busy pathway that makes the
area look like a zoomed in mini city. Café area seems to mimic the street cafés
where normally place next to train station or in laneways. People can observe
throughout the building from people, products to different activities undertaken
while having coffee. There were a lot of people sitting individually in the café and
seemed to enjoy their private time even though the area was quite noisy and
crowded. The area becomes a giant binocular in the shopping mall. They attract
customers from regular customers to workers, travellers and tourists, they make
the area accessible and visible therefore they change people’s thought from
coming here for shopping to other activities they want the customers to
participate in such as having coffee.

The 3rd site is floor material as divider of department store. Both DJ and Myer
choose shiny and bright tile for pathway that not only provides clean and
enlightened effect to the space but also clearly complement with the signs to lead
customers to the direction they want them to go or customer want to go such as
from the escalator to the exit, lift or bathroom. For DJ, they choose different floor
material such as carpet for warming effect, marble stone for high-end vibe,
natural timber for welcoming yet classy feel… This purposely introduces each
store’s characteristic and defines their identity in the diversity of other big
brands. The strategy suits to DJ’s aim that focuses on the quality, not the
quantity. On the other hand, Myer chooses mostly timber material for all the
stores’ floor. Since the mall focuses on the building design, different groups of
people and a diversity of brands, the individual store’s characteristic isn’t
attached too much importance by the mall. The natural timber material produces
welcoming effect to customers and attracts customers such as student to step in
the store even though they don’t afford to buy the products. This aims to raise
the inner desire of the customer and attracts future potential customers.
1B

INTERVENTION 1
TOP VIEW SCALE 1 :2
SIDE VIEW SCALE 1 :2 FRONT VIEW SCALE 1 :2
ISOMETRIC DRAWING SCALE 1 :2
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TOP VIEW SCALE 1 :2
SIDE VIEW SCALE 1 :2

FRONT VIEW SCALE 1 :2
PERSPECTIVE DRAWING SCALE 1 :2
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Emporium - Mall maps
WALK (1 - 3 MPH)
WALK (3 - 6 MPH)
STAND
WALK (1 - 3 MPH)
WALK (3 - 6 MPH)
STAND
V
Lower ground
Ground
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Lift
WALK (1 - 3 MPH)
WALK (3 - 6 MPH)
STAND
2A

2B
FASHION
CAFES
A T M/ RESTROOMS/
PARENTS ROOM
FOOTWEAR
HEALTH AND BEAUTY
PHARMACY
PHARMACY
PHARMACY
PHARMACY
PHARMACY
PHARMACY
PHARMACY
PHARMACY
PHARMACY
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SIDE VIEW SCALE 1 :100
FRONT VIEW SCALE 1 :100

Level 1 Food Court
Lower Ground by train station
Seating
Optus Advertising
Incorporation of street elements
Melbourne Central - Heart of the City
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A Typical Monday Morning
At the age of 19, when he walked out from the train station to go to university
everyday, he was bound to queue up to buy coffee at 8 am and looked for snack
options at non-traditional meal hours like a dessert at 10 a.m.
Today after 20 years later, living in the year of 2030, when machines replace
people. Technology and smartphones are not only incorporated into every
aspect of human lives, but also become an integral part of his life. He doesn’t
have much time to spend on eating lunch in a restaurant everyday and since
during peak hours, sometimes he must share tables with other people
Day by day, he starts to eat at his desk; the midday meal is usually in transition.
Today he starts his day at 8 am, walks out of his usual crowded train, set his
foot on the platform and waits for his second train to arrive. He checked the
arrival time on the digital schedule board. Train will be arrived in 15 more
minutes. He doesn’t want to stand in the cold, breezy platform in that amount of
time. He decides to walk outside and looks for a coffee. The train station is
located underneath of central city.
Three square meals a day? That’s when he was 10, his family never went out to
eat. The family meal was something relatively sacred. They would get together
at six o’clock at night and have dinner. They talked about politics, they talked
about family business, they talked about anything
The pace of his life became faster and more stress. That’s when he wanted
options that help him eat well on the go such as fast food and healthy vending
machine operators. Usually he could immediately find pre-packaged portion
items at the counter or register of any food store. When he returned from
university to home, he would find something around the train station for his
dinner. McDonalds, Hungry Jacks and express supermarket were one of his
first options. He would walk towards to the store, look at the menu board, line
up and tell the cashier what he would want to order.
3B

The space forces him to merge himself in a ‘street-scape’ sensibility and
creates a sense of the traditional outdoor shopping trip. But he doesn’t want to
eat in in this moment nor linger around there since train will be coming in 14
minutes. He follows the sphere of food hall and finds his favorite Italian coffee
shop in the corner. There is neither cashier nor a long queue as he often saw
in 20 years ago. Today is different. A digital menu kiosk is placed in front of the
shop that allows customers to quickly order and pay for food and coffee or they
can pre order them with their smartphones and when they arrive, a steamy
coffee is ready for them to take it away. As he finishes ordering through the
kiosk, he then walked towards the seating in the open space, chose a table
near the shop while waiting for the coffee to get ready.
He notices the McDonald’s store next
by, a man brings a tray of hamburger
and chips, a floating data dashboard
about the food he just buys displays
his body's vital condition and
advertises their new burger. He
thinks that the new burger looks quite
good, he then put on his VR goggles,
the floating interface about the new
burger appears.
He presses, "buy". “Beep!” The
sound from the self-serve kiosk calls
his number; he takes off his goggles
and collects his coffee. At the same
time, the McDonalds kiosk calls out
his name; he walks towards the store
and collects it without having trouble
of moving in between each store
even though there are a lot of people
ordering food at the time.
There is 2 minutes left for him to go back to the train station. A bunch of people
behind him also rushes to the gate to catch the coming train after buying their
coffee. Train arrives; he gets in and tries to squeeze in to the tiny carriage while
protecting his steamy coffee away from other people. He then put on his
goggles and enjoys the live Olympic game since it’s a long trip to go to his
workplace.
Every morning, it is packed with bunches of student and worker, the underground
platform is extremely busy with the horn sound from the trains departing, the sound from
the ticket machine whenever people tap their transport card and the interaction between
people. He touches off his transport card to leave the platform and enters the food court
where is located right in front of him. He notices that the tiles on the floor in accordance
to where the tables and chairs are placed indicate division, thus directing the consumer
in a particular fashion, facilitates the movement of people in which dining in is
encouraged but lengthy stays are no.
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TOP VIEW SCALE 1:500
SIDE VIEW SCALE 1:500FRONT VIEW SCALE 1:500
A A’
B B’
SECTION A-A’ SCALE 1:250 SECTION B-B’ SCALE 1:250
FRONT VIEW SCALE 1:1000
SECTION A-A’ SCALE 1:1000 SECTION B-B’ SCALE 1:1000

THE SHOPPING GUIDE TO CITY
Food court today!
City forms an invisible wall that keeps us physically separated from each other. Many causes
contributes to this isolation and foodcourt is born due to these causes which mainly our
impatience.Today, when the pace of our life becomes faster and more stressful, our demand
for instant results comes into our lives without realizing. It grows a need of a meeting place
where offers shoppers and local office workers a range of fast, cheap and convenient food
and they can spend a short amount of time during their break to supply their need for im-
mediacy. Food court establishes from our impatience. Food court changes the way we eat,
helps food stores to make money from our need but limits the appreciation of family values
in young society.Young generation is becoming more focused on quick satisfaction.The habit
is leading to a future in which it affects people’s whole life in the long-term its very bad for
them.
Melbourne has a diverse food culture that ranges from European, to Middle Eastern, to Asian
and recently modern food culture where provides more healthier local ingredients to custom-
ers while immediate service is still maintained also becomes popular among young genera-
tion. Both traditional and modern food culture function similarly for people because they
are suited to specific conditions.A modern food court works well for busy, fast paced young
people but still produces negative effects include our long-term health, level of tolerance in
future and reduce family interaction. In contrast, traditional culture works well for health care
and family relationship that is valuable to take time to prepare meal and have meal together
but not work well to adapt to modern life of young people.
To balance our desires for an instant pleasure, healthier food and family connection, what we
can do is to create a trend of preparing meal for family with other families, negotiating with
customers about taking time to spend with family while providing healthy food.The meal prep
starts outside with other families. Different food culture meal preps are distributed around
CBD.We can get healthy ingredients from supermarkets nearby.The trend lures customers to
take action and agree to spend time with family.
Pre-final Manifesto
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=> Melburnians see their city as more cultural than beautiful
AMERICAN
EUROPEAN/ AUSTRALIAN
ASIAN
MIDDLE EASTERN
SHOPPING CENTRAL
MIXED
FOOD STORES CBD
HOME EATING
FOOD STORES CBD
OOKIES (BRITISH)
Dickson Despommier (The Ver'cal Farm: The
World Grows Up)
Pig City (MVRDV, 2001)
Toronto Sky Farm for Toronto, Canada
(Gordon Griﬀ, 2009)
State of
Grace
8bit
Taiwan cafeKaneda
Sushi
Rice Paper
CBD RESTAURANTS
Precedent
Top 5 Citizenship countries Home eating and CBD restaurant
analysis
WEEK 7 - Pre-final analysis

MODERN FOOD CULTURE TRADITIONAL FOOD
CULTURE
ADVANTAGES •  Convenient
•  Save @me
•  Cheap
•  Healthy lifestyle
•  Save money
•  Know what we are ea@ng
•  Family @me
DISADVANTAGES •  Not be able to spend
quality @me with family.
•  Can't control which
ingredients go in your
food
•  Packaging and long-haul
transporta@on
•  Requires more @me and
eﬀort
•  Demand of space to grow
food and energy crops
WEEK 8
Healthy ingredients
Big and tasty portion
Where family gets together and shares their day.
Fun and comfortable
Signature house interior
Warming and practical
State of
Grace
8bit
Yak Italian
Kitchen
and Bar
Kaneda
Sushi
Rice Paper
Vietnamese
Eating
Out
Mood
Unsafe ingredients
Small portion
Private space of customers.
Can be distracted by noise
Transitional space - speed up service
Quite narrow - uncomfortable
Homey elements
Warm and attractive
CBD RESTAURANTS
Unsafe ingredients
Small portion
Private space of customers.
Can be distracted by noise
Homey elements
Warm and attractive
FOOD STORES CBD
Mars
Leathers
QV
QV
QV Square
QV
Hair
Embiggen Books
JB-HIFI
Aussie Disposal
City
Michael
World-Famous
Camera
Museum
Melbourne’s GPO
UAE Exchange
Australia
Sister
Bella
Wine Brain
Melbourne
Legacy
Legacy
House
STATE LIBRARY OF
VICTORIA
MELBOURNE
CENTRAL
EMPORIUM
RMIT Campus
Store
RMIT
Gallery
Wellbeing
Korean
Grocery
Hungry Jack’s
Cranbourne
Music Store
Currency Int.
Endeavour
College of Natural
Health
Wellspring
Bookstore
Melbourne Artists
Supplies
Melbourne
Institute of
Technology
Pearson
Professional
Centers and the
Argus centre
Welsh
Church
Urbanest
Melbourne
Central
Student
The Bose
StoreIEP
Peter Steven’s
Motorcycles
Yamaha City
TAB
ANZ
Internet
Cafe
Melbourne
Star
Appartment
Silver
Thimble
Melbourne
Sky
Appartment
SMAART
Recruitment
Games
laboratory
Water Flame
Cafe
TAB
Peony
Garden Sushi Sushi
Tigerlily
Sniper
Melbourne City
Conference
Centre
St. Francis’
Church
Defence Service
Homes
Central
Catholic
Bookstore
United
Currency
Exchange
AMERICAN
EUROPEAN/ AUSTRALIAN
ASIAN
MIDDLE EASTERN
Pre-final analysis 2: Home eating and CBD restaurant
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WEEK 9 - 12
Food court today!
City forms an invisible wall that keeps us physically separated from each other. Many causes
contributes to this isolation and foodcourt is born due to these causes which mainly
our impatience.Today, when the pace of our life becomes faster and more stressful, our
demand for instant results comes into our lives without realizing. It grows a need of a
meeting place where offers shoppers and local office workers a range of fast, cheap and
convenient food and they can spend a short amount of time during their break to supply
their need for immediacy. Food court establishes from our impatience. Food court changes
the way we eat, helps food stores to make money from our need but limits the apprecia-
tion of family values in young society.Young generation is becoming more focused on quick
satisfaction.The habit is leading to a future in which it affects people’s whole life in the
long-term its very bad for them.
Melbourne has a diverse food culture that ranges from European, to Middle Eastern, to
Asian and recently modern food culture where provides more healthier local ingredients
to customers while immediate service is still maintained also becomes popular among
young generation. Both traditional and modern food culture function similarly for people
because they are suited to specific conditions.A modern food court works well for busy,
fast paced young people but still produces negative effects include our long-term health,
level of tolerance in future and reduce family interaction. In contrast, traditional culture
works well for health care and family relationship that is valuable to take time to prepare
meal and have meal together but not work well to adapt to modern life of young people.
To balance our desires for an instant pleasure, healthier food and family connection, what
we can do is to create a trend of preparing meal for family with other families, negotiating
with customers about taking time to spend with family while providing healthy food.The
meal prep starts outside with other families. Different food culture meal preps are distrib-
uted around CBD.We can get healthy ingredients from supermarkets nearby.The trend
lures customers to take action and agree to spend time with family.
FINAL MANIFESTO

FINAL ANALYSIS: HOME-EATING AND FOODCOURT
7.30pm
everybody sits around table and start having dinner
We would discuss how our day had gone,
talked about matters which concerned us
We share meals together and If someone don’t like it,
there is another portion of food to suit their taste
7.00pm
Mom called us in to prepare for dinner.
Mom goes to market buying ingredients
based on what we already have at home a person in charge of coming up with what to eat
Weekend:
6.00pm
Help cooking the meal
Using fresh ingredients
Eating at home experience
Time: 30-45 minutes
standing in line for ~5 minutes
getting to the table
checking out
Finishing meal in 10 minutes
Walking around, looking for food
Foodcourt experience
Waiting patiently for the food to come out
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Disadvantages 1
May not enough sits for customers
Conversation can be
distracted by noise
QV foodcourt
Melbourne Central
foodcourt
Could be busy
Seating arrangment and environment
Can be cold
More options of food
Watching other people enjoy
themselves in eating
don't have to worry about cleaning
QV foodcourt
Melbourne Central
foodcourt
Asian
Middle Eastern
European
Advantages
Enjoy the atmosphere around you
Rest and relax
MC
QV
QVMC
Warm and attractive
Could be waiting a long time for food
QV foodcourt
Melbourne Central
foodcourt
Expensive
Don't always know how it's cooked M ay take a while for food to be cooked
Could get a rude waiter
Fast food storesDisadvantages 2

SUPERMARKET
FAST FOOD STORES
SEATING ZONE
Melbourne Central Foodcourt
Lower Ground Level
QV Foodcourt
more options of food
not enough sits for cus -
tomers
Level 2
FAST FOOD STORES
SEATING ZONE
less options of food
lots of sits
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FINAL STUDIO OUTCOME
Pop-up Melbourne Kitchen uses publicly accessible food preparation facilities
as a means of bridging the gap between isolated residents of Melbourne CBD,
attempting to create a food culture that can incorporate any resident into a
notion of 'family'.
As the city swells with a growing number of residents, many students, liv-
ing out of home for the first time, isolation and lonliness become a real and
present threat to the health of residents.As part of this meal times, once a
staple part of home life, are degraded in favour of conveniance and ease of
access. CBD foodcourts are produced to meet this demand and while this
may result in the individual eating among many other people they remain
isolated.The experience of eating with family, with all of its attendent interac-
tion, remains elusive.To balance our desires for an instant pleasure, healthier
food and familial connection, Pop-up Melbourne Kitchen intends to insert
food preparation facilities into the CBD, providing communal cooking space
that encourages interaction between city residents.These facilities will be lo-
cated right next to suppliers of fresh ingredients such as Coles,Woolworths
and IGA, functioning at a nexus between shopping and residential programs,
leveraging the existing city fabric for a greater social good.
DESCRIPTION
Pop-up Melbourne
Kitchen
POP-UP KITCHEN APP
(A group is making fried rice today at QV,)
Shall we join?
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FOR FAMILY OR BIG GROUP OF FRIENDS
SIDE VIEW SCALE 1:100 FRONT VIEW SCALE 1:100
FOR SINGLE OR SMALL GROUP OF FRIENDS
GENERATION PROCESS - DRAFT DESIGN IDEAS
SIDE VIEW SCALE 1:100
BACK VIEW SCALE 1:100
Isometric Dr
FOR SINGLE LIVING IN APARTMENT
FOR BIG FAMILY
Outdoor kitchen facility
Bunk Bed - can have meal on the bed
Sitting on steps - in case there is no more space and can
be a seat for supermarket buyer.
Outdoor living room - can have meal here
Sitting on steps - in case there is no more space and can
be a seat for supermarket buyer.
Mars
Leathers
QV
QV
QV Square
QV
Hair
Embiggen Books
JB-HIFI
Aussie Disposal
City
Michael
World-Famous
Camera
Museum
Melbourne’s GPO
UAE Exchange
Australia
Sister
Bella
Wine Brain
Melbourne
Legacy
Legacy
House
STATE LIBRARY OF
VICTORIA
MELBOURNE
CENTRAL
EMPORIUM
RMIT
RMIT Campus
Store
RMIT
Gallery
Wellbeing
Korean
Grocery
Hungry Jack’s
Cranbourne
Music Store
Currency Int.
Endeavour
College of Natural
Health
Wellspring
Bookstore
Melbourne Artists
Supplies
Melbourne
Institute of
Technology
Pearson
Professional
Centers and the
Argus centre
Welsh
Church
Urbanest
Melbourne
Central
Student
The Bose
Store
Peter Steven’s
Motorcycles
Yamaha City
TAB
ANZ
Internet
Cafe
Melbourne
Star
Appartment
Silver
Thimble
Melbourne
Sky
Appartment
SMAART
Recruitment
Games
laboratory
Water Flame
Cafe
TAB
Peony
Garden Sushi Sushi
Tigerlily
Sniper
Melbourne City
Conference
Centre
St. Francis’
Church
Defence Service
Homes
Central
Catholic
Bookstore
United
Currency
Exchange
CHOICE OF SITING
QV
Woolworths Metro at Southern
Cross Station
1.
2.
3.
GENERATION
PROCESS
5600
2500
POSSIBILITIES
CITY“TELESCOPE”
CREATING RAMP AND VIEW
POINT

rawing
DIAGRAMS - Final concept idea
SOCIAL BENEFITS
• Increase happiness
• Increase supermarket’ssale
• Improve health of dwellings
• Increase family connection
• Increase social involvement
5600
2500
POSSIBILITIES
CITY“TELESCOPE”
CREATING RAMP AND VIEW
POINT
KITCHEN
PARTI
CIRCULATION
Semi-public
Private
Semi-private
PUBLIC/ PRIVATE
Dining area
Extra kitchen
Private kitchen
PROGRAM
Generation Process
Parti
Program Private/ Public Circulation 33

FINAL DESIGNS
- Located in busy streets (Flinder st, Swanston st...)

FOR BIG FAMILIES
- Located in quiet main streets (Latrobe st, Russell st...)

- Located in- Located inside buildings (QV, Melbourne Central...)

FINAL PRESENTATION
PANEL
INDOOR SUPER
Mom called us in to prepare for dinner.
Mom goes to market buying ingredients
based on what we already have at home a person in charge of coming up with what to eat
Weekend:
6.00pm
Different themes for each night (cuisine)
Help cooking the meal
Using fresh ingredients
Eating at home experience
Time: 30-45 minutes Clean up after finishing eating7.30pm
everybody sits around table and start having dinner
We would discuss how our day had gone,
talked about matters which concerned us
We share meals together and If someone don’t like it,
there is another portion of food to suit their taste
7.00pm
standing in line for ~5 minutes
getting to the table
checking out
Finishing meal in 10 minutes
Ordering food with wait staff
Walking around, looking for food
Foodcourt experience
Waiting patiently for the food to come out
Eating on bed or on the go
Tight house causes people to
stay out the street oftenly
APARTMENT LIVING’S BEHAVIOUR
Quick meal prepare
More options of food
Watching other people enjoy
themselves in eating
don't have to worry about cleaning
QV foodcourt
Melbourne Central
foodcourt
Asian
Middle Eastern
European
Advantages
Enjoy the atmosphere around you
Rest and relax
MC
QV
QVMC
Warm and attractive
Disadvantages 1
May not enough sits for customers
Conversation can be
distracted by noise
QV foodcourt
Melbourne Central
foodcourt
Could be busy
Seating arrangment and environment
Can be cold
Birds flying around and may get in your food
Could be waiting a long time for food
QV foodcourt
Melbourne Central
foodcourt
Expensive
Don't always know how it's cooked May take a while for food to be cooked
Could get a rude waiter
Fast food storesDisadvantages 2
Level 2
FAST FOOD STORES
SEATING ZONE
less options of food
lots of sits
SUPERMARKET
FAST FOOD STORES
SEATING ZONE
Lower Ground Level
QV Foodcourt
more options of food
not enough sits for cus -
tomers
5600
2500
POSSIBILITIES
CITY“TELESCOPE”
CREATING
POINT
GENERATION
PROCESS
Pop-up Melbourne Kitchens
- Moving from home kitchens to pop-up spaces, we will cook in
FOODCOURT ANALYSIS

RMARKETS
CIRCULATION
G RAMP AND VIEW
Semi-public
Private
Semi-private
PUBLIC/ PRIVATE
KITCHEN
PARTI
Dining area
Extra kitchen
Private kitchen
PROGRAM
the most unique dining locations.
SOCIAL BENEFITS
• Increase happiness
• Increase supermarket’s sale
• Improve health of dwellings
• Increase family connection
• Increase social involvement
- Located in busy streets (Flinder st, Swanston st...)
- Located in
FOR BIG FAMILIES
- Located in quiet main streets (Latrobe st, Russell st...)
CITY INTERVENTIONS
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Studio Lecture Response 1:
Bachelor Studio Lecture Response
Name: Nguyen Thu Anh Hoang Date of lecture: 25/08/2016
Studio: ARC2002 / ARC3002 Your Studio instructor: Lewis Moore &
Sui Lai
Lecture name or presenters: Ben Waters, Colby Vexler, Jack May and Byron Meyer
According to Eisenman, the difference between practice and project is that “architectural
practice is where the world defines what the architect is, and an architectural project is where
the architect defines what the world is.” Through the lecture, I found that practice is a
medium for the establishment of a project and reconciles the conflicts of individual, decision-
making and other factors. While projects come out from our reaction toward building, and
need to influence on other projects. Through Jacqui’s definition of Abstraction, I understand
that it is a process that frees itself from principles and methods and translates into a concept.
Replication is a process of “appreciating what they have in building”. Replication reproduces
the reality of building production and social conditions while Abstraction produces ideas and
concepts out of facts and social functions. I’ve learnt that by recording a detailed analysis,
survey and mapping of Shopping, I can uncover the real issues that appear from the shopping
malls and by creating spaces to intervene, I realise that I shouldn’t focus on the solution, but
on understanding the problems of space.
Le Corbusier, Maison Dom-Ino, 1914. (Abstraction versus Replication)

Studio Lecture Response 2:Bachelor Studio Lecture Response
Studio: ARC2002 / ARC3002 Your Studio instructor: Lewis Moore and
Sui Lai
Lecture name or presenters: Narrative and Prediction
I. Provide a considered reaction to the lecture. (2-300 words + image/diagram)
OMA produces buildings and master plans around the world while AMO focuses on the
study of visual communication in a form other than a building. The researches and analysis of
architecture, urbanism and cultural from these organizations form a prediction and when we
start to follow through the logic of their proposition, it reveals a kind of truth. The patterns of
past predictions also inform us about the future. They highlight the future influence on the
process of urban transformation and improvement of urban communities across the world. By
creating predictions that extend the influence into our immediate future, patterns can be
observed continually and lead to a right assumption to the improvement and issues of future.
They use the link between scientific investigation and our human-environment-reaction in the
architectural environment to establish narrative and prediction as propositional tools. Their
propositional approach has a similarity in narrative technique with our studio that focuses on
people’s emotional reaction of the space and tells a story about future and ‘mess of city’.
Their approach and our studio’s both focus on a single element as in the critic of a specific
space but in tremendous amount of research and also an insight of the element.

Roadmap 2050 implies an eternal supply of sustainable energy in the future

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Studio Lecture Response 3:Bachelor Studio Lecture Response
Studio: ARC2002 / ARC3002 Your Studio instructor: Lewis Moore and
Sui Lai
Lecture name or presenters: Mushroom in architecture
I. Provide a considered reaction to the lecture. (2-300 words + image/diagram)
“Top down” and “bottom up” approaches are ones of the strategies we employ to solving
problems. “Top down” design requires architect to analyse their perception in detail and
when they fully understand the project’s ambition and requirements, a design is come up and
builds up a system in order to bring out to life. For example, Phillip Ross’s fungi mushroom
material, with his great interest in mushroom organization, he analysed the biological systems
then designed temporary buildings and furniture and he’s still developing the project. On the
other hand, “bottom up” design identifies the current system in the project and based on the
existing system from the built environment to form perception. Yvonne talked about the
limited living options within high-rise blocks of city. To resolve the whole city and not only
see it as colour blocks, family qualities and sentiments of suburbs are taken in consideration.
In my own studio project, I’m employing “bottom up” approach. I started to investigate the
system of a small scale of a shopping central, then I analysed big scale of a whole shopping
central and till now, I’ve started to look at the whole city in which shopping forms a major
part of it. Based on the problems I found during the investigation, my idea of intervention is
developing.

Comparison 2 approaches diagram
Bottum up
Top up

Studio Lecture Response 4:
Bachelor Studio Lecture Response
Name: Thu Anh Hoang Date of lecture: 19/09/2016
Studio: ARC2002 / ARC3002 Your Studio instructor: Lewis and Sui
Lecture name or presenters: Mannering
<Add a reaction and reflection on the lecture in relation to the theme, Critical Observation
and Proposition. Certain environments feel secure meets basic human psychological needs.
Architects became more aware of a value proposition that makes one business stand out and
attract their ideal clients. In my observation, Caulfield Campus design esquisse is different
than other campus design. It is not highly conceptual but it combines the mechanism and
current building condition and hence creates a unique proposition. To my current studio brief,
we also explore the current social, economic, political, environmental or historical condition,
finding all alternative possibilities to understand more about the architecture.

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Mid-Review Response:
Bachelor Studio Review Response
Name: Nguyen Thu Anh Hoang Date of review: 1/9/2016
Studio: ARC2002 Your Studio instructor: Lewis Moore and
Sui Lai
Studio review attended: Ephemeral cities
I. Give a brief description of the studio/ projects you observed at the review (2-3 sentences):
The studio brought in a lot of thorough researches, mappings, diagrams and analysis about
the real issues that found from their festival cities. From the growth of population, constraints
of environment to the changes of city over time were noted and taken in their density map,
constructing communities diagram, structural diagrams, environmental plan, figure-ground
context map... The small scale and lightweight mobile structures from students also assisted
us to understand their progress towards their market layout proposals.
II. Provide a considered reaction to the review you observed. (2-300 words)
What did you learn from the review presentation(s)? Compare and contrast approaches to the
theme with your current studio pursuits? What insights have you gained that might inform
your studio pursuits?
In the first group of presentation, their market layout proposal was designed with beautiful
texture and choice of material however it didn’t achieve the goal of the group and had a
problem with scale relationship and lightweight construction. From the feedback, I
understand that the concept should not only change the notion of space in physical
sense as in this case, achieving patterns and materials but also socially and culturally that
satisfy social functions and behaviours. From the next group, the idea of connection between
spaces and spreading people equally to spaces instead of congregating in one space provides
convenience to access and see when audience walks in also added into my study of Shopping
studio. The relationship between backdrops and different functions of people provide rhymes
to festival and therefore atmosphere can be produced in the way we want. The third group
brought in a smart and simple ideas of their mobile structure with their statement that
geometry can speak for the architecture however the traditional shape of the structure could
bring in simpleness instead of simplicity. The studio focused on working in a group and
producing project as group work. Their way of pursuit can improve their skill of working in a
practice when they work for a real firm in future. Our studio pursuit aims to generate
individual skill of understanding the issues of the large-scale spaces and then mapping our
insights through diagrams, maps and collages. However, both studios pursuit the same
approach that going through series of large-scale urban case studies and creating design
structures that assist, intervene or alter the public awareness towards the space.

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