Student Category
Robert Beson
Relational Geometries: Custom Fabrication and Assemble of Digital Architecture
With the use of digital design techniques, contemporary architectural projects are increasing in size and complexity. Some projects are characterised by an extreme number of prefabricated components, each slightly varied. Delivering complex architecture of this kind requires a combination of specialist parametric software as well as custom built scripted tools.
This project will research and develop techniques and planning processes for the custom fabrication and assembly of complex architectural projects through an internship working with Design to Production based in Zurich, Switzerland.
Graduate Category
Melonie Bayl-Smith
The Future of Construction Education
This project will investigate international and local models for teaching construction and fabrication principles, methodologies and technologies within university course programs in Architecture. The models to be investigated will be those where hands-on construction and/or fabrication projects are made available to University students, and/or where construction is taught as a subject and also as an in integrated part of the design studio program.
Caroline Pidcock
The Architecture of Zero Emissions Housing
As we move to a low carbon future, we must all find better ways of living in our world that reduce our green house gas emissions. It has become obvious that energy efficient buildings are not only the most cost effective form of abatement, but they are the main cause of peak energy problems. This project will examine the architecture and regulatory environments of zero emissions housing in countries where this is actively being addressed, so as to see how this could be brought to Australia.
Marcus Trimble
The Transformative Potential of the Monolithic
Memorials and monuments play an important role in our cities and memories. The characteristics of these structures, both man-made and natural, have significance in our inhabitation of our cities and landscape. The project will investigate monolithic and monumental structures both man-made and natural, their meaning and their impact on us.
