Farms, Burbs, Nature and Things

Farms, Burbs, Nature and Things encouraged students to think about architecture beyond the envelope of the building and its immediate landscape elements. It sought to highlight the interconnectedness of our built environment with natural systems both immediate and territorial. The studio showed a role forarchitects as integral to the development of ideas and realised strategies combining these complex built and natural systems to adapt to a changing world and mitigate the effects of these changes. The studio encouraged students to test unconventional combinations of programs aiming to produce provocative ideas for cross programmed buildings and spaces, arguing that, by hyper-varied use, a building can be sustainable long term through efficiency and spatial innovation, and flexibility.

How people live, work, learn and play in surburban spaces was questioned with propositions being intrinsically linked with the natural systems around them. The studio encouraged highly service oriented and infrastructural buildings juxtaposed against expanded and rehabilitated landscapes.

Image Credits
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Students, 2021
I. Schaub, I. Petrakis, J. Dickson, S. Curcio