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DEAN’S MESSAGE 02 MSD TRAVELLING STUDIOS TO ASIA 20 FEATURE - CHINA: GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE EPICENTRE 04 NEW BUILDING UPDATE 22 MA YANSONG: DESIGNING WITH NATURE 07 ADVANCEMENT EVENTS: BEEN & SEEN 24 ASIA’S URBAN CULTURE 10 OUR DONORS 26 ARCHITECTURAL DISCOURSES GIVING FORM 28 & CULTURAL IDENTITY IN BALI 22 IMPACT OF GIVING 29 NANJING & MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP 16 INSIDE THE FACULTY 30 ALUMNI PROFILE: DAMIAN TANG 18
Dean’s Message
This issue of Atrium has a particular relationship with Japan. Designed in 1966 He cites his own experience of working focus on Asia and how we, as a Faculty, by architect Shigeru Yura, the fabric of the in China over the past ten years and engage with our closest neighbours room is culturally significant for the nation. discusses the impact of China on the via institutional partnerships and The staff profile has reflected the diversity development of architecture, both in academic, studio and research of the region too. We have educated a terms of international architects designing activities. As we are part of the Asia- large number of students from the region for Chinese cities and the influence Pacific region, it is vital that our built since the 1950s and many local graduates Chinese architects are having on the environment programs and studios have left to work there, with well over a rest of the world. He further outlines address the challenges and strategies thousand of our graduates working today the opportunities and challenges that face our region. as architects, landscape architects, for practicing architects in China. planners, and construction and design Our relationship with countries such professionals across Asia. Much of our The Faculty has ever deepening as Japan and Indonesia were forged research interests are also connected to connections into China and recently early in our Faculty’s history. The extensive Asia, with many of our staff involved in signed a formal partnership with involvement we had with Colombo Plan conferences, projects and missions, such Nanjing University in China. TK Chan, scholars reinforced that connection, as the ZEMCH Mission to Japan 2014, our International Dean of Engagement, as has the continued teaching of many run by Masa Noguchi and Clare Newton, discusses the significance of this alliance aspects of the history and culture. where delegates from Australia, Brazil, for students and each institution on The Faculty has played a major role in New Zealand, South Korea, and Scotland pages 16 to 17. creating connections across the region. visited leading housing manufacturers and material suppliers in Japan. We were honored to host Ma Yansong, You will remember, from your days Founder and Principal of MAD Architects, studying on our campus or visiting The lead story in this edition of Atrium in Melbourne this month. Yansong is a subsequently, the tangible connection is by Professor Donald Bates, Chair critical voice in a new generation of in the Faculty. Our heritage Japanese of Architectural Design, who surveys Chinese architects, whose projects reflect Room, which has been retained and Australia’s relationship with China, and the interlinked relationship between man, elevated to the top floor of our new discusses several recent Australia-China nature and spirit. Yansong delivered building, is symbolic of our long-standing collaborations in architectural design. a Dean’s Lecture on ‘Shanshui City’, Atrium 26 | 2014
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a concept that adapts the traditional and diverse part of the globe. Associate As this issue of Atrium goes to print, Chinese Shanshui (mountain + water, Professor Justyna Karakiewicz contributes the Melbourne School of Design is being the term for landscape) ethos of spiritual an article on the urban cultures across this handed over to the University by Brookfield harmony between nature and humanity span (as well as Melbourne) and discusses Multiplex. The announcement in May that to the modern urban environment. As how spaces are used and altered by the the Green Building Council of Australia this issue went to press, we read news people who occupy city space. Similarly, had awarded our building a 6 Star Green that Ma Yansong had been commissioned Dr. Amanda Achmadi, writes about the Star Design – Education Design v1 rating to design the Museum of Narrative in architectural discourses and complex was a strong endorsement of the project, Chicago for client George Lucas and cultural identity of Bali, a place where testament to the quality of the design and that the landscape design has been orientalist conceptions of cultural construction. It is a time of great activity commissioned from Studio Gang, the authenticity continue to define its and excitement in the Faculty as we move founder of which, Jeanne Gang, is the built environment. into our new home and approach the speaker at our next Dean’s Lecture. official launch of the Melbourne School Read Louisa Ragas’ interview with Our students also engage in learning of Design in December. I look forward Ma Yansong on pages 7 to 9. directly in the region. The diversity of its eagerly to sharing in celebrations with cultures, history and urban development you of our transformative new centre We also profile landscape architecture are addressed and integrated in the B Envs for built environment education. graduate Damian Tang who has made and MSD curricula and locations in the a profound contribution to his profession region are regular destinations in our MSD Professor Tom Kvan in Singapore. Appointed this year as the Travelling Studio program. Since its launch Dean, Faculty of Architecture, Director of Design of the National Parks in 2008, groups of graduate students have Building and Planning Board of Singapore, Damian reveals undertaken these intense 10-day studios in his vision for greening Singapore and locations across Asia including Nanjing, transforming it into a sustainable Beijing, Tokyo, Nagoya, Mumbai, Delhi and ‘city in a garden.’ Hong Kong. Niamh Cremins highlights the Image: Outside the North building, Nanjing value for students in immersing themselves University, by Dr. Toong-Khuan Chan The vague notion of ‘Asia’ is a handy but in these diverse environments, presenting imprecise term to describe a very varied different perspectives to real-life issues. Atrium PAGE 26 | 2014 04 | 05
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China – Global architecture epicentre
DONALD BATES
Our architectural practice, LAB architects? Does the proliferation of from the inward importation of architectural Architecture Studio, first became overseas architects in China undermine the design talent to China to the outward involved with projects in China development of a Chinese architecture?” exportation of Chinese architects and their in 2004. After a lecture in Beijing While appreciating the sentiment of these capabilities is to give focus to the complex by former director Peter Davidson, and similar questions, what was missing and almost unfathomable impact that China an opportunity arose to make a in these concerns was an understanding – as an idea and a location – is having presentation to the group SOHO-China. of the enormity of the development work on the development of architecture. This development group, led by in China, with the percentage of work The consequences are more profound the dynamic couple Pan Shiyi and designed by non-Chinese architects and perhaps more pervasive than we Zhang Xin, is the largest prime-office being perhaps less than 0.5%. first interpreted. real estate developer in China. More relevant was the question of how From the perspective of Australia, it is Their projects are developed through this importation of external talents was easy to see China as an export dream, small, invited design competitions and to effect the direction of architecture in full of boundless opportunities and an they give high value to the design qualities China. Responding to these concerns almost unprecedented rate of constant of their chosen architects. Through in 2006/2007, we suggested that the growth. In parallel with the exportation Peter Davidson’s leadership, LAB gained question was not about the impact western of vast quantities of minerals and energy a commission for the SOHO Shangdu architects would have on China, but rather resources, Australia has also been sending project, a 170,000m2 retail office and the future shock produced by an emerging its design and development expertise residential development in the Chaoyang wave of talented, creative and unique to China for many years, but particularly District of Beijing and the project was Chinese architects who would soon build, so in the last 15 years. The footprints of completed in 2007. or were already building in China, and Australian architectural practice mark who would eventually gain commissions the Chinese landscape, with numerous In the next few years after this project, in London, New York, Melbourne. What corporate and small-scale practices and with subsequent other projects then would be the concern when the not just operating in China, but having in China, a series of questions started efficiencies of scale, experience and established local offices in Beijing, emerging whenever we gave talks connections with Chinese investment Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and and lectures on our current projects. funding began to operate across the Chengdu, as well as Hong Kong. LAB The questions effectively coalesced around globe? By 2014, we see this trend has an office in Shanghai, and we have the concern: “Do you think it is right for emerging and it will only expand. The projects in Nanjing and Jiangsu province, architects from the West to be taking lecture by Ma Yansong at the Melbourne Tianjin, Beijing, Ningbo, Xiamen, Chengdu commissions away from local Chinese School of Design hinted at that shift. and Qingdao. The point in raising this switch in attention Atrium 26 | 2014
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FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF AUSTRALIA, IT IS EASY TO SEE WHY CHINA IS AN EXPORT DREAM, FULL OF BOUNDLESS OPPORTUNITIES AND AN ALMOST UNPRECEDENTED RATE OF CONSTANT GROWTH
This breadth and density of potential by too much on offer. Determining real have emerged that have also involved projects are not just staggering – they potential within the noise of ever-grander the private development sector in parallel are seductive. In Australia, one knows of proposals is not easy and almost always with the local urban planning bureau. the dozen or so major developers, and is requires some form of self-restraint. Our Commissions and completed projects acquainted with the second tier as well. But restraint – if you can call it that – has been in Nanjing and elsewhere in Jiangsu have projects of a certain scale and importance to focus on projects in Jiangsu province, given name recognition and visibility to LAB. are mostly undertaken by a restricted range with its capital of Nanjing. This is not to the of parties and access to them is limited. In exclusion of other cities and other regions, As part of the working partnership with China, commensurate with the scale and but it is a decision borne out of exhaustion. the Victorian government and in expanding geographic expanse of the industry, there the links with Jiangsu, an “industry cluster are innumerable developers and emerging There is a triumvirate of reasons for group” was formed, called AUS – Australian projects. A business trip for a few days or this partial focus. Jiangsu province has Urban Systems. Founded by LAB, Urbis, participation in a government sponsored a sister-state relationship with Victoria, and DesignInc and the Department of State trade mission results in 50, 75, 100 with that status, there are numerous trade Development, Business and Innovation, business cards – all with the allure agreements and cooperative endeavours this government-led group has worked of future work. between the two governments. LAB and strategically with the Nanjing Urban other Victorian architects and consultants Planning Bureau and other local planning It is not to say that such an abundance of have participated in trade missions, bureaux to develop designs and urban opportunity is a chimera, but rather to note presentations, exhibitions and joint plans for the complex mass urbanization that the multitudinous prospects become initiatives, with particular emphasis that characterizes contemporary China. an excess of potential and one is often left on urban transformations. Out of these Existing as multi-discipline clusters, AUS pulled in too many directions and distracted engagements and links, relationships offers a range of expertise from Victoria, Atrium PAGE 26 | 2014 06 | 07
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in conjunction with local inputs, providing The consequence of this is that concept knocking at the door for the same job. design and engineering contributions and design, schematic design and some Architecture is increasingly globalized critical thinking to the new master aspects of design development are initiated and China is the most global of global plans and urban renewal schemes. and produced by the overseas architects development terrains. It is no coincidence The implementation of several of these (or smaller Chinese practices) and then that major design firms from OMA to UN urban projects has subsequently resulted taken through documentation and site Studio to HASSELL and others have not in commissions with the commercial supervision by the LDI, a multi-disciplinary only set up major operations in China but developers and investors who purchase office of architects, engineers and planners now find that the majority of their current plots and sites from the master plan. that range from a few hundred employees projects are based in China. This is a to several thousand or even tens of shift in attention, but it is also a shift As an architectural practice, now operating thousands. The degree to which the in geographic centres of operation. for over ten years in China, there is much built project remains true to the concept The real shift will be when that Chinese that can be said, discussed and debated design is a constant source of conflict centre, with its talented and experienced about the ease, uncertainty, pressures and and concern. For many international emergent Chinese architects start to constraints on a non-Chinese architect architects operating in China, this is one reverse the trend and move back out operating in such a vibrant, fast-paced of the most difficult conditions to negotiate into the rest of the world. but often opaque business culture. The and resolve to any sense of satisfaction. one prerequisite, for a small to mid-sized Architects are by nature fixated on the Professor Donald Bates is Chair overseas office to actually get a project built control of a project and the situation in of Architectural Design at the Faculty in China is the engagement with an LDI – China calls into question a fundamental of Architecture, Building and Planning Local Design Institute. The documentation aspect of architectural practice. and Director of LAB Architecture Studio. and site supervision of a building project in China is strictly controlled, with particular The opportunities of China for an Images; p5 (left) SOHO Shangdu, Beijing, courtesy of SOHO China and (right) Wuxi Tower, China, limits around who is allowed to certify international architect are immense, if not courtesy of LAB Architecture Studio. P6 SOHO and approve documents and engineering also challenging. They are alluring, while Shangdu, Beijing, courtesy of SOHO China calculations. As such, most overseas fraught with difficult negotiations, uncertain offices and many small, young Chinese contractual conditions and undertaken offices all work in affiliation with an LDI. against a backdrop of the entire world Atrium 26 | 2014
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Ma Yansong: Designing with nature
LOUISA RAGAS
Named one of the world’s most influential young architects by ICON magazine in 2008, and Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2014, Ma Yansong resists the ‘star architect’ label. He is an architect with an artist’s soul, whose ideal future city would involve a collective vision, not just the vision of one.
Founder of the progressive architecture practice MAD, Yansong designs buildings that rise out of the ground like silver mountains or trees. They are organic, ethereal and majestic, linking urban construction with nature. “I want to create timeless designs that move and inspire people – I want to make them feel and think,” Yansong states.
As a boy growing up in the hutong courtyard area of Beijing, Yansong dreamt of becoming an artist or a filmmaker. “As a child, I drew and painted a lot and eventually tried to get into film school,” he says. It was a Professor at the Beijing Institute of Civil Engineering and Architecture who suggested Yansong consider architecture as a career, recognising the young man’s design vision and skills.
After completing a Master of Architecture at the prestigious Yale School of Architecture, Yansong founded his own architectural practice in 2004 and then returned to Beijing. It was a brave but natural move for the young architect. “I was very motivated to express my own design ideas, and bring something new to the field,” he says.
In 2006, MAD received worldwide attention by winning an international competition to design a residential tower in Mississauga, Canada, outside Toronto (completed in 2012). “High-rises are usually monumental, powerful buildings. What we tried to do was remove vertical lines and make the high-rises organic, soft, undulating.”
It was this originality that led to the project being awarded ‘2012 Best Tall Building Americas’ by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), and No.1, ‘Skyscraper Awards 2012’ by EMPORIS. The Absolute Towers project launched MAD onto the international stage and it was the break the young practice needed. “Before that we would win competitions but the clients never wanted to build our ‘weird’ buildings,” Yansong laughs.
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Over the last ten years, MAD has grown designs: for me, nature is spiritual and social ideal of a utopian future city that from a fledgling firm to an international that informs my architecture.” reflects individual emotional responses practice with offices in Beijing and Los to the surrounding world and promotes Angeles, and a portfolio of impressive This connection to place and nature is a connection between nature and projects and competition-winning designs. present in Yansong’s mind when he takes city dwellers. MAD’s three signature cultural projects in on any new project. “Every project has a China – Ordos Museum in Inner Mongolia; context,” he says. “The first thing I do is visit “Shanshui literally means mountain and the Wood Sculpture Museum in the site and feel the atmosphere. It can be water, but in Chinese culture it is more Harbin; and the Harbin Cultural Island an emotional process. For me, architecture than that,” says Yansong. “It is more about in Heilongjiang – are spectacular examples is not just about form and function and how humans express their emotions in a of how MAD’s work blends with its natural materials; it is the emotional impact of physical world. Development of the city surroundings and still offers a theatrical space. I try to capture that in my work.” of the future will see a shift from the pursuit counterpoint to the landscape. of material civilization to the pursuit of Inspired by his own travel experiences, nature, composing a space that places Focused on creating designs that reflect Yansong established a Travel Fellowship human spirit and emotion at its core. It will the Eastern spirit of nature, Yansong’s in 2009 to give mainland Chinese students be a future high-density urban environment approach to architecture is intrinsically the opportunity to travel abroad and focused on people’s emotions: what they connected to place, nature and spirit. research an architectural topic. To date, feel and what they see.” around 30 architecture students have “Architecture is about what you see, undertaken design research in places Ma Yansong was in Melbourne as an international experience and feel,” he says. “When I such as Iceland, Egypt, Asia and Africa. guest of the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne. He delivered a Dean’s design a building I am creating something It is part of Yansong’s vision – to support lecture on August 5 on ‘Shanshui City’, and artificial, but I work with an existing students and colleagues and enrich the presented an exhibition of the same name in the environment which is nature, as well design culture in China and beyond. Wunderlich@757. as the existing built landscape. Nature more than anything else inspires my One of Yansong’s most exciting current To view the video of this lecture visit: projects is ‘Shanshui City’. The project www.msd.unimelb.edu.au/full-house-ma-yansong is an architectural idea, linked to the Atrium 26 | 2014
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“ARCHITECTURE IS ABOUT WHAT YOU SEE, EXPERIENCE AND FEEL,” HE SAYS. “WHEN I DESIGN A BUILDING I AM CREATING SOMETHING ARTIFICIAL, BUT I WORK WITH AN EXISTING ENVIRONMENT WHICH IS NATURE, AS WELL AS THE EXISTING BUILT LANDSCAPE… NATURE MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE INSPIRES MY DESIGNS: FOR ME, NATURE IS SPIRITUAL AND THAT INFORMS MY ARCHITECTURE.”
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Urban cultures in Asia (and Melbourne)
JUSTYNA KARAKIEWICZ
WALKING AROUND PARIS, BANGKOK, CHICAGO OR MELBOURNE, WE QUICKLY SEE THE CLUES THAT TELL US WHERE WE ARE. IN CROSSING A STREET, WILL THE TRAFFIC COME FROM A DIFFERENT DIRECTION THAN YOU ARE USED TO? THE PAVEMENT WILL BE OCCUPIED BY ACTIVITIES IN ONE CITY YOU WILL NOT SEE IN ANOTHER. IF YOU WANT A QUICK MEAL, THE PLACE YOU LOOK FOR WILL DIFFER DEPENDING ON THE CITY; ON THE STREET OR IN A MALL.
Cities, as we know them today, workers moved to the city, took up steady culture to the countryside. Slowly, the largely emerged in a period of employment and established degrees streets depicted in images of Hogarth were rapid urbanisation brought about of financial stability and capacity. Patterns replaced by those of Desperate Housewives. as the industrial revolution changed of consumption changed dramatically, the landscape of Europe. Many urban accompanied by other behaviours. An enormous growth of urban populations centres were established and grew Rules of etiquette emerged; arbiters of has occurred across Asia as countries have with rapidity, a combination of quantity taste established themselves and particular sought to raise their GDP, as industries and speed not seen until Asia started forms of houses, and neighbourhoods were established and a workforce created. to undergo its urban growth spurt in were promulgated. We learned that cutlery Cities have been built at speed and forms the last quarter of the twentieth century. was to be set in certain ways, that roads made using precedents from other parts were to be dominated by cars (and those of the globe, learning quickly by copying Urbanisation in the nineteenth century who ignored the privileges of steel on policies, regulations and techniques. was accompanied by many decades of wheels were denigrated as ‘jaywalkers’), Learning from the lagging evolution in cultural and behavioural adaptation. Rural in essence, that cities had a different Europe, earlier infrastructures, so essential Atrium 26 | 2014
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to the proper working of a city, have been and the space belongs to the four players collectivist cultures may be traced to crop given priority and advantages realised with the pedestrians skirting the game. practices, with rice farming supporting the as the latest technologies have been development of interdependent community deployed. Implicit in many of the policies Asia, of course, is a vast place of varied behaviours while wheat farming supports and regulations, however, are cultural cultures (if we can even refer to a place the individualistic perspectives (Talhelm et al assumptions and priorities that have not called Asia). We can’t generalise without in Science 9 May 2014, Vol. 344 no. 6184 been recognised. The easiest example being wrong or trite but we can talk about pp. 603-608). In comparing the use of urban to point out is the dominance of the car patterns in parts of the region we call Asia. space in Asia to that of Europe and North and the use of the road. Melbourne has In many of the cultures and hence the cities, America, we can see this distinction. Our wide streets, largely filled with parked public space is readily appropriated for urban cultures and planning policies reflect cars, while Bangkok streets are often filled temporary private use, with various uses community values. with sources of food, cooked or fresh. negotiating access to the space across the hours of the day. A street may be given Asian urban culture is not limited to The topic of “urban culture” might make to wheeled traffic for some hours but then geographic places, I only draw the you think of hip hop dance and tagged walls claimed by a restaurant for peak eating distinction by calling it that to highlight but the urban culture I look at is the spaces periods, lending itself to being a zone for the difference to the other urban cultures in a city and how they are used. A principal logistics and distribution sorting at another that might be called European. Indeed, feature of twentieth century urban practice time. Domestic space is understood to culture is not static across time, it changes was one of separation whereby activities include public space. A family dining room and is redefined across the generations. are allocated their own discrete places, is found in the neighbourhood restaurants, Studies on workplace behaviours and down to a fine scale. Private space is not at home. values note that the North American created to accommodate individual activity. Generation Y seeks a more collaborative This contrasts with a commonly seen culture Such sharing of space for several purposes and interdependent workplace context. of space in Asia; that of individual activities at both small scales and large is an Asian Melbourne is, of course, a wonderful taking place in shared surroundings, like a culture, at least in some parts of the region. example of this urban culture; the game of mah-jong on the pavement seen Recent work on agricultural practices embracing of Fed Square as our in Nanjing. Set up a table, put stools down has suggested that the individualist vs collective living room. Atrium PAGE 26 | 2014 12 | 13
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A STREET MAY BE GIVEN TO WHEELED TRAFFIC FOR SOME HOURS BUT THEN CLAIMED BY A RESTAURANT FOR PEAK EATING PERIODS, LENDING ITSELF TO BEING A ZONE FOR LOGISTICS AND DISTRIBUTION SORTING AT ANOTHER TIME. DOMESTIC SPACE IS UNDERSTOOD TO INCLUDE PUBLIC SPACE. A FAMILY DINING ROOM IS FOUND IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD RESTAURANTS, NOT AT HOME.
Pop up cafés, shops and performances stumbled on these and obviously giving parking and perhaps use that space for have begun to change our urban experience them some pleasure from what was other purposes, possibly activities that in recent years, perhaps anticipating pop otherwise a passive space. are socially inclusive rather than for the up mah-jong games. Students in my privilege of immobile metal. Perhaps Bachelor of Environments urban studies Perhaps what we think of as the the interdependent cultures of Asia are subject in the first semester of 2014 were urban cultures of Asia are more widely indicating an urban future for us all. challenged to look at the power of urban spread urban cultures of a near future interventions, redefining urban experience as generational values filter through into Associate Professor Justyna Karakiewicz by adding an activity. A pop up Xbox game urban practice. With an observed decline is Associate Professor in Urban Design by Victoria Park station in Abbotsford and in the proportion of urban dwellers holding at the Faculty of Architecture, Building an outdoor lounge on campus with a couch driving licenses in the younger generations, and Planning. and carpet brought passers-by in to shared it may be that our city will be less car activities, surprising the people who focussed, have less need for on street Atrium 26 | 2014
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Architecture of Balinisation: Construction of otherness and built environments in twentieth-century Bali DR. AMANDA ACHMADI
Bali is a place where orientalist Analysing early writings on the island’s ‘authentic Balinese’ way as set out by conceptions of cultural authenticity architecture against the backdrop of its the colonial government (Flierhaar 1941, continue to define the imagining largely unknown cosmopolitan urban Robinson 1995: pp. 48-49). and shaping of the island’s built centre, highlights the selective framing of environments. Although recent critical Bali’s architectural landscape through Moojen’s book focuses on the monumental studies on the island’s political history the lense of early twentieth-century sites of Hindu temples and royal palaces have unpacked the making of ‘authentic orientalist conception of otherness and of the island’s then more isolated southern Balinese culture’ as the central project its legacies today. region. Featuring 206 photographs, it of the island’s pre-colonial and colonial utilises images of built forms as a mode contestations of power, a broad When the Dutch architect P.A.J. Moojen of visualisation of what were conceived to fascination with a certain ‘authentic arrived on the island in 1914, a distinct be the principles of a Hindu Balinese culture Balinese’ architecture, conceived as project of colonial identity politics had and religious tradition. Images of temple an apolitical, exotic, and pre-existing already gained its momentum in the Dutch complexes, royal palaces, and rustic building tradition, prevails. East Indies (today Indonesia). The project domestic architectural settings are arranged promoted the production of knowledge and featured in a consistent way that on, and the preservation of, the ‘native communicates to readers certain recurring culture’ of the Indies to complement the architectural patterns conceived to be the modernising force of colonialism. Reflecting essence of Balinese architecture. Moojen’s the orientalist agenda at the time, classical photographic framings make legible certain A BALINISATION POLICY Buddhist and Hindu traditions were aspects of spatial and visual orderings of WAS INTRODUCED TO THE championed as the true cultural roots the island’s monumental built forms, those of the archipelago’s diverse ethnic groups which are directly related to the cultural and ISLAND DURING THE 1920S in contrast to the Islamic tradition, whose religious practices of the southern region AND 1930S, GUIDING AND followers were seen to be resistant of and of the island. This architecture is the face REGULATING HOW THE incompatible with the colonial project. In of the island’s cultural tourism industry this political context, Moojen undertook a today. Meanwhile the architectural traces INDIGENOUS POPULATION commission from the colonial government of its broader shifting political formations, OF BALI SHOULD DRESS, “to survey the condition of culturally urban history, and the translation of the valuable” buildings on the island (Passchier repressive local caste system in built SPEAK, PAINT, PERFORM, 2007: p.105). He then published Kunst forms are rendered invisible. AND BUILD FOLLOWING op Bali [The Art of Bali] in 1926, the most extensive recording and account ever The marginalisation of the urban as THE ‘AUTHENTIC BALINESE’ produced on the island’s architecture. un-Bali is a recurring theme. The Mexican WAY SET OUT BY THE A Balinisation policy was introduced to author Miguel Covarrubias (1937) began COLONIAL GOVERNMENT. the island during the 1920s and 1930s, his renowned travel account of Bali by guiding and regulating how the indigenous describing his dismay upon encountering population in Bali should dress, speak, the colonial town of Denpasar. In his words, paint, perform, and build following the Atrium PAGE 26 | 2014 14 | 15
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‘In the great “alun-alun,” the playground of Den Pasar, stolid Hollanders play tennis and drink beer, young Balinese playing soccer in striped sweatshirts…. The business street leading to the market … the same squalid shops… a small Chinese hotel, and curio stalls with mass production “Balinese art”, all kept by the same Chinese compradors, the same bearded Bombay merchants with eagle-like beaks…. After the first bewildering days, when we had recovered from the shock of such distressing impression as these, we began to “discover” the real Bali… we found typical mud walls of the compounds, the thatched gates protected by mysterious signs… These were the proper setting for the lithe brown-skinned women returning from market with baskets of fruit on their head…’ (1937).
Against the shifting architectural landscape of Denpasar the idea that there is a real Bali, and by extension a real Balinese architecture, gains its urgency and realism. The urban Bali and its socio-cultural dynamic are subsequently perceived as a threat to the ‘real Bali’. Unsurprisingly, the architectural history of the capitals of Bali’s competing pre-colonial royal courts as well as the formation of colonial and subsequently postcolonial urban settlements remain largely understudied. Revisiting the historical market district of Denpasar, the urban side of the island rejected by Moojen and Covarrubias, gives us an opportunity to reposition the urban in our fascination with the island’s architectural otherness. Atrium 26 | 2014
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THE URBAN BALI AND ITS SOCIO-CULTURAL DYNAMIC ARE SUBSEQUENTLY PERCEIVED AS A THREAT TO THE ‘REAL BALI’. UNSURPRISINGLY, THE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OF THE CAPITALS OF BALI’S COMPETING PRE-COLONIAL ROYAL COURTS AS WELL AS THE FORMATION OF COLONIAL AND SUBSEQUENTLY POSTCOLONIAL URBAN SETTLEMENTS REMAIN LARGELY UNDERSTUDIED.
The market district of Denpasar is a adoption of the art deco architectural ethnically and socially exclusive, are reminder of an important role that trade expression, a popular architectural the main feature of the city’s urban fringe and ethnic relations played in the everyday movement in colonial settlements development. Meanwhile the city’s authority life of southern Hindu Balinese courts in throughout the Dutch East Indies during continues to be preoccupied by a mission the late nineteenth-century. A Chinese the 1920s and 1930s. to safeguard its perceived Balinese identity Village (Kampung Cina), an Arab Village and architectural heritage. (Kampung Arab), a Hindu Balinese banjar The Arab Village is an equally dense urban (neighbourhood community) and two neighbourhood. Despite its name, the area The recent government-led ‘architectural traditional markets composed the district is home to a mix of Middle Eastern, restoration’ of the market district of then, as they still do today. Established Pakistani and Indian traders, their Denpasar exemplifies the unresolved tension during the reign of the Badung Kingdom businesses and families. A mosque is between the city’s existing urbanity and its in the mid nineteenth-century and further situated at the southern end of the conceived Balinese cultural identity. Before consolidated during colonial time, the neighbourhood orientated towards Mecca. the market street could be promoted multiple ethnic composition and hybrid The shophouses in the Arab Village are as part of the city’s heritage, a series of urban form of the area are recorded in accessible from the front and back. This ‘restorations’ were undertaken. The visual one of the oldest maps of Denpasar way, the neighbourhood has an active outcome is the covering of the art deco produced by H.M. Van Weede during the façade towards the back laneway it shares façade of the Chinese shophouses with 1908 colonial expedition into the region. with the adjacent Banjar Titih, a long- materials such as red bricks and sand standing Hindu Balinese neighbourhood unit carving conceived to be ‘traditional Balinese’ Today, the Chinese Village is lined with of the old Denpasar. Thoroughly enclosed architecture. The multi-ethnic collectivism stores selling household items and by the Arab village and the China town, that has long evolved in this part of agricultural products, Chinese medicine Banjar Titih is not visible from the main Denpasar and its complex urban forms stores and pharmacies, as well as white street of the district. A cluster of low-rise are now concealed by the architecture of goods and furniture outlets. The Arab multi pavilion courtyard compounds, Banjar Balinisation. The hidden urban Denpasar village is famous for its textile market which Titih is primarily built around the village remains to be an invisible subject on an supplies the colorful fabrics of the iconic temple Pura Dalem Padang Entas. Most island where an imagined otherness has ceremonial apparels worn by Hindu Balinese of the dwelling compounds here have been been seen as the only reality at the cost communities in their ritual processions. renovated and densified through the years of its own urban history, present and future. The two traditional markets, Kumbasari in order to accommodate the Banjar’s and Badung are the main sources growing community. Adoption and Dr. Amanda Achmadi is Lecturer of fresh produce and artworks, as well adaptation of colonial bungalow style in Architectural Design, Asian as ceremonial elements central to the and art deco ornaments can be found Architecture and Urbanism, ritual life of the island’s Hindu population. in a number of compounds. at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning. The Chinese Village today is a dense Read against the intricate architectural neighbourhood lined with two to three- traces of its cosmopolitan history, Denpasar An earlier version of this article has been published storey shophouses. The older shophouses today is less enthusiastic in embracing elsewhere. See Achmadi, A 2013, `Forgotten resonate the nineteenth-century Chinese its multiethnic realities. Instead, privately Cosmopolitanism: Revisiting the Urban Side of Bali’, The Newsletter: Encouraging Knowledge and shophouse architecture found throughout developed gated housing estates, often Enhancing the Study of Asia, IIAS (Leiden), urban Java, while the rest reflect an time architecturally marked as being No. 66, Winter 2013, p.52. Atrium PAGE 26 | 2014 16 | 17
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Nanjing & Melbourne University Partnership DR. TOONG-KHUAN CHAN
Earlier this year, ABP Dean, Tom Kvan been invited to lead a workshop this As the program in Nanjing commences in signed an agreement with Nanjing year entitled ‘Future Museum – Spatial July this year, we plan to welcome the first University, one of the most prestigious Organisation for the New Century’. batch of students from Nanjing University institutions of higher learning in China, into our Master of Architecture program in to allow students from graduate level In the same way, students from Nanjing July 2015. Similarly, Melbourne students architecture programs to obtain Master can choose to spend the second year who enrol under this arrangement will of Architecture degrees at Nanjing of their 2.5-year Master of Architecture commence in February 2015 and travel University and at The University degree at the Melbourne School of Design, to Nanjing in July next year. of Melbourne. before returning to Nanjing for their fifth semester, and satisfy the requirements This agreement adds to the overall Students admitted into the 2-year Master for both degrees. partnership with Nanjing University which of Architecture at The University of also includes staff exchange and teaching Melbourne now have the opportunity to This is a great opportunity for Melbourne opportunities, reciprocal travelling studios complete two Master of Architecture students to gain a prestigious architecture and PhD student training. Since 2012, ABP degrees through this advanced standing qualification in China while enrolled in a and SAUP have jointly organised travelling arrangement. They will spend one semester graduate program here. They will learn studios with groups of students either at Melbourne before transferring to the from academics who are experts in their travelling to Nanjing or Melbourne to School of Architecture and Urban Planning field of study and develop cross-cultural undertake intensive design projects. This (SAUP) at Nanjing University for the understanding of the teaching and learning year, Dr. Marcus White, in collaboration with following two semesters (one year), return expectations in China. The program Prof HUA Xiaoning from Nanjing University, to Melbourne to complete their final at Nanjing will foster a fundamental will lead a studio to study the rapid urban semester and receive two qualifications understanding of Chinese architecture renewal of Chinese cities with particular from two world class universities. All the and urban development, familiarise focus on Nanjing. Like many cities in China, courses at Nanjing will be taught in English, students with contemporary architectural Nanjing is undergoing radical growth and but a basic understanding of Mandarin practice in China and combine professional change and is grappling with challenges of is strongly recommended. In addition training with the nurturing of creative retention and engagement with its ancient to graduate design studios in the M.Arch, thought. More importantly, this unique and recent history and the growing need students will have the opportunity to learning experience allows students to to accommodate its immense population. enrol in International Design Workshops build relationships with colleagues across led by acclaimed professors during the these two programs and create wider The specific site for the investigation will summer. MSD Professor Donald Bates has personal and professional networks be in the Xiaguan area along the Yangtze between Australia and China. River to the south of the Nan Jing Chang Atrium 26 | 2014
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Jiang Da Qiao (bridge) near the now Brief Introduction to NJU Statistics show that since 1992, the decommissioned Nanjing West Railway number of research papers by NJU Station and Lion Rock Park. Nanjing University, one of China`s key faculty and students on the Science comprehensive universities under the Citation Index (SCI) has ranked the first The partnership is designed to enhance direct supervision of the Ministry of among universities in Mainland China for opportunities for academic cooperation Education, dates from 1902 when it seven consecutive years. In the past and the exchange of teaching and was known as Sanjiang Normal School. decade, NJU has won more than 800 research staff, and graduate students. During the following decades, it evolved national, ministerial and provincial awards, The partnership agreement will also as Liangjiang Normal School, Nanjing including over 40 National Awards of facilitate visits by academic staff Higher Normal School, National Southeast Natural Sciences, Awards of Science from Nanjing to Melbourne to develop University, the Fourth Zhongshan University, and Technology Progress, and Awards collaborative research projects to further and National Central University. On August of Innovation. Since 2000, for instance, enhance our capacity for multi-disciplinary 8, 1949, National Central University was it has received 11 National Awards of international research. Similar reciprocal renamed National Nanjing University. In Natural Science (one First Prize, ten Second arrangements are in place for Melbourne October 1950, as required by the Ministry Prizes) and two of Science and Technology academics to travel to Nanjing to participate of Education, the name was changed Progress. From 1994 to the present, in in studio teaching and research projects to Nanjing University (NJU). terms of the number of projects granted to gain a wider audience and global by the National Natural Sciences Fund and recognition for our research. ABP will Today`s NJU consists of three beautiful the National Social Sciences Fund, NJU admit one PhD student from the School campuses, Gulou, Pukou, and Xianlin. has been among the top in the ranking of Architecture and Urban Planning each As a top university in China, it boasts of the Chinese universities. year under our Visiting Graduate Research advanced teaching and research facilities. Scholars program. With its multi-disciplinary programs and Dr. Toong-Khuan Chan is Dean of distinguished faculty, NJU leads the International Engagement and Senior institutions of higher learning in China. Lecturer in Construction Management and Technology. Atrium PAGE 26 | 2014 18 | 19
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Alumni Profile: Damian Tang LOUISA RAGAS
Appointed Director of Design of the elevating the industry’s professional numerous awards including for SILA National Parks Board of Singapore in standards and its value in landscape Professional Design, ASLA Honorary January 2014, Damian Tang is keen to design and greenery planning. Awards, 2012 MND Minister’s Team Award, contribute towards greening Singapore and was nominated for a President Design and transforming it into a sustainable “I believe that being a good landscape Award. Recently he was appointed the ‘city in a garden.’ As Director, Damian architect is important, but being a Chair for Finance and Business Planning leads a team of landscape architects, good leader in landscape architecture for IFLA Asia-Pacific Region and represented landscape designers and graphic is equally important.” in the World Standing Committee. designers in garden design projects, environmental planning and the Damian has represented both the design Besides shaping Singapore’s public master planning of Singapore’s industry and landscape industry in various greenery and influencing landscape policy, parks, waterways, public spaces roles including his Presidential Advisory Damian has participated in two recent and streetscapes. Recent projects Commission role for Design Business international garden shows, where his include Singapore’s round-island Chamber Singapore; International unique and creative approach to landscape recreation network; the Streetscape Presidential Advisor for Asian Creative design was showcased. “The Singapore Greenery Master Plan; and the PUB Industries Alliance; Chair of IFLA World Garden Festival – regarded as the Chelsea Active Beautiful & Clean (ABC) Waters Congress Singapore 2018 and International Flower Show of the East – offered me a Master Plan. Skyrise Greenery Conference 2013. As platform to create two fantasy gardens, a representative for the landscape industry the Mysterious Jungle of Pandora (in 2010) Since graduating from the University of he has been invited as keynote speaker and Garden of Tales (in 2012),” says Melbourne with a Bachelor of Architecture for several expert forums ranging from Damian. “These projects won Gold and and Master of Landscape Architecture AILA National Conference; BCA Best of Show consecutively which was in 2003, Damian has become a leader International Panel of Experts for Universal great as the Festival attracts top landscape in his profession. President of Singapore Design 2010, 2012; Taiwan Smart Green designers from around the world.” Institute of Landscape Architects, Damian Cities Summit and World Green Roof is passionate about his career and about Congress in China. He has also received Atrium 26 | 2014
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“I BELIEVE THAT BEING A GOOD LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT IS IMPORTANT, BUT BEING A GOOD LEADER IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE IS EQUALLY IMPORTANT.”
What made you choose the University What did you take away from your in biodiversity is one of the key results of Melbourne to study architecture studies in Melbourne that you still of the concerted greening efforts in and landscape architecture? use every day? Singapore over the last decade.
DT: I heard of its good reputation and that DT: There are many dedicated Professors What do you hope to achieve in it has an excellent campus environment. and teachers in the Melbourne School of Singapore as Director of Design It is also one of the best universities in Design who bring passion to their teaching. of the National Parks Board? Australia. In fact, it was the university Aside from the knowledge I gained from that many recommended. them, it was their passion and commitment DT: I definitely hope that I have contributed to their work that still resonates with me. to my country and will continue to contribute What steps did you take to through my profession, connecting people get yourself to University here? What was your first job when with the environment. Sometimes it is not you returned to Singapore? the big ideas I go for when designing DT: I completed a four year Diploma landscapes; sometimes it is the small course in Singapore before applying DT: My first job was working as a ideas that could potentially turn big when to the University of Melbourne. As I had landscape architect for the National Parks executed well. For Singapore, I hope merit awards with outstanding grades Board. And I am still with National Parks to achieve sustainable living systems and 4 years work experience, I was given Board after 10 years. through designing landscapes and considerable exemptions in my course. living environments for people. And Preparing myself mentally and emotionally How has Singapore’s landscape and by sustainable living systems, I mean a because moving to another foreign country recreation spaces changed over the holistic and integrated approach from was something I had mixed feelings about. last decade since you’ve been working planning to design and implementation. Financial support from my parents was for the National Parks Board? I have a responsibility, both as a professional, also one aspect that I had to work out. DT: As a citizen living in Singapore, I notice and a leader in the profession, to drive it. What was your first that people were more appreciative and in What advice do you have for young impression of Melbourne? touch with nature and spending time in outdoor recreational activities. Designing people interested in a career in DT: The campus is beautiful. It is really parks, streetscapes and greenery in landscape architecture? conducive for study – lying on the green Singapore, from a holistic and integrated DT: Landscape architecture is a profession lawns, being with friends, and finding quiet approach with different agencies, has made that is so wide and encompassing, and it corners to read or study with a nice cup of Singapore more liveable. People get the is up to you to define and discover. It will be good latte. I still love the campus, and try experience of living, working and playing a profession and career that will leave you to make it a point to visit when I return to in a city in a garden setting. We are also driven, fulfilled and developed as a better Melbourne each year. I only wish I had the beginning to see more of our concrete human being. Whatever dreams you have chance to study in the new Melbourne canals turned into beautiful waterways – as a landscape designer, be committed School of Design building. places where people are drawn closer and stay focused on them. Your experience to the water. Importantly, we have more and professional journey will be borderless wildlife, birds and butterflies in many and rewarding, not just for you but for urban areas in Singapore. The increase others as well. Atrium PAGE 26 | 2014 20 | 21
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MSD travelling studios to Asia NIAMH CREMINS
Melbourne School of Design (MSD) as many Asian cities,” says Dr. White. “If we are to maintain quality of amenity Travelling Studios provide Masters “There is a need to accommodate a rapidly and quality of life, we can no longer think Students a unique opportunity to growing population in urban forms other about urbanism strictly two dimensionally,” engage with the built environment than sprawl, whilst not destroying the Dr. White says. on a global scale. existing fabric. We need to consider how to accommodate high density towers but In some respects the development of The MSD curriculum is grounded in leading maintain the active and diverse grain of urban thinking in Asia has caught up industry practice and current built issues. our existing cities.” and passed us. “While many Asian cities Travelling studios compliment this learning, boast acceptable public transport to as students are challenged to work in new The urban character of Asia has accommodate the population’s needs, cultures and settings to form design experienced a century’s urban renewal Australia continues to dwell on the propositions for built issues across the in only a decade. “Many Chinese cities construction of freeways to service globe. Students gain an understanding have moved through 150 years’ worth continuing unsustainable lateral of design and planning systems in other of development in the last 10 to 15 tears,” expansion,” Dr. White explains. countries and are better positioned to says Dr. White, “from simple ‘villages’ analyse Australian built issues, as well through industrialisation, modernism and Similarly, regulations, such as ensuring as better prepared to pursue career the Euclidean zoning and car based houses have a minimum of daylight hours opportunities abroad. This academic transport planning of the 60’s and 70’s, in winter and natural light in all bedrooms, year, three travelling studio groups through post-modern thinking and now help to accommodate growth and maintain focus on Australasia. performative urban thinking including rapid basic living standards in Asian cities. transit oriented development and smart According to Dr. Marcus White, Studio green cities.” As part of the Hong Kong travelling Leader for the Nanjing travelling studio, studio, led by Associate Professor commencing in Semester 2, many It is clear that there is a lot to be learned Justyna Karakiewicz last semester, comparisons exist in urban design from Asia, both by investigating the MSD students, Emily Flint and Cara and we have a lot to learn from Asia. problems and mistakes inherent in DeFrancesco, considered such issues Chinese cities and considering the as they endeavoured to develop a “While Australia is not moving at quite as successful urban strategies and methodology for developing connected, rapid a pace, we are increasingly dealing regulations for accommodating growth. diverse and liveable cities. with a lot of the same issues of urbanisation Atrium 26 | 2014
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The studio asked students to create a new investigation, developing a 50 year “Our planning methodology produces urban system to address the issue of waste development plan that would see the different results when applied to disparate – defined as inactive space that is not site utilised to its full potential, focused sites,” Emily says. aligned to people’s needs – in our cities, primarily on the human experience using sites in Melbourne and Hong Kong rather than fixating on the creation Using this structured approach the as case studies. of hyper-dense environments. methodology dictates a site specific response that considers the potential Students from across the built disciplines Emily and Carla observe similarities in the of the site in a holistic way; identifying were challenged to work together to upsurge of high density, high rise city centre opportunities to lift the surface and consider the preconceptions that underpin structures in both Melbourne and Hong provide multiple routes, inserting voids our decisions and ultimately impact design Kong, however, significantly there are above, below and horizontally to enhance conclusions. vast differences in each city’s approach sun penetration and permeability for to, as well as perception of, urban density. environmental conditions, as well as “We started by examining how we In Hong Kong dense living has been improving way finding. understand something that is not composed a reality for decades and the vast of letters, words or sentences, but rather majority of the population, irrespective Functionality is a strategic concern in their images, streets, voids, buildings and of economic situation, live in high rise tower design methodology. The team identified volumes,” Professor Karakiewicz explains. developments. This podium tower typology the need to assign necessary functional in Hong Kong evolved from a desire to opportunities positioned throughout and “I wanted students to reflect on how our optimise the plot ratio whilst remaining in the around residential facilities and workspaces. views are skewed by our preconceptions, parameters of planning regulation. However, Some examples include; education and
“IF WE ARE TO MAINTAIN QUALITY OF AMENITY AND QUALITY OF LIFE, WE CAN NO LONGER THINK ABOUT URBANISM STRICTLY TWO DIMENSIONALLY,” DR. WHITE SAID.
cultural background, traditions, predigests as Carla points out, while these towers retail facilities, a community garden, and assumptions,” she says. “It is important demonstrate efficient land use, they do not hospitality, a running track, an auditorium to understand these things to ensure we serve a sense of community or address the and a moonlight cinema. do not come up with false conclusions and wellbeing of the individuals they house. a valuable lesson of the travelling studio.” “It was really interesting to compare sites “The towers technically meet housing in Melbourne and Hong Kong,” Emily The urban environment of Hong Kong requirements by planning standards but says. “We identified both case study sites demonstrates the extremes of high density don’t address the requirements of the as wasteful but in very different ways. development. Emily and Carla, together with people who occupy them,” Carla says. Melbourne’s focus on activation on the their studio team, Rebecca Li and Ansuya “We identified mental well-being, positive ‘ground floor’ level means that land space Bhat, developed a design methodology in pedestrian activity and community is often developed inefficiently – single Melbourne which they used as a basis for connectivity as key considerations use, one to two storey buildings and their site focused research in Hong Kong. that architects, planners and developers the continuation of urban sprawl. Hong need to address to create useful, efficient Kong is the other end of the spectrum,” The MSD students worked alongside urban environments.” she explains. “We found a dependence on students from the University of Hong Kong, over-development in Hong Kong resulting in who provided invaluable inside knowledge “For the Cheung Sha Wan site, we the loss of human scale considerations.” of the local sites, as well as industry and recommended a socially beneficial academic experts from across the globe. alternative that aims to add a new layer Travelling studios are intensive and of function to existing densities,’ challenging but students continually “The opportunity to travel with a studio Carla explains. rise to the challenge as they engage with allowed us to see firsthand the type of new and exciting issues in foreign contexts issues we had been discussing in the The team developed a methodology and work with global experts who provide classroom,” Emily says. “It gave us a more they coined the urban terrain, an urban a breath of knowledge and vision for what global outlook and helped us to move out system that is both site specific, adapting design can achieve. Students want to of our comfort zones and adapt to the new into existing urban characters and be part of this future world vision and environments in which we were working.” contexts, and universal, suitable for the Melbourne School of Design travelling multiple conditions. studio presents international learning Emily and Carla’s group chose the Cheung opportunities across continents. Sha Wan area of New Kowloon for their Atrium PAGE 26 | 2014 22 | 23
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New building update: Melbourne School of Design LOUISA RAGAS
“THIS NEW ‘LIVING As this issue of Atrium goes to print, “This is a testament to the quality of our new home is being handed over to the design and construction,” says ABP LABORATORY’ WILL the Faculty by the builders, Brookfield Dean Tom Kvan, “and we are especially CONTRIBUTE TO THE Multiplex. This is a significant milestone proud that this will be the University’s first in the life of a project which commenced 6 Star Green Star rated building.” BODY OF KNOWLEDGE back in 2008 when the University first OF SUSTAINABLE DESIGN approved funding for the construction State of the art building services such PHILOSOPHIES AND of a new building for the Faculty of as mixed mode heating and cooling, Architecture, Building and Planning. increased ventilation provisions with TECHNICAL APPLICATION The intent was to create a landmark heat recovery, a unique ground-source WITH REAL PERFORMANCE building for the University of Melbourne, pre-cooling system and high efficiency which would provide world-class dynamic lighting systems are controlled DATA – A FIELD TEST TO LAST facilities for built environment staff by an array of sensors and comprehensive IN EXCESS OF 50 YEARS.” and students and transform the way building monitoring and management design education is delivered. systems that optimise the services to meet the dynamic needs of this multi-use The final design by John Wardle building. The mixed mode nature of the Architects and NADAAA, in association, building services, combined with the is breath-taking and meets the Faculty’s adaptable architecture allows it to breathe pedagogical and sustainability aspirations. fresh air when conditions allow, but retain The building will facilitate teaching and warmth and comfort across seasons. learning opportunities – with students able to actively monitor and adjust But its real sustainability performance environmental features in order to monitor will be experienced by the user in the their impacts on the interior environment – light-filled, airy space, with healthy, natural as well as facilitate research opportunities materials that cocoon the occupant in for the broader Faculty agenda. an environment conducive to specialised learning and concentration. The building is also an exemplar of ‘green’ architectural design on campus. In May, “This new ‘living laboratory’ will contribute the Green Building Council of Australia to the body of knowledge of sustainable announced that it has been awarded design philosophies and technical a 6 Star Green Star Design – Education application with real performance data – Design v1 rating. This rating represents a field test to last in excess of 50 years,” ‘World Leadership’ in environmentally says Professor Kvan. sustainable building practices. Only 12 buildings in Australia have received a 6 Star For project news, stories and time Green Star Education Design – v1 rating. lapse video, visit the new building blog Ours’ is the largest to achieve this rating, www.msd.unimelb.edu.au/blog and, significantly, the only one to ever be awarded all 10 innovation points possible in the evaluation criteria. Atrium 26 | 2014
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1964 GROUP GATHER TO on “Seeking and Achieving Innovation Advancement in Sustainable Design Practice.” Both CELEBRATE THEIR 50TH sessions were well attended and followed events: Been ANNIVERSARY – WHAT by lively discussion.
A NIGHT IT WAS! Image 04 shows Catherine Loke – ABP alumna, and seen donor and SIA Board member, deep in conversation Faculty alumni who commenced studies with Alan Pert at the Singapore event. Image by at The University of Melbourne in 1964, Judy Turner ALUMNI GET UP CLOSE AND gathered together in April to renew old friendships, celebrate successes, mourn PERSONAL WITH PIRANESI untimely losses and generally enjoy each other’s company. The Digital Gallery The State Library of Victoria (SLV), in collaboration with the University’s Ian With the support of Advancement Manager at the Melbourne Potter Museum of Art, presented an Andrew Middleton the party was ably outstanding exhibition in May – Rome: convened by a dedicated sub-committee School of Design Piranesi’s Vision. led by Jennifer Gomes, Virginia Kirton, Manny Moraitis and Tony Styant-Browne. Enclosed you will find a form inviting The exhibition attracted over 80,000 visitors The gathering was addressed by Dean Tom you to join the growing ranks of generous and gave the best overview yet seen of Kvan who spoke on the new building and alumni supporting our new building. In this amazing technician and artist’s work. recent developments in teaching and recognition of their generosity, we have A group of around 60 alumni, invited by the learning in ABP, and included alumni who developed a Digital Gallery to present Faculty and the Baillieu Library, enjoyed talks had travelled from as far away as Hong the huge breadth and quality of work by Shane Carmody of the Baillieu Library Kong. The tireless group danced until the of our alumni and supporters. and our own Professor Paolo Tombesi, who wee hours to a band led by cohort member generously led a guided tour of the prints. Leon Fink. They watched screenings of All who make a philanthropic gift of any the Archi-Review and shared images pledged amount over $AU1,000 will be Image 01 shows Paolo in action with a captivated from their days at the University. group of alumni; State Library of Victoria, May 2014. invited to contribute images of their work Image by Judy Turner Image 03 shows the attendees surrounding honoured for inclusion in the Digital Gallery. The same guests Hugh O’Neill and Jeffrey Turnbull. Image by offer will be extended to corporate entities John Gollings which sponsor the Faculty.
The project is a unique collaboration between the Faculty and the Institute MALAYSIAN ALUMNI for a Broadband-Enabled Society, CELEBRATE SILVER JUBILEE NADER TEHRANI (within the UoM Department of Electrical Engineering) who are providing the AND ALAN PERT MEET software platform and using the project The University of Melbourne’s Malaysian as a springboard for cutting edge research Alumni Association celebrated its Silver ALUMNI IN SINGAPORE into interactivity in public spaces. Jubilee this June, at a glamorous Gala AND KUALA LUMPUR dinner, attended by close to 200 alumni The wall will be situated in the grand lobby and partners. In partnership with the Singapore on the lower ground floor of our new Institute of Architects (May 29) and building, adjacent to the largest lecture Dean Tom Kvan was pleased to represent the Pertubuhan Akitek Malaysia (PAM) theatre on campus. the Faculty and catch up with some of our (May 30), ABP was pleased to be able wonderful Malaysian alumni, many of whom to present outstanding sessions with two We encourage all alumni to join this are generous contributors to our Malaysian of our leading practitioners. exciting initiative. Giving Group. Further information on the project can Image 02 shows ABP Alumnus and generous Professor Nader Tehrani, joint architect supporter, Dato Peter Tan, arriving at the event of our new Melbourne School of Design be obtained by calling Simon Elchlepp with his wife, Mary. Image by William Lim, After building and Head of Architecture at on (03) 9035 5945 or emailing Before Photography MIT, and Professor Alan Pert, Head of [email protected]. the Melbourne School of Design and Director of NORD Architecture (Glasgow), Image 05: House of Glen Ellen (USA) by Grant Marani, BArch 1978. presented at the sessions, which focused Image 06: CBW (Melbourne) by Charles Justin, BArch 1972. Atrium 26 | 2014
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ANNUAL GIVING TO ABP: GIVING TO THE NEW ABP BUILDING
2012 – 2014 The Faculty is also indebted to the many visionary corporations, groups and individuals who have already contributed towards our Faculty target of raising The Faculty of Architecture, Building $20m towards the new Building. The following people have pledged the amounts and Planning is grateful to the generous listed below, since our fundraising commenced. individuals, families and companies listed below who have donated to provide better opportunities for our students and $1,000,000 or above Rodney C Bell & Lisbeth Bell Dulux Australia Edward Billson & Margaret Billson staff over the period January 1 2012 to Kwok-Wai Chan January 14 2014. $500,000 or above The Chappell Family Andrew Lee King Fun Julian T B Cheong $100,000 or above Hansen Yuncken Pty Ltd Max Chester OAM Brookfield Multiplex & Peter Hansen Family Trust Philip Chun Mr & Mrs Anthony Auh Chew Kang Paul Coombe & Family $100,000 – $499,999 Anne Cunningham & Ian G Cunningham Volvo Research and Educational BEP Akitek in memory of Kington Loo Allan Davison Foundations Hijjas bin Kasturi & Angela Hijjas Richard Falkinger AO Alan F C Choe Charles R Freedman $10,000 – $99,999 Lovell Chen Pty Ltd Jonathan Gardiner AECOM Koh Seow Chuan & Lim Wen Gin Robert Garlick AM Arup The Teo Family (Daniel T H Teo & Theo Gouskos Vera Moore Foundation Soo Khim Goh, Dana K Y Teo, Rachel K C Tony P Green Teo) Guests Accounting $1,000 – $9,999 Alfred H K Wong Maria Hansen ABP Commencing Class of 1964 Anonymous Eddy Lau Reunion Committee Charles H H Lee ASN Events Pty Ltd $50,000 – $99,999 Edmond S Li The Auty Family Trust Noel Henderson Lim Chong Nam BDS Projects Ruby S H Lai-Chuah Ruby Loo Ron Billard Dato John Lau Barry J Matthews Edward Billson & Margaret Billson Marian (Lobban) & Guy Paynter Andrew McAlinden Business Outlook & Evaluation John Middleton Terry Cocks OAM $10,000 – $49,999 Andrew Middleton & Clare Harper Ernest & Letitia Wears Memorial Fund Ron Billard Patrick R Ness Fed Square Pty Ltd Glyn C Davis AC Yi S Ooi Richard Falkinger AO Peter Holland Jon Peacock & Darren Lockie John Gribble Charles Justin & Leah Justin John Petrakis Dominique Hes Thomas Kvan & Justyna Karakiewicz Bryce B Raworth Hudson Building Supplies Geoff Lawler Tim L Roberts Milwaukee Tools LU Simon Builders Pty Ltd Peter G Rowe Geoff Lawler Roger Y P Ma Alex Selenitsch Stramit Building Products Roderick I Macdonald & Geoffrey P Simon 2 Anonymous Donors Margaret J Macdonald Simon Swaney Grant Marani Charlotte Tolley-Conman & Alexander Up to $999 Sarah Martin & Peter Martin Tolley-Conman Agus S Batara Robert McGauran Bruce Trethowan Kenneth C Bethell Ooi Choun Theng Judy Turner Annmarie Brennan Mr Soekrisman C Underwood Rosa-Anna Ceravolo Tan Pei Ing J Underwood Robyn Dalziel Dato Peter Tan Evan Walker AO & Judith Walker Environmental Affairs Pty Ltd The Teng Family (Dato' C H Teng Chris White Future Leaders & Datin Chew Y Teng Chiu, Pe-Khai Teng, Peter Williams Barrie Gallacher Pe-Yang Teng) Allan F Willingham Anne H Latreille & Peter R Latreille The Tibbits Family Michael Wozniak Trevor Lee Peter Tsitas Frank C Y Wu David Maughan Hon C Wu Mandy Yencken & Ted Yencken Clare L Newton Yang Soo Suan & Tan Ai Fong 6 Anonymous Donors Sano Fumiko Jay Yeunh-Wee Tiong Jeffrey J Turnbull Under to $1,000 6 Anonymous Donors $1,000 – $9,999 104 donors Aisin Australia Pty Ltd Rita Avdiev The Faculty also thanks the generous Ted N Baillieu MP & Robyn Baillieu donors that have supported the Dean’s Peter J Barraclough Honours Awards and Grad Ex exhibition, David Beauchamp & Lyn Howden Roger B Beeston supporting the Faculty’s acknowledgement of academic excellence. Atrium 26 | 2014
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You can make the difference!
The Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning greatly values the generous support from alumni, friends and industry partners which helps to create opportunities for our talented students.
As a Faculty, we are committed to ensuring that our students – the next generation of built environment professionals – understand the need for sustainable solutions in the creation of urban centres. Now more than ever we have an opportunity to make a significant impact on our environmental and social futures by managing urban change.
But how do we do this? One key way is by ensuring that our students develop interdisciplinary knowledge, where sustainability principles are embedded as a way of thinking and collaboration is the preferred mode of practice. To achieve this it is clear we must create a new, flexible academic space and an inspirational, world-class curriculum.
We are creating a new building for the Faculty which will be unique in Australia. It will be a centre of transformational education and research into sustainable cities and an exemplar of sustainable infrastructure. In particular, it will allow students and researchers to explore sustainability issues across multiple disciplines in a living and pedagogical building that can be adapted to changing needs, designed to provide feedback to students and researchers for real-time learning. The facility itself will be a platform for training our future leaders engaged in planning, designing and constructing cities and communities here and abroad.
We invite you to support our endeavours. By supporting our community of students and researchers and our building project, you are making a significant investment in the educational, environmental and economic health of the built environment professions for future generations.
We have made our best attempt to ensure the list is correct, but we are aware that our records may not be complete. If you notice any errors or omissions please contact Andrew Middleton, Advancement Manager, on (03) 8344 3111 or [email protected]. Atrium PAGE 26 | 2014 28 | 29
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GIVING TO THE FACULTY
01 NEW BUILDING FOR ABP
Use the enclosed form to support the new building and gain your place in the Digital Gallery at the Melbourne School of Design. For more information about the gallery KOH SEOW CHUAN [1963] contact Simon Elchlepp.
[email protected] or Phone (03) 9035 5945
02 SCHOLARSHIPS FOR OUR STUDENTS
LUCY TIBBITS [1993]
Contact Andrew Middleton, Advancement Manager, to discuss how you can make university education more accessible for our future professionals. [email protected] or Phone (03) 8344 3111
03 CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH
Contact Judy Turner, Director of Advancement, to discuss your interest in sponsoring or funding a research project at the Melbourne School of Design.
[email protected] or Phone (03) 9035 9634
04 MAKING A BEQUEST
The University’s Head of Bequests, Robyn Krause-Hale, will be delighted to talk with you about how you can ensure that future generations have the finest education by making a gift in your will. [email protected] or Phone (03) 8344 1745 Atrium 26 | 2014
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Impact of Giving
OUR SARAWAK SUPPORTERS – GIVING BACK TO THEIR UNIVERSITY
The Malaysian State of Sarawak on the massive Island of Borneo is home to a large and influential group of ABP alumni, some whose Melbourne experience commenced in the 1950s, others who graduated as recently as 2013.
Image shows (L to R) supporter, Julien Cheong; Dean Tom Kvan, and alumni supporters, Dato Sri John Lau and Wong King Hoo.
This longstanding association was During dinner, Dato Sri John Lau shared celebrated at an event in the capital city his own inspiring story. Lau’s family were of Kuching in April 2014, when Dean Tom Chinese immigrants to Sarawak in the JOHN LAU AND FAMILY Kvan and Advancement Director Judy 1900s and John was one of 11 children. Turner welcomed an engaged alumni group His father, a hard-working and successful HAVE BROUGHT TOGETHER at the eclectic Junk Restaurant. During the business man, had little respect for higher A COMMITTED GROUP evening, Professor Kvan met old friends education and discouraged his youngest and gave an update on the new building, son from attending University. Nonetheless, OF GRADUATES WHO before joining the group for a magnificent Lau made his own way to Melbourne and, ARE RAISING FUNDS TO dinner kindly hosted by two alumni; Dato through hard work and talent, built a highly NAME A SARAWAK STUDIO Sri John Lau, whose company Akitek KDI successful practice which has branched now employs a number of our graduates out into development, project management, IN OUR NEW BUILDING. (including his son Sam Lau), and Sim interior design and urban planning. John Yaw Hang, whose company Coramax Lau and family have brought together a is currently building the largest shopping committed group of graduates who are mall in Sarawak. After the talk, Julian Ting raising funds to name a Sarawak Studio in Bing Cheong, whose son Justin is a current our new building. Just as the legacy of The student at ABP, and alumnus Wong University of Melbourne lives on in the built King Hoo made generous donations environment of Sarawak, so will the legacy to the Faculty. of our Sarawak alumni live on in Melbourne. Atrium PAGE 26 | 2014 30 | 31
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Inside the Faculty
NEWS
The new Melbourne School of Design building pushed the boundaries of architecture and Bower Studios, led by Dr David O’Brien, reached practical completion on Friday 8 technology, taking visitors on a virtual journey give MSD students the unique opportunity August 2014 and the University of Melbourne through a selection of Australia’s most to work with Indigenous communities officially took ownership of the building. It intriguing unrealised projects. 11 historical to help design and build culturally and is a very exciting time for the Faculty as staff and 11 contemporary Australian projects, environmentally appropriate housing. take up residence in their new offices and which, for various reasons, were never built, we make the final preparations for students are brought to life through three-dimensional Professor Julie Willis, Professor Philip to commence their studies in our state-of- augmented models, images, voiceovers and Goad and Professor Alan Pert, together the-art facility in February 2015. Completed animations, activated by a specifically with industry partners, Professor Corbett four months earlier than scheduled, the designed Augmented Australia app. The Lyons and Mr Stefano Scalzo of Lyons building is an exemplar of building efficiency temporary Australian Pavilion, entitled Cloud Architecture, have been awarded an and sustainable design, and great credit is Space, housed trigger images of each project Australian Research Council (ARC) due to the consultant team whose innovation and formed a physical portal to Augmented Linkage Project Grant to investigate and commitment made this possible. Australia, while real-world scale 3D models the relationship between hospital design were geographically positioned around Venice. and patient recovery. This research project The building was part of the Open House will investigate the direct effect of the Melbourne event in July, with over 2000 You can read a series of Postcards from environmental design of healthcare facilities people getting a preview of our spectacular Venice by Philip on the MSD website on the wellbeing of patients and their families. new home. www.msd.unimelb.edu.au/postcards-venice. Building upon Australia’s international leadership in contemporary hospital design, Philip Goad was part of the creative team that The MSD Bower series of studios was the project aims to evaluate, prioritise brought us Augmented Australia at the 14th highlighted by World Architects eMagazine and strategise the best means for realising International Architecture Biennale in Venice. as one of the top 10 design/build programs benefits of environmental design factors This groundbreaking exhibition tells the story in the world making a difference by that contribute more significantly to achieving of Australia’s architectural heritage as never developing design and construction positive outcomes. before through reimagining and hi-tech skills in future architects and contributing innovation. Augmented Australia 1914 – 2014 to local communities. The award-wining
PEOPLE
Congratulations to alumni Hank Koning and Master of Architecture graduate, Hong Yi Congratulations to Anoma Pieris on being Julie Eizenberg whose work was recognised (Red) is gaining an international reputation awarded a prestigious ARC Future Fellowship in The American Institute of Architects for her art. She has been commissioned to award – a first for our Faculty. A total of (AIA) 14th annual Housing Awards, which create work by some of the world’s leading 830 applications were submitted for Future recognizes the best housing designs in brands such as Hewlett-Packard, as well Fellowships across Australia with only the United States. The Santa Monica based as making design installations incorporating 150 successful and only one, Anoma’s, team received two prizes amongst the every-day objects. Red was recently was awarded for the built environment. 10 highly rated domestic projects. approached by movie star Jackie Chan Anoma will undertake a four year research to create an art piece for his 60th birthday. project entitled Temporal cities, provisional Nader Tehrani, the US partner of our She crafted a three-dimensional image of citizens: architectures of internment which architecture team for the new building, the kung-fu legend made entirely out of will explore how expertise in architecture visited the faculty in late May. Nader and 64,000 chopsticks and presented it to the was mobilized in the production of WWII John Wardle held a lecture on 27 May entitled star at a special concert in Beijing on the internment environments. ‘Making Place: Designing a pedagogical eve of his birthday. You can view Red’s building for the Faculty of Architecture work on her blog, Oh I see Red! Building and Planning’ and participated in a number of site tours with donors. Atrium 26 | 2014
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RECENT EVENTS
Ma Yansong, Founding Principal of MAD Architect, Liam Young, founder of the Speculations – investigation and Architects, presented the second lecture urban futures think tank, Tomorrows speculation on landscape design-led in the Dean’s Lecture Series for 2014 Thoughts Today, presented a public lecture production and urbanism for the cities in August. The presentation considered in April, Brave New Now, exploring the of Mumbai, Singapore, Brasilia, Rio the architectural idea of Shanshui City possibilities of urbanism – the fantastic, de Janeiro, Phoenix, Kuala Lumpur with reference to MAD’s own projects. the speculative, the imaginary. and Chicago. According to Yansong, Shanshui City is a social ideal of a future city that reflects As semester one drew to a close, the From Struggletown to Town Centre – individual emotional response to the Faculty curated a series of exhibitions, a poster exhibition considering international surrounding world. Ma Yansong is an in the Wunderlich@757, demonstrating good practice in planning for Frankston important voice in a new generation the outstanding studio work produced and Sunshine. of architects, hailed as one of the by our students. world’s most influential and creative ABP Thesis and Studios C, D and E – young architects by ICON magazine Explorations – an investigation of the end of semester exhibition ranging from (2008) and Fast Company (2009). evolving relationship between the Port highly speculative propositions to more Philip Bay and the establishment of practice-oriented efforts, from small The Australian Premier of The Competition Melbourne’s inner city grid settlement. design interventions to large urban was screened at ACMI Cinemas, Federation propositions and beyond. Square in July. The documentary, which Digital Furniture Fabrication – furniture presents a raw account of some of the prototypes that investigate an individual research agenda enhanced by the world’s leading architectural practices UPCOMING EVENTS engaged in a design competition, was combination of digital design software brought to Australia by DIS-cour.se, in and digital fabrication equipment. partnership with the Melbourne School Regenerating Sustainability – proposals of Design, Open House Melbourne and Dean’s Lecture: Jeanne Gang, for alternative sustainable futures, which ACMI. A panel debate at the opening Studio Gang Architects, Chicago go beyond ‘energy efficiency.’ screening and subsequent panel discussion, Competing Ideas, at the 7 October 2014, Carrillo Gantner Representing and Remembering Place – Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre University of Melbourne, provided a consideration of techniques for site opportunities to delve into the relevance representation and recollection culminating For details of all future events visit: of the architectural competition in today’s in an Atlas project for a Melbourne site. www.msd.unimelb.edu.au/events industry, with specific reference to the local context. CONTACT Faculty of Architecture, Atrium Building & Planning University of Melbourne Victoria 3010 Australia Phone: + 61 3 8344 6417 THE UNIVERSITY www.abp.unimelb.edu.au OF MELBOURNE
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