Design Speaks The Architecture Symposium, Brisbane Design Speaks. The Architecture Symposium, Brisbane Architecture, design and urbanism from the Asia Pacific Friday 13 March 2020 MAJOR PARTNERS PART OF UNIVERSITY PARTNER VENUE PARTNER HOTEL PARTNER Image not found or typeImage unknown not found or typeImage unknown not found or type unknownImage not found or typeImage unknown not found or type unknown Image not found or type unknown 01 Design Speaks The Architecture Symposium, Brisbane Details. Program. When Friday 13 March 2020 8:30 am Attendee arrival 8.30 am – 5.00 pm () 9:00 am ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY Georgia Birks, co-curator, Asia Pacific Architecture Where Festival Auditorium 1 and Queensland Terrace, State Library of Queensland 9:10 am Opening comments from Katelin Butler, editorial Stanley Place director, Architecture Media Brisbane Queensland 9:15 am KEYNOTE: CRAFTSMANSHIP AND LOCAL ROOTS Realrich Sjarief, RAW Architecture (Jakarta, Indonesia) Program Info 9:55 am KEYNOTE: PRACTISING IN A CHANGING LANDSCAPE Join us in Brisbane for The Architecture Symposium where an Kotchakorn Voraakhom, Landprocess (Bangkok, international line-up of speakers will Thailand) present an eclectic mix of 10:35 am Morning tea presentations exploring the challenges of living and designing in 11:00 am KEYNOTE: PEOPLE AND WATER: A “PLACE TO RETURN” the Asian Century. A headline event Takeshi Komada, Komada Architects’ Office (Tokyo, of the 2020 Asia Pacific Architecture Japan) Festival, The Architecture Symposium will be addressing the 11:40 am KEYNOTE: ARCHITECTURAL ACUPUNCTURE festival's overarching theme of Xu Tiantian, DnA Design and Architecture (Beijing, “Water” in environmental, China) contextual and poetic ways. 12:20 pm The myriad cultural attitudes to KEYNOTE: BUILDING ON WATER water in the Asia Pacific region, and Philip Cox, Cox Architecture (Sydney, Australia) the many ways our cities and 1:00 pm Lunch communities are shaped by our understanding of water, will prompt 2:00 pm KEYNOTE: WATER ALL AROUND US thinking around how we can address what lies ahead for our threatened Erik L’Heureux, Pencil Office (Singapore) environment and build a sustainable 2:40 pm KEYNOTE: WATER AS CONTESTABLE SPACE future. Julie Stout, Mitchell Stout Dodd Architects / Urban Auckland (Auckland, New Zealand) Partners 3:20 pm KEYNOTE: BETWEEN THE WATERS MAJOR PARTNERS Gurjit Singh Matharoo, Matharoo Associates Cement Concrete and Aggregates (Ahmedabad, India) Australia 4:00 pm Closing comments from Katelin Butler, editorial Planned Cover director, Architecture Media PART OF 4:10 pm Closing drinks Asia Pacific Architecture Festival 5:00 pm Event concludes UNIVERSITY PARTNER Abedian School of Architecture, Bond University VENUE PARTNER State Library of Queensland HOTEL PARTNER Ovolo Inchcolm 02 Design Speaks The Architecture Symposium, Brisbane Keynote Addresses. Image not found or type unknown Image not found or type unknown Practising in a People and water: A changing landscape “place to return” Presented by Kotchakorn Presented by Takeshi Voraakhom, CEO and Founder, Komada, Director, Komada Architects’ Landprocess Office Climate change has the biggest impact on “People” and “water” are both constantly densely populated delta cities that are flowing and circulating. Like every stream sinking across the world like Tokyo, New has its source, each of us has our own York, London, New Orleans, Los Angeles, place to return. In his presentation, Shanghai and many more. Today, Bangkok, Takeshi Komada examines the form of a city of 15 million people living, working these sources and the way that they flow and commuting on a shifting, muddy river into streams. The source might be a pond delta, is sinking more than a centimetre or a lake. If so, people may recognize their every year, or four times faster than the neighbourhood as a “place to return,” but rate of predicted sea level rise. if the source is just a single point in a spring what would it be then? “Our way of living with water is reflected through architecture and landscape. Thais The velocity at which people flow is rising were once called amphibious. We lived and the streams that they make are getting both on land and water. But now our extremely complex. Our “place to return” relationship with water has changed. Our might be isolated and connected directly modern city infrastructure no longer to the very fast flow of the stream. allows our amphibious nature to flourish.” Therefore, we may have to think of the Kotchakorn discusses what we can do as springs that make small streams and a architects practising in this changing small gatherings of water. landscape. “Aspirations in how the city can choose to address its threatened future while allowing new architecture with landscape strategies to emerge are what we need.” 03 Design Speaks The Architecture Symposium, Brisbane Keynote Addresses. Image not found or type unknown Image not found or type unknown Architectural Building on water acupuncture Presented by Philip Cox, Presented by Xu Tiantian, Founding Partner, Cox Founding Principal, DnA Design and Architecture Architecture Water is the essential ingredient of Xu Tiantian has initiated “Architectural landscape and, especially in Australia Acupuncture” as a systematic and where aridity is foremost, we should be sustainable rural strategy in Songyang planning a better use of water as an County to generate a new “rural self- integral part of our design. Through macro confidence.” With a minimal intervention planning, Cox Architecture aims to approach, multifunctional public programs improve the management of water and our are introduced to different villages and connection to it. Cox Architecture’s global rural region tailored to the complexity of reputation has led to opportunities to respective cultural heritage and context. work on interesting water developments in Applied with vernacular material and South East Asia, China and the Middle East. construction technique, architectural In this presentation, Philip Cox will explore acupuncture integrates nature back to the the ways in which water inspires or is used villages, restoring their rural identity, as as a design element in key architectural well as stimulating rural economic and urban design projects that span water development. and are built on water, including the Like acupuncture releases the trapped National Maritime Museum of China and energy at various meridian points on the the Founder’s Memorial in Singapore. body, Architectural Acupuncture is an approach aimed at motivating and inspiring villages and communities to initiate their own self-regeneration and further development. 04 Design Speaks The Architecture Symposium, Brisbane Keynote Addresses. Image not found or type unknown Image not found or type unknown Water as Between the waters contestable space Presented by Gurjit Singh Presented by Julie Stout, Matharoo, Principal Partner, Mitchell Stout Dodd Architects Architect, Matharoo Associates Aotearoa/New Zealand is immersed in the Indian culture ascribes rivers to Pacific. Water is our world; the connection goddesses, where taking a dip is symbolic between us all. However, for those in of purifying the soul. Traditionally, in the charge of developing our cities, water is to more arid regions, rain is celebrated with be controlled – drained away, filled in and song and dance as an essential respite monetized. For the last 180 years in Tamaki from the scorching heat. Ancient storage Makaurau/Auckland, the harbour edge has systems in the form of stepwells, tanks and been up for grabs, as the city developed ghats dot the area, and collection is an around its port. Now that situation is being important community activity. Besides challenged. providing easy access to water, they are important functional landmarks that vary For the last 5 years Julie Stout has led a from leisure to cremation. campaign that questioned the Ports of Auckland’s right to even be in the centre of Matharoo Associates functioned for over a rapidly growing central city area. She will 20 years from a space overlooking the river discuss the historical cultural attitudes of Sabarmati in Ahmedabad. So strong was both the Māori and colonizing Europeans to their bond with water, that when the time the water, and how an evolving cultural came to move to another part of the city, a and environmental debate is influencing swimming pool was placed along the entire people’s relationship to their city. As an length of their self-designed and built architect and urbanist, Julie will discuss studio also named “Pool.” what opportunities the gradual Trickling into Matharoo Associates' work – transformation of this strategic space public buildings, residences and retreats – could have on the city and its harbour. connections are established with waterbodies in a variety of ways, attempting to capture the aspirational value of water sometimes even in its absence. 05 Design Speaks The Architecture Symposium, Brisbane Keynote Addresses. Image not found or type unknown Image not found or type unknown Water all around us Craftsmanship and local roots Presented by Erik L’Heureux, Principal, Presented by Realrich Pencil Office Sjarief,Principal, RAW Architecture Water all around us will expand on We are in the midst of an information designing for the hot and wet equator – a technology era that promotes efficiency region where temperatures average above and simplification of building technology in 27 degrees C, humidity levels exceed 75% all aspects of the industry, including