http://www.jamesloder.net/projectlist daily 1.0 2017-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56231082e4b012625401c817/1445139166339-AFYGKV1QMGFUKBG8E1OR/cam9.jpg Projects Formfield³ RMIT School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Building   The design studio focuses simultaneously on two interwoven investigations; experimenting with a ‘process-based’ design approach and developing speculative design propositions for contemporary tertiary learning environments. The project proposed a new building for the RMIT School of Aerospace Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering on the Bundoora Campus incorporating a series of condensed laneway spaces. The laneways contain cafes and classrooms accessible from and spilling out to the external open spaces and landcsape. A series of ramps were developed to link the different levels which contained desks, study spaces, gathering and spill out space. The project incorporates a series of lecture theatres clustered around a central courtyard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56231082e4b012625401c817/1445139737242-ML7IGLZQNPRK9Z6PL7JE/VIEW_10_Main_Final.jpg Projects   Cider Hill Winner of The BlueScope Steel Glenn Murcutt Student Prize research in CIDER HILL is a proposition within the green belt of Victoria that deals with climatic issues of agricultural production, land productivity and perseveration of amenity due to a growing population density within Melbourne’s Urban Sprawl. Located in the rural context of the Yarra Valley a speculative orchard and new faculty for RMIT – the School of New Horticulture – is set up with a density of program; production, research and education that investigate new ways of cultivating the precious landscapes adjacent to the city. The project strongly engages in education about the cultivation of land through architectural explorations of topography and building form. Whilst maintaining the integrity of the existing site a language of carving and embedment provides students and public an immersive and educational exploration of one of Victoria’s precious landscapes. The University and research facilities explore pedagogy in a rural environment through satellite learning spaces and the engagement of learning environments with cultivated fields. Roof top gardens provide informal learning spaces and transform the building into a growing medium using the earth as an insulator creating protected climate controlled rooms below. Laboratories open directly onto fields allowing students to undertake practical work from field to the applied research of material within laboratories. The configuration of trees and their alignments with the building allow innovative testing of cross pollination and responds to the constant shifts in climate. Submergence of the main thoroughfare into crest of the hill provides locations for earth core and below ground studies of root structures including access to an underground seed bank, which are engaged by students and public. The importance of water is signified by a water tower powered by an internalized wind turbine that is used to irrigate the site. The project has the potential to support future campus locations where production, research and education focus on cultivation within its immediate agricultural context maintaining the amenity and culture of the Australian landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56231082e4b012625401c817/1445142994089-L4W0LI3RF27YOSTTHBV3/1.jpg Projects Alessi Mutants Chameleon Exhibited in the Austrian Pavilion at the 2010 Venice Architecture Pavilion this Tea & Coffee Breakfast explores and reinvents the relationship between architecture and industrial object, focusing on a series of small-scale furniture-object studies. These serve as conceptual origin for the unfolding of shapes and surfaces creating a small environment that by hybridization is removed from any initial typology or utilitarian determination. The projects begin as architectural investigation of Alessi typology, and are informed by the contemporary discourse on generative processes and manufacture. The projects will redefine the notion of physical space by warping, pulling and pushing the boundaries of the small objects until they arrive at and constitute new and unfamiliar interior landscapes. In one instance, a series of table objects are transformed into a life sized relief from which flows, as if in motion, an elegant desk. http://urbanstrategies.at/archive/summerschool-i/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56231082e4b012625401c817/1445143724938-URIW6N9GMFYPB6PRH6R9/Hero.jpg Projects All Change Focused on the rural and urban contexts of Victoria, in particular Natimuk, the project questions whether the regeneration and growth of regional towns could form an important alternative to the expansion of the Melbourne suburbs. In speculating on how and where people live, work, produce their food, share community activities, participate into the world from their specific places and how these solutions interact with the natural and social environments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56231082e4b012625401c817/1445142820343-VUEP1DMUUPSL06Z834QG/audi3.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56231082e4b012625401c817/1445148642205-YLW6ZBJMJNEECOC2JBAW/5+%282%29.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56231082e4b012625401c817/1445142694049-5KHTQGGQT1B1B2MYRFOO/plans.jpg Projects http://www.jamesloder.net/projects daily 0.75 2017-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56231082e4b012625401c817/1445658590949-TCX9O942002FGU14FQEN/cam9.jpg Projects - Formfield Formfield³ RMIT School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Building   The design studio focuses simultaneously on two interwoven investigations; experimenting with a ‘process-based’ design approach and developing speculative design propositions for contemporary tertiary learning environments. The project proposed a new building for the RMIT School of Aerospace Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering on the Bundoora Campus incorporating a series of condensed laneway spaces. The laneways contain cafes and classrooms accessible from and spilling out to the external open spaces and landcsape. A series of ramps were developed to link the different levels which contained desks, study spaces, gathering and spill out space. The project incorporates a series of lecture theatres clustered around a central courtyard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56231082e4b012625401c817/1445658590949-TCX9O942002FGU14FQEN/cam9.jpg Projects - Formfield Formfield³ RMIT School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Building   The design studio focuses simultaneously on two interwoven investigations; experimenting with a ‘process-based’ design approach and developing speculative design propositions for contemporary tertiary learning environments. The project proposed a new building for the RMIT School of Aerospace Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering on the Bundoora Campus incorporating a series of condensed laneway spaces. The laneways contain cafes and classrooms accessible from and spilling out to the external open spaces and landcsape. A series of ramps were developed to link the different levels which contained desks, study spaces, gathering and spill out space. The project incorporates a series of lecture theatres clustered around a central courtyard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56231082e4b012625401c817/1445658653666-FCWYJ7EPYHVWU34M41Y0/Hero.jpg Projects - All Change All Change Focused on the rural and urban contexts of Victoria, in particular Natimuk, the project questions whether the regeneration and growth of regional towns could form an important alternative to the expansion of the Melbourne suburbs. In speculating on how and where people live, work, produce their food, share community activities, participate into the world from their specific places and how these solutions interact with the natural and social environments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56231082e4b012625401c817/1445658555000-G8J3J6ZVW3L2UDYHYGIA/VIEW_10_Main_Final.jpg Projects - Cider Hill https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56231082e4b012625401c817/1445659112325-092UA86NWAZKNYHG73UE/audi2_cover2.jpg Projects - Audi Stingray https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56231082e4b012625401c817/1445659159332-TPP1QAMG8VAIV1NYCSB2/5+%282%29.jpg Projects - x_tremes Space Colony https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56231082e4b012625401c817/1445658613987-UQN023STJ194J81DQNUC/cover.jpg Projects - Alessi Mutants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56231082e4b012625401c817/1445660273658-VSJSFV7QS00ZMDETF5O4/plans.jpg Projects - FormField - Process http://www.jamesloder.net/cover daily 0.75 2017-02-19 http://www.jamesloder.net/about daily 0.75 2023-06-18