Design Make
Design Make
Department of Architecture
Design Make projects are where students spend a semester, or in some cases a semester and a half, collaboratively designing, fabricating and constructing architectural projects that respond to real needs, briefs and sites. The built works, ranging in scales, materiality and degrees of permanence, are typically framed by a broader contextual need or research guided agenda.
Part of Our DNA.
Since the inception of the course in 2008, Monash Architecture has undertaken a range of Design Make projects with and for external organisations and community groups.
Unique in Australia.
The breadth of type, ambition of scale, and consistency of production of Design Make projects at Monash Architecture is unique in the Australian architectural education context.
Live.
Design Make projects exemplify Monash Architecture's commitment to engaging students with live projects that offer direct learning experience of the design processes of working with and for others.
Hands On.
These projects offer architecture students hands-on experience in the technical resolution of design ideas including material behaviour, structural performance and constructional processes.
Creative with a Purpose.
The Design Make stream keys into the broader ethos of the faculty in making impact in society by not just thinking and conceptualising, but also testing and prototyping ideas in the real world.
Monash Architecture Design Make projects aim to be:
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