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• Course

  • • Master of Architecture
    Semester 2, 2019

• Studio leaders

  • • Professor Nigel Bertram
    Monash Art, Design and Architecture
  • • Koichi Suzuno
    TORAFU architects
  • • Keiji Ashizawa
    Ishinomaki Laboratory

A travelling studio to Ibaraki, Japan

Paired with a studies unit on Japanese architecture by Ari Seligmann

In partnership with Ritsumeikan University: a joint design-make workshop intensive together with Japanese students working on location...

Based in Ibaraki, Kansai region Incl. Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, Kanazawa

Furniture as architecture
Architecture as furniture
Micro public space
Mixed-use and multi-purpose
Urban acupuncture

We will be studying Japanese linear shopping streets - old and new - and the unique micro-scale commercial-residential public realm environment of Japanese cities to which they conrtibute. Students will design and build projects on location, in teams with Japanese masters students from Ritsumeikan University. A parallel analytical study and studio design project located in one of Melbourne’s linear shopping strips will be developed individually on return: incorporating a series of careful micro interventions for macro urban effect.