A Sunburnt Country

REGULATION
How is sunlight quantified and regulated in our built environment?

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EPHEMERA
What is our experience of sunlight on, within, and adjacent to architecture?

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ARCHITECTURE
How can we instrumentalise the sun to make our architecture richer?

Architecture is an instrument for mediating our experience of the environment, and in the midst of a climate emergency, our commitment to passive solar design principles takes on new urgency.

This studio is about sunlight in architecture, and the intersection between regulation and ephemera. It is an attempt to foster contentiousness and build critical literacy in the application of solar design principles to the built environment, placing equal weight on narrative, spatial experience, and quantitative environmental performance.

Using physical models, digital models, and computational environmental analysis tools, you will be invited to design a medium-density “architecture for sunlight” in the City of Melbourne. We will explore how building program might be delineated by ephemera (light and heat) rather than traditional attribution of use.