Inundation

What is the distinction between a dwelling and a place imbued with a sense of belonging and personal attachment? 

Is architecture more than an assemblage of parts? 

Can the living environment have an impact on architecture, could it shape the built? 

In this studio, JCB projects have served as a testing ground for challenging existing prevailing typologies. Through strategic design interventions and the infusion of external environmental stimuli, this studio has set up provocative disruptions to the conventional, ultimately shaping new futures.

The site is situated in the student housing precinct in the CBD. Through the interrogation of typology and human vs. non-human inhabitation, this studio has supported design discussions and critiques of understanding the difference between house and home.

Students have explored how student housing can mitigate the connections between constructability, the environment and the individual. These projects have further developed a design discussion of the existing paradigm of student accommodation unpacking how and why it operates in its current modes. The studio has looked to the key themes of; time, care and adaptability through interrogation of environmental features and histories in order to reorient towards a new set approach with an emphasis on wellbeing, inclusivity, and the distinction between private and public spaces.

Studio Leaders: Kayla Dunn & Weston Howell