Transitory ArchitectureTutors: Richard and Michelle Black

Transitory Architecture

The concept of transitory is an enduring theme running through our work. Transitory suggests the provisional dimension of things acting on one an-other over time – from the site and the landscape – to the building and how it allows living patterns to unfold. The studio will explore these themes. We will look closely at the relationship between light, shadow and space. Architectural perma-nence will be challenged, looking more towards notions of the incomplete, the transitory, and ephemera. This approach encourages the architect to consider conditions of movement and stasis, order and chance, day and night, winter and sum-mer, past and present, hot and cold. These con-ditions can challenge architectures permanence in time. How might architecture stage ongoing change?

Project: a building with a combined program of residence + studio/office; a new housing typology for rural towns within a 100km radius of Mel-bourne, where the potential of fast rail connec-tions into the city make work on the periphery a possibility. Richard + Michelle Black

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Construction Phasingaxonometric camping diagramsCynthia Yim

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Axonometric drawingElina Spruza

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Transition through the buildingentering and exiting spacesSofia Sjodin

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Floor Plan Emile Clare

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Interior Views Jackie Chan

Studio Details Title: Transitory ArchitectureTutor: Richard + Michelle BlackPole: Expanded FieldDate: Semester 1, 2009Students: Aminuddin Shazana Caddaye Thomas Chan Jacky Chiew Yitian Clare Emile Ding Eva Mambort Mercedes Phoon Shuyen Pratt Nick Sjodin Sofia Sowter Robert Spruza Elina Thompson Edwina Yim Cynthia Zhang NicoleThis and other documented examples of design studios run as part of the RMIT University Architecture program can be found on issuu.com