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:: RMIT University :: + :: GEDAI University ::
['Exchange' Architecture Workshop]
fusionbureau brought together Two Schools of Architecture from Japan and Australia.
From September 22 Architecture and Interior Design students from-
RMIT University Melbourne
Gedai University of Fine Art and Music Tokyo
They came together in a 10 day cultural exchange workshop at Gedai's Toride campus.
The purpose of the workshop was to provide an environment where the Australian and Japanese students could collaborate on the construction of buildings and a series of architectural spaces within the grounds of the University.
This proved to be a complex project and required cultural and language barriers to be carefully negotiated. The formation of the buildings/spaces was the culmination of the meeting of ideas, research and cultures woven together and synthesised through the act of design.
The workshop involved a number of stages and briefs which are as follows:
The 'Gifts' project: Students were asked to express what they felt about the nature of Japanese culture. The gifts were than conceived as a form of design communication between the Australian and Japanese students.
The 'Bridging' project: Australian and Japanese students were teamed together to make a conceptual and physical link between their separate gift projects.
The 'Box' project: A device was created to contain records and actions of the
Bridging exercise. It assembles the ideas, evidence, tools and exchanges
which took place.
The 'Maquette' exercise: Students were given one hour to express ideas on the theme of 'temple'. Students used the maquettes to identify similarities in each others work and form teams for the full scale temple.
The 'Temples' The structures were designed and made at one to one scale. They represent the complex negotiation involved in the conception of an architectural space which transcends cultural boundaries by embodying universal themes.
The 'Miniature Temples': These are representations of each individual's thoughts during the workshop. The personal transformation of cultural preconceptions to developed understandings and a design outcome.
The 'Digital Temple': This houses the entire output of the studio as a website designed as a lasting record of the workshops events and a place for further interaction and contemplation.
The results from the workshop were exhibited at the Australian Embassy Tokyo from October 10 -14.
Gedai University of Fine Art and Music Tokyo
RMIT University Melbourne
1) Gedai University of Fine Art and Music Toride
2) Gedai University of Fine Art and Music Tokyo
3) Australian Embassy Tokyo Garden's
We are interested in the IDEA.
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