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Craig Douglas, Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University The Landscape Architecture program, RMIT University was invited by
Grand Designs to be a part of the exhibition Grand Designs Live
at the Exhibition Buildings in Melbourne.
As a major industry event, the students really enjoyed engaging with industry
but also engaging specific people
in industry.
The students really enjoyed getting fantastic feedback from Kevin McCloud and Peter Maddison.
The project challenged students to design innovative landscape works and
this was specifically attuned to the fact that
the exhibition was indoor
and so it actually gave us a chance to think about how do you design a landscape
for an indoor environment.
Andrew Bellman, Landscape Architecture student Our project is an archway for housing our ferns and it was informed by a study of the
gill and
we looked at the structure of a gill and what it could provide in terms of
housing the fern and how to
accommodate them.
Jason Cahill, Landscape Architecture student What informed our design was using
the rules of a spiral and in this case we used the Fibonacci Sequence
and it just shows how you could use something simple to generate a very complex structure.
James Frew, Landscape Architecture student Our project's called Impostor and it's based around the
geometrical patterns that come
into play when bubbles form and
become a foam.
Nicole Cavanagh, Landscape Architecture student We made the pieces
and then we tested out what sort of
spaces we could create. So we wanted a space where you could walk around, sit
down and view the planting which we put on which was informed by the
lighting which informed the intense amount of growth on the different areas of the space that we've created.
Craig Douglas This is also a wonderful
event to actually challenge and celebrate
the students' capabilities through design and specifically taking on board some of the
things that we offer at RMIT such as rapid prototyping
3D modelling and the simulating and testing. The exhibition was a great opportunity for RMIT
students to exhibit their work to the public
but perhaps even more importantly it was a way for the students to kind of
understand how the public engage with their work.
Nicole Cavanagh So often you create things in Rhino and you don't ever get to see them
made and you never really get to think about whether or not it actually can be
made.
So to actually sit in the space
and experience at all and see if it's
working or failing, it's the best thing ever to see. Jason Cahill Previously we used to use a lot of paperwork
and, like, Autocad and we used to see it virtually but this is actually on the ground
stuff and
the fabrication of something is very important I think as a designer.
Xiaoyu Liu, Landscape Architecture student And when we do
one-to-one model
I really learned a lot
of things from other people in other groups from our teacher and from the guys in the
workshop.
Andrew Bellman It's been very frustrating and a lot of hours gone in but it's been great to work in a group
because everyone brings different ideas and techniques
and I think together we've achieved something that we really could never have done on our own.