88623 Global Studio: Interior Architecture C
6cp; Field tripRequisite(s): 48 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10271 Bachelor of Design Interior Architecture OR 48 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10272 Bachelor of Design Interior Architecture Bachelor of International Studies OR 48 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10322 Bachelor of Design Interior Architecture Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation OR 72 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10004 Bachelor of Design Architecture OR 72 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10325 Bachelor of Design Architecture Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation OR 72 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10413 Bachelor of Design Architecture Master of Architecture OR 48 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C09079 Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Honours)
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Description
The global studio program provides intensive studio learning through cross-cultural education. The program encourages interdisciplinary learning and offers an expanded studio environment in which students discover and synthesise new technical and conceptual skills from multiple disciplines within the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building.
In this subject students are required to spend a number of weeks in a predefined international environment where they undertake a project in either an academic or industry setting. The subject aims to initiate a recalibration of students' prior learning and familiar design techniques by applying design processes in foreign terrain.
Students are required to globalise their design approach and vocabulary working within a cross-cultural studio environment; synthesise key design ideas working within an interdisciplinary design team; and realise a well-executed studio outcome reflective of both the design brief and the foreign setting.
This global studio is focused on architectural strategies for sustainable tourism development in developing world contexts. Travelling to Nias & Hinako Islands in North Sumatra, students carry out comparative analysis between traditional architectural typologies and hotels & resorts. Within this analysis, students are asked to identify contemporary adaptations of traditional building technologies and construction methodologies informed by local climatic conditions, seasonal variation, and natural resources.
The project extends on a series of global studios undertaken across Indonesia between 2015-2023 to map, monitor and evaluate the impact of rapid tourism development in the region. The significance of Nias & Hinako Islands as the studio location is one of the earliest examples of surf tourism in Indonesia. The outcome of fieldwork carried out across Nias & Hinako Islands is an understanding of sustainable strategies for tourism development and experience working in a design research capacity in remote and environmentally sensitive locations.
In addition, the aim of the project is to (1) map, monitor and evaluate tourism development and infrastructure across Nias & Hinako Islands, (2) better understand the extent and impact of rapid tourism development in relation to the struggles over access to land, natural resources and public infrastructure, (3) to render tourism boundaries as more inclusive, permeable and democratic aligning with the principals of ecotourism.
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