Composing Space / Composing Architecture

Ming-Hsien Hsu

Supervisor: Dr. Ben Milbourne

Composing Space / Composing Architecture is a proposal that explores the concept of using novel arrangement of spatial typologies as a way to generate a new social and sticky campus environment for the tertiary design school of RMIT.

It is about creating the sticky campus through the lens of providing spatial flexibility, where a series of sampled floor plans and sections are used as input spatial typologies. By clashing these spatial typologies in a compositional grid to generate a vast catalogue of interactive spaces that together or separately enriches the social and learning experience.

The new learning environment created through this process is known as the staged blender, which is a vertically exposed environment celebrating the informal learning space as the stage surrounded by adjacent spaces which become the audience of the stage.

Through this compositional process, it argues for the concept that programmatic use and spatial form have an indeterminate relationship, and takes the next step to breaking the idea of programmatic fitness for current learning environments. This is highlighted in the proposal as a new approach to spatial flexibility that is both unique and adventurous for a learning environment.

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