Dear staff,

Fabricate is the official student newsletter at the Melbourne School of Design. You are receiving this email as a current student or staff member of the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning.

The image above is of an 'off the grid' home in the United States.

The term off-grid refers to not being connected to a grid, mainly used in terms of not being connected to the main or national electrical grid. In electricity, off-grid can be stand-alone systems (SHS) or mini-grids typically to provide a smaller community with electricity. Off-grid electrification is an approach to access electricity used in countries and areas with little access to electricity, due to scattered or distant population. It can be any kind of electricity generation. The term off-the-grid (OTG) can refer to living in a self-sufficient manner without reliance on one or more public utilities.

Off-the-grid homes are autonomous; they do not rely on municipal water supply, sewer, natural gas, electrical power grid, or similar utility services. A true off-grid house is able to operate completely independently of all traditional public utility services.

Who needs to re-enrol?

All students who are currently enrolled, or on leave of absence, and planning to continue their course in 2014, must re-enrol between the re-enrolment dates specified. You still need to re-enrol by the due date even if you want to take leave of absence from your studies in 2014.

If you haven’t re-enrolled by Friday 13 December 2013, you will incur a $100 late re-enrolment fee and your enrolment in your course may be cancelled.

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Do you have an average of 65% or more?

Interested in studying overseas in semester 2 2014?

You may be eligible, apply now!

Due Dates: Applications for exchange in Semester 2 2014 must be submitted to the Environments and Design Student Centre by
Friday 6 December.

All students applying for an exchange must attend a myWorld First Step session as an application requirement. 

LAST SESSION FOR THE YEAR IS MONDAY 2ND DECEMBER!!

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Please be advised that  you have until 5pm Friday 13 December to collect any work, models or personal belongings from 757 Swanston Street, Baldwin Spencer, 33 Lincoln Square South and the Frank Tate Building.

Anything left in ABP buildings after this date will be thrown out, absolutely no exceptions.

Spaces that will be cleared include:

757 Swanston St
• All Teaching Spaces
• Student Print Room
• Model Making Spaces
• Stairwell Study Spaces
• Inside lockers
• On top of lockers

Baldwin Spencer
• Student Lounge
• Teaching Spaces

Frank Tate
• Level 1 Study Rooms
• Informal Study Spaces
• Level 2 Computer Lab Space

33 Lincoln Square South
• All areas of Level 1 MSD studio space
• Inside lockers
• On top of lockers

We have set this final date AFTER the conclusion of the exam period and also AFTER the release of final results so in most cases student work will not be required for further assessment.  However if you are concerned that your work may be required for further assessment we strongly encourage you to photograph it. Digital photos in most cases will be accepted as evidence of your work in the event that you are unable to resubmit the original.

Date: Thursday 5th December

Time: 5.00pm

George Galster’s book Driving Detroit: The Quest for Respect in the Motor City paints a stunning portrait of Metropolitan Detroit through an eclectic application of urban planning, economics, sociology, political science, geography, history, and psychology. It shows how geography, local government structures, and social forces created a regional housing development system that perpetually produces sprawl at the fringe and abandonment at the core. In this lecture, Professor Glaster will draw upon psychological principles of human fulfilment to diagnose this region’s ills and argue that the economic base and housing development system have frustrated the community’s need for “respect” as its basic physical, social and psychological resources.

About the Speaker:

George Galster is the Clarence Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs, Department of Urban Studies and Planning at Wayne State University, Michigan, USA. He has published on the topics of metropolitan housing markets, racial discrimination and segregation, neighborhood dynamics, residential reinvestment, community lending and insurance patterns, neighborhood effects and social mixing, and urban poverty.

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Dates: Two studios in February 2014

Studio 1: Sunday 9 to Friday 14 February 2014
Studio 2: Sunday 16 to Friday 21 February 2014

Venue: Studio tuition: 'Walsh Street', house, South Yarra

Accommodation: McCaughey Court, Ormond College, University of Melbourne

Interested in joining the Robin Boyd Studio this December?

Additional places are available and applications now close on Friday 6 December.

Each studio is led by two architects – a Master Architect - a highly regarded and awarded practising architect - and a Studio Leader.All design studios are conducted at Walsh Street, the house Robin Boyd designed for his family in 1958. Accommodation is provided at McCaughey Court, Ormond College a building designed by Robin Boyd and Frederick Romberg in 1965.

The subject ABPL90354 will be worth 12.5 points and students will be able to take it as a multidisciplinary elective or as architecture elective. All applicants are encouraged to have completed at least one Master of Architecture Studio - C, D or E.

Inflection is a student-edited journal of the built environment: gathering and sharing new contributions to contemporary design discourse.

Currently, Inflection is seeking co-editors from any year level to be involved in our first edition – scheduled for publication in late 2014. Enthusiastic, committed students with a passion for design media and design discourse can apply today – as a co-editor, you will share responsibility for a range of tasks from layout and graphic design to administration and logistics.

Keen to join the Inflection team or learn more?

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The Architectural Association will be running a summer visiting school at Sydney between 28th Jan to 8th Feb 2014. The program is a two weeks intensive workshop catered for all level of architecture students.

Participants will explore new spatial configuration using computation software (Rhino and Grasshopper) and we will build at 1:1 scale.

The workshop will be conducted by:

Jeff Turko, AA Diploma Unit master
Ian Maxwell, Supermanoeuvre & Senior Lecturer at UTS
Paul Loh, Lecturer in Digital Architecture at University of Melbourne
Tom Lea, AA Dip 12

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The end of the year is upon us. We hope it has been rewarding for you all.

If you have any feedback, suggestions or general comments for FABRICATE 2014 please feel free to email Justin Cusack on the link below.

Several subjects offered by the University are termed 'quota subjects' or 'quota restricted subjects'.
 

These are usually workshop or subjects with a travel component where the capacity for large enrolment is limited by available resources such as workshop space, machinery and accommodation as well as because of the mode of teaching.

Selection into quota subjects is based on academic merit.

Enrolling in a quota subject through your study plan DOES NOT guarantee a place. Email notification will be sent to advise the outcome of your application.

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