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 the Brooklyn Bridge. Completed in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River. With a main span of 486.3 m, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world from its opening until 1903, and the first steel-wire suspension bridge.

The Brooklyn Bridge was initially designed by German immigrant John Augustus Roebling, who had previously designed and constructed shorter suspension bridges, such as Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct in Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania, Waco Suspension Bridge in Waco, Texas, and the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge in Cincinnati, Ohio.

While conducting surveys for the bridge project, Roebling sustained a crush injury to his foot when a ferry pinned it against a piling. After amputation of his crushed toes he developed a tetanus infection which left him incapacitated and soon resulted in his death, not long after he had placed his 32-year-old son Washington Roebling in charge of the project.Washington Roebling also suffered a paralyzing injury as a result of decompression sickness shortly after the beginning of construction on January 3, 1870. This condition, first called "caisson disease" by the project physician Andrew Smith, afflicted many of the workers working within the caissons. Roebling's debilitating condition left him unable to physically supervise the construction firsthand.

Roebling conducted the entire construction from his apartment with a view of the work, designing and redesigning caissons and other equipment. He was aided by his wife Emily Warren Roebling who provided the critical written link between her husband and the engineers on site. Under her husband's guidance, Emily studied higher mathematics, the calculations of catenary curves, the strengths of materials, bridge specifications, and the intricacies of cable construction. She spent the next 11 years assisting Washington Roebling, helping to supervise the bridge's construction.

A new anxiety support group is starting up on campus. It’s a confidential safe space to provide mutual empathy, respect and support to those experiencing anxiety and related issues.

Come along for tea, coffee, snacks, information, or just to chat!

The support group is run by trained facilitators and is completely confidential. You won’t have to give your name or any information about yourself – it’s totally up to you to participate as much or as little as you like. The facilitators will take you through a discussion and helpful exercises that might help you build strategies to deal with stress and anxiety.

12.30pm to 1.30pm, Tuesdays on even weeks, MUVT Training rooms, Level 3 Union House.

Please note that this support group does not give professional medical advice, but is rather a safe and confidential space for you to discuss what’s going on. We will have plenty of information available about getting professional advice if you need! :).

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The Safer Community Program (SCP) aims to promote an environment that fosters safe learning, working and living at the University of Melbourne, and provides the opportunity to pass on behaviour of concern before it develops into something serious.

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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: 1st - 6th December

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 15 November.

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.

Academic Skills' Individual Tutorials (or 'itutes') are in high demand at the end of semester.

If you would like a session with an Academic Skills adviser to get feedback on an assignment draft, discuss exam preparation strategies or talk about developing your study skills, book well in advance.

Bookings can be made through the Student Advising System. Try to get an appointment in the Environments and Design Student Centre but if you can't find anything, you can book at any other venue (note that some are off campus!).
 

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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Come along to celebrate the end of semester with a relaxed game of lawn bowls, a boogie and a BBQ!

The Melbourne University Planning Student's Society have booked the ENTIRE back bar and deck at the Fitzroy Bowls Club for everyone to enjoy.

Saturday 16th November, 6pm till late.

Super cheap ticket price includes lawn bowls, music, snacks, BBQ with salad and dessert. Drinks available at the bar at bargain basement bowls club prices.

Let's mingle and unwind after a busy semester, MUPSS members $20 (please bring proof of membership on the day) and non-members (yes you!) $25.

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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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