Waste Systems and Housing Construction
Subject ABPL20044 (2012)
Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2012.
Credit Points: | 25 |
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Level: | 2 (Undergraduate) |
Dates & Locations: | This subject is not offered in 2012. |
Time Commitment: | Contact Hours: 120 hours Total Time Commitment: Not available |
Prerequisites: | Subject Study Period Commencement: Credit Points: |
Corequisites: | None |
Recommended Background Knowledge: | None |
Non Allowed Subjects: | None |
Core Participation Requirements: |
For the purposes of considering requests for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Students Experiencing Academic Disadvantage Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Description, Subject Objectives, Generic Skills and Assessment Requirements of this entry. |
Contact
Environments and Design Student Centre
Ground Floor, Baldwin Spencer (building 113)
Enquiries
Phone: 13 MELB (13 6352)
Website: http://www.msd.unimelb.edu.au
Subject Overview: |
This subject addresses two key areas of concern to the world today - the need for new affordable housing and the need to dispose of the waste generated by today's consumer culture. Students will be required to design shelters or building elements from refuse. The subject will allow students to imagine how to built syatems might mimic natural systems where the concept of waste does not even exist. The subject will use an interdiscplinary approach, where student teams from the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, construction, engineering and planning will work collaboratively. |
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Prescribed Texts: |
William McDonough & Michael Braungart, Cradle to Cradle, Remaking the Way We Make Things, North Point Press, 2002. Design Like You Give a Damn, Edited by Architecture for Humanity, Metropolis Books, 2006. Ed van Hinte, Cesare Peeren, Jan Jongert, Superuse: Constructing New Architecture by Shortcutting Material Flows, Rotterdam: 101 Publishers, 2007. |
Recommended Texts: |
Bernard Rudofsky, Architecture without Architects: A short introduction to non-pedigreed architecture, University of New Mexico Press, 1987. Martin Pawley, Garbage Housing, Architectural Press, 1975. Bill Steen, Athene Steen, Eiko Kim Gibbs, Built By Hand: Vernacular buildings around the world, Gibbs Smith, 2003. |
Breadth Options: | This subject is not available as a breadth subject. |
Fees Information: | Subject EFTSL, Level, Discipline & Census Date |
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Notes: |
It is envisaged that the students will be required to work in teams over an intensive period at the Creswick campus engaging with the materials directly: to learning by doing – building basic shelters from the waste products donated by large organisations (cardboard, plastic, rubber….)
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