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Supertight is an exploration of high-density urban life and reducing the footprint of cites through adaptations in design and behavior. Tightness is a positive urban quality, examined through the observations of designers, with a focus on the cities of Asia. The rapidly growing large cities of Asia are critical to understanding our future footprint. Asian cities provide insights into new ways of being densely urbanised. The by-product of this unprecedented metropolitan convergence will be the emergence of new urbanisms and new architectures, new models for living and making culture. The Supertight refers to the small, intense, robust and hyper-condensed spaces that emerge as a by-product of ...
Design Practice Research at RMIT University is a longstanding program of research into what venturous designers actually do when they design. It is probably the most enduring and sustained body of research of its kind: empirical, evidence-based and surfacing evidence about design practice. This first Pink Book documents some of its past achievements. It is probably the most enduring and sustained body of research of its kind: empirical, evidence-based and surfacing evidence about design practice. It is a growing force in the world, with a burgeoning program of research in Asia, Oceania and Europe. This book documents some of its past achievements. Two kinds of knowledge are created by the research. One concerns the ways in which designers marshal their intelligence, especially their spatial intelligence, to construct the mental space within which they practice design. The other reveals how public behaviours are invented and used to support design practice. This new knowledge combined is the contribution that this research makes to the field of design practice research.
"In October 2006 RMIT University hosted a conference that sought to bring focussed discussion to the difficult relationship between architecture and mass housing design. The RE housing conference provided a number of platforms for that discussion, combining invited speakers with academics and local architectural practitioners in order to engage with the broader, less customised design concerns relevant to the provision of housing at large volumes. Underpinning this structure was a premise that architecture has a valid contribution to make to the design of housing in a more general condition, a contribution that is becoming more necessary as Australian cities densify in response to rising housing demand and shrinking resources."--Provided by publisher.
"The work presented here is the result of an academic exchange undertaken in 2006 between the architecture program at RMIT University and Escuela Superior de Arquitectura in Guadalajara, Mexico. The book is the result of a process of urban interrogation, an attempt to make some sense of the activities that shape the city."--Preface.
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