"The Vault" demonstrates the extraordinary body of drawings produced by architects required to get a building built. But with the advent of digital drawing, building information modelling, and AR/VR technology, physical drawing may no longer be required. In this session, we will hear from practicing architects who are producing fewer and fewer physical drawings, and relying more on the digital realm that may make the drawings of the past obsolete.
"The Vault" is a unique program designed to showcase the evolution of architectural documentation over the years, from 1947 to the present day. We are inviting architecture firms to submit their archived documentation packages, providing insight into the changing practices and techniques used in architectural documentation. The program will feature a curated library of drawings, starting with the drawings produced by Robin Boyd's "Small Homes Service" in 1947, and spanning to contemporary documentation practices. This exhibition will offer design practitioners and the public a rare opportunity to explore the evolution of architectural documentation firsthand.
Hosted by our generous event partners Brickworks in their showroom at 367 Collins Street, Melbourne
Speakers
Roland Snooks
Roland Snooks is a director of the architecture practice SNOOKS + HARPER and a professor of architecture at RMIT University where he directs the Tectonic Formation Lab. Roland's research spans algorithmic design, generative ai, additive manufacturing and robotic fabrication. Through his direction, the RMIT Architecture | Tectonic Formation Lab explores the design implications of these emerging technologies in the development of innovative tectonics. The lab has specific expertise in developing large-scale 3D printing processes for glass and steel, and developing architectural applications that leverage their capacities. Prior to joining RMIT, Roland taught widely in the United States including at Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, SCI-Arc, and the Pratt Institute. He received a PhD from RMIT and a Master in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, where he studied on a Fulbright scholarship. Roland's PhD explored the interaction of intention and self-organisation through generative approaches to design that draw on the logic of swarm intelligence and multi-agent systems. Roland’s work has been published and exhibited widely and acquired for the permanent collections of institutions including the Centre Pompidou, FRAC and National Gallery of Victoria. His work is the subject of a recent monograph, Behavioral Formation, published by Actar.
Dr Leanne Zilka RAIA
Dr Leanne Zilka is a registered architect and academic based in Melbourne, Australia. Her architecture practice, ZILKA Studio and her academic position at RMIT University in the School of Architecture and Urban Design is a multidisciplinary one that brings together architecture, fashion, textile design and material research to develop light weight fabrication utilising technologies and techniques from fashion and textile design. Cross pollinating architectural form making with techniques from fashion and textile design creates a closer relationship between design and construction where materials limitations are better able to conform to design intent as the fabrication approach is developed in parallel with the design concept. Fashion and textile design have developed ways of making around arguably the most complex form of them all – the body. This knowledge, when unearthed for use in architecture enriches the way we can build new building skins or enclosures.Leanne’s most recent work includes a 5th Tamworth Textile Triennale commission, collaboration on the 2022 MPavilion with Allzone Architects, NGV commission for the ‘Sampling the Future’ exhibition, Book published titled Floppy Logic.
Gwyllim Jahn
Gwyllim Jahn is the co-founder and Creative Director of Fologram, a design research practice and technology startup developing software for designing and making in mixed reality. Fologram’s clients include leading universities, multinational architectural firms, industrial designers, engineers and artists who are building mixed reality applications for full scale construction, public art, architectural fabrication, sculpture, automotive design and cyber-physical visualisation systems.
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