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Anushka Chkheidze + Robert Lippok, Uncontrollable Thoughts, (LP (yellow vinyl), CD, Digital album), MM205, Morr Music, 2025
Studio Workshop - Still Life 360 Degree
Rose lilies, wine glass, leather bound book, coffin shaped cigarette case, pen, and a Last Will & Testament from 1755.
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Albatross Avenue is a project designed by Studio Workshop. 8 Albatross is a three-storey pair of beach residences with an east-facing aspect toward the pacific ocean, situated along a narrow, busy thoroughfare. An array of vertical fins is deployed to serve multiple functions including sun-shading, privacy, curation of views, and to modulate the scale of the overall form. Photo by Andy MacPherson.
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This project is all about context and a façade that is made in response. Engagement with the coast road and by extension, to the beach, is critically important in this project. Albatross Avenue is characterized by continual blocks of duplex developments each flexing their muscles for attention. The façade at 8 Albatross, while confidently articulate, counters the cacophony of building styles along the street by attempting to create a sense of restraint and to offer the appearance of a singular, coherent building form. Additionally, the subtropical climate of southeast Queensland affords a highly permeable relationship to the outdoors, and the design attends to this by providing a high degree of connection via the façade, private outdoor spaces, and roof garden. The Pacific Ocean is the principal cognitive attractor on the site, and therefore the project puts particular emphasis on these views. On a very tight building allotment, the project attempts to maximize and balance the living area in relation to orientation and user experience.
8 Albatross is spatially generous and achieves a balance of connection to the environment with privacy in its suburban surroundings of very closely-spaced neighbours. The internal relationship of programs situate services, vertical circulation, and amenities at the core to allow communal and shared spaces to spill to the outdoors. Occupants enjoy a combination of prospect and refuge in relation to the ocean and street, respectively. There is a disciplined exuberance afforded to occupants that is experienced through the promenade from approach to entry to arrival, with accentuation through views taken via the mediating veil and occupation of the roof garden.
The project attempts to contribute to the public domain of Albatross Avenue by offering a singular and coherent building form to a street context which overly varied in character. The veiled façade provides a restrained mask through which to read the building and through this activates a kind of aesthetic engagement not found elsewhere in the immediate context. The overall height is sympathetic and consistent with neighboring buildings, and subtle articulations break down the scale to provide a humanistic dialogue with occupants and passers-by.
Albatross Avenue by Studio Workshop Albatross Avenue is a project designed by Studio Workshop. 8 Albatross is a three-storey pair of beach residences with an east-facing aspect toward the pacific ocean, situated along a narrow, busy thoroughfare.
Small Haus Papua New Guinea by Studio Workshop (Photo: Peter Bennetts)
To practice drawing sceneries we had an online class of going on a virtual trip around google maps, this time Venice, and “live” sketching the surroundings. It’s a pretty fun idea, I’m going to use it in my personal practice too. I got some new brush markers that had very vivid colours so I decided to try them out here.
We were given some printed panoramas and action figures to assemble onto the scenes. Sort of a practice for the remainder of this project. I actually enjoyed coming up with narratives behind the scenes based on the characters I put on them. I’ve created some digitally and one in analog collage.
I went to my first bookbinding induction at the university, something that I should’ve done last year but due to adjusting my time-management to working and studying I haven’t had the chance to. This year though, I’m doing way better with time keeping so hopefully I’ll manage to fit a couple of these into schedule. I’ve made zines and books before with very wimple stitching and at home. It’s completely different to learn book arts in studio with proper equipment. The method below is called Swiss bookbinding and it involves stitching multiple book sections and gluing them to a cut card cover.
I knew that I would enjoy the process, bookbinding as an idea has always appealed to me. I didn’t know how much I’d enjoy it though, it took me roughly three hours to get it done, getting in the flow with instructions in front of me and really taking my time to make something useful from scratch is a very nice feeling.
BAS2 _ "What's Your Island?" _ Studio workshop sessions _ 11-13.02.2020
Students will be investigating a variety of possible topographies for both sites which will eventually become the basis of the main design proposals. The duration of this workshop is 1.5 weeks.