Step into the role of architect, engineer, and urban planner in this fun, hands-on workshop where you’ll design and build a model home ready to take on Queensland’s toughest weather challenges.
Visit the Museum of the Fake exhibition, showcasing the work of Master of Architecture students who were challenged to consider how architects engage with ideas of authenticity, authorship and originality.
Advantage Austria and visiting senior Austrian experts will share how their housing model works and how their experiences and capabilities can be adopted to address the shortage of affordable housing in Australia.
Francesco is a Hanoi-based architect having graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (Switzerland, 2016). ThinkPlaygrounds believes that qualitative public space built with the community is fundamental to achieve social equity and increase quality of life for urban citizens, as well as providing a playful childhood to children living in Vietnam.
In this workshop with the EAIT employability team and Dr Charlotte Kessler, we will discuss ways in which students can get started with understanding the landscape of interdisciplinary design jobs.
This workshop will introduce services provided to students including UQ online tools to build your employability, employability and industry events, employability advisor services, and the EAIT industry mentoring program.
Karl Langer was the first architect in our region to advocate for landscape; for the extension of living spaces from inside to outside, for affordable houses tuned to climate, and consideration of “the whole allotment as a unified living area.”
Kim Baber, Paola Leardini and Dan Luo will be presenting overviews of the projects they are leading in the ARC Advance Timber Hub, in the fields of Design for Extended Building Life; Manufacturing Innovation; and Value Chain Innovation
Climate change is being driven by emissions from buildings and we are now moving to the next age of design where the solution to keeping people thermally safe in buildings relies not on machines but on the quality of the climatic design of the building itself.