Beijing Biennale - Invited exhibitor - Offshore Studio

Burke, AJ; Hewett, BR

Beijing Biennale - Invited exhibitor - Offshore Studio

Burke, AJ

Hewett, BR

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Publisher:: Tsinghua University, China
Publication Type:: Exhibition
Citation:: 2008 Beijing Architecture Biennale

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dc.contributor.author	Burke, AJ https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0777-8379	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Hewett, BR	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Leach, N	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Wei-Guo, X	en_US
dc.date	2008-10-24	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	2008 Beijing Architecture Biennale	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/12217
dc.description.abstract	Offshore Studio was selected as one of five practices to represent Australian architectural practices at the 2008 Beijing Biennale, demonstrating work at the cutting edge of advanced design and computation. Neil Leach and Xu Wei-Guo were the curators of the architectural exhibition, titled `(Im)material Processes: New Digital Techniques for Architecture. Design, presentation, negotiation and submission management - 50% - equal contribution with Anthony Burke. In 2008, Offshore Studio, the architectural design research practice of Anthony Burke and Ben Hewett was invited to exhibit at the Beijing International Architecture Biennale. Offshore Studio represented Australia as one of 5 technology focused practices leading design innovation in Australia. The exhibition was curated by internationally recognised theorist and curator Neil Leech, and was published in two catalogues. This exhibition is recognised internationally as one of two significant architectural exhibitions held bi-annually promoting emerging and innovative design in architecture and represented a gathering of the premiere international design practices of 2008. Inclusion in this exhibition is evidence of an international profile. The two selected projects for the exhibition `Bone House and `Open Tower are architectural design research projects undertaken by the authors that investigate contemporary computational techniques and their application to complex architectural typologies. The research work presented evidenced early manifestations of possible outcomes. Inclusion in the exhibition situated the work in an international context for review, reflection and discussion, thereby allowing ongoing development of the research	en_US
dc.publisher	Tsinghua University, China	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	2008 Beijing Architecture Biennale	en_US
dc.title	Beijing Biennale - Invited exhibitor - Offshore Studio	en_US
dc.type	Exhibition
utslib.location	798 Space, Beijing, China	en_US
utslib.for	1201 Architecture	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Architecture
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CCDP - Contemporary Design Practice
utslib.copyright.status	open_access
pubs.place-of-publication	798 Space, Beijing, China	en_US
pubs.start-date	2008-10-24	en_US
pubs.rights-statement	Offshore Studio was one of five practices selected to represent Australian architectural practices at the 2008 Beijing Biennale. Entitled (lm)material Processes: New Digital Techniques for Architecture, the exhibition was curated by Neil Leach and Xu Wei-Guo. Open Tower and Bone House investigate contemporary computational techniques and their application to complex architectural typologies. Open Tower is the result of design research exploring the super-tall tower typology and issues of sustainability and community within high-rise typologies. Large amounts of energy are invested in the construction and infrastructure of tall buildings. For their use to be limited to single programmatic cycles results in needless energy inefficiencies and consumption. The project examines issues of sustainability for tower typologies from an urban perspective, and interrogates the possibilities of energy generating structures, open envelope typologies, and non- standard programmatic organizations. Bone House is a speculative design project that established a research platform for testing new parametric and network related organizational software and analytical tools within the architectural design process, and their formal and spatial possibilities within contemporary design. As discussed by Rem Koolhaas in Delirious New York (1997) and Abalos and Herreros in Tower and Office (2003), multiple programs in tall buildings develop concepts that not only advance architectural form and space, but develop the high-rise as a sustainable typology for the contemporary city. The opportunity for the future of the typology is to conceive of tall buildings as valid urban strategies via infrastructural logics rather than limiting them to discrete objects servicing singular purposes. The Beijing Biennale is recognised internationally as one of two significant architectural exhibitions held bi-annually promoting emerging and innovative design.	en_US

Abstract:

Offshore Studio was selected as one of five practices to represent Australian architectural practices at the 2008 Beijing Biennale, demonstrating work at the cutting edge of advanced design and computation. Neil Leach and Xu Wei-Guo were the curators of the architectural exhibition, titled `(Im)material Processes: New Digital Techniques for Architecture. Design, presentation, negotiation and submission management - 50% - equal contribution with Anthony Burke. In 2008, Offshore Studio, the architectural design research practice of Anthony Burke and Ben Hewett was invited to exhibit at the Beijing International Architecture Biennale. Offshore Studio represented Australia as one of 5 technology focused practices leading design innovation in Australia. The exhibition was curated by internationally recognised theorist and curator Neil Leech, and was published in two catalogues. This exhibition is recognised internationally as one of two significant architectural exhibitions held bi-annually promoting emerging and innovative design in architecture and represented a gathering of the premiere international design practices of 2008. Inclusion in this exhibition is evidence of an international profile. The two selected projects for the exhibition `Bone House and `Open Tower are architectural design research projects undertaken by the authors that investigate contemporary computational techniques and their application to complex architectural typologies. The research work presented evidenced early manifestations of possible outcomes. Inclusion in the exhibition situated the work in an international context for review, reflection and discussion, thereby allowing ongoing development of the research

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