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| Re:about RMIT, Melbourne, Australia [精华] |
cackle
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 2004-04-07 13:04 
       Continue I just come back from our site-visit trip. The 2 towns, which are the major sites for our study, are in the west edge of Victoria. It is about 4to5 hours drive. A very dry area with huge farmland and little population. We departed on the Sunday morning. About 20 students from different level involved in this trip. Since many students had their own cars, so we departed separately and got together at the Horsham, the center town of west Victoria. It took 2 ours to visit this local metropolis then we started again to Jeparit, one of our research town. We arrived here at 4 pm, checking in Jeparit hotel. A very small but cozy hotel. The first thing we do was getting to the bar and having cups of beers. Then each group went to different areas of the down to collect research information. Since I missed the first site visit trip, which was carried on 2 weeks before, I did not have clear observation area. So I just followed 2 other local master students, having a rough visiting of the whole town. We were collected together at 7 pm in the large balcony of the hotel, where we had dinner together. 4 architects took part in this trip. One is Carrie lyn, the partner of one large architecture company in Melbourne. He is not the teacher in RMIT, but plays an important role in this semester’s research. It is sort of like visiting lecturer. The others are from a same architecture studio: BMNW, including Nigel, who is also professor of RMIT, his wife and another young female architect. The atmosphere of the dinner was excellent. Relaxing chatting (but it is difficult for me to understand), fresh breeze, beautiful moonlight. What a romantic rural night. Only the food was not good for me. In the morning of the next day, we had breakfast at the same place. Then there was a short meeting. Every student talked about their research direction and the parts of the down they will observe. After that, every one left the hotel and we dispersed in the all parts of the town. At 4 pm, all students went to the government hall of the town. There was an interview meeting with local residents. The meeting lasted for about 2 hours. Residents in different ages talked about their thoughts about the town and answered student’s question. After that we departed to another town Rainbow, about 50km away from Jeparit. On the way to Rainbow, I sat beside Nigel and had short conversation with him. He graduated from Melbourne University, so are his partners in studio. He thinks that MU’s architectural education is more conservative compared to RMIT, but more formal. Students have many classes each day. RMIT is more flexible in terms of teaching, sometimes even a little bit chaotic. Students are separated not by years but by different level. Each semester, one can improved to higher level. So there are 10 levels in undergraduate school. The core unit of the composition of the school is studio. Commonly 2 lecturers are responsible for one studio. The research directions of each studio are totally decided by the lecturer and students select their interested studio at the beginning of the semester. Each studio includes students from different levels, which is supposed to improve the communications between high-level students and low-level ones. The side effects is that your classmates are changing constantly in each semester. So it is hard to establish stable friendships between students. Back into trip. We arrived at Rainbow about 7:30pm. This time we checked in the motel. The difference between the motel and hotel is that motel is more independent for costumer. The room has kitchen therefore you can cook by yourself. The hotel is providing more services such as breakfast. So that evening, we bought some food from supermarket and cooked the dinner by ourselves. An interesting thing is that the consuming prices in rural area are even higher then large city. For example having a dinner in restaurants in Melbourne takes about 6-7dollars, but here it takes 10-12 dollars. After our homemade barbeque, we went to hub (bar) to drink and talk to each other. The next day we organized a farm-visit. It is pretty funny that many cars are queuing together and flying on the country-road. The family of the farm we visited has a long history. They have 3000 acres of farmland, which is just a middle size farm in Australia. Everything in Australia rural area is oversized. The old man of the family gave us long introductions of how they running their farm, showing us their farm machines. Dozens of monsters around their houses. Then we had a good morning tea in their charming backyard. We came back to Rainbow at 12am. Students had a 2 hours free time to conduct their own investigation. At 2:30, we departed again to the local grain-transferring center town. Sorry forget the name. There are several huge storages and silos, which could shit up Rem koolhaas definitely. One of the oldest storage has not in function anymore but became national heritage. The size is just a mountain but the structure is extremely simple. The staff here then gave us an introduction of the whole process that how tons on grain are transferring, categorizing, selling, storing and transferring to other places. This is the last program of our trip. It is more like a trip for agriculture students rather than architecture. But by this trip, I saw a lot of things, which could only be seen in the inland area of Australia, and more important is that getting to know more students and involving much deeper with others. To be continued |
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