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5 - 8 December 2019

The iNTA 2019 Conference committee acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Country on which the Urban Tropicality Conference is held, the Jagera and Turrbul peoples, and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture.

We pay respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.

Table of contents

Welcome message from the Organising Committee 3

About International Tropical Architecture Network 4

Keynote speakers 5

Program 11

Abstracts 16

Credits 18

Finding your way around The University of Queensland 23

It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the 7th meeting of the International Network of Tropical Architecture (iNTA) hosted for the first time by The University of Queensland.

The iNTA is a networking platform for international researchers and practitioners to collaborate and learn from each other about problems and solutions of architecture and urban design in the tropical (and sub-tropical) regions.

This, the 7th meeting of iNTA, Urban Tropicality brings together people from around the world and across disciplinary boundaries to discuss the challenges in urban centres brought about by global warming, inequality, densification, unfettered development and migration. It will showcase tactics and strategies for green urbanism and infrastructure, resilient typologies. The conference will explore the transformative power of tradition and provide insights into historical instances of tropical modernism across the torrid zone.

Contributing to the rich discussions offered at Urban Tropicality is “Narratives of Disease, Discomfort, Development, and Disaster: Reconsidering (sub)Tropical Architecture and Urbanism,” a conference stream hosted by the School of Architecture Centre for Architecture Theory Criticism History.

Another stream addressing Historic Urban Landscapes (HUL), an emerging area of UNESCO concern provides an opportunity to reflect on the Burra Charter, Australia’s contribution to global heritage and conservation practices, in the year of its 40th anniversary.

We trust that over the course of the conference, you will take part in stimulating and inspirational conversations, engage with good practice, and develop meaningful connections with delegates from across the tropics and sub-tropics on five continents and countless islands.

Warm regards,

Dr Pedro Guedes and Dr Elizabeth Musgrave The Urban Tropicality iNTA Conference Organising Committee

Welcome message from the Urban Tropicality INTA Conference Organising Committee

Professor Johannes Widodo

iNTA (the International Network for Tropical Architecture) was initiated by Professor Johannes Widodo and collegues at the National University of Singapore in 2004.

This founding team steered the initial aims and operational policy of iNTA that the network should remain as a versatile network of individuals with like interest in research on tropical design issues, that there is no necessity to register as a formal society, and no subscription is necessary. The permanent secretariat of iNTA is at the Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, while the network has been pushed forward around the Tropical Belt since its inception until now.

It is intended as networking platform for international researchers and practitioners to collaborate and learn from each other about problems and solutions pertaining to architecture and urban design in the tropical (and sub-tropical) regions, because of the shared climatic imperatives and opportunities in like regions. Tropical Architecture refers to constructed architectural and urban environments relating to the climatic and natural conditions of the tropical (and sub-tropical) regions, and interacting with various local specifics of culture, urban fabric and technology.

The network meets every two years and has previously met in Singapore, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Bangkok, Thailand, Johor Bahru, Malaysia and most recently in 2017, in Gainesville, Florida.

About the International Network for Tropical Architecture (iNTA)

Keynote speakers

Ana Tostões

PhD architect, architectural critic and historian, chair of Docomomo International and Editor of the Docomomo Journal. During his tenure Docomomo has moved from a mostly European organization to a global network coordinating more than 70 countries on five continents (www.docomomo.com). She is a Full Professor at ITécnico, University of Lisbon (IST-UL), where she teaches Theory of Architecture and Critical History. She is a Full Professor at Técnico, University of Lisbon, where she teaches Theory of Architecture and Critical History, and coordinates the PhD program and the Architectural Disciplinary area. She has been invited professor at University of Tokyo, Navarra, Barcelona, Oporto, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Rice School of Architecture Houston, Austin in Texas, KULeuven. She belongs to the CiTUA research group at IST where she combines her experience in Research and Development with technological skills. Her research field is the Critical History and Theory of Modern Architecture, focusing on the relationship between European, Asian, African and American cultures. On this topic, she has published books and essays, curated exhibitions, supervised PhD theses and given lectures worldwide.

She coordinated the research project Exchanging World Visions focused on Sub-Sahara African architecture during the Modern Movement period, awarded with the Gulbenkian Prize 2014. She as awarded the BIAU Prize 2016 for the publication Idade Maior (FAUP, 2015). She currently coordinates the research project CuCa_RE: Cure and Care_the rehabilitation.

Tostões has been vice-president of the Portuguese Chamber of Architects and the Portuguese section of the International Association of Art Critics. In 2006, his Excellency the President of the Portuguese Republic made her a Commander of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique for her work on behalf of Portuguese architecture and its promotion in Portugal and abroad.

The climate-responsive design was a reality in expansion in the African Sub-Saharan regions since the 1950s. Such is the case of Angola and Mozambique, wide territories of sub-Saharan Africa testifying a significant developing impulse between the end of World War II and the Portuguese democratic revolution of 24th April 1974 which, the following year, led to the political independence of these two on forward African countries. Formal, technological and ideological quests for Modern Movement emerged as a cultural stimulus linked to geographical and climatic specificities, and these promoted new expressions and scales. The adaptation to the local climate was based on architectural programs and solutions developed to exploit the use of open spaces, using circulation galleries and introducing devices to maintain permanent air circulation and to control the admission of direct sunlight.

The architect Vasco Vieira da Costa (1911-1982) took this concept further in Angola and, as Le Corbusier did in Chandigarh’s High Court Building, he created several variations of different dimensioned grids coordinated with fixed devices guaranteeing the solar protection and natural ventilation. A radical and innovative approach far from the common canons of the Modern Movement was followed by Pancho

IST-UL Full ProfessorDoCoMoMo International President

Hugo Segawa

HUGO SEGAWA is an architect, PhD, Full Professor at the University of São Paulo, Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU USP). He is the author of Architecture in Brazil 1900-1990 (New York, Springer, 2013), Arquitectura Latinoamericana Contemporánea (Barcelona, Gustavo Gili, 2005) among other books. He was Visiting Professor in architecture schools in Argentina, Chile, Japan, México, Panamá, Portugal and Spain, and lecturer in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Germany, Netherlands, Slovenia, United States.

Latin American architecture is noteworthy in the 20th century as an alternative manifestation to the canons of International Style, without being detached from European and American modern movements, proposing an interpretation of its realities to the point of establishing a language of its own.

A historical and social formation – the Latin America shaped from Portuguese and Spanish colonization – and a geographical domain – the Neotropic is one of the eight realms of the Earth – established an original overlap of geopolitical and biogeographic territory.

A variety of conditions that covers a region that extends from Mexico to Tierra del Fuego implies recognizing architectures in contexts of great biodiversity, with ecosystems as distinctive as the Amazon rainforest, the Chilean deserts, the Andean highlands, the Brazilian cerrado, each requiring a response that Latin American architecture has collected throughout its experimentation.

This presentation will be illustrated with important achievements of Latin American architecture by masters such as Oscar Niemeyer, Lucio Costa, Carlos Raul Villanueva, Oswaldo Bratke, Severiano Porto, and contemporary architects and architectures which follow the dialogue between architecture and environment.

Guedes (1925-2015), the luso-african architect active in Mozambique. His writings and architectural production were a major contribution to the reassessment of architectural modernity, connecting different disciplines and cultures and carrying out affinities with local creators. Advocating the idea that Africa “was a world where anything seemed possible”, Guedes, took a genuine interest in local art and architecture and enunciated trends leading to the discovery of vernacular culture.

The approach to the local circumstance promoted the aknowledgment of the place in cultural, social and geographical terms. The search for a site-specific identity linked to the factor of climate enlighted these processes of hybridisation.

Elizabeth Watson-Brown

Having directed her own successful practice, Elizabeth Watson Brown Architects, for 21 years, Elizabeth was appointed Design Director of Architectus Brisbane in 2011, and is now a Design Strategy Leader for the national practice.

Elizabeth’s work has been published widely and has received many significant architectural awards.

Elizabeth is an active participant in architecture and urban design in her many public roles beyond practice, having been on many design advisory, review and awards panels including roles as AIA Queensland State Awards Director, AIA National Awards Juror, and AIA Northern Territory Awards Jury Chair, Gold Coast Urban Design Awards Jury Chair, and Adjunct Professor at the School of Architecture, University of Queensland,.

Elizabeth was an inaugural member of Queensland Board for Urban Places advising The Queensland Government, and a member the Queensland Cultural Precinct Design and Heritage Roundtable advising on the development of the Conservation Management Plan. Elizabeth now now sits with the Queensland Government Architect on the Independent Expert Panel advising the Queensland Government on works to the Queensland Cultural Centre. Elizabeth has been recently re-appointed to the Independent Design Advisory Panel advising Brisbane City Council on major development proposals.

Elizabeth’s work has been exhibited at the seminal ‘Place Makers’ exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art and at the Venice Biennale.

Elizabeth has long term expertise in the delivery of high quality residential, institutional, educational and community architecture, and a deep understanding of the role of architecture and urban design in the relationship between human amenity, landscape and climate in our subtropical and tropical urban realms.

Design Strategy Leader, Architectus

Keynote speakers

Russell McGregor

Russell McGregor is an Adjunct Professor of History at James Cook University. He has written extensively on environmental history, race relations and nationalism, and the history of northern Australia. His publications include the award-winning books Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal People and the Australian Nation and Imagined Destinies: Aboriginal Australians and the Doomed Race Theory.

The home-making of his title refers not to the physical construction of dwellings but rather to the process of coming to feel at home in the local environment.

For a long time, settler Australians lacked that sense of comfortable belonging in the tropics, many even insisting that its attainment was impossible. Russell’s paper takes a bird’s-eye view of the anxieties that bedevilled attempts at the colonisation of tropical Australia over much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the faltering and incomplete resolution of those anxieties.

Adjunct Professor

Patricia Green

Dr Patricia Elaine Green, a registered architect and UNESCO international expert consultant on cultural heritage manages the Faculty of the Built Environment MPhil/PhD Built Environment Programme at the University of Technology, Jamaica. She also coordinates its UNESCO/UNITWIN Network 231: “Sustainable Built Environment in Small Island Developing States /Historic Urban Landscape”(SBESIDS/HUL).

Pat is a former Head of the Caribbean School of Architecture, and teaches architectural history, historic preservation, and design studio. She earned an international doctorate in architecture, heritage and the city from Universidad de Sevilla, Spain; a Master of Science in Historic Preservation from University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA; and a professional Degree in Architecture from the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, UK.

Dr Green is a member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) also its International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes (ISCCL).

Brett Leavy

Jane Lennon

“We want everybody to realise that, before the bricks and mortar of our cities and regional towns, First Nations people called this place home and had called it home since time immemorial.”

Brett Leavy is a First Nations, Digital Aboriginal, a graduate of Masters of Creative Industries and has played a prominant role in the realisation of Indigenous community radio and television. As director of Bilbie Virtual Labs, Australia’s leading First Nations Interactive Design Agency he leads a group of game designers, programmers and developers dedicated to researching, recreating and representing the impacts of white occupation of aboriginal lands. Digital innovation, 3D visualisation and virtual reality technologies are used to establish linkages between Indigenous and Western sciences that have impacted our landscapes since time immemorial.

The Lab’s ongoing and most significant project Virtual Songlines is a visualisation software tool initially intended to represent to the next generation of First Nations people a way of gaining a greater understanding of our lands, culture and heritage Protect and promote culture, its remit has now extended to a much wider audience. Other projects, including the Virtual Warrane @ Wynyard project for Department of Transport for NSW, embed Cultural Heritage experiences into everyday encounters with the physical fabric of our cities and regional centres.

Brett Leavy descends from the Kooma people whose traditional country is bordered by St George in the east, Cunnamulla in the west, north by the town of Mitchell and south to the QLD/NSW border. He is intensely proud of his team’s work and freely acknowledges the wisdom and knowledge of elders, academics and scholars on whom this important work relies.

Image: Virtual Warrane @ Wynyard

Dr. Jane Lennon AM is an historical geographer specialising in cultural landscape conservation. She has managed such places, published extensively, is honorary professor at the University of Melbourne and an adjunct professor at Deakin University, Victoria.

She is a founding member of Australia ICOMOS, chair 1987-90, an elected member of ICCROM 1999-2003, Getty Conservation Institute [Los Angeles] scholar in 2003, Australian Heritage Commissioner/ Councillor (1998-2008), an assessor for World Heritage nominations, convenor of the Australian group for the ICOMOS World Rural Landscapes project and current Australian voting member, ICOMOS/IFLA International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes (ISCCL).

For the last 20 years she has been involved in implementing the Lake Victoria cultural landscape plan of management in conjunction with the Barkindji Maraura Elders Council.

Keynote speakers

Susan Fayad

Alex Bond

Susan is the Coordinator Heritage and Cultural Landscapes at the City of Ballarat where she is managing the roll out of the Central Victorian Goldfields World Heritage Bid program which applies UNESCO’s new approach to urban conservation and city development – The Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) - across 13 local government areas.

Since 2012, Susan has led the implementation of the HUL at the City of Ballarat as part of UNESCO’s international pilot program. She helped build the HUL approach into Ballarat’s long-term growth strategy, centralising heritage and culture in the city’s sustainable development.

Susan is an active member of the global HUL program, contributing both internationally and locally in Australia. She’s lectured on HUL and co-authored The HUL Guidebook – a practical guide for managing heritage in dynamic and constantly changing environments - with WHITRAP in China.

Alex Bond strongly identifies as a member of the Kabi Kabi people of south-east Queensland, but also has descent links with the Waka Waka (Burnett River) and Kaanju (Cape York) and Kumu (Dirranbandi) peoples. He has an extensive knowledge base on Aboriginal culture and history in South-East Queensland. Alex is regularly employed at the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre (University of Queensland) for community-oriented projects.

He is also a casual tutor and research assistant at the Centre and conducts guided tours of the Aboriginal cultural landscape in the Brisbane CBD for UQ students of anthropology, human geography and architecture.

He has been conducting cultural landscape tours since 2011 and is passionate about sharing his cultural knowledge.

M.ICOMOS

Various Locations, Brisbane

2pm onwards Tours of Brisbane Choose from the gollowing local tours: 1. The (Sub)tropical campus: The University of Queensland’s Sustainable Architecture 2. Aboriginal Culture Landscape Walking Tour of Brisbane 3. Living in Brisbane: Iconic and recent award winning residential projects in inner city Brisbane

Book your place on a tour through - http://ems.gs/3tMn0licxqg

Tour 1 The (Sub)tropical Campus: the University of Queensland’s Sustainable Architecture Tour visits: • Great Court, University of Queensland • Global Change Institute (HASSELL)• Advanced Engineering Building (Richard Kirk in assoc. with HASSELL)• Translational Research Institute (Wilson Architects in assoc. with Donovan Hill)

Tour will meet at 2.00pm at the Forgan Smith Tower, The University of Queensland, St Lucia. Cost: Cash or travel GoCard required for public transport (approx $10AUD/pp)

Tour 2 Aboriginal Cultural Landscape Walking Tour of Brisbane Tour visits:• Highgate Hill• Musgrave Park• Brisbane CBD

Tour leader Alex Bond identifies as a member of the Kabi Kabi people of south-east Queensland, but also has descent links with the Waka Waka (Burnett River) and Kaanju (Cape York) and Kumu (Dirranbandi) peoples. Tour limited to 16 people. Tour will meet tour leaders at 1.30pm at the School of Architecture (Level 3, Zelman Cowen Building) or at 2.00pm at Highgate Hill Park Gazebo (162 Dornoch Terrace, Highgate Hill)Cost: Cash or travel GoCard required for public transport (approx $5.50AUD/pp)

Tour 3 Living in Brisbane: Iconic and recent award winning residential projects in inner city BrisbaneTour visits: • One Room Tower, 2018 Institute Award for Residential Architecture (Silvia Micheli + Antony Moulis in

assoc. with Phorm)• Terrarium House, 2019 Institute Award for Residential Architecture (John Ellway Architect)• Torbreck, Queensland Heritage Register (Job and Froud Architects, 1958)• Walan, 2019 Institute Award for Residential Architecture_ Multiple Housing (bureau^proberts) Tour will meet at the State Library Queensland Bus Stop, Stanley Place, South Bank. Tour limited to 12 people Cost: $12AUD/pp for transport

State Library of Queensland, Stanley Place, South Bank

6-6.30pm Early Registration Level 2, State Library of Queensland, Stanley Place, South Bank

6.30-8pm Keynote address: Milinda Pathiraja (Robust Architecture Network) Auditorium, Level 2, State Library of Queensland iNTA delegates are invited to attend this address which forms part of the UQ International Lecture Series

Charming Squire, 3/133 Grey Street, South Bank

8-9pm Welcome Drinks The School of Architecture welcomes iNTA delegates to meet academics and alumni at The Charming Squire, Grey Street, South Brisbane. Canapes and drinks provided.

Conference Program Thursday 5 December

Milinda Pathiraja is an Honorary Senior Fellow in the Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning at the University of Melbourne; a Visiting Teaching Fellow attached to the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC) at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland; and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Architecture at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.

His particular focus is how the power of architecture can integrate and contribute to the resolution of social, political and economic challenges.

He was one of the eighty-eight architects profiled at the international section of the 2016 International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale.

Milinda Pathiraja

UQ International Architecture Lecture Thursday 5 December

Image: Primary School - Dewahuwa

In transitional economies such as Sri Lanka, the urban growth has come to depend on largely unskilled labour, who have limited or no opportunities for progressive up-skilling and, consequently, for their own socio-economic development. The building industry’s dependence on such labour force does not favour the quality of production, nor the industry’s ability to meet the building demand.

Overcoming these socio-cultural limitations may require a particular type of ‘design intelligence’ at an industry level, and architectural designers could be made to respond to such ambition through their work by incorporating technical decisions carrying policy implications in terms of labour organisation and re-structuring. Advancing such a proposal, however, requires a double radical shift in perspective: one in relation to prevailing discursive positions on architectural design, the other affecting the cultural and institutional understanding of the idea of ‘technology’ in building production.

Using architectural projects in Sri Lanka as case studies, this lecture presents a broader definition of technology, which considers how the socio-cultural underpinnings of building production can be understood and utilised as policy-making parameters.

2019 UQ international architecture lecture series is a partnership between State Library of Queensland and The University of Queensland’s School of Architecture.

Keynote Lecture

Session 1 Session A: Green UrbanismChair: Nancy Clark

Session B: Historic Urban Landscapes Chair: Johannes Widodo

Session C: Reconsidering the Histories of (sub) Tropical Architecture and Urbanism

11-11.30pm Tropical Urbanism: Theorising Responses to Climate and Nature in ‘Far North’ Queensland Lisa Law

Historic Urban Landscape Processes ExplainedSusan Fayad Patricia Green

The Disease, Discomfort, Development and Disaster: Reconsidering the histories of (sub) Tropical Architecture and Urbanism. Deborah van der Plaat, Vandana Baweja and Tom Avermaete

11.30-12pm Spatial Form for Intensive Urban Greenery in Singapore: Possibility of Skyrise Greenery as Social Capital for Non-energy Benefits toward a Low-Carbon Society Mamiko Fujiyama & Toshikazu Ishida

Addressing disease, development and culture in the colonial urban kampong: Health, Native housing and urban planning in Semarang , Java, 1900 – 1930. Joost Coté

12-12.30pm Green Urban Planning Towards Bangkok Master Plan on Climate Change 2013-2023 Pattaranan Takkanon

Sanitizing the Spaces of Empire: Miasma and its Agential Actions in Colonial India Manu Sobti

Lunch (12.30-1.30pm)

Session 2 Session A: Resilient Typologies Chair: Nancy Clark

Session B: Historic Urban Landscapes Chair: Pedro Guedes

Session C: Disease Chair: Don Watson

1.30-2pm The Ecology of (Sub)tropical Residential Architecture in Urban Vietnam and Australia Silvia Micheli

A Boulevard in the Tropics: The case of Vila Nova Sintra in the Island of Brava in Cape Verde Fernando Pires

“Crise du logement”: Migration and the Architectural Prophylactics of Hygiene and Housing in Postwar TunisiaNancy Demerdash

2-2.30pm Urban Heat Islands and Urban Design: Looking for a More Resilient Tropicality Karine Dupre, Silvia Tavares, Pia Monnier

The Tropic as a Topic and a Problem: Modern Caracas, City and Architecture Jose Rosas Vera, Ivan Gonzalez Viso

The ABC Hotels in the Former Belgian Congo: Acclimatisation and Comfort as a Source of Architectural Experimentation in the Tropics Dalia Perziani

2.30-3pm Same Rules Different Outcome: Architects and Innovative Tropical Architecture Buildings Rosemary Kennedy

Complementarity and Symbolization: Mozambique Ports, Railways and Transport Administration and Beira Central Station Elisário Miranda

The Florida Tropical Home 1933 Vandana Baweja

Advanced Engineering Building (Bldg 49), Level 3 Foyer, UQ St Lucia campus

8.30-9.15am Registration Tea and coffee available for all delegates

9.15-9.30am Acknowledgement of country and welcome to conference Cameron Bruhn, School of Architecture, UQ and Johannes Widodo, NUS

9.30-10.30am Keynote address: Ana Tostões Tropicality between climate and culture: Modern Architecture in Africa

Morning Tea (10.30-11am)

Conference Program Friday 6 December

Afternoon Tea (3pm-3.30pm)

Session 3 Session A: Tradition & TransformationChair: Lisa Law

Session B:Chair: Paul Sanders

Session C: Discomfort Chair: Patricia Green

3.30-4pm Kiribati Today: Responding to Climate Change, Sea Level Rise and Inundation Teuea Tebau

The Anonymity of Buildings by Energy Consumption, and Climate and Topography DenialRussell Hall

Comfort: Douglas HK Lee, The Scientific Study of Climate and Subtropical HousingDeborah van der Plaat

4-4.30pm Future Vernaculars: Towards a Process-Based Dwelling Ecosystem in Pacific Atoll Nations James Miller, Xiaonuan Sun, Matthew Bunza

Cooling in the Tropics Pedro Guedes

Defence: The elevated tropical Queensland House and British military settlements in Northern Australia Cathy Keys

4.30-5pm Metamorphosing Tropical Urbanism: A Basis of DesignRakel Kotlyar

A Safe & Accessible Tropics: The Screened Patio in Midcentury Florida Allan Shulman

Friday Closing Keynote Address

5.15-6.30pm Keynote Address: Hugo Segawa

Networking Dinner for All Delegates (included in registration price)

7-9pm 3-course sit-down dinner with drinks Hillstone, St Lucia

Please join your fellow delegates for drinks and dinner. This is our way of saying thank you for joining us at the 7th conference of the International Network of Tropical Architecture. Joining us for dinner are special guests Dr Steven Szokolay and Emeritus Professor Balwant Singh Saini, both of whom are experts in tropical architecture.

Time: 7.30pm - 10pm Location: Hillstone, St Lucia Catering: 3-course sit down dinner Travel: A courtesy bus will leave from cnr Staff House Road and College Road at 6.45pm and will return you to Duchesne College at 10pm.

Networking Dinner

Session 1 Session A: Tradition & TransformationChair: Pedro Guedes

Session B: Historic Urban Landscapes Chair: Patricia Green

Session C: Discomfort Chair: Tom Avermaete

11-11.30pm Learning from the Past? Traditional and Urban Tulou Ferdinand Oswald

Historic Urban Landscapes Demonstrated Cristian Heinsen

Virtual Songlines Brett Leavy

Cities in the Sun: Fundamentals for Australian Tropical Architecture Andrew Wilson

11.30-12pm Oases <> Architecture and urbanism in tropical desert regions: from traditional wisdom to contemporary vision? Daniela Ottmann

U.S. Domesticated Tropics: Architectural Visions and Semi-Tropical Comfort in Southern California, Hawai‘i, and Florida Henry Knight Lozano

12-12.30pm “Contemporary” Hearth: Subtropical vs Tropical Pancawati Dewi

Importing Tropicality:The Design Process of the Garden Court, Bank of Canada, Ottawa 1969–1979 Maren Koehler

Lunchbox Session: Historic Urban Landsacpes w Patricia Green, Susan Fayad and Alex Bond Chair: Jane Lennon (12.30-2pm)

Session 2 Session A: Just Societies Chair: Rosemary Kennedy

Session B: Tropical Modernism Chair: Marji Sarvimaki

Session C: Development Chair: Tom Avermaete

2-2.30pm Land Tenure and Housing Quality as Drivers of Energy Justice in Slums: The case of a Dhaka bosteeMark L G Jones

Tropical Architecture, One Firm’s Perspective Paul Chrismas, Mark Tendys and Courtney Rogers

The Synthesis of Tropical Urbanism: Integrating Urban Knowledge in the UN Technical Assisstance Program Tom Avermaete

2.30-3pm Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico: Lessons for Resiliency Alexa Rojas and Vandana Baweja

Sub-tropical Modernism, Featurism and Building Innovation: The Institutional Projects of Trotter & Birrell Marissa Lindquist & Paul Sanders

Warfare, Folklore & Architecture William Davis

3-3.30pm Culture Beyond Disaster: An In-depth Architectural Characterization of the Filipino Assimilative and Resilient Urban Cultural Heritage Leah Dela Rosa

Luanda and the buildings that respond to the Weather over several centuries Maria Alice Correia & Osvaldo Fortes

Architectural Experiments in Remote Self-Help Housing for Aboriginal People in the 1970s Tim O’Rourke

Advanced Engineering Building (Bldg 49), Level 3 Foyer, UQ St Lucia campus

8.45-9.30am Registration Tea and coffee available for all delegates

9.30-10.30am Keynote address - Russell McGregor An Australian Anxiety: Making Home in the Tropics

Morning Tea (10.30-11am)

Conference Program Saturday 7 December

Afternoon Tea (3.30pm-4pm)

Session 3 Session A: Just Societies Chair: Elizabeth Musgrave

Session B: Tropical Modernism Chair: Marissa Lindquist

Session C: Development Chair: Andrew Wilson

4-4.30pm Vuvus’ Place at Home: A Study on Female Payuan Indigenous’ Spatial Memories in South TaiwanHsin-Yin Huang

Cities in the Sun… and the Mullet Run Paul Trotter, Paul Sanders

Design for Disaster in Architectural Education: A Grass-Roots Response to Climate Change Mitigation and Response Liz Brogden

4.30-5pm Camp: a New Form of Human Habitat in Tropical and Subtropical RegionsAbdon Dantas

Tale of Two Passive Buildings: Bioclimatic Design in the Sub-tropicsMarci Webster-Mannison

The Dichotomy of Discomfort in Subtropical Environments: Describing Urban Imaginaries of Displacement and Homelessness Anna Svensdotter, Liz Brogden, Mirko Guaralda

5-5.30pm Does Heritage Status Celebrate Spatial Injustice in Oceania? James Miller

A Tale of Two Tropical Cities: linking urban heritage and post-disaster reconstruction and recovery, if at allFarnaz Arefian

Saturday Closing Keynote Address

5.45pm-6.30pm Keynote Address: Elizabeth Watson-Brown From the tropics to subtropicality, from the suburbs to urban identity.

Notes:

Advanced Engineering Building (Bld 49), Level 3 Foyer, UQ St Lucia campus

Session 1 Session A: Green InfrastructureChair: Nawari Nawari

Session B: Tropical Modernism Chair: Ana Tostões

9.30-10am Green Infrastructure as a Solution to Hydrological Problems: Bioswales and Created Wetlands Jerry Lee & Vandana Baweja

Tropical Travails in Minoru Yamasaki and Associates’ Queen Emma Gardens, 1964Joss Kiely

10-10.30am Mapping the Concrete Jungle: Raising Creeks and Growing Cities in the Sub-Tropics Marci Webster-Mannison

Tropicality: Modernist Architecture in Honolulu, USA and the Gold Coast, AUMarja Sarvimaki

Alfred Preis and Rebuilding Laupahoehoe School After a Tidal Wave: Making Modernism “Hawai’ian” Laura McGuire

Morning Tea (10.30-11am)

Session 2 Session B: Diagnostics & DesignChair: Elizabeth Musgrave

Session C: Disaster Chair: Vandana Baweja

11-11.30pm Early Stage Design Decision-Making Informed by a Wind Performance Design Space: Based on methods that extrapolate wind flow by classifying urban geometry and prevailing wind speeds Ban Liang Ling

Architecture of Massiveness, Architecture of Resilience: A Contextual Response for Far North Queensland Cecilia Bischeri

11.30-12pm Evaluations of Different CFD Porosity Models on Imitating Wind Flow Through Tree Canopy in Tropical Context: Comparison of numerical fields of the downwash and streamwise winds generated by different porous models and leaf area index (LAI) values Yehezkiel Wiliardy, Ban Liang Ling

Tidal Waves, Cyclones and the Plague: Attracting Banking Staff to Far North Queensland, 1922-1952 Deborah van der Plaat

12.30-1pm BIM-Based Metrics for Sustainable Built Environment in the Sub-tropics Fatma Hasanain, Nawari O. Nawari

Disease, Discomfort, Development and Disaster: What Next? The Book! Deborah van der Plaat, Vandana Baweja and Tom Avermaete

End of Conference Lunch (1-2.30pm)

Conference Program Sunday 8 December

Notes:

Committees

Narratives of Disease, Discomfort Development and Disaster

Convenors

Deborah van der Plaat School of Architecture, University of Queensland

Tom Avermaete ETH Zurich

Vandana Baweja University of Florida

Elizabeth Musgrave School of Architecture, University of Queensland

Pedro Guedes School of Architecture, University of Queensland

Nancy M Clark University of Florida

Carol Archer University of Technology, Jamaica

Abel E. Tablada de la Torre Universidad Tecnológica de La Habana José

Dean Sakamoto Shade Group

Elizabeth Musgrave School of Architecture, University of Queensland

Pedro Guedes School of Architecture, University of Queensland

Nawari Nawari University of Florida

Johannes Widodo National University of Singpore

Patricia Elaine Green University of Technology Jamaica

Strategies and Tactics: Urbanism in the Tropics

Carol Archer University of Technology, Jamaica

Cecilia Bischeri Griffith University

Liz Brogden Queensland University of Technology

Nancy M Clark University of Florida

Patricia Elaine Green University of Technology Jamaica

Pedro Guedes School of Architecture, University of Queensland

Rosemary Kennedy SubTropical Cities Consultancy

Lisa Law James Cook University

Marissa Lindquist Queensland University of Technology

Elizabeth Musgrave School of Architecture, University of Queensland

Nawari Nawari University of Florida

Dean Sakamoto Shade Group

Marja Sarvimaki Bond University

Manu Sobti School of Architecture, University of Queensland

Abel E. Tablada de la Torre National University of Singapore

Reviewers

Strategies and Tactics: Urbanism in the Tropics

Tom Avermaete ETH Zurich

Vandana Baweja University of Florida

Deborah van der Plaat School of Architecture, University of Queensland

Credits

Narratives of Disease, Discomfort Development and Disaster

With Thanks Also To

University Partner

Volunteers

Jane Lennon

Ian Lilley

Paul Memmott

Ray Kerkhove

International Council of Portuguese Speaking Architects

Centre for Architecture Theory Criticism History

Australian Institute of Architects, Queensland Chapter

Tropical Urbanism and Design Lab, James Cook University

Tomas Brage

Joanna Brugman Alvarez

Sabrina Amin Chowdhury

Hamlin Cox

Yolanda Espinar

Emilie Hildebrandt

Will Jenkins

Lloyd Jones

Ginnie Lee

Xianzhen Lin

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