We are doing a big exhibition day meeting on Monday.
Can all teams especially teams work in studio - and can we start meeting at 10.00 all day to give the exhibition a good push forward.
Can all teams e-mail us advance pdfs / info of their drafts / state of current decisions so we can have a look?
Very important - team 1 -Jenny susanne Jack - can you email us draft wall- layout with what drawing to go on what walls by end of today please? please liaise with magazine team ben/kilian/feng - they have a good overview on unit work and access to all portfolios.
regarding portfolio feedback:
you have been e-mailed your the qualitative feedback today. Fell free to contact us if you have questions about it. Numbers will only be out after end of year show.
Carsten
Sunday, 12 May 2013
Friday, 3 May 2013
Exhibition teams
Here are the exhibition teams: the individual teams (especially teams 1,2,3,4) should get together and start getting on with designs / concepts so that we can discuss this next week (day to be confirmed, probably tuesday). You are in charge - a great opportunity.
Please upload your portfolio pdfs to dropbox, so that team No.2 can start with the unit A catalogue. (folder: Unit A - catalogue) The editing teams may ask you to provide indesign files, etc. at later stage...
Budget and monies: All purchases need to be confirmed by budget-holder in advance. Keep receipts - we need to collect those in order for you to be reimbursed.
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Thu 2 May end of year exhibition meeting 17.30
Y2: get some sleep
Y3: Not too much...
We are meeting at 17.30 for an important coordination meeting for the end of year exhibition (fri 24 May) Ambitious plans...! Absolutely all hands needed and everybody to attend. Very important.
Y3: Not too much...
We are meeting at 17.30 for an important coordination meeting for the end of year exhibition (fri 24 May) Ambitious plans...! Absolutely all hands needed and everybody to attend. Very important.
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Thursday, 18 April 2013
Mon 22 Apr Visualisation Tutorials
Mondays tutorials will evolve around your 5 visualisations, moments, scenarios. Push these from now urgently and show these to us. Have your A3 print-outs of those with you.
Yearbook images
Send those to us please. Contrary to igeas email. We tutors will select the most suitable and put those forward. Thanks
Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Thu 18 Apr - Portfolio tutorials
Guest critic Norbert Kling (zectorarchitects) will be joining the tutorial session.
Remember to e-mail us up to 5 images of your porject sem1 and sem2 as jpeg not higher than 5 mb.
Thursday, 21 March 2013
Mon 25 & Thu 28 Portfolio Cross Crit
Mon 25 : Y2
Review panel: Melissa Kinnear (unit D) & Emu
Thu 28: Y3
Review panel: Julia Hänsel (Unit E) & Carsten
You are reminded that you have to upload your work to Moodle prior to the crits.
The Cross Crit will be held in form of a table top review. For that we want to see your entire portfolio from sem1 and sem2 up to date and we would like to see it printed in full size (not as A3!!! - this proved too small at the interim) Alternatively - (we are not so keen on this) you can show it via the screens. if you go down that route - make sure you upload before 10.00 and that the single pdf shows without pixellation, etc... you will also need to have site plans, plans and sections printed to scale (1:100) in any case.
Review panel: Melissa Kinnear (unit D) & Emu
Thu 28: Y3
Review panel: Julia Hänsel (Unit E) & Carsten
You are reminded that you have to upload your work to Moodle prior to the crits.
The Cross Crit will be held in form of a table top review. For that we want to see your entire portfolio from sem1 and sem2 up to date and we would like to see it printed in full size (not as A3!!! - this proved too small at the interim) Alternatively - (we are not so keen on this) you can show it via the screens. if you go down that route - make sure you upload before 10.00 and that the single pdf shows without pixellation, etc... you will also need to have site plans, plans and sections printed to scale (1:100) in any case.
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
Thu 21 Mar Tutorials + Tech
As requested for Monday already ( if you have not done so) please bring along a few real-sized portfolio pages printed out, so we can check.
Thursday, 7 March 2013
Ecobuild 2013 - Plywood Prototypes
The team consisting of Maria Damoutzidou, Susanne Stavseng and Ben Ellis write about their designs, that "using plywood as sole material, we were able to create a complex and playful threshold that relied on the behaviour of our material and user interaction to change the immediate and surrounding environments. We achieved this by controlling the degree of flexibility at certain points throughout the structure by glue-laminating the plywood at varying thicknesses."
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Thu 7 March Tutorials + Tech
please bring entire portfolio.
Y2 tech: you will have your tech reviews next week - so please bring your entrie portfolio and discuss your tech strategy with Nicola.
Tech Y3: Nicola will habnd-out feebacksheets on the exploration study at 10.00 / they will be in the envelope in the studio.
Friday, 1 March 2013
Mon 4 Mar - Interim Crit in London 10.00
crit location:
zectorarchitects
18 Ashwin Street
London E8 3 DL
transport:Dalston Kingsland / Dalston Junction overground
Guest critics:
Valentin Bontjes van Beek
Jack Case
Anna Mansfield
Colin Priest
Mercedes Rodrigo Garcia
Gregory Ross
Drawing list for interim crit Monday 4th March
Drawing list / requirements for wall pin-up at interim crit 4th March.
(this looks like we are asking a lot - and it is true - but most of the work is at this stage already - you have done it - so use the list to order your thoughts and your presentation. the crit is all about linking the indvidiual bits and pieces together, so please make sure you are not editing out too much
- Personal "threshold observations" old street study area
- Threshold prototype (1st semester work) : Key extracts: drawings should explain the basic principle you developed + detail incl. materiality and all working models + process
- Carlo Scarpa, field trip drawings. Precision of your what your personal interest is. clearly drawn / buildings redrawn in plans section / axo, etc and highlighted / annotated.
- Site: setting the scene: study area to relevant scale depending on your interest / brief programme (1:5000 / 1:2500 / 1:1000). Project site with surrounding 1:500. Aerial view & key photographs at groundfloor of site / project site context.
- Site analysis / mapping: general observations (to relevant scales) - edited group-work becoming your personal work (e.g. user-groups / transport / orientation / density / land-use, etc.) and personal interest / individual observations (e.g behavioural studies, light/shade,etc). You may need to add / refine / edit your site analysis drawings to explain / back-up your brief. (e.g. materials study of site…)
- Edited theoretic references (refer reading references) integrated onto drawings at relevant locations.
- Public intervention / contextualisation: final drawings + performative principles + connection to social and cultural context
- Personal brief + functional programme. Core performance of building in old street context. What will it do and how?
- Conceptual clarity of connections between core idea / workings of your 1:1 prototype and the transposition into your design brief and workings of your building
- Massing studies 1:500 (including photographs of your mass proposals placed into context model) incl indicative density, m2, etc.
- Urban strategy 1:1000. Strategic response to context (social + cultural) How are you creating liminality? What domains is your proposal interacting with / responding to ?
- Environmental strategy (integrated in drawings)
- Structural strategy (integrated in drawings)
- Edited precedences integrated at key stages during your design process. (integrated in drawings)
- Site plan 1:500 (locating your building on site)
- Spatial sequence studies (of building) and long contextual sections - inside outside relationships - pubic realm- control of public private domain. qualities of thresholds.
- Long/cross section 1:500 and 1:200 (schematic) with context / surrounding buildings & proposed speculative neighbouring developments (high-risers) using group drawings, such as elevations, etc
- All working models of building to scale (presented with context = surrounding buildings) and labelled / commentated, etc.
- Process / development of plans - design evolution. show key moves. key decisions.
- Plans of key floors (not all) at 1:100 printed large enough for wall presentation.
- Section(s) 1:100 with context = surrounding buildings, public realm, street, trees, etc.
- Occupational and atmospheric scenario. Activities, light, materiality: Visualisation of key spatial moments through drawings (e.g. photographed models / collages / sketches representing above qualities ( refer activity lecture)
(this looks like we are asking a lot - and it is true - but most of the work is at this stage already - you have done it - so use the list to order your thoughts and your presentation. the crit is all about linking the indvidiual bits and pieces together, so please make sure you are not editing out too much
- Personal "threshold observations" old street study area
- Threshold prototype (1st semester work) : Key extracts: drawings should explain the basic principle you developed + detail incl. materiality and all working models + process
- Carlo Scarpa, field trip drawings. Precision of your what your personal interest is. clearly drawn / buildings redrawn in plans section / axo, etc and highlighted / annotated.
- Site: setting the scene: study area to relevant scale depending on your interest / brief programme (1:5000 / 1:2500 / 1:1000). Project site with surrounding 1:500. Aerial view & key photographs at groundfloor of site / project site context.
- Site analysis / mapping: general observations (to relevant scales) - edited group-work becoming your personal work (e.g. user-groups / transport / orientation / density / land-use, etc.) and personal interest / individual observations (e.g behavioural studies, light/shade,etc). You may need to add / refine / edit your site analysis drawings to explain / back-up your brief. (e.g. materials study of site…)
- Edited theoretic references (refer reading references) integrated onto drawings at relevant locations.
- Public intervention / contextualisation: final drawings + performative principles + connection to social and cultural context
- Personal brief + functional programme. Core performance of building in old street context. What will it do and how?
- Conceptual clarity of connections between core idea / workings of your 1:1 prototype and the transposition into your design brief and workings of your building
- Massing studies 1:500 (including photographs of your mass proposals placed into context model) incl indicative density, m2, etc.
- Urban strategy 1:1000. Strategic response to context (social + cultural) How are you creating liminality? What domains is your proposal interacting with / responding to ?
- Environmental strategy (integrated in drawings)
- Structural strategy (integrated in drawings)
- Edited precedences integrated at key stages during your design process. (integrated in drawings)
- Site plan 1:500 (locating your building on site)
- Spatial sequence studies (of building) and long contextual sections - inside outside relationships - pubic realm- control of public private domain. qualities of thresholds.
- Long/cross section 1:500 and 1:200 (schematic) with context / surrounding buildings & proposed speculative neighbouring developments (high-risers) using group drawings, such as elevations, etc
- All working models of building to scale (presented with context = surrounding buildings) and labelled / commentated, etc.
- Process / development of plans - design evolution. show key moves. key decisions.
- Plans of key floors (not all) at 1:100 printed large enough for wall presentation.
- Section(s) 1:100 with context = surrounding buildings, public realm, street, trees, etc.
- Occupational and atmospheric scenario. Activities, light, materiality: Visualisation of key spatial moments through drawings (e.g. photographed models / collages / sketches representing above qualities ( refer activity lecture)
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)