Bunker

For this exhibition, entitled 'Bunker', Hatoum has transformed the gallery spaces into sites of heightened tension, where global geographies are abstracted and condensed, and themes of mobility, belonging and displacement are explored through three new artworks.

25 Feb—2 Apr 2011
Mason's Yard

WHITE CUBE LINK

Observe Concrete Making

Mark Austin and Ray Salter will run concrete workshops (casting cubes, etc.) at the concrete lab with Construction Management students in weeks 2-6, every Tuesday from 14:00-15:00 hrs. Jane has negotiated the opportunity for us (5 students at a time) to observe the process. Please sign-up using the list which will be up in the studio on Thursday.

This is obligatory as part of Technology. Be equipped (camera,etc.) and make most use out of this. In case you are inspired after watching this and would like to do individual casts/test/details later on, Ray offered to assist you (despite being very busy this semester).

Mass models by Oda Pälmke

Y3 Technology Preview - now on Thu 17 Feb

Please note following date change, due to clashing diaries:
The Y3 Technology Previews are now happening on Thu 17 February (instead of the Mon 14th)
See module hand-book for requirements for this (crit-style) event.

Y2+Y3: For the next Tech-tutorials (Mon 7 Feb), please bring in (on paper) your strategy (= outline / pragmatics / principles) for 1. structure, 2. materiality and 3. environmental considerations.

Tutorials in Semester 2

This semester Carsten and Colin will be conducting separate tutorials to give you all more time.
To assist with this we are going to pair you all up for the sessions - so that one can be the scribe for the other - meaning you can focus on the discussion in hand. This is a trial - and will probably evolve - and will hopefully mean there will be no excuses on what is expected for the following session.

As a consequence - each of you will only see Colin every TWO weeks - so it is essential you upload images to the blog to enable him to look at the work and pass comment to Carsten for your tutorial. The work doesn't have to be 'finished' as it can be removed later - but it is very important to UPLOAD. So don't forget and catch up with uploads No.2 + No.3

Field-trip: List of Buildings

LIEGE:
Liege-Guillemins railway station, Santiago Calatrava

ESSEN:
Zeche Zollverein (shaft XII), Fritz Schupp / Martin Kremmer
Masterplan Zeche Zollverein + Ruhr Museum, OMA
SANAA Building, SANAA
Palace of Projects, Ilya / Emilia Kabakov
Music Theatre, Alvar Aalto
St. Engelbert Church, Dominikus Böhm
Folkwang Museum, David Chipperfield

NEVIGES:
Mariendom Neviges, Gottfried Böhm

COLOGNE:
Cathedral (+ window by Gerhard Richter)
Museum for Applied Arts, Rudolf Schwarz
Romano-Germanic Museum, Klaus Renner / Heinz Röcke
Museum Ludwig, Peter Busmann / Godfrid Haberer
Cologne Central Mosque, Paul Böhm
Kolumba Museum, Peter Zumthor
Office Building G75, Schilling Architekten

DUISBURG:
Landscape Park Nord, 1999 Latz & Partners
MKM Museum Küppersmühle, Herzog & de Meuron

KREFELD:
Haus Lange & Haus Esters, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Sketch Model - 06

Claude Parent - Villa Oblique... 3d sketch model + 3d sketch visualisation
There is also an implicit understanding of his material palette through curvature... thickness...
INTERVIEW

Sketch Model - 05

3d modelling can be a framework - exploration of material etc - but it is supported with 2d and 3d testing...
Wes Jones LINK

Sketch Model - 04

from: vincentderijk
2009-01
O.M.A TPA model

Specific models for specific tasks... lighting.. views... windows... fragments...
Link

Sketch Model - 03

Shauna Jin - found this - a good example of assembling tonal but texturally different materials to configure layered and humane architectures...

link

Sketch Model - 02

The Merzbau, a series of rooms full of found items arranged by Kurt Schwitters.
An example of 1:1 partial making to experiment with the nature of space... this project was destroyed in the war and was reconstructed using only the photographs...

Sketch Model - 01

Artist Lynda Gammon produces work that evoke space. physicality. time. sequence.
She uses found materials to achieve a layered and multifaceted space...

A good example of sketch modelling intuitively about your own spaces ... following a route through the space etc.

LINK

RUDOLF CSI

Seasons Best to All

ARMOURED DWELLING

I'm sure most people have seen this but for those that haven't. Symbolic but defensive.

http://www.dezeen.com/2010/12/17/vostok-cabin-by-atelier-van-lieshout/#more-108389

Surveillance Blog

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