End of Year Exhibition

2012/13 Unit A agenda

drawing inspirations...

Some examples here: LINK

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.

Ecobuild 2013 - Plywood Prototypes

Arnold Laver Timber Merchants (our material sponsor) asked us to exhibit one of the eight 1:1 plywood prototypes we produced through means of digital fabrication at their stand at Ecobuild in London (5-7th March 2013)

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."

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

Mon 11 Feb 10.00am Lecture + Tutorials

10.00 am Lecture on circulation, staircases and ramps, 1:1 tutorials after...

Thu 7 Feb - 10.00 Spatial sequence workshop

We will run a full day workshop on Thursday. Start with briefing at 10.00. Please bring model-making material (cardboard / greyboard approx 1mm thick), and tools equipment (cutter, cutting matt, ruler, glue, etc....). Finish 18.00

Lecture is uploaded to dropbox

Thu 31 Jan - 9.30 Urban Charrette Workshop

We are doing a full day workshop with the 1:500 context model you are currently building. ( that needs to be finished by end of today)

We are starting at 9:30 am with the briefing for the day (due to Y3 forum 10-11)
Please be there 9:30 sharp.

Please bring:
model-making tools: cutter, glue, ruler, pens, etc...

material: Foam (any colour - what ever you find, can also be off-cuts, etc.), or large chunk of cheap white soap (£1 shop) which can be cut easily... or any other solid material you can work with using cutters (as workshop remains with no machines to cut timber)
Quantity: we aim at producing about 10 x 1:500 massing model of the building - so you can work it out roughly....

bring camera to record your designs. 

We will finish around 18:00

Mon 28 Jan - Mapping tutorials and pin-up

group tutorials in morning on your group site analysis and mapping, followed by afternoon of pin-up, concluding on general site observation. Please also have your original notes with you. don't forget the key photograph of your theme.

Preperational reading

Preperational reading for tomorrow's site visit:

Kevin Lynch - Image of the city LINK
Karen A Franck - Other Urban Public Spaces   LINK

Thu 24 Jan 10.00 Site Analysis Workshop - London

As previously announced we are doing a site analysis workshop in London this Thursday for Year 3 and Year 2 students. We have invited Anna Mansfield (publica) and Nick Green to give a talk in the morning about the area. Both are real specialists when it comes to Old street. This is not to be missed. We need full attendance.

We are meeting at my office at 10.00 - where our two guest lectures will give you a short overview of their understanding and reading of the Old street study area.

Address here:
zectorarchitects
The Print House
18 Ashwin Street
London E8 3DL

Please wait / gather at reception on groundfloor. (door to the right of Cafe Oto)
Closest tube / overground: Dalston Junction / Dalston Kingsland 

After this we will take the overground down to HOxton Old street for the on site part of the workshop.
Finish approx 18:00

Old Street Project Sites

field-trip guide

hello Y2s

I have uploaded and e-mailed you the Indesgin template for the field-trip guide / building documentation we have asked you to prepare. This should be quick excerise and should not take you longer than half day. Scarpa's work is well documented - use the library ! If you find lots of plans, sections and details (always incredible useful when on site) - make more pages, e.g. upt to 4 pages! (scale not important. scale bar would be great) if not one - two pages is minimum. 

Please e-mail use the pages or upload (as pdf and packaged CS5 file with all linked images) to the dropbox ( folder 06_field trip) by Friday 4th Jan 2013, so that I can collate this and print copies for each of you.

Alex & Ben - Palazzo Querini Stampalia
Darren - IUAV Entrance
Dylan & Jack - Castellvecchio Museum
Feng - Banca Populare, Verona
Harriet - Tomba Brion
Kilian  - Canova museum Gipsoteca
Kyungsoo - Olivetti showroom
Maxine - Biennale ticket booth

Have some great days off with friends and family!

Carsten + Emu

Thu 13 Dec 17.30 - Field-trip briefing + sem 2 project sites introduction

Just a note for your diary. After the reviews next Thursday 13 Dec, we will be brief you on our Veneto field-tip and also introduce you to the project sites for semester 2. Everybody to attend this.
(if you have paid for your field-trip already - great!, if not - do it now here).

Unit A social afterwards - white horse?