Site workshop documentation

The documentation of the workshop can be downloaded from the dropbox (200 dpi scans) / folder 05_site workshop mnt pleasant

Mon 7 Nov

For Monday we would like to see your first idea of the "public platform" on the project site in form of a model - the application of your "syndicated material" to a larger scale and showing a response to the context. The working model will need to show some context - surrounding buildings of project site - to judge how your proposal works spatially. Scales depending on your size of intervention and model accuracy - 1:000 / 1:500 or even larger?

Mappings - further evolve, visualise and crystallise your particular / personal point of observation / view / interest - based on your "brick" principles and particularities you noticed across the site. You may also need to collate more qualitative info on potential users / groups / actors / institutions - that you are aiming to engage into dialogue / relationships through your proposal.

Mapping & data

Some mappings from the guardian data blog...

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Mail Rail

Some photos and observations of the decomissioned underground line here (please do not try this yourself)

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OxArch lecture Thu 3 - ERECT

We recommend this one to attend - keywords here are: materiality, architecture, public space, community, participation.

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Thu 3 - Tutorials + 14.00 Lecture on Public Space

see earlier post re visualisation of min. 5 mappings related to your personal interest.

Thu 3 Nov - Technology

Focus this week for technology:
Documentation of material qualities (incl horizontal surfaces) surrounding the project site at 1:1 scale: Surface, colour, texture, aesthetics, durability, impact, maintenance, cost, ownership, connotations, etc. (Visualise / map your initial observations)
Critically assess current environmental aspects incl. sustainability, performative efficiency, sourcing and opportunities for improvements?

Thu 3 Nov

Your presentations / observations from yesterday's workshop are uploaded to the dropbox.
See folder 05_site workshop mnt pleasant.
(I tried to scan your sheets but had some technical problems... I will provide you with propper scans at later stage, but for now that will do)

What we would like to see for Thurdsday, is that you take this to the next level   - as individuals -  and draw yesterday's mapping up using Illustrator. Reflect on all your work and interests so far, and choose a minimum of 5 topics / themes from the site workshop that you think are relevant & related to your personal lines of ongoing investigation / enquiry.

You can find the base-maps (illustrator files) of the various scales on the dropbox under 02_site information (study area 1-5000.ai / digimap-1-2500 study area / digimap-1-1000). Be clear about what scale you are drawing at - you can easily check by doing test prints at A3 size. 

Compositing Textures

Vigo Gallery
Leonardo Drew 12 October – 11 November 2011
22 Old Bond Street London W1S 4PY

Kevin Green - Place without Place

Kevin Green's first solo show, Place without Place, comprises 13 works on paper derived from the artist's fictional narratives, which he bases on found images and observed elements of the City. Enticing questions about the distinctions between presentation and representation, the real and the imagined, the ordinary and the extraordinary, these drawings are blueprints for proposed moments to be inserted back into urbanity.

22 October – 21 January 2011
BuildinG Centre

Mount Pleasant Site Workshop London

This group workshop with master students in architecture of Brandenburg University of Technology and unit A of Oxford Brookes University presents a unique opportunity for dialogue about reading and interpreting the city and its opportunities.

9.30 Arrival / hello + group allocation.

10.00 Introduction by Tim Rettler (Design for London)

10.30 -17.30 Workshop

Essential reading: Kevin Lynch, The image of the city

Equipment: Coloured marker pens, sketchbook, digital camera (incl. cable for uploads)

Address: Phoenix Conference Centre, Phoenix Place, WC1X 0DG
(next door to the British Postal Museum & Archive)


LINK TO MAP
LINK DfL (Design for London)
LINK BTU (Brandenburg University of Technology)

Vendôme

Vendôme by Reed Kram and Clemens Weisshaar is a family of concrete stools, pedestals and tables that have been designed by a computer programme.
The idea of VENDÔME is to parametrically generate a family of objects with different typologies including stools, pedestals and tables of different height. The design is developed within and documented by a piece of software that generates an infinite number of proposals within a defined framework while flexibly reacting to changing parameters (as e.g. the height, width or depth of the object).

DEZEEN

Thu 27 Oct Tutorials + Tech

Following on from Monday's pin-up here is an indicative outline what to get done by end of this week. project depending...

Finalise your brick drawing visualising all its qualities (geometric, spatial, material, etc. to appropriate scale and drawing conventions) Finalise your drawings  showing variations of bonds = the relationship + opportunity between individual modules.  Finalise your construction / assembly / components, 3d/ spatial visualisation (axo?).

-Finalise and clarify your drawing(s) showing the performance of your proposal (in use with its user & social side shown through a scenario)
- New: Produce a final close-up visualisation (collage, render or drawing) of one bond (arrangement) of of your choice. Front- on-view (elevation view) with spatial qualities (perspective?) / Scale 1:5. Minimum area covered A3 size.

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Indesign CS5 - help: As mentioned  - only for who needs help with this - I will do a quick run-through of the basic functions to get you going: tomorrow after tutorials from 17:00 in studio. (15 min.)

24 10 11 Pin-Ups

O.M.A. partners talk

Today's talk at the Barbican between the 6 partners of O.M.A. will be available via below's link soon. (note: the photograph is authentic!)

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