Can you play with local resources? Studio 3 in Liverpool
Don’t make too much architecture. Just look out and take what’s already there reconfigure it subtly - And call it architecture… Can you play with local resources? Studio 3 has just come back from a very engaged studio trip to Liverpool. This year, Undergraduate Studio 3 students with tutors Torange Khonsari and Sandra Denicke-Polcher have been proposing outdoor Event Spaces for the annual Music Festival – ‘Out of the Blue’ in Everton Park, Liverpool. The work has been supported by the Liverpool Biennial. This project has a …
Participatory design day
Report: Participatory design day at ASD, 18th October, 2010. Participatory design can be viewed as a process of design that actively involves all stakeholders to ensure that the space or product designed meets their needs. This approach is used in software design, urban design, architecture, landscape architecture, product design, sustainability, planning or even medicine as a way of creating designs or products that are more responsive and appropriate to their users' cultural and practical needs. In his essay, ‘The architecture of …
Austere and strangely beautiful. Unit 7 in Orford Ness, Suffolk
A report from Unit 7's field trip to Orford Ness, Suffolk, 19–22 October 2010 In 1993 the National Trust took over the management of Orford Ness, a wild and remote shingle spit off the coast of Suffolk and the site for our research this year. It consists of three rare natural habitats: grazing marshes, salt marshes and vegetated shingle spreading over 16km of the coast. The latter is the largest of its type in Europe and is rare because of its complex sequence of ridges and swales deposited over the centuries to form its profile. Access to much of …
Review: Exchange. Patrick Lynch and Camilo Rebelo
A review of Exchange, a talk by Patrick Lynch and Camilo Rebelo in the Forum, 10 March 2010 While London’s Gunners were beating the Portistas to a five-nil defeat up the road at Ashburton Grove, a rather more sedate and thankfully more reciprocal meeting between the two cities was being played out at Spring House. As part of Celebration Week, ASD tutor Patrick Lynch and FAUP tutor Camilo Rebelo took part in an event organized by MA&DE and moderated by MA&DE organiser and ASD Research Student Paulo Moreira. Presenting a selection of their …
V&A, RIBA & aberrant architecture ‘re-connect’ with students from LondonMet
On Tuesday 23 February 2010, a guest-list of creative professionals took part in ‘Office Futures’, a workshop put on by aberrant architecture and RIBA at the V&A Museum. The workshop was the second in a series of events called ‘V&A Connects’, a new interactive programme that invites design professionals and practitioners to discuss and debate the leading issues in creative industries, such as architecture, interior design, fashion and the media. Due to the success of the event, aberrant architecture, the V&A’s architecture …
There’s no place like home…
V&A Architecture Residents relocate Studio 10 to their new pad in South Ken. Studio 10 tutors, David Chambers and Kevin Haley of aberrant architecture, currently hold the Architecture Residency at the Victoria & Albert Museum, in London. Over the course of the V&A residency, aberrant architecture will be researching past and present flexible working practices for their project ‘This is a workplace too’. The project is already seeing them extract useful and enlightening historical precedents from the extensive V&A and RIBA …
Experiencing Flemish architecture
In November Studio 1 took the Eurostar across the channel to Belgium. We visited three cities during six days; Brussels, Antwerp and Ghent. During the time spent there we visited ten built projects and buildings in process to be constructed. The trip started off in the architecturally incoherent capital, yet cosmopolitan and home to the headquarters of European Union. The weather was unreliable and it was freezing cold as we walked the streets of Brussels. The highlight of Brussels was an organized viewing of Ernest Salu funerary Sculptor’s …
Ghost walking down the stairs
Diploma Unit 5 commended in Glasgow Competition To mark the 100th anniversary of the completion of the Mackintosh Building, the Glasgow School of Art held a celebratory international symposium from 15–18 December. The main event was a student charrette to design a new architecture department adjacent to the School of Art and opposite the new extension proposed by Steven Holl. Student teams were invited from Tokyo, Melbourne, Venice, Beijing, Delhi, Dublin, Barcelona, Copenhagen and London Metropolitan University Unit 5. Being the largest group, …
Re-establishing poetics in modern architecture. Anders Munck in the Forum
A review of Anders Munck's lecture in the Forum, Tuesday 24 November 2009 I have never been to Sigurd Lewerentz’s Saint Peter’s Church in Klippan, but from the images I have seen and the reports of those who have, it is placed very high up on my architectural wish list. Anders Munck’s talk about the church, last Tuesday evening at Spring House, only increased my enthusiasm for planning a journey to Sweden, as soon as possible. Anders Munck is an architect teaching at the Architecture School at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art in …
Patamatic cinema. Thomas Wiesner in the Forum
A review of Thomas Wiesner's lecture in the Forum, Tuesday 24 November 2009. The human eye features two types of photoreceptors: at the centre of the retina approximately 4.5 million ‘cone’ cells are concentrated, good at distinguishing detail and colour, while distributed away from the centre there are roughly 90 million ‘rod’ cells, which aren’t. The rod cells are great for distinguishing movement in low light and are used in peripheral vision, helping us to avoid sabre-toothed tigers in the night. Peripheral vision gives rise to an …
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