Studio 15

Excavating Utopia: Exhibition opens 14/6/2012

Post by Studio 15 originally posted 11 months ago.

The weird and wonderful world of DS 15 goes on show this Thursday June 14 as part of the Department of Architecture’s OPEN 2012 exhibition. See the strange story of the Genetically Modified Utopia built by bees; visit Surveillance City, where Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon explodes into the most elaborate car park ever seen, discover the strange excavations of a Mescaline-fuelled society, a monumental aqueduct for end-of-life inhabitants whose hotel becomes their monument, or France’s great new Anarchist Theme Park.  The project this year has been extending DS15′s interest in geometry and t...

INTERIM CRITS

Post by Studio 15 originally posted 8 days ago.

We are now in the run-up to the interim crits, where we are asking you to present your whole scheme, worked out in reasonable detail in sketch form.  That means we want to see the whole story of the project: plans, sections, models, at various scales from the detailed and occupied to the urban, with some fragments worked out in detail explaining the special ‘behaviour changing’ features of the scheme, and the ‘narrative’ fully described.   In particular, make sure you include; present, develop

1 Present the whole story of the project, from the behaviour change elements on.  You s...

ROME RETROFIT

Post by Studio 15 originally posted 3 months ago.

DESIGN.

Crits will be Monday 18th March.  You should all have the projects designed by then.

You should now be building up your ideas into a design proposal. Work at different scales and in different media andtest the various strands of your work against each other.  You are no longer designing one-off experiments, you are attempting to use those ideas to develop a design, and you need to test them by working them out.

Use plans, models, sections, sketches, details.  If you have a masterplan diagram that you like, look at it in section.  Think about how the progra...

3d Geometries

Post by Studio 15 originally posted 6 months ago.

The second stage of the project is to explore these geometries in three-dimensional form. Work speculatively but ambitiously in a range of different materials, using different techniques and developing a range of components. Try folding, cutting, casting, carving. Use easy materials like clay, paper of card to generate first ides, and select and refine those that seem to be working. Try simple forms, composing and recomposing them together. Try exploring the same compositions in different materials, at different scales, or inverting them (solid becomes void, heavy becomes light) etc. Ana...

Designing behaviour change/ components

Post by Studio 15 originally posted 6 months ago.

You should now use the different techniques you have been exploring – ALL of the forms of drawings, models etc., – to design three to five pieces of interior architecture/furniture / components that promote behaviour change in their users. 
This may be a direct translation of adaptation of your original examples – or new ones.
 You might explore different ways of working: for instance
– Re-drawing, amending and adapting your original behaviour change drawings to update, alter, rethink the situation,
– Developing a specific brief based on the discussion/ reading of...

Required reading

Post by Studio 15 originally posted 7 months ago.

Anyone wanting to read something about concepts of behaviour change — start here.
http://modulatingspace.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/figures-doors-and-passages.pdf

Project 3: 2d Geometries

Post by Studio 15 originally posted 7 months ago.

The project is to metries convert and combine simple 2-d geometries into complex 3-d forms. This week you’ll be doing the first stage: 2-d compositions. Combine two or more simple, platonic geometrical forms into 10 beautiful and elegant compositions, each on its own piece of paper. The diagram of the geometry of Borromini’s Sant’Ivo della Sapienza illustrated here is a good example of the kind of thing we are expecting – a complex form created using very simple shapes in a rigorous manner.
Each of the 10 should have different qualities suggesting stasis, movement, direction, fee...

Week two: expand/ one hundred lines

Post by Studio 15 originally posted 7 months ago.

This week you have two tasks:
1) Extend, adapt or redraw your three drawings to show the precise range of behaviour change your chosen elements generate and the social conditions they may relate to. For instance, if you were describing using a tin bath rather than a bathroom, you might need to draw bath, stove, screen (for heat and privacy) as well as the kitchen itself and its more familiar components – cooking pots, sides of bacon hanging up to smoke, the ‘copper’ that heated the water (sometimes a tank in the chimney) — etc etc. You need to be very well informed about your ch...

Week one: Research, drawing, presentation

Post by Studio 15 originally posted 7 months ago.

We want you to find three examples of historical, architectural scale furniture/components each; specifically designed for different types of social, personal communal behaviour than that which we would see as common now.
Look out specially for things like spaces within spaces, for large components designed to deal with problems to do with energy use (to heat, cool, light specific bits of rooms for specific purposes) and for things which set up social situations which may not be familiar to us or which we would not now think of as normal.
You may find examples of these with...

September 2012: Rome Retrofit/ Inside Out

Post by Studio 15 originally posted 8 months ago.

The weird and wonderful world of Studio Fifteen continues its adventures in the far outposts of the past and future of architectural thought, led by teacher and writer Kester Rattenbury and architect Sean Griffiths of FAT.
We’ll be taking the most extreme of contemporary and environmental agendas — behaviour change and retrofit — to new limits. (And when we say retrofit, we don’t mean insulating a house or living walls — we mean something like designing a housing scheme in the Colosseum). Last year, we explored new types of geometrical architectures to design masterplans for Utop...

Ex-DS15 workshop Friday 8th June

Post by Studio 15 originally posted about 1 year ago.

What’s Next? CAN Residency @ KK Outlet, Hoxton Sq. London
Workshop – Run by CAN (Mat Barnes/Eddie Blake) and Freddie Yauner with Rebecca Gregory and Emma Mcdowell
A day workshop about representing intangible economics in aesthetic form.
15 Students from a range of disciplines including architecture, visual communication, product design, fashion.
Friday 8th June 9:30am – 6pm
CAN (criticalarchitecturenetwork.com) and Freddie Yauner (freddieyauner.co.uk) invite students from a range of creative disciplines to take part in a day-long workshop tackling the task o...