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Feedback from Kester
Post by Studio 15 originally posted 2 months ago.
Dear all,
Great to see the work developing so well at the crit. Everyone I saw seemed to have a potentially very interesting project. There were however some things I thought I should flag up at this very important stage in the work.
TIMING!!!
Basically, you’re now half way through the year — the next term shoots by, with a semester break in the middle and then you are into bank holidays and easter, with hand in immediately afterwards.
You wont believe how quickly this goes.
You need to change gear NOW and start working on the big, ambitious bits of the sche...
Brief 7 – MASTERPLAN
Post by Studio 15 originally posted 2 months ago.
DS 15 Brief 7 – Masterplan.
The next part of the project is to develop a masterplan for your Utopian community using the land adjacent to the Saline Royale as your site.
The site has been selected because of its Utopian credentials and its powerful geometrical properties. We want you to respond to these conditions, armed with the approaches to geometric composition and utopian ideas that you have developed thus far.
This means using the compositional techniques from earlier exercises to relate to the site and to integrate and further develop your schedule of accommodati...
Brief 6, Geometry at Work
Post by Studio 15 originally posted 2 months ago.
Brief 6 Geometry at work
Whilst at the Saline and Besancon, we would like you to understand and explore Ledoux’s use of geometry in the masterplan and buildings, through drawing. Using different types of drawing – plans, sections, elevations, also perspectives – it will be helpful to look at the geometry from the abstract through to the pragmatic.
How does it work?
What does it do?
What relation of scale of architecture to people?
The studies we are asking you to make will help you develop the use of geometry in your building proposals. Are the geometries h...
Brief 5 Monument & Schedule of Accommodation
Post by Studio 15 originally posted 3 months ago.
DS 15 Excavating Utopia, Brief 5
Part 1 – Utopia
You all need to think a little more about your Utopia. At base, a Utopia aims to make life better by addressing present day problems. What is the problem you are addressing? How does your Utopia attempt to address it?
How is your Utopia organized?
How does it operate economically?
What are its key ideologies?
What are its power structures?
As a result of thinking about these things, we want you to develop an outline programme for your
Utopia (imagine it is for 200-500 people)
What do pe...
Brief 4 Simple Geometries
Post by Studio 15 originally posted 3 months ago.
Take between one and three simple shapes (squares, rectangles, triangles, nothing too complicated please).
1. Make a series of studies of combinations of these shapes exploring intersections, adjacencies, superimpositions and juxtapositions in 2 dimensions. Please note, rather than patterns, we are looking for objects and constellations which exhibit conditions of stasis, dynamism, tension, compression, comfort, dislocation and disturbance. We are looking for these to be considered and controlled (no parametric extravaganzas please).
2. When you have a series of studies with...
Brief 3 – 3 dimensional geometries
Post by Studio 15 originally posted 4 months ago.
Take 2 of your best geometrical studies and develop them into 3 dimensional pieces/models (not CAD). Do not concern yourself as to what these models constitute in terms of scale or meaning at this time. Develop the kinds of qualities that are exhibited by your drawings three dimensionally. You may use any technique or material of your choice, however you may be aware that there are facilities for laser cutting, rapid prototyping and casting available in the workshop. You may choose to make by hand if you wish. Sean will be in the studio for tutorials on Thursday, work to be complete...
Brief 2 – Symbolic object: 5 Geometries
Post by Studio 15 originally posted 4 months ago.
To do this exercise, you will need to read the chapter on symmetries in George L. Hersey’s book Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the Baroque. This explains the many different types of symmetry which you will need to recognize and understand. These symmetries are the basis of all the geometrical work you will be doing this year. (so it is probably worth buying the book!)
Take a recognisable image/s or object/s subject it/them to all of these types of symmetry in order to generate patterns. Work first by applying each kind of symmetry to your object; then gradually experimen...
Brief 1 – 100 Utopias
Post by Studio 15 originally posted 4 months ago.
Working in 4 groups, we would like you to study the books listed below. (learning to skim read will help)
For Thursday afternoon of the 29th of September, in your groups, we would like you to invent and present 100 ideas for Utopias. These should be quick sketch annotated diagrams. These are one idea drawings. We suggest you take a format such as a postcard and work in your groups to develop your ideas. As individuals, pick your 3 favourite Utopias and work them up into more developed diagrams.
We will review the developed diagrams on Monday the 3rd of October.
Usi...
Riviera Hotel: Final Exhibition
Post by Studio 15 originally posted 7 months ago.
From 18.00 on Thursday 16th June 2011, Design Studio 15’s work will be on show as part of OPEN 2011, the Department of Architecture’s end-of-year show at the University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS.
This year’s work took a detour into the world on narratives in literature and film, starting by asking the students to explore the narrative structures and imagined spaces of books ranging from Against Nature and Naked Lunch to Mansfield Park. Further experimental work included a series of simple, precise geometrical studies as exercises in compositions; and con...
Brief 13: Run up to Interim Crit: Work needed
Post by Studio 15 originally posted 11 months ago.
ROCKET!
The clock is now ticking and you need to be aware of the pressure on timings for the rest of your project. The interim crit is in less than two weeks; the following week we will have our environmental workshop. The week after that will be the end of term. There are no tutorials over Easter, and then a Bank Holiday, so design teaching starts again on May 5, with Tech/Strat report hand-ins on 10 May and Final Crits on 19 May.
So you all have a huge amount of work to do to have a well-expressed and well developed design proposal for the Interim Crit. You need to absolu...