Studio 15

DS15 Exhibition Credits, 2010

Post by Studio 15 originally posted 2 months ago.

EXHIBITION MANAGERS:
Sian Thomas, George Vizor, Olly Westgarth
CONSTRUCTION DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT: Olly Westgarth.
CONSTRUCTION TEAM: Olly Westgarth, Adam Carter, Alex Reeves, Matt Barnes, Daniel Rodea Ryan
FINANCE: Sian Thomas
LAYOUT AND CURATORIAL MANAGEMENT: Sian Thomas, George Vizor.
PAINT TEAM: Ellie Campbell, Alexandra Joseph, Martyna Tokarczyk, Alex Reeves, Vicky Jiang, Grace Cooper.
WRAPPING: Emma Brown, Adam Carter.
RIPPED POSTER WALL DESIGN AND CURATION: Ed Blake.
PRINT TEAM: Alex Reeves, Martyna Tokarczyk, Preet Panesar.

Exhibition Opens

Post by Studio 15 originally posted 2 months ago.

Ostalgia: Museum of the DDR, Palastplatz, Berlin
The spectacular, challenging, witty and serious work of Design Studio 15, can be seen in the University of Westminster?s end-of-year architecture show, Open. The show exhibits their designs for a major new museum on Berlin?s Museum Island, to celebrate, explore, challenge or reconsider the history of the East German Democratic Republic, twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The exhibition features the explorations of the group of first and second year Diploma students in DS15, as they worked to consider the museum as ...

Project ‘presentation storyboard/drawing programme’ Monday 19th April

Post by Studio 15 originally posted 4 months ago.

This Monday we want to help you plan out your time on the rest of the projects and decide what drawings, models etc you will need; and which will require the most time.

Can you please put together and print a story board sheet (A3
smallest) of the work you will present at your final crit.  We would
like you to base the presentation on the area you had for your last
crit – but expand it to show your ideal view of your final in-up.

Can you work out which key drawings you have complete from the
last term that you will need to show and drawings that yo...

Crits: Feedback

Post by Studio 15 originally posted 5 months ago.

Thanks for presenting your work — excellent and enjoyable crits, with lots of interesting work, and very nice comments from external critics.  Sean in particular (!) said it was all looking very promising. And special congratulations to everyone for getting 1:200s out in a week.

Everyone: upload stuff on the site. Now.

You’ll have had feedback sheets, but here is some general advice.
1) Think about, work out and design, the CIRCULATION of your building.  The difference between building where you – say – go up a big flight of steps into a central entrance, then throu...

CRITS Plans and Sections

Post by Studio 15 originally posted 5 months ago.

For the crit, everyone should have their project drawn up, plans and sections, at 1:200.  These drawings should ALL show CONTEXT and EXHIBITS drawn to scale The Sections should cut through both entrance and exit, so showing how visitors will enter/leave the building and should show what materials/construction you are thinking of using.  The Plans must show how visitors circulate through the museum and must include your full programme eg store, offices, restoration workshops, education areas, auditorium, temporary gallery, permanent collection, shop, loos, cloakrooms, ticket office etc et...

11: Exhibition pitch.

Post by Studio 15 originally posted 5 months ago.

STOP PRESS: We’re not going to talk to anyone who doesnt port their work on the blog.  So far that means that only Manish is due a tutorial!
You are now on the run-up to the interim crit, as which point we want to see a complete project proposal under way.  Of course, the work will be uneven — some will be more finished and developed and some will still be in outline form — but we will expect to see plans, sections, models, interior views, axonometrics showing form, materials, circulation, spaces, construction — and exhibits.  In fact, the whole ‘concept’ and the way in which the b...

Project 2.3: models, drawings, pictures

Post by Studio 15 originally posted 6 months ago.

For next Monday there are three tasks:
1) Finish your models.  Make sure they are beautiful and complete and that they describe the fragments you are imagining as part of a building – with a structure and materials –a museum – with exhibits and a strong idea about how those exhibits are displayed as part of  — on that particular site.
Would the viewer know that these were part of a museum of the DDR in Berlin?  If not, you have not finished your models!
2) Finish your drawings and refine how they are laid out. Simple, direct skecthes is generally the best way to approac...

Semester 2, project two: One hundred parts of your museum.

Post by Studio 15 originally posted 6 months ago.

Everyone needs to complete, and continur to develop your models.  Work outwards from the pieces you have made.  How are they made, how do they work structurally, how do they join together.  If you have made a wall, think of the structure the openings, the signs, the spaces, the structure which interact with it. Almost no one has shown the exhibits in the building.  From now on we will not look at work which doesn’t show your museum’s exhibits as an integrat part of your design.
This week:
This week we are asking you to do 100 drawings of your museum.  You have a huge range of...

Semester two project one: More models

Post by Studio 15 originally posted 6 months ago.

For next Monday, you should make (at least)three models of parts of your project.
* One should be at the scale of the whole building and be shown on site. (however roughly)
* One should be at the scale of an exhibit and/or structural element; ie it should explore how one exhibit relates to the space in which it is shown
* One should be a component — eg a bit of tiling, wall, structure etc.
These models should be the same sort of thing as the better examples of earlier models.  The should follow up on techniques and ideas of earlier stages of work: the patterns, th...

Programme/ next semester

Post by Studio 15 originally posted 7 months ago.

Your sketch design as shown in your portfolio should by now be fairly well advanced.  You should be able to incorporate aspects of all of the work you have done so far and develop AT LEAST an outline plan and section, parts of elevation/ views; circulation strategy; display strategy.  This is NOT a different stage of work, it is the ongoing development of work you have been doing all year; from your 100 objects, your 100 museums, your reflection machines, your building fragments, your models, your site studies, your site strategies, your ideas on how to display materials.  EVERYONE has r...

Portfolios

Post by Studio 15 originally posted 7 months ago.

At the same time as working to develop your projects, you should all be thinking about how to put your work together in the portfolio, and from next Monday on we want to see your work in portfolio form.
Start thinking about how you put your work together in such a way that it tells the story of your project clearly and shows off your work to best advantage.  Simple formats which are easy for the viewer to read are almost always the best; we should be more interested in the work than the way it’s packaged.  But it takes time to make sure you have included all the right work, printed...