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Ex-DS15 workshop Friday 8th June

Post by Studio 15 originally posted 3 days 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...

Over Easter

Post by Studio 15 originally posted about 1 month ago.

 
You (should!) all by now have strong projects with a well developed idea of your architectural language, and of and how it interacts with the programme — with the way your Utopia works. 
 
You need now to move to a bigger scale to start developing and producing the final design proposals. 
 
KEEP UPDATING and developing the masterplan as you go along.  
 
You should KEEP WORKING on the range of work you have used so far, including plans, sections, models, scenographic models, sketches, perspectival views. 
 
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You sh...

Scenographic model

Post by Studio 15 originally posted 2 months ago.

For the crits, everyone should make one new ambitious/spectacular model, setting the scene for your utopia.
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The model should be seen as a scenographic model, using 2d as well as 3d representational techniques – like a stage set or a model for a stage set, which uses 3d sets as well as 2d images and trompe l’oeil to suggest objects further away.
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Your model should show urban space, architectural language, material, use, occupation, views.
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It should use the types of techniques you have used in your earlier models (both simple and complex geometries ...

Next week/Models/…and up to the crit

Post by Studio 15 originally posted 2 months ago.

Monday  27th February: Models workshop
On Monday, everyone should be in for an all-day workshop session with Kester.
You should all bring with you AT LEAST FIVE models exploring your design project.
As discussed, these should explore your proposals at different scales, using different model making techniques, should include and adapt some of the speculative model making techniques of your earlier work but extend it to include occupation, materiality, structure, geometrical configuration, etc etc.
At least one should include a model of the Saline. At least one shou...

Zoom in, Build up, Test out

Post by Studio 15 originally posted 3 months ago.

Everyone should now be exploring their masterplans in different ways, at different scales, and in different media.  Select some of the key parts of your project and zoom in, designing, developing and continuing to experiment with the forms, materials, spaces and with the way the buildings are organised and work.  Who lives where? what are the flats like, or houses?  how are they made? How do they work?  How to they relate to the buildings around them?

Constantly test your ideas by working in new media and at different scales.  Sketch your way through your project, imagining how p...

Feedback from Kester

Post by Studio 15 originally posted 5 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 5 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 6 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 6 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 7 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...