In the last several years, a crisis of capitalist development has redefined our understanding of cities in terms of international policy making, political constituencies and individual and collective political expressions in the urban realm. Inter Unit 8 has been experimenting with possible new scenarios for this political readjustment at a global scale, departing from its most basic expressions in the city. As a result, students have constructed innovative political arguments by experimenting with the relationship between everyday material activities–such as waiting for a bus, dancing, chatting in the streets, or wheeling and dealing in the city squares–and a particular material organization. In these common everyday practices, students have found the materials from which to reconstruct the political experience in the city. Manifested in public and constructed as a physical material expression, these everyday practices acquire a political value — understanding the political as what Hannah Arendt described as action in public — and redefine new models of the interaction between the individual and the collective in the public arena.

1.7.10

Intermediate Unit 8 Selection of Final Portfolios

(c) Stavros Papavassiliou

Congratulations to all Intermediate Unit 8 Students for their amazing portfolios.

Atta, Gary, Karl, Kayvan, Lyza, Maud, Max, Merve, Olivia, Stavros, Uliana and Yong

Our best wishes to Costa Rivetti.

21.6.10

External Examinors RIBA

Congratulations to all 3rd year students!
Elisabeth Adams and Neil Thomas reviewed the work of all our 3rd year students.

Atta Yousefi Presentation
(C) Valerie Bennett

Max Hacke pinning up his drawings

Karl Karam prepare for his presentation

17.6.10

Exhibition Schedule


Please be time to do your asigned work.

14.6.10

Exhibition Images




(C) Valerie Bennett

Thank you very much Valerie!

13.6.10

Congratulations

Congratulations to all 2nd year!You did a great job the whole year. Best whishes in your future careers.

Francisco+Nuria

Exhibition meeting

Nest Wednesday 16th of June we will meet in Inter Unit 8 space to talk about exhibition. lease bring your portfolios in aUSB to decide what pictures will be on the wall.

9.6.10

Intermediate (Part 1) Final Check

Monday 14th June 2010
Lecture Hall AM
Table 4
Inter 8

10:00 Uliana Apatina
10:30 Gary Dupont
11:00 Max Hacke
11:30 Karl Karam

Tuesday 15th June 2010
Lecture Hall AM
Table 3
Inter 8

10:00 Yong Taek Kwon
10:30 Maud Sanciaume
11:00 Kayvan Sarvi
11:30 Amir Yousefi

It is extremly important to be on time for your review.

5.6.10

Last tutorials before 3rd year tables

Tuesday
10.00 Karl
10.30 Yong
11.00 Uliana
11.30 Atta
12.00 Max
12.30 Kayvan

Thursday
10.00 Gary
10.30 Karl
11.00 Uliana
11.30 Atta
12.00 Yong
12.30 Max

2.00 Kayvan
2.30 Maud

31.5.10

Exhibition: Havana The death body of Paradise

Intermediate Unit 8 Exhibition in the Architectural Association
From 3rd to 18th June 2010













Thanks to all students for their work and involvenement in this exhibition.

29.5.10

2nd Year Final Tables

Monday 7th of June
Lecture Hall AA

09:30 Merve Anil
10:00 Stavros Papavassiliou
10:30 Ielyzaveta Rudyk
11:00 Olivia Wright
11:30 Costa Rivetti

Please be on time for you review

Tutorials

Moonday 31st May
3.00 Olivia
3.30 Yong

Thursday 3rd June
1.30 Maud
2.00 Karl
3.00 Stavros
3.30 Merve
4.00 Olivia
4.30 Lyza

5.00 Exhibition Opens

Friday 4th June
12.00 Gary
12.40 Uliana
3.00 Atta
3.40 Max
4.20 Kayvan

26.5.10

Tutorials

ext tutorials will be divided between Thursday afternoon, Friday afternoon and Saturday morning.

Friday 27th May
2.30 Stavros
3.00 Merve
3.30 Max
4.00 Uliana
4.30 Gary
5.00 Kayvan
5.30 Maud

Saturday 28th May
11.00 Karl
11.30 Lyza
12.00 Atta

25.5.10

TS3 Final Jury

Technical Studies Final Jury will be the next Thursday 27th May from 10am to 2pm in 38 Bedford Square Building , Ground Floor Room G.02. Please be on time.

21.5.10

After Final Jury tutorials

Nest tutorials in Inter Unit 8 Space
Saturday 22nd May
10.00 Karl
11.00 Maud
11.30 Yong
12.00 Uliana
12.30 Atta

Monday
10.00 Olivia
10.30 Gary
11.00 Stavros
11.30 Max
12.00 Lyza
12.30 Kayvan
2.00 Merve

18.5.10

3rd Term Final Jury

Inter Unit 8 3rd Term Final Jury will be held in 38 Bedford Square Room G01 (Ground floor front room) in two sessions –10am-1pm and 2pm-6pm. Jury critics will be Edgar Gonzalez (Brisac & Gonzalez Architects), Ludovico Lombardi (Zaha Hadid/Bartlett Urban Design Master Tutor), Nathalie Rozencwaig, Michel Da Costa Goncalves (Inter Unit 5), Marco Poletto (Inter Unit 10), Lucy Bullivant (Communicating Architecture), Evan Greenberg (AA EmTech Master Tutor), Alberto Sabater Alloza (IDOM), Mark Campbell (Inter Unit 1) and Mauricio Puentes (Universidad de Valparaiso).


Thanks to all guest critics, students and staff

14.5.10

Pre-Jury Pin up

Next Monday 17th of May we will have a pre-jury Pin-up in Open Room 3. Please bring your argument, research, drawings, images and models. If you have images in your computer we can project them on the plasma screen.

Morning -2nd year session (Pin-up)
Afternoon- 3rd year session (Round table)

Gary Dupont



Uliana Apatina

8.5.10

Next Week Tutorials

2nd year tutorials on Monday 10th May Inter Unit 8 space

3.00pm Liza
3.30 Merve
4.00 Olivia
4.30 Stavros

Tutorials on Wednesday 12th May Inter Unit 8 space

3.30 Kayvan
4.00 Yong
4.30 Karl
5.30 Olivia
6.00 Liza

5.5.10

TS3 Interim Jury

Technical Studies 3rd year will be next Monday 10th of May from 10.00 am to 2pm in 38 Bedford Square, Groung Floor Room G.02. please be on time, since it is a very important meeting.


Uliana Apatina

Maud Sanciaume

Atta Yousefi

2.5.10

External Technical Tutorials

Next Thursday and Friday we will have an external tutor to help you with your structure solutions. The meeting will be in inter Unit 8 space in the following order.

Thursday 6th May
10.00 Max
10.40 Karl
11.20 Gary
12.00 Uliana

2.00 Atta
2.40 Yong
3.20 Maud
4.00 Kayvan
4.40 Olivia

Friday 7th May
10.30 Stavros
11.00 Merve
11.30 Liza

1.5.10

Tutorials

Next Monday 3rd of May (Bank Holiday) we will have tutorials outside AA in Myhotel , close to AA, in the following order.
10.00 Karl
10.30 Yong
11.00 Liza
11.30 Olivia
12.00 Merve
12.30 Maud
13.00 Atta
13.30 Stavros
14.00 Gary
14.30 Max

23.4.10

Tutorials

Tutorials of your skin solutions and advances in your portfolio will be on Thursday 29th of April in Inter Unit 8 Space, Bedford Square Building.

Thursday 29th
3rd year students
10.00 Uliana
10.30 Gary
11.00 Max
11.30 Karl
12.00 Yong
12.30 Maud
1.00 Kayvan
2.00 Atta

2.30 Session about unit portfolios
Please bring your portfolios with you
2nd year students
3.00 Lyza
3.30 Merve
4.00 Olivia
4.30Stavros

22.4.10

Previews

Lecture Hall
Tuesday 27th Morning Table 5
10.00 Uliana
10.30 Gary
11.00 Max
11.30 Karl

Wednesday 28th Morning Table 2
10.00 Yong
10.30 Maud
11.00 Kayvan
11.30 Atta

Tutorials before Pre-views

Sunday 25th April
5.30 Max

Monday 26th
11.30 Karl
12.00 Costa
12.30 Yong
1.00 Kayvan
1.30 Merve (?)

19.3.10

Review Portfolios 3rd Term

After the break we will have a review of your portfolios the 22th and 23rd of April in Inter Unit 8 space. You should bring a printed version of your portfolio and the models you have done. The order will be as follows,

22th April
3rd year students
11-1.30pm and 2.30pm-4pm
11.00 Gary
11.30 Karl
12.00 Max
12.30 Uliana
1.00 Atta

2.00 Maud
2.30 Yong
3.00 Kayvan

23rd April
2nd year students
11 am-2 pm
11.00 Costa
11.30 Stavros
12.00 Olivia
12.30 Merve
1.00 Lyza

15.3.10

2nd Term Final Jury

Inter Unit 8 2st Term Final Jury will be held in 39 Bedfored Square – 1st floor Reading Room in two sessions –10am-1pm and 2pm-6pm. Jury critics will be Jeroen van Ameijde (DRL tutor & Head of Digital Prototyping in AA), Claudia Pasquero (AA Inter Unit 10), Charles Tashima ( AA Academic Head), Melissa Woolford (Director of Nous Gallery), Miraj Ahmed (AA Inter Unit 13), Stefano Rabolli and Goswin Schwendinger (Inter Unit 5) and Tomaz Pipan (Unit tutor in London Metropolitan University).

14.3.10

STAVROS

QUESTIONING SKINS
Dialog


13.3.10

OLIVIA

QUESTIONING SKINS
Ambiguity

LYZA

QUESTIONING SKINS
Sharing

ULIANA

QUESTIONING SKINS
Revolutionized Freedom

GARY

QUESTIONING SKINS
Exchange

MAX

QUESTIONING SKINS
Correspondence

MAUD

QUESTIONING SKINS
Control/Communication

MERVE

QUESTIONING SKINS
Interference

ATTA

QUESTIONING SKINS
Pragmatism

YONG

QUESTIONING SKINS
In-between

KAYVAN

QUESTIONING SKINS
Panopticon

12.3.10

Tutorials next Tuesday 16th March

Next Monday 15th of March we will have tutorials with some of you before the Final Jury. They will be in Intermediate Unit 8 space.
2.30 Karl
3.00 Costa
3.30 Yong
4.00 Liza
4.30 Merve (??)

6.3.10

Pin-up W8

Last Pin-up before Final Jury will be on Friday 12th March in Open Room 3 from 10am to 7pm.

Tutorials W8

Next week tutorials and Pinup

Monday 8th March
11.00 Maud
11.30 Atta
12.00 Kayva

Tuesday 9th March
10.00-12.30 2nd year Open Room 3
Stavros-Merve-Olivia-Liza-Costa

3rd year Intermediate Unit 8 Space
2.00 Max
2.30 Yong
3.00 Uliana
3.30 Atta
4.00 Karl
4.30 Gary

5.3.10

Brief 05 W2

W8 Fabrication
08-12 Mar

Readings
Branko Koralevic & Kevin Klinger, Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in
Architecture, Routelidge, 2008.
Jennifer Hudson, Process: 50 Product Designs from Concept to Manufacture, Lawrence King, London, 2008

27.2.10

Tutorials W6 + Grasshopper

Next week tutorials will be as follows,

Monday 1st March
11.00Yong
11.30 Maud

Tuesday 2nd March
8.45am-9.45 Grasshopper tutorials
2nd Year-Table review Open Room 3
10.30am -1.00pm Merve-Lyza-Olivia-Stavros-Costa

3rdYear-Tutorials Inter Unit 8 Space
2.00 Atta
2.30 Kayvan
3.00 Gary
3.30 Uliana
4.00 Karl
4.30 Max

Thursday 4th March
Concept review-Inter Unit 8 Space
3.00 Costa
3.30 Maud
4.00 Atta

Friday 5th March
8.45am-9.45 Grasshopper tutorials
10.30 Merve
11.00 Lyza
11.30 Olivia
12.00 Uliana
2.30 Gary
3.00 Yong
3.30 Karl
4.00 Kayvan

26.2.10

Brief 05 W1

W7 Materiality
01-05 Mar

Throughout this phase, concepts will acquire more accurate material expressions. Students will work with models and material structures for their explorations in relation to their Technical Studies work.

Seminar by Mehran Gharleghi and Amin Sadeghy. 26 Feb

Readings
Farshid Mousavi and Michael Kubo, The Function of Ornament, Barcelona: Actar, 2008.
Brooke Hodge, Patricia Mears and Susan Sidlauskas (eds.): Skin+Bones, Thames & Hudson, 2006.
Surface Consciousness, AD Magazine, Academy Press, 2003

Brief 05

SKIN MATERIALITY

The second half of the term will explore skins’ specific material dimension. This material exploration will rely largely upon physical models, although 2D and 3D construction drawings will also be required and completed during the next term.
(4 weeks)

Seminar - Materiality

Next Friday 27th of February there will be a seminar on materiality in open Room 3 at 3pm. see you there.

Studio Integrate
www.studiointegrate.com

Mehran Gharleghi,BArch MArch (The Architectural Association)Mehran Gharleghi received his Master of Architecture from the Emergent Technologies and Design Master Programme at the Architectural Association. He is an architect and researcher. He has been collaborating with prominent architects in Iran since 2002 and recently collaborated with Plasma Studio and Fosters and partners in London. He has been jury member in Diploma unit 10, intermediate unit 7&8 since 2008. He lectured at the Smart Geometry09, AA Fab Research Cluster Symposium and ACADIA 2009.

Mehran Gharleghi has been interviewed in the book entitled ‘Conversation With the Young Architect' in which he seeks the current role of young architect through a conversation with award winnig architect Nasrine Faghih. Mehran Gharleghi and Amin Sadeghy exhibited their ‘Responsive Pneumatic Systems' research at London's Design Festival 2009. Amin Sadeghy BArch MSc (The Architectural Association)Amin Sadeghy received his Master of Science from the Emergent Technologies and Design Master Programme at the Architectural Association. He is an architect and researcher. He has been collaborating with prominent architects in Iran since 2002 and collaborated with Fosters and Partners in London. He lectured at AA Fab Research Cluster Symposium 2009. He has been jury member in intermediate unit 8 since 2008. He lectured at the AA Fab Research Cluster Symposium. Mehran Gharleghi and Amin Sadeghy recently exhibited their ‘Responsive Pneumatic Systems' research at London's Design Festival 2009.

21.2.10

GARY Dupont

QUESTIONING SKINS

EXCHANGE


Team
Gary DUPONT
Laura CAMBRA RUFINO
Beatriz DEL CATILLO DE LA FUENTE
Tania GARCÍA-ALBERTOS FARIÑA
Cristian GARCÍA-PARRADO SÁNCHEZ-CORTÉS
Design and research work of Intermediate Unit 8 Architectural Association School of Architecture London UK