Next week we will divide Tutorials+Pin-up as follows,
Wednesday 24th February
2.00-5.00pm Tutorials (Round Table) 2nd Year
Inter Unit 8 Space Morwell
5.00pm Gary
5.30pm Atta
6.00pm Karl
Friday 26th February
Tutorials (Round Table) 3rd year
Open Room 3
2.00 pm Uliana
2.30 pm Max
3.00 pm Kayvan
3.30 pm Maud
4.00pm Yong
Bring your schematic skin designs and sketches of your material solutions.
5.00pm Seminar for all students in Open Room 3
19.2.10
Brief 04 W5
W5 Interaction/Participation
22-26 Feb
The ability of skins to work as interfaces that can draw upon individual participation is a recurrent interest in contemporary society. Students will explore this dimension in their designs through performative diagrams.
Readings
Bruno Latour, Making the things Public, Atmospheres of Democracy, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Markus Miessen and Shumon Basar (eds), Did Someone Say Participate? An Atlas of Spatial Practice, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Bullivant, Lucy (ed.), 4dsocial: Interactive Design Environments, AD Magazine, Academy Press, 2007.
References
Rafael Lozano, Body Movies, Rotterdam, 2001.
BIX, installation in the Kunsthaus , Graz, 2003.
22-26 Feb
The ability of skins to work as interfaces that can draw upon individual participation is a recurrent interest in contemporary society. Students will explore this dimension in their designs through performative diagrams.
Readings
Bruno Latour, Making the things Public, Atmospheres of Democracy, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Markus Miessen and Shumon Basar (eds), Did Someone Say Participate? An Atlas of Spatial Practice, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Bullivant, Lucy (ed.), 4dsocial: Interactive Design Environments, AD Magazine, Academy Press, 2007.
References
Rafael Lozano, Body Movies, Rotterdam, 2001.
BIX, installation in the Kunsthaus , Graz, 2003.
18.2.10
MADRID WORKSHOP
Inter Unit 8 will be in ETSA Madrid , Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, from the 15th to the 19th of February. There we will be working with Madrilean students and tutors.
Sunday 14th
11.00 am
Atocha Train Station
Main Entrance
(Tube station: Atocha Renfe)
11.00 am
Atocha Train Station
Main Entrance
(Tube station: Atocha Renfe)
Monday 15th
12 am
ETSAMadrid
Avenida Juan de Herrera, 4
12 am
ETSAMadrid
Avenida Juan de Herrera, 4
Main Entrance
(Tube station: Ciudad Universitaria)
Tuesday 16th
09.30 am
Tuñon & Mansilla Office
Tuñon & Mansilla Office
(Tube station: Cuatro Caminos)
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
10.00 am
10.00 am
ETSAMadrid
Avenida Juan de Herrera, 4
Avenida Juan de Herrera, 4
Thursday 18th
5.00pm
Visit to Rafael Moneo Office
Meeting point XS7 ETSAMadrid @4.15pm
Friday 19th
3pm Final Presentation
Aula Magna ETSAMadrid
12.2.10
Brief 04 W4
W11 WORKSHOP AT THE ETSAM, MADRID.
15-19 February
This one-week workshop with the GEP Unit (Andres Perea, Paula Montoya, Izaskun Chinchilla, and Jose Luis Vallejo—Ecosistema Urbano) at the ETSA Madrid will explore democracy in current societies through individual spatial experimentation.
augmentedbook
AA-ETSAM workshop
Madrid feb-2010
Foreword
Architects are failed readers. We are trained to browse on books to extract the
maximum information out of images, charts, tables and legal manuals. The missing text
linking one piece of info to another is replaced by creativity.
But architects also live among books. They are companions and instruments for our
creative work as well as objects of desire for potential knowledge.
This AA-ETSAM one-week workshop in Madrid presents a challenging opportunity for a
collaborative design studio around books --reconsidering contents, contexts and
containers.
By infiltration methods, students are expected to develop consistent experimentations
on design procedures manipulating previous existing materials, binding and unbinding,
infiltrating and relocating information.
Chapter one: the aim of the workshop
The raw materials are 13 booklets produced by inter unit 8 students at the AA. These
booklets are dealing with designs for politically involved scenarios. Collaborative group
of students will transform these booklets through a series of particular operations whose
aim is to imprint and feed with information the initial document.
The title of the workshop refers to the paradox of books as self-contained but extensive
systems. From a concise and coherent piece, the book unfolds as a major expression of
collaborative connections. Architects become editors who convert a book into a pod in
which to cultivate information.
As a local tribute to James Joyce’s procedures, the only condition of this transformation
is not deleting anything and increasing the contents (minimum x2) inserting texts,
images, drawings, instructions, prototypes etc…
Measuring unit will be bytes.
Following those constraints the aim of this workshop is to change the nature of the
book augmenting its attributes and transforming them into something different by
modifying some of the following aspects:
Type of book 1
o Physical aspect
o Contents
o Order of the contents (chapters)
o Reading sequence
o Beginning and ending
Note 1
Taxonomy of books (relating themes and containers)
Fiction
Scientific books
Pop-up books
Illustrated albums
Atlas
User’s manuals
Graphic novels
Object- books
Music scores
Travel guides
Cooking books
Recorded books
Chapter two: operating manual for transformations
Students will select concepts and architectural evidences in the AA material liable to be
transformed or further developed. Amongst other possible operations we propose (not
to be taken literally):
Apply new patterns to be used over the existing projects
Transform what is extensive into intensive
Propose a reversible version of the scheme
Extract one or several pieces proven as inefficient and insert a replacement
Swift form mundane to extraordinary
Map the budget inside the proposal
Trace maps to link several projects
Increase the graphic material to describe a scheme
Increase the conceptual material of a project with examples.
Change the working context of a programme
Reduce carbon dioxide emissions of whatever contained in the book
Transformation of the object-book
Increase in four degrees the “working temperature” of the book
Merge books together to change the scale of the proposals
Define grammar to be applied to book contents
15-19 February
This one-week workshop with the GEP Unit (Andres Perea, Paula Montoya, Izaskun Chinchilla, and Jose Luis Vallejo—Ecosistema Urbano) at the ETSA Madrid will explore democracy in current societies through individual spatial experimentation.
augmentedbook
AA-ETSAM workshop
Madrid feb-2010
Foreword
Architects are failed readers. We are trained to browse on books to extract the
maximum information out of images, charts, tables and legal manuals. The missing text
linking one piece of info to another is replaced by creativity.
But architects also live among books. They are companions and instruments for our
creative work as well as objects of desire for potential knowledge.
This AA-ETSAM one-week workshop in Madrid presents a challenging opportunity for a
collaborative design studio around books --reconsidering contents, contexts and
containers.
By infiltration methods, students are expected to develop consistent experimentations
on design procedures manipulating previous existing materials, binding and unbinding,
infiltrating and relocating information.
Chapter one: the aim of the workshop
The raw materials are 13 booklets produced by inter unit 8 students at the AA. These
booklets are dealing with designs for politically involved scenarios. Collaborative group
of students will transform these booklets through a series of particular operations whose
aim is to imprint and feed with information the initial document.
The title of the workshop refers to the paradox of books as self-contained but extensive
systems. From a concise and coherent piece, the book unfolds as a major expression of
collaborative connections. Architects become editors who convert a book into a pod in
which to cultivate information.
As a local tribute to James Joyce’s procedures, the only condition of this transformation
is not deleting anything and increasing the contents (minimum x2) inserting texts,
images, drawings, instructions, prototypes etc…
Measuring unit will be bytes.
Following those constraints the aim of this workshop is to change the nature of the
book augmenting its attributes and transforming them into something different by
modifying some of the following aspects:
Type of book 1
o Physical aspect
o Contents
o Order of the contents (chapters)
o Reading sequence
o Beginning and ending
Note 1
Taxonomy of books (relating themes and containers)
Fiction
Scientific books
Pop-up books
Illustrated albums
Atlas
User’s manuals
Graphic novels
Object- books
Music scores
Travel guides
Cooking books
Recorded books
Chapter two: operating manual for transformations
Students will select concepts and architectural evidences in the AA material liable to be
transformed or further developed. Amongst other possible operations we propose (not
to be taken literally):
Apply new patterns to be used over the existing projects
Transform what is extensive into intensive
Propose a reversible version of the scheme
Extract one or several pieces proven as inefficient and insert a replacement
Swift form mundane to extraordinary
Map the budget inside the proposal
Trace maps to link several projects
Increase the graphic material to describe a scheme
Increase the conceptual material of a project with examples.
Change the working context of a programme
Reduce carbon dioxide emissions of whatever contained in the book
Transformation of the object-book
Increase in four degrees the “working temperature” of the book
Merge books together to change the scale of the proposals
Define grammar to be applied to book contents
8.2.10
III Research Seminar on Urbanism
Next Monday 8th of February tutor Nuria Alvarez Lombardero will be lecturing in UPC Barcelona her Phd Research work. "Breaking the Boundaries of Modern Urban Planning."
7.2.10
Pin-up W3
Before leaving to Spain we will have a pin-up on Friday 12th Feb in Open Room 3 from 10am to 7pm. Bring a selection of your work till date and the lastest drawings.
6.2.10
Tutorials W3
Tutorials will be in Inter Unit 8 space as follows,
Tuesday 9th of February
10.00 Costa
10.30 Uliana
11.30 Atta
12.00 Stavros
2.00 Karl
2.30 Kayvan
3.00 Maud
3.30 Max
Wednesday 10th of February
10.00 Yong
10.30 Gary
1.00 Merve
1.30 Olivia
2.00 Liza
Tuesday 9th of February
10.00 Costa
10.30 Uliana
11.30 Atta
12.00 Stavros
2.00 Karl
2.30 Kayvan
3.00 Maud
3.30 Max
Wednesday 10th of February
10.00 Yong
10.30 Gary
1.00 Merve
1.30 Olivia
2.00 Liza
Brief 04 W3
W3 Transparency/Reflection/Projection
08-12 Feb
Transparency is a fundamental property for any politically healthy environment. Projection and reflection are increasingly important for representational purposes in political activation. Therefore, students will test these three qualities through drawings and conceptual models.
Readings
C. Rowe and R. Slutzky Transparency, Birkhauser, 1997, pp.21-56.
Josep Quetglas, “Fear of Glass: The Barcelona Pavilion”, in Architecture Production, N.Y: Princeton Architectural Press, 1988, pp. 122-151.
Jeffery Kipnis, "The Cunning of Cosmetics", Du 5 no.706 (May 2000), pp.6-9.
References
Walter Gropius, Total Theater for Erwin Piscator, Berlin, 1927.
Pierre Charreau, Maison de Verre, Paris, 1928/32.
Giuseppe Terragni, Casa del Fascio, Lissone, Italy, 1932-36.
Peter Zumthor, Bregenz Museum, Austria, 1990-1997.
Visits (tbc)
Laban Contemporary Dance Centre, Creekside, Deptford – London, Herzog and de Meuron, 2003.
30 St. Mary Axe Street - London, Foster & Partners, 2004.
08-12 Feb
Transparency is a fundamental property for any politically healthy environment. Projection and reflection are increasingly important for representational purposes in political activation. Therefore, students will test these three qualities through drawings and conceptual models.
Readings
C. Rowe and R. Slutzky Transparency, Birkhauser, 1997, pp.21-56.
Josep Quetglas, “Fear of Glass: The Barcelona Pavilion”, in Architecture Production, N.Y: Princeton Architectural Press, 1988, pp. 122-151.
Jeffery Kipnis, "The Cunning of Cosmetics", Du 5 no.706 (May 2000), pp.6-9.
References
Walter Gropius, Total Theater for Erwin Piscator, Berlin, 1927.
Pierre Charreau, Maison de Verre, Paris, 1928/32.
Giuseppe Terragni, Casa del Fascio, Lissone, Italy, 1932-36.
Peter Zumthor, Bregenz Museum, Austria, 1990-1997.
Visits (tbc)
Laban Contemporary Dance Centre, Creekside, Deptford – London, Herzog and de Meuron, 2003.
30 St. Mary Axe Street - London, Foster & Partners, 2004.
5.2.10
Images from Cuba
Plaza de la Revolución Havana Vieja
Coppelia Ice Cream Place, Havana
School of Arts, Havana
Nautic Club, Miramar, Havana
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