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.

13.3.10

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