Monday 28/03 getting ready for IDS

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Tutorial with Peter Carl 28/03 not on. Peter is in Chille

Sat

vero crit


get it organized, I didnt understand your blog 


Do you have something about transplanting culture? 

Drawing workshop_Friday 25/03_journey chats

CITY INTERVENTIONS
GET INVOLVED!

Drawing workshop_Friday 25/03_crits

going too far
the plans look like 18th century gardens
the space frame is an interesting drawing, but not what iam doing


try pully again
perhaps the poles dont have to be included in the DIY
perhaps the pullies come as flat pack and would be placed on sthin already installed. 
The poles would not be taller than other public utility, say lamp post are about the height. 


!!!!!!
What a brilliant idea, I have been thinking about these things glowing in the dark all along, 
so 
why wouldnt they BE the lamps. and BTW provide cool air and space to work underneath in shade. 


Thank you!!


bara

Drawing workshop_thursday 24/03_third round

1:100

 Silv. idea - shrink the depth of towers - headheight :) 

spaceframe

proportion is funny

NTS sketches

brill idea - avoiding big floor to ceiling - organize towers in plan to create courtyard for trucks to operate in and people to operate under towers only. 

 1:500 plan
space for public building opposite school

 1:500 plan
courtyard factory

 1:500 section at nite :) 

1:1 'on site' model

no pic :(((

1:20 models!!!! 

Drawing workshop_wednesday 23/03_second round

tensile structure

pull up (sail) option

1:1

detail of ring attachment 

 1:200
space frame made of individual tensile structures
interconnected
central pole seems to be massive
6m clear headheight for truck - massive scale

1:500

sectional study

 1:10
cables + rings study

 1:20
tensile structure
study model

Drawing workshop_tuesday 22/03_crits

bara you are repeating yourself
too much timber for simple structure
too heavy
try pull up - sail 
as little structure as poss

Drawing workshop_tuesday 22/03_first shots

 1:10
study of "Lap" connection
manygon :) base (12 sides) 

 1:20
material study

 1:100
habitable tower idea

1:100 connection of multiple towers
section and plan
water tower connection

1:1 
connection study

1:500 Pliny Ville

plan study

1:200 Pliny Ville
sectional study

1:500 Pliny Ville

sectional study

Drawing workshop_monday 21/03_first shots

Pliny Ville - 1:1000 

visibility on the horizont

logo (factory, eco factory) 

park to drift into from the school

"Lap" joint - 1:1

cooling tower timber structure a'la Rajnis

Drawing workshop

For a week we have been locked inside and drew and ate. 

we followed the prescribed scales with rigor. It was very frustrating

having to decide aspects of project that hasnt been drawn yet. 

It helped make many decisions and uncovered many problems. 

FREE UNIT goes drawing for a week

drawing workshop in New Forest


I ll be cooking Korean food


 per my earlier email  - "During that week you will be drawing by hand only and  mainly in section. You will draw and model your project at scales from 1.1 to 1.1000. moving through these scales several times during the week.  The aim is that you make spatial and material progress and make decisions from the scale of a detail, through enclosure to siting and landscape"

So the week goes like this. 

Monday and Tuesday with us  - one cycle of drawings covering all scales.

Wednesday and Thursday alone  - the same cycle of drawings again but including a sketch model at each scale.

Friday Morning interim pinup

Monday 28th Final pinup in EG at 2.00 and discussion of IDS presentation.

Thursday 31st IDS presentation.

Think of it like a  pecha kucha or an exam! . Each scale must be completed in two hours. Then 30 minute rest and so on. If you let one slide into the other then the whole point is lost. That is that various scales are integrated by being present in every other scale. So you can make and see a decision about the relationship say between heavy plinth and lightweigh enclosure at the scale of 1.1 and 1:1000. So you start on Monday with 1: 1 then 1: 1000  then 1: 10 then 1: 500  then 1: 20 then 1:200 then 1:100.  A total of 7 two hour sessions by the end of Tuesday when we leave you. 

All of theses drawings are sections completed in pencil or similar. Try to set up a common format of page size and orientation. Also set up a system of line weight and drawing convention so that we can recognise say aluminium as it appears on every drawing. Clearly many scales can only show be a fragment of your project on a single A1 or A0 page. This is ok however your 1: 1 must be present in every other scale so that it acts as a point of reference.

Tuto with Catrina THU 17/03

Terrific :)) 

I shall revert from technical into responding to site, which will guide me RE sizes, composition, 

number... 

Thank you Catrina!

also : look at san Gimiano

also, perhaps the factories are lightweight cooling things in juxtaposition to block/brick

solid houses, which could be "solar chimneys" environmentally. 

i love my parents 17/03

so basically my parents decided to give me 2 grand from an auntie of an auntie of a husband of a sister of.. 
to do something crazy with. 


so 




I VE DECIDED TO GO OVER TO TEXAS AND BUILD THE EVAPO TOWER!


like


i ve decided. 




so 
am doing the design , so i can actually manage. 


which is in a way exactly what i had to be told nowish, because i have kindoff forgotten about 
the DIY VOW

down draught evaporative 16/03 Dan's/Zoe's advice

zoes boyfriends advice :))) 


cant calculate it myself!

... if it's just down-draught you're looking at then it's very simple - you spray cool water at the top of a funnel and the air is cooled, it drops downwards, creating a cool area at the bottom of the funnel. That is apparently a pretty basic thing to do.  

I asked what the difference is going to be in the temperature that you can achieve, in a different country.  And he laughed and said "for those kind of complex calculations you need to pay someone to work it out." He explained that in maths and engineering terms there are 'trivial calculations' and 'non-trivial'. 

Trivial (i.e. basic level) he would explain to you how do those - if you were dealing in basic level maths.  

But working out the height of a cooling tower, what temperatures you can achieve etc. - that's highly complex and 'non trivial' calculations, and there is no book that will explain this to you - you need an engineering degree and a day to work out the calcs! 

Dan suggested that what you might create is a Hot Tower Cool Tower.  A quick scribble attached - you have a cool tower (shown on the left) where air enters, you spray it with water, makes the air cool and it drops down into a space = cool space. 

As the air heats up it is drawn into another tower (shown in sketch on the right) - this second high tower drawing the hot air up and away, creating air movement and a passage of air travel. 

library - architecture research review

downdraught evaporative water cooling.
not much info on it!

tuto with Peter Carl MON 14/03

I confess I havent done much :)) 
'bus stop' models




deal: get technical!!
the lid


steel or timber structure. 


2 scales
-  public seating/umbreallas
- factory


size it up


Peter's sketches:

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

by Jane Jacobs

down draught water cooling

I kindof need this: 

source:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=94847&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S1359135501001312


and this

source: 
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rJsVoRw1geoC&pg=PA143&lpg=PA143&dq=height+of+water+cooling+towers+in+seville&source=bl&ots=IziJpbVWUf&sig=G2kRurbVHwbHD44WeJNp6fnPGyY&hl=en&ei=sgl-TZPyBNO3hAeN-6nqBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false

Colonias in The Economist

Paving the way


Thank you Dan!
comments from readers are interesting


"...a recent afternoon children, dogs and chickens were playing in the streets. A few businesses—taco trucks, car repair, a beauty salon—advertised with handwritten signs. Some of the homes were lushly landscaped, with hibiscus flowers and orange trees, although others were broken-down shacks interspersed with piles of lumber and rubble. And on one quiet street, two men were building a pavement...."

MPL pinup (fry up) FRI 11/03

I think i got about one and half hrs of deep deep deep digging, questioning, 
suggesting, helping, accusing of plagiarism, fffff, correcting the drawing convention, arguing about it.  
wow


exhausting


Thank you all!!


carsten and Gordon?? Michelle? 
and Rex for a minute and the young guy 




not much other students, so I got massive attention. win




to do list: 


- register
- taxes
-ownership
-numbers (data, of ppl, areas, density)
- Explain the Las Lomas court case
-legal framework for citizens
-right to live, deed, ownership, use, status of the land
- history (of ownership) - colonisation v. now
- access to schools v. no access to police services
- voting


- drawing convention! misleading info can fail you. 
- do not mislead, if plan is shown in axonometry, it has to be explicitly shown, not just mentioned) 
- Las Lomas - use, what is private property, what is public (manifestation of state) 
- NO TALKING, DRAWINGS SELF-EXPLANATORY  


me: am sorry I didnt realize you would be prepping me on how to present to the RIBA!


- find out the extend of plots, ownership boundaries, draw them


- adopting of the road (my gift project) 
- parking (my gift project shifts the car - parking: no kerb parking) I dont think there was much of that anyway. plus its not good
- height of sidewalk in US is higher, otherwise sidewalks are used FOR kerb parking


- who provides the factory (for making bricks in new colonia?)
- They have to decide themselves what to invest in? 
- where does the shit go? 
- demonstrate how they live (what is as in the rest of US, what is not) 
- who deprives them? 


Michelle: Are you doing anything differently (Plinnyville) to your sources ( Plinny, A&M) ?
Me: No, I am stealing it as it is and planting it elsewhere. Why would I re-invent the brick? 
Is there anything wrong with that? 
( I was not happy by then:) 


and then Carsten told me what to do: 
everyone tips in> $$>shed, sewage, solar, wind, water
DO THE WHOLE METABOLISM


i would love to
but i d need a big big big big big team. I shall be realistic. I think. 

THU 10/03 CELEBRATION WEEK

best of all: 
Lara: " (.. I loveeed the pavement project :).... do you think, that this is the future? that we also will be building our pavements say on Holloway Road? "
YIS!


critics: 
Lara - Design for London
Mark Clayton - head of CHUDS
Korean tutor
Eric
Crispin - developer
Jean Paul - tutor
Robert - head of school






U7 - Grandorge
missed (sorry)




U4 - UFO 
.. we use the equivalent of freehand drawing in digital     :)))))  really?
R.M: explore the analog>digital , as well as digital>analogue




U12
Proposing little changes within small budget
Crispin: Do you think you are proposing anything better than the disfuncional allotments imposed by the council? 
ouch
You are using the vocabulary of standard answers
me (thinking): working within the sys, instead of challenging it
 3 consultations = participatory design?  !




U6 - India
monuments and slums, heritage walks, exploiting tourist industry as an answer to poverty
tourism as an upgrade for slum
monments are objects rather than facilities (what they should be???)
mememe: (as Adam said: take the best feature of a city and make it better Rio DeJaneiro - lights for Copacabana beach) 
Crispin: this is like gap year activity, architects suggesting things that will make people happier
U6: yes the role of an architect is changing
Cripsin: touchy-feely bottom up
what is space syntax?
Jean P: artificiallity
what could you do that a skilled sociologist couldn't do?
ouch
R.M: what you might bring this year, that you didn't any other years
you were architectural tourists (in india) dont be sheepish about it, use 
it for your Tourism strategy! 
ouch




U10 - Odessa
Crispin: Artistic sensibility, art school in action
programme - save the world agenda
are you interested in rephrasing the question? (what is a care home?)
R.M: twinning Odessa to a bit of London
Olympics >< centralized leisure in Odessa (recreation facilities) 
Lara: How do we take pride in small v. large scale? 
J. Paul: your interventions seem timid next to the bold sanatoriums
heroic buildings 
power to resist and re-energize




U2 - Lynch
ruination :)
(same programs-apart from 1- as Odessa, now is this worrying?) 
Jean P: presentation Caleidoscop, dizzy
Tutor from Korea: more architectural than just talking
Crispin: "layering" is used in archi context so much, Is there any merit? 
Does it take more bravery to avoid collage? 
Mark Clayton: Take a moment to decide what it is NOT. 

FREE U - us
Mark Clayton: Is the cohesion (of people, and projects) real or fake? 
Crispin (developer!): architects compete and collaborate, great energy
highly likely would sponsor 
Jean Paul: you are dancing around architecture
Nicolas: sales pitch, hope it is more serious
Lara: Will this result into us layering out pavements on Holloway Road? 
FREE: uuum yes
mememe: YES, please  (i bloody wrote a whole essay about it) 
xxx(persistent young man): contract is about your own delivery, what is the feedback? 






U3 - east
docks
skills nills ?? - teaching by renovating vacant buildings - what a great idea!
game to interact with a community - how much better is playing than offensive asking. good!
Lara - the contrast of extreme community engagements >planning workshop v. games
Jean P: gathering of stories, do you have a concrete example of how to translate them? 
R.M: the strategic planning is stories as well, both paradigms fail. 
Crispin: Giving an architectural student a brief which is not a brief. 
Does it really matter what your observation about the need for a library are? 
ouch




U5 -  art and sewage
a good restaurant is remembered but not noticed
victorian sewage moves the problem down the stream
venice city of industry (????) to city of culture
courtyards collect water, filter and store it, wells > drinking water. 
(pumping station) loved beyond its usefulness
collage studio whose form reflects it. 
Eric: will you question the overall? 
Crispin: the wicked developer, brackets, me. There are too many architects and artists. 
Most of the people you visit as artists will be forgotten. I wouldn't build a city around it. 
ouch
U5: we need to in some way engage with our waste
Signy: Should infrastructure be more celebrated
Mark Clayton: Waste is critical in sustainability, do you care? 
R.M: Comfort. the crossprograming is a distraction.  
How to celebrate comfort, utility? 
It is fantastic theses. 
The few clattering artists are in a way. 
U5: um. potentially




U9 -Stephen Taylor
typologies adjust to terrain (about the models of terraced houses that are on a slope and step down :)
heavy traffic (about a village) 
dense urban core (of a village:) 
extreme environment (in UK:) 
in my opinion, there is nothing extreme apart from the conservative architecture. 
Crispin: I can recognize the hand of the master. 
How do you get to the proposal? 
U9: we spent a day in each of the places, looking   (!!!)
Lara: What would happen in 5 years time without your bold intervention? 
Eric: Challenge to make more than 1 window per room
ouch
I have problem with grammar, reliance strictly on existing fabric. Lot of your proposals look like housing, yet you seem to be wanting to do anything but housing. 
have you considered program? construction method? (anything?)
Mark Clayton: your choice of form is very close to the Georgian forms. Yet there is not much commonality between the original houses and the imposed Georgian import other than stone. It would not be hard to try what Foster would do, what Ghery would do. This is not question, this is provocation. 
R.M: you need to quickly retrieve into the level of detail of the beginning. 




U1 -Florian, ruins
Crispin: weak urbanism, people want to live in a house with a garden. But the metropolis wants them to live in a flat. What is your take on that? 
Eric: The aura of the presentation numbed me to any criticism. I am searching for everyday. 
Lara: What about eruption? 
Nicholas: Alcais Alcons ( i didnt get what they were talking about, probably ruins) 
Mark Clayton: Set of studies into time rather than building
What do you think of building contemporary onto 400BC or 19th century? 
Signy: Where do you re-house people? 
U1: The author is not here, probably best to ask him directly 




U? - chora
sector T = Thames Gateway
sector E = EU?
game
mememe: game generated urbanism v. computer generated forms(U4)  
Eric: How different is this going to be to villa ??????????  (didnt get that) 
R.M: dictatorial
Mark Clayton: Are you adding the random? 
Main part of gaming is winning. What does the winning look like? 
Jean P: risk of sinking into banality
you are playing a game with such complex issues that you have no grasp of, frankly. 
Superficial outcome of game. 
ouch
Nicholas: provocative
Crispin: It doesn't seem to be a game I would want to play. Is that a waste of time? 
Signy: To what extend are you playing with people outside of your world? 




U11 - DSDHA
analysis of SOHO turned inside out into rules. 
Crispin: you are reasonably anarchic
after all it is a set of rules, how is that different to others? 
HOW do YOU have the capacity and intelligence ?
ouch

FEEDBACK! 07/03/2011

DISARMING SIMPLICITY HAS TO BE CARRIED FORWARD  :))) 

with pleasure

Tuto with Peter Carl MON 07/03

PC: I quite like the siv building :) 
but I am with you on the simplicity

Find out how exactly the evaporative cooling towers work!

tuto with Robert THU 03/03

R.M. : bara make it simple, otherwise it will die. 

thank Amanda for the landscape drawing and suggestion to respond to the environment. 

That is the way to go. 

Dont overcomplicate

all you need is a shed

the cooling towers might be enough. 

they look like they could work structurally when put together into bunches. 

decentralised urban power (i dont know how robert said it, but this is wot am doing - in contrary to 1 owerpowering factory - too medieval) 

Find out how exactly the evaporative cooling towers work!

tuto with Peter Carl MON 28/02 -nooooooo

tutorialed out
need to produce


looking at types