This is how the model looks when folded, so it doesn't take up much of our unit space.
Sunday, 25 October 2009
Model Construction Continued....
This is how the model looks when folded, so it doesn't take up much of our unit space.
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Four Weekly Site Visits Week 04, 09,10
I visted a few in one day due to there locality of the buildings
Week 04 Stephen Lawrence Centre David Adjaye
Week 09 Donnybrook Housing - Peter Barber
Week 10 Royal Observatory - Sir Christopher Wren
Week 04 Stephen Lawrence Centre David Adjaye
Week 09 Donnybrook Housing - Peter Barber
Week 10 Royal Observatory - Sir Christopher Wren
Four Weekly Site Visits
Four Weekly Site Visits is an assignment each week of the first term. Where unit 9 visit one project and study it though photography and annotated diagrams and diagrams.
Four Weekly Site Visits is a book published by our tutor Robert Thum. Last year further books from the unit were published and can be brought from the link below.
http://www.semiautomatik.com/semiautomatik/publishing.html
Patterns
Task: Collect patterns between homogeneity and heterogeneity
The patterns I collected were patterns derived from art.
Excluding pattern 3 which is a plant call structure.
Pattern 1: Theo Van Doesburg Counter-Composition VI 1925
Pattern 2: Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red by Piet Mondrian (1937 - 1942).
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Pattern 3:Plant Cell Structure
Pattern 4:Paul Klee. Monument in Fertile Country. 1929. Watercolor.
Pattern 5:Frank Stella – Harran II
Simple diagrams of rules that generates the pattern.
The patterns I collected were patterns derived from art.
Excluding pattern 3 which is a plant call structure.
Pattern 1: Theo Van Doesburg Counter-Composition VI 1925
Pattern 2: Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red by Piet Mondrian (1937 - 1942).
..jpg)
Pattern 3:Plant Cell Structure
Pattern 4:Paul Klee. Monument in Fertile Country. 1929. Watercolor.
Pattern 5:Frank Stella – Harran II
Simple diagrams of rules that generates the pattern.
Reading!!!
Books we currently reading.
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan by Rem Koolhaas
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Delirious-New-York-Retroactive-Manifesto/dp/1885254008/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256119955&sr=8-1
refabricating ARCHITECTURE: How Manufacturing Methodologies are Poised to Transform Building Construction by Stephen Kieran, James Timberlake
http://www.amazon.co.uk/refabricating-ARCHITECTURE-Manufacturing-Methodologies-Architectural/dp/007143321X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256121724&sr=1-1
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan by Rem Koolhaas
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Delirious-New-York-Retroactive-Manifesto/dp/1885254008/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256119955&sr=8-1
refabricating ARCHITECTURE: How Manufacturing Methodologies are Poised to Transform Building Construction by Stephen Kieran, James Timberlake
http://www.amazon.co.uk/refabricating-ARCHITECTURE-Manufacturing-Methodologies-Architectural/dp/007143321X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256121724&sr=1-1
The Site - Greenwich Peninsula
The Greenwich Peninsula currently has a master plan for the area. Currently there is an information kiosk on the proposed Greenwich Peninsula just behind the green wall on site by the O2. The kiosk has information on the master plan including models like the one above. Unit 9 proposal for the site this year is a Media Block.
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