IDA DIARY 2011/2012 by Agnis Stelingis

IDA

DIARY

( Integrated Design Audit )

( a book containing a record of daily happenings )

Agnis D. Stelingis

2011 / 2012

The explorer kept a diary of his adventures

BOOK USING GUIDE

A2 brief information on page 42 A4 project icon. B main information: text, photos, schemes, drawings, etc. C thoughts, questions, ideas, etc.

D references, work made by others, etc. E time slot, to indicate when work, shown on page, was done, diary is a mirror of manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s day to day work. - technical subject

PROJECT ICON

ARCHITECTURE STUDIO 5 Tutors: Nina Lundvall, James Payne City Crowns This year we will engage with the urban intensity of London and propose groupings of dwellings on the rooftops of the existing city. In contradiction to official plans to price council tenants from city centres and relax planning regulations for out of town greenfield sites, we propose to densify the city. Making use of ‘air-rights’ we will investigate spatial and structural opportunities for new living space to ‘top up’ existing buildings. We will then make proposals for new rooftop worlds with special attention to material and detail while exploring spatial and sculptural ideas. _1

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Ernesto Rogers Project Torre Velasca Architect BBPR (Gian Luigi Banfi, Lodovico Belgiojoso, Enrico Peresutti, Ernesto Rogers) City Milano Country Italy Address Piazza Velasca 5 Materials cast stone, concrete,pre-cast concrete, metal windows Construction Type RC frame Ancillary Services 18 floors office, commerical space, 100

Building Type Slab, double-loaded Number of Dwellings c. 100 Date Built 1950-58 Dwelling Types 1,2 bedroom flats, penthouse apartments w/terraces No. Floors 26 Section Type flats Exterior Finish auto parking

choice: Roof tops A top floor apartment always seems to have a hidden secret, it is unclear what so intriguing about this, but it takes attention. It is the most satisfying conditions to live in today metropolis for the private aspect. You see everybody, nobody see you. Together with all the other benefits: great view, lot of sun, less disturbance, etc. The real interest remains undetermined. It is not the presence of beneficial value stimulate curiosity but the presence of the building. Entity is always behind the wall. It is not big different for me if looking from a street to the Royal Horseguards & Whitehall Place or to some ordinary apartment block in Clerkenwell. They both got it. Preferable pre-modern architecture which appears to be less exposed than its successor. Curiosity behind the scene is that what drives my mind and again I am there, standing in a street, thinking what a marvellous, magical space or sequence of spaces are up there. Architect in between of impotence and omniipotence. That’s the essence of my interest on a subject as rooftops.

Structure on top of the other building must be useful from its presence and be able to contribute to the structure below.

ent situations in order to satisfy man’s physical and psychic needs.’’ (Genius Loci Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture)

‘’There are not different ‘’kinds’’ of architecture, but only differ_1 Torre Velasca, Milan, (with the Duomo to the right) Ernesto Rogers and BBPR, 1958. _2 ‘‘light structure’’, markers on cartridge, 279 x 210 mm, ads

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_3 Barcelona Paris New York London _4 ‘‘green hut’’, oil pastels on cartridge, 279 x 210 mm, ads

‘’CITY GROWING BY LAYERS’’, ACRYL, MARKERS ON CARTRIDGE, 594 x 420 mm

brief 1 First day – ‘’day of luck’’ - 05 10 2011 He went to the streets of Old street area for his first task. One was sure, need to run through the town looking up high, expecting to see an inspirable composition of London roof scape. He went, He saw. Photos seems to have aspects as building design, architectural city composition, surprise. Still.. it seem to him that it was based on accident, Is this really what he should be looking for that type of assignment, accidental picture? Yes, he felt that way first. ( day journey : from Old street to Finsbury square then Barbican, Clerkenwell, Farringdon, City rd. )

_1 THOMAS STRUTH 1977 - 2002

Thomas Struth

''...THESE BUILDINGS...ARE, LIKE ALL BUILDINGS EVERYWHERE, OPEN TO INTERPRETATION. THEY ALLOW THEMSELVES TO BE EXAMINED, PERMIT THEIR FACADES AND MATERIALS TO TELL THEIR HISTORIES... WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND HAVE DONE. tO DETERMINE THEIR CHRONOLOGY, FUNCTION ANDCURRENT STATUS.''

untitled, oil on canvas, 70 x 55 cm 1973,

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Second day – ‘‘observing’’ – 06 10 2011 He decided to take small area and concentrate there, make attention to detail, step back and try to think is this picture that he is going to take is good and why. Day was successful.

Each place has its potential for a good photo. Check photography by applying architectural composition proportion system.

iMPORTANCE is how you manage to extract image from this extreme detailed reality. People in picture do not make so much bad.

‘’Boundary is that from which something begin it’s presencing.’’ (POETRY, LANGUAGE, HOUGHT)

‘‘He shows us the meaninglessness of conteporary life...nihilism is all we have left.’’ (THOMAS STRUTH 1977 - 2002)

_1 Old Street area, Seward st.

[ nihilism - destructiveness, an extreme form of skepticism, denial of all real existence, total rejection of established laws and institutions ]

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Memel Court road and Crescent Row Street cross, on the top of the building appears two storey, metal coating structure, seems to be exceptionally symmetric in comparison with itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surroundings. On the opposite side, less closer, other roof structure sits. City seems to grow by layers. Farringdon, Crescent Row

Ordinary house, materials: Clay roof tiles, glass, timber, bolts, mortar, bricks, stone, hand bended tin-plate. Farringdon

Buildings overlapping each other in perspective view. This assemble do not destroy harmony, but beneficially reviles secret chambers of town. (First day â&#x20AC;&#x201C; nomad )

Nomadic people - commonly known as itinerants in modern-day contexts, are communities of people who move from one place to another, rather than settling permanently in one location. This reflects on two days period by taking photographies.

_1 Abstract two minutes model _2 Photography taken in Moorgate, Worship _2

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street.

brief 2

Frits Van Dongen (12 March 1946) is a Dutch architect.

Frits van Dongen - Chief Government ArchitectFrits van Dongen founded de Architekten Cie. in 1988 together with Carel Weeber, Pi de Bruijn and Jan Dirk Peereboom Voller. He has been a partner in the firm ever since. Large-scale projects such as De Landtong at Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam’s former harbour area and The Whale, an iconic residential complex in Amsterdam’s former harbour district are prime examples of his residential complexes. As an urban planner and supervisor, Frits van Dongen was involved with developing IJburg, an Amsterdam urban expansion district, as well as an urban expansion of Bolzano, Italy. He received the Kubus of the Royal Institute of Dutch Architects (BNA) in 2006. He was a guest professor at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, and regularly gives lectures throughout the world. Frits van Dongen was appointed Chief Government Architect of the Netherlands in August 2011, and thus plays a pivotal role in the preparation and implementation of national architecture policy. He holds this honorary position in addition to his work at de Architecten Cie.

Projects A small selection of projects which Van Dongen was responsible for or has worked on or still works: Health Noordhove, Zoetermeer (1989) The Regent, School of The Hague (1991) My Side, apartments , Amsterdam (1993) De Harmonie , Leeuwarden theater (1994) The Landtong, apartments on the Kop van Zuid, Rotterdam (1998) Mega cinema Pathe cinema and Heineken Music Hall , Amsterdam Southeast (2001) Municipal Offices, Enschede (2001) The Whale, apartment complex in the Eastern Docklands in Amsterdam (2000) Batavia Apartments, Amsterdam (2002) Firm Capgemini , Utrecht (2003) AON offices and apartments: The Admiral, Rotterdam (2003) Urban planning and housing / offices Funenpark, Amsterdam Müllerpier apartments, Rotterdam Apartment Block 19, IJburg , Amsterdam Conservatory of Amsterdam , Oosterdok 151 , Amsterdam (2008 finished)

_4 _3 The Whale, Amsterdam (2000) _4 The Landtong, apartments on the Kop van Zuid, Rotterdam (1998)

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‘De Landtong’ residential complex, Rotterdam ‘De Landtong’ was the first new residential development in the former port area at the ‘Kop van Zuid’, on the southern banks of the River Maas. The ambitious programme was necessary to give the area an injection of urbanity in one fell swoop, by means of differentiation in residential typologies, street plans, open space and types of access. The complex consists of two large, internalized urban blocks that harmonize with the large-scale port area in terms of size and unity. The edge of the block is a varied composition of slabs, towers and strips. The ensemble has an urban profile on the side looking towards the city centre and a more small-scale character on the low-rise southern edge. The programme has been translated into an unprecedented assortment of housing types: from spacious owner-occupied dwellings to social-sector rented apartments, from urban pieds-à-terre and stacked apartments with generous terraces to single-family dwellings. A city within the city.

references and selected bibliography, responding to ‘’De Landtong, Rotterdam’’ project: Quaderns, no. 227, p. 6-179 A+T, no. 12, 1998, p. 2-135 Byggekunst, vol. 80, no. 7, p. 7-73 Housing moves on: architects and their moves, Wien, Spring, 2009

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programme: 625 apartments, 342 parking spaces, 1000 m2 commercial space architect: Frits van Dongen project team: A. Mout, P. Puljiz, M. Heesterbeek, F. Veerman, J. van Hettema, J. Molenaar, F. de Haas landscape designer: De Koning Landschapsarchitecten, Heemstede contractor: ERA Bouw bv, Zoetermeer, Van der Vorm Bouw bv, Papendrecht structural engineer: Ingenieursbureau Zonneveld bv, Rotterdam date of commission: 1991 date of construction: 1994 - 1998 gross surface: 100.000 m2 volume: 275.000 m3

references and selected bibliography, responding to brief: ‘’Some ideas on living in London and Tokyo’’ Stephen Taylor + R. Nishizawa. ‘’THE GOOD LIFE’’ Ivabi Abalas ‘’Changing the art of inhabitation’’ Alison + Peter Smithson ‘’Floor plan manual (housing)’’ Grundribatlas Wohnungsbau

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_ Drawing composed by using, de Architekten Cie, made pictures

De Landtong residential complex in Rotterdam distinguish for a variety of diverse apartments. C2 has most definite arrangement, presence of 4 units divided by load bearing walls makes apartment structurally programed. Each unit has 53m² space specifically divided in to separate rooms or kept open. Apartment is symmetrically composed, from the entrance which appears in the middle rooms with private use intension are on the left and living area on the right. From this point clear view angle is debilitated from outside as well as from inside on A, B units and vice versa on C, D, this sense is stipulated by big, small, narrow spaces and windows arrangements. Most desirable intend to be unit C by vast panorama of 180 degree angle and possibility to unite C and D units together, sliding glazed doors determines this possibility.

Exhibition ‘’The city is a burning, Blazing Bonfire’’ Cubitt Gallery Exhibition intention is to show how the spaces that people inhabits are constructed, connected and

divided by the energy that flows through them, the energy that inhabitants produce and consume. Films, ducuments, recordings, all substance are telling about these artists interest in polluted ar-

eas, cities that are driven by industry of electricity, transport. Deimantas Narkevicius – Energy Lithuania 2000, 17mm film. Film based on a story of engineer in Elektrenai,

Exhibition ‘’We worked in squares and loved in triangles’’ The blind and futile lines of memory 2001 (mixed media) Three dimension house installation. It is made in a glass with air bubbles, there appears a sense of a house drawn by one continuous line. A part of installation there is a book with X Y Z positions, according to the air bubble in the glass cube. by F.Tuppen

electricity plant. Engineer who was interviewed seem to be Soviet made man or the ‘’song’’ he was telling the whole film had to survive Soviet propaganda test. _page 18 C2 apartment plan from De Landtong Rotterdam block and C2 house inhabitation. Minimal changes were made (in red).

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PLANOMETRIC DRAWING, PENCIL ON CARTRIDGE PAPER, SCALE 1:50

AXONOMETRIC DRAWING, PENCIL ON CARTRIDGE PAPER, SCALE 1:50

workshop

show OMA Show & Tell: XL Architecture Night In Barbican Theatre Six of seven partners – Rem Koolhaas, Victor van der Chijs,Reinier de Graaf, Ellen van Loon, Shohei Shigematsu and David Gianotten – come together for the first time in a public conversation. Chaired by Chris Dercon, Director of Tate Modern, Iyad Alsaka had a flight delay, excuse. CONVERSATION Conversation was based on OMA office and management.

WRITER Rem Koolhaas, writer and architect. When you write you work with yourself (you depend just on yourself). MANAGEMENT In 1998 OMA as organization was still messy, artistic. Now management is changing due to its need and because of expanding offices all over the world. Victor van der Chijs joined OMA in 2005 as Managing Partner. ELLEN VAN LOON Joined OMA in 1998 and became partner in 2002. Came from Foster and partners. OMA creative, les rules, every project is a collaboration, process drives office.

ARTIST Others do not want to be disturbed by him. They have their lesson, most of the time his ideas would not go hand in hand with others. (Koolhaas) COMPETITION GUY Shohei Shigematsu joined OMA in 1998 and became a partner in 2008. When he came for the interview to OMA, Rem asked have he been doing anything else apart architecture, he said no and saw Rem showing disappointing face. One newspaper in New York wrote, he works 48 hours straight. AUDIENCE QUESTION Rem, if OMA would be a film, what genre? A reality show.(Koolhaas) COMPANY Many project recent year OMA came second. STANDPOINT If this project would not lead to success it still be worth to go, experience in process.

_1 During the evening photo slides was flashing on the wall, on this one Rem made a quick coment: ‘‘This is how OMA will never look.’’ _2 This is what OMA is making for Prada. This is how OMA looks now?

The counterpart to OMA’s architectural practice is AMO, a design and research studio based in the company’s Rotterdam office. While OMA remains dedicated to the realization of buildings and masterplans, AMO operates in areas beyond the traditional boundaries of architecture, including media, politics, sociology, renewable energy, technology, fashion, curating, publishing, and graphic design. (OMA about AMO)

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_1 C2 AXO, line drawing/a-cad/photoshop [A1 sheet] _2 The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and Peter Eisenman surrounded by paparazzi. (Berlin) _3 PRADA CATWALK SS 2012, ITALY, MILAN, 2011 by OMA

lecture Landscript by Seung H-Sang Spring House, Forum lecture notes:

Talking about biennale in South Korea, there was a task, for chosen architects, to make shelters. Where Sang participated. Introducing his work in South Korea. _1

Architect have been working on several projects in collaboration with Florian Beigel and ARU. One of them is Welcomm Advertising Studios and Offices, Seoul, Korea. Building was completed in 2000. Made by Florian Beigel + ARU London, Seung Hchioh Sang, Iroje Architects & Planners, This building in central Seoul is the first rusty cor-ten steel facade to be built in South Korea. Working studios are arranged in four separate houses on a concrete base containing the gallery and restaurant.

The grave of the late former President of Korea Roh Moo-hyun in Kimhae (2009). Roh committed suicide on 23 May 2009 by jumping from a mountain cliff, after leaving a suicide note on his personal computer. This project is interesting in its manner by creating a metaphor of the city pattern on the ground.

Architect signature seen in many of his projects, public stairs crossed by narrow sloping path.

Seung, Hchioh Sang 1952- 10-26 Seoul, Korea Studied at Seoul National University and at Technische Universitaet in Wien. Worked for Kim Swoo Geun from 1974 to 1989 and established his office “IROJE architects & planners’ in 1989. He was a core member of “4.3 Group” which strongly influenced Korean architectural society, and participated in founding “Seoul School of Architecture” for a new educational system. He is the author of ‘Beauty of Poverty(1996 Mikunsa)’, ‘Architecture, Signs of

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Thoughts(2004 Dolbegae)’, ‘Landscript(2009 Yoelhwadang)’ and ‘Graveyard of Roh Muhyun(2010 Nulwa)’, and was an Visiting Professor of London Metropolitan University and taught at Seoul National University and at Korea National University of Art. His works are based on his own critical concerns on Western culture of the 20th century whose subject is ‘beauty of poverty’. (text from IROJE architects & planners official website )

moi floor_MAP Idea evolved while developing C2 project, complimenting Memorial for former President Roh Moo-Hyun by Sang and The Trylon and Perisphere of the New York World’s Fair of 1939-1940.

Map transforms into flooring, floors transforms into map, the one from Agnis home town, Kaunas. Map captures central part of the city. Its explicit details made by satellite and the magnitude of the floor produces a new dimension in between the ground and the room space.

High definition digital printing on vinyl flooring Floorink combines a quality hard-wearing vinyl product from Forbo, complete with a 10 year wear layer guarantee and non slip properties. Excellent acoustic performance is achieved, up to 17 db, as well as outstanding print capabilities of six colour print at 600 dpi. Floorink is available in two metre widths for commercial applications and up to four metres wide for residential.

_3 Eastern architecture creates

strong compositional gestures by intersecting pure geometric forms with each other.

‘’If technology is always a step ahead of society, creativity

is always one step ahead of technology.’’ 89p. Tools of the imagination. Area atmosphere or emotion could create a relationship with the room’s entity or using purpose.

The sphere housed a diorama called “Democracity” which, in keeping with the fair’s theme “The World of Tomorrow”, showed a utopian city of the future. Democracity was viewed from above on a moving sidewalk, while a multi-image slide presentation was projected on the interior surface of the sphere.

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_1 Welcome Advertising Studios and Offices, Seoul, Korea. photo: Bae SangSoo, Apr 2000

_4 acryl, markers, collage images, pencil on cartridge paper (594 x 324 mm) ads.

_5 digital collage, ads _2 Memorial for former President Roh Moo-Hyun IROJE architects & planners official website _6 sketch from notebook _3 Dr.Park Gallery, Yangpyung / 2002 IROJE architects & planners official website

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LANDTONG C2 TIMBER MODEL

C2 IN SWITZERLAND, PENCIL ON CARTRIDGE, 594 X 420 MM

LANDTONG C2 TIMBER MODEL CUTTING LIST,(each colour represents various thickness parts) 594 X 420 MM

C2 PLAN AND SECTION INHABITATION [story page 21-22]

Emotional response – make a drawing/model/ etc. to understand what do you feel about the place, what emotions reacts being in the place.

‘’We are all we repeatedly do. Excellence therefore is not an act but a habit.’’ Aristole ‘’…Excellence is not an act of luck.’’ ADS

Ants and the way of sustainable living (sun during the day heats anthills, while ants covers some of the holes and opens it through the day, keeping the warm

Stadium Lockers was $671.95 / now $272.99 Fully Accessorized, Stadium Lockers are outfitted with a lockable security box fastened to a full width shelf, coat rod & coat hooks, and a lockable footlocker with a hinged, reinforced seat at the base. Stadium Lockers are constructed with Heavy Duty 16 Gauge steel. Bottoms have two reinforcement channels for added strength.

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air in and ventilating the anthill) Natural insulation during the winter is a thick snow layer on the roof.

Perforated stackable plastic box Simons Reeve Pre-log is a plastic, collapsible folding tray, ideally suited to the food sector as well as other applications. Overall size: 600mm(w) x 400mm(d) x 160mm(h) Manufactured from HDPE – green Perforated base & sides Fold flat for storage and return transport

_opposite page ‘’things’’ C2 inhabitation, cad program

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crit 1 Brief 2 Crit November 11th Tutors: James Payne, Nina Lundvall & Simon Jones Critics: Fabrizio Ballabio & Aidan Hodgkinson

Agnis Stelingis Crit Drawings Well presented and clear drawings, set out well with the detailed section set out in line below the plan. There is a question of how you enter the living room, it is unlikely this would be through the kitchen for ďŹ re safety reasons, there should be a hall - living room door. There is a good level of detail in the drawings, objects and patterns of living are well represented. Model Good model, robust and well conceived with a strong idea of representing materiality. Question of how it sits on the ground, one critic mentioned a small concrete house by Peter MĂ¤rkli than hovers above the ground at its edges. Image & Inhabitation Your use of music to set the scene for you narrative of arriving home and making dinner worked well (we heard a similar technique used in the English audioguide for the luxurious Villa Necchia Campiglio in Milan during the study trip). That your other work was of a high standard helped a lot. The idea of living almost nomadically in the space is interesting, but you do not have to always work against the space. For example the smaller spaces such as the guest room, look at the cells in La Tourette. Your interior image is the most unfinished piece. It is not clear what technique will be used. A photograph of the 1:50 model is unlikely to be detailed enough. Critics discussed using cut out people in the model to show a mood, is it a lone inhabitant staring through the window (a melancholy image - see Casper David Friedrich) or is it a frenetic one ( a barbeque or party spilling out from the living room onto the huge outdoor terrace). Choose the context for your building carefully. Further Comments Precise work and clear critical thinking about the potential of the space for inhabitation, now make this clear in the image too.

Use more various techniques of representation. Sketch drawing is essential part of presentation.

Fabrizio Ballabio: Studied at The Academy of Architecture, Mendrisio. Studying theory at the AA. Has worked for Valerio Olgiati and Pascal Flammer. Aidan Hodgkinson: Studied at Glasgow School of Art and the AA, has worked for Sergison Bates and Haworth Tomkins, currently associate at Jamie Fobert Architects.

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C2 inhabitation picture development Editing, editing, editing sequence captured by using 1:50 scale cardboard model with intention to generate a scene looking inside from outside the house. 1:50 scale timber model and overlapping digital drawing. 3D cad model to get explicit perspective. Drawing by hand on print. Considering the appropriate details. Changing inhabitants and installing a sliding window system.

_2 robot competition: Lithuania, Kaunas KTU student town [friend invitation]

Max model weight: 25kg 10 x 15 cm stick with a sign of the event organisers Golden bag weight â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1kg

-+0,05kg 280 mm height and 200 mm width on the lower part SKETCHES Project in a combination with architecture: Example one: Roof construction is

made to accommodate and maintain 12 robots which are served by 3 technicians. Robots goes down in a streets circular each 12 minutes and coordinates the situation down and gets back up.

_1 Starting image. _2 picture design process.

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Story AGNIS AND THE HOUSE Story is based on a fictional summary evening after a long day, having in mind Agnis real habits. Once upon a time or in the other words on the 10th of November 2011 half past nine in the evening, Agnis unlocked his house door, came in and turned the lights on. He left his bag in the hall and ran to the living room to put on an old vinyl, song he was humming all the way back home, it was Lucienne Delyle, ‘’On the banks of old Paris’’..(music On). Agnis was very hungry so he get to the kitchen, tonight he was going to have spaghetti and a glass of vine. He pulled out one of the ‘’drawer cart’’, found all ingredients and some clean dishes, put water on the heat. Agnis took a quick shower and changed his wear, all his clothes was in the wardrobe next to the bathroom door, he jumped on the bed

and checked his mail… in fact he check ‘’fb’’ as well. Suddenly he remembered about boiling water and the idea how hungry he was. Agnis ran through the corridor, passing a guest room where his friend was staying while visiting, friend, Frank, was on a sightseeing this very evening. Agnis appeared in the kitchen just on time, going through the studio he took a book with him. Glass was half full already. Agnis was lying on tatami in the living room, reading, waiting for his dinner. Terrace was empty at this time of the year, chairs were in the lumber room, Agnis had a good view to the town and mountains. He lived well so ever after. The END

brief 3 Plinth for the Melon _1

Fruit contains wrinkles all over it’s surface, while growing surface stretches most through the middle and there it flattens. Paperwork imitates this old man’s skin effect. Canary Melon The name comes from its bright yellow color, which resembles that of the canary. It is not known when the plant was first cultivated, but evidence of melons group fruits cultivation founded in the Valley of Nile from at least as early as the 2000 years BC. It generally ranges in weight from 1.8 to 3.6 kg CHARACTERISTICS Yellow Irregular oval shape On one side have a circle shape mark Wrinkled surface Heavy Stable shape Solid Comfortable to hold in a hand Semi-matic surface Rolls on the ground (always angled) Have marks on surface Stands on the top Easy to damage surface Have centre points

The human head contains 22 bones, consisting the cranium and the facial bones. The cranium is formed by 8 bones: the frontal bone, two parietal bones, two temporal bones, the occipital bone in the back, the ethmoid bone behind the

nose, and the sphenoid bone. The face consists of 14 bones including the maxilla (upper jaw) and mandible (lower jaw). In this way melon is very different. Datum point - a point which serves as a reference or base

Gestalt psychology (German: Gestalt - “essence or shape of an entity’s complete form”) The operational principle of gestalt psychology is that the brain is holistic, parallel, and analog, with self-organizing tendencies. The gestalt effect is the

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for the measurement of other quantities. “The whole is greater than the sum of the parts”

form-generating capability of our senses, particularly with respect to the visual recognition of figures and whole forms instead of just a collection of simple lines and curves. In psychology, gestaltism is often opposed to structuralism.

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_1 Initial respond to the brief, personal analysis, oil on cartridge, 297 x 210 mm _opposite page ‘’evolution of the idea’’

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41 PAPERWORK - FORM

Melon Monument You go to the shop and see all the Melons lies randomly in a single box. Marked with the same barcode, put under the same label, the price is the same. Thing is this, have you ever thought while buying one that this fruit which you have chosen it is single one in the whole planet, it is in all means unique. Monument to glorify this single Fruit once in a history for being unique.

Expectation of the object is what you imagine it should look like. What it looks like?

Example: He took 20 melons in a store and made a picture of each.

Is there a difference between Question to myself: them, have some of it made his expectations wrong? If someone told you tomorrow that you could not be an architect, what would you do instead? ..a painter.

Richard Hamilton, 1956 collage, ‘’Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?’’ (reference for the ‘‘monument for this single melon’’)

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crit 2 UG_INTERIM-CRIT_FEEDBACK

YEAR 3

Student: Agnis Stelingis Date: 09.12.11 Critical analysis (A2/A3) Intellectual engagement (A1) Creative and personal development (A1/A3) Communication (A1/A2) Overall performance _ DESIGN MODULE FEEDBACK OVERALL FEEDBACK Brief 1 The photographs both say something interesting about structure, materials and detail of London’s rooftops. Consider how they can be presented in the portfolio and IDA as part of a wider research into the rooftops of London. Keep photographing and find some equivalent pictures from the study trip to analyse. Brief 2: Drawings Well drawn with good use of line weights and a meaningful arrangement of objects and furniture. The narrative helps to explain it well. The ground only has to be suggested otherwise it becomes distracting. Model Good model, robust and well conceived with a strong idea of representing materiality. Question of how it sits on the ground, one critic mentioned a small concrete house by Peter Märkli than hovers above the ground at its edges. Photograph carefully for portfolio. Image & Inhabitation The illustrative technique works well, it conveys an attitude towards living reminiscent of the photographs of Julius Shulman. The use of materiality and detail of the lines is a little sketchy however. Brief 3 An over-complicated response to a very simple brief. Use prototyping later in a more appropriate way for making building components. Look at the work of Giovanni Anselmo and Arte Povera. (Structure Eating Salad). Consider the elemental properties of materials and forces in these pieces. Further Comments You have worked accurately and quickly, do not limit yourself to the bare requirements of the brief. Keep investigating and interrogating the work you have done with your IDA and structuring your portfolio. Analyse themes of openness and containment, generosity of space & space standards. How one can live against a wall with an open view to one side? You should now consider themes of research for the IDA, is it possible to adapt the arguments of Delirious New York to London?

A2 Performance in a variety of idioms and contexts: to A3 Creative and ethical: to have the attribute of anahave the attribute of understanding the limits and ap- lyzing problems and making creative and purposeful plicability of the subject discipline and to be able to change and adaptation with an awareness of ethical perform as a graduate in a variety of idioms and con- and moral codes and demonstrating integrity of contexts by incorporating a fluent awareness of the subject duct, including an awareness of, and respect for, culand the wider picture into personal, and professional tural diversity practice, and to be able to communicate this awareness effectively. 09/12/2011

exhibition

Stairs gallery, Spring house

Fire safety Fire Exit doors are designed in ‘Units of Exit Widths’. A unit of exit width is 21” or 545mm wide. This figure is based on the average width or distance across an adult person’s shoulders. Each unit of exit width will permit 40 persons per minute to pass through, a single width exit door, a door should not normally be less than 2ft 6ins (750mm) wide. Calculation of Exit Widths The width of exits required, depends on the number of occupants, rate of flow and the ‘flow time’ and is expressed by the formula U = N / (40 x T) Where: U = number of units required; N = number of occupants; 40 = standa rd rate of flow – constant; T = Flow time (i.e. 3 mins for Class ‘A’, 2.5 mins for Class ‘B’ and 2 mins for Class ‘C’) The resulting number of units may well result in less than a whole number. If any fraction is greater than or equal to 0.3 it should be rounded up. It should be noted that it is not normal for doors to be supplied in sizes compatible with the width of individual units, e.g. a 750 mm door can only be regarded as 1 unit wide. Calculation of Minimum Number of Exits The minimum number of exits depends upon the number of units of exit width required and the maximum size of any particular exit, and is expressed by the formula E=U/4+1 E = number of exits U = number of units of exit width (from exit width formula); 4 = size of largest exit permitted. 1 added to ensure there would always be at least one unit.

They want us to take an object and make something in direct response to it, object’s characteristics, By examining the real values but not taking idea from aside. ( referring to Plinth project ) Stone house by Anton

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Garcia-Abril

Concrete + metal + glass, pool in the air by Ensamble Studio

uk, suggested website by tutor.

Torafu architects Japan Artechnic architects www.planningportal.gov.

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exhibition Event organisation How many seats are in the forum ? Where to store it? Projector needed ? Sound system needed?

Time to time..‘’You must make radical change’’ (movie ‘’In to the wild’’) Millions of mails all over the planet are coming each day to houses

where the owners of the mail are not living any more. He is taking his luggage with him when changing the living place. All the post have to be

redirected to the new address. Post travels all the way with you. (to think about)

Möbius strip - a surface with only one side and only one boundary component. The Möbius strip has the mathematical property of being non-orientable. It can be realized as a ruled surface. It was discovered independently by the German mathematicians August Ferdinand Möbius and Johann Benedict Listing in 1858.

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Each place has its potential for a good photo. Check photography by applying architectural composition proportion system.

iMPORTANCE is how you manage to extract image from this extreme detailed reality. People in picture do not make so much bad.

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‘’Boundary is that from which something begin it’s presencing.’’ (POETRY, LANGUAGE, HOUGHT)

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brief 4.1 _the 5th layer of metropolis Super city captured by congestion has grown up in layers until streets was blind of sun, until city top became a solid rock, for new to come. Social system of the ‘’American dream’’ is no longer available to those in layer one. Working class is buried down to run and sustain this machine called ’metropolis’.

Most of the buildings in layer one became abandoned: corruption, crime – the underworld proofs its name. …Up there city appears to be dependent on previous layer just on its footprint. Layer five has no concerns to contribute but takes all, when it is needed. City plan transforms to be a section of metropolis. Close circle blocks_ High security, private units Non-contributors on any social or communal aspect. Secret communities of distilled society. Centre_ Multi use units, main shopping district, cultural, public and living units. Mega machines marked with red, vibrant gases around outer structure. These that hard to determine, is built by vague materials, containing labs and factories of brand products for mass society of wealth. Products are vast ranges, all meant to fulfil the life. Are artificial and has no list of components. Cathedral erected in parallel axes with the one bellow. Control department_ All decisions are made there, even the close circle units are semi-controlled. Phenomenological temple_ Contains pure emptiness, but by collaborative minds generated ideas, remembrances has the ability to transform inside entity completely. Ideas stream goes straight through the introspective decoding electronic boards which detects and captures separate dreams to organise it in to the bonding of programs. Later stipulated by these programs, architectural compositions emerges. Public domain of stimuli and intentionalities, remembrances and nostalgia is transmute and materialized by mini ‘’bots’’ services. In the sky yellow signs of structure are emerging, erected by social subconsciousness stipulated by fear being not the last layer. 6th Layer emerging straight down to the ground.

‘5th layer’. pencil, markers, oil, acryl, collaged images on cartridge paper. 841 x 594 mm.

Site - considering three options

1st choice Davina House + Liberty House 1 Sebastian Street, London EC1V 0HF + 151â&#x20AC;&#x201C;157 Goswell Road Mixed use block: students accommodation and offices. Very exposed, sits on a cross of three streets. Visible in a long distance from 6 streets.

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2nd choice

3rd choice

FINSBURY ESTATE

37-42 Compton Street Clerkenwell London EC1V 0AP

Construction is of typical Brutalist style ‘mixed development’ of the High Modern period. 25 stories of humiliating architecture which traverse everything brilliant around by its magnitude.

Consists of two Victorian warehouse buildings with a courtyard loading area. In 2009 was converted into an office block.

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1st choice Davina House + Liberty House 151â&#x20AC;&#x201C;157 Goswell Road + 1 Sebastian Street, London EC1V 0HF

MOI There is just this place in London where two worlds meets. Students are living in the same building where possible they will be working after finishing their studies. 120 tiny offices full of

graduates, 140 residential rooms full of undergraduate students. This circle creates a space above where need are dismissed from natural world. A top floor is different from all the other.

Environmental impact Careful choice of materials may reduce the environmental impact of building work, and where appropriate the use of recycled or recyclable materials is to be considered. Care must be taken to ensure that the use of these materials will not have any adverse consequences to the health and safety requirements of the building work. (John Stephenson, Building Regulations Explained, New York, 2000, p.53)

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Brief 4.1 : Be free and a bit bold. Look for specific interests in the area. Find boundary / limits and try boundary / limits. Example: Can extension of

the existing building be 100 floors high?

[ bold ] 1. Fearless and daring; courageous. 2. Requiring or exhibiting courage and bravery. See Synonyms at brave. 3. Unduly forward and brazen; impudent: a bold, sassy child. 4. Clear and distinct to the eye; conspicuous: a bold handwriting. 5. Steep or abrupt in grade or terrain: bold cliffs. (The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language)

Possible to make mixed use proposition on top of DH: students hall extension + apartmentsX5 + officeX3 + restaurant

The architect Adolf Loos’s ‘Raumplan’ (Spatial plan) concept deals with various rooms strictly according to use, area and volume. The ground plan shows a marked independence among the rooms, but as an overall structure; Muller House in Prague, 1930.

_1 DH from Goswell rd. (photography straighten using PS)

(Jan Krebs, Design and Living, Switzerland, 2007, p.18)

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As a student / young architect I have ambition or rather wish my work to be realized. In this way I can foster professional interest to build.

My thought was very abstract in my X:Project that has to be pleased mind â&#x20AC;&#x201C; when putting it on paper Y:how it can be atchieved? does not make any sense. X:by taking this wish in public. Screaming, but not begging to be Architecture or rather a project has realized. to make effort to be realized Y:does not every project has this (be more explicit) wish in itself (for granted)? X:yes, it does, but takes it for

granted. Y:how not to take it? X:must be honest by accepting this statement and proud of it. Y:is this possible or it will be based on complete theory? X:try!

Population, Housing and Poverty Rapid population growth accompanied development. In 1801 the Finsbury area had a population of just over 54,000 but this had more than doubled by 1861 to reach a peak of over 127,000. In the second half of the century, as warehouses, commercial premises and factories began to replace housing; the population started to fall and by 1901 was just over 100,000. Population decline continued during the inter-war years, as families moved out to newer, suburban estates on the edge of the city. The fall in population was particularly rapid during and immediately after the Second World War, largely as a result of bomb damage to the building stock. (Report for EC1 New Deal for Communities compiled by Dr David R Green, Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s College London, May 2009)

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Surrounding built environment In the surrounding area there is a great deal of Housing Stock raging from post war blocks through to 60’s and 70’s residential towers. Along Goswell Road there are also many examples of rejuvenated warehouse buildings which have introduced rooftop extensions, one or two storey. Leisure and Cultural amenities such as the Finsbury Leisure Centre and the Barbican Centre are within walking distance. The nearby City University resides on Northampton Square at the end of Sebastian Street. This diversity is current also with the population. Local residents, children from many nearby schools, students from City University and Liberty Student Accommodation, workers from the City, many offices and Davina house are making good use of the surrounding built environment.

Name/title: ‘House embodies the wish of young architect to be realized.’ Shamelessly shows how much effort student puts to make it different / unic. How much wants to be famous. How much does not deserve to be

accepted because of the previous. Project is so determined in details, so explicit, has own story of existence that it literally goes beyond the barrier of nonexistence.

whole area an a city of London’ – STANDARD

‘structure reveals new hope of the

_1 View from Lever st. _2 view from Goswell rd. looking south. _3 View from Sebastian st.

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_4 View from Percival st. _5 View from Cyrus st.

precedent 30 Mixed use development Wandsworth, London Duration: 1999 - 2004 Contract value: 4.5m Internal area – 4200m² Factory refurbishment and new apartments building The approach was to transform the factory, attach a new building and put one more floor on the top of existing building to provide apartments and studio office spaces of between 85 – 200m².

Sergison Bates architects Practice established in 1996. Projects are sensitive to the place. social housing in Finsbury park Ugo Rivalta Award 2011 / RIBA Award 2009 / Mies van der Rohe Award 2009 Jonthan Sergison Architectural Association 1989 Woked in David Chiperfield Architects Stephen Bates Architectural Association 1989 Worked in London and Barcelona Company: 2 founding partners + partner + 2 associates + 6 architects

Survey / photography / Public legislations Google map street photography shows clear that you can photograph any building from street level without no permit.

Trespass (Scotland) Act 1865 You are here: 1865 c. 56 (Regnal. 28_and_29_Vict) Section 3 Parties lodging in premises or encamping on land,

without permission, guilty of an offence. Every person who lodges in any premises, or occupies or encamps on any land, being private property, without the consent and permission of the

owner or legal occupier of such premises or land, and every person who encamps or lights a fire on or near any F1 road or enclosed or cultivated land, or in or near any plantation, without the consent and permission

Construction: The concrete flat slab and column structure is cranked in plan to follow the boundary of the site and the consequent angled facets of the elevations create oblique sightlines, giving a vertical emphasis to the building, despite its polygonal footprint. The composition of the elevations is organised by storey height horizontal galvanised metal rails that run around the building, which reflect the process of construction, emphasising the wall as a non-loadbearing element. The position of full height window assemblies varies from floor to floor giving a shifting composition that reflects the possibility of difference within a repeatedly stacked plan. Client

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Massing: lesson - structure do not have to be distinguished from its surrounding by shape, it is already distinguished by its position in the city.

British National Library Contradictions:

your name, signature and photography plus a document from ten segment list Contradiction 1 as a proof of your address. If you have a wish to get High security required for British National Library your own safety. pass you need to bring your valid document with If you do not have a pass

you are more than welcome to order a book from British National Library through your University library, book cost value do not matter if its market price is less than two thousand pounds. And you can

bring it home for considerable amount of time, in case you like to read while eating, watching tv or in a bath before going to sleep. _6

_1 3rd floor plan _2 view of tower _3 top floor terraced coridor

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_4 massing no. 1 _5 massing no. 2 _6 British National Library

Site model - preparation He thought the Model has to be as precise as possible. Many visits on site have been done to document surrounding buildings, details of them, count bricks. What been used: Bing map / Digi maps / Google maps Process: taking pictures / measuring on site / calculating / drawing / taking notes

Phone rung:

Later on…

Hello, Mr Stelingis. This is Islington Planning department. You can take a look at the documents you asked, it is ready today.

Drawings from radio antennas specialists came up to be useless. The incorrectness of these cad, line ‘paintings’ appeared to be, at some moments, one metre long.

One must trust the documents, but check it.

Book to check: A History of Building Types 1976, Nicolaus Pevsner.

_1 Sketches and calculations of surrounding buildings height.

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how long it takes to produce a timber model

32 hours

MOI Building constructed according of the view from entrance inside. Intriguing room inhabitation controls parameters of space, outer/inner. Space is open an free, with no defined function there is no definite distinction between inside and LUCCON TRANSLUCENT CONCRETE : It is a material developed in the early 2000s by architect and designer Juergen Frei. It’s basically made up of lasagna-like layers

outside.

Must develop my idea further by combining brief that is given. Inhabitation is the theme and a project itself. Each person inhabits ‘It is not enough time to make the wall different. everything by yourself at the best possible quality. You must make ‘Careful with that Axe Eugene’, a decision on your priorities.’ Ads Pink Floyd

of concrete and fiber optics through which light can pass. However, the material is sealed and just as strong as concrete. Available in thicknesses from 10mm to 500mm,

Luccon can also vary in pattern from straight lines to wavy, depending on the dramatic effect needed. From bathrooms to stairs to bar tops and nightclub walls, it has tons of com-

mercial and residential applications. (www.design-milk.com/ luccon-transparent-concrete/)

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crit 4.1 Crit 4.1 (07 02 2012) Crit appeared to be lacking of evidence of it’s presence. All left: one sentence of notes and a picture of myself presenting work in progress during the crit. Notes: It is a corner building. Think about pragmatics.

MOI Inhabitable wall. As studio flat/ room is furnished with ready installed kits, there is no separation between inhabitation and architectural form. Design is based on ergonomics. Smithsons project: ‘Ideal home’

MOI There are several inhabitants, they have different life experience and stories. They must be pleased individually by the quality of space. Ernest Hemmingway: dead / writer / loves journeys.

[Pragmatism] - philosophical tradition concentrated on the linking of practice and theory. It describes a process where theory is extracted from practice, and applied back to practice to form what is called intelligent practice.

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DH +LH BLOCK DWELLERS - OPTION FOR A STORY (declined) a kitchen and access to the roof top. APARTMENT DWELLER DEMAND STORY X1 Young painter Open courtyard with a with a place for a column in the centre Ian made his career being seventeen, when he have sold a painting for the amount of 2499.24. He found himself paranoid about drawing Suprematism style like columns. Now he is Twenty-six and successfully work as independent painter. He wanted to move to an apartment where he would be able to keep his new eighteen feet tall column. A2 to the city

Family of four Access to the roof and dynamic view

Couple in their 30s

1. Women in a wheal chair. age: 25 occupation: PhD student Needs: the lift is needed. She needs large passages for her wheal chair. all the rooms need to be designed for the person in a N4 Single guy, View to the church D a n i s h wheal chair: lower handles and switches, special shower as well as conformist restroom. kitchen equipment exc. About her: she got in the car accident when she was 5 and became disabled. it didn’t affect her life Y5 Family of three Tall ceiling open rooms in a way that she is still skying and skydiving. her hobby is traveling and lots of light and she wants to become social worker who travels around the world and help disabled people try new things. Q6 Woman in her forties Study space and home library Writer from France, born in Paris – write about Lon- 2. musician age 37 Occupation: self-employed musician. Needs: don. sound proof walls at least in one of the rooms. the room must be designed to have good acoustic. About him : a song writer as well W7 Family of four Private entrance, large gar- musician. He spends most of his time at home in his music studio. den. his hobby is collecting old CD disks which he puts on the walls. 3: family of four occupation: husband is a manager and his wife LH – 124 STUDENTS A need for communal space, in- is a house wife. their two kids are attending school Needs: wife cluding: kitchen, study area, view to the city, home theatre. spends most of her time home so she needs an open living space and kitchen that she would be able to make meals and have a chat DH – 115 OFFICE OCCUPANTS A need for communal space with with her family. A lot of light.

This is the best representation of the whole building. Lots of the same rooms overfilled by people. House of congestion.

Open plan

3D DIGITAL MODELS – TESTING First model was made to test the idea in a collage with site photography:

S,M,L,XL Selection of work produced by the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) in its first twenty years. The inventive collaboration between Koolhaas and designer Bruce Mau is a graphic overture that weaves together architectural projects, photos and sketches, diary excerpts, personal travelogues, fairy tales, and fables, as well as critical essays on contemporary architecture and society.

_1 People who occupies the buildings. (number of people in Davina and Libertiy buildings is real. _2 Scheemes of content (proposed earlier)

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Footprint In 1977 OMA intensified participations in international competitions. One of the major projects was held in France. Parc de la Villette now usually named most prestigious competition of the decade was organised in 1982. Site capacity of half a million square metres in north-western Paris determined project to be the largest landscaped park in the city and a challenge for an architectural practice.

‘’The essence of the competition therefore becomes: how to orchestrate on a metropolitan field the most dynamic coexistence of activities x, y and z and to generate through their mutual interference a chain reaction of new, unprecedented events…’’(15) there naturally appears a ques-

tion is x, y and z is an activity or an axis. Mysterious style to express simplicity or a way by describing ‘’simple’’ to maintain and mature intelligence. One could say that Koolhaas simply meant to designate sequence of different objects. As he might do the same with other alphabet

symbols. At this point reader can varieties of existence in the unireveal the beauty of Koolhaas verse, belonging to the super graceless style of writing which sensible world. – Plato’ is flourished of complexity. Other might think it was a philosophical question to develop the project in unrevealed way with an ambition of inventing new. ‘An idea is an archetype of the manifold

The idea comprises 5 steps: 1. The major programmatic components are distributed in horizontal bands across the site, creating a continuous atmosphere in its length and perpendicular, rapid change in experience. 2. Some facilities - kiosks, playgrounds, barbecue spots are distributed mathematically according to different point grids. 3. The addition of a “round forest” as architectural elements. 4. Connections 5. Superimpositions

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_1 ‘coartyard on layer 2’ white spray on black paper. 594 x 841 mm _2 sketches ilustrating idea. _3 OMA, Parc de la Villette plan.

moi Inspiration Model : First model 1:250 made from styro foam and wire. The density and complex arrangement of objects is pleasing. There were three main objects: Circular room, which structure covers courtyard /lightweil area. Ramp Wire net with cubic rooms (dimension of cube is determined by the rhythm of east façade detailing.

DH + LH facade zoomed detail.

_2 Labyrinth:

‘The wise man is as- ‘The final lesson of tonished by anything’ – history: lets never go Andre Gide (1869-1951) back there again.’ – Nietzsche Be foolish, stay hungry.

‘Judge a man by his question rather than by his answers’ – Voltaire

Anton Marrast – artist, produces surreal images.

_1 model (DH + LH ) south facade. _2 collage _3 work space.

‘I’m Anton, and i’m making pictures. All the rest is meaningless.’ (www.grape-frogg.com/info, personal website)

following pages : detail photographies.

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Story of the Ownership Davina House owner Mr X. refurbished building seven years ago and converted it in to an office building. While Liberty House owner Mr Y. bought the old factory building, which has a party wall with already known Mr X. building, ten years ago. In 2004 he extended Liberty house space, making a new building next to the existing one. He developed 115 single bedrooms and rented it for students. Mr X. came up with an idea to build a rooftop extension over Davina House and Liberty Students Accommodation. He introduced Mr Y. with the idea. Mr Y. caught it straight away. Statistics have been checked on Islington.gov, to figure out how this development could possibly contribute to the area. UNHILL AND CLERKENWELL AREA ACTION PLAN - TOPIC PAPER 2: HOUSING The number of dwellings in the area has increased significantly in recent years, and this growth is likely to continue. Planning permissions in the area account for over 2,000 homes, and there is theoretical capacity for an additional 2,000 dwellings. This increase in dwellings outpaces “natural” population increase in the area, based on London Plan estimates that Clerkenwell’s population will grow by 2,417 people between 2008 and 2020, Islington Core Strategy Topic Paper: Affordable Housing _1 3.0 An explanation of Policy 12, part G of the Core Strategy 3.1 Policy 12, part G, states that 50% of additional housing in the Borough should be affordable. Based on London Plan targets, over 10 years this equates to 4,960 units in relation to the Borough’s overall conventional London Plan housing target of 9,920, or 4,610 of the proposed 9,220 unit target in the consultation draft replacement London Plan, published October 2009. Over 15 years this equates to 7,440 under the current London Plan and 6,915 under the draft replacement London Plan.

Affordable housing was considered. Sustainability strategy 2010/2012 Preparing for the Future: Islington’s population is growing, and we have a target set by the Mayor of London to develop 1,000 new homes per annum. Government has set targets for all new homes to be zero carbon by 2016.

SLS machine – in cross can live independent, prisection cuts must be not vate life what so ever one’s less than 1mm. believes are. I can isolate the city as myself. Ads On ‘deep courtyard’ It is not about comfort, it is about a statement. One _1 Proportion of residents living in social rented housing, www.islington.gov.uk. _2 scheme of house prices and sales volume, www.islington.gov.uk.

Across the world there is a rapid increase in urban living and an ever greater understanding of the consequences of global climate change. London is experiencing warmer, wetter winters, hotter, drier summers and we can expect much greater changes in the decades ahead. (Greater London Authority, Living Roofs and Walls Technical Report: Supporting London Plan Policy, London, 2008)

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Massing models Test massing possibilities on site. 1:50 scale models allows to check the impact of proposed mass in the city context. From street level, bird eye.

1:250 model With a gap on the corner, which allows to get a view to the City. Structure sits just on the limits of the roof but do not extends over. Around a light veil formed terraces are pushed back not to obstruct the light for student accommodation. 2-3 floors structure.

Styrofoam In 1941, researchers in Dow’s Chemical Physics Lab found a way to make foamed polystyrene. Led by Ray McIntire, they “rediscovered” a method first discovered by Swedish inventor Carl Georg Munters. Dow acquired exclusive rights to use Munters’s patents and found ways to make large quantities of extruded polystyrene as a closed cell foam that resists moisture.

Test Davina House façade model. Aiming to check which details is important to express. As well testing for cast model.

Environmental concerns Styrofoam is mostly uneconomical to recycle or otherwise process environmentally as part of a consumer waste stream, and can be lethal to any bird or sea creature that swallows significant quantities.

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_3 timber model with latest proposal on top (proposal material - MDF board), from both sides: models made of styrofoam.

1:250 TIMBER SITE MODEL

precedent Sir John Soanes Museum The History of Sir John Soane’s Museum 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London Sir John Soanes (1753 –1837) In plan and detail it is very complex structure. Thousands of objects exhibited all over the house unifies the structural elements into fluent story. Moving walls (in the west gallery), mezzanine, courtyards, narrow corridors makes it sort of phenomenological house of one’s. There comes a feeling that floors has levels in between, but actually there is no such a place in the house, apart of stairs.

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www.soane.org.uk Currently the catalogue of Soane’s Library (in manuscript and with very abbreviated entries) can only be consulted at the Museum. Work to recatalogue the Library to modern bibliographical standards is nearing completion, and over the next three years groups of entries will be made available on the website at intervals as the editing is completed. Users are warned that, although every effort will be made to ensure accuracy, this is work in progress, and revisions may be made.

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Sir John Soanes library The Library of Sir John Soane, Architect (1753-1837) is preserved along with the rest of his other collection in his house at 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, which he left to the nation as a Museum on his death in January 1837. Nothing has been added to or taken from the Library since then, and as such it represents a remarkable time capsule and window into one person’s mind. The Library consists of just over 6,000 titles, and is the only known professional library of an architect of the early 19th century.

The History of Sir John Soane’s Museum

benefit of easy access to them and proposed opening his house for the use of the Royal The architect Sir John Soane’s house, museum and library at No. 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields Academy students the day before and the day after each of his lectures. By 1827, when has been a public museum since the early 19th century. Soane demolished and rebuilt John Britton published the first description of the Museum, Soane’s collection was being three houses in succession on the north side of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, beginning with No. referred to as an ‘Academy of Architecture’. (www.soane.org/history) 12 between 1792 and 1794, moving on to No. 13, re-built in two phases in 1808-9 and 1812, and concluding with No. 14, rebuilt in 1823-24. _1 front facade drawing _3 Courtyard section On his appointment as Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy in 1806 Soane _2 Ground Floor plan _4 galery corridor perspective with began to arrange the Books, casts and models in order that the students might have the plan and section.

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DH + LH ELEVATIONS

crit 4.2 Crit 4.2 (02 03 2012)

- Good cityscape photographs. You need to illustrate your proposal from the street level, not only from birds eye view as currently shown. - You need the diagrammatic plans to show how the massing relates to the configuration of apartments and circulation to apartments. - Current massing with small inner courtyards could work well if within apartments, new external access could work well with horizontal circulation around lightwell. - The faรงade sketches are very promising and suggestive, while the detail collage is crude. The recesses, the void/solid, in and out, vertical rhythm of the proposed and how it loosely and precisely relates to the rhythm of the existing pilasters is convincing. However, are there options to the polycarbonate faรงade, which provides more outlook and ventilation? - Is your proposal completely flat? Do you want it to be perceived as completely flat? Consider the perspective illusion of the recessed areas of the faรงade. References: - David Chipperfield: Hepburn, Wakefield

Air circulation in the light veil. Look for more particular materials for especially this building.

Chirperfield Wakefield, Museum. Combination of rooms and iregular plan makes it as a small village.

Chirperfield Wakefield, Museum.

David Chipperfield: It is fundamental to our work that there is a strong relationship between the spatial internal experience of a building, the building form and the context www.hepworthwakefield.org surrounding the building. It is also our belief that architecture should be HOW DOES THE HEPWORTH WAKEFIELD FITS WITH YOUR DESIGN both familiar and unfamiliar, in other words that we must develop new architecture but it must carry formal ideas that respond to memory and PHILOSOPHY? experience.

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precedent Considering construction type Svartlamoen housing Client: Svartlamoen housing trust Project: Social housing, 1040 sqm Location: Trondheim Contractor: Stjern AS

We‘re really going to talk about the housing project, Strandveien 37, but I’ll begin with its slightly unusual prehistory. Briefly, it’s a tale of a gang of punks and anarchists who took over a small quarter of a city, managed to do a deal with the council, and then built a wooden house unlike anything Norway has seen before. (Lecture at Royal Institute British Architects. London. February 2006)

Art creates artists creates journey. Journey of art in the dwelling. ‘They are immobilizing as they look to the past, since on dare not disturb the time line.’ (The utopian fantastic, 2004, p. 26)

Energy demands: More windows Birkhauser – great publisher for – more required cooling, heat- construction books. ing. Requirements for different locations. ( Colin Davies, Green building, 2009, p.56)

On 1 April 2005, the project was inaugurated and 31 people – who had participated in the planning process – moved into the two wooden buildings. The taller building facing Strandveien contains a commercial space and four flats, each shared by a collective of five to six people. The smaller building contains six one-room flats. The high residential density of the building, 22 m2 per person, is in sharp contrast to the otherwise expansive needs of Norwegians (at 50 m2 per capita, the most generous in the world). The project’s density, construction technique and rough detailing account for the low cost of the building, 1.8 million euros; and the rent of 350 euros for a share in a flat, well below the Norwegian market. BRENDELAND & KRISTOFFERSEN ARKITEKTER A/S

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_1 townscape photography, colour indicates development. _2 site map

DH + LH STAIRS

Stairs regulations Private stairs:

Institutional stairs:

Rise 155-220mm Going 245-260mm

Rise 135-180mm Going 280-340mm _2

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

Risers in one flight has maximum of 16.

_1 DH + LH MAIN ENTRANCE , STAIRS AND ELEVATOR

MOI Manhattan transcripts gives interesting attitude to explain and create architectural composition. First scene of murder (first episode): ‘the suspect and the ever-changing architectural events.’ One sits in the office (DH) , have all fears in his mind (fear of dark, fear

not to be heart, fair of fail). Phenomenological house transforms by itself on the roof top. How many fears we have? Where all this energy is kept? For how long it will sustain undetermined? One day it appears to be built on the roof. Someone, an intruder gets in this structure made by so-

2-18 Basic design data

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

_3 cial mind.

Space that you desire to explore but contradiction with fear is not making it simpler.

_1 DH plan, ACAD _2 DH + LD STAIR SECTION, house elevation. _3 3D main entrance, ACAD

Building Regulations allow that twice the rise plus the going may be between 550 and 700 mm, and permits rises of up to 220 mm and goings of minimum 220 mm in private stairs. One Continental source recommends that twice the rise plus the going should lie between 630 and 660 mm.

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PARTY WALL

The distance between Davina house and 4 story building is 3600 mm. Proposed entrance with stairs and lift is 3000 mm. This means is within 3 metres Party Wall notice distance. Section 6(1), where (a) a building owner proposes to excavate, or excavate for and erect a building or structure, within a distance of three metres measured horizontally from any part of a building or structure of an adjoining owner; and (b) any part of the proposed excavation, building or structure will within those three metres extend to a lower level than the level of the bottom of the foundations of the building or structure of the adjoining owner.

_5 From WEB LEARN

Bosnian Valley of Pyramids - biggest archeoGOVERNMENT POLICY SUSTAINABLE PRAC- logical project in Europe & REGS TICE in 2006 www.communities.gov. www.eartharchitecture. uk/planningandbuilding org The hill named Visocica www.akdn.org became the focus of inter national attention in OcWhat is a Party Wall? In simple terms a party wall divides the buildings of two owners with the boundary between ownerships usually, but not always, positioned at the centre of the wall. The Party Wall etc. Act 1996 recognises two different types of party wall:

tober 2005 following a news-media campaign promoting the idea that they are human-made and the largest ancient pyramids on Earth.

_4 Party Wall notice (www.mypropertyguide.co.uk) _5photography of Davina house and neighbour building, 3600 mm distance. Collage â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DH main entrance. _6 (Building Surveyors Division, Party Wall legislation and procedure, a guidance note, UK, third edition 1995)

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DH + LH, PENCIL ON CARTRIDGE PAPER, 841 x 594 mm.

Existing buildings - structure Primary site for this project was Davina House. But it appeared to be three buildings attached with each other. This means it has two party walls. There was a choice to include Liberty House into proposal: Davina House [DH] – Liberty House [LH] (renovated) – Liberty House [LH2] (newly built) DH It is built in late 1890s as a factory. Has seven storey with the basement. Load bearing structure: Internal columns rises from foundation (in total seven columns), made out of concrete. External walls are load bearing. Thickest part of the wall is four brick thickness. Floors slabs are calculated to take big loads of industrial machines. Roof can take much less loads.

proposal load bearing columns

In 1943 completed – Palacio Gustavo Capanema ( tower has similar details as Mies, Seagram building.) Mies van de Rohe – Seagram Building 1958, 157m heigh. Oscar Niemeyer Born 1907. Is a Brazilian architect, one Fidel Castro once said: ‘Niemeyer and I of the main architects in 20th century are the last Communists of this planet.’ modern architecture. On of the projects: Ministry Foreign Affairs. Currently 104 years old.

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Liberty House [LH] Originally built on the Marquess of Northampton’s estate the ground floor and basement of the building was occupied by the London Joint Stock Bank and a Post Office. The remainder of the building served as a factory spaces. Architects: F. Boreham and Son and Gladding. Source: The Building News, Feb 21 1913 (Supplied by English Heritage)

Load bearing structure: Completely the same as Davina House. (with seven load bearing columns and so on)

Liberty House [LH2] Built in 2004. Considering the date it was built and the planning drawings it has, choice was made not to include this part in to roof extension proposal.

_6 One must be inspired what ar- fice space, one is provided by chitecture profession can pro- a place on the rooftop as one’s duce. personal oasis. On the brake everybody every body go to their MOI personal huts. Bots arranges Each of the small offices below the setting of the huts. have its own ‘hut’ (phenomenological house). New law chapter is developed: ‘if one rent an of-

‘An attitude that emulates the ‘We must learn to join the love child’s vision is not sufficient,’ of work with the love of higher (The Good Life, p.104) things, musn’t we?’ – Martin Scorcese ‘presentation that stimulates a child’s vision is not sufficient’ ads _1 Indication scheme, shows three buildings: DH, LH, LH2. _2 DH building. _3 Internal DH photography, columns.

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_4 Liberty House _5 The Building News, Feb 21 1913 (Supplied by English Heritage) _6 Liberty House 2

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Exterior walls - solid / void

Davina and Liberty building is sort of landmark of the area. It appears to be exposed and visible from far way in six streets and seven directions. I thought that one would not want to live in such an exposed environment. Task is to develop an exterior design that would sustain privacy and at the same time would provide light. Void / solid principle.

At first considering ‘polycarbonate boards’ :

It seems this material suits museum and large public use buildings need perfectly. But there is pure connection with existing Buildings ( Davina and Liberty houses). As well material do not satisfy when using for domestic purpose. No view. Rejected. _2

Precedent: Steven Holl expansion of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City, MO, United States, 1999-June 9, 2007 PROGRAM: museum addition and renovation SIZE: 165,000 sf CONSTRUCTION COST: $85,900,000 STATUS: completed

Painting with oil This representation introduce structural arrangement but material itself stays vague and undetermined.

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Attention to the existing building

While making detailed, elevation drawings: using photos, measurements, counting bricks. At some point after a while seems you built it again, brick by brick. Promenade do not exist anymore. Each building in your way has its place in some sort of system. Detail has another meaning now. Countless combinations of existing building elevations gives ideas. I am convinced that last two floors has some details that will appear on proposed elevations.

‘I am not attracted to straight angles or to the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. I am attracted to free-flowing, sensual curves. The curves that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuousness of its rivers, in the waves of the ocean, and on the

body of the beloved woman. Curves MOI make up the entire Universe, the Project must be already used / the curved Universe of Einstein.’ story is already on track – project becomes alive. Oscar Niemeyer

Robert Venturi – Complexity and Contradiction (1960)

_1 DH + LH collage. _2 Material collage, two storey high _3 precendent _4 layered external wall sketch _5 cad exploration of existing building details _6 laser cut detailsfor 1:50 scale model.

In Complexity and Contradiction, Robert Venturi issued his “gentle manifesto” against what he termed “the puritanically moral language” of late modernism.

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Students accommodation LH and LH2

Government Strategic Guidance for London and London Borough Of Islington Unitary Development Plan It encourage provision of student accommodation. The provision of 115 single study bedrooms with shared kitchen, lounge and bathroom facilities in this highly accessible location directly contributes to addressing the need identified in Strategic Planning Guidance for London and UDP to increase the quantity and range of such facilities within the Capital. Lounge Renewed plans for student accommodation excludes lounge and bathroom facilities as sharing. Each room has en-suited bathroom facilities. Lounge, which would be the main gathering space for all students appeared to be unimportant and was declined.

Communal space proposed ( DH + LH ) There is a need for 115 students to meet at their own building, to communicate and share interests. In this case there are proposed 100 square metres extension of students building on the rooftop of the existing Davina House.

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Nowadays, groups of 6 or 8 students are considered more satisfactory with shared selfcatering facilities. 12 or more do not form cohesive group. Each student has around 1.4 square metres in the kitchen.( not full meal service). Full meal service

In Liberty house there are 10 students per kitchen. Washing facilities in the basement.

_1 Liberty student accommodation from Turnpike house 18th floor. _2 Liberty stutend accommodation in plan, ground floor. _3 DH + LH, students comunal facilities. _4 Liberty students accommodation, shared kitchen facilities.

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EXPLORATION OF 3D MODEL (001)

EXPLORATION OF 3D MODEL (002)

reference Louis Sullivan American first modern architect. Often his design involved masonry walls with terra-cotta design. Work is usually associated with the Art Nouveau movement in architecture. Form follows function.

The tall office building artistically considered – L. Sullivan

Studio is aiming to create roof top accommodation to existing building and possible to contribute to the city.

Architecture main concern is to unfold human life for the best of living.

Construction Wainwright Building 10-story red brick office building. The Wainwright Building is among the first skyscrapers in the world. It was designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan in the Palazzo style and built between 1890 and 1891.

‘Louis Sullivan, in full Louis Henry Sullivan (born September 3, 1856, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died April 14, 1924, Chicago, Illinois), American architect, regarded as the spiritual father of modern American architecture and identified with the aesthetics of early skyscraper design. His more than 100 works in collaboration (1879–95) with Dankmar Adler include the Auditorium Building, Chicago (1887–89); the Guaranty Building, Buffalo, New York (1894–95; now Prudential Building); and the Wainwright Building, St. Louis, Missouri (1890–91). Frank Lloyd Wright apprenticed for six years with Sullivan at the firm. In independent practice from 1895, Sullivan designed the Schlesinger & Mayer department store (1898–1904; now the Sullivan Center) in Chicago’. (H.F. Koeper, Encyclopedia Britannica)

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_1,1.2 Lippincott’s magazine, Philadelphia, 1896 _2 Auditorium Building, Chicago (1887–89) _3 the Guaranty Building, Buffalo, New York (1894–95

It is said about a building with 10 – 20 stories. DH + LH is 6 stories in height. Extension makes it 8 floors. Some thought that office building should have the qualities of column.

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M. Bachelard: ‘There is more to be found in the hidden real thatn in the immediate known quantity’ (… writing about ‘objects. Patrick Waldberg, Surrealism, 1965)

‘Simplicity is an ultimate MOI sophistication’ – DH + LH is not an Leonardo Da Vinci ordinary roof top structure. It is layer 2 of the ‘The perfect is the city. It lose all conenemy of the good’ nections with previous - Voltaire background and makes a start to sustain live

up there. Yet there are no junctions between DH + LH and other layer 2 structures in the area. In this case it has a connection with the ground level or layer 1: stairs and elevator.

Atelier Olschinsky – City / complexity (series of drawings) founded in 2002 is a small creative studio based in Vienna, Austria. Peter Olschinsky and Verena Weiss are operating in various fields such as graphic design, illustration, photography and art direction.

_4 Carson Pirie Scott department store in Chicago (1899-1904) _5 applying Sullivan’s idea of an office building for DH. 1:50 model _6 Sketches on Luis Sullivan ‘The tall office building artistically considered’.

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crit 4.3 Crit 4.3 (28 03 2012) Tutors: James Payne, Nina Lundvall Critics: Pascal Flammer, Pascal Flammer Architects, teaching associate of Valerio Olgiati, Academy of Architecture Mendrisio, Switzerland & Harvard University, Cambridge USA. Jay Gort, Gort Scott Architects, teacher of undergraduate studio in Cambridge University. Rosamund Diamond, Diamond Architects, Founding member of 9H Gallery and magazine. Simon Jones, Architect, furniture designer, associate tutor. ‘City seems to grow by layers’ - Why does the city grow like this? Densification? Profit from the free space and the experience of the rooftop? 4.1 Well made 1:250 massing model, shows the proposal clearly in the city context. Photographs describe well the long views to the corner site as a point of convergence of many streets - make sure you have all of them to emphasize this point. Detail photographs show existing building well but have not yet explored materiality and colour of the proposed. 4.2 Well drawn elevations, more sections needed to show how the existing connects to the new. Plans are difficult to read, use shading to show different uses and circulation. MDF model unfinished - should be altered so you can see the building without the roof extension. 4.3 Why have you added two floors? Is it a visual, contextual or structural judgement? What is the reason for the courtyards? How can these support a way of life? What determines the ceiling heights, can they be very generous? Consider internal layouts of apartments more, they are quite cramped and labyrinthine. Make interior models or images to explore these spaces more. How can they take advantage of their rooftop position? Is your idea of relating to the exterior about courtyards (whether in the middle of the plan or on the edge) and not windows? You are restricting your project by an ‘a priori’ decision to extend the columns up, this does not work well with small inhabited spaces and courtyards. What are the structural limitations, you should make diagrams of the existing building. The abstraction of the facades (without facade windows) and the way they step back is interesting. Why is the roofline and roof flat? Further Comments Unclear what is driving the project, too many factors are confusing the development. There needs to be a clear hierarchy of what is important. The idea of creating spaces and views for other users of the building complex to give them a different experience of the city is strong. Consider what is generic about housing and what is specific about the context and the city. Explore the typology of housing (your study of the housing of Fritz van Dongen helps) That is enough to generate the project, do not add another layer of complexity by attempting to design for imaginary specific clients. IDA Day Comments Consider the limitations of a timber structure in this context, it should be fire rated. Need to see the thickness of the roof structure, how do you end the existing building - technically but also in terms of the architecture. Look at the work of Louis Sullivan - the building already has a strong feeling of the North American city. The Carson Pirie Scott Building deals with a corner. Look at development of the tall building for IDA diary in 1880s Chicago. ‘The Tall Office Building Artistically Consideredʼ by Louis Sullivan. Consider structure, is it cellular or is it a frame. Timber ‘olumns There is no need to extend the columns but you should locate and extend the service ducts. What determines the number of floors and people to add? Is it too high? Think about the boundaries and effects on surrounding buildings. What is the facade doing? Is it a system that can be manipulated? Look at how the facade works in the interior - consider the cultural issue of the window. Pascal Flammer Studied architecture at the ETH Zurich, Lausanne, TU Delft and traveled extensively in Europe, South America as well as the Middle and Far East. He opened his practice in 2005 and has since then been awarded the Swiss Art Award,

the Weissenhof Architecture Award and the Architekturpreis 2012. Pascal gained his experience through his time at Valerio Olgiati, where he worked from 1998 until 2005. He has taught at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Switzerland and at the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University, Cambridge.

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crit 4.3 My notes: Why proposal has two floors? Why courtyard? What is the main thing that drives the project? Analyse what I have produced already. Use diagrams. What is clear explanation of building design? What comes first architecture or inhabitation (relates to C2 project) Lots of topics – salads. The whole package of ideas has one major. Make more readable plans. Complexity – it do not convince if there are too many ideas (not in uni) Which idea is the most important? Take it and concentrate. Layer 2 living – provides up there what you have on the ground. Coaryard. Referencing to John Soanes museum, complexity of the plan. Plan is very personal, objective thing, there is no single best plan.

Rachel Whiteread ( born in 1963, won Turner prize in 1993, British, most influence from Bruce Nauman(1941) ) – house 1993.

... Gianni Pattena- Ice House 1971

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Rosamund Diamond Studied architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL. She worked with practices in London and Oxford before establishing DA Architects. She has taught at the Architectural Association London and the Oxford School of Architecture. She has co-edited a number of books on architectural subjects and is an editor of the architectural journal 9H. Layla Shamash became a consultant to the practice in 1998.

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crit IDA Crit IDA (30 03 2012) Tutors: James Payne, Nina Lundvall Critics: Carsten Vellguth Introduction: I have great interest on the idea that city could be read as sort of layered organism which is steeping up. I have imagined that my rooftop should have the qualities that has houses on the ground. Green area/ private garden. While considering on courtyard I been exploring the context and discovered that this building is sort of landmark of the area. It appears to be exposed and visible from far way in six streets and seven directions. I thought that one would not want to live in such an exposed environment. My task is to make an exterior design that would sustain privacy and at the same time would provide light. Void / solid principle.

Notes: Why two floors? (should I make a diagrams?) Complexity –complicated space, (to think about) Check Louis Sullivan, Tall office building artistically considered. Taking the roof of and not replacing? Exterior and interior connection, think about façade. _3

_4 Go after your genius. Ar- moisture, cool, wind, hot. chitecture embodies ideas Must transfer forces ex– open mind. erted by self-weight, snow, rain and active loads. Roof – looking from the neighbour building is like a third façade. Roof has to protect from: Carsten Vellguth technology tutor Systems of Control ‘Perhaps it is a fear of the implications of a situation that encourages us to conform? Fear of feed shortages, fear for my health, fear for my family and fear for my income, prevent me from rebelling against the systems that control my

Continue masterplan.. work the way you love, love what you do. Birkhauser – great publisher for construction books.

life and lock me in a state of acceptance. Some of us try to escape, but very few actually manage to stay on the outside. The majority of as are led by a conscience dominated by architectural conventions carbon footprints, the next tax bill or other disasters.’ (Carlos Villanueva Brandt, AA Agendas No. 10 London + 10, London, 2010)

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Contradiction or rather a question Why someone who want to rebel against the established system, locks himself in such a tight frames during the work. I always feel a lack of freedom while considering construction issues together. Is this his way of teaching a student to be reasonable and have a sense of reali-

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ties or traps of the same system which is against any form of freedom? _1 Main stair and coridors, axonometric, cad drawing. _2 view from ‘top coartyard’ apartment, looking south. _3 coridor no.1 _4 coridor no.2

ASDstory Goal: Attach a architectural project to a tutor from school which represents his values in architecture. Project The he/she have developed. Company he/she is involved with, (project to chose is the one that entitled for award).

Hello, I am 3rd year student of architecture course. I would be very thankful if you could take one or couple photographies from your apartment. I

am aiming to see the big, red brick building in the opposite side of the street. Hopefully with surrounding townscape. It is called Davina house and Liberty Student hall.

Carsten Vellguth technology tutor Systems of Control â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Perhaps it is a fear of the implications of a situation that encourages us to conform? Fear of feed shortages, fear for my health, fear for my family and fear for my income, prevent me from rebelling against the systems that control my

Thank you very much. My email: ADS0363@ my.londonmet. ac.uk

which is opposite my project site.)

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life and lock me in a state of acceptance. Some of us try to escape, but very few actually manage to stay on the outside. The majority of as are led by a conscience dominated by architectural conventions carbon footprints, the next tax bill or other disasters.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; (Carlos Villanueva Brandt, AA Agendas No. 10 London + 10, London, 2010)

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Construction Existing building has a grid of load bearing columns. From the beginning there was an idea to continue these columns up, by applying timber frame construction. Letter to Step Haiselden (Tall Engineers) (letter includs pdf with visual information) Step, My studio theme is rooftops. I have proposed two storey apartment space on top of _1 the existing building. I need an advice on construction method that I could apply. At first I have an idea that I could continue existing columns. In this way I made my 1:50 model. But as I am considering timber frame construction, not sure is this the best option. As well considering timber panel construction, but then these columns that I have made in my model makes no sence. Could you advice which construction method is more suitable in this case. Would be good if you could write me some reference as well. Other point. What is the maximum floors that existing building can take on top? How does it relate to particular construction method? What is the weight it can take? How I could figure out it by myself? Some reference would help. Regards Agnis Stelingis Letter from Step Haiselden (Tall Engineers) Agnis, Thanks for your email earlier this week. Timber frame construction makes sense as it allows you to collect the loads of the extension on top of the existing columns. Remember that you will need to provide for lateral stability by bracing (or similar) in two orthogonal directions. I agree that a frame is better than a panel-type construction in this case. To assess the additional load or number of floors that the building might take you could try to find out the amount of live load that a factory might have been designed _2 for in about 1900 and compare it with the live load required for the current use. I would guess that the current loads are less than the original ones so adding one or two storeys is probably not going to overload the foundations. However, you will need to think about whether you think the existing roof might need to be replaced if it hasn’t been designed as a floor (roofs are usually designed for much smaller loads than floors). The last questions that you ask are very technical and would require very detailed knowledge of the existing building construction. I recommend that you focus your energy on designing a lightweight extension that marries you architectural intent with what you already know about the existing building. I hope that helps a bit! Best, Step

_3 (London+10 ,p.122, fiction an investigation) Situationists leader – Guy Debord, he introduced: flanerie or derive (it is related). [Derive] – aimless wandering For instance: taking a map of London and following it strictly, while

actually walking through mountainous German countryside. VPA – Virtual Psychogeographic Association, Examples of exploring online. For instance: going from one website to other, probably systematically.

Derives leads to a different under- ‘In the derive, subject is intoxicated, standing of surroundings. thus the city becomes blurry…’ ‘ The emotional disorientation is the potential discovery of the new’ (Technologies and Utopias, p.91) The situationists search engages especially with the environment and partly with fellow human beings.

KLH- uk KLHcross-laminated timber. Board thickness is around 57-300mm Fire safety – 0.76mm/min Weight is 480-500kg/square metre.

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Later on Design was complex. Columns created uncomfortable grid. Decision was made to get rid of the frame structure. Solid timber construction was applied. Structure notes What structure to use? Cost effective What are the benefits Is it continuous structure, same materiality? How does the slab looks in cross section?

solid timber construction Solid timber panels varies in weight from 450 to 500kg/m3 Benefits: Easy to build on site, takes less time than most of the other types of construction, do not disturb surrounding environment. Very well in fire resistance Good thermal insulation, Acoustics Has internal cladding Load bearing walls Varies in thickness _5

Warm roof deck scheme works same as solid timber. Drainage pipes goes down 1mm each 200mm. Transportation How to transport panels through the city? Panel Construction (Holzwirtschaft Schweiz, System in Timber Engineering, Zurich, 2008, p.62) Gap in between the existing roof and new structure floor approx.: 400mm

_6 Debord noted in ‘’Theory of the Derive’’: The derive was not simply an updating of nineteenth century flaneries, the Baudelairean strolling of the ‘’man in the crowd’’ ‘ (Guy Debord and the Situationists Internationale, p.257)

(London+10, p.123) ‘Fiction maps or sets of instructions, guide the urban drifter, leading him to experience unexpected routes and discover new connections’

definitions of the role of Fiction in dent. Relating readings: The ficarchitecture: tional estate – ‘The Estate’) Fiction as narrative. Fiction as scenarios relevant to architectural programs and functions (Previously I had an idea to make Bernard Tschumi described two a project real by a wish of stu_1 timber frame structure, rooftop level. _2 Drawing 001 Section through construction: Solid timber construction external wall showing window opening, junction with ground floor. Suspended floor and roof. Vertical section, plinth (Holzwirtschaft Schweiz, System in Timber Engineering, Zurich, 2008, p.48)

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Materials - choice Characteristics: Marine plywood is specially treated to resist rotting in a high-moisture environment. Its construction is such that it can be used in environments where it is exposed to moisture for long periods. Marine plywood for construction, suitable for exterior purposes subject to the right treatment/coating by the user. Each wood veneer will have negligible core gap, limiting the chance of trapping water in the plywood and hence providing a solid and stable glue bond. It uses an exterior Water Boiled Proof (WBP) glue similar to most exterior plywoods. Marine plywood is frequently used in the construction of docks and boats. Price in United Kingdom: Most of companies offering marine grade plywood for around £25 (inc vat) per board (2440x1220x9mm).

MOI Where congestion is high, as in DH + LH there is a need for ‘mind and soul facilities’. Which reflects the style of inhabitation and sort of brings it to higher level.

Helsinki – underground city. THE WORLD’S FIRST UNDERGROUND CITY PLAN 21/12/2009 Helsinki’s City Planning

One image can make the project.

Department has prepared an underground plan to ensure well-managed development of the city below surface. The plan is ready for final approvals. Helsinki is the only city in the world to have prepared such a plan.

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_2 IDA day – consultancies with engineers. INTEGRATED DESIGN CONSULTS -- FRIDAY APRIL 20TH -- 10:00 -13:00 TOM ROBERTSHAW Time

Consultant time is limited. Each student has 15 minutes to explain his project, ask questions and get feedback. I took 55minutes. Many unhappy faces.

Conversation topics

What type of timber? How services will go up to the extended floors? Gap in between the floors Solid timber construction Marine grade plywood Stairs and foundation What is the additional load?

ARCHITECTURE – SCRIPT Script (in a movie for instance) has its culmination. Architectural composition is like a script. Building contains variety of scenes. Excitement / fulfilment of the masterpiece.

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by other.

Laisves Avenue [LA] Los Angeles [LA]

What is in common without the abbreviations? Laisves Ave. how life goes there? Esence is to make real my experience in LA and transmit it to material that it could be experienced Florian Beigel Born: 1941

1969 Master of Science, Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College London.

education: 1961 Abitur, Wieland Gymnasium at Biberach/Riss, Germany 1968 Diplom Ingenieur (Architecture) University of Stuttgart

position: Professor of Architecture, London Metropolitan University Director, Architecture Research Unit, London Metropolitan University

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What is this experience of LA in my memories? Time/ conditions: warm, summer night. Drunk, warm, late, delirious, crowded bars What this has to do with architecture?

Philip Christou Has worked with ARU since 1985. He was born in 1956. He began his university education at McGill University, Montreal, then studied Fine Art at the University of Lethbridge and The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design before coming to London to study architecture at the Architectural Association.

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Roof inhabitation has not been considered enough yet, if there is a roof space for the office workers - how to do this without compromising privacy of the apartments. How does ownership work? Do more studies of the inside - most of the presentation shows the outside. Show more of the context and the experience of being on the roof. Show the relationship between the spaces and the city. Further Comments A strong project with an ambitious complexity. Still worth doing a little more exploration and testing. Use the IDA technical report to now really explore structure, materiality and the experience of the spaces in more detail. Explore one or two apartments in more detail and at a larger scale.

My notes ‘System makes you free’ J.P. Visuals at night. How DH + LH looks at night from the street level? Plans – shade/ colour. Separate units – scheme Florian Beigel – ‘Village on top’

Test it: Village on top? Do I see it? Do I want to? Inside wall straight? Visuals of inside Mystery ?

University graduate attributes A1 Self awareness: to have the attribute of knowing oneself and be able to understand and clarify personal strengths and weaknesses through personal development planning; to be able to develop career management tools and to represent one’s own abilities with confidence and self esteem A2 Performance in a variety of idioms and contexts: to have the attribute of understanding the limits and applicability of the subject discipline and to be able to perform as a graduate in a variety

of idioms and contexts by incorporating a fluent awareness of the subject and the wider picture into personal, and professional practice, and to be able to communicate this awareness effectively. A3 Creative and ethical: to have the attribute of analyzing problems and making creative and purposeful change and adaptation with an awareness of ethical and moral codes and demonstrating integrity of conduct, including an awareness of, and respect for, cultural diversity

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Construct a collage, using one of the cityscape photographs, of your first idea of a massing to crown the existing building. Leave out any details such as windows, in favour of a pure massing volume and a colour.

Urban figures

Take cityscape photographs from every possible location the existing building is wholly and partly visible from. Take two detail photographs of the existing building expressing; A) the material character; B) how the building ends at the top/meets the sky.

Photographs

As a studio compile oblique aerial photographic images of the entire study area containing all the sites. Print at an agreed scale in black and white on heavyweight paper.

Aerial photographs

The first exercise in designing new rooftop inhabitations will be one of addition. Not just to the building you will construct upon but to the city surrounding it. More detailed surveys of the existing buildings as well as the technical, spatial and circulation issues of the multiple unit apartment projects you will design will be considered in future briefs.

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References: ‘Climate Register ’ A & P Smithson, AA Publications, 1994 ‘Rachel Whiteread Drawings’ Prestel, 2010

Make a white painted timber site model of the existing building and its immediate context. Scale: 1:200. Materials: Timber & white paint. Be aware there are many different shades of white. Coordinate for all the site models within the studio to be painted with the same paint mixture. Take aerial oblique photographs of the site model as existing from different directions. Model your massing on the site model and photograph.

Site model

Consider the following: • Overhanging/ flush/set back/ shadow gap. • Height/ proportion in relation to the existing building and context. Is the massing as tall, taller or lower? • Straight/ tapered/ stepped volume. • Partially or wholly occupying the existing roof plan. Construct a collage, using your detail photograph of the existing building’s roof edge, to express the material quality of your massing proposal and how it meets the existing. Consider the following: • Surface quality: shiny/ matt/ coarse/ smooth/ colour. • Scale, jointing, profile and even weathering of the material.

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Existing building Plinth Model Make an MDF model at a scale of 1:50 of the existing building. This is to be the ‘plinth’ for your own

Plans and Sections Draw line drawings of the plans and sections at a scale of 1:50. These do not have to be as detailed as the elevational drawings. As a minimum, draw the ground floor plan showing entrances and relationships to the street, the top floor plan and the roof plan. Draw sections through the building that show internal structures, spaces and vertical circulation.

Elevations Draw all the elevations of your base building at a scale of 1:50 in monochrome (black or grey) line only. Use available drawings, your own survey notes and photographs to make an accurate catalogue of drawings in the same way that Rubens produced a consistently drawn record of the Palaces of Genoa. Use line weights to convey depth, hierarchy of detail and materiality. Any details, joints and brick courses should be accurately drawn along with signage and other accretions.

In this brief you will consider the existing building that you will build upon in more detail in terms of its structural, functional, spatial, elevational and material qualities.

City Crowns

References: ‘Palazzi Di Genova ’ Pietro Paolo Rubens, Tormena Editore, 2001 (first edition. 1622) ‘Caruso St John,Almost Everything,’ Editiones Poligrafa, 2008

Core, Units and Circulation Draw plan and section diagrams of circulation, using existing or proposed new cores to reach the rooftop. Show residential units layouts and potential shared spaces. Third years should consider uses within the building, technical and regulatory aspects.

Testing Scales of Inhabitation Place your 1:50 precedent model from brief 2 on the existing building model, photograph it and draw it on the roof plan. Situate the unit on the roof and consider what is needed to support it. Consider the scale of the living spaces compared to your previous massing studies and the spatial consequences of multiple units.

rooftop apartment building. The model facades are to be constructed of thin layers of MDF on a thicker background sheet. Set in relief, the windows will therefore be blank and solid with no views into the interior. Simplify and abstract the detail of the façades whilst retaining their character. Consider the depth of the façade and its details such as cornices, lintels, string courses, moldings, window frames and piers when designing model templates.

Existing Building

Brief 4.2 Section from ‘Palazzi Di Genova,’ Pietro Paolo Rubens, first edition 1622 King’s Cross Office building study model, Caruso St John, 2003

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Structure Ensure the load of proposed rooftop development is brought down the existing structure, whether directly or through a transfer structure, or with additional structure. Consider the

Internal Layouts Consider in more detail how internal apartment layouts relate to communal circulation areas and outdoor private areas as well as vertical cores and access to the roof. Clarify apartment type; on one or more floors, open plan or separate rooms, duplex, family or courtyard apartments? How do you propose a way of life in this rooftop world, a different experience of the city, the views and the sky? Draw 1:50 plans and sections.

Elevations Continue your elevation drawings up at 1:50 with proposed elevations of the addition, including details and materiality. How does the experience of the city from the interior manifest itself in the façade, through windows, terraces etc?

Having established detailed information on the existing building as well as diagrammatic plan layouts and massing of your rooftop apartment addition you will now move towards a resolved proposition. This brief will focus on the relationship between the inside and outside.

City Crowns

References: ‘Floor Plan Manual - Housing,’ Birkhauser, (4th edition 2011)

Scenario Clarify the scenario whether private flats, ancillary to the existing facilities below, or in some way collective with a shared outdoor area or room.

Rooftop Outlook Illustrate the experience of the city from the interior using the methods of representation developed in brief 2. Consider the design of the window and façade when making this image. Whether through a window, terrace, courtyard or rooflight. Try to recreate views using photos from the roof of the existing building if access is possible.

Models Update 1:250 models and use the 1:50 model to make sketch models to show how interior relates to exterior

Buildability How is the rooftop development to be built? Introduce ideas of structure and prefabrication. Explore concepts of repetition, modularity and lightweight construction, expressed or concealed structure. Consider how services could connect through the existing risers.

scale of the development, including the number of units and number of stories.

Interior - Exterior

Brief 4.3 Interior render, Residential building, Zug, Valerio Olgiati, 2006 Elevation of the top of 51Rue Reynouard, Paris, Auguste Perret, 1930

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