Unit 6
CARBON Counselling
Isaie Bloch, Jakub Klaska
Following this years common theme “towards 0% carbon and 100% people” we will investigate the institution which sole purpose is to represent its citizens as well as its societal visions, in the most multicultural yet potentially most detached part of Europe, London UK. The growing complexity and intricacy of our civilization fuelled by digitalisation and automation presents new challenges to the way town halls and city halls should run. Should these governmental institutions solely cater as administrative representation of their citizens and as such become obsolete? Or could these operate as a novel mechanisms for communication between and with its citizens? We believe that architects should investigate the implications of fully automated administration on such institutions and as such re-investigate what other roles governmental buildings should provide to its citizens. Artful construction as role model for the city and beyond. Architects cannot change the behaviour of existing users, clients nor laws. But we can provide an architecture which enables those changes to take place. We will aim to prove that architecture and its construction process has a fundamental impact on the city and its inhabitants. This ultimate belief will fuel our design thinking and propositions. Our spatial explorations will account for diversity of human characters and their needs, represented through novel well crafted city or council halls, which ultimately are architectural representations of us all. Catering for complex problem solving, creativity, critical thinking and decision making. Much like the past two years we will look into timber construction as the material for the future. Our design process will take a deep interest in the art of construction and direct application of learnt principles back into design. Such approach leads to full authorship at the deepest level and gives us total control over the architectural proposition. This opens a great opportunity to contribute to more sustainable
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
futures both politically, environmentally, socially and economically. Out of a believe that public buildings founded by our common efforts should be the vehicle for the technological shift towards more sustainable forms of construction and operation. We will investigate how a town hall, a key communication device, can be transformed in order to fulfil environmental, societal and architectural ambitions. The commitment to low carbon construction we see as investment into applied research, a non-ideological evidence-based design process that has the potential to uncover new leveraging methods of construction able to deliver the yet unseen architectures. The artful construction and learning process We will aim to prove that architecture can affect the learning process at the deepest level. This ultimate belief will fuel our investigation on educational typologies. Our spatial explorations will account for diversity of human characters and the inherent curiosity human beings possess. Catering for complex problem solving, emotional intelligence, creativity, critical thinking, judgement and decision making over STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) oriented learning. Much like the learning process we will aim to comprehend, learn and author the art of construction. More specifically looking into timber construction and its by-products. Our design process will take a deep interest in the art of construction and direct application of learnt principles back into design. Such approach leads to full authorship at the deepest level and gives us total control over the architectural proposition. This opens a great opportunity to contribute to more sustainable futures both politically, environmentally, socially and economically. In order to develop architecture of considered expression we will employ design strategies that synthetize the inner logics of how to deal with material and construction processes as to produce comprehensive architectural propositions.
