SUMMER - SPRING 2013
ARENA aatelier.org PARIS
ARENA S/S 2013
19 MARCH -29 MARCH
Tutor: Michael Pryor, Founder of FormulArch Lecturers: Gilles Restin, Architect Guest Critics: Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou, ArchiLab Program Manager of FRAC Région Centre Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Kar Hwa Ho, Louis Vuitton Architecture Design Director Gilles Retsin, Architect
ABOUT ARENA In order to encourage an in depth re-thinking about Catwalks as a new terrain for architectural experimentation, we will focus on the conceptual development of multi-scalar systems. Arena will examine architectural properties of the fashion spectrum uncovered so far within the research of the AA Visiting School in Paris: a new era for retail, urban systems as the catwalk scene, and ephemeral structures as popup typologies, among others. Design methodology will involve a feedback between a set of main areas of exploration and experimentation, with the use of digital tooling and production processes. Students will be required to develop their understanding of the constantly evolving trends and rules in fashion in relation to a specific urban context, an extreme scenario, or a mix of both.
Student_Country // S/S 2013 : Jeremie Katidjo-Monnier_France, Kostantina Galiotou_
Greece,Wenxin Chen_China, Olivia Macfarlane_New Zealand, Fofo Kalfa_Greece, Gabriela
Siman_El Salvador, Eglantine Beau_France, Rojiar Soleimani_Iran, Abigail Watts-Cherry_
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Elastic [un]dulations, Computational Drapery Abigail Watts-Cherry (Great Britain)
THE STUDIO
catwalk design AAtelier, Spring/ Summer 2013 The workshop will consist primarily of the disposition between fashion and context to evolve the idea of what we consider to be the fashion arena. This space will be derived through new architectural languages developed via the analysis of specific fashion items intertwined with the unique elements of the choosen site. Developments throughout the course will take place in both the physical and digital realms of design via 3D models, collages, diagrams, pysical models, drawings, and any other means necessary. The process for the workshop breaks down as follows:
Elastic [un]dulations, Structural Studies Abigail Watts-Cherry (Great Britain)
Hyper [4] Souk, Interiorities Stratification Rojiar Soleimani (Iran)
Arch-Rachis, Catwalk Design Proposal Wenxin Chen (China)
Inside Out, Physical Experimentations Olivia Macfarlane (New Zealand)
DE OUT
design studio
Inside Out, Interior Perspectives INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE Olivia Macfarlane (New Zealand)
Student Name: OLIVIA MACFARLANE
INSIDE OUT catwalk design studio
INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE
Stude OLIVIA MACF
Extrinsic Constrictions, Catwalk Strategies Fofo Kalfa (Greece)
Embodied Ephemerality, Catwalk Strategies Gabriela Siman (El Salvador)
Elastic [un]dulations, Catwalk Strategies Abigail Watts-Cherry (Great Britain)
CONTACT AAtelier Paris e e w t
Jorge Ayala, Director info@jorge-ayala.com info@ayarchitecture.com aatelier.org +33 183 5656 03
AA London Chris Pierce, AAVS Director e visitingschool@aaschool.ac.uk w aaschool.ac.uk t +44 20 7887 4000