Central Saint Martins - University of Arts, London MA Architecture and MA Architecture: Cities and Innovation 2015-2016 Course Director: Mel Dodd Associate Lecturer: Andreas Lang
Contents
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Introduction to Course
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Call for Action
I 10 14 18 22 26 30 34 38
Individual Projects
II 44 46 48 50 52 54 56
Collective Events
Introduction to Call for Action
Artiandi Akbar
Mikel Azcona Uribe
Ilaria Elena Catalano
Jennifer Adalia McPherson
Carla Motola
Alma Ami Mpungwe
Neba Sere
Kaiyan Yu
WIP Show
Trade Protest
Walk Talk
Cooking
Placemaking and Sound Exhibition
Visiting Guests
Call For Action M - callforaction.group@gmail.com F - facebook/CallForActionG T - @CallForActionG 2
All photo courtesy Call for Action unless otherwise stated
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I N T R OD U C T IO N t o C O UR SE Mel Dodd Andreas Lang
We see the production of space as fundamentally social and political, supporting not only the development of radical ideas but also the radical potential of making and building. Our students design for, and reflect upon, the human environment as an ever-changing crucible of ideas, places, needs and desires. On the path towards qualification as an architect, our students debate the responsibilities of architecture in the contemporary world.
I N T RO D U C T I O N t o C A L L F O R A C T I O N Artiandi Akbar Mikel Azkona Uribe Ilaria Elena Catalano Volha Khadanovich Jennifer Adalia McPherson Carla Motola Alma Ami Mpungwe Neba Sere
We understand architecture as a multifaceted practice involving and engaging a broader range of people, conflicts and contexts. As students of the discipline we are looking at methodologies of pushing the limits of an architect’s role in society. Witnessed through 9 projects and sites across London and Dar es Salaam, the conditions and encounters in each community and/or situation represent a complex set of arguably, necessary conflicts. In the following projects, an emphasis has been put into actions on site, aiding in a holistic understanding of the culture, systems and policy planning around issues. We have thus identified urgencies that have offered opportunities for innovative approaches for further study and proposition. The methods we have developed have intervened across social borders and have created opportunities for us to suggest possible futures for more inclusive perspectives. We stand under the title, Call For Action, which involves a series of events and interactions on various site in the hope to catalyse change and to challenge everyday protocols.
Kaiyan Yu
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INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS
Buil d ing Car ing Dispr o gramming S pace fo r Ca r e in the Pr i vati z ed E c ol ogy Author Artiandi Akbar Co-Supervisor Pierre D’Avoine Collaborators Mustava Shakri [Royal College Barber] Contacts artiandi_akbar@ yahoo.co.uk +44 (0) 7477 227582
Care is a key consideration of the welfare state. However, evidence of gaps in quality in NHS hospitals generally underscores the urgent need to develop new models, not only in how care is organized institutionally, but also in how it is delivered to the public. How architecture can react to this demand is a challenge addressed in this project. Compared to institutional care, a rather informal space for care such as Royal College Barber in Camden has continuously enabled a seamless transition from institutional-based support to community-based care for city dwellers. Arranged intimately as a concentrated space with seating, opening onto the sidewalk with direct access, the barber provides a contrast to the sterility of many institutional care services in London. The barber can be seen as a space that encourages the idea of everyday care rather than a machine of frozen service. By producing a reinvention of care delivery and reorganization, this project explores how the programmatic informality of the Royal College Barber can be inserted as strategic contamination for London’s care institutions, through a proposal of adjustments for St Pancras Hospital, Camden.
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Attempt at Exhausting a Barber
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Language as Program
Constructed Situation
Bo os t in g Hy per Ag ency i n d u s try is bac k! Author Mikel Azkona Uribe Co-Supervisor Collaborators GLA Regeneration CASS Cities James Glancy Design Ltd Studio Make Create DIY Space for London Tome Records Flux Metal Ltd Chloe Dewe Mathews Just Space Peckham Weeklies Contacts m.azkonauribe@ gmail.com +44 (0) 7852 638389
Industry is under threat. Old Kent Road is one of the last industrial locations in central London and with the publication of the Old Kent Road AAP/OAPF opportunity area Draft Plan, +20,000 new homes and the extension of the Bakerloo Line, this area has become of popular interest. 1,285 of these homes will be located in Hatcham Road site displacing blacksmiths and records shops, coachworks and churches, printers and icecream-vans that have flexibly coexisted, pushing the boundaries of neighbouring, infrastructure and zoning. Accepting the questionable housing goals presented by the plan as an imposed condition, the project explores the integration of residential developments into the industrial fabric by pushing the adjacency of activities: assimilation as opposed to dislocation. Impersonated as 4 personas, the project also proposes a 4-band-strategy: a filmmaker, learning from the site and engaging with locals; a whistleblower, creating networks and spreading the word; a planner contesting existing planning and proposing new policies; and an architect introducing ways to develop the site through exploring incremental architecture and pushing the intensification towards a Hyper-Adjacency. A good city has to have industry - and this project explores how.
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Industrial Walk Industrious Talk, Hatcham Road Industrial Area, 4th June 2016
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Incremental gradual growth in Hatcham Industrial Area, 2031
Incremental gradual growth in the Toaster Factory, 2031
ed i b l e s e aso n A N ew Lands cape Mar ket Author Ilaria Elena Catalano Co-Supervisor Andrew Merritt Collaborators London Port Health Authority Imported Food Office Leila McAlister Alastair Owen Contacts ilaria.elena.catalano@gmail.com +44 (0) 7479 481432
Most of the food we eat is processed, packaged, shipped, stored and sold under a permanent and artificial winter passing through a vast network of chilled warehouses, processing plants, containers and retail display cases. Welcome to the ‘coldscape’ (Nicola Twilley): the architecture of man’s struggle against time and distance. The cold chain has reshaped our food system and created the permanent global summertime we regularly experience in our supermarket aisles. Contemporary supermarkets are designed to influence consumers into behaving unsustainably with food relying upon cold storage. Investigating and occupying one of them – Tesco Superstore in Old Kent Road, Southwark – Edible Season proposes a new typology of landscape supermarket where the weather is in control. Through the rational use of materials and orientation, the store performs as an evaporative cooling refrigeration device, similar to that of a ‘zeer pot’, a traditional cooling device for food. Fresh agriculture produces are grown, harvested, stored, fermented, dehydrated and sold in different temperature conditions. The project introduces vernacular and traditional techniques of food production and trade: the velina (tissue paper), an old italian method of wrapping the fruits; and the fruit walls, which used to exist in Britain in the 16th century. Knowledge, production and consumption of food are directly carried into the hands and stomachs of consumers.
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Apple Market, Peckham, October 2015
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Supermarket without refrigeration
Ho w, W h en and W her e To? A d dres s in g C ontested Spac es i n B rix ton Author Jennifer Adalia McPherson Co-Supervisor Jes Fernie Collaborators Gort Scott Architects Chris Hilborne Brixton Arches: Michael’s Meats Stellas Exclusive Hair and Beauty Salon Cheques Topps Dry Cleaning Talho Portuguese Butchers Budget Carpets Joyful Cafe One Love Café LS Mash & Sons Kings Car Hire Contact jennifer.adalia26@ googlemail.com +44 (0) 7595 365886
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Identification with a particular space is achieved through the relations an individual builds with their surroundings. As a result, such spaces fundamentally document and form part of ‘everyday’ life. These types of exchanges need to be quantified according to how much value they provide to the community - particularly the importance of less regulated space, and the ability for intercultural exchange to provide diversity, economic coexistence and social cohesion for communities. Traders and tenants within the Brixton Arches give Brixton its distinctive character and culture. Yet, local businesses in the Arches are being displaced during the refurbishment plans proposed by Network Rail, which is taking place between August 2016 and December 2017. What will happen to the businesses within this time frame? Network Rail hasn’t formally proposed a strategy for the temporary relocation of these businesses, so can the tenants take advantage of this situation? Contested spaces within a redeveloped site such as Brixton become controversial at a local level and cause conflict between established community members, business owners and developers. This project attempts to capture and contest this displacement, and engage the community through actions on site and speculations on a relocation of the Brixton Arches trader.
Michael’s Meats, Brixton, October 2015
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Axonometric Brixton Valentia Place and Strategy Timeline
S u bver s ive Fo l ly Re - en act ment of Lost R ights Author Carla Motola Co-Supervisor Alberto Duman Collaborators Rick, Land Securities Metthew, Museum of London Docklands Thomas, Canal and River Trust Canary Wharf Corporation Kesia Guillery David Roberts William Dickinson Contacts carla.motola@ gmail.com +44 (0) 7851 894605
This project re-claims Canary Wharf through a temporary occupation disguised as a series of public realm follies. Addressing rights which are denied in the area, it focuses on the right to protest, even the right to gather above a certain number without arousing suspicion, by providing a series of bespoke and ‘scenographic’ settings for both public and dramatic use. The idea of protesting in the traditional sense has transformed into a hybrid form of performance, which uses the historical legacy of a ‘re-enactment’ to speak about contemporary struggles. The project mobilizes local history drawing on the London Dockers Strike of 1889, in which hundreds of thousands of Dockers protested for their work rights, marching in front of their workspaces. It proposes a curated live performance or ‘reenactment’ of this strike, mainly in Canary Wharf, where part of the strike and protest took place, to re- claim the right to protest. It implicitly asks, who could impersonate the Dockers in our contemporary scenario? Who is representative of the ‘new precariousness’? In some cases the narration refers to the intrusive form control within Canary Wharf’s boundaries; in others to the very contemporary struggles of not having a secure job position or a house. What’s the legacy of this re-enactment? Will it leave a trace once is gone? How can the architecture of public space contribute to protest and civil rights?
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November 2015, Canary Wharf
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Subservive folly n째1 - Speak Loud, Subservive folly n째2 - The Detector Mill
Subservive folly n째3 - Compulsory 8th Tower, Subservive folly n째4 - 12 Weeks Cage
I n f or m a l Inc ub at o r B l u rrin g For mal and I nf or mal En titie s Author Alma Ami Mpungwe Co-Supervisor Julia King Collaborators Kariakoo Market Corporation Vedastus Valentine Anoek De Smet Nassoro Baraza Kleist Sykes Contacts almampungwe@ gmail.com +44 (0) 7477 434704
Through the lens of Kariakoo Market in Dar es Salaam this project tackles the disjuncture between lived informality on the ground and the western typology of a market building. Historically in Kariakoo, the market has been home to informal traders who occupy peripheral, streets and who ‘value-add’ to the market as a core building. Increasingly over the past decade these informal unlicensed traders who are integral to neighbourhood trading systems, have become vulnerable to repeated relocation swoops by the municipality keen to ‘sanitize’ and ‘modernise’ the market. After numerous failed attempts to relocate traders and a recent move by the Kariakoo Market Corporation to develop the adjacent plot into a 30-storey building for offices and parking; the Informal Incubator proposes an extension of the market. Employing a strategic programme of temporary and vacant spaces, the project allows for the emergence of informal trading off and along an elevated street wrapped around a new extension of the existing market. The project appropriates the use of khanga, an everyday clothing item worn by all social classes in Tanzania, as a cultural ‘delivery vehicle’. In the face of routine evictions the proposed Khanga displays rights that seeks to empower the informal traders.
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Khanga in Kariakoo, 3 January 2016
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Extended Market Proposal
W h er e S h o uld I l iv e? S q uatting t he Gr eenbelt Author Neba Sere Co-Supervisor Torange Khonsari Collaborators Chris Samuel James Dina Milly Lorna Phil Luke Shannon Tamu Kathrina Contacts neba_sere@yahoo. de +44 (0) 7927 724060
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To most Londoner’s buying your own home is both held an an ideal, and yet is simultaneously denied. A major reason for this is that property value comprises 50% of land value. Policies like ‘Right to Buy’ create an unhelpful accumulation of these values through mortgages and loans, and so a dependency on a faulty system. Can we aspire to another form of ‘ownership’; one that is continuously negotiable and non-static? If public land is accessible and vacant in the city, should it be grabbed and occupied for creating housing by each of us? Occupying land for over 12 years creates the opportunity to become a rightful owner. Squatting becomes a tool to live consciously outside of society and its rules, supporting a greater ideal to be a society which is more autonomous and which depends on itself rather than on hand outs from banks or government. Squatting the Greenbelt takes one of these vacancies and proposes a strategy for squatting it over a period of twelve years to protect the land from large-scale development and to create a self-sufficient neighborhood using permitted development rules. There will always be vacant land to occupy and so there should always be the opportunity to aspire to a different form of civic life.
Alternative Housing, Leytonstone, January 2016
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Axonometric, Nutter Farm, 2028
Ca p ita l is m w it h C hinese Characteristics Ro oft o p Market in C hi natown Author Kaiyan Yu Co-Supervisor Darryl Chen Collaborators Nianhai Chen Tingting Yu Contacts k.yu4@arts.ac.uk +44 (0) 7955 456713
The Chinatown phenomena is one which arguably allows locals to become acquainted with Chinese culture including its customs and traditional cuisine. At the same time most Chinatowns have their own typology and a quasi-pastiche narrative, such that the reality of western Chinatown’s is far from the reality of contemporary China. This project looks below the surface of Chinatown in London’s Soho, studying everyday characteristics of its society and economy, including both land ownership, rising rents which threaten the catering industry, and local Chinese Community Centre activities which seek to uphold a more authentic cultural tradition. Is it more appropriate to allow Chinatown special rules to enhance its ethnic particularity? The rule proposed in this project can be called Capitalism with Chinese characteristics. Under the particular policy, a rooftop market offers a surge in architectural innovation in Chinatown, better using the city’s second layer. It not only eases the pressure of high rents, but also draws reference to the vertical and informal intensity of Asian urbanism, better capturing the real China.
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Leicester Square Station, October 2016
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New Chinatown
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COLLECTIVE events
W i p s ho w W I P S HO W Date 12-15 · 01 · 2016 Location Central Saint Martins
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The yearly ‘Work in Progress’ Show invites visitors to see MA projects of different CSM courses in their first stages. Our main focus was to draw attention to our allocated space in a simple way and bring across our main message and thematic. Using the height of the building was almost unavoidable. As most of us prepared drawings, we decided to hang those from trusses that are suspended from the almost 15m high ceiling. The space is thus left mostly free to walk freely and look at the banners without thinking about how to move. We had the aim to create a simple but beautiful design, using enzo mari’s autoprogettazione as a guideline for the trusses with 2x2 thin timber.
Work In Progress Show, Central Saint Martins
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TRAD E L e t’s Talk Lambeth Date 28 · 01 · 2016 Location Pop Brixton Loughbrough Junction Host Jennifer Adalia McPherson Guests Impact Hub Carl Turner Edible Bus Stop Loughbrough Farm
Site visits which laid out the different levels of contested spaces within Lambeth. Specifically by getting insight into the different types of models for workspace, enterprises and pop up spaces as a result of the redevelopment taking place in the area. To consider how these models and alternatives within the redevelopment of Brixton have created tension between the new and the old. A chalk drawing intervention was then drawn on site, to contest Lambeth Council’s strategy in the Master Plan of Brixton Central for Pop Brixton, which specified how the workshops and retail units would be at affordable prices, subsidized rates, for local people, events curated by local people and would support local trade. Pop Brixton with Carl Turner, Brixton
H o w, W hen and WHER E To Date 03 · 06 · 2016 Location Brixton Host CFA
As part of the 2016 festival of architecture, CFA hosts an event in one of the Brixton arches. The aim of our action was to create a dialogue between us and the local vendors to understand the tensions and issues arising though the refurbishment plan, conducted by network rail. By building a portable arch, we are creating a memorial that displays soon to be evicted vendors & their shop names.
Guests Brixton Arches
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Max Snack Bar, Brixton
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p rot e s t H o us in g b ill mar c h Date 01 · 01 · 2016 Location Elephant and Castle to Downing Street Host Neba Sere
In January 2016 thousands of Londoner’s and Call For Action went to the streets to demonstrate against a new Housing Bill that was soon to be introduced by the government. The bill would mean a significant loss of social housing, threatening the future of millions of households across Britain. We marched, sang and shouted together to stand up against deepening inequality and for our human rights, to have an adequate home. Unfortunately the Bill has been pushed through now and we need to continue fighting it.
Housing Bill March, Downing Street
K i l l t h e h ou si ng bi ll Date 13 · 03 · 2016 Location From Lincoln’s Field to Victoria Tower Gardens
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Following the Housing Bill March, Call For Action joined thousands of britons in a final UK wide demonstration against the housing bill in March 2016. This march was the last opportunity to protest out loud against the Housing Bill and brought together hundreds of associations, collectives, communities, unions around the UK in a colourful vibrant fest.
Kill the Housing Bill, Westminster
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wal k ta l k co ns t ellation of c ar e Date 16 · 02 · 2016 Location Granary Square Camley Park Old St. Pancras Church Royal College Barber Host Artiandi Akbar Guests Mustava Shakiri
Constellation of Care tries to contribute to a deeper understanding about the city-scale writing in that may bring forth the idea of Care in the ever-privatized London. Using Drift Photography as a means of exploration, the event is conducted in form of guided tour that adopts 35 mm disposable camera as instrument to explore the idea of care around King’s Cross and Camden borough. Though destructive and unstable, participant invited to leave vestiges and clues for observation, collection and contemplation through their filmic perspective. Drift Photography invites and allows participant to explore different imagining of the issue around the toured places through the narrative of their captured image.
Royal College Barber, Camden
i n d u s trial walk, i nd ustr ious ta l k Date 04 · 06 · 2016 Location Hatcham Industrial Area Host Mikel Azcona Uribe
The walk event aimed to gather neighbours, local communities, businesses, activists and different stakeholders to analyse, discuss and contest the newly published Old Kent Road AAP/OAPF plan on-site, opening a discussion about the future of the area and its thriving industrial activities. A series of posters tried to bring the discussion about what some key policies would mean for the site. The event ended at the DIY Space for London, where Cass Cities (MET) students also presented their OKR Audit research document. This event was part of the London Festival of Architecture 2016 programme.
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Industrial Walk, Industrious Talk, Hatcham Industrial Area
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co oking ca l l fo r b ru nc h Date 25 · 02 · 2016 Location Central Saint Martins Host CFA
Call for Brunch is a different take on a formal/traditional crit. Instead of presents our project individually plus formally, we decide to present ourselves as a group fist through a video collecting all our common work and then continue to discuss our individual project on a lunch table settg. Bring tutors and students on the same level, sharing food, drink and having a joyful atmosphere.
Guests Torange Khonsari David Cross Gonzalo Delicado Kim Trogal
Brunch Crits, Central Saint Martins
D i m s u m co o ki ng lesson Date 06 · 03 · 2016 Location Chinatown
Dim Sum class in Chinese Community Centre has run for about 3 years. But few people know. The Centre’s mission is to preserve and promote Chinese culture, arts and identity. Dim sum is one way to get acquainted with Chinese culture.
Host Kaiyan Yu Guests Chinatown Community
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Dim Sum Class, Chinatown community
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p l ac em aking - So und ex hibition W e mb ley Date 16 · 01 · 2016 Location Wembley Park Drive
The competition Wembley Park Drive Placemaking invited young architects, artists and designers to propose ideas to draw visitors to Wembley Park Drive through identity and placemaking solutions. We decided to engage with this entirely new site to all of us through initiating an action on site. To understand existing networks, we collected names and objects from present vendors and arranged them on an allocated space. The space on an triangular between 3 main street, became a very exposed stage that hosted our ‘street party’.
Placemaking, Wembley Park Drive
k a r iakoo s oundsc ape Date 04 · 03 · 2016 Location Name Host Alma Ami Mpungwe Guests Aurelie Lierman
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This event brings Kariakoo to London through sound. How do architects see or draw space through sound? This project was in collaboration with Aurélie Lierman, a Belgian born sound artist. From the artist: “It’s hard to speak of one specific ‘protagonist’ in “KARIAKOO”. Since the ‘superstar’ in this story is not a person but a geographical spot. Not one human being but a whole neighborhood. Not singular but plural. “KARIAKOO” is about the whole community of individuals who are living or working, visiting or just walking accidentally in and out Kariakoo: all together forming a highly unique polyphony of ‘voices’ creating a sonic environment with a clearly defined identity”. Can you draw without seeing?, LVMH Theatre, Central Saint Martins
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VI S IT IN G GUEST S A n dy, T o m, Mar a, N a da, Adam, M ing, R osa Date Oct and Nov 2015 Location Central Saint Martins
S A M AITK ENH E AD Date 29 · 10 · 2015 Location Central Saint Martins
S A M B RO W N Date 5 · 11 · 2015 Location Central Saint Martins
W I L L AN DERS ON Date 19 · 11 · 2015 Location Central Saint Martins
ji m s e ge rs Date 1 · 12 · 2015 Location Central Saint Martins
tora n ge Kh on s a ri Date 3 · 12 · 2015 Location Central Saint Martins
david c ros s Date 3 · 03 · 2016 Location Central Saint Martins
hugo h in s l e y Date 09 · 03 · 2016 Location AA - School of Architecture
M A R KU S LAH T EENMAKI Date 12 · 11 · 2015 | 26 · 11 · 2015 Location Futura House | AA Archives
Visit at AA Archives with Markus Lahteenmaki, 26 November 2015