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CONTENTS
2.1.1 Translate 2.1.2 Skeleton Logic
Framing Levenhulme
Lyon Study Trip
2.2.1 Light and Heavy Construction 2.2.2 Levenshulme Life Show + Tell Text
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INTRODUCTION: DIALECTICS
ANALOG VS. DIGITAL -
POETRY VS. PERFORMANCE
COLLECTIVE VS. INDIVIDUAL
Architectural education occupies a see-saw between practicing Architects -
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2.1.1 :TRANSLATE -
site. -
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Blind Plans 1. Ford Foundation Headquar ters - Kevin Roche. 2. Gilli House - Unknown 3. La Muralla Roja - Ricardo Bofil
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PRECEDENTS 2.1 Precedents were recorded on a visual log, with architects, artists and the natural world.
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2.1.2: SKELETON LOGIC
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PHASE 1 necessitated the fabrication of a series of cantilevered to be harder than anticipated, tached to one concept, it was This was a valuable process. useful strategies, proving to
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PHASE 2
phase, an obsession ensued -
loid. The shape occupies an unusual position in that it can be produced through analog and digital plotting of the parabolic curve processes whilst the three often used as a lightweight
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PHASE 3 The third phase of the project
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ules proved to be useful tools in -
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FRAMING LEVENSHULME
FRAMING
What does Levenshulme represent? FILM
LEVENSHULME
How is Levenshulme represented?
ATLAS
cal understanding of the people and places of
interviews
ATLAS physical
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of the area.
street scenes
psycho-geographical
screen recordings
historical
3,000 words photographs
urban plans.
socio-cultural
round table discussions
infographics
diagrams
referenced information
scale drawings
diagrams
perspectives
historical maps
analytical diagrams
REPORTAGE
insight into the urban fabric, without a single diinaccessible for the outsider.
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URBAN FUTURES Triangle in Swindon, as social -
design principals in Levens-
understanding how the area sits within Urbanist agendas.
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TOPOGRAPHY plan with wider research into the properties of the site. were
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buildings. contoured landscapes, I began to understand the
dresses the sloped condition.
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PRECEDENTS 1.
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of a blog found here :
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1. Peter Eisenmann’s explorations into the permutations of the 9 square grid on ‘House X’ 2. Robert Smithson’s ‘Partially buried woodshed.’
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PARAMETERS
loid within the nine square grid.
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attributes and relationships, whilst undergoing changes in orientation and scale. These tools are often a point of contention as -
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FABRICATION
tools.
This was eroded, leaving behind a single
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STUDY TRIP
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LYON
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GIVORS -
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2.2
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2.2.1: LIGHT AND HEAVY
the facade.
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generating drawings and cutting -
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PROGRAM
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Once it was established that
space. -
volunteers and public engage-
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PHENOMENA ings, an appreciation of the lived
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illustrate the possible scenarios within the occupation of the buildand spaces.
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and left without direciton or purpose.
in the urban fabric for this reason.
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ECOLOGY
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design.
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SYSTEM as follows:
2. Pellet Heating
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PARTI
site, treating certain spaces as satellites be retained whilst allowing circulation throughout the site. spatial strategies.
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MASSING established, it was possible patterns therein.
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ANALYSIS The advent of Grasshopper as a design tool has opened up opportunities for factors in a building, at the point of tions to consider, but the overall fenesgains, and in turn, the release of latent Once again, these tools can be seen as -
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THE GRID Distilling the precedent to a structural grid grounded in the creation of thresholds and vistas.
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SECTION section, in order to understand vertical circulation patterns.
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PLAN
be translated to gain better circulation patterns later on. 35
JANUS on the road, whilst the North Elevation develops
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CONDITIONS The difference in elevation between the north and the south created two differ-
1.
The Edge Condition: As the build-
need for a retaining wall below ground.
print creates a triangular enclave, acting as a respite within the linear
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the overall spatial organisation and circulation patterns on site. 37
HUMANITIES oped and evolved just as the build-
understanding of how public furniture through ethnographic research in participant observation. Run together (Infrastructure and Urban Change)
the public interstices.
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TECH WEEK ect. An understanding of both the overall tectonics and the detailed
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DETAIL or 1:5. I have found these drawings to be invaluable, however, in the production of a coherant
own.
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EXTERNAL LIGHTING Although the building is
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walls,whilst the internal lights cast shadows through the tunnel of the entrance. The steps joining the street to
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INTERIOR LIGHTING
positioned at ten points on the grid of coffered slabs. gaps in coffers.
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HEAT RECOVERY Cold air in
Heat exchanger warms incoming air.
Exhaust air out
Public spaces temperature regualted Heat extracted from industrial spaces.
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PELLET HEATING
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RESOLUTION
rendering abilities, and ensured that I
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detatched transport arteries of Leven-
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North and South Elevations illusbuilding as the concrete wall differs
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part of the design. It reissues researched in the whilst utilising the structural
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FABRICATION
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CONCLUSION
began as a loose concept.
greater understanding of the position an architect can hold in practice, as techniques learnt
topian visions of the future. The other is to respect
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intuitions.
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