Oliver Hester - The Exchanging room DIARY

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Oliver Hester

THE EXCHANGING ROOM

Introduction

Project summary

We are producing a framework that uses existing neglected spaces in the UK, and temporarily adapts them to cater for refugees, who are in the process of claiming asylum, and are at the initial stages of integrating into the local host community.

The proposal is rapidly deployable and has little to no impact on the site they are being placed in. This is achieved by adapting a traditional pallet racking system in an innovative and sensitive manner to create temporary structures.

setting and one internally within an existing building.

These proposals are located into ‘in-limbo’ sites. These sites are currently being used and occupied under ‘property guardianship’ schemes or are vacant, awaiting development.

This system temporarily inhabits these sites, creating an integrated unit within the existing infrastructure and community of a UK based city.

This system is at first, the initial reaction to refugees arriving in the UK and provides shelter for 19 days. These can be placed into abandoned urban locations such as warehouses or large public buildings. This proposal acts as a transitional system to begin an interaction between the host community and the refugee.

The next stage of the project then looks at implementing a semi permanent location for refugees to live in, this is located in 2 different typologies of space, one in an external

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Project Brief ‘Rapdidly’ deployable shelters 02/02/16 Studio talk, Jonas, Andrew and Eva The day began by finishing off and binding all of our ATA technology, we had stayed up late the night before trying to get it finished for the deadline, this too some time trying to get it all in the right place!

Once finishing this we handed it in and had about 15 minutes of ‘No work’ time! I would like to say I made the most of this opportunity, but I just had lunch and went back to studio to be briefed for a new project!

Brief being set, ‘Rapdidly’ deployable homes.

This was an excellent introduction to the brief and it installed a very passionate discussion with a range of opinions.

We met at 2 and finished at 7. The majority of this time was talking about the current ideas of what we will be exploring and how we will be going about it.

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In 2013 UNHCR reported that for the first time since WWII the number of refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced people worldwide exceeded 50 million ‘Guardian 20 June 2014’

CASS debate involving some idiot who wasted a lot of paper

We were given a 10 double sided page brief and immediately started to challenge what was written, even though we had no time to read it. This was always going to happen even if the brief was perfect! It was made very clear that Unit 4 really care about the current global situation, of displaced people and it was particularly interesting hearing everyone’s point of view.

The majority of the Unit questioned current parts of the brief and why it was set up in such a way. Discussions were had across the room and there were quite clearly some divided opinions. Andrew seemed to want us to all work as individuals to begin with but Jonas suggested working in small groups of 2 people max. This could be a good way of working but will have to see!

The brief for the next week was a research project and we are to have a range of design reviews at the end of the weeks.

We then finished off in the pub, table tennis was booked in a place called Bounce, for 10 but we didn’t manage to get there in the end, everyone was too tired from the all nighter the night before.

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Introduction Spring Semester (B) Team Heliomet & the Rapidly Deployable Shelters “Teachers are not judges, but propagate their own knowledge, point out the road to new horizons and learn with the students in previously unexplored fields .” - Frei Otto DESIGN CHALLENGE Semester B (spring semester) allows for an individual (UNIT04 5th Years & MA DAM) or small team based design exploration of the conception, design and development of a low cost and easily deployable and transportable building system manufactured off site and self-built and customized on site. This is an alternative to the commonly deployed temporary tent solutions or the more permanent container solutions manufactured off site and transported to its final location. The aim is to draw inspiration from some of the material research into 3d printing, engineered timber, post-tensioned lightweight and composite construction previously carried out by team Heliomet. The design output ought to be cost effective, lightweight, easy to transport and resilient product for deployment in situations where many dwellings and other building structures are needed rapidly where energy and resources are scarce and the climate is harsh. The ensuing product should easily be procured and deployed by a large organizations such as UN Habitat or UNHCR or smaller NGO’s that Unit04 & MA DAM is collaborating with.

BACKGROUND In 2013 UNHCR reported that for the first time since WWII the number of refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced peo ple worldwide exceeded 50 million (Guardian 20 June 2014) and if it was a single country it would be the 24th most populous country in the world. Our brief is about these politically charged transient communities. Many times these communities consists of tents or other prefabricated building products transported to site and organized as camps. UNHCR on the other hand believes from their experiences that it is preferable to allow the settlers build their own communities after guidelines and provision of materia l. This is often difficult on these site from a resource point of view but also politically since it can be perceived as something that can become permanent. We are attempting to learn from our research in off-site manufacture and on-site customized assembly to provide an inexpensive alternative that offer the benefits of both models without compromising the qualities of the designed environment.

MAKING AS PEDAGOGY Digital praxis has the capacity for a relatively seamless transition between design, fabrication and production resulting in an increasingly integrated workflow across the design and actualization process. Hybrid Making refers to design limitations and constraints of a complete work of art or ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’1 arising from team work, the consultation process with multi-disciplinary industry experts, industrial fabrication processes and work for actual clients. The design opportunities resulting from this making process are often leading to an unexpected design output with a clear design identity, quality and a sense of aesthetic with the potential to open unexplored fields of design.

In making an analogy with de-evolution of digital music to recapture a distinct digital sound, this time architecture might need to go through a de-evolution of the digital tools pursued and deployed. This favors the paradigms of Digital Pragmatism in order to use the medium of building in rejuvenating digitally inspired architecture in the plight for conjecture. This argument is based on th e assumption that invention comes about via the recombination and hybridization of existing practice with new materials, technology, tools and techniques. True innovation conversely arises from how those inventions are turned around in new forms of material practice and manifested in built form.

The Swiss engineer Heinz Isler once stated “One does not actually create the form; one lets it become, as it has to according to its own law” but at the same time he also paraphrased the lessons he received from Lardy, his professor, which Isler regarded as more important than his own technical knowhow: “a) that we have a sense for aesthetics b) that we have the right to use it c) that we are allowed to mention our opinion d) and that we can find and express it in our projects.”

As in Isler’s quote above suggests, a form becomes what it has to be according to its own law arising from the material itself conditioned by its design, fabrication and production. The SOL-IDs studio originates from an idea that any formal material output is 1

Gesamtkunstwerk in German refers to a complete work of art.

Unit04 & MA DAM & MA DAM 2015-2016 | Building Lab; SOL-ID:s | Andrew Grant, Elian Hirsch, Eva Diu and Jonas Lundberg of Urban Future Organization | www.asd-ddrs.org | www.teamheliomet.ac.uk

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driven by its own internal logic which is conditioned by its disciplinary context, the material type, and the design, fabrication and production tools utilized. The design content is directed by the subjective pursuit of quality and aesthetic expression.

CONSULTANCY Your tutors are familiar with the subject and context but are far from any experts. Most of all we are architects and designers with a particular skills in computation, fabrication and design but with a general interest in the subject and context. As architect s and designers, we generally work with specialized content via consultancy to barter expert skills and knowledge. This process is an integral part of successful multidisciplinary design project and you have already begun this journey during your tutorials re lated to computation, fabrication and design. In order for you to work with the subject of rapidly deployable shelters and the context of the Zaatari Camp with the same specificity we encourage you to seek out consultancy on your own but remember to keep it as a generative process.

The aims of Semester B’s Design exercise are: 1.

The Design & Development of a Rapidly Deployable Shelter in competition with your peers.

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To gain a general familiarity of the subject and context through research and consultancy.

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To develop a fabrication and site operation strategy for the realization of your Rapidly Deployable Shelter Prototype

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To test the fabrication and site operation strategy in large scale physical output

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To communicate design and development is singular large scale composite drawings.

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The possible realization and public exhibition of the Rapidly Deployable Shelter.

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W eek 16-18: RAPIDLY DEPLOYABLE SHELTERS RESEARCH PHASE

Architecture is probably the one kind of creative form that most people don’t understand; because they are around it all the time they kind of think that they get it. Its creative component works at a more profound level and is a little less detectable. I like to think of it like the soundtrack in a movie. The soundtrack controls the way you feel about the movie although you are never quite paying attention to it. You are always giving credit to the actor or the cinematographer; but it is really the music in the background that tells you how to feel. That is what architecture at its best can do.” – Jeffrey Kipnis This first research and experimental phase of our undertaking to design rapidly deployable shelters is based around gaining knowledge and understanding of the subject and the context, developing a thesis and specialization relating to materiality, design, fabrication and assembly techniques and their impact on cost, quality and time. This is done by a substantial precedent study.

Key dates: Semester B brief introduction Thursday, 4 February at 14.00 pm Research Review Thursday & Launch of Design Competition Brief, 25 February at 14.00 pm

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W eek 16: DESIGN ANALYSIS & RESEARCH

This studio begins by revisiting iconic examples of rapidly deployable homes such as Jean Prouvé’s Maison Tropicale, Matti Suuronen’s Venturo and Futuro Houses and Nader Khalili’s Superadobe. Spanning from industrial mass production to DIY approaches, these projects are notable for their combination of architectural vision with an innovative use of technology and materials. For the design analysis the precedent is analyzed in a particular way.

Unit04 & MA DAM & MA DAM 2015-2016 | Building Lab; SOL-ID:s | Andrew Grant, Elian Hirsch, Eva Diu and Jonas Lundberg of Urban Future Organization | www.asd-ddrs.org | www.teamheliomet.ac.uk

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RIBA exhibition: Creation from Catastrophe

This exhibition showed some brilliant case studies of relevant disaster relief projects. These ranged from Brooklyn’s projects with OMA to Nigerian floating schools from NLE. The exhibition started with the developed world, and different planning and layouts for London and developed cities in Europe that have been demolished due to natural disasters or fire, such as London, Lisbon, and some Japanese cities.

The exhibition then went on to describe different project by various Architects and community volunteers from around the world.

The Nigerian school project by NLE I thought was a great project.

RIBA exhibition creation from catastrophes, Portland place 06/02/16

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Week 1 8/02/16 - 14/02/16

Research: Case studies Visit: Heathrow 3rd runway expansion AA exhibition, Walters way, Lewisham self build housing project

This week has been the introduction to the project brief and what generally we are thinking as a group, there have been a range of ideas.

We have been tasked to research 2 case studies one from our choice and another from a list which has been relevant to our design.

The week end was taken up by looking round different galleries and mainly resting from our ATA hand in!

I was given the superadbobe case study which was constructed by Nader Khalili, with rammed earth in various locations around the world.

Walters way exhibition, Architectural Association

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All you need to do is to be able to cut a straight line with a saw and drill a straight hole... It looked rubbish to start with, but by the time we’d done it for the umpteenth time, we were quite professional The case study I chose was a protest site for the expansion of Heathrow runway.

I chose this case study as I thought it was essential to be able to see the case study we needed to research. http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/ sep/16/anarchism-community-walter-segal-self-

This led me onto many different ideas, and highlighted the need for a community, the group have been living there for 6 years. The site is fully occupied at all times.

build-south-london-estate

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There are various structures located across the entire site, these are all informal shelters and communal buildings. These are constructed by found materials, and have different degrees of permanence.

Previously the site was an old garden centre and before this it was an allotment garden location.

Heathrow permanent or temporary dwellings?

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I am focusing mainly on one of their buildings which is a straw bale house that is constructed from straw bales and rendered with a rammed earth clay wall. All of these materials are found on the site. This is what I am particularly interested in. The Oliver hester : diary

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Crit on case study work

informal community created from a group of like minded people. They have a structure of living and are managing to live nearly totally off grid, water being the only exception.

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Heathrow - Sipson Exploratory sketches Heathrows next runway?

A project like this has been particularly difficult to draw as it isn’t mainly about the structures created, it is about the framework and set up they have made.

The drawings mainly explain where the site is and roughly what the material construction is. They attempt to show all the different parts of the project and the rough layout of the site.

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Construction & Community

A choice of architectural strategy that is not merely pragmatic.

Ideological reasons underpin the uses for these structures ‘Gregory Cowan, Icon, March 2015’

Location and building type

This Icon magazine has a range of articles in it that are very relevant. To the Heathrow case study and the studio brief as a whole.

The article titled ‘Occupy Architecture’ has some brilliant points and has some thought provoking statements, written by Anna Feigenbaum.

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Superadobe - Iran Nader Khalili Earth wall dome construction

Case study : Iran

Site location

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Introduction The superadobe wall construction is a very simple technique.

This technique is hugely dependant on the quality of the earth used.

These structures have been used in many different situations from refugee housing to permanent private dwellings.

The superadobe structure that I am going to be researching is the refugee shelters in Iran, these were constructed in 1995 and have now been demolished leaving very little remnants.

Sketch plan and section

Exerts of construction sequence

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My birthday curry!

Building resilience book

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Celebration week A week designed to be a celebration between all departments at the CASS. We gave a presentation on our studio and our work out in Colombia and the new brief

The presentation took some time to get right as we had a range of different medias in it. We included some of the update videos to spice things up!

The presentation needed to start earlier that we were scheduled as the majority of the group were scheduled to go to Calais that evening.

It was also my birthday on the presentation day, we went out for a curry on Brick lane.

Building resilience social capital in post disaster recovery ‘Daniel P. Ulrich’ This book has been a brilliant point of reference.

It has some particularly interesting views on the construction process after natural disasters and expands upon the need for clear governing in times of crisis.

Practice and presentation

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UNIt 4 - bUIldINg lab // team helIomet

IN colombIa : welcome to seNa

hI-tech vs low-tech

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The presentation was a snapshot of Colombia and the ethos within the unit. I feel we have a very different attitude to most of the other units. Individuality in our studio is often not as obvious compared to other studios however can easily be achieved!

The current unit brief also can be interpreted in anyway you would like. This leads to a vibrant studio.

I booked the trip to Calais and we managed to book

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my car onto the ferry, which worked out cheaper than getting the bus and trying to work that all out.

Taking my car to the Jungle was always going to be a bit tricky as I thought it was going to be quite an off road adventure, and I wasn’t sure if the Toyota Yaris was up to the task!

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Studio birthday cake including candle Booking the tunnel was easy although getting everyone’s passport details together in one document was quite tricky. We stayed in a hostel and I got the contact details from Carlotta who had already booked to stay there.

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Strawbale house House constructed from straw bales and timber a timber frame, rendered with a clay rendered wall. Located approx 2km North of Heathrow airport

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Week 2 15/02/16 - 21/02/16 Occupy, protest, demonstrate, These are all words that this case study aims to achieve. We visited the site and had a look at the entire layout and set up of the site.

The main area that I found fascinating was the sense of community within the site. This was felt immediately upon arrival by a young boy who was very inquisitive about why we were there.

The entire site is off grid other than water and is totally self sufficient relying on ‘skipping’ a practice where people go and eat out of supermarket bins.

A ginger haired girl in a onesie showed us around and sadly at that time we were able to go inside the straw bale house as they were having a meeting regarding the up coming court case.

The frame structure is an existing green house frame as the site was previously a garden centre then an allotment garden.

This method of construction how a structure can be added to and improved over time is something that I am particularly interested and has been one of the themes through my different case studies.

The structure is entirely made from local materials or donated goods from various trades.

Mainly the building trade, but others too such as the farming trade and others. §

Straw bale house during construction

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Proposed informail expansion

Existing green house frame work

Existing strawbale building

Proposed layout and array with informal spaces

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Speculation and Expansion

SEMI PERMANENT STRUCTURE

SEMI PERMANENT STRUCTURE

TARPAULIN TEMPORARY SHELTER

EXISTING FRAME STRUCTURE

TARPAULIN TEMPORARY SHELTER

PROPOSED EXPANSION ZONES

The next series of drawings are showing that there are different areas within the design that could be extended and added to over time.

These concepts I have found engaging, as the refugees or migrants seem to always either be in a transitional state or they seem to be wanting to improve the environment in which they live in.

This frame work could facilitate a development of different structures on a permanent, semi permanent or in flux shelter or communal space.

I have began to sketch some of PROPOSED EXPANSION ZONES these ideas informally, as they would of been informally constructed.

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Super Adobe Camp, Khuzestan Year: 1995 Client: Iraqi refugees Funding: Undp, UNHCR Cost: $625 Earth has amazing properties and can be used in many different locations .

The only structure present in this case study is working in compression. All elements of the building are constructed from the immediate environment. Earth is placed into sacks and coiled around a base foundation that has been cut into the ground.

These acted as refugee shelters for Iraqi refugees fleeing conflict zones in Iraq.

Themes from these structures I have seen in some of my design ideas. Local use of resources and buildings that are informed by the environment they exist in are key to my design principles. Parts of these buildings will certainly inform my design.

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Jungle aerial view within Calais, France. (Daily mail)

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Calais Volunteering with Auberges des Migrants - an NGO charity based in Calais, France. Aiding the current refugee and migrant crisis in camps in the Northern area in France.

Jungle location within Calais, France, (Google maps)

Arriving in Calais, felt like we had just driven North towards Birmingham or even a suburb outside of London. The journey took just over 3 hours from central London. These camps could not be any closer to home.

We booked a hostel to stay in prior to our arrival and we also filled out different Google doc forms to highlight what we wanted to do on arrival. These however turned out to be almost unnecessary as we did not need to have filled out any of these and the entire organisation was very bohemian for lack of a better word!

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Week 3 22/02/16 - 28/02/16 Arriving in Calais we stopped off for a pizza in the middle of town, in an aptly named Pizza de London Bridge! It seemed good but we wanted to get a good nights sleep in before the next days work Upon arrival to the hostel we were greeted by all the team that were already out in Calais. They all seemed really tired and some people had picked up some pretty horrible illnesses, they felt happy to see us but looked tired. I felt that the Jungle seemed to have taken some of their excitement away from the new brief. This was highlighted in more detail the next day.

We sorted our room and sat down and caught up with the group on what had been happening and also the general arrangements and

logistics of being in Calais and volunteering with the organisation.

volunteer and be doing a worthwhile task with a short learning time.

We were waking up at 6am and starting on site at 830am. This meant leaving the hostel at 8am roughly. Lifts were an ad hoc arrangement and people seemed to have worked it out ok before we arrived but having the car really did help in logistics and getting people to and from the hostel and the camp.

The day began by getting in a big circle and doing some exercises together, this kept everyone warm! We then had to sign a form and we were all divided into groups by sticking your hand up.

Seemed quite crude but got the job done quickly and relatively effectively.

I drove everyday to the warehouse, which is where the majority of the administration happened. This was a centre for all donated goods, building of shelters, distributing firewood, tents and food donations. The setup was very impressive and was engineered in such a way that nearly any person who came along was able to

I decided that as all of our group were going to be working on the shelters that I would work on the firewood and the construction of some drying tents.

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The Calais ‘Jungle’ taken from the N216 motorway that leads as a major route from the ferry terminal out towards the rest of France and Europe.

Volunteering

processed as this was a tried and tested method.

During my time in Calais, I mainly was helping get all the firewood that was being delivered in its many different forms to be processed, dried and distributed.

We also started re building one of the many donated marquees, to use as a firewood storage area.

This seems like an easy task but when you are getting deliveries of full half size lorries with pallets to be split up and cut down to make firewood it becomes a difficult task. There were also deliveries of firewood and this needed to be split and put into different kinds of bags for distributing when it got to the camp.

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This became a common theme across my time volunteering on the site. We then drive back home via a LIDL and had some very good cheese and bread that evening. The second day of volunteering started with almost an identical morning, of sorting firewood and braking up pallets. We however were given a lot of tents, these tents we managed to set up and tether down with concrete pads and around steel drums.

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The fence paid for out of British tax payers money

This took some time to set up as in the wind they would act like sails and needed to be tied down very tight! We did this so that many people in the future were going to be able to dry firewood as a big delivery of 30 tonnes was expected the day after we left.

Just before lunch one of the long term volunteers asked if I could give him a lift to the camp to help fix a playground in the women and children’s centre. I gave him a lift with Julie and we got stopped at the entrance by the CSR the French police.

They took the details of the car and made us wait for about 20 minutes as we had some basic tools in the back to fix the play ground. We then drove through part of the camp to get to the women and children’s centre. We spoke to another volunteer who explained the situation with the playground and we figured out that we needed a lot of materials to make a difference.

We drove out of the camp having delivered the tools which takes quite some time and got back to work at the warehouse.

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This was mainly building floors from reclaimed pallets.

The re use and recycling of materials mainly from the building trade was a common theme throughout the volunteering process and this is an area that I would like to develop more on.

The next morning we went on to help with similar tasks. Whichever task you were set you had very little supervision and so if you started deciding how things went and where they went you would very quickly become the person to turn to for advice and know how.

The structure of the organisation was very open and nobody seemed to be in charge! This worked well in the environment and situation the camp was currently in. This management style was able to quickly facilitate changes and help when needed. The french authorities could at any moment make a decision for the camp to stay or go which could easily of happened over night , so a quick reaction time was crucial.

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Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. Francis of Assisi

Later on that day we were leaving on the tunnel, so we decided to visit the camp as we hadn’t been there as a group yet. I felt bad just wandering around but needed to see it properly.

We then left and drove back to the hostel collected our bags and went home. We had crits the next day on our 2 case studies we had selected and so this gave us little time to do our work, but the trip was very worthwhile and has informed us with some of the decisions on the current brief.

The timber yard, with newly erected tents for drying wood

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Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. Francis of Assisi

Calais - The Jungle Rhythm - the journey with a common thread.

Disparity between the migrant community and local residents becomes increasingly amplified.

Tensions to evict and transpose the bustling nomadic community have been intensifying. The migrants throughout their journey have been moved and pushed in many ways, so evictions seem to occur without hesitation. This time, 3,000 homes may be removed, this will not go unnoticed.

Periphery - something of secondary importance Evening falls in the jungle, although a solemn mood is ever present and time seems to be lumbering on, the evening offers opportunity.

The well trodden disused railway track acts as a runway to an unknown transit between Calais and Dover. Groups of men mainly, carrying very little, walk as the dark closes in and offers them that glimpse of hope to conceal themselves on lorries.

This routine repeats daily with no sign of slowing.

The camp is located on the opposite side of the main motorway that acts as an arterial boundary, with 8m high wire fences. The camp borders the edge of an industrial estate. It has become part of Calais’s identity, embraced or not.

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FRAME STRUCTURE, EITHER TIMBER OR METAL

SHEET SKIN LAYER, TARPAULIN

RECLAIMED PALLET WOOD FLOORING

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INITIAL TENT SETTLEMENT

STRUCTURES EASILY ASSEMBLED AND ACT AS A TRANSITIONAL SHELTER

PROPOSED ADDITIONAL AREAS

COMMUNITY EXPANDS AS THEY INTEND IN ANY DIRECTION

Composite drawing This drawing after leaving Calais was a speculation of how you could provide a framework to then build under onto or in addition to. I am not certain what this frame could be made out of but it could perhaps be some type of timber material or metal. Once this frame is in place however there are many possibilities to be able to add and change the configuration.

Calais The trip to France has only confirmed that the need for these shelters is already being met in a very affective way, the shelters perhaps could have a slight change in design but generally they are very efficient and cost affective. The part I feel could be developed is the in between state, where migrants may have a tent but then upgrading in some way is difficult. These transitions could be facilitated in a better way. This may be in the form of an adaptable framework in which they are able to add to easily, quickly and informally.

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Summary End of research phase!

Themes throughout this design research phase have been useful in many ways.

Learning about different informal settlements and how there are a range of rapidly deployable home typologies.

This has led me to ways of tackling this shelters/homes are not in. This has led me

the conclusion that there are many alternative problem, however the main issue is that these welcome in many areas they are being located to think that some form of integration is needed.

This integration I am not certain where it will occur but it is the basis for me to begin to develop a brief. The main issue is that migrants and refugees are already in the UK. This is a problem waiting to be exploded, it seems to be laying dormant currently and the rising rate of the homeless and the mis treatment of migrants in the UK is increasing.

This is the direction in which I am hoping to take a new revised brief.

I would like to work in a group with people who are more interested in working in the UK, perhaps looking at legislation or with a charity.

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Competition Design studio Case study hand in and beginning of design project The design competition brief was set, this was in the previous brief that we just reinterpreted to become our own project. This was necessary as the brief we felt did not reflect the current issues in more immediate environments.

We felt as a group that we needed to address issues that were closer to home as we could directly access them and see what conditions and what was needed in certain environments.

This led us to think in groups, we wanted to work in groups as we felt we could harness more information and research our topics a lot more clearly and effectively. This also is a lot more in line with what currently happens in practice.

After a good conversation with everyone in studio we broke off into smaller groups of 2-3 people some people wanted to work individually too.

I also was going to Glasgow this week end so I got a group of friends from studio to crit and review the current plans for my project this summer in Zambia.

Design workshop Glasgow!

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Schiehallion Scottish Highlands

After the group meeting we broke off and began to develop our own interpretation of the brief. We decided to create a hub type structure that both facilitates the growth of unit type structure but it could fit within a communal setting with interaction.

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We developed our own ideas, the main themes were that when the refugees arrive in the UK what happens?

and all the drawings. This was great as I got some really good feedback and also it refreshed my mind on the project itself.

When they arrive they are met by a myriad of issues from all areas. This is not the reception that the current British public would assume refugees, migrants and asylum seekers would be greeted with.

I spent the week end in Scotland and came back late on Monday evening.

Sadly I missed tutorials that Monday, they seemed to be very beneficial. I was walking in the Scottish Highlands though so things weren’t too bad!

This prompted our group to start looking into the general system and we spoke about proposing a hub type structure that could perhaps facilitate some community interaction. We had a big group meeting and discussed which direction people wanted to take the project in.

We did not get set a full competition brief at all and so some of the group have felt a bit mis leaded however I feel that this has been a really beneficial exercise to be involved in and there are a good range of projects coming out.

This was brief and we began to pursue from a range of different ways. We diagrammed and mapped different areas and attempted to find current loop holes in the system.

I also went to Glasgow this week end for my volunteering work in Zambia. I thought it would be a good idea to talk about it with everyone in the studio in London, so I organised a quick pin up with some of the images from the project

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Week 5 07/03/16 - 13/03/16

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Design competition: Second phase

Diagram of potential start point of project

Initially we as a group started to talk about diagramming certain aspects of our project and developing our own brief. We started doing this by focusing on specific parts of the refugee crisis and how we the UK can help.

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Week 5 07/03/16 - 13/03/16 The project began taking an approach of a large dwelling that could be integrated into the community. This was mainly focused originally in Dover.

This would be the main location that the initial warehouse idea would be located. We tested some of these ideas and thought that we could actually form a business case. Where we could rent or buy a warehouse and retrofit it to be able to fit a group of immigrants in. This was mainly focused on because they are large vacant spaces in many instances that are located often with good transport links.

We ran into some problems however as the building that we were proposing needed to be in a location which could be integrated into a community and this would be a difficult task if it was located on an industrial town on the suburbs of many of the towns.

The first stage was to map and diagram the current routes and amounts of refugees coming to the UK

I was disappointed in my profession ‘Shigeru Ban TEDx Tokyo - May 2013’

We started by researching a wide range of locations and with an idea of producing a short booklet detailing some of the loop holes and areas that could potentially be developed.

This was a list of a few of the areas and ways we may want to develop our ideas.

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Advertising Vehicles / mobile Scaffolding / skip Smoking / marquee Boats Fairs and temporary events UK Tree house Abandoned locations Filming in public locations

Millennium Mills derelict factory building, currently being re developed into flats

We then began looking more in depth into these areas. This proved beneficial in some of them but others were very difficult. The main topics that we came to develop were. Abandoned buildings and vehicle / mobile.

These proved to be the areas that had grounds to develop our ideas on.

We each came up with a short project brief, after discussion. We then developed the idea in the studio and came up with some ideas to develop our project further as there is a significant gap in time when a refugee, immigrant or migrant arrives in the UK. We did this by producing different maps and locations.

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Individual summary of our Project Brief

We are producing a framework that uses existing neglected warehouse spaces in the UK and temporarily adapts them to cater for refugees who are claiming asylum.

This system is the initial reaction to refugees arriving in the UK and provides shelter for 19 days.

The next stage of the project looks at implementing a semi permanent location for refugees to live in, this is in 2 locations, one urban, as a parasite type dwelling and the other a rural dwelling with more of a nomadic style but with a more permanent intention.

The UK needs to adjust to the current problems being faced today such as the global humanitarian crisis, we as a nation should be willing to acclimatize to the current situation (Add UK figure of how few immigrants its taken), as history repeats itself.

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It could be YOU! These are Albanians fleeing Albania for Italy during the collapse of Albania’s communist regime in 1991

The next stage of the project we focused down our ideas. There are two loop holes that need help within the regulatory bodies that govern immigration and asylum in the UK. The main facts are particularly shocking as firstly there are 19 days in which the border agency (who is run by a private security company) deal with the request. If there is no temporary housing available then they are either sent to hostels, hotels and BnB places. This sounds pleasant but in some cases immigrants have been housed in freight sheds and very poor facilities.

After this 19 day period they are then sent to a location in the UK where they are housed either in a centre, (which are hugely over subscribed) or to temporary housing. This period lasts for 1 year during which they are not allowed to work. There are various issues with this idea as they have difficulty accessing the framework they need to claim successfully for asylum.

These two factors are hugely important and could help benefit not only the migrants, immigrants and refugees but can also enhance and improve our economy as certain areas desperately need some economic excitement.

We began by enquiring into such spaces that could provide a framework to work under and this then started to inform our design ideas for the internal typologies of the structure. The construction make up of the building is looking like either a typical portal frame steel structure that would provide a brilliant framework to work inside this would be for the 19 day period. The next stage to the project is that they would then be housed in a nearby location that would need to be near the centre they have just been in for 19 days. These structures could vary from a rural and an urban setting. The urban setting could

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Week 5 07/02/16 - 13/03/16 be within an existing structure perhaps again a warehouse type structure as then the technique would be replicated. The rural structure could be a wheeled trailer type structure that could be transported around to provide a more rural dwelling.

Hurricane Katrina victims

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Design competition Review week Interim crits were staged on Thursday, starting at 4pm, which was difficult to fit everyone in!

We had tutorials at the start of the week and we did not have that much to show. All of our ideas were yet to be drawn but over this week we had to develop them, as we had an interim review crit on Thursday. We mainly had diagrams and quick ideas written down.

We wanted to communicate our idea as best and as clearly as possible as it could become quite lost in explanation because as it is quite a complicated

idea to try and draw and explain.

to form a relatively robust brief.

We started by gathering what information we had, mainly this was research and developing ideas through diagrams and sketches.

We started to sketch out ideas of how we could develop the idea further. This mainly stemmed from some articles and research about where refugees and asylum seekers go when they get to the UK.

This started to inform the basis of our project, which we all questioned all aspects throughout the process.

This critical evaluation at different stages meant that we were able

We started by looking into the layout of Dover and the differences between this and Calais. This initial investigative drawing had to be researched a lot before it was drawn as certain parts in Dover were no longer being used, such as the detention centre where the majority of immigrants were ending up.

These drawings ended up impacting on the development of the project, however currently they do not seem totally relevant after completing the drawings at this stage, but they informed a process that was necessary to develop the idea further.

The drawing very simply mapped out the different arrangements of the two different town layouts and showed how isolated and detached the community are on both sides of the channel.

Informal steel frame pop up market near Brick lane

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This led us onto think of ways we could integrate these strong communities to the existing urban fabric.

After our volunteering trip in Calais we had a rough idea how the general arrangement of a re purposed factory could be used to aid and help refugees.

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This example on the right served as a volunteers space, this was distributing all forms of aid. This would be in form of donated clothes, food, and structures to live in amongst other things.

These aspects of support and community were hugely important in this setting. Aspects of this setup at Auberges des Migrants were continued in the development of our design.

Articles published over the summer on the BBC website suggested that the current facilities in the UK were not adequate for the influx they were receiving to get to the UK. This led us on to speculate how such spaces in the UK could be adopted for alternative uses.

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Field trips and impromptu crits!

The first few thoughts we had were investigating the current buildings in London that could house or temporarily be used by the growing population of London. We wanted to base our initial ideas in London as then we could go and investigate certain parts of the current system perhaps adapt it to the current legal framework, maybe under permitted development laws?

These questions were all asked at different stages of the project and we have an ongoing Research booklet that we are continuously updating as a body of research to expose certain areas that could be capitalised on.

Thursdays tutorials were cancelled so we briefly met as a group and thought it would be a good idea to run our own individual crits.

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We started quite late but managed to get through everyone’s ideas and designs and generally the group seemed to come away with some good ideas for the next stages of their projects. We mainly had to focus on developing some drawings from our ideas and actually having something to critique.

We began by looking into cheap and fast ways of inhabiting spaces.

This was mainly by looking at how previous projects have gone about doing this. We looked at precedents where this has happened before, such as in disaster relief situations.

We came up with an idea of using industrial warehouse pallet racking systems, to perform as a temporary housing solution.

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main reasons this were that

1. It is cheap and readily available technology, that can easily be adapted.

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The Racking system has minimal impact on the building you are placing it into.

3. Ease of construction and transportation techniques are already set up.

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Existing warehouse (Apple maps)

Existing warehouse (Google images) 1 : 2500

In our group of three we started to map out different areas around the Tower Hamlets borough. This was chosen as it was easily accessible by us and we could also go and visit different parts of it.

We went out to the surrounding area and had a look around some industrial estates that were nearby.

We came across an abandoned warehouse structure that could be ideal for our prototype to be implemented within. For the purposes of this crit coming on Thursday we assumed that this would be the structure we were proposing our framework to be within.

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RE-ASSEMBLING

We had some quick insights into how we would partition off these spaces.

However this would need to be developed further, this is what we are going to push a bit more in the coming weeks.

We looked at alternatives for splitting the racking systems. This was mainly inspired from certain catalogues that were selling the systems, however we came up with some different ways of dividing them.

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F L E X I B I L I T Y Material research (all Google images)

F L E X I B I L I T Y

We thought of using stacked clothes or perhaps tin cans. This would also be incorporated into the existing floor solutions that the current industry are using. This would be used to keep costs down and standardise the entire process. The walls were in development and the roofing solution is yet to be addressed fully. However different solutions were spoken of.

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Mecalux pallet racking system online

Rogers Stirk Harbour, website image

This article in the Guardian is showing how in South East London, there have been solutions to provide housing for homeless families.

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the home population may be able to use the facilities that we are proposing. This project based in Lewisham by Rogers + Stirk and partners. Addresses such issues with a very affordable transition, this project is a much better development on the contentious Y cube project,

but is a step in the right direction as solutions like this need to be addressed.

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Interim Review and St Patricks day!

Good review, more work to do! Design needs to be developed and pushed in different ways.

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This was an interim review stage where people were able to show what they had been working on and how they have been developing their ideas.

The groups work ranged from individual designs of refugee shelters in Al’Zaatari refugee camp in Syria to the overall design and implementation of masterplans for housing in London.

We only had the usual critique panel, without Jonas, as he was teaching at the AA. Eva, Andrew and Adam.

It would of been nice to have some external input at this stage but as we hadn’t arranged anything here we were not able to get a group together.

Our review went quite well as we had quite a lot of work on the wall to be commented on. This was accepted by the panel of people reviewing the work, but I am not certain if our drawings fully communicated our ideas.

This was mainly down to the design perhaps not being resolved to the level that we wanted it to be. As this was only an interim review we managed to not get too hung up on these details.

The critique was very useful and what I think we need to address more is the development of the individual unit. This unit needs to be designed to a robust level of detail which could in theory get implemented into a range of different buildings.

This idea ties our interest into vacant buildings and buildings in transition.

We could develop some more ideas such as abandoned houses, abandoned gyms, schools, hospitals.

These spaces are often structurally sound but are waiting for their future buyers or owners to develop them further.

The next week we will research into ways that we are thinking of doing this.

We may expand our individual map and try and locate some more spaces within London and perhaps develop some ideas of the individual prototype.

Review time

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Internal space above competition site

Design competition: Riverdale Pump house Near Hampton, West London.

Building competition, currently empty and in the future being used as a forward thinking scientific space to develop more knowledge on genes.

The competition was advertised at university in the stairwell so I thought it would be a good thing to go along to. I didn’t realise that it was a full week end thing and we were wanted for the whole week end 9am-5pm! However Oleg and I decided to go along and see what was going on.

We were introduced to the team for the week end, most of these students were from a unit in second year in their part 1 studies. This was set up and ran by Robert Barnes who is a tutor to one of the studios in the part 1 course.

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The competition started by introducing us to the building and who owned it and its history, it was built in approx 1850 and was pumping 70% of London’s water by 1852. The building was listed in parts and took approx 3 years to fully purchase and negotiate with English Heritage.

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Andrew Black, who owns Betfair the online and high street bookies, wanted to develop it into a high tech scientific research laboratory. This would mainly be focusing on genes and researching different cures for humans. This was encouraged inside the upper floors and ground floors within the existing

structure, as English Heritage did not want any interruption and damage to the external structure of the building.

The basement complex of the building had no current plan for what it could be this was what we were going to come up with over the week ends workshop.

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The client was thinking of having a crazy golf course, and some other ideas were briefly hinted on.

We then discussed in a group what we thought might be some ideas for the space.

We broke it down into 3 main components.

It was a great day and we managed to get some ideas down to show the client the next day. However we didn’t go to the Sunday session as we had just finished for Easter and had other commitments!

Activities, Space and Environment.

We then discussed what types of environment we had and what we could create. There were some brilliant ideas and some very wacky ones! However this all was very relevant as we were re purposing and existing space that was not being used at all.

Proposed ideas and design criteria

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Easter Research

Further development of our individual unit design

The holiday began by having a week end off and resting a bit! I then thought it would be a good idea to go and see some of these racking systems being used in warehouses and went to a local cash and carry called Costco.

The racking was arranged differently along all of the aisles and they could be stacked pretty high, perhaps 10m in this case. They were not as bulky as I thought they would be, they had a slim profile and they seemed to hold a considerable amount of weight.

They seemed like they were very

easy to build as they had some click together system where the horizontals could be placed and locked into position with the verticals.

studying and looking at her husbands work on superadobe. I spoke with her on the phone and she wanted to help out in some way with our units projects.

This is something that we will need to develop further. The part that would need a lot more development is how the vertical would meet the ground.

This in many cases could be a robust detail which can be adapted to be placed in many different locations.

We spoke about different projects that we had both worked on and what we are doing in the future, she mentioned how she wanted to come and critique our work or be involved loosely in some way. Iliona is currently working on a project that I can vaguely describe as ‘Homes for Humans’ which is looking at humanities right to have a home. She has been working in Bangladesh and travels extensively. Hopefully we will be able to have her in some way to help out in the future as she is a very interesting women with a lot of experience.

Earlier on in the week I spoke with Iliona a friend of mine . I met her some time ago and out of coincidence I was

We also met earlier on in the week and discussed what we wanted to achieve over the Easter break and how we would best work, Carlotta is away in Marseille so Oleg and I are going to work on more of the design part and Carlotta will work on the research development part.

Double height warehouse spaces

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A garden centre also has a similar construction structure however this would all be on one level but could easily be changed and adapted to fit the single floor element.

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could act very well for partitioning off the spaces and is a readily available product, that could provide insulative properties. The other is the tensioning cable that they use for fastening large volumes of materials together. These are incredibly strong and could form part of our design.

I am yet to find something that could be investigated into for the roof but I feel that these avenues may be worth pursuing.

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Easter: Design week Slow start but fun end!

We met towards the end of the week to discuss how we could develop the individual unit and where we could place the individual unit. This was due to be located in a range of different buildings so we would need to make certain that it could adapt and change to a range of environments.

We discussed sizes and approximate floor space areas for living in different parts of the country.

Looking at the London design guidelines we found this table (below) from the UK government.

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This started to dictate how many racks we would need to accommodate a range of people.

We also began to look into the structural properties of the racking systems. They are very stable and can support a large amount of weight due to their design.

Pallet storage can be very heavy and so they have been designed in a specific way to accommodate the weight.

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Pallet rack imposed loads table

Individual dwellings Research Developing the individual unit idea further ready for the infamous ‘competition crit’ this Thursday!

Looking into some current projects that have addressed these kinds of environments we then started to design and talk about how we could implement our design into an existing structure.

This was not easy, and so we decided

to begin by making some of the rack models that we knew we were going to be used in the design.

The main reason why we are keeping with the rack idea is that we think they are some of the best and most

effective structures you can buy off the shelf. They do not need to have any construction experience to be put together and they are temporary enough to be able to be put into any of the proposed structures. Meaning that they will not need to be fully integrated

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(The old existing rookeries) inspired James’s proposal for a co-operative self build scheme at ground level in place of an unused car parking deck.

Walters and Cohen : boathouse 4 project

Projects office ‘Rookery regeneration’ idea

Section through proposed ship building factory : Walters and Cohen Architects

they can be stand alone units. Problems such as security, services, drainage and other aspects will need to be considered.

The initial ideas we thought would be best communicated in a model format.

However they would need developing further when we looked into the individual unit. A very typical way of constructing these buildings can be found when they are clad with sheet metal. This could be an alternative that we look into.

Cladding Ideas were previously mentioned about the partitioned spaces, this was mainly thought of for the large civic hub structure. We mainly considered these as a quick fix for the ease of construction for the hub type activities.

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Walters and Cohen Architects

Walters and Cohen re use this existing ship building warehouse in the dockside in Portsmouth. Looking further into this project they have not interrupted the external structure and have merely placed their structure within this, whilst improving the structure.

building/structure we are placing our design into. This could easily become a way of preserving the structure and not letting a permanent structure take hold of the building, which could cause issues with ownership and may encourage squatters etc.

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Modelling Making the racks firstly as a base to then design into is a good way of developing different ideas. We could perhaps purchase a rack system from either a rack supplier or perhaps a second hand vendor. I looked around and found some for sale on Gumtree, however they are in Essex and you would need a van to collect them. This is another thing we

need to consider how we are able to transport them to the site, also how will they be constructed.

Could they be lifted with a small crane, or perhaps it is more likely that they will be walked into the parent structures.

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I also had the idea of perhaps building a 1:5 or even 1:2 model, which could be made from a shelving unit, that if purchased from the right place would have the same properties and detailing as a pallet rack just half the size. This could be an avenue to consider later on

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Week 9 03/04/16 - 09/04/16 The week started and we expected to have a tutorial. Again this didn’t happen and we started to think that we were left on our own to develop our projects.

This was ok but we felt that we needed external input. Meeting on Thursday we voiced our opinions and this took quite some time to communicate how angry we have been and how we felt.

However after we explained why we didn’t have the drawings and other material that was in the competition brief. We explained why we thought that in some cases the brief wasn’t useful and didn’t address many of the issues that are currently happening in the real world.

The brief was also discussed in a way that it wasn’t being fully kept to.

Opinions of how the unit is run and how it functions. The conversation was mainly voiced in particular towards Jonas. In the usual diplomatic manner the problem was spoken about and somehow the majority of people seemed quite happy with the outcome. Although nothing will or has changed really!

The day was productive but long, and we managed to explain our project a lot better than we did the previous week as we had various different models and ways of explaining it.

This helped by going second, so we managed to have people when they were paying almost full attention.

Our review started well and we had some good feedback.

The points we mainly needed to focus on were.

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Draw and design the individual unit Make a more coherent proposal for the warehouse ‘hub’ typology Build a 1:2 model.

Find a location in the research document to theoretically place our proposal.

The competition has been delayed to a later date of 2 weeks from now! This will give us the much needed time to develop the project to be prototyped!

The day then had a very different approach to other reviews, there was more of a ‘softly softly’ approach which was in my opinion probably the wrong way about critiquing the work.

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Bitumen roof

Roof supports with loft insulation

Internal partitions (cardboard layering)

Timber stud work

External caldding in chip board with varying insulation

Floor panels

Floor joists

Bitumen roof

Roof supports with loft insulation

Pallet rack

PLAN UNIT Internal partitions (cardboard layering)

Timber stud work

External caldding in chip board with varying insulation

Floor panels

Design attempt

Construction axo attempt!

Floor joists

Late on Wednesday night we started to design our individual unit. This was difficult as many ideas needed to be Pallet rack communicated quickly. However with an exploded axo we could start to show some of the ideas we had. It is essential that the rack structure can be easily moved around and be assembled easily and does not impact the surrounding environment.

The location of the structure is currently in consideration and this is something we would need to consider further. The internal partitions need to not be touching the framework as this causes sound problems. The unit also needs to be easily built and disassembled too.

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Prototype in potential locations

Field trip : Hackney Wick and the Lea Valley East of London was a beneficial experience. It is essential that we understand the environments into which we are placing our ideas and prototypes into. This is why we needed to go and spend some time in this area. It is very different to what a typical person would call ‘London’. This is mainly due to its dispersed feel and also its industrial history. The current uses

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Buildings ‘In limbo’ Visiting such areas shows the disparity between the high rise building sites in central London and the seemingly low rise industrial estates in East London.

These areas have a huge amount of potential for a range of uses and they are currently sitting undeveloped.

We visited some sites that we knew were derelict or awaiting to have decisions. The main one we focused on was an empty warehouse very close to Bromley by Bow station. This was once a dairy factory and is now vacant. We spoke to various individuals. They mentioned how it was owned by an elderly 86

man who had done nothing with it for 10 years or so. This is a perfect situation for our ideas to be implemented on. So we may start to look at this with more potential.

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Sketch model We used this model of the proposed warehouse to help us develop our ideas further with the partitioning wall elements.

The model helped us but also made us aware of different areas within the project that we needed to develop further. We based the dimensions from the existing warehouse we visited in East London.

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Warehouse hub Individual unit and, External unit

Exploring potential site locations Developing the location of our proposal was key to our idea having more traction. We began to look into vacant sites and different ownership regulations.

structurally sound and could be a perfect location for our proposal to sit on top of or within. As it is a building in limbo that was not being used for any other purpose.

These 3 were very interesting and we pursued further. The warehouse image on the left was a vacant building that had been empty for approximately 10 years and was owned by a Jewish man who wanted to sell it to make it into a housing development. This however has not happened, speaking with some of the local workers in the area they were very sceptical it would ever happen!

The above right image is of a Nursery building that is part of The Ann Taylor childrens centre, to the south of London Fields. This building was advertised on a property guardians website and was un furnished and needed some work to be able to be inhabited.

These three structures gave us a very clear path to be able to develop our framework and system within.

Above on the left we located a vacant office block. This office block was opposite Bromley By Bow tube station.

It was yet to be developed and was owned by a developer, this building was

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Competition preparation

Competition review is looming! Lots to do and show!

This week we had more of an idea of what we needed to produce for the competition as the brief seemed like it had some areas in it that did not make sense for some of the groups projects. This was mainly because we had some good feedback from the presentation.

We began by making sure that we had exactly what drawings we wanted to show our project in its best way. The main concepts we needed to communicate was how the project fits into the urban setting. Taking a different tack on the brief means we have to explain our choices and design our project.

are going to communicate our ideas without needing to speak too much.

The idea is that there are 2 main drawings which are a walk through of the project and its aims. This is Carlotta’s expertise.

There are also 2 booklet documents that we are going to print to have as current research documents that will explain the processes we have gone about to arrive at our project.

The drawings then split into 2 directions, one being the main warehouse hub structure that Oleg is focusing on, and the other the individual unit. This is what I will be focusing on.

This was achieved by sketching what we wanted to communicate across the entire project. This was not easy to do but we managed to get quite a lot of our ideas into 13 A1 drawings (if we get our act together). I feel these drawings

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Next steps, and Skype tutorials We split the drawings so each of us could work on specific parts of the project.

We also bought a rack structure that was at 1:4. It is a shelf but is able to give the representation of a build up of materials. This is yet to be constructed but we are looking at doing this early next week in time for the review, even if we have some small parts of the structure that would be brilliant.

Skype tutorials happened on Thursday and we discussed which drawings we wanted to produce and in what way we wanted to produce them.

This was well received and we just need to do all the drawings now!

Case study Fressnoy, Tschumi This roof structure is placed over an existing 1920’s series of buildings, the way Tschumi has not impacted on the structure below is an aspect of our project we are considering. However we are reversing this process and placing something inside an existing structure. The crude and simplistic detailing is ideal in this situation

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Sketch & rules

Sketching created many new ways of designing the large open space of the warehouse

Creating typologies of windows began to form a design to be critiqued

A rigorous process of sketching and modelling and development was the main focus over part of the week. I don’t think I have ever used so much trace in my life!

However decisions were made and guidelines and some rules were discussed and many of the ideas we had were governed by the layout and programmatic functions of the warehouse structure.

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the individual unit and sketched it to make it a designed dwelling. This was then elaborated in further modelling and I began to create drawings right towards the end of the week. The review is on Thursday and we will definitely have a lot of work on the wall. With an attempt to communicate our design in its best way possible.

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JOIN THE #REFUGEECHALLENGE

Design platform What Design Can Do (WDCD), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and IKEA Foundation join forces in a global design challenge aimed at improving the lives of refugees in urban areas. Designers, creative thinkers and imaginative trouble-shooters from all corners of the world are invited to take part. At the same time, refugees themselves are actively encouraged to participate.

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION According to UNHCR, nearly 60 percent of the world’s 20 million refugees now live in urban areas, and that figure is set to rise. Governments and NGOs are struggling to accommodate the needs of so many new residents. Bold, innovative solutions are needed for challenges related to housing, healthcare, education, work, cultural integration and many other areas.

THE CHALLENGE PROCESS (2016)

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We are looking for game-changing yet feasible ideas, which might be products, communication campaigns, services, and / or technologies. You can enter existing initiatives or propose entirely new concepts.

The criteria are: creativity/originality, relevance, feasibility, scalability and potential impact.

NOMINATE: Public voting (2 - 14 June 2016), selection by international jury and announcement of finalists (1 July 2016)

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ACCELERATE: Finalists receive funding and expert support to develop their ideas (2 July - 2 Oct)

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PITCH: The elaborated plans are presented to possible implementation partners (3 Oct - 3 Nov)

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MAKE IT HAPPEN: Implementation of plans and designs (from Dec onwards)

DEADLINE AND WINNERS The five best proposals, selected by an international jury, will receive 10,000 Euros each and the guidance of top-designers and experts in humanitarian aid to develop their concepts into prototypes and business plans. Closing date for submissions is 1 May 2016.

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Competition : What design can do Potential to submit deadline 1st May 2016 We heard about this competition from Jonas and it could be a perfect fit for our project to enter it. This could potentially see our project being developed over next year?

The group seem excited to submit some form of entry. In doing so we can put out our project and see what other people think of the idea we have created.

It is focusing mainly on refugees in urban environments, this is a hugely pressing issue and will not go away quickly, so we should submit our ideas.

look of and started creating 3D models to be able to export the drawings out of them.

We designed both on the macro and micro levels from the ‘Tombola toilet’ to the urban infrastructure level.

Our drawings need to show an interaction between different levels of both the host community and the refugee community coming to live in cities. They are already here, so embracing the influx is a hospitable and humane approach to the refugee crisis.

Later on in the week we received the shelving unit, and left it in the workshop ready to be built and developed.

We started finding drawings that we liked the

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Studio design competition The review has FINALLY come!

We knew we had a large amount of work to do to get our proposal to a level we wanted it! We each separated off on different sides of the project and drew up our design ideas and iterations. This was an exciting process as we were using the existing framework of the pallet racks.

The group worked really well with Carlotta focusing on the research and programmatic layout of the building , Oleg mainly worked on the hub type structure we were proposing for the derelict warehouse, and I worked on the individual unit and its placement into different situations.

We presented our work to a few external critiques, the idea was received by the group and they commented on certain parts of the project. It is a very difficult project to present as it not only challenges issues with the refugee crisis but it addresses political problems and areas in the UK. These ideas were challenged and questioned. This in some ways highlights the need to make people more aware of the refugee crisis and become more accepting of the current situation as the critics were quite negative in some ways!

We would regularly need to sketch and consider different options and all members of the team had input to all sides of the project at different times.

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presentation, this was particularly good as I think it meant that the idea came across well and provoked thought.

This was perhaps not the comment that we wanted, we would of liked to have a more sketchy drawing feel. We made quite a lot of people question our ideas in the

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While helping (non specialized work) volunteers will be able to share and discuss/argue/share info and thoughts.

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building is on a school property, the school was veloped in 2010 and this building has laid nt since.

main use was a nursery that was an ancillary ing to the school, however when the new school built they included the nursery within the new osal.

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building is owned by Danescroft building develents. The site is ear marked for development ar to other sites in the local area, such as the 22 y Barratt housing development across the road. site has been vacant for a long period of time s currently awaiting planning approval, and have some legal problems which seems un clear.

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vices: Limited as it is now vacant and is in a state internally

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rmation: Due to be developed by Danescroft lopments

ess: Access is by road and a pathway, extermley to Bromley by Bow underground station (metlitan line)

This drawing also had some questioning and we managed to reply to some of the questions such as “Why has your internal unit got a roof ?�

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Setting up for portfolio submission Getting everything ready to finalise parts of the project, also ATA.

We started by assessing how the project review went, this was mainly positive but we needed to add some parts to the drawing. This was a temporary style and we wanted to show how easily it can be assembled and taken down.

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a different type of material. I spoke to my Dad and he suggested a few different alternatives, we looked at different types of rubber and PTFE materials.

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Week 11 24/04/16 - 01/05/16 to clad a single unit, so we had to re think.

We also story boarded our project, for the submission to the what design can do . We need to submit for two of the competition briefs this is; 1. Improve refugees shelters + reception centres 3. Bring refugees + host communities together.

These 2 briefs fit our project almost perfectly. This in some ways should of been the brief that we originally could of been set. Perhaps the tutors wanted to push us a bit more from different angles.

We have to submit 5 A4 pages describing the project, and we then have to submit a big drawing we are thinking perhaps A0 or maybe even larger, perhaps printed on a roll paper.

There is also a 1 minute video submission that we are hoping to produce a sectional render with still images that will show different stages of the project, showing its temporality.

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Main concepts that we are going to be highlighting in our project.

1. Providing a hub structure to then put smaller units out into the community 2. Integration into the surrounding community by using individual buildings .

3. Making the structure a beneficial and rapdidly deployable structure for the community.

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Main concepts that we are going to be highlighting in our project.

1. Using our warehouse hub structure as a space for interaction and exchange between the host community and the refugees.

2. In integrating the community stigmas and negative associations with the refugee are reduced.

3. Encouraging local communities to accept refugees and how they can benefit the community they are going into. oliverhester.wordpress.com

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ATA : Developing the project that bit further!

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Week 13 02/05/16 - 09/05/16 Generally things seem to be moving really quickly and the project is developing in many different ways.

We have mainly been focusing on our ATA Detailing report this week.

The submission is this Thursday and this has got us thinking in a very detailed way, perhaps a bit too much! Sadly Carlotta has been really quite ill over the last few days and so Oleg and I are managing to quite a bit on the submission.

We started the week not knowing what would be a good material that could replace the rubber lining we had placed on the inside and outside of the rack structure. This was needed as the material was for one very expensive and also quite difficult to detail.

beneficial across all of our proposals.

The next issue is that the material has no mass to it, so insulation would have to be added, this is in a panel format as this is the most cost effective way of keeping a stable temperature inside the units.

We then came up with various iterations of the detailing for each of the units as they all have different environments they are being placed in. The main addition was the canopy type structure that would be fixed to the existing rack structure, this would then act as a weather break for

We researched around and thought about using a company called Barrisol, they normally do stretched UPVC ceilings. This is a versatile material that is fire rated and has channels that we are able to fix to our rack system.

We would then use a similar detailing method to fix them to the outside of the structure. The main benefit of this is that we are able to have a wall and partitioning system that has a low cost and is extremely portable. This is

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ATA: Detailing report hand in!

One down only 2 more to hand in

The report we began to put together towards the start of the week, it felt like a bit of a rush but we managed to get a range of different materials together and detailed them appropriately for our proposal.

The main theme is that it is very temporary and needs to be constructed rapidly and so the detailing in itself is very simple. We expanded on different part s of the detailing but mainly they were resolved in some areas and not in others.

Using a company who make stretch ceilings (Barrisol) we were able to adapt their current system to be able to fit within the framework that we have been designing within, the pallet rack. We then started building the model at 1:4 which was a lot larger than we thought it was going to be. This helped us resolve certain parts of the design by being able to look at some of the corners in 3D. This helped with thinking about detailing problems for some parts of the proposal.

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MVRDV , Glass Farm, Netherlands This proposal has an innovative way of using printed materials onto the facade of the building. The facade is transparent and has a brick finish on it. Similarly our membrane could take parts of this as a precedent and expand on them.

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The report really helped us develop our design further and highlighted which areas of our project that needed more attention.

Focusing onto all parts of the project it made it more clear that parts of it were developed further than others. This is going to help us to develop our portfolio and competition submission further.

The general detailing is kept very similar through the entire proposal it is just adapted to a different situation as these different environments have different detailing concerns.

We sketched many of these details and developed it alongside the 3D Revit model. This really helped us to be able to think in all contexts, as we proposed 2 separate detailing options for the warehouse typology, one with a weather proof roof membrane and one without.

Hopefully the submission goes ok, its a little difficult as working in a group may have been a bit tricky to mark, as we didn’t specify who worked on what! I am sure it will be fine!

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Week 13 02/05/16 - 09/05/16 Internal transparent Barrisol UPVC membrane (Fire rated Class 0) Celotex 100mm insulation External transparent Barrisol UPVC membrane Aluminium channel Barrisol B-311 Finished chip board floor Acoustic rubber sound deadening insulation Metal mesh decking Timber section 3mm cold bridge membrane Damp proof membrane Steel C - Section 125 x 60mm Rack frame behind insulation (dashed) Bolt for securing aluminium channel Bolt fixing into insulation to support part of track Aluminium channel Barrisol BS-350/20

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Internal transparent Barrisol UPVC membrane (Fire rated Class 0) Celotex 100mm insulation External transparent Barrisol UPVC membrane

Thin wire fixings pushed through insulation panels

Aluminium channel Barrisol B-311 Finished chip board floor Acoustic rubber sound deadening insulation Metal mesh decking Bolt for securing hanging insulation Timber section secured to frame 3mm cold bridge membrane Steel C - Section 125 x 60mm Rack frame behind insulation (dashed) Aluminium channel Barrisol BS-355/15 Barrisol UPVC soffit

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Chipboard flooring

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Internal barrisol Celotex UPVC 100mm membrane insulation finish

Internal UPVC coloured membrane

Celotex Insulation 100mm

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Timber sole plate

Acoustic rubber insulation Metal mesh flooring Wire threading through insulation

Stretch UPVC ceiling

Using standard materials other than the Barrisol membrane and the channels it sits within we were able to propose a simple method of construction that could be adapted to all situations in different places around the world.

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more ‘traditional’ 2D details, however we thought 3D renders were more clear and easy to read than the traditional line drawings.

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As always a last minute affair, managed to send it in alright though The competition entry began on Wednesday evening, as we had another hand in for our Optional module seminar class. This absolutely wiped us out and so we had to rest most of Wednesday to be able to function efficiently on Thursday and Friday.

We made a plan on the Wednesday night about what drawings we were going to submit, and how we were going to tackle the work that we needed to do.

The competition criteria was as follows.

1. 5x A4 drawings explaining your project 2. A 250 word description of your project 3. 1 Key image, any size of your proposal.

4. A 1 minute video explaining your project.

5. Background information when submitting online These criteria were achievable but we knew it would take quite some time to be able to get it all done for the competition deadline.

I focused on the video mainly and also producing some of the more refined drawings of our project. The main drawings that needed work were the description drawings at the start of our submission. We then added some new renders and adjusted our current portfolio and then worked on the video as the last part.

We sketched out how we wanted to do it, the intro was going to be a sketch drawing style filmed from above and then the second part of the video was going to be a fly through of the entire warehouse structure with oliverhester.wordpress.com

a sketched overlay explaining parts of the project .

The filming took a bit of time and the overlay of the film fly through took even longer! We had to then overlay the voice onto the video and this although didn’t take much time to record, getting all the text correct was quite frustrating.

The competition we then found out was to be submitted an hour earlier than we originally thought it was as the company are based in Amsterdam and they wanted it submitted at midnight there time! This caused for an extra rush, and university closed an hour before we needed to submit. So why not go to an American Cafe to finish it all off!

Submitting was also annoying as parts of the submission we could not include as the images were either too big or the wrong format. We then had to change these drawings to make them fit to the competitions criteria.

Their website also went down at a really annoying time and we still had to register, this was another hold up but we managed to get it working ok in the end and submitted with about 8 minutes to spare!

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Competition: Outline Brief With more displaced people than ever since World War II, it is clear that we need bold and inspiring solutions to the issues involving the reception and integration of so many refugees. Everybody who flees from war, violence or human rights infringe-ments deserves shelter and solidarity. Yet the receiving communi-ties are ill-prepared for the sudden arrival of so many people who are often distressed, traumatized, and bereft of all possessions.

The What Design Can Do Refugee Challenge is a global design competition that calls on the creative community to come up with game-changing ideas for accommodating, connecting, integrating and helping the personal development of refugees. The challenge specifically focuses on refugees in urban areas, as nearly 60 per cent of the world’s 20 million refugees now live in urban areas.

http://www.whatdesigncando.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/WDCDChallenge-Briefing.pdf

What Design Can do Detailed Brief 1 To Improve shelters and Reception Centres in Society http://www.whatdesigncando.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/WDCDChallenge-Briefing.pdf

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The Challenge

Large shelter areas are opening to accommodate all the refugees arriving in Europe today. Old schools, offices and even prisons are being transformed into temporary housing units. Refugees live in crowded conditions and face a lack of privacy, often for months, if not more than a year. Also, though more than one in three of the refugees seeking asylum are children, current facilities are rarely child-friendly. At the same time, local communities are overwhelmed by the many refugees in their neighborhood. Often, the little interaction between the two groups is a missed opportunity for quick integration. The upshot is that integration has yet to start once asylum is granted, which results in additional frustration and costs for everybody involved.

The Opportunity

Experts argue for the creation of decentralized and smaller shelters that facilitate better integration within society from the start. Designers are capable of envisioning solutions that take various and sometimes conflicting interests into account. The multiple stakeholders affected by this problem can benefit from the co-creation skills of designers.

Can we imagine a shelter that is an asset for both refugees and the local population? And how could such a shelter facilitate interaction between the two? Think, for instance, of possible interventions within the realms of architecture, interior design, service design or even public space design.

http://www.whatdesigncando.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/WDCDChallenge-Briefing.pdf

#RefugeeChallenge

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Architecture Diploma

London Metropolitan University.

Unit 4

Carlotta Conte

Oleg Sevelkov

Oliver Hester

Project Introduction We are producing a framework that uses existing neglected spaces in the UK, and temporarily adapts them to cater for refugees, who are in the process of claiming asylum, and are at the initial stages of integrating into the local host community.

The proposal is rapidly deployable and has little to no impact on the site they are being placed in. This is achieved by adapting a traditional pallet racking system in an innovative and sensitive manner to create temporary structures.

This system is at first, the initial reaction to refugees arriving in the UK and provides shelter for 19 days. These can be placed into abandoned urban locations such as warehouses or large public buildings. This proposal acts as a transitional system to begin an interaction between the host community and the refugee.

The next stage of the project then looks at implementing a semi permanent location for refugees to live in, this is located in 2 different typologies of space, one in an external setting and one internally within an existing building.

These proposals are located into ‘in-limbo’ sites. These sites are currently being used and occupied under ‘property guardianship’ schemes or are vacant, awaiting development.

This system temporarily inhabits these sites, creating an integrated unit within the existing infrastructure and community of a UK based city.

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Final week Getting the final drawings out, formatting and working out layout and readability of the portfolio

We have a good amount of work and we will be able to present a coherent idea!

Hopefully! The layout and presentation of the ideas needs to be read clearly as this is quite a complex project.

Testing out different orders and ideas

and layouts we came up with as clear representation we can give the work.

This process will be changing right up to the last minute we are due to print at 12 this Wednesday 25th,, so aiming to get the majority of the drawings finished by Wednesday morning and

may have one drawing to during the next week. I fishing though so would get it all submitted this

finish off am going prefer to Thursday!

We also have a range of other documents that act as supplements to the portfolio, these will be read alongside the A2 drawn portfolio and will inform the reader further.

The A5 research document backs up many of the ideas we have proposed into the proposed ideas.

The main themes carried forward are concepts such as temporary dwellings.

Also a rapidly deployable system that fits within an existing infrastructure, both at a physical built level and a with a level of social integration of the refugee to the host community.

Format on the back of an envelope!

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Project reflections

Surmising and how we could of improved our project

This final project has been a brilliant experience.

I have thoroughly enjoyed working in a group under the ‘Unit 4’ studio.

The project although informed from the initial case studies seemed somewhat detached and the project could of been informed a lot greater if the initial studies would of started that bit earlier!

Developing our ideas seemed very much a student led process and little input was had through tutorial time and reviews, a bit of consistent dialogue would of good. This may however have been a subliminal process and we have actually been learning and experimenting in the way that Unit 4 wanted us to!

The project initially started slowly and gained momentum when we found various sites to be able to implement and test our ideas on. These developments were strong and had a great amount of background research to support our argument. A criticism would be that our proposals could of been a bit more in tune with the existing site surroundings. As we only really began to understand these surroundings when we started drawing and meeting the people that lived worked and involved themselves with the site.

Even if they were reviews where we presented our work to date in a sketchy style that could of been beneficial.

Our project could also have been developed further through model making as often this informs the design process further. Tendencies of sketching and then modelling at times lost some of the more intimate feeling you achieve through a hand made model.

Working in a group has also been very beneficial as this is the way that the majority of Architectural practices work, this difference compared to other units at the CASS makes unit 4 unique!

Our proposal could of benefitted from some external input too, this would of helped us recollect our ideas and ground our thoughts into reality. The What Design Can Do competition submission did exactly this and as it was almost exactly a week before submission we worked at communicating our entire project on 6 drawings and a 1 minute video. This condensed our drawings and thoughts and focused our project.

Overall

its

been

a

great

year!

Thanks to the guys I’ve been working with too its been great, what are we going to get up to next year! Oli.

The Unit 4 competition review was a great addition and made us produce some of our main concepts in a rushed but calculated manner. The external critiques were beneficial and themes that they suggested are continued in our final submitted project, you read now.

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