BA L S A
ba event week 01-08 April 2011
LSA BA programme 2010/11
Eileen McGonigal
BA L S A 01-08 April 2011 BA Programme Event Week
LSA BA Event Week 2011 Welcome to the second LSA BA event week 2011. The event will run from Friday 01 to Friday 08 April 2011 and there are 22 original and creative workshops for you to choose from. The objectives of the LSA event week are • To foster a strong sense of identity within the BA course with students working in cross year team • To introduce students to specialists working within the field of architecture • To introduce students to skills not necessarily taught within the core curriculum • To create links between LSA and practise The objective of this second event week is to introduce you to new skills and ideas within the practise of architecture with focus on representation and final portfolio. The event weeks will also continue to foster the strong studio culture we have here at LSA and reflect our goals to create a studio for the future where we see studio not merely as a place but as a landscape of events. Each event will comprise of a series of workshops, with the final crit being held within the final workshop session. We encourage students to attend the crits of workshops other than their own. A series of lectures will accompany the workshop events. Students can attend any of these lectures, although priority will be given to those students registered in the workshop. The event week is a requirement of the studio programme for first, second and third years. Each student will have to sign up for a number of workshops and should keep a record of their event week work in their portfolio in a number of portfolio sheets. This work will be considered during the grading process. Students will be able to register at the Architecture Hub and you will be informed of the date during term 2. Any student who has not registered by the given time will automatically be assigned a workshop. The timetable for the event week workshops will be posted by individual staff on blackboard and in the Architecture hub which will act as the centre for the event weeks and will also be emailed to you. During the event week there are no other classes. University regulations state that a full week requires 40 hours of effort. Therefore we are expecting you to work on the event at least this number of hours. Attendance will be taken and any student who does not attend will have their final grade for the year adjusted accordingly. LSA BA programme 2010/11
Eileen McGonigal
BA L S A 01-08 April 2011 BA Programme Event Week Queries before and during the event should be directed to – Programme Leader - Eileen McGonigal – emcgonigal@dmu.ac.uk Architecture Hub manager – Rob Sheen – rsheen@dmu.ac.uk Following is a list of the events which will be offered, the staff running the events and the number of available places. We hope you have a really exciting week and look forward to exhibiting the work. Eileen McGonigal Associate Head of School
LSA BA programme 2010/11
Eileen McGonigal
BA L S A 01-08 April 2011 BA Programme Event Week
Events: 1
Collage - Chris Watts
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Architectural Landscape - Johan Voordouw
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Visualising Space - Ian Hendderson
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Technique, Delight & 1:1 - Neil Stacey
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Shadows - Jamileh Manoocherhi
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A ‘Killer’ Section! - Ian Henderson
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port•fo•li•o: - Sara Shafiei /Ben Cowd
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Mixed Media Imaging - Chris Watts
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Pavilion - Johan Voordouw
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Collage Architecture - Geraldine Dening
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Guide to Leicester’s Architecture - Tim Brindley
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Making Visual Abstractions - Laura Jones
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Mathmatics & Architecture - Doug Cawthorne
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Capturing the Essence of Place by Hand - Kyle Henderson
15
A Perspectival Realisation of your Project - Sam Causer
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Science & Architecture - Doug Cawthorne
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Adapting Leicester - Adrian Robinson
18
The Elysian Fields Project - Neil Stacey / John Stanley
19
Students Design for Students - David Dernie
20
Capturing the Section by Hand - Kyle Henderson
LSA BA programme 2010/11
Eileen McGonigal
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Architectural Photography - Ian Henderson
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BIM - Chris Watts
LSA BA programme 2010/11
Eileen McGonigal
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Chris Watts Collage (1st year only) Summary This event is an opportunity for first year students to develop their collage making skills using Photoshop. It will review and build upon concepts and techniques introduced earlier in the term. Students should bring their existing collages for the Victoria Avenue Studio House project. They should also bring one or more image(s) by others for inspiration. The event will start with a reminder of relevant techniques and discussion of progress and issues to date. Student will clarify their requirements and set out a work plan to achieve the intended image(s). The remainder of the event will involve guided and discovery learning to enhance collages for portfolios. Content • Communication intent and content • Sources and composition • Photoshop techniques • Presentation and printing Timing • • • •
Friday am Monday pm Wednesday pm Friday pm
1 hour introduction 2 hour workshop 2 hour workshop 2 hour workshop
LSA BA programme 2010/11
Eileen McGonigal
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BA L S A 01-08 April 2011 BA Programme Event Week
Johan Voordouw Architectural Landscapes Currently in many projects the space beyond the external envelope is underdeveloped or completely ignored. Historically, the link between landscape architecture and the built environment was much more innate. In many of the grand spaces either at many of England’s country estates or such as the large parks in London, landscape and the city merge either at an urban scale but often as an extension of internal space. This event week is the opportunity to develop the spaces outside the front door. Think of the success of Wright’s Falling Water, its integration into the rocky outcrop is as much a designed statement of the American country cottage as the defined manicured hedges of Versaille. Landscape extends design intent from the building to the world beyond. Landscape is often the public’s first opportunity to experience a building. Do the trees hide, reveal or frame your project? This event week will give you the opportunity to explore these ideas Objective: To teach how landscape can be integrated into building design looking beyond a building envelope to the site beyond. Many projects are developing interesting relationships with site, this event week is intended to help those to develop their project in relation to the land upon which their building is constructed. The event week will attempt to design meaningful outdoor space, which integrates into the architectural programme, using contours to develop land art, hard and soft surfaces to define space and foliage to frame and construct a secondary skin around your building.
LSA BA programme 2010/11
Eileen McGonigal
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BA L S A 01-08 April 2011 BA Programme Event Week
Ian Henderson Visualising Space (2nd & 3rd year only) As architectural students you are learning to create spaces and in order to communicate your vision of what the space could be you must be able to visualise it in a way that is clearly understood. In this event you will be encouraged to use a variety of digital media to study a key space in your current project. Depending upon your skill level and the spatial qualities you are trying to represent you will be encouraged study this space in detail through 3d modelling and visualisation techniques which could include collage, animation, lighting studies, texturing etc. This event will be tailored to each student’s project and focus on visualising some of the following spatial qualities: • Materiality • Light & Shadow • Volume • Texture • Movement The purposed of this event is to improve your skills using a variety of digital media and enable you to explore and communicate the qualities of one of the spaces you have designed.
Zaha Hadid
Eric Owen Moss LSA BA programme 2010/11
Eileen McGonigal
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BA L S A 01-08 April 2011 BA Programme Event Week
Neil Stacey Technique, Delight & 1:1 Developing a deeper understanding of the making of your architecture is an opportunity to develop delight in your design. This workshop will provide an opportunity for students to engage in one of three projects: [1] a design charette brief; [2] an aspect of their studio work that they wish to understand better, or; [3] a design problem or brief developed by the student. Whichever project is chosen, students will explore it at a scale that extends their understanding of the possible making of it. Students will be encouraged to explore at 1:1 scale, using a combination of research, model making, projected image drawing and full-size mock-ups. It is hoped and anticipated that 1:1 construction studies will form part of an exhibition for the External Examiners later in the year. Draft programme: Friday: Briefing – establishing aspirations and design intensions Monday: initial presentations + tutorials – agreeing the work for the week Wednesday: tutorials Friday morning: presentation of ‘exhibition’ and review.
LSA BA programme 2010/11
Eileen McGonigal
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BA L S A 01-08 April 2011 BA Programme Event Week
Jamileh Manoochehri Shadows The two-dimensional orthographic drawing comes to life when light casts shadows on it. The shadow offers the ghost of the cut away section, in soft but clear forms, informing and enticing at the same time. In this workshop we’ll set up sections and show how to cast shadows. Bring in the plans (and sections) of your project. We’ll work on drawing boards and go through the principles of setting up sections and casting shadows to achieve a three-dimensional effect on the page. The teaching sessions will run on two separate days in the event week– Tuesday and Wednesday.
Image: Student Project AA - Kaliope Kontozoglou
LSA BA programme 2010/11
Eileen McGonigal
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Ian Henderson A ‘Killer’ Section (3rd year only) The aim of this event is to take an existing project and to have the luxury of spending an entire week developing a key section into a ‘killer’ drawing. The main emphasis will be on developing your graphical skills using Photoshop to produce a beautiful section drawing that illustrates the spatial qualities of your design. A section is one of the most powerful drawings you can produce to illustrate the spatial qualities and spatial relationships of a building. We will focus on developing individual representational techniques and graphical styles by taking into account the following: • Materiality • Light & Shadow • Texture • Colour • Line weights • Text • Composition • People The purpose of this event is to concentrate on developing your technical skills in Photoshop whilst adopting a non-destructive workflow to enable rapid editing and precise adjustments. This event is open to only 3rd year students as it deals with advanced Photoshop techniques.
LSA BA programme 2010/11
Eileen McGonigal
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Sara Shafiei and Ben Cowd port•fo•li•o: An architectural portfolio is the most important document you will prepare and take from your university education. It will be the thing that communicates who you’re and how you work. It will be the document that decides your grade at the end of year and hopefully get you the dream job after you graduate. During this workshop we will be helping you present your drawings and projects to maximise your potential. We will be looking at layout, size, and different portfolio types: How you can record your thoughts and ideas; represent your physical models; present your final pieces and catalogue your process. The event week will consist of: - - -
Presentations of successful examples of portfolios Tutorials looking at your current portfolio and representation Workshops focusing on presentation and layout
LSA BA programme 2010/11
Eileen McGonigal
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BA L S A 01-08 April 2011 BA Programme Event Week
Chris Watts Mixed Media Imaging (2nd & 3rd year only) Summary This workshop is for second and third year students developing drawings and images for their portfolios using manual and digital methods, e.g., hand drawing and painting in conjunction with Photoshop. Students will select an existing or proposed image to develop. They should also identify image(s) by others which they would like to emulate. The event will begin with discussion of individual requirements and opportunities. Relevant concepts and techniques will be investigated then combined in a plan of guided and self-directed work to achieve the required results. Content • Preparation and composition • Alternative routes to line work: scanning and computer-based drawing tools • Rendering options: Manual and digital • Presentation and printing Timing • • • •
Friday am Monday am Wednesday am Friday am
1 hour Introduction 2 hour workshop 2 hour workshop 2 hour workshop
LSA BA programme 2010/11
Eileen McGonigal
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BA L S A 01-08 April 2011 BA Programme Event Week
Johan Voordouw Pavilion 2011 This event will result in the actual construction of a pavilion on campus (May 2011). If you are interested in this project, there are three stages you will need to be committed to: a. Event week 1 (Jan): the design process, b. Event week 2 (April): construction details c. Construction (May), (between portfolio hand in, and the end-of-year show). You will work with leading theatre director Andrea Cusumano (Goldsmith’s and Central St. Martin’s, London) an architect from multi award-winning Eva Jiricna’s practice (London), Prof. David Dernie and researchers from the Institute of Creative Technologies (DMU). The theme of the design will combine space and performance. This is a prestigious project and will represent the LSA in the national press. It’s potentially a great addition to your portfolio: your designs will be fabricated and, following portfolio hand-in, you will engage in the erection of prefabricated elements on site. The pavilion will be opened with a site-specific performance, directed by Andrea Cusumano, and then it will house an exhibition of the BA studio. The structure will be the showcase for the RIBA’s visit to the School in 2011. We are looking for students with the highest level of design skills to be committed to the whole design process and construction of this project. This workshop will have: 9 places for year 3 students 2 places for year 2 students 2 places for year 1 students This workshop is open to only those students already involved who are listed below: Sahil Sharma
Quba Allen-tuakli
Matthew Webb
Charlie Patterson
Matt Batte
Fahad Mohammad
Jordan Young
Dazhong Jin
Mathew Collins
Mesha Mcmanaman
Konstantina Kypriou
Matt Bullock
Adam Afford
Yasmin Marks
Phil Cooksey
Thomas Bush
Oliver Cowan
Chiara Lombardi
LSA BA programme 2010/11
Eileen McGonigal
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BA L S A 01-08 April 2011 BA Programme Event Week
Geraldine Dening Collage Architecture We experience the world as a simultaneous bombardment of fragmented elements. While perspective is a very clever ordering device, it represents our perception of the world through a hierarchical system of strict visual and spatial relationships. Collage on the other hand is unstructured, layered and non linear - a concept closer, perhaps, to the contemporary urban experience - where multiple meanings coincide and collide in a single moment. Collage is both a method of representation and of design. Its history is political and theoretical, its use experimental and diverse. It is both a visual tool to explore and provoke surprising relationships though playful experimentation and juxtaposition, as well as a sophisticated means to express spatial and experiential properties. The collage has been used in architecture both as a metaphorical approach to understanding the city, as well as a means to design and represent a project: it is ultimately the simultaneous bringing together of a series of found fragments to create a new set of possible relationships, spaces and situations.
Stephen Willats
This event will give you a brief visual introduction to the history and theory of the uses of collage followed by a practical workshop. You are asked to bring along many diverse printed photos and drawings of your current projects to use as starting points for a series of collages. These photos should include contexts, material precedents, key objects such as furniture for inhabitation, people (for this you might need to photograph people in poses you require), the site, materials, landscape elements (vegetation etc), light effects, existing buildings, text, images found in magazines (or in other found printed media), copied from books, or from the internet. You should think about the scales of your images, although a collage con combine a variety of scales as the relationships between the images do not necessarily have to be ‘true to life’; the images can represent more abstract ideas you had about the design of the project. Please bring a knife with some sharp blades and scissors, a cutting mat and metal ruler, paper glue, magic or masking tape. Please also bring pens, pencils, and drawings of your project, and card or paper to work on. If you have laptops please also bring these if you would like to work on the computer, but please also bring prints as described above. Friday 1 April - Event Introduction Wednesday 6 April – all day workshop
Rachel Witham
LSA BA programme 2010/11
Eileen McGonigal
11
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Tim Brindley Guide to Leicester’s Architecture Staff Tim Brindley (co-ordinator), Ian Henderson (photography) Brief The Leicester School of Architecture is keen to promote the architectural heritage of Leicester, from historic monuments to the latest prize-winning schemes. In this Event you will be compiling a guide to some of the city’s architecture, in a compact and useable format. The aim is for the School to publish the best guides, for use by other students, applicants to the courses, visitors and the general public. They will also be added to a database of facts and photos, to provide a continuous record of architecture in our locality. A guide to local architecture needs to be accurate and informative, short and succinct, convenient to carry and use, and attractively presented. A guide is something to be carried around while you look at the architecture – it could take the form of a leaflet, a fold-out map, a pocket-sized book, a website (with printable material), or even a smart phone app – so research good examples to get some inspiring design ideas. Your guide can take any suitable format, and can focus on any aspect of Leicester’s architecture that interests you. Tasks 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Work on your own, or in twos or threes – no more Choose your guide theme – some examples might be: a. Leicester’s Top Twenty b. 21st Century City c. Victorian Splendour d. Best of the 60s e. Civic Pride f. Famous Architects g. House and Home h. Industry and Commerce Research the sources, create lists and maps, source plans and drawings Plan your guide format Photograph the buildings Design, compile and produce your guide for distribution on Friday
Sources Books and pamphlets on Leicester’s architecture will be made available in the Kimberlin Library during the Events week, including some of the following: Bennett, J D. Leicestershire Architects 1700 – 1850. Leicester: Leicester Museums, 1968. Brandwood, Geoffrey. The Anglican Churches of Leicester. Leicester: Leicestershire Museums Service, 1984. LSA BA programme 2010/11
Eileen McGonigal
BA L S A Boynton, Helen & Grant Pitches. Desirable Locations: Leicester’s Middle Class Suburbs 1880 - 1920. Leicester: Leicester City Council, 1996. Elliott, Malcolm. In the Steps of Edward Burgess (1847 to 1929), Civic Architect of Victorian Leicester. Ellis, Isabelle C. Records of Nineteenth Century Leicester. Available at Leicester Central Reference Library. Gill, Richard. The Book of Leicester. Buckingham: Barracuda Books, 1985. Keene, R J B. Architecture in Leicestershire, 1834 – 1984. Leicester: LRSA, 1984. Leicester City Council. Leicester’s Architectural Heritage. Leicester: LCC, 1975. Lloyd Smith, L & R J B Keene. 1872 – 1972: the first hundred years of the Leicestershire and Rutland Society of Architects. Leicester: LRSA, 1972. Lyons, Arthur. The Architecture of the Universities of Leicester. Syston: AnchorPrint, 2010. Mitchell, Tony. ‘Newtown’ Trail. Leicester: Leicester Urban Studies Centre, 1982. Nash, David & David Reeder (ed.). Leicester in the Twentieth Century. Stroud: Alan Sutton/LCC, 1993. Pevsner, Niklaus and Elizabeth Williamson. Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland. 2nd rev ed. Penguin, 1984. Roenisch, Rowan. Ernest Gimson: historical walking trail in Leicester. Leicester: LCC, n.d. Smigielski, W Konrad. Leicester Today and Tomorrow. London: Pyramid Press/LCC, 1968. Taylor, Michael. The Quality of Leicester. Leicester: LCC, 1993. You will find other published architecture guides in the Library, in bookshops, and on the internet. It is essential that all text and photographs used in your guide must be original (i.e. not copyright). Schedule (provisional) Friday
Issue of brief on Blackboard Form working teams Research examples Develop concepts
Saturday – Sunday
Read, discuss, think, imagine Prepare a slide show
Monday
9:30 Review meeting 1 Each team to present their concept and work plan
Tuesday
Desk and field research continues
Wednesday
9:30 Review meeting 3 Present draft design
Thursday
Production of your guide
Friday
Publication of guides
2:00 Photography workshop – how to photograph architecture, with Ian Henderson
2:00 Review meeting 4
LSA BA programme 2010/11
Eileen McGonigal
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Laura Jones Making Visual Abstractions Designing is ‘primarily related to the ability of making visual abstractions’ Ulusoy 1999. Although each individual may view a model from a different perspective, an architectural model provides a significant mechanism for dialogue between tutor and student, client and architect. For hundreds of years models have been used extensively to communicate. They have the capability to take properties from reality and used them to explain your intentions; colour, texture, space, scale, context and form can all be communicated. Physical Models allow ideas to be easily understood, they are the most successful tool we have to inform in three dimensions and are often a much richer source of information than drawings. Models are used at all stages of the design process from initial conceptual models to models which communicate the final resolution of your design. They can show a building at any scale, using any level of detail. This event week workshop will explore the role and importance of the architectural model, consider different types and their uses, examine techniques and both conventional and unconventional material choices and allow each student to create a significant model to form part of their design project, focussing on a particular part of their building or space.
LSA BA programme 2010/11
Eileen McGonigal
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BA L S A 01-08 April 2011 BA Programme Event Week
Doug Cawthorne Science & Architecture Architecture of all kinds is becoming technological complex, not only in the buildings themselves but also in their means of production and management and there is more engineering of many kinds in buildings than there used to be. ‘Engineering graduates whose technical abilities far outstrip architectural graduates are integrating better into the construction industry and taking over ‘design’ roles from architects. This starts during education where there exists a deep segregation between architecture departments and other related departments during higher education.’ This workshop will explore the relationship between science and architecture and in particular architectural attitudes towards and understanding of science in design. From ‘The Future for Architects?’ published by the RIBA and Building Futures, March 2011. This workshop may be of interest to those 2nd year students considering a topic for their 3rd year Dissertation and particularly current 3rd year students considering the MA for next year. Draft programme: Thursday: 7th April: Thursday: 7th April:
10:00 – 12:00 Seminar. 13:00 – 17:00 Workshop.
LSA BA programme 2010/11
Eileen McGonigal
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BA L S A 01-08 April 2011 BA Programme Event Week
Kyle Henderson Capturing the Essence of Place by Hand The aim of this event is to develop both drawing and anylitical skills though the exploration of place and space. Students will be encouraged to chose a particular building or built environment and convey its inherent qualties via their own personal drawing technique. This is not intended be a singular acomplished image but a series or collage of studies and explorations portraying the soul of the chosen subject. Individual style will be encourged as well as research into style influences/ inspriation. Equipment required: • • •
Sketchbook Drawing media (variety of pencils, pens, charcoal etc) Eraser
LSA BA programme 2010/11
Eileen McGonigal
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BA L S A 01-08 April 2011 BA Programme Event Week
Sam Causer A Perspectival Realisation of your Project “The mode of representation that evolved in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance under the name of ‘Perspective’ became an influential force in shaping modern European culture. The long and anonymous process in which the new representation was gradually articulated is often seen as making possible the breakthrough by a small group of artists and intellectuals living and working in Florence at the beginning of the fifteenth century [known as the ‘Renaissance’]. Their contribution—the “invention” of “correct” (“legitimate”) perspective construction—is hailed as a unique and unprecedented event.” Vesely, Dalibor. Architecture in the Age of Divided Representation. Chap 3, The Perspectival Transformation of the Medieval World’. This workshop will take your projects as a starting point for you to learn the value of realising a perspective view of your proposed space/s. We will learn how to set up a perspective drawing from scratch using hand-drawing techniques and collage to tease out spatial, material, light and other essential qualities. We may then contemplate the fourth dimension - time - to incorporate movement, memory and volatile perception. Please bring with you on Friday: - The entire documentation of the project/s you would like to work on including drawings and models. - Drawing tools: Clutch pencils, soft pencils, fine-tipped or Rotring pens. (Boards and parallel motions will be provided). - At least 5 A1 sheets of tracing paper. - 5 or more magazines featuring architecture, interiors and fashion, ready to be ripped up. - Spray glue - A newspaper Programme: Friday 1st April: Introduction, perspective seminar and drawing workshop (all day). Weekend: Read Chapter 3 of Dalibor’s Book (will be provided to subscribers). Monday - Wednesday: Experimentation, Fear and Enjoyment through drawing without “Control-Z” Thursday 7th April: Advanced workshop in Perspective and Collage (all day).
LSA BA programme 2010/11
Eileen McGonigal
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Doug Cawthorne Mathematics & Architecture There has been a remarkable increase in the power and complexity of mathematics used in architecture through the use of computers while at the same time a marked disappearance of the numbers themselves which have become hidden deep beneath the surface of software. In the past, legible number and numerable elements grounded architectural theory in ideals of absolute truth and understandings of the cosmos which have largely been lost. This has left a void at the heart of architecture which has been filled by transient and relativist theories which offer little in the way of the certainties many are searching for in design. This workshop addresses aspects of historical and contemporary use of mathematics in architecture, explores their theory and application and considers languages of architectural expression where number is allowed to return as a cohesive force for understanding and architectural articulation. This workshop may be of interest to those 2nd year students considering a topic for their 3rd year Dissertation and particularly current 3rd year students considering the MA for next year. Draft programme: Wednesday 6th April: Wednesday 6th April:
10:00 – 12:00 Seminar 14:00 – 16:00 Workshop
LSA BA programme 2010/11
Eileen McGonigal
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Adrian Robinson Adapting Leicester “How does one design for time? This one week event is centered on six sites in the cultural quarter offering a mixture of brainstorming, mapping, guest speaker events, film-making tutorials, and a follow-up with design presentations to Leicester City Council. The work ties into a larger research initiative and offers the possibility for your design work to be included in a book and promotional video. This is an exciting and challenging study that invites you to tackle the transient nature of the built environment by removing the connotation of large static and monolithic objects replaced as a series of ephemeral events expressed through a variety of different time-based media.” The module explores the transient nature of the built environment by removing the connotation of large static and monolithic objects replaced as a series of events in perpetual motion constantly shaping and reshaping both object and context. Dismissed is the fixed association between space and function, you are simply asked to provide space(s) for transience – living, working, selling, relaxing, sleeping, eating - the multiplicity of time forges a symbiotic relationship between building and context demanding an adaptable solution. The work investigates this complex interdependence of contingencies, and how tactical interventions can promote a sustainable built environment through the physical and social regeneration of existing conditions. The module ties into in-depth research being conducted by the Adaptable Futures (AF) group at Loughborough University and provides a platform for students to engage in a workshop with other students, the local authority, business organizations and community members to promote their design ideas. The work focuses on six building sites in the cultural quarter and looks to address current issues the local authority are dealing with in an effort to the regenerate the neighbourhood. Activities during the week will be a mixture of guest lectures by practitioners and academics, tutorials aimed at developing short film making skills, and site and studio-based design exercises. Outcomes through the week will unfold towards the developing of a short film by each student to illustrate their design proposal. At first, each student will generate a visual narrative, mapping the site using the concepts of time, location, and the design issues presented to them by the local authority. The descriptive maps will translate into a storyboard or animatic which will serve as a basis for the development of their short films, highlighting how the life of their proposed intervention unfolds through time – an hour, day, year, decade or century, and illustrates a response to a variety of changes – change of task, user, space, scale, material, use or location.
LSA BA programme 2010/11
Eileen McGonigal
BA L S A The work feeds into a half-day workshop on May 23rd in Leicester where students will be given the opportunity to present their design ideas in front of the local authority, business organizations and community members. Students from Loughborough University will also present work addressing the opportunities and barriers to adapting several of the buildings in the cultural quarter. The work presented by the two universities will offer a balance of design imagination (DMU) and technical feasibility (LU) to the interested parties. Finalized work by the students will have a chance to roll into the larger AF research project. Films by the students will be uploaded to the AF website with selected clips having a chance to be edited into the promotional video that will be showcased at the AF launch Conference on September 8th in London. Visual ‘maps’ done by the students could be selected as part of the upcoming book being published by the AF group: Moving Architecture: (re)written perspectives on adaptability. The student work responds to the AF framework and links into other work being done by The University of Tokyo, University College London, and University of Westminster in conjunction with the research project.
LSA BA programme 2010/11
Eileen McGonigal
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Neil Stacey & John Stanley The Elysian Fields Project Key words: People Community Self Build, Low Energy. This is the initial stage in developing piece of derelict land within the City boundary. The long term aim is build a housing project that is based on the ideas of mutuality and self help. Your role would be to produce a design for a building and a how to guide to construct it. The building would initially be used as a resource centre. It would need to be largely autonomous, made of reclaimed and or found materials and constructed in a manner that would allow it to be adapted to say living accommodation or be moved or reduced to its constituent parts to be recycled or used on an adjoining allotment as a source for composting a soil nutrient The project workers wish is that if the schemes appear viable then one will be chosen and built over the summer using volunteers. This group could be made up of students from LSA. Access to the site is restricted a site visit will take place on the morning of 1st April 2011.
20K Projects 2005-2009 designed and built by the students of the Rural Studio
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Eileen McGonigal
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David Dernie DMU - Students Design for Students (2nd & 3rd year only) This is an opportunity to work with the Demontfort Student Union (DSU) to develop exciting plans for the Student Facilities at the University. The initiative is strongly supported by the University and gives students the opportunity to work together to visualize what they would like to see in terms of their physical environment. It would give you the opportunity to act as architects to a client – students from your own university – to visualize new ideas for the kind of environment that you want to see. During the week you will engage with design staff and hopefully, other students from across the faculty and deliver a professional report that will prove to be a key tool in further negotiations to get this project realized. The report will be a really interesting document for your portfolios, showing employers that you can apply your imagination with real clients in real life contexts. It’s also an opportunity for you to give something back and better the experience of those that follow. A detailed timetable will be explained at the first meeting.
LSA BA programme 2010/11
Eileen McGonigal
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Kyle Henderson Capturing the Section by Hand A section drawing can capture the true spatial qualities of a building and can portray the essence of a building more than any other traditional drawing. The aim of this event is to develop both drawing and presentation techinques when creating a section. You will be require to draw in pencil a 1:50 section of your current project. This drawing will enable you to explore and represent spatial qualities by considering the following: • Light & Shade • Threshold • Texture • Structure • Colour • Atmosphere • Solid & Transparent The section drawing can be completed through using photoshop or via traditional collage techniques. Individual style will be encourged as well as research into style influences/inspriation. Equipment required: • Pencils • Eraser • Set Square • Scale Rule • A2 Tracing paper
LSA BA programme 2010/11
Eileen McGonigal
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BA L S A 01-08 April 2011 BA Programme Event Week
Ian Henderson Architectural Photography As students of architecture you are learning to observe the world through architects’ eyes. We use many ways of recording our impressions of a city, place or space. Common methods used for documenting our feelings, impressions and understanding of the places we visit are through sketching, drawing, painting and photography. This event is aimed at exploring the art of photography to document architecture in a creative and unique way by developing the student’s technical and creative skills. This event will be split into two sessions where we will be considering different technical aspects of photography such as aperture, shutter speed, ISO, depth of field, focal length, etc. Session 1: Photographing architectural models in a controlled environment. Session 2: Photographing architecture (day and night). During these sessions the students will be encouraged to consider the following: • Composition • Light • Texture • Framing • Detail • Colour • Movement • Perspective Equipment required: • Digital SLR with variety of lenses or compact camera • Memory cards with plenty of storage • Tripod • Warm clothing when photographing outside
LSA BA programme 2010/11
Eileen McGonigal
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BA L S A 01-08 April 2011 BA Programme Event Week
Chris Watts BIM for Practice (3rd year only) (Please note that this event is additional and will run along side your main event.) Summary This short event is intended to provide Year 3 students with an updating overview of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in the context of professional practice. The RIBA has recommended UK Schools of Architecture to ensure that their graduates are aware of the significance of this developing technology. The event will provide a summary of the core principles of BIM and current application techniques. Advice will be given on how to develop relevant skills and knowledge with key Autodesk products. Content • Core BIM concepts and techniques • Overview of Autodesk Revit and ECOTECT • How to proceed Timing Thursday am
2 hour workshop
LSA BA programme 2010/11
Eileen McGonigal