Unit 6
Just Do It
Isaie Bloch, Jakub Klaska
Education together with housing costs have become the most substantial items families’ budget face within their lifetime. Families relate their planning to the cost of education, its duration and location in the ultimate belief that education brings about change. The growing complexity and sophistication of our civilization presents new challenges to our educational system. Do we as educational institutions cater solely for the needs of our past and current industries and/or do we educate pupils and students in order to take greater authorship and disrupt current direction of travel? Educational typologies have slowly become one of the most overlooked and obsolete typologies in our profession. Due to the increasing inability of the public sector to fund any substantial progress in this field, education is currently occurring in uninformed generic structures developed to cater for an industrial society. Considering the already established shift towards a post-industrial society (the post-industrial society is the stage of society when the service sector generates more wealth than the manufacturing sector of the economy) we believe architects should investigate the implications on the educational typology especially in the light of the manufacturing sector being on the brink of full automation. LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
We will aim to prove that architecture can affect the learning process at the deepest level. This ultimate belief will fuel our investigation on educational typologies. Our spatial explorations will account for diversity of human characters and the inherent curiosity human beings possess. Catering for complex problem solving, emotional intelligence, creativity, critical thinking, judgement and decision making over STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) oriented learning. Much like the learning process we will aim to comprehend, learn and author the art of construction. More specifically looking into timber construction and its by-products. Our design process will take a deep interest in the art of construction and direct application of learnt principles back into design. Such approach leads to full authorship at the deepest level and gives us total control over the architectural proposition. This opens a great opportunity to contribute to more sustainable futures both politically, environmentally, socially and economically. In order to develop architecture of considered expression we will employ design strategies that synthetize the inner logics of how to deal with material and construction processes as to produce comprehensive architectural propositions.
