The model is under ways and the finishing work will be done this week, lets contribute our efforts to the phyisical model this week. perspects at ukc is 50 pounds so it is best that we buy it from the place we got it before. hope to see every one in today or tomorow with lots of enthusiasm and money.
plasma technology... another way to get rid of your 'diapers to chemical weapons' with a self sustaining 'garbage eater' with safe byproducts, why is there such a slow uptake of these developments!!!
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http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/873aae7bf86c0110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html
"New “morphing” technology promises adroit aircraft that reshape themselves, bird-like, in flight. University and industry researchers funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and others are experimenting with wings and helicopter rotors that fold, shrink, extend, tilt, and twist in flight. "
Sounds to me like this has architectural implications also - shading systems, airflows, ventilation etc...
linkoid
hey finally worked out how to post things, thanx guys for 'not' helping, lol. I got a couple of websites based around recycling if it helps in anyway.
http://www.greatgreengoods.com/category/uncategorized/
http://www.meti.go.jp/policy/recycle/main/english/3r_policy/overview.html
http://www.greensteps.co.uk/view/menu.do?id=1
http://www.ecobuild.co.uk
http://www.recycling-guide.org.uk/
http://www.architectureweek.com/2004/0811/building_1-1.html
The grimshaw website has info on both the eden project and eco-rainforest which i thought may be of interest. The eco-rainforest is a mix between eden and a waste disposal plant. They come under projects, science and education once you are in the site. http://www.grimshaw-architects.com/grimshaw/launcher.html?in_projectid=
Collection of trinkets from BBCs TV series.. some useful.. more worrying. Buy wellies click here
Progressive plant growing in space. Aeroponics tested on board the MIR space station
http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/Spinoff2006/er_2.html
link to http://www.aeroponics.com/home.htm selling you aeroponic systems at affordable prices! presumably for those sustainable weed growers outhere... contains images of aeroponics in action!
Richard my boy dont be contesting the REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAL issues here... food stats. They keep you on your toes at 2.19. see you dont crash at 4.01, and great you with warming embrace at 10.14 when you are risen from your slumber by the rest of us who have been up for 2 hours already. Love 'em.
Here are a few website concerning globalisation statistics etc.
www.unhabitat.org
www.stat.go.jp
www.census.gov
www.oja-services.nl
www.earthtrends.wri.org
www.eia.doe.gov
Hello All,
This is an image of Zaha Hadid's proposed new building in the U.A.E. Looks to me like a Lindenmayer system may be involved in the morphology - tutorials may be available for L-systems in Maya if enough people are interested...
Anyhow - glad to see the work is progressing.
I would like to see everyone at 10.00 tomorrow for a general meeting.
Please ensure all know by ringing round if possible.
J
link to Abu Dhabi proposals
BoingBoing Has a post about this group - I thought it worth the re-post as we have a site which is and abuts derelict parts of the city - perhaps these techniques could be imported/adapted for urban analysis - particularisation of the overlooked and underloved...
From their site: The goal of the Urban Curators project is to engage the public in the celebration of the decaying urban environment, recognizing its inherent aesthetic qualities as well as the important role that it plays within our cultural habitat. The project achieves its goal by elevating common, overlooked objects and spaces within the city of Providence, Rhode Island to the level of high art.
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The building massing blocks are coming along well. I have a huge pile of them however i have run out of the acrylic block to make more. Plus i also need more heights and an exact size and location of the site we are using for the model. Would be useful to have all on monday to be able to do some more.
This is a really interesting take on ephemeral urbanism, IMHO.
Communique from the GRL
"Last night @ 2200 hours, the GRL laser-tag system went online and fully operational. The laser tag system status is GO and we are calling all writers in the Netherlands to please report to Rotterdam most riki-tik for training and deployment. The GRL will be turning over control of the system to writers, protesters, artists and the citizens of Rotterdam from the 7th to the 10th of February, starting each night around 1600 hours at the KPN building in Rotterdam. If you’ve ever wanted to catch a 20-story high tag with a laser beam, WE WANT YOU "
linkoid
http://river-lea.co.uk/2000s/bowcreek/bowcreek01.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/iantindale/sets/72157594180264371/
a couple of useful websites for extra images
This is a heads up for all you theorists - we will be employing systems theory in all aspects of the CDP. Check Wikipedia for initial points of entry - then get reading/thinking/discussing ready for immanent seminar....
The systems view is a world-view that is based on the discipline of SYSTEM INQUIRY, Central to systems inquiry is the concept of SYSTEM. In the most general sense, system means a configuration of parts connected and joined together by a web of relationships. The Primer group defines system as a family of relationships among the members acting as a whole. Bertalanffy defined system as "elements in standing relationship.
The joining and integrating of the web of relationships creates EMERGENT PROPERTIES of the whole. These properties of the whole may not be found in any analysis of the parts. This is the VALUE of systems theory. the WHOLENESS that can't be seen in the parts.
SYSTEMS INQUIRY is a system itself. As a conceptual system, it has four interrelated and internally consistent aspects acting as a whole: systems PHILOSOPHY, systems THEORY, systems METHODOLOGY and systems APPLICATION. Furthermore, systems inquiry embraces two kinds of disciplined inquiry; its conclusion-orientated inquiry mode PRODUCES systems knowledge, its decision orientated inquiry mode APPLIES systems knowledge to the formulation and selection of systems methods that address real-world situations.
sounds like architecture, no?
get on it....
true
bding ding dum etc
gee whiz kids, i sure hope you all are working BECAUSE I AM.....slightly pissed off...need a drink....
no, no happy as a clam really...
Friday night in front of 2 computers and a mountain of pain - i think i'm going to start writing country music
or not
monday had better be sunny...
meanwhile here is some philosophy...or sociology or something...I particularly agree with the Baudrillard condensation, for what its worth.
Waste psychology: What gets us all narced orf when it comes to sorting plastics. High end reading click here
Flooding assesment in Lea Valley. The really really real issue. click here
Time to get busy, everyone - here is the first exercise in the project proper - lots to do, so I thought I would post it here. This is pretty straightforward - just follow the instructions and attend the tutorials - I am assuming you all want to do incredibly well, so you can start as soon as you like. I expect to see everyone with at least some ideas on how they will proceed on Monday morning - ideally you will have work in progress. BTW, the images are not to be taken as literal guides to what is required, they are stages of an AA thesis project which embodies some of the aspirations I have for this phase of the work. Your initial constructs should preferably be relatively simple, to allow for systematic analysis and development. Don't worry - just do it.
life - what life?...enjoy this instead!
J
This brief is and all subsequent briefs will be available as downloadable pdfs from metametric.net
Generative Elements
In this set of operations and elaborations you will develop an aspect of your project outside the envelope of programmatic speculation, which will inflect the organisation of your emergent design from a material–morphogenic axis. You will undertake the development of a material system which will be elaborated and tested in a series of exercises which are to be extrinsic to but parallel with the development of the functional brief for your project.
Both the physical–analogue and digital-analogue phases of the work will be conducted rigorously and to the highest standard.
Each stage of the work must be comprehensively documented and formatted to professional quality.
You will produce all paper based work at A2 size, landscape format outputted through InDesign. Each stage of the process should be documented photographically, with video as necessary. Photographs will be made under controlled lighting and environmental conditions to avoid extraneous information in shot - use backdrops!
The Task
At a convenient size - preferably no larger than 600mm on the longest side, construct a minimum of 3 material instruments; choose no more than 2 materials , which may include, but are not limited to:
wire
plastic rod or sheet
timber
latex or other elastic material
paper
Choose 1 method of assembly, which may include, but is not limited to:
bundling
weaving
cutting
folding
Definition
The Material instrument will be defined as the systematic organisation of a chosen set of materials to form a scaleless construction. The material instrument is an analogue through which morphogenic strategies can be developed. It is not a model, it is a constructed system with dynamic and formal properties with respect to imposed criteria.
You must, therefore choose to combine materials and assembly technique in such a manner as to produce a construction which may or may not be self supporting, but which can be analysed as a component within a possible, though as yet untheorised system. Folded, slotted, bundled or woven constructs are all suitable, cutting slots, bending elements, flexing or stretching materials are all appropriate to consider. Try to define through making, the beginnings of a performance through testing the constructs as you make them - evaluate and present as many as you feel appropriate over the minimum of 3. Components may contain a single repeated element or 2 complementary or antagonistic materials. Consider terms such as flex, opening, density, extension in your project development.
Operations
the material instrument will be interrogated through:
stage 1
light
air movement
imposed load
stage 2
digital translation
dynamics, soft bodies, rigid bodies
stage 3
repetition: self similarity
iterative deformation: gradual change
environmental responsiveness 2
light
air movement
imposed load
Timetable
construct material instruments, conduct environmental testing and record/layout table presentation for seminar discussion
19/02 10.00 - 13.00
attend digital translation class 1
19/02 14.00 - 17.00
develop digital models for interim tutorial discussion
22/02 10.00 - 12.00
present finished stage 1 digital models and experimental data for review
26/02 10.00
attend digital translation class 2
26/02 14.00 - 17.00
develop digital models for interim tutorial discussion
01/03 10.00 - 12.00
final public review of all material with invited guests tba
05/03 10.00
Reading list
Corporate Fields: New Office Environments by the AA DRL Ed B Steele
Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design (Architectural Design) Ed M Hensel
more to follow.
images from Dae Song Lee
AA dip4 06
I met Wes Jones with his then partner Paul Holt in, I think, 1990 - I was still a diploma student, they were charming and erudite. I had admired the set of architects brought together in Pamphlet Architecture 5, Denari, HHPJ, KK - you can look up the issue, get the full info - what I need to let you know is that I felt/feel Mr Jones was/is the most acutely perceptive and intellectually engaging member of that set of machinophilic designers which were such a relief for me and many others from either the confused grid kids or the achingly self conscious post lit-crit fashionistas - always remember, my friends, Mark Wigley is a Kiwi - and ponder what that may mean to early decon theory... anyhow, for your delectation, I offer a snippet from the old JPA site - sadly they have since embraced flash - and I hope some kind soul gently nudges them toward web2 sometime soon - HOWEVER this is IMHO still some of the smartest material you are likely to find - so, if you give it a bit of time, it can only be good for you. I am a real fan of this practice - go see.
"...Design, or at least critical design, which is architecture's entry in the culture-fashion stakes, is also dependent on the logic and imprimatur of the new. In design's case its identity-and value, which, in the signature design realm is the same thing-is entirely bound up in being seen as the next big thing. Rather than strive towards the epitome of any tradition or established practice, the best design is expected only to break new ground, where it may remain safe from critique as long as it can avoid attributions of ancestry...."
from jpa old site
The 20th transmediale festival again explores how art and society are changing under the influence of media and technologies which become more and more dominant in our everyday lives. In contemporary art, digital media like video and electronic networks are now so wide-spread that a strict definition of what constitutes ‘media art’ seems no longer possible. We have therefore decided to alter the subtitle of the festival: transmediale is no longer called ‘international media art festival’, but ‘festival for art and digital culture’. This name is supposed to demonstrate the step away from the niche of ‘media art’, yet still points to the field of tension between culture and digital technologies, which continues to form the main driving force of the festival.
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Hi All. Sick tutor cancels meeting outrage. Apologies, please enjoy this view from my study as a poor substitute... will be back in for our Monday meeting. Nice to see some people posting here - but not everyone has done so as yet - as it is so simple - give it a go. Anyone who has not got their invitation to post to this blog please mail me and I will resend.
J
Big Ken's very own report on the effects of climate change in London.. and he wrote it all by himself. Be afraid, be very afraid! click here for link to PDF
Useful and relevant to brief. Huge PDF by OnePlanetLiving on sustainable communities in Thames Gateway. click here for PDF
Every bit of information you could ever possibly need.. Spend the next thirteen weeks reading it click here
Hi its Ivan...
some useful material for the project :
Canning Town Masterplan (Vicky's)
Docks History (Vicky's)
Vertical Farm Project
Pasona O2 (this is in japanese, translate with google)
London Development Agency (LDA) – London Facts
London Development Agency (LDA) – Food Facts
London Development Agency (LDA) – London Food
Sustainable Development – London’s ecological footprint
Communities and Local Government – “Allotments – A Plot Holder’s Guide”
Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs – “Draft Food Industry Sustainability Strategy (FISS)” (2005)
The first meeting of the Bow Creek Development Corporation was held today. tasks were apportioned, resolutions made, schedules established and newts barely mentioned....
http://movies.peekvid.com/s4184/ ..... movie, 'A scanner darkly'
thought this was cool..check this bad boy out. it about losing identity, future, big bro etc. loads of famous names.
