Photo Pool

As we`ve talked in London I opened a new mydrive.ch account!

Please make sure to upload all the pictures you took to get a pool of pictures for all of us, especially for those that did not stay as long as the others!

Schedule London

Thursday 2010-12-2     

12:50                Meeting in front of the Royal College of Art

1:00-4:00 pm    Tour through RCA with students, lunch and crit with
                         Tobias Klein and Roberto Tobbazzi

6:30 pm            Lecture with Carme Pinos and Peter Cook
                         Room GO1 at University College of London, Wates House,
                         Keppel Street, Camden Town, Greater London WC1E 6

Friday 2010-12-3

10:00 am           All-Day Device Crit at the Bartlett, Room 129

Saturday 2010-12-4

Field Trip - to be announced - starting around 1 pm

See LondonMap for directions.

FLIGHT

In order to make sure that you can carry your device to London, please be at the airport early enough and read the aviation rules. Have a good and safe trip. See you on Thursday.

AtSite

Dear all,

The crits will last all day on Friday the 3rd of December.

On Saturday, I propose to meet the students in the afternoon (probably about 1 pm) to show them a few  buildings in the City (the new shopping centre by Jean Nouvel, the Lloyd's bank by Richard Rogers, the Barbican estate by Chamberlain, Powel and Moya, and the Swiss Re by Norman Foster. But for those students who cannot stay on Saturday, they can explore on their own at another time. The key information is as follows:

The students must pick a site for their Witches and Wizards House project anywhere within the City of London, the famous "Square Mile" in the centre of London. I have already given a map of the area in the project brief. They can check on the Internet to find out the exact boundaries and more details. The area is also known as "the ring of steel" because there is heavy security surveillance around it and within it. It is a very diverse area, with old buildings as well as new, and it includes a long stretch along the river Thames.

The students are free to choose any site and they should photograph it carefully.

The schemes can be of 3 types:

a) A site that is empty or under construction.

b) A site that is already occupied but where they can assume that they can remove the existing building(s).

c) A site that is already occupied but where their proposal can be a parasite: either on top of an existing structure, or hanging on the sides or squeezed between two buildings, etc...

I will give further suggestions at the end of the crits.

Best,

Colin

next meeting 10-11-24

Our next meeting as individual tutorials will take place on 

Thursday, November 24th at 10 am. 

Please bring your devices, sketches, ideas.

London map

UCL
University College London
Bartlett School of Architecture
Wates House
22 Gordon Street
London WC1HOQB
United Kingdom


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getting prepared .....