Enormous thanks to everyone who took part in the Crossing the Atlantic charrette at the BMRA’s Decon’16 on Tuesday. It was a great session. Lecture notes and group work results can be found here.
Author: DanBergsagel
Future of Design: workshops worked!
Education, Future of Design
Congratulations to the 35 participating students – coming from 9 schools all over London – for their enormous effort over the weekend at the Future of Design workshops. Everyone was excellent in making a right old mess of AKTII‘s table tennis stadium breakout space during the lectures and workshops, followed by crits down the road on Grimshaw‘s bleachers.
Some really fantastic presentations and pavilion designs came out of the 7 teams; We’re all looking forward to working on the winning design ready for construction this May!
Future of Design – 45+
Future of Design, ProjectsRegistration has now closed for the Future of Design workshops this February. We’re really looking forward to welcoming the participants from many schools all over London in two weeks’ time – thank you to everyone who signed up!
Future of Design is go!
Future of Design, Projects
Future of Design is an opportunity to develop on the success of the Pavilion Project at BSix this summer. We’ll be applying the same principles – of condensed interactive design workshops and building one of the pavilions ourselves – but with a larger and more diverse group of younger students, and on a public site.
Upside Down Buildings – Promotional video fame
Education, Upside Down BuildingsFor some reason the Archikids Festival features 15 seconds of us! This is accompanied by the gormless looking picture of some fool as the starting video hold image.
(rambling to be found from the 1 minute mark)
ARCHIKIDS FESTIVAL 2015 from Open-City Architecture on Vimeo.
Pavilion Project – in Hackney Citizen
Education, Pavilion Project, ProjectsThe Pavilion Project features in the education supplement for local paper Hackney Citizen‘s September Edition!
The paper can be viewed at the following link: Hackney Citizen – September 2015 (the Pavilion Project features on page 19)
UPSIDE DOWN BUILDINGS – SHELLMANIA STRIKES CENTRAL LONDON
Education, Upside Down BuildingsWe’ve had a busy Saturday of funicular form-finding and testing to destruction hanging plaster and fabric upside down and then satisfyingly smashing the finished shells, although Sunday’s Archikids workshop was rained off in true British summertime style. Apparently we were too messy to be allowed to continue inside any buildings, upside down or not!
It was a great day, with a 100 or so kids coming along to build some form-found plaster shells. We even supported a whopping 15kg on one shell before we had to resort to loading it with a small child to determine it’s failure capacity. More info here.
Upside Down Buildings – Archikids 2015 programme announced
Education, Upside Down BuildingsThe schedule for 25th/26th July Open-City Archikids Festival 2015 has been announced (download here). We’ll be running our workshop Upside Down Buildings: exploring Hooke’s inversion principle and fabric formwork by recreating the modelling techniques of Antoni Gaudi and Heinz Isler to create dome structures.
Pavilion Project – construction complete!
Education, Pavilion Project, ProjectsA busy weekend of construction is over leaving a Glastonbury-esque pyramid stage nestled in the corner of BSix’s Garden of the Ancient World.
Many thanks to everyone (participating students especially) for their help with the build!
Pavilion Project – we have a winner!
Education, Pavilion Project, ProjectsAfter two days of design workshops at BSix one of the five participating student teams’ pavilion has been selected to be built in the school grounds!
Over the next week the design will be refined and combined with some of the fantastic ideas included in the other team entries, ready to be built by the students in a week and a half.
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