Great news, the first image of the forthcoming future of design pavilion in St James’s church garden, Clerkenwell, has been revealed! Thanks to everyone for their hard work in getting us to here, especially Steve, Annabel and Jamie the CGI guru.
Check back soon for more posts on our progress to the build at the end of May.
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.
After the dust has settled on a hectic weekend we’ve uploaded the photos and lecture slides from the workshop and crits. A huge thanks to all the team involved and to our camera women Erica Choi for documenting all the fun.
Check out the future of design page and feel free to get in contact and use the lecture slides if you’re planning your own similar event.
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!
Registration 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 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.
The new academic year is underway which means lots of tutoring for the scalerule team. I’ve just got cracking on the Basil Spence project at Bath Uni which showcases the best in harmonious design between Architects and Engineers. I’ll post a few updates in due course but if you want some more general info check out:
For 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.
The 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)
We’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.
SCALE RULE 