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UNIT H: CULTURAL GEOMETRIES
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
Saturday, 11 October 2014
Departure Point: On Drawing...
Some drawings we should be (or should become) well acquainted with:
Marcel Duchamp - The Large Glass
Diller and Scofidio - Analytical Drawing for Case Study 12
Rachel Whiteread - Study for Orange Bath
Russel Milles, More Dark than Shark
Diller and Scofidio - Slow House
James Corner - Taking Measures Across an American Landscape
Flores Prats - Nave Yutes
Tracciamenti - Paper Dress
Mike Webb - Temple Island
Florian Beigel + ARU London, Paju Book City - Seoul
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Diller and Scofidio
Christo and Jeanne Claude - Study for Running Fence
Friedrich st Florian - Himmelbelt project
Zaha Hadid - Grand Buildings, Trafalgar Square
Albrecht Durer - Melancholia 1
Lebbeus Woods - Einstein's Tomb
Enric Miralles - Drawing a Croissant
Enric Miralles - Igualada Cemetery
Perry Kulper
Friedrich st Florian
Diller and Scofido - Increasing disorder in a dining table
Lebbeus Woods, Rules of Change
Peter Salter
Peter Salter, Osaka Folly
Mike Webb, Temple Island
Piranesi, Prison series
Zaha Hadid, Vision for Madrid
Shaun Murray
Shin Egashira
Andrew Holmes - La Cienega
Friday, 10 October 2014
Lisbon Overheard
A film to watch before we head to Lisbon: 'Lisbon Story' by Wim Wenders, a tale of a city explored through recorded sounds for a movie.
The short scene below resonates with your Cinema Paradiso studies and P02; in this case the apartment transformed through music... notice also the lighting, the framing, the sequence of spaces, the beautiful textured surfaces; tiles; walls; floors...
The short scene below resonates with your Cinema Paradiso studies and P02; in this case the apartment transformed through music... notice also the lighting, the framing, the sequence of spaces, the beautiful textured surfaces; tiles; walls; floors...
Thursday, 9 October 2014
Graversi - Reverse Graffiti //
Graversi - Reverse Graffiti //
In our group tutorial (Scale and Clues) today we discussed the use of Reverse Graffiti by pioneer Paul "Moose" Curtis. Moose uses nothing more than pressure washers, brushes and stencils to clean away dirt from the walls of cities, leaving his artistic impression. The effectiveness of this technique in drawing the publics attention to sanitation, cleanliness and subversion is relevant to our civic intervention brief.
The stop motion techniques used in the Discovery Short are implemented to great effect, highlighting the transformation of grime to art.
In our group tutorial (Scale and Clues) today we discussed the use of Reverse Graffiti by pioneer Paul "Moose" Curtis. Moose uses nothing more than pressure washers, brushes and stencils to clean away dirt from the walls of cities, leaving his artistic impression. The effectiveness of this technique in drawing the publics attention to sanitation, cleanliness and subversion is relevant to our civic intervention brief.
The stop motion techniques used in the Discovery Short are implemented to great effect, highlighting the transformation of grime to art.
Wednesday, 8 October 2014
Monday, 6 October 2014
Lift: A film about a vertical community in a London tower block
"Filmmaker Marc Isaacs sets himself up in a London tower block lift. The residents come to trust him and reveal the things that matter to them creating a humorous and moving portrait of a vertical community."
Dir: Marc Isaacs / UK / 2001
On Play in the City
Some inspirational projects, books and blogs on play in cities...
The Child in the City by Colin Ward
Skateboarding, Space and the City by Iain Borden
Aldo Van Eyck - Playgrounds in Amsterdam
Aldo van Eyck transformed urban spaces (and bombed sites) in Amsterdam into more than 700 playgrounds between 1947 and 1978. Beyond the sites' spatial designs, van Eyck also developed a whole series of sandpits, climbing frames, and other equipment in his radical, charming recreation of the city into a space for play. This book considers the importance of the playground in general and more specifically within the international postwar developments in city planning. Van Eyck's sources of inspiration, from Kurt Schwitters to Jacoba Mulder, are surveyed. The playgrounds themselves are examined on the basis of how they were received at the time of construction, through letters from neighborhood residents, memoranda by public officials, and the reactions of contemporary architects. A separate essay traces what happened to the playgrounds after 1978, and how van Eyck's ideas resonate in the design practices and spatial planning policy of today.
Playscapes is a comprehensive blog on play: http://www.play-scapes.com
Tim Gill London play consultant: http://rethinkingchildhood.com
The Child in the City by Colin Ward
Skateboarding, Space and the City by Iain Borden
Aldo Van Eyck - Playgrounds in Amsterdam
Aldo van Eyck transformed urban spaces (and bombed sites) in Amsterdam into more than 700 playgrounds between 1947 and 1978. Beyond the sites' spatial designs, van Eyck also developed a whole series of sandpits, climbing frames, and other equipment in his radical, charming recreation of the city into a space for play. This book considers the importance of the playground in general and more specifically within the international postwar developments in city planning. Van Eyck's sources of inspiration, from Kurt Schwitters to Jacoba Mulder, are surveyed. The playgrounds themselves are examined on the basis of how they were received at the time of construction, through letters from neighborhood residents, memoranda by public officials, and the reactions of contemporary architects. A separate essay traces what happened to the playgrounds after 1978, and how van Eyck's ideas resonate in the design practices and spatial planning policy of today.
Playscapes is a comprehensive blog on play: http://www.play-scapes.com
Tim Gill London play consultant: http://rethinkingchildhood.com
How to use film to show complex spatial relationships: Section through a Banlieue
La Haine (1995), dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4qo3EwozH0Y
A classic scene from La Haine which gives an overview of a Parisian ‘banlieue’ through an excellent panning shot which is almost like a section through the housing estate. If any of you get to the top of one of the blocks consider how you can use film to show the experience of being up there... and the relationship between neighbouring blocks and the public spaces below.
A classic scene from La Haine which gives an overview of a Parisian ‘banlieue’ through an excellent panning shot which is almost like a section through the housing estate. If any of you get to the top of one of the blocks consider how you can use film to show the experience of being up there... and the relationship between neighbouring blocks and the public spaces below.
public / private
relationships between inside and outside, between the individual and the public
section through a housing estate
communities
How to study a public space?... ask William H. Whyte the father of public space analysis
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces - LINK TO FILM - WATCH ME!
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces - LINK TO BOOK
Today there were many conversations on public space, how to analyse it, how to know if it is successful, loved, used, or not working well enough... and what ingredients make a public space successful. We discussed developing criteria for this kind of analysis; desire lines, demographic routes, opportunities to sit, sunlight, activation, overlooking, play,.... the list could go on and on.... This is the sort of thing William Whyte tackled over many years studying public spaces in NYC.
The book is very well structured and will give you great advice on how to analyse public spaces. The film too.. I highly recommend this to anyone!
"Les glaneurs et la glaneuse" / "The Gleaners & I" (2000); dir. Agnes Varda
Agnes Varda presents a view of Paris and France from the point of view of those on the fringes of society...a must watch
Sunday, 5 October 2014
Thursday, 2 October 2014
P02: CIVIC INTERVENTION: DESIGN A SCENE
“Whatever time and space mean,
place and occasion mean more.”
Aldo Van Eyck
The purpose of this project is to design your own 1:1 moment in the city. Working in groups the project will consist of 3 experiments. Keep in mind that this is an area undergoing change. Get to know about it through your experiments.
Exp 1/ Social engagement with the city
Each group will be given a starting point. From there draw a long section and engage with your site within your section. Explore if to draw a section in a circle, square, line or in zig zag through the site. Cut through buildings, streets and public realm. Participate in cultural /local activity in your section. This can be anything from gossip chats, to more formal events. Compare scenes in Earls Court to the scene in Cinema Paradiso and use techniques developed in P01. Draw propositional ideas from your experiences. Use film as analytical tool
Exp 2/ Material engagement with the city
Develop your propositional ideas at 1:1 with film as a key design tool. Also develop a material exploration at 1:1 as part of your analysis of the site and your 1:1 proposal. Explore the cultural and connotational potential of material. Make and test ideas. Prepare for your intervention by inviting people, get permissions from council or police if this is necessary. Map your hurdles as well as successes.
Exp 3/ Social & Material relationships
Host your 1:1 intervention. Film the intervention, draw the intervention. Take some stunning photos of it. Critically reflect on the material and social relationships. Post intervention conclude the project individually by drawing your own territory of interest/drawn manifesto which will act as a starting point for your work in the final project. Consider site, interventions, social layers and material interests. What is your civic aspiration for the site?
Eadweard Muybridge
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| Zoopraxiscope slide: Spinning glass disc with elongated printed images that when in motion self corrected |
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