Three Minute Movie

All,

Further to our presentation last week regarding the three minute movie we would like you to being collating for your portfolios, please refer to the film references below:






and some others:

Nave Yutes: Flores Prats
Bornholms Museum: Flores Prats

As there are restrictions to the number of portfolio sheets and models you are permitted to submit as part of your final hand-in's, we envisage that the 3 minute movie is intended to act as a supplement to the portfolio. As such we ask you to be tactical, use the movie to showcase extra work you might have done. For example, sketches, models, photographs, films, films of models, precedents, and other work which might be conveyed better through the movie rather than your portfolio. We do not expect you to produce new work for the movie, you should only be collating your current work for the movie.

The movie should be no more than 3 minutes in length. We will be very strict on this, and you should weight the movie so that half is assigned to project 4, and the other half to the first three projects of the year.
We envisage that the movie can be used for cross crits and final hand-in's to introduce the overall themes you have been investigating through the year, before spending the remaining time talking through your key work. As such be sure to edit your movies well to ensure that the strands of your research throughout the year come through clearly.

This is intended to be an enabler so that you can focus on your portfolio. Use the opportunity well.

We will be reviewing the movies every other week, so please ensure that you work on this progressively throughout the term and do not leave this till the last minute.


Any further questions please ask.

Reality as an Instrument

All,

A new TV series following the individuals who make planning decisions. 'The Planners' is an interesting insight into the considerations planners take when reviewing a scheme and their attitudes to space planning.

A must watch for moments of procrastination.

LINK

Hong Kong Architect Turns Shoebox Apartment into 24 rooms 

relevant to those looking at urban density, residential London and architecture of necessity for their design projects - (following on from Henry's previous Post)

Chang, 46, turned the flat he has occupied since the age of 14 into what he calls his “domestic transformer,” and in the process offered a vision for how one of the world’s most densely-populated cities could better use its limited space.

“The key idea is that everyone could look into their home more carefully and into how better to optimize their resources, because space is a resource,”

“There is no use making your home as if it is a perfect show flat but at the same time never using the space,” 

Chang has tackled the lack of room by replacing the flat’s walls with a series of accordion-like sliding units, hung from metal tracks on the ceiling, that can be moved about to form a variety of configurations.

Growing up in the flat with six others, Chang had to be flexible.

“I have three younger sisters, so we all lived here. Originally there were three bedrooms, a living room and a dining room,” he said. “My sisters occupied one room, my parents another room and the third was actually not for me, it was for an outsider — my parents sub-let it to somebody else to get more revenue. So actually I slept in the living room.”

Chang still lives in the flat, and has spent his adult life reinventing his small corner of a 19-story 1960s tower block in Hong Kong’s bustling Sai Wan Ho district.

The architect believes his innovations can show even the poorest families how to improve their domestic arrangements and is determined that his book My 32m² Apartment: A 30-Year Transformation will influence new housing.

SOURCE : firewireblog.com/

Ernesto Oroza: Architecture of Necessity (Havana)

The city’s inhabitants are aware of their real needs, driven by the inevitable, they transform their city under a new order: The Moral Modular. Urgency provides for the individual a foundational alibi. Every sexual or physiological impulse, every birth and even death, will provoke the appearance of new walls, columns, stairways, new windows or plumbing and electrical systems.

Form follows Necessity. The modified houses of Havana express this relationship.  It’s an Architecture of Necessity.

http://ernestooroza.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=39&Itemid=56

Dark Days (2000) - Marc Singer

Dark Days (2000) is a documentary by Marc Singer traveling through New York’s underground in order to meet the “mole people”, the homeless living along Penn Station’s underground railway.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235327/