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Part Three: Value what is there – the social, economical, cultural and historical narratives Everywhere has a story of how it was created, based upon memory, evidence, truth and falsity. The story of OKR is a rich mix of an ethnically diverse population; heritage; informal active networks and social settings. As a studio we need to study, evidence and acknowledge the layers of OKR describing and investigating both the bricks and mortar of its image and the cultural non-physical overlay of its context, narrative, time, memory and experience of use. You will therefore begin this process with an exercise in rapid research and documentation, each of you becoming experts in both physical and non-physical layers of OKR that fascinate you. You will research, map, draw and illustrate a unique insight into OKR representing your fjndings on an A1 Billboard. Investigations into the banal and extraordinary will be encouraged. Your Billboard may include statistics, maps, diagrams, images and any other appropriate visual materials, found or created. Your aim is to extract and reveal to the viewer your unique take on OKR, stretching beyond just the physical architecture and advertising it value as an array of, stories, activities and traditions. This project will activate and explain the brief for your project. Requirements

• 1. A1 Billboard Illustration
• 2. Research & Process Booklet 02 (portfolio layout)
• 3. Match box size spatial prototypes

Timetable WK 7-12: Project 1& 2 & 3 tutorials WK 10: Portfolio workshops WK 12: Project crit XMAS: Portfolio assignment

Narrative value

Learning from Las Vegas. Venturi, Scott Brown

Billboard

Part 3: Value what is there – the social, economical, cultural and historical narratives

Billboard

Part 3: Value what is there – the social, economical, cultural and historical narratives

Billboard

Part 3: Value what is there – the social, economical, cultural and historical narratives

Civic architecture

Part Four: Defjne what is Missing: Architecture for the Greater Good You will explore architecture as a force for the collective good along the OKR. These will be spaces of potential, places that could be unlocked – either on their own or collectively – to transform the areas around them with purposeful

• longevity. Your basic brief is to design a new community facility at a suitable node along OKR, which could be a building,
• r a collection of buildings or a public space. Your proposition should form a new centre of community life, a prototypical

place for collective ideals and experiences. Your project will exist as part of an overall group masterplan and part of an overall vision for the transformation of the OKR, as well as a project in its own right. You will be required to participate in a group model.

• The group site model will be formalised into a Unit Masterplan.
• Individual sites will be allocated, but all will work together to inform the alternative unit vision for this place.
• Your briefs will be for a building type concerned with civic wonder in all it’s potential forms.
• You will design it with the conviction and material revealed through research in London and Bilbao.

For this part of the brief we will embrace the workshop as a place to learn, experiment and cultivate new ideas in order to develop a practice that lies upon a tactile understanding of materials as a fundamental part of the design process. We are interested in making as an approach that is experimental and open ended, leading to new and unexpected architectural possibilities. We will develop spatial prototypes through a direct engagement with real materials and associated processes of fabrication in workshops. These material prototypes will become a springboard to test ideas that offer alternative ways to embed a new architecture within the urban landscape of the OKR. Requirements

• 1. Site Plan
• 2. Group model with proposal

Research & Process Booklet 03 (portfolio layout) comprising of:

• 3. Precedent Studies
• 4. Design Strategy
• 5. Design Development: Process Models and material experiments

Exhibition ready portfolio comprising of:

• 6. Planometric
• 7. Building Plans, Sections, Elevations
• 8. Details
• 9. Structural, Environmental & Material Strategies
• 10. Perspectives
• 11. Final Model
• 12. Narrative drawings bringing all together for the end of year exhibition

“The larval stage of a new kind of architecture. I wonder if the Bilbao Guggenheim is a work of architecture at all? It would have been a powerful tonic for post-2000 London if something as

• riginal and disorienting as the Bilbao Guggenheim occupied the site of the old

power station .....” JG Ballard

Part 4: Defjne what is Missing: Architecture for the Greater Good /Plans

Representation

Maxxi, Rome by Zaha

Representation

Part 4: Defjne what is Missing: Architecture for the Greater Good / Axo, plan, section elevation

Maxxi, Rome by Zaha

Representation

Part 4: Defjne what is Missing: Architecture for the Greater Good / Axo, plan, section elevation

La Vilette by Tscumi

Representation

Part 4: Defjne what is Missing: Architecture for the Greater Good / Axo, plan, section elevation

Part 4: Defjne what is Missing: Architecture for the Greater Good / Physical modelling

Space & material

Part 4: Defjne what is Missing: Architecture for the Greater Good / Physical modelling

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Space & material

Maxxi, Rome by Zaha Casa de Musica by OMA La Vilette by Tscumi The Highline by DS & R

Precedents

Folly for a Floyover by Assemble Serpentine Pavilions Thames Garden Bridge by Heatherwick Fun Palace by Cedric Price

Precedents

CIVICWONDROUS SPECIFIC

Ben Campkin - Remaking London: Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture Anna Minton - Ground Control: Fear and happiness in the twenty-fjrst-century city Jane Jacobs - The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jahn Gehl - Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space Jahn Gehl - How to Study Public Life: Methods in Urban Design Kevin Lynch - The Image of the City (Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies Series) Joe Kerr - London: From Punk to Blair Atelier Bow Wow - Pet Architecture. J G Ballard - Concrete Island & The Terminal Beach. Venturi, Scott Brown - Learning from Las Vegas. N Coates - Estacity.

La Vilette by Tscumi xx

Unit 5 : 14/15 End of Year Show