Spatial Precedents

Spatial Precedents

All: Lyndon Neri of Neri & Hu

LINK TO VIDEO

Interesting interview by Marcus Fairs of Dezeen with Lyndon Neri talking about his new hotel, about minimal experiential change in renovation, and in Chinese architects..

ALL:

Looks like a great show! We could meet there together one day perhaps?

Also suggest you join the Architecture Foundation mailing list, which is the only reason I knew about this show.

LInk to Architecture Foundation

ALL: Urban renewal and social change in Medellin, Colombia

NEW YORK TIMES Article


"Around the world, followers of architecture with a capital A have focused so much of their attention on formal experiments, as if aesthetics and social activism, twin Modernist concerns, were mutually exclusive. But Medellín is proof that they’re not, and shouldn’t be. Architecture, here and elsewhere, acts as part of a larger social and economic ecology, or else it elects to be a luxury, meaningless except to itself."

ALL: Gort Scott Architects

Gort Scott interview and drawings on Dezeen website

Fiona Scott's beautiful drawings of London in full diversity mode, explained by her business partner Jay Gort, mentioned today in the seminar.

ALL - A SPACE CALLED PUBLIC

A SPACE CALLED PUBLIC

A super interesting exhibition in the streets and public spaces of Munich, curated by artists Elmgreen and Dragset. You may also have heard about their upcoming show at the Victoria and Albert Museum, which is a (fictive) house for an architect..

Guardian Preview of E&Ds show 'Tomorrow' at the V&A

There's also a more interesting preview of the show in the last edition of Building Design.

ADAM:

Great work Adam. Really interesting, and love the way your research is being turned into physical production, collages, new types of maps. Love it. I'd also like to see more accurate and close-scale mappings of the terrain of the site. How is the site edge to the river? What marks, indentations, evidence of former occupations and uses are there, that could act as triggers for your intervention? Series of sections, close plans with textural zoom-outs, etc would help us feel and smell the site in an evocative way.

It's not clear what your programme and brief is exactly. It needs to be very clear in two weeks' time! Area schedules, the lot. if you're interested in a contemporary manufacturing facility, what is your take on:
A) What is currently being manufactured today, in this part of the world, and might be in ten years', or 20 years' time?
B) How could the language of this manufacturing process (whatever that may be) translate into an architectural language? It is true to some degree that Brunel's train sheds adopt the langauge of the trains themselves, but they also had fronts which adopted a very different langauge. Do you think this combination is better than a singular approach? Are there ways you can explore this combination in a communicative way?
C) 19th C factories were places of work, but also to live, and to some degree to play. They included houses, shops, places for recreation, for worship, for dancing round the May Pole. Could a contemporary place of manufacturing include spaces and facilties for more than just work? Have the reasons for such proximity and diversity changed? or perhaps they haven't.
Lots to think about, and a short space of time (two weeks) to have this settled.