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POLITICS OF WATER | Upper Pool Design Studio 2004 Sem 1

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LAST UPDATE PHASE 3 for final presentation, June 10th 2004

DEAR POLITICS OF WATER STUDENTS

As you might know, there will be an end-of semester exhibition from all upper pool studios starting next week Wednesday ! Therefore students should put up their work on monday lunchtime with the tutor's supervision.

I suggest meeting up at building 8. Level 12 on monday 12.30 for a quick lunchtime pin-up session !

I hope all of you can make it to get it done quickly !

Thanks for all the work you did last semester

See you Monday

Dominik

Requirements for next Thursday (June 10th):

THE PRESENTATION WILL TAKE PLACE IN BUILDING 8, 12TH FLOOR ROOM 38 !!! (NOT AT SIAL)

I've just receive a more detailed wish-list from Mark about the content of the presentation and the A1 panels that are to be submitted on Tuesday June 15th: Much of it has been discussed in the last class anyway, but this list is slightly more detailed:

Please share this information also with your colleagues.

The A1 panels need to be LANDSCAPE !

and the main content should be:

  1. complete set of plans elevations sections etc. with some referencing back to the original project (probably needs to be shown on a separate sheet).
  2. 1:20 part elevations and sections to reveal the stuff, the relationship between surface and substance. The elevations are very important as they show the tectonic qualities
  3. at least 1 A1 sheet of the larger than life size representation of an element. I suggest a door handle, towel rails whatever that reveal down to the level of microsurface ornamentation, for example, some link to all that we have discussed this semester.

I think that this will mean 7 seven sheets per group.

we are aware that the focus of what to represent varies from group to group, so see the information above as a guideline and determine the focal points of your project yourself.

Each group should bring their models (if applicable) as well as their graphic material on CD or Memory Stick so we can project it with the beamer. It is not necessary to bring the A2 panels (or any other printed material) from the first 2 phases to the presentation and you can organise it in a way that focuses on phase 3. You will nevertheless have to prepare all of your material (including phase 1 +2) for the exhibition and hand it in to the architecture reception at latest 3.00pm on Tuesday 15th June (week16). Students should ensure that they receive a receipt to confirm the work submitted on time.

Plan file drawers will be provided for your studio and work from the studio will be stored in these. They are opposite corridor & keys are available from reception (most full time staff members also have keys if reception is closed).

I further propose keeping the schedule as seen below for the final presentation.


As discussed last week, we will have presentations of each group this Thursday. Each presentation will be 30min long and consist of the following:

2 min overview about your starting points
13 min expose; groups show their work and explain the changes done to the project
15 discussion

We start off at :

18.15 Project Melyenie
18.45 Project Tatu
19.15 Project Sheree

19.45-20.00 Break

20.00-20.30 Project Phillipe
20.30-21.00 Project Judith


Be on time !

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Thank you all from your three Thursday reviewers for an extremely full albeit long evening. We discussed the work afterwards well into the small hours, and we were able to agree on the project selection and formulation of groups very readily.

We recognise that after so many hours of intellectual commitment to your projects, short review times can appear to be very frustrating and and potentially disrespectful. Please ask yourselves whether or not you have been able to form a critical view of your work in relation to the work of your peers. If you feel after having had time to reflect on your progress so far that there are some remaining doubts or areas of concern, do please make an appointment to see either Dominik or Mark (or both) at a time that is convenient.

The following weeks will be more seminar based, and will be an excellent time to raise any remaining questions and issues from the first two stages of the studio.

This week could you meet as a group via the wiki so that we can start already familiarised next Thursday class. We would like you to complete your submission via the wiki this week, and prepare the following panels for the end of year exhibition and moderation:

Stage 1: 1 A2 panel (landscape)

Stage 2 2 A2 panels (landscape)

Please ensure that there is a clear thematic connection between the three panels.


News from Mark B

7:30 pm Thursday 29 04 04. Watching from Barcelona, but sadly not hearing much! Looking forward to catching-up next week.

News from Malte

Interesting website of an ice exhibition help earlier this year http://www.thesnowshow.net Malte

6:15 pm Thursday 22 04 04. Dear Sial Group am currently watching you from berlin. Nice to see you all. Unfortunately the picture and sound is not of sufficient quality give a valuable crit of the presentation. I had a quick look on wiki at the Indusrial Design Students work. Will give a detailed assessment by this time next week. But am having problems viewing some of the püwerpoint presentations.

ID students please ensure that all components of your presentation are on the wiki by latest Tuesday 27 04 3 pm. Have 6 hours at Narita Tokyo airport, will try to do work then.

Will have to log off soon.

Cheers and greetings, Malte

Question? When do we meet again for mid-semester crit?

For week 7, April 7, Industrial design students only. Meet Malte in his office on Wednesday at 4:30 to discuss your projects. Email me if you can not make this time.

For next week (week 6):

sketch out diagrams to explain the programmatic organisation of your building.
define your project brief in detail and map out its characteristics through vectors.
vector:a behaviour field of force toward or away from the performance or various acts; broadly - drive
Mark Rakatansky, Motivations of Animation, ANY 23, Anyone Corporation, New York,pp. 50-57.

For week 5:

find a waterside-site for your project...(Architects)

For week 4:

The design evolution of the domestic electric appliance was substantially shaped by social/cultural and political forces, dreams and myths. The late 19th century dream of endless prosperity delivered by technology and expressed through the imagery of the pleasure garden, the social campaign for hygiene, purity and efficiency, the myth of progress expressed through the metaphor of streamlining and the employment of glamour as a tool to re-establish conservative gender roles and the normative order of the nuclear family.

For next week consider the following 2 questions. Prepare a brief (1 or 2 spoken paragraphs) but well conceived and structured response to each question.

Q1 What social/cultural and political forces and myths may be at play that gave rise to transparency as a design idiom during the 1990s.

Q2 What are the possible social/cultural and political constructs and myths that are bubbling to the surface that are giving rise to water and fluidity becoming a design topic, language and muse and how may this relate to your own watery explorations.

Continue work on projects, share your material on the wiki !


For week 3:
Consider the following:
In architecture’s next phase of development the ground-plan must disappear completely. The two-dimensional spatial composition fixed in a ground-plan will be replaced by an exact constructional calculation — a calculation by means of which the supporting capacity is restricted to the simplest but strongest supporting points. For this purpose Euclidean mathematics will be of no further use — but with the aid of calculation that is non-Euclidean and takes into account the four dimensions everything will be very easy.*

Proposition 9 : 1924 Theo van Doesburg: Towards a plastic architecture Extracted from: Conrads, Ulrich., Programs and manifestoes on 20th-century architecture, Cambridge, Mass :MIT Press, 1970, page 79



Try to interpret van Doesburg’s comment in your own way. A four-dimensional representation should exceed 3D-thinking and add an extra (? non-spatial ?) component; for example a time-factor, or the transition from one physical state to another. Try to think of processes rather than reviewing situations.

Any medium, it doesn't have to be "digital"!

" add names here "as in name says"

MelyeneLiusBerahim
ShereeDanliLaiSays
PhilippeVranjesSays
StephenWallaceSays
TinaLindSays
JakobLangeSays
JudithKoniecznySays
BryanColemanSays
AdamMorrisonSays
TonyJosendalSays
OliverFieldsays
HoratioBurtonSays
TatuParssinenSays
ChanKaVohSays
AngelaDelorenzoSays
ChanLuuSays

Projects

ProjectDocklandsBathSays

ProjectDocklandsPerformanceAreaSays

ProjectWaterlineSportsPavilionSays

ProjectFractalCloudSays

ProjectPrincesPierSays