Studio Progression
- Ellie Knight
- Oct 23, 2017
- 2 min read
Our first design project is titled ‘Fluid Architecture’, and we are aiming to design a community for 300 inhabitants, with a strong consideration for urbanism and specifically for our studio, climate sensitive design.
Initially we completed a studio Geographic Analysis, through dividing our 5 thematic areas; Hurricanes, Tsunamis, Fluid dynamics, Atmosphere and Wind & sea power, into subgroups and collating our discoveries into a group presentation, which can be printed into an information booklet, for the whole studio. Progressing in our five sub-groups, we worked on our specific sites, inspired by our individual thematic areas. Our sites range from the Hurricane stricken north-eastern regions of Puerto Rico, to Changxing Island in China, heavily affected by atmospheric issues.
Now seven weeks into our first design project, we have been focusing on furthering our individual urban design schemes. Following our research on techniques such as tactical urbanism and receiving our lectures on urban design, including our tutor, Alessandro’s lecture today, on urbanism within cities and the importance of scale within these environments.
Today, our group working in Puerto Rico are looking at scale and the placement of their settlements within their site, after exhausting their research on hurricanes and the detrimental effects they can have on property and human life.
Walter and Katy have been experimenting with scale on their laser cut site model.
(Photographed by Katy Coles)
Christian, based just outside of Shanghai, in China, is researching ‘Sponge Cities’ and how they prevent flooding, in areas where this has posed such a large threat to human life.
‘A rather avant garde approach to preventing the calamity that flooding can bring’ - Christian Javier
Michael is learning new software ‘Maya’, for modelling his future projects, as he is very much interested in parametric design.
Becca has been using these exquisite drawings as a way of experimenting strategies of exhausting Tsunami waves, as she is based in affected areas in Japan.
As next week is a reading week, we will not all formally come together to design for the next fortnight, but we will continue to progress our design work, individually or in small groups. Alongside this, we will work on the development of our website and the structure of our architectural practice.
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