Workshop 01

PROJECT- 4. Term-1 2009 – Term-2 2010

During term-2 we will hold a series of 2-day work-shops, focused around a particular aspect of your projects develoment. These work-shops are intended for the production of work. You will need to bring background work and present your work in progress to the atelier at the end of each work-shop day. The design process is iterative. As you develop your project throughout term-2, you will need to re-visit these work-shop exercises and update them.

1 PROGRAMME

FRIDAY 15 JANUARY 2010 (QM368 Greenwich Maritime Campus).
10:00 hrs – Portfolio feedback & Workshop-1 – SKETCH SITE PLAN.
17:00 hrs

TUESDAY 19 JANUARY 2010 (Avery Hill).
10:00 hrs – Portfolio feedback & Workshop-1 – SKETCH SITE PLAN.
17:00 hrs

FRIDAY 22 JANUARY 2010 (QM368 Greenwich Maritime Campus).
10:00 hrs -Portfolio feedback & Workshop-2 – INSIDE / OUTSIDE.
17:00 hrs – Workshop-2 – INSIDE / OUTSIDE.

TUESDAY 26 JANUARY 2010 (Avery Hill).
10:00 hrs – Portfolio feedback & Workshop-2 – INSIDE / OUTSIDE.
17:00 hrs – Workshop-2 – INSIDE / OUTSIDE.

FRIDAY 29 JANUARY 2010 (QM368 Greenwich Maritime Campus).
10:00 hrs – Workshop-3.
17:00 hrs – Workshop-3.

TUESDAY 02 FEBRUARY 2010 (Avery Hill).
10:00 hrs – Workshop-3.
17:00 hrs – Workshop-3.

FRIDAY 05 FEBRUARY 2010 (Greenwich Maritime Campus).
10:00 hrs – tutorials / landscape workshop with Carolyn Roy (selected pupils).
17:00 hrs – tutorials / landscape workshop with Carolyn Roy (selected pupils).

TUESDAY 09 FEBRUARY 2010 (Avery Hill).
10:00 hrs – tutorials / landscape workshop with Carolyn Roy (selected pupils).
17:00 hrs. – tutorials / landscape workshop with Carolyn Roy (selected pupils).

FRIDAY 12 FEBRUARY 2010 (Greenwich Maritime Campus).
10:00 hrs – tutorials.
14:00 hrs – tutorials.

TUESDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2010 (Avery Hill).
10:00 hrs – Workshop-4 – INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGY.
17:00 hrs – Workshop-4 – INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGY.

FRIDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2010 (Greenwich Maritime Campus).
10:00 hrs – Workshop-4 – INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGY.
17:00 hrs – Workshop-4 – INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGY.

TUESDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2010 (Avery Hill).
10:00 hrs – INTERIM CRIT.
17:00 hrs – INTERIM CRIT.

2 WORKSHOP-1. SKETCH: SITE MODEL / SITE PLAN

For this exercise, you are required to produce a 1:1250 scale SITE MODEL / SITE PLAN. The achilles heel of architectural students presentations throughout the generations and accompanied by that familiar criticism… “Where is your site plan?”

Yet, this exercise need not be dry or pedantic. Site plans can be painterly and crafted, for example; Leonidov’s site plan for the Monument to Victory, Moscow 1957 – 1958, painted directly onto timber.

They may be plastic and fluid, employing the techniques of terrain modelling often utilised by landscape designers. For example; Work Architecture Company’s Wild West Side, Manhattan, 2008, which uses plasticine modelling worked on top of a photographic site plan.

The format is limited to A3 (or A3+) so that you can work quickly and intuitively. Frame and orient the model so that it includes areas of context that are relevant to your project (DLR footbridge? HSBC tower? Adjacent housing? Vacant lots?).

You will produce say 6, 8 or more sketch site models over term-2. Get into the habit of testing an idea, or if you prefer, asking a question, with each piece that you make. How much building mass / density can I add to the site? How can I manipulate the ground? Carve-out? Build-up? How do pedestrians access these relatively isolated urban spaces? Each successive model should ask a different question of you, the designer. Refer back to your earlier projects; DOCUMENT and PERCEPTUAL MODEL. Are there ideas within them that can be revisited and tested within the site plan?

You will employ your own working methodology, appropriate to your own project. You may wish to build a model directly onto a Google-Earth site photo? Cast it in plaster? Cut it from layers of coloured paper?

Scan in your completed sketch site models. Import into CAD and over-draw to produce a hard-line drawing. Produce a diagram of the idea that you tested in each of the site sketch models. Use 1 colour per idea. These diagrams will become the individual CAD layers of your site sketch plan.

3 REFERENCES

3.1 Leonidov. Site Plan for the Monument to Victory, Moscow, 1957 – 1958.