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Programme 2002-03:
As a critical alternative to the conventions of architectural
practice, unit six continues to explore modes of design investigation
and representation through the act of making. All means available
are disposed to engage directly with the Matter of Architecture
to form a unique assemblage of objects and visualizations.
Overview
Unit 6 offers a distinctive model for architectural investigation.
Founded on 'the act of making things' the unit considers that
making, like designing, is a way of thinking, describing and
researching. The unit works directly with physical matter,
experiencing its materiality, behaviour, presence and meaning
through a series of physical constructs and narrative documents.
By these means of engagement we move through modes of production
and investigation towards an assemblage of objects and visualizations
which explore the social, technological and phenomenological
dimensions of each unique proposal.
'COMING TO A TOWN NEAR YOU :THE CIRCUS'.
Exploring: Change, Surveillance, Boundaries and Pace.
SITE: London is a walled city once more. In February 2003,
within a few metres of The Bartlett, Ken Livingston's plans
for an inner London 'congestion ring' will become reality.
Part physical, part virtual, the ring, thought by some as
a desperate measure, is an attempt to improve the quality
of urban life. Regardless, of its intended function and sublime
presence, the wall will have curious consequences for all.
PROJECT: What are the implications of this intervention
to the continued development of the city? How can we enlist
architecture to influence, exploit and record these changes?
Unit 6 proposes a series of physical and spatial interventions
upon the ring. Each will attempt to reveal and exploit the
changing nature of a number of urban, island sites adjacent
to the ring, and will map the changing occupation of the city
through spaces and surfaces of its architecture. Through occupation
and representation we hope to reveal the changing flux of
the city, and derive a physical architecture that responds
to both the moment and the lifetime.
'COBRA MIST: THE RUIN AND THE RESERVE'.
Exploring: Change, Control, Drift, Systems, Endurance and
Connection.
SITE: Orford Ness, Suffolk. To the naturalist
or birder, Orford Ness is significant as the largest vegetated
shingle spit in Europe, containing a variety of habitats including
shingle, salt marsh, mudflat, brackish lagoons and grazing
marsh. (It is also an important location for breeding and
passage birds as well as shingle flora, which include a large
number of nationally rare species). But this is just one character
of this unique location, which was also one of Britain's most
secret military sites from 1913 until the mid 1980's. Littered
across this landscape are the redundant and ruinous remains
of decades of research and development; unique and complex
buildings, mechanisms and lookouts, often combined with the
materials and topography of the landscape to create the unseen
spaces within which the artifice of warfare was tested and
explored - sometimes to destruction.
As a ruin in the making this architecture is
a fading monument to past ideologies, as a reserve it seeks
to protect the ecology of its surroundings as it recovers
its former balance. It is this transition our architecture
seeks to support, providing an ephemeral infrastructure to
an on-going scientific and cultural project. But how do we
occupy, without occupying; observe without being observed;
record without being the record?
Field Trip
We will visit 2 related locations. Firstly, Orford Ness, where
we will survey and record our site. Then we will travel due
east across the North Sea to the port of Rotterdam, where
we will experience the artifice of the Dutch landscape, a
city between the land and sea, and home nearby, to Orfords
'twin'.
www.cclondon.com
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/orfordness/
Students 2003
Irene Astrain
Timothy Barwell
Tina Bharkhada
Simone Brewster
Aoife Considine
Ida Flarup
Lisa Iszatt
Asif Khan
Katerina Kourkoula
Gudrun Krabbe
Benjamin Nicholls
Pernilla Ohrstedt
Vas Polydorou
Elaine Streeter
Paul Twynam
Tom Wood
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