Unit A

Unit A is a research-led BSc Architecture Design Studio at the University of East London, lead by Carsten Jungfer and Fernanda Palmieri. We work with live-project situations and connect design learning with research through knowledge exchange between students and external partner organisations. Unit A focuses on social-spatial conditions within contested urban contexts and understands architectural design both as a spatial and strategic response to specific socio-spatial contexts.

27/02/2018

Tue 27 Feb Drawing Change

Following last weeks pin-up and discussions with guest critics Harald Trapp and Michele Roelofsma about proposals for the Dalston project sites, questions emerged about how the existing qualities of the 'temporary', experimentation and flux could be maintained alongside the architectural interventions that rightly aim to create permanent anchor-points for the local community.

The lecture we gave yesterday contained some examples of graphic representations that attempt to communicate change; for example change over a timeframe, change of occupation, change of activities, change of the space itself... While your building proposals now evolve through means of two-dimensional drawings (plans & sections) we are interested to see how your thinking about opportunity for change will influence the designs. Make drawings that present evidence of this critical thinking and include notions of change alongside or within your orthographic representations of the building proposals.