RIBA East London Society Architects Degree Prize awarded to Odaine Phipps

Odaine Phipps (unit A) was awarded the RIBA East London Society Architects Degree Prize for his Upper Lea Narrow Boat Terminal project, which proposes an adaptation of the historic canals into a recreational network for residents of Tottenham.  Tutors Carsten Jungfer & Fernanda Palmieri

Best Portfolio Prize in Year 2 awarded to Dhara Bhatt

Dhara Bhatt (unit A) was awarded Best Portfolio Prize in year 2. She designed a Bird Watching & Visitor Centre for Tottenham Marshes near Lockwood Reservoir, set within the context of Walthamstow Wetlands opening in 2017. Tutors Carsten Jungfer & Fernanda Palmieri

Showcase 2016 - unit A

End of year show - Thu 16 June 6pm

UEL 11th place in Guardian League Table

The BSc (Hons) Architecture Course (ARB/RIBA Part 1) at the University of East London has been ranked 11th place in the  Guardian University League Tables 2017. (up from 25th place in the previous year)

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Interim Crit Fri 15 April

invited panel of guest critics: Beth Kay (Tottenham Regeneration Team, Haringey Council), Felix Xylander-Swannell (Sauerbruch Hutton), Louise Duggan (GLA), Sophia Amend (Allies and Morrison), Tak Hoshino.

Fri 24 Feb 14.00 Lecture

Please all attend lecture on Friday at 14.00 - I will show and talk about sectional drawings and also about a rather special building by Hugo Häring.

Tutorials as usual from 10.00 onwards

For those who used Lewerentz's Church of St Peter as building precedent from the field-trip to Denmark, I have come across an analysis by Simon Unwin about the building and have uploaded the illustrated article to our unit A dropbox, (see field-trip / sigrud lewerentz / Simon Unwin - Church of St Peter_Sigurd Lewerentz). It is also contained in his book "Twenty buildings every architect should understand", that is well worth reading. (available at the library)

Jan de Vylder talk

ARCH+ features 40: Jan DE VYLDER from ARCH+ on Vimeo.

I came across this lecture by Flemish Architect Jan DeVylder and think this could be useful to watch in relation to where you currently are in your design process. He talks about how ideas are translated at various scales (from furniture to small buildings) into architectural proposals. It would be great if you could also start to think about materials, thresholds and the construction (structural aspect) of your proposal. 30 min. enjoy.

1:2000 Model of London

Upon visiting the Building Centre, I got to see interesting information in the style of an exhibition about London as a 'Built City'. The best feature for me personally was the large interactive 1:2000 scale model of Central London. The model details the London landscape with roads, bridges, viaducts, parks and almost every building that is currently built, plus ones that are proposed, approved or under construction. As an interactive model, a video presentation about London as a built City plays on a nearby screen and the model illuminates itself with statistical information from the video. The model includes parts of north and south London and a long stretch of east to west London (including our UEL Docklands campus). The southern portion of the River Lea (Thames - Olympic Site), unfortunately is all that is present on the model, however I believe that the model should still be experienced first hand.

Also present at the Building Centre is statistical information about London as a whole focusing on roads, bridges, traffic, public transport, commuting in Greater London, population, green spaces and future plans for the city, highlighting certain areas that have the feasibility to be improved. Around the model, are details on the wall about each London borough focusing on each local council's plans for their boroughs in the form of redevelopments. There is plenty of useful information on the boroughs that are relevant to our River Lea project (Haringey, Hackney, Waltham Forest etc.) focusing on potential growth areas, future infrastructure and architectural visions. While I was there, coincidentally members of the public were meeting inside the building Centre for a speech presentation given by members of the Greater London Authority I believe, about plans for London (in this case - cycling) and were open for debate over their proposals. This was on a Friday around 12pm and heard that there was going to be another meeting the Friday after, which could mean that visiting on a Friday especially could give you the chance of seeing and even engaging in a speech about future plans for London.

The Building Centre is located at 26 Store St, Fitzrovia, London WC1E 7BT just off of Tottenham Court Road and is open to the public from Monday - Saturday. Visit their website for any further information.

Further info on this can be found on unit A dropbox, LINK here

written by Jonan Momodu, 19 Feb 2016

mapping drawings

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Fri 5 Feb Open Jury 10.00 Unit A

Like in previous years, the Open Jury and Lectures takes places in the AVA Building at the University of East London, from 4 - 5 February 2016.

  The public event welcomes all students, members of staff and people who are interested in architectural studies. It is a unique opportunity to see work in progress and to share the diversity of Architecture at UEL.  

This year again, the Open Jury and Lectures is organised in such a way that it is like a two day ‘mid-term exhibition‘, with individual design Units presenting work in progress.

Fri 29 Jan - 10.00 Charrette re-cap / 14.00 Lecture

Friday is a full day in the studio for reflecting on all the work you have produced during the last 3 Charrette workshops.

We will start (with your own tutors again) at 10.00 and will do this through tutorials in small groups.
It is critical that you bring all your work from the charrettes with you and have reflected on key design moves you made.

Should you have missed one workshop - it is essential that you catch up on this work. ESPECIALLY charrette No. 2 SPATIAL SEQUENCE MODEL. Everybody needs to have a sequence model by Friday + the other outcomes from No.1 + No.3

Please have model-making tools as well as drawing tools with you to work in the studio. 

14.00 Lecture

I will show and talk about two architectural projects that are relating in a particular way to their urban context / landscape. This should be pretty relevant to your designs and thinking about your proposals at this stage. Attendance critical!

Fri 22 Jan 10.00 Charrette No.2 - Spatial Sequence Model

What to to bring :

-1:200 cross section through your project site printed out e.g. on A1 sized sheet. A simple line drawing is sufficient.

-model making tools: cutter, cutting mat, scissors, ruler, scale ruler, masking tape, wood-glue, etc.

-some coloured / textured paper / card for highlighting (bulk of model making material will be provided by school!)

Make sure you on time for the 10.00 introduction to the workshop, which will be critical for prodcuing outcome on the day.

Tue 19 Jan Charrette No.1 Massing

more photos on our unit A dropbox
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January Charrettes / design workshops

Tue 15 & Fi 18 Dec Mid Year Reviews

guest critics Tuesday:

Beth Kay, Haringey Council (tbc)
Mo Wong
Tak Hoshino

guest critics Friday:

Colin O'Sullivan
Louise Duggan, GLA
Keita Tajima

11 Dec tutorials

for tutorials bring all your work:
completed concept / sketch models (from Friday's workshop) and

 A4 print-out of your building brief together with supporting research / mappings

site drawings of existing condition with your observations:
existing site sections (cross section(s) and long-section(s), plans & sectional axonometric)site photography (panorama, details, material qualities, environmental aspects, ....)

 field-trip drawings of interest (sectional axonometric drawing)
relevant scanned field-trip sketches from sketchbook + sketchbook + field-trip photos

various mappings of individual site observations and relevant aspects

sectional axonometric drawing of landscape / topographic study (+ exploded etc.)
documentation of mould-making process and casting process (experiments with topography)

journey drawing of study area + sketches day 1
study area photographs  / personal experience

Fri 4 Dec concept model workshop

Tue 1 Dec Reservoir site visit

Lea Bridge Heritage

This website / blog contains a wide range of information and links to historic resources that might be useful for your individaul research and your sepcific site analysis.
LINK

brief / building programme references

I have uploaded a few references in regards to building briefs / functional programmes - just in addition to the many buildings we saw on our field-trip. As you can see most are very specific to their social, cultural and spatial context. hope this is useful?

Eichbaumoper - Raumlabor Berlin

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Canal steps Grannary square - Kings Cross

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Living under one sun - Tottenham

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RIFT Tottenham

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Blue Plan copenhagen - Tredje Natur & PK3

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Hasle habour bath - White

LINK White
LINK archdaily

Freshwater bathing pond Kings Cross - Ooze Architects & Marjetica Potrč (artist)

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Naturbad Riehen - Herzog deMeuron

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Tue 1 Dec - Lockwood Reservoir site visit

On Tuesday 1 December we will visit the Lockwood Reservoir and meet the London Wildlife Trust (that currently looks after the site in conjunction with Thames Water). For this we will set off from the school around 12.00 together as a group using public transport (as last time heading to Tottenham Hale station via Stratford). Finish approx 17.00

Make sure you attend this - as this will be the only chance to gain access into the reservoirs. 
More on this Friday.

Normal studio tutorials between 10.00 - 12.00

Fri 27 Nov Tutorials

tutorial running list for Friday is in this order:
(If you were seen Tuesday - free to work in the studio anyway - I will have time to look over field-trip drawing progress - which really should be wrapped up this week)

Nadia
Suren
Jonan
Troy
Luiz
Balraj
Raquel
Hashea
Stephanie
Felipe

Tue 24 Nov

Studio tutorials from 10.00 onwards. sign-up, etc.

We are having a unit meeting at 12.00.
This will be about the next steps / project sites / building briefs.
It's critical for everybody to attend this.


Please bring your complete work with you during the next weeks tutorials.

Please bring also your field-trip drawings which you did last week.

Y3: Please also bring your last years portfolios with you.
(A3 reduction is also OK) we need to know what you did last year!

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Evening lecture by ELEMENTAL - from 17.00.
We strongly suggest everybody to go to this - as usual

Tue 10 Nov - Field-trip briefing meeting 16.30

Hello - just to say after the pin-up tomorrow (see earlier post) we are meeting for a short briefing on the field-trip. I will also hand you a printed copy of the field-trip guide we collectively made. Everybody must attend this.

Tue 10 Nov PIN-UP

As shown in our timetable we are planning to do a pin-up /  review on Tue 10th November and expect to see all work you have done so far on the wall (full-size) (this includes models / mould-making. We expect to see also a few more casts - as discussed).

We expect everybody to present their work and attend the entire day.

This is an important stage of your project, reflect on what you have produced so far, as we will be setting off later that week onto our field-trip - and you need to be clear about your interests to make this worthwhile.


It's important that you finish all of your drawings you have started (including those in the two recent drawing workshops. sectional axo of cast/mould-making and sectional axo of landscape observation) as well as additional drawings / sheets you may need to explain your personal observations from various visits to site and study area...


We encourage you to work very hard on all the above this week to produce as much as you can for the pin-up.


For those of you that missed yesterdays drawing workshop No.2 - please have a look at the introduction here and speak to colleagues to catch up.

sectional axo landscape workshop:
LINK

Fri 6 Nov Field-trip guide workshop

We will collate and finalise the field-trip guidebook (based on everybodys A4 page(s)) on Friday starting from 10.00 in the studio.

Please bring your computers and of course your indesign page and the research you have done.

As per briefing last Friday - please check unit A drop-box for what building you have been assigned to research for the field-trip. Please produce one A4 page on it using the Indesign template and have ready for field-trip guide workshop on Friday 6 November.

Tue 3 Nov - drawing workshop No.2 10.00 - 17.00

As mentioned last Friday we will be doing another drawing workshop tomorrow. (landscape scale!)
Please bring with you:
- all your drawn sections through the study area and project sites. (long and cross sections)
- a print out of a plan / os map
- a couple of sheets A1 tracing paper or computer  - depending how you will draw....

We are starting with an introduction to the workshop at 10.00 sharp.

Field-trip Copenhagen & Malmö

Field-trip guide: 
As per briefing last Friday - please check unit A drop-box for what building you have been assigned to research for the field-trip. Please produce one A4 page on it using the Indesign template and have ready for field-trip guide workshop on Friday 6 November.


Here is a map of buildings / projects for our field-trip. This is work-in-progress and might be useful to navigate once we are there (simply bookmark on your phone...)
LINK to map

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos Lecture Tue 3 Nov

Nieto Sobejano have produced rather interesting landscape and public realm projects - this could be relevant in relation to our study area and project site... I recommend everybody to see this!
LINK