Wednesday, 16 February 2011
Monday, 14 February 2011
UCA-CSA, FOLLOW THIS EXAMPLE YES?
The John K. Branner Traveling Fellowship, awarded each year to three masters of architecture students in their final year at the University of California, Berkeley, gives recipients the opportunity to travel the world for twelve months in pursuit of architectural inquiries that will later inform their theses.
This is one of many ways to ALSO promote the university. To be concerned
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
IS PRESERVATION, INERTIA?
Call to Account! A case for active preservation
An op-ed from Barcelona by Mario Ballesteros @ DOMUS magazine
Is preservation really inertia as Koolhaas maintains? Perhaps it's time that architects take on the task of giving life to innovative prospects for the reinterpretation of the past
READ ME!
what do you guys think about this?
Thursday, 3 February 2011
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Food industries, fish
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/spaces-of-food-5-madeira-odorless-fish.htmlGabor an alterative Tempelhof airport...
Migle you may be interested there are more links for other articles at the botom of the page...
Friday, 14 January 2011
Thursday, 16 December 2010
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
10 EU Countries Pledge to Create North Sea Renewable Energy Grid
The North Sea is already home to the world’s largest offshore wind farm, but its seems the sea is about to get even greener as ten EU countries have signed a memorandum to develop an international offshore energy grid. The memorandum saw Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom pledge to combine renewable wind energy sources in the sea. The grid, which would become fully operational in 2020, would allow the EU countries to share renewable electricity throughout the continent and the British Isles.
The ten countries have pledged to work together to identify and to overcome the regulatory, legal, market, planning, and technical issues that will come with creating the North Sea grid. At the center of the North Sea Grid is Scotland, whose experience with offshore grids and the award-winning ISLES project (Irish Scottish Links on Energy Study) makes it the ideal country to headline the grid project.
from inhabitat follow link for report
Tuesday, 14 December 2010
After looking at caravan sites I was intrigued
by the temporality of the sites. Each site has
its differences in terms of size and layout.
The differences in the number of permanent
caravans and temporary caravans also makes
each site unique.
After visiting a site I was also intrigued by the
the way that most caravan owners were keen
to make their caravans different to others by
changing some of the things on it.
This has lead me to want to explore the idea
of plug-in Architecture.
Monday, 13 December 2010
Port City
The UK is predominated by seaside. It produces much of the country's wealth and in one way or another, affects every non-domestic relationship and transaction that takes place on the Islands that make it up... Those areas which would appear to benefit most from the maritime necessities of such a place are often those most by-passed with regard the commerce of international trade and shipping. The proximity of people to the coast often has a diametric effect to that which one might expect - coastal towns are frequently left below average for UK income and life-expectancy, especially with the reduction in industrial endeavours in such places. Conversely, ports and their governing authorities (often in direct impingement of their 'namesakes') can have multi-million pound turnovers and incredibly high commercial value.
The below images are an exercise in mapping the energy production that affects the coastal towns in question.
My aims within the context of co-op coast are to investigate and discuss the relationship between ports, their authorities and needs, with those of the towns they are attached to. Focussing on the 'Channel' ports, the investigation will produce mappings, diagrams and eventually a proposal in built form based on the relationship that is uncovered.
Sunday, 12 December 2010
Dover Territorial Analysis
The borders and controllers of territories within dover harbour highlighted a series of boundaries that often resulted in blunt divides. These Divides were investigated through section and with photography to reveal their scale and materiality, can a port ever truly engage with other programmes or the public realm, or are the strict drawn territory lines paramount to its functioning and security?
The main port of dover or fortress of dover was photographed at night in a attempt to reveal its true nature, this being a regulated platform of intense movement.
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