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London Works Competition

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London Works is a student ideas competition asking you to engage with a real place, a real client, and a pressing topic: how to retain and future-proof London’s work spaces and put on sustainable footing the heterogeneous qualities that make this city what it is. It will launch at the end of June and run for six weeks, there is prize money, a great jury, and a couple of seminars with excellent speakers that will bring you up to speed on the topic in no time.

Site: Nathan Way

Timetable:

26.06.2017 – 3pm: Full brief released

26.06.2017 – 3pm: Site visit followed by Introductory Talks – Learn about the history of Thamesmead, Peabody’s plans for its future, about The Ridgeway and Nathan Way.

27.06.2017 – 3pm: Seminar 1 “The Lay of the Land” – Talks on industrial land from policy, academic research and business perspectives, followed by discussion.

28.06.2017 – 3pm: Seminar 2 “The Future Of The Land” – Presentations of innovative ideas for mixed use work space developments, followed by discussion.

07.08.2017: Digital submission by 5pm

09.08.2017: Physical models can be submitted to Peabody central London office by 5pm 

11.08.2017 – 3pm: Public Jury

To book free tickets for Introductory Talks and Seminars, and for more info please visit: http://www.londonworks2017.info/

Simon Conder: Book Launch + Exhibition Private View

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As part of the London Festival of Architecture the WORK Gallery in Kings Cross will be holding an exhibition of Simon Conder‘s work over the last 20 years.

The exhibition will run from 1 – 30 June, and the launch of their book Small Works will take place on Wednesday 14th June, 6-9.30pm in the same space.

Call for Papers- Industrial Heritage in the UK: Mutations, Conversions and Representations – Deadline 15th June

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Industrial Heritage in the UK: Mutations, Conversions & Representations is a one-day conference organised by the University of Rennes 2 in France and will take place on Tuesday 10th October 2017.

The ambition of this one-day conference is to explore changes in the field of industrial heritage, its instrumental role in the provision of spaces for tourism, culture, and urban regeneration in general, and potential conflicts arising from the relationship between those various processes. Yet it will also be crucial to examine representations of industrial society and the tangible traces of industry in order to foreground mutations in terms of how industrial heritage has been depicted and perceived ever since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Thus it will offer a more comprehensive picture of the contrasting visions of a once neglected heritage.

Keynote speakers:

Tim Edensor is a Reader in Cultural Geography at Manchester Metropolitan University, and his research revolves around spaces of tourism, national identities, industrial ruins and wasteland, urban materiality, geographies of rhythm and rhythm analysis, and landscapes of illumination.

Ian Beesley is an award winning and internationally acclaimed artist and photographer. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at Milan Photo festival, Italy, the International Industrial Photography festival, Shengyang China, The National Media Museum, Bradford and the Peoples History Museum Manchester.

Proposals to be sent to Aurore Caignet (aurore.caignet@univ-rennes2.fr or aurorecaignet@gmail.com) by June 15th 2017.

For more info on please see:  https://indusheritage17.sciencesconf.org/

 

Eye Line 2017 Competition: Deadline 12th June

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Organised by RIBAJ in partnership with the architectural visualisation expert AVR, the Eye Line competition is celebrating its fifth year anniversary. This prize is all about architectural drawing, not the project – originating in any medium or combination of media, from anywhere in the world! The entries are welcome from both students and practitioners, so make sure you get your best work out and apply now!

Deadlines:

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES – Monday 12th June

Judging and shortlisting – Thursday 29th June

Winners and commendations announced in special issue of the RIBAJ – August

Exhibition and Celebration party at the Anise Gallery – September

To find out more about the rules and information required, and to download the entry from, please go to: https://www.ribaj.com/culture/eye-line-2017-get-drawing

Featured image: Corina Tuna from The Cass school ‘Living on Forest Fringes, Nepal’ – Eye Line 2016 third winner, taken from RIBAJ website.

 

Design Competition: One Day Design Challenge

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The One Day Challenge competition is aimed at the young designers and architects under the age of 30, and on the 17th June the Roca London Gallery by Zaha Hadid Architects will host the first UK edition of the challenge.

Participants are invited to create a new design related to the bathroom space in less than 10 hours. The designs will be seen and judged by a prestigious jury of leading architects and designer, and the participants can win three prizes worth up to £2,000.

To register and find out more please go to: http://www.onedaydesignchallenge.net/united-kingdom-2017_22833  @RocaChallenge #rocadesignchallenge

 

Mobile Home London project: DS3.6 venture into the Finnish woods

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At the end of April, DS3.6 set off on an adventure into the wilderness of Finland. Destination was Lusto – The Finnish Forest Museum, some 4h drive northeast of Helsinki.

Under the guidance of a Finnish architect Sami Rintala and the DS3.6 tutors, Harry Paticas and Tom Raymont of Arboreal Architecture, fifteen students were tasked with designing and building an environmentally friendly wooden shelter with a hearth, which will be available for public use from the 8th May.

Sami Rintala visited the Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Westminster in January 2017, as part of a collaborative project between The Finnish Institute in London and the University of Westminster. He gave a series of lectures and workshops at the Fabrication Lab, where the students were given a chance to research materials and techniques to develop the wooden shelter, and prepare for the work on site that was to follow in the spring. The project is run by professor Harry Charrington (UOW), Sami Rintala (Rintala-Eggertsson Architects), Harry Paticas (UOW, Arboreal Architecture) and Tom Raymont (UOW, Arboreal Architecture).

This project titled Mobile Home London is an integral part of the DS3.6‘s programme this year. It was organised as a part of the largest ever collaborative project between Finnish institutes in Paris, Berlin and Benelux Countries, called Mobile Home 2017, to mark the centenary of Finnish Independence.

You can follow the progress of the students’ work on The Finnish Institute’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/FinInstLondon/ 

Photos by Niklas Nabb.

 

 

Exhibition of Pavilion Designs for the Imperial Festival 2017 by DS2.5

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Design Studio [02] 05 have been invited to exhibit their Semester 1 design project ‘Indoor Weather’, a speculative pavilion design for the Imperial College Science Festival, at Imperial Festival 2017.  The festival takes place over the weekend of 6/7th May.

With the support from the Quintin Hogg Trust 125 Fund, our students have had the opportunity to work on the production of this exhibit of drawings and models and produce a catalogue for the Festival.

You can download the pdf of the catalogue here:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/otuxvnhgtdenroh/AAABE9I1pnohvP75zQixPb3fa?dl=0 

Follow the Imperial Festival 2017 on https://twitter.com/imperialcollege?lang=en-gb  #ImpFest

 

Architectural Robotics Theatre (A.R.T.) workshop at the FAB FEST – Apply by Sunday 16th April

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FAB FEST team is delighted to announce that FAB FEST ’17 will also feature the launch of the Architectural Robotics Theatre. A.R.T. is a series of research projects exploring how our industrial robots might be used to invent and develop new ways of working with a particular material to create innovative architecture. The projects will all culminate in a week-long public performance in the Lab’s unique robot cell overlooking Marylebone Road.

The first project will focus on innovative ways of working with card and use the robots to create a fantastic pavilion for FAB FEST. FAB LAB team is now looking for students to join the team. The project will be mentored by the Fabrication Lab staff together with Mentors from exparch.hochbau from Innsbruck University, and practitioners from the leading structural engineers, AKT II. In addition to the usual support provided by FAB FEST mentors, the A.R.T. team will also receive presentations in basic robotics, and will learn how to generate tool paths and work with these highly flexible digital fabrication tools. Note that the project will involve a commitment to attending these training workshops and will require a (very worthwhile) investment of your time.

Schedule:

April – Application period Thursday 6th – Sunday 16th of April

April – Design | Concept development

– Robotics | Introduction workshop

May – Design | Design a technical detail and build a 1:20 model

– Robotics | Design concept application and material testing

June – Fabrication | Working drawings production and robotic fabrication of parts

July – Festival | Pavilion installation in Ambika P3

Public robotic performance over the Festival week (2nd – 9th July)

If you wish to apply for this exciting workshop opportunity, the deadline to be part of the A.R.T. team is Sunday 16th April 2017. Please send contact details and a brief motivation paragraph (a description of why you want to apply in about 150 words) to art@fabricationlab.london

For more information, visit FABFEST.london and fablab.london/art, or for specific queries, please contact Eva Magnisali (art@fabricationlab.london).

RIBA Wren Scholarships 2017 – Application deadline 5pm, Monday 22nd May

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The RIBA Wren Insurance Association Scholarships were established in March 2013 following a generous donation by The Wren Insurance Association Limited, the architects’ professional indemnity mutual that currently comprises 60 of the UK’s leading architectural practices.

The scholarships aim to support outstanding Part 2 students who have the potential to make a significant contribution in the field of architecture.

Five scholarships worth £5,000 each are available for the 2016/17 application cycle. At the time of application, students must be enrolled in an RIBA-validated Part 2 professional qualification course in the UK, and will be starting the final year in September 2017.

Preference will be given to applicants who are RIBA members.

The deadline to apply is 5PM on Monday 22 May 2017.For more information and to download the application form, visit www.architecture.com/wrenscholarships. (Student membership of the RIBA is free.)

Submit completed applications to education.temp@riba.org. Please mark email subject as ‘Wren 2017 submission’.

Electronic files over 8MB, should be sent via an external FTP site such as www.wetransfer.com. Large files will not get through via email.

Students should contact Chiamaka at Chiamaka.Ezeani@riba.org, or call on 020 7307 3678 for help with their applications.

Good luck!!

*Featured image (c) Nathan Su, 2016 RIBA Wren Insurance Association Scholar

Final year BA and MArch Students: Visiting Consultant Sessions, Friday 31st March, 14:00-18:00

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Technical Studies are organising Visiting Consultant Sessions for the 3rd year BA students and 2nd year MArch students to meet and discuss their work with various professionals in the field of architecture, engineering and environmental design.

To sign up please go to the notice board next to M503.

The available consultants are:

Dave Heely – Morph Structures (Structural Engineering)

Benson Lau – UOW (Architecture, Climate & Environmental Design)

Scott Batty – UOW / Scott Batty Architects (Detailing / Materials)

Oliver Houchell – Houchell Studio (Bridge and Structural Design / Architecture)

Jago Boase – StructureMode (Structural Engineering)

Andy Whiting – Hut Architecture (Detailing / Materials)

Yashin Kemal – Robin Partington and Partners (Detailing / Materials)

Chris Leung – Bartlett / UCL (Environmental Design and Engineering)

Will McLean – UOW