End of Year Show and Catalogue Images

That’s it, we are done for the year until we meet at Burning Man to build two awesome student projects. The end of year exhibition is on until the 5th July at Westminster, see details in previous post. Here are some pictures of the show and  images of our catalogue pages.

Entrance of Exhibition – Michael Clarke’s WikiVaults

Entrance of Exhibition – Andrei Jippa’s Fractall

Sarah Shuttleworth – Dhiren Pattel – Thanasis Korras

Chris ingram – Marilu Valente – Jacob Alsop

Dan Dodds – Tim Clare – William Garforth Bless – Thanasis Korras

Dan Dodds Pendulum on CNC milled table

Chris Ingram’s Magnetic Field Village

Parts of DS10 at the exhibition.

And here are the catalogue images:

Catalogue DS10 Westminster

OPEN2013 Westminster End of Year Show

Our end of year exhibition opens tomorrow night, 6pm-9pm and will be opened by Vicky Richardson, Director of Architecture, Design and Fashion at the British Council.

You are all welcome to join! You will see our students’ best work.

Department of Architecture
University of Westminster
OPEN2013

PREVIEW:
Thursday 13th June, 6-9pm

University of Westminster
35 Marylebone Road
London
NW1 5LS

Tube: Baker Street

 

Let’s make it happen – DS10 at Burning Man

Hello WeWantToLearn community,

The academic year finishes very soon but we are getting ready for the Burning Man festival!! After two years of research, we are so proud and excited to finally go to the festival and build the two beautiful projects, Ship Wreck and Fractal Cult.

We will be there from the 19th August until the 3rd September. On the first week we will build the Ship Wreck and the Fractal Cult and at the end of the second week we will burn all the wooden parts and disassemble the scaffolding used on Fractal Cult.

Although we won a grant to pay the materials, we still need to purchase several expensive items such as a generator for the lights, pay for some of the fabrication for the pieces, for food and water on site, the tents…etc…Our aim is to reach £3000 for all of it. Therefore we need your generous help.

You can now donate money on our page using the donate button on the top right of our page or by clicking below

Every pound helps!

Your name and website will be added below the donation button until the end of September. The names will be ordered according to the amount donated. You will benefit from our 1,000+ visitors a day having a direct link to your website.

THANK YOU!

Andrew Heumann’s Case Study in Translation

Wonderful thesis project of Andrew Heumann at Cornell University. Text extracted from his blog:

“Entitled “Case Study in Translation,” the project attempted a parametric reinterpretation of the Case Study House program of the American Mid-Century. Beginning with parametric analysis of the precedent houses, the project attempted to understand the formal and functional logics at work in the houses, and produce algorithmic translations of those logics in order to bring them into a contemporary context, adapting them for the cultural conditions of the present day.”

Read the full Thesis: http://issuu.com/andheum/docs/thesis_book_final

Couple drawings from the thesis:

A crowd-funded residential project

Plan – Parametrically Generated Master Plan inspired by the Case Study houses

Site Plan – Parametrically Generated Master Plan inspired by the Case Study houses

Sectionned Axonometric View

Section showing the interactions between the spaces

 

Several videos from Andrew’s vimeo channel:

FINAL PORTFOLIO REVIEW

The academic year is almost over, the graduation show and prize ceremony is in two weeks. Toby and I just assessed everyone’s portfolios with the help of other tutors from Westminster. This is a very stimulating day in which all the studios’ year-long student work is seen and its diversity revealed. Students could not be part of the process and witness the efforts and beauty of the some of the work so here it is, a little selection of some of our most creative portfolios this year:

Georgua Rose Colard-Watson – Temple for Love – Winner of the Burnin gMan Festival Grant

Georgua Rose Colard-Watson – Temple for Love – Winner of the Burnin gMan Festival Grant

Georgua Rose Colard-Watson – Temple for Love – Winner of the Burnin gMan Festival Grant

Luka Kreze’s Temple for the revolution in Tahrir Square

Luka Kreze’s Temple for the revolution in Tahrir Square

Dhiren Patel’s Temple to Chakras on the Mount Meru

Dhiren Patel’s Temple to Chakras on the Mount Meru

Jacob Alsop’s Temple to Bees and Wax Experiments

Michael Clarke – Temple to Making and WikiVault

Michael Clarke – Temple to Making and WikiVault

Josh Haywood – Monastic and Prison Cells

Mihail Andrei-Jipa – A Temple to Infinity – Inhabitable Fractals

William Garforth-Bless – Temple to Water ion the Thames

Marilu Valente – Bio-Polymer’s Temple

Philip Hurrel’s Temple to the Transition Movement in Totness

Dan Dodds Temple to Illusion

Christopher Ingram – Village to Electro-Sensitivity

Thanasis Korras – Memento Mori Temple – Winner of the Burning Man Festival Grant – Recursive Koch Structures

Tim Clare – Temple to Knowledge

A Bio-Plastic temple in the Polymer Valley

After developing a series of experiments with bio-plastic made from potato starch, glycerine and vinegar, Marilu Valente created a digital form-finding technique which uses the same principles as the elastic material. Below is a plan of the resulting building, a bio-polymer centre in the Polymer Valley in Thelford, U.K. We will be updating this post soon but wanted you to see how a complex three-dimensional Architecture can still be communicated through a beautiful 2D plan.

#PotatoStarchIsTheFuture

Plan of the bio-plastic temple by Marilu Valente

Plan of the bio-plastic temple by Marilu Valente

Augmented Reality Trials

Bellow are three video’s of separate augmented reality tests I made as steps towards my final project, the Augmented Reality Temple – or my ‘House of Voidals’ utilizing my jailbroken Nexus 4 and the smartphone Aurasma app. The aims were to project larger object which would convey an immersion into a digital architectural space, moving from projecting elements from panels on a wall, to attempting to show a room and a corridor. The results are rough, but do suggest how smart devices could be used, in the near future when the hardware capability of the devices has improved  to project architectures into a world where the synthesis between man and machine is inevitable.
The Music Used in the Video’s is from Luke Abbot’s Holkham Drones and Modern Highway EP’s

Sequence 01 2 7 from Mark Simpson on Vimeo.

Sequence 01 2 8 from Mark Simpson on Vimeo.

Sequence 01 2 9 from Mark Simpson on Vimeo.