UNIT 1 - STAY UP

unit 1

STAY-UP APRĂˆS CITY - London Fran Balaam & Cristina Monteiro

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STAY-UP

Fran Balaam & Cristina Monteiro The next 30 years will see 32,000 new homes appear gradually in the barren wastelands of postOlympics East London in the form of five ‘Legacy Neighbourhoods’. In the meantime, Interim Uses (the legitimisation of the ‘pop-up’) look set to temporarily colonise these territories, with little sense of their long-term effect. Could radically retooled and strategic pop-ups - ‘Stay-Ups’ - have a lasting impact on the shape of these future neighbourhoods?

The Interim Uses Statement (IUS), produced by the OPLC, sets out an official strategy for the intermediary occupation of the post-Olympic sites.

The unit will produce an alternative IUS based on the principle that interim uses should have powerful, unexpected and delightful impacts on the shape of the city, joining up the short-term with the long and allowing spontaneity, spectacle, event and ritual to give character and form to the new neighbourhoods. Impatiently, we ask whether we could design today the events that will be remembered in the form of tomorrow’s city.

‘Stay-Ups’ are the next stage in the evolution of the pop-up, from informal pleasure to development tool. They work on two timeframes at once: 1. They fulfil the requirements of the interim use, offering an event or moment that takes advantage of the vacant nature of the site, and draws people to it. A provocation, a test, a transient spectacle.

2. They set a spatial and social precedence for the development of the subsequent neighbourhood, becoming an indelible part of its structure and culture. * How can the Stay-Up relate to situations found in existing London communities, both the particular and the quotidian?

* In the context of unusually long development timeframes, is it possible or useful to speculate about what life might be like in 30 years time, and to have a say in defining it?

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Winston Churchill OUTPUT The output of the studio will have three components, and students will work as a group to achieve consistency across the work. Graphic styles and techniques will be carefully set out in order to achieve this. The components will be: 1. An Alternative IUS Detailing all the stay-ups, in a format that is recognisably close to the structure of the original statement in order to be comparable with it. This IUS will be presented to the LLDC. 2. Maps Locating the stay-ups and demonstrating the development of the sites at the key times in the phasing plan. These will act both as an appendix to the IUS and as accessible plans that set out the activity on each site in time and space.

3. Posters Students will represent each stay-up using mass media techniques borrowed from the golden age of London Transport posters. Each project will be described as both an interim event (‘come and visit’), and a permanent one (‘come and live’).

* With no funding allocated for Interim Uses, how can the Stay-Up attract investment?

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Fran Balaam & Cristina Monteiro PROGRAMME Students will be divided into five groups, with each group allocated a ‘Legacy Neighbourhood’, complete with the known parameters and characteristics of the site.

Tutors will be available to students for at least four hours every day of the three weeks.

WEEK 2 MONDAY 9TH JULY Developing the stay-up: Defining stay-up proposals and phasing.

Tuesday 10TH JULY Event - Cross Section 1 : Internal Critics

WEEK 1

Wednesday 11th July

MONDAY 2th JuLY

Poster making workshops.

Introduction & Induction Day

Thursday 12th July

Tuesday 3th JuLY

Internal review of stay-ups and group stay-up masterplan workshop.

Unit 1, introduction to London and the Olympic Park: AM Introductory lecture/workshop on London lifestyle/and image.

PM Introductory to Olympic Park, masterplan and existing IUS.

Friday 13th July Developing IUS alternative and maps: Group planning workshop for IUS alternative and maps.

Wednesday 4th JuLY

Individual/group tasks allocated for compilation of maps and IUS alternative.

Introduction to the development sites:

SATURDAY & SUNDAY 14th & 15TH JULY

AM Allocation of development parcels/sites and tour of Olympic Park fringes.

PM Group workshops looking at initial responses to sites and Olympic Park (pin-up/discussion at end of session). thursday 5th JuLY Exploring London neighbourhoods: ‘London villages’ site visits (led by David Knight, RCA)

Graphic design workshop with guest graphic designer

WEEK 3 MONDAY - THURSDAY 16TH - 19TH JULY Production of information and conclusion of ideas:

Evening: Meet and review

Developing written statement and compiling of document (including images from individual stay-up projects).

FRIDAY & SATURDAY 6th / 7th JuLY

Developing and producing maps in groups.

Reviewing findings and interpretation of the IUS:

Final work to stay-up posters.

Critique and translation of the existing IUS

Preparation and rehearsal of group presentation for the crit.

Group workshops for development of stay-up ideas (drawing work on presentation/visits during first three days).

Friday 20th July

Stay-up workshop/discussion ‘what is a stay-up?’

Presentation - Student work show

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Fran Balaam & Cristina Monteiro TUTORS Fran Balaam is an architect and lecturer. She runs an undergraduate architecture studio at London Metropolitan University, and is co-director of Pie, an architecture, urban design and research practice. She is also a visiting critic and tutor at a number of schools of architecture in the UK and Ireland, including the University of Cardiff and the RCA. She has recently been shortlisted for the AJ Emerging Woman Architect of the Year Award.

Cristina Monteiro is an architect. Prior to establishing her own practice in 2011, she worked for muf architecture/art on projects at a variety of scales, notably the redevelopment of Altab Ali Park in Whitechapel, part of the High Street 2012 initiative. Her first solo project, Folk in a Box, is the UK’s smallest performance venue and will feature as part of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012.

Fran has considerable experience in urban design, landscape and public realm, as well as buildings, and has worked with Design for London on a number of projects across the capital. She is currently leading on a High Street 2012 project in Whitechapel. Work with Pie has ranged from the critically acclaimed extension and refurbishment of St. Joseph’s Primary School (shortlisted for the AJ Small Projects Award 2011) to a masterplan for the first planned Palestinian community in East Jerusalem.

Prior to working with muf, Cristina worked for Adams & Sutherland in London and the Lunuganga Trust in Colombo. She has taught at Kingston University, where she ran undergraduate Studio 2.3, and has been a guest critic at London Metropolitan University, the University of East London, Syracuse University and the École Spéciale d’Architecture (Paris). She sits on the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Conservation & Design Panel.

www.piearchitecture.com

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BIBLIOGRAPHY Atelier Bow Wow -- Made in Tokyo Mary Banham & Bevis Hillier -- A Tonic to the Nation John Betjeman -- Metro-land Henry Cornelius -- Passport to Pimlico Gordon Cullen -- The Concise Townscape Paul Kelly -- What Have You Done Today Mervyn Day? David Littlefield, Architectural Design Jan 2012 -- London (Re)generation Bernard Tschumi -- Event Cities & Manhattan Transcripts OPLC -- Legacy Communities Scheme (2011 planning application) OPLC -- Olympic Park Interim Uses Statement Peter Hall -- London Voices London Lives

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