MArch Architecture Unit 11 The Bartlett School of Architecture 2017
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Fig. 11.1 Agostino Nickl Y5, ‘Low-res City’. Using photogrammetric data, Hamburg is compressed into 80 specimens mined from across the city. These low-res samples become true representatives of the urban fabric containing extracts of fields, the Autobahn, a brutalist warehouse, a church and an airplane, amongst others. They serve as testbeds for newly developed and existing fabrication techniques. Fig. 11.2 Ellie Sampson Y4, ‘The Torcello Typology Repository’. Composite drawing. An elevated island in the marshy landscape towards the north of the lagoon, the repository uses channelled water, limestone-lined vessels and purposefully eroding walls to recreate and intensify the processes attacking Venice’s unique infrastructure. Fig. 11.3 Laurence Blackwell-Thale Y4, ‘Miniatur Wunderland
Extension’. Positioned as a critique of a flawed UNESCO listing, the 1:87 model museum’s sets, including a 35m-tall Mount Everest, have internal environments that mimic real climates with scale adjusted. Fig. 11.4 Ness Lafoy Y5, ‘A New Alpine Convention’. The project imagines an alternative future for French ski resorts which combines luxury tourism with the Alpine Convention’s mission to protect the natural heritage of the region. Pine forest test-beds, curated to ‘romantic alpine landscape’ principles, are cultivated and configured as a temporary backdrop for the resort. They are subsequently distributed to sites across the region and permanently grafted into the landscape, in order to help reconnect fragmented habitats.
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