BSc Unit 2 Yr 2: Christopher Burman, Pui Yue Stephanie Chung, Jonathan De Wind, Chiara Hall, Jennifer Laurie Jameson, Sophia Jones, Thomas King, Chantanee Nativivat, Richard Thebridge, Emilia-Dimitra Tsaoussi. Yr 3: Silviya Aytova, Julian Bond, Jonathan Chattaway, Alpa Depani, Mark Goddard, Chloe Kletsa, Benedetta Rogers, Luke Rowett.
Urban Blending We are nterested in cities, their patterns and structures. Over time most cities evolve as an assembly of contradictory elements, rural, brash, decrepit, subtle, brutal, undefinable. It is this mix which creates vitality and surprise. The idea of blending supposes some control to this mix, some way of working with time and movement to add new elements to an existing pattern. What kind of blend: fine medium coarse...? The year will begin by some short experimental projects with objects, graphics, devices, stopmotion films, will then evolve a building project, and will finish with an opportunity to reassess the year and re-assemble the work into a graphic booklet. We will be using two locations which both have a particular quality of town and country. The first is Hastings, a town set on the south English coast, just below the South Downs, a mix of faded Victorian style, twentieth century mass entertainment, wooden fisher houses, a funicular, fish ‘n chip shops, a beach strewn with marine junk. Here we will begin the investigation, evolve a way of working. The second location is Berlin, an inland city with its own landscapes, lakes, woods, and its particular mix of communist extravagance and recent reconstruction. In particular we will examine the interzone of Alexanderplatz, and evolve new insertions, derived from the Hastings research, placed into this urban fabric. We intend that these locations will create two poles for creating architecture.
William Firebrace and Julian KrĂźger
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