Dip Unit 14 Year 4: Michael Hammock, Sam McElhinney, Tetsuro Nagata, Declan Shaw, Andrew Usher. Year 5: Thomas Evans, Paula Friar, David Gouldstone, Kieran Hawkins, Henry Parr, Rion Willard. MArch: Ruairi Glynn, Richard Roberts.
Experiments in Time Experiments In Time: Unit 14 is experimental. We continue to support individual original work of exceptionally high quality within the framework of timebased architecture; architecture that is designed in 4 dimensions. To illustrate this concept we have used the metaphor of a restaurant and a meal (2004), natural and stage magic (2005), performance art (2006), and this year, The Garden (of Earthly Delights). A garden is a place that changes throughout the year and from year to year. The gardener is working with an emergent system that is continually surprising in its possibilities of unexpected delight. Programme Year 4: The Garden (of Earthly Delights) Students began the year by developing their understanding of the relationship between architecture and interior landscape. The project produced a series of enclosed urban gardens that offered solace, refreshment and delight to the weary urban traveler. This was taken to a detailed resolution in projects sited adjacent to the Dominion Theatre in London’s Tottenham Court Road. Year 4 students then worked together to construct a pavilion to demonstrate the possibilities of a dynamic shade/insulation system. This pavilion is one of the two Unit 14 contributions to the London Festival of Architecture 2008. Year 4 students then developed preliminary agendas for their individual work in year 5 Programme Year 5: Powers of Ten. Time based projects varied from the intimate 1:1 (Paula Friar, Rion Willard) to the opulently and gelatinously gastronomic 1:1 (Harry Parr), to a park cafe (Dave Gouldstone) to urban scale interventions (Tom Evans, Kieran Hawkins).
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Top: Flying Planter (Fledge) preliminary sketches. The Fledge was developed as part of the Garden Of Earthly Delights building project undertaken by Mike Hammock and Andy Usher at the start of the year Mike and Andy then went on to develop a demonstration prototype. Bottom: Urban Syncopation. Tetsuro Nagata constructed a range of tappers that work with a vision system to play back parts of the city according to the behavior of passers by. Prototype tappers and a sample of the Arduino code that controls them are shown.
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