Little Architect: My Future Local Heritage. Chatham

AA VS LITTLE ARCHITECT CHATHAM 27 APRIL -16 MAY 2017

Architectural Association School of Architecture

Little Architect AA Visiting School Team: Director: Dolores Victoria Ruiz Garrido, Littlearchitect@aaschool.ac.uk Teaching assistants: Maridia Kafetzopoulou, Sofia Krimizi and Patricia De Souza Admin staff: Andrea Ghaddar, Dorotea Petrucci and Sandra Simonds.

AA Visiting School Director: Christopher Pierce, Visitingschool@aaschool.ac.uk

@AAlittlearchi AA little Architect T

+44 (0)20 7887 4014

http://littlearchitect.aaschool.ac.uk/

Luton Junior School: Emma Courtney, Mark Mcguigan, Corey Lewis, Joe Burnett, Matilda Brewn, Shirley Major, Nigel Howard, Stephen Billington, Lisa Godfrey( Historic Dockyard Charity) and Van Heyningen and Haward Architects

The Architectural Association, Inc. is a Registered Charity Incorporated as a Company limited by guarantee. Registered in England No. 171402. Registered office: 36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES, 020 7887 4000

Who is Little Architect?

Little Architect is an education programme teaching architecture and the urban environment in primary schools, both in and outside London, led by the Architectural Association School of Architecture, a UK registered charity.

We teach schoolchildren from Reception to Year 6 (aged 4 to 11) how to observe, understand and enjoy architecture, and to become active citizens in what we hope will be a more sustainable future. Our in-school workshops are delivered in partnership with the class teacher and embedded into the UK national curriculum.

We help children achieve their learning targets through architecture and art, while the programme provides the opportunity for pupils to think and communicate about buildings and cities through drawing.

We encourage children to create new, futuristic urban environments and to pay attention to the amazing world around them. We want to trigger a new relationship with contemporary architecture and its local surroundings, encouraging children to care for but also to be critical of the cities we all inhabit.

Our Heritage Lottery Funded Project “Your future local area”

HISTORIC ROYAL DOCKYARD- 3SLIP BUILDING

Spring Term 2016/2017

Our approach: “Dynamic Heritage” We teach that our heritage is part of the urban environment evolution, we start by showing a presentation about the local area and how it has changed from the past through to the present. It is important for us to convey to children that the city is a constantly changing place, and as such as citizens of the city, they are able to change it for the better. Children realise that they are part of our future heritage therefore they are empowered to improve their present and ready to engage with and care for their local area.

Our Methodology: Active learning: We have developed a timeline-based methodology where we teach about the past, the present and the future of the local area incorporating walks, sketching journeys, research time and also providing games, cartoons, movies and books relating to children’s popular culture.

Learning through Games: We design teaching packs ordering images in such a way that the same area is shown several times, from the past through to the present. We then ask children to ‘spot the difference’. Children engage in this game noting numerous things which had changed, such as the way buildings are inhabited, the amount of traffic on the streets, clothes and fashion in people, changes in building materials and decoration or even shop signage. Finally and prior the last section of our project, the future, We present several examples of contemporary and utopian buildings and introduce students to the importance of clean energy, urban walkability, encouraging the coexistence of other species with humans and buildings (urban ecosystems) we talk about the concept of urban farming, extensions, rehabilitation etc.

We create strong links with History, Geography and Literacy. One of our main objectives is to foster creativity: Incorporating the future in our lessons we open children´s minds to imagine their local area and heritage in their own way to develop a proactive attitude towards their city.

CHATHAM & LUTON SCHOOL.

Students: 90 children ( Year 5 group) Year 5 Coordinator: Emma Courtney and Mark Mcguigan, Little Architect Team: Dolores Victoria Ruiz Garrido, Maridia Kafetzopoulou, Patricia de Souza Muller.

Train stations

Universities

Markets

Thematics parks Town Halls

Bridges Hotels

Libraries Insects Bus station Playgrounds Old Castles Stadiums Birds Trees Art Galleries Cinemas Houses Shops Swimming Pools Schools

Skyscrapers People

Hospitals

Animals

Police Stations Museums Banks Mosques Flowers Tube stations Churches Pubs Parks Toys shops Playgrounds Fire stations Offices Factories Airports Theaters

Restaurants

What do architects do?

Let´s start with unusual things

The Eames

Tomas Saraceno

Norman Foster

Of course, we design BUILDINGS… How do you think our education is?

MODELING

HISTORY

DRAWING

MATHS

COMPUTERS

1900 10% of the earth population lived in cities

2015 50% lived in cities (8.308 million living in London)

2050 75% will be living in cities (estimated 11.3 million people in London) Ricky Burdett, Deyan Sudjic “The Endless City� 2008.

Our future cities should be ready for this!

BORING?

Rehabilitate old buildings

Observing and understanding architecture

OUR LOCAL AREA

OUR SITE

ROOF FACADE FLOOR

What do we find if…We

LOOK AT the ROOFS?

What do we find if...

We

LOOK AT the FACADE ?

What do we find if...

We

LOOK AT the PEOPLE?

Can you SMELL IT?

What do we find if...

We

LOOK AT the FLOOR?

1-Open up your eyes.

Look at everything around, above, below and in front of you!

Have fun, be curious,discover secrets, learn its history, learn about your neighbours.

3-Be critical.

Ask yourself if your city could be even better. Express yourself, be assertive.

4-Propose improvements.

Write letters or emails to your council, take pictures, draw a proposal, help in your community…be an active citizen

5-Tell your friends and parents to do the same!

Little Architect- AA School of Architecture- 36 Bedford Square- London WC1B 3ES- littlearchitect.aaschool.ac.uk -Twitter: @AAlittlearchi Facebook; Little Architect AA

Illustration : Dolores Victoria Ruiz Garrido, based on Yona Friedman “Holistic Vision” concept.

2-Enjoy your city.

EXPLORING

DISCOVERING

FACTS

Chatham played a key role in British naval history building more than 400 ships.

The site was in use as a Royal Dockyard from 1613 to 1984.

The first evidence of the Royal Navy's use of the River Medway can be found in 1547 with the rental of two storehouses on 'Jyllingham Water'.

By the reign of Elizabeth I (1588 -1603) the River Medway at Chatham had become England's principal fleet base.

The first warship known to have been built at Chatham was the Sunne, launched in 1586.

The dockyard moved downstream to the present location of the Historic Dockyard in 1613. By 1618 storehouses and a ropewalk had been built, and by 1625 a dry dock had been erected HMS Victory, Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar, is the best known ship built at the yard, and was launched in 1765.

1838

Built in 1838, the immense No. 3 Covered Slip was, when built, the largest wide span timber structure in Europe. No.3 Slip stands at the cusp of technological change, its amazing roof was built to the design of shipwright Sir Robert Seppings. The roof has 400 windows in it.

The last nuclear submarine to be refitted, HMS Churchill, and the last frigate, HMS Hermione, left the dockyard in 1983.

Victorian period 1837-1901

Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 1837-39 (Derelict environments+ Upper classes)

London a Pilgrimage Gustav DorĂŠ 1871 (Derelict environments )

DEVON

In 1838, The Historic Dockyard Chatham was the largest wide span timber structure in Europe

In 1851, The Crystal Palace in London was the largest castiron and glass structure in Europe

WHAT do YOU want for its FUTURE ?

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IDEAS TO TRANSFORM THE 3 SLIP BUILDING… Temporary and moving structures

Moving structure?!

Floating city, restaurant,school? ‌ Let´s think about the 3slip and the river!

Food Centre?

MRDV

Inflatable architecture made out of plastic

Ice skating?

ARCHITECTURE taking care of the environment.

Algae Bio-fuel

The Wind

ARCHITECTURE protecting from the weather

Architecture for FUN! Playgrounds?

Selgas Cano. MĂŠrida. Spain

Picasso Museum.Japan

Architecture and FUN!

ARCHITECTURE connecting with other buildings

DRAWING IN CLASS

Little Architect AA Visiting School Team: Director: Dolores Victoria Ruiz Garrido, Littlearchitect@aaschool.ac.uk Teaching assistants: Maridia Kafetzopoulou, Sofia Krimizi and Patricia De Souza Admin staff: Andrea Ghaddar, Dorotea Petrucci and Sandra Simonds.

AA Visiting School Director: Christopher Pierce, Visitingschool@aaschool.ac.uk

@AAlittlearchi AA little Architect T +44 (0)20 7887 4014 http://littlearchitect.aaschool.ac.uk/

The Architectural Association, Inc. is a Registered Charity Incorporated as a Company limited by guarantee. Registered in England No. 171402. Registered office: 36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES, 020 7887 4000

AA VS LITTLE ARCHITECT CHATHAM 27 APRIL -16 MAY 2017

Architectural Association School of Architecture