STUDIO 02

Design Tutors

Spyros Kaprinis, Daniel Wing Tang

Year 02

Khalid Afif, Hughes Jacob, Blanaru Alexandra, Boumecid Samira, Bozkurt Yeliz, Klinger Elis, Velicaria Dheks, Danquah Gerald, Rana Zahra, Miroslav Hristov, Jell Stephen, Simmonds Carmel, Pole Maximillian

Year 03

Lama Dipen, Shati Loema, Mastracci Giuseppe, Presente Gomes Juliana ,Ali Nuralein, Gereis Nathalie, Amir Heidar, Iman O’Curry Cian, Mcginty Karly-Ann, Dedman Bradley

Autonomous Transpositions

The notion of autonomy and transposition in architecture is highly pertinent in the context of contemporary architectural discourse, as it addresses the various conceptual differences between the post-modern and neo-modern formal languages in architecture, and how they are connected to the use of precedents,as well as to history and typology.

Transpositional architectural practices make use of post-or neomodernist operations, celebrating customs and considerations of form giving, whilst creatively and sometimes disruptively placing forms into new contexts.Architectural examples of transposition can be perceived within styles or typologies, as hues of materiality, as concepts and narratives, or even as articulating techniques during the design process.

As the contemporary city continues to be defined as a plethora of expanding sites, tactical and strategic interventions, confrontations between architectonic and urbanistic spaces, flows, networks, transfers, transits, it is increasingly difficult to imagine how one can manage to carve out a space of habitation within this.

As cities are being perceived as spaces of atomisation and estrangement, especially with the current ongoing public health crisis, it is also increasingly difficult to imagine how one can “dwell” in them. BAS2 addresses the question of how one can bring the concept of “autonomous transpositions” into confrontation with the city, how to bring historical precedents into confrontation with the flows and networks of the contemporary city.

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Fig. 01-06: Bradley Dedman, “Dryden Street Inclusive Community”, Fig. 07, 11-15: Stephen Jell, “Claremont Square Faith Centre”, Fig. 08: Carmel Simmonds, “The Serpentine Rowing Club”, Fig. 09,10,16: Carmel Simmonds,“Claremont Square Faith Centre”, Fig. 17-19: Juliana Gomes, “Dryden Street Inclusive Community”, London, Fig. 20-21: Cian O’Curry, “Dryden Street Inclusive Community”, Fig. 22: Miroslav Hristov, “The Serpentine Rowing Club”, Fig. 23: Bradley Dedman, “Nourishment Pavilion”, Fig. 24: Stephen Jell, “The Serpentine Rowing Club”, Fig. 25-26: Nathalie Gereis, “Nourishment Pavilion”, Fig. 27: Nora Ali, “Lisson Grove Wellbeing Centre”

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