-overview of basement types.
typeA- external tanking
typeB- Monolithic
typeC- drained cavity
-overview of pile types
contiguous
secant
alternatives : sheet steel piling, Diaphragm walls
-overview of underpinning
jack piles
needle beams
cantilevered needle beams
Case Study of Ryland library Manchester Uni.
Lecture was concise, gave clear diagrams of how each type works, photographs where relevant, and details of the case study.
Afternoon - situationists
The Situationists
Phase 1
- some influence on a few groups,
- held several exhibitions,
- all about politics and opinion,
- ideas published through magazines
- hated modernists
- New Babylon, an inhabitable container that could be infinitely expanded for mass produced environments.
- Didn’t like technology and consumerisms as saw it as stifling creativity
- Didn’t think houses should be ugly just because they were cheap.
Phase 2
- The drift- large groups wandering around cities; psycogeographical surveys. Combination of chance and planning
- New ways of mapping on paper; collages of old maps, photos etc. in attempts to make maps with feeling.
- Liked to trespass and attend warehouse parties, explored in aimless hitch hiking
- Liked being drunk
Phase 3
- Aspired to reconstruct the city
- Construct ‘situations’ – combinations of environment and people to produce a transcendent revolutionary consciousness
- 2 approaches – New Babylon and “detournement”
Thursday- Tutorial, Bridge idea reject and new approach was suggested, Not to completely open up the area as I had suggested but instead find a middle ground between that leaving the residential area sealed off, Allow the residents full access between both sides but then use the anchor to filter out tourists.
Saturday – Alexisonfire played Leeds Refectory
Week review-
Somewhat unproductive, no progress made on dissertation, design work was made invalid after tutorial although the practice on CAD and 3dsmax was useful as well as the practice sketching.
Need to be more focused and task orientated so that I can achieve more in the week and also have much more of my designs resolved for tutorials, also need to set aside more time for dissertation
Book review
title: Out of Site: Fictional Architectural Spaces
Publisher: New museum of contemporary art (2002)
Summary and analysis:
-Artists creating fictional architectural spaces and topographies using architectural constructs to investigate how the growth of digital culture virtual reality and global expansion.
-represent exploration of navigating space, both physically and digitally
- no longer distinguish 'real' from 'virtual' or dont find the distinction meaningful.
- urban reality is not single but multiple 'city in a city, secret cultures and societies.'
-architecture of internet and tech. mediated extension of transparent architecture of Michel Foucault .
