Seminar with Keith, information about the building was hard to find for everyone, therefore this seminar was almost exactly the same as the previous week.
Lecture:
Zero Carbon Architecture with Gregg Keefe
covers 2 of his papers:
Bio-fueled heritage:
- A total solution to carbon neutrality in historic neighborhoods
a study of Nelson, lancs.
lecture covered the difficulties of trying to get anything done when the prince's trust and heritage gets involved.
more importantly it covered integrating bio fuel and heat storage systems into historic settings without compromising their heritage.
Synergetic City:
- Urban algae production as a regenerative tool for a post-industrial city.
A study of making liverpool a free energy city.
uses algae as a biofuel to run glass production system in order to provide energy and industry to a city that is in decline. the algae production uses the unused docks, and the glass production uses the derelict parts of the city
was interesting and refreshing approach to zero carbon, using technology and techniques that are not usually considered. really great insight into the technical as well as political aspects of these projects.
Thursday:
Three tutorials in one day, first with Bridget who told me to start over with a new approach, followed by a tutorial with Gary an hour later in which he told me to start again using a different approach to Bridget's. Two hours later was another tutorial with Gary in which he stated i wasnt approaching his approach correctly and should start over.
this was good to have a lot of feedback and new approaches to briefs however being told to start over 3 times in a day was rather disheartening and by the end of the day i was knackered. But i do know how to proceed, until next week atleast
Also Pechakucha night
- was really interesting lecture series, seemed a fun way to present work, fast, however the speed of it meant i didnt get to write notes, alot of great ideas were conveyed. however i feel the set up of these lectures is really to let you know more about the presenter and less about the subject matter. although this is probably because i can not write short hand to take notes and therefore alot of it has not been remembered.
Email recieved
Dear All. Hope that you are working hard. Just a reminder for next Thursday 26th Nov Crit:
This will be a formal interim pin up crit where you will need to pin up all your work from this semester - research/analysis/precedent/development/anchor/chord and event and anything else you have produced.
For the Event, your building, you should aim to present a developed sketch scheme within the site/ landscape development and in relation to your exploration of the anchor.
For this you will look at various scales to put your event in the developed landscape and then zoom in to larger scales which explore your building in more detail with the immediate context.
Aim to show strategic site planning diagrams which illustrate your thinking for site use - issues to show include relationship decision making to adjacent buildings and spaces; routes, environment, scale and massing.
Working in plan and section - show all to scale in context - be clear about your brief.
Look at contextual massing diagrams/ sketch models - volumetric development to understand how your building works
FINISHED MODELS AND DRAWINGS ARE NOT REQUIRED BUT DO TRY AND PRESENT SKETCH WORK IN AN ORDERLY /COHERENT WAY.
Just to put your progression in this unit in context of the semester, you should be aiming to achieve a finished design by the Christmas break so that you have time to refine decision making and present your work for the final semester assessment on the 14th January 2010.
Whatever stage you are at on Thursday, please aim to attend and participate through the day. Any questions - I will be in on Monday or do email me. Best wishes, Bridget
Bridget Hansford BA(Hons) Dip Arch RIBA
Senior Lecturer
Joint BA(Hons) Degree Course Leader Architecture
The Leeds School of Architecture, Landscape & Design
Arts Building, Broadcasting Place, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9EN
Leeds Metropolitan University
