CODA Music Project: Week 7

The structure secured with screws, gets higher...

FREE book to download

Read on ArchDaily about the Imagine The Mississippi projects, produced by a studio at the University of Minnesota, showing student projects for the banks of the Mississippi in Minneapolis .
Then download the little pdf book .
(produced with ISSUU)
http://imaginethemississippi.com/about.html
Something to keep the brain alive over summer!

CODA Music Project: Week 6

The layers build higher...

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TEKNE Supplier of plywood

CODA Music Project: Week 5

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TEKNE Supplier of plywood

Coda Music Project: Week 4

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TEKNE Supplier of plywood

CODA Music Project Week 3

Cutting hundreds of sheets of plywood...

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CODA Music Project Week 2

After clearing the site at CODA we started constructing the design for the prototype music practice room. Hundreds of sheet ply panels were cut and then layered above each other. An optimum size of about 300 mm width was chosen for stability and depth. Then we fixed layers with screws and used the mass of the ply for stability.

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TEKNE Suppliers of plywood

NEW Serpentine Pavilion opens Saturday 10th July 2010!

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010
by Jean Nouvel
10 July – 17 October 2010

This year—the Serpentine's 40th Anniversary—the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is designed by world-renowned French architect Jean Nouvel. This 2010 Pavilion is the 10th commission in the Gallery’s annual series, the world’s first and most ambitious architectural programme of its kind. It will be the architect’s first completed building in the UK....more

Coda: experimenting with layers of ply

We started to experiment using layers of 22mm birch ply to create our music practice room. Reasons for this method of construction include the mass and texture of the wood (better sound for acoustic instruments), openings for light (to be filled with solid transparent material) and simplifying the cutting process of the large sheets. We are also using a coding system so that the assembly can be taken down and rebuilt in other locations. The challenge therefore presented us with a very intensive and time-consuming making process and dictated using the simplest possible construction methods yet retaining an engaging, expressive and layered design with all the warmth of wood so that it didn't resemble a cold, uninviting cell...

Wood donated by Tekne

Coda Music Project

First and second year students start work on the Coda project to create a prototype music practice room for musicians using design and acoustic construction principles developed from the experience of their architectural studies. The second year students designed an arts theatre for their final project with the expert help of Rob Harris, an internationally renowned acoustics specialist engineer from Arup.

We have been very kindly donated a large supply of plywood by Edd Sevestre with help from Rob Gould of timber engineering specialists Tekne for this project.

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WOMAD: Roots Architecture Workshop

WOMAD plus architecture for £235 (includes £150 entry fee for three day festival).
Anyone?????

http://womad.org/festivals/charlton-park/raw

Graduation of our first cohort of Part One students.

Weekend Exhibition

If you are planning to drop in to the Urban Beach in London on 3rd July, why not stop at another exhibition:

Allies and Morrison: Model making as part of the design process

at their studios:
85 Southwark Street (close by Tate Modern and Gatehouse Square)
10am-1pm Saturday 3rd July 2010

and see the building site and designs for the new extension to Tate Modern across the road 10am to 4pm:

Transforming Tate Modern

then join us for refreshment and hang out on the beach........2pm onwards

and sign up to build a theatre, yes a working theatre, out of junk, just around the corner from the beach hut:

Recycle Reuse Workshop with Martin Kaltwasser

3pm or 5pm times available Saturday 3rd July 2010 (build for an hour!).