RE: Students from the Model Making and Architecture courses work together.

This week we finished our joint project with the students from the BA Model Making course. Our 3rd year Architectural students designed a series of towers for a central London site. Their task was to prepare conceptual sketches and ideas that would challenge the 2nd year Model Making students. (Make it hard but not impossible!) On Thursday both cohorts of students met to discuss the completed models and to find out if they related to the orginal architectural concept. Importantly for the architectural students it was a chance to see how a model maker would approach a difficult brief and inform the design process.

PORTLAND STONE TRIP

Level 4 Architecture and Interior Architecture & Design students attended a study trip to visit Learning Stone in Portland. On a very cold day they learned with firsthand experience some of the processes involved in the extraction of Portland Stone - from large scale quarry sites and heavy machines, to sculpture and hand finishing with traditional tools, as used by the past-masters involved in realising such projects as St Paul's Cathedral by Sir Christopher Wren.

learning stone

BUNKER

strange wonderful thing!
(Thanks to David Hugo)
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/11873/rietveld-landscape-atelier-de-lyon-bunker-599.html

The Serpentine Pavilion 2010: Jean Nouvel

A wonderful sunny autumn day for our London trip.
An afternoon at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Apparently enough to exhaust students...and tutors!