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Understanding scale through Buenos Aires city grid


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Understanding scale through Buenos Aires city grid

This year Intermediate Unit 8 will be working on the design of a mix-used city block to be shared by a private corporation

and a public institution in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In Latin-American cities, rapid socio-economic changes are giving

birth to unprecedented city block configurations with radical programmatic assemblages, reversibility between inside and

outside and interchange between public and private domains. However the possibility of these transformations, that

change our understanding of cities as politically controlled entities through policy making, lies in its attachment to a generic

urban grid. Being Buenos Aires 100x100m grid one of the densest in Latin-America makes it a perfect scenario to

showcase the potential value of the block to generate city today. This implies a complex form finding process reassessing

the tension between block and grid, a gradation between permanence and change in buildings, and a constant fight

between the stability aimed by the governmental and the inevitable change derived from economic processes.

Students will work on a 100x100m urban block using an empty or built plot within the Buenos Aires grid. The structure of

the course will be divided in three interrelated parts detecting fundamental aspects for the block design.

1. Operational fields: Research on socio-cultural and economic aspects that will inform the programmatic brief of block

proposals. This research will be also accompanied by a reading of the city through a collection of maps, photographs and

city fragments that will be used for filling the block with content. 2. Spatial Organizations: Architectural examples of

Clorindo Testa in Buenos Aires and urban block proposals by Rem Koolhaas, Hans Kollhoff and Rafael Moneo will be

analysed to understand their formal and spatial organizations that will be extrapolated as preliminary systems of spatial

relations of block proposals. These diagrams in axonometric will articulate and structure the programmatic content of the

block. 3. Active Interfaces: Studies on the transformation, adaptation and responsiveness of the block, reflecting on its

relationship with both the grid and the passersby, will be studied through a 1/5 mock-up of the building envelope.

BUENOS AIRES CITY GRID

BANK OF LONDON AND SOUTH AMERICA (1959), BUENOS AIRES, BY ARGENTINIAN ARCHITECT CLORINDO TESTA

UNIT WORKUNIT WORKUNIT WORKUNIT WORK

PORTFOLIO:URBAN AGRICULTURE IN HAVANA MAX HACKE (3RD YEAR-0910)(ALEXANDER MEMORIAL PRIZE 2010)

PORTFOLIO: WORK AND LIVING IN TLATELOLCO, MEXICO df CARLOTTA CONTE (2ND YEAR-1112)

In Inter Unit 8 we believe that the work of an architect is fundamentally intellectual. This does not mean that

architects could not need to master certain techniques in order articulate their own ideas properly, but these

techniques have to be subordinated to intellectual and conceptual preoccupations which guide them. Following

this principle, Inter Unit 8 proposes as an intermediate year work to define compelling arguments related to

socio-political and cultural questions able to give certain guidance to the design work throughout different

stages. Regarding this aim the unit work will be phased according to a learning process of different tools and

skills to enable to acquire a complex understanding of the mediation between socio-politics, cultural matters

and architecture through material investigations.

Specifically this academic year Inter Unit 8 work will be focus on designing a range of proposals for one block

of the Buenos Aires city grid. Each individual proposal will be supported on rigorous socio-cultural, urban,

spatial and material investigations developed through different small briefs distributed along the first two terms.

A prolific production of drawings, images, texts and physical tests will be encouraged, but only in relation to a

precise and sophisticate individual arguments. During the second and third term proposals will be interrogated

according to different concepts and requirements, including those registered during the field trip to Buenos

Aires. Finally, at the end of the year, the work will be edited in an A1 portfolio that will prove the ability to

consistently relate theoretical enquiries with each construction solutions

SCHEDULESCHEDULESCHEDULESCHEDULE Tutorials: Mondays or Tuesdays, and Fridays. Any enquire to: [email protected]

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1111---- OPERATIONAL FIELDSOPERATIONAL FIELDSOPERATIONAL FIELDSOPERATIONAL FIELDS This first stage of the design process will be dedicated to explore the shape and program of the 100x100 block proposals. Location and role of the block proposal in the city

of Buenos Aires will be decided after a deductive research process during this term. (6 weeks)

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FORM FINDING EXERCISE

As a starting point the unit will explore through 1:250 scale models the shape of a100x100m block in an

intuitive manner. Different materials, such as foam, plaster, metal sticks and cables, will be use to have

a range of schematic shapes that will be later used to define the block designs. It is recommended to

check references such as Argentinean artist Leon Ferrari’s sculptures (1962-64) or Herzog and De

Meuron and OMA working models to understand this workshop intention.

“EMOTIONS OF A PRISM” AND “MEN STUDY” BY LEON FERRARI (1961)

STUDIES ON MIAMI HIDDEN CULTURE IN SCARFACE MOVIE BY VIDHYA PUSHPANATHAN(2ND

YEAR/10-11-AA TAVEL STUDENSHIP AWARD 2011)

COFFEE CULTURE RESEARCH BY YIMING HUANG (3RD YEAR/10-11)

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC BY CLORINDO TESTA,

BUENOS AIRES (1961)

PUERTO MADERO, BUENOS AIRES

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ANALYZE BUENOS AIRES URBAN FABRIC & ECONOMIC ASPECTS

Before deepening into material aspects of the block the unit should be familiarize with the different

formal, economic and political aspects of Buenos Aires. In groups, the unit will create an archive of

drawings in different scales with information about the urban grain, voids, density and urban form.

Similarly it will be collected some data of economic and political changes in Argentina during the last 50

years. Afterwards, individually it will be selected an initial programmatic framework and a location for

each block proposal into the vast regular grid of the city.

Seminar : On site: Buenos Aires by Nuria Álvarez Lombardero

Readings

Arturo Almandoz Marte: Planning Latin America's capital cities 1850-1950, London: Routledge, 2002.

Jean-Francois Lejeune (ed): Cruelty and Utopia: Cities and Landscapes of Latin America, New York:

Princeton Architectural Press, 2005.

Jorge F. Liernur, (ed) & Zalduendo, Ines (Tr): Case: Puerto Madero Waterfront, Prestel Publishing,

September 2007.

Mario Gandelsonas: X-urbanism : architecture and the American city, New York : Princeton Architectural

Press, 1999.

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ISSUE: FINDING OUT ABOUT SOCIO-CULTURE ASPECTS & WAYS OF LIVING

In this initial approach to our site, students will start exploring the Argentinean culture and everyday life

hidden in its urban grid. The first section will consist in a detailed investigation about the different cultural

customs and spatial characteristics where they take place. The reading of some Borges’ texts, reviews

of some movies and examination of some Argentinean artist paintings will help to elaborate different

analytical diagrams. The second section is a reflection on how citizens’ everyday life activities construct

politics in this city. The collection of specific information by interviews, photographs, maps, drawings and

visits during the unit trip to Buenos Aires will complete the first hypothesis elaborated in London.

Readings

Michael De Certeau: The practice of Everyday Life, University of California Press, Berkeley, California,

1984.

Henri Lefebvre: Critique of Everyday Life, London: Verso, 1991.

Hannah Arendt, “The Public and the Private Realm”, in The Human Condition, Chicago: Chicago

University Press, 1998, pp.22-78


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UNIT TRIP TO BUENOS AIRES

During the unit trip diverse activities will be planned for developing a good documentation of it. This

involves presentations, juries, visits, and small trips. Individual readings of the city during should be

expressed through maps, photographs and city fragments that will be used to inform the content of the

block proposals.

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Suggested Movies

Motorcycle diaries by Walter Salles(2004); Tetro by Francis Ford Coppola (2009); South of the Border

(documentary) by Oliver Stone (2009);�The Man Next Door by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat (2010)

Suggested Readings

Jorge Luis Borges: Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings, London: Penguin Classics, 2000.

Jorge Luis Borges: The Aleph and Other Stories, London: Penguin Books, 2004.


2222---- SPATIAL ORGANIZATIONSSPATIAL ORGANIZATIONSSPATIAL ORGANIZATIONSSPATIAL ORGANIZATIONS This non contextual second stage of the design process will be dedicated to explore the internal spatial organization and circulation of the blocks. The initial schematic designs

for the block in Buenos Aires will be a combination of the previous stage findings and the result ant juxtaposition of different diagrams. Entering in the next Term the unit will

speculate on possible transformations and variation of the different program of both the private corporation and public institution. (5 weeks)

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FRAME: SPATIAL-ARCHITECTONIC SYSTEMS

As a starting point different examples at various scales of block proposals by different architects, such

as Rem Koolhaas, Hans Kollhoff, Rafael Moneo or Mario Galdensonas, will be analyzed. Aspects,

such as free section and circulation of the different examples by diagrams, will be explored to

understand their spatial organizations to be later applied to block proposals.

Seminar: The Sphere and the Labyrinth by Francisco Gonzalez de Canales

References

Bernard Tschumi: Manhattan transcripts, London: Academy Editions, 1994.

Rem Koolhaas, S, M, L, XL, New York: Monacelli Press, 1995

Manfredo Tafuri: Sphere and the labyrinth: avant-gardes and architecture from Piranesi to the 1970s,

London: MIT Press 1990.

TRES GRAND BIBLIOTEQUE PROPOSAL BY OMA (1989)

INTERIOR OF THE BANK OF LONDON AND SOUTH AMERICA (1959), BUENOS AIRES, BY

ARGENTINIAN ARCHITECT CLORINDO TESTA.

GENERATION OF AN INHABITABLE LANDSCAPE FOR SOCIAL INTERACTION IN MEXICO DF

BY ELENI TZAVELLOU (3RD

YEAR-1112)

BUENOS AIRES STREET

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CLORINDO TESTA AND LE CORBUSIER

In addition to previous examples local architectural examples, such as the Curutchet House of Le

Corbuier (the only Latin-American example of the master’s work) and the Bank of London by

Argentinean architect Clorindo Testa, will be analyzed using different diagrams and axonometric

drawings.

References

Yukio Futagawa (ed.): Manteola, Sanchez Gomez, Santos, Solsona / Vinoly: Banco de la Ciudad de

Buenos Aires, Argentina (Head Office, 1968/Liniers Branch, 1969/Retiro Branch, 1970) , Tokyo: ADA

Edita, 1984.

Yukio Futagawa (ed.): Sanchez Elia, Peralta Ramos, Agostini y Clorinda Testa: Banco de Londres y

America del Sud, Casa Central Buenos Aires, Argentina 1959-66, Tokyo: ADA Edita 1984.

Manuel Cuadra, Clorindo Testa, And Alfonso Corona Martínez: Clorindo Testa, architect, Rotterdam:

NAI Publishers, 2000.

Fernando Pérez Oyarzún: Le Corbusier y Sudamérica: viajes y proyectos, Ediciones Arq, 1991.

WEEK 10 - 3RD YEARS MEET TS TUTORS

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BUILDING A POLITICAL ARGUMENT

After intensively working throughout the term on understanding the relationship between politics and

space students will be asked to define their own design proposals. They should combine previous socio-

cultural, spatial and material investigations and analysis. Plans, Sections, Elevations and sketch models

are expected for the End Of The Term. After the end of the term Jury there would be an assessment of

the work done. Parts of the design not developed during the Term should be completed in the Christmas

break.

Readings

Edward Soja: Thirdspace, Oxford: Blackwell, 1989.

Henri Lefebvre: The Production of Space, Oxford England and Cambridge Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 1991.

Hannah Arendt, “Introduction into politics”, in The Promise of Politics, Schoken Books: New York 2005,

pp. 93-200.

WALTER, Richard J. : Politics and Urban Growth in Buenos Aires, 1910-1942, Cambridge University

Press, 2003.

WEEK 11 HAND IN WEEK

WEEK 12 END OF THE TERM JURY (dates tbc)

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TERM TERM TERM TERM 2222 During the second term third year students will start their TS proposals related to their projects. Intermediate Unit 8 suggests large span structures and façade solutions as

possible subjects to be researched. Please check TS Brief for references and Bibliography. 3333---- ACTIVE INTERFACESACTIVE INTERFACESACTIVE INTERFACESACTIVE INTERFACES The last third stage of the block design will be focus on studying the transformation, adaptation and responsiveness of the block, reflecting on the relationship between the

block and the grid and the block with the passerby. Responding to the first question the unit will explore the material dimension and definition of the block external skin by

physical models, 2D and 3D construction drawings and a final 1/5 mock-up. Later there will be a reflection on the latter question by different diagrams and axonometric

drawings showing the block in the context of the city. (7 weeks)

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Programmatic Decompositions

First Term proposals for the 100x100m block will be interrogated in terms of program. The capability of

programmatic anchors to engage with the city public space will be put in question and deeply explored.

The results will be expressed by axonometric drawings for the final portfolio.

Readings

Bernard Tschumi, “Program”, in Architecture and Disjunction, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994. pp. 99-

168

Kim Dovey and Scott Dickson, “Architecture and Freedom? Programmatic Innovation in the Work of

Koolhaas/OMA”, Journal of Architectural Education, ACSA (2000), pp. 5-13.

ARRANGEMENT OF PROGRAMS BY VIDHYA PUSHPANATHAN (2ND YEAR)

(AA TAVEL STUDENSHIP AWARD 2011)

PROGRAMME VARIATIONS FOR BLOCK TRANSFORMATION BY HAO WEN LIM (2ND YEAR 1112)

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Variations On Program

After defining the final program of the block proposal for the private corporation and public institution, the

unit will be explored the different possible variation and relationships to be established between the public

and private programme proposed. These variables will be further explored and represented by an

animation done in Maya software.

Workshop Maya Software.

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RESPONSIVENEES: RESPONSIVENEES: RESPONSIVENEES: RESPONSIVENEES: SKINS AS MEDIATORS SKINS AS MEDIATORS SKINS AS MEDIATORS SKINS AS MEDIATORS (5 WEEKS)(5 WEEKS)(5 WEEKS)(5 WEEKS)

Exercise on Materiality

This second workshop the unit will explore through a 1:250 scale models the skin of the schematic block

proposals in an intuitive manner. Students will work with models for their possible explorations in relation

to their Technical Studies work. Different materials, such as wood, metal, concrete or plastic will be use to

have a range of schematic facade schemes. Throughout this phase, concepts will acquire more accurate

material expressions and will reflect on the responsiveness of the block to its immediate environment.

Readings

Philip Ursprung: Herzog & de Meuron: natural history, Montreal, Quebec: Canadian Centre for

Architecture; Baden, Lars Muller Publishers, 2002.

Farshid Mousavi and Michael Kubo, The Function of Ornament, Barcelona: Actar, 2008.

Brooke Hodge, Patricia Mears and Susan Sidlauskas (eds.), Skin + Bones, Thames & Hudson, 2006. HERZOG AND DE MEURON STUDIES OF DIFFERENT SKIN MATERIALITY BY MODELS

SKIN PROPOSAL FOR THE US EMBASSY IN LONDON (ADORA SHARINEN 3RD YEAR 1011)

FACADE COLLAGES FOR US EMBASSY IN LONDON (LARA YEGENOGLOU 2ND YEAR 1011)

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Permeability/Porosity

Building on the discussing from the first term, the politics of skin openings will be reassessed through

students’ designs throughout this week. Each student will provide an efficient system of openings for the

skins that is consistent with the political argument being presented. Sections thought the facade explored

before in models will determine how porous or permeable is the block design as well as the relationship

that the skin establishes between the exterior and the interior.

Seminar: “Immediate Governance: Doors and Transits” by Francisco González de Canales.

Readings

Steven Holl, Experiments on Porosity, The Architectural Review, 2006.

W6 W6 W6 W6 11111111----15151515FebFebFebFeb Transparency/Reflection/Projection

Transparency is a fundamental property for any politically healthy environment. Projection and reflection

are increasingly important for representational purposes in political activation. Therefore, students will test

these three qualities through collages and actual projections on different surfaces in elevation drawings.

During this exercise it will be reflected the relationship between the facade of the building and the interior

spatial organization.

Seminar: “Immediate Governance: Windows” by Francisco Gonzalez de Canales

Readings

C. Rowe and R. Slutzky Transparency, Birkhauser, 1997, pp.21-56.

Richard Sennett, Fall of the Public Man, London: Faber, 1986.

WEEK 5 OPEN DAY JURY


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Skins are not only thin, flat surfaces, but they have also proven their ability to produce and incorporate

space within their thickness. Students will evaluate these properties using their own designs by producing

a section of the façade in a 3D drawing and a model.

Readings

Ellen Lupton, Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design, Princeton Architectural Press, 2002.

David Leatherbarrow & Mohsen Mostafavi, Surface Architecture, MIT Press, 2002.

References

Frank Ghery, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2003.

Herzog and de Meuron, Ciudad el Flamenco, 2005.

Canales + Lombardero Patio House Without House, 2006.

PATIO HOUSE WITHOUT PATIO BY CANALES & LOMBARDERO

SCREEN MECHANISM FOR BUS STOP DESIGN

GARY DUPONT (3RD YEAR)

DIAGRAMS RELATING THE NEW BLOCK DESIGN WITH OVERALL URBAN GRID OF TLATELOLCO SITE, MEXICO DF BY ELLIOT ROGOSIN (2ND YEAR 1112)

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As a final reflection and summary of the work done in the last five weeks on the skin as mediator between

the open public space and enclose private environment of the block, a 1:5 mock up of the building

enveloped will be constructed for each individual proposal. Possibly the unit will travel to Hooke Park

installations to construct this mock-up.

References:

Lecture by “From Office Da to NDAAA” by Nader Tehrani in the Designing Fabrication series at the AA,

3th of August 2012.

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TRANSFORMATIONS: CONTEXT AS A FORM SHARPENERTRANSFORMATIONS: CONTEXT AS A FORM SHARPENERTRANSFORMATIONS: CONTEXT AS A FORM SHARPENERTRANSFORMATIONS: CONTEXT AS A FORM SHARPENER (2(2(2(2 weeks)weeks)weeks)weeks)

After defining the skin of the block designs in terms of responsiveness to the immediate environment and

adaptation to changes in program, the unit will recapture the first forms of the block found at the beginning

of the year to redefine them. The placement of the block in its particular location will bring the context

forward as a sharpener of intuitive forms to bring the final definition of the blocks. This reflection on the

block form will establich a connection between the block and the whole grid of Buenos Aires. Third year

students will present their work on TS for final refinement and feedback to prepare the final submission.

WEEK 9 TS3 INTERIM JURY OPTION 2

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Proposals should summarized and material production finish for the end of the Term Jury. There it will be

tested the validity of the design decisions and arguments. Third years will check their work in the intermediate

previews and tables in the last week of the Term.

WEEK 10 HAND IN WEEK

MONDAY 25TH MARCH BEFORE 1PM HAND IN DAY FOR 3RD YEARS

WEEK 11 END OF THE TERM JURY (tbc)

18-19TH OF MARCH INTERMEDIATE PREVIEWS/PART 1 – 3rd years

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A RESPONSE TO THE ACCELERATION OF MEXICO CITY SOCIO-SPATIAL FRAGMENTATION BY CREATING A NEW TRANSPORTATION HUB IN TLATELOLCO SITE THAT COMBINES SPONTANEOUS PESEROS’ NETWORK WITH REGULATED TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM by FRAGKISKOS KONSTANTATOS. (3ND YEAR 1112)

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TERM 3TERM 3TERM 3TERM 3DESIGN DEVELOPMENTDESIGN DEVELOPMENTDESIGN DEVELOPMENTDESIGN DEVELOPMENT After reviewing the three different components of the block design, during the third term, the unit will be focus on finding the limits stretching the designs by multiple variables

and defining the spaces of the building. All the work will be directed to complete the A1 portfolio that will be weekly reviewed.

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Change And Growth

The degree of flexibility of the schematic proposal to change over time and its capacity of growth or

decrease inside the defined envelope of the building, explored at the beginning of the second term, will

be further developed through different axonometric drawings that will express those possibilities through

time. The different possibilities can be connected through Maya software to create a new animation that

will resume the possibilities of the transformative block.

WEEK 1 TS3 FINAL SUBMISSION OPTION 2

REGENERATION OF URBANITY IN TLATELOLCO PUBLIC SPACE THROUGH A PROGRAMMED PROCESS OF EROSION AND RECONSTRUCTION BY ELLIOT ROGOSIN (2ND YEAR-112)

CONSEQUENCES OF INTRODUCING A NEW TRANSPORTATION HUB IN TLATELOLCO SITE, MEXICO DF BY FRAGKISKOS KONSTANTATOS (3RD YEAR – HIGH PASS 1112)

POSSIBLE SCENARIOS FOR NOMADIC URBAN AGRICULTURE BY YONATAN BUCHHANDLER

(2ND YEAR 1011)

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Scales Of Association

The associative dynamics created by first term schematic designs will be tested in the actual everyday

life activities at the city of Buenos Aires. Issues proposed will play an important role in these explorations

as well as the graphic results. Some proposals might need a networking scheme over the city to express

the urban role of the block.

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Motion

Circulation, as explored at the end of the first term, is an important part of the building definition. The

different possible pathways that will connect the main spaces of the building should be explored by

animations, collages or other specific techniques to demonstrate the understanding of the design

accomplished.

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Scenarios

The different scenarios of the proposal should be expressed by different drawings, such as

perspectives, sections and rendering stills that will include the immediate context of the Buenos Aires

urban fabric. In these scenarios should be distinguished different characters that will use the building,

the interior environments of different main spaces of the building and a suggestion of the trajectories left

during repetitive use of its facilities.

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FINALIZING AND PRESENTINGFINALIZING AND PRESENTINGFINALIZING AND PRESENTINGFINALIZING AND PRESENTING (3weeks)(3weeks)(3weeks)(3weeks)

Students will finalize their drawings and mock–ups. Portfolios will include the work produced throughout

the entire year and will be organized according to the conceptual arguments discussed during the

course. The Intermediate End of the Year Jury will be the last opportunity to present whole year work

before the tables. Layout for the Portfolio should be defined with a printed test and models finished for

Final Jury. Those documents missing in the portfolios should be produced for the End of the Year

reviews.

WEEK 6 -END OF THE YEAR JURY (TBC)

BUENOS AIRES

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REVIEWS

WEEK 7 - WEDNESDAY 6TH JUNE - 2ND YEAR END OF THE TERM REVIEWS

WEEK 8 - MONDAY 11TH AND TUESDAY 12TH JUNE - INTERMEDIATE PART 1 FINAL CHECK

WEEK 9 - TUESDAY 19TH JUNE - AA INTERMEDIATE EXAMINATION RIBA PART 1

FRIDAY 22ND JUNE - OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION

UNIT TUTORSUNIT TUTORSUNIT TUTORSUNIT TUTORS Francisco Gonzalez de Canales studied architecture at ETSA Seville, ETSA Barcelona and Harvard University, and worked for Foster+Partners and Rafael Moneo. He is co

director of award-winning office Canales & Lombardero. An active architectural critic, he has previously lectured in England, Mexico, Spain and the USA, worked as AACP

coordinator and collaborated in different architectural publications. He is currently AA HTS tutor and has recently published the book Experiments with life itself (Actar 2012)

based on his PhD research on the radical domestic self-experimentations of the 1940s and 1950s.

Nuria Alvarez Lombardero studied Architecture and Urbanism at ETSA Madrid and AA. She has worked for Machado & Silvetti Associates in Boston and in Neutra Magazine

as editorial board. Since 2003 she co-directs the London-Seville based office Canales & Lombardero. She has previously taught in the University of Cambridge and TEC

Monterrey and lectured on Urbanism in the University of Seville. After working as a researcher in Harvard University, the University of Cambridge and the AA, she has just

finished her PhD on the dissolution of boundaries traced by modern urban planning.

Both Nuria and Francisco are directors of the award winning office Canales & Lombardero based in London and Seville, (www.canales-lombardero.com) and the AA Visiting

School Politics of Fabrication Lab (PFL) that took place in the Open City (Chile) and Havana (Cuba) the last two summers.

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TECHNICAL SUDIES BRIEFTECHNICAL SUDIES BRIEFTECHNICAL SUDIES BRIEFTECHNICAL SUDIES BRIEF

Transformation and Mediation

ABSTRACTABSTRACTABSTRACTABSTRACT Inter Unit 8 explores how rapid social and economic changes in Latin-American metropolises are

bringing the opportunity to new radical city block structures to appear. These blocks structures

change our understanding of cities as politically controlled entities through policy making,

generating new urban tensions. In particular, we are interested in exploring the tension and

negotiation between architectural block and city grid, between permanence and change, public

and private, or in other words, between the stability of governmental policies and the instability of

economic processes.

This exploration implies a level of sophistication in the possibilities of transformation, adaptation

and responsiveness of the block which require a certain technical resolution. The unit proposes

two ways for the development this interest through the TS:

a) Through the study of different possibilities for formal reconfiguration of the block through

structural innovations

b) Through the manipulation and transformation of the vertical interfaces where tension

appears (facades, partition, etc.), studying their materiality, porosity, transparency,

weathering, etc.

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STUDENTS´ WORKSTUDENTS´ WORKSTUDENTS´ WORKSTUDENTS´ WORK

Students’ work for TS has been structure in different stages along the three terms. These

stages run parallel to the development of the design. Students will start to define their TS

research topic by the first week of the second term, when designs are developed enough

and transformation, adaptation, and change is requested according to the unit brief.

Once the topic has been proposed and defined, most of the work for the TS will be

developed along this term with TS tutors. Students will analyze the fundamental aspects of

their technical interest, select and analyzed relevant case studies, apply their research to

the design development, experiment with different possibilities working with models,

mockups or simulations.

JOSHUA WONG, HYPERBLOCK, PF2 (1011)

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TS tutorials will take place on Thursdays. We strongly recommend all students to book in

advance and use these tutorials intensively for the development of their designs. These

sessions, as indicated from Ts Technical Master, are not teaching sessions but an opportunity

for the students to be helped to discover the potentials of their projects. One or two sessions

with an expert from outside the school will be appointed in the second term according to the

students’ needs.

CLORINDO TESTA, BANK OF LONDON, interior, 1959-66

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TERM 1 TERM 1 TERM 1 TERM 1 W10W10W10W10

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First meeting with TS tutors to understand the TS work dynamic and development.

Special contribution of TS tutors in End of the First term Jury

KENZO TANGE, KUWAITI EMBASSY,

TOKYO, 1970

SOM, CHASE MANHATTAN PLAZA,

New York, 1959

TERM 2 TERM 2 TERM 2 TERM 2 W1W1W1W1----2222

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Definition: Coherent description of the TS theme according to the development of the design

deciding between structural innovations or vertical interfaces definition.

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Comprehension: Analysis of the fundamental aspects implied and selection and analysis of

relevant case studies with the guidance of TS tutors.

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Experimentation: Experimentation with different possibilities and hypothesis as part of the design

exploration in its technical aspects

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Application: Translation of the acquired knowledge to the reinforcement and development of the

unit design

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Revision: Assimilation of the criticism derived from the interim, improving the necessary aspect

for the development of the TS

WEEK 9 TS3 INTERIM JURY OPTION 2

TERM 3 TERM 3 TERM 3 TERM 3 W1W1W1W1

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Conclusions: Gathering of information and clear presentation of the results

WEEK 1 TS3 FINAL SUBMISSION OPTION 2

High Pass panel and exhibition

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