Following our conversation on your post on EAST/FAT lecture...
Above: Trellick Tower, Erno Goldfinger - mezzanine levels make for an interesting dwelling...
For Liam...
Following our conversation on your post on EAST/FAT lecture...
Above: Trellick Tower, Erno Goldfinger - mezzanine levels make for an interesting dwelling...
T33 - Thesis Proposal
i plan to study the way politics, policy and practice has shaped redevelopment and regeneration in post industrial cities. The Royal Docks will act as a testing ground for ideas on appropriate methods of facilitating recovery in these vast industrial wastes that lay dormant in our cities. Liverpool, Newcastle, Beato (Portugal) and Toronto are cities i will begin to look at...
T31 - Start Again #4, East/FAT
'I hope to God that you are not as dumb as you make out' - Orange Juice 'Rip it Up'
with regards to FAT's work – it makes my teeth itch... underneath the wafer thin envelope of metaphor, is the architecture successful? I would have really enjoyed an honest conversation about how the real three dimensional spaces and been designed, the slide showing a kitchen looked quite pleasant - there was some subtlety in the way the volumes had been configured... sadly no mention of it - instead, a lesson in how to compress narative into nintendo raiment...
with regards to FAT's work – it makes my teeth itch... underneath the wafer thin envelope of metaphor, is the architecture successful? I would have really enjoyed an honest conversation about how the real three dimensional spaces and been designed, the slide showing a kitchen looked quite pleasant - there was some subtlety in the way the volumes had been configured... sadly no mention of it - instead, a lesson in how to compress narative into nintendo raiment...
T29 - Notes on presentation...
For Dorota... Public and Private has a fluid relationship in the case of your site - there are issues of land ownership? - by setting up stalls the people are effectively claiming public land...
The police do not function as they do here, there role is as peace keeper - they do not deal with land ownership or the people on the street...
Do the communities value ownership? what is the nature of possession - of land/ building/ space...
Street stalls - trading - networks of trade? movement issues?
how are goods moved through the city? a need for infrastructure?
...if you were to start to rationalise this you start to segment the site? in finding an 'order' out of the 'chaos' would it dilute the culture/society that exists? - is there an 'order' already evident?
...self sustained communities - what happens at their boundaries? would you look to define the edges of areas? - would this be for better/ worse? what is the nature of family? you mentioned that a temple or a tomb are two ways to ensure that the land they have come to occupy will not be repossessed?
I hope these help? ... i've written them straight from the scribbles in my notebook!
Let me know if you are unclear about anything i have written and hopefully i can explain in more detail!
The police do not function as they do here, there role is as peace keeper - they do not deal with land ownership or the people on the street...
Do the communities value ownership? what is the nature of possession - of land/ building/ space...
Street stalls - trading - networks of trade? movement issues?
how are goods moved through the city? a need for infrastructure?
...if you were to start to rationalise this you start to segment the site? in finding an 'order' out of the 'chaos' would it dilute the culture/society that exists? - is there an 'order' already evident?
...self sustained communities - what happens at their boundaries? would you look to define the edges of areas? - would this be for better/ worse? what is the nature of family? you mentioned that a temple or a tomb are two ways to ensure that the land they have come to occupy will not be repossessed?
I hope these help? ... i've written them straight from the scribbles in my notebook!
Let me know if you are unclear about anything i have written and hopefully i can explain in more detail!
Architecture: city sense - Theo Crosby
"The lure of the romantic suburb caused the successful to move out, with unfortunate results. The community was deprived of its leaders, and thus lost its social dynamic, i.e. the capacity to renew itself, to hold the affection of its inhabitants.
Some existing slums are capable of regeneration, provided that a social dynamic can be created, or maintained. To take people from close packed row-houses and place them in seventeen storey blocks 600ft. apart has resulted in little social improvement. Delinquency rates go up and the new environment is soon reduced to the level of the old. What has happened is that the slums are no longer capable of growing, or able to retain their natural leaders: that is, those citizens who have made some kind of success and therefore exercise an almost unconscious control by civic example. Crude rehousing merely segregates the poor and the weak, flushing their leaders and exemplars into middle class ghettos of their own. No society can be stable, restrain its violent and criminal element, unless it is in a general way committed to law, order and a constructive way of life. It is the function of the planner to provide the format within which this commitment can be realised.
He must also be able to recognise those elements of our existing environment that are conductive to social growth. By protecting and extending these he will be able, often astonishingly, to revitalise a community without having to reach for his handy bulldozer.'
Some existing slums are capable of regeneration, provided that a social dynamic can be created, or maintained. To take people from close packed row-houses and place them in seventeen storey blocks 600ft. apart has resulted in little social improvement. Delinquency rates go up and the new environment is soon reduced to the level of the old. What has happened is that the slums are no longer capable of growing, or able to retain their natural leaders: that is, those citizens who have made some kind of success and therefore exercise an almost unconscious control by civic example. Crude rehousing merely segregates the poor and the weak, flushing their leaders and exemplars into middle class ghettos of their own. No society can be stable, restrain its violent and criminal element, unless it is in a general way committed to law, order and a constructive way of life. It is the function of the planner to provide the format within which this commitment can be realised.
He must also be able to recognise those elements of our existing environment that are conductive to social growth. By protecting and extending these he will be able, often astonishingly, to revitalise a community without having to reach for his handy bulldozer.'
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