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!
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