Warlord of the week

Each week from today (7.03.0 8) until the end of term we will all follow a selected head designer/guru/medieval japaneese warlord and adopt the style their have fashioned to be thiers. Every thursay a new leader will be set and by the following wednesday the rest of the studio must produce a drawing in their style.

As a leader you must list the rules and conditions that you use to create your representational style be it fonts, lineweights, model materials, textures, language, colour etc.

As a dedicated follower of fashion you agree to use the leader’s style for a drawing that must be produced and uploaded onto this page by the deadline established above.

Week 1: 07.03.08-13.03.08____Pete McMahon

drawings should be one of two styles, i leave the choice to you…

a) crisp complicated line diagrams where the more lines you use the better it looks policy (if you make some up make sure you have a reason to back it up). http://petemcmahon.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/mediamatrix.jpg

b) layered digital collage with mixture of scans and photos and text to create handmade poster aesthetic that allows varied readings of content. http://petemcmahon.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/briefdrawing.jpg

Uploaded Drawings:

Kirstin Aitken

Tom Goodall

Rosie Greenwood

James Halsall

Paul Fielding

Week 2: 19.03.08-26.03.08____James Halsall

Pete McMahon’s dictatorial reign of terror has been overthrown in a bloody coup by my good self, and I am replacing it with another, equally if not more horrifying reign of terror, but with a slightly different graphic style…
So, as my loyal subjects, you will all produce…. A 1:100 OR 1:50 sectional model through your building. You will make it with a large amount of detail, including some suggestion of wall thicknesses etc. AND you will use some decent materials. AND you will make it quite meticulously, you might have to use some tweezers to put it together.

OR… You can do a model which uses piano wire to describe the different routes taken by the various users of your building.

http://jameshalsall.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/wow2-sectional-model/

Uploaded model photos:

Pete McMahon


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Studio Six, MArch School of Architecture,

University of Sheffield

The work of  Studio Six is linked to the Interdependence Day project, (www.interdependenceday.co.uk)

launched in 2006 to reinvigorate sustainability debates and to question some of the technocratic outcomes of seeing ecological and economic concerns as an accounting or ‘problem solving’ challenge.

What can architecture contribute to this attempt to reconsider global, economic and environmental issues?

Interdependent understanding invites an architecture rooted in creativity and metaphor, which ‘listens’ to the potential of a city rather than imposing mark marketable criteria of enterprise, lifestyle or efficiency. This architecture is based on conversations between the city and its varied inhabitants, and in an awareness of its social, economic and ecological metabolism.

The interdependencies of a place may be understood as a particularly dynamic and complex constellation of social, economic and emotional relations, but the term also has ambitions for a sense of a place that is extroverted and unexpected. Interdependence includes a consciousness of links with the wider world integrating in a positive way the near and far, the local and the global, the human and the ecological.

The studio will instigate alternative modes of architectural collaboration, representation, and communication that are more open and amateur rather than specialised or expert. We will be exploring an architecture of ‘making-do’ and of ‘provisional construction’.

The studio has been exploring the ’steel cities’ of Nowa Huta and Sheffield but we have also been thinking about other cities, about state responsibility, about carnival, about pigeons…     Renata Tyszczuk

 

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