Degree Unit D

Dear students,

Below is the tutorial list for Tuesday the 31st.
Also what I expect to take place on/by Tuesday:
1. That you have booked your travel and accommodation for the Netherlands.
2. That you have paid the 100 pound studio / materials fee.
3. That you have posted recent work on the web blog. This media device is not optional. You must post and update your progress on the site!

Jeff

10:30
Mubina Fattoum
Michelle Tabios Tacdol
Carolyn Garden
Bara Safarova
Jaspal Chana

11:45
Thomas Clarke
Jeremy Volney
Ketankumar Trivedi
Franco Valentino Calligaro
Bruna Carvalho

1:00
Lunch

2:00
Taesik Seo
Anthony Zafeiropoulos
Aras Burak Sen
Eisuke Kumagai
Wilson Lam

3:15
Jonathan Jordan
Richard Hale
Chang Liu
Mariusz Kaluski
Magdalena Glowka

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The AA has its projects review from 2005-06 on line take a look.
http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/aadvd/

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Dear students,

Below is the tutorial list for Friday the 27th.
We may be joined by some of my diploma students Friday so you can practice talking about your work to others. They bite very hard but don’t have sharp teeth!
Go to www.diploma-unit-9.net to see who you might be speaking to.
Please be on time!
Also remember to post your works progress on the web-log!
If you are having problems with the web-log please let me know so we can remedy it.

Jeff

2nd years in the morning
10:30
Thomas Clarke
Magdalena Glowka
Jeremy Volney
Ketankumar Trivedi
Wilson Lam

11:45
Mubina Fattoum
Michelle Tabios Tacdol
Mariusz Kaluski
Eisuke Kumagai
Carolyn Garden

1:00
Lunch

3rd years in the afternoon
2:00
Jonathan Jordan
Richard Hale
Chang Liu
Bara Safarova
Jaspal Chana

3:15
Taesik Seo
Anthony Zafeiropoulos
Aras Burak Sen
Franco Valentino Calligaro
Bruna Carvalho

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Dear students,

School records to date say the following people from the unit have not paid the 100 pound studio fee.
This must be paid in order for the unit to run properly.
If you do not pay the fee this could trigger exclusion from crucial future unit events and engagements with invited consultants, critics and tutorials.

Mariusz Kaluski
Wilson Lam
Bruna Carvalho
Jaspal Chana
Jeremy Volney
Anthony Zafeiropoulos
Aras Burak Sen
Taesik Seo
Magdalena Glowka
Michelle Tabios Tacdol
Jonathan Jordan
Mubina Fattoum
Carolyn Garden
Ketankumar Trivedi

PAY IT!!!!!!

Jeff

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Dear students,

The dates for the unit trip to The Netherlands will be from the 12th – 17th of November.
We are setting aside Sunday the 12th and Friday the 17th for travel.
We will be meeting on Monday morning the 13th to start off on our first visit.
The cheapest way I have found to travel there is by train and ferry. If you go to these sites you can find out more.
http://www.seat61.com/Netherlands.htm#by%20rail%20&%20sea
http://www.dutchflyer.co.uk/
Place to stay:
Both Tom and I will probably stay here.
http://tourist-inn.nl/
I suggest that you self organize and arrange some of the large rooms to stay in. The larger the rooms the cheaper it will be.
Everyone should make there bookings ASAP or by next Monday. I need to know who is going and what your travel dates are for the schools travel insurance.

Best

Jeff

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Dear students,

Below is the tutorial list for Tuesday the 24th.
Please be on time!
Also remember to post your works progress on the web-log!

Jeff

10:30
Mariusz Kaluski
Wilson Lam
Bruna Carvalho

11:15
Eisuke Kumagai
Franco Valentino Calligaro
Jaspal Chana

12:00
Jeremy Volney
Anthony Zafeiropoulos
Bara Safarova

12:45
Lunch

2:00
Aras Burak Sen
Taesik Seo
Thomas Clarke
Magdalena Glowka

3:00
Michelle Tabios Tacdol
Richard Hale
Chang Liu
Jonathan Jordan

4:00
Mubina Fattoum
Carolyn Garden
Ketankumar Trivedi

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TERM 1 CALENDER PDF!
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Dear Students,

I hope that yesterday was helpful to all of you. I would have to say the majority of you are on the right track and are producing very exciting work. I also believe that yesterday also served as a wakeup call to those that needed it.
That said, what I believe you all can improve upon is your drawing and representation skills. I have to say both Tom and I were disappointed that the majority of the unit had not gotten there work into a presentable format, and some of you had not printed out your work. We find this unacceptable and so should all of you. So lets not have this as an issue for the rest of the year please.

Has everyone paid the 100 pound studio/ materials fee? If not you must do it. If you do not pay the fee we will not be able to have outside experts come in to work with the Unit like we had yesterday.

Use the blog! I expect everyone to make at least 2 entries a week on it with regards to your work. By doing this you can use this to get additional feed back fro Tom and I. I said additional not instead of attending on the days you are supposed to.

I hope you are all ready for Friday! Remember you will need a PC computer that runs windows.

For those of you that ridiculously missed Michael's presentation yesterday he will be giving a lecture at London Metropolitan University Thursday night 6:30pm. You should attend and some of you may want to see what he has to say again if it was confusing the first time.
London Met is on Holloway Road, here is a link to street-map.co.uk http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=531349&y=185014&z=0&sv=N7+8JL&st=2&pc=N7+8JL&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf

Best,

Jeff

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Here is the attendance for everyone so far this term. I am being very generous with the new rules that state, now if you are 20 minutes late or more you are to marked as not attending. I will have to start to enforce this rule starting this Friday.
The yellow blocks indicate the days missed!

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I know that the new student handbooks are not out yet but most of the policies remain the same with regards to time commitment to your studio work. Here is a link to last years module breakdown.
Modual specifications

Also here is a link to last years attendance policy. The university is getting tougher on attendance this year when the new policy is published i will post them on the blog.
Attendance

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For those that intend to attend the workshop on Monday the 16th with diploma 9.
We will try to start at 10:30! So get in early to set up.
A few things to remember to bring with you:
1. computer
2. extension lead
3. memory stick
4. maybe some blank CD's, just in case!

This is not mandatory that you attend this workshop but you may get something from it.

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Tuesday the 17th
On Tuesday you will be working in the studio building and developing your prototype structure.
There will be roaming tutorials during the day with Unit staff and with Unit Technical tutor Michael Hensel.

Schedule for Tuesday:
10:30 workshop launch and intro of Michael Hensel.
11:00 morning production session: break into working groups, first round of tutorials, make prototypes.
1:00 lunch
2:00 – 4:30 afternoon production session: tutorials and continued production and assessments.

Make use of the workshops that are available in the school.

Friday the 20th
On Friday you will be formally introduced to the 3d program RHINOCEROUS. You will be expected to have brought your prototype structures far enough to work with in rhino.

Schedule for Friday:
10:30 intro to RHINO
11:30 draw prototype in RHINO
1:00 lunch
2:00 – 4:30 work on prototype in RHINO.

For Friday you will need a computer that runs windows in order to install RHINO. Laptops would be the best. Also bring an extension lead. You can book a laptop from the university if you don’t have your own.
Click link for PDF
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Michael U Hensel
is an architect, urban designer and writer. He is a partner in the Emergence and Design Group, and OCEAN NORTH. He has taught, lectured, exhibited and published in Europe, the Americas, and the Middle and Far East. He has taught at the AA since 1993 and is at present director of the EmTech Master Program and is currently teaching Diploma Unit 9 at London Metropolitan University. Recent publications include Emergence – Morphogenetic Design Strategies, AD Wiley, 2004; forthcoming publications include Morphogenetic Design Techniques and Technologies, AD Wiley, 2006; both together with Achim Menges and Michael Weinstock. Research interests include multiple performance systems in nature and design in relation to the built environment from building scale to urban fabric, as well as everything profoundly beautiful and cool.
links:
www.ocean-north.net
www.aaschool.ac.uk/et/
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/architecture/courses/postgraduate/units/unit9/200607.cfm

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Dear students,

This Friday we will be meeting at 11:00 am, hopefully, in the AVA computer room in order to be introduced to the web-log website.
If you have checked the website you will have seen that your names are now posted there and if you click the name you should be brought to your individual web-log.
In the morning I will be introducing the blog and how to access it, post texts and images. After being shown how to do it you will then be expected to post examples of the work you have produced so far this year on it. We will meet again after lunch to look at what has been posted and too resolve any problems you may have had in this task. So bring examples of work in digital format to post on the blog. Get scanning now!
If time allows I may be able to have tutorials with those that desperately need one. Oh yes if you have made progress since Tuesday bring in documentation to post.
Check you email for your log in info!

Next week!
Next week we will be having a modeling workshop week.
It is very straight forward what will be expected of you during next week. You are expected to make your prototype and to develop it further towards the single person dwelling.
On Tuesday we will be joined by Michael Hensel who is the unit’s technical tutor this year. In order to inform Michael of your individual project and your progress you are all expected to have you portfolios up to date and in a presentable format. I told some of you that you should not wait to get your portfolio together, this is the reason why.
More will be explained on Friday.

See you all on Friday,

Jeff

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Dear students,

These are the tutorial times for Tuesday the 10th.

The unit trip! We are planning to go on the trip the second full week in November. The 13th – 17th. Clear these dates!
We will confirm the exact dates later this week.

See you Tuesday,

Jeff

10:30
Anthony Zafeiropoulos
Bruna Carvalho
11:00
Jeremy Volney
Mariusz Kaluski
11:30
Chang Liu
Jonathan Jordan
12:00
Mubina Fattoum
Eisuke Kumagai
12:30
Aras Burak Sen
Taesik Seo
2:00
Michelle Tabios Tacdol
Thomas Clarke
2:30
Richard Hale
Bara Safarova
3:00
Magdalena Glowka
Carolyn Garden
3:30
Franco Valentino Calligaro
Jaspal Chana
4:00
Ketankumar Trivedi
Wilson Lam

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Dear students,

These are the tutorial times for Friday.
See you then,

Jeff

10:30
Wilson Lam
Bara Safarova
11:00
Taesik Seo
Jeremy Volney
11:30
Aras Burak Sen
Thomas Clarke
12:00
Franco Valentino Calligaro
Carolyn Garden
12:30
Jonathan Jordan
Ketankumar Trivedi
2:00
Richard Hale
Eisuke Kumagai
2:30
Anthony Zafeiropoulos
Magdalena Glowka
3:00
Bruna Carvalho
Mubina Fattoum
3:30
Jaspal Chana
Michelle Tabios Tacdol
4:00
Chang Liu
Mariusz Kaluski

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Third years, the first professional practice lecture is on Thursday at 10am prompt in AVA lecture room.
please go!

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I have update Brief 1 with a project schedual of dates.
More tomorrow!

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Magdalena, Mubina, and Mariusz. Can you email me your details please?

J.

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Dear Students,

We will be meeting in the school on Tuesday at 10:30 am in the space where you had interviews with me last week.
We will be having a unit meeting in the morning and then we will have a mini pin-up in the afternoon on the first brief that was given last week.
Don’t get nervous about the pin up!
But do bring your work with you! Drawing, sketches, models, etc… we want to see work!
If you think you don’t understand the brief try to and attempt something. Showing up with no work at all is far worse then attempting and failing!

Check the contact list posted on the blog. Please check your cell-phone and email details. If they are wrong email me the correct information.
Also, the unit web blog. I will be setting it up this week. I will give an intro to posting work on it in the next week so stay tuned.

All the best and see you Tuesday!

Jeff

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Project 1 brief. Click to download!

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