« February 2007 | Main | April 2007 »
Dear Students
We have a final term jury tomorrow! Tuesday the 27th.
We will begin at 10:30 in the crit space with the sliding doors on the first floor.
We will also have a cut off time for those that come late. 11:30 is the time! If you come after that time you will not be seen. But everyone is expected to attend and take part in the review.
See you tomorrow!
Jeff
I was on a review Tuesday at the AA for Intermediate Unit 4. 2nd and 3rd year students just like you!!!!
Here are some snaps I took.
I hope you have all taken things further since last Friday!!!!!!
Dear Students
Tutorials will take place Friday!
Same pattern as you had with Tom on Tuesday….
I hope to see some progress!!!!!
Remember we have a Jury next Tuesday with a few invited guests.
10.30 - Randon Five
11.45 - UniteD
1:00 - Lunch
2.00 - The Dogs
3.15 - NeoCortex
See you tomorrow!
Jeff
Dear Students,
This Tuesday (tomorrow) we'll be conducting tutorials as usual. This will take place in the unit space as group tutorials. The schedule is as follows:
10.30 - Randon Five
11.30 - UniteD
Lunch
13.30 - The Dogs
14.30 - NeoCortex
Please bring along your latest drawings of the site and I'll need to see proof of some form of at least initial justifications and ideas/ strategies regarding how you plan to implement the habitations on your chosen site...
See you tomorrow,
Tom
p.s. please make sure the rest of your group gets this message...
Dear Students,
For Friday the 16th.
We will be doing 2 things.
First we will be meeting as a unit to discuss the article that you were given by Robin Evans.
Read the article! I may ask you to speak about it on Friday!
The second part of the day will be a Drawing/ Design workshop.
For this you will need:
1. Drawings, printed out at 1:100 scale! You should have sections, plans, and axos of the site. Most of you had this on Tuesday….
2. Detail trace paper, the cheap stuff you get in rolls.
3. Tape, not blue tac, tape! To stick the drawings on the wall.
4. Pens, pencils, markers, etc…. stuff to draw with!
5. Additional tools are welcome, such as scales, straight edges, triangles.
The schedule will be:
10:30 meet in the unit space to discuss the essay.
12:30 pin up site drawings in atrium space.
12:00 start workshop.
All the best
Jeff
Dear Students,
For tomorrow, Tuesday the 13th.
Tutorials will take place in team format. Also the tutorials with Michael Hensel that were supposed to take place last Friday will be rescheduled soon.
Tomorrow’s tutorials will be with me only.
I have to do interviews in the morning so we start at 1:00!
1:00 Neocortex
2:00 The Dogs
3:00 United
4:00 Random 5
All the best
Jeff
Dear Students,
Read this email!
Due to an unforeseen scheduling mishap this Friday’s tutorials with Michael Hensel have been postponed.
So that means no tutorials tomorrow!
But that does not mean that you have the day off and you do not have to do some work.
There will be tutorials on Tuesday next week and I expect to see what you were going to show on Friday, plus 4 more days worth of work.
You were all asked to have the basic plans, sections, elevations, axos, etc….I want to see them and more on Tuesday!
Use the free Friday with effect! After Friday you then have 9 weeks of term time until the review tables.
Those of you that can’t seen to make tutorials on time or at all.
Guess what, you can still be withdrawn from the course based on attendance even at this time of the year.
For those of you that were present during the past few weeks you were given an essay written by Robin Evans called Figures, Doors and Passages.
Read it! This is not suggested reading this is part of the coursework and it may get you thinking about what you are doing or could do in your project.
Next week we will discuss this essay! If you did not get the essay from me contact your team mates to get a copy of it.
All the best
Jeff
Dear Students,
Ok we are now over the mid part of the year! The past 3 weeks have had its ups and downs for everyone.
I need to stress to all of you that having a semi good mid review table does not mean that you can cost the rest of the way to the end of year review.
You must all keep the pace and for most of you, up the pace as the remainder of the year heads to a conclusion.
I presume the week after the mid-reviews were used effectively and that you all submitted your essays for History and Theory.
The Open jury was a very good event and I think that for the most part the unit represented itself well. It would have been nice if the entire unit were there as well. Those that did not attend, it has been noted!
The technical week, well I think some of you decided that you wanted to put yourselves in a very bad position with Alan Chandler and not show up. Success! You have achieved it!! Those that decided to give the week a miss you should speak to Alan about making up what ever went on. You also missed an opportunity to make strides in your own work. It was evident on Friday with the crit, those that took the week seriously have put them selves in a good position to move into more developed proposals. Oh and the comment or shall I call it an excuse “we have not started designing yet!” just won’t cut it! Those that did not take the week seriously must start to do so!!!!
Just to bring things more into focus, there are 12 weeks until the review tables begin. This includes the 2 week Easter holiday. So really you have 10 weeks of term time. In that time you must all have finely tuned propositions for the Multi Family Dwelling project. Did I say for a shopping centre? Or a park? Or a restaurant? No!!! For a Multi Family Dwelling, you have the brief, and have had it since November! So get to it!!!
The plan for next week is this;
Tuesday we will be having individual tutorials with all of you. We will see these tutorials as a way to clear the air for the rest of the year. We hope to discus the mid reviews, if you have any questions, and to give you feedback from us on your progress so far this year.
There are a few things that we will be expecting to see from all of you next Tuesday as well. We must see of your site, 1 plan, 2 cross sections, 2 elevations, and an axonometric. These need to be drawn with a sufficient level of detail and have to be at a scale of 1:100! They must be printed!!!!!!!!!!! Or drawn by hand!!!!!!!!! We will not look at screens!!!!!!!!! There must be paper with the drawings on them.
Friday there is another session arranged with Michael Hensel. I expect to see some very serious progress and intelligence from all of you next week. In order to have more fruitful exchanges with Michael then we have had in the past.
Tutorial times for Tuesday March 6th:
Please bring your copy of the review sheet from the mid year review!
If you did not receive one that means you have not been given it by me. So I probably have it.
Also, please be on time and please let us know you are there and waiting to be seen. This will push the pace of the day and get us all back to getting on with work.
3rd years will be seen early in the day.
10:30 Aras Burak Sen
10:50 Chang Liu
11:10 Jonathan Jordan
11:30 Richard Hale
11:50 Taesik Seo
12:10 Bara Safarova
12:30 Jaspal Chana
12:50 LUNCH
1:30 Bruna Carvalho
1:50 Anthony Zafeiropoulos
2:10 Franco Valentino Calligaro
2:30 Jeremy Volney
2:50 Magdalena Glowka
3:10 Carolyn Garden
3:30 TEA BREAK
3:50 Eisuke Kumagai
4:10 Wilson Lam
4:30 Michelle Tabios Tacdol
4:50 Ketankumar Trivedi
5:10 Thomas Clarke
5:30 Mariusz Kaluski
5:50 Mubina Fattoum
Friday we will be seeing Michael in the Team tutorial format, an email will follow for the Friday when we get closer to it.
I also suggest that you all go to the Diploma Unit 9 website to see how they are using the blog and to see there work. You will learn something!
www.diploa-unit-9.net
Best
Jeff
