MODELS WORKSHOP

During our last class we celebrated our usual "Models Workshop", an open space for creativity in which students work in groups with free materials and rules.

Urban group proposal: MOUNTAIN (Daniel, Julián, Esteban, David C, Pablo, David R and Juan Manuel)

Ecosystem group proposal: LAYERS (Armando, Francisco, Daniel, Eduardo)

Farming group proposal: GREENHOUSES (Jaime, Jesús, Ángel, Pedro)

Cultural group proposal: FRAME (Kiara, Elena, Marta, Pedro)

Geographic group proposal: FINGERS (Ángel, Miguel Ángel, Inmaculada, Pablo)

Socioeconomic group proposal: CLUSTER (Alberto, Miguel Ángel, Guillermo, Juan Antonio, Eusebio)

FARMOLOGY

Today we start Farmology, a brand new workshop on architectural design using food as a tool for urban development. Stavanger, Norgay. Urban Sjofront + UCJC School of Architecture 2014-15. Stay tuned!!!

PS. You can follow our FARMOLOGY Facebook profile here.

MODELS BY JUNYA ISHIGAMI

Lots of models in this short interview to Junya Ishigami

WAM

WAM: Web Architecture Magazine --WAM-- is an international, interactive medium of knowledge, opinion and information. It appears bimonthly and is aimed at architects, students and documentalists. It allows for collective research carried out through the capacities of the INTERNET.

Link here.

TEST MODELS

During the last class, we made all these test models, little and delicate exercices just playing and exploring before architecture...it was really a funny class, amazing!

SIMÓ

SABELA

EUGENIO

JESÚS

SABELA

RAQUEL

ÁNGEL

BRUNO

JORGE

GUILLERMO

DAMIÁN

JOAQUÍN

GROUND & BOUNDARIES

As part of Exercise 2 "Temporary Studio for a Norwegian Painter", the next class we'll talk about GROUND AND BOUNDARIES. 

PORTFOLIO SPEED DATING

Last Saturday, ESAYT students took part in the "Portfolio Speed Dating" event, take a look at some amazing pictures courtesy of Roca Gallery here

DRAWING NATURE IN ARCHITECTURE

As part of Exercise 1 this week we will work on the project of "MUSEO DEL TRAJE", Madrid (Dario Gazapo + Concha Lapayese). We are interested in the relationship between external nature and the existing building. To complete the theory part, we'll have a work session on Drawing Nature in Architecture.

FRESH PORTFOLIOS

The students have already started the design of their own porfoleo as an object, exploring the transition between data and its material expression.

STUDY TRIP TO NORWAY

OSLO: get ready for ESAYT, in June we'll be there!!

COURSE ENDS

We have reached the end of the course, very proud of the work and the final results. In the picture the project of Alvaro Allona showing translucent sheets on separate layers as in his own proposal...amazing!!!

NEW EXHIBITION

These are some of the new panels with the student's proposals, for now on begins the individual work, a lot of stuff and so much hard work to do!!!

FRANCESCA MIAZZO

On Saturday December 14 the ESAYT has organized an interesting cultural event in Madrid. It's a pleasure to invite you to the lecture of Francesca Miazzo, director of the Urban Program "Cities" (Amsterdam) and author of international reference book "Farming the City". The presentation will focus on food production systems as a tool for urban regeneration, an emerging topic but with much potential for development. There are many examples and initiatives in cities like Amsterdam, New York, Tokyo or Stavanger.

COURSE 50%

Next class documentation corresponding to 50% of the course will be delivered. Students must update each blog with just their individual work.

MODEL WORKSHOP II

Some images from the last model workshop...very useful for the students as an exploration tool!!!

MODEL WORKSHOP

Next class we'll focus on a model workshop and try at least 10 variations on each proposal. We can bring some drinks or even food for the models and celebrate an architectural party. I remember quite well models made with cheese or candy...but do not forget your cameras...they suddenly disappear!!!

SUPERCYCLES

Next class we'll talk about "Supercycles", take a look at this diagrams and try to associate each element of a column with all the rest!!!

POROUS SPACE

Next class we'll talk about "Poruos Space"

LAYERS VS FILTERS

Next class we'll talk about "Layers vs Filters"

ARCHITECTURAL FOCUS: TRANSITIONS

Nature is presented to us like a huge and continuous outer space, the place inhabited by primitive man. Dwelling the cave or tree, it means only the temporary appropriation of a previous infrastructure that exist apart from any function, scale or representation of the human being. As man builds his own structure, the origin of architecture as artifice, begins also a story of transitions between the living space and the outside: “The architecture should be conceived as a set of clearly defined intermediate places. The interspace provides the common ground where conflicting polarities can be twin phenomena”

Aldo van Eyck, Architectural Design 12, Vol. XXXII, 1962 December.

In this sense, transitions result an interesting topic for their great capacity for synthesis between antagonistic categories: natural-artificial / indoor-outdoor / free-programmed / walk-wander / property-dominion / housing-producing ...

Some transitions categories and study cases:

-Porosity: “Tokio housing”, Hiroshi Kuno, 2006.

-Connected interspaces: “casa Guzmán”, Alejandro de la Sota, 1972.

-Telescopic Nesting: “House N”, Oita, Sou Fujimoto, 2008.

-Nettings: “Santander Dwellings”, Alejandro de la Sota, 1967.

-Extreme natures: drawings by Junya Ishigami, 2008.

-Freaks & Mutations: City in Sky, Mu Wei; Sam Cho; Yu Hui, Wuhan (China), 2013.