UNITSIXTEEN
HERRON+ISA 2011-12
The Salon of Lost
Content
[Refuge of Misfits]
“Crazy
silhouettes of twisted steel from piles of broken masonry, memorials to the
chaos of the old town. A fine building in ruins and we turn away sadly. But we
should be thankful for much of the destruction – challenging opportunity
confronts us.” Ralph Tubs -
CONTEXT:
The
New Society a repackaged ideology presented as improved
benevolent strain of socially progressive capitalism sheltered the great
experiment in Mass Deregulation. Structural Deficit a catalytic tool
sheltering a political programme of wholesale privatization of state
institutions. Finance, health, law and order, education all outsourced and
controlled through a policy of light touch regulation. Banks unprotected and
unregulated collapse, property values go into free fall, exports stall, double
dip recession, economic stagnation, rising social unrest, led to unprecedented
urban flight, tax starved, and abandoned London declared Bankrupt by the IMF
falls into protracted decline.
At its peek
London’s population reached approximately 7.5 million, revised
estimates suggest a core population of around 2.4 million remain, although
accurate figures are somewhat speculative. Like Detroit, inner London is less
city like, more a series of dispersed rural settlements, semi autonomous neighborhoods, locally generated,
predominantly unregulated experiments in social organization . . . Out
East Stratford City a fresh new world of dreams and unparalleled unnatural
beauty and wonder.
PROPOSAL:
“The Salon of Lost
Content [Refuge of Misfits]”
Within
this context you are to propose a New Institute, a collective
experiment in life and art. Consider these two prototypical models
of experimental communities, the Salk Institute by Louis Khan, and the
community at La Tourette by Le Corbusier. Consider their respective ambitions
and functions, communities for speculative research, knowledge, and debate.
Your Atlas will provide you with a strategic
lens for interpreting this new terrain. You will need to consider how your
architectural proposal physically embodies and formalizes both the tangible and
intangible properties of this collective new
social model.
SITE :
Plot N24, Zone 3, Stratford City
The site is
adjacent to Stratford International Station, at the boundary between the
commercial district of Wesfield Centre and the Olympic Athletes Village
development of E20. The site was subject to a previous development application
by SOM [planning application no.10/90282 &
10/90258/FUMODA]
You will need to establish individual
positions as to the projected futures of the site framed against current and
planned development and how your project negotiates this. Do you insert your projects amongst this new
commercial setting, adjusting or adapting? Do you propose an alternative
future, which may or may not include retaining the existing ruin? What is your
view regarding buildings, which fall out of use? Is shopping the new social
model? What is the difference between
say the Design Museum and the Conran shop?
PROGRAMME:
The principle accommodation is to be questioned; the following
is for guidance only. You need to
decide on the specific nature of your Institute. Is it a place of study, a
place of science, a place of retreat, an archive, a window onto an unrealized
utopian dream? Consider your project as a bridge between two worlds, a hybrid
structure which tries to arbitrate between opposing pressures of use and
ideology?
SCHEDULE OF ACCOMODATION:
01: The Secretariat: The administrative core of the institute
02: The Common Room: A central meeting point and social hub to the community.
03: The
Laboratory: To be defined by
individual agendas.
04: The
Library: A place of study and wonder
05: Land Store: A
collection.
06: Living
Units: To accommodate a small community, is this fixed?
Task
01: Outline Design Presentation No1
The following should be seen as an indicative guide as
to the range of information, needed at Outline Design Stage Presentation No1.
- Clearly describe the key architectural
characteristics of your proposal.
-
3D Drawings and Diagrams to explain proposals relationship
to site.
-
3D Drawings and Diagrams to examine, spatial
relationships, circulation, and volumetric massing, and distribution of key
programmatic elements.
-
Site model [To an appropriate scale]
-
Suggest the principle qualities imagined for at least two key spaces.
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Describe the central spatial characteristics of your
proposal.
-
Prepare a typical sketch plan and sketch section drawn
to an appropriate scale.
Some
Key Dates . . . .
WK 7 02 Nov Introduction
WK 8 09/11 Nov Outline Design Presentation No1
WK 9 16 Nov Tutorials Design Development – 10.00
WK 10 23 Nov Design Development Presentation No.2 – 10.00
WK 11 30 Nov Tutorial Design Development – 10.00
WK 12 07 Dec Scheme Design Presentation No3. – 09-30
WK 13 14 Dec Scheme Design Presentation No3 - 09:30
WK 14 Interim Portfolio Assessment: Scheme
Design
REMEMBER:
The attached
timetable is tight. We recommend that you collaborate in groups to research,
prepare and share site information. Design and technical development is to be
recorded in a project file; recording all research, information gathered and
the like, structured to form the basis for the technical reports [see guidance notes ]
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