Ecole Speciale d'Architecture
254, Boulevard Raspail, 75014 Paris
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Fall semester 2008 : The LONDON PROGRAMME
Paris and London are nowadays so close and similar in certain fundamental ways (size and national role) but quite different in attitude and habit. The River Seine has a very different dimension to the Thames and the role played by ‘locality’ is more ambiguous and complex in London. The architectural community in London is more international and the student there tends to respond to a wider set of parameters and design more thoroughly - and this is what we want you to do in our Studio. We hope also that the drawings of Lim and Woods can act as an inspiration.
The medieval London Bridge carried houses on it and in 1996 the Royal Academy held the exhibition ‘Living Bridges’ in which many projects from known architects, including Zaha Hadid and Future Systems, were shown. The subject offers scope for the exploration of dynamics, structures, form and a way of re-thinking the city.
The next step is to focus on form in relationship to actual movement in water. How does this vessel move? How do the probes interact in the water, and how does the fold up movement demonstrated in the physical model actually relate back to function in water? Perhaps the form take on a more fluid nature??
1 comment:
would love to see more on the probes, now that you have a 'system'
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