Output \\ Card Model – Subtraction to Create New Spaces

Output \\ WIP : ‘Logistics’ Intervention

Output \\ WIP : Site Model

Some Easter model-making:

Output \\ Callum – Week 9 Interim Review: mūsų

Short Overview My project initially sets out to utilise an online platform to create a series of interventions which are…

Output \\ Mohammed – Week 9 Interim Review: Breaking Limbo

Short Overview The project “Breaking Limbo” looks into how a catastrophic event could become the catalyst for active intervention…

Output \\ Dan – Week 9 Interim Review: Studija Šnipiškės \ Development by Disassembly

Key themes: Subtraction/ Community Identity/ Self Organisation/ Exchange (Material-Knowledge-Services)/ Autonomous Development/ Re-use Short Overview Development by Disassembly is a reaction…

Output\\Jordan – Week 9 Interim Review: Šnipiškės Skills Exchange

Short Overview My project sets out to look at how one small group of Šnipiškės residents can retaliate to the…

Output \\ Aaron – Week 9 Interim Review: A Freetown of Šnipiškės

Key Themes; Duality, Underground Infrastructure, Self rule (Autonomy), Boundaries & Thresholds Short Overview The residents of Snipiskes have had enough…

Output \\ Josh – Week 9 Interim Review: Guerrilla Šnipiškės

Project title: Guerrilla Šnipiškės Summary: The project examines the disparity between the development happening in Šnipiškės (tall, mixed-used, glass-clad skyscrapers) and the…

Output // Omar – Current Investigations, Gaps and Challenges

Short Overview Infrastructural Transgression is a progressive project which looks to build infrastructure within the Shanghai area of Šnipiškės initially…

Output // Jacob; Review Prep; STAVA

This blog post will be set up as per the crit, but largely focusing on an introductory statement, then briefly…

Output \\ Cat – Week 9 Interim Review: District Shanghai \ A People Power Game

District Shanghai has emerged as a mechanism for reinforcing autonomy is the wooden district of Snipiskes.
District Shanghai is an ecology of interdependencies where the architect acts as a
chef experimenting with an assembly of very unusual ingredients.

Output \\ Anna – Week 9 Interim Review: Subverting Conservation Through Subtraction

Short Overview Subverting Conservation through Subtraction challenges the current policies surrounding heritage conservation – rather than “freezing” the heritage area…

Output\\Steph – Week 9 Interim Review: Collect & Purge

Week 9 Interim Review Overview Collect & Purge: Urban transformations with loose space and relationships Key themes Collecting & Purging…

Output \\ Construction Ecology Approach

The four main headings of the Construction Ecology approach (Context, Materials, Processes and Experiences) are really subjects that we should…

Reflective\\Collect, purge & change

A quote from Richard Sennett (1980) Authority. Although Sennett is talking about human nature and experience through time, arguably, Sennett…

Output\\Processes of collect and purge

These process images look at existing acts of collecting and purging throughout Snipiskes, they attempt to bring in interests so…

Reflection\\Language choice, relationships and altering perspectives

Following on from the Infrastructure as Ecology post, I am finding the use of language plays an important part of…

Reflection \\ CSM Megacrit

Thursday, 22nd February 2018, 6 students from Sheffield Hallam MArch course attended the Central Saint Martins Megacrit: THE WAY WE…

Reflection \\ The Moving House

In 1947, May Savidge bought a 15th century cottage in Hertfordshire to restore. A DIY enthusiast, May exposed the heavy oak…

Reflection \\ R-Urban in Shanghai

Designed as an ecosystem, District Shanghai evolves as a bottom-up R-Urban strategy that explores the possibilities of enhancing the capacity of urban resilience by introducing a network of community-run facilities to create complementarities between key fields of activity (economy, housing, urban agriculture, culture).

Reflection \\ Practice Visits

Architecture 00 Lots of indoor plants. Ply furniture, including furniture for office dog (all open-source). Office space shared with other…

Reflection \\ My take on INFRASTRUCTURE

A critical step in developing District Shanghai \ A People Power Game ( Output \\ How does the game work?)…

Reflection \\ Ise Jingu Shikinen Sengu Reconstructing Tradition

The Jingu Shrine in Ise, Japan, is rebuilt every 20 years at the “Shikinen Sengu” ceremony. The last ritual took…

Reflection \\ Week 12 Review

See Reflection \\ Week 8 Review for previous review Subverting Conservation Through Subtraction There are currently plans to demolish most of the…

Output \\ How does the game work?

We start with a conflict.
#Conflicts – stepping stones in the unfolding of scenarios – tools triggering interaction between actors and agents that otherwise would not meet. Stepping stones are instruments for managing urban change. (CHORA, 2011)

Reflection \\ Why a game?

There is no reason why important world affair issues shouldn’t be discussed through games, right?

Output \\ Guerrilla Šnipiškės

Within the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, this project offers a critique of capital-driven urban development and one version of an alternative…

Reflection \\ Destruction To Celebrate The End Of Creation

Wasilja Peterse & Wim van Otterdijk are members of DutchDominoTeam, and actively design, build and demolish with dominoes. “If you…

Output \\ Cooperative gaming in architecture

Developing the game of Shanghai was not only a chance of uncovering numerous infrastructure layers but an opportunity to build and pencil new kind of layers – connections that resulted as an instigation of different potentialities.
Envisioned as a cooperative board game, District Shanghai is a game in which the players work together in order to achieve a goal, either winning or losing as a group. As the name suggests, cooperative games stress cooperation over competition.

Output \\ Disassembly of an Alarm Clock

Following on from my post Reflection \\ Things Come Apart, I had a go at the disassembly process myself… The full…

Reflection \\ Things Come Apart

Disassembly Older objects were typically well built, most likely put together by hand, and more often than not, repaired when…

Output \\ Disassembly – How is material valued?

Disassembly As the city of Vilnius grows, what stood before is lost – erased to allow for new development, for…

Reflection \\ Guerilla Warfare, Che Guevara

After watching Guerilla Architect I was intrigued to find out more on the subject of a Guerilla struggle, loosely meaning an…

Reflection \\ Guerilla Architect

This is a documentary by Al Jazeera on the Spanish architect, Santiago Cirugeda.

Reflection\\Collection-purge

Re-looking at the ground and objects, adding and expanding categories. Objects that have filled the ‘collection’ category began to develop…

Reflection \\ Supertanker

Supertanker is a Copenhagen based group of urban-social entrepreneurs, that came together in 2002, driven by the wish for a…

Reflection \\ Scythe – Board Games and the Playful Architecture

As a development step from last week’s Interim Reviews, I’ve started exploring potential narratives through game playing. A few of us decided to meet on Friday and try a new game, Scythe. As described by The Pandora Society, Scythe is a role-playing strategy game set in an alternate, diesel-punk timeline where giant machines shake the battlefields of Europa and disenfranchised leaders must rely on their innate skills to gather the armies and expand their territories. For board game connoisseurs, think of it as a cross between Risk and D&D.

Reflection\\Poetry

An over-labelled diagram drawn from readings and process development of mapping exercises. I feel that ‘relationships’ is a constant throughout,…

Reflection\\Collections & Relationships

Continuing from ‘The Secret Collector’, as a developing actor who is presently taking lead in the scenario work, further reading…

Actors/Agents: The Secret Collector

The Secret Collector: wonders glass bottle in hand, finding the best leaves, twigs, bark and anything else the ground has…

Output\\Collections

My layer to our group’s layered map, developed through our findings and research in Vilnius, contributes photographs taken of the…

Output \\ Can architecture evolve from games?

Exploring scenarios through games it’s something completely new for me. I would describe my past approach to architecture as a more conventional optic of exploration in which I knew that following certain already tried strategies would get me to the desired goal. Funnily, this year I shall do exactly the opposite and place myself in the unknown world of exploration.

Reflection \\ Destruction in the world of cinema

Hollywood movies that look to terrify their audiences with apocalyptic scenarios often use the destruction of iconic buildings or structures…

Reflection \\ Mapping Shanghai. An invite to collaboration.

As a collaborative process, Atelier 3 started investigating Snipiskes through optics of different natures. We have approached mapping as an invitation to start negotiation the terms of exploration and how they might interfere with the potential outcomes of this work

Reflection \\ Week 8 Review

“Translating Voices / Subverting Subtraction” My project will be about reinterpreting the conservation strategy programme to subvert the current urban…