Tues 21st July, 4 Dame Lane. Doors 8pm, Quiz 9pm sharp, entry €10
Cohesive Construction - Table Quiz!
Tues 21st July, 4 Dame Lane. Doors 8pm, Quiz 9pm sharp, entry €10
Thank You!
Thanks to the huge crowd who come out to Richview last night!
It was a great start to now what?
special thanks to all the workshop presenters and to:
Dr. Hugh Campbell, Professor of Architecture for the opening speech
Ciaran Cuffe T.D. for the closing remarks
Velux for sponsoring the wine
Reemo for some great music before and after the presentations.
and to Sean Hillen for taking these photographs.
Signing Up
anyone who was there will know that we created an email address for each workshop which you will find here on the blog with the workshop description.
So, whether you made it last night or not -
look up the addresses of the workshops you are interested in and drop them a line.
as of now you can use the studios - most will be going for the top floor which is where the 'rich view' is so head on up and get a desk.
as always - let us know if you have any queries at nowwhatrichview (at) ucd.ie
WORKSHOP # 13 - SYNTHETIC LANDSCAPES
Aoibheann ni Mhearain and David Healy
image by Aoibheann Ni Mhearain
synthetic landscapes now have a blog
aims
This workshop aims to instigate a discussion on how to represent landscape, from the understanding that how we represent a landscape circumscribes our future actions on it; what we see determines how we act.
method
This study will examine 2 specific types of representation – the historical picturesque and the contemporary map - thinking critically about their production and their application – and will apply this thinking to 2 sites in Dublin's outskirts, each with different landscape qualities.
product
The end product is projected as a series of new folding maps - a cross-fertilisation of the map and the picture and a synthesis of the visual and performative aspects of landscape.
timescale
This project will take place over 4 weeks in June/July, with 1-2 days of participation per week.
“Representational techniques (ways of drawing or modeling) allied with analytical methods (ways of conceptualizing and measuring) are mutually dependent practices that condition how problems of the (landscape) are framed and sites conceived.”
- Andrea Kahn
nowwhatsynthetic (at) gmail.com
About the Organisers:
Aoibheann Ni Mhearain is an architect currently in practice in Dublin. She teaches studio in UCD and UCC, where she also lectures on landscape. Aoibheann formerly worked with Grafton Architects in Dublin and with OMA in Rotterdam. She has studied in UCD (B.Arch) and Princeton University (M.Arch)
David Healy is a recent graduate of the School of Architecture in UCD. He has worked with Grafton Architects in Dublin and has also studied at the School of Architecture in Aarhus, Denmark.
now what?
opening night
06.07.09 red room, richview, ucd 7.30 pm
The now what? summer school will open on Monday 6th July at Richview, UCD architecture at 7.30 pm.
Key speakers will open the summer school and each workshop will be introduced. Afterwards, there will be an opportunity to sign up for the workshops while enjoying a glass of wine.
WORKSHOP #8 REMAKING THE MODERN SUBURB
James Leahy
A new non-growth dependent development model for suburbs is required:
Development has stopped but the actions required to retrofit existing suburbs for accessibility and to provide social housing all assumed that the previous level of development would continue. A new model for the redevelopment of our existing suburbs over the next ten years is needed.
Smarter Travel Policy:
The new Smarter Travel sustainable transport policy and the National Cycle Policy Framework (Department of Transport 2008, 2009) have many actions calling for suburbs to be retrofitted to make them permeable for walkers and cyclists and accessible by public transport. How will they be retrofitted to do this?
Housing:
There is still a need to build social housing, create new models of housing tenure and to increase the mix of housing in existing suburbs. There is a further need to introduce employment and services into suburbs.
Inspiration:
Can the example of how the Dublin Crisis Conference, Making the Modern Street and Group 91 Architects in the 1980-90’s led to a revolution in the planning our our city centres and a new model of development be used as an inspiration?
Retrofitting suburbs:
What will retrofitting projects look like?
How will they be planned or regulated?
Who will deliver them?
Who will pay?
How will they gain community acceptance?
Who is doing what now, in Ireland and abroad?
Scope:
The Workshops will initially limit themselves to exploring the possibilities for retro-fitting suburbs over the next 10 years.
Format:
A series of workshops with interested architects, planners and people from the environmental and community housing sector. Research for these will cover case studies of current and potential best practice in Ireland and abroad, plus research on particular actions from Smarter travel and the National Cycle Policy Framework
Outcomes:
-Proposal for a model of redevelopment of our suburbs based on retrofitting and small local interventions.
-Opportunities to partner with providers of social and community housing
-An application to the Smarter Travel project fund before 9 September 2009.
nowwhatremaking(at) gmail.com
see also the Remaking the Modern Suburb blog here
see also the Remaking the Modern Suburb blog here
About the Organisers:
James Leahy is an engineer, one of the founders of Bike to Work, and member of An Taisce and Dublin Cycling campaign
WORKSHOP #11 - DERIVE : SUNRISE TO SUNSET
Workshop Description:
The objective of this workshop is to look at Dublin in a fresh light with a view to discovering hidden treasures within the city. The exercise will take place over three days. On the first afternoon we will discuss the various practices of urban wandering including (but not limited to) the aimless wandering of the Flneur, the ready made art of the Dadaists, the strolling of the Situationists, along with the practices of various contemporary walking artists. Based on this discussion the group will devise a sets of principals or rules to guide the urban adventure. These principals should encourage drifting into uncharted territories, thus creating serendipitous occasions. For example, many urban wanderers use small generative algorithms to encourage unpredictable behaviour (like: second left, first right, second right, repeat).
On day two we will meet at sunrise to begin the magical journey. According to the Situationists a Derive is most successful when carried out in small groups of either two or three people. Through the playful act of wandering strange turns will be taken and marvellous views uncovered. Each group will make a photographic record of their trajectory. We will conclude the journey at nightfall.
On afternoon of day three we will meet again to discuss the findings our experiment. Each group will trace out the path through which they journeyed and choose 17 photographs to describe it (1 photograph to describe each hour). The photographs and maps will be complied to form an exhibition describing our view of this particular day and what magical mysteries we have uncovered through our adventuring.
Who:
Maximum of 10 participants
When:
tbc
nowwhatderive (at) gmail.com
About the organiser:
Nuala Flood is an architect and avid photographer who lives and works in Dublin. At the moment she is most interested in psychogeography, treasure hunting in the city and re-appropriating objects found through her wanderings.
WORKSHOP #7 - MULTIPLEX
Alice Clancy & James Rossa O'Hare
Image by Hiroshi Sugimoto
Workshop Description:
Multiplex is aimed at investigating the potential of film to describe space. This will form ongoing experimentation until October at which point we will exhibit the results at the IAF and now what? exhibition.
We will be building on ideas and research already carried out into the representation of space which we catalog in our blogs richviewer and space framed.
Calls for expressions of interest are welcome to join a group that meets weekly for screenings and discussions leading on to the production of short films.
Meetings will be scheduled to suit organisers and participants but take place weekly over the summer.
Please contact nowwhatmultiplex (at) gmail.com to find out more and get involved.
see also the multiplex blog here
About the Organisers:
James Rossa O' Hare is an architect and studio tutor at UCD Architecture.
Alice Clancy is an architect, photographer and studio tutor at UCD Architecture.
WORKSHOP #2 - COHESIVE CONSTRUCTION
Andrew Clancy, Colm Moore & Ryan Kennihan
Workshop Description:
The fragmentation of the skills of construction into disparate professions and trades and the isolation of the architect from those trades means those who design are disengaged from the reality of making. This disconnect is compounded by a building industry interested only in selling products. Over time traditions of building are abandoned and knowledge is lost to ever more standardised and systematised solutions.
This limits our understanding of what is possible, and consequently affects how we design. We believe that in this time there is opportunity for architects to re-learn some of what might have been lost.
Project Description:
This workshop will research and revive a lost construction technique – that of timbrel vaulting. We will then build a space based on this technique.
The Timbrel Vault or Catalan Arch is built up in layers using thin clay tiles and Portland cement.
The origins of this construction technique lie in ancient Egypt but proved most popular in the middle ages throughout the mediteranean. The method was studied, formalised and patented in the United States in the late 19th century by the Catalan engineer Raphael Guastavino who coined the term ‘Cohesive Construction’. The cohesive nature of these constructions reduces the need for buttressing while eliminating the necessity of temporary supports. It also enables the creation of large spanning structures with a material thickness of 30mm using standard industrially produced clay roof tiles.
We will explore timbrel vault construction through the design and execution of a 4m x 4m domed structure. We will study the method and develop a simple proposal in collaboration with engineers and architects researching this type of vaulting in the UK and elsewhere. We intend to self-build this proposal on site in UCD.
Duration:
3 weeks from mid July for 10-12 people.
About the Organisers:
Colm Moore - Studied Architecture at UCD, graduating 2002. Established Clancy Moore Architects with Andrew Clancy in 2006. The firm is a partner in StrandStudio, a shared studio for young architects in Dublin. He is a studio tutor in 3rd year of the Dublin School of Architecture, DIT.
Andrew Clancy MRIAI - Studied Architecture at UCD, graduating 2001. Established Clancy Moore Architects with Colm Moore in 2006. The firm is a partner in StrandStudio, a shared studio for young architects in Dublin. He is a studio tutor in 3rd year of the Dublin School of Architecture, DIT.
Ryan W. Kennihan MRIAI – Studied Architecture at Cornell University, graduating in 2001. After working in Chicago and San Francisco, he emigrated to Ireland in 2002. From 2002-2005 he worked with Boyd Cody Architects and in 2007 opened Ryan W. Kennihan Architects. Ryan W. Kennihan Architects has been the recipient of multiple design awards including from the Architectural Association of Ireland, the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland and the 2007 Opus Architecture and Construction Award, most recently winning the international competition for no. 16 Henrietta Street, Dublin. The firm is currently engaged in a wide variety of projects across Ireland. He is a studio tutor at the Dublin School of Architecture from 2004 – present and is currently teaching thesis studio at University College Dublin.
WORKSHOP # 20 - A DAY IN THE LIGHT
Fiona Hughes and Orla Murphy
What?
This workshop aims firstly to record and secondly to map the ever changing interaction of time, light and space using an Irish town as the subject for this investigation.
Where?
Stage one of the workshop takes place in Westport, Co. Mayo where a single day, from sunrise to sunset, will be recorded through photography.
Participants will arrive in Westport the evening before recording to be introduced to and become familiar with the town. There will also be presentations and conversations on the aim of the workshop.
Stage two takes place at the studios in the School of Architecture where a single piece of work will be produced using the multiple recordings of stage one.
How?
about the organisers:
What?
This workshop aims firstly to record and secondly to map the ever changing interaction of time, light and space using an Irish town as the subject for this investigation.
Where?
Stage one of the workshop takes place in Westport, Co. Mayo where a single day, from sunrise to sunset, will be recorded through photography.
Participants will arrive in Westport the evening before recording to be introduced to and become familiar with the town. There will also be presentations and conversations on the aim of the workshop.
Stage two takes place at the studios in the School of Architecture where a single piece of work will be produced using the multiple recordings of stage one.
How?
It is proposed to use photography as the method of recording, while keeping the method of mapping open to individual participants.
Stage one - Each participant will set their particular parameters of recording, frequency of shot, duration of recording, technique, subject (detail, aperture, landscape), exposure, colour etc. to build up a dense series of images.
Stage two – Using the recordings, a single piece of work will be made which will represent the interaction of space, light and time by editing, multiplying, layering etc.
Stage one takes place the 27th, 28th and 29th of July ’09 and stage two takes place the 10th, 11th and 12th of August ‘09
Stage one - Each participant will set their particular parameters of recording, frequency of shot, duration of recording, technique, subject (detail, aperture, landscape), exposure, colour etc. to build up a dense series of images.
Stage two – Using the recordings, a single piece of work will be made which will represent the interaction of space, light and time by editing, multiplying, layering etc.
Stage one takes place the 27th, 28th and 29th of July ’09 and stage two takes place the 10th, 11th and 12th of August ‘09
a day in the light now have a blog
nowwhatday (at) gmail.com
about the organisers:
Orla Murphy is an architect in practice in Westport Co. Mayo and lecturer in UCD Architecture. Orla was awarded the Kevin Kieran Award by the Arts Council in May 2009. She is currently engaged in research into the contemporary Irish town.
Fiona Hughes is an architect and studio tutor in UCD Architecture
Image - Naoyo Hatakeyama, River series, 1993-1994
WORKSHOP #9 - ARCHITYPES
Conor Nolan and David Wall
Workshop Description:
Aim
This workshop - architypes - aims to seek-out, document and instigate discussion surrounding historic and contemporary architectural typography in Dublin City. It is hoped that the results of this workshop will form part of a typographic tour of Dublin City.
Method
An introductory talk will be given, giving an overview and examples of architectural typography. Depending on numbers, participants will be split into groups of 2 or 3. Each group will photograph, sketch or take rubbings of examples of typography applied to the city’s architecture. Participants will convene for a discussion mid-workshop and on the final day (exact times to be confirmed).
Timescale
This project will take place over 2 weeks in August, with 2-3 days participation per week. (Exact dates to be confirmed)
nowwhatarchitypes (at) gmail.com
about the organisers:
Since founding a studio in 2006, the focus of Conor & David’s work has been to create thoughtful, rational, content-driven graphic design for print and screen, with a wide variety of clients. Their work has been featured in the magazines Creative Review (UK) and Candy (IRL) and in the book Type Addicted: The new trend of A to Z typo-graphics, published by Viction:ary, Hong Kong and recently Typomofo: Type morphing into forms, published by Page One, Singapore. They were among fifty leading international creatives invited to submit to the Helvetica 50 Exhibition at the Design Museum in London in summer 2007. Conor & David designed the identity, website, publication and exhibition signage for The Lives of Spaces, Ireland’s pavilion at the 11th International Architecture Biennale which opened in Venice, Italy in September 2008.
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