Infrastructrual Tissues; AA Sydney Visiting School
Monday, Jan 17, 20117:22 PM — Friday, Jan 28, 20117:22 PMEDT
| University of Technology Sydney, UTS Sydney, Australia
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INFRASTRUCTURAL TISSUES; AA SYDNEY University of Technology, Sydney 17–28 January 2011 In January 2011, the AA will launch its Visiting School at the School of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. Not only will the University of Technology Sydney be the host of the Visiting School, it will also be the evolving urban condition that we will be directly engaging with. The University of Technology Sydney adjoins Sydney’s Chinatown district. This neighbourhood has become the centre of a broader Asian community, materialising a complex network of fine-grained practices and spaces that exist alongside the distributed network of faculty buildings. As part of the University of Technology masterplan, Frank Gehry has been commissioned to design a building for the University’s School of Business. The proposed building sits alongside a critical, though underutilised, network of pedestrian infrastructure that connects the neighbourhood and its major institutions to Sydney’s harbour and public transport systems. These developments expose a scalar conflict between the coherence of a centralised identity and the creative dynamics of a distributed and urbanised campus. This studio-based design workshop will explore the potentials of spatial performance in the dynamic setting of the contemporary distributed urban campus. This setting includes the pressure to develop iconic institutional architecture and centralising infrastructures that will stitch the city together. In phase one of the workshop participants will engage directly with these conditions through the use of indexical, emergent, and parametric based mapping techniques. Through the use of tools that work primarily with relationships between systems, the aim will be to develop prototypical spatial forms and strategies for mediating the tension between the competing infrastructural demands and the new iconic architecture. Phase two will see the participants developing performative spatial prototypes based on their relational mappings and through the development of design models, aiming to deliver new urban tissues that produce qualitative outcomes of function for the evolving urban f abrics. These two phases will be the structure of the workshop under which individual studios, led by AA teaching staff, will approach the agendas from varied critical viewpoints. This intensive ten-day course is open to students, young architects and other designers worldwide. INFO + ENROLLMENT http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/VISITING/sydney.php CONTACT [email protected] DATES + LOCATION Visiting School dates: 17 – 28 JANUARY 2011 Application deadline: 10 January 2011 Location: UTS University of Technology, Sydney MICRO-SITE http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/PORTFOLIO/microsite.php?title=Sydney Visiting School&url=sydney.aaschool.ac.uk/ FACULTY Jeffrey P Turko (Programme Director) AA Adrian Lahoud ( hosting school coordinator) Nate Kolbe Lida Vanessa Charsouli Iain (Max) Maxwell Tom Lea Anthony Burke
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