Update from New Delhi!

Hey all,

Ever since Feb 09, i have been living with a Déjà vu. I guess a lot has to do with the fact that i am at the same desk that i was before DRL v.11.

Anyway I thought i should make an attempt at an update. Just informing what i have been busy with since UK kicked me out!

- conducted a workshop at SSAA, New Delhi! An exercise to generate patterns at an urban scale within an already planend studio exercise and introduce forms into established patterns

- Bigger news - participated in a National Competition (School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi). Our entry (www.designplus.org.in) was one of the 25 out of 281, selected to be exhibited recently from 1st June to 7th June. Attached are some renders of the entry.

The entry was throwing references to Urban Ground, an idea brown sheep flirted with at the DRL. (www.urbanground-ab.blogspot.com)

LIFE W/O DRL

Ciao John Street and our beloved tutors,


The Phase II now enter into Phase III and the post master's era in the practice of architecture.

This blog was set up by DRL Year XI Students and perhaps will leave with us as later generations resort to Facebook and other network methods for DRL journalism.


The current situation of London's economy suggests a slight change of plans for a few, but as Tom Barker put is at the Phase II Dinner, "The creme will rise to the top."

We bid goodbye to director and tutor Tom Verebes, and watch as new tutors Marta and Alisa enter the program with exciting new approaches to design research.


The DRL was my greatest learning experience. I recommend design research entirely for all architects.


It has been fun participating in the blog, and I hope that it continues in some form.


Cheers,
Brandon Aaron Gibbs

AADRL January 2009 : DRL+DPL

The AADPL Managers that make everything we talk about.

AADRL 2009:

A tiny break is over entering into 2009, and much work ado... still:

Happy New Year!

DPL Pre-Presentation Lab-Life

January 22nd is coming soon along with AADRL Final Presentations. This is the last and greatest month of digital prototyping for the AADRL. We will use man, machine and computer to the fullest extent possible bring parametric ambitions into tangible manifestations. God forbid electricity should end in these last days before January 22nd; it is the current lifeline of this laboratory.

Here are the machines which work with us at the AA Digital Prototyping Lab. They also have there own website: http://digitalprototyping.blogspot.com/

Faithful And Bookable Lasercutters.

Large Scale CNC

Small Scale CNC

Small Scale CNC #2

The Great 3D Printer

Work To Do...

A Reverse Recipe For DRL Prototyping

-Model

-Finishing and a touch of magic

-Machine Mabrication

-Material Processing

-Digital File Preparation

-Prototyping Method Selection

-Model 3D Compilation

-Research-Based Model Concept



Cheers til final presentations,

BG

Next Booking Week

In the twilight of the day, there is a resonating hush,
Is it the wind through the branches?
Or the birds rising from their nests?
No, it is the DRL students booking all the slots in the laser room

Thanks to the rest of AA for all the patience!

casting

Full-Time DRL: Busy As Usual

As presentations are being prepared, some of the best work can be observed in the John Street studios. The studio closes consistently by 11:30pm each day, and so continues a discipline with time and resources. The London underground transport also closes around 12 for most locations, so this is a metropolitan pressure as well. In the prototyping workshops, students rush for the best places on the list or arrive early at the machines and work spaces.

From drawings and animations to scripts and material models, John st. is a thriving center for the latest prototypical techniques. There is emphasis on the component currently at Phase I, in the latest workshop. Material expressions were formed with lasercut pieces, plaster assemblies, and rapid prototyping facilities. The work is quite impressive in its response to architectural impacts.

However models are made or time is spent, the work of the DRL is constantly re-emerging in better and newer forms.

Prototype Production All Around

The final stage of production in the workshop Parametric Systems and Structures aims to deploy the parametric systems to a range of specific systems at three scales of design.~syllabus

There are more and more models in John street studios as reviews continue alongside work for the two phases and numerous teams and tutorials. Ideas are shared at different scales, which translate into new and different architectural expressions for every project. The structural issues faced at the detail level are an important basis for larger structure solutions. There is a continuing reminder of the architecture implication for the prototype in the urban scale as the detail scale can overlook its overall impact.

~Model by Team O2R

Team Sahra

Team Chimera

Team terminalFlow

Team Shampoo

Team FluXYZ

Team Mayhem

Team 123

Team Farm

Team E-Motion

Team 1001

From the Phase II review, here is summary of some of the tutor's comments.

Tutor Theo Spyropolous is continuously stressing the importance of the social infrastructure inside, around and between the building, which often remain isolated in a sea of buildings.

Tutor Yusuke Obuchi appreciates the fruitful results and explorations of individual types, versus a field of complex but unrelated typologies.

Tutor Tom Verebes likes the "great DRL project" goals, but always pushes for an outlook with these projects in a competitively changing architectural field.

Tutor Alisa Andrasek, new to DRL, approaches the projects in a preservative way, focusing on the key features as guide to continuing the work.

Keep Blogging!

Early Phase I Making It At The AA

Documentation. In DRL Term I, students work in teams of three to four students and solve design issues based on workshops with weekly tutorials and seminars. The current topic is Proto-Design which emphasizes modern design methods and industrialized production.

Here are a few of the first experiences of the Pre-Phase I teams in the primary workshop.

Phase I Tutorials
(with directors Yusuke Obuchi,
Theo Spyropoulos, Tom Verebes, and
also many new course tutors for 2008-2009)

Model-Making



Design/Planning



Prototypes

Implementation

Welcome to your new home DRL XII.

Phase II Review: Prototype Design

Analyzing Scale. The Phase II Prototype Review was a step forward. Analysis methods were constructed to make viable solutions at smaller scales. Structure tutorials will follow next week as we develop the framework for these prototypes to stand in the Phase II design project.

..handy for the alone time between the prototyping lab and the studio..

As for criticism of the quality development from Phase I, the new work can be simply quoted:

" too few prototypes in number, too vague in emphasis, and too small in size. " ~ Tom Verebes

Welcome to the Blog

Hello Phase I,

Welcome to the AADRL Blog. Please take advantage to add new blogs concerning your projects and development at the AA.

As always refer to the course guide for policy in submission, but as always be creative and exciting in all that you do.


Cheers to all,

Brandon A Gibbs.
AADRL Blog Admin Phase II

Review #1

The Phase II and the new Pre-Phase I fill the ground floor of the John St Studios.

For the Phase II, a project comes into completion, requiring continuous hard work and preparation until the end. Following the laborious follow-up presentation of certain Phase I projects, everyone was better suited. A prototype workshop will lead the way to entering Phase II with logical methods and feasible development strategies for adaptable parametric studies.


~Brandon A

Nova: The Return of DRL

Advanced project development. Challenging spatial ideas and parametric concepts brought into architecture. Scale interpretations amd environmental impacts

All Coming October 2008...

phase I work

phase I final review

Models