facade link

http://betterbricks.com/design-construction

great sample for spatial diary format

http://shiuanwenchu.blogspot.com/search/label/Chu%20Cat%20Chronicle%203

Shiuan Wen Chu is an architect, with a professional degree from the University of the Witwatersrand and the Berlage Institute. 

inter-sections on fox

 Please join us for the opening of  Inter-sections on Fox

[ dirk bahmann + jason frenkel ]

at the GoetheonMain  on 4 October2012  18h30

The exhibition runs till the 28^th October 2012

Inter-sections on fox is an exhibition that explores and documents the diverse worlds that converge on the streets of the Maboneng District.  Fox street hosts a multiplicity of users who occupy the public space of the street in a way unlike anywhere else in Jo’burg.  The rules of engagement here are ambivalent and there is therefore a constant re-negotiation of how people interact with each other.  This exhibition traces the movements of the various users from Fox street to their destinations throughout Jo’burg. It examines the emerging culture of urbanity and the intersection of worlds that is a unique phenomenon in the still highly fragmented city of Johannesburg. 

Gallery opening hours

Tuesday and Wednesday: 10:00 – 16:00

Thursday: 11:00 – 20:00

Friday and Saturday: 10:00 – 16:00

Sunday: 10:00 – 14:00

Monday: closed

GoetheonMain

245, Main St

City & Suburban

Maboneng Precinct

Johannesburg

GPS coordinates: 26°12'15.43”S & 28° 3'28.79”E

Website: http://www.goethe.de/ins/za/joh/kue/gom/en9799670v.htm

backstage architecture_download your personal copy

a great publication to have and the download is free
 (+ sa is represented for the first time, check out practice + critics)

http://www.backstage-architecture.org/2012/book

How does it work

Backstage Architecture produces a biannual survey of young architects around the world, aged 35 or under, thus releasing it as a book.

The system it relies on is very simple: the curators asked as many architecture critics as could be reached to select one young office from their country. The aim is to undercover the upcoming generation currently working behind the scenes of the saturated architectural star-system show.

The book's curators are extremely thankful to all those critics and architects who voluntarily and enthusiastically contributed to make it possibile. Not to be understimated, this book is self-produced and printed and distributed as a print-on-demand book by Lulu.com, as well as being available as a free downloadable PDF file at backstage-architecture.org.

It represents a great achievement in sharing knowledge around the world and opening up architectural debate to any interested party.

Bernardina Borra

DEMOarchitects

Lange Leidsedwaarstraat 176-Bel, 

1017NP  Amsterdam NL

thursday 27 sept

lecture tomorrow at 8 for 8.15

crits start at 9
whoever (most of you) was not far enough last week:
you have to finish urban and 1:500 sketch design (full set of drawings)
by tomorrow to be able to move into 1:200
(next hand in)

our cities ourselves_download the principles and apply what is applicable

http://www.ourcitiesourselves.org/images/OCO8Principles-s.pdf

Vision Guangzhou 2030

The re-imagining of Renmin Road proposes a transformation of the elevated highway into a bicycle and pedestrian promenade. Inspired by the New York City High Line, this promenade directly links to the existing Cantonese dwellings, which have been modernized, and then crosses the river. Below, the community retains its village-like feel, with a new corridor of the BRT system to provide high-speed access to the area. Public space is expanded through skyways over the roofs. On the ground, pedestrians and cyclists are given priority over private vehicles and trucks, which have been limited to local access. These improvements preserve and enhance the vitality, appeal and centrality of this area to Guangzhou’s economic and social life.

Thirty years ago, Guangzhou was a city of bicyclists with a vibrant street life. Many residents lived in compact urban villages or in the historic city center, which had narrow streets and lively, walkable environments. After three decades of rapid modernization, these vibrant neighborhoods are increasingly under threat from a rising tide of private cars and the infrastructure that supports them. As the city expands, new developments are more likely to be super-blocks surrounded by gates rather than historically resonant urban forms.

To address these trends, several initiatives have been implemented by the city government, including street reclamation and traffic control. In addition, Guangzhou opened Asia’s highest capacity BRT system, in 2010, which already carries over 800,000 passengers a day. Bike lanes are being included in the design of some new roads, and a bike sharing system will be operational before the Asian Games in November 2010.

great streets, allan b jacobs, as in our library

Which are the world's best streets, and what are the physical, designable characteristics that make them great? To answer these questions, Allan Jacobs has surveyed street users and design professionals and has studied a wide array of street types and urban spaces around the world. With more than 200 illustrations, all prepared by the author, along with analysis and statistics, Great Streets offers a wealth of information on street dimensions, plans, sections, and patterns of use, all systematically compared. It also reveals Jacobs's eye for the telling human and social details that bring streets and communities to life.An extensive introduction discusses the importance of streets in creating communities and criteria for identifying the best streets. The essays that follow examine 15 particularly fine streets, ranging from medieval streets in Rome and Copenhagen to Venice's Grand Canal, from Parisian boulevards to tree-lined residential streets in American cities. Jacobs also looks at several streets that were once very fine but are less successful today, such as Market Street in San Francisco, identifying the factors that figure in their decline.To broaden his coverage, Jacobs adds briefer treatments of more than 30 other streets arranged by street type, including streets from Australia, Japan, and classical antiquity in addition to European and North American examples. For each of these streets he has prepared plans, sections, and maps, all drawn at the same scales to facilitate comparisons, along with perspective views and drawings of significant design details.Another remarkable feature of this book is a set of 50 one square-mile maps, each reproduced at the same scale, of the street plans of representative cities around the world. These reveal much about the texture of the cities' street patterns and hence of their urban life. Jacobs's analysis of the maps adds much original data derived from them, including changes of street patterns over time.Jacobs concludes by summarizing the practical design qualities and strategies that have contributed most to the making of great streets.

a developed country is...

on these panels you will find concept drawings, urban design and 1:500 design proposals

http://www.archdaily.com/57260/dance-and-music-center-in-the-hague-finalists-announced/

 

urban design proposal_graphics as presented in lecture

http://www.maxwan.com/selected-projects/rotterdam-cs/#/t_1561http://www.maxwan.com/maxwan/vision-for-basel/
http://www.maxwan.com/selected-projects/fez-remix/#/t_2748

penalosa

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/Colombia-Dispatch-11-Former-Bogota-mayor-Enrique-Penalosa.html
http://www.pps.org/reference/epenalosa-2/
http://www.streetfilms.org/riding-bogotas-bountiful-protected-bikeways/
http://thisbigcity.net/photo-essay-bogota-and-the-bicycle-a-city-that-prioritises-cyclists/

+ more bike + bogota

http://www.citiesforpeople.net/bogota-a-good-cycling-city

more bike

http://archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=5243

bicycle and urban design

http://carbon.ucdenver.edu/~kkrizek/pdfs/CyclingUrbanDesign.pdf

great link_issue 55 still on the shelves at exclusive

 to demonstrate that urban is not academic and boring

http://www.monocle.com/

http://www.monocle.com/Magazine/volume-06/Issue-55/

fire_urban_design_5000

i need written, email and print, explanations of all yellow highlighted

students - no hand ins without prior explanation to continue the project.

spatial diary amendment

AMENDED REQUIREMENTS AND DATES

Your 2012 Spatial Diary will document the following items:

Analysis and representation of minimum

- 5 buildings – 3 or 2 national and 2 or 3 international examples of architectural

interest and excellence,

- 5 public places - 3 or 2 national and 2 or 3 international examples of

architectural interest and excellence

- 5 news events with explicit reference/ analysis to space and politics of the

happening

- 5 photo essays (8 photographs per essay) with the following themes: access,

security, public, thresholds, typology, including a 500 word definition of each

term. These can be accompanied by drawings like diagrams if needed.

- Personal observations, sketches and text, unlimited.

It is important that you have a theme, a personal interest, a reason for your choices.

This can be related to materials, programme, specific architects, geography,

politics, your future travel plans, anything YOU are interested in.

s.l.u.m.lab links

http://slumlab.org/?b6b70780

http://www.u-tt.com/researchTeaching_SLUMLabMain.html

http://u-tt.arch.ethz.ch/publications/slum-lab-asian-mode/

all 3 hand ins mandatory for final hand in

please note that you have to pin up work for all three hand ins to be eligible for the final hand in. in addition, i need the signatures of the whole class, where everyone acknowledges to be informed about the changes. the schedule was changed to accommodate the extension of the last project and the aza student congress in cape town.

fire revised dates