phase 08 / next 10 days

After the intense workshop with Daniel Liss (that hopefuly re-framed or re-focused some of your intentions /themes  for your Dale projects) the next period shall be about the manufacture  (making) of your architectural project(s) for Dale ... Make space(s) for something other than asphalt or more balconies /terrasses/ than is the case now. Be bold and compassionate to offer your qualifications to the manufacture of more poetic and livable alternative(s).

Below is a general commentary for the work for next week;

Tomorow, monday you will have the possibility to calibrate your endeavours with Hedvig. (more specific comments for each from HS and TW will be available tomorow.) TW will be back for tutorials on the 3rd and 4th of May. (Skype tutorials possible during the week also). 

Enjoy the possibility of making stuff, (more architectural drawing and models instead keeping re-producing more "conceptual" models and sketches. Make spaces ! (good spaces will always be used )

(image above is from the always inspiring socks-studio > "an encounter with naked space" / tanikawa house by shinohara)

DL // pouringdown video workshop

Next week will dedicated to the videoworkshop with Daniel Liss from NY. Check out Daniel's website S+7

and the (still empty) course upload page here.  Below is the preliminary programme (might have some minor changes) Note: Wednesday will be the one day trip to Dale. plan ahead. For the foreign students: the boat ride is great, and Daniel will take it too. 

Other: there is a fall master course presentation on tuesday at 12:00 that Adm would like you to attend. 

On a link from a previous Daniel Liss workshop at BAS are some texts for reading prior to the workshop. Link here.

this week's work // short reminder

Thank you for the short 5 minute walks in Hombroich to re-cap each participant's theme and objectives with the project(s).
Now is the time to take a creative leap and manufacture more (and new) material. The consistance of the material(s) is up to each individual participant's judgment: each should now be fully responsible for own production, POV and pace. // short brief on downloadable sheet below. Remember to attend the performace/lecture by Kurt Johannessen on Thursday if you have time.  Enjpy. // remember John Cage rules # 7, 8 and 9 :-)

post study tour // sketchbooks links

Thank you for the participation to the study tour, and welcome back. After shaping up the studio space and getting it ready for this week's work(s), it would be great if all participants could scann their sketchbooks (running pdf, speard, B/W) Use the Turboscann app (or similar for iphone/android/windows) to make it faster. Upload to ISSUU and sent TW/HS the link for the publishing on the b blog here. Would be nice to have that latest by thursday. Short recap of work(s) for this week by tomorow on a blogpost. Regarding the videoworkshop next week, try planing a one (or two day visit to Dale on Tueaday+ Wednsday).

sketchbooks links to Nele's, Akki's, Luise', Mira's , David's  Yonghyun ,   Kirsten's , Matyas, Stefanie's Florian's, PålH's,  // 

Mid-term reviews // programatic booklets

Thank you for the mid-term reviews and exhibition set-up. Link to pics from the week and the reviews available on link HERE. Upload of all participants programatic booklets on links below. (Please also upload on ISSUU and send link to TW/HS- remember to label the file with "your name" and "programatic booklet" for clarity) Received booklets from : Florian , Matyas, Stefanie, Preben, Songyung, Nele, Ling, Lena, Aki, Chris, Mira, Kirsten, David, Pål H, thomas, luise, (Sondre)

HABITATION(s) seminar Friday 4th

Please remember the seminar on Friday. (see program below) You will have the possibility to meet some of the 8 participants in the NKD architectural residencies 2016, and they are looking forward to see your work on / in Dale.
 Links to the participants websites: lenschowpihlmann, kollaboratoriet ,hannefinseth,mattiasjosefsonn, again, karolinekalstveit, siljenesdal

Although some of you might participate in the 120H, participation to the seminar is mandatory. Studio space should be presentable by Friday morning.

Next Phase // consult brief below

Print / Art book workshop with Anni's

Thank you for your engaged participation in Anni's fine workshop during Thursday and Friday. Pictures from the studio and the work from Wednesday - Friday on a dropbox link HERE.

the time is always now // phase 3C[a1]

Brief for this week below. Remember the workshop with Anni Vestergaard Thursday and Friday.

picts from friday

Thank you for inspiring discussions on Friday. Dropbox link to some pictures from the day HERE. Please remember to have a team / time to build a simple shelve system /rack of wooden 4 x 4 on the back wall of  4. floor for keeping the models. Should be done before thursday's workshop with Anni V. Brief for work from Monday on  coming up on next blog post before tomorrow.Also: Please consult the study tour commitee members (aki, stefie, kristen) for more update on sharing some writing for the trip booklet.

Re: Architecture of Necessity

For tomorrow Friday 19.03 set aside a few hours from 10:00 for short "inspiration slideshow" by TW with longer Q/A regarding development of projects, workshops, lectures etc.  prior to mid-term and the study trip.

In the mean time, and certainly also after, you might get acquainted with the manifesto of Architecture of Necessity, that we might have as guide-line(s)… (curtesy virserumskonsthall) 

Architecture of Necessity is:

Responsible

Architecture of Necessity requires insight and professional knowledge. It reflects human needs, both immediate and distant. It considers all the dimensions and consequences of architecture, even those that are not always apparent. The future of architecture lie in its constraints.

Diligent

Architecture of Necessity is properly planned, considerately executed and meticulously evaluated. The planning pays attention to experience, it answers human needs, it embeds the building into its environment and the function into the building. Attention to detail and choice of material provides a proximity for users and allows for the inclusion of those involved. The evaluation generates knowledge of the continued life of the building and of future projects. Reflection ensures a long-term economy.

Sustainable

Architecture of Necessity avoids short-term solutions. Its premise is recycling, it strives to reduce transport and takes advantage of renewable resources. The Architecture of Necessity is long term and renewable. Materials are best recycled where they already exist in a building. Architecture must economise with resources and energy and show consideration for people.

Just

Architecture of Necessity counteracts social and global divisions. It prevents segregation and slums by stimulating participation and development in suburbs and favelas. It defends architecture as the right of everybody and the architectural experience as a free utility. Society shall provide the space for both the everyday and the extraordinary experiences of human life for everybody.

Open

Architecture of Necessity invites change and dialogue. It is open to rich and complex cultural traditions and narratives and is the physical embodiment of the democratic society. A building or a city is not something to be completed, it is something to be developed. The architecture that is open to change and participation wil be loved and it will have a long life.

charrette results & model pics // work brief

Thanks for sending the links. Below most of your works with the charette and the model photos should be duly linked to ISSUU. (it got quite confusing with all the links on the mail :-)

CHARRETTE  results from: (click on link to open)

florian, kirsten , ling, matyas, pål henrik, yonghyun aki, chris, david, lena, luise,  mira, nele, preben,    sondre, stefanie, thomas. //  xxx = not yet as 17.02

Model PHOTOGRAPH booklet:

florian, kirsten , ling, matyas, pål henrik, yonghyun aki, chris, david, lena, luise,  mira, nele, preben,    sondre, stefanie, thomas. 

WORK TO DO

> Tomorrow: 

A/ clear studio, put up latest work(s) as A4 from charrete and models; B/ clear up 4.floor, establish bookshelves, try having some models on walls / start creating an architectural wunderkammer and C/ take a trip to IKEA to purchse each a black and a white frame (50 x 70 cm FISBO frame 69 nok/ piece) D/ print charrtte and photo booklet. TW present on Friday for short inspirational lectures / intro of next week work til workshop with Anni.

on superstudio and jesper rasmussen

During the reviews the work of italian architect group  Superstudio from the late 60's /early 70's was discussed and while studying the models, the danish artist Jesper Rasmussen's photo works with urban environments whitout windows were mentioned... below are links to Superstudio here and here  and Rasmussens work(s) [scroll sideways off locations  new /old to see all ] here. Enjoy.

BTW bookmark the blog to your smartphone ! You will thus be able to share your works on the spot to friends, family and others. ( ISSUU works from charette should be up by tomorrow)

work next week // post review

Thank you all for intensive, attentive and inspiring review(s) on Friday. It was a delight to experience the many 1:50 scale models, especially the ones that had architectural presence and showed dedicated skills in manufacturing. View pictures from the review and the day before on dropbox link HERE.

Mentionable: some had extended / re-worked their maps of Dale in good and thought-provoking ways, enabling newer readings, opening the understanding(s) of urban form(s) to more oblique introspections. Some had worked with capturing the essence of the model(s) via photographs and gifs that gave new insights.

REFERENCES :
During the reviews, various references where mentioned. Regarding the understanding of simplified (pure) geometric forms, Bruno Munari's seminal work on square, triangle and circle is always a fine inspiration. Downloadable for study purposes as follows (click on links): Square, Triangle, Circle. Regarding other complexities and contradictions in architecture (sic), consult/download Robert Venturi's book here. (Read pages118-120 regarding simplified complexity in a simple building)

WORK
for all on Monday/Tuesday:

A) Upload all your latest booklets on ISSUU, send links to HS and TW for linkage on blog.
B) For the participants who did not make 1:50 models of Dale buildings (or near Dale), please do so, asap.; For those of you who would like to re-do some of their models with more care, you are most welcome. (maximum to Tuesday evening). All others: capture the essence of your models in various photographs and/or  animated gifs, makes separate booklet with photos, including mappings, for understanding the model's contexts in Dale.

More specific feed-back for each participant regarding project/process development will be given after Tuesday, with also with more specifics regarding analogue/digital proceedings.


Most of your project's themes are, btw, actually, already quite "visible"…  please reflect on that (even if it might seem blurry, yet…) you might want to collect references (build, undbuild, other)… (you thought you where just doing exercises, until now :-) ?)

on memory and other places

“I never saw this strange dwelling again. Indeed, as I see it now, the way it appeared to my child’s eye, it is not a building, but it is quite dissolved and distributed inside me: here one room, there another, and here a bit of corridor which,however, does not connect to the two rooms, but is conserved in me in fragmentary from. Thus the whole thing is scattered about inside me, the rooms, the stairs that descended with such ceremonious slowness, others narrow cages that mounted in a spiral movement, in the darkness of which we advanced like the blood in our veins.”
Rainer Maria Rilke - Notebook of Malte Laurids Brigge

“I was there" Architectural speculations on a farmhouse in Sognefjorden was the title from Hanne Kristine Kroken Finseth's diploma project at BAS in 2013. You can view some of it here and here  or at the BAS website here.

on taking out instead of filling in

Most clients tend to ask for extra spaces when re-building. Unfortunately that often ends up with clutters of new "rooms" for various purposes. Few have the talent and the courage to take out "rooms" from a house. Here are two excellent examples of the simple grandeur of MA infill - that we, hopefully, will have on our programme for the cource's study tour.
Both houses retain, for different reasons, the original shape of the former building, while transforming it to something radically new, while at the same time remaining compationate for their contexts. For more info on the at Studio  Bardill and the Yellow House by Valerio Olgiati click on the links to know more about how "nothing"  often is more.

images from Dale trip #1

Here are links to some of the image folders received so far. Please send in the rest asap, best on a drpbox folder with individual link from your personal account. (Google sharing accounts and dropbox shared accounts do not maintain their links, so those would be lost in the blog). Received Pics from: Preben, Aki, Matyas, Kirsten, Yonghyun ,

on-line DALE Subjective Atlases

Thank you for uploading your DALE space and context / subjective atlases.

Most (but not all) have been reworked since the reviews. Click on the following names to acsess the material for inspiration and common information on work in progress. Florian, Aki, Søndre, David, David#2, Nele, Preben, Kirsten, Luise, Ling, Yonghyung  ,Chris, Matyas, Lena, Mira ; Missing as of 09.02: Thomas, Paul,Mickey,Stefanie,;

charrette ! monday tuesday wednesday :-)

As promissed below is the brief for the short charrette. The model material might be somewhat rough, yet precise and in scale. The other architectural material, i.e drawings and texts follow same procedures as the two previous exercises, but should be more "tight" i.e more text and drawings on all pages. Use model photographs in various ways to explore spatial configurations.  Read brief carefully. ENJOY . 

Attached is a quick scann as running .pdf of the brochure "Dale Kulturvandringer". Click here to download.
NB: As announced earlier, we do accept more loose deadlines and delays for the participants with kids / babies. :-)

anni's // books, body and spaces

We have just received the news that Anni Vestergaard will be joining the course with a two days 1:1 workshop at the end of February. You can ckeck her recent exhibition (with Mette Winckelmanns) in a review- in danish - clicking here, or check out Anni's homepage showcasing her work(s).

on point(s), comma(s), paranthesis, et.al

Last week, at the informal reviews we mentioned swedish concretist poetry from the sixties.Click HERE for a short piece of abstract (or is it concrete ?) geography. Or take a walk on the wild side of concrete prose by cliking here ( best for those that undertstand swedish, but great also for practising your general onomatopoetica)

after Dale visit, before charette

Thank you for a very inspiring trip to Dale this week. As you all probably have taken many pictures, it would be great to have these linked here on this post. Please follow the instrctions in the TO DO list, at bottom of blogpost. Late Sunday evening the task for the charette will be uploaded on the next blogpost. Expect intense work monday - thursday. Pictures from last week's work in studio prior to presentations with kalle and Hedvig on a link HERE.