Hayward and De Breyne Building, Keble College, Oxford: Ahrends Burton Koralek
Dear Unit G,
I hope you are all well, and have at last been able to make good uninterrupted progress on your Performance projects!
Tomorrow we will have Performance project tutorials in small groups of 4 or 5 starting at 10am in the unit space; please see the attached tutorial list.
The RIBA External Examiners are all also going to be in school tomorrow for a briefing session ahead of the end of year marking, so please be aware I need to attend a meeting at 12:00 for a couple of hours, which sadly means there will not be an opportunity for a lunchtime unit discussion: I had hoped to talk about building in historic contexts, which will now be re-scheduled for Monday next week.
Please remember there will be no tutorials on Thursday this week, but you should all be working in the studio all day on Thursday so you can also attend the student meeting with the RIBA Validation Board. Instead the tutorials will be on FRIDAY, and Colin, Justin and I will all be in the studio, as well as discussing Site Strategy at lunchtime.
So you know when events, activities, tutorials and reviews are planned for the semester, and have a feel for the structure of the rest of the year it is worth having a look at the updated unit timetable on the unit G blog: https://unitgblog.wordpress.com/timetable/
Please also note I have updated the blog Project pages and added a new page under “workshops” for the Parti discussion from last week, including the presentation and non-definitive list of common Parti.
Well done also to Rosie, Katherine, Sam and Amy who won the Martin Pawley book at our unit g “Crash Course quiz” at the Cape of Good Hope on Thursday; a good evening even if only less than half the unit came along.
Tomorrow I’m hoping to see plenty of evidence of your Performance projects starting to conclude the brief development, organisational precedent investigations, production experiments, quantities explorations, and site analysis.
Everyone should now be aiming to move on to become more propositional: exploring the conceptual ideas emerging from your investigations; making speed models relating to the site and program; presenting spatial diagrams of ALL the ACTIVITIES proposed in your project (not the spaces); an initial physical site model with some test pieces to consider where on site might be most interesting/appropriate; early models of your proposals exploring spatial arrangements/materials/attitudes to the site; lots of sketches; lots of testing.
Please be aware the Interim Review for the Performance project in on Thursday of wk5 in 2.5 weeks time, when we are expecting you will have got as far as having a fairly comprehensive proposal in models and 1st draft scale drawings located on site…so there is no time to lose.
Look forward to seeing you all tomorrow.
Kind Regards
Toby (Colin and Justin)
Unit G
Unit G 