Unit A

Unit A is a research-led BSc Architecture Design Studio at the University of East London, lead by Carsten Jungfer and Fernanda Palmieri. We work with live-project situations and connect design learning with research through knowledge exchange between students and external partner organisations. Unit A focuses on social-spatial conditions within contested urban contexts and understands architectural design both as a spatial and strategic response to specific socio-spatial contexts.

21/10/2013

Reflection on model-making. Reading reference No.3

We handed out this text last Friday. It is critical that you engage with the text and use it to reflect on your process - as part of your conceptual. We want you to take a personal position. It should also help you to expand the way you think about the material moment you made.

Now: How can your model be re-interpreted and conceptualised? What was the core message / main interest you wanted to explore / /experiment / communicate initially? How successful was it? Was there something else emerging as part of the making / thinking in negative space / constructing the mould? Could the 'model' be read in different scales? By model we mean the cast but also the mould. If so,  what qualities can you describe to those artefacts and what can be extracted from those? Spatial qualities? occupational aspects?, lighting, materiality, etc....

All these considerations should inform your next steps in terms of further casts you will be making,  using parts of your mould and parts of previous casts. Make sure that you document all those considerations and conceptual reflections visually in your portfolio (various techniques)

Inspirational reading: Marie Ange Brayer - Beyond the model
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