urban agriculture

this was a really interesting exhibition at NLA. the topic of urban agriculture and growing your own produce locally is very popular at the moment for the reason that it promotes healthy eating, more sustainable living as well as community development. I have been looking at vegetable growing for the edgar road design project, so the exhibition was very useful.

digital cities

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2nd year exhibition : waterloo gallery

this was the exhibtion space in the waterloo gallery. the space was nice and had a smaller area upstairs as well.

This is the work i produced for the exhibtion:

Des Res @ NLA

This was the exhibition regarding london's current housing challenge. as always with NLA exibitions i found the models to be the most engaging and interesting pieces. especially the final image shown which is the london population density model, which was done by pipers models, and was featured in an exhibition at the tate modern that featured a collection of models for other cities around the world. this is much more effective than any other population density map.

London open City @ Somerset House

This was the London open city enhibition at
Somerste house. This exhibition was focusing
on how we use the city and how changes over
time shape the way we use it. the exhibition had
mini shed-like structures that you could walk
into and there was work displayed on the indside.
this was a nice feature of the exhibition, and the
animation in one of these structure was really
good. they also had a room where video clips were
projected onto circular tables from above, and these
showed film loops of occupancy and movement at
places within the city.

London's hidden underground

This was a visit to an exhibition at the NLA , which had a collection of models and images showing elements of the city that are not considered most of the time. I really enjoyed this exhibition as there were some great models including the large model of central London shown in the last picture, and it was interesting to see the real workings and infrastructure of the city.

college roundabut exhibition

This was the exhibition of the college roundabout

project shown previously on this blog, and it was

held in the market hall in Kingston. It was good to

see our work being shown to the public, and being

there for a while to see what a wider demographic

thought of the projects.

Architecture of yemen

"Celebrating the rich building traditions and architecture of Yemen, most famously the extraordinary multi-storey buildings that constitute the heart of many Yemeni cities, dating back hundreds of years but continually renewed and rebuilt by their inhabitants - an interesting example of living sustainable architecture that is both traditional and contemporary . The exhibition focuses on four major provinces; Dali', Yafi', Shabwah and Hadramut, and explores how this building culture - including the contribution made by master builders and inhabitants in the design process - and the fabric and environment of Yemeni towns itself, is increasingly under-threat from commercial construction and corporate urban development. "

The exhibition was small scale, but gave a interesting overview of the unique architecture in this part of the world, and also the modern development issues that are challenging it. One of the highlights of the exhibition was the display of models, which were really detailed and showed the diversity of architectural style and layout.

The exhibition also had a good display of structural drawings and methods, details of materials and detailing associated with Yemeni architecture, as well as a projector displaying general images of culture and lifestyle within the region to support the exhibition.

Anthony McCall @ Serpentine Gallery

The exhibition at the serpentine gallery is of work by British artist Anthony McCall. McCall has a "cross-disciplinary practice in which film, sculpture, installation, drawing and performance overlap." A key figure in the avant-garde London Film-makers Co-operative in the 1970s, his earliest films are documents of outdoor performances that were notable for their minimal use of the elements, most notably fire.

The exhibition consists of simple projections that strikingly emphasise the sculptural qualities of a beam of light. In darkened, haze-filled rooms, the projections create an illusion of three-dimensional shapes, ellipses, waves and flat planes that gradually expand, contract or sweep through space. In these works, the artist sought to deconstruct cinema by reducing film to its principle components of time and light and removing the screen entirely as the prescribed surface for projection. The works also shift the relationship of the audience to film, as viewers become participants, their bodies intersecting and modifying the transitory forms.

The exhibition was supported by the concept sketches and drawings produced by McCall. Experience was a big key to the success of the exhibition, for me personally. The way the projections of light reacted to people passing through them was captivating to watch.

zaha hadid @ design museum

The Zaha Hadid exhibition at the design musem offered some really nice and varied work. There was a large range of different graphical techniques, as well as some great models and projections.

innovations for the built environment

We visited the Innovations for the Built Environment exhibition at Earls Court which consisted of a series of over 300 exhibitors from Ecobuild, Futurebuild, Cityscape and regenex. There were many new technologies in architecture and landscape design being exhibited, and there was a lot of information about uses of materials in relation to sustainable urban design. These technologies were incorporated into the design of timber frame housing, public spaces and childrens play areas to name only a few of the concepts being exhibited. It was an interesting experience as well as being very informative about the new and very topical generation of sustainable design technologies which i was previously unaware of.