Exhibition from this years ufo unit 4 at London Metropolitan University

Unit04 examined and formed current and future tendencies in spatial production dictated by developments in the timber industry and the associated material science, parametric modeling, digital manufacturing, and off-site production. Unit04 is continued its ongoing research in the built environments ability to adapt to our rapidly changing natural environment. The act of building is one of our planet’s largest polluting agents. Innovation in material science, fabrication techniques and production methods is offering the only novel way of producing space capable of reducing waste, the carbon footprint and our dependency on fossil fuels. These innovations must be exploited in order for us to adapt to the impending natural consequences of over population, dwindling resources and pollution. The project output of Unit04 formed the basis for an emergent environmentally conscious ecology of construction, tightly integrating architectural quality as one of its fundamental principles. Our aim is the production of architecture, form and architectural space, reciprocally linked to the set of parameters and relationships that informs them.

Urban Ecologies III: Parametric & Typological Morphologies

Exhibition Space

Eva Diu

Tom Moss

Tom Moss

Dean Foskett (See Dean’s Interview http://www.boidus.co.uk/?p=1450&cpage=1)

Dean Foskett

4th Year ATA Prototype

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Work coming out of the architecture association ufo diploma unit 16 extreme environments research can be seen at the following locations.

www.dip16.net/dip16_0506

www.dip16.net/dip16_0607

www.dip16.net/dip16_0708

Here is a taster of work produced last year

Eda Yetis

Toby Burgess

Esi Carboo

Erland Bakke – Eidsaa

Magnus Larsson

Jung Joon Yun

Anna Schepper

Work coming out of  studio arch 310 run by Steve Hardy in his newly appointed post at the University of Nebraska.  The studio has looked at alternative means of high speed travel within the US wholly within the spectrum of new high speed airships as a low carbon and low infrastructural alternative to short haul airplane travel.  The design brief deals with relatively long-span structures and large volumes.  Structure obviously plays an important role in such projects.  The challenge is to make the stucture work in multiple ways; dual performance structures which, for example performs to collect water aswell as to dispersion solar infiltration, ornamental structure, qualitive structure which modulates acoustic properties etc.  Spatial genotypes are also taken into consideration rather than working on surface articulation or structural patterns.  This requires early models operating on three scales – the spatial module, the structural definition and the surface articulation.

More work to come soon…….

Bryce Willis

Chantal Bonner

Chantal Bonner

Darin Russel

Nay Soe

A selection of work from this years ufo unit 4 at london metropolitan university

This year’s research and design briefs on the family home and the atypicality of a typical floodplain development in the UK. The unit readily accepts the need for a radical typological and morphological change in how these buildings meet the ground and hence interface with the floodplain. Alleviating direct ground contact with living space could potentially save billions of pounds in future damages and fundamentally readdress the spatial and typological configurations of the dwellings. Working between the master plan and the individual housing unit, we will investigate an array of homes along a proposed street and the associated potential of parametric modulation within the series. We will discuss the qualitative effects and sociological affects of these serial modulations and explore the internal differentiation and spatial individuality that can be grown through morphing the serial parameters.

Christopher Robeller

Christopher Robeller

Christopher Robeller

Marcos Zotez Lopes

Marcos Zotez Lopes

Marcos Zotez Lopes

Chung Yin Ho

Chung Yin Ho

Chung Yin Ho

Kang Chung

Kang Chung

Kang Chung

Lizzie Ruinard

Lizzie Ruinard