WORKSHOP IN OURO PRETO UFOP, BRASIL

This four day workshop at Ouro Preto, UFOP School Of Architecture, Brasil, for 1st and 2nd year students, focused on basic structure research and model making techniques. From geodesic domes made out of plastic cups to tensile structures, the students came in contact with alternative model making techniques and a basic language of structural concepts, tested in 1:1 scale.

ENERGY SYSTEMS "Building from within"

WORKSHOP AT COPENHAGEN ARCH. SCHOOL by David A. Garcia

Introduction:

Continuously avoided by the architectural discipline, the energy systems, services and general “arteries” of any built environment, have been hidden, masked or even ignored. Different movements in the architectural tradition have embraced the spacial potential hidden/ignored in these systems. A vital example is Center Pompidou, where ventilation systems become external elements of the facade. What if this attitude was extended to all the elements of a built environment? What if electric systems, solar panels, ventilation, sewage etc... become the architecture, the spaces we inhabit, with out hiding or masking them?

Students of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture

ALL IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS

WORKSHOP AT LUND ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL, LTH

By Peter Cook and David A. Garcia

Introduction:

“If you do not expect the unexpected you will not discover it.” Heraclitus

The project aims to encourage your awareness of architectural language or ‘representative form’ and to take a stab at manipulating it in a highly conscious way.

Thus the building programme is kept simple and offered as a series of ‘A’ or ‘B’ constituents.

Students of Lund University School of Architecture

COVERT SPACES" Ideas of the hidden"

WORKSHOP AT COPENHAGEN ARCH. SCHOOL by David A. Garcia

Introduction:
Traditionally, human desires and needs for the subversive and the hidden, have always found a way of expression in architecture. From secret libraries in monasteries, to mafia offices in the back of restaurants, the possibility to create space also allows the possibility to hide space. This typology with in the realm of the built environment is often determined by great inventiveness. The constraints are of such unusual and extreme character, that the results tent to be equally unorthodox.

Students of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture

ANIMATE "Dynamics and Movement"

WORKSHOP AT COPENHAGEN ARCH. SCHOOL by David A. Garcia

David A. Garcia

Introduction:

If there is anything that architecture has tried to avoid through out its history, it has probably been movement, that is: buildings should not move. Nonetheless, and especially since the middle of the last century, we find more and more examples of, if not buildings that move, at least huge parts of them expressing dynamics. Some even consider various types of transport methods as architecture; after all, a 747 on a transatlantic flight carries, feeds, entertains, and sleeps more people than most hotels.

Students of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture