a school of architecture, not a creche

be a little bit polite please..
Crèche, however educated that word might seem,
is a bit harsh.
Kindergarten comes to mind though :D

It is a school ... a remand school.

hhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmm this thread has sparked off a lot of ideas that might lead to some interesting things

1 - arkchitecture school has to have a link to the school of urbanism, 1 in the other or vice versa or just linked as you wish

2 - urban school has to be in the guts of the city (1)

3 - seeing as UCD is not in the guts of the city, that means a mobile system could be created, theoretically (2)

4 - then the idea came of why dont we actually make it, seeing as you have been invovled with real mobile units before.

like friends are already doing (3)
thats what im working on now here in barcelona. thanks to all for getting some ideas flowing, thats what "communication systems" like this should prompt.

(1) : placing urbanism schools in the cities guts + response to ronan
easa.antville.org

(2) : conor.... mobile urban school M.U.S
easa.antville.org

(3) :

I agree with you Hugo, I am analysing Google's offices at the moment, aka the Googleplex. As you may well know their Europe and Africa HQ is here in Barrow street in Dublin, employing 1200 people. They never build any of their offices, the day of a need for landmark offices is over. They lease all their building all over the world, usually empty warehouses, office blocks and fit them out Google style. They organize space according to levels of interaction ranging from hot(pool table, cafeteria, etc) to cold(programmers tents). The space of course is well lit and spacious, but these are not made features, its just there. What is interesting is the configuration and programme for the space.

It seems like a nice workspace and possibly a model for my design.. i'm sick of erasmus students yapping at my back

look i found google HQ in Turkey :P

From personal experience, going from a UK architecture school (Edinburgh College of Art) to a Danish one (CPH) proved tricky because of the lack of deadlines/ rigidity of teaching etc. such things one takes for granted (and rebels against!) in the UK - but then again us English folk like rules/ law & order and lets not forget queuing >>

I envy you Jim, if you've rebelled against anything in Edinburgh. In my 5 years in Plymouth, I haven't seen any rebelling at all.

jovan.uk


p.s. re: queuing, i read recently an interesting study/survey how much Brits are peeved off with it [just not doing anything about it while doing it]

perhaps more yelling than rebelling in Plymouth.. all those janners.
Have you moved to LDN yet?!

Re: queuing - the study of which seems very important in computer programming & systems management whose real life manifestations can be seen in call centres - where most Irish folk work! ;-) which are ironically the open plan/ open system(?) environments previously highlighted on this thread.

A result of the aforementioned techno-queing which irritates lots of British people is when you receive a phone call (on a landline) then when you pick up the receiver the line goes dead because the call has been made by a computer and the over worked call centre operators are too busy to handle your call. The logic being that it's better to inconvenience the general public then have call centre workers not 100% busy.
Does this happen in other EU countries?

nah, i'm working in the office in the border-country, in Hereford ...

although doing my Part 1 course with Westminster Uni, so in London relatively often.

i think it's better not to start about Brits and call centres. :)

from mere physical places to get books to online nodes that support the physical node that the library of today offers: get stuff, put up or read notices, watch free films, access net, learn courses, meet people, language exchange, place to just sit and relax and be warm (especially if homeless or on the periphery of society), a place that stuff grows from.
They are interesting due to the fact that they are open and free, what if the "ark schol" was to open its doors a bit more.....?

from schools, to exhibitions/bienalles, to lectures and films, to actual real world stuff. A lot of it actually going on here in barcelona, ill be back with a bit more on that

theres a good essay in here im trying to find about libraries
www.themetropolitancomplex.com

"OpenCourseWare expresses in an immediate and far-reaching way MIT's goal of advancing education around the world. Through MIT OCW, educators and students everywhere can benefit from the academic activities of our faculty and join a global learning community in which knowledge and ideas are shared openly and freely for the benefit of all."
- Susan Hockfield, President of MIT


ocw.mit.edu

Here is where the social aspect comes to play, you see, the geeks at MIT need each other, its like colliding atoms, nothing new is created until paths collide, bounce or whatever

hi ronan

re "quiet spaces that we often need to sit down and work at a model/drawing etc..."
they are hugely important, and for me they dont end in the school, in the studio but in the wider laboratory: community, city, world

above i added the idea as the city being the uni, for me that was the case, im far happier that i "learned ark" in DIT as opposed to UCD. DIT being a 3 minute walk from the of the city centre, just beside guts of the old ciyt: the markets with early morning trading, early house pubs, dodgy goings on, new multicultural changes (language, faces, foods, life methods etc), stories of the old whoor houses and all that city stuff that ill just put under "urbanism". for me ark schools, if they are intent on any way to deal with urban issues of any scale, have to have a fixed location in the cities guts. years of walking the same streets, observing changes, participating with local things, understanding history, social makeup, etc are essential in the learning of urban systems. of course you will learn theory in a book, film or on a computer screen. but the essence of it is something that develops while digesting all that stuff while in it.... on the streets.

back to your point:
those "quiet" spaces are essential, therefor one of the parameters of the program. to assume that open systems mean mad party full on crazy shit, is not the case. it can be that, at times (remmeber the roofing tales from vertical projects or pimps n hoes...) but the more open system it is and more healthy it is at internal commuincation then the whole system benefits.

mjy point about the city thing was also that, for me these quiet places are hugely important in cities, dublin is lacking, we tried to fix part of that and adress it with the gardens. here in barcelona its amazing to see the spaces and more importantly how they are used

an example, im now living beside the linear street park byh carrer brasil: lovely park, but underneath its a motorway, in other parts the motorway is exposed but in places it was forced under the ground and that was due to a more "participative" planning process whereby the communities organised themselvees (in as best an open system as possible ) and forced the authorities to dig the roads and give a public space to the community... nou barris is perhaps best example

i cant go on, but ark schools could and in my opinion should help in this process.

its time that ark was democratized

the real ark world is too busy to stop and think, its up to you and us to make a space for this critical thinking, experimentation and discussion

ark schools are the natural place it should start.....

have fun with it

one last thing

murals, murals, murals

as well as blank walls

enjoy the creative process

dunk

I concur with your University Dean's musing and your own thoughts above.

When applied to EASA, I see our great strength being the initial face :-) to face (-: summer meetings which are then to a greater or lesser extend followed up by virtual, distant communications (eg this weblog) conversely I believe that in the wider techno-society we are moving quickly into an age where people are meeting 'friends' on web forums (Myspace, Facebook, WAYN etc etc. with the (potential) aim to then meet in person.

On this weblog people geuinely say "we are you friends"

I prefer EASA!

Re: academic framework, archive workshop in Greece, website i will reply shortly, lots of work to do as we've a hand-in tomorrow!

bye for now...

start with your favourite project then! we have already published them for hungary anyway, haven't we?