Saturday 26 February 2011

Aberrant Architecture: Work


So today whilst working with Aberrant in the studio and a man walks past and says 'Powerful Content Makers, Bless You.' Does he think we are Jesus and his disciples?

Friday 18 February 2011

Friday 18th February


So the institute of IDEAs is pretty much arranged to have the 1st lecture on the 24th of this month. Under a week now!

Today has been spent working for Aberrant Architecture, drawing up plans for a Gallery project that we have been shortlisted for as well as a variety of other workings going on in the office. I am sitting here looking through to the O2 in the Incubation unit on a relatively nice day. Tonight I will be working at El Paso, Shoreditch on Old Street, running the bar downstairs for their monthly Everything Sucks night. This is a night featuring a couple of bands and then a DJ playing all in contemporaty, punk, rock, metal, Ska, and indie untill the early hours of the morning.

My current uni project is the retail project for a company called DePloy. Deploy is a boutique style clothing brand, that lives on its reputation for creating different clothing that can easily be adjusted using the poppers and hooks that hold different parts of the garments together. The idea is that a work outfit can effectively easily be turned into an outfit to wear at night. The design has to have a mixed use purpose so the idea of catering for the amount of Homeless in Covent garden at night could be an idea to be expanded on. Considering a large amount of the homeless people are ex military and male it could work well having this contrasting with the fact DePloy is a women's clothing brand?

Friday 11 February 2011

The Institute of Ideas has started! This is a student based society aiming to hold a series of lectures and events for students to attend. They aim to get in high end designers to come and demonstrate their work and what they are about.

The first will be on the 24th February with Crossrail coming in! Crossrail are in charge of the masterplanning and redesigning and reinventing of London's underground system. Surely something to not miss!

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Tuesday 8 February 2011

A Weekend In Barcelona



From Thursday until Sunday I spent some time in Barcelons. The trip was designed to be a research trip which involved exploring some new and old buildings and designs. Each day involved a large amount of walking around the city but the things that we got to see made it special. A few of the real Gems that stood out in the city were Mies Van Der Rohe's Barcelona Pavillion; a place that managed to create a real cool, relaxing and reflective feel to it, something quite special when the site was effectively a building site.

Sagrada Familia, designed by Gaudi was something incredibly special. I have never honestly had shivers down my spine and been speechless by a space like I did there. The interior is pretty much completed. Although incomplete, the church is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and in November 2010 was consecrated and proclaimed a minor basilica by Pope Benedict XVI.

Though construction of Sagrada Familia had commenced in 1882, Gaudi took over in 1883, transforming the project with his architectural and engineering style — combining Gothic and curvilinear, Art Nouveau forms with ambitious structural columns and arches.

Gaudi devoted his last years to the project and at the time of his death in 1926, less than a quarter of the project was complete. Sagrada Familia's construction progressed slowly as it relied on private donations and was interrupted by the Spanish Civil War — only to resume intermittent progress in the 1950s. Construction passed the mid-point in 2010 with some of the project's greatest challenges remaining and an anticipated completion date of 2026 — the centennial of Gaudí's death.

Wednesday 2 February 2011

Beautiful Music


When you hear that a few guys you know decide to release what would be their fourth album this year of course theres a right to be excited. But as I work now on redrawing some existing plans, sections and elevations of a building sited in Covent Garden, listening to what is The Architects new album called The Here and Now. Well it puts a smile on your face.

The album is Brilliant.

Tuesday 1 February 2011

Tuesday 1st February

Today is the first day of the month and I find it very interesting to read on AJ that there are at least 300 'architects' in Ireland are not officially registered. This is something to worry about I guess? Surely if there are buildings designed and build by these such called practices in the UK there must be thousands worldwide who might not necessarily have the training or skill to properly design a building. At the end of the day a badly designed building can fall down and kill people. Not good.

Ravensbourne now has an Architecture and IDEAs student society, the name is Institute of Ideas, or OIO for short. The aim is to create a lecture series that will then in turn bring well known designers, architects and engineers to do talks in Ravensbourne to help us students to gain a larger network and to meet a variety of people from many different backgrounds.

We want to raise money, raise the knowledge of Ravensbourne and creatt a hub for design. A place of excitement to be useful for all students.

Our first lecture will be on the 24th February with the director of the Director of London's Crossrail scheme. This should be very interestng!


We had our first group meeting for the student society yesterday with what I feel is such a strong team with some amazing ideas. I look forward to working with every one who has joined my team.