The world's thinnest home has been built in a Polish alleyway

High Line for London

New exciting ideas for a London disused underground line under Oxford Street.:
Fletcher Priest Architects propose a  ‘Pop Down’ concept for a mushroom farm under Oxford Street. 

See website for more details 

Chelmsford Festival of Ideas 2012

Well done to second year Interior Design and Interior Architecture students for participating in the Memory & Local Identity workshop last Tuesday 16th October. The collaboration with the Anglia Ruskin Final Year Architecture students was a valuable experience and we hope to see more events between the two schools soon.

Students from the two institutions alongside local residents worked together in mixed groups mapping Chelmsford's City Centre with their senses. A series of walks brought out new perceptions of public space. The groups produced posters indicating their "flavour" of the part of the city they explored; these will be presented to the public during the Ideas Festival.

Thanks to all students from Writtle Interiors that participated in the PartiCity workshop at the Chelsmford Ideas Hub on Monday 15th October 2012.

PartiCity is a digital platform for bringing communities together, enabling people to design their neighborhoods. 

 

Tim McGinley from the University of Reading and Aggeliki Aggeli from WSD -together they make MonsterAttack- presented the platform to the group as a first chance to get feedback on their project.  They also introduced participants to Design Band, a digital tool for collaborative work that borrows a structure from Rock Bands and allows users to post their skills and form new groups that can solve design challenges. 

Unfortunately we ran out of time and we didn;t have the chance to explore Design Band in full extent..We hope to develop Design Band further and set up a cross-course project with WSD students very soon!

Stirling Prize 2012

Winner of this year;s Stirling Prize Award..

 

Cambridge Sainsbury Laboratory by Stanton Williams

Graduate show at Chelmsford's Shire Hall

 The exhibition was organised by Chelmsford Ideas Festival as part of an afternoon discussion about the future of Chelmsford's Heritage Triangle. 2012 Graduates showed their  projects to the public,who engaged in very interesting observations about their ideas. 

Thanks to all that participated! We are looking forward  for further opportunities to show student work in public and exchange ideas with local residents.

                               

The Design of Homes

 
Very interesting Blog to follow regarding  residential design

A House for Essex by FAT & Grayson Perry

As part of Alain De Botton Living Architecture Project, architecture practice FAT (Fashion Architecture Trends) in collaboration with artist Grayson Perry are commissioned to design a house in the Essex Landscape.

According to Perry, the building will make references to eccentric home-built structures that can be found in the county as well as shrines, lighthouses and fairytales. Have a look and see what you think..

  http://www.dezeen.com/2012/10/02/a-house-for-essex-by-fat-and-grayson-perry/