Events 2018

It was interesting to see which schemes were most popular with the public, and our speculative user-groups.

Chris (retired planner), currently lives in a 4-bed detached house with his wife near Stockport. His favourite qualities were a close match with MArch student Meera Lad's scheme, which utilises staggered blocks with roof terraces, surrounding shared courtyards.

On the other hand, Harold (retired accountant), currently lives with his wife in a 3-bed semi-detached property in Salford. His preferences we're most closely aligned with attributes of MArch student Alec's scheme, a higher density 'village' typology. However, the project places an importance on communal living arrangements and has a high percentage of common space.

#SASSY

One of the groups created a permeable wall with material which we all enjoyed interacting with throughout the exhibition!

#PATHWAYS

One of the projects used pieces of clay to create a path through the exhibition space. This was a really successful exhibit and one of the artists that the students used as inspiration, even commented on how much she liked the work!

#TEAMWORK

The whole exhibition was a massive group effort and we were so proud of all the work that was exhibited!

#INTHEDETAILS

One of the groups built a detailed model of the proposals for the site using found materials.Their whole project was wonderfully coherent and their precision when making this model was amazing!

Great to see the hard work of our student teams come together today at the community engagement event. Emerging video footage was used to inform our guests of the design-research we have undertaken this week and through the course of the year, and to demonstrate the activities for the afternoon.

The event was well received and our guests seemed very much in favour of alternative housing models. Much of the discussion made known the feeling that there is a lacking offer for age-friendly housing which is NOT age-exclusive. Many were also very keen to see innovation in design which allowed them to age in place, in a supportive and neighbourly environment.

As the afternoon went on, the undergraduates began to take control of the community engagement event by running games themselves. This showed their understanding of both the work undertaken in PHASE and PS1 and how they were able to confidently discuss their knowledge with the public.

The set up of the exhibition has been finalised by the construction team today, and we are ready for the final exhibition display and ceremony which will take place in the South Atrium of Business School tomorrow.

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#MODELNATURE

One group created an amazing section model out of found tree branches and plants. These were glued, tied and intricately assembled.

Inspired by Hillary Jack, their project modeled natural materials in a political setting.

The exhibition was very interactive, with the folding booklets and models being an interesting topic of conversation.

Pozzoni architects and the students had some really interesting ideas to discuss following all the hard work....

The white caps were our finishing touch.

#MAKECURATE

While the undergraduates constructed their final pieces, the fifth years curated the exhibition of the rest of the work produced throughout events.

Huge congratulations to the team for all their great efforts in the construction of the ticket booth!

2 days of design and 6 days of building to create something that will become the centrepiece of the pop-up outdoor cinema in Brierfield!

It was so much fun making this, from the site visit to conception and implementation. Through the tens of problems we tackled every day and multiple espresso shots along the way.

More images to follow. Also keep an eye for the video coming up tomorrow.

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#COLLABORATORS

At the exhibition, we were visited by Paradise Works artists, Natasha Kurth and Olivia Glasser.

It was amazing to see their response to work inspired by them and to applause the exhibition pieces from all the students.

#CRACKINGON

As soon as we got to Paradise Works this morning, the groups cracked on with constructing their 1:1 interventions.

As we are almost coming to the end of the events programme, some group members visited the photography studio to capture some wonderful shots of their models. This is one of the final pieces that will be exhibited at the Town Hall tomorrow. We are excited and proud to present the work of Group 11!

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#SETTING

Today we exhibited at Paradise Works, in Salford. The exhibition space is surrounded by artist studios and was the perfect setting to showcase our projects!

The work looked great today for the exhibition at the Pozzoni office.

The presentations were informal and everyone did a great job of explaining their projects - all the hard work paid off!

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#CARFULL

Large pieces of installation artworks were transported to Paradise Works by car.

Ready for exhibition!

#HANGINGOUT

One groups project involved making hanging bird feeders and planters that were exhibited as their 1:1 intervention. The work they created was super creative and worked perfectly for the site!

Today we had our final exhibition at Pozzoni office. The exhibition showed a variety of drawings and models of proposed care hotel concepts. Each group explained their concepts to Pozzoni architects, all groups worked very hard and the exhibition went very well!

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#EDIT

As the progression of the film continues, Kassandra calls on some of the undergraduate students to see and reflect on her work.

They are all so excited to see the final product!

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#PEEL

After the clay had dried, we had fun peeling them off the cardboard bases.

During the drying out stage, cracks formed and created an interesting, almost archaeological, aesthetic to the texture of the clay.

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#AVOCAGIRLS

Inspired by Precious Innes and Robin Broadley, Astrid and Onchi designed and built a giant Avocado pod.

While the rest of the team have been running the community engagement event, the construction team have been putting the final touches to the build. Really impressive to see how a lot of hard work can transform standard 2x1 timber lengths into a refined exhibition without using a single screw!

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#SNEAKPEEK

The exhibition was a great success!

More photos to follow...

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#WARMUP

It was freezing in Paradise Works!!

We warmed ourselves up by playing group games... causing much hilarity.

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#MOVINGDAY

Today we moved all our work over for an exhibition at Paradise Works.

This took a lot of planning and coordination... as well as multiple trips in the lift/car!

The models are finished! Catch them and the rest of the curation in the 8th floor space tomorrow.

Final Day// We met with Michael, our Architect/collaborator to present our ideas, development and physical models of our SSK project

Final delivery of the perforated, branded Blue Dot Festival panel arrived today!

Day Nine: Seeing the final product of Events 2018, we are excited for the exhibition tomorrow. The students have worked extremely well together and produced an impressive range of outputs.

Hannah (fifth year student), accompanied by Sarah (first year student) interacting with one member of the ageing community in today's community engagement session.

They took part in the co-housing game, which entailed the individual choosing their favourite typology, typical unit, typical plan, type of community space and preference in the amount of green space provided in their 'perfect house', through exploring the 23 different schemes designed by the fifth year MSAp students in their professional studies 1.

Well done guys! Good effort! I’m really happy to work with you lots for the last ten days! Looking forward to seeing our model in the exhibition day!

Our second guest in his age of 79, just moved in a new ground floor apartment with 2 beds, preferred an open plan house with accessible access and missed his former upper level flat with nice view.

The Community Engagement invited elderly people come and talk to us with their ideal house options regarding location, typology, floor plan, garden and preference of amenities. Here is the ideal option house of our first guest, Bhim, former MMU economics teacher who aged 90s, lives in East Didsbury for decades. The key points are downsizing and better public transportation for him.

Here is our pre-session of today Community Engagement. We set up two games based on our previous researches and co-housing designs. Plans of the day and guides for games introduced to undergraduates.

The community engagement session we hosted this afternoon took place at 70 Oxford Road. We spent the morning setting up the venue with the undergraduate students assisting us along the way. We set two tables up to divide the two games which the visiting community and undergraduate students would take part in. One table was set to accompany the co-housing game and the other for the spatial capacities game.

The group is working hard on getting the film which documents the entire programme of the events weeks completed today.

Following the successful completion of the model making process last week, the 1st and 2nd year students are spending today on producing A1 sheets in which they document the process and outputs of the work they have been engaged in for the past two weeks of the Events programme.

The concept was for the interior to be modelled with the external side plain. The basement level was also able to slot in and out.

This morning, Becca took charge of explaining what the plan of action for the day was. She divided everyone up into sub-groups for the welcoming team, spatial capacities and co-housing. This was also an opportunity for the film team to display the work they have produced the past week, explaining how to play the games for this afternoon's community engagement session.

The great hall model was also complete! This model was the biggest and therefore required a lot of organisation and planning. The model shows how well they worked as a group!

Details.

Cooper street entrance model finished and photographed. The group worked well together.

The entrance model of the town hall showcasing some of the details that the 1st and 2nd years went into. The choice of material was important in this model to show the weathering effect! There was some parts of this model that could be removed.

Adjustments to some existing elements during assembly.

discussions about how essential model making can be in the future for certain practices.

Having almost completed the three models, we had a visit from our collaborators from Purcell come down to the B.15 Model Making Workshop to give us their input.

Clamped!

Yousra and her completed laser cut panel design! She chose the theme of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

Completed spray painted panel for the wings! The remaining spray painted designs will be finished tomorrow.

DAY//9 | CONSTRUCTION BOOKLETS

As we come to the end of EVENTS '18, the students have worked hard and fun at times on their workbenches. These are the final products by the three competing groups : Construction Booklets that give you an understanding of what the product is?, how efficient they are?; how to build/assemble/store them? and finally the cost and materials to make the product. Good job guys!! A copy of these booklets were given to LUNA (our collaborator) for them to choose the best design from.

It was fun working with the WORKBENCHERS!!

A sequence of laser cut panels. Except one did get snapped in a closing door.

A nice little sketch of the Clubhouse canopy, some hard work gone in to this from all of our first and second years, this great drawing from Francisco came a few days ago before we had our crash course in canopy detailing.

A working test model of our retractable canopy design, might look a little sketchy but says everything about our phasing strategy in regards to the clients brief.

Lazer cut acrylic plastic with theme designs. Fixed with screws to the panels.

A little film preview to brighten everyone's day, many thanks to Jake.

This was the first of the acrylic panels to be laser cut - Renata's design on Emily Davison!

Final prep for the presentation completed, good effort everyone. Presentation to the client tomorrow at 2pm.

Rear bracing on the back panel. Providing structural support swell as a rear entrance

Filming a time-lapse of the fabric roof. (Alec has been inducted on safe ladder use)

We used a piece of wood to record the dimensions of the panels when it was which we then used to measure the laser cut pieces.

Stencils!! 1st & 2nd years are spray painting panels for the soapbox theme

Good feedback from Yumian; she thought the events week was really informative and interesting!

Yiling had a great time! She enjoyed the design aspects and the assembly of the project!

Sin really enjoyed working on the festival project and the design elements of the overall project where the students pitched their own proposals to the collaborator!

Really good feedback from Simona, she found the 1:1 installation a really engaging project to be apart of!

Mohamed was really interested working in a more art driven project as opposed to building based projects!

Maria found it great experience working with a more construction driven project!

Great Feedback from Leyli, she really enjoyed being involved with the assembly of the installation at a 1:1 scale!

The Purcell team dropped by the workshop to check on our progress - lots of good feedback!

DAY 09// Production of final visualisation consisted of fours stages. In the fourth and final stage, the team produced 3D rendered visualisations in context, fully displaying how the proposal will be used and how it will interact with people who pass through the site.

DAY 09// Production of final visualisation consisted of four stages. The third stage was creating a photo collage from the 1:20 model of the winning proposal and the preferred wall graphics design. This stage required advanced photoshop skills and resulted in a transfer of valuable skills between BA1, BA2 and MArch students.

A3 SHEET LAYOUT//
This is an example of an A3 sheet summarising the events experience from one student. The sheet can be simple but should be well presented and should include a variety of media including sketches, site photos and model photos.

Day Nine: Printing and mounting in preparation for tomorrows exhibition at the Town Hall.

DAY 09// Production of final visualisation consisted of fours stages. In the second stage, the team finalised their design for the printing rooms window display, through their design they have successfully managed to define the site!

DAY 09// Production of final visualisation consisted of four stages. The first stage was adding details to the existing model in order to bring it to life and give a sense of scale. First and second year students produced small versions of books, leaflets and MSSA shirts that are usually being exhibited at the desk. The key is in the details, good job everyone!

DAY 9//
On the final day before the exhibition, we instructed the students to finalise their A3 sheets. These sheets culminate the work from events, including sketches, photos and experiences. The work will be displayed alongside the models in the exhibition in the Town Hall. The students can also place these sheets into their portfolio. Please come prepared with your A3 sheets printed out tomorrow!

DAY//9

Benchworkers and our collaborators! Our event has come to an end. A big thank you to all the students for their great work and effort throughout our events sessions!!

Good luck with your studio submission. See you around!