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AA
School Celebration of Talent - Unveiling
of Annual Summer Pavilion
- AA School launches latest in extraordinary
line up of multi-disciplinary projects-
- Winning pavilion embraces invention, experimentation
and design intelligence -
The ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE (www.aaschool.ac.uk)
will take over Bedford Square, London on
3 July 2009 with its annual celebration
of young architectural talent - showcasing
the architectural intelligence that defines
it as the world's most renowned and influential
school of architecture. Over 3000 visitors
from across the world will come to view
AA School Summer Pavilion and Projects
Review on the evening of the 3rd
as part of the schools extensive public
programme at Bedford Square.
Home to international architectural alumnae
such as Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and Lord
Rogers, the AA School has led the way with
its radical, innovative and experimental
approach since 1847. The summer pavilion
competition winner Driftwood
is just one example of the vibrant projects
on offer this July when the school's Projects
Review transforms Bedford Square
into a showcase for the future greats of
the art and architecture world.
- Press Preview of Driftwood and the
Projects Review :
10:00-12:00hrs, 2 July 2009.
Please RSVP to Katie Jackson: 020 7221
7883 /
Katie.Jackson@kallaway.co.uk
Driftwood was designed by
concept designer Danecia Sibingo a 3rd year
student, and a team that includes Lyn Hayek,
Yoojin Kim, and Taeyoung Lee. It is neither
art nor architecture, science nor ecological
adventure, but a sculptural installation
and prototype that defies classification.
It embraces invention, experimentation,
new materials and aesthetic intelligence.
The pavilion was selected by a panel of
seven eminent judges from the worlds of
architecture, engineering, design, media
and ecology. It provides a thoughtful, provoking
reminder of the UK's inextricable link to
the sea - its undulating form created by
the motion of the water, carried by waves
and coming to rest in busy central London.
Now in its fourth year of building pavilions,
Intermediate Unit 2 pavilion projects are
led by tutors Charles Walker and Martin
Self with technical advice from ARUP, this
year led by Ching Luan Lau, Senior Engineer.
The unit challenges students to create architectural
space through the construction of a sustainable
timber pavilion and is also sponsored by
HOK architects who pride themselves on their
global reach and ability to respond to the
most demanding of design challenges. Driftwood
is on show in Bedford Square until 25 July
2009.
Driftwood consists of an internal,
sustainable spruce 'Kerto' plywood structure
supplied by ecological Finnish timber suppliers
FinnForest and adheres to a target of minimal
material wastage. It was fabricated at Hooke
Park, the Architecture Association's 350-acre
campus and workshop in West Dorset where
the 2006 winning Fractal pavilion
is permanently installed. The winning pavilion
for 2007, Bad Hair was donated
and re-homed at Kingston Maurward College,
Dorset.
Brett Steele, Director, The ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE says: "The
annual summer pavilion competition provides
a unique opportunity for students to work
together to design, develop and ultimately
fabricate a professional standard architectural
structure for the public to enjoy. Unparalleled
in any other architectural school, it creates
a collaborative working environment, nurturing
inspiration and encouraging radical and
fresh ideas which come to life in the form
of these incredible structures."
For further information on the ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE and its public programme
please see notes or visit www.aaschool.ac.uk
Press information
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Notes to Editors:
Pavilion Sponsors
- ARUP (www.arup.com):
global firm of designers, engineers, planners
and business consultants
- FinnForest (www.finnforest.com):
suppliers of ecological, high quality
Nordic wood
- HOK (www.hok.com):
global provider of planning, design and
delivery solutions for the built environment
Judges
- Lisa McMullen, Architect
- Amanda Baillieu, Building Design
- Saffet Bekirogl, Zaha Hadid Architects
- Renato Benedetti, McDowell+Benedetti
- Warren Dudding, Finnforest
- Ian Fleetwood, HOK
- Alex McCuaig, MET Studio
- Theo Spyropoulos, Architect
Biographies
- Martin Self
Martin Self holds degrees in aerospace
engineering and architectural theory.
He was a founding member of the Advanced
Geometry Unit at Arup where he worked
as a structural engineer with many internationally
prominent architects, including Alvaro
Siza with whom he realized the Serpentine
Gallery Summer Pavilion in 2005. He currently
works as a consultant to Zaha Hadid architects.
- Charles Walker
Charles Walker is an architect, structural
engineer and industry leader on the effects
of digital technology on modern architectural
design and construction. He was a Director
at design based engineering firm Atelier
One where he designed the domes at the
Singapore Arts Centre and later joined
Ove Arup + Partners where he co-founded
with Cecil Balmond the Advanced Geometry
Unit. At AGU he was masterplaner of the
Battersea Power Station site. In early
2007 Charles founded from-work projects
and joined Zaha Hadid Architects where
he currently works.
- Brett Steele
Brett Steele is the Director of the AA
School of Architecture, AA
Publications and the AA Public Programme.
He is the founder and former Director
of the AADRL Design Research Lab, the
innovation team and network based M.Arch
programme at the AA. He is a frequent
visiting lecturer and design critic at
schools, public and private institutions
around the world and is the editor of
numerous publications including 'Negotiate
My Boundary' (London 2002) and 'Corporate
Fields' (London 2005). His articles have
appeared in Arts and Architecture Magazines
and publications including Arch+, Monocle,
Icon Magazine, in a range of newspapers,
the BBC and in other media. For further
information please visit www.brettsteele.net
- Danecia Sibingo
Danecia Sibingo is the concept author
of the Driftwood Pavilion. Danecia was
born in Angola and is currently in her
third year of study at the AA. Following
the concept selection Danecia led the
development of the design with her design
team colleagues below.
- Lyn Hayek
Lynn Hayek joined the Driftwood team
to design the pavilion. She is a Canadian
/ Lebanese national in her second year
of study at the AA.
- Yoojin Kim
Yoojin Kim is a Korean national who joined
the AA this year in the third year. He
is a graduate engineer, who recently complete
a master of science degree in structural
engineering at the Imperial College of
Science, Technology and Medicine, in London.
- Taeyoung Lee
Taeyoung Lee is a Korean national
who joined the AA this year in the third
year. He was the lead designer and 3-d
modeller on the Driftwood design team,
full utilising his computer modelling
skills to realise this complex design.
The AA School
The ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTUREis the
world's most renowned international and
influential school of architecture. Since
1847 it has pioneered a belief in architecture
as profession, culture and form of human
enquiry and is credited with fostering the
creation of worldwide leaders of architecture.
AA School alumni include architectural leaders
Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Lord Rogers, Will
Alsop and many others. Through its unique,
year-long, unit based system of teaching,
direct intervention in cities and its intensively
collaborative team based approach to learning,
the school brings together disconnected
worlds, fresh ideas and inspiring insights.
The AA School is celebrated worldwide as
an imaginative setting for architectural
culture.
An Association of Architects
The AA School sits within the wider context
of the worldwide membership of the Architectural
Association. Founded in 1847 by a 'group
of troublesome students', its membership
has since grown to over 3200 worldwide.
The School is about to embark on a major
capital project to expand its historic home
on Bedford Square and create a single unified
campus for the 21st Century where it can
continue to lead architectural education
and welcome international public visitors
and audiences interested in shaping the
future of architecture, cities and natural
resources.
The AA's research cluster initiative, launched
by the AA Director in 2005 formalises the
school's ongoing interest in contemporary
collaboration, design and research interests.
Over the past four years, research clusters
have addressed a broad range of contemporary
challenges, including new digital and fabrication
techniques, cross- disciplinary ways of
learning and emerging technologies in relation
to the environment. This research has been
opened up to an international audience through
exhibitions, publications and symposia.
The AA has a legacy of experimentation and
collaboration that has allowed it to create
ground-breaking forms of best-practice out
of many landmark personalities and projects
emerging from the School, its students and
teachers. From Archigram in the 1960s to
the Office of the Metropolitan Architecture
(OMA) in the 1970s, the collaborative experimentation
of NATO in the 1980s to the formation of
team based learning and teaching of the
AA's Research Lab founded at the school
in the 1990s, the principle of shared enquiry
and exploration spans across the entire
spectrum of the AA School.
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