Studio 9 News
160519 Final Project Submission
Dear all, thanks again for the review yesterday! Please upload your presentations as well as design portfolios here. Collect all documents in a zipped catalogue with your name. As stated yesterday, the fullscale team can wait until all material is collected.
160517 FINAL REVIEW
Tomorrow, 18/5 is the final review for project 4. We will be in room A108 from 13.00-17.00. The room will be available for you form 12.00
Please pin everything before we start, and have everything prepared. We will have invited guests. See you tomorrow!
160516 full scale
Kayrokh will be in tomorrow Tuesday to talk to full scale group if you need help.
We can meet 12:30-13:30 in the studio.
160509 Full Scale update + Screen Reminder
For Full Scale team, please check the following - if you have any comments, please get back to us asap:
- The official opening of the pop-up cinema will be in the Sergels Torg space, Friday 20/5, at 18.00 (to be finally confirmed today).
- The AV-equipment will be ordered today, as discussed previously (the smaller projector, the better speakers).
- If you have preferred material suppliers, please let us know also today - Geska will set up accounts with them immediately. Please do not forget the cladding, and any details.
For all:
- A reminder to move the screens to Julio as per previous post.
- Schedule for this week coming later today.
160504 Return of all screens to Julio´s office
Since final reviews in all years are coming up, you need to return all screens now in the studio.
Please roll them down to Julio´s office no later than Wednesday May 11th, 14.00.
160503 Full Scale visit to potential Site, Tuesday at 10.30 11.00
PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF TIME TO 11.00!
Meeting is set outside of Burger King, Sergels Torg, at 11.00. If you need to reach Magnus you can call him: 072 – 527 95 83.
As discussed last week, we have arranged a visit to the former Megastore shop, which could be a first construction site and venue for the pop-up cinema. You have an appointment with Magnus Källgren, Business Developer at AMF Fastigheter (who owns the property) tomorrow Tuesday 3/5, at 10.30. You can check out a laser distance measurer in the workshop (talk to Anna Eklund), which may be useful to check ceiling heights. Unfortunately we do not have proper drawings, but below you can find plans as image files. Please note that we will have a morning meeting prior to your visit, and that you will go on your own.
160427 Urgent - Important change of schedule for Full Scale + slight changes to thesis students
We need to have a collective meeting with you, Rozan and most tutors to align the process. Since Geska is coming in the morning tomorrow Wednesday (9.00), the only time we coud find is tomorrow Wednesday 27th at 13.30. We are aware that you have seminar, but we hope that as many as possible of you can join this meeting, which will last ca one hour.
For thesis students, we will make sure to do the sessions with you, but times may shift a bit.
160414 Meeting at Presentationsdesign
Just a reminder for the Full Scale team meeting Presentationsdesign in Nacka Thursday 8.30 - 10. Elsa will meet you at Slussen, the lower level bus station, at 8.00. If anyone choses to go by bike, the address is Ryssviksvägen 2 in Nacka, entrance by the loading bay at the parking lot. Please remember to bring the models from the presentation.
160412 Mid review
As stated in the schedule that was updated today:
The mid review will start at 13.00 in room A124. The room is available for you all morning.
See you tomorrow and break a leg!
160411 Lecture by Gustav Fagerström
This Monday Gustav Fagerström will lecture for the studio. Gustav is an architect and a Digital Practice Leader with Walther P More Engineering in New York, where he leads the computational modeling for structures and facades. He has a global experience of projects in over 10 countries, and has previously practiced with Urban Future Organization, KPF, UN Studio and Buro Happold. He is also leading one of the clusters in the ongoing SmartGeometry workshop at Chalmers. The lecture will present examples from practice (architecture + engineering) as well as academic exeriments, including SmartGeometry.
Monday 11/4, 16.00, room A124
The lecture is open - invite all your friends!
160404 Project 4 schedule online
Dear all, the new schedule is now uploaded to the Briefs + Schedules page. As mentioned, we are moving to a combination of morning meetings combined with a number of full tutorials days. This means that we will be present most mornings from 8.30 - 10, and some (fewer than before) Tuesdays and Thursdays we will be present for tutorials as usual. For the Full Scale team we expect to meet every morning (since you are many students in one team). Thesis students can select one slot any day of the week, and Design Project stduents can select 1 - 2 slots any day of the week. Our ambition is to post slots for tutorials once a week - We hope this becomes clear and helps you plan.
You will find the new schedule here.
160330 Free participation in SmartGeometry Conference next week
Dear all,
we have received an offer for free student participation in the SmartGeometry Conference (that follows the workshop at SmartGeometry in Gothernbirg next week). If you are interested in attendeing the two day conference, Friday + Saturday next week, please send an email to Jonas immediately.
More information at SmartGeometry website here
More information at Chalmers website here
160329 Submission of presentations today (Project 4, Phase 1), and brief Phase 2
Dear all, thank you for good presentations and conversations this morning. Please submit your presentations from today (or photographs of models for Design Project) on the server at this location.
The brief for Project 4, Phase 2, is available here.
160317 Introduction Project 4, choose Full-Scale or Design Project, brief available online
Dear all,
for those of you who missed the presentation today, the brief is available at link below. From now until Tuesday 29th, you should do an individual assignment, based on if you plan to do the Full Scale or the Design Project for project 2. This has to be conducted individually, and with no tutorials - see details in the brief. We also want you to sign up below for either Full-Scale, or Design Project.
We need this asap, in order to b eable to set the final schedule for Project 4.
Please fill in form below!
The new brief is available here.
Sign up for what project you want to do for Project 4 below, which also decides what phase 1 assignment you do.
Full Scale | Design Project |
Ádám | Tuija |
Haider | Petros |
Xinga | Sara |
Yunsi Hua | Agnieszka |
Jiaao liu | Nicodemus |
Matteo | Student X |
Bartosz | Student X |
Daniela | Student X |
Student X | Student X |
160317 Introduction Project 4, presentation of texts
Dear all,
today we'll meet at 15.00 in A434 for introduction to Project 4. Those students who didn't join us for the study trip will also present the 2 texts.
See you soon.
160314 To read for 4th years not on the London trip
For those of you not attending the London trip, we ask you to read, and on Thursday present your view on, two texts. The texts can be seen as a preliminary start-up for Project 4 – for Full Scale and Design Project respectively. The texts should be read by everyone, but we ask you who do not take part in the trip, to give a first introduction to your fellow students. For the Full Scale students the text poses a number of issues that one is facing in doing a design and build project of small size – based on the experience of a particular pavilion developed at the Architectural Association. For the Design Project students, the text introduces a particular design approach and line of exploration defined in the 1960, but very important for projects that deal with movement and experience especially from the 1990s until today. We will ask all of the Design Project students to interpret and apply this approach in your individual design development.
For students planning to do the Full Scale project:
Nine Problems in the Form of a Pavilion, Edited by Alan Dempsey and Yusuke Obuchi, AA Agendas No. 8, 2010, Excerpts
This publication from the Architectural Association uses the DRL-pavilion, designed and constructed for the 10-year anniversary of Design Research Laboratory (DRL) Master’s program at the AA. It poses nine different problems, or relevant issues, that could be part of any design-build endeavor employing digital design approaches. We find the text interesting not in its presentation of this particular pavilion, but rather as an account from a team that have gone through the complete process of conceptualizing, designing and building of a structure not unlike the one we will do this spring. You are asked to read and reflect on the nine problems, or aspects, of this kind of work, and present this to your fellow students.
For students planning to do the Design Project:
The Function of the Oblique – the architecture of Claude Parent and Paul Virilio 1962 – 1962, AA Documents 3, Excerpts
The function of the oblique was introduced by Paul Virilio and Claude Parent as part of their practice Architecture Principe in the 1960s. It can be regarded as a first formation of ideas that have influenced generations of architects, but it is a source that is rarely referenced. At the core, it is based on the idea that the inclined plane – the ramp, or sloping floor, has a particular effect on people. We will ask all Design Project students to work based on this notion, and later also relate it to projection – as a central theme for cinematic technology as well as experience. This first reading should lead to a basic understanding of the notion of the oblique, and a presentation of your reflections on the approach (the book also features samples of concrete structures based on Virilio’s love for concrete bunkers – this is not central to the idea of the oblique).
We will soon get back on the schedule for the coming Thursday, but please be ready for presenting the texts at some point in the afternoon. The texts are avaiable on our server at this location.
160311 Final Review Project 3
Dear all,
Thank you for today!
Please upload all your final review files to the server, today. Attach your model photos and your complete design portfolio. Keep it all in one pdf or zip the files, then it's much easier for us to download.
Those of you who won't join us on the trip should meet Julien on Tuesdaty at 14.00.
For the rest: see you on Monday morning in London!
160314-16 London Study Trip
The program is now available online on the Study Trips page.
160311 Final Review Project 3
The Final review will take place in A124 on the first floor. The room will be open from 9.00 for you to hang your presentations. We will start at 9.30 and follow the schedule below:
9.30 Munkbrohamnen - Sara Tuija
10.45 Riddarholmen - Daniela Haider Xinga
11.00 Norr Mälarstrand - Bartosz, Matteo, Adam
lunch break
13.00 Lidingö - Petros Agnieszka
13.45 Hornsberg - Hua Jiaao Nicodemus
We will have invited guests for the final review.
160301 Computational Design Session 11
We continue the successful plan to start the session at 9:30 for this Thursday :)
Session 11 is going to be mainly about Kangaroo:
- Form-finding and structural simulation process
- Minimal surface modelling
- Working with mesh geometry
We will hopefully have some time to take some questions as well, so if you wanna know something specific or if you have a problem you can bring it to the session.
160222 Study Trip
Dear all,
We're happy that many of you signed up for the study trip so far, but we're still missing answers from some of you.
We need your answers today (22/2), as we need to administrate a KTH student medical insurance card for you.
We need your answer regardless if you go or if you don't. Please help us by reminding your studio mates.
Sign up is under the title Study Trip > Trip registration on the left here.
160221 Computational Design Session 10
Dear all,
For next session on Thursday we are going to be about:
- Doing notches, tags, and extracting fabrication information from the Smithsonian Courtyard definition which we have been working on.
- Start with form-finding in Kangaroo.
You need to prepare:
- If you've missed last session make sure to go through the definition and understand the logic, in order to continue the work. You can find the definition uploaded on the server, here.
- Download and install Kangaroo and Weaverbird.
Some notes:
- Kangaroo comes in two versions: Kangaroo Physics 0.099, and Kangaroo 2.02. The new version has improvements and major changes, but is is still a WIP version which lacks some features. We will use the Kangaroo Physics 0.099, but you can install Kangaroo 2.02 in parallel to the old version, if you wish.
- If you want to read/watch a bit about Kangaroo before the session, you can find manuals, videos, and example files in the same link on the Grasshopper website.
- I guess you have also experienced that all sessions have started earliest 9:20. That's mainly due to the fact that only 1-3 students are on-time.You can occasionally be late on a session and that's fine, but it cannot become a routine! Specially for the lectures and theory sessions, and even more specially for Computational Design sessions, since they follow a linear process based on their nature. As a test we start this time at 9:30 sharp, in case 9:00 is too early. Please have respect for yourselves and your colleagues and be on-time if you want to come.
See you!
160212 SmartGeometry Deadline extended to February 19th
Dear all,
the deadline for applications to SmartGeometry has been extended to February 19th, although they state that submissions "already received" will be considered first...
Read more here.
160210 First details on the London trip
Dear all,
you can now find the first information regarding the trip on this page - you need to be logged in to view it. Please start reservations of travel and accomodation. We also want all of you to sign up on this page - so we know who is going (and not), and make sure to also add a mobile number htat you plan to use in London. You will also find links to the above pages to the left - Study trips.
160204 Brief and schedule project 3 online
Dear all, you will now find the brief and schedule online.
160201 Start Project 3
Dear all,
We will start the spring semester with introduction to project 3 today at 10:00 in A434.
See you!
151217 Final Crit project 2
Dear all,
tomorrow is the final crit for project 2. We will be in A124 and have presentations all through the day. There should be some extra panels in a123 which we can use if we need.
We start at 9.15, so please have everything ready by then. Each presentation will be 35 min per group/student including a discussion, see schedule below:
9.15 Haider/Xinja 9.50 Quirin 10.25 Hua
15 min break
11.15 Meg/Pavel/Agnieszka 11.50 Stefania
lunch break 12.25-13.15
13.15 Nicodemus 13.50 Ulf/Sara 14.25 Dominika/Leonie
15 min break
15.15 Sam 15.50 Felipe/Francesca 16.25 Matteo/Tom/Bartosz
We will have invited guests for the crit.
Good luck with your final preparations, see you tomorrow
/Elsa, Jonas, Kay and Julien
151211 Emptying the trash from the router, and limited time to run.
Dear all, the workshop has alerted us that the routines for emptying the trash in the basement does not work. You need to empty the containters downstairs after each session. Until this is working proporly, the workshop has banned use of the router beyond office hours (9 - 16.15). There is a card to borrow for access to the basement, please ask Ulf or Felipé for further information.
151214 Monday - last tutorial day
First a clarification to all students - we scheduled the final tutorial to Monday 14th rather than Tuesday 15th to give you more time to include the last feedback for the finals. We do have a full day of tutorials on Monday 14th - the schedule will be posted soon.
To all 5th-year students - please send an updated booklet by email no later than Thursday 10th 17.00 (preferably sooner). We will also schedule our final thesis booklet feedback session for Monday 14th - hopefully only minor details at this stage. You should submit the final version Friday 18th, at 15.00. If needed you may be asked to do complementary writing over the holidays for a final submission early January - but try to avoid this! Ps, for those of you who already sent it - feedback will be given according to above.
151208 Site visit City Banan
Dear all,
tomorrow we'll meet at City Banan information centre which is on the opposite side of the street from Torsgatan 26 at 8.45. See you tomorrow!
http://www.trafikverket.se/en/startpage/
/Elsa
Site visit City Banan information reminder
Dear all,
this is just a reminder that I need the information in the excel-file that I sent out earlier.
phone-number, ICE-phonenumber and boot size.
cheers / Elsa
151203 Site Visit Tallink Silja Terminal Värta harbour
Dear all,
Today we're going to the construction site of the ferry terminal for Tallink Silja in Värta harbour. It's one of the big infrastructural projects taking place in Stockholm right now where not only a new terminal is built but also the entire commercial and industrial harbout pier is rebuilt and extended further out into the water, to make place for new residential and commercial development.
We'll meet outside of the metro entrance for Tekniska Högskolan at no later than 13.40 (I won't wait), and then we'll take the tube together.
See you later, have fun at CD
/Elsa
151126 Interim Review
Dear all,
the interim tomorrow will be internal, with no external guests, and it will focus on coaching you further in your projects. We will be in room A124, and all should have material posted on panels no later than 9.15 - we need to start at this time, to be finnished by 15.00. This will leave ca 25 minutes per project - so please make your presentations brief and concise.
See you all tomorrow!
151124 Tuesday thesis booklet tutorials
Dear 5th years, for the booklet meeting on Tuesday, we want you to submit the first text version, based on the template sent out earlier.
Please email us your texts no later than Monday noon. Try to write short paragraphs under as many headlines as possible.
151118 Grades and potential complementary work Project 1
Dear all,
you should now have received your grades (i.e. the credits given) for Project 1. For those of you who have received complementary assignments, the deadline for Project 1 and 2 is May 15th 2016 (for 4th year students only). The deadline for 5th year students (since all credits must be passed before thesis is formally started) is January 13th 2016.
For any future complementary assignments given in Projects 3 and 4, the deadline will be August 15th 2016.
151112 CD: Sunlight Hours Analysis and Srf Manipultaion
Thanks for a good session today. The example files are uploaded here.
The useful link about citiation:
https://www.kth.se/social/course/EG201X/page/citation/
The useful link with checklists for academic writing:
151111 Nacka 3d
Dear all,
3d buildings and terrain available for Nacka projects, here:
151113 Pavilion Disassembly
Dear all,
a friendly reminder to be there for the pavilion disassembly this Friday, 13.00. Kay will be there in the beginning to help with any access etc (so make sure to be there at 13 sharp), but Felipe and Francesca will lead after that.
Thanks for your support!
151111 Interesting links
Dear all,
here are some links with more resources for your projects that can be interesting.
I'm working on getting 3d-buildings from Nacka.
http://www.nacka.se/web/bo_bygga/projekt/sickla_karta/centrala_nacka/Sidor/centralanackai3D.aspx
http://cityplanneronline.com/project/yfXVhCnC
http://data.stockholm.se/List/Data/kuber
/Elsa
151112 Open Lecture at school: Gilles Retsin, Thursday November 12
18.00, Room 108, KTH School of Architecture
We highly recommend this lecture!
Gilles Retsin is the founder of Gilles Retsin Architecture, a young award-winning London based architecture and design practice, interested in the impact of computation and new fabrication methods on the core principles of architecture. Alongside his practice, Gilles directs a research cluster at UCL/ the Bartlett school of Architecture investigating robotic manufacturing and large-scale 3D printing, and is senior lecturer at UEL.
"Architecture as a continuously evolving organic body, growing and adapting under external forces - the prevailing paradigm for computation in the past two decades - is under pressure. This lecture will explore how that paradigm has undermined architecture’s autonomy, and has fundamentally always been in trouble with tectonics. Rather then borrowing models from nature; or moving into neo-phenomenology; I will argue for an architectural ontology based on sharpening the tension between architecture and its parts. Increased computational capabilities are able to push the modernist understanding of architecture as an assemblage of prefabricated, discrete elements into an unexpected new domain of previously unachievable detail, materiality, structure and aesthetics."
The lecture is organised as part of the Draw, point, talk series, by the Stockholm Association of Architects.
You can follow their general program on Facebook here.
151110 Introducing Project 2
Dear all,
We now start project 2. You will find the brief and schedule (which may be updated) on the briefs and schedule page.
You will find relevant material, from digital models and drawings to reports and surveys on the server here, divided into Stockholm and Nacka.
151105
Dear all,
we will meet for the start-up of project 2 on Tuesday 10/11, 10.00, in room A434.
Before this, we ask you to form teams. In project 2, you can work individually, or in teams of 2 - 3. The specific sites for each team will be given to you on Tuesday after lunch, but you may swap between teams.
151104
...And you are in the local news:
151104 Post Finals and Computational Design Thursday
Dear all,
thanks for all work for our finals! We think it was a very good day, with many valuable conversations that could only happen due to your efforts, and our guests have been equally happy an dimpressed by your work.
As stated yesterday, you will receive the brief for project 2 next Tuesday. Until then, the following should be done:
- Computational design, tomorrow Thursday 9 - 12
- Make sure to complete you design portfolio, if you haven't already - one per project should be submitted.
- Submit your design presentation as per previous instructions (if you know any obvious mistakes or missing parts, include them).
- Photograph your model, and sumit images as well (zip multiple images before uploading).
- Get some rest
- (And, if you are a fifth-year student, think a bit of your ideas for your thesis)
151102 Final Review Project 1, Tuesday
Dear all,
we start the review tomorrow at 9.30 sharp - all projects should be pinned up at this time. We will in the amoeba - the entrance space, on the wall of the inner stairwell. You may use panels as well the wall to pin up. We will discuss the best poistion of the models when we meet - but we have discussed the space to the right of the pavilion. We will have a number of external guests, so make sure to be on time. We will wrap up at 16.00, where we will get additional guests who are very interested in your work - including media.
Also, make sure to upload your presentation pdfs on the server, in this location, as soon as possible. Name your files according to the following principle: BrommaBlocksFinalReview.pdf.
We look forward to see your progress tomorrow!
/ Your tutors
151022 MILLING JOB
Hello,
The updated "Quick Guide for contouring and milling" has been uploaded to the server: Kurser > ARCH > Studio 9 > 01_Resources > Master Cam > "151022 Quick guide"
Please take into account that the final files for the milling job can only be prepared on the workstation of the CNC Lab!
As said yesterday during the Mastercam demonstration, each group will have the chance to mill the model during one day only, starting tomorrow Friday 23rd until Friday 30th, including the weekend if necessary. Please sing up in the chart below.
Fri 23 | Sat 24 | Sun 25 | Mon 26 | Tue 27 | Wed 28 | Thu 29 | Fri 30 | |
File preparation | ||||||||
Milling job | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
We encourage you to prepare the files enough in advance, since the idea is to run the milling jobs as early as possible in the mornings. The files can also be prepared while a milling job is running, so it would be great to prepare all of them during the first two days. Take into account that the actual milling time might be up to three times (!!) the calculated time by the program; milling a big model could easily take a whole working day.
All the requested material is already available at the school, thicknesses 50 and 70mm. You can find it at the assembly workshop (beside the DFL Lab). Please take only the material that you have ordered. Prepare also the material enough in advance: if you need to glue some foam pieces, do it at least the day before the milling job so that they are dry, ready and perfectly flat. The glue sold at the woodshop works perfectly fine.
Feel free to contact us for any questions,
Ulf & Felipe
151020 Deliverables for Finals
These are the refined deliverables for the final review. The tutorials on Thursday 22/10 will focus on deliverables - we will discuss the specific representations for each project - see the Tutorials page, soon to be updated.
Deliverables:
- All material printed as A1 drawings, landscape format. Posters should include annotation - labels of all drawings, north arrows, scales, height annotations, indications of sections on plans, indications on where perspectives are taken, legends for color coding and other pertinent information
- Project title, and a minimum 200 - 300 word text describing your concept and proposal, and your approach to the relation between architecture and infrastructure (included in design portfolio and on posters)
- Initial analysis and vision through relevant plans, diagrams and other representations (reformatted to A1)
- At least one plan, section and elevation scale 1:200, with complementary drawings in 1:500
Site plan 1:1000 or 1:2000 (depending on the size). - One axonometric drawing explaining entire project.
- Exterior and interior illustrations
- Diagrams clarifying concepts, design processes, movement, connectivity, daylight, program as relevant
- Diagrammatic structural principles of relevant aspects
- Physical model as decided in Studio
- Design Portfolio showing process from analysis to final proposals - collect all material in printed A3 format
Remember that our guests do not know your projects or sites before. The overall drawing of the tram line will be available for general reference.
151019 MATERIAL ACQUISITION FOR MODELS
Hello,
We are coordinating when to buy the material we need to do our models. The proposal is that we buy the material ourselves in Bauhaus Bromma and then we get reimbursed by the Studio.
The material is white cellplast, dimensions 60x120cm, thicknesses of 20, 30, 40, 50 and 70mm (some thicknesses might not be available at Bromma). Check this link out:
http://www.bauhaus.se/cellplast-s80-600x1200x40-mm.html
So each group has to check what is the suitable thickness (taking into account the terrain variation, plus the existing buildings and an additional centimeter at the bottom, scale 1:500).
The idea is to buy the material at Bauhaus on Monday, so a person from each group can join.
We will have the CNC milling demonstration on Wednesday from 9 to 12 in the computer room A111, so please make sure that all of you have the ready to work landscape file, because we will set the Master Cam file on all models.
See you on Monday to define the necessary material and to organize the purchase. Please make material calculations in advance. Each group will have one day to mill, starting from Friday 23rd to Friday 30th, including weekends if necessary.
Nice weekend,
Ulf & Felipe
151015 MID CRIT TOMORROW
Dear all,
Tomorrow we have our mid review between 11-18. We will be in room A123 and start with group Kista, and then go from north to south along the Tvärbana-route.
We will hang on our movable panels, each group can use 2 panels, the room will be open from 10.30 at least.
We will start at 11 (sharp) with 2 groups before lunch (12.30-13.15) and then go on with 3 groups+3 groups with a short break in between. Keep your presentation to about 15 min to allow for a discussion.
See you tomorrow and good luck!
151012 Tomorrow's session
Dear all,
We meet tomorrow at 9:00 in the studio, doing another session on Computational Design.
For the afternoon there will be tutorials with us, as well as structural engineers from Tyréns. So if you have questions regarding structural issues, it'll be a good chance to discuss them.
See you!
151010 Colour schemes
On our server space you can find the colour samples for your maps and diagrams. As said today we all should follow one colour scheme:
services/commercial - red; residential - yellow; public/greenery - green; offices - blue; culture - orange; sports - pink. More colours and shades you can find in the pdf linked below.
151007 The Studio 9 Pavilion will be constructed for the school opening - help needed!
Dear all, as you all now, the official opening of the school is on Monday. We have finally received a go ahead to reconstruct the TMT pavilion (Tensioned Modular Triangles), designed by Francesca, Giulia and Felipe last spring, and erected by all studio students. It will be placed in the main space on level 1 - the centerspot of the building. In order to accomplish this, we kindly ask for volunteers. Construction will take place on this Saturday, 10/10, starting at 10.00 (easy to remember). The more we are, the faster progress we will make. For any questions check with Felipe or Francesca - the pavilion parts will be located on site by late Friday afternoon. With enough people, it should be done by late afternoon. Pizzas will be offered.
Since we need to know how many we can expect, please sign up below (just edit and enter your name):
Vilius
name
name
name
...
151001 Computational Design: Integration Analysis and GH Basics
Thanks for today's session!
The example files can be found in the Session 2 folder.
"Decoding Spaces" add-on for Integration Analysis is available in the Softwares folder.
Further reading on Space Syntax if you find it interesting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_syntax
150930 Computational Design Session 2
See you tomorrow Thursday at 9:00 in A111.
150930 Regarding the Thesis scholarship for collaborative projects
Dear all,
as Ulf discovered, the application deadline for ARQ, for collaborative thesis projects, has been postponed to November 2nd. Read more here: http://www.arqforsk.se/
150929 Second Pinup - With SL
Dear all,
tomorrow we will be in A334. Those who'd like to use the projector are able to do so, otherwise we will look at printed material mounted on our panels that we will have to bring from our studio space down to level 3.
We will have three guests from SL who works with the development of Tvärbanan joining us for this session. Please be ready to start at 9.00 sharp tomorrow, so have all your material, printed and mounted before then.
See you tomorrow!
150922 Computational Design: GIS
Dear all, thanks for your attendance today!
You can find the files from this session here.
Useful links which we used today:
.osm data for use in Elk: https://www.openstreetmap.org/
SRTM files to make toposurface with Elk: http://dds.cr.usgs.gov/srtm/version2_1/SRTM3/
Detailed, accurate and official GIS data for Meerkat: http://www.giscentrum.lu.se/english/geodataUnivPersonell.htm
Installation files for Elk and Meerkat, and a selection of Stockholm Shape Files are on the server, under 01_Resources.
150922 First Computational Design Session
Hi!
Tomorrow's session will be held in the Computer Lab, room A111 at 9:00.
We would remind you to get the sofwares installed and bring your laptops. Please be on time in order to follow the progress, since we will start the discussions from scratch.
See you tomorrow.
150918 First pinup - REVISED
Revision - schedule today as follows:
13 - 14 Tutorial on thesis project, Vilius, in studio
14 - 16.30 Pinup in studio. Boards will be available from 12.
Dear all, we decided to try the pinup in the studio space after all. We start at 13.00, and we will bring additional screens in just before lunch. Make sure to print all your material well in time before we start (if you have not yet used the new printer system, make sure to test it already today.
We should also make sure that we have moved our tables acccording to the conversation this Monday.
See you all tomorrow.
150917 Software preparation
Dear all,
It's soon time to get your gears ready for the year! Please make sure you have Rhino 5 and latest version of Grasshopper installed on your laptops before the Computational Design session on Tuesday 22/9.
Rhino is available both for PC and Mac. You can download a 90-days trial version of Rhino 5 here:
https://www.rhino3d.com/download
Grasshopper is a plug-in for Rhino, and at the moment it runs only on the PC version. So if you have a Macintosh you have to install Rhino in the Windows environment. Grasshopper is free and can be downloaded here:
http://www.grasshopper3d.com/page/download-1
Both Rhino and Grasshopper are installed on the machines in the computer lab. Yet it's better to get your own versions asap, since we will be working with additional plug-ins already from the first session and those are not available on school's computers.
150915 Template for the Design Portfolio
As mentioned on Monday, we ask you to document all your process in a Design Portfolio. For your convienience there is a template for this document, but you are also free to change to your own layout and graphics. We will present the Design Portfolio through examples on Friday, but if you want to use it for the pinup, it is available on the server in the 01_Resources section as a zipped InDesign template file. You can access it through this direct link.
150920 The walk on Älvsjöbågen - the train bridge of Citybanan
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As mentioned, this Sunday, September 20th, the new train bridge (passed on today's excursion) will be open for a Sunday walk 11.00 - 15.00. The walk starts at Älvsjö godsbangård (near Västberga allé 61), but there will be shuttle buses from Årstaberg station (reached by tram or commuter train), and you can reach it with bus 165. Entrance is free, and it will only be open this Sunday. Staff will be available for questions.
When opened in 2017, the bridge will be used for north-bound regional, distance and freight traffic, and is linked to the old Årsta railway bridge. It's 1.4 km long, with max height 17 m above ground level, and was produced by a movable form-work shuttle.
More info here: http://www.trafikverket.se/Privat/Projekt/Stockholm/Citybanan/Nyhetsarkiv-start/2015-08/promenera-pa-citybanans-jarnvagsbro-209/
150915 A few links on statistics
Dear all,
please find a few useful links on statistics and demographics below.
Tillväxt- och regeionplaneförvaltningen / Growth and Regional Planning Administration – statistics portal: http://www.trf.sll.se/statistik/
Statistiska centralbyrån / Statistics Sweden: http://www.scb.se
Stockholms stad / City of Stockholm: http://www.stockholm.se/OmStockholm/Fakta-och-kartor/
Stockholmskällan: http://www.stockholmskallan.se/
And of course Wikipedia: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholms_kommun
150914 Starting the academic year 2015 - 2016
Dear all, welcome to Studio 9! This page will be used for news, see also the Tutorials page for scheduling of tutorials.