Task - 3 Home-thrusting

workshop: landscape of escape

An entrance takes shape in the pride of architectural design, while an exit does in the mere excuse of building codes or may feature the negative side of an access. An exit hardly fosters a habit. But it brings about an unhomely condition, when engaged in consciously. Highrises due to verticality sometimes, particularly at accidents, unfold the familiar, homely, almost subconsciously acknowledged scene of leaving into a much desperate form of flight. We are reconfiguring the urban phenomenon by equipping two existing towers with new exits and choreographing an enjoyable means of way-out.

term: 6 ½-day (14 Nov. - 20 Nov.)
venue: Architecture Dep. American Univ.
participants: 4 groups (Greenwich Univ. + American Univ.)
coordinator: Mohamed Daljubori
tutors: Tea Lim, Taeyoung Kim
critics: Tea Lim, Taeyoung Kim, Mohamed Daljubori
sponsor: Campbell Reith Hill International


design: a network of exits with a specific programme
site: ½ of Al Thurraya in Dubai + ½ of Centre Point (London), including each context

preparatory work:reading the information inc. drawings on Al Thurraya tower and Centre Point
study on the homely/unhomely, domestic/foreign conditions of each context

schedule:
14 Nov. arrival, visit Dubai tower (TBC), brain storming seminar
issues: contexts of two towers (urbanism, weather/climate, culture)
atmospheric characters of escape (intensity, duration, frequency)
escape orientations (in/out parameter, verticality, (non)linear)

15 Nov. schematic design
outcome: collages, axonometric translations of collages, study models (physical)

16 Nov. trip to Abu Dhabi, design development
outcome: design development

17 Nov. design development
outcome: preliminary digital models, scenic sketches (perspective)

18 Nov. design development, short trip
outcome: preliminary digital models, scenic drawings

19 Nov. design development
outcome: digital models, basic drawings, scenic drawings

20 Nov. finalising design, presentation (15:00 - )
outcome: story boards, digital models, basic drawings, scenic drawings, process doc.

21 Nov. departure



refs: Bernard Tschumi, 1996, Architecture & Disjunction
J. G. Ballard, 1975, High-rise
Rem Koolhaas et al, 1995, S, M, L, XL (Exodus)
Jonathan Hill, 1998, The Illegal Architect
Mark Wigley, 1998, Constant’s New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire