Miguel Fonseca

showcase 09

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www.uel.ac.uk/avashowcase
www.avaarchitecture.com

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You are warmly invited to attend the AVA annual Architecture Year End Show on
Wednesday 24 June at 6pm. The exhibition features work by students from
across our Architecture programmes including BSc Honours,
Professional/Graduate Diploma and Masters level, as well as our foundation
Year 0 programme. The show will be opened by David Adjaye with speeches from
6:45pm.

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Architecture Year End Show

Official opening by David Adjaye

Opening Night: Wednesday 24 June 6pm

Thursday 25 June - Friday 10 July 2009

In addition to the Architecture Year End Show, Fine Art will hold an Interim
Show featuring over 20 artists who are currently enrolled on the Professional
Doctorate in Fine Art and PhD programmes.

Professional Doctorate in Fine Art Interim Show

Opening Night: Wednesday 24 June 6pm

Thursday 25 - Monday 29 June 2009

School of Architecture and the Visual Arts

University of East London

Docklands Campus

London E16 2RD

DLR Cyprus Station

Opening hours:

Weekdays: 10 - 6

Weekends: 10 - 4

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Still working on it, but here it is.... I´ll post the rest of the work later... I like it!

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and tomorrow is the external's. Tutor asked me if I was winning, I said it was possibly a tie

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As for the direction of management the proximity or integration of a space where something like the Ismet Siral Creative Music Studio in Istanbul can coexist with the hotel seems to be ever relevant as to kick start (euphemism for push for) a management for the hotel driven by the given direction of cultural interchange. This is one example among many that can find artistic residence in the studio areas living side by side the guest areas at the Sound Hotel.

more info: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=22858

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With a movie under its belt by Abel Ferrara, which I can't get my hands on no matter how I try (Chelsea on the Rocks - 2008) presented in last years' Cannes Festival, this is surely a more then relevant example of the importance my hotel would get once implemented. That artists would get together to protect it because of the history, or story, involved in the building. This does not happen solely with bricks but also with aimed management, but I believe that in Istanbul there is enough cultural excitement around music and the arts to make this a realistic albeit not obvious approach.

"Hotel Chelsea is proud of its selection of accommodations. The rich history as home to greats in literature and art is reflected in the rooms that are filled with the natural light of floor-to-ceiling windows. Just the right eclectic and modern furnishings lend a sense of spaciousness.

Included for today's comfort - Air Conditioning, Cable TV, Comfortable Parlors in the Suites, Studios with Kitchenette, Full Bath with Shower, Rooms with Shared Bath, Work Areas with Desks and Ample Lighting. "

more info:

http://www.hotelchelsea.com/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1134665/

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Continue reading "Sonic Boom - Ian Ritchie (with David Toop) 2000" »

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Today I "finally"! started to make some sense of form and function. Work needs to be done and I will try to blog the process gone into it, but for now I will only say that it is Hotel+Sound Studios.

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The project for Istanbul is now in full swing and we are being asked some very difficult questions for the site. Mainly the project at hand concerns itself with a master plan which can integrate a cultural offer for Istanbul which seems to be missing from the agenda of the state (there are no public libraries in Istanbul for example).

With this in mind my masterplan has been attempting to integrate some of the typological examples encountered in much of the ottoman public architecture and adapting these to the site in a modern language.

In the case of inserting the possibility of a play area, for local musicians and a park that draws people into the space, I will have to provide for a reviewed terminal which will not be seen to alienate its surroundings through a direct gate.

To sum up the challenge is to equally provide for a gated area and a fully accessible public area; juggle quiet spaces of reflexion and reading with the more impromptu and free adaptable spaces for the use of the general public.

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Continue reading "Sound Mirrors" »

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These are the movies that I took during our field trip to Istanbul. Always a good source of flavour...

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This animation was done to explain the main concept for our 5 in 1 Stack Hotel Lobby and eventually rooms. Do you get it?

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Some plays of words can get you into trouble and this one just might. But its irresistible. To any one out there that may have something against these two here is a good surgical scalpel....

Personally I refrain... I think they´re great architects, but you never know... they might just loose their touch at some point...

So here is a photo of the bird´s nest stadium in construction in Beijing... We saw this DVD in class this monday and it was serious food for thought. From process to implementation... everything. I just wonder if they could of stopped it when this shot was taken. Just for the sake of the delirious armaggedonous quality of it...

The DVD is out on all respectable shops and costs money... The title is Bird´s Nest - Herzog and de Meuron in China

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We´ve stacked all teams room layouts today. Remains fine tuning, encountering a valid skin strategy, a circulation path other than lifts from floor to top providing a more architectural means of traveling between floors and finally, a clear structural strategy for each independently sustained floor.

For all else, there is hope... and meetings between groups negotiating a fine tuned and intentional Christmas proposal.

Personally I love it. Potential of multiplicity...

Enough said

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Currently we are advancing to a simplified version of our lobby as we seemed to struggle with unity of language. This a by project as the main focus is currently on room layout on the three floors above. As we are tunning our main concept we have decided to update and improve aspects of the lobby that we found ill conceived or simply outside the acceptable. We also had to contend with programmatic requirements.

Our hotel delivers the clients a space where the public meets the private. The lobby offers Restaurant Area, Two Stage Areas that can be used for Theatre or Cinema or Conferences. We have assumed an interest in the area of greater cultural offer and the hotel can function thus as a magnet for organizing functions ranging from art exhibitions based on sound and images, live performances, cinema, or even corporate meetings. We intend to provide the hotel with the possibility of a two way revenue facility and also a place geared for the public.

We are now making changes to the lobby area and will continue to do so whenever possible. Here are some previews of how we have been progressing.

River View (left to right) - Lounge Area and Kitchen Above / Restaurant / Stage Area

North West View (left to right) Auditorium / Main Entrance / Lounge Area / Cocktail Bar

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We had a presentation for our lobby with a microphone!

Both Nick and Irene were present so it felt a little more serious.

We were first up and I had to present.

Continue reading "5in1 stack Hotel - Hanging Lobby" »

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