123 final jury panels | 23.JAN.2009

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to view a slideshow of our flash presentation see posting further below (scroll down)
OR visit:
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to see images from my team's project [123] : a design proposal for the UAE

AADRLv11 grad class celebration | 26.JAN.2009

view pictures from the DRLv11 dinner party celebrating the completion of our M.Arch degrees at the Architectural Association!: http://picasaweb.google.com/lindsaycarol/AADRLv11GradClass?feat=directlink

DRL final jury | 22-23.JAN.2009

see images from the 11 Design Research Lab teams presenting M.Arch thesis work at the Architectural Association: http://picasaweb.google.com/lindsaycarol/DRLThesisCandidacyJury?feat=directlink

123 final thesis presentation | 23.JAN.2009

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

123 challenges the proliferation of haphazard urbanisation and incoherent architecture resulting from the accelerated globalization of the Gulf Region, via research on the algorithmic and geometric principles inherent to traditional Arabic patterns. This algorithmic approach constitutes the basis for a new scripted morphology generating variation and difference across urban fields, clusters, and architectural systems. The proposal aims to create diverse, interactive metropolitan spaces which challenge the generic and disconnected qualities of the current Dubai model by offering flexibility within a repetitive coherence . Addressing scenarios of tourism, commercial, and residential development, the project focuses on an area of three distinct peninsulas within the city of Ras' al-Khaimah and operates on a range of scales and patterns where organizational tendencies differing in distribution, density, and structure are generated. From the intersection of arabesque geometries, coded point clouds are scanned in order to establish parametric rules for defining typological difference and relationships between mat building landscape and high-rise clustering, while a structural envelope of variable thickness addresses environmental response and spatial configurations across these building forms. Transformation techniques of blending, fractalizing, disturbance, and layering are investigated to inform adaptable scenarios for future incremental growth, unpredictable development, and nodal densification.

see images from my team's project [123] at:

http://picasaweb.google.com/lindsaycarol/123FinalThesisPresentation?feat=directlink