tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28437773362901923082024-03-13T09:03:07.420-07:00Yanchee LauFitzrovia Chalkboard was conceived for the Great Titchfield Street Festival as part of London Festival of Architecture 2013. One of a number of events planned for the month long festival, the inaugural street projects will promote positive change in the area, transforming Great Titchfield Street – from Mortimer Street up to Langham and Foley Street – into a pedestrianised haven for the day.Yancheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08023142117333843328noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2843777336290192308.post-44820327098393157682013-07-08T15:03:00.000-07:002013-07-08T15:03:48.583-07:00Fitzrovia Chalkboard<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Fitzrovia Chalkboard is a temporary installation that creates a single point of display for collective messages in the local community – a structure that is a massive writing surface for all to contribute. It is inspired by how local, independent businesses rely on the traditional chalkboard as a means to advertise and mark their place on the street, in a time when technology offers many alternatives. Fitzrovia Chalkboard is designed using such recent advances and the public are invited inside the structure to view its innovative construction.<br />
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Inspired by Ramboll’s recent Trada Pavillion, the structure comprises of 47 birch plywood panels joined together by steel hinges. It is designed using methods developed by Ramboll Computational Design to produce exact cutting patterns for digital fabrication. All panels are numbered sequentially and this<br />
approach ensures that all panels fit together to create the form in a quick assembly process.<br />
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Fitzrovia Chalkboard was conceived for the Great Titchfield Street Festival as part of London Festival of Architecture 2013. One of a number of events planned for the month long festival, the inaugural street projects will promote positive change in the area, transforming Great Titchfield Street – from Mortimer Street up to Langham and Foley Street – into a pedestrianised haven for the day.<br />
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Yancheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08023142117333843328noreply@blogger.com0Great Titchfield Street, City of Westminster, London, UK51.5191528 -0.14089379999995851.5092723 -0.16106379999995799 51.5290333 -0.120723799999958tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2843777336290192308.post-24026003022496895042012-08-07T14:24:00.002-07:002012-08-07T14:28:23.273-07:00Oculus<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0JhuNb3TX1HgVs4ZCZwV1Z3a_2yJbBRHV529if6JuduLxbDR7Z-NbivKkPTSY3Z5w2kXFFJ9kV_rtlPdp9-fgtpKSCIAlvXjQMYUo2UwhAYGvo6ylBZVVtQM3LrtlE8FJwmmqwuVI0jw/s1600/IMG_5479_FIX.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="441" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0JhuNb3TX1HgVs4ZCZwV1Z3a_2yJbBRHV529if6JuduLxbDR7Z-NbivKkPTSY3Z5w2kXFFJ9kV_rtlPdp9-fgtpKSCIAlvXjQMYUo2UwhAYGvo6ylBZVVtQM3LrtlE8FJwmmqwuVI0jw/s640/IMG_5479_FIX.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25px;">Oculus is a temporary public space created for London Festival of Architecture at South Crescent, Store Street (WC1) from 4th to 12th July 2012.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 25px;">I was part of the <a href="http://www.ramboll.co.uk/" target="_blank">Ramboll </a>team that planned, designed, created, and installed the suspended lens part of the installation. <a href="http://www.rozbarr.com/" target="_blank"> Roz Barr Architects</a> designed the surface and seating formed by some 7000 sandbags. We enjoyed kind support from a number of collaborators including <a href="http://www.newlondonarchitecture.org/exhibition.php?id=393&name=oculus" target="_blank">NLA </a>and <a href="http://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/events/event_diary_details.asp?id=831" target="_blank">The Building Centre</a>. Full credits can be found <a href="http://www.derwentlondon.com/derwentlondon_files/files/oculus_release.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 25px;">The suspended lens is a structure that holds a pool of water in the air to create distorted views of the surroundings. It acts as a direct mirror of the sandbag amphitheatre below at ground.</span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 25px;">Photos are courtesy of me and Ramboll.</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The Realist's Wallet has space only for a cash card, an Oyster card (for travel), and some notes. We will find that we are not hindered by this small act of frugality.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The wallet is made of a few pieces of leather that are hand stitched with bright thread. Detailing is simple and robust. It is just bigger than a card and does not open up. Notes are slid and hidden into the central compartment.<span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So we have just spent the last few days in the basement of the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane. It was great to show people our work and we got some good feedback. And now it is gone as quickly as it appeared.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This project is about finding a befitting physical and emotional sense of place for sentimental junk.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The outcome is a thick walnut timber shelf for sentimental junk. Most sentimental junk is paper - these are held vertically, closely alongside each other, held in slots sawn into the top of the shelf. Every slot is the result of a bespoke action, as and when required to suit the arrival of a new item. Non-paper items sit alongside their paper counterparts. A saw to perform the ritual of sawing is slung from the shelf. <o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sawing the slots into the walnut shelf is a commitment for posterity and so elevates the status of the sentimental junk. It is nostalgic of marking trees and recording our height on door frames when we were young.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<div style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was part of a team which provided concept, design and delivery of an installation event for <a href="http://www.ramboll.co.uk/">Ramboll</a> during <a href="http://www.lfa2010.org/">London Festival of Architecture 2010</a>. We were kindly supported by <a href="http://www.klhuk.com/">KLH</a> and <a href="http://www.kier.co.uk/">Kier</a>. This was called The Carbon Cube and was found on Store Street (Central London) for a week and a half.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The following words can be found also on the <a href="http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/07/02/lfa-rambolls-carbon-cube/">AJ Footprint blog</a>:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"The Carbon Cube is an installation which aims to demystify the term carbon footprint. A team of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ramboll.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;">Ramboll<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></a>engineers has designed and installed the cube - which is a physical representation of how much carbon the average UK citizen emits - as part of the ‘We love Store Street’ programme of events.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Carbon Cube, if solid, is the volume of timber required to absorb the average UK citizen’s annual CO2 output - a 2.4m cube. In comparison, the carbon cube for the average Kenyan citizen is roughly 600mm cube.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The timber blocks spilling out of the cube are intended to show that the large solid volume can be broken down into more manageable pieces. The installation offers information about how activities can equate to the volumes of the stools and benches, if solid. For example, a return journey from London to Paris on the Eurostar rather than by plane saves 3 stools.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ramboll’s message is one of positivity and to promote awareness that timber is a material that absorbs CO2 and can be grown and harvested sustainably. Most messages to the public on sustainability indicate doom and gloom and disempower people from taking action to adopt responsible lifestyle choices. Ramboll wants to generate a buzz around - ‘what’s your carbon cube?’ and what you can do about it.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black;">Visitors are invited to make a pledge by decorating a timber cube and to enjoy the touch and texture of the spruce cubes. <o:p></o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">The installation is on display til July 4th at the NLA’s temporary pocket park on Store Street.</span></span></i></div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></i></span></div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It’s encouraging to know that the Carbon Cube is destined to a new home off a public footpath in a Welsh forest when it leaves Store Street. More information on the installation and the story behind it <a href="http://www.ramboll.co.uk/news/viewnews.aspx?newsid=768ABC60-0D44-4CCD-86E9-32359E36CE6E" style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a>."</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This was created for <a href="http://www.ramboll.co.uk/">Ramboll </a>to chart innovation over the last 5 years. A full pdf version can be found <a href="http://www.ramboll.co.uk/about%20us/~/media/0346D57D6EF6401EA14B05AAE94D304C.ashx?dl=true">here</a>. I designed the concept, Clare Sims crafted the words, Seema Dhah and Linaka Greensword finished the layout, and the engineers at Ramboll provided all the stories.</span>Yancheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08023142117333843328noreply@blogger.com0