AA LANDSCAPE URBANISM STUDIO WORK 2011-12: WEAVE, RETHINKING THE URBAN SURFACE

AA LANDSCAPE URBANISM STUDIO WORK 2011-12:
WEAVE, RETHINKING THE URBAN SURFACE
Mentougou, Beijing China

Students: David Witte and Du Chen

WEAVE sets as its framework China’s economic boom and migration from the countryside which is boosting a high-speed urbanism that produces new cities in the shortest imaginable time, changing the faces of older towns. This directional urbanization, propelled from the coastal zones into the countryside, has brought the smallest villages face to face with the phenomenon of globalization – and its foreign capital and generic architecture.

Our course brief was based on China’s ambition to build 400 new cities by the year 2020. And we were asked to engage opportunistically with the generation of ‘proto-strategies’ for new large-scale agglomerations as a means of critically addressing the phenomenon of mass-produced urban sprawl. Our test bed is the growing sprawl of Beijing as capital of an emerging global superpower.

Explore the full project HERE

Peter Trummer lectured at the Architectural Assocaition Landscape Urbanism Lecture Series

Peter Trummer

Landscape Urbanism Lecture Series

Date: 8/10/2012
Time: 18:00:00
Venue: Lecture Hall

Running time: 1hr 38mins mins

This lecture will address the materialist position as an urban design practice through recent examples, international case studies and a manifesto.

Peter Trummer is Professor for Urban Design and head of IOUD: the Institute of Urban Design & Planning at the University of Innsbruck. Currently, he is a visiting professor at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles and at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 

This is the second of a 4-part public lecture series organised by the AA Graduate School Landscape Urbanism Programme

AA LANDSCAPE URBANISM STUDIO WORK 2011-12: PROTOTYPICAL URBANITIES: SOCIAL WATERSCAPES

AA LANDSCAPE URBANISM STUDIO WORK 2011-12
SOCIAL WATERSCAPES
FANSHANG, BEIJING CHINA

Students: Ana Abram, Costanza Madricardo, Jaime Traspaderne

The Social Waterscapes Project investigates the role of water infrastructures within the city as a medium to improve social life. In the context of Chinese rapid urbanisation, we explore the potential of water as an instrument of modernisation... Explore Complete Project HERE

AA LANDSCAPE URBANISM STUDIO WORK 2011-12: PROTOTYPICAL URBANITIES: PERFORMATIVE GROUND-WORKS

AA LANDSCAPE URBANISM STUDIO 2011-12
PERFORMATIVE GROUND-WORK
TONGZHOU, BEIJING CHINA

Students: Leah Moukarzel, Jason Chee Han, Qijin Hana


‘Performative Ground-Works’ project has been developed in Tongzhou district. It comes as a response to rapid de-industrialization processes that take place in major Chinese cities.
The project explores mechanisms of soil remediation treatments as ‘prototypical urbanities’ intertwined with socio-ecological and economical changes. The mechanisms required to perform the ground works demand a laborious process that engages with the local community. The formation of the landscape integrates treatments in a phased development, bridging between land-form and built form. The notion of connectivity acquires an important role in merging the new ground into a continuous network of programmes, activities and spaces. Explore the complete project HERE

Eelco Hoofman lectured at the Architectural Assocaition Landscape Urbanism Lecture Series

Eelco Hooftman

LAND / SCAPE / ARCHITECTURE

Date: 1/10/2012 

Time: 18:00:00 

Venue: Lecture Hall

The first of four talks in the Landscape Urbanism Lecture Series, organised by the AA Graduate School Landscape Urbanism Programme. Open to all.

Landscape Architecture interacts in a complex continuum between man and nature, town and country, land and architecture. We no longer reconcile the duality of opposite forces but orchestrate and choreograph a multitude of dynamic and hybrid interactions. How to turn towards a new landscape architecture of sustainable optimism; a potent mix of artificial intelligence and natural instinct?

Eelco Hooftman is a founding partner with Bridget Baines of GROSS. MAX. Landscape Architects. He integrates theory and practice of landscape architecture in an extensive output of projects that combines a Dutch sense of experimentation with a British sense of humor and a German sense of rigour. Hooftman has regularly visited as a critic at the AA School and is the first landscape architect to be selected as member of the Royal Society of the Arts in Scotland. In 2010, Building Designrecognised GROSS. MAX. as Public Realm Architect of the Year. The studio’s collaborators include Zaha Hadid, David Chipperfield, Amanda Levete Architects, Piet Oudolf and artist Mark Dion. Current projects include Tempelhof Freiheit, the transformation of the former Tempelhof Airport in Berlin and a linear park for the Central Business District in Beijing.

The first of a 4-part lecture series organised by the  Open to all.

AA Landsacpe Urbanism Final Presentation September 2012

The AA Landscape Urbanism 11-12 final presentation took place on the 18th September at the Architectural Association. Many thnaks to the students and the jury for their hard work and comments. We will be publishing soon more details...

AA LANDSACPE URBANISM, PROJECTS REVIEW 2012

AA Landscape Urbanism exhibition at the AA Projects Review 2012

AA LANDSCAPE URBANISM IN BILBAO APRIL 2012

The AA Landscape Urbanism went to Bilbao as part of the annual LU in the field workshop. This year AALU students 2011-12 worked on the creation of a overall strategy for Bilbao in relation to the potentials and challenges the city faces. The students presented their work to the local authorities and had the support of the Bilbao municipality through the Urban and Services departments. The workshop took place at "La Alhondiga" a multipurpose cultural facility located in the center of the city. The work was published in the Bilbao LAN TV and the local newspaper El correo.

More info HERE 

Many thanks to Fran Viñez -Obras y Servicios Bilbao town hall- and to the architects Asier Santas and Luis Suarez for their insights into the city of Bilbao.

ALFREDO RAMIREZ LECTURES IN KW INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, BERLIN

Alfredo Ramirez will be giving a talk within the "Free Space Design in the Contemporary City" Colloquium at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 30th March 2012. The lecture will deal with the way in which Groundlab and Landscape Urbanism engage with the concept of the ground, both as a spatial strategy but also as a generator of a wider perspective to think about cities, territories and ecologies.