AALU IN CHILE: GAME (ON) SANTIAGO

Eva Castro (AA Landscape Urbanism director) will be part of the Game (On) Santiago workshop in the Catholic University of Santiago de Chile (6th to 15th January). The intensive ten-day studio based design workshop is open to students, young architects and other designers worldwide. In Chile the construction of a new sports infrastructure to house the 'South-American Games ODESUR 2014'is being treated as an unparalleled opportunity to transform a range of environments. By taking a critical look at the ambitious plans currently under development, and proposing design alternatives, the workshop aims at defining strategies applicable at different scales. Participants will approach this project by integrating different fields of architectural action. This design research will encourage explorations ranging through material properties, construction processes, parametric design and digital fabrication, right up to the urban and landscape scales, taking account of the local cultures and Chile’s spectacular landscape.

The course will be taught by tutors from the AA School and the Catholic University. Eva Castro (AA Landscape Urbanism), Monia De Marchi (AA Diploma Unit 9), and Alejandra Bosch (AA Landscape Urbanism) will join Rodrigo Pérez de Arce, Arturo Lyon, Pedro Ignacio Alonso, J Parrish and Holgar Kehne.

DOUGLAS SPENCER IN TRENTO UNIVERSITY

AA Landscape Urbanism history and theory tutor Douglas Spencer will lecture in Italy at Trento University's Faculty of Engineering on "AA Landscape Urbanism: A Renewed Praxis" on 18 November. Considering a range of contemporary urban conditions operating outside those of the discipline's original North American and Westernised telos of the 'post-industrial' and 'post-urban', in this lecture he will argue for a critically-oriented renewal of Landscape Urbanism's theory and practice

JORGE AYALA IN CONVERSATION WITH PEI ZHOU STUDIO, 6TH NOVEMBER 2009

AALU graduate currently working with Groundlab in Beijing, will be heading a discussion panel in Pei Zhu office, Beijing. The title of the lecture will be Landforms, Horizontality, Infrastructure, Techniques....

ALFREDO RAMIREZ IN WELSH SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

AALU tutor Alfredo ramirez will be giving a presentation on Monday 02nd November in the Welsh School of Architecture showcasing AALU projects where sustainability has had a major role within the design. (image above from Responsive Coastline, Alejandra Bosch, AALU 0607)

DOUGLAS SPENCER IN AHO OSLO

Douglas spencer will be partcipating in the critics of diploma projects in the Landscape Architecture program in AHO Oslo .

AALU 0809 PROJECTS

WENWEN WANG

NAOMI PEREZ-DAVIDI

ANKITA GUPTA

RENITA DE SOUZA

SOHAIL GHANDILI

WANG SHAN

RAHUL PAUL

MINJOO BAEK

CRISTINA BARRIOS

SOGOL ATIGECHI

BURCU KARAHASAN

AALU OPEN DAY 9th OCTOBER 2009

AALU OPEN DAY FRIDAY 9th OCTOBER

AA Landscape Urbanism will held an open day on Friday 9th of October in London, where the projects from 0809 students will be shown to the public and commented by a panel of international experts. The purpose of this event is to generate debate around the emergent discipline of landscape urbanism and evaluate the relevance of the course work within academic and practice environments.

AALU FINAL PRESENTATION

The work of the students of AA landscape Urbansim will be showcased on a presntation which will be held on 25th September in the AA premises, Ground floor 16 Morwell street. The presentaiton will take place from 10:30AM onwards and will consist on a series of presentations given by the students followed by a short discussion form a panel of invited critics. This panel wil be formed by:

Ivan valdez Torrico (AALU grad, Zaha hadid architects)

Jose Arnaud (AALU graduate)

Ilaria di Carlo (AALU graduate, SOM)

Bridget Mckean (AALU graduate, Foster and Partners)

Teru Nalsist (AADip)

Jeff Turko (UEL+AADip tutor)

AALU GRADUATE FIRST PRIZE: NET-WORKED TERRITORIES, JORGE AYALA

Based on a process of landscape indexing and mapping, Jorge’s project seeks to tackle the real estate sameness, always related to the development of the so called family-resorts that have proliferated along the Mexican Pacific Coast.
The project proposes a network of Landscapes, tropical trees and plantations preventing excessive erosion and polluted water infiltration. Diverse plants and species were assigned to respond to different watershed conditions, creating the infrastructure for agriculture, leisure and controlled tourism development.
The hexagonal prototypes seek to produce an assemblage between two elements of the project:
the water edges and the nature, as a speculation on how 2 natural processes may be able to generate new forms of mutual enhancement. Physical model helped control the territory and to measure the circulation between each of these prototypes.

Authors, Jorge Ayala, Minche Mena, Priscila Lozano Cusi