Lee and I have been running a workshop at Birmingham School of Architecture for the past couple of weeks to design and build a bar for the end of year exhibition. We were initially approached to run a competition for the design of a bar but became more interested in running it as a workshop. As a workshop event the design and build has become a collaborative project and everyone has had an input into the design at some point along the way. Our stance was that you won’t learn until you do but the doing shouldn’t just be on an ad hoc basis, it should be treated like an architectural project. With this is in mind the workshop has followed four distinct stages which I will elaborate upon in due course on this blog which are :
1. Investigation
2. Design
3. Preparation of Working Drawings
4. Construction
A passage from Papers2 by Sergison Bates architects has been key in our preparation and proposal of the workshop.
“A model is only an abstract intention, like a sketch, or the written description of a building. Nothing can substitute the experience of a completed project and the lessons it holds in its finished form. As first-year tutors at the Architectural Association, we recognised this deficiency in architectural education – the gap between students’ intentions and the real consequences of what they were proposing. We asked our students to design and construct a full size room so that they could learn through the experience of building their designs.”
Here are the posters with which we initially advertised the workshops to the first and second year students...more to follow, watch this space.
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