University of Westminster BAIA students at Parsons The New School for Parallel Cities 1

Parallel Cities 1 explored the process of craft techniques combining digital and analogue media with film and physical models to uncover relationships between bodies, networks, and spaces in New York City.

The workshop brought together 8 graduate and undergraduate students from Parsons’ Temporary Environments course and 8 second year students from the University of Westminster’s BA (Hons) Interior Architecture Course. The students received training in Rhino and Grasshopper, in addition to digital fabrication processes focused on networked workflows. Individually, they developed their own site study of a portion of Long Island City, while contributing to the overall workshop goals of the design and fabrication of a larger group installation.

more information here.

Fab Fest 2016 Registration Open

Fab Fest is a new International Fabrication Festival hosted this summer by the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment and the Fabrication Laboratory at the University of Westminster. It will feature 50 or more innovative cardboard pavilions designed and built by students from Westminster as well as by guest teams from across the UK and around the world.

Feb Fest will run from June 28th - July 2nd.

You can find more information about the brief and how to register here.

+FARM Winter Studio 2016 in the US: OPEN CALL

'Crafting Technique'

Studio Dates: Wed January 6th - Mon, January 11th
Application Deadline: Saturday, December 20th at 11:59pm
Location: Hall House Farm in Perrysburg, New York, US

The project for this winter intensive design, fabrication, and construction studio is an interactive site specific installation. Studio participants will engage in a dynamic design process culminating in the construction of a full-scale structure that amplifies the unique characteristics of the site into a dynamic full scale structure that takes into account digital and analogue process to craft new techniques for making architecture.

Six applicants selected from the open call will work directly with professional fabricators, architects, digital specialists, and educators exposing the participants to emerging design, computation, fabrication, and construction practices in the field of architecture.

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+ FARM Summer Design Workshops in the US

JUNE STUDIO: PERFORMANCE PAVILION

Perrysburg, New York

The project for this year’s week-long intensive design, fabrication, and construction studio is a lightweight, self-supporting Performance Pavilion. +FARM brings together a wide range of professionals to work directly with the participants during the studio. Ten Participants will progress from introductory to more advanced working sessions with technical content to address issues of: materiality, interiority, component types, and self-supporting architecture. Dates: June 7-14th, for more information please visit: +FARM Perrysburg Studio 

AUGUST STUDIO: TACTICAL TECTONICS

Silo City + Rigidized Metals Corporation: Buffalo, New York

+FARM is excited to announce our 2014 August Studio at Silo City: Buffalo, NY working directly with Rigidized Metals Corporation and the Rigidized Fab-Team to design, fabricate, and construct a multi-level Culture Shelter within an existing grain silo. Ten applicants selected from an open call will work directly with professional craftsmen, fabricators, architects, digital specialists, educators, and Rigidized Metals Fab-Team exposing the participants to emerging design, computation, fabrication, material and construction practices in the field of architecture. Dates: August 6-16th, for more information please visit: +FARM Silo City Studio

Interested in applying to one or both summer studios visit: www.plusfarm.org

+FARM 2014: Winter Studio at the Five Sisters Farm, NY, USA

Open Call: the Sweat Lodge in the Snow

The project for this 5 day intensive design, fabricate, and construction workshop is to build a Sweat Lodge for a weary farmer. The fabrication studio will focus, and participants will learn, digital practices that enhance work flow methods between design, metal fabrication, and installation by using the latest software + techniques.

Participants will warm up with a charrette to produce the design, then will quickly transition to digital techniques geared toward fabrication. Six applicants selected from an international open call will be invited to work with a metal fabrication shop including practicing professionals on site, developing practical, technological, and construction skills. Professional training will be provided in using a plasma cutter, press break, sheer, and basic welding techniques.

Applications Due Friday November 29th

For more information please visit: www.plusfarm.org

Interior Urbanism Florence 2013 Poster

more information on this summer's workshop can be found here.

Information Session for IU 2013: Monday November 19

Interior Urbanism Workshop: Florence 2012

for more info: https://sites.google.com/site/interiorurbanismflorence/

workshop lecture series: https://sites.google.com/site/interiorurbanismlectureseries/

blog: http://interiorurbanism.blogspot.co.uk/