XiaoYi-Specialized

2010年12月20日星期一

British Land

History
British Land was founded in 1856 as an offshoot of the National Freehold Land Society (later Abbey National) formed in 1849 with the two chief architects of the freehold land movement Richard Cobden and John Bright. Both were ardent supporters of a movement to extend enfranchisement. To qualify for a parliamentary vote it was then necessary to be a landowner and the main object of the National Freehold was to facilitate the acquisition of small plots of land by the people. To do this the British Land Co. would purchase land and then resell it again on the best terms to any customer who wanted to buy it. With extension of the franchise this reason ceased to govern the operation of the British Land Co and it began to operate as a normal business in the latter part of the Nineteenth Century.^[2]
In May 2005 British Land announced that it had agreed to purchase Pillar Property Plc for £811 million in cash to boost its position in the out-of-town retail property sector.^[3]
Between 1970 and 2006 it was chaired by Sir John Ritblat,^[4] one of the best known figures in the British property sector, whose knighthood was announced in the Queen's new year's honours list for 2006.

Operations

As of 31 December 2009 the property portfolio was valued at £7.9 billion.^[5] More than half of the portfolio is invested in retail. This includes the Meadowhall shopping centre in Sheffield, which is one of the largest in the UK, and a large amount of property which has been purchased from and leased back to major retailers such as Tesco, Sainsbury's, House of Fraser and Asda. The other major group of assets is office property, most of which is in central London. This includes the Broadgate Estate near Liverpool Street station and Regent's Place near Euston Station. British Land has been involved in Broadgate, which is one of the largest development projects in London in recent decades and is still incomplete, since 1984, and after making a string of acquisitions on the estate over the years it acquired the last piece in 2003. In 2004 it received planning permission for a Richard Rogers designed skyscraper at 122 Leadenhall Street in the City of London which will become one of the tallest buildings in Western Europe. Construction of the tower began in October 2007 and completion was expected in 2011, but may be delayed because of the current economic downturn. The company have current proposals to extend Regent's Place as far as Osnaburgh Street with two new mixed use buildings designed by Terry Farrell and Wilkinson Eyre. In 2008 it was announced that the company will be the developer for the re-building of Euston Station. British Land have also proposed the construction of 103 Colmore Row in Birmingham.

Bonuses
In 2009 Chris Grigg was paid an annual bonus of £178,787. In the same year co-head of asset management, Andrew Jones, took home an annual bonus of £350,000 and Head of Offices Tim Roberts received an annual bonus of £310,000.^[6]

2010年11月22日星期一

Existed&Created &Reforming

Inspired by a photogragh wchich showing a created building combin diffrent but meanwhile similar elements existed buildings together,I would like to try to build up a model of the building group,which leads me back to analysis the architectural structure,elevations,platform,interior space,even decoration elements on the surface.

Each part of the created building is existed,the fun is the photographer created them into a new one,waht make me consider relationship between existing and unexisting.

After my first sckech model,I discovered some interesting gaps and negitave spaces formed my multifarous blocks.Obviously,they are created,but by existed.And also by forming the multifarous blocks made me think about if I could make it into reforming as wchat it looks like.Then my second model came out.In terms of choosing four different kinds of architecture with similar elements existed in Livepoor street,and imitaed the apperence,materials of the them,definatlykept the architectural structure of the building in the photograph at this stage.futher more made it reformable.

By making this,A new existed building model given birth,and also for some interesting parts as well.Such as the negitive spaces formed by multifarious materials belong to their own bodies,three different material walls into a straight line,calling people to experience multiculture city with historical elements.

2010年11月16日星期二

architectural spaces combination

Read more: stm#ixzz15SDf7eqF

This is public housing?
This tower with the fanciful parapets and the colorful, perforated balconies ripped from a sultan's palace?
Not yet, but it will be. The scheme, which won a 2003 competition, looks like child's play in Lego land but in fact is the work of a firm called FAT. Clearly, FAT makes architecture fun.

Did FUM plagiarized my idea? lool

FAT（fashion architecture taste） just played a Lego game with me ,which is not like a new post ,What is more funny is fum stands for "all women firm".To be honest it made me angry but meanwhile give me more energy on my programme.They choose London cause it is a मुती-culture city and what I actually chose as the same reason.Various global people would like to choose their favour residential style.And also various ages people have their own requires of residential. So I would like to to carry work across genres, styles and class lines.

WHAT the different point is I would like to represent this in terms of architectural combination which is called blocks combination by me.and what the primary different is I am keen on combining existing buildings to create little interesting negative spaces reformed by.

As what I previously mentioned in my blog,I was first inspirited by Belgian photographer Filip Dujardin,who remix existing buildings,using his camera to steal bits and pieces structure around him.

Inspirited by Ken's(my tutor) word,I started with his photograph above,Then my first model came out：

Futher more,from the model i have made I found some gaps and holes kinds of negative spaces formed by the across blocks.Meanwhile I have the idear for the across buildings,which was like not satified with the structure of the model according to Dujardin's photograph. Then I think it's the time to think about another work that inspirited me before I did the programe,which approach diversity faces of one building. As Saint-Exupéry wrote: “We have to make lively this new house that doesn’t have a face yet.

Based on the hobby of achiving what metioned above I improved my model as:

draft model

elevation draft

Now I am travelling in london ,especially where i was used to be and where I had stories.I Will collect buildings which existed already.and event where they cross together.

By now,I could even imagine how it will look at.But,futher chanllenge come out.Robin gave me another suggest that make me think about the rules how they combine together,and I am also tring collecting diffrent architectural blocks see the rules of negative spaces.but haven not figure out the rules.

Work on it ,Lizzy go go!

I needto give my warming-up project a stop now,at present it I could only show :

2010年10月28日星期四

dynamic installation

Ferrofluid sculpture relevance to my reasearch concern:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDnrFgd7yfo&feature=related

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raulcrimson/4272106268/

2010年10月26日星期二

The References

Painting relevance to my reasearch concern:
http://www.artgenerative.com/

Onur Cobanli believes that, design is a processes of bringing an order to chaos, an idea tool to create systems that can create order within chaotic systems and arrangements.

Installation relevance to my reasearch concern:
http://www.daratalfunun.org/main/resourc/exhibit/barakat/barakat.html

Barakat's works are mostly inspired by mythology and old civilisation which he tried to relate to the present-day life. The colours reflect the artist's feelings while the whole outlook, made up of interesting sectors, reminds one of ancient friezes, with images multiplied over and over again and having the human being as the central figure.
The architecture relevance to my reasearch concern:
http://unusual-architecture.com/rotating-tower-dubai-uae/

http://www.habitat67.com/home.html

Saint-Exupéry wrote: “We have to make lively this new house that doesn’t have a face yet. The truth for one was to build; it is, for the other, to occupy it.”

comments relevance to my reasearch concern:

http://thismaterialworld.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/peering-deeper-looking-back/

Can a man be an architect if he has never birthed a building?

The building above was brought into the world by Filip Dujardin, a Belgian photographer who plays in architecture. Dujardin does not construct: He remixes existing buildings, using his camera to steal bits and pieces of the structures around him, then reforming those images into calcified urban growths, orchestrated hodge-podges of styles, ideas, owners, stories, histories.

Spiritmorph Studio- fine art by Roxanne R. Amico specializin http://www.spiritmorphstudio.com/index.html

http://www.krijndekoning.nl/CMU/index.html

The installations of Krijn de Koning are build in a large veriety of places. It diverces from museums and Gallerys, to more alternative and Artist run places, to some large works in an architectural and public enviroment. All his works deal with the idea of architecture and place, wether it is that the work itself is an accesible unit that functions as a sort of watch-out platform on its surrounding, or that the the work intervenes directly on a one-to-one base with the given space where it is built in. Most of the works are temporary site-specific interventions that profoundly chanche the way that a visitor perceives the place. It turns around, breaks through, and sometimes only points out the elements that condition the visitor on the place that he is in. It is in the combination of abstract thinking and an intuitive mind that Krijn de Koning makes his works and achieves to realise spatial and colourfull spaces that are meant to be closely looked at.

2010年10月18日星期一

Key words of Green Architecture

reuse
recycle
reform
regroup
sustainable
duable
organic
rotatable
dynamic
protrude
mechanism
ferrofluid

reference:<the age of stupid>

2010年10月17日星期日

XiaoYi-say hi to everybody

Hi, peers and tutor,
I am xiaoyi(lizzy),from China.I feel so exiting that I will be with you for a whole year studying at MA Interior and Spacial Design.I have not known everybody in our class although the first week has past,so I want to introduce myself to you as a chinese girl who has worked for several years as a interior and architecture designer after BA in my mother land.

My research concern is relate to Green Architecture and to detail and impvoe it into recycle and Re-configurable or regroup building.I am really interested in enviromental protection project and hope to share with you peers.Cause I have worked for a long time for business project,at present I prefer to do some creatible research and specialized work to contribute my own principle and philosophy in architecture area.

I would like to reasearch approach reuse and recycle building and lead to a dream city like toy brick city.It can be described like a LEGO city that within each building could be devided into parts and regroup into a new one with a differnt structure and aslo bring the environtal protection consern that recycle rubish mass to build a container that contain a wild land inside.and in this way to achive live close to the nature and keep the nature stay in oringnal life.Even the windows and doors are produced as a reuseable units.

So people also could choose to take their own toy house to another place they would like to move in,and I hope to contribute a reall movement and recycle toy brick city in the future.

But, I have to say that I am not only intrested in architecture design but also interior design and furniture design, so I would like to share my idea to our classmates aslo study more from you dear peers and tutors.

My previous work was inspirdidited by ZaHa Hadid:

A theat that bring you to a experience from the terible enviroment the human will face and to a drip of water(building) people are desired.so that we can notice that we need to protect our earth.