Direct Urbanism: Spatial Association? Diploma 10
Architectural Association School of Architecture
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Bloomsbury, United Kingdom
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English
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Aug 2023
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Introduction
By concentrating on division and engagement, DIP10 has initiated a series of polemic strategies that require further investigation. By tackling different types of division, we defined new contact points between collective identity and policing, created open networks of education, cut spaces into BIDs, combined multiple strategies of reciprocal participation, questioned the idea of membership, used a multi-cultural street for mediated integration, reconfigured geometries of identity and focused interactive space by overlapping disparate foci.
Together these enquiries challenged conventional development strategies to create different forms of engagement.
We will continue to reassess the relationships that exist between physical structures and situations, to investigate the complex nature of the city’s space, and use these to design composite spatial interventions. Experienced space is not absolute, but is made up of diverse spatial elements that may work in harmony or opposition. The ideas of programme, function and typology limit the possibilities of space and give a false sense of coherence; we will challenge these approaches and find ways to create spaces of association, spaces that form part and engage with the life of the city. At present, there is an emphasis on topicality, but little experimentation with space itself; we will redress this imbalance.
To do this, we will scan an arbitrary area of the city, identify the relevant physical and social variables and create an abstraction of it in the form of a multilayered 3D construct. We will immerse ourselves in the real context of the city and work with its abstraction. The emphasis will be on the making of spaces that exploit the intricacies identified in the scan. From strategies to spatial configurations, we will work at the scale of a borough, of a 1 kilometre by 1 kilometre territory and of a block to experiment with alternative ways of inserting new interventions that will have a direct effect on the future of London.