Jean Prouve this is an exhibtion about all the work that Jean Prouve has done. Like most of the exhbitions about people are all a bit samey and not massively inspiring, but worth a look while your there.
The Design Museum are working alongside the Tate Modern to show Maison Tropicale. This is a prototype house designed by Jean Prouve for the 1950s colonial West Africa. 
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Showing posts with label Exhibitions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Exhibitions. Show all posts
Design Museum
Design Museum
Brit Insurance Designs of the Year This is definately worth a look in! The range of designs goes from a car (the new Fiat 500) to different graphic styles, to a set of 6 foot solid aluminum speakers to different fashion styles, furniture, architecture and many more. Some of the more interesting exhibits were the interactive ones. Some of these include Volume at the V&A click here or here. Below shows some pictures of the mentioned items above. 
This video shows one of the better interactive exhibits. Designed by Ross Phillips The Replenshing Body Kiosk is a 25 section touch screen video grid and visitors are encouraged to make 1 second recordings of themselves, and makes up a big picture of 25 different moving images. Its quite fun to play with as you can see by the video, some school girls were having a great laugh with it!
Open City @ Somerset House
Below is one of three videos which is related to some very nicely bound documents explaining the development of certain areas in and around London.
Open City @ Somerset House
This exhibition is well worth a look in. Public spaces seems to have been done over and over, but this exhibition presents the space in a different and interactive way. 
The exhibition is made up of the little house's each with a different theme inside. In the next room there are a lot of videos related to some documents nearby.
The map above is part of the re-link to the river in one of the small houses. The map shows a the river as it flows through london and the key points nearest to the river.
Mark Elton @ Kingston MLT, friday 29/02/08, 11:30
Mark Elton is from ECD Architects. ECD stands for Energy Conscious Design, to see their website click here.
The talk was themed around Wolseley UK Sustainable Building Centre in Lemington Spa, to see the website specific for the Wolseley Building Centre click here.
The building was designed by the following team;
- Techniker//engineers,
- Fulcrum Consultants,
- DWB//Dobson White Boulcott//Quantity Surveyors,
- RGA Landscape//landscape architects.
The part of the talk that I was most interested in was the roofing system, that had been chosen for this building. The roofing is a Sedum roofing system. These differ from the typical green roof systems because its not structually dependent. Green roof's come in 2 styles;
- Intensive is mostly made up of turf and plants needing soil
- Extensive is mostly made up of Alpine plants also needs soil
A sedum roofing is a low maintenance matting, which is rolled out onto roofs. The main benefits from a sedum system are;
- Aesthetic benefits, green roofs are visually attractive.
- Protecting the waterproof membrane, the membrane lasts longer as a result of green roofing protecting the membrane.
- Reduced cooling, the plants on the roof absorb a lot of the heat on hot days and stops the building heating up.
- Biodiversity, wildlife live and breed on the roofs and help with to sustain the plants.
- Noise abosrbing, Mark Elton claims the noise from the airplanes is less with the sedum roofing in place.
- Storm water run off, this acts like a sponge and stores water which can be used in other ways.
The main disadvantages from the sedum roofing are;
- Cost, the client has to want to do it and it would cost about 30% extra.
- Maintenance, this is low compared to the intensive and extensive roofing, but needs checking once or twice a year, mainly to remove any unwanted plants from the roof.
The other material that interested me in this build is the GGBS (Ground Granulated Blast furnaced Slag). Click here for more information about GGBS. The main benefit of GGBS is the CO2 emissions are lower then standard concrete, and this helps the Wolseley building take big steps towards being a zero carbon building.
Picture source here.
Innovations for the Built Environment
One of the exhibiting stands was SLIC (Student Landscape Institute Council). This was made up of students work from all around the country. My Kingston Gateway project was one of the selected pieces put on show at the exhibition. 
To see more about SLIC click here.
Innovations for the Built Environment 2008
Cityscape '08 is an exhibtion held in Earls Court. With 500+ exhibitors there's a lot to see. Below is a small section of some of the exhibits I saw while I was there.
Green roofs seem to be the next big thing! There was a lot of stands each trying to sell their own version of the green roof system. Below shows a model from one of the first stands I saw. The company on this stand was called Alumasc. To see their website click here. They have designed the roofing system at the New Providence Wharf in Docklands, London to see more about this project click here. 
Next to the Alumasc stand was a Biotecture Ltd green walling system. This stand was un-manned and information was limited to a small leaflet next to the display (seen below). The green wall works in similar ways to the green roofs, and is very sustainable and looks great on the side of tall buildings! 
Below you can see a picture of a massive model from the Thames Gateway project. This model was vast and gave a good over-view of the Thames estuary and the area involved with the project. This is one of the biggest waterside projects in Western Europe. The regeneration is ranging from Tower Bridge to Thurrock and Bexley. For more information about this project click here.
The image below is a streetscene, designed by landscape architects Whitelaw Turkington. The streetscene offered a range of materials and design's and looked nice in the exhibition hall, but in the context of a real street it would offer a very different experience.
Out of the Ordinary, Spectacular Craft
Out of the Ordinary at the V and A click here for the home page. This is a great exhibition to see how some artists take on the theme of 'Everyday' and each using their own materials and style to show the theme.
Below show some images from the exhibtion.
The image above is 'The Book of Humanity: The Empty Book'. The Book of Humanity is supposed to red but somehow uploaded blue! So this is what it would look like if it was blue! The image below shows the whole of Lu Shengzhong's exhibit. On the right is the 'Human Walls and Bricks' and on the left is the 'The Book of Humanity' in its true colour, both are made up of frog shaped cut outs. Both the templates and the cut out shapes.
This is Annie Cattrell's exhibit made from glass. The image below is a series of clouds that have caught in the moment, titled 'Conditions'.
The image below here shows a set of human lungs (roughly at a 2:1 scale) titled 'Capacity'. Made from glass. It would interesting to know how this was done because they appear to be hollow, but do give off some nice shadows.
This is part of Naomi Filmer's exhibit, this is titled 'Ball Lenses'.
Jeppe Hein- The Curve
A free exhibition at the Barbican, well worth a look! Like the Aalto exhitbion i wasn't allowed to take photos but follow the link and have a look at the images. The attention to detail in this roller coaster was either really complicated and took a long time to work out or very simple with a lot of luck! Jeppe Hein- The Curve, (9th feb- 27 apr)
Alvar Aalto: Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban
An exhibition at the Barbican (22nd feb-13 May 07), looking at Alvar Aalto through the eyes of Shigeru Ban. Unfortunately i wasn't allowed to take any photos while looking at this exhibit. I wasn't overly keen on the work that Aalto did as an architect, but some of his furniture was attractive in the way each piece was made up of simple designs.
Shigeru Ban is definately worth looking at in terms of sustainability. He's built houses made from cardboard, paper and beer kegs for foundations. the models were great and the whole concept of the houses was great.
While walking round one quote that caught my eye was;
"Nothing old can be reborn, but it will never completely vanish either; it will always re-emerge in a new form."
Alvar Aalto
New London Architecture
At the NLA, there was a exhibition called London's Moving, focusing on how the transport around london is being developed.
There was a big model of the whole of London showing the layout and train routes around London.
Canary Wharf
Thames Barrier
Olympic Park (back the bid 2012)
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