Diploma Unit 03 Jonas Lundberg, Andrew Yau with Kayu Chan

The Tenet of Ecology 2021 - 2022

AA Diploma Unit 03 2021 – 2022

Extended Brief

The Tenet of Ecology

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Jonas Lundberg, Andrew Yau with Kayu Chan

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ABSTRACT
The Tenet of Ecology

“I don't believe that technology is some sort of technofix, that will fix all the technology that got us here in the first place.… You can’t tackle something of this scale, this scope,
moving this fast with just science.”

- Kristine McDivitt Tompkins (environmental activist, ex CEO Patagonia), Interview with Ingolf Baur 2020

The world is experiencing a gradually intensifying ecological and environmental grief and anxiety arguably since the first Earth Day organised by
US Senator Gaylord Nelson on 22 April 1970. The deep historic connection between human and non-human is rapidly deteriorating, however,
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the planet did offer us some illusive glimpses of a potential new living environment over the pandemic lockdowns. We saw that energy
demands halved, greenhouse gas emissions and human activity were reduced and all of a sudden, we experienced amongst other wonderous
things like the return of dolphins in the Venetian canals. It raises the possibility for architecture, cities and ultimately human activity to
collaborate with the planet and construct a new hope.

We are facing “a code red for humanity” according to IPCC. The ecological development of our living environment is not only a complex and
non-linear process, slow and unstable, but it is also unclear what the future holds. There is an urgency for architecture, cities and changes to
human activity to not only make positive contributions to our environment to buy time but to actively forge new ecosystems that are essential
for us to adapting and coming to terms with our changing planet. There is no proven path to follow. We have to learn as we go. This urgency
becomes the very motivation of the architecture of Diploma 03.

Diploma 03 contemplates the idea to live with the new responsibility to reconstruct our environment and ecosystems beyond any political
abstraction. We are excited about the possibility to incorporate collaborative intelligence, infrastructural thinking and shared environmental
technologies into procedural design, in architecture and urban development. We believe the challenge of architecture is no longer an
anthropocentric challenge but a conscious act to construct and balance the classic dilemma between development and ecological regeneration,
especially in urban cities.

This year, we are looking into the idea of infrastructural architecture and rethink urban living and the adaptive futures considering the
foreseeable ecological changes, globally and locally. As a unit, we will conduct our design experimentation oscillating between physical making
and post production digitalisation processes and articulations. The unit work is people oriented where perception, effect and experience are
paramount. It is the aim of the unit to reformulate the way we live in cities and produce ecological environment beyond current practices,
conservation, maximisation, the 4Rs and commonly green washing.

We would like to invite you to join us for an innovative and radical journey.

Unit Staff
Jonas Lundberg and Andrew Yau are educators and members of Urban Future Organization, an international architectural practice, and design research collaborative.
Urban Future Organization has won a number of international competitions and exhibited its work globally. Currently, they are working on micro to macro-scale urban and
architectural projects in Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Kayu Chan is a recent AA graduate with Student Choice Honour and has taught digitisation design at
the AA Summer School. He is currently engaged in material oriented architectural projects at ACME.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABSTRACT ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Table of Contents ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.0 Diploma Unit 03 [former Diploma 16 & Experimental 17] ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 7
1..1 The Tenet of Ecology ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 7
1.2 Ethos ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 7
1.3 Undertaking ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 7
1.4 Technique & Tooling ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 7

2.0 The Tenet of Ecolog .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 9

2.1 Urban Sample – ReGenerative and Resilient Environment ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 9
2.2 City, Technology & Digitisation ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 9
2.3 Design Brief ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 9
2.4 Building Contents & Typologies ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 9
2.5 4th & 5th Year Students ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 10
2.6 5th Year Students ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 10

3.0 Outcome & Assessment .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 11

3.1 Design Qualities ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 11

4.0 Deliverables............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 12
4.1 Documentation ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 12
4.2 Digital Constructs & Immersive Experience .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 13
4.3 Physical Constructs ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 13
4.4 Screen Presentation ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 13
4.5 Architectural Aesthetics & Effects ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 13
4.6 Exhibition.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 13
4.7 Multi-Media & Multi-Reality.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 13

5.0 Organization .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 15

5.1 Calendar & timetable ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 15
5.2 Study Trips & City Visit ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 16
5.3 Term 1 ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 18
5.4 Winter Term Break ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 21
5.5 Term 2 ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 23
5.6 Spring Term Break ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 26
5.7 Term 3 ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 28

6.0 Reading List ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 32

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THE ECOLOGIC GENRE
“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.”
- Alfred North Whitehead, Chapter 5 “The Symbolism of Mathematics”, An Introduction to Mathematics, The University Press & H. Holt and
Company, Cambridge USA, 1911, p 61
1.0 DIPLOMA UNIT 03
Diploma Unit 03 is interested in producing an intense and integrated design
relationship between architecture, infrastructure, environmental technology,
construction, living experience and the projective urban futures. We place us, the
people, back to the centre of architecture as the subject for ecologic effect &
experience producing an alternative architectural aesthetic, perception and
sensibility beyond the conventional practice of performative design. The shift
towards a social culture of ecological living is inevitable and the tenet of ecology
is aiming to provoke, through architecture, the fundamental but necessary
changes in our way of life and future living.
The research interest of the unit evolves from a longstanding and super exciting
ecological agenda from last year and the work of Diploma 16 at the AA Diploma
School for almost a decade and a half, as well as Experimental 17 two years ago.
We are obsessed with architecture as a catalyst and positive driver for urban
change and development. We seek to exploit the evolving role of architecture, its
causes and affects, amidst our predicament of urban densification, land exhaustion,
overconsumption and climate change.
1.1 THE TENET OF ECOLOGY
The Tenet of Ecology is aiming to explore the possibility to rethink the
production of architecture and infrastructure, the possibility to re-conceptualise
and theorise ecological architecture towards an adaptive living and futures. It
explores the very principles of co-evolution between environment and invests in
innovative thinking in reGenerative and resilient design, production, urban
formation and an ecological future.
The motivation to produce architectural affects and experience by the living
beings that inhabit them seeks to speculate the complexity expanding from some
of the long term and more known ecologic drivers and architectural design
factors. We continue to exploit the intertwining complexity between ecological
infrastructure and construction technology to radically reshape our urban cities
and living environment. We believe faithfully the act of building as the prime
medium of architecture conditioned not only by the physical construct of
materials and production technology but also the experiential effect and socio-
cultural affiliation.
The aim is to liberate Architecture from a limited palette of building construction
and technology defined by architectural conventions where the local building
industry is slow to embrace change and evolve its traditions and toolsets that
limit the way we conceive of design. Besides, our basic design and representation
techniques have been complemented with a vast array of new design mediums
and technologies that straddle the abstract space of digital reality, and the
physical and material world. Diploma Unit 03 explores the opportunities as well
as the constraints of this emergent condition in an attempt to redefine and
rediscover new grounds for architectural design and manifestation based on an
ecological understanding of our living environment and nature. We aim to
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produce unique ecologic experience and reduce the ecological footprint of the
built environment, and in that process challenge the conventional notions of
object, infrastructure, city, enclosure, form, envelope, content, public domain,
lifestyle, community, neighbourhood and ultimately future living.
1.2 ETHOS
Diploma Unit 03 firmly believes in architectural intelligence contributing to the
evolution of our discipline by embracing ecologic living, technology, building
construction and conceptions of form and experience. We harbour the simple
belief that the design of our physical environment, contrary to what many
scholars say, can have an impact on larger issues. The development of new
lifestyles is instrumental in our survival and shaping our co-evolutionary
relationship to our built and natural environment.
Diploma Unit 03 develops architectural novelty manifested in and through physical
constructs, large format drawings, organised and graphic documentation,
animation and digitalisation output producing architectural effect(s) in the ecologic
genre. We aim to assist students to develop individual design repertoire, verbal
and graphical communication, technical skills and abilities. Our explicit pedagogic
interest is to work on how to evolve the way architects engage with design
techniques to create new content and experiential affects charged with the
potential for innovation. For example, in music, you can be great at music theory
and playing an instrument but this doesn’t mean that you are a composer. The
same holds true in architecture. It is the ambition of the unit to work with all the
students as a team to develop a disciplinary understanding of architecture
and evolve design techniques and abilities and ultimately how disciplinary
knowledge and rigorous design technique can be the springboard in the creation
of new architectural opportunities and ecological affects.
1.3 UNDERTAKING
Diploma Unit 03 investigates how ecologic subjects, infrastructural intelligence,
formal qualities, technologies, human inhabitation, spatial effect, urban formation
and adaptive futures, fuelled by emerging instruments of design, communication
and production, can inform architecture. The aim is to help demystify the
transformative capacity of architecture in the actualization of building design
projects with a distinct sense of aesthetic, quality and sensibility. Projects are
designed and developed in collaboration with external partners, experts and
consultants. Moving outside of a controlled academic environment, the unit
crosses the path of speculative design research with other disciplines and
expertise.
1.4 DESIGN TECHNIQUES & TOOLING
The school and Core Studies programme offers a range of tools such as 3D
modelling and visualisation applications, traditional 3D printing and more
advanced robotic fabrication application, photographic and video capturing and
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editing software, digitisation with multi-channels LiDAR devices and HTC or MS
Hololens MR environment. Please do take advantage of these. Model making both
digitally and physically is central to the unit work as the architectural construct
through necessary negotiation of making, testing and tooling.

We don’t expect everyone in the studio to acquire expert skills but to everyone
to be introduced and be able to use a range of basic digital techniques. It is
possible to organise additional or specialist session(s) when necessary. We also
work on the way design deliverables are presented and communicated for
dissemination and publishing. Students need to develop their own brief, design
log and thesis, Thesis Abstract, large format drawings, City and Consultancy
report, Progress Files and Research Files, for the duration of the course.

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The Tenet of Ecology
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
2.0 ECOLOGY URGENCY & THE NECESSITY OF ADAPTIVE
ARCHITECTURE
In June 2021, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has published an updated
Sixth Assessment Report, aka AR6, on Climate Changes, the very impact and
advises for international communities and policy makers and on the same month the
Royal Institute of British Architects has also updated their 2030 Climate Challenge
and calling upon all practices to join their programme. It notion of sustainable future
is beyond reach and it is critical for all generations from now on to design and
produce our built environment with a different set of principles. Principles that
address various environmental targets and development goals. We would like to
bring the discussion about biodiversity, physical and social health, food security and
land management, and global economic resilience to the forefront, and promotes
alternative models for land-management, ocean scenarios and interconnectivity,
adaptive urban infrastructure and inhabitation.
At Diploma Unit 03, we believe in building as the primary medium for architecture
where the construct of a building, a community, a city or even nature, plays a
critical and essential role in facilitating our way of living, the experience, the
sensibility and affects. We would like to explore radically the ecological motivation
in architectural & urban design to formulate a new, regenerative and resilient
relationship between our built environment and nature. A relationship projects a
new way of living for our survival and our future and rethinks our cities in this era
of drastic transformation of working and urban cultures. We believe it is important
to consider carbon positive design, ecological production, construction and
infrastructural design and techniques in order to cultivate alternatives.
We aim to explore design, construction, infrastructure and urban formation
processes beyond plan-based geometries and other parallel projections,
perspectives, collages and similar design techniques, or even the conventional
computation design in the last two decades. We seek an architectural and
infrastructural production that is capable of provoking new ways of urban living and
adaptive experience, hence a new adaptive future, a model of and a model for the
new architectural ecology. The anticipated design outcome embraces multiple levels
of design ambitions oscillating between object, infrastructure, envelope, structure,
interiority, construction and materiality, articulated poché, volumetric depth, urban
living, and the necessary exuberance, towards a projection of ecologic novelty and a
new ecology within.
It is beyond any doubt that the building industry is the world’s largest polluting
agent. Diploma Unit 03 is exploring innovative alternatives in construction, design,
infrastructure, public domain and urban formation towards a new ecologic lifestyle
and future. We seek an evolution of the global ecological and environmental
paradigms of culture and economy beyond green-washing design. If it is possible to
consider architecture as a form of craft, it is, therefore, possible to celebrate
intuition in its very production beyond the practice of autocratic construction and
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formulate a complex relationship with our environment and nature. Architectural
innovation is no longer simply to be responsive, but an opportunity to be
provocative. Construction and technological innovation are necessary to be more
sensorial, experiential and effectual, and hence architectural.
2.1 URBAN SAMPLE - REGENERATIVE AND RESILIENT
INFRASTRUCTURE
The aim is to develop a reGenerative and resilient architectural intervention in a
dense urban context, capable of transforming an existing situation, adaptable to
future changes and able to incorporate technological innovation that revolutionised
our current lifestyles and the relationship with our immediate surroundings and
nature. It is also a question how our cities expand with necessary social, economic
and cultural agility and flexibility to manage the very biodiversity, resources, energy
and waste management, as well as the habitual practice of overconsumption.
The architectural project itself is a design challenge, from human scale to an area of
one hectare (100m x 100m) in size, we call it an urban sample, to co-evolve the
tension between urban living and ecological undertaking. It is important for the
design thesis to embody a positive ecological footprint to regenerate our ever-
expanding and intensifying urban environment, a city of your own choosing.
Diploma Unit 03 provokes the possibility to put “more” back into nature via our
built environment and maybe a new notion of Proto-Urban conditions instigated by
Lebbeus Woods.
2.2 TECHNOLOGY & MULTIPLE REALITY
As world population rises, it is believed that 68% of the global population will be
living in cities today by 2050 according to UN projection while the emerging fourth
Industrial Revolution in the creation of Smart Cities will have a direct effect on both
our economy and our living environment. Having said that, more and more people
in urban areas are at risk due to the increasing frequency and severity of climate
change related threats, and it is getting worse. The World Economic Forum issued
six directives on sustainable energy resources earlier this year, and two are
essential to building industry and urban development namely the ideas of the
decentralised energy system and renewable. In June 2020, WEF also announced
their Technology Pioneers programme to promote innovations and future
technologies. This is aiming to develop future technology to tackle the issues of
biodiversity, resources, energy and waste with inclusion strategy beyond the
existing slow green economy; and opens up a new way of working beyond
traditional networking and feedback mechanisms.
Diploma Unit 03 explores this opportunity to hybridise architectural design and
production processes with various digitisation interfaces aiming to coevolve our
works, design techniques and theoretical positioning beyond the simple
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performance targets and eco-mimicry. The rise of AI and digital reality question the
physicality of architectural reality, as we know. The possibility to oscillate between
the physical and virtual domain has not only become reality via MR devices, but it
has also raised the stake how much more we can do for our physical environment
and how our lifestyle and experience could be rearticulated, towards an ecologic
living in our case. This technical evolution is drastically going to change the way we
think about scale, weight, structure and inhabitation. Inevitably it will also change
the way we design and produce tectonic objects and spaces, hence the experience
and inhabitation. The material evolution is also bound to bring about unprecedented
change since the start of iron, steel and Ferro cement construction. We would like
to engage with the conversation about the new limits at the frontier of what is
physically possible and that challenges sensible notions of scale and appropriation.
resources may once again be feasible. Future visions of the past suddenly appear
less daunting and impossible than before.
2.5 4th & 5th YEAR STUDENTS
Ecological Infrastructure, Architectural Object, Urban Formation, Technologies and
Constructions, Situated Parameters, Place and Interiority, Adaptive Living towards an
explicit and expressive aesthetics and sensibility provoking a new APATIVE PROTO-URBAN
INFRASTRUCTURE between cities and neighbours, capable to address the challenge of the
current urban growth and for the near future contingent on new possibilities in projecting a
new adaptive public realm.

Diploma Unit 03 investigates, ecologically and experientially, the role of

2.3 DESIGN BRIEF
The brief challenges students to experiment with architectural design in objects,
infrastructures, form, geometry, tectonics, urban formation, and public spaces, and
develop a radical architectural project with ecologic construction and technologic
innovation, aiming to transform our way of urban living as well as our relationship
with nature.
It is critical to reimagining the craft of architecture by rethinking production,
construction and assembly intelligence with the environment in mind. Through
tectonic experimentation and technological innovation, it is the ambition of Diploma
Unit 03 to reformulate ecologically the role of architecture, infrastructure, public
domains and eventually our cities towards a new regenerative and resilient
relationship with community, neighbourhood and nature. We are curious about the
opportunity to interrogate the boundaries of emerging architectural practices and
productions. We are equally interested in making connections with innovative
consultants and specialists, and the possible amazing knowledge exchanges.
Diploma Unit 03 is focusing on what the new and emerging ecological construction
tectonics, technologies and infrastructures that will do to architecture and urban
environment at present and in the near future, and principally not going too deep
into material science and research. We seek to address the design opportunities
innate to tectonics, infrastructures, urban and public elements and features where
the notion of thickness, the sense of enclosure, or the inhabitation of interiority are
all matters of design consequences. Together with innovative technologies, we seek
the opportunity to challenge the conventions of architectural languages of the past
two decades and speculate a new notion of mass and volume beyond aggregation
and assembly.
infrastructural architecture, the architect and the inhabitants, in our cities and urban
living. All students formulate new ideas in infrastructural architecture, object,
enclosure, techniques, material, ecologic technologies, urban living and growth; and
seek opportunities to formulate new ecological experience, infrastructural
community, and new forms of inhabitation, social cultures and urban futures.
2.6 5th YEAR STUDENTS
Ecological Infrastructure, Architectural Object, Urban Formation, Technologies and
Constructions, Situated Parameters, Place and Interiority, Adaptive Living and a Projective
Future towards an explicit and expressive aesthetics and sensibility provoking a new
APATIVE PROTO-URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE between cities and neighbours, capable to
address the challenge of the current urban growth and for the near future contingent on
new possibilities in projecting a new adaptive public realm.
All 5th year students formulate and develop one (or more) projective and long-
term vision for a new urban future through infrastructural architecture. Diploma
Unit 03 believes in building as the prime medium for architecture. The very centre
of our interests is about experimentation and testing that open up new possibilities
to rethink the current trends of ecologic architecture and urban development.
Collectively the work of Diploma 3 becomes an Architectural Manifesto for an
ecological and resilient way of living. All 5th year students are encouraged to further
their design work and thesis projects to be competing in various ecological
architectural competitions such as Holcim Awards.

2.4 CONTENTS & TYPOLOGIES

We are not suggesting any typology or content but rather aim for you to address
the need and the purpose of classifying buildings in the search for a new breed of
architecture that still has no names. The underlying assumption is that you work
with dense urban context and these situations evolve over time. Diploma Unit 03 is
attempting to define the project outcomes into architectural and urban-type with
the generic classifications.
The project outcome may include a diverse range of programs and be a
combination of different building types and structural types. The common
denominator is that they look at architecture in a city positioned between dense
urban fabrics. With the advent of new technologies, materials, constructions some
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THE DELIVERABLES & OUTCOME

“…I think the role of architecture…but, if there’s going to be another movement, another direction in architecture, it has to engage people differently. Other than saying, here, look at this,
isn’t this amazing? It has to interactively involve them other than as spectators … it has to engage them as creators.”
- Lebbeus Woods, Shopfront Gallery 31st May 2007 Event: Subtopia Meets Lebbeus Woods [written by Bryan Finoki – Subtopia Blog 8th June 2007]

3.0 OUTCOME & ASSESSMENT Envelope - a container of content and effect in synthetic and analytic geometry
Exteriority - an ontological quality of being exterior
We expect all students to participate actively in tutorials and reviews. Each student Exuberance - a cultural quality of being full of energy, excitement, and celebration
needs to manage their own design process and experiments, digital and physical, as Interiority - an ontological quality of being interior
well as developing their own brief and design framework for the project. Each Mood - the atmosphere or pervading tone of something inducing or suggestive
student is to prepare their work according to the list of deliverables for discussion of a particular sensibility or state of mind
weekly, any change is to be agreed prior to tutorials, reviews, juries and tables, Object - a unified construct, architectural and physical, cannot be reduced
including physical constructs, minimum two large format drawings, thesis abstracts, either downwards to their parts or upwards to their effects.
graphical documentation Progress File which is a central part of understanding the Poché - an area of an architectural plan or section that are filled in
progression and it is an integral part of the assessment process, City Investigation Structure - both a physical and ideological mechanism upholding an Object
and Consultancy File documenting all the investigation and communication log with Volume - a notion of three-dimensional space, possibly quantifiable
consultants, and Research File as a collection of raw investigative and research
materials.

It is critical for each student to organise the unit work in an iterative manner,
whereby thesis, design and output co-evolve in parallel with topical investigations,
analysis and learnings. The objective is for each student to develop an individual
architectural design repertoire, culminating in the production of an architectural
project concluded and manifested in a singular large-scale physical construct, two
large format drawings, digitisation & MR experiences, progress files, research files,
city files, and clear written thesis abstract.

3.1 DESIGN QUALITIES

The unit aim is for each project, the final physical construct, the large format
drawings, the progress files and the city I&C files, plus any possible MR content to
make a disciplinary contribution in how ecologic design intelligence is bound to
change our building industry, socio-cultural behaviours and the way we live and
experience both architecture and cities.

The project is deploying a host of digital tools and techniques for design modelling,
production and curating in architectural projects. The project outcome is assessed
primarily for its criticality and radicality in parallel to its rigour, instrumentality,
novelty, and for its design qualities against its very polemical challenges. We are
using the following cannon as a lens to understand, discuss and assess design
qualities through the year and especially for the final project outcome.

Construct - an act to form something “The fact that something is actually understandable and relatable doesn't mean that it's
Content - is the information and experiences that are directed toward an unsophisticated or banal. It just means that it's crystal-clear. And if you can't explain it,
audience, expression required that doesn't necessarily mean it's so brilliant that ordinary mortals can't fathom it. It
Depth - the perceivable difference between a top surface and the physical or might just mean that it makes no sense.”
implied bottom surface
– Bjarke Ingels
Effect - an experiential change as is a consequence of an architectural action

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4.0 DELIVERABLES
Due to the complexity of the undertaking of an iterative design project, the
necessary deliverables to deal with the range of scale and diverse type of
information are mixed. Diploma Unit 03 sees the design portfolio as a collection of
documents and physical output in varying scales. Each document and model to scale
has a specific role to fill in the overall thesis portfolio.
4.1 PHYSICAL CONSTRUCTS
The unit work revolves around the production of physical constructs on a range of
scale. The models should be made in exhibition quality and kept in a presentable
state and be documented and photographed in preparation for the Progress Files,
Projects Review publication and the Projects Review end of the year exhibition.
Please pay attention to keeping all your physical constructs experiments whether
they are successful or not. Please bear issues about how fabrication, material,
production and construction processes are affected by scalar consideration and
consider using alternative solutions if they behave more like they would in full scale.
4.2 DOCUMENTATION
The documentation of any project is a key aspect of being a good architectural
student, researcher and ultimately an architect. Please take uttermost care in how
you compile the various documents that make up your overall design portfolio.
Prepare to photograph your work in progress and have a digital camera and a
tripod at hand, in order to take properly lit photographs and videos of the model
and construction process, the life in the studio, study models, mock-ups, prototypes
and the final result. These photos are also serving as the basis for your design log,
the projects review, your technical studies document etc. and will be part of
assessing the qualities of your projects and influence the assessment of the project
outcome.
Urban Sample drawing and Meta-drawings
The drawings are both design and communication devices to instrumentalise
drawing and graphic techniques for design development and visual communication.
The work is refined and made to a publishable quality. They are part of the
experimentation beyond planar design conventions focusing normally on the design
development of the following:
1. Urban Sample - a testing ground of one-hectare area (100mx100m) for your
architectural design thesis
2. The design experimentation on future proof environmental resilient conscious
production & design
3. The innovation and inhabitation of the proposed reGenerative tectonic
infrastructure and its feedback mechanism;
4. The ecological technology and production, process and properties;
5. The resilient operation and technology, process and contributions;
6. The operation of the project and the changes in typologies and inhabitation;
7. The components and critical urban manifestation of the ecological proto-urban
conditions and its regenerative and resilient lifestyle.
8. The ecological relationship and tension between urban neighbourhoods and
communities.
Progress File
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Each student is required to keep a design log (graphical design journal/diary) that we
refer to as a Progress File. This file should contain all individual project
contributions, digital learning, research and experiments and an account of your
own individual contribution in each term activity. Please keep it updated on a
daily/weekly basis and it is an integral part to discuss how the work evolves and for
us to understand each individual contribution at the end of each phase. The
progress file is typically a 30 x 30 cm document generally a good measure is around
4-5 pages a week. The project should include design experiments, process-oriented
drawings, relevant and critical investigations, production processes, documentation
of mock-ups and physical constructs as well as detailed drawings.
Research File
All project investigations and research; references and readings should be collated
in a document that we refer to as a research file. This file is used also to give
substance and to support your arguments when you are presenting. Typically the
research file is an A4 binder that can be bound as a book at the end of the year.
City & Consultancy Report (with Photographic Survey)
This file is produced to record all your pre-trip and on-site communication (if
possible but not required due to pandemic situation) or similar, on and offline
communications, observations, interviews, and information from your CITY VISIT
trip. It is an important document shaping your understanding of the city of your
choice, your consultancy, collaboration, the local stakeholders, communities,
scholarly details and possibly support from authorities. The format would normally
follow the progress file in 30 x 30 cm template.
Environmental and Technical Studies Report & Technical Drawings
The environmental and technical studies are central to the unit work. All students
prepare to discuss the necessary support from the ETS studies team tutors, and/or
other external technical consultants and specialists through Term 2.
Unit Book – Whole Earth Catalogue (for Projects Review)
The unit is collectively designing and producing a 100+ pages book that collects all
the research, designs, processes and final design outcome. The book includes text
from both students and staff, and it is self-published on ISSU or similar, and it is
inspired by the original Whole Earth Catalogue.
4.3 DIGITAL CONSTRUCTS & IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES
Due to the experimental nature of the design, development and production process,
we are introducing the process of digitisation where we try to engage and interact
with the design experiments with multiple and different conditions for how will
experience and inhabiting MR environment differ from conventional architecture. It
is important to digitise your work regularly through the year and your cities during
CITY VISIT trip. Please store and keep safe your physical constructs and digital data
as an integral part of your portfolio.
4.4 SCREEN PRESENTATION
A communication tool to organize the critical observations, considerations,
narratives and parameters of your thesis and allow a swift delivery of relevant
information for any third party to understand the framework and design decisions
of your project. This is a critical device for every mini-review, jury, preview and final
tables. Please allow proper presentation scripts and annotation throughout the
presentation.
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4.5 ARCHITECTURAL AESTHETICS

The design and production processes often determine the visual appearance and
spatial qualities. These form the very foundation for the aesthetic qualities of the
projects. It is important to articulate and speculate the implication of these qualities
as part of the projects from small details to large citywide effects. We encourage
the design and production of large-scale physical constructs especially for 5th year
students to exploit these opportunities. The physical constructs should work as
evidence of design intelligence for both spatial qualities, tectonic innovation and
processes, technological production and assembly (or lack of) logic; and is often an
important part of the Environmental and Technical Studies submission and it is
many times a requirement for being considered for Environmental and Technical
Studies high pass panel.

4.6 EXHIBITION

The Projects Review exhibition is mainly curated, designed, produced and installed
by the 4th year students. This year we aim to start preparing, collating and
formatting work in good time before the submission deadline. We also expect that
you will take the responsibility to take down the exhibition in mid July.

4.7 MULTI-MEDIA & MULTI-REALITY

We are aiming to capture and digitise the design work, studio culture, live
experiments, and model building and exhibition installation process in still, moving
images or MR environment resulting in a media output of the studio which you can
link to your portfolios after the course.

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THE ORGANIZATION
“Of course, architecture is only architecture — one can never and should never overestimate the abilities that anyone or anything has, but at the same time I think we also need to be explicitly
optimistic in our work. We have to believe in the possibility to make things better.”
– Ole Scheeren, OLE SCHEEREN: “HOW CAN WE BREAK THE MOLD?” by Ana Bogdan, The Talks 31st January 2018
5.0 ORGANIZATION
Diploma Unit 03 requires students to participate full-time and take part in each
activity and assessment. The unit work is primarily tutorial and critique-based
studies around individual work. There are also a number of guest workshops, critics,
consultancies and group activities. The unit culture is important so please plan to
work in the studio as much as possible to learn from your peers and be ready to
share information with your peers. The unit work is organized in four distinct
phases of which there are a series of iterative experimentations. The phases are as
follows:
Term 1 [inc. 2 reviews and T1 Jury]
Ecological Infrastructure, Architectural Object and Urban Cosmos,
Opportunities, Enhancement and Alternative Inhabitation
[City Visit during Term Break if the situation permits]
The year starts with a series of playful exercises oscillating between physical and
digital constructs, explorative and three-dimensional experimentations. Students
explore ecological infrastructure and analyse the design, characteristics,
operations and provocations, extract the experiential qualities and form a critical
architectural object physically. We continue modifying the design through
physical making and digitalisation and post-digitalisation workflows. This is aiming to
generate an alternative but enhanced infrastructural object(s) and formation(s),
provoking possible design tension between the original, the scan and the digital.
Students conduct a series of iterative design experimentations and conceptualise
the new notion of Architecture; Infrastructural Objects and formulate new
Alternative Inhabitation through various Design and Production Techniques
alongside Ecological technologies; and challenge the known urban atmosphere,
identities, experiences and sensibilities. All students also develop their ecologic
interests and framework in parallel, based on the opportunity arisen from their
corresponding design techniques, plus their general interests in infrastructure,
technologies, urbanism, architectural typology and inhabitation. It is important to
initiate the discussion of theoretical positioning and polemical ambition.
Term 2 [inc. 2 reviews and Previews]
Urban Premises – Situation, Appropriation, Construction
Adaptation, Perception & Experience
[ETS5 final work during Term Break]
Following the learning outcomes and the initial appropriation from Term 1, all
students investigate specific subject matters on Infrastructure, Ecology, Ecologic
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Technology and Construction, Urban Operations, Experience and Lifestyle, and
their very design opportunity according to their thesis interests. Students prepare
analytical and graphical documentation as well as written and verbal
communications to demonstrate the relevant situated considerations, critical
information and challenges. As a unit, we focus on the specific undertaking towards
an urban Infrastructural Ecology and Apative Living and define design targets
for experimentation, development and material output at this stage. We move
between digital experimentation and physical experimentation, integrating urban
specificities and emerging ecologic technology, and build up contextual and
urban interests over Winter Break. All students to participate Environmental &
Technical Studies [ETS], Unit Trip (if applicable), organise and conduct individual
City Visit (if permitted), testing their ideologies, design works, theoretical and
polemical positioning, forming a new global-local ecologic environment.
Term 3 [inc. ETS submission, Final Jury and ]
Ecological Object, Situated Infrastructure & Urban Architecture &
Adaptive Futures and Living, plus Design Thesis Synthesis
In this final stage, students reflect, develop and finalise the architectural ambition
and design thesis by synthesizing the Situated Infrastructure Project and
Adaptive Living with environmental & technological developments plus preview
feedbacks. The work focuses on the ecological relationship between architectural
intervention, immediate surroundings, public domains and the selected city. All
students demonstrate their theoretic and polemic ambition with their proposals and
clearly communicate the criticality of their proposed Adaptive Futures from
PLACE to INTERIOR to TYPOLOGY and eventually to the CITY. All students
make specific design conclusion with complete set of physical constructs, urban
sample drawings, meta-drawings, reports and all support documentation,
representation, videos and any other dissemination.
The students maximise the effort to define modifiers for a clear projective ansd
adaptive future and speculate necessary revisions to their work as a coherent design
thesis. The projects are to be concluded with a radical and projective ecologic
relationship with neighbouring areas. Students employ all and necessary deliverables
to convey the design polemics on Aesthetics, Experience, Social Cultures and
Future Projection. The 4th year students are designing and constructing the
and Diploma Unit 03 exhibition space for the AA Project Review. Time is also spent to
edit and print the Diploma Unit 03 catalogue as well as all the Progress Files of the
unit for the exhibition. The 5th year students are making their work presentable for
the external examination and are only able to help on the exhibition in the final few
days.
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5.1 CALENDAR & TIMETABLE

Weekly tutorials are mainly on Wednesday (design) and Saturday (thesis). We have
regular pin-ups on Wednesdays. Try to avoid any Core Studies and/or ETS
Tutorials on Wednesday. The unit calendar and timetable are made available on a
shared G-Drive at the start of the year.

UNIT PRESENTATION 20 September 2021

UNIT INTERVIEW 27 September 2021
REVIEW 01 27 October 2021
REVIEW 02 17 November 2021
TERM 1 JURY* 15 December 2021
REVIEW 03* 26 January 2022
REVIEW 04 16 February 2022
ETS INTERIM JURY 10 March 2022
4th YEAR PREVIEWS 16-17 March 2022
5th YEAR PREVIEWS 23-24 March 2022
ETS FINAL SUBMISSION* 25 April 2022
REVIEW 05 27 April 2022
DIP03 FINAL JURY 18 May 2022
4th FINAL TABLES 8-9 June 2022
5th FINAL TABLES 15-16 June 2022
EXTERNAL EXAMINATION 21 June 2022
PROJECT REVIEW OPENING 24 June 2022

5.2 STUDY TRIPS

We are not planning any extended unit trip this year due to the pandemic situation.
We are planning to travel to Hooke Park and other city-excursions in the UK as a
unit if the situation permits. If the situation allows, we would like to encourage, not
a requirement, every student to travel on an extended CITY VISIT trip during term
break between term 1 and 2.

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image: Siying Alison Chen, The Architectural Object of Cleansing

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5.3 TERM 1
Experimentation 1 [1-5/12 weeks]
T1Wk01
Study and compare the work and ideology of Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion
Projects, Paolo Soleri’s Archology and your choice of a comparative
contemporary –search for media (e.g. videos) documentary preferably from the
last three years about the mentioned subjects of your interests in ecology and
infrastructure, present your exciting findings and discuss the possible radical
ecological opportunity with your colleagues in the first unit meeting.
Graphical Documentation* [30 x 30cm] - produce one drawing to communicate
your findings of the subjects and opportunities; explain the knowledge bases,
considerations, critical features, consequences and the relevant experience.
Statement of Interests 0* [less than five lines] - a written expression of interests
on Infrastructure, Ecology, Technology, Urbanity and Living, their very
relationship with the professions and the future.
T1Wk02
Experimentation 1.1 - physical construct 01 - Select two specific urban /
ecological infrastructure of your interests, explore and analyse the design,
operations and provocations, extract the experiential qualities and form physically
a critical architectural object of ecological sensibility. Please note site and
contextual relationship is less important in this exercise.
Graphical Documentation* [PC01] - produce drawings to communicate your
detailed understandings in ecological and infrastructural intelligence, critical
technologies involved, possible production processes, and the radical ecological
opportunity; explain the knowledge bases, considerations, critical features,
consequences and the relevant provocation.
Statement of Interests 0.5* [100 words] - a written expression of interests on
Infrastructure, Ecology, Technology, Urbanity and Living, their very relationship with
the professions and the future. Pay attention to infrastructural thinking and its
perception, in relationship with BREW.
T1Wk03
Experimentation 1.2 - digital construct 01 - [file size subject to the processing
capacity of your scanner, apps and computer] - based on the exploration the
week before, digitise PC01, highlight, modify and extremitise towards a critical
spatial engagement through your design as a matter of enhancing and
exaggerating effectual experience and ecological contribution.
Scan the object or infrastructure with a Lidar device (available from the school or
use iPad Pro 2020 + Heges app), alternatively simply use a smartphone with
online processing photogrammetry apps like Display.land 3D Model Scanner.
Please record and document the work flow in detail. Investigate, experiment and
compare critically the processes prior to, during and after the scanning procedure;
explore the opportunity for incompleteness, deformation, distortion,
fragmentation, twisting, interference, rotation, etc. to generate enhancements
and/or exaggerations otherwise not possible with other design processes. It is
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the ambition to instrumentalise digitisation and provoke possible design
tension between the original, the scan and the digital construct Please pay
attention to the articulation of point cloud, mesh form and its specific perceptive
anticipation.
Graphical Documentation* [DC01] - produce drawings to communicate your
detailed understanding in scanning considerations, workflow, and possible radical
opportunity from the above; explain the knowledge bases, considerations, critical
features, consequences and the relevant experience.
Statement of Intent 1.0* [150 words] - a written expression of design intent on
Infrastructure, Ecology, Technology, Urbanity and Living, their very relationship with
the professions and inhabitation. Pay attention to DESIGN TECHNOLOGY.
T1Wk04
Experimentation 1.3 - physical construct 01b - based on the explorative work of
DC01, develop and iterate the physical object PC01 for additional and alterative
urban inhabitation. Clearly identify and explain the difference from conventional
infrastructural models.
Graphical Documentation* [PC01b] - produce drawings to communicate your
detailed understanding in ecological and infrastructural intelligence, critical
technologies involved, possible production processes, and the extremitised
ecological engagement; explain the knowledge bases, considerations, critical
features, consequences and the relevant provocation.
Statement of Intent ƒ* [150 words] - a written expression of design intent on
Infrastructure, Ecology, Technology, Urbanity and Living, their very relationship with
the professions and inhabitation. Pay attention to LIVING EXPERIENCE.
T1Wk05 + Review 01
Experimentation 1.4 - digital construct 01b - expand PC01b & transform the
original architectural object, elaborate the design principles, rules and purposes,
focus on the various modes of ecological engagement.
Digitise and exploit the digitised object or infrastructure with overlays, cloaking,
camouflage, etc. plus the interplay with colours, patterns, textures,
transparency, etc. to further develop and iterate the digitised object. Convey
your detailed understanding of the design method, digitisation consequence,
opportunities and constraints towards an alternative Object with alternative
architectural experience. Explain the unique consequence after the articulation of
mesh surfaces, and the application of three-dimensional overlays beyond the
convention of 3D mapping, wrapping and projection.
Graphical Documentation* [DC01b] - instrumentalise drawings to communicate
your experimentation, criticality, and the consequence in identity and perception.
Allow for analytical and comparison work if necessary. Document the workflow
as a set of clear instructions where the others could possibly adopt.
Presentation - communicate verbally, with all works, your interests in Ecology,
Infrastructure, Technology, Urbanity, Living, Architectural Object, Digitisation
Processes, Instrumentalisation and Challenges, Spatial Engagement and Experience.
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Discuss the essentials and challenges of your work. Bonus to those who have
considered a theoretical and/or polemical positioning of the work.
Abstract 01 [1 page*, max. 200 words] - draft design thesis 1/4 [Thesis +
Hypothesis] develop first draft thesis abstract from previous statements &
general readings on Infrastructure, Ecology, Technology, Urbanity and Living; with one
illustration and a list of references.
Experimentation 2 [6-8/12 weeks]
T1Wk06 + Open Week
What is it? Please try to answer this simple question.
Following the review feedbacks, consolidate the design work and prepare a
Design Brief 1.0. Finalise the drawings and models, investigate the potential
urban conditions, critical consultancy & the specific interests in eco-technology
for your architectural object. Make the necessary emphasis.
Progress Files* [30 x 30cm] - consolidate and compile all your graphical
documentation to date with clarity and accuracy, and form one single document
to define design focus and intent, draw summary and conclusion as necessary.
Prepare the document to be an instructive design manual.
Research Files* [A4 Binder] - collect and structure all raw research materials with
highlights with post-it or similar to frame and support your work and the further
scope of investigation.
City & Consultancy proposal [draft] - It is important to define the initial interests
in the preferrable ecological premises for your thesis with relevant
investigation and research, identify 3 possible cities and 3 experts, with reasons,
to best assist your design experimentation. It is important to investigate the site
challenges and opportunities with the ultimate aim to select one specific
location out of the three options and conduct critical investigations [SPEEC]
in due course. It is suggested to consider an area of one hectare (100 x 100m),
we call it urban sample.
Prepare a list of potential investigations, and a draft questionnaire to explore
potential city and to engage possible expert consultancy. i.e. what do you like to
know about?
T1Wk07
Experimentation 2.1 - physical construct 02 – consider the learnings from PC01b
& DC01b alongside the Design Brief 1.0 and design manual, develop a new
Object of Ecological Infrastructure (or fragment of infrastructure) suggesting
possible transformation for further ecological inhabitation.
Graphical Documentation* [PC02] - produce drawings to communicate your
critical and detailed modification of the physical constructs, the technologies
applied, the production process employed, and the opportunities for radical
experience and inhabitation; explain the knowledge bases, considerations, critical
features, consequences and the relevant provocation.
Abstract 02 [1 page*, max. 300 words] - draft design thesis 2/4 [Thesis +
Hypothesis + Methodology] develop second draft proposal from previous
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statements, abstract & general readings on Infrastructure, Ecology, Technology,
Urbanity and Living; with one illustration and a list of references.
T1Wk08 + Review 02
Experimentation 2.2 – digital construct 02 [DC02] - further develop the
techniques of digitisation and overlays from DC01b towards an augmented
urban inhabitation, and experiment with the relationship with infrastructural
engagement and experience. Elaborate the role of technology and design
characteristics, and their impacts on enhancing urban ecology and living,
provoking new architectural sensibility and engagement. It is important to
document and organise the criticality of digitisation and design mechanisms,
technological innovation and ecological undertaking. Please pay attention to the
articulation of details, overlay details (colours, patterns, textures and
transparency), open spaces, group dynamics, and its specific experience and
atmosphere.
Graphical Documentation* [DC02] - instrumentalise and digitise physical
construct and test the potentials in infrastructural based urban experience and
the opportunity to change radically the inhabitation of infrastructure, city and
architectural characteristics. Be instructive and allow for analytical work as
necessary.
Presentation - communicate verbally, with all works, your interests in Ecology,
Infrastructure, Technology, Urbanity, Living, Architectural Object, Digitisation
Processes, Instrumentalisation and Challenges, Spatial Engagement and Experience.
Discuss the essentials and challenges of your works, the theoretical and/or
polemical positioning.
Audio-Video and/or Multiple Reality output.
Progress Files* [30 x 30cm] - consolidate and compile all your graphical
documentation to date with clarity and accuracy, and form one single document
to define design focus and intent, draw summary and conclusion as necessary.
Prepare the document to be an instructive design manual.
Research Files* [A4 Binder] - collect and structure all raw research materials with
highlights with post-it or similar to frame and support your work and the further
scope of investigation.
City & Consultancy proposal [semi-final] - consolidate the initial interests in the
your preferences on ecological premises and define a scope for relevant
investigation and research, select a city charged with potentials and most exciting
to you, finalise the contact details of the 3 experts, with reasons, to best assist
your design experimentation. Further develop the questionnaire to explore to
engage possible design consultancy.
ETS Statement of Interests* [100 words] - a written expression of interests on
Environmental and Technical Studies 5 based on your design abstract,
experimentations and ecologic premises, as well as your understandings on the
selected cities, local consultancy and/or collaboration, and technologic innovation.
Define the initial interests and scope of technical investigation and
experimentation, with one illustration and a initial list of references.
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Experimentation 3.1 - physical construct 03 [PC03] – consider the learnings from
review feedback and the latest development of DC02, more investigation in
technology and construction, produce an update to PC02 as Object of
Ecological Infrastructure 2 (or fragment of infrastructure) integrating your
interests in technology and construction and intensify its urban relationship and
architectural characteristics towards a new vision of urban living and resilient
future.
Graphical Documentation* [PC03] - produce drawings to communicate your
critical and detailed modification of the physical constructs, the technologies
applied, the production process employed, and the opportunities for radical
experience and inhabitation; explain the knowledge bases, considerations, critical
features, consequences and the relevant provocation as a set of instructions.
Abstract 03 [1 page*] - draft design thesis 3/4 [Thesis + Hypothesis +
Methodology + Design Criteria] develop third draft proposal from previous
statements, abstract & general readings on Infrastructure, Ecology, Technology,
Urbanity and Living; with one illustration and a list of references.
T1Wk10
Experimentation 3.2 - digital construct 03 [DC03] - digitise PC03 via LiDAR scan
or photogrammetry, apply the digitisation techniques developed previously,
finalise the enhancement of infrastructural inhabitation, elaborate the role of
technology and design characteristics, and their impacts on urban ecology and
living, and the possible neighbourhood; iterate and develop digitally an Urban
Cosmos projecting a radical change in urban formation, infrastructure and
typology towards a different group identity and sensibility It is important to
document and organise the criticality of digitisation and design mechanisms,
technological innovation and ecological undertaking. Please pay attention to the
articulation of details, overlay details (colours, patterns, textures and
transparency), open spaces, group dynamics, and its specific experience and
atmosphere.
Graphical Documentation* [DC03] - instrumentalise and digitise physical
construct and test the potentials in infrastructural based urban formation and the
opportunity to change radically the sharing or urban identity, experience as a new
urban collective. Be instructive and allow for analytical work as necessary.
City and Consultancy Proposal - Final [30 x 30cm*] - following the latest design
development and thesis interests, finalise your preference of ecologic subjects,
infrastructure, environmental technologies and laternative urban living.
Prepare references and discuss initial topics, cities and specialists; follow up your
contacts and establish possible consultancy or collaboration.
ETS Statement of Intent* [150 words] - a written statement of intent on
Environmental and Technical Studies 5 based on your design abstract,
experimentations and ecologic premises, as well as your understandings on the
selected cities, local consultancy and/or collaboration, and technologic innovation.
T1Wk11
Design Brief 2.0 – How interesting? Please try to answer this question.
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Please take this opportunity and conduct a pre-Jury self-assessment &
reflection, finalise design abstract and thesis, update and curate physical
constructs and graphical documentation according to the critical development of
design thesis from object to infrastructure, opportunities to enhancement, and
urban living to alternative inhabitation. Carefully consider the history of
architecture, identify relevant protagonists, theoretical reference and polemical
case studies, and position your thesis critically. Better define the ecological
framework and parameters, urban characteristics and impacts, and the potentials
in infrastructural and adaptive atmosphere. It is important to have your progress
files and research files up to date. Organise any audio-video and/or Multiple
Reality outputs, as well as all support documents and materials. Please also
prepare for rehearsal with clear summary and temporary conclusion, and focus
on effective, expressive and explicit communication.
Progress Files* [30 x 30cm] - consolidate and compile all your graphical
documentation to date in a curated manner, and form one single document to
define design focus and intent, draw summary and conclusion as necessary.
Prepare a clear appendix regarding the final design manual.
Research Files* [A4 Binder] - collect and structure all raw research materials with
highlights with a post-it or similar to frame and support your work and the
further scope of the investigation.
Abstract 04 [1 page*] - draft design thesis 4/4 [Thesis + Hypothesis +
Methodology + Design Criteria + Outcome] develop the fourth draft proposal
from previous statements, abstract & general readings on Infrastructure, Ecology,
Technology, Urbanity and Living; with one illustration and a list of references.
T1Wk12 + T1 Jury
Initial Design Appropriation - conduct initial desk studies of your selected city and
explore the locality, the environmental opportunities, the infrastructural
challenges; place the design thesis on a selected site as first trial and explore
the potentials for an adaptive living.
Meta-drawing 03 [1.5m+ x 0.59m+] – consolidate and curate all your graphical
techniques from previous documentation and drawings, and develop your design
thesis into metadrawing 01 – summarise the learnings from the works in Term 1,
update the ecological principles and design methodologies, and the very
consequences for infrastructural development and adaptive futures. Formulate the
composite and graphical communication as a critique on design considerations,
situated development, technological influences, urban organisation and test your
idea of infrastructural architecture, and their very relationship with previous
experiments, framework, design polemics and theoretical positioning.
All Physical Constructs 01 - 03 [all physical constructs to be in exhibition quality]
- draw a temporary conclusion on all experimentation so far with the support
from all previous iterations and discuss the iterative and accumulative intelligence
of the work. Convey the design challenges based on the latest design of Adaptive
Living and Urban Infrastructure, and your detail understanding in the complex
relationship between infrastructure, ecology, technology, tectonics, production,
digitisation, overlays, living, experience and atmosphere. Communicate with
clarity the critical design mechanism and the relevant impacts.
Presentation - communicate expressly and explicitly all works, yours interests in
Infrastructure and City, the idea of Architectural Object physically and
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digitised, the relevant ecological opportunities, the design and effect

enhancement, and the possible alternative mode of living. It is essential to
communicate your architectural ambition in Infrastructure and Urban Ecology,
the design mechanism instructively as repertoire reflecting the Radical Impacts,
Ecological Opportunities, Technologies, Design, Urban Experience & Adaptive Living.
Conduct self-assessment and thesis synthesis, and explain the learnings and the
influences on the latest design development. Celebrate design innovation and
experience, with clear and specific reference about any relevant protagonist, and
to support your polemical and theoretical positioning.

Audio-Video and/or Multiple Reality output.

City and Consultancy Report* [30 x 30cm] - following your latest thesis
development and develop a work plan, curate the materials and build up the
documentation of your investigations, consultation and/or collaboration,
interviews, digital scan and photographic survey. Please communicate the critical
and detailed information about the city, the site, the ecological technology and
the learning outcome matters to your experimentation.

Progress Files* [30 x 30cm] - consolidate and compile all your graphical
documentation to date in a curated manner, and form one single document to
define design focus and intent, draw summary and conclusion as necessary.
Prepare a clear appendix regarding the final design manual.

Research Files* [A4 Binder] - collect and structure all raw research materials with
highlights with a post-it or similar to frame and support your work and the
further scope of the investigation.

Abstract 06 [1 page*] - semi-final design thesis abstract - develop sixth draft

proposal from previous statements, abstract & general readings on Infrastructure,
Ecology, Technology, Urbanity and Living; with one illustration and a list of references.

ETS Thesis Proposal [1 page*] - develop research abstract for Environmental and
Technical Studies [Thesis + Hypothesis + Methodology] based on your design
abstract, experimentations and ecologic premises, as well as your understanding
on the urban situation, local consultancy and/or collaboration, and technologic
innovation. Define the initial scope of technical investigation and develop a work
plan for technical experimentation, with one illustration and a draft list of
references.

5.4 WINTER TERM BREAK

T1Wk12+ [during Winter Break] - Each student organises their own City &
Consultancy Visit (if the situation permits) according to agreed work plan;
conducts in-situ or remote investigation, in depth desk studies, and documents
consultancy and/or collaboration with a focus on verifying critical information
and specificities in the ecologic undertaking, locality, construction technology,
lifestyle, any known future plans and photographic surveys, maybe even a digital
scan of the site. It is essential to the success of your project to organise and
prepare to complete the City and Consultancy Report by the end of the
break.

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5.5 TERM 2
Experimentation 4 [1-3/11 weeks]
T2Wk01
Experimentation 4.1 – Urban Sample Drawing 01* [1.5m+ x 0.59m+] – following
the investigative and consultation works, interviews and desk studies, regarding
the selected city, utilise the graphical techniques from previous experiments and
develop one large format drawing about the EXISTING condition of the selected
one-hectare site demonstrating the critical information, analytical and
detailed findings, and the existing urban experience in relationship with
your ecological & infrastructural interests.
Urban Sample Drawing 01* [1.5m+ x 0.59m+] – large format drawing about the
selected one-hectare site and existing conditions, see above.
Research Files* [A4 Binder] - collect and structure all raw research materials with
highlights with a post-it or similar to frame and support your work and the
further scope of the investigation.
Abstract 05 [1 page*] - draft design thesis revision – develop the fifth draft
proposal from previous statements, abstract & general readings on Infrastructure,
Ecology, Technology, Urbanity and Living; with one illustration and a list of references.
ETS Abstract 1/4 [1 page*] - prepare initial research abstract for Environmental
and Technical Studies [Thesis + Hypothesis] based on your design abstract,
experimentations and ecologic premises, as well as your understanding on the
urban situation, local consultancy and/or collaboration, and technologic
innovation. Define the initial scope of technical investigation and develop a work
plan for technical experimentation, with one illustration and a draft list of
references.
ETS Consultations begins.
T2Wk02
Experimentation 4.2 - Urban Sample 02* [1.5m+ x 0.59m+] – following the urban
sample of the existing situation, insert, appropriate, modify and test your
infrastructural PROPOSAL to your site according to your findings and interests,
demonstrate with clarity the changes in organisation & adaptation; clearly
communicate your ideas about Infrastructure, Ecology and Adaptive Living; and how
the design changes according to technology and necessary undertaking. Please
investigate whether it makes any sense for one infrastructure to make one city.
Urban Sample Drawing 02* [1.5m+ x 0.59+m] – large format drawing about the
selected one-hectare site and the initial design thesis appropriation, see above.
City and Consultancy Report* [30 x 30cm] - following your latest thesis
development and work plan, curate the materials and complete the
documentation of your investigations, consultation and/or collaboration,
interviews, digital scan and photographic survey. Please communicate the critical
and detailed information about the city, the site, the ecological technology and
the learning outcome matters to your experimentation.
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ETS Proposal* [1 page*] - curated initial research abstract for Environmental and
Technical Studies proposal based on your design abstract, experimentations and
ecologic premises, as well as your understanding on the urban situation, local
consultancy and/or collaboration, and technologic innovation. Finalise your
proposed scope of environmental and technical investigation, and update the
work plan for scheduling technical experimentation.
ETS Experimentation begins.
T2Wk03 + Review 03
Experimentation 4.3 - physical construct 04 [scale to be agreed on an individual
basis] - following the latest thesis development and situated appropriation,
continue to iterate the design thesis with specific ecological technology and
construction processes; and emphasis the architectural characteristics,
qualities and experiential impacts. Explore the technological innovation,
infrastructural intelligence & environmental contribution and the possibility of a
new and radical change in urban living and the basis of socio-cultural behaviours.
Graphical Documentation* [PC04] - produce drawings to communicate your
detailed understanding in the ecological technology and construction intelligence,
critical iterative processes, and the radical urban opportunity for your design
thesis; explain the knowledge bases, considerations, critical features,
consequences and the relevant experience.
Presentation - communicate expressly and explicitly all works, the findings about
the city and locality, architectural ambition in Infrastructure and Ecology, the
proposed Urban Premises, the Situation, the Appropriation, the Construction & the
Adaptation; reflecting the Radical Impacts, Ecological Opportunities, Technologies,
Design, Experience & Living; conduct self-assessment and Thesis Synthesis, and
explain the latest development of the design thesis. Celebrate design innovation
and experience, with clear and specific reference about any relevant protagonist
of your thesis, and to support your polemical and theoretical positioning.
All Physical Constructs 01 - 04 [all physical constructs to be in exhibition quality]
- draw a temporary conclusion on all experimentation so far with the support
from all previous iterations and discuss the iterative and accumulative intelligence
of the work. Convey the design challenges based on the latest design of Adaptive
Living and Urban Infrastructure, and your detail understanding in the complex
relationship between infrastructure, ecology, technology, tectonics, production,
digitisation, overlays, living, experience and atmosphere. Communicate with
clarity the critical design mechanism and the relevant impacts.
Urban Sample Drawing 02* [1.5m+ x 0.59+m] – large format drawing about the
selected one-hectare site and insert, appropriate, modify and test your
infrastructural PROPOSAL to your site according to your findings and interests,
demonstrate with clarity the changes in organisation & adaptation; clearly
communicate your ideas about Infrastructure, Ecology and Adaptive Living; and how
the design changes according to technology and necessary undertaking
City and Consultancy Report* [30 x 30cm] - following your latest thesis
development and work plan, curate the materials and complete the
documentation of your investigations, consultation and/or collaboration,
interviews, digital scan and photographic survey. Please communicate the critical
and detailed information about the city, the site, the ecological technology and
the learning outcome matters to your experimentation.
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Progress Files* [30 x 30cm] - consolidate and compile all your graphical
documentation to date in a curated manner, and form one single document to
define design focus and intent, draw summary and conclusion as necessary.
Prepare a clear appendix regarding the final design manual.
Research Files* [A4 Binder] - collect and structure all raw research materials with
highlights with a post-it or similar to frame and support your work and the
further scope of the investigation.
Abstract 06 [1 page*] - semi-final design thesis abstract - develop sixth draft
proposal from previous statements, abstract & general readings on Infrastructure,
Ecology, Technology, Urbanity and Living; with one illustration and a list of references.
ETS Abstract 2/4 [1 page*] - develop research abstract for Environmental and
Technical Studies [Thesis + Hypothesis + Methodology] based on your design
abstract, experimentations and ecologic premises, as well as your understanding
on the urban situation, local consultancy and/or collaboration, and technologic
innovation. Define the initial scope of technical investigation and develop a work
plan for technical experimentation, with one illustration and a draft list of
references.
Experimentation 5 [4-6/11 weeks]
T2Wk04
Experimentation 5.1 – Urban Sample 03* [2.0m+ x 0.84m+] – following the
development of PC04, the urban sample of the existing locality, and the
experimentation of the situated proposals, please continue to digitise and modify
the physical constructs. Within the urban sample, select critically locations, zoom-
in and further iterate your design thesis to develop urban fabrics with detailed
characteristics aiming to transform urban organisation & public operations.
Clearly communicate your ideas about Infrastructure, Ecology and Adaptive Living;
and how the design responses, technological influences and the corresponding
changes in urban inhabitation enable a City of / for Ecological Technology?
Urban Sample Drawing 03* [2.0m+ x 0.84m+] – large format drawing about the
selected one-hectare site and the initial design thesis appropriation, see above.
ETS Abstract 3/4 [1 page*] - develop research abstract for Environmental and
Technical Studies [Thesis + Hypothesis + Methodology + Design Criteria]
based on your design abstract, experimentations and ecologic premises, as well as
your understanding on the urban situation, local consultancy and/or collaboration,
and technologic innovation. Define the scope of technical investigation and
develop a work plan for technical experimentation, with one illustration and a
draft list of references.
T2Wk05 - Open Week
Design Brief 3.0 – Why it matters? Please try to answer this question.
Please take this opportunity and conduct a self-assessment & reflection,
revise & update design abstract and thesis, curate physical constructs and large
format drawings according to the critical development of design thesis from
framework to parameters, characteristics to urban impacts and ecological urban
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atmosphere. It is important to have your progress files and research files up to
date. Organise any audio-video and/or Multiple Reality outputs, as well as all
support documents and reports. Please also prepare summary and temporary
conclusion, and focus on effective, expressive and explicit communication.
Meta-drawing 03 [2.0m+ x 0.84m+] – continue develop your thesis into a large
format drawing – learning from self-assessment and synthesis exercise, update the
ecological principles and design methodologies, and the very consequences for
infrastructural development and adaptive futures. Update the composite and
graphical communication summarise the critical design considerations, situated
development, technological influences, urban organisation and any emerging idea
of infrastructural architecture, and their very relationship with previous
experiments, framework, design polemics and theoretical positioning.
Assessment & Synthesis [1 page*] - conduct a self-assessment and reflect on the
proposed Ecological Infrastructure and Urban Inhabitation, its critical role in the
city and the possible changes in urban living.
ETS draft document 01* - initial draft - prepare the first draft document inc. semi-
final ETS Abstract and Table of Content based on your design abstract,
experimentation and ecologic premises, as well as your preferences on the urban
situation and technologic innovation. Update weekly your environmental and
technical investigation and experimentation, work plan weekly, deliverables, and a
list of references.
T2Wk06 + Review 04
Experimentation 5.2 – physical construct 05 – consider the specific design
intelligence in the urban sample 03 and metadrawing 02, you have a better
engagement with the situated parameters and socio-cultural undertaking, critically
select, zoom-in & develop an Infrastructure as Architectural PLACE through
PC05, and focus on the making of an urban space with ecological atmosphere
and neighbouring relationship; develop through the physical constructs an
iteration of the Ecological Infrastructure and formulate the possible adaptive
characteristics and anticipatory experience. It is important to demonstrate the
critical design mechanism, technological innovation and spatial sensibility. Please
pay attention to the relevant impacts, and the co-evolutionary relationship with
technological innovations, infrastructure and city, as well as its specific
inhabitation and atmosphere.
Graphical Documentation* [PC05] - produce drawings to communicate your
detailed understandings in the making of an urban place and its relationship with
local neighbourhood and daily routine, exploit the ecological technology and
production, and the subsequent experience; explain the knowledge bases,
considerations, critical features, consequences and the relevant provocation.
Presentation - communicate expressly and explicitly all works, the findings about
the city and locality, architectural ambition in Infrastructure and Ecology, the
proposed Urban Premises, the Situation, the Appropriation, the Construction & the
Adaptation; reflecting the Radical Impacts, Ecological Opportunities, Technologies,
Design, Experience & Living; conduct self-assessment and Thesis Synthesis, and
explain the latest development of the design thesis. Celebrate design innovation
and experience, with clear and specific reference about any relevant protagonist
of your thesis, and to support your polemical and theoretical positioning.
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All Physical Constructs 01 - 05 [all physical constructs to be in exhibition quality]
- draw a temporary conclusion on all experimentation so far with the support
from all previous iterations and discuss the iterative and accumulative intelligence
of the work. Convey the design challenges based on the latest design of Adaptive
Living and Urban Infrastructure, and your detail understanding in the complex
relationship between infrastructure, ecology, technology, tectonics, production,
digitisation, overlays, living, experience and atmosphere. Communicate with
clarity the critical design mechanism and the relevant impacts.
Urban Sample Drawing 02* [1.5m+ x 0.59+m] – large format drawing about the
selected one-hectare site and insert, appropriate, modify and test your
infrastructural PROPOSAL to your site according to your findings and interests,
demonstrate with clarity the changes in organisation & adaptation; clearly
communicate your ideas about Infrastructure, Ecology and Adaptive Living; and how
the design changes according to technology and necessary undertaking
Meta-drawing 03 [2.0m+ x 0.84m+] – highlight the ecological principles and
design methodologies, and the very consequences for infrastructural development
and adaptive futures. Update the composite and graphical communication
summarise the critical design considerations, situated development, technological
influences, urban organisation and any emerging idea of infrastructural
architecture, and their very relationship with previous experiments, framework,
design polemics and theoretical positioning.
Urban Sample Drawing 03* [2.0m+ x 0.84m+] – large format drawing about the
selected one-hectare site and the initial design thesis appropriation, select
critically locations, zoom-in and further iterate your design thesis to develop
urban fabrics with detailed characteristics aiming to transform urban
organisation & public operations. Clearly communicate your ideas about
Infrastructure, Ecology and Adaptive Living; and how the design responses,
technological influences and the corresponding changes in urban inhabitation
enable a City of / for Ecological Technology?
Audio-Video and/or Multiple Reality output.
Progress Files* [30 x 30cm] - consolidate and compile all your graphical
documentation to date in a curated manner, and form one single document to
define design focus and intent, draw summary and conclusion as necessary.
Prepare a clear appendix regarding the final design manual.
Research Files* [A4 Binder] - collect and structure all raw research materials with
highlights with a post-it or similar to frame and support your work and the
further scope of the investigation.
City and Consultancy Report* [30 x 30cm] - following your latest thesis
development and work plan, curate the materials and complete the
documentation of your investigations, consultation and/or collaboration,
interviews, digital scan and photographic survey. Please communicate the critical
and detailed information about the city, the site, the ecological technology and
the learning outcome matters to your experimentation.
Abstract 06b [1 page*] - semi-final design thesis abstract with self-assessment
- develop sixth draft proposal from previous statements, abstract & general
readings on Infrastructure, Ecology, Technology, Urbanity and Living; with one
illustration and a list of references.
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ETS Abstract 4/4 [1 page*] - finalise research abstract for Environmental and
Technical Studies [Thesis + Hypothesis + Methodology + Design Criteria +
Outcome] based on your design abstract, experimentations and ecologic
premises, as well as your understanding on the urban situation, local consultancy
and/or collaboration, and technologic innovation. Define the scope of technical
investigation and develop a work plan for technical experimentation, with one
illustration and a list of references.
ETS draft document 2* - prepare the second draft document inc. ETS Abstract
4/4 and a final Table of Content based on your design abstract, experimentation
and ecologic premises, as well as your preferences on the urban situation and
technologic innovation. Document your environmental and technical investigation,
and update the weekly work plan and deliverables for technical experimentation,
with a list of references.
Experimentation 9 [7-8/11 weeks]
T2Wk07
Experimentation 6.1 - Urban Sample Drawing 04 [3.0m+ x 0.84+m] - following
the interests in PC05 and the development of an Infrastructural Place, digitise PC05
and through graphical construct test the design relationship between the
situated parameters, socio-cultural undertakings & the design
principles, illustrate with details the critical understandings in locality, socio-
cultural framework, enviro-politics and economy, and the relevant appropriation
and modification of your thesis.
Urban Sample Drawing 04* [3.0m+ x 0.84+m] - one large-format drawing about
the selected one-hectare site, see above, with clear and specific details of your
design interests in infrastructures, technologies, enclosures, spatial experience
and adaptive living.
ETS Abstract Final [1 page*] - finalise research abstract for Environmental and
Technical Studies based on your design abstract, experimentations and ecologic
premises, as well as your understandings on the urban situation, local consultancy
and/or collaboration, and technologic innovation. Define the scope of technical
investigation and develop a work plan for technical experimentation, with one
illustration and a list of references.
ETS draft document 3* - prepare the third draft document inc. final ETS Abstract
and Table of Content based on your design abstract, experimentation and
ecologic premises, as well as your preferences on the urban situation and
technologic innovation. Document your environmental and technical investigation
and experimentation, and update the weekly work plan and deliverables, with a
list of references.
T2Wk08
Experimentation 6.2 - physical construct 06 – consider the specific design
intelligence in the urban sample 04 and the situated parameters and socio-cultural
undertaking, critically select, zoom-in & develop an Infrastructure as
Architectural INTERIOR through PC06, and focus on the typological
transformation & adaptive living; develop through the physical constructs a
revision of the Ecological Infrastructure and reformulate the proposed
Adaptive Living. It is important to demonstrate the critical design mechanism,
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technological innovation and spatial sensibility. Please pay attention to the critical
design mechanism and the relevant impacts, and the co-evolutionary relationship
with technological innovations, infrastructure & city, as well as its specific
experience and atmosphere.
Graphical Documentation* [PC06] - produce drawings to communicate your
detailed understandings in the making of interiority and its relationship with
inhabitation and daily routine, exploit the ecological technology and production,
and the subsequent experience; explain the knowledge bases, considerations,
critical features, consequences and the relevant provocation.
ETS draft document 4* - prepare the fourth draft document inc. final ETS
Abstract Final and Table of Content based on your design abstract,
experimentation and ecologic premises, as well as your preferences on the urban
situation and technologic innovation. Document your environmental and technical
investigation and experimentation, and update the weekly work plan and
deliverables, with a list of references. Prepare for Interim Submission and
Presentation.
T2Wk09 + ETS Interim Assessment
Design Brief 4.0 – How radical? Please try to answer this question.
Please take a good moment and conduct a Pre-Previews assessment &
synthesis, revise & update design abstract and thesis, curate physical constructs
and large format drawings. It is important to have your progress files and
research files ready. Organise any audio-video and/or Multiple Reality outputs, as
well as all support documents and reports. Please also prepare for Rehearsals,
and focus on effective, expressive and explicit communication.
Consolidate your thesis into metadrawing 04 – learning from your own
assessment and synthesis exercise, update the ecological principles and design
methodologies, and the very consequences for urban development and adaptive
futures. Update the composite and graphical communication summarise the
critical design considerations, situated development, technological influences,
urban organisation and the architectural proposition, and their very relationship
with previous experiments, framework, design polemics and theoretical
positioning.
Meta-drawing 03 [3.0m+ x 0.84+m] – see above
Assessment & Synthesis [1 page*] - conduct a self-assessment and reflect on the
proposed Ecological Infrastructure and Urban Relationship, from intimate to city
scale, its critical role in your work and the embodied intelligence.
ETS draft document 05* - interim submission - prepare the fifth draft document
inc. final ETS Abstract and Table of Content based on your design abstract,
experimentation and ecologic premises, as well as your preferences on the urban
situation and technologic innovation. Document your environmental and technical
investigation and experimentation, and update the weekly work plan and
deliverables, with a list of references. Allow for ETS Interim Presentation.
T2Wk10 & 11 - 4th & 5th yrs Preview
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Presentation - communicate expressly and explicitly all works, architectural
ambition in Infrastructure and Ecology, the findings about the city and locality, the
proposed Urban Premises, the Situation, the Appropriation, the Construction & the
Adaptation; reflecting the Radical Impacts, Ecological Opportunities, Technologies,
Design, Experience & Living; conduct self-assessment and Thesis Synthesis; and
explain the latest development of the design thesis. Celebrate design innovation
and experience, with clear and specific reference about any relevant protagonist
of your thesis, and to support your polemical and theoretical positioning.
All Physical Constructs 01 - 06 [all physical constructs to be in exhibition quality]
- draw a temporary conclusion on all experimentation so far with the support
from all previous iterations and discuss the iterative and accumulative intelligence
of the work. Convey the design challenges based on the latest design of Adaptive
Living and Urban Infrastructure, and your detail understanding in the complex
relationship between ecology, digitisation, overlays, tectonics design, enclosure,
technology, infrastructure, public spaces, urban formation, lifestyle, experience
and mood. Communicate with clarity the critical design mechanism and the
relevant impacts.
Meta-drawing 03 [3.0m+ x 0.84+m] - composite and graphical communication
summarise the critical design considerations, situated development, technological
influences, urban organisation and the architectural proposition, and their very
relationship with previous experiments, framework, design polemics and
theoretical positioning.
Urban Sample Drawing 04* [3.0m+ x 0.84+m] - one large-format drawing about
the selected one-hectare site, develop the design relationship between the
situated parameters, socio-cultural undertakings & the design principles regarding
the Place moments according to your design interests in infrastructures,
technologies, enclosures, spatial experience and adaptive living.
Progress Files* [30 x 30cm] - consolidate and compile all your graphical
documentation to date in a curated manner, and form one single document to
define design focus and intent, draw summary and conclusion as necessary.
Prepare a clear appendix regarding the final design manual.
Research Files* [A4 Binder] - collect and structure all raw research materials with
highlights with a post-it or similar to frame and support your work and the
further scope of the investigation.
City & Consultancy Report* [30 x 30cm] - following your final proposal and
work plan, curate the materials and complete the documentation of your
investigations, consultation and/or collaboration, interviews, digital scan and
photographic survey. Please communicate the critical and detailed information
about the city, the site, the ecological technology and the learning outcome
matters to your physical experimentation.
Abstract 07 [1 page*] - final design thesis abstract - develop seventh and last
draft proposal from previous statements, abstract & general readings on
Infrastructure, Ecology, Technology, Urbanity and Living; with one illustration and
a list of references.
ETS draft document 05* - interim submission - the fifth draft document inc. final
ETS Abstract and Table of Content based on your design abstract,
experimentation and ecologic premises, as well as your preferences on the urban
situation and technologic innovation. Document your environmental and technical
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investigation and experimentation, and update the weekly work plan and
deliverables, with a list of references.

5.6 SPRING TERM BREAK Wk01 - Wk04

1 week on-campus Intensive ETS Tutorials

3 weeks off-campus Intensive ETS Tutorials

image: Elizabeth Low

Seavilisation - semi-submerged construction technology of lightweight graphene-infused
polymer nano composite

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image: Dalia Matsuura Frontini

Prajapati’s Painted Bodhi - experimentation via physical construct and digital interface
Honour 2018, Student Voted Honour 2018, RIBA Silver Medal Nominee 2018

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5.7 TERM 3
Experiment 7 [1-3 /8 weeks]
T3Wk01 - Review 5
Experimentation 7.1 – metadrawing 04 – learning from the feedback of Preview
Tables, finalise the ecological principles and design methodologies, and the very
consequences for urban development and adaptive futures. Update the composite
and graphical communication summarise the critical design considerations,
situated development, technological influences, urban organisation and the
architectural proposition, and their very relationship with previous experiments,
framework, design polemics and theoretical positioning.
All Physical Constructs 01 - 06 [all physical constructs to be in exhibition quality]
- draw a temporary conclusion on all experimentation so far with the support
from all previous iterations and discuss the iterative and accumulative intelligence
of the work. Convey the design challenges based on the latest design of Adaptive
Living and Urban Infrastructure, and your detail understanding in the complex
relationship between ecology, digitisation, overlays, tectonics design, enclosure,
technology, infrastructure, public spaces, urban formation, lifestyle, experience
and mood. Communicate with clarity the critical design mechanism and the
relevant impacts.
Meta-drawing 04 [3.0m+ x 0.84+m] – see above
Urban Sample Drawing 04 [3.0m+ x 0.84+m] - one large-format drawing about
the selected one-hectare site, with clear and specific details of design
considerations, situated parameters, socio-cultural undertakings, the zoom-in
Place and Interior moments according to your design interests in infrastructures,
technologies, enclosures, spatial experience and adaptive living.
Presentation - communicate expressly and explicitly all works, architectural
ambition in Infrastructure and Ecology, the findings about the city, the locality and
the urban premises, the proposed Ecological Object, Situated Infrastructure, Urban
Architecture, and Adaptive Futures and Living; convey the Radical Impacts, Ecological
Opportunities, Technologies, Design, Experience & Living; conduct self-assessment and
Thesis Synthesis; and explain the latest development of the design thesis.
Celebrate design innovation and experience, with clear and specific reference
about any relevant protagonist of your thesis, and to support your polemical and
theoretical positioning.
Audio-Video and/or Multiple Reality output.
Progress Files* [30 x 30cm] - consolidate and compile all your graphical
documentation to date in a curated manner, and form one single document to
define design focus and intent, draw summary and conclusion as necessary.
Prepare a clear appendix regarding the final design manual.
Research Files* [A4 Binder] - collect and structure all raw research materials with
highlights with a post-it or similar to frame and support your work and the
further scope of the investigation.
City & Consultancy Report* [30 x 30cm] - following your final proposal and
work plan, curate the materials and complete the documentation of your
investigations, consultation and/or collaboration, interviews, digital scan and
photographic survey. Please communicate the critical and detailed information
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about the city, the site, the ecological technology and the learning outcome
matters to your physical experimentation.
Abstract 08 [1 page*] - final design thesis abstract - revise thesis proposal from
preview feedbacks, previous statements, abstract & general readings on
Infrastructure, Ecology, Technology, Urbanity and Living; with one illustration and
a list of references.
ETS final document* - prepare the final document for submission inc. final ETS
Abstract, Table of Content, and detailed Chapters based on your design abstract,
experimentation, ecologic and urban premises, as well as your preferences on the
urban situation and technologic innovation. Detail your scope of environmental
and technical investigation, the processes, analysis and assessment, and conclusion
of technical experimentation, and the learning outcome, with a list of references.
T3Wk02
Experimentation 7.2 - physical construct 07 [1.0m x 1.0m x 1.0m+, scale to be
agreed on an individual basis] - following the feedbacks from Preview Tables and
the specific design intelligence of the proposed Ecological Object, Situated
Infrastructure, Urban Architecture, and Adaptive Futures and Living, the development in
urban sample and metadrawing, identify and consolidate critical design modifiers as
necessary, develop through the physical constructs a revision of the Adaptive
Infrastructure and reformulate the proposed Ecological Living. It is important
to demonstrate the critical design mechanism, technological innovation and spatial
sensibility. Please pay attention to the ecological lifestyles & adaptive futures,
and the co-evolutionary relationship with ecological infrastructure, technological
innovations, city and neighbourhood, as well as its specific experience and
atmosphere.
Graphical Documentation* [PC07] - produce drawings to communicate your
critical and detailed modification of the physical constructs, the technologies
applied, the production process employed, and the opportunities for radical
experience and inhabitation; explain the knowledge bases, considerations, critical
features, consequences and the relevant provocation.
T3Wk03
Experimentation 7.3 - Urban Sample Drawing 05 [3.0m+ x 0.84+m] - finalise
graphically the projective vision of Adaptive Urban Futures instigated from PC07
with necessary emphasis on the design thesis and the unique urban characteristics
through digitisation; & how the urban ecological principles will operate differently
in three different scales.
Urban Sample Drawing 05* [3.0m+ x 0.84+m] - one large-format drawing about
the selected one-hectare site, with clear and specific details of three different
scale, the zoom-in Place and Interior moments according to your design interests
in infrastructures, technologies, enclosures, spatial experience and adaptive living.
T3Wk04 + FINAL JURY
Thesis Synthesis 1 - it is important to Reflect, Consolidate and Curate your
design thesis about Ecological Object, Situated Infrastructure, Urban Architecture, and
Adaptive Futures and Living in relationship with the unit brief and the ecological
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subject matter. It is essential to demonstrate effectively, expressively and
explicitly your ambition, challenges, critical understandings, polemical and
theoretical positioning of the work with clarity. Finalise graphically the design
mechanism with all the intelligence of the work and the projective impacts on
urban living and how we adapt to the future changes
All Physical Constructs 01 - 07 [all physical constructs to be in exhibition quality]
- draw a temporary conclusion on all experimentation so far with the support
from all previous iterations and discuss the iterative and accumulative intelligence
of the work. Convey the design challenges based on the latest design of Adaptive
Living and Urban Infrastructure, and your detail understanding in the complex
relationship between ecology, digitisation, overlays, tectonics design, enclosure,
technology, infrastructure, public spaces, urban formation, lifestyle, experience
and mood. Communicate with clarity the critical design mechanism and the
relevant impacts.
Meta-drawing 05 [3.0m+ x 0.84+m] - composite and graphical communication
summarise the critical design considerations, situated development, technological
influences, urban organisation and the architectural proposition, and their very
relationship with previous experiments, framework, design polemics and
theoretical positioning.
Urban Sample Drawing 05* [3.0m+ x 0.84+m] - one large-format drawing about
the selected one-hectare site, with clear and specific details of three different
scales, the zoom-in Place and Interior moments according to your design interests
in infrastructures, technologies, enclosures, spatial experience and adaptive living.
Presentation - communicate expressly and explicitly all works, architectural
ambition in Infrastructure and Ecology, the findings about the city, the locality and
the urban premises, the proposed Ecological Object, Situated Infrastructure, Urban
Architecture, and Adaptive Futures and Living; convey the Radical Impacts, Ecological
Opportunities, Technologies, Design, Experience & Living; conduct self-assessment and
Thesis Synthesis; and explain the latest development of the design thesis.
Celebrate design innovation and experience, with clear and specific reference
about any relevant protagonist of your thesis, and to support your polemical and
theoretical positioning.
Audio-Video and/or Multiple Reality output.
Progress Files* [30 x 30cm] - consolidate and compile all your graphical
documentation to date in a curated manner, and form one single document to
define design focus and intent, draw summary and conclusion as necessary.
Prepare a clear appendix regarding the final design manual.
Research Files* [A4 Binder] - collect and structure all raw research materials with
highlights with a post-it or similar to frame and support your work and the
further scope of the investigation.
City & Consultancy Report* [30 x 30cm] - following your final proposal and
work plan, curate the materials and complete the documentation of your
investigations, consultation and/or collaboration, interviews, digital scan and
photographic survey. Please communicate the critical and detailed information
about the city, the site, the ecological technology and the learning outcome
matters to your physical experimentation.
Abstract 08 [1 page*] - final design thesis abstract - revise thesis proposal from
preview feedbacks, previous statements, abstract & general readings on
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Infrastructure, Ecology, Technology, Urbanity and Living; with one illustration and
a list of references.
ETS final document* - prepare the final document for submission inc. final ETS
Abstract, Table of Content, and detailed Chapters based on your design abstract,
experimentation, ecologic and urban premises, as well as your preferences on the
urban situation and technologic innovation. Detail your scope of environmental
and technical investigation, the processes, analysis and assessment, and conclusion
of technical experimentation, and the learning outcome, with a list of references.
T3Wk05
Thesis Synthesis 2 - it is important to Reflect, Consolidate and Curate your
design development work based on the feedback from the Final Jury. Please
focus on the final revision about Ecological Object, Situated Infrastructure, Urban
Architecture, and Adaptive Futures and Living in relationship with the unit brief and
subject matter. It is essential to demonstrate effectively, expressively and
explicitly your ambition, challenges, critical understandings, polemical and
theoretical positioning of the work with clarity. Prepare to finalise all your work
and communication materials for Rehearsals.
T3Wk06
Rehearsals - Pre-Final Tables thesis synthesis, revise & finalise thesis, curate
physical constructs, urban sample model, large format drawings, audio-video
and/or multiple reality output, as well as all support documents. Prepare for
Rehearsals, and focus on effective, expressive and explicit communication.
T3Wk07 & Wk08 – 4th & 5th yrs Final Tables
All Physical Constructs 01 - 07 [all physical constructs to be in exhibition quality]
- draw a temporary conclusion on all experimentation so far with the support
from all previous iterations and discuss the iterative and accumulative intelligence
of the work. Convey the design challenges based on the latest design of Adaptive
Living and Urban Infrastructure, and your detail understanding in the complex
relationship between ecology, digitisation, overlays, tectonics design, enclosure,
technology, infrastructure, public spaces, urban formation, lifestyle, experience
and mood. Communicate with clarity the critical design mechanism and the
relevant impacts.
Meta-drawing 05 [3.0m+ x 0.84+m] - composite and graphical communication
summarise the critical design considerations, situated development, technological
influences, urban organisation and the architectural proposition, and their very
relationship with previous experiments, framework, design polemics and
theoretical positioning.
Urban Sample Drawing 05* [3.0m+ x 0.84+m] - one large-format drawing about
the selected one-hectare site, with clear and specific details of three different
scales, the zoom-in Place and Interior moments according to your design interests
in infrastructures, technologies, enclosures, spatial experience and adaptive living.
Presentation - communicate expressly and explicitly all works, architectural
ambition in Infrastructure and Ecology, the findings about the city, the locality and
the urban premises, the proposed Ecological Object, Situated Infrastructure, Urban
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Architecture, and Adaptive Futures and Living; convey the Radical Impacts, Ecological
Opportunities, Technologies, Design, Experience & Living; conduct self-assessment and
Thesis Synthesis; and explain the latest development of the design thesis.
Celebrate design innovation and experience, with clear and specific reference
about any relevant protagonist of your thesis, and to support your polemical and
theoretical positioning.

Audio-Video and/or Multiple Reality output.

Progress Files* [30 x 30cm] - consolidate and compile all your graphical
documentation to date in a curated manner, and form one single document to
define design focus and intent, draw summary and conclusion as necessary.
Prepare a clear appendix regarding the final design manual.

Research Files* [A4 Binder] - collect and structure all raw research materials with
highlights with a post-it or similar to frame and support your work and the
further scope of the investigation.

City & Consultancy Report* [30 x 30cm] - following your final proposal and
work plan, curate the materials and complete the documentation of your
investigations, consultation and/or collaboration, interviews, digital scan and
photographic survey. Please communicate the critical and detailed information
about the city, the site, the ecological technology and the learning outcome
matters to your physical experimentation.

Abstract 08 [1 page*] - final design thesis abstract - revise thesis proposal from
preview feedbacks, previous statements, abstract & general readings on
Infrastructure, Ecology, Technology, Urbanity and Living; with one illustration and a list
of references.

ETS final document* - prepare the final document for submission inc. final ETS
Abstract, Table of Content, and detailed Chapters based on your design abstract,
experimentation, ecologic and urban premises, as well as your preferences on the
urban situation and technologic innovation. Detail your scope of environmental
and technical investigation, the processes, analysis and assessment, and conclusion
of technical experimentation, and the learning outcome, with a list of references.

T3Wk09 - External Examination + Exhibition** Preparation

* 30x30cm template for the progress files will be circulated at the

beginning of Term 1.
** Full anticipation and commitment are expected as well as your full
corporation in preparing and dismantling the end of year exhibition until
mid-July.

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6.0 READING LIST
(Please see the Diploma Unit 03 shelf in the library)
On Ecology and Environment
Buckminster Fuller 1978, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, Hardcover, Amereon Ltd,
E. P. Dutton, ISBN 089190235X, 9780891902355, 128 pages (1998 reprint)
Paolo Soleri 1969, Arcology: The City in the Image of Man, MIT Press, ASIN: B00136Z8MK,
ISBN : 0262190605, ISBN : 9780262190602, 122 pages (132 pages 2006 reprint, 2019 50th
reprint edition)
Ebenezer Howard 1898, To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (aka Garden Cities of
To-morrow 1965 ed.), Swan Sonnenschein & Co. ISBN 9780262580021 0262580020,, 168
pages
Paolo Soleri et al. 2012, Lean Linear City: Arterial Arcology, Cosanti Press, ASIN:
1883340071, ISBN: 978-1883340-07-0, 196 pages
John Frazer, Patrick Schmacher, Theodore Spyropoulos et al. 2013, Adaptive Ecologies:
Correlated Systems of Living, AA Press, ISBN 1907896139, 978-1907896132, 336 pages
IPCC 2021, Assessment Report 6 Climate Change 2021, Cambridge University Press, 3949
pages
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 2020, Global Biodiversity Outlook 5,
CBD International, Montreal, ISBN-9789292256883, 212 pages
Almond, R.E.A., Grooten M. and Petersen, T. (Eds)., WWF, 2020, Living Planet Report
2020 - Bending the curve of biodiversity loss. World Wide Fund for Nature, Gland,
Switzerland, ISBN 978-2-940529-99-5, 83 pages
Frederick R. Steiner, Richard Weller, Karen M’Closkey, Billy Fleming, 2019, Design With
Nature Now, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, ISBN-10: 1558443932, ISBN-13: 978-
1558443938, 368 pages
Kelvin Campbell, 2018, The Massive Small Compendium: Ideas, Tools and Tactics for Urban
Society, Chelsea Green Publishing, ISBN 1603587756, 9781603587754, 384 pages
Bruno Latour, 2017, translated by Catherine Porter 2018, Down to Earth: Politics in the New
Climatic Regime, Polity Press, ISBN-10: 9781509530571, ASIN: 1509530576, 140 pages
Thomas Schröpfer 2016, The Dense and Green Paradigm, Dense + Green: Innovative Building
Types for Sustainable Urban Architecture, Birkhauser Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. ISBN
3038215791, ISBN 9783038215790, 304 pages, pp. 10–37
Matthias Gross 2010, Ignorance and Surprise: Science, Society, and Ecological Design, MIT Press,
ISBN 9780262266277, 256 pages
John Bellamy Foster 2009, The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet, Monthly
Review Press, U.S.; ISBN 1583671781, 978-1583671788, 328 pages
On Adaptive Design
Victor Papanek 1971, Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change, Pantheon
Books, New York, ISBN 0-394-47036-2, 378 pages
Pedro Gadanho, 2018, Eco-Visionaries: Art, Architecture, and New Media after the Anthropocene,
Hatje Cantz Verlag, ISBN-10: 3775744533, ISBN-13: 978-3775744539, 224 pages
Patrik Schumacher, 2017, Critique of Object Oriented Architecture, in Michael Benedikt & Kory
Bieg (Editors) 2018, The Secret Life of Buildings, Center for American Architecture and
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Design, University of Texas at Austin, ISBN-10: 0934951284, ISBN-13: 978-0934951289,
216 pages
Kelly Bair, 2018, Possible Mediums, ActarD Inc., ISBN 1940291968, 9781940291963, 200
pages
Todd Gannon, Graham Harman, David Ruy & Tom Wiscombe, 2015, The Object Turn: A
Conversation, Log 33, Winter 2015, Cynthia Davidson, Anyone Corporation,
ISBN 9780990735212, 156 pages
Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby, 2013, Speculative Everything, The MIT Press, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, ISBN 10: 0262019841, ISBN 13: 9780262019842, 224 pages
Graham Harman 2010, Towards Speculative Realism: Essays and Lectures, Zero Books, ISBN-
10: 1846943949, ISBN-13: 978-1846943942, 219 pages
On Architectural Technologies
Carl Benedikt Frey, 2019, The Technology Trap, Princeton University Press, ISBN-
10: 069117279X, ISBN-13: 978-0691172798, 312 pages
James Bridle, 2018, New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future, Verso Books, ISBN-
10: 178663547X, ISBN-13: 978-1786635471, 304 pages
Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith Oct. 2017, Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll
Improve and/or Ruin Everything, Penguin Publishing Group, ISBN 0399563830,
9780399563836, 368 pages
Maki Kuwayama 2018, Process of Making: Five Parameters to Shape Buildings, Walter de
Gruyter GmbH, ISBN 3035613613, 9783035613612, 416 pages
Gilles Retsin, Manuel Jimenez, Mollie Claypool, Vicente Soler 2018, Robotic Building [DETAIL
Special], DETAIL, ISBN 3955534243, 9783955534240, 160 pages
Dana K. Gulling 2018, Manufacturing Architecture: An Architect's Guide to Custom Processes,
Materials, and Applications, Laurence King Publishing, ISBN 1786271338, 9781786271334,
352 pages
On Digitisation & Immersive Experience
Oliver Gassmann, Jonas Böhm, Maximilian Palmié, 2019, Smart Cities: Introducing Digital
Innovation to Cities, Emerald Publishing Limited, ISBN-10: 1787696146, ISBN-13: 978-
1787696143, 230 pages
Rob DeSalle 2018, [Illustrated by Patricia J. Wynne], Our Senses: An Immersive Experience,
Yale University Press, ISBN 9780300230192, 312 pages
Mario Carpo 2017, The Second Digital Turn: Design Beyond Intelligence [Writing Architecture
series], MIT Press, ISBN 0262534029, 9780262534024, 240 pages
Jon Peddie 2017, Augmented Reality: Where We Will All Live, Springer International Publishing,
ISBN 3319545019, 9783319545011, 323 pages
Jayne Gackenbach, Johnathan Bown 2017, Boundaries of Self and Reality Online: Implications of
Digitally Constructed Realities, Academic Press; 1 edition, ISBN 0128041579, 333 pages
Calum Chace 2016, The Economic Singularity: Artificial intelligence and the death of capitalism,
Three Cs, ISBN 099321164X, 978-0993211645, 440 pages
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On Materials & Material Transfer
Kate Franklin, Caroline Till 2018, Radical Matter: Rethinking Materials for a Sustainable Future,
Thames and Hudson Ltd, ISBN-10: 0500295395, ISBN-13: 978-0500295397, 256 pages
Maria Voyatzaki 2018, Architectural Materialisms: Nonhuman Creativity (New Materialisms),
Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-10: 1474420575, ISBN-13: 978-1474420570, 160 pages
Peter Testa 2018, Robot House, Thames and Hudson Ltd, ISBN 0500293449, 978-
0500293447, 336 pages
Andrew Atwood 2011, “Monolithic Representations,” in Matter: Material Processes in
Architectural Production Oxon: Routledge, ISBN 0415780292, 978-0415780292, 520 pages, p
205 – 212
On Future
Donna J. Haraway 2016, Staying with the Trouble (Experimental Futures), Duke University
Press Books, ISBN-10: 0822362244, ISBN-13: 978-0822362241, 304 pages
Ian D. Rotherham 2017, Recombinant Ecology - A Hybrid Future? Springer, SpringerBriefs in
Ecology series, ISBN 3319497979, 9783319497976, 85 pages
Stefano L. Tresca 2015, Future Cities: 42 Insights and Interviews with Influencers, Startups,
Investors, Seahorse Press; 1 edition, ISBN 0993109535, 978-0993109539, 378 pages
Klaus Schwab Jan 2017, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Portfolio Penguin; 1 edition, ISBN
0241300754, 978-0241300756, 192 pages
Critical Thinking and Current Discourse
Lebbeus Woods, 2015, Slow Manifesto: Lebbeus Woods Blog: Lebbeus Woods Blog,
Princeton Architectural Press; Illustrated Edition, ISBN-10 : 1616893346, ISBN-13 : 978-
1616893347, 288 pages
Tristan Garcia 2014, Form and Object: A Treatise on Things (Speculative Realism), Edinburgh
University Press, ISBN-10: 0748681507, ISBN-13: 978-0748681501, 488 pages
Jeffrey Kipnis, Alexander Maymind 2013, A Question of Qualities: Essays in Architecture, MIT
Press, ISBN 0262519550, 978-0262519557, 288 pages
John E. M. Whiteman, Jeffrey Kipnis, Richard Burdett 1992, Strategies of Architectural
Thinking, Chicago Institute for Architecture and Urbanism, ISBN 026223159X,
9780262231596, 256 pages
Felix Guattari 1989 (English Edition 2000), The Three Ecologies, The Athlone Press US, ISBN
0485004089, 0485006081, 174 pages
John Ruskin 1898, Chapter VI The Nature of Gothic in The Stone of Venice, Vol II, The Sea Stories,
Dana Estes & Company, 396pages, p151 – 230
Fiction
Robert Silverberg 1971, The World Inside, Doubleday & Co. Inc.
0385036213, 9780385036214, 184 pages
Aldous Huxley 1932, Brave New World, [original: Chatto & Windus, London 1932, 311
pages], Vinatage Classic 2007, ISBN 0099518473, 9780099518471, 288 pages
Ernest Callenbach 1975, Ecotopia: the notebooks and reports of William Weston, Banyan
Tree Books January 1975, ISBN 0553348477, 181 pages
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J. G. Ballard, 1962, The Drowned World, Berkley Books, ISBN: 0871404060,158 pages
Jason Segel, Kirsten Miller 2018, Otherworld, Oneworld Publications, ISBN-10: 1786074230,
ISBN-13: 978-1786074232, 368 pages
Ray Bradbury 1953, Fahrenheit 451, Ballantine Books, ISBN 978-0-7432-4722-1, 158 pages
Non Fiction
Mateo Kries, Amelie Klein, Alison J Clarke, Vitra Design Museum (host institution), Museu
del Disseny de Barcelona (host institution), 2018, Victor Papanek - The Politics of Design,
Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany, ISBN 10:
3945852269 ISBN 13: 9783945852262, 400 pages
Keith Krumwiede 2016, An Atlas of Another America: An Architectural Fiction, Park Books,
ISBN-10: 9783038600022, ISBN-13: 978-3038600022, 272 pages
Ryan Williams 2016, The Influencer Economy: How to Launch Your Idea, Share It with the World,
and Thrive in the Digital Age, Ryno Lab, ISBN-10: 0996077111, ISBN-13: 978-0996077118,
276 pages
Amitav Ghosh 2017, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (Berlin
Family Lectures), University of Chicago Press, ISBN-10: 9780226526812, ISBN-13: 978-
0226526812, 176 pages
Naomi Klein 2015, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, Penguin, ISBN-
10: 0241956188, ISBN-13: 978-0241956182, 576 pages
Timothy Morton 2018, Being Ecological, Pelican, ISBN-10: 0241274230, ISBN-13: 978-
0241274231, 240 pages
Further Reference
Geoffrey Hoyle (Author), Alasdair Anderson (Illustrator) 1972, 2011: Living In The Future,
Laughing Elephant (2010 edit.), ISBN-10: 1595834303, ISBN-13: 978-1595834300, 64 pages
David Sim 2019, Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life, Island Press, ISBN-
10: 1642830186, ISBN-13: 978-1642830187, 260 pages
Jeremy Rifkin, 2014, Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative
Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism, St. Martin's Press, ISBN 1137437766,
9781137437761, 368 pages
Joseph Tainter 1988, The Collapse of Complex Societies, Cambridge University Press, NY, US,
ISBN 0521340926, 250 pages
Jared Diamonds 1997, Guns, Germs and Steel The Fates of Human Societies, WW Norton
& Company NY London, ISBN 0393317552, 457 pages
Stewart Brand (ed) June 1971, The Last Whole Earth Catalog, Random House,
ISBN 0394704592, 9780394704593, 452 pages
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