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Urban Collage Bartlett Design Research Folios Urban Collage by Christine Hawley Bartlett Design Research Folios Project Details Designer: Christine Hawley Title: Urban Collage Output type: Design Exhibition title: Drawing by Drawing Venue: Danish Architecture Centre, Copenhagen Curator: Annette Brunsvig Sørensen, Aarhus School of Architecture Dates: 13 January – 18 March 2012 Sponsors: Realdania, Aarhus School of Architecture, Dreyers Foundation Co-exhibitors include: Wiel Arets, Neil Denari, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Zaha Hadid, John Hejduk, Steven Holl, Henning Larsen, Thom Mayne, Micheal Sorkin, Michael Webb and Lebbeus Woods Catalogue contributors Alberto Pérez-Gómez and Juhani Pallasmaa include: 4 Urban Collage Statement about the Research Content and Process Description Urban Collage explores an impoverished area of South East London, analysing the urban setting at two distinct times: in 1986 and 2012. The initial analysis was based on collage and informed the design of a house; the current project asks if this drawing approach is still valid, re-examines the site, and proposes a new architectural lexicon through a revised set of techniques. Questions 1. How can one uncover physical evidence that illustrates the architectural and social history of an urban site and contributes to contemporary understandings of neighbourhood conservation and regeneration? 2. How can wall surface materials (e.g. commercial and guerrilla advertising, urban graphics and material decay) be used in urban analysis and as reference tools for design? 3. How can revisiting past projects help capture the continuously evolving history of architectural and urban thinking, and how can aspects of these projects be adapted for new critical and creative design production? 1 (previous page) Screens, fragment of the interior, 2012 Statements 5 Methods 1. Examining critically the original project and site interpretation, undertaken 25 years ago, to develop techniques for reading the contemporary site. 2. Making a new photographic survey of the area and collecting discarded materials that are traces of today’s human activity. 3. Transforming photographic records into a series of exploratory tools to help determine new design outcomes. 4. Iterative processes of collage, assemblage, time-related translations and diagramming to generate new urban and design information. Dissemination Exhibited in Copenhagen and published in the accompanying catalogue; the exhibition was widely discussed in the architectural and popular Danish press. Presented in lectures in Aarhus and Sheffield. Statement of Significance Selected for international group exhibition on the transformation of architectural drawing, with co-exhibitors including Wiel Arets, Neil Denari, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Zaha Hadid, John Hejduk, Steven Holl, Henning Larsen, Thom Mayne, Micheal Sorkin, Michael Webb and Lebbeus Woods. 6 Urban Collage 2 2 Political rhetoric as a historic trace and social memory, 1986 Introduction / Aims and Objectives 7 Introduction Urban Collage uses references taken from history: a form of developmental visual material found in Peckham, London, commentary not normally used within in an attempt to challenge common the field of architectural design. assumptions about how contemporary The project was selected for an urban situations should inform design. international group exhibition on the Situated within the field of urban analysis transformation of architectural drawing, and architectural design, the drawing commissioned by the Danish Architecture techniques aim to reveal organic urban Centre and shown in Copenhagen, change together with the historic traces featuring work by over 30 architects of human intervention. The design narrative associated with Norwegian architect becomes a reading of the city as a place Svein Tønsager. determined by social and economic Aims and Objectives 1. The project aimed to engage a site’s 2. The project further aimed to use the visual subculture, particularly in terms site’s residual material decay and urban of wall surface materials (e.g. graphics as evidence with which to commercial and guerrilla advertising, challenge the orthodoxies of urban urban graphics and material decay), design and to build an architectural as vibrant expressions of identity, lexicon. The neighbourhood had little which combined political commentary commercial investment and very little with visceral presence. Peckham, technically sophisticated advertising. in South East London, was chosen The writing and marks of this area as a site because it is a multicultural were evidence of the energy and the neighbourhood that has endured anxieties of a disenfranchised yet economic deprivation and also culturally vocal community. The maintained a vivid subculture. evidence, often fragmentary, overwritten, pasted and sprayed over, competed with the disintegrating surfaces of the city for legibility. 8 Urban Collage 3. The project sought to define a design moments in time. This was largely methodology that incorporates two done by means of comparative collage distinct studies of material surfaces through photography, drawing and from the same site at two different making. [fig. 2] Questions 1. How can one uncover physical 3. How can revisiting past projects help evidence that illustrates the capture the continuously evolving architectural and social history of an history of architectural and urban urban site and contributes to thinking, and how can aspects of these contemporary understandings of projects be adapted for new critical neighbourhood conservation and and creative design production? regeneration? 2. How can wall surface materials (e.g. commercial and guerrilla advertising, urban graphics and material decay) be used in urban analysis and as reference tools for design? 3 Location plan 3 Aims and Objectives / Questions / Context 9 Context Urban Collage considers the impact of emerged early Victorian bourgeois time on neighbourhoods and exposes the housing and later isolated examples of value of historical layering in architecture neo-modernist commercial buildings. and urbanism. It contributes to The impact of the First and Second World understandings of urban conservation Wars arrested any burgeoning prosperity and processes of retention and restoration. and the area fell into what many would It attempts to create a method for consider irredeemable decline. The socio- scrutinising the surface of the city, and economic history of the urban community the information it produces can contribute left behind material traces that are a to the development of both analytical testimony to human activity and endeavour. narratives and an architectural language. The site was interpreted as a kind of The project questions non-temporal blackboard where messages are written approaches to regeneration and static and erased, and leave evidence that readings of sites. It contributes a site- conjure memories of the people who have specific and time-based take on the been there, including activists and the evolution of collage and assemblage as dissolute. The site offered an opportunity cross-disciplinary techniques of research to use this information to construct a and design across urban studies. memory of the city through these traces Peckham is an area of South East of human activity. The legacy of these London that was originally established visual references was abstracted in order as an 18th-century village, a community to create a framework of architectural of tradespeople and craft workers who context that referred to a visual supplemented their existence through contemporary reality. The process was small-scale arable allotments. The area empirical, producing dynamic and often underwent rapid redevelopment during unexpected results. The 2012 project the 19th century, and while it still remained revisited the site 25 years later to examine an artisan community, there were now whether the original observations had pockets of comparative affluence on the contemporary legitimacy. southern boundaries. Within this area 10 Urban Collage 4 4 Burnt metal wall surface as an architectural fac¸ade substitute, 1986 Methods 11 Methods The project followed a variety of research the effect of time and physical action methodologies: on the surface of the city. Some images show the effect of weather while others 1. Examining critically the original project show how the surface was used as a and site interpretation, undertaken 25 vehicle of expression and communication. years ago, to develop techniques for As an area of economic neglect it was, in reading the contemporary site. many ways, a perfect destination to show 2. Making a new photographic survey the unrepaired ravages of time. of the area and collecting discarded Within this area there was originally materials that are traces of today’s a small piece of land that encapsulated human activity. the local character, the site of an abandoned Victorian school which had 3. Transforming photographic records served its purpose and had been empty into a series of exploratory tools to help for over 50 years. Corrugated sheet that determine new design outcomes. used to protect the site had also become 4. Iterative processes of collage, the victim of time. The surface was both assemblage, time-related translations rusted and burnt, displaying a potent and diagramming to generate new burst of colour yet also revealing a urban and design information. more ominous tale of accident and decomposition. Other building elements Detailed observation of site, from had been
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