*Winner of the RSA Award for Architectural Insight*
STUDIO CURIOSITY is a blog to explore the realms of architecture, art, design and the delight found in random curiosities.
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written by Andrew Morris, architectural designer and Master of Architecture graduate, with distinction, from the University of Edinburgh. Examples of my work are collected under the work page below.
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how can we explore our curiosities?
blog, draw, make, model, read, research, speculate, write . . .
written by Andrew Morris, architectural designer and Master of Architecture graduate, with distinction, from the University of Edinburgh. Examples of my work are collected under the work page below.
• contact
• work
studio curiosity
Following:
The Architectural Review's FolioSophie Madeleine
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Things Organized Neatly
Drawing ARCHITECTURE
open-24HRS
Tumblr Staff
Plagiarism is necessary. Progress demands it.
ARCHSY
Jez Burrows
Analogue Books
ZTH
Kieran Thomas Wardle
David Blair Ross
INSTALLATIONS OF VARIABLE DIMENSIONS
aG
HAStudios
Oliver Hibbs - AT+modelmaker
make, draw, sleep. repeat.
Latent Marseille
a / b JOURNAL
Brown + Brown Architects
Three Pigs Workshop
![*EXHIBITION* [re]Constructed Ground Thesis Work on Display
Royal Scottish Academy New Contemporaries 2012
My degree work has been chosen to be included in a graduate exhibition at the RSA, Edinburgh from March 17th - April 11th 2012.
see above posts for images of my submission
“RSA New Contemporaries is a curated annual exhibition which focuses on the finest emerging artists & architects in Scotland. It features 62 graduates selected from the 2011 degree shows by a team of RSA Members and representatives of the six schools of Architecture and five main colleges of art in Scotland. Works will include painting, sculpture, film making, photography, printmaking, architecture and installation.We envisaged that the development of this exhibition will be one of the most important initiatives for emerging artists in Scotland each year, enabling a ‘first exhibition’ opportunity for some 60 or so emergent artists annually. The exhibition will be an unique opportunity to see the best of Scotland’s emerging talent under one roof.”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0snubsBwb1qhk8kqo1_500.jpg)
*EXHIBITION* [re]Constructed Ground Thesis Work on Display
Royal Scottish Academy New Contemporaries 2012
My degree work has been chosen to be included in a graduate exhibition at the RSA, Edinburgh from March 17th - April 11th 2012.
see above posts for images of my submission
“RSA New Contemporaries is a curated annual exhibition which focuses on the finest emerging artists & architects in Scotland. It features 62 graduates selected from the 2011 degree shows by a team of RSA Members and representatives of the six schools of Architecture and five main colleges of art in Scotland. Works will include painting, sculpture, film making, photography, printmaking, architecture and installation.
We envisaged that the development of this exhibition will be one of the most important initiatives for emerging artists in Scotland each year, enabling a ‘first exhibition’ opportunity for some 60 or so emergent artists annually. The exhibition will be an unique opportunity to see the best of Scotland’s emerging talent under one roof.”
Archaeological Architecture
“Our path to an alternative solution involves digging down some five feet into the soil of the park until we reach the groundwater. There we dig a waterhole, a kind of well, to collect all of the London rain that falls in the area of the Pavilion. In that way we incorporate an otherwise invisible aspect of reality in the park - the water under the ground - into our Pavilion. As we dig down into the earth we encounter a diversity of constructed realities such as telephone cables and former foundations. Like a team of archaeologists, we identify these physical fragments as remains of the eleven Pavilions built between 2000 and 2011. Their shape varies: circular, long and narrow, dots and also large, constructed hollows that have been filled in. These remains testify to the existence of the former Pavilions and their greater or lesser intervention in the natural environment of the park.
All of these foundations will now be uncovered and reconstructed. The old foundations form a jumble of convoluted lines, like a sewing pattern. A distinctive landscape emerges out of the reconstructed foundations which is unlike anything we could have invented; its form and shape is actually a serendipitous gift. The three-dimensional reality of this landscape is astonishing and it is also the perfect place to sit, stand, lie down or just look and be amazed.
On the foundations of each single Pavilion, we extrude a new structure (supports, walls) as load-bearing elements for the roof of our Pavilion - eleven supports all told, plus our own column that we can place at will, like a wild card. The roof resembles that of an archaeological site. It floats some five feet above the grass of the park, so that everyone visiting can see the water on it, its surface reflecting the infinitely varied, atmospheric skies of London. For special events, the water can be drained off the roof as from a bathtub, from whence it flows back into the waterhole, the deepest point in the Pavilion landscape. The dry roof can then be used as a dance floor or simply as a platform suspended above the park.”
Herzog & de Meuron & Ai Weiwei
Serpentine Pavilion 2012, London, UK
As my thesis, [re]Constructed Ground, dealt with how archaeology may define the articulation and design of an architectural proposition I am really interested to see the result of this pavilion by these two poetic design teams.
