meeting of the minds...

Friday 9 November 2007

meeting of the minds...

a photo from AAlog.net of our meeting yesterday with our structural engineering team and pavilion organizer Yusuke Obuchi. AKT is currently conducting analysis on the structural capacity of the pavilion and will also be conducting a series of tests on a few options for joint arrangements. From left to right Hanif Kara, Oliver Bruckermann, Jugatx Ansotegui, Alvin Huang, Alan Dempsey (photo taken by Yusuke Obuchi).

"DRL TEN Pavilion meeting at Adam Kara Taylor’s office on Farringdon St."

"The winning design team members Alan Dempsey (DRL ‘02) and Alvin Huang (DRL ‘04) met with AKT’s engineers Hanif Kara, Oliver Bruckermann and Jugatx Ansotegui and DRL’s Yusuke Obuchi today and discussed structural details of DRL TEN Pavilion. For more details on the pavilion, check out the pavilion blog: http://cspacepavilion.blogspot.com/"

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: Great work!!!; 9 November 2007 at 20:12
Anonymous said...: Many compliments for the pavillion!
It’s really a great design and we did put it immediatly in our blog we have for Ilsole24ore italian newspaper. I’ll send you below the links...

They like it soo much that they kept it on the frontpage since a week already!!!

All the best and keep in touch...

Laura&Ergian

http://www.nova100.ilsole24ore.com/

http://aquilialberg.nova100.ilsole24ore.com/; 9 November 2007 at 21:31

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ALAN DEMPSEY

Alan Dempsey studied at the Architectural Association, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, and Dublin Institute of Technology. He has worked with Farjadi Architects, OCEAN, Future Systems and is a founding director of NEX, a London based architecture and design office with international projects.

He was an undergraduate unit master at the AA until 2005 and has been an invited critic at universities in the UK and Europe. His work has been widely published in the US, Europe and Asia and he is currently a director of the FAB research cluster at the AA, which facilitates research projects on novel design and fabrication technologies.

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ALVIN HUANG

Alvin Huang is the founding Director of SYNTHESIS. He is an award-winning designer and educator specializing in the integrated application of material performance, emergent design technologies and digital fabrication in contemporary architectural practice.

Prior to forming SYNTHESIS, he was a founding director of London-based architectural practice AL_A. He has also worked for Future Systems, Zaha Hadid Architects, and DMJM Design (AECOM).

Alvin received a Masters of Architecture and Urbanism from the Architectural Association Design Research Laboratory (2004) and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California (1998).

Huang has taught design studios at the Architectural Association / Tsinghua University Global School in Beijing and at the Chelsea College of Art in London. He has been an invited critic and guest lecturer at various universities and institutions in the UK, US, Germany, Spain, Israel, Switzerland and China.

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