Cross-studio review via Microsoft Teams
Due to the current circumstances of the university lockdown, in lieu of the semester 2 final review with external critics we have just...
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Oliver Haigh
May 10, 20203 min read
Natural growth as inspiration for site development
At the end of DS3, I had used the growth of bacteria in a petri dish as a visual analogy for how the site could develop in phases. Of...
Oliver Haigh
May 6, 20201 min read
Charting food and material flows
One of the aspects of my project that has taken a bit of time to work out is the phases of development, how this correlates with the food...
Oliver Haigh
Apr 29, 20202 min read
Peer-review video call
This week, instead of having a tutorial over video call with Nick, we were timetabled to have self-organised peer-review sessions. The...
Oliver Haigh
Apr 20, 20202 min read
Working under continued lockdown
By this stage, the university and department have fully accepted that the closure of all campus facilities will continue until the end of...
Oliver Haigh
Apr 15, 20205 min read
Fabric formwork physical modelling: 1:10 column process model
By this stage, I have conducted a fairly substantial amount of research and investigation into most aspects of the construction process...
Oliver Haigh
Apr 11, 20205 min read
Fabric formwork physical modelling: reinforcement strategies tests
After testing out bracing, I've now moved back to the main set of physical testing, focused on fabric formwork. The latest aspect of the...
Oliver Haigh
Apr 6, 20203 min read
Video call with Peter Corbett of Corbett & Tasker
About a month on from having a discussion with Chris Matthews, I've now had the opportunity to run my scheme past another engineer, Peter...
Oliver Haigh
Mar 27, 20203 min read
'Fabric Formwork', book by Alan Chandler and Remo Pedreschi
As well as carrying out my own physical modelling tests, I knew that I could also learn a lot about the fabric formwork process by...
Oliver Haigh
Mar 24, 20207 min read
COVID-19 lockdown and university closure
The last week or so has seen a rapid change at the national level and also at the university level, due to the rapid escalation of the...
Oliver Haigh
Mar 19, 20202 min read
Bamboo bracing studies: physical models
Having roughly devised a strategy for bracing the bamboo against the tension of the fabric and the weight of the cast material, based on...
Oliver Haigh
Mar 16, 20202 min read
Fabric formwork physical modelling: different fabric tests
For the next phase of physical testing, I wanted to look at how different types of fabrics or membranes would affect the casting process...
Oliver Haigh
Mar 12, 20202 min read
Semester 2 interim review
For this latest review, Nick had invited Ian Fletcher, a tutor in undergraduate architecture, to be our guest critic. Joe Mills...
Oliver Haigh
Mar 9, 20202 min read
Grasshopper as a tool for showing time and process through animation
Over the many hours spent putting together Grasshopper definitions to create the forms that I am proposing, including the indentations...
Oliver Haigh
Mar 6, 20205 min read
Video call with Chris Matthews of Atelier One
A few weeks ago, Nick mentioned that a contact of his, Chris Matthews, a structural engineer from Atelier One, may be a useful person for...
Oliver Haigh
Mar 5, 20201 min read
Past students presenting their portfolios
This week, Simon Warren invited two students, Hanzla Asghar and Jake Wright, who graduated last year from his studio, Cityzen Agency, to...
Oliver Haigh
Feb 28, 20203 min read
'Forest of Fabrication' exhibition at RIBA North, Liverpool
This Friday I went on a trip to Liverpool, to see the 'Forest of Fabrication' exhibition at RIBA North, and also to explore some more of...
Oliver Haigh
Feb 21, 20202 min read
Rhino, Grasshopper and Revit tutorial with Adam Atraktzi
Nick arranged for Adam, who had been the guest critic for our final review of last semester, to come and give us some tuition on Rhino,...
Oliver Haigh
Feb 19, 20202 min read
Presenting project work in the Open Lecture Series
As part of the Open Lecture Series, a number of postgraduate students were asked to present work, to showcase some of the things being...
Oliver Haigh
Feb 16, 20203 min read
Fabric formwork physical modelling: tensioned fabric models
The initial two fabric formwork tests were both based on hanging the fabric loosely from a frame and then draping the material over...
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