elizabethlambert

06_2009

This proposal for the new UCA campus seeks to establish a flexible framework in which a new pedagogic model may be formed promoting spontaneity, resisting hierarchy, and adjusting to the evolution of creative practice.

The Mat building typology as described by Alison Smithson in 1974 satisfies many of these objectives, however since the 70’s technological advances, in CAD and production methods, as well as increased virtual connections means that this typology may be re-examined and a contemporary proposal formed.

Present-day context, depleting resources and climate change, must be addressed through a wider understanding of the  complex systems that of which we are part.  The proposal adopts several ‘Permaculture’ strategies, such as any intervention we make in a system ought to be productive.  A ‘light-touch’, high-tech approach creates the interfaces between the systems parts.