Professors

Rosie Elvin & Trevor Elvin , Lincoln School of Architecture (LSA), University of Lincoln

Charles Matz , School of Architecture and Design, New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)

Mitaali Katoch , LSA / NYIT Exchange Program Coordinator 

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2016 -17

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Summary:

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University collaboration between the Master’s Architecture Program at the University of Lincoln and the Undergraduate, Professional Interior Design Degree at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT).

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The programme offered is an international exchange of in-course (during active school year) studies within the first semester of both universities’ curriculum. Students from Lincoln in the UK, and from NYIT in the USA, will travel to the respective universities’ host countries, work collaboratively in on-campus studio space and run concurrently on a cloud based sharing platform both before and after the unit students meet. The coursework will begin in September and complete the joint portion in November.

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The programme will seek to investigate and leverage similar dynamics in both countries, where the dialogue between singular creative systems, using one-off original end-works.

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Project Brief:

 

The UOL-NYIT Cross-Disciplinary Design Workshop, an exchange between two international schools of design, will through the exploration and development of the design brief seek to create two full scale corresponding pavilions/installations, one in New York and one in Lincoln.

 

The project will engage the two cities in a dialogue thought the interrogation of a specific set of chosen spaces. The departure point for the project involves an investigation of these spaces one in Lincoln and one in New York, which will be explored and understood through drawing, mapping, recording and modelling. These spaces have been chosen for their public presents, but what interests us is what lies unseen within the places. The spaces behind, beneath and above, that serve to bind the building together.

 

Current trends of automation, digital information propagation, mechanics of manufacture, and non-analogy production streams, will form the design discourse of this brief, with a review/ Re appropriation of systems of communication, learning, and practice within the context of this rapidly changing world.

 

Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln & Grand Central Station, New York

Exploring relationship between stripped back natures of functional internal spaces with the grandeur and ornamentation within the public spaces of the cathedral and Grand Central Station

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These internal spaces will be analysed and specific sets of parameters will be derived from this analysis. These parameters will then be used to initiate a transplantation and re engagement of the sites in to the public realm, removing them from their interior context and presenting them to the city.

 

This resulting collection of artefacts/devices may only be given meaning when they are read collectively as a (group) (assembly) within the city. This might be in the form of a pavilion/installation which would have a dual function one to house the students constructed artefacts exploring the cathedral interior as well as a platform within the city in which to exhibit them.  Experiments in Lincoln will be tested against and respond to experiments in New York and vice versa.

 

Project Tasks

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o1. Record [draw/scan]

o2. Translate [devices/artefacts]

o3. Assemble [pavilion/installation]

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Program Duration:

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4 days - New York and Lincoln units in Lincoln 11.10.16

2 days - New York and Lincoln units in London 14.10.16

4 days - New York and Lincoln units in New York 17.10.16

 

The sequence of study will encompass: pre-travel sessions on the cloud where all tutors will develop and test ideas with group meetings followed by intensive workshops in London, Lincoln and New York which will result in design interventions, exhibitions and publications in Lincoln, London and New York.