I’m working myself with establishing my understanding of the site in its greater context to make sure I can make a contribution that takes on a conscious role in several scales. I’ve sorted some of the material made available at nordhavnen.dk for the competition and tried to find some points that are relevant to me on a single building level. The material presented in Excentral Park (EXP) reflects on a lot of the material already and I believe it is important to try to further strengthen some of those points. I will also keep in mind that the project will stay on a theoretical level. This will let me make some ideological points, being aware that their existence is made possible through the theoretical means of the assignment given.

A group of students also participated in a workshop with Marius Nygaard over the weekend. It was a brainstorm for round 2 of the competition in Nordhavnen. Bakgård has several photos from the work and also got linked from 70N‘s blog. Dahl&Uhre are also actively blogging about the projects progress.

I’ve decided to write on the topic of the diagram as a tool in contemporary architecture for my essay this semester and have started to read source material and taking notes for that. Other than that we have weekly tutorials in groups discussing the history of architectural theory. The discussions usually turn out to be a really nice arena for critique and discussion of how we see our future roles as architects.

This post still got quite long and full, so I’ll promise to hold off posting until I have some graphics to share.