THU 9
15:00 Corrosion House Dipping
Come and watch us initiate the experimentation that will lead to Corrosion House, a building weathering into shape over time using speed oxidation strategies.
FRI 10
15:00 Piss House Collection
Swing by and pick up a test tub to leave your urine sample, which will be used to create the model of the Piss House.
MON 13
14:00-15:00 The Ordinary are Present
Tutors giving you a hard time? Not sure where to take your pro- ject? Interested in learning more about Starlite or one of our other favourite materials? A design consultation hour – bring anything and get a pep talk, some advice, or a hug.
TUE 14
15:00 Cooking Crystals
The crystalline solution for the Crystal Pavilion model is pre- pared and poured in place. Come by and have a look at how ideas and processes from synthetic chemistry can be harnessed to produce novel works of architecture.
WED 15
19:00 Night School: Smashing and Putting Back Together. Almost.
Based on Richard Serra’s 1967-68 Verb List Compilation: Actions to Relate to Oneself, Ordinary will help us construct a work of architecture based on their research into and methodologies based upon the materiality of our built environment.
We promise this will include breaking things, and possibly even putting them back together again. At the end of the night, you will have not only a happy smile on your face, but also a unique architectural object to take home with you.
For more information and to register: http://nightschool.aaschool.ac.uk/portfolio-item/smashing-and-putting-back-together-almost/
To see what happened: /night-school/
THU 16
15:00 Glass House 2.0
Shameless cry for help: hundreds of little glass connectors hold glass panels together in our Glass House 2.0 – a building entirely made of glass. If you’ve got an hour to kill, why not come by and help us put it all together. Cookies will be served!
FRI 17
15.00 Friday Crit
The Ordinary work produced in the gallery during the week is presented and critiqued by invited guests from outside the practice.
MON 20
15:00 Ioana Man Presents Casein Configurations
Come and listen to a brief (ten minutes) presentation of the Casein Configurations, a labyrinthine interior intervention situated at the disused train tracks at Waterloo Station, with Ioana Man, lead designer of the project, which uses milk as its primary material.
TUE 21
15:00 Foaming the Wood Foam Tree House
Catch Ioana Man, lead designer on the Wood Foam Tree House, foam up her model.
WED 22
15.00 Project Presentation: Nikkicrete Factory (Nikki Janovcová)
Come and listen to a brief (ten minutes) presentation of the Nikkicrete Factory – a large-scale waste sorting plant/ice hotel that is based on the WW2 material pycrete and ties in with the Ocean Cleanup project – with Nikki Janovcová, lead designer of the project.
THU 23
14:00-15:00 The Ordinary are Present
Tutors giving you a hard time? Not sure where to take your project? Interested in learning more about Starlite or one of our other favourite (and slightly crazy) materials? Come by for this open hour of perfectly free design consultation, for which you can bring anything and get a pep talk, some friendly words of advice, or (but only if you really need it) a hug.
FRI 24
15.00 Friday Crit
The Ordinary work produced in the gallery during the week is presented and critiqued by invited guests from outside the practice.
17:00 Carolina Ramirez
PhD Candidate Carolina Ramirez at the School of Architecture Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University gives a talk about her fascinating work at the intersection of synthetic biology and architecture. If you felt drawn to the microscope in the exhibition, you don’t want to miss out on this one!
MON 27
14:00-15:00 The Ordinary are Present
Tutors giving you a hard time? Not sure where to take your project? Interested in learning more about Starlite or one of our other favourite (and slightly crazy) materials? Come by for this open hour of perfectly free design consultation, for which you can bring anything and get a pep talk, some friendly words of advice, or (but only if you really need it) a hug.
18:00 Evening lecture: Ordinary Ltd
Ordinary founders Magnus Larsson and Alex Kaiser lecture about their practice and how they work with notions of architectural materiality to achieve radical results.
TUE 28
15:00 Project Presentation: Magnetic Marquee (Oskar Johanson)
Come and listen to a brief (ten minutes) presentation of the Magnetic Marquee, a temporary pavilion proposed for Byng Place, with Oskar Johanson, lead designer of the project. Magnetic forces will be present – take care with mobile phones and pace- makers!
WED 29
17:00 Martyn Dade-Robertson
The trajectory of Dr Martyn Dade-Robertson’s (School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University) research is underpinned by a conviction that architectural design theory and practice have a significant contribution to make to contexts beyond the built environment. With a particular interest in moving past technological speculation in areas such as digital technology and synthetic biology to develop and explore experimental prototypes, Dr Dade-Robertson collaborates with Ordinary on their investigations into how strategies within the world of synthetic biology might be used to produce novel architecture schemes.
THU 30
15.00 Project Presentation: Beyond Endurance (Magnus Larsson, Alex Kaiser, Jack Munro, Camille Lot)
Come and listen to a brief (10 minutes) presentation of Beyond Endurance, an extreme times-energy, post-sustainable timber skyscraper clad in thousands of high tech/low tech façade components, with the entire design team behind it.
FRI 31
15.00 Friday Crit
The Ordinary work produced in the gallery during the week is presented and critiqued by invited guests from outside the practice.
SAT 1
14.00 Finissage
Join us for an afternoon drink and a walkthrough of the exhibition space on the last day of the show.