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English Green Building Seminar

Spring 2009

Arch 554/504 UK Schedule 2009

Web sites to assist you with logistics (thanks to Heather and Tisha!):
 
  Option 1 Option 2 Option 3
4 July Sat 

4 pm Orientation, Passfield Hall, Reception

Serpentine Gallery/Pavilion informal site visit—map

New London Architecture 
"Transforming the Boroughs" opens at Building Centre Apr 1, 2009
 on permanent display—this is a "must-see" exhibit!!!

Open Monday to Friday: 9.30 am - 6.00 pm
Saturday: 10.00 am - 5.00 pm

5 July Sun

Free Time for Explorating London

Walking Palladian London, two self-guided tours 

British Museum
Soane House

Victoria & Albert Museum
Natural History
Museum

Tate Modern
Long Weekend
open 10am to 10pm
6 July Mon 10:45 St. Paul's tour [meet on St. Paul's front steps at 10:30]—map
City of London Walking Tour [after St. Paul's]—map
17:00 London Eye [meet at the London Eye queue at ~16:30]
7 July Tue 10:43 LONDON EUSTON to MACHYNLLETH (CAT) [already booked]
departs LONDON EUSTON at 10:43 travel by Train service provider VIRGIN TRAINS to station BIRMINGHAM NEW STREET arrives 12:08
departs BIRMINGHAM NEW STREET at 12:24 travel by Train service provider ARRIVA TRAINS WALES to station MACHYNLLETH arrives 14:47

Bus to CAT
Tuesday night lecturer: Bruce Haglund
8 July Wed

Introduce Design Problems and choose teams

9 July Thu Lighting   
testing methods of assessing daylighting/solar gain, to include use of the artificial sky, heliodon, IES, rules of thumb and taking readings in our new WISE building (Alison Pooley)
Test cells   
testing thermal performance of buildings (Kara Millen and Jason Hawkes)
How to build things  construction and making, featuring hemp-crete (Tom Woolley)
Water use/purification 
how systems work and how to improve them (Judith Thornton)
10 July Fri
11 July Sat

~18:00 Celebrate Design Problem Completion at a pub on the lake
[singing and swimming for those able to!]

12 July Sun

Present Design Solutions
14:07 MACHYNLLETH to LONDON EUSTON [already booked]
Outward Journey: 12/07/2009
departs MACHYNLLETH at 14:07 travel by Train service provider ARRIVA TRAINS WALES to station BIRMINGHAM INTERNATIONAL arrives 16:56
departs BIRMINGHAM INTERNATIONAL at 17:01 travel by Train service provider VIRGIN TRAINS to station LONDON EUSTON arrives 18:20

17:30 Team meetings with Bruce (A&B) and Heather (C&D) on London-bound train

13 July Mon

7:30 Breakfast with Sam Chermayeff, SANAA
Serpentine Pavilion design team member
at Passfield Hall

9:34 Euston to Kings Langley
[book an off-peak day return ~£6]
10:00 walk to Beaufort Court—map
10:30 Beaufort Court Tour

15:00 Grimshaw office visit
57 Clerkenwell Road
[40-minute walk from Passfield Hall or
10- minute walk from Holborn tube station]—map

14 July Tue 9:21 London Paddington to Oxford
[book an off-peak day return...open return ~£13.20]
10:18 walk or bus to Eco-House, 26 Blandford Ave.—walk map

10:45 Eco-House Oxford—bus maps, 1 & 2
12:00 Pub Lunch at the Plough w/Rajat Gupta, Fionn Stevenson
13:30 The North Wall Gallery—walk map
15:30 Walking tour Oxford Univerisity w/Mary Hancock
17:30 Free time to continue exploration, 
punting, botanic garden, dining, return to London...
15 July Wed 10:30 Intro to Serpentine Pavilion—map
with Eleanor Farrington
13:17 London Victoria to Hackbridge 
[book off-peak day return open return ~£3.10]
13:46 walk to BedZED—map 1 & 2
14:20 BedZED tour
16 July Thu

10:00 Walking tour of North Greenwich—map
[meet at North Greenwich tube station]
[O2, Greenwich Millennium Village Housing & Elementary School, 
& Sustainable Sainsbury's]

12:00 Walking Tour of Greenwich
[Greenwich Market, Thames Pedestrian Tunnel, Cutty Sark, 
Greenwich Observatory]

15:00 Laban Tour
Creekside, SE8 3DZ—map

20:00 Team meetings with Bruce (B&D) and Heather (A&C) at Passfield

17 July Fri 11:15 Chiswick Park tour [meet at Building 3]—map
[Gunnersbury tube station on the District line is across street from entry]
lunch at Chiswick Park
14:00 Victoria and Albert (VNA) Museum—map
[pedestrian tunnel from South Kensington tube station!]
tour architecture collection (open until 17:00)
18:00 Norman Foster office visit
22 Hester Road—map
[25-minute walk from VNA/South Kensington tube station]
18 July Sat

Free Time for Travel/Exploration

 

Tate Modern, Open until 22:00

19 July Sun

Free Time for Travel/Exploration

20 July Mon 10:00 Museum in Docklands—map 
11:30 Canary Wharf walking tour—map 
17:00 (or later, tours every 15 or 30 minutes) 
40-minute Globe Theatre Tour, £6, if you show your theatre ticket
19:30 As You Like It, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
21 July Tue

12:00 Anne Thorne office visit
7 Temple Yard, Temple Street—map
[10 minute walk from Bethnal Green tube station]
[bring lunch fixings!]
15:00 Angell Town [2] tour w/Fran Bradshaw
[meet at Brixton tube station]

22 July Wed

 

 

17:00 Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners office visit
Thames Wharf, Rainville Road—map
[15-minute walk from Hammersmith tube station]

20:00 Team meetings with Bruce (A&C) and Heather (B&D) at Passfield

23 July Thu

10:00 Fabric of London walking tour w/Richard Lorch
[meet at Angel tube station]

11:00 Lunch and discussion w/Bill Bordass—map
[meet at Bill's—10 Princess Rd.
a 30 min. walk from Passfield]

18:00 Michael Hopkins office visit
27 Broadley Terrace—map

British Museum open until 20:30

 
24 July Fri

11:00–12:00 Arup office visit
Carlow House, Camden—map
[15-minute walk from Passfield Hall]

12:00–15:00 Arup & Arup Associates office visits
13 Fitzroy Street—map
[20-minute walk from Carlow House]

Royal Academy, Jazz, open until 22:00
British Museum open until 20:30

Tate Modern, Open until 22:00
National Gallery open until 21:00

25 July Sat Free Time for Travel/Exploration
Tate Modern, Open until 22:00
26 July Sun Free Time for Travel/Exploration
27 July Mon Free Time for Travel/Exploration
28 July Tue 9:00 Design Charette 
Arup
Team A
Grimshaw
Team B
Anne Thorne
Team C
Hopkins
Team D
29 July Wed 12:00 Design Charette Presentation at
The Building Centre, Store Street 
10 minute walk from Passfield Hall-map
19:00 Celebration Dinner at Istanbul
100 Cleveland Street W1T 6NS-map
30 July Thur 10:30 Kew Botanic Gardens—map 1 & 2
Meet at Victoria Gate
Must see list—Tropical House, Water Lily House, Temperate House, Alpine House, Sackler Crossing, Treetop Walkway, L'Orangerie (café), Princess of Wales House, Marianne North Gallery, Minka House, and Badger Sett
20:00 Team meetings with Bruce (C&D) and Heather (A&B) at Passfield
31 July Fri

Check out of Passfield Hall

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