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British Green Architecture Studio

Summer 2013

Arch 554/502 UK Schedule 2013

Web sites to assist you with logistics (thanks to Heather and Tisha!):
Date Luke's Teams  Molly's Teams
July 2 Arrive Edinburgh—orientation meeting at 16:00 (meet at Reception Desk)
Edinburgh Conference Center at Heriot-Watt University (check-in begins 15:00)
Riccarton, Edinburgh EH14 4AS -info
bus: from Princes Street take the numbers 25, 34 or 45 to Heriot-Watt University.
train: from Edinburgh Waverley to Curriehill then a 1-mile walk -map
July 3 10:00 Scottish Parliament sketching session & group photo
10:30  Enter for Scottish Parliament Tour (11-noon) -map
You'll have to go through airport-like security (20 min). -more info
You may sketch and photograph once inside security, but neither is allowed during the tour.
Scottish Parliament is located in the Holyrood area of central Edinburgh at the foot of the Royal Mile, on Horse Wynd, opposite the Palace of Holyroodhouse. EH99 1SP
25 minute walk from bus stop on Princes Street or from Waverley Station
16:00 Glasgow School of Art sketching session 
16:30  Glasgow School of Art Tour
Visitor Entrance: 11 Dalhousie Street, Glasgow G3 6RQ -map
Book the 13:15 train from Edinburgh Waverley to Glasgow Queen Street
anytime day return with railcard £8.30
July 4 9:30 John Hope Gateway (West gate) sketching session
10:00 John Hope Gateway Tour w/Jasper Rea (90 minutes) 
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 20A Inverleith Row, EH3 5LR -map
walk from Princes Street is about 2 miles (a brisk 40 minutes)
or bus #23 or 27 from Hanover St 
or #8 from Leith Street or North Bridge (stop NA) to RBGE East gate on Inverleith Row (which doesn't open until 10am) £1.50 exact change
you'll have to walk around the gardens to the (west) Hope Gateway (20 minutes)
15:00 Queen Margaret University Campus Tour
meet Steve Watson at Main Reception 
Book the 14:43 train from Edinburgh Waverley to Musselburgh -map
Off-peak Day return £2.10 (note Train takes 4 minutes, bus 40 minutes!)
July 5 Check out of Conference Center no later than 10:00 (store luggage)
10:00 Sue Roaf, "Trends and Directions in Building Design 
to meet European GHG Targets" 
Room WA3.11 (William Arnold Bldg, #10 on campus map) Heriot-Watt University
15:30  Falkirk Wheel sketching session
16:10  Falkirk Wheel Boat Ride (50 min.) -map
Visitor Center closes at 17:30
Book the 13:25 train from Curriehill to Camelon
anytime day return with railcard £6.20
It's a brisk 30-minute walk from the station to the Wheel.
Depart Edinburgh 
July 6 Arrive London (you may drop your luggage at Passfield before check-in time)
Tip: There's a great Saturday am Farmers' Market at the nearby Brunswick Center. 
Check into Passfield Hall after 15:00
16:00 London Orientation w/ Luke & Molly
Passfield Hall Courtyard
July 7  
July 8 10:00 Serpentine Pavilion Site Visit—map
tube: Lancaster Gate or Hyde Park Corner, then a 15-minute walk through the park
13:30 St. Paul's sketching session
14:00  St. Paul's tour (90 min.) [meet on St. Paul's front steps at 13:50]—map
tube: St. Paul's
City of London Walking Tour [after St. Paul's—walk in small groups]—map or guide
July 9 9:00 Arup Visit (4 hours w/lunch)
8 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 4BQ
walk 10 minutes from Passfield Hall -map
9:00 Josef Hargrave "Foresight and Innovation at Arup – Exploring the Future of the Built Environment"
9:50 Nick Birmingham "Works by Arup Associates" 
10:40 Alice Blair "Rock on top of Another Rock"
11:30 Florence Lam "A Museum of Daylight–the New Acropolis Museum"
12:00 Lunch and socializing
14:00 Discover London Experience L1
(Luke's Students)
Pick one of the eleven
16:00–Building Science chat with Bill Bordass (Molly's Students)—map
 meet just outside 10 Princess Rd.
30-minute walk thru Regent's Park
July 10 9:00 Discover London Experience 2
Pick one of the eleven
14:00 BedZED sketching session (no photos allowed)
14:30  BedZED Tour 
BedZED Centre, 24 Helios Roadmap1map2
Wallington, Surrey SM6 7BZ
Book the 13:17 train from London Victoria to Hackbridge
anytime day return with railcard £5.35
July 11 10:30 Laban sketching session
11:00 Laban Dance Center Tour
Laban Creekside, London SE8 3DZmap
tube: Cutty Sark, LRT (or Island Gardens, LRT plus walk Greenwich Foot Tunnel)
13:30 North Greenwich Tour—meet at Cutty Sark Bus Stop C
Sainsbury's, Millennium Village, the O2, Emirates Air
bus: 129 from Cutty Sark Stop C
18:00 optional Setting the Scene with
Dr Hester Lee-Jefferies, University of Cambridge £7 (you book)
19:30 Shakespeare's Globe Theatre 
Midsummer Night's Dream
21 New Globe Walk, Bankside SE1 9DT (booked)
July 12 10:30 Chiswick sketching session (no photos)
11:00 Chiswick Park Tour (photos ok)
12:00 Chiswick monthly event
Building 3, Chiswick Park, 566 Chiswick High Road W4 5YA
map
tube: Gunnersbury, District Line
15:00 Discover London Experience 3
Pick one of the eleven
19:30 Tutorials w/Luke & Molly 
Place to be determined
July 13  
July 14  
July 15 9:00 Discover London Experience 4
Pick one of the eleven
13:00 Visit Sir John Soane’s Museum (no tour—self-directed)
13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3BP
map
tube: Holborn
15:00 Discover London Experience 5
Pick one of the eleven
July 16 Depart for CAT
10:43 LONDON EUSTON to MACHYNLLETH (CAT) [already booked]
departs LONDON EUSTON at 10:43 travel by VIRGIN TRAINS to BIRMINGHAM NEW STREET arrives 12:08
departs BIRMINGHAM NEW STREET at 12:23 travel by ARRIVA TRAINS WALES to  MACHYNLLETH arrives 14:46
July 17  
July 18  
19:30 Tutorials w/Luke & Molly 
Place to be determined
July 19  
July 20  
July 21 Return to London
14:07 MACHYNLLETH to LONDON EUSTON [already booked]
departs MACHYNLLETH at 14:07 travel by ARRIVA TRAINS WALES to  BIRMINGHAM NEW STREET arrives 16:24
departs BIRMINGHAM NEW STREEET at 16:50 travel by VIRGIN TRAINS to LONDON EUSTON arrives 18:17
July 22 Oxford Visit
Book the 09:21 train from London Paddington to Oxford
and return after 19:00 with railcard from £9.55 add PlusBus £2.65
11:00–Roaf Eco-House Tour w/Sue Roaf
26 Blandford Ave, Oxford
map1map2map3 
bus: City 6 from Stop C3 
12:00–The Plough for lunch
five-minute walk
14:00 Keble College Tour—mapmap2
bus: City 6 to City Centre then 5-minute walk
16:00 Oxford Whole House Carbon Reduction project, Rajat Gupta
Buckley Building Room BG10—map
Oxford Brookes University
bus: City 8 or 9 from Stop K4 to Gipsy Lane—map 
17:00–Explore Oxford free time
suggested: Tower Ascents and Sundial Trail
Carfax Tower (open until 17:30) or 
University Church of St. Mary the Virgin (open until 18:00)—map
Punting on the River Cherwell from Cherwell Boathouse
July 23 11:00 Renewable Energy Systems Tour
Beaufort Court, Egg Farm Lane, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire  WD4 8LR—map
Book the 10:05 train from London Euston to Kings Langley
off-peak day return with railcard £7.05
15:00 Discover London Experience 6
Pick one of the eleven
July 24 9:30 Victoria Docks sketching session
10:00 The Crystal Building Tour w/Anokhee Shah (Arup) & Wilkenson Eyre Architects
11:00 The Crystal Exhibits Exploration
Western Gateway, London, E16 1GB
directions
tube: Royal Victoria Station, Docklands Light Rail OR
North Greenwich, Jubilee; then Emirates Air Line
note: start early, heavy rush hour transit is slower than normal
 
16:15 White Collar Factory (by AHMM)  sketching session
17:00 Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) office visit with James Santer—map
Morelands, 5-23 Old Street, London EC1V 9HL
tube: Old Street, then a 10-minute walk west on Old Street
18:30 Softball w/AHMM (optional)
Regent's Park—map
with optional, but popular post-game pub visit
July 25 10:00 Eco Hub Tour w/Zana Dean, Anne Thorne Architects
Lordship Recreation Ground, London, N17—map
tube: Turnpike Lane, Piccadilly; then a 10 min. walk
15:00 Discover London Experience 7
Pick one of the eleven
14:00 or 19:30 Tutorials w/Luke & Molly 
Place to be determined
July 26 11:00 University of Nottingham Visit—bus info map1 map2 map3
11:00 Tour Creative Energy Homes (meet at Lenton Firs House)
12:30 lunch on our own
13:30 Meet with Course Director Benson Lau
15:00 Self-Guided tour of Jubilee Campus
Book the 08:15 train from London St. Pancras to Nottingham
and return after 19:00 with railcard £27.75 add PlusBus £2.65
July 27  
July 28  
July 29  
July 30 10:00–Fabric of London walking tour with Richard Lorch (Luke's students)
 meet just outside Angel tube station
tube: Angel, Northern Line
9:00 Discover London Experience M1
(Molly's Students)
Pick one of the eleven
15:00 Cullinan Studio Office Visit
Foundry, 5 Baldwin Terrace, London, N1 7RU -map
18:00/18:30 London Eye [meet at the London Eye queue at ~17:30]
19:30 Charette Prep w/Luke & Molly 
Place to be determined
July 31 09:00 Design Charette (all day)
Arup -map
8 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 4BQ
Room 11 on the 5th floor 
Team Marylebone
Jacob Liddicoat, Kelsey Paul, Casey Whitmill, Skye Woodhouse
BDP -map
16 Brewhouse Yard
London EC1V 4LJ
Team Euston
 Matt McAnulty,
Brittney Moss,
Miles Williams,
Sebastian Lomas
Cullinan Studio
 5 Baldwin Terrace, London, N1 7RU -map
Team Blackfriars
Tim Christensen, Meghan Craig, Ciera Shaver, Brandon Taylor
Rivington Street Studio -map 
23 Curtain Road London EC2A 3LT
Team St. Pancras
Justin Bise, David Boyd, Jada Endicott, Antonio Fernandez
Zedfactory 
24 Helios Roadmap1
Wallington, Surrey SM6 7BZ
Team Paddington
Ben Ferry, Dan Flesher, Carly Overton, Ernesto Ruiz
Aug 1
13:00–15:00 Charette Presentation (see for final presentations)
Arup, 8 Fitzroy, Emmerson Room
walk 10 minutes from Passfield Hall -map
18:00 Celebration Dinner at Baccomap
25 Red Lion Street, London, WC1R 4PS
Aug 2 10:30 Kew Botanic Gardens—map 1 & 2
Meet outside Victoria Gate for Group Photo
Glass houses close at 17:30
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
tube: Kew Gardens, District Line
Aug 3 Check out of Passfield Hall by 11:00
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