Natural History Museum, Oxford

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English Green Building Seminar

Spring 2011

Arch 554/502 UK Schedule 2011
Web sites to assist you with logistics (thanks to Heather and Tisha!):
 
  Option 1 Option 2 Option 3
2 July Sat 

4 pm Orientation, Passfield Hall, Courtyard

Stay awake until bedtime! Do some of the things below. Have a nice dinner.

Serpentine Gallery/Pavilion informal site visit—map

New London Architecture 
Open Monday to Friday: 9.30 am - 6.00 pm
Saturday: 10.00 am - 5.00 pm
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition Architecture Room
7 June - 15 August Adults £10, Students £7
10am-6pm Saturday-Thursday (last admission to galleries 5.30pm)
10am-10pm Friday (last admission to galleries 9.30pm)
3 July Sun

Free Time for exploring 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

4 July Mon 10:45 St. Paul's tour [meet on St. Paul's front steps at 10:30]—map
 tube: St. Paul's
City of London Walking Tour [after St. Paul's—walk in small groups]—map or guide
17:00 London Eye [meet at the London Eye queue at ~16:30]
5 July Tue 10:30 Passivhaus Tour with Fran Bradshaw 10 Hawthorn Road, N8
Book the 09:53 train from London Kings Cross to Hornsey (change at Finsbury Park)
anytime day return with railcard £3.85
Seminar in the park or Anne Thorne office visit
7 Temple Yard, Temple Street, London E2 6QD—map
 tube: Bethnal Green, Central Line, then 10-minute walk
18:00 – 21:00 Soane Museum Candlelight Opening 
Sir John Soane’s Museum, 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3BP—map
arrive by 17:00 if you can— tube: Holborn
6 July Wed

09:30  Hopkins Office Visit—map
tube: Marylebone
14:30  BedZED Tour 
BedZED Centre, 24 Helios Road—map1—map2
Wallington, Surrey SM6 7BZ
Book the 13:17 train from London Victoria to Hackbridge
anytime day return with railcard £4.50
7 July Thu

10:45–11:45 Laban Tour 
Laban Creekside, London SE8 3DZ—map
tube: Cutty Sark, LRT (or Island Gardens, LRT and Greenwich Foot Tunnel)

13:30 North Greenwich Tour
Sainsbury's, Millennium Village, and the O2

17:00 Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners Office Visit 
Thames Wharf, Rainville Road, London W6 9HA—map—map2
tube: Hammersmith, Piccadilly or District Line
8 July Fri

10:00 Chiswick Park Tour
Building 3, Chiswick Park, 566 Chiswick High Road W4 5YA—map
tube: Gunnersbury, District Line

18:00 Foster Office Visit—map
tube: Sloane Square, Circle & District Lines
9 July Sat

Free Time for Travel/Exploration

(e.g., Tate Modern, Open until 22:00)
10 July Sun

Free Time for Travel/Exploration
11 July Mon

10:30 Renewable Energy Systems Tour
Beaufort Court, Egg Farm Lane, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire  WD4 8LR—map
Book the 09:34 train from London Euston to Kings Langley
off-peak day return with railcard £6.55

15:30 Allies Morrison Architects—map
85 Southwark Street, London SE1 0HX
tube: Southwark
12 July Tue 10:43 LONDON EUSTON to MACHYNLLETH (CAT) [already booked]
departs LONDON EUSTON at 10:43 travel by VIRGIN TRAINS to BIRMINGHAM INTERNATIONAL arrives 11:53
departs BIRMINGHAM INTERNATIONAL at 12:09 travel by ARRIVA TRAINS WALES to  MACHYNLLETH arrives 14:47
Van to Braich Goch—map (2.5 km walk to CAT)
16:00 Tea at CAT
16:30 CAT Orientation
18:00 Supper at CAT
19:00 Tuesday night lecturer: Duncan Roberts
13 July Wed 08:30 Breakfast at CAT (every day)
09:30 Introduce Modules and choose teams
Daylight Modeling Natural Acoustics POE & Social Science Timber Testing Test Cells & Thermal Mass
11:00 Coffee (every day)
11:30 Workshop
13:00 Lunch (every day)
14:00 Special Lecture
16:00 Tea (every day)
16:30 Workshop
18:00 Supper at CAT (every day)
 
14 July Thu 09:30 Workshop
11:30 Workshop
14:00 Workshop
16:30 Interim Poster Session—Initial Results
19:00 Special Lecture: Daylighted Artificial Skies
15 July Fri 09:30 Workshop
11:30 Presentation
14:00 Workshop
16:30 All Students Seminar
19:00 Special Lecture: CO2 and H2O Use
16 July Sat 09:30 Workshop
11:30 Tutorials
14:00 Workshop
16:30 Workshop
19:00 Social Event
17 July Sun

09:30–12:30 Final Group Presentations of Research Results

14:07 MACHYNLLETH to LONDON EUSTON [already booked]
departs MACHYNLLETH at 14:07 travel by ARRIVA TRAINS WALES to  BIRMINGHAM NEW STREET arrives 16:26
departs BIRMINGHAM NEW STREEET at 16:50 travel by VIRGIN TRAINS to LONDON EUSTON arrives 18:18

18 July Mon 10:45–Roaf Eco-House Tour
26 Blandford Ave, Oxford—map1—map2—map3 
Book the 09:21 train from London Paddington to Oxford
and return after 19:00 with railcard £5.30 add PlusBus £2.10
12:00–The Plough for lunch
five-minute walk
13:30–Restore Strawbale Building Tour
Beehive, Manzil Way, Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1YH—bus map—map3
bus: city6 to city center; walk from stop C4 south to High Street and east to stop K1; then city5 to East Oxford Medical Center/Divinity Road 
14:30–St. Catherine's College Tour—info and map
16:00–Tower Ascents and Sundial Trail
Carfax Tower (open until 17:30) or 
University Church of St. Mary the Virgin (open until 18:00)—map
19 July Tue

10:00–Fabric of London walking tour with Richard Lorch (10 students)
 meet just outside Angel tube station
 tube: Angel, Northern Line

11:00–Building Science chat with Bill Bordass (10 Students)—map
 meet just outside 10 Princess Rd.
30-minute walk thru Regent's Park

14:00–Alison Kwok meets with Teams A, B, C, & G
at Edward Cullinan Architects—map1
1 Baldwin Terrace,  London,  N1 7RU
 tube: Angel, Northern Line

16:00–Edward Cullinan Architects—map1
1 Baldwin Terrace,  London,  N1 7RU
 tube: Angel, Northern Line

20 July Wed

09:00 Arup & Arup Associates—map1
 8 Fitzroy Street,  London,  W1T 4BQ
ten-minute walk

 

14:30 Alison Kwok meets with Teams D, E, & F
at Arup Foresight—map1
 13 Fitzroy Street,  (across the street from 8 Fitzroy St.)

19:30 Shakespeare's Globe Theatre "Much Ado About Nothing" [pre-booked]
21 July Thu

11:00 University of Nottingham Visit—bus info map1 map2 map3
Book the 08:35 train from London Kings Cross to Nottingham
and return after 17:00 with railcard £16.50 add PlusBus £1.50

Nottingham University Itinerary
11.00 - 11.45      The University's sustainability strategy and environmental programmes
11.45 - 13.00      Tour of ecohomes and monodraft gallery
13.00 - 13.30      Lunch
13.30                20 minute walk to Jubilee Campus from the ecohomes
13.50 - 15.30      Tour of Jubilee Campus

(British Museum open until 20:30)

22 July Fri

09:00 NBBJ London (with UI alumna Crysta Falcon)—map1
The Clove Building, 4-6 Maguire St., Butlers Wharf, SE1 2NQ
tube: Tower Hill, then walk past the Tower of London and over Tower Bridge

recommended: Design Museum, £7 for students—in same building as NBBJ

14:30 BFLS Architects (Strata)—map1
CANCELED **** tube: Royal Oak, Hammersmith & City Line **** CANCELED

(Royal Academy of Arts open until 22:00
British Museum open until 20:30)

(Tate Modern open until 22:00
National Gallery open until 21:00)
23 July Sat Free Time for travel/exploration
(Tate Modern open until 22:00)
24 July Sun Free Time for Travel/Exploration
25 July Mon Free Time for Travel/Exploration
14:00 London 2012 Olympic Site tour (13 students)—map
You must bring your passport to gain entry to the Olympic site.
Meet the CAT students at the Pudding Mill Lane DLR station to walk to the tour bus.
tube: Pudding Mill Lane, DLR
26 July Tue 10:00 Serpentine Pavilion tour—map
tube: Lancaster Gate or Hyde Park Corner, then a 15-minute walk through the park
14:00 Allford Hall Monaghan Morris office visit—map
Morelands, 5-23 Old Street, London EC1V 9HL
tube: Barbican, then a 5-minute walk north on Aldersgate/Goswell
16:00 Grimshaw office visit
57 Clerkenwell Rd, London, EC1M 5NG—map
5-minute walk west on Clerkenwell Rd. from AHMM
27 July Wed 09:00 Design Charette 
Anne Thorne, Arup Associates, Arup Foresight (13 Fitzroy St W1T 4BQ), 
Edward Cullinan, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, 
NBBJ, BDP (16 Brewhouse Yard, EC1V 4LJ map),
Team Host Mentor Address
A Anne Thorne Architects Jennie Swain 7 Temple Yard, Temple Street, London E2 6QD—map
B Edward Cullinan Architects Roddy Langmuir 1 Baldwin Terrace,  London,  N1 7RU
C Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Nic Crawley
 5-23 Old Street, London EC1V 9HL
D NBBJ Crysta Falcon 4-6 Maguire St., Butlers Wharf, SE1 2NQ
E Arup Associates Marjan Gholamalipour 8 Fitzroy St W1T 4BQ
F BDP James Warne 16 Brewhouse Yard, EC1V 4LJ map
G Arup Foresight Flora Tonking 13 Fitzroy St W1T 4BQ
 

Team Members
A Corey Becia, Charles van Ausdell, Edda Halldórsdóttir, Jay Lee
B Jeremiah Long, Michael Garrett, Amanda Ryan, Emily Eixenburger
C Laura Graden, Sarah Brackett, Thomas Barnes, Bryn Hallett
D Katherine Wood Varela, Kelly Hallstrom, Jared Casto, Edgar Reyes
E Aaron Hoffman, Andrew Lauda, Adam Harris, Barbara De Santis
F Justin Traw, Nick Oelrich, Catherine Watton, Daniel Stollar
G Rob Beusan, Luke Ivers, Molly Culbertson, Caralina Julian
 
28 July Thur 14:00–17:30 Design Charette Presentation
The Building Center, Store Street, London WC1E 7BT—map
ten-minute walk
19:00 Celebration Dinner at Istanbul—map
100 Cleveland Street, London, W1P 5DP
29 July Fri 10:30–16:00 Kew Botanic Gardens—map 1 & 2
Meet outside 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
tube: Kew Gardens, District Line
30 July Sat

Check out of Passfield Hall. Safe home!
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