#modular scapes

[detache-modular-scapes]

"Archaic' playing on a massive wall of Nuclear Instruments Modules, Test and Measurement equipment & a lot of coffee! Thanks for watching and have a beautiful day! #ambient ZeroK 'Soundscapes for dystopias, retro futurism and sci-fi drifts' Buy CD at ZeroK Bandcamp: https://zerok.bandcamp.com/ The album “into the Void” released by ZeroK label is the spectral result of their adventure, lost in the electronic jungle of wires and circuits. #zeroK #archaic More Info Willem Twee Studios: https://www.willem-twee.nl/agenda/studios Video made by Elektronique: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI0fJ02ykMDwM-yG-vLlCPg Modular Scapes // Détaché: https://linktr.ee/modular_scapes

[earaercircular]

In Venice, Americans Explore Peace With Plastic

Everlasti!ng plastics

At the Architecture Biennale, the United States Pavilion’s artists and designers are considering how to live with an “everlasting” material.

Two years ago, the United States Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale presented a backward glance, examining the softwood framing technique that transformed building construction in the 19th century.

For this year’s show, the 18th edition of the Architecture Biennale,[1] the pavilion’s exhibition looks at the material of the future (in more ways than one) that was suggested to Dustin Hoffman’s character in a poolside chat in the 1967 movie “The Graduate.”

Coolers are among the salvaged plastic objects that Lauren Yeager used to create her part of the “Everlasting Plastics” exhibition at the United States Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale

That’s right: plastic.

Commissioned by Spaces,[2] a Cleveland non-profit arts organisation, “Everlasting Plastics” is on view through Nov. 26. It channels the anxiety felt by many about the environmental impact of a material that was originally presented as a miracle but that, like the 56-year-old cinematic reference, remains embedded in our culture without any sign of going away.

The practical ingeniousness of the five artists and designers represented in the exhibition offers some hope, or at least some coping mechanisms, for coexisting with plastics.

“There’s an urgency around this material,” said Tizziana Baldenebro, the executive director of Spaces, who organized the show with Lauren Leving, a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. [3]

“This is the duality we’re looking at,” Ms. Baldenebro said. “Love to hate it, hate to love it. It’s lifesaving and also slowly killing us.”

She added, “‘Reduce, reuse, recycle’ has gotten us nowhere.”

That the curators are Midwestern is no accident.

“Waste streams pertain to Cleveland,” Ms. Leving said. “We’re in the Rust Belt. And plastic and petrochemical polymers were perfected in the Midwest. It’s a major source of job creation in Ohio.”

Among the works placed in the pavilion’s courtyard and in a sculpture garden that surrounds the building, visitors will first encounter pieces by Lauren Yeager, a Cleveland artist whose medium is salvaged materials.

Ms. Yeager combined items like beverage coolers and children’s toys into large geometric forms, some of which refer to the pavilion’s classical architecture, to give new context to everyday plastics. “It’s a very American waste-scape,” Ms. Baldenebro said. (The pavilion, in the Castello Gardens section of the Biennale grounds and fronted by Doric columns, was designed in 1930 by the famed Beaux-Arts firm Delano & Aldrich.) artist.  

Xavi Laida Aguirre’s immersive environment for the pavilion includes plastic-derived products, video, soundscape and augmented reality.

Inside, Xavi Laida Aguirre, an architect and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, will create an immersive environment made from plastic-derived products, but one whose modular system suggests how it can be dismantled and repurposed for another use — a riff on the “metaphor of plastic thinking,” Ms. Baldenebro said. (There is also a room with a combination of video, soundscape and augmented reality.)

Simon Anton grafted plastic onto metal to create his sculptures for “Everlasting Plastics.”

Simon Anton, a multidisciplinary artist and designer in Detroit, gets a chance to flex his credentials in the show.

Mr. Anton is a founder of Thing Thing, a design collective that transforms hand-recycled polyethylene plastic sourced from surrounding communities in Michigan and from manufacturing.

His sculptures in “Everlasting Plastics” — made of plastic grafted onto metal — refer to objects from banks and other financial institutions, like clocks and crowd-control barriers, to comment on capitalism’s role in plastic’s ubiquity.

Norman Teague, an industrial designer[4] and an educator at the University of Illinois at Chicago, created colourful baskets made from recycled plastic for the pavilion’s rotunda.

“They’re explorations of manipulated plastic turned into visions of traditional craft from the continent of Africa,” Mr. Teague said of the 40 objects in his presentation.

“What we call waste, we’re turning into something more functional,” he added.

The bright hues are not accidental.

“You can relate these colors to something that may be in your life — a Clorox bottle or a Tide bottle,” Mr. Teague said.

The echo of the round baskets within the curving walls of the pavilion’s rotunda also raises architectural questions about how we live and what we live with. According to Mr. Teague, “A house is a vessel, too.”

Baskets made by Normal Teague from recycled plastic, for the pavilion’s rotunda.

Demonstrating the handy second uses of post-consumer plastic is the more practical point. “How do we make this thing cool — plastic and waste?” Mr. Teague said. “And we want to brand it so that people are like, ‘Give me that landfill.’”

Since the process of transforming plastic entails employment opportunities, it fits the curators’ larger societal vision.

“Norman’s practice is about sustainability in terms of jobs,” Ms. Baldenebro said.

Ang Li built a 33-foot-long wall for the installation, using expanded polystyrene foam blocks.

Ang Li, an architect and assistant professor at Northeastern University in Boston, has built a site-specific wall of expanded polystyrene foam, also known as EPS, as her primary pavilion work.

“It’s the white stuff in your walls, not the pink stuff in your attic,” she said.

The material’s quiet presence in our lives is what caught the attention of Ms. Li, who studies waste streams. (The other part of her presentation is a series of photographs of recycling centers.)

“It’s a material we don’t hear too much about — people don’t think about plastics in the building industry,” she said of the foam. “It’s everywhere, and we never see it.”

“It’s 98 percent air, and fills up space,” Ms. Li added. “But that same quality makes it hard to break down and recycle. It’s so light, it doesn’t sell for any money on the recycling market.”

Her 33-foot-long installation uses a denser type of the foam that has been compressed. “They look like rocks, and they weigh the same,” she said of the components. “It looks like an old stone wall.”

Her decision to work on the perimeter of the gallery and not fill the center of the room was a choice that gets back to the Biennale’s architectural focus, looking not only at materials but also at how space is used.

“Instead of placing a piece of sculpture, we lined the wall with it,” Ms. Li said. “We can make people look at thre white gallery wall in a different way."

Unpacking the Plastic Problem

It’s in our clothes, phones and sunscreen. But also, increasingly, in marine food chains and immense garbage patches in the oceans. How do we fix this?

2023 could be an important year for the effort to limit plastic consumption, as negotiations to shape a global treaty are expected to reach a critical point.

usher in a new age of refillable household cleaners.

will ban several single-use plastic items, including cutlery and plates. For environmental advocates it is a belated step that leaves more changes needed.

fall far short of fixing the global mess. Here’s why, and what needs to change.

this journalist tried to go plastic free.

cut down on your plastic use? Here are nine steps to get you started.

people look at the white gallery wall in a different way.”

Source

Ted Loose, In Venice, Americans Explore Peace With Plastic, New-York Times. 20-5-2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/20/arts/design/plastic-venice-biennale.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

[1] The 18th International Architecture Exhibition, titled The Laboratory of the Future, is open to the public from Saturday May 20 to Sunday November 26, 2023 at the Giardini and the Arsenale, and at Forte Marghera; it is curated by Lesley Lokko and organised by La Biennale di Venezia. The pre-opening took place on May 18 and 19, the awards ceremony and inauguration was held on Saturday 20 May 2023. https://www.labiennale.org/en/news/biennale-architettura-2023-laboratory-future-0#:~:text=The%2018th%20International%20Architecture%20Exhibition,Giardini%2C%20Arsenale%20and%20Forte%20Marghera.

[2] SPACES is the resource and public forum for artists who explore and experiment. SPACES commissions artists from around the world—at all stages of their careers—to make new work that is responsive to timely issues. We use these projects as a jumping off point to create educational initiatives that help develop a more informed citizenry. We also distribute grants to artists outside of our residency and exhibition programs. https://www.spacescle.org/

[3] moCa is not a traditional collecting museum. moCa is a contemporary non-collecting museum that celebrates the art and artists of our time. Each season moCa showcases an array of fresh voices within contemporary art that reflect the art and ideas of the moment and our time. moCa has the unique privilege of being Northeast Ohio's most recognizable arts organization solely dedicated to contemporary art. https://www.mocacleveland.org/

[4] Norman Teague Design Studios, L3C is a contemporary design/build studio, specializing in space, furniture design fabrication, design consulting, art & objects, and custom millwork. As a team, we are agile and constantly inspired through open commissions, collaborations, commercial clients, architects, and interior designers. Currently located in the historic Spiegl building where a small team and I think, produce and actualize objects and moments. 

Principal Norman Teague designs in an approachable way, creating pieces with light forms, clean lines, beautiful materials, and functional considerations. Norman is a founding member of the Chicago studio and is a co-founder of blkHaUS studios. https://www.normanteaguedesignstudios.com/

[rofilmmediamodular]

My biggest End-of-Year Sale ever!

3 E-books, all in all 768 pages including 296 videos and 208 presets

plus a 50% sales discount on my next sample pack “Mystery Series” Volume 1 (coming 20 January 2023) including multisamples, one-shots, loops, atmospheres, stems and scapes.

The 3 E-books are:

“A Systematic Introduction To Making Generative Music With Modular Synths”, Volume 1

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The “Mystery Series” material contains carefully handcrafted sounds. Combining field recordings with classical hardware synths as well as with the most up to date software instruments, refining the results using sophisticated (partly self-written) software tools and putting it all together to a mesmerising sonic journey into a fantastic world: that´s my new series of sample packs called the “Mystery Series”. It´s conic metaphysics, it´s audible fantasy, and it´s a unique toolbox for every soundtrack composer, game sound producer, story teller ….

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[ce-design]

Softscape Modular

Designed by Helen Kontouris 

The Softscape modular lounge collection enables the individual modules to adapt within a space, whilst the integrated accessories allow the user to determine the individual application. The Softscape modular lounge comprises individual elements that come together to provide an engaging and versatile solution in corporate or residential settings. The collection is defined by the extension tables that allow integrated accessories including power connectivity, lamp, coat stand and magazine holder/planter box. Singular models include armchairs, lounges and ottomans, with or without arms and backrests, that may be linked together.

[burlveneer-music]

June - Window Of Time - dystopian electro from Artificial Dance

On his new album for Artificial Dance, Tsampikos Fronas aka June takes a departure from his dance orientated earlier work. Recorded between 2018 and 2020, Window of Time sees the Berlin-based producer explore sparser arrangements than his previous releases. The record unravels like a dystopian cyberpunk novel, something akin to William Gibson’s Neuromancer. Both the title track and ‘Stratagem / Predator’ create an increasing tension that builds through repetitive sequences. The arpeggiated synths on ‘Year 2092’ evoke images of sprawling metropolitan city scapes, while the claustrophobic mood of ‘The Master of Electricity’, the first track written for the album, wouldn’t go amiss on a soundtrack to a sci-fi thriller like Blade Runner. Created using modular synthesizers, analog sequencers and analog polyphonic synths, Window of Time eschews melody in favour of cold, pulsating rhythms. Combined with haunting choral toplines and minimalistic flourishes, such as those on album closer ‘Elegy’, June invites the listener on a free dive into their subconscious; to navigate boundless, unexplored territories.

[ironychan]

WEEK 46: THE LOVELAND FROGMAN

Onward and upward, with a cryptid or creature beside me all the way! Yes, welcome back to the Crypt-A-Long, my attempt to knit myself a modular blanket like the Lattes and Llamas Geek-A-Long, but with 5000% more mysterious beasts. Instructions for the Geek-A-Long can be found at the website. Charts featuring all your favourite cryptids, folktales, and ufonauts can be found here, every Sunday!

Tales of the Loveland Frogman began in the fifties, when a local man supposedly saw three humanoid frogs. More recently it has been known to harass Pokemon Go players, perhaps in an attempt to protect the innocent polywags. It's another beloved local monster like Mothman or the Scape Ore Lizard Man, but the Frogman has something they don't: a stage musical, called Hot Damn, It's The Loveland Frog!

[dustedmagazine]

Long Distance Poison — Technical Mentality (Hausu Mountain)

Technical Mentality by Long Distance Poison

Brooklyn ambient duo Long Distance Poison — Erica Bradbury and Nathan Cearley — release Technical Mentality a new two-track album of droning, twinkling space scapes that unfurl and stretch to nearly 20 minutes each. Using a combination of analog and modular synthesizers Bradbury and Cearley create dense liminal pieces that concentrate on the minutiae of tone and sound. Unhurried and contemplative, they allow their music to develop organically, ebbing and flowing like the tides of the moon.

“Giving Up On Me” develops like a nebula, billowing from the darkness on a bed of enveloping chords as tiny points of light spark and join, refracting off the cosmic dust to recede and cede their place to the next emanation. If the surface sounds random, there seems a fierce intelligence here, shaping a narrative, or more precisely, allowing the narrative to emerge without drawing attention to the creators. The ears are attentive to the process, the coalescence of motes of notes as they form themselves into a whole. Self-awareness brings friction, the jostle for position evolves and deep swathes of minor chords speak of eternal expansion that supersedes seasonal contraction. As the track reaches outwards, a haze of distortion and dissonance sweeps through as if skin is being shed. Momentary, natural discomfort to allow further growth, a declaration of selfhood. 

“Sunset In A Server” extends the atmosphere with long microtonal drones that build like a detuned church organ, folding inwards to blossom out with a patient insistence on being. Individual notes develop into amoebic melodies above the drones demanding acknowledgment, staking their place in the vast timeless vacuum then fading into an amorphous silence.  

These two epics sound ego-free but nonetheless human. A synesthetic demonstration of insignificance that communicates deep feeling and understanding, a willingness to commit acts of creation that speak in a timorous but persuasive manner of their intrinsic right to exist. Spacey but grounded, vast without bombast, effective without affectation, Technical Mentality is an album of boundless possibility that seems to exist outside both time and space. If gravity gets you down, come float with Long Distance Poison in their world of desolate beauty.  

Andrew Forell

[qprecords]

28.03.2019 (FRI)

AXONOX (Tokyo) The developer of the audio device brand M.A.S.F. which is     gaining overwhelming support from the noise scene,also he              is an electronist of the extreme music band ENDON.              

He has pursued and developed his own hard style using              oscillators and effects designed and produced by himself.              

In recent years, he started performance using a modular              synthesizer and trying to produce more extreme sound.

His original creation that does not consider moderation              or common sense at all is the noise as a self-generating              organism that melts the boundary between the performer and              the listener at the moment of generating the sound.

http://masf.figity.com

Tatsumi Ryusui (ambient, drone/JP/DE)            

Tatsumi Ryusui is a Japanese-born,                Berlin based experimental/noise/ambient sound artist. He                processes several proper, accidental or self-build                instruments to generate delicate, yet powerful and                astonishing ambient textures that connect drone with the                cathartic side of noise.                  

https://qprecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-between

https://soundcloud.com/tatsumi-ryusui

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPrRJUXQ-6I

Ememe

A composer,improviser and DJ from Japan,based in Berlin.        

As an improviser,he plays psychedelic noisy sound scape              with electronics.          

Also he plays more industrial sounds with junk metal              percussions and DIY instruments.

https://soundcloud.com/amogano-a-k-a-ememe          

https://qprecords.bandcamp.com/album/parallel-layers-2

[detache-modular-scapes]

'Echoes From The Deep' // Experimental // Sonic Landscapes // Phonic Drones // Submerged Waves

Experimental live set made by two artists Modular Scapes and He-Man playing on a massive wall of Nuclear Instruments Modules, Test and Measurement equipment & a lot of coffee! Thanks for watching and have a beautiful day!

[xpoproperty123]

A High-end Plot blueprint:  Emaar Emarald Floors

Overview:

Emaar launched its latest development, Emaar Emarald Floors, a well-known community located in sector 77, Gurgaon. which offers choices of 2,3 and 4 BHK apartments in the most desirable address. Living in a fresh resort-type lifestyle while owning your own home of dreams with all the topmost, latest, and best quality amenities now can be yours. The community includes apartments and a luxurious hotel.

It is a self-contained society.  It connects to all the important and major road networks of the city while staying in a breezy and undisturbed atmosphere.

 Features and Amenities:

It consists of the colossally arranged plot of Emerald Floors, this is a lot to share with your families. A carefully designed combination of separate decks, preinstalled modular kitchen, covered parking area, stunning infinity pools, and planted land to provide you with great security and oxygen throughout your life, and the most important thing for a club facility to have are the modern elevators facilities. Catch up with yourself in a serene ambiance through the cocktail of waterworks features and cautiously tended garden scape. Well-lit tennis courts, equipped volleyball ground, football ground and a cricket field for the people who love the sport. You can feel the healthy and calm climate as you look over the porches or while jogging on the jogging track, have a seat at the member's only clubhouse for breaks. It has round-the-clock security and roads are well connected and roam whenever you think to jog.

   Location:

Having its location at sector 65, Gurgaon, the Emaar Emerald Floors has smooth road (Golf Course Road Extension, Sohna Road) connectivity and has a very suitable link road network to DPS Heritage School.  NH48 Highway and metro, rail stations are popular places located in its neighborhood. The other properties of the nearby neighborhood are, about 14 KM away from them is the Gurgaon Railway Station, other nearby famous places include UdyogVihar,  Cyber City, Universal Business Park, Spaze Business Park, loud nine Hospital, Good Earth City Mall, Ansal Mall, Omaxe Mall, and Raheja Mall. Indira Gandhi International Airport is 39 min (23.8 km) via NH 48 from Emerald Floors.

[datacultaudio]

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4 years ago this week @sunfallsmusic was Data Cult Audio’s featured artist. Direct link: http://datacultaudio.com/data-cult-audio-0017-sunfalls/ You can also tune in here: Site: http://datacultaudio.com/episodes/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/data-cult-audio/id1234835844 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/datacultaudio FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/DataCultAudio/ About: Eusebie, aka SunFalls is a PDX based electronic musician. Composing, performing, writing and collaborating up and down the west coast since 2001. From noise cello improv for butoh theatre to experimental ableton sets and merging into eurorack synthesis in 2013. He has been a recurring solo and collaborative performer at Volt Divers, the Sonic Lodge performance series, Modular on the Spot(pdx), and most recently Binary Society, with a stacked lineup featuring some of the most talented modular synthesists across the country for opening day of the 10th Annual SubZERO Festival in the SoFA District of Downtown San Jose. “SunFalls will guide you toward an alien realm of metallic sound structures that fracture into a world of kaleidoscopic colors. Let its electric jolts prod the listener’s cerebral cortex. Embrace this paradox, shed the blankets of easy comfort, and find your own warmth in SunFalls icy space-scape.” -Robert Ham of Experimental Portland. This episode of Data Cult Audio is comprised of tracks form SunFalls latest release. Hard copies are available for sale here: https://sunfalls.bandcamp.com/album/dreamminus Find out more about SunFalls here: http://sunfalls.org/ http://bit.ly/epdxreview Works at & Sponsored by Control Voltage http://controlvoltage.net/ #electronicmusic #noise #experimental #idm #modular #sounddesign #podcast #ambient (at The Moon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRyweAXBG0_/?utm_medium=tumblr

[cruel-nature-records]

Our June batch of releases are now available to pre-order. Expected to ship mid-June, you can find them at https://cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/

1. Score 'Post-Everything' (DL / MC - 50 copies)

Score is the solo project of Chris Tate, known for his work with d_rradio; producers of a number of notable atmospheric electronica cuts from the early 2000s.

'Post Everything' is his latest album for Cruel Nature, following 'Modern Wreck' (2020), 'Vent' (2018) and his debut, 'Slump' (2016).

2. Dolores Mondo Stash 'Folklore Of Despair' (DL / MC - 40 copies)

Dolores Mondo Stash has been around since 2017 and it is the solo project of Romanian artist Dan Tecucianu. Since the beginning, Dolores Mondo Stash was a vessel for sound experimentation, from different recording techniques to different styles and influences; from industrial, noise to no-wave, psychedelic and ambient.

'Folklore of Despair' is a six track album, built from decaying, surreal tape loop sounds and atmospheric synth-scapes

3. Gnäw - 'I' (DL / MC - 40 copies)

The Finnish-Iranian duo Gnäw create improvised, experimental music utilizing traditional local instruments and modular synthesizers.

'I' is their debut album, consisting of effortless, free channeling tracks that have appeared as a result of musical dialogue and contemplation.

4. Coaxial 'Neo/ism' (DL / MC - 40 copies)

Coaxial is one of a number of musical vehicles for musician and academic Benjamin J. Heal.

Coaxial represents the outlet for his explorations in instrumental electronica, and on Neo/ism there’s humour and wordplay not just in the song titles, but in the compositions themselves. This is apt, given that the Neoist art movement was largely satirical in its purpose. A vintage organ synth sound and even more vintage drum machine track that kicks starts the album, landing between chillwave and krautrock.

[thebeautycove]

SCENT-SCAPING e SCENT-PROFILING con THE BEAUTY COVE

Cultrice dello SCENT-SCAPING... ovvero la ripartizione degli ambienti di casa e dei gesti quotidiani di benessere con differenti fragranze che siano in grado di esercitare un’azione confortante, modulare l’umore o agevolare le sensazioni che desideriamo avvertire in un particolare momento. Dalla doccia del mattino, al primo caffè, dalla riunione mattutina allo shopping pomeridiano, fino al momento di coricarci siamo, che lo si percepisca o meno, avvolti da una quantità imprecisata di odori. Saper scegliere la nuance olfattiva che ci accompagni ad affrontare un’impegnativa giornata di lavoro o un weekend rilassante può completare positivamente il nostro stato d’animo. Nell’abbraccio rinvigorente del nostro gel doccia preferito, sulle ali della fragranza che ci fa spiccare il volo alle sette del mattino, tra le sensuali volute di un profumo notturno, in meditativo ascolto di una candela profumata che ci rilassa, ogni attimo ha il profumo che ci sostiene e rappresenta. Rendiamoli sempre più personali, unici, questi attimi, c’è un profumo là fuori che è solo vostro e, forse, non sapete ancora della sua esistenza. Noi qui vi diamo una mano a scovarlo. Scriveteci via pm instagram e chiedete tutte le info! Dettagli nelle ig stories.

Per stabilire il profilo olfattivo più adatto a voi abbiamo predisposto un questionario da compilare. Potete richiederlo con messaggio solo via instagram. 

[architectnews]

Kent & Medway Medical School, Canterbury

Kent & Medway Medical School, Canterbury, Canterbury Public Building, Kent Architecture Images

Kent & Medway Medical School in Canterbury

6 Jan 2021

Kent & Medway Medical School

Architects: Hazle McCormack Young LLP

Location: Canterbury, Kent, South East England

Three storey University building to accommodate a new Medway Medical School in Kent, UK. The building provides teaching facilities and staff accommodation for 300 students.

What was the brief? The new Kent & Medway Medical School (KMMS) is a partnership between the University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University. It will be Kent’s first medical school, bringing together the existing centres of excellence in health and medical education provided by the two universities as well as local healthcare organisations, thereby offering a new model of patient-focused medical education. The Medical School will also be an essential part of the solution to recruiting and retaining medical professionals in the region.

Having received funding in the summer of 2018 the University of Kent had to provide a new building on its Canterbury Campus to deliver courses from September 2020. The Pears Building as it has been named accommodates a 150-seat lecture theatre, specialist seminar spaces, simulated GP surgery suite and staff accommodation. Specialist practical teaching facilities are accommodated at the Canterbury Christ Church University campus in their new Science & Engineering Building.

Key requirements of the brief are that the building should support future adaptation and change, that (to cater for the particular needs of visitors with disabilities) it be ‘super accessible’ and that it should achieve a BREEAME ‘Excellent’ rating.

What building methods were used? The building is constructed with a Hybrid of Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) panel floors/roof/staircase walls and a steel frame with lightweight steel framing infill. CLT was also used to construct the staircases which resolved access to each floor and the roof for the contractor during construction.

This methodology enabled the building to be made watertight early on in construction. Brickwork consists of brick slips bonded to insulation panels which does not require teams of skilled bricklayers as the traditional method would require and the system improves airtightness and thermal performance.

What are the sustainability features? Low energy consumption is integral to the design of the building through natural ventilation, PV panels, good daylighting and a highly insulated airtight external envelope. The building is designed to achieve a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating.

The use of off-site manufacture using cross laminated timber panels for floors, stair core walls and roof reduced the amount of concrete required in the building and its carbon footprint.

Roof mounted windcatchers provide ventilation to the first floor seminar rooms (via vertical ducting through the second floor) as well as the second floor meeting rooms and break out space. Night time cooling is supported through the provision of external louvres in the ground floor administration and meeting rooms and the first-floor seminar rooms, break out, group room and resources rooms.

How is the project unique? The Kent & Medway Medical School will play an essential part in the recruitment and retention of medical professionals in the region, helping to address the national and local shortage of medical staff. The current Pandemic has highlighted the need for such a facility and its inherent flexibility will enable the University to meet the current and future demands of the healthcare profession.

What were the key challenges? Programme The University had to deliver the building within 22 months from appointment of HMY. This required a co-ordinated design team effort and from HMY’s appointment in October 2018 we had submitted a full planning application in early 2019.

New Model of Education The building design had to develop alongside the client team establishing the course curriculum. This required a proactive approach to changes during the project and informed the choice of construction.

Covid Pandemic The team had to deal with the nationwide lockdown in March 2020 but the course starting date remained unchanged. The use of off-site construction enabled the building to be weathertight early. There were some delays in obtaining materials for example external cladding but the watertight shell enabled the interiors to be pushed forward. The project was completed on time and defect free.

Restricted site The proposed site for the KMMS Building is at the heart of the campus and on a constrained site. In addition, there were a number of underground services and features that had to be relocated ahead of construction starting on the building.

What were the solutions? A limitation on height to three stories combined with the close proximity of the adjoining single storey workshops and an objective to minimise the loss of existing trees constrained the new building to a simple orthogonal footprint.

The main entrance has been located on the north/east corner of the building adjacent to the existing pedestrian footpaths. The existing slope across the site from east to west has been utilised to provide a lower ground floor level to the lecture theatre to accommodate the height required for the raked seating.

The disposition of the required accommodation within the three-storey volume informs the façade design, each element expressive of the different uses within. The ground floor takes the form of a massive brick clad plinth from which the two stair cores extend to roof level. In contrast the upper floors of accommodation are expressed as a contrasting volume. The articulation of the massing is further informed by the idea of a ‘skin’ wrapping the building’s inner workings.

The University appointed Willmott Dixon Construction through the SCAPE Procurement Framework to deliver the building and HMY worked closely with their team learning the lessons from previous projects with the University. This enabled a rapid start on site for enabling works and for the off-site procurement and manufacture of the structure using a hybrid of Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) panels and a steel frame with lightweight steel frame infill. The CLT provides an exposed timber soffit within rooms which contrasts with the suspended acoustic rafts, lighting and encased steel frame. All services are concealed within a raised access floor and rooms are created with dry lining partitioning. This solution creates spaces that could be adapted during construction to meet the evolving brief and in the future.

Kent & Medway Medical School in Canterbury, England – Building Information

Architect and Principal Designer: Hazle McCormack Young LLP

Structural & Civil Engineer: Lyons O’Neill Mechancial & Electrical Consultants: Westec Engineering Ltd Principal Contractor: Willmott Dixon Construction Ltd

Project size: 2365 sqm Site size: 2135 sqm Project Budget: $10000000 Completion date: 2020 Building levels: 3

Key products used: B&K Structures – cross laminated timber floors, roof and walls IKO plc – roofing system Velux – rooflights Bilco – roof access hatches Kingspan Insulation – external walls Metsec SFS infill panels – external walls Gebrick Insulating Brick System – brick cladding Eternit Equitone Natura – rainscreen cladding IKO plc – roof system British Gypsum – dry lining & suspended ceilings Rockfon – demountable suspended ceilings Kawneer – windows, doors & curtain qalling John Watson Joinery Ltd – internal doors Planet Partitioning glazed screens Ezyglide sliding folding partitions Kingspan – raised access floors Cemex – screeded floors Milliken – carpet tiles Interface – modular vinyl sheet flooring and carpet tiles Tarkett – vinyl flooring Howdens Joinery – kitchens Venesta IPS duct panels Sanitaryware Armitage Shanks/Ideal Standard Gartec Lifts Heatrae Sadia – electric water heaters Honeywell – BMS Johnson Controls – access control MK Electric – electrical accessories Marley Plumbing & Drainage Solutions – above and below ground drainage Mitsubishi Electric Europe – air conditioning NuAire Ltd – extract fans Schneider Electric Ltd – distribution boards Solar UK – PV system Static Systems – fire alarm Thorlux – luminaires

Photography: Gordon Young

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Overview:

Emaar launched its latest development, Emaar Palm Hills, a well-known community located in sector 77, Gurgaon.  which offers choices of 2,3 and 4 BHK apartments in the most desirable address. Living in a fresh resort-type lifestyle while owning your own home of dreams with all the topmost, latest and best quality amenities, now can be yours. The community includes apartments and a luxurious hotel.

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