Term 1- Production of Camouflage Catalogue + Research of HabitatThe development of camouflage pattern-making through 2d drawings and 3d modeling (physical and computer) will be the focus of initial work, through the study of camouflage precedents both natural and artifical. The purpose will be to develop critical attitudes towards effects, spatiality, tectonics, instruments for production and establishing criteria for their assessment.
Other key objectives for the first term will be:
- Production of Catalogue (individual + group)
- Understanding of Urban situation
- Development of building precedent in context of individual research
- Site research and developments of attitudes towards response/ intervention
- To build an argument, not a portfolio. The research must advance the project.
Development works and case studies will be carried out in order to understand the context of patterning, origination, application, adaption and response to context
Week 1
• 29/09 Unit presentation
• 30/09 Interviews
• 02/10 First Unit meeting and Introduction to Project 1- Pattern JD/ DB/ FK
Brief 1- PatternPattern studies will be initiated with the development of wallpaper pattern interpreting given image- manipulations through vectorial scaling, geometrical distortions, colorations, combinations and manipulations.
Image: Chance, Order, Change 27 (Green) History Painting- Kenneth Martin
- Create samples, explorations through colour, tone, line, depth, perception, perspective, hierarchy, background/ foreground.
- Present context of pattern, effects, research and potential of precedent image- as powerpoint/ group seminar presentation.
Week 2
• 6/10 Tutorials JD/FK
• 09/10 Tutorials JD/DB + seminar camouflage
Week 3
• 13/10 Tutorials JD/ FK
• 16 /10 Pin Up patterns + individual camouflage presentations
Introduction to Project 2- Foil
Rhino tutorials RL
• 17/10 Foil Workshop JD/DB/ RL
Brief 2- FoilMake patterns into 3d constructions through relief, hierarchy, depth, layers, contours, variegation, perspective. Develop drawing/ wallpaper into handheld 3d constructs- surface becomes space/ enclosure/ envelope. Explore 3d influence of sheet material to create solids and voids. Depths, cavities, repetitions, scaled morphologies, composite materialities, superficialities. 3d envelopes/ surfaces may be conceived through the notion of a net/ cut fabric pattern.
Image: Mikimoto Studies, Toyo Ito
- What are the causal surfaces/ textures/ angles/ effects?
- When developing iterations, ask what is redundant or obselete in the model.
- Develop spatiality, construct, material sensibility, testing and recording of effects-
Week 4
• 20/10 Tutorials JD/ FK+ tech tutorials RL evening
• 23/10 Tutorials JD
Week 5
• 27/10 Tutorials JD
• 30/10 Foil Pin Up + Introduction to Brief 3- Catalogue
Brief 3- Catalogue IIndividual catalogues will question spatial and material approaches alongside the comparison of effects. This will enrich discussion / criteria for techniques and instrumentation of assessment of camouflage techniques. The categorisation will focus upon mimicry, disruption, counter-shading, adaptive and cryptic effects.

Image: Study models, SANAA
Ambition: Establish clear strategy, programme and ambition for testing camouflage patterns.
Speculative massing, topological surface
Scope/ extent in urban context
Adaptive techniques
Physiology and structure developed
Week 6 (Open Week)
• 03/11 Tutorials JD/FK
• 06/11 Catalogue Pin Up/ Interim Crit JD/ DB + guests
Brief 4- Site Analysis/ StrategiesThe site will be located along a highly activated armature between Piccadilly Circus and Soho in Central London- populated with a highly diverse mix of programmes and activities as a catalyst for future intervention. The location is one of the largest open development sites in the locality and has been vacant for over 30 years. Collective site research will focus on physical readings of topography, programme, street scale, temporal activity and other patterns for critical assessment and development of strategies.

Image: Farm Site Plan, Jun Aoki
Research criteria/ Objectives:- Context- wider effects/ influence- political, social etc. through inconsistencies of pattern
- Techniques- mapping refinements relating to Camouflage Effects
- Strategic precedents- similar developments/ situations
- Endgame- Synthesis for production/ proposition
- Collective vs. Individual
- A4 book publication
Week 7
• 10/11 Tutorials JD/FK
• 13/11 Urban research workshop- Site in London- JD/DB
• 14/11 Urban research workshop- Site in London- JD/DB
Week 8
• 17/11 Tutorials JD/FK
• 20/11 Tutorials JD
Week 9
• 24/11 Tutorials JD
• 27/11 End of Term Jury JD/DB
Week 10
• 01/12 Tokyo prep tutorials JD
• 04/12 Leave for Tokyo
Brief 5- Tokyo ResearchIn Tokyo research will focus on building/ urban precedents and the changes in perceived effects upon uses and users.

Image: Aerial Photo, Central Tokyo
- Methodology: Changing patterns of our perception
- Transparency/ depth/ coloration/ trajectory/ scaling
- Map effects of things
- Record causal surfaces- not footprints
- Visual effects/ relation to street
- Phenomena of skin/ surface
- Programme/ differentiation/ organisation
- Techniques Drawings/ photos merged
- Visual/ temporal perception
- Scale/ orientation shift
- Examples Venturi/ Scott Brown
- Diller/ Scofidio
- Objectives Understanding of scale, relation/ adaption to context,
- Hierarchy, programme, materiality, perception
Building Precedents: - Prada- Herzog & De Meuron
- Dior- Kumiko Inui
- Dior- Seijima
- Tods- Toyo Ito
- Mikimoto- Toyo Ito
Urban Precedents:
- Department Stores- Seibu, Tokyu, Parco
- Shibuya Mark City
- Dogenzaka District
- Signage- Christmas Street
ItineraryFriday 04th December
Am: Depart London Heathrow
Saturday 05th December
Am: Arrive Tokyo Narita. Travel to Hotel Fukudaya
Pm: Walkabout in Shibuya/ Omotesanto/ Harajuku/ Nishi Azabu
Unit dinner
Sunday 06th December
Am: Briefing Group Fieldwork I- Pattern 1- Building Precedents
Pm: Group Fieldwork I
Evening visit- Ginza
Monday 07th December
Am: Group Fieldwork I
Pm: Individual Tutorials- Starbucks, Shibuya Scramble
Tuesday 08th December
Am: Group Fieldwork I
Pm: Presentation- Group Fieldwork I
Wednesday 09th December
Am: Architectural Office Visit
Pm: Introduction to Fieldwork II- Urban patterns
Evening visit- Akihabara Electric City
Thursday 10th December
Am: Group Fieldwork II
Pm: Group Fieldwork II
Friday 11th December
Am: Tsukiji Fish Market
Pm: Free Afternoon
Saturday 12th December
Am: Group Fieldwork II
Pm: Tutorials
Sunday 13th December
Am: Fieldwork II
Pm: Fieldwork II Pin up- Tokyo Geidai University
Monday 14th December
Am/Pm: Free Day
Tuesday 15th December
Am: Depart Tokyo Narita
Pm: Arrive London Heathrow
Term 2- Development of schemeAmbition:
Establish clear strategy, programme and ambition for testing camouflage patterns.
Speculative massing, topological surface
Scope/ extent in urban context
Adaptive techniques
Physiology and structure developed
Week 0 Tokyo wrap up
• 05/01 Tutorials JD/FK
• 08/11 Pin Up Tokyo work JD/DB
Work to include:
- Coded scale model of building precedent
- Associated diagrams and spatial analogies highlighting connections/ programme/ temporal/ organisational properties
- Camouflage- interpretation of patterning
- Drawings examining context of effects
Camouflage Exhibition Jan/Feb 2010
Prepare Unit Exhibition to include:
- Catalogue of models
- Accompanying exhibition catalogue as bound booklet
- Larger scale Fragments (joint)
- Wallpaper (patterns)
- Case studies Tokyo (coded models)
Proposed Camouflage event including guest speakers to occur simultaneously.
Week 1
• 12/01 Introduce Brief 5- Catalogue + Progress Reviews
• 15/01 Group Tutorials JD
Week 2
• 19/01 Tutorials JD/FK
• 22/01 Exhibition Construction Unit + JD/DB
Brief 6- Final Proposal
Image: Trutec Façade, Seoul- Barkow Leibinger
Week3
Establish overall anatomy / programme/ strategy/ intent of project
• 26/01 Tutorials JD/FK
• 29/01 Tutorials JD/DB
Week 4
Pick area of focus, material interest and develop fragment within single area focussing on skin, wall, floor.
Important to establish what task the element performs and its relationship to the potential larger project- also questioning scale and interpretation of larger scale moves. Workshop to synthesise to larger moves.
• 02/02 Tutorials JD/FK + Workshop RL
• 05/02 Tutorials JD
Week 5
Develop fragment through diagrams, models, sketch studies, tests (effects). Record effects through photos- group session.
• 09/02 Seminar JD/FK+ Workshop RL
• 11/02 Technical tutorials DB
• 12/02 Tutorials JD/DB
Week 6
Present clear strategic models (coded) plus fragments of spatial collisions/ conflicts and programmatics/ diagrams of situation becoming- refer to precedent scales.
• 16/02 Tutorials JD
• 19/02 Pin Up JD/FK
Week 7
• 23/02 Tutorials JD/FK
• 25/02 TS3 Interim Jury DB
• 26/02 Tutorials JD/DB
Week 8
Develop sectional drifts of schemes in relation to context/ programme
• 02/03 Tutorials JD/FK
• 05/03 Tutorials JD
Week 9
• 09/03 Tutorials JD
• 11/03 TS3 Final Jury DB
• 12/03 Pin Up JD/DB
Week 10
Wrap up tutorials
• 16/03 Tutorials JD
• 19/03 Tutorials JD
Term 3The third term will provide an opportunity to crystallise materials and effects in detailed models and images/ drawings of inhabitation and spatial effects of becoming. Drawings should explore how camouflage pattern mediates condition of shifting use, conflict of programme.
Image: Mark Smith (student 2006), commendation, Bronze Medal,
RIBA President’s MedalsWeek 1
Previews
• 20/04 Tutorials JD/FK
• 23/04 Tutorials JD
Week 2
Establish agenda for completion of project
• 27/ 04 Inter3 Previews JD/DB
• 28/ 04 Inter3 Previews JD/DB
Week 3
Develop views, qualities and characteristics of whole scheme and establish areas of focus for presentation
• 04/05 Tutorials JD/FK
• 07/04 Tutorials JD/DB
Week 4
Tutorials
• 11/05 Tutorials JD/FK
• 12/04 Tutorials JD/DB
Week 5
Final Jury
• 18/05 Tutorials JD/FK
• 21/04 Final Jury JD/DB
Week 6
Tutorials
• 25/05 Tutorials JD/FK
• 28/04 Tutorials JD/DB
Week 7
Rehearsals
• 01/06 Tutorials JD/FK
• 04/06 Tutorials JD/DB
Week 8
2nd Year reviews
• 07/06 2nd year Reviews JD/DB
• 08/06 3rd year tutorials DB/FK
• 11/06 3rd year tutorials JD
Week 9
3rd Year reviews
• 14/06 3rd year Reviews JD/DB
• 15/06 3rd year Reviews JD/DB
Week 10
3rd year externals/ exhibition
Unit Structure/ Support:
Jonathan Dawes- Unit MasterJonathan graduated from the AA Diploma School and the University of East London (where he taught from 2002-2006 as Degree & Diploma Unit Master). Founder of
Flowspace Architecture, he is currently Project Architect for Brentwood Sixth Form Centre at Cottrell & Vermeulen Architecture. AA Unit Master since 2007.
Dagobert Bergmans- Unit MasterDagobert studied at Technical University Eindhoven and at the AA with Pascal Schöning and Raoul Bunschoten. He has worked for S333 Architecture & Urbanism and founded Pool Ruimte voor Architectuur en Stedebouw. Won Europan 8 in Erfurt, Germany, 2006. He was Architecture Design Tutor, TUE, Eindhoven 2003-2005 and is now working for Dana Ponec Architects in Amsterdam.
Fumiko Kato- Unit TutorFumiko studied at Osaka Institute of Technology in Japan and the University of East London. She is currently a director of Flowspace Architecture, with ongoing projects both in the UK and Japan.
Workshops:Rui Li -Software Workshops
Suyeon Song- Software Workshops
Technical Consultant:Scobie Alvis, Technical Director, Structures, Hyder Consulting
Proposed Guests:Hardy Blechman- London lecture/ seminar
Roy Behrens- USA lecture/ seminar
Kumiko Inui- Tokyo office visit/ lecture
Neil Leach- London lecture/ seminar
Yuji Fukui- Tokyo host
Tom Heneghan- Tokyo critic
