He is also a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of France and a member of the Royal Academy of Arts. In 2007 he received a Knighthood for his services to architecture, in 2011 he was granted an honorary Doctorate of Technology by the University of Lund. ![]() A founder of the Archigram Group who were jointly awarded the Royal Gold Medal of the RIBA in 2004. Graduate of the Bournemouth College of Art and the Architectural Association in London, Sir Peter Cook has been a pivotal figure within the architectural world for 50 years. You are warmly invited to this evening public lecture by him exploring these ideas and themes. Sir Peter Cook is visiting the University of Melbourne to participate in a Melbourne School of Design Summer Intensive Studio examining the spirit of Archigram, 1960s ideas, how they might have been revolutionary, and whether they are still relevant today. Sometimes, dare I say, agenda is placed above creativity." I don't like to be a moaner but this is my honest view. There's not a spirit of adventure and discovery that there might have even been 20 years ago. "I find that there is a narrowing of architecture there are more schools of architecture that I've visited recently that have gone more narrow-minded. In his recent lecture at the World Architecture Festival 2018, Sir Peter Cook said: With this, they put forward a series of radical proposals as a reaction towards what he stated was a dull period in British architecture. Whilst it may not be possible to eliminate entirely the need for traditional mechanical air-conditioning in all areas of the building, the differentiated internal envelope allows for flexibility in its application whilst the design of the building itself will limit the degree to which conventional cooling methods need be relied upon.In the 1960s Sir Peter Cook, together with Warren Chalk, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb, set up Avant-Garde architecture group Archigram. The thermal mass of the concrete ‘scoops’ absorb heat when the surroundings are hotter than the mass, returning that warmth to the environment during the evening and at night when the surroundings are generally cooler. The building’s construction also provides a higher degree of inertia against external temperature fluctuations than similar contemporary technologies. Internally, the main circulation areas along the internal ‘street’ act as a thermal buffer and encourage the natural movement of air along the length of the building. Winds, whereas the north façade shelters a variety of window configurations that are screened from the sun by a series of metallic ‘eyebrows’ that effectively create a art piece as well as a shielding system. The building encircles the crown of the hill, turning its harder ‘back’ to the colder south winds. We have also taken account of the prevailing winds during the development stage of our scheme. ![]() Plan with furniture, image courtesy of CRAB Studio. We created instead, an idiosyncratic series of ‘lit places’ and darker, more elemental pockets. Avoiding glare and overheating – without homogenising one’s experience the interior. We wished to manipulate the surface of the building – sheltering it from direct northern light and filtering the southern light into the interior. These elements particularise – we hope, in a subtle and enjoyable way. We created a very ambient building, where the individual can really identify with the nature of his or her activity – thus the studio pads, scoops, decks and corners – though based on a clear hierarchy and system – have significant shifts of direction or variations of size. In welcome contrast a majority of the filtering ‘wraps’ and ‘insertions’ are of a softer, more translucent character. These ‘tectonic rafts’ together with the central ‘spine’, quieter study areas and dramatic ‘scoops’ define the building’s rocky core. Image credit Peter Bennetts, courtesy of CRAB Studio.įrom this ‘street’ the faculty’s studios and large gathering spaces spread out onto a terraced deck – which itself melts into a re-vegetated hillside garden.
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