re.search.notes

architecture_teaching

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-11T23:05:00+00:00

I run an architecture practice, alongside my colleague Mike Menzies, collaborating online from our homes in Wolverhampton and Birmingham. I also provide a part-time role as visiting tutor at BSoAD. axis design Recent Axis Design projects include numerous housing schemes for the Birmingham Municipal Housing Trust, collaborations with technology innovators examining digital tools in the construction sector, community centre buildings using rapid methods of pre-fabricated construction and self-bu…

bio

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-12T08:00:56+00:00

This page is redirected to rob_annable.

blog

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:35:06+00:00

buckminster_fuller

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-04-03T22:03:00+00:00

Notes from Fuller's Universe by Sieden described himself as 'comprehensive, anticipatory design scientist' or 'comprehensivist' Pollution: resources not positioned at their maximally effective location Dymaxion Map - Dymaxion equator used for launch trajectory, reconfigured to place viewers (such as Churchill) home in centre, patent initially refused because previous ruling that all possible projection methods had been exhausted, developed to account for air currents for flight, influenced co…

building_information_modelling

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-05T16:24:38+00:00

Engaging with the tools of the trade. Writing and speaking examples of impacts on small practice: BIM and the SME (video) [BIM for small practice, RIBA publication] (RIBA publication)

care-full_communities

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-14T18:29:02+00:00

Semester 1: “Where can we, as critical and creative designers and thinkers of architecture and design, as students and teachers, intervene to support more inclusive, humorous, speculative, and sheltering infrastructures?” Our Infrastructural Loves - Architectural Pedagogies of Care and Support :

competition_entries

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-02-22T23:06:09+00:00

brighton_memory_palace self-build shoestring Street Support Hub with Justin Pickard

damson_jam

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-22T19:44:31+00:00

or chutney:

ecology_language_model

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-05-08T17:24:05+00:00

ELM Project: DCMS Create Growth Programme Application Project Overview The Ecology Language Model (ELM) is a transformative digital platform that reimagines how Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) is managed by replacing static documentation with an intelligent conversational interface. Led by Axis Design Architects, this project represents our strategic expansion into ecological technology solutions, addressing a critical gap in the UK's environmental framework while creating new growth opportuniti…

funding

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-05-08T17:09:34+00:00

Ecology Language Model

habraken

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-13T09:17:36+00:00

See Amos Rapoport

hafod

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-03-21T23:00:04+00:00

Materials Timber frame to be insulated internally + new outer layer over ply sheathing? * cork * woodfibre drawings suggest 11“ cavity - option for blown insulation? Heat pump Location trade-offs? Air tightness - consider intermediate floor zone

home4self-kwh

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-08-15T22:33:12+00:00

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home4self

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-08-15T22:18:06+00:00

home4self ---------- ...a play on the title of my other writing online and the act of self-building a home - is where I live and practice. The design history was summarised in a previous blog entry and the build process was captured at . An experiment in a number of different construction techniques and materials, it has also won construction excellence awards.

journal

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-15T23:05:15+00:00

---------- Journal - by month * august_2020 * february_2021 * march_2021 * december_2022

latour

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-02-22T22:52:11+00:00

linear_city

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-15T18:52:04+00:00

---------- inverted Line? services and movement to interior - how to ensure decentralised network?

making

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-20T15:13:18+00:00

Ideas for projects DIY Radio telescope... DIY FM_radio? Built projects * 3d_printed_telescope * Very Slow Movie Player

matthew_de_abaitua

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-05T22:50:19+00:00

If Then The Destructives

public_bio

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-05T23:06:40+00:00

Axis Design Architects are housing design experts based in Birmingham and Wolverhampton. The company directors - Mike Menzies and Rob Annable - have many years experience delivering projects of all scales, from neighbourhood masterplanning and estate wide consultation exercises to individual residential design and domestic refurbishment.

reading

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-08-13T15:01:09+00:00

[wishlist - as of 5/8/20] ---------- current status: Architectural Reflections - Colin St John Wilson Housing for the millions Being Material architecture_action&plan - Peter Cook if_then - Matthew de Abaitua Towards a Philosophy of Photography - Vilem Flusser After Geoengineering - Holly Jean Buck Dreams Before The Start of Time - Anne Charnock When Species Meet Signal Image Architecture buckminster_fuller ---------- Want:

research

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-05-08T17:09:18+00:00

Research funding ---------- reading ---------- lines of enquiry ---------- interplanetary ---------- materials and cutting_carbon ---------- competition_entries ---------- history and theory

rob_annable

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-08-04T11:16:00+00:00

I'm an architect based in the West Midlands, UK. I live with my family in a self-build labour of love called home4self - a slightly idiosyncratic experiment in architecture, construction and materials that won a few awards, although the neighbours probably still don't know what to make of it.

sidebar

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T12:54:13+00:00

wiki thinks * reading * journal * research * making * home4self

signal_image_architecture

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-09-14T22:22:36+00:00

'The always present experiencing of all calculably possible futures (let us call this the state of management) is a very different imagi- native framework from the orthographic imag- ination, whose mediatechnics demanded that it use a record of past experiences to contem- plate the future (this was the state of history). If orthographic media established a perceptible delay between lived life and its representation-in the labor time required to both produce (write, draw) and consume (read) the h…

start

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-14T11:14:31+00:00

Note taking by Rob Annable using wiki format. * reading - current reading notes + wish list * journal - rough diary for future reference + * teaching - lecture + tutorial notes * research and making - future projects * home4self - self-build home and office ---------- Current jam: TeamXTimeline digging for the structural relations in the 20th Century sweet spot - 1960-1980

street_support_hub

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-02-22T23:10:45+00:00

Amid calls to ‘stay at home’, in June this year, an ongoing conversation with ”>Axis Design’s Rob Annable fed into a joint entry to RIBA's ”>Rethink: 2025 competition. The brief asked participants to ‘consider life in 2025 and how the pandemic will have modified the way humans interact with space and one another, and how…

teaching

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-13T17:48:36+00:00

2022-23 L6 - infrastructures of care Studio 4 Design Resolution: Care-full Communities 2020-21 L6 notes on living form vs form for living Readers: habraken - Type as Social Agreement Latour - ANTs view Living form: Strandbeests Rachel Armstrong - Living Architecture Fabricate 2020 - UCL

when_species_meet

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-09-13T14:45:15+00:00

'I know that D&G set out to write not a biological treatise but rather a philosophical, psychoanalytic, and literary one requiring different reading habits for the always nonmimetic play of life and narrative. But no read- ing strategies can mute the scorn for the homely and the ordinary in this book. Leaving behind the traps of singularity and identity is possible without the lubrication of sublime ecstasy bordering on the intensive affect of the 1909 Futurist Manifesto. D&G continue, “Anyone w…

wiki

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T14:19:53+00:00

This journal is running on Dokuwiki. syntax guide for entries Alternative simple tools: pwyky

writing

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-02T21:13:58+00:00

Links to other writing and presentations... writing BIM for small practice, RIBA publication (pdf) speaking BIM and the SME (video - 2014) making