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Our project "Common Ground" has been accepted to San Francisco's Market Street Prototyping Festival! Our interactive 12ftx12ft pavilion will be showcased as part of 50 exciting urban interventions from April 9-11, 2015 along Market Street, San Francisco. Please support our project by clicking the link below and giving it a "me too!"

https://neighborland.com/ideas/sf-common-ground-a-pavilio

The current project team is Victoria Flores and Derek Ouyang from the U.S., Rebecca María Díaz Atienza from Puerto Rico, Tina Vilfan and Sinan Mihelčič from Slovenia, and Nicholas Kampmann Petitmaire from Denmark.

See all fifty selected projects at http://marketstreetprototyping.org/projects/and come to our public feedback session this Friday, November 7, 1-3pm @ 5 Embarcadero Center, on Market Street between Noah’s Bagels & the Embarcadero BART Station Entrance.

At a Stanford alumni event in New York City, Derek Ouyang talked about project-based learning in the 21st century. At the end of the five-minute talk, he describes the founding of Cloud Arch Studio and the creation of the Global Urban Development Program.

Here are some renders of our apartment concept for 6055 Center Drive in Westchester, Los Angeles. We will post a full design book soon explaining more about the architectural design.

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We just got featured in a great article today by Tony Minichiello on the website of Domus. Read it here!

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The story of Cloud Architecture's first POP-UP studio project at Old Spitalfields Market for the London Festival of Architecture 2014. The film features the team of seven designers:

Derek Ouyang, USA Sinan Mihelčič, Slovenia Klemen Kušar, Slovenia Domen Stražar, Slovenia Janž Omerzu, Slovenia Karolina Ostrowska, Poland Alice Eamsherangkoon, Thailand

As well as Eric Graham, Market Manager, Colin Rosie, Market Trader, and the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill London office.

Over the span of four weeks, the Cloud team engaged the local community in research and design to understand how the market should develop over the next twenty years. The end result was a presentation of their proposal to the new owners, Ashkenazy Acquisition Corporation.

From the filmmaker, Derek: This was a challenging film to make because I needed to compress four weeks of research and design content into a fifteen minute window. I chose to structure it as an augmentation of a recording of a live presentation at the SOM London office, and divide it into roughly three sections: Intro, Research, Design. The end result doesn't go too deeply into the design itself so for more of that detail please see the complementary slideshow presentation at slideshare.net/cloudarchitecture/popup-studio-at-old-spitalfields-market-lfa-2014

Music by Springwater. Download their Winter EP at springwater-wi.bandcamp.com/

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This was by far our favorite proposal for the Grossmann Film Center: an educational film studio for the local high school and visiting students of film! We created a collage of ideas in this render including organic architecture, reflective surfaces, film props, and workshops. Over time this could grow into something like the Sundance Institute, where young fantasy and horror filmmakers could come to Ljutomer for a 2-3 week intensive workshop led by experts in the field and advance their own work. All the industry professionals we talked to were very supportive of such an idea, comparing the beautiful town of Ljutomer to an "artist's retreat." The local high school principal also expressed strong interest in developing this idea in concrete ways, and we hope to work with him on organizing a design & construction workshop next year to deliver this studio space. Render by Andraz Hrovat

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This photomontage conveys the ambience of our proposed WINE+CINEMA experience, bringing together the best of Ljutomer's wine region and film culture. Imagine being able to rent out a thematic fantasy or horror room to enjoy wine with your friends and loved ones while watching an artistic film! Render by Andraz Hrovat

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As a conceptual proposal for development, our project did not actually consist of any architecture. What we did instead was a series of photomontages illustrating how traditional programmatic spaces could be infused with fantasy elements to create a one-of-a-kind Grossmann experience. This was the photomontage we created for a flexible gallery space that could feature film props, sets, or horror house creations. Render by Andraz Hrovat

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On Friday July 18, we presented our proposal to the organizers of the Grossmann Fantastic Film & Wine Festival, along with the local high school principal. In addition to their participation we gathered insights and support from the mayor of Ljutomer, the tourism manager of local winery Jeruzalem Ormož, architect Marko Mitja Feguš, and filmmakers Julian Richards, Andrej Boka, and Milan Todorivič. The general response was that we convinced them of some serious potential for future development, and we will be collaborating with the festival and city throughout the next few months to try to make these ideas a reality. That makes two successful POP-UP projects in two months! Big thanks to skupina ŠTAJN and our team: Sinan, Maruša, Domen, Andraz, and Derek.

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We are now at our second POP-UP project in Ljutomer, Slovenia. The event is the 10th Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival, where our team combining members of Cloud and skupina ŠTAJN are immersing ourselves in the festival and exploring the idea of a permanent HOUSE OF FANTASTIC FILM, which could provide amenities for festival attendees and the local community year-round. In the next few days (in addition to watching lots of great horror and fantastic films) we will be meeting with the municipality, festival organizers, film enthusiasts, wine enthusiasts, local schools, residents, and business owners to understand what they would like to see in a HOUSE OF FANTASTIC FILM. As we develop our ideas we will be sharing them here on this blog. One thing is for certain: we want to promote an idea that could really develop into a permanent structure for the city, and that means developing an investment strategy as well. Email us at [email protected] if you would like to get behind our project and help put Ljutomer on the architecture map.

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We are almost done with #MADEINLONDON! Most of the team has already left London, and we're just finishing up our final report to the market management, the final film, and our gifts to our Indiegogo funders. Thank you to everybody who supported and followed our project. Be sure to follow this Tumblr as it will revamp for our next project, coming soon in July!

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A render of our proposed grand staircase and public mezzanine at the south end of the market. The staircase would act as a resolution for the public promenade with great views for visitors as they eat, work, or meet. and seating for larger events. Upstairs on the mezzanine level, two separate zones can be used for daycare center, meeting area, or cafe. The existing "History Box" can be developed into an interactive wall for community building.

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Today we had our first of a series of presentations to local design offices to focus on our architectural design concepts and POP-UP process. The SOM office in London's Broadgate Tower was supportive of our participatory design efforts and, being very close to Spitalfields Market, welcomed almost all of our design proposals as feasible interventions for the space. We're glad to have engaged one of the world's foremost practices in our London Festival of Architecture project and will take their inspiring feedback on to our next project!

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The first day of our final exhibition was a success. We had over thirty interactions with the community ranging from extremely positive to extremely negative. Of course, that is to be expected in the public realm. You can't solve every problem in design, but perhaps the POP-UP design brings us closer to a design environment in which the stakeholders understand the value and complexity of their own interdependence and can elevate the common ground between them before architects even have to step in. -- D

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It's been a long process, but we're finally ready. Tomorrow, behind this cluttered wall, we'll show our final designs. Drop by Old Spitalfields Market 10am-5pm Thursday and Friday to see a sustainability vision for the future.

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Check out our Indiegogo campaign video featuring lots of footage from the past two weeks! We’re at £555 and just over a day from our FINAL EXHIBITION at Old Spitalfields Market, which will include renderings and a scale model of our proposed market redesign. Watch the video and share with your friends! We have postcards we’d LOVE to send to you in exchange for a £5 donation! Check out our Indiegogo campaign.

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Less than three months into our existence, we've made it onto the front page of ArchDaily with a great introduction to our POP-UP studio concept. This is a huge milestone for our team and proof that our work is contributing to the professional discourse. We're humbled and excited to finish this project, hopefully get covered again by ArchDaily on the final outcome, and move on to greater things to come.

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