21 presents their proposal for the Shanghai Expo 2010 site. The proposal — entitled “Mo’town” — was one of 12 urban projects presented by graduate students of the AADRL (Design Research Laboratory) at the Lecture Hall of the Architectural Association.
The projects, developed by teams of three to four students, were presented to a jury of 12 architects, designers, and critics — including UN Studio’s Caroline Bos, Jesse Reiser, Ali Rahim, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Peter Trummer, Alex Kilian… from the Architectural Association: school director Brett Steele, alongside AADRL course directors and tutors Patrik Schumacher, Theodore Spyropoulos, Tom Verebes, and Yusuke Obuchi.
The presentation of Mo’town elicited praise, criticism, and some aggression.
“Phase 1″ means this is a work in progress. We presented, nevertheless, a wide range of research topics and design results — some of which caused a “novelty” effect with different responses from individual jury members. The vehemence of the responses was encouraging. In January, we’ll be back for the Phase 2 — and final — presentation.
