House design

To all,



_ Re-edit your films according to the comments made during our pin-up and give them to me on a DVD on Tuesday.


_ Almost all of you will have to rework on their site analysis in order to have a good presentation (and improved content!) on the final review. Don't waste time and do it now! 
Additionally we will only accept PORTRAIT A0 for the final review and following exhibition at BACC.


_All of you should help and organize the making of the site model with Nick (you will all use it for the final). 
Provide him with dimensions and accurate drawings.
These are the dimensions and perimeter of the model (given to all groups):

_The detailed brief for the house program is here.

Comments after our last pin-up:


BOM
Define your ambition for this project PRECISELY.
How do you intend to work with colours? with light?
You have only looked (and really superficially) at one colour theory! (when i oriented you towards more - have you even looked at it??..) - you need to expand your knowledge drastically!
Idem for technical lighting in cinema.


KONG
Your site analysis was very poor. 
What does it give you? 
Your diagrams could be interesting as a design starting point but but but you have to be critical about them!
What are they of? How are they relevant to this site? How would you transform them?
How do they relate to an actual experience?
Have you looked at the references i gave earlier???


ARM
Interesting film, although the editing should be specific about framing.
It is yet neither critical nor analytical.
Your model, as well, does not relate to your main theme of framing...
You should get the most you can out of the film and the specific sequence you chose (process of translation).


BO
As said during the critique, your analysis (both plate and model) crucially lacked layers: the site, the streets, the activities etc.
Also it was far from being specific about the sounds!! (which type, what frequency etc.). For someone intending to work with sound, this is a must.
You should not represent sound, rather really work with it.
For references look at projects in experimental electronic music, such as by Edwin van der Heide, Maryanne Amacher, David Byrne (playing the building)...
You can now (in parallel to your design form(ul)ation) start a technical research on materials, properties and geometry in relation to sound, its qualities and its propagation in space.


NUNG
Your film was quite a success! You can (and always should!) still improve it, however now is time to strongly establish your concept.
Refine your thinking about the diagonal and the fact of connecting/touching/grazing/approaching/...
Articulating  public and private spheres around this disposition could be a good idea.


NOTT
Establish a hierarchy in your presentations and transform pure data (here from your specific site analysis) into form or processes that will inform your design (this is for your own sake as well as for your audience's!!)
You say you are testing ideas - much more than one should be then tested!


YIPTA
Was that a film? an animation? Was the filmic media well explored in your opinion? Was it at all necessary?
What are the rhythm(s) you are talking about? How would you compare them? translate them?
It is ok (and could even be productive) to perform a pure formal exploration, but it would make your project incredibly much better if this forms and their relations made sense! Think about a reversal of rhythm...


CAKE
Be specific in your analysis about the locations, and the different fields of vision.
You really have to improve your model making skills- so i suggest that you do a lot of them (formal explorations of diverse visual connections) for next class - you should also do computer models, in parallel and those 2 types of 3 dimensinal models should inform each other)
What are the relations between the 2 houses?
Write down a scenario for this house and really research and experiment different techniques ( i already gave you a great reference, look also at jali screens in muslim architecture, at the camera oscura and other optic devices...)


PLOY
Your film needs a serious re-edition!
Be precise now when you talk about abundance and abandonment. Of what? In which context?
Don't those context swap? 
Are those 2 terms necessary contradictory? What do you really mean by them?
You were previously studying transitions - is alternation also a transition? How would you define transition?
What types of transition can you find? (in film/in architecture)
Think about the azuma house again..


AEI
??
I am waiting for an email explaining the reason of your absence and for your work on the blog...




Thank you,
See you all on Tuesday
and...

HAPPY SONGKRAN