Facade Typology

analysis...

Generally, the documents you been producing still show a distance to the site we are dealing with.

From now on, you will all be working at a minimum scale of 1/100, for all plans, sections and elevations.

This will force you to get into detail, and to better understand what the site actually is.

All the analysis have to be posted now, under the theme they belong to, and with detailed explanations. Agree on a layout that all of you can use in order to present those informations efficiently and in order to prepare for the 1st review, which will happen next week.

This way, you should all have a global understanding of the site and context in order to proceed now to your design proposal.

On Thursday, we will have individual tutorials, where we will mainly discuss your personal approach to the project.

TIMETABLE

12.00- Pun

12.15- Grace

12.30- Fa

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16.00- Enn

16.15- Shane

16.30- Golfe

16.45- Ong

17.00- N

17.15- Eiab

17.30- Geng

17.45- Cherry

18.00- Best

18.15- Ton

I will have to leave at 18.30. 

For the afternoon people, if your allotted time does not suit you, exchange with one another, or come at 12.45.

Do let me know in advance!

reminders:

Pun & Grace

Time to produce seriously! A simple catalogue of photographs is far from being enough.

Draw the façade in detail - all elevations - unfolded. Relate the elevation to the plan.

Study the inside/outside relationship - you can team up with Cherry who is also interested in this.

What is the façade telling the viewer about the inside of the faculty? Is it always corresponding?

Ton
Zoom in! show details and understanding of how those thresholds are being used.
Document your investigations and chose the faculties intelligently, for a specific reason.
A combination of plans and elevations / sections is necessary.

Fa

Present and interpret visually all your investigations and discoveries.

N & Ong

Refine the calender and how it shows the simultaneity of events.

And be specific in the description of those events: features, dimensions, number of people involved, time, details etc. Zoom in!

Cherry & Best

Continue the survey in plan, scale 1/100. This drawing should work with the elevations that Pun and Grace are doing.

Complete your diagrams and establish the relations between them.

+ 3 sections models of the 2 sides of the façade (with scaled figures showing the activities happening on both sides at those 3 specifically determined places)

Eiab & Geng

A report of the activities happening daily on the site is missing! Idem for animals (this is serious).

Your theme, usages and behaviours, covers much more than you showed today.

Last time we discussed to possibility to show your analysis in axonometric projection instead of plan &/or section. Where is this gone???

Golfe, Enn & Shane

Interpret all your information through diagrams, charts ... visuals!

Establish meaningful connections between them.

Complete your investigations on the identities and the way they are displayed, in the past and the present.

The seats study seems extremely specific (it belongs more to a personal research than a group study of the theme identities), i believe more general information has to be addressed before. 

Amy?

Physical Model on progress

Our supply for makeing our site model of faculty of Architecture; Chulalongkorn University

Outline: Plan of the whole site
Size: 2.50X1.40 m

Measurement of site

 Road infront of  Faculty of  Architecture

 The Faculty of Architecture frontdoor (The main door)

 Laminated "chan ooi"/Paper

Keep it us people !!!!

Fighting !!!! : )

ANALYSIS

Post your analysis in progress on the blog - under the label & title of your theme - so that everyone can gather all information early enough.

Present your investigations through drawings (plans, sections, elevations, axonometric projections, diagrams, sketches etc.), montages, animations, catalogues, graphs, and short texts.
You cannot simply present photographs, as the informations they are supposed to show need to be extracted, dissected, re-interpreted, compared (...) and finally expressed through another media in order to be effectively understood.

Also, you should start considering your personal direction for the design proposal now.
I will post the project schedule soon. 

Encyclopaedia

Encyclopaedia researches are still going on!

None of you have given me anything the past 2 weeks + a lot were already not submitted before (i have the list).
I expect to have 7 researches from each and everyone by the end of next week.
For the late submissions (Geng, N, Enn, Shane, Ton, Pun, Ong and Eiab),  send me the ones already due over the week-end.

In the researches, you are expected to show your investigation and understanding through sketches/drawings/diagrams.

Thank you!

Amusement Bridge

Site Analysis : (top) The diagram shows the no. of people using three different bridges at the different time of the day.

(left to right) Looking at the bigger image, the access, buildings, surroundings or environment are the causes why people choose to use which of the three bridges.

Axonometric Drawing : The diagrams represent an empty space, pathway-road, building and trees. It represents the idea of how people have freedom to go to the bridge from any direction then when the pathway is created, people now forced to walk on the tracks, then when the trees and building is surrounded, people have a limited choice of walkway that lead them to the bridge.

Amusement Bridge : Everyday, we walk to architecture building because we know the way, it has been repeated so many times, we know the way because we get use to it. At the same time

environment can effects people choice of pathways since most people would choose the most comfortable tracks for themselves even though it may not be the shortest distance that take them to the destination.

This bridge design tears apart one walk way into a several choices of walkway on the bridge where the user will not know their end point. The bridge itself wants people to experience the different atmosphere that each walkway creates. One walkway is the close space, half open space and the last one is an open space.

To conclude: the amusement bridge wants people to explore for the first time that they use the bridge, after the user have repeated using this bridge, the user will realize the way that creates the most comfortable pathways and short distance.

Interperceptive Bridge: Looking In, Seeing Out

The photo montage is a reinterpretation of the existing site. It illustrates the individual components of the bridge as well as its surrounding, therefore emphasizing and underlining various elements that can be experienced or perceived on site.
These various elements contribute to the pedestrians' perception of the bridge.By fragmenting perception, or breaking down images into individual components, a different experience is gained from the same environment. The manipulation of how a person perceives the surrounding relates to the idea of a teleidoscope where the outside image is imported into the inside and fragmented into different views of the same subject using various mirror system.

The 3 dimensional space frame structure allows different mirror panels to be placed in various angles, and in different planes. The spiral placement of mirrors controls the users' experience of change from no displace

ment of images to multiple complex displacement of images.

Drawings

READING

Recommended readings for each and everyone of you...:


Pun 
- Olafur Eliasson: Visionary Events, a text by Jonathan Crary
- Architecture from the outside: essays on virtual and real spaces by Elizabeth A. Grosz


Golfe
- New Geographies, text by Stefano Boeri (find it on his website, under TEXT-2008)
- Animate form by Greg Lynn
- Performative architecture, beyond instrumentality by Branko Kolarevic and Ali Malkawi


Ong
- XS: big ideas / small buildings by Phyllis Richardson and Lucas Dietrich (i will bring it to you on Friday)
- the work of the Team EXYZT
- the chapter Social space, collective space from the book Space and the architect by Herman Herztberger


Cherry
- Situationist International (if you want to realize the interesting political implications of a proposal such as yours), read Formulary for a new urbanism, Theory of the derive and Introduction to a critique of urban geography
- Delirious New York: a retroactive manifesto for Manhattan by Rem Koolhaas is currently on the reserved self of the 2nd floor of the library (make a copy for yourself)


Fa
- books by Atelier Bow-Wow
- work of Yona Friedman + look at the FRAC Centre Collection (still under construction, but it will be an incredible database)
- Walls of change, an article by Lebbeus Woods


Ton
- Philippe Rahm architects (really explore the projects, graphics and texts!)
- Minimal Art by Daniel Marzona and Uta Grosenick


Geng
- the work of the Team EXYZT
- the work of Patrick Bouchain
- Space and the architect by Herman Herztberger


Eiab
- Thinking Course by Edward de Bono (reference of the great graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister) - a very helpful book for designers
- Space and the architect by Herman Herztberger


Amy
- Olafur Eliasson: Visionary Events, a text by Jonathan Crary
- Thinking Course by Edward de Bono (reference of the great graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister) - a very helpful book for designers
- On Growth and Form by  D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson + revisited
- essays by Anthony Vidler, such as Warped Space: Art, Architecture and Anxiety in Modern Culture


Best
- In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki 
- Architecture in the digital age: design and manufacturing by Branko Kolarevic


Enn
- Architecture in the digital age: design and manufacturing by Branko Kolarevic
- Performative architecture, beyond instrumentality by Branko Kolarevic and Ali Malkawi


N
- Boiteaoutils' different posts, under the theme engineering
- Performative architecture, beyond instrumentality by Branko Kolarevic and Ali Malkawi


Shane
- cf. previous email about Zaha Hadid drawings
- From control to design: parametric/algorithmic architecture, published by ACTAR
- Architecture in the digital age: design and manufacturing by Branko Kolarevic
- Animate form by Greg Lynn


Grace
- Gilles Clement,  From the Garden in Motion to the Third Landscape
- James Corner, the concept of Indeterminacy (you can go through this book: Recovering landscape: essays in contemporary landscape architecture and the article Landscape Strategy Now)
- Herzog & De Meuron: natrual history






A lot to read! 
You can look at your friends' recommendations as well. 
Take your time, give yourself chances to understand those texts. 
You are not expected to read them all at once.
Questions are welcomed!