Arm's

Aj Camillee

Thank you for all your advices and supports, it was really helping me with all the work I've done.

I was trying to upload the revised works on the blog ( I think its the same problem as last time, the size is too big its exceeded the limit of 300*400 pixel. ). Aj Camillee, what can I do to post my works because I tried to scale down the work but everything got distorted because its supposed to be viewd in a longer size of paper.

Do you want me to re print it out and show to you in person on tuesday or maybe I can email them to you instead.

Thank you,

Aei

improved work

The improved works have to be posted on the block only or printed out as well?

before moving on to the next phase....

Congratulations for today's presentation!


Below are personal comments - follow them to improve your work before Tuesday and post your entire presentation + text on the blog:


GUIDE
- correct the spelling (of many words!) on your plates, especially Freank and HEARTH (unless that one was intentional, in that case rather beautiful!)
- improve your perspective renderings
- label your drawings (you can also improve them according to all comments made today)
- finish the site on your model (it could be selected for end of year exhibition)


YIPTA
- finish your model with details
- improve your perspective renderings, create a real sequence and locate the view points on the plan


KONG
- correct all mistakes in model and drawings
- built a detail model of the glass panels to show your understanding
- perspective rendering in relation to the entrance sequence &/or the sun path of a day in the house


NOTT 
(- great work!)
- change the font of your introduction panel!!!
- show your diagrams in a better way
- improve your model and drawings according to all comments made today


PLOY
- finish everything you started!!
- make a much better (and twice as big) detailed model of the house
- to discover how time could be managed (in a creative way), read Thinking Course by Edward de Bono (i know the title is frightening but this is actually a fantastic book)


CAKE
- rework on all your drawings and make them consistent to each other! use line-weights, look for the basic rules of technical drawings (you should really know about that by now)
- rework on your model and be extremely delicate with the craft
- site plan missing


NICK
- introduction plate missing
- put titles on your plates and label your drawings
- perspective renderings missing
- improve the model!
- improve the axo


BOM
- fix your model!! (and invent something to replace the fluorescent green carpet, make a forest, in accordance to the site - this model could be selected for exhibition)
- improve your drawings according to all comments made this afternoon


ARM
- i recommend you to read Edward Tufte's books to improve your diagrams (and in general)
- improve your perspective renderings


BO
- key to the drawings! what are the numbers referring to?
- fix the scale of your drawings! (check all of them, they should correspond)
- improve the renderings (coherent furniture etc. you can use the photographs you found as well, photoshop)


NUNG
- make the plan a vertical orthographic projection and the axo a parallel projection!!
- complete the model or make a new one, with site and more detail

my plate,Kong

IDEAL HOUSES

Do you know the architect and theorist Lebbeus Woods?


I recommend you to explore his blog, and to check it regularly.
Here is a recent post which will surely like a lot!

BE READY

We will be pairing with Aj. A's group for tomorrow's review, in room 408.
You all have to be ready for 1 pm.  No excuse - organize yourself and print in advance!
Test your printing today in order to see if line-weight and colours appears as you intended.


Good luck to all!

Aei

This is how I would like my plan, elevations as well as sections to be put together:

-Floor plans are aligned in the center
-elevations are oriented based on the plan
-Sections are placed beside elevations (would it be a problem if my sections are 'perspective sections?' )

I'm still missing few key elements but what do you think? does it look confusing?

A problem with this lay out is its 1:50 .. and it fits the entire A0 page... do you think its too crunched up together?1. should i enlarge it to 1:25 (although it wont fit a long strip of A0, Ill need to put them in 2x2 A0)
2. or, I can just put each plan, elevations, sections i

n A0
please let me know what you guys think about it..

reminder

_ Design the layout of your  entire presentation (font - colors - line-weight - hierarchy etc.)
_ Organize your drawings coherently together.
You have to show the relations between the drawings (from one plate to the other if the scale of your drawings requires it).
_ Do not forget to indicate
- the section cuts on the plans,
- the scale of the drawings,
- the orientation (north-south-east-west, + name your 4 elevations according to their orientation)
- context and human figures

review on Friday

Dear all,

The review is on Friday - all afternoon. Tomorrow, individual tutorials!
Have your work and presentation ready.
You can print on cheaper paper, but we need to discuss the presentation itself.

a0 layout...

To all,
think about how your A0 will work together on the wall - you do not have to design them independently.
Be playful!
And if it makes sense, connect the elements presented, from one sheet to the other (construction lines, time-line, colour codes obviously etc.).

Post your work!

oh and..

When you post a message on the blog, please label it with your name. This way we can easily see the evolution of your personal work by clicking on your name in the labels list.

Axonometric projection

i have a question about the analysis part. I'm wondering whether it is required to do any analysis at this stage or we save it for part two (according to the syllabus).

thank you

ploy

Question about summary

I have a question to ask about the 'summary' part.
According to the requirement, we have to have an AO of summary page. Does this 'summary' means context and diagrams as well as the 500 words essay? Or shhould the essay be separated?

Regards,
Aei

Summary

I think it all begin in 1912 when Louis I. Kahn attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Graphic Sketch Club. Although he was so interested in music and arts, he chose to turn down a musical scholarship, forgo the plans of studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts; and signed up for University of Pennsylvania’s School of Fine Arts to study architecture.

In 1929, Villa Savoy by Le Corbusier was published globally; the contemporaries piqued Kahn.  I think the idea of Villa Savoy was to prove that architecture could be thin, asymmetrical. It needs no longer to be symmetrical and massive. Kahn found himself somewhat at an intersection of the two architectural diverges.  

What I loved about Louis Kahn was how he organized the spaces. The idea of “served” and “servant” spaces started with his previous work, the Trenton Bathhouse (1954-1959). It exemplified Kahn’s major innovations in modern architecture: the use of geometric shapes, maximizing natural light, and confidence on choosing building materials.

The relationship between “served” and “servant” spaces was essential to Kahn. In terms of the “served” space, it meant residential constitutions; for instance, being bedrooms and living rooms. The “servant” spaces are the bathrooms and kitchen.

The idea of “served” and “servant” spaces could be seen clearly in the Norman Fisher House. The house was especially built for the Fisher and their wants and needs. There were four members in Fisher’s family, Doctor Norman Fisher, his wife Doris and Nina and Claudia, their daughters. They explored the idea of building their own house where their two daughters could grow up. They used to live outside of Philadelphia, before they purchased a long, narrow lot along Mill Road in Hatboro; Pennsylvania, the site where the Fisher House was built.

It took seven years (1960-1967) to finish the ideas and construction. The house is very simple; it consists of three cubes, two large ones connected together and a small, separate one. The two large ones served as  “served space” and the other as “servant space.” One of them placed at 45 degrees toward the other and merged on an angle The Fishers were unique clients in that they had an appreciation for both Modernism and traditional design. The first cube contained an entrance lobby and the bedroom suite with dressing room and bathroom on the first floor and two smaller bedrooms on the second floor. A large opening to the entrance lobby connects the second cube. The two-story-high first floor contains the kitchen, and the living areas separated by a freestanding stone fireplace, that represented of a man on the building.

What I be keen on the building were the progressive rationalization of habitation space and the sense of mass, geometry, and shadow. It had good intersection, good geometry, and variation of light through great orientation of windows when the Sun in. The orientation of the two cubes were also interesting as it allowed for an intuition of a big space, while still maintaining different zoning of served and servant spaces. This orientation also allows for a variety of natural light.

 Please comment on what I should add or bate. Thank you very much :)

Respectfully,

Bom

Ajarn Camille,

i went to the faculty today and met aj.Moe,he said you already left :( .So,I have remade the plan and elevation drawings of the house and diagram that showing use of space in the area of the house.There are many interesting details of the house that im not pretty sure what i want to focusing on,as well as its shape which is still being questioned.Ill working on the diagram of the details and and the model,then post it again.

thank you ka,

Bo

Aj. Camille, I've been thinking of what we discussed last time about the way in between "line drawings" & "black & white" which has much contrast so I come up with this one...by adding grey I think it becomes more gradual. This drawing is a sequence of the opening/closing of glass wall and the curtain. Black represents the columns & solid walls,
grey represents ground, and white represents the elements inside the house; for example, toilet seat door & furniture...please give some comments.

Thank you,
Arm

To Nott (and to all!)

First of all, you need to reduce the size of your drawings in order to post them on the blog. 

The limit is 400 by 300 pix, however there are ways around it, as you will find here.

Your sections lack contrast. I would suggest that you fill the cut elements with a darker colour (or use a denser pattern). 

VERY IMPORTANT: if you chose a pattern to represent the material concrete, you should still have a different way of representing it when it is cut through. The clearest is generally to fill.

Also do not forget that a section presents elements that are cut, as well as whatever can be seen from this cut. 

This distance has to be clarified in its expression with a hierarchy in line-weights and tones.

The ground can be one single mass of black or dark grey (no lines unless you want to talk about the different stratum of soil..!). Try to get more information about the site (trees, bushes etc.) in order to express how the project interacts with it better.

Also you should know about the slope and you could extend your section in order to underline this feeling of a flying box. By the way, do you have the book now?

I was suggesting last time that you articulate your entire presentation around the narrative idea. If so, those drawings are also part of it, and should express more about how the house actually is lived/experienced.

Your drawings are missing people and furniture, objects that are relevant to the project (such as the library, the platform in movement etc.)

The paper size is related to this question. If your narrative is an additional document, then yes you can customize it. If you articulate the whole presentation around the narrative, then you should find a way to do so with A0 (it must be possible!).

Generally it is good to understand constraints and try to work within them as they actually are stimulator to generate ideas, and not freedom-constraints as commonly believed.

Best of luck - please answer me for a possible meeting tomorrow. I will be in studio from 5 to 6.15pm. 

meeting next week?

I can meet with you tomorrow Monday afternoon, from 4pm.
Or Tuesday from 5 to 6pm.

Let me know what works best for you.

Kaew and Bo are especially wanted. (Kaew you already have 3 unjustified absences - entering dangerous territory...)


And post your work here so that i can reply with comments and directions!

Paper Size

AJ Camillee

I have questions about the paper sizes, If Im going to do a sequential drawing I need to place them in a longer size of paper ex. one side of it might be a width of A0 but it will be longer in length than the normal A0. Im I allowed to do that? because if I have to place everything to fit in A0 the narrative I want to tell would be less effective.

Thank you,

Nott

general directions

For all:
- continue the general collection of informations,
- start printing your production on large scale (the earlier you test the better),
- identify and select important characteristics of the house you are working on, and
- strategize  your documentation/research/production according to those points.


The importance of those points should be justified by the work of the architect (illustration of the author's principles, a key moment in his/her career, etc.), the context (geographical, historical, personal) in which the project took place and/or your personal interest for the design aspect you aim to underline.

lecture tomorrow - tuesday 11th

Dear all,

We will meet tomorrow at 12.30 in room 116 to attend a lecture - Bangkok'anus - which promises to be witty and interesting!


The lecture will last for about 1 hour, and we will meet in studio afterwards at 13.30 and will have individual tutorials.
Please decide on the order beforehand.

See you there!

references

_ Louis Kahn works - especially Fisher (and Esherick) Houses

EXTREMELY INTERESTING (everyone should read it!)

_ Villa Bordeaux - Cecil Balmond engineer, his great book is Informal

Get it at the bookshop, it's really worth buying.

_ And for all, try to find the ARCHITECTURES documentary series co-produced by Arte.

hello people : )

Welcome!

Dear all,

This blog will be our main exchange platform during the semester.
If you are not familiar yet with posting, please read this page.


Now, our current project -
So far the chosen houses are:

Arm - Curtain Wall House by Shigeru Ban
Ploy - Azuma House by Tadao Ando
Nick - Riva San Vitale by Mario Botta
Bom - Fisher House by Louis Kahn
Nott - House in Bordeaux by Rem Koolhaas
Cake - Esherick House by Louis Kahn
Guide - Fallingwater House by Frank Lloyd Wright
Kong - Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe
Aei - Small House by Kazuyo Sejima
Bo - Melnikov House by Konstantin Melnikov
Nung - Douglas House by Richerd Meier
Yipta - Shodan House by Le Corbusier
Kaew???


Please decide soon and start posting informations about what you discover and what you believe is of particular interest in those buildings.

Friday we will meet from 1 to 3 pm, then we will attend Waro Kishi's lecture.
Looking forward to seeing your work!

Informing about the chosen building

Dear all,

Hey I am doing the Fisher House - Louis I Kahn na! just so you guys know :)

Thanks,
Bom