Aei

Tadao 4x4 house: this page with be mixture of section, elevation and storyboard perspective views.... top left corner will be mixed media drawing of Akashi Stait Bridge and Inland Island .

I want to put a lot of emphasis on the views as 4x4 functions as a monument or a watchtower than a house, in my opinion.

Below is the result after adding water colour as background wash. The bridge will be drawn in larger scale just to give a visual impact to the page.

The cut-off section in the center will be highlighted to show circulation of the house

white boxes above will be filled with perspectives to illustrate relationship between inhabitants and space.
Experiment- drawing a city view when looking out from the large glass wall and over lay it with a section. I think this experiment will work if I remove details and just have outline of the viewing boxes.

On progress..

attempt to show:

1. use of space between two house; one focus on monument/views whilst the other is more client based

- want to show through perspective section and storyboard

2. structure-looking at the use of staircase & solid vs skeleton structure

3. material- concrete vs aluminium and glass

4. use of tatami mat as unit of measurement

WHERE IS EVERYONE'S WORK ?!

This blog has never felt so useless...

2 important readings

Those references are not directly related to our comparison exercise, however they are very valuable readings for design students.

Edward De Bono - Thinking Course

Edward Tufte - Envisioning Information

ENJOY!

1:3 comparison

Here is the new brief, meet up in pairs to decide points and strategies of comparison.
Have a good week-end!

DRAFT LAYOUT

Aj.Camille, these are some idea of how I'm going to put on my 3 A0s, these drawings are just to give some idea. The axon one will be more 3 dimensional for sure and text & description will be added into...
the empty space on last sheet is where I'm going to talk about the geometry as well as  information of how it came from which will be referred back to "Wall House"

Regards,
Arm

Aei

Aj. Camillee,

I have a question regarding the 'perspective views' to show private, semi private and/or public space. I found that there are only two street views. Another one I found is very similar to the one next to it (see blue arrow). Should I just compare the two views or should I make up another one? (see green arrow; in reality you can't access this area, there are trees along the sides)

Regards,

Aei

Dear Aj.Camille,
I've tried planning the 3 A0 sheets layout and I think that there is not enough space to talk about Wall House by John Hejduk topic by topic. So, I think I'll keep focusing on "Curtain Wall House" and bring only important point from Hejduk's one.

Regards,
Arm

Meeting this Friday at Impact Arena for:

ASA Forum: Thai
Thai Young Gen Architect Series & Keynote Speakers


Be there a soon as you can (transportation) - we will take attendance there.
Bring your work for tutorial if needed.


See you there!

bom..Norman Fisher House

 This is all I can upload :(

bom....the change in interest for the analysis

Dear Aj. Camille,

I am writing this to inform you about the change in subject I want to further investigate on The Norman Fisher House. We talked about how I want to link both Classism and Modernism towards the building and the intersection among them. But I think I have found something much more interesting to me and much more to talk about.

I did how some buildings are similar/different from the Fisher House last time. Now I want to dig deep about Fisher House itself on how it develops during the five schemes. The House has been rethought 5 times before it is the house as the way it is now. I want to talk individually about all of the schemes on how it changes in each stage and the differences among them, maybe conclude the entire scheme into one at the last part. I dig deep about this and I have found a lot of great information to talk about during the presentation and I will show you on Tuesday.

The reason I want to do this instead of the comparison of the Classism/Modernism is because I think this directly involved with the house. But still, I will do all the axis, rhythm and hierarchy that we talked during the class. Thank you very much for understanding,

Respectfully,

Bom

PAIRS AND REFERENCE

The pairs for the coming comparison phase of the exercise are:
- Melnikov & Fisher Houses
- Riva San Vitale & Douglas House
- Curtain Wall House & Farnsworth House
- Azuma House and Fallingwater
- Shodan & Esherick Houses
- Villa Bordeaux & ??
- Small House & 4x4 House (Fern, Mark's group)


The analytical studies so far are quite slow and rather lifeless.....
To remedy to that situation,
A GREAT REFERENCE

I highly recommend you to get a copy of that book from the school library (open tomorrow).

Roger H Clark and Michael Pause take 64 famous buildings and break them down
They first create a diagrammatic language (of which they give a legend), and then proceed on to a series of analytical drawings, each focusing on several aspects that we discussed in class:
- structure
- natural light
- massing
- plan to section or elevation
- circulation to use-space
- unit to whole
- repetitive to unique
- symmetry and balance
- geometry
- additive and subtractive
- hierarchy

The book begins with a very useful description of what those terms mean and then goes through each project with radical diagrams related to each category.

I uploaded a pdf version of the book here.
Nevertheless you should get a paper version of it from the library since the drawings on the digital version are of quite low resolution.


Take a big roll of tracing paper and start a thorough analysis!
Do it according to the themes you selected, then present it in an axonometric projection at the centre of your big diagram.


For the presentation, everyone has to organize all studied characteristics in ONE SINGLE HUGE DIAGRAM   (3 A0 in portrait orientation combined together). 


This presentation diagram will be made out of drawings, diagrams, words, photographs of models etc..
We are interested in the relations between the different aspects you are analysing, and the final drawing should present those connections.


I will answer questions over the week-end, provided you show me your work!
Work hard now, as we will meet only Tuesday for reviews. 


Friday we will go together to
ASA Forum: Thai
Thai Young Gen Architect Series & Keynote Speakers

You can find information about Supermachine work on their blog (bloglist on the left side of our blog's page).

Have a good hard-working week-end!

Melnikov house by Bo

Villa Shodan by yipta

Work cant be changed into jpeg...Bom

Hi Aj,Camillee, my work cant be changed in to jpeg. Can I send the PDF files of the plate to your email instead? Thank you very much.

Respectfully,
Bom