- 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!
