Dears,
* First of all, finish the site model (as a group work, at least a group agreement and organization) for next Wednesday. It should be detailed and you can use different materials, as you see fit your analysis.
** Next tutorial all drawings should be PRINTED - no computer screen no more! only physical models and printed or hand drawings (even rendering of your digital models, showing the parts you'd like to discuss).
*** All of you should be using Rhino (or other than sketchup) by now!
The problem with sketchup, apart from its evident limitation, is that it has many so-called architectural elements in it, which prevents you from thinking about (and therefore creating) what an aperture is, what an entrance or a passage could be, what is a wall made of and how is it constructed, etc.
You have to define all this specifically for your project!!
**** As your design progresses, get the Neufert and test the dimensions of your house (corridors, toilets etc.).
***** For next time, all should have started working on the final required documents.
Do a program diagram of you house and its internal organization (best in axon).
Continue working on physical models at scale 1/50.
Besides, writing down a scenario for your house will help you a lot: do it in association to sketches and perspective drawings (which you should develop as your project develops and not produce at the end).
****** And... the links on the left side of this page are actually meant to be clicked on! (yes it is surprising...).
They are updated everyday or week (depending on the blog) .
I particularly recommend you to read, daily, The Funambulist (a new post everyday!), and Lebbeus Woods's.
about sections.... (for Nott and all)
Read what Peter Cook (ARCHIGRAM) has to say about sections:
... in his great book: Drawing the motive force of architecture (which you should ALL get and read).
Generally speaking a section works out vertical and oblique trajectories and circulations (natural light, people. movements, etc.). It is also strongly related to gravity, to our body, its physical capacities and its fears
Besides, as you move up, you generally depart from a socially shared level, the ground (naturally given to us) and thus moves into privacy. This can be questioned.
Levels in a house have been described as psychological places ("vertical topoanalysis") by Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space, which i also recommend.
For interesting projects developed through sections, look at
The House without Rooms, by Raimund Abraham
Paul Rudolf's buildings are best understood through sections - and his drawings are fantastic!
Again the work of the Metabolist movement will be a great reference for you Nott.
Here a fictional manifesto on Kurokawa's Nakagin Tower:
For a better understanding of what parametric design is, maybe you can read this
(Kong as well)
(Kong as well)
It is written from an engineer point of view (efficiency-driven) but you can easily think of the translations, applications you can make with your own project's criteria in mind.
For Nott and Aei, social housing by Jean Renaudie near Paris (really fantastic agencement of spaces - in plan mainly though which shows that you can make use of non conventional angles):
Yipta, have a look at Erwin Hauer's partition walls.
It is an assemblage with components, which do not change, but you can learn from it patterns and geometries.
Bo,
great fashion designers:
of course Issey Miyake
All have different approaches to the body and the idea of creation that can be linked or applied to architecture (think of a building as the extension of the body, in an even larger scale than the one of the cloth; both are, after all, protecting and placing our beings (bodies and minds) from and in the environment).
Time to link your interested and have fun designing architecture!!
Look also at the use of fabric in architecture.
This can enrich your project (non-existant at the moment...) but now keep your focus on SOUND and research its physical properties in relation to space.
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I do not remember to whom i was talking about the architecture of Arawaka and Gins...
But it is a great reference to all anyway!
Architecture against death
and an essay about their work by Ed Keller
and another one by Leopold Lambert.
I do not remember to whom i was talking about the architecture of Arawaka and Gins...
But it is a great reference to all anyway!
Architecture against death
and an essay about their work by Ed Keller
and another one by Leopold Lambert.
ok - good luck all
Your production has to increase drastically!
+ start planning your final presentation - in a consistent dialogue with the ones you previously did, especially of the masters' houses.
