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

Read over the break! (+ visit + watch films & documentaries + draw + explore + meet etc.)

But for now, reading recommendations:

architects:

Gordon Cullen, The Concise Townscape (1995)

Peter Eisenman, Diagram Diaries, Eisenman Inside Out: Selected Writings 1963-1988

A. Peter Fawcett, Architecture Design Notebook (2003)

Buckminster Fuller: An Auto-Biographical Monologue/Scenario, Robert Snyder (1980)

Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York, A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (1978)

Gordon Matta-Clark, edited by Corinne Diserens, survey by Thomas Crow - London: Phaidon (2003) 

Frei Otto: complete works : lightweight construction, natural design / Winfried Nerdinger 

Birkhauser, 2005

Bernard Tschumi, Architecture and Disjunctions: Collected Essays 1975-1990, The Manhattan Transcripts

Various, Dictionary of Design and Designers (2003)

Robert Venturi, Learning from Las Vegas (with Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour), Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

Rendow Yee, Architectural Drawing: A visual compendium of types and methods (2007)

theorists and art/architecture historians:

Architectures experimentales, 1950-2000: collection du FRAC Centre / coordination generale, Marie-Ange Brayer -Orleans: Hyx, 2003 

Reyner Banham, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (1960); Design by Choice (1982); A Critic Writes (1999)

Beatriz Colomina ed., Sexuality and Space (1992) 

Colin Davies, High-tech architecture, (1988) 

Mike Davis, Beyond Blade Runner: Urban Control, The Ecology of Fear (1992), Planet of Slums: Urban Involution and the Informal Working Class (2006), Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (2000)

Robert Evans, The Projective Cast (2000)

EH Gombrich, The Uses of Images. Studies in the Social Function of Art and Visual Communication (1997)

Nikolaus Pevsner, The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design (1960)

Simon Sadler , Situationist city

Susan Sontag, On Photography (1977)

Various, Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas (2002)

Anthony Vidler, Warped Space (2000)

Paul Virilio, Open Sky (1997)

Tom Wolfe, From our House to Bauhaus (1981)

philosophers:

Gaston Bachelard, Poetics of Space (1958)

Roland Barthes, The Fashion System (1967); Camera Lucida (1981), Empire of signs (1982) 

John Berger, Ways of Seeing (1972)

Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution (1910), Matter and Memory (1911)

Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle (1967)
Manuel de Landa

fiction writers:

Jorge Luis Borges, Fictions (and others)

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (2000)

Georges Perec, Species of Spaces (1974)

Junichiro Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows (1993)

scientists:

Katherine Harmon, Personal Maps and Other Maps of the Imagination (2003)

Edward Tufte, Envisaging Information (1990)

film-makers and photographers:

Robert Elwall, Building with light: international history of architectural photography - London: Merrell 

Fancois Truffaut, A Definitive Study of Hitchcock (1986)

Andreas Gursky: photographs from 1984 to the present / edited by Marie Luise Syring - Art Data, 1998 

Instant Light Tarkovsky Polaroids

de-briefing

Thank you for yesterday's presentation and for your work in general this semester.

I would like to meet with you one last time this next week, to talk about the review, in general and sometimes individually if necessary. I also would like to give you some recommendations for the break.

Could we meet on Wednesday afternoon, say at 2 or 3 pm, or later in the evening?
We do not need to meet in school, we could go to a cafe near-by.

Please let me know what works best for you.

FINAL REVIEW TOMORROW

Please be in the gallery tomorrow at 8.30 am in order to set up your presentations.

We will start with Ong, followed by Cherry.

The complete order will be given to you later.

As usual, all have to attend all presentations.

Make sure you have everything printed by this evening, and the layout on the wall worked out.

All drawings should be labelled and your overall visual presentation (including how you will show your models) should convey the consistency of your thinking and working processes.

Prepare your oral presentation thoroughly, you will have 5 minutes to explain your project, from analysis, through researches and development, to final proposition.

Rest tonight.

Good luck! Looking forward to tomorrow!!

Model making problem

I have some problem about my model

some detail such as glass brick and translucent material can't added in 1:100 model

- Glass brick is to small for 1:100 then I order 1 x 1 cm acrylic to create the facade

- Acrylic can,t be curve to create translucent wall.

Can i create 1:100 complete mass model by using cardboard and create another one section model to show detail of facade and translucent in bigger scale?

final model

on precess...

tips from Aj. Nilay

adding people into perspective renderings

while you are working...

Listen to the AA lectures series!!

Especially this one about RENDERINGS:
Rendering Speculations Symposium:
Marjan Colletti, Nigel Coates, Ziah Fogel, Zaha Hadid, Andrew Jones, Lebbeus Woods, coord Ricardo de Ostos & Tobias Klein

Tomorrow we will meet from 2.45 / 3 pm to 6 pm, as we have a faculty meeting at 1pm.

axo in rhino (trick)

Here is a way to obtain an axonometric projection in Rhino.

drawings

ground floor and front elevation here.

I think of section cut and it doesn't benefit anything much because they are pieces

instead of that can I do it like possibility of transforming objects?

I think it can explain more than section cut. or at least i should do as minimum requirement?

And i will do exploded axon tomorrow.

position now

final model > 40% (+straw weaving at 1:1 scale)

plate > 60+%

ps. i can not upload again

i will send them to your email then

i guess it's because of the size A0

it's about 3mb. + at low resolution .jpec

aj camille i have one question

for the elevation ,top view, and side view

drawings,

do i have to include the drawing of the architecture building?

or just the drawings of the threshold?

last tutorial

Our last tutorial before the final review will be this Tuesday between 1 and 4 pm.
By that time you should have completed your drawings (of course the analysis, researches, concept and process panels as well, + started final model & renderings).

Those drawings have to be of great quality!
Look at the examples i suggested in previous posts.
There are thousands of ways to draw a plan/section/elevation - you can play with photographs, with hand drawings, with 3d models...
Think of the mass you are cutting through (black or grey fill work generally well for the ground, even for the faculty if the details are not relevant to your project).
In a word, work hard on the visual identity/expression of your project!
And have fun!

Design development preview rendered

Progress updated : According to our discussion last times I have fixed the static line to be more organic

Tutorial

Aj. Camille Are you free after 4 pm ?????

I would like to have a short tutorial with you.

Thank you

Rendering - first part

For this update, I will post my progress in rendering. But it still not complete

This will be the render base on threshold mass.( with no material edit)

Question

How to add context (tree + human scale) in Rhino before render or I must use combination with other 3d program ?? ( Now i use rhino+maxwell studio)

Rendering

This is an unfolded state with all of the block unfold.

Question!

For the Exhibition part. Should I do the same as lecture room? For my idea I'm thinking that I should leave it open since the wall is at 1.3 meters high, people who walk pass it can see what is inside but the barrier is blocking them to walk straight in. But with the problem of weather effect as you mention last time, I'm not sure.

Second question, Furniture, it's 1/3 of the block which means that each is about 37.5 cm high. In the fold state, should I pack the furniture into the block too? or leave it on the ground and let people interact with it. If I let the people use it then it have to be movable which will mess up the seating place inside the room.

Thank you

Enn

Example of the walls

This wall has large size opening which can be use for furniture.







Exhibition area walls, these walls can be rotate horizontally and vertically.

I made the holes small because I want people to see only a part of the work that exhibited inside,
so this will invited them to go into the space.

I have one more question. Should I close the space between the walls by using glass, because I prefer people to use the entrance on the wall insted ????

Last pin-up plate+updated

Review minimum requirements

The minimum submission requirements for the review next week are:

- personal site information collection + analysis

- researches and development + references

- ground floor plan with context at 1:100 (+ roof plan if relevant to your project)

- elevation with context at 1:100

- longitudinal section with context at 1:100

- transversal section(s) with context at 1:50

- axonometric or isometric projection (exploded if relevant to your project / scale to be defined individually)

- 4 perspective renderings, each size A3 minimum

- study models

- final model at 1:100 (+section or detail models at 1:50 according to the development of your project)

Again, those are minimum requirements, you are encouraged to produce more if those are mastered and if your project can be better explained through a video, an animation etc.

Friday's tutorial will be dedicated to (re)presentation. Bring scaled drawings (even if not completed yet).

We will not discuss design.

Post your work for questions/answers.

Work hard - it's the last straight line before the arrival (french expression...)!

PS: ideas and inspirations for presentation / renderings / technical drawings:

+ from other architecture schools (look at older posts as well)

+ a threshold project awarded by the RIBA President Medals (read the student statement)

+ special reference for Pun: http://www.presidentsmedals.com/Project_Details.aspx?id=2424
and somehow for Amy: http://www.presidentsmedals.com/Project_Details.aspx?id=2541&dop=True&year=2010

Material for floor

For floor line

from research



1. Rubber (tree production), I think this one is intersting but we can't find them in our faculty but we can recycle them such as from tire or do it for new investmentfor future ( we can cut and re-shape them later)

>"Rubber flooring is made from a rubber tree (mainly we can found in southern thailand) a 100% renewable resource. It is easy to install and maintain, is anti-static and provides effective sound insulation and vibration reduction. Rubber flooring is also resistant to fading and cigarette burns."

How to use this material
> I would like to use them for lining only > thickness about 5 c.m. >>> so it can block each unit and easy to pickup each unit since it's elastic.


so, is this ok to do ?
Thanks

Last pin-up model making

ton's

for Tuesday

As you know, next week will be the last before the final review.
The review will happen over 2 days, Tuesday 30 and Friday 3.
We will review 3 groups together; guest critics will join the panel.

This last week is supposed to be dedicated to the production of the final drawings and models, and of your entire presentation. /not to design...
For next Tuesday, in addition to the work discussed during tutorial, you will plan your final presentation and present me in detail all documents you will present for the jury. Most of them should already be started by then.
You also should write a short text about your proposal, this will help your oral (and visual) presentation.

Remember that all work produced has to be presented (intelligently), we need to understand your process of working: how you made decisions, the options you rejected, the researches and studies made.

And to conclude, your have to start working ASAP on your renderings, and present them to me on Tuesday.
No sketchup rendering - you can export lines from sketchup but you need to re-work those images with Photoshop, Illustrator or by hand. Site and human figures are a must!
Remember that you can mix media, use collages, photographs, different supports, etc.
- examples recommended by Aj Nilay
- again, the President's Medals Student Awards
- render PDF

Good luck to all!

1st project grades

Some of you asked me for your 1st project grades, here they are:
FA- 89
GRACE- 88
N- 77
CHERRY- 90
AMY- 79
ENN- 87
BEST- 75
SHANE- 73
TON- 76
GOLFE- 88
ONG- 76
PUN- 82
EIAB- 70
GENG- 72