Week 5 Readings part2

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This text is taken from "Ideas that shaped buildings" by Fil Hearn.

It includes the sub chapters:

- Truth to the Medium: Using Materials
- Decoration and the Integrity of Design
- Restoration: The Care of Inherited Buildings
- Design of Cities
- Rationales beyond Rationalism
- New Directions in Design method

Conclusion
Time line of Treatises (by John Hearn)
Bibliography

Diagramatic examples

A very important part of any Design process is to condence ideas and concepts in diagramatic format.
OMA are expert in providing a very clear understanding of the concepts put in place. The Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre by REX and OMA is clear and has few strong diagrams.

In the same fashion BIG is really good as well as in the Faroe Islands Education Centre or The World Village of Women Sports 

 

Week 5 Readings

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This week we will introduce the principles of Modern architecture, with Theory from 1800 to 1965.


This text is taken from "Ideas that shaped buildings" by Fil Hearn.
It includes the sub chapters:
- Rational Design Method
- Generative Planning as the Basis of Design

I will upload the following sub-chapters in the next  days:
- Truth to the Medium: Using Materials
- Decoration and the Integrity of Design
- Restoration: The Care of Inherited Buildings
- Design of Cities
  
You are required to analyse this text. I would advise you to take the whole week to read it, as it is a long text.

Villa Marbrisa or Arango Residence
studied by Paul Michael Kencalo & Jonathan Stavert

Paul and Jonathan are investigating the legacy and especially the genealogy of Johan Lautner's Style.
They found a very interesting analogy between the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum by Frank Lloyd Wright and the Arango Residence.
As expected they are having a hard time looking through archive to document their 3d model and will hopefully come back with much more information on the rooms and living spaces. There are few pictures about the fantastic roof but not so much about the interior of the house.

Interior of the Guggenheim Museum Manhattan & Arango Residence, Upper level living and dining terrace, overlooking Acapulco Bay
Photo by Julius Shulman

Model from archives,  the John Lautner Foundation

Master bedroom, under terrace
Photo by Mike Moore

Week 4 Readings

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This week we will focus on an introduction to sustainability in architecture and the global impact of computers. There are 4 texts.


-Green questionnaire / Responses by Norman Foster, Jan Kaplicky, Richard Rogers, Ken Yeang and Thomas Herzog
-Raise to observe, an interview of Glenn Murcutt by Cynthia Davidson
-Cybernetics integration of type and topos by Günter Pfeifer
-Scale and Span in a Global Digital world by Saskia Sasssen


You are required to analyse these texts and be able to position them in their context, as well as comment on their writers.

Week 3 - Tuesday 10/08/2010

Projection of a short-film about the Villa Barbaro by Palladio. I suppose it was a striking difference with Week 2 where 2 films were projected: The Jean Prouve's House and the Glass House (La Maison de Verre) by Pierre Chareau.
All where taken from the Arte Video by Frederic Compain, a collection  by Richard Copans and Stan Neuman
2 texts:
-The Growthing by Bruce Sterling originaly taken from Visionary in Residence: Stories inviting us into an aging facility design by Greg Lynn
-The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista originaly taken from Vermillon Sands by the excellent J.G. Ballard

A quote from BLDBBLOG concerning Ballard.

"We have more to learn from the fiction of J.G. Ballard … than we do from Le Corbusier. The good city form of tomorrow is a refugee camp built by Brown & Root; the world’s largest architectural client is the U.S. Department of Defense. More people now live in overseas military camps than in houses designed by Mies van der Rohe — yet we study Mies van der Rohe." Geoff Manaugh


It was a good beginning, Ballard is always a good starter for an architectural meal especially after a very quiet and soft Palladio,  a little drop of Bruce Sterling was there to spice the morning. We had a very interesting conversation about traces and memory, an idea I want to focus on as each Case Study have the very strong presence of their owner or their architects. We hope to emphasis on the dramatic aspect of architecture dwelling, as a vehicule of strong fantasies. Maybe next time we could have extracts from the cynical and colorful "Dictator Style: Lifestyles of the World's Most Colorful Despots" by Peter York and Douglas Coupland?
I am of course not suggesting that all architectural clients are dictators, but dictators have usually the power for unrestrain architecture folies. Which can be a double sword conceptual challenge for the sublime.


The afternoon was dedicated to presentation by the students of their Case Study House:

Hugh Buhrich House 
studied by Susan Jin-Young Yu and Aristotle Marc Go

Susan and Aristotle introduce the myth surrounding Hugh Buhrich's House and the architect's career in Sydney as a misunderstood talented constructor. Indeed Hugh Buhrich could easily fit into the cardigan of a 60's cult hero, the underground figure of the "Sydney School".

Their method of analysis seems to take the path of an architectural archeology, a very ecxiting investigation hopefully.

It is documented by a mix of Revit modeling and archival pictures.

 

Schedule of the Semester

Digital Arch Research Studio

Week 1 
Th 29/08 

Introduction studio


Week 2
 Tu 03.08

STUDIO session: intro indivi+group+house attrib

Film:  DVD House of Jean Prouve + House of Glass Pierre Chareau
Texts: JG. Ballard+B.Sterling

Week 3 
 Tu 10.08


STUDIO session: Texts analysis+ present. Doc+models+diagrams+paper models
Film: DVD Villa Barbaro by Palladio  
Texts: G.Murcutt+Green Questionaire

th 12.08
Rhino Tutorial 

Lab 262 from 1.30pm – 5.30pm

Week 4 
 Tu 17.08

STUDIO session: Texts analysis+ present. Doc+render+diagrams
Film: DVD Nemausus by Jean Nouvel  
Texts: DS Brown+ P.Eisenman

th 19.08
digit model+render



Week 5
 Tu 24.08

STUDIO session: Texts analysis+ present. Anim+render+diagrams
Film: DVD Thermes Vals by Zumthor
Texts: G.Lynn+S.Sassen+A.Picon


Week 6
Tu 31.08

STUDIO session: Texts analysis+  present. Fin.Model+ sk panels
Film: DVD Thermes Vals by Zumthor
Texts: R.Koolhaas+Reiser+Uemoto


Week 7
Tu 07.09

INTERIM PRESENTATION: Power point+. 1/100 models+houses+anim.


Week 8
Tu 14.09

STUDIO session: Sketch design+Site presentation+diagram models
Film: 26 bathrooms Peter Greenaway
Texts: Space (Adrian Forty)


Week 9
Tu 21.09

STUDIO session: ESSAY (2500words) +Design+diagram+ models

SEMESTER BREAK  27.09-01.10 





Week 10
Tu 05.10

STUDIO session: Diagrams completed+concepts devel+conceptual models


Week 11
Tu 12.10

STUDIO session: Design finalisation+draft concept text


Week 12
Tu 19.10

STUDIO session: Design completed+ concept text finalisation+Model 1/100 

Week 13 

Tu 26.10

STUDIO session: Panels+Power Point+animation+models


Week 14
Tu 02.11

FINAL SUBMISSIONS


Th 04.10

MARKING SESSIONS+PARITY