I'm having problem uploading this last board, I will resolve it soon.
I'm also going to scan the comments I had, sorry about the delay.
I just got home, I was stuck in JFK for 15 hours. It was fun :D
31 December 2010
30 December 2010
Notes
George
-Think about different scales
-Look at context more carefully
-Identify issues, what are the issues that you will put in your menu
-Farm direct connection to the house
-Why we are making new housing here?
-What kind of thesis do you want it to be?
-Character of a place
-Need to jump to 3dimensional
Jing
-Character issue of representation, character of what space is.
-Work at many scales
-Movement special system public space and private space.
-How fabric and urban density in this place.
-Large scale black insertion what does that do?
Viet
Macro and Micro
How do people get transported to this place?
Michael
-Can the site be anywhere else?
-New materials need further investigation
-How can you now turn it into a building?
-Evolution of religions?
Carlos
-Design should be metaphorical
-Temporary vs. Permanent
-Project can be read as a story
-It’s good to start with Ingrid Betancourt in your presentation
-Think about different scales
-Look at context more carefully
-Identify issues, what are the issues that you will put in your menu
-Farm direct connection to the house
-Why we are making new housing here?
-What kind of thesis do you want it to be?
-Character of a place
-Need to jump to 3dimensional
Jing
-Character issue of representation, character of what space is.
-Work at many scales
-Movement special system public space and private space.
-How fabric and urban density in this place.
-Large scale black insertion what does that do?
Viet
Macro and Micro
How do people get transported to this place?
Michael
-Can the site be anywhere else?
-New materials need further investigation
-How can you now turn it into a building?
-Evolution of religions?
Carlos
-Design should be metaphorical
-Temporary vs. Permanent
-Project can be read as a story
-It’s good to start with Ingrid Betancourt in your presentation
meeting over the break
Regarding our meeting over the break, please coordinate a time when most of us can meet to discuss the book and final walk-through board. I’m available after Jan 15th in the evenings around 8pm or weekends early morning. Put up some times on the blog when each of you are available and maybe we can reach a common time. Those who cannot meet, communicate via the blog and by e-mail. Its important not to loose momentum.
29 December 2010
28 December 2010
James Stirling Exhibition At the Yale Center for British Art
http://ycba.yale.edu/exhibitions/exhibition_current.asp
Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling, Architect and Teacher
14 OCTOBER, 2010 — 2 JANUARY, 2011
The Yale Center for British Art and the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal (CCA), have co-produced the first ever exhibition of the archive of British architect, Yale School of Architecture professor, and Pritzker Prize laureate James Stirling (1924 – 1992). The exhibition, Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling, Architect and Teacher, will premiere at the Yale Center for British Art in October 2010. James Stirling, regarded as one of the most important and innovative architects of the twentieth century, earned international acclaim through bold and innovative projects such as the Leicester University Engineering building (1959 – 63), the History Faculty building at Cambridge University (1964 – 67), the Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart (1977 – 84), the Clore Gallery for the Turner Collection at Tate Britain (1984), and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University (1979 – 84).
Notes from the Archive will feature more than three hundred original architectural drawings, models, and photographs drawn from the James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds at the CCA. Together the works reveal Stirling's wide-ranging approach to architectural composition and language, as well as the fundamental importance of British architecture to his work. The exhibition will also consider Stirling's time as a teacher at the Yale School of Architecture (YSOA). A concurrent exhibition at the YSOA will include nearly three hundred drawings by seventy students who studied architecture under Stirling's tutelage. Following its run at the Center, Notes from the Archive will travel to Europe in 2011 and arrive at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, in spring 2012.
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Yale School of Architecture
This exhibition and its accompanying publication have been generously supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
See curator Anthony Vidler speak about James Stirling and the exhibition.
Video produced by William Hanley, Architectural Record
sports arena in South America
From: Jonathan Friedman
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:31:16 -0500
To: Robert Cody
Subject: thesis
sports arena in
http://construction.com/video/?fr_story=4e640169b7dd85cb03bfe085054e42243133ffd5&rf=bm
Regarding the books
All,
Regarding the books:
- Everyone should use Blurb.com (http://www.blurb.com/create/book/pricing#small-square) with a simple white background.
- Size 7”x7” – Softcover. The size of the pages must be set per Blurb requirements. You can download an In-Design template. The book can be uploaded as a PDF and I recommend this method.
- Pages – 70 min - 80 max. ($16.95 on Blurb).
- 2 pages with brief introduction and a table of contents.
- 20 pages of research. Most of you will have no problem with this.
- 20-25 pages of interim sketches and diagrams, notes and mid-semester presentation. Include programming data in this section. Describe your intentions in program diagrams into the site analysis.
- 2 page thesis statement.
- 8 pages of site analysis or if no site, project study analysis.
- 20 pages of proposal – this includes photos of model (physical or digital), site plan, plans and sections, diagrams. Sketches are good, but please, no redundancy.
- 2 pages that describe where the project is going and what the next semester will be about. Example, how will Viet respond to suggestions about the hospital boat?
- Don’t be shy – put everything in the book!
- Present with hierarchy and clarity. It doesn’t need to be chronological, but it’s probably best to do organize it that way.
- The book is due at the first day of class. Printing and shipping takes up to 2 weeks so you need to coordinate. It would be best if you could print 3 copies (no extra shipping charges), but if too much, 2 copies.
- This can all be done online, so no excuses.
- For those who can meet, let’s set a date mid-January. Does Saturday Jan. 15th work? Have a “draft’ printout and PDF of the book for review.
- “Walk-Thru” boards. – 30x40 vertical mounded on foamcore. It should show your development and the final outcome of the research as a complete proposal in drawings and models. Dedicate half the board for the final documentation and the other half for the research. This is also due first day of class.
- Have fun!
notes from final crit
GEORGE:
1. does someone have to lose so this community can win or is it a win/win situation for both the community and the residents of the existing town?
2. what are the central issues being explored?
3. why does this specific town need this farm community?
4. why here/now?
5. find a tie between community & farm
6. is this something that can become prototypical or is it specific to the town?
JING
1. Look at smaller scale/larger scale simultaneously
2. how does the urban fabric evolve (time period)
3. how long do residents stay in this building?
4. need simple diagrams to show room layouts/building partii etc.
5. role of precedents unclear, develop it further
AMANDA
1. need further investigation
2. develop the program more
3. individual's experience through space most important: emotions, expressions, reactions while experiencing the architecture etc.
4. find the different layers of the architecture in relation to program
VIET
1. How dense is the context? Is it dense or not dense?
2. How does context affect building?
3. who are the expected primary users of the facility?
4. thought on maintenance
5. thought on position of program/buildings in relationship with each other
6. the idea of the D.I.Y. with elderly: does it make sense if they can barely take care of themselves?
RONNY
1. Is it a stadium or something a lot more for the community?
2. exploration of program
3. is the stadium of some use during ALL times of the year? what are the uses?
4. is it part of landscape?
5. think about procession through city, is the stadium the focal point of attraction? what about the obelisk?
MICHAEL
1. think about the site? does it need to be here? can it be anywhere else? why/why not?
2. how far does ambiguity go in the architecture? does it stop at some point?
3. ways to enter/exit: how are they managed/controlled?
4. take different emotional/religious issues into mind: the design should be sensitive to people's beliefs
5. think about material
6. how is the circulation controlled? does it allow for both separation and congregation?
CARLOS
1. think about the paths: can the issues and conflicts become part of the experience of the paths rather than just the buildings
2. allow the design to be more metaphorical
3. the design should be driven by the story
1. does someone have to lose so this community can win or is it a win/win situation for both the community and the residents of the existing town?
2. what are the central issues being explored?
3. why does this specific town need this farm community?
4. why here/now?
5. find a tie between community & farm
6. is this something that can become prototypical or is it specific to the town?
JING
1. Look at smaller scale/larger scale simultaneously
2. how does the urban fabric evolve (time period)
3. how long do residents stay in this building?
4. need simple diagrams to show room layouts/building partii etc.
5. role of precedents unclear, develop it further
AMANDA
1. need further investigation
2. develop the program more
3. individual's experience through space most important: emotions, expressions, reactions while experiencing the architecture etc.
4. find the different layers of the architecture in relation to program
VIET
1. How dense is the context? Is it dense or not dense?
2. How does context affect building?
3. who are the expected primary users of the facility?
4. thought on maintenance
5. thought on position of program/buildings in relationship with each other
6. the idea of the D.I.Y. with elderly: does it make sense if they can barely take care of themselves?
RONNY
1. Is it a stadium or something a lot more for the community?
2. exploration of program
3. is the stadium of some use during ALL times of the year? what are the uses?
4. is it part of landscape?
5. think about procession through city, is the stadium the focal point of attraction? what about the obelisk?
MICHAEL
1. think about the site? does it need to be here? can it be anywhere else? why/why not?
2. how far does ambiguity go in the architecture? does it stop at some point?
3. ways to enter/exit: how are they managed/controlled?
4. take different emotional/religious issues into mind: the design should be sensitive to people's beliefs
5. think about material
6. how is the circulation controlled? does it allow for both separation and congregation?
CARLOS
1. think about the paths: can the issues and conflicts become part of the experience of the paths rather than just the buildings
2. allow the design to be more metaphorical
3. the design should be driven by the story
27 December 2010
26 December 2010
Jury - Amoia
general comments:
1. not enough 3d site models at various scales,
2. a. concept- for the culture and architecture of the place needed 3d diagrams, b. concept -for the subject and object of the thesis should influence the design process and its representations.
3. use of the blog as a tool for internal studio discussion is non-existent.
4.concept of technology (2010 and into the future) needs to be part of the process on some level whether it be in the program or your process of materials used and or tools used in the design process.
5. working at various scales: i.e. between design of a room and the whole architecture should be explored.
1. not enough 3d site models at various scales,
2. a. concept- for the culture and architecture of the place needed 3d diagrams, b. concept -for the subject and object of the thesis should influence the design process and its representations.
3. use of the blog as a tool for internal studio discussion is non-existent.
4.concept of technology (2010 and into the future) needs to be part of the process on some level whether it be in the program or your process of materials used and or tools used in the design process.
5. working at various scales: i.e. between design of a room and the whole architecture should be explored.
24 December 2010
19 December 2010
18 December 2010
precedence 2
interlock is to make those spaces where tense moments or celebrated moments-
key or sleeve to make a celebrated space.
materiality - is part of the study
precedence
thinking of this elevation as the plan,
and this elevation- section as the project:
tieing public visting spaces around private spaces as different materials;
tied together by a ground plan or what is the vertical mass here is part the ground plane;
the ground plane is the outdoor experience,
the skyplane is also a different experience....
also see next post
Pin-up Order
All,
We have room 134 (please confirm) for the pin-up. If my recollection is correct, this room has one full height wall and one short wall. Please coordinate to this condition.
Please be pinned up by 11am so we can begin shortly thereafter. Each of you will get 40-45 minutes – 15 minutes to present and 25-30 minutes for comments. Everyone is required to take notes for each other and they must be posted to the blog within the week after the review. Don’t mind if the comments are redundant, post everything. Draw one sketch for each project to accompany the notes.
This is the “preferred” order:
George
Jing
Amanda
Viet
Alina
Ronny
Michael
Carlos
16 December 2010
13 December 2010
10 December 2010
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