Phase 5.1: Assignment

The (First) Proposal

DEADLINES

  • 2/19/20 Wednesday, 2:00pm. Desk crit via Blog Post. See below for details.
  • 2/21/20 Friday, 2:00pm. Pin-up. Print your 11×17 sheets to pin-up. ADDED DETAILS BELOW

2/21 PIN-UP

Note this is basically what I sent to you via email…hopefully clearer

Format and print 11×17 sheets, each focused on a new drawing (or related drawings) you’ve created that explore ideas you’ve drawn from precedents/examples in your blog posts as they may apply to your project proposals. Suggestions for types of diagrams to focus on:

1. Clarifying your populations, programs, and what you think important to add to the neighborhood community through your building. You can selectively show neighborhood data from phase 4 to explain/justify your choices but for Friday’s pin-up I’m more interested in knowing your thinking than the graphic argument supporting it.


2. Diagrams that reflect your spaces / ideas of how they would go together. Although a lot of you identified block diagrams as a good precedent right now I’m seeing bubble diagrams being easier to work with. You can have relative sizes, but they don’t have to fit precisely together or look like a building. Make rules based on basic ideas about your programs and sharing, but then add rules/ideas to force yourself to make different arrangement (like what if the residential units are all “mixed”, or what if my art studios are “laminated” to the gallery space…)


3. Diagrams about your architectural forms and language. This is drawing mostly from the Phase 3 examples, but not exclusively. Without worrying about your programs can you make a “building” of sorts out of the material/techniques you’ve identified. I don’t (yet) care if it actually works or could be made out of cross-laminated timber. But I want to see you apply the techniques at “building scale”. So, the five of you who used Ruth’s eggshells as an example draw how you think they could be used to make a building. What scale are the eggshells, how do they stack, what’s the privacy/visual connection between the eggshell interiors, how could you occupy the exteriors? Can you make a separate circulation diagram to layer over your egshells? Same idea for other examples.

4. If you’re really feeling it try combining a diagram of type 2 and a drawing of type 3 above into a diagram/drawing that combines program bubbles with an architectural language: how do the ideas from each come together in the new drawing?

You can include the precedent/example images and diagrams in your 11×17’s to explain your starting point, but the idea is to show how that informed the drawing(s) you made.

2/19 BLOG POST

For Wednesday’s blog post the focus is on trying to apply the work you completed for the previous phase and identifying what will make an engaging project for you to develop.

Your blog post should include 2 main parts:

Populations and Programs

Identify the populations you would like your project to serve and the programs that will bring them together on your site. These can both be as specific or general as you can articulate. Whether or not you can name a population (ie single senior citizens living below the poverty line) or a program (urban farm) what’s important is trying to identify the important characteristics and how they relate to what you’ve learned about the neighborhood. Be specific about citing your Phase 4 research in support of your choices. As the Phase 5 assignment notes you should also identify population groups: what defines them, what they have in common…Among residents there may be different sub-groups, but also non-resident groups that interact in some way around the programs. Look for characteristics for both programs and population groups thing that will relate to sharing (ie time of day when programs are used and characteristics shared between groups).

Sharing

Ideas about sharing between different populations and programs. Start by mining the earlier phases. Your post should include the following slideshows of potential precedents or inspiration drawing from a mix of your own work and that of your peers:

  • 3 Phase 1 sharing / personal space examples
  • 3 Phase 2 precedents with identified sharing “concepts”
  • 3 Phase 3 models (use your own or swap in ones from your peers)
  • 3 precedent examples of diagrams that provide a language or technique for drawing concepts of program/population/sharing. These need not come from student work; look at the lecture(s), examples from practicing architects, and work from other disciplines.

Include enough text about the examples to clarify what you think is interesting and/or relevant to your project proposal.

You may already have ideas about different groups coming together or interacting: if so, great, describe and/or diagram them as much as you can, but at a minimum borrow a technique from a sharing precedents and create one diagram of sharing/interaction you’d like to foster on your site.

Since it appears we will be busy much of Wednesday with a lecture and in-studio exercise, the expectation is that I’ll respond with comments on your blog posts Thursday morning.

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