EiA_Session2_2006

Jury 01

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Project 3

project3_ARCHITECTURE + NATURE_the client

Design a space of approximately 300 square feet that speaks to the ideas explored in your graphic layout while maintaining a relationship with the original found landscape. The project scale remains 1/8” = 1’-0”. You are designing a space for a person now and will thus have to consider human scale. Based on who your client is, your new design will incorporate their needs and desires:

CLIENT_DESIGN REQUIREMENTS
Archaeologist_Gallery Space for found artifacts
Astronomer_Interior / Exterior observation space
Secret Agent_Enclosed “hide-out”
Rock Star_Practice Area / Performance Stage

Take your landscape from project 2 and being to incorporate your client’s needs and desires. Do not forget human scale! Continue to draw from your chosen word and from your understanding of point, line, plane, and volume to inform the decisions you make.

The design of this new space will require you build another series of process models, including in each the found landscape constructed in chipboard as well as the new intervention.

Strive to keep your solution for this client simple. Strong designs are often the result of just a few specific, effective moves. Keep your mind open and be creative, as always.

Design Parameters

Heed the design parameters from the phase one description sheet. You may add and subtract from your kit of parts as needed for this phase of the project, giving you the freedom to determine your own needs.

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Project 2

project2_ARCHITECTURE + NATURE_landscape study

You will be exploring the power of the point, line, plane, and volume by creating a series of chipboard models that manipulate these elements. Your purpose is to create a journey from a kit of parts. While referring back to your collage study boards, choose a word to act as your theme:

Transformation
Extension
Repetition
Layering
Intersection
Subtraction
Addition

Your chosen word will give you a means of regulating your decision-making process. Feel free to choose a new word if so inclined, but from now on this will be the word you’ll stick with. The word you have chosen should guide your explorations and be made manifest in your design.

This is the sequence of spaces that will occur along your designed journey:

Entry
How does one approach the site/wall…on axis, from the side, from within? How do you define your entry…using void, solid, collision, erosion?

Path
How do you traverse the space? Will this path show reference to where you came from and where you are going to? Does it indicate direction?

Arrival
What makes this an arrival? What occurs at the arrival point? Is this the climax of the journey?

Design Parameters

All parts are to be built at 1/8” =1’-0” scale
The models shall be monochromatic and made only of chipboard
Elements can be expressed as either solids or voids.
Above all, you must remain creative!

Site Volume

To understand scale
To create occupiable space
To express hierarchy, ritual and procession
To gain an understanding of defined space such as path, entry, and arrival

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Project 1

project1_ARCHITECTURE + NATURE_material matters

As we start our journey into architecture, we want you to look at the world around you and document it. In this 2 day exercise, you will work in groups of 3 and create a 15” x 42” collage boards. These collage boards will include found elements, photographs, cut-out images and optional text.

EiA will provide one piece of 30” x 42” chip board. You are to cut the board into two pieces of 15” x 42” chipboard.

BOARD1 [due 12 July 06]

1. As a group collect natural elements from the campus. Examples are leaves, bark, rocks. You can also collect images of natural elements. You can take these photos yourself, get them off of the internet or photocopy them from materials in the library.
2. Carefully arrange your found natural objects and images portraying natural elements onto your first board.
3. Use your arrangement to discuss scale, texture, tone, or color.
4. Attach your images to the board and go to BOARD2

BOARD2 [due 13 July 06]
1. As a group, collect man-made elements and materials you find around campus. Examples are pieces of concrete and formed metal. You can also collect images of man-made elements and materials. These images can be of complete buildings or details of buildings. Like BOARD1, you can take these photos yourself, get them off of the internet or photocopy them from materials in the library.
2. Carefully arrange your found man-made objects and images portraying man-made elements onto your second board.
3. Your arrangement for BOARD2 should match BOARD1 in your discussion of scale, texture, tone, or color.

Hang your boards in a central location to your studio. These boards will work as starting points for project2.

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National Gallery of Art

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Suzane Reatig Architecture

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Holocaust Museum

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National Museum of the American Indian

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Washington National Cathedral

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Pope John Paul II Cultural Center

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