Week01 Task clarifications

Just to add to the weekly independent tasks, once youre up to your 6 axonometrics you may want to build it into sketchup, use the parallel projection option and rotate it around so you can get an idea how it looks like back to front for your next 6 axonometrics.

The skill to directly imagine a 3d geometry in your head and translate it into paper is a very important skill to develop, and the sooner you do the more better you will become especially as we start to progress through this course.

Crysis: you have two weeks to play around with this so go quite experimental on it. We see in the architecture of Kengo Kuma and Alvar Aalto that there is a contrast between the reflected/refractive/transparent on one hand and the diffused/filtered on the other hand. These qualities which are hard to spatialise in sketchup is something you should capitalise on once you test things out in Crysis.

Concepts

Kengo Kuma

Placement of planes as a filter of light
Dispersal and fragmentation resulting in the building's envelopment by the landscape
Reflection as a way to create infinite space and ambiguous boundaries and alters spatial awareness.
Lattice like repetitive facade creates sense of order in the building.??
Introduction of light through the skins porosity provides an integration into the environment.
Horizontality and low scale of the building complements the discreteness and invisibility of the architecture.


Alvar Aalto

Holistic use of singular material (Bricks) heightens sense of monumentality.
Emulation of the exterior by controlled light.
Mimicing Natures forms in the buildings assembly as a way to integrate with nature.
- Rhythmic arrangement of elements mimics the tactility of the forest.
Verticality of the elements stresses importance in the landscape.
Vertical framing and grand steps creates a climatic method of approach.

Works

Murratsalo House

Saynatsalo Town Hall

Villa Mairea

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Ando Hiroshige Museum

Nasu History Museum

Stone Museum
 
Water/Glass

Alvar Aalto and Kengo Kuma

ALVAR AALTO

1898-1976

Notable Works:

Summer House at Muuratsalo | Saynatsalo Town Hall | Villa Mairea | Seinajoki Town Hall | Seinajoki Library | Jyvaskyla University | Church of the Three Crosses, Vuokkseniska

KENGO KUMA

1954-

Notable Works:

Museum of Hiroshige Ando | Kiro-San Observatory, Yoshiumi | Water/Glass Guesthouse, Atami | Kitakami Canal Museum | Nasu History Museum | Stone Museum | Noh Stage in the Forest | Takayanagi Community Centre | Nasu History Museum | Great (Bamboo) Wall, Beijing

For further reading, have a look at:

Botond Bognar, "Kengo Kuma: Selected Works," Princeton Architectural Press

Richard Weston, "Alvar Aalto," Phaidon Press

UPLOAD YOUR SKETCHUP MODELS AND PROVIDE LINKS!!!!

It seems that half of you have forgotten to do this, this may affect your marks!!

Clarification: 2 Sections

The confusion of the "set of 2 dimensional section drawings from your notebooks to your blog" relates to the task of the stairs. 


"For the chosen design develop the design of the stair in terms of composition, materials, balustrades and structure. Pay special attention to how the stair integrates with the surrounding architecture (i.e. you'll need to draw sections showing both the stair and the building fabric it touches)."

Last Tutorial Tomorrow before submission.

Just a reminder that tomorrow would be the last chance to really get things experimented on your model before the big submission day on Sunday, so i suggest everyone would have as much as they can to prop up for discussion.

The setup for tomorrow in tutorial is as follows: i'll spend half an hour reiterating the assessable outputs and round up with some presentation criteria for sketchup.

The review would be design related comments rather than any sketchup/modelling concerns specific to your projects, so those who need help with the program i am happy to do so..........for a limited amount of time after 6pm.