Florence Nightingale "Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better. " (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/florence_nightingale.html)
Stephen Hawkins "If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered." (http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/37152.html)
Charles Darwin "I love fools' experiments. I am always making them. " (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/charles_darwin.html)
TIMETABLE: 3 Weeks. 30% of final grade ARCHITECTURAL ISSUE: The Art of Experimentation ARCHITECTURAL CONVENTION: The Ramp ARCHITECTURAL CHALLENGE: Articulating behind, through and in front of a vertical surface. A lab REFERENCE TEXT: http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html CLIENTS: Florence Nightingale, Stephen Hawkins, Charles Darwin SOFTWARE: UT2004, Fraps, Blogger TECHNIQUES: The axonometric, Boolean operations, real time image capture, blogging OUTPUTS: 18 sketch axonometric drawings, 36 custom textures, 2 draft UT2004 environments, 1 final UT2004 environment, 5 real time image captures on a Blogger weblog. PREMISE: Architecture may be designed by the amalgamation of discrete forms. Such Boolean operations promote an abstract understanding of the relationships required to make whole systems.
PROCEDURE
Choose a specific idea from two of the three clients listed above and create an architecture consisting of three spaces; one behind a vertical surface, one in front of the surface and one on the vertical surface itself. The spaces behind and in front of the vertical surface are the clients laboratories (imagine they actually came up with the idea there). The space on the vertical surfce is a place for your clients to meet and exchange ideas. Create a ramp that allows each client to arrive at their meeting in a distinctive and significant way.
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
In addition to the overall course assessment criteria students will be assessed on the level and extent to which they engage with the criteria listed below:
THE THREE QUOTES _ Do the three quotes work together to suggest a distinctive and significant approach to engaging with each clients ideas? THE 18 SKETCH AXONOMETRICS _ Do the 18 sketch axonometrics communicate a distinctive and significant approach the student has taken with respect to the clients ideas and their relationship to the edge? THE 36 CUSTOM TEXTURES _ Do the 36 custom textures demonstrate enquiry and experimentation with respect to ideas of light and shadow? THE RAMP _ Does the ramp demonstrate a distinctive and significant approach to bringing the clients together? THE IMAGE CAPTURES AND ARCHITECTURE _ Do the image captures demonstrate that the student has thought about the relative size of each element, what their proportions are, their orientation, how texture and color map over their surfaces and how all of the above work together to establish the balance or otherwise of their scheme?
TIMETABLE: 4 Weeks, 25% of final grade. ARCHITECTURAL ISSUE: Selling Creativity ARCHITECTURAL CONVENTION: The Stair ARCHITECTURAL CHALLENGE: Articulating below, on and above a ground plane. A studio REFERENCE TEXTS: http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/ and http://www.saatchi.com/worldwide/index.asp CLIENTS: Patricia Piccinini, Marcel Duchamp, Leonardo Da Vinci SOFTWARE: Sketchup, Blogger TECHNIQUES: The section, texturing and UV mapping, story boarding and animation, blogging OUTPUTS: 18 sketch sections, 36 custom textures, 2 draft sketchup models, 1 developed sketchup model, 3 animations on a Blogger weblog PREMISE: We can understand Architecture as a series of relationships between surfaces, objects and spaces. The datum introduces an idea of measurement into these relationships so that we can begin to understand the balance or otherwise of a scheme
My suggestion for you in the coming experiments is to break your tendency creating objects but not space. Try to get inside of a built environment. You can learn this by studying a set of drawings and images of your own choice, say your favorite architecture( E.G. OSCAR NIEMEYER) now. Try to understand what are the architectonic elements and how do they come by? Structure, space and enclosure are basic architectonic elements for architectural design.
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