Phase 3 (10 Marks)

  1. You are to read your coursebooklet for phase 3 and then send your three phrases here (5 marks, 1/11/2018 8:30 am).
  2. Then sign up for thursday meeting with your instructor here. (5 marks based on your artwork idea and thought process)

Tatiana Bilbao – Funeraria Tangassi

Further reading:

https://journals.openedition.org/ambiances/1065#text

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/atmospheric-architectures-9781474258098/

https://www.phaidon.com/agenda/architecture/articles/2013/december/23/carlo-scarpas-cemetery-for-brionvega-boss/

 

Architecture is a language of communication between the society and the individual.
Connecting with space and time, – is a dialogue. Architecture is the language. (work in progress)
Architecture uses space and time guide the communication between the individual and his essence his existence or his family, his world, his… (work in progress)
Architecture must be designed for society not for an individual. Also society creates architecture, not an individual. (work in progress)
Culture of a society as a determinant for it’s architecture.
The cultural landscape gives meaning to a place

Antonio Gaudi – Park Güell

Look up Dali and his surrealism

The line is of man, the curve is of god
The straight line is the line of duty, while the curve is the path of beauty. – Fathy
a line is rational, a curve is spiritual
line is generated in the mind, the curve in the heart.
“Painting, through color, sculpture and form represent feelings…things that one fails to see in existing organisms. And touches the imagination of the mind, to see beyond what is usually seen.
Figures, trees, fruits express their interiority through their exteriority. what you see on the outside is an expression of what is inside??
Therefore, it has to be governed by a law in harmony with those of nature. The architects who do not abide by this principle do odd jobs instead of a work of art.”
Everything comes out of the great book of nature. Is this about knowledge? is it about feelings? ekistics?
Can a cultural landcape have its orrigins in one mans heart?
Can a cultural landcape be created afresh?
Culture is the agent, the natural area is the medium, the cultural landscape is the result”

Toyo Ito – Tama Art museum

boundaries vanish through the erosion of the solid
“There will be the need for houses with no clear boundaries from inside to outside and from room to room,” Ito said. “What can we offer then?” – ito
Architecture is simply addition and subtraction
“From now on, human connections will be important. For example, the engawa allows for human connection with its openness.” Ito
the dialogue between outdoors and indoors is created using tectonics/symbolism/form/ or visual framing -the door /window is opening up to another universe ( thisuniverse is not real, its inthe heats of the user)
 Heaviness is not created by form
Language
dialogue
message / phrase
word
letter

Felix Candela- Oceanographic

whats the purpose–?

structural art-

The form simplifys design – atmosphere/eperience/imaginaion and helps/defines/guide the function
the skeleton/ form can find / can be the the balance between purpose and randomness.. purposelessness.. the randomness / something done without intention
structural simplicity can motivate aesthetics

Sou Fujimoto – musashino library

 

Why should a column soley work as a column, why should a bookshelf be just a bookshelf? why should a stair just be for climbing up? A friend is more than a a freind, he/she is a complete being.
A worker is not just someone who get the job done, he/she is much morethan that.
A building is not just a machine /tool that does one job, it is much more than that.
A column is more than a column
Architecture is re-generated alongside the fundamentals of human endeavors. need rephrasing..
Architecture is a cycle, or several layers
everything is a cycle
Everything can be architecture only when it can be felt
everything is art
art is everything
art exists only when it can be felt
Architecture is necessary, but how is it possible?
how come architecture is so necessary?

Paul Rudoph – Yale Art and Architecture

There is and intimate relationship between space and time. We live in an overwhelming period of time, therefore spaces should express that same thing.
Everything is changing (time is a driving direction), much more today than before. The problems are global, not local. As timechanges, space follows.
Expressing the changing landscape of education for a society in change.
Architecture is a complex connection of already complex mental processes.
Architecture is a resultant of a multitde of forces that the architect can see. As sight (knowledge) is limited, a better approach is to design not from the mind.
Because of the geometry of the volumes the building becomes an outdoor museum and a laberinth in the inside.
We walk into the future, but we dont know the direction, we cant understand the older language, nor do we know what we will speak in the future.
Every generation values a new perspetctive
Architecture becomes a labyrynth, when the layering of time is faster than the understanding of it.

 

Diplomado en auto-bioconstrucción

Version 1: Abril 8 -14, 2017, Casa Naomin Guanajuato
Details
Facebook event: https://web.facebook.com/events/251206918644285/?active_tab=discussion
 “Quiero ser como los animales, el pájaro hace un nido en uno o dos días, la rata cava un agujero en una noche, pero los humanos inteligentes como nosotros pasamos 30 años para tener una casa, eso está mal”.

Jon Jandai

La mayoría de nosotros lucha para obtener el dinero para pagar todo lo que estamos acostumbrados a comprar: alimentos, vivienda, transporte, ropa, comidas, casas de lujo. ¿Hay formas sencillas, económicas, fáciles de implementar, pero sostenibles para romper con esta lucha?

Al construir su propia casa de tierra, puede crear una vivienda permanente que va a durar varias generaciones a costa de sólo unos meses de alquiler y sólo algunas semanas de trabajo lo que le permite pasar menos tiempo trabajando por dinero y más por satisfacción personal. Tenemos mucho que aprender de las sociedades tradicionales, todo se hace a un ritmo digno, hecho para que dure, todo se hace con cuidado, respeto y amor. En cada acción hay un proceso sagrado.

El taller de 6 días de trabajo intensivo (más un día de descanso) esta planeado para que cualquiera, aunque no tenga experiencia en construcción pueda entender como construir su propia casa con materiales naturales. Vamos a construir la estructura completa para una cabaña de 15 mts2 con tierra en sólo 7 días con nuestras propias manos. Usted podrá experimentar plenamente la alegría de la construcción tradicional, donde no hay distinción entre el arte, el trabajo, la meditación y la educación.

Talleristas

Arq. Varun Thautam India
www.varunthautam.com

Amel Kadic Bosnia
http://www.e-art-h.nl/

Temario

Parte 1 (del 8 al 11 de abril) – Varun Thautam

1. Tierra – Identificación y diferentes modificaciones de la tierra
2. Adobes – diseños de moldes. Diseño de suelos y mezclas, método seco y húmedo de elaboración de adobes.
3. Pisos de Tierra compactada
4. Muros
5. Impermibilzante de bovedas con Cal
6. Acabados de Tierra y cal
7. Arcos, Bóvedas y cúpulas – Varios tipos de diseño y construcción.

Día de descanso (12 de abril)

Parte 2 (del 13 al 15 de abril) – Amel Kadic

1. Teorías de Acabados de Tierra, Cal y Tierra/Cal
2. Estucos
3. Tadelakt
4. Acabado de Arcilla Pulida
5. Jabelga
6. Techos

Costo apartando hasta el 15 de febrero:
-$6,900.00 en hostal
-$6,200.00 acampando
Costo apartando hasta el 5 de abril:
-$7,900.00 en hostal
-$7,100.00 acampando

Incluye

– Taller 70% práctico, 30% teórico
– Transporte de Guanajuato capital a Casa Naomin y regreso
– Hospedaje 6 noches-7 dias
– Alimentación ovo-lacto vegetariana
– Senderismo
– Sesiones de yoga
– Certificado de Participación

Cupo limitado a 22 personas.

**Danos de 2 a 3 días para contestar todas tus dudas o comentarios ya que en Casa Naomin no contamos con señal de celular o de internet, gracias por tu comprensión**

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18-Nov-2016: Design development reviews in class (3 Hours)

Define the following for Design Development

You will bring this for review in class on 18/11/2016 . The final for one option needs to be submitted on 22/12/2016.

  1. Detailed sections of your building defining in detail the building components of Foundations, Walls, Floors and Roofs. Bring these hand sketched drawings / CAD drawings in full detail. See example below, add thicknesses

Image result for detailed wall section adobe

2. Detailed Catalog of concepts for your all components of your building.

Define for the following : Foundations, Walls, Floors, Roofs, Plasters, Doors and Windows

Example below. Use the reference file from your schematic design.

3.0 Masonry works
3.1 Providing and constructing 9” thick sun dried adobe brick placed in 1:3 mud mortar, 3′ above plinth beam. Including providing and removing necessary scaffolding and staging, curing, soaking of bricks in water as per instructions, packing the residual space between masonry and other structural members like columns, beams, slabs etc., providing openings as directed and finishing neatly around the same, cost of all materials, cost of labour, cost of equipment and machinery, all lead and lift, loading and unloading, transportation and all other incidental charges etc., complete as directed.
All Floors

3. Define the calculated volumes and the unit costs of each of these concepts, use information from the presentations and with help of your instructor.

4. Total Cost of Project assuming 8% cost for Plumbing and sanitation, 8% for Electrical and installations.

Schematic Design

Schematic design requirements (4 marks) 

It starts with defining Project goals, key philosophies and principles that guide design.  Often this determines the program for the project.

The program, or architectural program, is the term used to define the required functions of the project. It should include estimated square meters of each usage type and any other elements that achieve the project goals.

During schematic design, an architect commonly develops study drawings, documents, or other media that illustrate the concepts of the design and include spatial relationships, scale, and form. Costs are estimated based on overall project volume. (Assume 3000-4000 Pesos a sq m of built area for a safe estimate)

Grading

You are expected to discuss your ideas clearly presented in written words or drawings. Grading is done partly on the quality of ideas (75%) and the presentation of design (25%)

Book references:

  1. Design for the other 90%. Design For The Other 90% by Cynthia E. Smith
  2. Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses To Humanitarian Crises Paperback by Architecture for Humanity (Author), Kate Stohr Cameron Sinclair 

  3. Design Like You Give a Damn {2}: Building Change from the Ground Up, by Kate Stohr (Author), Cameron Sinclair 

  4. Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement by Andres Lepik (Author), Barry Bergdoll 

  5. Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency 1st Edition, by Andrea Oppenheimer Dean (Author), Timothy Hursley (Photographer)

  6. Towards a New Architecture (Dover Architecture)by Le Corbusier (Author)

Individual Presentations on Materials / building techniques

Individual Presentations (4 Marks). You are to present in 10 minutes a detailed presentation on the topic assigned to you.

Make sure you are including the all the following points.

  1. Raw materials and its sources, qualities
  2. Detailed Specification and costs of construction (very important) 
  3. Where is it applicable and how?
  4. Precautions and Architectural details of use (Very important) 
  5. Delivery time and construction time
  6. Examples (photos) of use in 4 built projects.

Make your presentation on google Slides, or upload your slides and upload them before class 10:00 am.

Place the link of your presentation here. You can ask for a review of your presentation before the date of presentation.

Introduction to Sketchup

Fast learning!

Detailed learning!

http://sketchup.google.com/support — SketchUp’s online help system.

http://forums.sketchucation.com —The SketchUcation forums, a user-based world- wide community.

Concepts covered

  • Where to get help with SketchUp
  • Program interface and workspace customization
  • Program and model preferences
  • Working with templates
  • Navigating SketchUp’s 3D workspace
  • Aids for accurate modeling
  • Groups and components
  • Applying materials and using other common tools
  • Best practices for working with SketchUp

We shall be modelling Casa Farnsworth in full detail in 3 hours. You will download related cad Files here

 

Homework

To complete the following elements of casa Farnsworth (6 points)

Do not model the curtain walls (glass walls and mullions on the exterior)

Submission procedure

You are expected to bring your files to class and your instructor will view your files on your screen. Work is individual.