ida diary 2011/2012
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Process DiaryTRANSCRIPT
IDA DIARY
( Integrated Design Audit )
2011 / 2012
Agnis D. Stelingis
( a book containing a record of daily happenings )
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The explorer kept a diary of his adventures
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BOOK USING GUIDE A2 brief information on page 42 A4 project icon.B main information: text, photos, schemes, drawings, etc.C thoughts, questions, ideas, etc.
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PROJECT ICON
A2 brief information on page 42 A4 project icon.B main information: text, photos, schemes, drawings, etc.C thoughts, questions, ideas, etc.
D references, work made by others, etc. E time slot, to indicate when work, shown on page, was done, diary is a mirror of man’s day to day work. - technical subject
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ARCHITECTURE STUDIO 5
Tutors: Nina Lundvall, James Payne
City Crowns
This year we will engage with the urban intensity of
London and propose groupings of dwellings on the
rooftops of the existing city. In contradiction to official
plans to price council tenants from city centres and
relax planning regulations for out of town greenfield
sites, we propose to densify the city. Making use
of ‘air-rights’ we will investigate spatial and structural
opportunities for new living space to ‘top up’ exist-
ing buildings. We will then make proposals for new
rooftop worlds with special attention to material and
detail while exploring spatial and sculptural ideas.
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Ernesto RogersProject Torre VelascaArchitect BBPR (Gian Luigi Banfi, Lodovico Belgiojoso, Enrico Peresutti, Ernesto Rogers)City MilanoCountry ItalyAddress Piazza Velasca 5
Building Type Slab, double-loadedNumber of Dwellings c. 100Date Built 1950-58Dwelling Types 1,2 bedroom flats, penthouse apartments w/terracesNo. Floors 26Section Type flatsExterior Finish
Materials cast stone, concrete,pre-cast concrete, metal windowsConstruction Type RC frameAncillary Services 18 floors office, commerical space, 100
auto parking
Structure on top of the other building must be useful from its presence and be able to con-tribute to the structure below.
‘’There are not different ‘’kinds’’ of architecture, but only differ-
ent situations in order to satisfy man’s physical and psychic needs.’’ (Genius Loci Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture)
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_1 Torre Velasca, Milan, (with the Duomo to the right) Ernesto Rogers and BBPR, 1958.
_2 ‘‘light structure’’, markers on cartridge, 279 x 210 mm, ads
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Roof tops
A top floor apartment always seems to have a hidden secret, it is unclear what so intriguing about this, but it takes attention. It is the most satisfying conditions to live in today metropolis for the private aspect. You see everybody, nobody see you. Together with all the other benefits: great view, lot of sun, less disturbance, etc.The real interest remains undetermined. It is not the presence of beneficial value stim-ulate curiosity but the presence of the building. Entity is always behind the wall. It is not big different for me if looking from a street to the Royal Horseguards & Whitehall Place or to some ordinary apartment block in Clerkenwell. They both got it. Preferable pre-modern architecture which appears to be less exposed than its successor. Curios-ity behind the scene is that what drives my mind and again I am there, standing in a street, thinking what a marvellous, magical space or sequence of spaces are up there. Architect in between of impotence and omniipotence. That’s the essence of my interest on a subject as rooftops.
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choice:
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‘’CITY GROWING BY LAYERS’’, ACRYL, MARKERS ON CARTRIDGE, 594 x 420 mm
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THOMAS STRUTH 1977 - 2002
''...THESE BUILDINGS...ARE, LIKE ALL BUILDINGS EVERYWHERE, OPEN TO INTERPRETATION. THEY ALLOW THEMSELVES TO BE EXAMINED, PERMIT THEIR FACADES AND MATERIALS TO TELL THEIR HISTORIES...WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND HAVE DONE. tO DETERMINE THEIR CHRO-NOLOGY, FUNCTION ANDCURRENT STATUS.''
First day – ‘’day of luck’’ - 05 10 2011
He went to the streets of Old street area for his first task. One was sure, need to run through the town looking up high, expecting to see an inspirable composition of London roof scape. He went,He saw.Photos seems to have aspects as building design, architectural city composition, surprise. Still.. it seem to him that it was based on accident, Is this really what he should be looking for that type of assignment, accidental picture? Yes, he felt that way first.( day journey : from Old street to Finsbury square then Barbican, Clerkenwell, Farringdon, City rd. )
Thomas Struth
untitled, oil on canvas, 70 x 55 cm1973,
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‘‘He shows us the meaninglessness of conteporary life...nihilism is all we have left.’’ (THOMAS STRUTH 1977 - 2002)
_1 Old Street area, Seward st.
[ nihilism - destructiveness, an extreme form of skepticism, denial of all real exist-ence, total rejection of established laws and institutions ]
Each place has its po-tential for a good photo.
Check photography by applying architectural composition proportion system.
iMPORTANCE is how you manage to extract image from this extreme detailed reality.
People in picture do not make so much bad.
‘’Boundary is that from which something begin it’s presencing.’’(POETRY, LANGUAGE, HOUGHT)
Second day – ‘‘observing’’ – 06 10 2011
He decided to take small area and concentrate there, make attention to detail, step back and try to think is this picture that he is going to take is good and why. Day was successful.
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Memel Court road and Crescent Row Street cross, on the top of the building appears two storey, metal coating structure, seems to be exception-ally symmetric in comparison with it’s surroundings. On the opposite side, less closer, other roof structure sits. City seems to grow by layers.
Farringdon, Crescent Row
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Ordinary house, materials:Clay roof tiles, glass, timber, bolts, mortar, bricks, stone, hand bended tin-plate. Farringdon
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Buildings overlapping each other in perspective view. This assemble do not destroy harmony, but beneficially reviles secret chambers of town. (First day – nomad )
Nomadic people - com-monly known as itinerants in modern-day contexts, are communities of people who move from one place to another, rather than settling permanently in one location. This reflects on two days period by taking photog-raphies.
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_1 Abstract two minutes model
_2 Photography taken in Moorgate, Worship
street.
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_3 The Whale, Amsterdam (2000)
_4 The Landtong, apartments on the Kop van Zuid, Rotterdam (1998)
Frits van Dongen - Chief Government ArchitectFrits van Dongen founded de Architekten Cie. in 1988 together with Carel Weeber, Pi de Bruijn and Jan Dirk Peereboom Voller. He has been a partner in the firm ever since. Large-scale projects such as De Landtong at Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam’s former harbour area and The Whale, an iconic residential complex in Amsterdam’s former harbour district are prime examples of his residential complexes. As an urban planner and supervisor, Frits van Dongen was involved with developing IJburg, an Amsterdam urban expansion district, as well as an urban expansion of Bolzano, Italy. He received the Kubus of the Royal Institute of Dutch Architects (BNA) in 2006. He was a guest professor at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, and regularly gives lectures throughout the world. Frits van Dongen was appointed Chief Government Architect of the Netherlands in August 2011, and thus plays a pivotal role in the preparation and implementation of national architecture policy. He holds this honor-ary position in addition to his work at de Architecten Cie.
ProjectsA small selection of projects which Van Dongen was responsible for or has worked on or still works:Health Noordhove, Zoetermeer (1989)The Regent, School of The Hague (1991)My Side, apartments , Amsterdam (1993)De Harmonie , Leeuwarden theater (1994)The Landtong, apartments on the Kop van Zuid, Rotterdam (1998)Mega cinema Pathe cinema and Heineken Music Hall , Amsterdam Southeast (2001)Municipal Offices, Enschede (2001)The Whale, apartment complex in the Eastern Docklands in Amsterdam (2000)Batavia Apartments, Amsterdam (2002)Firm Capgemini , Utrecht (2003)AON offices and apartments: The Admi-ral, Rotterdam (2003)Urban planning and housing / offices Funenpark, AmsterdamMüllerpier apartments, RotterdamApartment Block 19, IJburg , AmsterdamConservatory of Amsterdam , Oosterdok 151 , Amsterdam (2008 finished)
Frits Van Dongen (12 March 1946) is a Dutch architect.
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references and selected bibliography, responding to ‘’De Landtong, Rotterdam’’ project:Quaderns, no. 227, p. 6-179A+T, no. 12, 1998, p. 2-135Byggekunst, vol. 80, no. 7, p. 7-73Housing moves on: architects and their moves, Wien, Spring, 2009
‘De Landtong’ residential complex, Rotterdam
‘De Landtong’ was the first new residential development in the former port area at the ‘Kop van Zuid’, on the southern banks of the River Maas. The ambitious programme was necessary to give the area an injection of urbanity in one fell swoop, by means of differentiation in residential typologies, street plans, open space and types of access. The complex consists of two large, internalized urban blocks that harmonize with the large-scale port area in terms of size and unity. The edge of the block is a varied composition of slabs, towers and strips. The ensemble has an urban profile on the side looking towards the city centre and a more small-scale character on the low-rise southern edge. The programme has been translated into an unprecedented assortment of housing types: from spacious owner-occupied dwellings to social-sector rented apartments, from urban pieds-à-terre and stacked apartments with generous terraces to single-family dwellings. A city within the city.
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programme: 625 apartments, 342 parking spaces, 1000 m2 commercial spacearchitect: Frits van Dongenproject team: A. Mout, P. Puljiz, M. Heesterbeek, F. Veerman, J. van Hettema, J. Molenaar, F. de Haaslandscape designer: De Koning Landschapsarchi-tecten, Heemstedecontractor: ERA Bouw bv, Zoetermeer, Van der Vorm Bouw bv, Papendrechtstructural engineer: Ingenieursbureau Zonneveld bv, Rotterdamdate of commission: 1991date of construction: 1994 - 1998gross surface: 100.000 m2volume: 275.000 m3
references and selected bibliography, responding to brief:‘’Some ideas on living in London and Tokyo’’ Stephen Taylor + R. Nishizawa. ‘’THE GOOD LIFE’’ Ivabi Abalas‘’Changing the art of inhabitation’’ Alison + Peter Smithson‘’Floor plan manual (housing)’’ Grundribatlas Wohnungsbau _ Drawing composed by using, de Architekten Cie, made
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De Landtong residential complex in Rotterdam distinguish for a variety of diverse apartments.C2 has most definite arrangement, presence of 4 units divided by load bearing walls makes apartment structurally programed. Each unit has 53m² space specifically divided in to separate rooms or kept open.Apartment is symmetrically composed, from the entrance which appears in the middle rooms with private use intension are on the left and living area on the right. From this point clear view angle is debilitated from outside as well as from inside on A, B units and vice versa on C, D, this sense is stipulated by big, small, narrow spaces and windows arrangements.Most desirable intend to be unit C by vast panorama of 180 degree angle and possibility to unite C and D units together, sliding glazed doors determines this possibility.
_page 18 C2 apartment plan from De Landtong Rotterdam block and C2 house inhabitation. Minimal changes were made (in red).
Exhibition‘’We worked in squares and loved in triangles’’
The blind and futile lines of memory 2001 (mixed media)Three dimension house installation. It is made in a glass with air bubbles, there appears a sense of a house drawn by one continuous line. A part of installation there is a book with X Y Z posi-tions, according to the air bubble in the glass cube. by F.Tuppen
Exhibition‘’The city is a burning, Blazing Bonfire’’Cubitt GalleryExhibition intention is to show how the spaces that people inhabits are con-structed, connected and
divided by the energy that flows through them, the energy that inhabitants produce and consume.Films, ducuments, record-ings, all substance are telling about these artists interest in polluted ar-
eas, cities that are driven by industry of electricity, transport.Deimantas Narkevicius – Energy Lithuania 2000, 17mm film.Film based on a story of engineer in Elektrenai,
electricity plant.Engineer who was inter-viewed seem to be Soviet made man or the ‘’song’’ he was telling the whole film had to survive Soviet propaganda test.
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De Landtong residential complex in Rotterdam distinguish for a variety of diverse apartments.C2 has most definite arrangement, presence of 4 units divided by load bearing walls makes apartment structurally programed. Each unit has 53m² space specifically divided in to separate rooms or kept open.Apartment is symmetrically composed, from the entrance which appears in the middle rooms with private use intension are on the left and living area on the right. From this point clear view angle is debilitated from outside as well as from inside on A, B units and vice versa on C, D, this sense is stipulated by big, small, narrow spaces and windows arrangements.Most desirable intend to be unit C by vast panorama of 180 degree angle and possibility to unite C and D units together, sliding glazed doors determines this possibility.
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PLANOMETRIC DRAWING, PENCIL ON CARTRIDGE PAPER, SCALE 1:5020
AXONOMETRIC DRAWING, PENCIL ON CARTRIDGE PAPER, SCALE 1:5021
workshop
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OMA Show & Tell: XL Architecture NightIn Barbican Theatre
Six of seven partners – Rem Koolhaas, Victor van der Chijs,Reinier de Graaf, Ellen van Loon, Shohei Shigematsu and David Gianotten – come together for the first time in a public conversation. Chaired by Chris Dercon, Director of Tate Modern, Iyad Alsaka had a flight delay, excuse.
CONVERSATIONConversation was based on OMA office and management.
WRITERRem Koolhaas, writer and architect. When you write you work with yourself (you depend just on yourself).
MANAGEMENTIn 1998 OMA as organization was still messy, artistic. Now management is changing due to its need and because of expanding offices all over the world. Victor van der Chijs joined OMA in 2005 as Managing Partner.
ELLEN VAN LOONJoined OMA in 1998 and became partner in 2002. Came from Foster and partners. OMA creative, les rules, every project is a collaboration, process drives office.
ARTISTOthers do not want to be disturbed by him. They have their lesson, most of the time his ideas would not go hand in hand with others. (Koolhaas)
COMPETITION GUYShohei Shigematsu joined OMA in 1998 and became a partner in 2008.When he came for the interview to OMA, Rem asked have he been doing anything else apart architecture, he said no and saw Rem showing disappointing face.One newspaper in New York wrote, he works 48 hours straight.
AUDIENCE QUESTIONRem, if OMA would be a film, what genre? A reality show.(Koolhaas)
COMPANYMany project recent year OMA came second.
STANDPOINT If this project would not lead to success it still be worth to go, experience in process.
The counterpart to OMA’s architectural practice is AMO, a design and research studio based in the company’s Rotterdam office. While OMA remains dedicated to the realization of buildings and masterplans, AMO operates in areas beyond the traditional boundaries of architecture, including media, politics, sociology, renewable energy, technology, fashion, curating, publishing, and graphic design. (OMA about AMO)
_1 C2 AXO, line drawing/a-cad/photoshop [A1 sheet]
_2 The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and Peter Eisenman surrounded by paparazzi. (Berlin)
_3 PRADA CATWALK SS 2012, ITALY, MILAN, 2011 by OMA
_1 During the evening photo slides was flashing on the wall, on this one Rem made a quick coment: ‘‘This is how OMA will never look.’’
_2 This is what OMA is making for Prada.
This is how OMA looks now?
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lecture notes:
Talking about biennale in South Korea, there was a task, for chosen architects, to make shelters. Where Sang participated. Introducing his work in South Korea.
_ 1 Architect have been working on several projects in collaboration with Florian Beigel and ARU. One of them is Welcomm Advertising Studios and Offices, Seoul, Korea. Building was completed in 2000. Made by Florian Beigel + ARU London, Seung Hchioh Sang, Iroje Architects & Planners,This building in central Seoul is the first rusty cor-ten steel facade to be built in South Korea. Working studios are arranged in four separate houses on a concrete base containing the gallery and restaurant.
_ 2The grave of the late former President of Korea Roh Moo-hyun in Kimhae (2009). Roh committed suicide on 23 May 2009 by jumping from a mountain cliff, after leaving a suicide note on his personal computer. This project is interesting in its manner by creating a meta-phor of the city pattern on the ground.
Landscript by Seung H-SangSpring House, Forum
Seung, Hchioh Sang 1952- 10-26Seoul, KoreaStudied at Seoul National University and at Technische Universitaet in Wien. Worked for Kim Swoo Geun from 1974 to 1989 and established his office “IROJE architects & planners’ in 1989. He was a core member of “4.3 Group” which strongly influenced Korean architectural society, and participated in founding “Seoul School of Architecture” for a new educational system. He is the author of ‘Beauty of Poverty(1996 Mikunsa)’, ‘Architecture, Signs of
Thoughts(2004 Dolbegae)’, ‘Landscript(2009 Yoelhwadang)’ and ‘Graveyard of Roh Muhyun(2010 Nulwa)’, and was an Visiting Professor of London Met-ropolitan University and taught at Seoul National University and at Korea National University of Art. His works are based on his own critical concerns on Western culture of the 20th century whose subject is ‘beauty of poverty’. (text from IROJE architects & planners official website )
Architect signature seen in many of his projects, public stairs crossed by narrow sloping path.
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floor_MAP
Idea evolved while developing C2 project, complimenting Memorial for former President Roh Moo-Hyun by Sang and The Trylon and Perisphere of the New York World’s Fair of 1939-1940.
Map transforms into flooring, floors transforms into map, the one from Ag-nis home town, Kaunas. Map captures central part of the city. Its explicit details made by satellite and the magnitude of the floor produces a new dimension in between the ground and the room space.
High definition digital printing on vinyl flooringFloorink combines a quality hard-wearing vinyl product from Forbo, com-plete with a 10 year wear layer guarantee and non slip properties. Excel-lent acoustic performance is achieved, up to 17 db, as well as outstanding print capabilities of six colour print at 600 dpi. Floorink is available in two metre widths for commercial applications and up to four metres wide for residential.
_1 Welcome Advertising Studios and Offices, Seoul, Korea. photo: Bae SangSoo, Apr 2000
_2 Memorial for former President Roh Moo-HyunIROJE architects & planners official website
_3 Dr.Park Gallery, Yangpyung / 2002IROJE architects & planners official website
The sphere housed a diorama called “Democracity” which, in keeping with the fair’s theme “The World of Tomorrow”, showed a utopian city of the future. Democracity was viewed from above on a moving sidewalk, while a multi-image slide presentation was projected on the interior surface of the sphere.
_4 acryl, markers, collage images, pencil on cartridge paper (594 x 324 mm) ads.
_5 digital collage, ads
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_3 Eastern architecture creates strong compositional gestures by intersecting pure geometric forms with each other.
‘’If technology is always a step ahead of society, creativity
is always one step ahead of technology.’’ 89p. Tools of the imagination. Area atmosphere or emotion could create a relationship with the room’s entity or using purpose.
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LANDTONG C2 TIMBER MODEL
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LANDTONG C2 TIMBER MODEL CUTTING LIST,(each colour represents various thickness parts) 594 X 420 MM
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C2 PLAN AND SECTION INHABITATION [story page 21-22]
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Stadium Lockers was $671.95 / now $272.99Fully Accessorized, Stadium Lockers are outfitted with a lockable security box fastened to a full width shelf, coat rod & coat hooks, and a lockable footlocker with a hinged, rein-forced seat at the base. Stadium Lockers are constructed with Heavy Duty 16 Gauge steel. Bottoms have two reinforcement channels for added strength.
Perforated stackable plastic boxSimons Reeve Pre-log is a plastic, collapsible folding tray, ideally suited to the food sector as well as other applications. Overall size: 600mm(w) x 400mm(d) x 160mm(h)Manufactured from HDPE – greenPerforated base & sidesFold flat for storage and return transport
_opposite page ‘’things’’ C2 inhabitation, cad program
Emotional response – make a drawing/model/etc. to understand what do you feel about the place, what emotions re-acts being in the place.
‘’We are all we re-peatedly do. Excellence therefore is not an act but a habit.’’ Aristole‘’…Excellence is not an act of luck.’’ ADS
Ants and the way of sustainable living (sun during the day heats anthills, while ants cov-ers some of the holes and opens it through the day, keeping the warm
air in and ventilating the anthill) Natural insulation during the winter is a thick snow layer on the roof.
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Fabrizio Ballabio: Studied at The Academy of Architecture, Mendrisio. Studying theory at the AA. Hasworked for Valerio Olgiati and Pascal Flammer.
Aidan Hodgkinson: Studied at Glasgow School of Art and the AA, has worked for Sergison Bates andHaworth Tomkins, currently associate at Jamie Fobert Architects.
Use more various techniques of representation.
Sketch drawing is essential part of presentation.
Brief 2 Crit November 11th
Tutors: James Payne, Nina Lundvall & Simon JonesCritics: Fabrizio Ballabio & Aidan Hodgkinson
Agnis Stelingis Crit
DrawingsWell presented and clear drawings, set out well with the detailed section set out in linebelow the plan. There is a question of how you enter the living room, it is unlikely thiswould be through the kitchen for fire safety reasons, there should be a hall - living roomdoor. There is a good level of detail in the drawings, objects and patterns of living are wellrepresented.
ModelGood model, robust and well conceived with a strong idea of representing materiality. Question of how it sits on the ground, one critic mentioned a small concrete house byPeter Märkli than hovers above the ground at its edges.
Image & InhabitationYour use of music to set the scene for you narrative of arriving home and making dinnerworked well (we heard a similar technique used in the English audioguide for the luxuriousVilla Necchia Campiglio in Milan during the study trip). That your other work was of a highstandard helped a lot. The idea of living almost nomadically in the space is interesting, butyou do not have to always work against the space. For example the smaller spaces suchas the guest room, look at the cells in La Tourette.Your interior image is the most unfinished piece. It is not clear what technique will beused. A photograph of the 1:50 model is unlikely to be detailed enough. Critics discussedusing cut out people in the model to show a mood, is it a lone inhabitant staring throughthe window (a melancholy image - see Casper David Friedrich) or is it a frenetic one ( abarbeque or party spilling out from the living room onto the huge outdoor terrace). Choosethe context for your building carefully.
Further CommentsPrecise work and clear critical thinking about the potential of the space for inhabitation,now make this clear in the image too.
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C2 inhabitation picture develop-ment Editing, editing, editing
sequence
captured by using 1:50 scale cardboard model with intention to generate a scene looking inside from outside the house. 1:50 scale timber model and overlapping digital drawing. 3D cad model to get explicit perspective. Drawing by hand on print.Considering the appropriate details.Changing inhabitants and install-ing a sliding window system.
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robot competition:Lithuania, KaunasKTU student town[friend invitation]
Max model weight: 25kg10 x 15 cm stick with a sign of the event organisersGolden bag weight – 1kg
-+0,05kg280 mm height and 200 mm width on the lower partSKETCHESProject in a combination with architecture:
Example one:Roof construction is
made to accommodate and maintain 12 robots which are served by 3 technicians. Robots goes down in a streets circular each 12 minutes and coordinates the situation down and gets back up.
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Story
AGNIS AND THE HOUSE
Story is based on a fictional summary evening after a long day, having in mind Agnis real habits.Once upon a time or in the other words on the 10th of November 2011 half past nine in the evening, Agnis unlocked his house door, came in and turned the lights on. He left his bag in the hall and ran to the living room to put on an old vi-nyl, song he was humming all the way back home, it was Lucienne Delyle, ‘’On the banks of old Paris’’..(music On). Agnis was very hungry so he get to the kitchen, tonight he was going to have spaghetti and a glass of vine.He pulled out one of the ‘’drawer cart’’, found all ingredients and some clean dishes, put water on the heat.Agnis took a quick shower and changed his wear, all his clothes was in the wardrobe next to the bathroom door, he jumped on the bed
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and checked his mail… in fact he check ‘’fb’’ as well. Suddenly he remembered about boiling water and the idea how hungry he was.Agnis ran through the corridor, passing a guest room where his friend was staying while visiting, friend, Frank, was on a sightseeing this very evening. Agnis appeared in the kitchen just on time, going through the studio he took a book with him.Glass was half full already. Agnis was lying on tatami in the living room, reading, waiting for his dinner. Terrace was empty at this time of the year, chairs were in the lumber room, Agnis had a good view to the town and mountains. He lived well so ever after.
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Plinth for the Melon
Fruit contains wrinkles all over it’s surface, while growing surface stretches most through the middle and there it flattens. Paperwork imitates this old man’s skin effect.
Canary Melon The name comes from its bright yellow color, which resembles that of the canary. It is not known when the plant was first cultivated, but evidence of melons group fruits cultivation founded in the Valley of Nile from at least as early as the 2000 years BC.
It generally ranges in weight from 1.8 to 3.6 kg
CHARACTERISTICS
YellowIrregular oval shapeOn one side have a circle shape markWrinkled surfaceHeavyStable shapeSolidComfortable to hold in a handSemi-matic surfaceRolls on the ground (always angled)Have marks on surfaceStands on the topEasy to damage surfaceHave centre points
Gestalt psychology
(German: Gestalt - “essence or shape of an entity’s complete form”)
The operational principle of gestalt psychology is that the brain is holistic, parallel, and analog, with self-organizing tendencies. The gestalt effect is the
form-generating capability of our senses, particu-larly with respect to the visual recognition of figures and whole forms instead of just a collection of simple lines and curves. In psychology, gestaltism is often opposed to structuralism.
_1 Initial respond to the brief, personal analysis, oil on cartridge, 297 x 210 mm
_opposite page ‘’evolution of the idea’’
The human head contains 22 bones, consisting the cranium and the facial bones. The cra-nium is formed by 8 bones: the frontal bone, two parietal bones, two temporal bones, the occipital bone in the back, the ethmoid bone behind the
nose, and the sphenoid bone. The face consists of 14 bones including the maxilla (upper jaw) and mandible (lower jaw). In this way melon is very different.
Datum point - a point which serves as a reference or base
for the measurement of other quantities.
“The whole is greater than the sum of the parts”
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PAPERWORK - FORM
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Expectation of the object is what you imagine it should look like.
What it looks like?
Example:He took 20 melons in a store and made a picture of each.
Is there a difference between them, have some of it made his expectations wrong?
Question to myself:
If someone told you tomor-row that you could not be an architect, what would you do instead?
..a painter.
Richard Hamilton, 1956 collage, ‘’Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?’’(reference for the ‘‘monument for this single melon’’)
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Melon Monument
You go to the shop and see all the Melons lies randomly in a single box. Marked with the same barcode, put under the same label, the price is the same.
Thing is this, have you ever thought while buying one that this fruit which you have chosen it is single one in the whole planet, it is in all means unique.
Monument to glorify this single Fruit once in a history for being unique.
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University graduate attributes
A1 Self awareness: to have the attribute of knowing oneself and be able to understand and clarify personal strengths and weaknesses through personal develop-ment planning; to be able to develop career manage-ment tools and to represent one’s own abilities with confidence and self esteem
A2 Performance in a variety of idioms and contexts: to have the attribute of understanding the limits and ap-plicability of the subject discipline and to be able to perform as a graduate in a variety of idioms and con-texts by incorporating a fluent awareness of the subject and the wider picture into personal, and professional practice, and to be able to communicate this aware-ness effectively.
A3 Creative and ethical: to have the attribute of ana-lyzing problems and making creative and purposeful change and adaptation with an awareness of ethical and moral codes and demonstrating integrity of con-duct, including an awareness of, and respect for, cul-tural diversity
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UG_INTERIM-CRIT_FEEDBACK YEAR 3
Student: Agnis Stelingis Date: 09.12.11Critical analysis (A2/A3) Intellectual engagement (A1) Creative and personal development (A1/A3) Communication (A1/A2) Overall performance _
DESIGN MODULE FEEDBACK OVERALL FEEDBACK
Brief 1The photographs both say something interesting about structure, materials and detail of London’s rooftops. Consider how they can be presented in the portfolio and IDA as part of a wider research into the rooftops of London. Keep photographing and find some equivalent pictures from the study trip to analyse.
Brief 2: DrawingsWell drawn with good use of line weights and a meaningful arrangement of objects and furniture. The narrative helps to explain it well. The ground only has to be suggested otherwise it becomes distracting.
ModelGood model, robust and well conceived with a strong idea of representing materiality. Question of how it sits on the ground, one critic mentioned a small concrete house by Peter Märkli than hovers above the ground at its edges. Photograph carefully for portfolio.
Image & InhabitationThe illustrative technique works well, it conveys an attitude towards living reminiscent of the photographs of Julius Shulman. The use of materiality and detail of the lines is a little sketchy however.Brief 3 An over-complicated response to a very simple brief. Use prototyping later in a more appropriate way for making building components. Look at the work of Giovanni Anselmo and Arte Povera. (Structure Eating Salad). Consider the elemental properties of materials and forces in these pieces.
Further CommentsYou have worked accurately and quickly, do not limit yourself to the bare requirements of the brief. Keep investigating and interrogating the work you have done with your IDA and structuring your portfolio. Analyse themes of openness and containment, generosity of space & space standards. How one can live against a wall with an open view to one side? You should now consider themes of research for the IDA, is it possible to adapt the argu-ments of Delirious New York to London?
exhibition
They want us to take an object and make some-thing in direct response to it, object’s character-istics, By examining the real values but not taking idea from aside. ( refer-ring to Plinth project ) Stone house by Anton
Garcia-Abril
Concrete + metal + glass, pool in the air by Ensamble Studio
Torafu architects JapanArtechnic architectswww.planningportal.gov.
uk, suggested website by tutor.
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Fire safety Fire Exit doors are designed in ‘Units of Exit Widths’. A unit of exit width is 21” or 545mm wide. This figure is based on the average width or distance across an adult person’s shoulders.Each unit of exit width will permit 40 persons per minute to pass through, a single width exit door, a door should not normally be less than 2ft 6ins (750mm) wide.Calculation of Exit WidthsThe width of exits required, depends on the number of occupants, rate of flow and the ‘flow time’ and is expressed by the formulaU = N / (40 x T)Where: -U = number of units required;N = number of occupants;40 = standa rd rate of flow – constant;T = Flow time (i.e. 3 mins for Class ‘A’, 2.5 mins for Class ‘B’ and 2 mins for Class ‘C’)The resulting number of units may well result in less than a whole number. If any fraction is greater than or equal to 0.3 it should be rounded up.It should be noted that it is not normal for doors to be supplied in sizes compatible with the width of individual units, e.g. a 750 mm door can only be regarded as 1 unit wide.Calculation of Minimum Number of ExitsThe minimum number of exits depends upon the number of units of exit width required and the maximum size of any particular exit, and is expressed by the formulaE = U / 4 + 1E = number of exitsU = number of units of exit width (from exit width formula);4 = size of largest exit permitted.1 added to ensure there would always be at least one unit.
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Möbius strip - a surface with only one side and only one boundary component. The Möbius strip has the mathematical property of being non-orientable. It can be realized as a ruled surface. It was discovered independently by the German mathematicians August Ferdinand Möbius and Johann Benedict Listing in 1858.
Time to time..‘’You must make radical change’’ (movie ‘’In to the wild’’)
Millions of mails all over the planet are coming each day to houses
where the owners of the mail are not living any more.He is taking his luggage with him when changing the living place. All the post have to be
redirected to the new address. Post travels all the way with you. (to think about)
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Event organisation
How many seats are in the forum ?Where to store it?Projector needed ?Sound system needed?
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Each place has its po-tential for a good photo.
Check photography by applying architectural composition proportion system.
iMPORTANCE is how you manage to extract image from this extreme detailed reality.
People in picture do not make so much bad.
‘’Boundary is that from which something begin it’s presencing.’’(POETRY, LANGUAGE, HOUGHT)
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_the 5th layer of metropolis
Super city captured by congestion has grown up in layers until streets was blind of sun, until city top became a solid rock, for new to come. Social system of the ‘’American dream’’ is no longer avail-able to those in layer one. Working class is buried down to run and sustain this machine called ’metropolis’.
Most of the buildings in layer one became abandoned: cor-ruption, crime – the underworld proofs its name.
…Up there city appears to be dependent on previous layer just on its footprint. Layer five has no concerns to contribute but takes all, when it is needed.
City plan transforms to be a section of metropolis.
Close circle blocks_ High security, private unitsNon-contributors on any social or communal aspect. Secret communities of distilled society. Centre_Multi use units, main shopping district, cultural, public and living units.Mega machines marked with red, vibrant gases around outer structure. These that hard to determine, is built by vague materials, containing labs and factories of brand products for mass society of wealth. Products are vast ranges, all meant to fulfil the life. Are artificial and has no list of components.
Cathedral erected in parallel axes with the one bellow.
Control department_All decisions are made there, even the close circle units are semi-controlled.
Phenomenological temple_Contains pure emptiness, but by collaborative minds gener-ated ideas, remembrances has the ability to transform inside entity completely. Ideas stream goes straight through the introspective decoding electronic boards which detects and captures separate dreams to organise it in to the bonding of programs. Later stipulated by these programs, architectural compositions emerges.Public domain of stimuli and intentionalities, remembrances and nostalgia is transmute and materialized by mini ‘’bots’’ services.
In the sky yellow signs of structure are emerging, erected by social subconsciousness stipulated by fear being not the last layer. 6th Layer emerging straight down to the ground.
brief 4.1
‘5th layer’. pencil, markers, oil, acryl, collaged images on cartridge paper. 841 x 594 mm.
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Site - considering three options
1st choice
Davina House + Liberty House 1 Sebastian Street, London EC1V 0HF+ 151–157 Goswell Road
Mixed use block: students accommoda-tion and offices. Very exposed, sits on a cross of three streets. Visible in a long distance from 6 streets.
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2nd choice
FINSBURY ESTATE
Construction is of typical Brutal-ist style ‘mixed development’ of the High Modern period. 25 sto-ries of humiliating architecture which traverse everything bril-liant around by its magnitude.
3rd choice
37-42 Compton StreetClerkenwellLondon EC1V 0AP
Consists of two Victorian ware-house buildings with a courtyard loading area. In 2009 was convert-ed into an office block.
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1st choice
Davina House + Liberty House
151–157 Goswell Road +1 Sebastian Street, London EC1V 0HF
Environmental impact
Careful choice of materials may reduce the environmental impact of building work, and where appropriate the use of recycled or recyclable materials is to be considered. Care must be taken to ensure that the use of these materials will not have any adverse consequences to the health and safety requirements of the building work.
(John Stephenson, Building Regulations Explained, New York, 2000, p.53)
MOI There is just this place in London where two worlds meets. Students are living in the same building where possible they will be work-ing after finishing their stud-ies. 120 tiny offices full of
graduates, 140 residential rooms full of undergraduate students. This circle creates a space above where need are dismissed from natural world. A top floor is different from all the other.
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The architect Adolf Loos’s ‘Raumplan’ (Spatial plan) concept deals with various rooms strictly according to use, area and volume. The ground plan shows a marked independence among the rooms, but as an overall structure; Muller House in Prague, 1930.
(Jan Krebs, Design and Living, Switzerland, 2007, p.18)_1 DH from Goswell rd. (photography straighten using PS)
Brief 4.1 :
Be free and a bit bold. Look for specific interests in the area.Find boundary / limits and try boundary / limits.Example: Can extension of
the existing building be 100 floors high?
Possible to make mixed use proposition on top of DH: students hall extension + apartmentsX5 + officeX3 + restaurant
[ bold ]1. Fearless and daring; courageous.2. Requiring or exhibiting courage and bravery. See Synonyms at brave.3. Unduly forward and brazen; impudent: a bold, sassy child.4. Clear and distinct to the eye; conspicuous: a bold handwriting.5. Steep or abrupt in grade or terrain: bold cliffs.(The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language)
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Population, Housing and Poverty
Rapid population growth accompanied development. In 1801 the Finsbury area had a population of just over 54,000 but this had more than doubled by 1861 to reach a peak of over 127,000. In the second half of the century, as warehouses, commercial premises and factories began to replace housing; the population started to fall and by 1901 was just over 100,000. Population decline continued during the inter-war years, as families moved out to newer, suburban estates on the edge of the city. The fall in population was particularly rapid during and immediately after the Second World War, largely as a result of bomb damage to the building stock.
(Report for EC1 New Deal for Communities compiled by Dr David R Green, King’s College London, May 2009)
As a student / young architect I have ambition or rather wish my work to be realized. In this way I can foster professional interest to build.
My thought was very abstract in my mind – when putting it on paper does not make any sense.
Architecture or rather a project has to make effort to be realized(be more explicit)
X:Project that has to be pleasedY:how it can be atchieved?X:by taking this wish in public. Screaming, but not begging to be realized.Y:does not every project has this wish in itself (for granted)?X:yes, it does, but takes it for
granted.Y:how not to take it?X:must be honest by accepting this statement and proud of it.Y:is this possible or it will be based on complete theory?X:try!
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Surrounding built environment
In the surrounding area there is a great deal of Housing Stock raging from post war blocks through to 60’s and 70’s residential towers. Along Goswell Road there are also many examples of rejuvenated warehouse build-ings which have introduced rooftop extensions, one or two storey.
Leisure and Cultural amenities such as the Finsbury Leisure Centre and the Barbican Centre are within walking distance. The nearby City University resides on Northampton Square at the end of Sebastian Street.
This diversity is current also with the population. Local residents, children from many nearby schools, students from City University and Liberty Student Accommoda-tion, workers from the City, many offices and Davina house are making good use of the surrounding built environment.
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Name/title: ‘House embodies the wish of young architect to be re-alized.’Shamelessly shows how much ef-fort student puts to make it different / unic.How much wants to be famous.How much does not deserve to be
accepted because of the previous.
Project is so determined in details, so explicit, has own story of exist-ence that it literally goes beyond the barrier of nonexistence.
‘structure reveals new hope of the
whole area an a city of London’ – STANDARD
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30 Mixed use development Wandsworth, London
Duration: 1999 - 2004Contract value: 4.5mInternal area – 4200m²Factory refurbishment and new apartments buildingThe approach was to transform the factory, attach a new building and put one more floor on the top of existing building to provide apartments and studio office spaces of between 85 – 200m².
Sergison Bates architects
Practice established in 1996. Projects are sensitive to the place.social housing in Finsbury parkUgo Rivalta Award 2011 / RIBA Award 2009 / Mies van der Rohe Award 2009Jonthan SergisonArchitectural Association 1989Woked in David Chiperfield ArchitectsStephen BatesArchitectural Association 1989Worked in London and BarcelonaCompany: 2 founding partners + partner + 2 associates + 6 architects
Construction:The concrete flat slab and column structure is cranked in plan to follow the boundary of the site and the consequent angled facets of the elevations create oblique sightlines, giving a vertical emphasis to the building, despite its polygonal footprint. The composition of the elevations is organised by storey height horizontal galvanised metal rails that run around the building, which reflect the process of construction, emphasising the wall as a non-loadbearing element. The position of full height window assemblies varies from floor to floor giving a shifting composition that reflects the possibility of difference within a repeatedly stacked plan.Client
Survey / photography /Public legislations
Google map street photog-raphy shows clear that you can photograph any build-ing from street level without no permit.
Trespass (Scotland) Act 1865You are here: 1865 c. 56(Regnal. 28_and_29_Vict)Section 3Parties lodging in prem-ises or encamping on land,
without permission, guilty of an offence.Every person who lodges in any premises, or oc-cupies or encamps on any land, being private property, without the con-sent and permission of the
owner or legal occupier of such premises or land, and every person who encamps or lights a fire on or near any F1 road or enclosed or cultivated land, or in or near any plantation, without the consent and permission
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Massing:
lesson - structure do not have to be distinguished from its surrounding by shape, it is already distinguished by its position in the city.
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_4 massing no. 1_5 massing no. 2_6 British National Library
British National LibraryContradictions:
Contradiction 1If you have a wish to get British National Library pass you need to bring your valid document with
your name, signature and photography plus a docu-ment from ten segment list as a proof of your address. High security required for your own safety.
If you do not have a pass
you are more than wel-come to order a book from British National Library through your University li-brary, book cost value do not matter if its market price is less than two thou-sand pounds. And you can
bring it home for consid-erable amount of time, in case you like to read while eating, watching tv or in a bath before going to sleep.
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Site model - preparation
He thought the Model has to be as precise as possible. Many visits on site have been done to document surround-ing buildings, details of them, count bricks.What been used: Bing map / Digi maps / Google mapsProcess: taking pictures / measuring on site / calculating / drawing / taking notes
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Book to check: A History of Building Types 1976, Nicolaus Pevsner.
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Phone rung:
Hello, Mr Stelingis. This is Islington Planning department. You can take a look at the documents you asked, it is ready today.
Later on…
Drawings from radio antennas spe-cialists came up to be useless. The incorrectness of these cad, line ‘paintings’ appeared to be, at some moments, one metre long.
One must trust the documents, but check it.
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how long it takes to produce a timber model
32 hours
LUCCON TRANSLUCENT CONCRETE :It is a material developed in the early 2000s by archi-tect and designer Juergen Frei. It’s basically made up of lasagna-like layers
of concrete and fiber op-tics through which light can pass. However, the mate-rial is sealed and just as strong as concrete.Available in thicknesses from 10mm to 500mm,
Luccon can also vary in pattern from straight lines to wavy, depending on the dramatic effect needed. From bathrooms to stairs to bar tops and nightclub walls, it has tons of com-
mercial and residential ap-plications.
(www.design-milk.com/luccon-transparent-con-crete/)
MOIBuilding constructed according of the view from entrance inside. In-triguing room inhabitation controls parameters of space, outer/inner. Space is open an free, with no defined function there is no defi-nite distinction between inside and
outside. Inhabitation is the theme and a project itself. Each person inhabits the wall different.
‘Careful with that Axe Eugene’, Pink Floyd
Must develop my idea further by combining brief that is given.
‘It is not enough time to make everything by yourself at the best possible quality. You must make a decision on your priorities.’ Ads
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MOIInhabitable wall. As studio flat/room is furnished with ready in-stalled kits, there is no separation between inhabitation and archi-tectural form. Design is based on ergonomics. Smithsons project: ‘Ideal home’
MOI There are several inhabitants, they have different life experi-ence and stories. They must be pleased individually by the quality of space.Ernest Hemmingway: dead / writer / loves journeys.
Crit 4.1 (07 02 2012)
Crit appeared to be lacking of evidence of it’s presence. All left: one sentence of notes and a picture of myself presenting work in progress during the crit.
Notes: It is a corner building.Think about pragmatics.
[Pragmatism] - philosophical tradition concentrated on the linking of practice and theory. It describes a process where theory is extracted from practice, and applied back to practice to form what is called intelligent practice.
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This is the best repre-sentation of the whole building. Lots of the same rooms overfilled by people. House of congestion.
3D DIGITAL MODELS – TESTING
First model was made to test the idea in a collage with site pho-tography:
DH +LH BLOCK DWELLERS - OPTION FOR A STORY (declined)
APARTMENT DWELLER DEMAND STORY
X1 Young painter Open courtyard with a with a place for a column in the centre Ian made his career being seventeen, when he have sold a painting for the amount of 2499.24. He found himself paranoid about drawing Suprematism style like col-umns. Now he is Twenty-six and successfully work as independent painter. He wanted to move to an apartment where he would be able to keep his new eighteen feet tall column.
A2 Family of four Access to the roof and dynamic view to the city
D3 Couple in their 30s Open plan
N4 Single guy, View to the church D a n i s h conformist
Y5 Family of three Tall ceiling open rooms and lots of light
Q6 Woman in her forties Study space and home library Writer from France, born in Paris – write about Lon-don.
W7 Family of four Private entrance, large gar-den.
LH – 124 STUDENTS A need for communal space, in-cluding: kitchen, study area, view to the city, home theatre. DH – 115 OFFICE OCCUPANTS A need for communal space with
a kitchen and access to the roof top.
1. Women in a wheal chair. age: 25 occupation: PhD student Needs: the lift is needed. She needs large passages for her wheal chair. all the rooms need to be designed for the person in a wheal chair: lower handles and switches, special shower as well as restroom. kitchen equipment exc. About her: she got in the car ac-cident when she was 5 and became disabled. it didn’t affect her life in a way that she is still skying and skydiving. her hobby is traveling and she wants to become social worker who travels around the world and help disabled people try new things.
2. musician age 37 Occupation: self-employed musician. Needs: sound proof walls at least in one of the rooms. the room must be designed to have good acoustic. About him : a song writer as well musician. He spends most of his time at home in his music studio. his hobby is collecting old CD disks which he puts on the walls. 3: family of four occupation: husband is a manager and his wife is a house wife. their two kids are attending school Needs: wife spends most of her time home so she needs an open living space and kitchen that she would be able to make meals and have a chat with her family. A lot of light.
S,M,L,XL Selection of work produced by the Dutch firm Office for Met-ropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) in its first twenty years. The inventive collaboration between Koolhaas and designer Bruce Mau is a graphic overture that weaves together architectural projects, photos and sketches, diary excerpts, personal travelogues, fairy tales, and fables, as well as critical essays on contemporary architecture and society.
_1 People who occupies the buildings. (number of people in Davina and Libertiy buildings is real._2 Scheemes of content (proposed ear-lier)
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_1 ‘coartyard on layer 2’ white spray on black paper. 594 x 841 mm_2 sketches ilustrating idea._3 OMA, Parc de la Villette plan.
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‘’The essence of the competition therefore becomes: how to or-chestrate on a metropolitan field the most dynamic coexistence of activities x, y and z and to gen-erate through their mutual inter-ference a chain reaction of new, unprecedented events…’’(15) there naturally appears a ques-
tion is x, y and z is an activity or an axis. Mysterious style to express simplicity or a way by describing ‘’simple’’ to maintain and mature intelligence. One could say that Koolhaas simply meant to designate sequence of different objects. As he might do the same with other alphabet
symbols. At this point reader can reveal the beauty of Koolhaas graceless style of writing which is flourished of complexity. Other might think it was a philosophical question to develop the project in unrevealed way with an ambi-tion of inventing new. ‘An idea is an archetype of the manifold
varieties of existence in the uni-verse, belonging to the super sensible world. – Plato’
Footprint
In 1977 OMA intensified participations in international competitions. One of the major projects was held in France. Parc de la Villette now usually named most prestigious competition of the decade was organised in 1982. Site capacity of half a millionsquare metres in north-western Paris determined project to be the largest landscaped park in the city and a challenge for an architectural practice.
The idea comprises 5 steps:1. The major programmatic components are distributed in horizontal bands across the site, creating a continuous atmosphere in its length and perpendicular, rapid change in experience.2. Some facilities - kiosks, playgrounds, barbecue spots are distributed mathematically according to different point grids.3. The addition of a “round forest” as architectural elements.4. Connections5. Superimpositions
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DH + LH facade zoomed detail.
Anton Marrast – artist, pro-duces surreal images.
‘I’m Anton, and i’m making pictures.All the rest is meaningless.’(www.grape-frogg.com/info, personal website)
_1 model (DH + LH ) south facade._2 collage_3 work space.
following pages : detail photographies.
Inspiration Model :
First model 1:250 made from styro foam and wire.The density and complex arrangement of objects is pleasing. There were three main objects:Circular room, which structure covers courtyard /lightweil area.RampWire net with cubic rooms (dimension of cube is determined by the rhythm of east façade detailing.
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‘The wise man is as-tonished by anything’ – Andre Gide (1869-1951)
Be foolish, stay hungry.
‘The final lesson of history: lets never go back there again.’ – Nietzsche
‘Judge a man by his question rather than by his answers’ – Voltaire
Labyrinth:
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SLS machine – in cross section cuts must be not less than 1mm.
On ‘deep courtyard’It is not about comfort, it is about a statement. One
can live independent, pri-vate life what so ever one’s believes are. I can isolate the city as myself. Ads
Story of the Ownership
Davina House owner Mr X. refurbished building seven years ago and converted it in to an office building. While Liberty House owner Mr Y. bought the old factory building, which has a party wall with already known Mr X. building, ten years ago. In 2004 he extended Liberty house space, making a new building next to the existing one. He devel-oped 115 single bedrooms and rented it for students. Mr X. came up with an idea to build a rooftop extension over Davina House and Liberty Students Accommodation. He introduced Mr Y. with the idea. Mr Y. caught it straight away. Statistics have been checked on Islington.gov, to figure out how this development could possibly contribute to the area.
UNHILL AND CLERKENWELL AREA ACTION PLAN - TOPIC PAPER 2: HOUSING The number of dwellings in the area has increased significantly in recent years, and this growth is likely to continue. Planning permissions in the area ac-count for over 2,000 homes, and there is theoretical capacity for an additional 2,000 dwellings.This increase in dwellings outpaces “natural” population increase in the area, based on London Plan estimates that Clerkenwell’s population will grow by 2,417 people between 2008 and 2020,
Islington Core Strategy Topic Paper: Affordable Housing
3.0 An explanation of Policy 12, part G of the Core Strategy 3.1 Policy 12, part G, states that 50% of additional housing in the Borough should be affordable. Based on London Plan targets, over 10 years this equates to 4,960 units in relation to the Borough’s overall conventional London Plan housing target of 9,920, or 4,610 of the proposed 9,220 unit target in the consultation draft replacement London Plan, published October 2009. Over 15 years this equates to 7,440 under the current London Plan and 6,915 under the draft replacement London Plan.
Affordable housing was considered.
Sustainability strategy 2010/2012Preparing for the Future: Islington’s population isgrowing, and we have a target set by the Mayor ofLondon to develop 1,000 new homes per annum.Government has set targets for all new homes tobe zero carbon by 2016.
Across the world there is a rapid increase in urban living and an ever greater understanding of the consequences of global climate change. London is experiencing warmer, wetter winters, hotter, drier summers and we can expect much greater changes in the decades ahead.(Greater London Authority, Living Roofs and Walls
Technical Report: Supporting London Plan Policy, London, 2008)
_1 Proportion of residents living in social rented housing, www.islington.gov.uk._2 scheme of house prices and sales volume, www.islington.gov.uk.
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1:250 modelWith a gap on the corner, which allows to get a view to the City. Structure sits just on the limits of the roof but do not extends over. Around a light veil formed terraces are pushed back not to obstruct the light for student accommodation. 2-3 floors structure.
Test Davina House façade model. Aiming to check which details is important to express. As well testing for cast model.
Massing models
Test massing possibilities on site. 1:50 scale models allows to check the impact of pro-posed mass in the city context. From street level, bird eye.
Styrofoam In 1941, researchers in Dow’s Chemical Phys-ics Lab found a way to make foamed polysty-rene. Led by Ray McIntire, they “rediscovered” a method first discovered by Swedish inventor Carl Georg Munters. Dow acquired exclusive rights to use Munters’s patents and found ways to make large quantities of extruded polystyrene as a closed cell foam that resists moisture.
Environmental concernsStyrofoam is mostly uneconomical to recycle or otherwise process environmentally as part of a consumer waste stream, and can be lethal to any bird or sea creature that swallows signifi-cant quantities.
_3 timber model with latest proposal on top (proposal material - MDF board), from both sides: models made of styrofoam.
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The History of Sir John Soane’s Museum13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London Sir John Soanes (1753 –1837)
In plan and detail it is very complex structure. Thousands of objects exhibited all over the house unifies the structural elements into fluent story. Moving walls (in the west gallery), mezzanine, courtyards, narrow corridors makes it sort of phenomenological house of one’s. There comes a feeling that floors has levels in between, but actually there is no such a place in the house, apart of stairs.
Sir John Soanes Museum
www.soane.org.ukCurrently the catalogue of Soane’s Library (in manuscript and with very abbreviated entries) can only be consulted at the Museum. Work to recatalogue the Library to modern bibliographical standards is nearing completion, and over the next three years groups of entries will be made available on the website at intervals as the editing is completed. Users are warned that, although every effort will be made to ensure ac-curacy, this is work in progress, and revisions may be made.
Sir John Soanes libraryThe Library of Sir John Soane, Architect (1753-1837) is preserved along with the rest of his other collection in his house at 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, which he left to the nation as a Museum on his death in January 1837. Nothing has been added to or taken from the Library since then, and as such it represents a remarkable time capsule and window into one person’s mind.The Library consists of just over 6,000 titles, and is the only known professional library of an architect of the early 19th century.
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The History of Sir John Soane’s MuseumThe architect Sir John Soane’s house, museum and library at No. 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields has been a public museum since the early 19th century. Soane demolished and rebuilt three houses in succession on the north side of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, beginning with No. 12 between 1792 and 1794, moving on to No. 13, re-built in two phases in 1808-9 and 1812, and concluding with No. 14, rebuilt in 1823-24. On his appointment as Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy in 1806 Soane began to arrange the Books, casts and models in order that the students might have the
benefit of easy access to them and proposed opening his house for the use of the Royal Academy students the day before and the day after each of his lectures. By 1827, when John Britton published the first description of the Museum, Soane’s collection was being referred to as an ‘Academy of Architecture’. (www.soane.org/history)
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Air circulation in the light veil.
Look for more particular materials for especially this building.
Chirperfield Wakefield, Museum. Combination of roomsand iregular plan makes it as a small village.
Crit 4.2 (02 03 2012)
- Good cityscape photographs. You need to illustrate your proposal from the street level, not only from birds eye view as currently shown.- You need the diagrammatic plans to show how the massing relates to the configuration of apartments and circulation to apartments.- Current massing with small inner courtyards could work well if within apartments, new external access could work well with horizontal circulation around lightwell.- The façade sketches are very promising and suggestive, while the detail collage is crude. The recesses, the void/solid, in and out, vertical rhythm of the proposed and how it loosely and precisely relates to the rhythm of the existing pilasters is convincing. However, are there options to the poly-carbonate façade, which provides more outlook and ventilation?- Is your proposal completely flat? Do you want it to be perceived as completely flat? Consider the perspective illusion of the recessed areas of the façade. References:
- David Chipperfield: Hepburn, Wakefield
Chirperfield Wakefield, Museum.
www.hepworthwakefield.org
HOW DOES THE HEPWORTH WAKEFIELD FITS WITH YOUR DESIGN PHILOSOPHY?
David Chipperfield: It is fundamental to our work that there is a strong relationship between the spatial internal experience of a building, the building form and the context surrounding the building. It is also our belief that architecture should be both familiar and unfamiliar, in other words that we must develop new architecture but it must carry formal ideas that respond to memory and experience.
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Considering construction type
Svartlamoen housing
Client: Svartlamoen housing trustProject: Social housing, 1040 sqmLocation: TrondheimContractor: Stjern AS
We‘re really going to talk about the housing project, Strandveien 37, but I’ll begin with its slightly unusual prehistory.
Briefly, it’s a tale of a gang of punks and anarchists who took over a small quarter of a city, managed to do a deal with the council, and then built a wooden house unlike anything Norway has seen before.
(Lecture at Royal Institute British Architects. London. February 2006)
On 1 April 2005, the project was inaugurated and 31 people – who had participated in the planning process – moved into the two wooden buildings. The taller building facing Strandveien contains a commercial space and four flats, each shared by a collective of five to six people. The smaller building contains six one-room flats. The high residential density of the building, 22 m2 per person, is in sharp contrast to the otherwise expansive needs of Norwegians (at 50 m2 per capita, the most generous in the world). The project’s density, construction technique and rough detailing account for the low cost of the building, 1.8 million euros; and the rent of 350 euros for a share in a flat, well below the Norwegian market.
BRENDELAND & KRISTOFFERSEN ARKITEKTER A/S
_1 townscape photography, colour indicates development._2 site map
Art creates artists creates jour-ney. Journey of art in the dwell-ing. ‘They are immobilizing as they look to the past, since on dare not disturb the time line.’ (The utopian fantastic, 2004, p. 26)
Energy demands: More windows – more required cooling, heat-ing. Requirements for different locations. ( Colin Davies, Green building, 2009, p.56)
Birkhauser – great publisher for construction books.
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Stairs regulations
Private stairs:
Rise 155-220mmGoing 245-260mm
Institutional stairs:
Rise 135-180mmGoing 280-340mm
Risers in one flight has maximum of 16.
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Building Regulations allow that twice the rise plus the goingmay be between 550 and 700 mm, and permits rises of up to220 mm and goings of minimum 220 mm in private stairs. OneContinental source recommends that twice the rise plus the goingshould lie between 630 and 660 mm.
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MOI Manhattan transcripts gives inter-esting attitude to explain and cre-ate architectural composition. First scene of murder (first episode): ‘the suspect and the ever-changing architectural events.’One sits in the office (DH) , have all fears in his mind (fear of dark, fear
not to be heart, fair of fail). Phe-nomenological house transforms by itself on the roof top.How many fears we have? Where all this energy is kept? For how long it will sustain undetermined?One day it appears to be built on the roof. Someone, an intruder gets in this structure made by so-
cial mind.
Space that you desire to explore but contradiction with fear is not making it simpler.
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The distance between Davina house and 4 story building is 3600 mm. Proposed entrance with stairs and lift is 3000 mm. This means is within 3 metres Party Wall notice distance.
Section 6(1), where -
(a) a building owner proposes to excavate, or excavate for and erect a building or structure, within a distance of three metres measured horizontally from any part of a building or structure of an adjoining owner; and
(b) any part of the proposed excavation, building or structure will within those three metres extend to a lower level than the level of the bottom of the foundations of the building or structure of the adjoining owner.
PARTY WALL
What is a Party Wall?
In simple terms a party wall divides the buildings of two owners with the boundary between ownerships usually, but not always, positioned at the centre of the wall.
The Party Wall etc. Act 1996 recognises two different types of party wall:
_4 Party Wall notice (www.myproperty-guide.co.uk)_5photography of Davina house and neighbour building, 3600 mm distance. Collage – DH main entrance._6 (Building Surveyors Division, Party Wall legislation and procedure, a guidance note, UK, third edition 1995)
From WEB LEARN
GOVERNMENT POLICY & REGSwww.communities.gov.uk/planningandbuilding
SUSTAINABLE PRAC-TICE www.eartharchitecture.orgwww.akdn.org
Bosnian Valley of Pyra-mids - biggest archeo-logical project in Europe in 2006
The hill named Visocica became the focus of international attention in Oc-
tober 2005 following a news-media campaign promoting the idea that they are human-made and the largest ancient pyramids on Earth.
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proposal
load bearing columns
In 1943 completed – Palacio Gustavo Capanema ( tower has similar details as Mies, Seagram building.)
Mies van de Rohe – Seagram Building 1958, 157m heigh.
Existing buildings - structure
Primary site for this project was Davina House. But it appeared to be three buildings attached with each other. This means it has two party walls. There was a choice to include Liberty House into proposal:
Davina House [DH] – Liberty House [LH] (renovated) – Liberty House [LH2] (newly built)
DH
It is built in late 1890s as a factory. Has seven storey with the basement. Load bearing structure:Internal columns rises from foundation (in total seven columns), made out of concrete. External walls are load bearing. Thickest part of the wall is four brick thickness.Floors slabs are calculated to take big loads of industrial machines. Roof can take much less loads.
Oscar NiemeyerBorn 1907. Is a Brazilian architect, one of the main architects in 20th century modern architecture. On of the projects: Ministry Foreign Affairs.
Fidel Castro once said: ‘Niemeyer and I are the last Communists of this planet.’
Currently 104 years old.
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One must be inspired what ar-chitecture profession can pro-duce.
MOIEach of the small offices below have its own ‘hut’ (phenomeno-logical house). New law chapter is developed: ‘if one rent an of-
fice space, one is provided by a place on the rooftop as one’s personal oasis. On the brake everybody every body go to their personal huts. Bots arranges the setting of the huts.
‘An attitude that emulates the child’s vision is not sufficient,’ (The Good Life, p.104)
‘presentation that stimulates a child’s vision is not sufficient’ ads
‘We must learn to join the love of work with the love of higher things, musn’t we?’ – Martin Scorcese
Liberty House [LH]
Originally built on the Marquess of Northampton’s estate the ground floor and base-ment of the building was occupied by the London Joint Stock Bank and a Post Office. The remainder of the building served as a factory spaces.
Architects: F. Boreham and Son and Gladding.
Source: The Building News, Feb 21 1913 (Supplied by English Heritage)
Load bearing structure:Completely the same as Davina House. (with seven load bearing columns and so on)
Liberty House [LH2]
Built in 2004. Considering the date it was built and the planning drawings it has, choice was made not to include this part in to roof extension proposal.
LMU
Spring House 40-44Holloway RoadLondonN7 8JL
_1 Indication scheme, shows three build-ings: DH, LH, LH2._2 DH building._3 Internal DH photography, columns._4 Liberty House_5 The Building News, Feb 21 1913 (Supplied by English Heritage)_6 Liberty House 2
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Exterior walls - solid / void
Davina and Liberty building is sort of landmark of the area. It ap-pears to be exposed and visible from far way in six streets and seven directions. I thought that one would not want to live in such an exposed environment. Task is to develop an exterior design that would sustain privacy and at the same time would provide light. Void / solid principle.
At first considering ‘polycarbonate boards’ :
It seems this material suits museum and large public use buildings need perfectly. But there is pure connection with existing Buildings ( Davina and Liberty houses). As well material do not satisfy when using for domestic purpose. No view. Rejected.
Precedent:
Steven Holl expansion of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of ArtKansas City, MO, United States, 1999-June 9, 2007
PROGRAM: museum addition and renovationSIZE: 165,000 sfCONSTRUCTION COST: $85,900,000STATUS: completed
METworks
At the heart of Metropolitan Works is the Digital Manufacturing Centre, housing a range of new technology for prototyping, manufacture, research and experimentation.Metropolitan Works is committed to bringing crea-tive talent and London and UK manufacturers together, “providing the tools for creative minds
to innovate”.Part of London Metropolitan University, Metropoli-tan Works also incorporates Design Nation, and Exchange, London’s only Creative Knowledge Exchange. (www.metropolitanworks.org/about_us/)
Painting with oilThis representation introduce structural arrangement but ma-terial itself stays vague and un-determined.
Palette :
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Attention to the existing building
While making detailed, elevation drawings: using photos, measure-ments, counting bricks. At some point after a while seems you built it again, brick by brick. Promenade do not exist anymore. Each building in your way has its place in some sort of system. Detail has another meaning now.
Countless combinations of existing building elevations gives ideas. I am convinced that last two floors has some details that will appear on proposed elevations.
Robert Venturi – Complexity and Contradiction (1960)
In Complexity and Contradiction, Robert Venturi issued his “gen-tle manifesto” against what he termed “the puritanically moral language” of late modernism.
_1 DH + LH collage._2 Material collage, two storey high_3 precendent_4 layered external wall sketch_5 cad exploration of existing building details_6 laser cut detailsfor 1:50 scale model.
‘I am not attracted to straight an-gles or to the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. I am attracted to free-flowing, sen-sual curves. The curves that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuousness of its rivers, in the waves of the ocean, and on the
body of the beloved woman. Curves make up the entire Universe, the curved Universe of Einstein.’
Oscar Niemeyer
MOI Project must be already used / the story is already on track – project becomes alive.
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Students accommodation LH and LH2
Government Strategic Guidance for London andLondon Borough Of Islington Unitary Development PlanIt encourage provision of student accommodation. The provi-sion of 115 single study bedrooms with shared kitchen, lounge and bathroom facilities in this highly accessible location directly contributes to addressing the need identified in Strategic Plan-ning Guidance for London and UDP to increase the quantity and range of such facilities within the Capital.
LoungeRenewed plans for student accommodation excludes lounge and bathroom facilities as sharing. Each room has en-suited bathroom facilities. Lounge, which would be the main gather-ing space for all students appeared to be unimportant and was declined.
Communal space proposed ( DH + LH )There is a need for 115 students to meet at their own building, to communicate and share interests. In this case there are proposed 100 square metres extension of students building on the rooftop of the existing Davina House.
Studen accommodation
Studen comunal space
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Nowadays, groups of 6 or 8 students are considered more satisfactory with shared self-catering facilities. 12 or more do not form cohesive group. Each student has around 1.4 square metres in the kitchen.( not full meal service). Full meal service
1.7 – 2 per student. (Architect Handbook)
In Liberty house there are 10 students per kitchen. Washing facilities in the basement.
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‘Louis Sullivan, in full Louis Henry Sullivan (born September 3, 1856, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died April 14, 1924, Chicago, Illinois), American architect, regarded as the spiritual father of modern American architecture and identified with the aesthetics of early skyscraper design. His more than 100 works in collaboration (1879–95) with Dankmar Adler include the Auditorium Building, Chicago (1887–89); the Guaranty Building, Buffalo, New York (1894–95; now Prudential Building); and the Wainwright Building, St. Louis, Missouri (1890–91). Frank Lloyd Wright apprenticed for six years with Sullivan at the firm. In independent practice from 1895, Sullivan designed the Schlesinger & Mayer department store (1898–1904; now the Sullivan Center) in Chicago’. (H.F. Koeper, Encyclopedia Britannica)
_1,1.2 Lippincott’s magazine, Philadelphia, 1896_2 Auditorium Building, Chicago (1887–89)_3 the Guaranty Building, Buffalo, New York (1894–95
Studio is aiming to create roof top accom-modation to existing building and possible to contribute to the city.
Architecture main con-cern is to unfold human life for the best of living.
Construction Wainwright Building10-story red brick office building.The Wainwright Building is among the first skyscrapers in the world. It was designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan in the Palazzo style and built between 1890 and 1891.
Louis Sullivan
American first modern architect.Often his design involved masonry walls with terra-cotta design.Work is usually associated with the Art Nouveau movement in architecture.Form follows function.
The tall office building artistically considered – L. Sullivan
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Atelier Olschinsky – City / complexity (series of drawings)founded in 2002 is a small creative studio based in Vienna, Austria. Peter Olschinsky and Verena Weiss are operating in various fields such as graphic design, illustration, photography and art direction.
_4 Carson Pirie Scott department store in Chicago (1899-1904)_5 applying Sullivan’s idea of an of-fice building for DH. 1:50 model_6 Sketches on Luis Sullivan ‘The tall office building artistically considered’.
M. Bachelard: ‘There is more to be found in the hidden real thatn in the immediate known quantity’(… writing about ‘ob-jects. Patrick Waldberg, Surrealism, 1965)
‘Simplicity is an ultimate sophistication’ – Leonardo Da Vinci
‘The perfect is the enemy of the good’ - Voltaire
MOI
DH + LH is not an ordinary roof top struc-ture. It is layer 2 of the city. It lose all con-nections with previous background and makes a start to sustain live
up there. Yet there are no junctions between DH + LH and other layer 2 structures in the area. In this case it has a connection with the ground level or layer 1: stairs and elevator.
It is said about a building with 10 – 20 stories. DH + LH is 6 stories in height. Extension makes it 8 floors.Some thought that office building should have the qualities of column.
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crit 4.3Crit 4.3 (28 03 2012)
Tutors: James Payne, Nina LundvallCritics:Pascal Flammer, Pascal Flammer Architects, teaching associate of Valerio Olgiati,Academy of Architecture Mendrisio, Switzerland & Harvard University, Cambridge USA.
Jay Gort, Gort Scott Architects, teacher of undergraduate studio in Cambridge University. Rosamund Diamond, Diamond Architects, Founding member of 9H Gallery and magazine.
Simon Jones, Architect, furniture designer, associate tutor.
‘City seems to grow by layers’ - Why does the city grow like this? Densification? Profit fromthe free space and the experience of the rooftop?4.1Well made 1:250 massing model, shows the proposal clearly in the city context.Photographs describe well the long views to the corner site as a point of convergence ofmany streets - make sure you have all of them to emphasize this point. Detailphotographs show existing building well but have not yet explored materiality and colour ofthe proposed.4.2Well drawn elevations, more sections needed to show how the existing connects to thenew. Plans are difficult to read, use shading to show different uses and circulation.MDF model unfinished - should be altered so you can see the building without the roofextension.4.3Why have you added two floors? Is it a visual, contextual or structural judgement? What isthe reason for the courtyards? How can these support a way of life? What determines theceiling heights, can they be very generous?Consider internal layouts of apartments more, they are quite cramped and labyrinthine.Make interior models or images to explore these spaces more. How can they takeadvantage of their rooftop position?Is your idea of relating to the exterior about courtyards (whether in the middle of the planor on the edge) and not windows?You are restricting your project by an ‘a priori’ decision to extend the columns up, this doesnot work well with small inhabited spaces and courtyards.What are the structural limitations, you should make diagrams of the existing building.The abstraction of the facades (without facade windows) and the way they step back isinteresting. Why is the roofline and roof flat?Further CommentsUnclear what is driving the project, too many factors are confusing the development.There needs to be a clear hierarchy of what is important. The idea of creating spaces andviews for other users of the building complex to give them a different experience of the cityis strong. Consider what is generic about housing and what is specific about the contextand the city. Explore the typology of housing (your study of the housing of Fritz vanDongen helps) That is enough to generate the project, do not add another layer ofcomplexity by attempting to design for imaginary specific clients.IDA Day CommentsConsider the limitations of a timber structure in this context, it should be fire rated. Needto see the thickness of the roof structure, how do you end the existing building - technicallybut also in terms of the architecture. Look at the work of Louis Sullivan - the buildingalready has a strong feeling of the North American city. The Carson Pirie Scott Buildingdeals with a corner. Look at development of the tall building for IDA diary in 1880sChicago. ‘The Tall Office Building Artistically Consideredfi by Louis Sullivan.Consider structure, is it cellular or is it a frame. Timber ‘olumnsThere is no need to extend the columns but you should locate and extend the serviceducts.What determines the number of floors and people to add? Is it too high? Think about theboundaries and effects on surrounding buildings. What is the facade doing? Is it a systemthat can be manipulated? Look at how the facade works in the interior - consider thecultural issue of the window.
Pascal Flammer
Studied architecture at the ETH Zurich, Lausanne, TU Delft and traveled extensively in Europe, South America as well as the Middle and Far East. He opened his practice in 2005 and has since then been awarded the Swiss Art Award,
the Weissenhof Architecture Award and the Architekturpreis 2012.Pascal gained his experience through his time at Valerio Olgiati, where he worked from 1998 until 2005. He has taught at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Switzerland and at the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University, Cambridge.
1973 born in Fribourg, Switzerland1994 School of Architecture (ETH Zurich, TU Delft, EPF Lausanne)2001 Dipl. Arch. ETH / Master of Science in Architecture2005 Member of SIA (Swiss Engineers and Architects Association) (www.pascalflammer.com/about)
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Why proposal has two floors? Why courtyard? What is the main thing that drives the project? Analyse what I have produced already. Use diagrams. What is clear explanation of building design?What comes first architecture or inhabitation (relates to C2 project) Lots of topics – salads.The whole package of ideas has one major.Make more readable plans.Complexity – it do not convince if there are too many ideas (not in uni)Which idea is the most important? Take it and concentrate.
Layer 2 living – provides up there what you have on the ground. Coaryard. Referencing to John Soanes museum, complexity of the plan.
Plan is very personal, objective thing, there is no single best plan.
Rosamund Diamond Studied architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL. She worked with practices in London and Oxford before establishing DA Architects. She has taught at the Architectural Association London and the Oxford School of Architecture. She has co-edited a number of books on architectural sub-jects and is an editor of the architectural journal 9H. Layla Shamash became a consultant to the practice in 1998.
Jay GortGort Scott Architects, teacher of undergraduate stu-dio in Cambridge University.
Rachel Whiteread ( born in 1963, won Turner prize in 1993, British, most influence from Bruce Nauman(1941) ) – house 1993.
it is a copy of...
... Gianni Pattena- Ice House 1971
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Go after your genius. Ar-chitecture embodies ideas – open mind.
Roof – looking from the neighbour building is like a third façade. Roof has to protect from:
moisture, cool, wind, hot. Must transfer forces ex-erted by self-weight, snow, rain and active loads.
Continue masterplan.. work the way you love, love what you do.
Birkhauser – great publish-er for construction books.
Crit IDA (30 03 2012)
Tutors: James Payne, Nina Lundvall
Critics: Carsten Vellguth
Introduction:I have great interest on the idea that city could be read as sort of layered organism which is steeping up. I have imagined that my rooftop should have the qualities that has houses on the ground. Green area/ private garden. While considering on courtyard I been exploring the context and discovered that this building is sort of landmark of the area. It appears to be exposed and visible from far way in six streets and seven directions. I thought that one would not want to live in such an exposed environment. My task is to make an exterior design that would sustain privacy and at the same time would provide light. Void / solid principle.
Notes:
Why two floors? (should I make a diagrams?)Complexity –complicated space, (to think about)Check Louis Sullivan, Tall office building artistically considered.Taking the roof of and not replacing?Exterior and interior connection, think about façade.
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Carsten Vellguth technology tutorSystems of Control‘Perhaps it is a fear of the implications of a situation that encourages us to con-form? Fear of feed shortages, fear for my health, fear for my family and fear for my income, prevent me from rebel-ling against the systems that control my
life and lock me in a state of accept-ance. Some of us try to escape, but very few actually manage to stay on the outside. The majority of as are led by a conscience dominated by architectural conventions carbon footprints, the next tax bill or other disasters.’(Carlos Villanueva Brandt, AA Agendas No. 10 London + 10, London, 2010)
Contradiction or rather a question
Why someone who want to rebel against the established system, locks himself in such a tight frames during the work. I always feel a lack of freedom while considering construction issues together. Is this his way of teaching a student to be reasonable and have a sense of reali-
ties or traps of the same system which is against any form of freedom?
_1 Main stair and coridors, axonometric, cad drawing._2 view from ‘top coartyard’ apartment, looking south._3 coridor no.1_4 coridor no.2
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Hello,
I am 3rd year student of architecture course. I would be very thank-ful if you could take one or couple photographies from your apartment. I
am aiming to see the big, red brick building in the opposite side of the street. Hopefully with surrounding townscape. It is called Davina house and Liberty Student hall.
Thank you very much.
My email: ADS0363@m y . l o n d o n m e t .ac.uk
(this text went to 30 flats in Turnpike buldign
which is opposite my project site.)
ASDstory
Goal:Attach a architectural project to a tutor from school which represents his values in architecture.
Project The he/she have developed.Company he/she is involved with, (project to chose is the one that entitled for award).
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Carsten Vellguth technology tutorSystems of Control‘Perhaps it is a fear of the implications of a situation that encourages us to con-form? Fear of feed shortages, fear for my health, fear for my family and fear for my income, prevent me from rebel-ling against the systems that control my
life and lock me in a state of accept-ance. Some of us try to escape, but very few actually manage to stay on the outside. The majority of as are led by a conscience dominated by architectural conventions carbon footprints, the next tax bill or other disasters.’(Carlos Villanueva Brandt, AA Agendas No. 10 London + 10, London, 2010)
Contradiction or rather a question
Why someone who want to rebel against the established system, locks himself in such a tight frames during the work. I always feel a lack of freedom while considering construction issues to-gether. Is this his way of teaching a student to
be reasonable and have a sense of re-alities or traps of the same system which is against any form of freedom?
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Existing building has a grid of load bearing columns. From the beginning there was an idea to continue these columns up, by applying timber frame construction.
Letter to Step Haiselden (Tall Engineers)(letter includs pdf with visual information)
Step,My studio theme is rooftops. I have proposed two storey apartment space on top ofthe existing building. I need an advice on construction method that I could apply.At first I have an idea that I could continue existing columns. In this way I made my1:50 model. But as I am considering timber frame construction, not sure is this thebest option. As well considering timber panel construction, but then these columnsthat I have made in my model makes no sence.Could you advice which construction method is more suitable in this case. Would begood if you could write me some reference as well.Other point. What is the maximum floors that existing building can take on top?How does it relate to particular construction method? What is the weight it can take?How I could figure out it by myself? Some reference would help.RegardsAgnis Stelingis
Letter from Step Haiselden (Tall Engineers)
Agnis, Thanks for your email earlier this week.Timber frame construction makes sense as it allows you to collect the loads of the extension on top of the existing columns. Remember that you will need to provide for lateral stability by bracing (or similar) in two orthogonal directions. I agree that a frame is better than a panel-type construction in this case.To assess the additional load or number of floors that the building might take you could try to find out the amount of live load that a factory might have been designed for in about 1900 and compare it with the live load required for the current use. I would guess that the current loads are less than the original ones so adding one or two storeys is probably not going to overload the foundations. However, you will need to think about whether you think the existing roof might need to be replaced if it hasn’t been designed as a floor (roofs are usually designed for much smaller loads than floors).The last questions that you ask are very technical and would require very detailed knowledge of the existing building construction. I recommend that you focus your energy on designing a lightweight extension that marries you architectural intent with what you already know about the existing building.I hope that helps a bit!Best,Step
KLH- uk
KLHcross-laminated timber.Board thickness is around 57-300mmFire safety – 0.76mm/minWeight is 480-500kg/square metre.
(London+10 ,p.122, fiction an inves-tigation)Situationists leader – Guy Debord, he introduced: flanerie or derive (it is related).[Derive] – aimless wandering For instance: taking a map of Lon-don and following it strictly, while
actually walking through mountain-ous German countryside.VPA – Virtual Psychogeographic Association, Examples of exploring online.For instance: going from one web-site to other, probably systemati-cally.
Derives leads to a different under-standing of surroundings. ‘ The emotional disorientation is the potential discovery of the new’ (Technologies and Utopias, p.91) The situationists search engages especially with the environment and partly with fellow human beings.
‘In the derive, subject is intoxicated, thus the city becomes blurry…’
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Design was complex. Columns created uncomfortable grid.Decision was made to get rid of the frame structure.
Solid timber construction was applied.
Structure notes
What structure to use?Cost effectiveWhat are the benefitsIs it continuous structure, same materiality?How does the slab looks in cross section?
solid timber construction
Solid timber panels varies in weight from 450 to 500kg/m3
Benefits:Easy to build on site, takes less time than most of the other types of con-struction, do not disturb surrounding environment.Very well in fire resistanceGood thermal insulation, Acoustics Has internal claddingLoad bearing wallsVaries in thickness
Warm roof deck scheme works same as solid timber.
Drainage pipes goes down 1mm each 200mm.
TransportationHow to transport panels through the city?
Panel Construction (Holzwirtschaft Schweiz, System in Timber Engineering, Zurich, 2008, p.62)
Gap in between the existing roof and new structure floor approx.: 400mm
_1 timber frame structure, rooftop level._2 Drawing 001Section through construction:Solid timber construction external wall showing win-dow opening, junction with ground floor. Suspended floor and roof. Vertical section, plinth (Holzwirtschaft Schweiz, System in Timber Engineering, Zurich, 2008, p.48)
_3 Tom Robertshaw sketch during Integrated design consults on 20th of April. New load bearing grid on the existing roof and foundation for main stairs._4 Drawing 002Vertical section, plinth (Holzwirtschaft Schweiz, Sys-tem in Timber Engineering, Zurich, 2008, p.120)_5 Consultancy with Iain Maxwell_6 DH +LH model, 1:50 scale, structure.
Debord noted in ‘’Theory of the Derive’’: The derive was not simply an updating of nineteenth century flaneries, the Baude-lairean strolling of the ‘’man in the crowd’’ ‘ (Guy Debord and the Situationists Internationale, p.257)
(London+10, p.123)‘Fiction maps or sets of instruc-tions, guide the urban drifter, leading him to experience unex-pected routes and discover new connections’
Bernard Tschumi described two
definitions of the role of Fiction in architecture: Fiction as narrative.Fiction as scenarios relevant to architectural programs and func-tions(Previously I had an idea to make a project real by a wish of stu-
dent. Relating readings: The fic-tional estate – ‘The Estate’)
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Materials - choice
Characteristics:
Marine plywood is specially treated to resist rotting in a high-moisture environment. Its construction is such that it can be used in environments where it is exposed to moisture for long periods.Marine plywood for construction, suitable for exterior purposes subject to the right treatment/coating by the user.Each wood veneer will have negligible core gap, limiting the chance of trapping water in the plywood and hence providing a solid and stable glue bond.It uses an exterior Water Boiled Proof (WBP) glue similar to most exterior plywoods.Marine plywood is frequently used in the construction of docks and boats.
Price in United Kingdom:Most of companies offering marine grade plywood for around £25 (inc vat) per board (2440x1220x9mm).
Helsinki – underground city.
THE WORLD’S FIRST UNDERGROUND CITY PLAN21/12/2009
Helsinki’s City Planning
Department has prepared an underground plan to ensure well-managed development of the city below surface. The plan is ready for final approvals. Helsinki is the only city in the world to have prepared such a plan.
A total of 400 different facilities have already been built underground in Helsinki, totalling 9 million square metres, and there are reservations for another 100 facilities including tun-nels and for 40 rock
resources suitable for underground construction.
(www.wdchelsinki2012.fi)
MOIWhere congestion is high, as in DH + LH there is a need for ‘mind and soul facilities’. Which reflects the style of inhabitation and sort of brings it to higher level.
One image can make the project.
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Countless hours in workshop as well as developing drawing in cad. 16 square metres of ply and 9 times trip to ‘Met Works’. Many conversations with Ed and Marcus, whose been able to get my laser-cut pieces on time.Built in various thicknesses of ply-wood, MDF boards, aluminium tubes, glue, card.In one month three foundation year architecture students expressed feel-ing to shake my hand for this model.It is still unfinished. Last brushes are needed.
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ARCHITECTURE – SCRIPTScript (in a movie for instance) has its culmination. Architectural composition is like a script. Building contains variety of scenes. Excitement / fulfilment of the masterpiece.
_1 photography, from above, directed south west ._2 photography from uper cantilevered coridor.
IDA day – consultancies with engineers.
INTEGRATED DESIGN CONSULTS -- FRIDAY APRIL 20TH -- 10:00 -13:00TOM ROBERTSHAW
Time
Consultant time is limited. Each student has 15 minutes to explain his project, ask questions and get feedback.I took 55minutes. Many unhappy faces.
Conversation topics
What type of timber?How services will go up to the extended floors?Gap in between the floorsSolid timber constructionMarine grade plywoodStairs and foundationWhat is the additional load?
Active load / passive loadFactory - 10kN/m2, (kilo newton per square metre) versus domestic - 1.5 kN/m2How to access the site?Fill the gap ( light foam product – misapor)
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ritical analysis (A2/A3)Intellectual engagement (A1)Creative and personal development (A1/A3)Communication (A1/A2)
OVERALL FEEDBACKThe project is a landmark in the city, but what does it give to the city? Is it a curtain hiding the world that is going onbehind or does it express itself more as a rooftop village? The idea of the city is recreated on top of your building. Is thisreally the top/finish of the building or another layer that could be added to later?4.1Street elevations show the proposal well in its context, the detail of the facade needs to be explored more as you work updetailed sections for the technical report. How does the fa-cade operate, does it move or is it hung? How do the dif-ferentlayers and densities work - what kind of windows are there? Find the regularity and rules of the system and then use itfreelyConsider the parapet to the roof, fence or solid?What is the roofline? Is it the facade moving in and out and the roof is flat or are there different roof levels?4.2The project uses the existing building well, like the Soane has a sectional complexity - does it have an equivalent of theroof lanterns?. Plans are still quite difficult to read at a glance, some subtle toning of different apartments would help.
4.3Use the existing parapet depth to locate your transfer struc-ture, make a clear diagram or drawing of this as agreed withthe structural engineer. Explore the inhabitation concept, an idea of privacy but with views out to city and the sky. Draw/render the project at night so you can test what you can see from below.
Florian Beigel
Born: 1941
education: 1961 Abitur, Wieland Gym-nasium at Biberach/Riss, Germany1968 Diplom Ingenieur (Ar-chitecture) University of Stuttgart
1969 Master of Science, Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College London.
position: Professor of Architec-ture, London Metropolitan University Director, Architecture Research Unit, London Metropolitan University
Philip Christou Has worked with ARU since 1985. He was born in 1956. He began his uni-versity education at McGill University, Montreal, then studied Fine Art at the University of Lethbridge and The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design before coming to London to study architecture at the Architectural Association.
crit final
Laisves Avenue [LA] - Los Angeles [LA]
What is in common without the abbreviations? Laisves Ave. how life goes there?Esence is to make real my experi-ence in LA and transmit it to mate-rial that it could be experienced
by other.
What is this experience of LA in my memories? Time/ conditions: warm, summer night. Drunk, warm, late, delirious, crowded barsWhat this has to do with archi-tecture?
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Roof inhabitation has not been considered enough yet, if there is a roof space for the office workers - how to do thiswithout compromising privacy of the apartments. How does ownership work?Do more studies of the inside - most of the presentation shows the outside. Show more of the context and theexperience of being on the roof. Show the relationship be-tween the spaces and the city.
Further CommentsA strong project with an ambitious complexity. Still worth doing a little more exploration and testing. Use the IDAtechnical report to now really explore structure, materiality and the experience of the spaces in more detail. Explore oneor two apartments in more detail and at a larger scale.
My notes
‘System makes you free’ J.P.Visuals at night. How DH + LH looks at night from the street level?Plans – shade/ colour.Separate units – schemeFlorian Beigel – ‘Village on top’
Test it:Village on top? Do I see it? Do I want to?Inside wall straight?Visuals of insideMystery ?
University graduate attributesA1 Self awareness: to have the attribute of knowing oneself and beable to understand and clarify personal strengths and weaknessesthrough personal development planning; to be able to developcareer management tools and to represent one’s own abilities withconfidence and self esteemA2 Performance in a variety of idioms and contexts: to have theattribute of understanding the limits and applicability of the subjectdiscipline and to be able to perform as a graduate in a variety
of idioms and contexts by incorporating a fluent awareness ofthe subject and the wider picture into personal, and professionalpractice, and to be able to communicate this awareness effectively.A3 Creative and ethical: to have the attribute of analyzingproblems and making creative and purposeful change andadaptation with an awareness of ethical and moral codes anddemonstrating integrity of conduct, including an awareness of, andrespect for, cultural diversity
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The
first
exe
rcise
in d
esig
ning
new
ro
ofto
p in
habi
tatio
ns w
ill b
e on
e of
ad
ditio
n. N
ot ju
st to
the
build
ing
you
will
con
stru
ct u
pon
but t
o th
e ci
ty
surr
ound
ing
it. M
ore
deta
iled
surv
eys
of th
e ex
istin
g bu
ildin
gs a
s w
ell a
s th
e te
chni
cal,
spat
ial a
nd c
ircul
atio
n iss
ues
of th
e m
ultip
le u
nit a
partm
ent p
roje
cts
you
will
des
ign
will
be
cons
ider
ed in
fu
ture
brie
fs.
Aer
ial p
hoto
grap
hs
As
a st
udio
com
pile
obl
ique
aer
ial
phot
ogra
phic
imag
es o
f the
ent
ire
stud
y ar
ea c
onta
inin
g al
l the
site
s.
Prin
t at a
n ag
reed
sca
le in
bla
ck a
nd
whi
te o
n he
avyw
eigh
t pap
er.
Phot
ogra
phs
Take
city
scap
e ph
otog
raph
s fro
m
ever
y po
ssib
le lo
catio
n th
e ex
istin
gbu
ildin
g is
who
lly a
nd p
artly
visi
ble
from
.Ta
ke tw
o de
tail
phot
ogra
phs
of th
e ex
istin
g bu
ildin
g ex
pres
sing;
A) t
hem
ater
ial c
hara
cter
; B) h
ow th
e bu
ild-
ing
ends
at t
he to
p/m
eets
the
sky.
Urb
an fi
gure
s
Con
stru
ct a
col
lage
, usin
g on
e of
the
city
scap
e ph
otog
raph
s, o
f you
r firs
tid
ea o
f a m
assin
g to
cro
wn
the
exist
-in
g bu
ildin
g. L
eave
out
any
det
ails
such
as
win
dow
s, in
favo
ur o
f a p
ure
mas
sing
volu
me
and
a co
lour
.
Bri
ef 4
.1 A
dditi
on
Nin
a Lu
ndva
ll J
ames
Pay
ne &
Sim
on J
ones
Und
ergr
adua
te S
tudi
o 5
Lond
on M
etro
polit
an U
nive
rsity
City
Cro
wns
Con
sider
the
follo
win
g:•
Ove
rhan
ging
/ flu
sh/s
et b
ack/
sh
adow
gap
.•
Hei
ght/
pro
porti
on in
rela
tion
to th
e ex
istin
g bu
ildin
g an
d co
ntex
t. Is
the
mas
sing
as ta
ll, ta
ller o
r low
er?
• S
traig
ht/
tape
red/
ste
pped
vol
ume.
• P
artia
lly o
r who
lly o
ccup
ying
the
exist
ing
roof
pla
n.C
onst
ruct
a c
olla
ge, u
sing
your
det
ail
phot
ogra
ph o
f the
exi
stin
g bu
ildin
g’s
roof
edg
e, to
exp
ress
the
mat
eria
l qu
ality
of y
our m
assin
g pr
opos
al a
ndho
w it
mee
ts th
e ex
istin
g.
Con
sider
the
follo
win
g:•
Sur
face
qua
lity:
shi
ny/
mat
t/
coar
se/
smoo
th/
colo
ur.
• S
cale
, joi
ntin
g, p
rofil
e an
d ev
en
wea
ther
ing
of th
e m
ater
ial.
Site
mod
el
Mak
e a
whi
te p
aint
ed ti
mbe
r site
m
odel
of t
he e
xist
ing
build
ing
and
itsim
med
iate
con
text
. Sca
le: 1
:200
. Ma-
teria
ls: T
imbe
r & w
hite
pai
nt. B
eaw
are
ther
e ar
e m
any
diffe
rent
sha
des
of w
hite
. Coo
rdin
ate
for a
ll th
e sit
em
odel
s w
ithin
the
stud
io to
be
pain
ted
with
the
sam
e pa
int m
ixtu
re.
Take
aer
ial o
bliq
ue p
hoto
grap
hs o
f th
e sit
e m
odel
as
exist
ing
from
diffe
rent
dire
ctio
ns.
Mod
el y
our m
ass-
ing
on th
e sit
e m
odel
and
pho
togr
aph.
Refe
renc
es:
‘Clim
ate
Regi
ster
’ A
& P
Sm
ithso
n,
AA
Pub
licat
ions
, 199
4‘R
ache
l Whi
tere
ad D
raw
ings
’ Pre
stel
, 201
0
Water Tower, Installation view at MOMA New York, Rachel Whiteread, 1998
150
PAGE 67
In th
is br
ief y
ou w
ill c
onsid
er th
e ex
ist-
ing
build
ing
that
you
will
bui
ld u
pon
in m
ore
deta
il in
term
s of
its
stru
ctur
al,
func
tiona
l, sp
atia
l, el
evat
iona
l and
m
ater
ial q
ualit
ies.
Elev
atio
nsD
raw
all
the
elev
atio
ns o
f you
r bas
e bu
ildin
g at
a s
cale
of 1
:50
in m
ono-
chro
me
(bla
ck o
r gre
y) li
ne o
nly.
Use
av
aila
ble
draw
ings
, you
r ow
n su
rvey
no
tes
and
phot
ogra
phs
to m
ake
an
accu
rate
cat
alog
ue o
f dra
win
gs in
th
e sa
me
way
that
Rub
ens
prod
uced
a
cons
isten
tly d
raw
n re
cord
of t
he
Pala
ces
of G
enoa
.U
se li
ne w
eigh
ts to
con
vey
dept
h,
hier
arch
y of
det
ail a
nd m
ater
ialit
y.
Any
det
ails,
join
ts an
d br
ick
cour
ses
shou
ld b
e ac
cura
tely
dra
wn
alon
g w
ith s
igna
ge a
nd o
ther
acc
retio
ns.
Plan
s an
d Se
ctio
nsD
raw
line
dra
win
gs o
f the
pla
ns a
nd
sect
ions
at a
sca
le o
f 1:5
0. T
hese
do
not
hav
e to
be
as d
etai
led
as th
e el
evat
iona
l dra
win
gs.
As
a m
inim
um,
draw
the
grou
nd fl
oor p
lan
show
-in
g en
tranc
es a
nd re
latio
nshi
ps to
th
e st
reet
, the
top
floor
pla
n an
d th
e ro
of p
lan.
Dra
w s
ectio
ns th
roug
h th
e bu
ildin
g th
at s
how
inte
rnal
stru
ctur
es,
spac
es a
nd v
ertic
al c
ircul
atio
n.
Exis
ting
build
ing
Plin
th M
odel
Mak
e an
MD
F m
odel
at a
sca
le o
f 1:
50 o
f the
exi
stin
g bu
ildin
g. T
his
is to
be
the
‘plin
th’ f
or y
our o
wn
Bri
ef 4
.2 E
xist
ing
Bui
ldin
g
Nin
a Lu
ndva
ll J
ames
Pay
ne &
Sim
on J
ones
Und
ergr
adua
te S
tudi
o 5
Lond
on M
etro
polit
an U
nive
rsity
City
Cro
wns
roof
top
apar
tmen
t bui
ldin
g. T
he
mod
el fa
cade
s ar
e to
be
cons
truct
ed
of th
in la
yers
of M
DF
on a
thic
ker
back
grou
nd s
heet
. Se
t in
relie
f, th
e w
indo
ws
will
ther
efor
e be
bla
nk a
nd
solid
with
no
view
s in
to th
e in
terio
r.
Sim
plify
and
abs
tract
the
deta
il of
the
faça
des
whi
lst re
tain
ing
thei
r cha
rac-
ter.
Con
sider
the
dept
h of
the
faça
de
and
its d
etai
ls su
ch a
s co
rnic
es, l
inte
ls,
strin
g co
urse
s, m
oldi
ngs,
win
dow
fra
mes
and
pie
rs w
hen
desig
ning
m
odel
tem
plat
es.
Test
ing
Scal
es o
f Inh
abita
tion
Plac
e yo
ur 1
:50
prec
eden
t mod
el
from
brie
f 2 o
n th
e ex
istin
g bu
ildin
g m
odel
, pho
togr
aph
it an
d dr
aw it
on
the
roof
pla
n. S
ituat
e th
e un
it on
the
roof
and
con
sider
wha
t is
need
ed to
su
ppor
t it.
Con
sider
the
scal
e of
the
livin
g sp
aces
com
pare
d to
you
r pre
vi-
ous
mas
sing
stud
ies
and
the
spat
ial
cons
eque
nces
of m
ultip
le u
nits.
Cor
e, U
nits
and
Cir
cula
tion
Dra
w p
lan
and
sect
ion
diag
ram
s of
ci
rcul
atio
n, u
sing
exist
ing
or p
ropo
sed
new
cor
es to
reac
h th
e ro
ofto
p. S
how
re
siden
tial u
nits
layo
uts
and
pote
ntia
l sh
ared
spa
ces.
Thi
rd y
ears
sho
uld
cons
ider
use
s w
ithin
the
build
ing,
tech
-ni
cal a
nd re
gula
tory
asp
ects.
Refe
renc
es:
‘Pal
azzi
Di G
enov
a ’ P
ietro
Pao
lo R
uben
s,
Torm
ena
Edito
re, 2
001
(firs
t edi
tion.
162
2)‘C
arus
o St
Joh
n,A
lmos
t Eve
ryth
ing,
’ Edi
tione
s Po
ligra
fa, 2
008
King’s Cross Office building study model, Caruso St John, 2003Section from ‘Palazzi Di Genova,’ Pietro Paolo Rubens, first edition 1622
151
PAGE 79
Hav
ing
esta
blish
ed d
etai
led
info
rma-
tion
on th
e ex
istin
g bu
ildin
g as
wel
l as
diag
ram
mat
ic p
lan
layo
uts
and
mas
s-in
g of
you
r roo
ftop
apar
tmen
t add
ition
yo
u w
ill n
ow m
ove
tow
ards
a re
solv
ed
prop
ositi
on.
This
brie
f will
focu
s on
th
e re
latio
nshi
p be
twee
n th
e in
side
and
outsi
de.
Elev
atio
nsC
ontin
ue y
our e
leva
tion
draw
ings
up
at 1
:50
with
pro
pose
d el
evat
ions
of
the
addi
tion,
incl
udin
g de
tails
and
m
ater
ialit
y. H
ow d
oes
the
expe
rienc
e of
the
city
from
the
inte
rior m
anife
st
itsel
f in
the
faça
de, t
hrou
gh w
indo
ws,
te
rrac
es e
tc?
Inte
rnal
Lay
outs
Con
sider
in m
ore
deta
il ho
w in
tern
al
apar
tmen
t lay
outs
rela
te to
com
mun
al
circ
ulat
ion
area
s an
d ou
tdoo
r priv
ate
area
s as
wel
l as
verti
cal c
ores
and
ac
cess
to th
e ro
of. C
larif
y ap
artm
ent
type
; on
one
or m
ore
floor
s, o
pen
plan
or s
epar
ate
room
s, d
uple
x, fa
m-
ily o
r cou
rtyar
d ap
artm
ents?
How
do
you
pro
pose
a w
ay o
f life
in th
is ro
ofto
p w
orld
, a d
iffer
ent e
xper
ienc
e of
the
city
, the
vie
ws
and
the
sky?
Dra
w 1
:50
plan
s an
d se
ctio
ns.
Stru
ctur
eEn
sure
the
load
of p
ropo
sed
roof
top
deve
lopm
ent i
s br
ough
t dow
n th
e ex
istin
g st
ruct
ure,
whe
ther
dire
ctly
or
thro
ugh
a tra
nsfe
r stru
ctur
e, o
r with
ad
ditio
nal s
truct
ure.
Con
sider
the
Bri
ef 4
.3In
teri
or -
Exte
rior
Nin
a Lu
ndva
ll J
ames
Pay
ne &
Sim
on J
ones
Und
ergr
adua
te S
tudi
o 5
Lond
on M
etro
polit
an U
nive
rsity
City
Cro
wns
scal
e of
the
deve
lopm
ent,
incl
udin
g th
e nu
mbe
r of u
nits
and
num
ber o
f st
orie
s.
Build
abili
tyH
ow is
the
roof
top
deve
lopm
ent t
o be
bu
ilt?
Intro
duce
idea
s of
stru
ctur
e an
d pr
efab
ricat
ion.
Exp
lore
con
cept
s of
re
petit
ion,
mod
ular
ity a
nd li
ghtw
eigh
t co
nstru
ctio
n, e
xpre
ssed
or c
once
aled
st
ruct
ure.
Con
sider
how
ser
vice
s co
uld
conn
ect t
hrou
gh th
e ex
istin
g ris
ers.
Mod
els
Upd
ate
1:25
0 m
odel
s an
d us
e th
e 1:
50 m
odel
to m
ake
sket
ch m
odel
s to
sh
ow h
ow in
terio
r rel
ates
to e
xter
ior
Roof
top
Out
look
Illus
trate
the
expe
rienc
e of
the
city
fro
m th
e in
terio
r usin
g th
e m
etho
ds o
f re
pres
enta
tion
deve
lope
d in
brie
f 2.
Con
sider
the
desig
n of
the
win
dow
an
d fa
çade
whe
n m
akin
g th
is im
age.
Whe
ther
thro
ugh
a w
indo
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IDA diary 2011 / 2012
London Metropolitan UniversityFaculty of Architecture & Spatial Design
Studio tutors:James Payne, Nina LundvallIDA Module Leader: Iain Maxwell
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