At the following links you will find the final postings of students for each project.
Use the blog labels to navigate assignment process.
Project 1 - Wall/Gate (Vicenza) - Our first project on Vicenza allowed you to explore the history of the city through its historic edge and materiality. You uncovered the historic wall as fabric, as fragment and as object. The project caused you to react to the way that this edge became transformed because of the growth of the city and the introduction of new conditions of living. Your projects were attempts to recharge the condition of the historic wall through program, material and detail in concert to make space.
Project 2 - Hybrid Bridge (Venezia) - The second project explored a different kind of morphological force, path. In the case of Venezia, the canal. The project caused you to react to this special urban condition as it is present in form and in use. It was also conceived to challenge the notion of a distinct architectural object within a fabric of crooked, bending lines and edges, overlapping, indistinct terminations and beginnings. Your projects were attempts to weave in an intervention by transforming urban space, and by detailing with a focus on connecting old with new.
Project 3 - Mixed-use Stitch in Fabric (Vicenza) - This is a larger and potentially more complex project that must be
considered locally, regionally and within international architectural
discourse. We will continue the pursuits of the previous work concerning morphology, materiality and detail. You will more consciously consider your work in the context of the issues you were to explore in your speculative essay: CONTEXT, AFFECT, USE and PROGRAM, FORM, DETAIL, SCALE, PERFORMANCE, MATERIAL, TIME and PROCESS, and LIMITATION.
It is important that this project perform:
As an urban intervention that considers morphology, program and scale and,
As an architectural construction that considers structure, material and detail and,
As a speculative theoretical proposal that considers experience, history and urban planning.
