Showing posts with label Vicenza. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vicenza. Show all posts
Saturday, April 5, 2014
Monday, March 17, 2014
P3X2 Focus for P3 Programming and Schematic
As discussed in studio.
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Program.
Consider the division of area in the project as a conceptual problem. Write out the elements you propose and make a first pass at guessing their allotment, first as a percentage and then as a square foot area (include a square meter conversion because we may have Italian jurors on the final). I want you do do what necessary to understand the area taken up by the uses, and the corresponding volume if taken generically. However, I do not want you begin the project as an exercise in rearranging these boxes. Have the information you gain from doing the "size exercise" in the back of your head as you manipulate form intuitively. Paraphrasing Zumthor, I may set up rules for a project, but what good are they if the design doesn't feel right?
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Urban Proposal.
A complicated site does not required a complicated solution. Volumetric exploration at urban scale in plan and section (3D process) is necessary to test ideas. Explore scenarios in conversation with us and with each other.
Nolli and Piranesi. Consider that the Nolli plan is a map of open space with degrees of public-ness. It is only a plan however. What happens in section? We have the imaginations of Piranesi to fill in some blanks. Many are from his mind many are drawings and etchings of actual places (artistically interpreted). In the Nolli plan private spaces read as solid (residences, businesses), while a variety of public space types appear open (basilicas, churches, courtyards, cloisters...). In our site,
the adjacent loggias (Palladio and Longhena) are open volumes not solids.
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The park.
Research the park history. The adjacent area history. Consider the current state of the park. Use the information to inform your approach to the design.
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Post the following:
List of program elements / percent area / sf / sm
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A statement of program intent.
Define these elements with short explanations. What to you expect them to do in relationship with the city? the park? each other? etc? These may address external forces as well as internal forces.
A statement of morphological/architectural exploration.
Your project is an investigation and test of civilized activity in the history of urbanity and building arts. Briefly describe the meta-context(s) within which you are framing this investigation. For example, "this project explores the value of reinforcing the edge of the medieval city where the old fortification wall is replaced by new construction, specifically, where the medieval wall abuts a large public space such as a park or garden. The value of limited access along an edge is blah, blah, blah."
Do the following and post as a second post (both with same label):
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Program.
Consider the division of area in the project as a conceptual problem. Write out the elements you propose and make a first pass at guessing their allotment, first as a percentage and then as a square foot area (include a square meter conversion because we may have Italian jurors on the final). I want you do do what necessary to understand the area taken up by the uses, and the corresponding volume if taken generically. However, I do not want you begin the project as an exercise in rearranging these boxes. Have the information you gain from doing the "size exercise" in the back of your head as you manipulate form intuitively. Paraphrasing Zumthor, I may set up rules for a project, but what good are they if the design doesn't feel right?
.
Urban Proposal.
A complicated site does not required a complicated solution. Volumetric exploration at urban scale in plan and section (3D process) is necessary to test ideas. Explore scenarios in conversation with us and with each other.
Nolli and Piranesi. Consider that the Nolli plan is a map of open space with degrees of public-ness. It is only a plan however. What happens in section? We have the imaginations of Piranesi to fill in some blanks. Many are from his mind many are drawings and etchings of actual places (artistically interpreted). In the Nolli plan private spaces read as solid (residences, businesses), while a variety of public space types appear open (basilicas, churches, courtyards, cloisters...). In our site,
the adjacent loggias (Palladio and Longhena) are open volumes not solids.
.
The park.
Research the park history. The adjacent area history. Consider the current state of the park. Use the information to inform your approach to the design.
.
Post the following:
List of program elements / percent area / sf / sm
1.
2.
3...
A statement of program intent.
Define these elements with short explanations. What to you expect them to do in relationship with the city? the park? each other? etc? These may address external forces as well as internal forces.
A statement of morphological/architectural exploration.
Your project is an investigation and test of civilized activity in the history of urbanity and building arts. Briefly describe the meta-context(s) within which you are framing this investigation. For example, "this project explores the value of reinforcing the edge of the medieval city where the old fortification wall is replaced by new construction, specifically, where the medieval wall abuts a large public space such as a park or garden. The value of limited access along an edge is blah, blah, blah."
Do the following and post as a second post (both with same label):
- Create a dimensionally correct set of drawings of the site: plan, sections, elevations of adjacent facades.
- Sketch and draw and model concepts. These drawings should read similar to Nolli (figure ground-ish).
- Create a excel spreadsheet with a list of spaces and size distribution. Not overly details, but use formulas. I want to see this next meeting.
Monday, March 10, 2014
P3 Mixed-use Stitch in Fabric - Proyect Program
Project 3: (5 weeks)
Constructing an Urban Fabric for the 21st Century
Exploration of urban fabric and detail.
Site in Vicenza
From the syllabus:
Urban Goals and Objectives:
1. To analyze the city and understand it as a dynamic process of invention and experimentation in living.
2. To understand the unique urban fabric of context and place.
3. To consider the role of detail in the urban fabric.
Program Goals and Objectives:
1. To develop freehand sketching as a tool for understanding the experience of space
2. To develop hand drawing as a fluid tool in the design process in conjunction with traditional media, photography, and digital tools.
3. To practice the development of drawings that combine analytical information with conceptual intent, creating spatial impact.
4. To integrate an understanding of materiality and detail into studio design process
Semester Project Synopsis
Wall/Gate - 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.
Hybrid Bridge - 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.
In both projects it was important to explore and understand the form-making, space-making potentials of the tectonic vocabulary specific to these two cities of the Veneto. The peculiarities are tectonic, spatial and material, across a range of scales. They are typically not isolated elements. When examined in situ they work together as systems, even loosely, to make places.
As stated previously, our goal is not necessarily to have your projects become seamless with the immediate context. Ultimately, ideas are imported to places and become integrated by intelligent adaptation or fortunate misinterpretation, among others. Most integrations are products of translation. However, it is important that your work "React to" it's place. Reacting requires having a position, and having a position requires having an understanding.
On the final project of this semester 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
This is a larger and potentially more complex project that must be considered locally, regionally and within international architectural discourse.
P3 Mixed-use Stitch in Fabric
Overall project size, approximately 100,000sf (11,000 sm).
Program Components
Housing - 50 percent or more, of your choice and mix.
Commercial and Civic - 50 percent or less, of your choice and mix.
It is important that this project perform:
As an urban intervention that considers morphology, program and scale,
As an architectural construction that considers structure, material and detail,
As a speculative theoretical proposal that considers experience, history and urban planning.
Site
The site is along the north edge of Guardino Salvi. The existing exhibition hall building will be demolished. Your project must engage the park and Contra Ports Nova. It must consider the loggias at each end, one by Palladio and the other by Longhena. You may integrate the canal.
Work plan
March 10 - Commence
March 18 - Program proposal complete
March 25 - Schematic design complete
April 1 - Detail exploration complete
April 8 - Integrated project completed
April 15 - Final presentation drawings complete
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Flooded Fiume Retrone
Contra Ponte Furo bridge
Vortex of terror:
Only way the water flowed under the bridge
Goodies
Saturday, February 1, 2014
the basilica is falling apart!
I walked through the Palladio Basilica, and, to my surprise there are police and fireman strewn about the scene. I think to myself, "something terrible finally happened."
I take a closer look, and, to my disappointment, a brick decided he's had enough. Ripping himself away from the rest of his fellows and crashing to the floor.
Let us see if it looks new and fixed tomorrow; certifying the fake'ness of these European cities.
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