Saturday, June 16, 2012

Experiment 2 - feedback


Andrew
Key strength of the scheme: Your experimentation and rigour had been outstanding also well done on another interesting project. You have continually explored your ideas with great end results.

Most significant weakness of the scheme: Drawing quality

Danny
Key strength of the scheme: Very interesting spatial forms – and fit to the environment I would have liked to see more detail however. Also there was no continuity between your final work and your weekly progress.

Most significant weakness of the scheme: More refined drawings would have helped your presentation.

Dian
Key strength of the scheme: Some interesting bold forms and connection with the water is well done.

Most significant weakness of the scheme: Too simplistic – elements remain shapes/forms and don't translate well into architecture. Also many of your drawings are incorrect (I.e. not true one point perspectives or para line drawings). 

Ibrahim
Key strength of the scheme: Good improvement. Your 2 forms and their scale work well in the environment.

Most significant weakness of the scheme: Scheme could have benefited from further refinement. 2 monuments very basic in their relationship to each other and the environment. This could have been further developed. 

Judy
Key strength of the scheme: Beautiful drawings and great overall presentation skills. Well done on another great submission.

Most significant weakness of the scheme: More sophisticated link to your land form and surrounding would have benefited your overall monument. You could have demonstrated more of a relationship to the surrounds and in turn let this impact upon your design (not design in a vacuum). 

Martha
Key strength of the scheme: Well done on another great submission. Sophisticated spaces with innate good proportion and scale. Movement within space also good.

Most significant weakness of the scheme: Scheme lacks relationship between environment. It works as an object but not so well with its surrounds. More investigation needed here to develop your overall scheme.

Matthew
Key strength of the scheme: Monuments scale and its position/location within the environment.

Most significant weakness of the scheme: Your scheme needs much more spatial development. The monument still reads as a 2D object and needs more 3D realisation.

Maxim
Key strength of the scheme: Good development. Very interesting overall forms and relationship with the edge of the land form.

Most significant weakness of the scheme: Your monument reads well as a 2D element but needs more 3D resolution. More detail would have helped your refine the spatial quality of the scheme.

Nicholas
Key strength of the scheme: Good work and well done on producing a striking monument. Not only is the monument a striking object but so too is the relationship to the land form.

Most significant weakness of the scheme: Your scheme could be more cohesive. Some of its parts do not seem to fit together well. 

Olivia
Key strength of the scheme: Monumentality and scale fit well into the environment.

Most significant weakness of the scheme: Block forms are too simplistic and real lack spatial quality. Also lack of materiality and texture do not aid your scheme. 

Pearl
Key strength of the scheme: Scale and its fit to the environment.

Most significant weakness of the scheme: Lack of cohesion across your scheme some parts don't fit or work so well together. Also lack of textures and materiality detract from your submission too.

Rena
Key strength of the scheme: Beautiful textures and good design work.

Most significant weakness of the scheme: More development and process work (each week) could have assisted and benefited your overall submission.

Toby
Key strength of the scheme: Interesting spatial form and interconnection between the 2 monuments.

Most significant weakness of the scheme: More development and process work (each week) needed for your drawings. More refinement needed.

Vera
Key strength of the scheme: Great form and interplay between monuments and environment. Nice textures and materials also.

Most significant weakness of the scheme: Some of the elements could have been further refined. They still read as 2D objects not 3D spaces.

Yuki 
Key strength of the scheme: Some nice images and use of textures to delineate different form. Nice use of lighting too.

Most significant weakness of the scheme: Too basic a form and it needed more spatial development. Scheme remained as a 2D needed more 3D resolution. 















Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Experiment 2 Clients

Our tutorial group will research Frei Otto and Elizabeth Diller as clients for Experiment 2. Following are the 5 concepts for each client that arose out of discussions from our last studio tutorial.

Elizabeth Diller
1. Freeflowing, interconnected spaces and programs
2. Skin/surface and ideas of porosity, depth of field
3. Specific, crafted relationship to surroundings/environment
4. Manipulation of 'natural' elements as building materials (foliage, mist etc)
5. Use of technology to enhance spatial field (video, sound etc)


Frei Otto
1. Efficiency of structure/materiality and space
2. Experimental and unique
3. Static/stable states - tensile models as basis for creating areodynamic undulating forms
4. Biomimicry - looking to different cell structures as inspiration (soap bubbles etc)
5. Weightlessness and all encompassing superstructures/spaces

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Engine Heads.
These sections show the relationship and connections of various components and circulation paths. It is also useful to note the various spatial conditions within the different chambers and paths - changes in scale and proportion, changes in the complexity of the enclosure, smoothness and articulation of internal surfaces.

Icebergs.
A distinct contrast between submerged and visible parts, responding to the differing environments and weathering properties of air and water. Obviously a marked change in scale, but also a change in form and surface detail.

Leaf.
This cross section - through cells of a mutant leaf - is another example of an object composed of two distinctly different structural systems.

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Synthesis of sculpture, architecture, and the environment.





Frederick Kiesler. Endless House Project. 1960. The Museum of Modern Art, New York.



Welcome

Hi all

Welcome to Architectural Design Studio 1, and also to our studio blog. I will be posting information and material relevant to the studio work regularly so you should check it often; and I also encourage you to browse the blogs of the other studio groups. Could the students who have not done so please send me your blog address so I can link it to mine.

Thanks