ASSIGNMENT 1.2: Diagramming the site
You will focus on your specific site’s characteristics.
You should particularly concentrate in:
- Analysis of nearby buildings: lot info, front dimensions, deep dimension, number of floors, heights, use.
- Analysis of vacant spaces or vacant lots.
- Analysis of courtyards, open private spaces within the buildings in the nearby blocks.
- Analysis of public open spaces, parks, green areas, playgrounds, parkings.
- Analysis of infrastructural systems, circulation systems.
- Analysis of commercial developments.
- Demographic, economical, social conditions.
References
http://www.lubbockisd.org/DistrictInfo/SchoolLocators/AttendZones08-09.pdf
http://planning.ci.lubbock.tx.us/pdf/books/LbkArchHeritage.pdf
http://www.lubbockisd.org/DistrictInfo/SchoolLocators/DistrictMap.htm
http://planning.ci.lubbock.tx.us/images/maps/
http://planning.ci.lubbock.tx.us/pdf/Neighborhoods.pdf
http://www.lubbockisd.org
http://www.lubbockschools.com/data/
http://www.publicschoolreview.com
GOOGLE MAPS-STREET VIEW-AERIAL VIEW
You should represent 3 diagrams, related to the project-site.
Each diagram should uses digital or analog modeling techniques. Illustrate sequences and moments of each diagram. Apply operations of 3D extrusions; conceive your final diagrams as they are related to spatial issues. Explain through your favorite media each diagram’s process.
Read the site graphically in a creative way, but concentrate on urban elements. You can be more conceptual or analyze real conditions. Translate different site conditions into tridimensional intuitions with spatial qualities.
Your site diagrams will be one of the generators of your building spaces.
The 3 diagrams will be printed in 3 color-pages of size 11x17.
Analysis Example: Existing buildings
Before conceiving any diagram, you need first to research on specific conditions, elements, presences, characteristics, etc.
- Your research could focus on the analysis (transformations over time, traces of the past) of historical buildings, or on the analysis of exceptional buildings, in the projects’ block or nearby.
- You should focus on general dimensions of the buildings, on floor height (analyze the façade), on depth and width, on openings, on volumes composition, and how they are related to other adjacent buildings in the same block, structurally, functionally, formally.
- Scale, materiality, quality of light and air, are just some of the issues you should be involved within your explorations.
Narrate your site analysis through 3 diagrams exploring 3 site conditions.
Readings list
See how to analyze cities through diagrams in the following suggested books:
Rem Koolhaas, “SMLXL”
Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos, “MOVE”
MVRDV, “Metacity, Metatown” and/or “FARMAX”
Digital Files
Save your final 3 pages into the digital folder called : visualLBB
Collect all information, images, texts, materials, and more you will use for this assignment into this folder.
Due on Wed, Jan. 21 Class pin-up
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
PHASE 1: EXPLORATIONS
ASSIGNMENT 1.1: Diagramming the city
The first phase of design will be involved with the overall schematic and conceptual development of your project.
The diagram is the beginning, is the key drawing that contains the entire project. The diagram expresses the idea of the project precisely. We will try to understand what a diagram is, working on a conceptual reading of the project-site and analyzing real conditions in a creative way.
Start to get familiar with the city of Lubbock analyzing its territory. Particularly, you should focus on the conditions and urban elements in your site proximity.
References
http://planning.ci.lubbock.tx.us
http://planning.ci.lubbock.tx.us/pdf/books/LbkArchHeritage.pdf
http://planning.ci.lubbock.tx.us/pdf/CityGoals/21stCent.pdf
http://planning.ci.lubbock.tx.us/maps.aspx
http://planning.ci.lubbock.tx.us/plans.aspx
http://planning.ci.lubbock.tx.us/DemoNEco/demoEco.aspx
http://planning.ci.lubbock.tx.us/pdf/Neighborhoods/AllNeighborhoods.pdf
http://planning.ci.lubbock.tx.us/pdf/LandusePlan1975-1986.pdf
http://planning.ci.lubbock.tx.us/images/1984Map.jpg
http://planning.ci.lubbock.tx.us/images/compAnnex.jpg
http://planning.ci.lubbock.tx.us/pdf/ZoningOrdinanceAug2005.pdf
http://codes.franklinlegal.net/lubbock-flp/
Choose and explore the following conditions in the chosen neighborhood in relationship with adjacent areas:
• City grid, districts, circulation north-south-east-west systems, street-systems, important public buildings, horizontal voids, vertical voids, hierarchy of infrastructural systems, vertical and horizontal connections, access-exit to the site, paths of specific destinations, existing green spaces, congestion, densification, rarefaction, events, programmatic bands-stripes, layering of activities or of traces, people flow, cars flow, movement, in different hours, during the day, at night, courtyards, open spaces, residual islands, images, brands, signs, advertising, water, views, night life, day life, entertainment, attractions, shopping…etc.
• People flow: movement, walking, shopping, working, leisure, any activity or dynamics….
• Spaces: interiors, inside, protected, hidden, big, small, dark, bright, old, new….
• Spaces: exteriors, outdoors, open, covered, empty, full, rare, dense…
• Buildings: façade, structures, components, presence, materials, adjacency, verticality, horizontality…
• Feel free to add and discover other conditions in the chosen neighborhoods.
Compose and print your research on a total of 6 (six) pages in 11”x17” format.
Represent your research using:
• Collage of images, pictures, detailed images, 2Ddrawings, simple given diagrams, simple mapping drawings, or any visual technique that could be useful to represent a city condition.
• Add some explanatory captions, short text or titles if necessary.
• Pages Layout is at your choice.
Save your final 6 pages into a digital folder called: visualLBB
Collect all information, images, texts, materials, and more you will use for this assignment into this folder.
Due on Fri, Jan. 16 Class pin-up
ASSIGNMENT 1.1: Diagramming the city
The first phase of design will be involved with the overall schematic and conceptual development of your project.
The diagram is the beginning, is the key drawing that contains the entire project. The diagram expresses the idea of the project precisely. We will try to understand what a diagram is, working on a conceptual reading of the project-site and analyzing real conditions in a creative way.
Start to get familiar with the city of Lubbock analyzing its territory. Particularly, you should focus on the conditions and urban elements in your site proximity.
References
http://planning.ci.lubbock.tx.us
http://planning.ci.lubbock.tx.us/pdf/books/LbkArchHeritage.pdf
http://planning.ci.lubbock.tx.us/pdf/CityGoals/21stCent.pdf
http://planning.ci.lubbock.tx.us/maps.aspx
http://planning.ci.lubbock.tx.us/plans.aspx
http://planning.ci.lubbock.tx.us/DemoNEco/demoEco.aspx
http://planning.ci.lubbock.tx.us/pdf/Neighborhoods/AllNeighborhoods.pdf
http://planning.ci.lubbock.tx.us/pdf/LandusePlan1975-1986.pdf
http://planning.ci.lubbock.tx.us/images/1984Map.jpg
http://planning.ci.lubbock.tx.us/images/compAnnex.jpg
http://planning.ci.lubbock.tx.us/pdf/ZoningOrdinanceAug2005.pdf
http://codes.franklinlegal.net/lubbock-flp/
Choose and explore the following conditions in the chosen neighborhood in relationship with adjacent areas:
• City grid, districts, circulation north-south-east-west systems, street-systems, important public buildings, horizontal voids, vertical voids, hierarchy of infrastructural systems, vertical and horizontal connections, access-exit to the site, paths of specific destinations, existing green spaces, congestion, densification, rarefaction, events, programmatic bands-stripes, layering of activities or of traces, people flow, cars flow, movement, in different hours, during the day, at night, courtyards, open spaces, residual islands, images, brands, signs, advertising, water, views, night life, day life, entertainment, attractions, shopping…etc.
• People flow: movement, walking, shopping, working, leisure, any activity or dynamics….
• Spaces: interiors, inside, protected, hidden, big, small, dark, bright, old, new….
• Spaces: exteriors, outdoors, open, covered, empty, full, rare, dense…
• Buildings: façade, structures, components, presence, materials, adjacency, verticality, horizontality…
• Feel free to add and discover other conditions in the chosen neighborhoods.
Compose and print your research on a total of 6 (six) pages in 11”x17” format.
Represent your research using:
• Collage of images, pictures, detailed images, 2Ddrawings, simple given diagrams, simple mapping drawings, or any visual technique that could be useful to represent a city condition.
• Add some explanatory captions, short text or titles if necessary.
• Pages Layout is at your choice.
Save your final 6 pages into a digital folder called: visualLBB
Collect all information, images, texts, materials, and more you will use for this assignment into this folder.
Due on Fri, Jan. 16 Class pin-up
STUDIO STATEMENT
This Studio has the intent to produce a comprehensive architectural project for the design of a school for the 21st century that critically examines life cycle and proposes innovative solutions in steel. The challenge will be the ACSA/AISC 2008-2009 Steel Design Student Competition: “…architects should consider the life cycle while designing buildings so that they may be adaptable, flexible, and offer change. Buildings of the 21st century need to be designed and built to accommodate varied life times, disassembly, deconstruction, reuse, prefabrication, and temporary structures.” (Competition Brief).
SITE
The site for the competition should foster a dialogue in its community regarding the current state and future of school design and construction. It should have access from a myriad of transportation options, be accessible on foot, and be safe. In addition, outdoor recreation, access to natural air and sunlight is important for children and should be considered in the development of the project.
Perbellini Studio Site: 2807 25th Street (Roscoe Wilson Elementary School);
White Studio Site: 100th Street to 102nd Street, between Frankford and Fulton Ave.
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
The designs but must be for an elementary school that accommodates at least K-5 grade years.
In addition, buildings need to be used more than just during the day. Twenty-four hour use cycle that offer more than one purpose will serve the larger community through varied programs morning, afternoon and evening.
This competition will provide a much needed theoretical and practical education in resilient school design.
You will follow the “Elementary school space allocation guide” of the competition brief. This data is a speculative space allocation based on precedents.
The data should be seen as a beginning to understanding fundamental space uses in a school.
Together with your studio master, the program may be elaborated, modified, combined based on the concepts of the design regarding life cycle assessment.
CODE INFORMATION
Refer to the International Building Code and the Lubbock Zoning Ordinance for information on parking requirements, height restrictions, set-backs, easements, flood, egress, and fire containment.
CONSTRUCTION TYPE
The design must be conceived in structural steel construction. A strategy should be considered that evaluates a method for taking advantage of steel’s properties and characteristics in order to conceptualize and propose a critical evaluation of the life cycle of an elementary school.
This project will allow you to explore many varied functional and aesthetic uses for steel as an ideal building material because it offers a high strength to weight ratio and can be designed as a kit of part or prefabricated to allow for quicker construction time, thus reducing the cost of construction. Schools constructed in steel are more flexible and adaptable to allow for diversity of uses over the life of the facility.
READINGS LIST
The American Institute of Architects, Rush, Richard D., Ed; THE BUILDISNGS SYSTEMS INTEGRATION HANDBOOK. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1986
Birkstead, Jan, Ed: RELATING ARCHJITECTURE TO LANDSCAPE. New York: Routledge, 1999
Clark, Roger H.; Pause, Michael; PRECEDENTS IN ARCHITECTURE, Analytical Diagrams, Formative Ideas, and Partis, 3rd Edition; Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons, 2005
Glass, Jacqueline; ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGY. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley/Academy, John Wiley and Sons, 2002
Guise, David; DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY IN ARCHITECTURE. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1985
Hendricks, Julie; Malarkey, Brian: THE KIRKSEY GUIDE TO A GREEN FACILITY. Houston: Kirksey Architecture, 2006
Kieran, Stephen; Timberlake, James: REFABRICATING ARCHITECTURE. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004
Killory, Christine; Davids, Rene; DETAILS IN CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE. New York: As Built, Princeton Architectural Press, 2007
Moore, Fuller: CONCEPTS AND PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURAL DAYLIGHTING. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991
Moorhead, Stephen, Ed; LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE. Gloucester, Massachusetts: Rockport Publishers, Inc., 1997
Fernandez, John, MATERIAL ARCHITECTURE: emergent materials for innovative and ecological construction, Architectural Press 2006, Chapter 2: time and materials, pg.31-74;
Kieran and Timberlake, REFABRICATING ARCHITECTURE: how manufacturing methodologies are poised to transform building construction, McGraw Hill 2004.
Perbellini Studio Notes
Studio: Room 608, Architecture Building
Office: Room 405, Architecture Building
Phone: 806 742 3136 x229
Email: maria.perbellini@ttu.edu
Office hours: MT 10.00-11.30am
White Studio Notes
Studio: Room 606, Architecture Building
Office: Room 1008 E, Architecture Building
Phone: 806 742 3136 x257
Email: John.white@ttu.edu
Office hours: MW 9.30-11.00am
Andrew Vernooy Notes
Studio: Room 606, 608, Architecture Building
Office: Room 1005, Architecture Building
Phone: 806 742 3136
Email: andrew.vernooy@ttu.edu
Assignments, readings, web-sites, digital-info
A list of assignments, links, books, articles, references, web-materials, images, lectures, comments and communications will be posted on the studio blog.
Studio Blog
http://www.5901perbellini.blogspot.com
http://www.5901white.blogspot.com
Journal
Each student must keep a personal journal updated and nurtured every day with notes, sketches, and writings.
Digital portfolio
Every student is responsible for his/her own digital portfolio on CD/DVD including the work of the entire semester. Each phase must be well organized in ordered folders and sub-folders. Constant up-dates and regular back-ups of your files is necessary.
See Course Syllabus for descriptions, goals, methods, and requirements.
This Studio has the intent to produce a comprehensive architectural project for the design of a school for the 21st century that critically examines life cycle and proposes innovative solutions in steel. The challenge will be the ACSA/AISC 2008-2009 Steel Design Student Competition: “…architects should consider the life cycle while designing buildings so that they may be adaptable, flexible, and offer change. Buildings of the 21st century need to be designed and built to accommodate varied life times, disassembly, deconstruction, reuse, prefabrication, and temporary structures.” (Competition Brief).
SITE
The site for the competition should foster a dialogue in its community regarding the current state and future of school design and construction. It should have access from a myriad of transportation options, be accessible on foot, and be safe. In addition, outdoor recreation, access to natural air and sunlight is important for children and should be considered in the development of the project.
Perbellini Studio Site: 2807 25th Street (Roscoe Wilson Elementary School);
White Studio Site: 100th Street to 102nd Street, between Frankford and Fulton Ave.
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
The designs but must be for an elementary school that accommodates at least K-5 grade years.
In addition, buildings need to be used more than just during the day. Twenty-four hour use cycle that offer more than one purpose will serve the larger community through varied programs morning, afternoon and evening.
This competition will provide a much needed theoretical and practical education in resilient school design.
You will follow the “Elementary school space allocation guide” of the competition brief. This data is a speculative space allocation based on precedents.
The data should be seen as a beginning to understanding fundamental space uses in a school.
Together with your studio master, the program may be elaborated, modified, combined based on the concepts of the design regarding life cycle assessment.
CODE INFORMATION
Refer to the International Building Code and the Lubbock Zoning Ordinance for information on parking requirements, height restrictions, set-backs, easements, flood, egress, and fire containment.
CONSTRUCTION TYPE
The design must be conceived in structural steel construction. A strategy should be considered that evaluates a method for taking advantage of steel’s properties and characteristics in order to conceptualize and propose a critical evaluation of the life cycle of an elementary school.
This project will allow you to explore many varied functional and aesthetic uses for steel as an ideal building material because it offers a high strength to weight ratio and can be designed as a kit of part or prefabricated to allow for quicker construction time, thus reducing the cost of construction. Schools constructed in steel are more flexible and adaptable to allow for diversity of uses over the life of the facility.
READINGS LIST
The American Institute of Architects, Rush, Richard D., Ed; THE BUILDISNGS SYSTEMS INTEGRATION HANDBOOK. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1986
Birkstead, Jan, Ed: RELATING ARCHJITECTURE TO LANDSCAPE. New York: Routledge, 1999
Clark, Roger H.; Pause, Michael; PRECEDENTS IN ARCHITECTURE, Analytical Diagrams, Formative Ideas, and Partis, 3rd Edition; Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons, 2005
Glass, Jacqueline; ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGY. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley/Academy, John Wiley and Sons, 2002
Guise, David; DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY IN ARCHITECTURE. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1985
Hendricks, Julie; Malarkey, Brian: THE KIRKSEY GUIDE TO A GREEN FACILITY. Houston: Kirksey Architecture, 2006
Kieran, Stephen; Timberlake, James: REFABRICATING ARCHITECTURE. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004
Killory, Christine; Davids, Rene; DETAILS IN CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE. New York: As Built, Princeton Architectural Press, 2007
Moore, Fuller: CONCEPTS AND PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURAL DAYLIGHTING. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991
Moorhead, Stephen, Ed; LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE. Gloucester, Massachusetts: Rockport Publishers, Inc., 1997
Fernandez, John, MATERIAL ARCHITECTURE: emergent materials for innovative and ecological construction, Architectural Press 2006, Chapter 2: time and materials, pg.31-74;
Kieran and Timberlake, REFABRICATING ARCHITECTURE: how manufacturing methodologies are poised to transform building construction, McGraw Hill 2004.
Perbellini Studio Notes
Studio: Room 608, Architecture Building
Office: Room 405, Architecture Building
Phone: 806 742 3136 x229
Email: maria.perbellini@ttu.edu
Office hours: MT 10.00-11.30am
White Studio Notes
Studio: Room 606, Architecture Building
Office: Room 1008 E, Architecture Building
Phone: 806 742 3136 x257
Email: John.white@ttu.edu
Office hours: MW 9.30-11.00am
Andrew Vernooy Notes
Studio: Room 606, 608, Architecture Building
Office: Room 1005, Architecture Building
Phone: 806 742 3136
Email: andrew.vernooy@ttu.edu
Assignments, readings, web-sites, digital-info
A list of assignments, links, books, articles, references, web-materials, images, lectures, comments and communications will be posted on the studio blog.
Studio Blog
http://www.5901perbellini.blogspot.com
http://www.5901white.blogspot.com
Journal
Each student must keep a personal journal updated and nurtured every day with notes, sketches, and writings.
Digital portfolio
Every student is responsible for his/her own digital portfolio on CD/DVD including the work of the entire semester. Each phase must be well organized in ordered folders and sub-folders. Constant up-dates and regular back-ups of your files is necessary.
See Course Syllabus for descriptions, goals, methods, and requirements.
INTRODUCTORY EXERCISE
What game shall we play?
You will analyze children’s ludic activities, or/and children’s actions, potentialities and instruments with an aptitude toward play.
Play implies the choice of a field, rules and a framework, but also the idea of expansion and change without limitations. A game can be different plays; can be related to an evanescent, virtual space (video-games, online-games) or to a real, known surrounding space (hide-and-seek), or to an unpredictable space. Games extend into physical space that is permeated by devices, sensors, information technologies.
Choose your favorite playing situation, game or ludic activity. Particularly, you will focus on the following components:
- Creativity, fantasy, luck, competition, excellence, pleasure, imagination, safety, scenarios and situations, dynamics, movement, stimulation of emotions, illusion, magic, ambiguity, spatial relationships, ability, rules, fictions, freedom towards experience, adventure and narration.
You should explore forms of relationships between the real or the conceptual space of play and the special role of the player/players.
Process
Compose an assembly of 8 ½ x 11” images, combined with digital or hand drawings/sketches, and /or diagrams representing the narrative of your selected play/game/ludic activities.
Mount your process of visual mapping on a horizontal cheap-board stripe, max length 36” (3 ft), max height 11”.
Use colors only in selected areas/zones/parts, to emphasize a concept running through the entire stripe.
You must also apply the following manipulations to selected parts of the images/drawings/diagrams: cutting, layering, overlapping, folding, and bending.
The resulting narrative should have a 3D graphical and physical result.
References
Alberto Iacovoni, Game Zone, IT Revolution series, Birkhauser, 2004
Steffen P. Walz, Space Time Play. Computer games, Architecture and Urbanism: the next level, Birkhauser 2007
www.playbe.com
www.spacetimeplay.org
www.gigglepotz.com/kidsworld.htm
www.pbskids.com
www.webkinz.com
www.kids.nationalgeographic.com
Fields of interests: playground activities, toys, books, music, arts, stories, media, electronics, etc.
Due Tuesday, Jan 13
Class pin-up
What game shall we play?
You will analyze children’s ludic activities, or/and children’s actions, potentialities and instruments with an aptitude toward play.
Play implies the choice of a field, rules and a framework, but also the idea of expansion and change without limitations. A game can be different plays; can be related to an evanescent, virtual space (video-games, online-games) or to a real, known surrounding space (hide-and-seek), or to an unpredictable space. Games extend into physical space that is permeated by devices, sensors, information technologies.
Choose your favorite playing situation, game or ludic activity. Particularly, you will focus on the following components:
- Creativity, fantasy, luck, competition, excellence, pleasure, imagination, safety, scenarios and situations, dynamics, movement, stimulation of emotions, illusion, magic, ambiguity, spatial relationships, ability, rules, fictions, freedom towards experience, adventure and narration.
You should explore forms of relationships between the real or the conceptual space of play and the special role of the player/players.
Process
Compose an assembly of 8 ½ x 11” images, combined with digital or hand drawings/sketches, and /or diagrams representing the narrative of your selected play/game/ludic activities.
Mount your process of visual mapping on a horizontal cheap-board stripe, max length 36” (3 ft), max height 11”.
Use colors only in selected areas/zones/parts, to emphasize a concept running through the entire stripe.
You must also apply the following manipulations to selected parts of the images/drawings/diagrams: cutting, layering, overlapping, folding, and bending.
The resulting narrative should have a 3D graphical and physical result.
References
Alberto Iacovoni, Game Zone, IT Revolution series, Birkhauser, 2004
Steffen P. Walz, Space Time Play. Computer games, Architecture and Urbanism: the next level, Birkhauser 2007
www.playbe.com
www.spacetimeplay.org
www.gigglepotz.com/kidsworld.htm
www.pbskids.com
www.webkinz.com
www.kids.nationalgeographic.com
Fields of interests: playground activities, toys, books, music, arts, stories, media, electronics, etc.
Due Tuesday, Jan 13
Class pin-up
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