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.