Hi all, thanks
for today.
It went very
well. Thank you all with your patience in regards to the new system
A few questions
came up today, some of which I have passed along to Russell for comment, and some
I can address below
Russell has
noted the following regarding the access of Lumion remotely
“I’ve
just posted a video tutorial on the course blog for accessing Lumion files off
campus using a VPN: https://arch1101-2020.blogspot.com/
Students
in China are not supposed to use a VPN, so I’m still working on another
solution for them”- R
If that doesn’t
resolve the remote access for anyone who didn’t manage to get Lumion
downloaded, or who are on mac, please ask Russell for further clarification
I've asked
Russell whether he can provide some additional assistance to those on Mac who
were experiencing sharescreen issues with the Teams program.
I've asked
him if he or any other tutors have any photos of the site, as google maps
street view doesn’t take you right through the site. Hopefully there are some
floating around to help you out.
There is
also no Environmental Sciences building (the new one) showing in the model. So I've asked for some dimensions so you can all plonk a big rectangular prism into
the model to represent it. Sadly it actually looks like a big rectangle. Please
design better building’s than that!
Here is
some useful information for you all. I was asked about trees several times
today. This map shows in blue the most significant trees on the site- those
worth retaining. You can build high above these trees if you need to, but just don’t
remove them please. Other trees are less significant, so could be removed if necessary,
to fit your building in, or to cut through for a building connection. The
yellow tree was removed late last year/early this year and has been replaced.
The new tree is so small it could still be moved, so it is ok to use the part
of site indicated in yellow.
Following
is a campus map, which names the building, and will help you to consider your
connections, plus help us when discussing the buildings
Finally some
questions regarding the design.
We are wanting
you to look at 3 different directions to help you establish your architecture
-The notion of
the cross as a way of considering connections between buildings, and as a notional
light connection down to the ground. You are connection the Square House and at
least 1 other building, but can connect as many as you like
-The massing
of the spaces required. As outlined in last weeks blog, you should write your
own brief, defining what you think should be in the architecture or engineering
faculty. You should work out the sizes of those spaces. Think about this
yourself, and don’t just copy Russells example from a previous student, as that
example has a very very large lecture theatre which will making siting your building
difficult. Then consider which spaces need to be near which other spaces by
drawing some bubble diagrams that you can explore in 3D.
-Finally, your
architectural theory. This should be something you are interested in, as I am
going to ask you to really research how that theory works, and it will be an
over riding design notion for your architecture from here on.
From these 3
notions your architecture will emerge. It may visually change from the rectilinear
crosses you worked on from week 1, and the bubble diagram may evolve. Don’t feel
that you must keep things exactly as they are from week 1. Please evolve the
ideas and shapes to form your own bridge architecture. Organic forms, angular
forms, plans that are spread out some distance (as long as I can walk easily
from one end to the other without puffing), or condensed multilevel forms are
all ok. Remember your building is a bridge, so will only touch the ground
lightly, with the majority of the bulk up at level 1 , 2 or 3.
Please don’t feel
restricted by these first task, rather inspired by them
For next week Id
hope to see from you all
-your briefs:
room sizes/ bubble diagrams
-your 1 point
perspectives, presented as well as you can (remember the hand drawing element is
worth 25% of this assignment) There are likely 1 or 2 more hand drawings exercises
which will contribute to this mark
-your crosses
to scale in the campus model. Adjusted to suit our discussions this week and
with some notion of the building mass that matches your brief. Its very
important to start to work to scale this week, and to use the real sizes of the
spaces you need
- Use Lumion
if you can get it working. Or keep your sketchup models, take a copy when you
progress. You can then go back to the old model and render the old shapes in Lumion
later for the final submission.
- Read one or
more articles on a theory of architecture that inspires you, or that you would
like to explore. I am happy to help teach you how to express those ideas, so don’t
feel intimidated by tackling a tricky topic. Your 3-5 words should really be a
short summary sentence that describes the theory that you would like to explore.
Remember that some portion of your building will, in the future need to move,
so a theory that might inspire which part of your building might move, might
help later.
Please all
keep your eyes on my blog and on Russells blog for additional posts.
Feel free to
reference back to past years students for some clarification, although there
have been some minor tweaks to the course this year, due to the remote
teaching.
See you all
next week at 1pm for the group session, and then again for your individual
follow up sessions scheduled after. The invites for this weeks meeting should
be recurrent so will show up in your calendars again. If not you can click on
this weeks invite and join the meeting next week using the same link.
Look after
yourselves
-Catherine
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