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EXP 2 General Comments

Hi all,

Generally, we got a bigger spread across the board for this assignment. Now, only two major weaknesses in most of your work that keeping you from getting the next level.

1. Monumentality = Clarity.

Balanced Detail to Monument - Detail complements the massing and does not detract from the 10 prisms.

Arbitary Detailing (Monumentality not clear) - Detail complements varies considerably, detracts clarity from the brief, monument 1, 2 are not clear.

Detailing consumes the massing and the brief.

2. The brief is important! - landform, two distinct entrances from the landform to the architecture, and connecting two distinct paths into meeting place. Meeting place to be "on ground"

Two distinct paths, but is meeting place on ground?

only one entry?

Only one architecture student at a time please.

Follies in Architecture

Bernard Tschumi - Parc de la Vilette

Jean Nouvel - Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

Toyo Ito - Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

Peter Eisenman - Berlin Holocaust Memorial

Enric Miralles - Mar Park

Bridge vs Bridging

" ...design a school that forms a bridge spanning a valley..."

A way to address this is to think of the bridge (a structure to span a physical obstacle) and the act of bridging in architecture (to connect, to link together and complete as a whole). Consider the structural significace of the bridge(noun), the relationships, hierarchies created from bridging(verb), and the merging of engineering, space, and aesthetics. Take this thinking to work out how these two strategies can come together to create an interesting architecture.


Bridge(noun)

Norman Foster - Millemium Bridge

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Norman Foster - Millau Viaduct

can a distancing from the ground inform an attitude to power?

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Putrajaya Bridge

can the expression of forces going through your structure express an attitude to power?

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Bridging(verb)

BIG Architects - Sowwah Island Bridge

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BIG Architects - Slussen Masterplan

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United Architects - New World Trade Center Proposal

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Steven Holl - Linked Hybrid

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MVRDV - Eurpoean Patent Office

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Kenzo Tange - Fuji Television Headquarters

And below is just a bridge.........so be a bit more thoughtful than this

Steven Holl - LM Project

EXP2 Done

It is now 12:40am and ive now saved thru all your blogs, late submissions noted.

Good work, now get some sleep. Civil Eng students will have one more day to do this (refer to main blog)

5 More Days until submission

Having completed all your marking, i should also add that this being a 6 unit course, you are expected to put in at least 12 hours per week on this course.

Cameron and Ginnys work appears to be 12 hours worth of work. There is a truckload more to do (at least 12 more hours) in the 5 days ahead of you. If you are not up to this benchmark before i see you tomorrow, then good luck with EXP 2.

Cami's

Ginny's

Experiment 1 General Feedback

1) Clarity and consistency in your architectural expression is the key. If you run with something then make it to home base. See comparison below:

 insetad of 1) Near Haphazard mix of random Euclidian forms...

...why not, consistent Haphazard forms arranged in a logical way (Denver Art Museum: Eisenman).

intead of, Elements which take away from one of your main expression (horizontal slats)...

...why not, Elements which add and complement to the whole composition (Dionisio González).

2) Shapes vs Architectural Spaces. Are you drawing geometries and shells or are you articulating different parts which make up architectural spaces/buildings (Surfaces? Edges? Details?)

vs.

openings, treatment of edges, space in-betweens. (Interlace, OMA)

3) Stop the process of addition and fragmentation in design (the way which you design one part before you move on to the next), and design holistically. Start on a new model if you need to move out of a mental block.

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4) Details Details Details. 

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Scottish Parliament: Enric Miralles

Santa Caterina Marketplace: Enric Miralles