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Fall 2015 GSD1201: Third Semester Core Architectural Design INTEGRATE Assignment 1 Title: Document / Provocation Schedule: 2 week exercise (Sept 3 - Sept 15) Task: Working in groups of 3, research and produce a document that will serve multiple purposes: 1) Site analysis This will include urban context, access, trafc ows, views, orientation issues, materials, etc, for each of the 3 sites 2) Environmental analysis This will include temperature ranges, solar orientation, natural ventilation, precipitation, humidity , access to sources of natural cooling/ heating, ora, materials, etc. Research potential passive environmental systems that are applicable on each site and how those site-specic design strategies in each city for systems and techniques that reveal a site specic and climate specic approach 3) Programmatic/typological research Research the various program types: White-cube gallery, black-box theatre, Greenhouse/conservatory , and Hotel (with pool and spa). Research their components, dimensional standards, constraints and opportunities. Diagram key adjacency between major program elements. Consider the thermal and energy potentials of each program as a source or a sink. Could there be a benet to a thermal sequencing of spaces? 4) Provocation Each group must develop a provocation regarding the possibilities for an architectural intervention. Teams will propose an architectural attitude or agenda -- a manifesto for the project -- its role in the city, towards the public realm, and with regards to architectural histories. This document will serve as a resource for the rest of the semester. As you develop your building massing you will need to refer to the urban analysis that will be part of the document. Environmental analysis included as part of the document will be critical when it comes to the design of your building systems. Dimensional standards for pools, hotel rooms, etc will be found in your document. As you develop the argument for a particular type of urban building, the statements made in the manifesto should inform your work Pedagogy: Before starting to design, the problem must be framed. Architecture is more than the dutiful fulllment of a client’s brief. It must take a position relative to the program, to the city, to the discipline, and to the larger cultural context. Researching the building type, its signicant precedents, the site and its issues, will allow you to formulate an argument that will frame the necessity and objectives for your design project. Consultants: Salmaan Craig will offer a lecture on September 10 on the topic of environmental design. Interim pin-ups will give opportunities for feedback on environmental strategies Presentation Requirements: One printed and bound document per group and a digital presentation James Wines

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Fall 2015GSD1201: Third Semester Core Architectural Design

INTEGRATE

Assignment 1

Title: Document / ProvocationSchedule: 2 week exercise (Sept 3 - Sept 15)

Task: Working in groups of 3, research and produce a documentthat will serve multiple purposes:

1) Site analysis

This will include urban context, access, trafc ows, views, orientationissues, materials, etc, for each of the 3 sites

2) Environmental analysis

This will include temperature ranges, solar orientation, natural

ventilation, precipitation, humidity, access to sources of natural cooling/ heating, ora, materials, etc. Research potential passive environmental

systems that are applicable on each site and how those site-specicdesign strategies in each city for systems and techniques that reveal a

site specic and climate specic approach

3) Programmatic/typological research

Research the various program types: White-cube gallery, black-boxtheatre, Greenhouse/conservatory, and Hotel (with pool and spa).

Research their components, dimensional standards, constraints

and opportunities. Diagram key adjacency between major programelements. Consider the thermal and energy potentials of each program

as a source or a sink. Could there be a benet to a thermal sequencingof spaces?

4) Provocation

Each group must develop a provocation regarding the possibilities for

an architectural intervention. Teams will propose an architectural attitudeor agenda -- a manifesto for the project -- its role in the city, towards the

public realm, and with regards to architectural histories.

This document will serve as a resource for the rest of the semester. As

you develop your building massing you will need to refer to the urbananalysis that will be part of the document. Environmental analysis

included as part of the document will be critical when it comes to thedesign of your building systems. Dimensional standards for pools, hotel

rooms, etc will be found in your document. As you develop the argument

for a particular type of urban building, the statements made in themanifesto should inform your work

Pedagogy: Before starting to design, the problem must be framed.

Architecture is more than the dutiful fulllment of a client’s brief. It must

take a position relative to the program, to the city, to the discipline,and to the larger cultural context. Researching the building type, its

signicant precedents, the site and its issues, will allow you to formulatean argument that will frame the necessity and objectives for your design

project.

Consultants: Salmaan Craig will offer a lecture on September 10 on

the topic of environmental design. Interim pin-ups will give opportunitiesfor feedback on environmental strategies

Presentation Requirements: One printed and bound document per

group and a digital presentation

James Wines

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Fall 2015

GSD1201: Third Semester Core Architectural Design

Provocation / Precedent

For your provocation, you will experiment with an attitude towardsenvironmentaly/thermally driven work. Students will select a building

precedent (from the list below or an alternate with your critic) andsuggest radical modication to it based on found or imagined techniques

from researching “extreme sites and architectures” Students will

research non-western vernacular approaches and extreme climates(comparable to their respective given sites) and conceptually or rather

proactively apply these discovered techniques onto known/canonicaltower types, offering an eco-tourism of the selected “extreme” remote

site:

Precedents:

- Fridrichstrasse --Mies Van Der Rohe- Highrise of Homes --James Wines

- Tribune Tower --Adolf Loos- Johnson Wax Tower --Frank Lloyd Wright

- Philadelphia City Hall --Louis Kahn

- Marina City --Bertand Goldberg- National Commercial Bank, Jeddah --SOM

- Dharmala Sakhti Tower, Jakarta --Paul Rudolph- Narkomtiazhprom --Ivan Leonidov

- Llyods of London --Richard Rogers

- Nakagin Capsule Hotel --Kisho KuroKawa- Paris Garage --Melnikov

- Marriott Hotel, Atlanta --John Portman- Downton Athletic Club, New York --Starett & van Vlek

- SESC Pompeia, Sao Paolo --Lina Bo Bardi

Suggested Eco-tourism Sites:

  Cold Continental

  Svalbard, Global Seed Vault  Vostok Research Station, Antarctica

  Jungfraujoch, Switzerland

Tropical Rainforest  Kandalam, Sri Lanka  Manaus, Brazil

  Daintree Rainforest, Australia

 Hot Arid Desert

  Big Daddy Dune Sossusvlei, Namibia  Yulara, Uluru, Australia

  Timbuktu, MaliReadings:

On Bullshit, Harry Frankfurt

Ecstasy of Inuence, Jonathan Letham

Bibliography:-Architectural Graphic Standards/Time Saver Standards

-Neufert Architect’s Data

-Inaki Abalos, Jaun Herreros, Tower and Ofce (MIT Press) 2003-Erik Firley, Urban Towers Handbook (Wiley, 2011)

-Thomas van Leewen, A Skyward Trend of Thought (MIT Press) 1988-Inaki Abalos, Thermodynamic Somatisms, Verticalscapes

-G Z Brown, Sun Wind and Light, Arch Design Strategies (Wiley) 2001

-Rayner Banham, Architecture of the Well Tempered Environment-Kiel Moe, Thermally Active Surfaces in Architecture (PAP) 2010

-Eric Howeler, “18 Degrees Inside, Hong Kong Thermal Space” 2005-Andrew Ross, Bird on Fire, Lessons from Least Sustainable Cities

-Marco d’Ermo, The Pig and the Skyscraper, A History of our Future

Museum Plaza / REX