Wilfrido LandairaFall 2010- Spring 2011

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4. Design 112. Representation 114. Technics16. Representation 220. Design 2

Design 101Fall 2010, Sofia Krimizi design one teaches basic architectural principles through the exploration and development of japanese joinery systems into more complex systems and, as a final project, taking the principles of these cubes and convert-ing them into inhabitable spaces.

top left- one of my redefined cuubes being pulled apartbottom left- a “storyboard” of the cube, containing sections, elevations, and plansbottom right-another cube, put together the “wrong way”top right-

Japanese Joinery Systems For our first design project, we had to research and construct simple japanese joints at first, then, using differ-ent word ”joints” (pairs) we redefined the cubes in order to demonstrate our word “joints”.

for our midterm, we had to take one of our word joints and transfer it over to a a model that used the same amount of material that it would take to fill a 9”x9” cube.

My word joint Dissecting labyrinth, and in order to achieve this i created a void space model of the interior of a labyrinth that goes both vertical and horizontal and constructed mt model around it.

Above- one half of the model pulled apart to reveal interiortop right- vector diagram depicitng movement within the modelbottom right- void space model

Inhabitable space For our final model, we had to take our modified joinery systems and, keeping them in mind, create an inhabitable space with various private, semi-private, and public spaces. using the void space model from the last project as more of a sug-gestion rather then a reverse mold, i created a model with interweaving path ways and various spaces within in

each part of the model has its own inhabitable spaces

that eventually all pulled together to form a chesive whole, where each part not only functioned on its own, but helps develops the other peices as well as growing itself, forming passageways and larger spaces throughout the model.

Representation 1Fall 2010, Brian Ripel In representation one, we are taught hand drafting skills, the subjects of our drawings being a set of cubes.

left- a drawing utilizing plan obliques to creat an axonometric drawing of each cube, pulling them together, then apart again as a section cut to reveal new geometries cre-ated when the cubes combined.top- a drawing displaying section cuts

above- a drawing demonstrating shadows cast by the cuberight- a predecessor to the final drawing shown on the previous page, this drawing uses both shading and rendering techniques

TechnicsFall 2010, Che Wei Wang Technics is a class that teaches us how to utilize basic techniques in order to build structures that supported not only their own weight but weight added to it. It is a hands-on class for experimenting with basic architectural principles.

our first assignment was , in teams of three, to build a paper rope whose length was four stories and supported its own weight using no adhesives and only paper joints

Paper Tower Our first project was to design a module out of a 9”x9” piece of paper that, when stacked, can be built up to five feet tall and support two textbooks.

left- a detail shot of the tower, showing how the module interlocks with itslfright-a full shot of the towerbottom- a close up of the top, the which is made of a modified version of the module

Representation 2Spring 2011,Eunjeong Seong In representation 2 we were taught the basics of Autocad through the reproduction and analysis of Andrea Palladio’s Villa Pisani Placco. Start-ing with plans and elevations, we were taught how to construct accurate sections, axonometric drawings, and perspective drawings. We then had to analyze the building in some way.

Plans, a perspective of the interior of the sala, and a sectional axonometric showing the interior of the rear half of the building.

my analysis started with an analysis of the columns within the structure, i then overlayed the section elevation and theplanand constructed a new grid. using the heights of the columns, i created an axonometric creating a simplified 3D model/diagram of the interior space of the villa

Design 2Spring 2011, Anne Nixon Design 2 focuses on how light and shadow effect architectureand its surroundings. In order to gener-ate our landscape, we drew plans and sections of our pillows after sleeping on them three days in a row. I then chose a section of the pillow and enlarged four times its original scale and used that to generate my landscape

my pillow plan drawing and an enlarged image of the section i used.

a plan view and some detail shots of the landscape

the secondary intervention went through many phases to get to where it is now. first, i had started with two structures with one of them suspended off of the other. From there i abandoned the structures but kept the idea of suspension and suspended platforms off of the dowels, and then finally I used thread to form dense areas that people could populate

My final model incorporated a roof structure that i derived from light studies we did within our models. af-ter i obtained that, i created a form for the structure that nested within my landscapes creases and ridges, so as to not be intrusive upon the landscape. the roof structure also spread around the landscape, using the thread model as a support.

some detail shots of my final model displaying the shadow effect given by the roof.the upper right one shows the landscape, intermediary structure, and the final model all in one picture.