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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