PIN UP Stage 5 :: Preliminary Design

e4/5 bachelor :: PIN UP and meeting
25.01.2011|10:28
The Pin-Up with Colin Fournier will take place on Thursday, January 27th from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm @the Institute. We will continue on Friday, January 28th from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm followed by discussion and crits as long as necessary same day. You will need to present at least 2 DIN A1 and 2 DIN A2 sheets and a conceptual model (series) - see Stage 5 :: Preliminary Design @ Programme. Please make sure to pin all printings and modells as this will basically not be a beamer presentation. You are also expected to update your blog to incorporate all the above elements.

110110 Witches pre design :: STAGE 5

House for a witch / wizard

Preliminary design crit, 27.01.11

Dear all,

First of all we would like to wish you a happy New Year. We hope you all had a good start into 2011 with a lot of inspirations and good ideas.

We confirm that we will have crits all day on Thursday the 27th, starting at 10:00 am (and possibly also on Friday the 28th for part of the day).

What we are expecting you to submit and present on this occasion, as discussed when we met in London, are the following 6 elements:

1) The "device"

Your last two presentations, both in Innsbruck and in London, included material in a variety of media. You need to document this material in such a way that it can also be summarized in hard copy format. What we expect is:

a) A 3D line drawing (black on white) illustrating the key design of the "device".

Format: A1 landscape.

The 3d line drawing will represent the key principles of your device. Keep in mind that your small scale conceptual project – even if it is a film or performance - is based on the themes that you have identified and that embody, in your opinion, the spirit of the witch or wizard, your notion of a magical world of design.

The line drawing of the device shall represent these ideas. In case of a moving object, the drawing needs to show this movements, e.g. you can overlap various stages by using different line types etc...

(Example: Benedikt Hörmann)

b) A 100 word description of the "device".

c) For those of you who showed a film or an animation, please submit some key frames that summarize the character of the film. Print these out so that they fit on an A2 sheet.

d) For work that was presented as a "performance", find a way to illustrate it, for example, as a diagram of movement and action.

2) The site

When you were in London, you all started to look at possible sites for your design projects.

For this crit, we expect you to describe your chosen site in three ways:

a) By means of a powerpoint presentation showing views of the site and its broader urban context.

b) By means of a conventional site plan (at a scale of 1/1000, 1/500 or 1/200, depending on the size of your project). Format: A2

c) By means of a more "subjective" drawing, an " unknown territory”, an emotional territory -Kunstlandschaften- drawing, that gives the "spirit" of the site.

„you must orient yourself… not by book, by address, but by walking, by sight, by habit, by experience; here every discovery is intense and fragile, [the city] can be repeated or recovered only by memory of the trace it has left in you: to visit a place for the first time is thereby to begin to write it: the address not being written, it must establish its own writing.’

Roland Barthes in the Empire of Signs

The interest lies in the orchestration and intensification of the context. Architecture and Urbanism is here understood as „Kunstlandschaften“. In the beginning of each design process lies the analysis of the site and its situation followed by the interpretation of its phenomena and parameters. You need to identify these specific parameters for your own interpretation of the site shown in your „Unknown Territory“.

Seen as operative topographies, the digitalisation and interpreation of the context as an urban landscape plays a major role within the design process.

Format: DIN A1 Landscape

(Example: Lisa Sommer)

(Example: Martin Mackowitz)

3) The "client"

Define your client:

a) Male (Wizard) or female (witch).

b) Individual or group (some of you were thinking of a client that may include several characters.

c) Define their personality, history, age, interests, etc... (like a "facebook" social networking profile). Define, in particular, their special attributes and magical "powers".

The above description should be done in written and graphic form. Format: A2

4) The programme.

Having defined the client, define the programme for the "house". It does not have to be a home (although it can be). It can also be a laboratory, an observation post, a meeting place, etc... or all those things, or something else. In any case, you need to define the brief:

a) List of functions.

b) Number, type and size of rooms to meet these functions.

c) Access and circulation requirements.

d) Diagram of "functional" relations between the rooms.

d) Identification of the emotional/architectural effects that are to be reached through the design.

The above description can be done in written and graphic form. Format: A2

5) The Preliminary design

This is a very important phase in your work: you have to present the preliminary design concept of your project.

What is expected is the following:

a) Conceptual diagrams of the proposal.

b) Rough study model showing the mood of the project and its overall volumetric massing. You should also take photos of these models.

c) Set of drawings at a scale of 1/200 or 1/500, depending on the project (to be negotiated with Astrid).

e) 3D computer renders.

Format: A2

6) The Blog.

You are also expected to update your blog to incorporate all the above elements.

The crits will last all day, starting at 10:00 and possibly ending at 20:00 or so.

You will each have about 20 minutes to present, followed by a discussion.

We are impatient and curious to see the results!

All the best,

10.01.11

Colin and Astrid

Photo Pool

As we`ve talked in London I opened a new mydrive.ch account!

Please make sure to upload all the pictures you took to get a pool of pictures for all of us, especially for those that did not stay as long as the others!

Schedule London

Thursday 2010-12-2     

12:50                Meeting in front of the Royal College of Art

1:00-4:00 pm    Tour through RCA with students, lunch and crit with
                         Tobias Klein and Roberto Tobbazzi

6:30 pm            Lecture with Carme Pinos and Peter Cook
                         Room GO1 at University College of London, Wates House,
                         Keppel Street, Camden Town, Greater London WC1E 6

Friday 2010-12-3

10:00 am           All-Day Device Crit at the Bartlett, Room 129

Saturday 2010-12-4

Field Trip - to be announced - starting around 1 pm

See LondonMap for directions.

FLIGHT

In order to make sure that you can carry your device to London, please be at the airport early enough and read the aviation rules. Have a good and safe trip. See you on Thursday.

AtSite

Dear all,

The crits will last all day on Friday the 3rd of December.

On Saturday, I propose to meet the students in the afternoon (probably about 1 pm) to show them a few  buildings in the City (the new shopping centre by Jean Nouvel, the Lloyd's bank by Richard Rogers, the Barbican estate by Chamberlain, Powel and Moya, and the Swiss Re by Norman Foster. But for those students who cannot stay on Saturday, they can explore on their own at another time. The key information is as follows:

The students must pick a site for their Witches and Wizards House project anywhere within the City of London, the famous "Square Mile" in the centre of London. I have already given a map of the area in the project brief. They can check on the Internet to find out the exact boundaries and more details. The area is also known as "the ring of steel" because there is heavy security surveillance around it and within it. It is a very diverse area, with old buildings as well as new, and it includes a long stretch along the river Thames.

The students are free to choose any site and they should photograph it carefully.

The schemes can be of 3 types:

a) A site that is empty or under construction.

b) A site that is already occupied but where they can assume that they can remove the existing building(s).

c) A site that is already occupied but where their proposal can be a parasite: either on top of an existing structure, or hanging on the sides or squeezed between two buildings, etc...

I will give further suggestions at the end of the crits.

Best,

Colin

next meeting 10-11-24

Our next meeting as individual tutorials will take place on 

Thursday, November 24th at 10 am. 

Please bring your devices, sketches, ideas.