February 9, 2007
Schedule
Just to recap, about a week before the pinup up I wrote four assignments for myself, which are posted somewhere further back on the blog. For the pinup on Monday I was able to complete Assignment 1, The Memory Palace and the Collapsed City, as I wrote it. I entirely bypassed Assignment 2, The Hook Up, which was meant to examine a party wall moment in greater detail. I started Assignment 3, The Memory Palace and the Collapsed City Revisited, by building my first study model of the project, and I completed Assignment 4, Shared Stories, which was simply about preparing for the presentation because I think my presentations are an area that I just generally need to work on. That said, I think it is valuable to complete these assignments as I move forward. Here is my schedule.
Saturday February 10:
Finish Study Model and write assignments for the next two weeks. Begin a number of secondary long-term tasks including the completion of contextual drawings, the completion of a final site model, and revisions to the thesis book.
Sunday February 11:
Begin The Hook Up assignment: a detailed examination of a party wall condition.
Monday February 12:
Discuss the completed study model and have significant progress on The Hook Up.
Thursday February 15:
Have The Hook Up Completed. Begin completion of The Memory Palace and the Collapsed City Revisited.
Saturday February 17:
Complete The Memory Palace and the Collapsed City Revisited.
Sunday February 18:
Work on A Day in the Life: Shared Stories. This is the first of the new assignments, which I will write about more specifically this Saturday. It is a set of fictional, written vignettes about the interactions of the occupants through the frame of the architecture.
Monday February 19:
Begin The Days Keep Turning Into Night. This drawing assignment (that could change) speaks of the qualitative/experiential changes that occur in the program throughout the course of the day.
Thursday February 22:
Complete The Days Keep Turning Into Night. Begin Memory Lane, a drawing about the memory imbedded in the site itself. This is something that has always been at least subconsciously presence, but I want a drawing on the wall that makes it clear.
Sunday February 25:
Begin New Stories in the Collapsed City Part I. This assignment picks up where The Memory Palace and the Collapsed City Revisited ends.
Thursday March 1:
Complete New Stories in the Collapsed City.
Saturday March 3:
Begin New Stories in the Collapse City Part II.
Thursday March 8:
Due for completion: New Stories in the Collapsed City II, Site Model, and Contextual Drawings. Begin The Hook Up Revisited.
Saturday March 17:
Have The Hook Up Revisited completed. Also have significant progress on the long-term tasks.
Monday March 19 and Thursday March 22:
Midterm Reviews.
Thursday March 29:
Have significant progress on all drawings.
Saturday March 31:
Begin work on final models.
Thursday April 12:
Finish final scale models and drawings. Begin to work at full scale.
Tuesday April 24:
All major work completed.
Wednesday April 25:
Wrap up loose ends.
Thursday April 26:
Wrap up loose ends. Prepare for final presentation. Leave studio be 10 PM.
Friday April 27 and Saturday April 28:
Final Reviews.
4 comments:
Assignment 2: Due February 1
The Hook Up
Objective
The crucial moments of “The House, The Subway, The Nightclub” occur within the “party walls,” which are the architectural events in which the components of the program interact and are brought into relationship with each other. Choose one of these moments and examine the tectonic and spatial implications of the “party wall.”
Means
Build a study model that examines in detail the relationship between programs at a specific moment found within the project’s various “party walls.” The scale of the model should be 1/2" = 1’-0”.
Material
Chipboard, museum board, paper, and/or basswood
Issues
Consider the moment examined as a detail particularly in terms of shared or common sensory experience. Also, how do the shared experiences between shared programs also act within the context of the Method of Loci, referring to external references to the city beyond?
is this a masonry wall?
bricks?
Bricks are definitely going to play into it in some fashion if for no other reason than that the existing building is brick. That said there is going to have to be some kind of critique of the existing construction techniques as I intervene in it. Im going to look more at brick construction techniques and possibly use it somewhere in the new architecture as well.
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