Shared Stories Schedule and Assignments

February 28, 2007

Schedule Through the Midterm

Wednesday February 28

Begin New Stories in the Collapsed City Part I. Continue working on site/contextual drawings.

Thursday March 1

Continue work on New Stories in the Collapsed City Part I.

Friday March 2

Begin A Day in the Life: Shared Stories.

Saturday March 3

Continue work on The Hook Up. Continue work on site/contextual drawings, including Memory Lane.

Sunday March 4

Finish New Stories in the Collapsed City Part I. Work on The Days Keep Turning Into Night.

Monday March 5

Begin New Stories in the Collapsed City Part II. Continue work on The Hook Up.

Thursday March 8

Continue work on New Stories in the Collapsed City Part II.

Saturday March 17

Due for completion: New Stories in the Collapsed City Part I and II, The Hook Up, The Days Keep Turning into Night, Memory Lane, A Day in the Life: Shared Stories, and site/contextual drawings.

Sunday March 18

Tie up lose ends and prepare for midterm review.

Monday March 19 and Thursday March 22

Midterm review. Write a response to criticism and plan out the rest of the semester.


Assignment 5

A Day In The Life: Shared Stories

Objective

This assignment means to further develop an understanding of “The Party Wall” and programmatic adjacencies through imagined occupation of the architecture.

Means

Write a series of short fictional vignettes framed through the context of the architecture about the inhabitants of “Shared Stories.” Focus on the interaction between the characters across boundaries marked by sensory experience.

Material

N/A

Issues

In that “Shared Stories,” is conceived as a memory palace built on the synaesthesia of physical sensation and memory, consider expanding the narratives beyond the present through the inclusion of recollections brought to the surface of the consciousness of the characters by the trigger of physical sensation. How does the architecture shape the narratives and how do the narratives shape the architecture?


Assignment 6

The Days Keep Turning Into Night

Objective

Examine the activation and levels of use of the various components of “Shared Stories” throughout a twenty-four hour period, particularly during the transition from day into night.

Means

Create an experiential drawing that establishes a timeline of use within the project over the course of a complete day. The drawing should include the actual architecture, which may need to change as uses are clarified in relation to time.

Material

Research Material, Photographs, and means of architectural drawing of choice

Issues

How does a greater understanding of the project’s use throughout the day affect how the programs join? Conceptually, uncover differences between dwelling during the day and during the night. Use these differences to refine and reshape the architecture.

Assignment 7

Memory Lane

Objective

Develop an objective history of the site in order to uncover its inherent memories.

Means

Create a drawing that collages the conditions of the site from its original construction to the present day, including the proposal for “Shared Stories.”

Material

Research Material, Photographs, and means of architectural drawing of choice

Issues

As a memory palace that begins to embody the greater city, the project must also embody the imbedded memory of the site. The drawing should demonstrate how the project architecturally references the history of its site.

Assignment 8

New Stories in the Collapsed City. Part I.

Objective

Develop and critique “Shared Stories” by drawing plans and sections through the project that respond to the drawings and models created for both The Memory Palace and the Collapsed City and The Memory Palace and the Collapsed City Revisited assignments.

Means

Develop in conjunction with each other plans, sections, and programmatic diagrams of the project at 1/8” = 1’-0”. Draw a minimum three plans, below grade, at grade, and at midlevel, and two sections.

Material

Research Material, photographs, and means of architectural drawing of choice.

Issues

Key to this assignment is the development of a critique of previous work in order to further the project. When beginning the drawings, carefully consider which plan and section cuts are the most revealing of the project. Also consider the plan/section relationship and how it might be represented in the same drawing. How are diagrams of the program created along side these drawings as overlays or otherwise?

Assignment 9

New Stories in the Collapsed City. Part II.

Objective

Further develop the spatial and material/experiential aspects of the project as a response to the work completed in New Stories in the Collapsed City. Part I. Consider spatial joining, programmatic relationships, and contextual relationships.



Means

As a response to the drawings completed in New Stories in the Collapsed City Part I, develop a model of the entire project at 1/8”=1’-0” using multiple materials that allows the model to further read tectonically and experientially.


Material

Materials could include but are not necessarily limited to chipboard, museum board, basswood, MDF, metal, and Plexiglas.

Issues

Remember that this model is not only a representation of the drawings completed before it, but also a further step in the development of the project. The decisions made when constructing the model should reflect a critique of previous work. Also, being the first assignment to particularly address the project’s materiality on the large scale, consider the implications of how materials are used in each portion of the project and how the different components of the program relate through materiality.

Assignment 10

Shared Stories: Synaesthetic Memory and The Body

Objective

Study the body-scale interaction with project at full scale. This assignment should particularly consider how the sensory experience of materiality has the potential to recall memories of other times and places, making the experience of the architecture an active narrative of synaesthetic memory.

Means

Develop and construct at full-scale pieces of furniture for the apartment, the nightclub, and the subway. First develop sketches for the pieces but also design and learn from the process of working with the materials. Complete at least one piece but work on aspects of all three at full-scale. This will be completed in conjunction with Prof. Jenny Lee’s Welding Class.

Material

Wood, steel, fasteners as per design. Also consider other materials such as glass, stone, or concrete.

Objective

Rather than simply fabricating a set design, learn from experimenting and working with the materials. This process should develop a deeper understanding as to the nature of the materials used and how their fabrication can express ideas about the project and also about the materials themselves. The assignment should develop a constant play between the design decisions made at the full scale and how the project is treated as a whole. Given the opportunity to develop the project along with Prof. Jenny Lee, consider the full-scale project not only as a demonstration of the project but also as a place to learn in a way to further develop the project.