hot house / city research

some key questions to answer for yourself as you move through research are listed below. develop answers to your questions through diagrams, maps and drawings. these will continually become referenced as you work further into the building design.

>>>for monday (3/7)

have updated site plan 1:20, diagrams, maps and drawings printed and pinned-up.

remember to calm your color use - think monochromatic.

define climates:

in particular - through temperature, infrastructure needs (water, ventilation, lighting, etc), min and max distance needs

1. dwelling

2. green house: what system is used, what is grown

3. market: what is the object(s) of exchange

define boundaries between climates:

in particular - threshold openings, insulation needs, shared utilities

1. dwelling to market, dwelling to greenhouse, dwelling to city

2. green house to market, green house to city

3. market to city

material composite

for wednesday (2.16)

>>individually

documentation >upload photos onto your blog site

photograph your composite in all scales, from the overall to the detail

include both natural and photolab setting

*jigga and jesse for a photolab effect take night shots with high illumination to wash out the background

drawings >print for pin-up

construct a series of drawings that record and suggest your material of study

include how the boundaries of your study joins space, divides light and creates openings

>for record - draw what is constructed

this should include:

axonometric

section

details

>for suggestion - draw how the study material may participate at a body-plus scale

this should include:

perspective or axonometric

**sheet size: 24" width x any length

precedent progress

for monday (1.24)

print updated drawings of building precedent study for review

(2 or 3) 11x17 sheets

in progress site plan, wall sections, envelope details and others

have printed text from last friday to submit

print monthly means (first table)

from climate consultant data

have gps location of your building in relation to gps location of weather tower data for climate consultant

reading regionalism

for Wednesday (1.18)

Towards a Critical Regionalism:

Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance

by Kenneth Frampton

We will use this as a departure point to discuss the evolution of building envelope and the relationship of architecture to environment.