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MAKING & MODELING, SPRING 2014 FND 4010, Instructor: Delia Gott delia.gott@the-bac.edu Mon & Thu, 7:15PM - 10:15PM, 320 Newbury St., Room 409
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MAKING AND MODELING FALL 2014
SYLLABUS Introductions Site Visit Assignment #1
08/28
ASSIGNMENT #1
09/04
09/11
09/18
09/25
10/02
10/09
10/16
10/23
10/30
11/06
11/13
11/20
12/04
ASSIGNMENT #2
Make-Up Class
10/04
SIMMONS HALL STEVEN HOLL
When Massachusetts Institute of Technology commissioned Steven Holl in 1999 to design a new a dormitory for the school they had one goal in sight: that the spaces around and within the building would stir up interaction among students. While MIT focused on the building’s use and function, Holl aimed to create a memorable building. With MIT’s vision in mind along with Holl’s artistic architectural ideas, the ten-story undergraduate dormitory became a small city in itself with balancing opposing architectural elements, such as solids and voids and opaqueness and transparency. Holl’s design solution was that the building would metaphorically work as a sponge. It would be a porous structure that would soak up light through a series of large openings that would cut into the building so that light would filter through in section. These breaks in section would then become main interactive spaces for the students, providing views onto different levels. In his original drawings, Holl referred to these breaks as the building’s “lungs” as they would bring natural light down while circulating air up. Unfortunately, the final design was not able to incorporate these gaps at the massive scale that Holl originally had in mind due to fire regulations. Nonetheless the main concept was still carried through with smaller breaks. The lungs scattered throughout the building have a dynamic organic geometry that juxtaposes the rigidity of the gridded rectilinear exterior. Along this colored exterior grid system are five large openings, or voids, in an otherwise solid structure that correspond to main entrances, view corridors, and outdoor terraces.
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