Leeds Beckett University BA(Hons) Architecture
2017–2018
TIMETABLE Briefing: Friday, March 9, 4:00pm Reading: Tuesday, March 13, 10:00am Presentation: Friday, March 16, 10am (Stage 1) Study Trip: Tuesday, March 20, 10am Perspective workshop: Tuesday, April 10,10:00am Inhabited Section: Tuesday, April 17,10:00am Skills Exchange: tbc
AD1.2 Temporary Narratives
P4 Building Threshold
TUTORS Mohamad Hafeda Anna Pepe Petros Tsitnidis
Crit: Friday, March 23, 10am Final Crit: Friday, April 27, 10am
Eco Box, Atelier d´Architecture Autogérée AAA
PROJECT AIMS
LEARNING OUTCOME
This project will enable you to build upon your P3 project and develop critical decisions regarding site, programme and form. The design of a medium-sized facility will also allow you to critically develop your spatial and communication skills to a professional standard.
– understand the importance of research in developing a brief – understand the importance of contextual engagement in architectural design – develop and apply investigative design skills – understand material approaches and construction
BRIEF Building Threshold aims to explore the threshold condition in architecture in relation to site, programme and form. You are asked to propose a public programme of a medium-sized facility in the outdoor space of the Leeds Kirkgate Market. The building should comprise a double programme that you need to define; these are the specific uses and activities to which the building would be designed. The first is a public programme that is based on your proposal of the trader’s Unexpected Exchange of P3 and is developed at this stage to include the general public. The second is a service programme dedicated to the traders’ community and is based on your knowledge of the market’s operation and culture. In P3 (At the Threshold) you have examined the threshold condition and an array of spatial practices by which the traders occupy and produce the market spaces. Now you will continue and develop this investigation in the outdoor space first, to examine the temporary mode of inhabitation of the outdoor market. Second to explore how the outdoor space new conditions will imply changes on your proposed programme of P3 once it moves from the indoor and gets larger in scale to include the general public. You need to explore the threshold and exchange processes between the double programmes you are proposing as well as between the building and the site. Decide on the new activities that you will include, type of users, duration, time of use and accessibility. Asking how does my proposal programmatically and physically (materially) fit within the neighbouring context? What type of threshold does my proposal facilitate in the urban context? Is the building temporary or permanent? What does determine its mode of occupation of space? Learning from the market’s permanent and temporary spaces the building could be a whole or fragmented. It could change in size and spatial arrangement in response to issues of private, public and semi-public. Your building site is located within the Market outdoor limit. It is surrounded by the Kirkgate Market building, the outdoor stalls, Leeds City Bus Station, the car park, George and New York Street. The position of the building in the outdoor space should be determined in relation to the programme and concept you are exploring. For example it could be attached to the market building, in the middle or at the edge of the outdoor stalls or delimiting George Street. The area for your building is limited to 200m2 footprint (around 6 stalls) and it should be a minimum of two levels.
that includes the trader and reveals their relationship to the building. The presentation/layout of the text is important to consider. 1.2 Create a series of diagrammatic drawings that visually a) shows the activities and users of each of the programmes, b) communicates the threshold or exchange between the two programmes, and c) the exchange between the building and the site. Your drawings should identify clearly the concept you are exploring through your design. Present Stage 1 on Friday 16 March. Stage 2: Form – 2 Week Use model making to construct the building’s series of spaces that explore the exchange between the programmes and with the site. This stage should be paralleled with a range of conceptual and technical/scaled drawings (plan, section, elevation, axo, etc.) as part of your design process and development. Start your design from inwards to outwards; examine the activities and the scale of the users to generate the interior spaces and move outwards to the exterior form. You are advised to start with a small space, exploring a threshold condition with a specific making technique and material then use the model to generate more spaces. The position of the building in the site is important. Use the site model at the studio to decide on the location and to understand the scale of your proposal and its impact on the surrounding. Stage 3: Inhabited Drawings – 1.5 Week This stage is to develop the design proposal final drawings: plans, elevations, sections, axo, etc. Draw two inhabited sections. The sections should be contextual, revealing the exchange between the building and the site, the juxtaposition of the different programmes, and the activities taking place. Use collage and a range of drawing techniques and media to construct your section drawings. SUBMISSION Minimum output -Textual brief -Programme diagram/drawing -Documented design process, showing research and design development. Minimum two A2 or a relevant form -Site plan with the proposed building at scale 1:500 -Building plans at scale 1:50
STAGES
-Two inhabited sections at scale 1:50
Stage 1: Site & Programme – 1.5 Week
-Study model at scale 1:50
1.1 Write a design brief in the form of a narrative of 200 words that creatively describe the building’s double programme and the type of spaces you want to propose. Who are they for, what are the activities taking place and how do the spaces relate to each other. Indicate the location of your building in the site. Your text should take the form of a story
-Final model at scale 1:50 -Perspective and collages showing the narratives of your proposed spaces, minimum one.
READINGS Bernard Tschumi, ‘Six Concepts‘, in Architecture and Disjunction. MIT Press: 1996. (Uploaded on CAGD). PROJECTS Blur Building, Diller Scofidio (http://www.dsrny.com/projects/blur-building/) Eco Box and Passage 56, Atelier d´Architecture Autogérée AAA (http://www.urbantactics.org/projets/ecobox/) (http://www.urbantactics.org/projets/passage56/) Parc de la Villette, Bernard Tschumi (http://tschumi.com/ projects/3/) Fun Palace, Cedric Price (http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/fun-palace-cedric-price.html) Prada Transformer, OMA (http://oma.eu/projects/prada-transformer) Musashino Art University Library, Sou Fujimoto Architects (https://www.dezeen.com/2011/05/12/musashino-art-university-libraryby-sou-fujimoto-architects/) Rolex Learning Center, SANAA (https://www.dezeen. com/2010/02/17/rolex-learning-center-by-sanaa/) A Rolling Masterplan, Jägnefält Milton, (weburbanist. com/2011/01/08/a-rolling-master-plan-movable-city-onrails/) A Mobile Italian Garden, The Decorators (the-decorators.net/A-Mobile-Italian-Garden) (there is a stop motion on their home page of the movable structures) The Yard Theatre, Practice Architectyre (practicearchitecture.co.uk/index.php?/yard-theatre/see/) Roaming Market, Aberrant Architecture (dezeen. com/2013/05/31/roaming-market-by-aberrant-architecture/) Folly for a Flyover and The Playing Field, Assemble (http://assemblestudio.co.uk/?page_id=5), (assemblestudio.co.uk/?page_id=972) Studio East Dining, Carmody Groarke (carmodygroarke. com/Studio_East_Dining/index.html)