Spring 2023 Portfolio

ENDS 105: Design Foundations I

FALL 22 + SPRING 23

Course Description

Visual and functional design principles; development of skills in perception, thought and craft as they apply to the formation of two- and three-dimensional relationships; design attitudes and environmental awareness.

This course consists of studio, lecture, and seminar classes dedicated to mastering the foundational techniques of design practice and critical thinking. This course requires serious dedication to your studies; every day you will draw, make models, and engage in reading, writing, and speaking about your work and the work of architecture in general. Throughout this course you will be challenged by your instructors and peers and you are expected to respond to each and every challenge at the reach of your ability. This will be a transformative learning experience. The design studio is a learning environment intended to provoke creative action and critical reflection. It is a place for open-ended exploration. It is a kind of education that fosters great responsibility in the midst of great liberty. In this course, there are seven separate sections. All seven sections adhere to the same syllabus (this syllabus), which outlines the course information and policies, including very specific cognitive learning outcomes. While each section will provide opportunities for students to accomplish those outcomes though project- based learning, the means and methods of the projects will vary at the discretion of the Section Instructors.

In other words, while all sections share the same goals for learners, each teacher will pursue those goals through their own unique series of projects. Project or assignment descriptions will be distributed by Section Instructors at the beginning of each project.

Course Learning Outcomes

At the end of the semester, students are expected to have a visual vocabulary of drawing and abstract architectonic representation methods and the way they relate to the design process and its presentation. Students should be able to represent existing spaces and buildings in rapid hand sketches as well as descriptive drawings. Students will be expected to represent abstract architectural ideas, spaces, and form through analytical drawings. This course will cover methodologies and workflows for both analog and digital skills used to represent and communicate design. Students should be able to utilize learned skills separately or in combination to visually express analysis, concepts, and ideas. Students should be able to have a good domain of two or more of the drawing methods and techniques used in the course.

Instructional Goals

A successful student in their first semester of their design education will accomplish several basic but far-reaching learning outcomes. Upon completion of this course, a student will be able to demonstrate an ability to:

+ define, debate, and defend the basic premises of a design project

+ develop a project using a critical and rational iterative method

+ manipulate two- and three- dimensional materials and geometries

+ create and evaluate works of design using formal concepts, including the concepts of interval, ratio, proportion, contrast, hierarchy, rhythm, scale, etc.

+ interpret a project using conventional forms of orthometric drawing, including plan, elevation, and section, as well as the techniques of line-weight and line type

Learning Outcomes

Related to Visual Communication

+ Learn/Introduced to the current techniques of digitally driven design.

+ Architecture Verbal Communication skills. Ability to talk architecturally about a project within the discipline.

+Develop strategies for digital modeling and drawing skills (organization, editing, resolutions, purpose)

+ Drawing Skills: Plan, Section, elevation, Axonometric. linework, line weight.

+ Mediums | Analog | drawing and model making understanding materials.

+ Digital: Understanding Basic Computer Aided Design, representation methods and skills as well as basic modeling.

+ Understanding the application of digital workflows.

Related to Problem Solving/Critical Thinking

+ Effectively accomplish some reading comprehension from the discipline along with crafting discussion, positioning, arguments (verbal & spatialized).

+ Basic understanding of program and its flexibility.

Related to Specific Knowledge

+ Understanding of figure, space and volume.

+ Understanding of the ordering principles of architecture.

+ Understanding the grid as an ordering and proportioning system.

+ Gain awareness of the power of precision by making refined models in tandem to defining premises of their work.

+ Understanding of the problem of scale.

Related to Integration

+ Make a coherent correlation among spatial, structural and organizational systems.

+ Exposure to concepts of structure in architectural design

Related to Social, Cultural, & Global Competence

+ Understand and Experience the Studio Culture of Architecture education and profession.

+ Understand the role that architecture can play in society and climate

+ Understand the possible social implications of architecture and design.

+ Understanding of the problem of the site.

First-Year Instructors

+Davi Xavier (First Year Coordinator)

+Alejandro Borges (First Year Coordinator)

+Se Woong Kim, Ph.D

+Antonio Vazquez

ENDS 115: Design Communication

Foundations

FALL 22 + SPRING 23

Course Description

ENDS 115 Design Communication Foundations

Introduction to and practice of tools, methods, techniques available for graphic communication; graphic communication and the design process; observation and other forms of free-hand drawing and drawing systems that develop representational and descriptive capabilities.

This course consists of studio and lecture classes dedicated to mastering the foundational techniques and skills of architecture and design representation. This course is more technical and is intended to support ENDS 105 which is more creative and explorative.

Special Course Designation

CORE. This course has special designation by the university, college, or department. This is a Core curriculum course in the component area of Creative Arts (KCRA) as defined by the University under its current CORE course.

Course Learning Outcomes

At the end of the semester, students are expected to have a visual vocabulary of drawing and abstract architectonic representation methods and the way they relate to the design process and its presentation. Students should be able to represent

existing spaces and buildings in rapid hand sketches as well as descriptive drawings. Students will be expected to represent abstract architectural ideas, spaces, and form through analytical drawings. This course will cover methodologies and workflows for both analog and digital skills used to represent and communicate design. Students should be able to utilize learned skills separately or in combination to visually express analysis, concepts, and ideas. Students should be able to have a good domain of two or more of the drawing methods and techniques used in the course.

Instructional Goals

A successful student in their first semester of their design education will explore several basic communication and representational skills. Upon completion of this course, a student will be able to demonstrate an ability to:

+ To develop the student’s ability to observe and describe space, form and light

+ To develop the student’s ability to represent space, form and light

+ To familiarize the student with spatial and architectural drawing methods and conventions

+ To develop the student’s ability to represent imagined space

+ To familiarize the student with different drawing media and representation techniques

+ To explore methods, media and technique to enhance architectural representation.

+ To stimulate the relationship between architectural representation and architectural intention

Learning Outcomes

Visual Communication

+ Learn and Comprehend the common methods of architectural orthographic representation; Plan, Section, Elevation, Axonometric, Perspective, etc.

+ Learn the basics foundation of graphic design and layout for architectural presentations.

+ Learn diagramming techniques and principles in both digital and analog methods

+ Learn basic architectural sketching to communicate design ideas

+ Learn basic concepts of shade, shadow, line weight, color, and texture.

Problem Solving/Critical Thinking

+ Learn to present Concepts and Ideas both by visual and verbal means

+ Learn basic knowledge of Architectural terminology and concepts

+ Learn to visualize three-dimensional space in relation to ordering principles

Specific Knowledge

+ Learn Digital Skills with software currently used in the development and representation of architectural ideas and concepts.

+ Understand the basic relationship between horizontal and vertical spatial representations

Integration

+ Be exposed to the process of representation required to create built works

Social, Cultural, & Global Competence

+ Understand and Experience the Studio Culture of Architecture education and profession.

+ Understand the role that architecture can play in society and climate

+ Understand the possible social implications of architecture and design.

First-Year Instructors

+Davi Xavier (First Year Coordinator)

+Alejandro Borges (First Year Coordinator)

+Rohit Kumar

+Karrar Osi

+Wonjae Yoo, Ph.D

+Uttamasha Monjoree

+Inwoo Jung

+Xu Chuanyue

+John Ajibefun

Project I: Defining Spaces

In this exercise, you are invited to experiment with Space, Sequence and Hierarchy. The goal is apply previous concepts and continue to work on the process of design with new ideas in place. The compositions in this exercise should build on your understanding and increase your understanding of space making.

Learning Objectives

+ Investigate Defined Space

+ Investigate Implied Space

+ Investigate Hierarchy / Primary, secondary, and tertiary spaces.

+ Investigate Slot Conditions: Continue and Terminated.

+ Investigate Ordering systems / The Grid

+ Investigate Figure-ground composition

+ Investigate Sequence

Project II: Defining Spaces

Translations from 2D to 3D

In this exercise, you are invited to experiment with Space, Sequence and Hierarchy now in the threedimensional space. The goal is apply previous concepts from your two dimensional compositions and translate them into three dimensional configurations. Investigate the same principles and concepts now in multiple viewpoints. Continue to work on the process of design with new ideas in place. The physical models created in this exercise should build on your previous attempts and increase your understanding of space making.

Learning Objectives

+ Investigate Defined Space

+ Investigate Implied Space

+ Investigate Hierarchy / Primary, secondary, and tertiary spaces.

+ Investigate Slot Conditions: Continue and Terminated.

+ Investigate Ordering systems / The Grid

+ Investigate Figure-ground composition

+ Investigate Sequence

+ Investigate Perceptions in Three Dimensional space

Project III: Scale + Inhabitation

In this exercise, you are invited to explore and reiterate the lessons learned and explorations made in the previous projects. This project is considered a culmination and consolidation of the work completed in the class up to this point. The goal is to apply previous concepts from all prior projects.

Investigate the same principles and concepts now in multiple viewpoints. Solid, Void, Implied Spaces, Defined Spaces, Sequence, Hierarchy, Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Slot Conditions are all to be included in this project. Continue to work on the process of design with new ideas in place.

The models created in this exercise should build on your previous attempts and increase your understanding of space making.

Learning Objectives

+ Investigate Defined Space and Implied Space

+ Investigate Hierarchy / Primary, secondary, and tertiary spaces.

+ Investigate Slot Conditions: Continue and Terminated.

+ Investigate Ordering systems / The Grid

+ Resolve elements in the translation from Two to Three Dimensions

+ Investigate Sequence / Inside / Outside

+ Investigate Perceptions in Three-Dimensional space

+ Explore the connection of Three-Dimensional spaces within the void

+ Investigate Scale

+ Investigate Site / Neighbors as contextfining spaces

ENDS 108: Design and Visual Communications Foundations II

SPRING 22 + SUMMER 22 + FALL 22

Course Description

Approaches to problem identification and problemsolving emphasizing human, physical and cultural factors influencing architectural design; understanding of space, materiality and tectonics in a human body scale; development of drawing methods with emphasis on analytical drawing; reinforcement of visual and verbal communication as applied to design processes.

This course consists of studio, lecture, and seminar classes dedicated to mastering the foundational techniques of design practice and critical thinking. This course requires serious dedication to your studies; every day you will draw, make models, and engage in reading, writing, and speaking about your work and the work of architecture in general. Throughout this course you will be challenged by your instructors and peers and you are expected to respond to each and every challenge at the reach of your ability. This will be a transformative learning experience. The design studio is a learning environment intended to provoke creative action and critical reflection. It is a place for open-ended exploration. It is a kind of education that fosters great responsibility in the midst of great liberty. In this course, there are seven separate sections. All seven sections adhere to the same

syllabus (this syllabus), which outlines the course information and policies, including very specific cognitive learning outcomes. While each section will provide opportunities for students to accomplish those outcomes though project- based learning, the means and methods of the projects will vary at the discretion of the Section Instructors. In other words, while all sections share the same goals for learners, each teacher will pursue those goals through their own unique series of projects. Project or assignment descriptions will be distributed by Section Instructors at the beginning of each project.

Course Learning Outcomes

At the end of the semester, students are expected to have a visual vocabulary of drawing and abstract architectonic representation methods and the way they relate to the design process and its presentation. Students should be able to represent existing spaces and buildings in rapid hand sketches as well as descriptive drawings. Students will be expected to represent abstract architectural ideas, spaces, and form through analytical drawings. This course will cover methodologies and workflows for both analog and digital skills used to represent and communicate design. Students should be able to utilize learned skills separately or in combination to visually express analysis, concepts, and ideas. Students should be able to have a good domain of two or more of the drawing methods and techniques used in the course.

Instructional Goals

A successful student in their first semester of their design education will accomplish several basic but far-reaching learning outcomes. Upon completion of this course, a student will be able to demonstrate an ability to.

+ define, debate, and defend the basic premises of a design project.

+ develop a project using a critical and rational iterative method

+ manipulate two- and three- dimensional materials and geometries

+ create and evaluate works of design using formal concepts, including the concepts of interval, ratio, proportion, contrast, hierarchy, rhythm, scale, etc.

+ interpret a project using conventional forms of orthometric drawing, including plan, elevation, and section, as well as the techniques of lineweight and line type

+ Analyze, evaluate, and comprehend the context of architecture which includes site and urban location, but also the cultural, societal, historical, and theoretical context of architecture.

+ Understanding the use of analytical methods through precedent analysis as a conceptual base to develop a project using a critical and rational method.

+ Understand and implement the various ordering principles of architecture and how they can influence design (Operations of Design)

Learning Outcomes Related

to Visual Communication

+ Learn/Introduced to the current techniques of digitally driven design.

+ Architecture Verbal Communication skills. Ability to talk architecturally about a project within the discipline.

+ Develop strategies for digital modeling and drawing skills (organization, editing, resolutions, purpose…)

+ Drawing Skills: Plan, Section, elevation, Axonometric. linework, line weight.

+ Mediums | Analog | drawing and model making understanding materials.

+ Digital: Understanding Basic Computer Aided Design, representation methods and skills as well as basic modeling.

+ Understanding the application of digital workflows.

Related to Problem Solving/Critical Thinking

+ Effectively accomplish some reading comprehension from the discipline along with crafting discussion, positioning, arguments (verbal & spatialized).

+ Basic understanding of program and its flexibility.

+ Diagramming: Conceptual understanding of buildings through formal analysis.

+ Learn to present Concepts and Ideas both by visual and verbal means.

+ Learn basic knowledge of Architectural terminology and concepts.

+ Learn to visualize three-dimensional space in relation to ordering principles.

+ Effectively accomplish some reading comprehension from the discipline along with crafting discussion, positioning, arguments (verbal & spatialized).

+ Basic understanding of program and its flexibility.

Related to Specific Knowledge

+ Understanding of figure, space and volume.

+ Understanding of the ordering principles of architecture through design operations.

+ Understanding the grid as an ordering and proportioning system.

+ Gain awareness of the power of precision by making refined models in tandem to defining premises of their work.

+ Understanding of the problem of scale.

+ Learn Digital Skills with software currently used in the development and representation of architectural ideas and concepts.

+ Understand the basic relationship between horizontal and vertical spatial representations. Related to Integration

+ Make a coherent correlation among spatial, structural and organizational systems.

+ Exposure to concepts of structure in architectural design.

+ Make a coherent correlation among Basic structural concepts, materiality, lighting, energy flow, passive ventilation

+ Be exposed to the process of representation required to create built work.

+ Exposure to concepts of structure in architectural design.

Related to Social, Cultural, & Global Competence

+ Understand and Experience the Studio Culture of Architecture education and profession.

+ Understand the role that architecture can play in society and climate

+ Understand the possible social implications of architecture and design.

+ Understanding of the problem of the site.

+ Understanding of the problem of the context.

First-Year Instructors

+Davi Xavier (First Year Coordinator)

+Alejandro Borges (First Year Coordinator)

+Livia Loureiro

+Se Woong Kim, Ph.D

Project I: Defining Space + Transparency

In this exercise, you are invited to experiment with Space, Sequence, Hierarchy and Transparency. The goal is apply previous concepts and continue to work on the process of design with new ideas in place. The compositions in this exercise should build on your understanding and increase your understanding of space making.

Learning Objectives

+ Investigate Defined Space

+ Investigate Implied Space

+ Investigate Hierarchy / Primary, secondary, tertiary spaces.

+ Investigate Slot Conditions: Continue and Terminated.

+ Investigate Ordering systems / The Grid

+ Investigate Figure-ground composition

+ Investigate Sequence

+ Investigate notions of Transparency, overlapping fields and layering.

+ Understand and apply methods that color can impact design and creation in architecture.

Project II: Precedent Analysis

This precedent analysis exercise focuses on discussing the relationship between design and context.

Through examples of canonical architectural projects, students must develop a critical view of the selected precedent.

Analysis:

We will examine your precedent considering the following points:

+ relevance within architectural history.

+ relationship between architectural object and its context.

+ relationship between program and formal composition.

+ relationship between material and formal composition.

+ passive systems.

+ architectural operations.

Learning Objectives

+ interpret a project using conventional forms of orthometric drawing, including plan, elevation, and section, as well as the techniques of line-weight and line type

+ Analyze, evaluate, and comprehend the context of architecture which includes site and urban location, but also the cultural, societal, historical, and theoretical context of architecture.

+ Understanding the use of analytical methods through precedent analysis as a conceptual base to develop a project using a critical and rational method.

+ Understand and implement the various ordering principles of architecture and how they can influence design (Operations of Design)

Daniel

A Ve asquez UIN 133007541 ENDS 108-506 Pro ect II

Eames House/Eames Case Study No 8 Charles & Ray Eames Spr ng 2023

PROJECT II ESSAY

The Eames Case Study Number E gh , a so known as The Eames House, s a house bui t n the Pac fic Pal sades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Cal forn a Th s house is known mostly for ts cubist approach and nsp ration from the Bauhaus movement, which was recognized for its use of simp e geome r c form and app icat on of br ght co ors and diversity n textures, but hat s not al , ts construct on style a so stems from the style of Mies van der Rohe, however, not as success ul y, as t was he r nterpretat on of these spaces and a product they deemed unctiona for themse ves, without much pract ce in actua resident a arch tecture n comparison to their history in the product on of f lm, furn ture, and art

Charles and Ray Eames are a married couple of not architects, but rather industrial des gners, Ray graduated as an ar ist and met Char es who at the moment was the department head of ndustr al design at his schoo in Cranbrook they got marr ed after he d vorced h s first w fe, and then he focused his career hat was most y designing, and bui d ng cha rs wh ch were not your tradit onal cha r, but rather abstract. Their b gges con r but on to ndustr al design came from years earl er when he started us ng plywood and bend ng t to create dif erent shapes and to ac ita e the product on of wooden furn ture, his f rst use of his method came from he sparks of nnova ion of the second world war when he nvented wooden spl nts to use on he so diers, which helped reduce the cos s of these sp in s and were safer due to wood he p ng avo d he nducemen of gangrene which was a common s de effect from the frict on w th metal sp ints, this gave h m fame and proved h s method was e fective

The process of our precedent study goes as fo lows:

● Understand the mot vat on and nspira ions beh nd he des gn of the case study

● Understand the components uti ized most y by read ng books about the case study and he process of design

● Study ng he proportions ut l zed by the Eames couple and how hey interact w th each o her.

● Trying to repl cate he process and therefore the bui ding even by its most minute deta ls

At f rst, we recreated the p ans and e evations, f rst start ng rom the d rec measurements from beam to beam, then creat ng a stab e, uni orm gr d for his bui d ng, which actual y repl cated itse f over and over aga n, from there the rest of the p an came to fru t on, once started a regular gr d on the hor zonta p ane we used th s in ormat on to establ sh the elevations s nce most e ements a so represent hemse ves outside, and started bui d ng up and no icing pa terns of repet tion among the ayers or slabs hat form the wa ls, the w ndows, and the mu l ons themselves

Once he p ans and elevat ons were estab ished we went on to the second part wh ch was a representation o the spaces nside the house, and how they f ooded the outs des and nteracted w th each other, as wel as estab ish ng a h erarchy among them, this was done f rst on the p an v ew and the sect on cut wh ch showed the spaces not over aid on top of each other, which g ves more c arity to the v ewer.

The th rd and last part was he real za ion of he d agram which represented the open ngs, w ndows, p ans, e evat ons, circu ation, f g, grid sys em, primary, secondary, and ter iary spaces, and their re ationship w th each other

Project III: Urban Context

In this exercise, you are invited to explore and reiterate the lessons learned and explorations made in the previous projects. This project is considered a culmination and consolidation of the work completed in the class up to this point. The goal is to apply previous concepts from all prior projects.

Investigate the same principles and concepts now in multiple viewpoints. Solid, Void, Implied Spaces, Defined Spaces, Sequence, Hierarchy, Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Slot Conditions are all to be included in this project. This project also operates as an Introduction of basic functional conditions of the architectural assemblage through the establishment of contingencies for place, scale, tectonic elements, promenade architectural and spatial organization, which are interpreted as generators of architectural / urban space.

Learning Objectives

+ Investigate Defined Space

+ Investigate Implied Space

+ Investigate Hierarchy / Primary, secondary, tertiary spaces.

+ Investigate Slot Conditions: Continue and Terminated.

+ Investigate Ordering systems / The Grid

+ Resolve elements in the translation from Two to Three Dimensions

+ Investigate Sequence / Inside / Outside

+ Investigate Perceptions in Three-Dimensional space

+ Explore the connection of Three-Dimensional spaces within the void

+ Investigate Scale

+ Investigate Site / Neighbors as context

+ Analyze, evaluate, and comprehend the context of architecture which includes site and urban location, but also the cultural, societal, historical, and theoretical context of architecture.

+ Understanding the use of analytical methods through precedent analysis as a conceptual base to develop a project using a critical and rational method.

+ Understand and implement the various ordering principles of architecture and how they can influence design (Operations of Design)

PROJECT III: Urban Context