ESSAY BOOK

E SS AY B OO K REASEARCH AND DESIGN STRATERGIES JOEL GATI 16007696

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C ON T EN T S 2

WALKING 3

Contents Page

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Walking Essay

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Participation Essay

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Drawing Essay

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Concept Diagram Parti Essay

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Film Essay

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References

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WALKING 4

[left] with Felipe Sanabria, The Collector, Mexico City, 1991-2006.

Le Corbusier has correctly perceived that Manhattan has “reestablished the pedestrian, him alone.”

Mona Hatoum, Performance Still, Brixton, 1985.

A As ordinary as walking may

Since the industrial revolution, cities have used walking as a sign of development in their movement infrastructure. Walking can be understood better when looking at plans of cities such as Paris, Vienna and Rome.

seem or be, there are some interesting studies that have been done by many artists and authors which helps us to see walking in a different perspective.

Walking is an art and a part of our everyday rituals. Buddhist monks use walking as a daily ritual where their mind and body come together to make thinking a physical and rhythmic act.

“Old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes more quickly, alas! than the human heart)” - Charles Baudelaire

Walking is an independent experience where one has to walk to see and experience things alone. Peter Smithson, Walks within the Walls, 1971

Walking can be interpreted as a methodology for gathering information. apart from the physical exercise that is taking place, your mind takes visual snapshots of your routes.

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Haus Rucker-co, Walking School, Vienna,. 1971.

Commissioner's Plan of Manhattan, 1811.

Max Drupka, Buddhist Monks Walking The Daily Ritual , 2012.

Peter Smithson’s walk in Bath was a lesson of importance.

The main factor of the lesson was that he was alone.

The main factor of the lesson was that he was alone. Its an inderpendant exercise that gets your mind thinking unconsiously.

Being that walking is part of most people’s everyday routine, does it mean we are constantly gathering information unconsciously?

For my studio lecture, I am constantly practising the walking exercise by going to my site that my project is located at. It is important that I gather information in a form of diagrams and sketches.

All this information will sooner or later need to be documented.

A trail is a common way of mapping out routes taken, However, being that walking is an art, it can be visually been presented in drawing or other means or materials.

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PARTICIPATION 7

PARTICIPATION Architects in the coming

years have a big role to play in bringing communities together through our designs and plans. According to Giancarlo De Carlo, architecture has become too important to be left to architects. This is where the idea of co-operation comes into place because architects need to work together with the citizen to make a successful, viable and sustainable peoples plan.

In 1969, Sherry Arnstein introduced a ladder of participation which involved different ways and methods of involving the community in the shaping of their community.

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Passive participation has become more evidently involved due to processes such as tokenism and consultation.

She once said, “participation without redistribution of power is an empty and frustrating process for the powerless�. Involving the community in their plan is a shift in power that puts the citizens in control which will essentially make a more successful plan for the community.

“citizens of any society have the right to shape that society in and through its spaces�

Petrescu & Trogal, 2018

Bristol involves their people in making changes to the city using a survey called The Quality of Life (QoL). An annual that is sent out to 29,000 Bristol households to give them the opportunity to have their say on the city and voice their opinions. This method of participation allows citizens to voice issues close to their heart and views on local public services.

The survey is answered fairly by all groups of the public leaving no space for biased results. The results are used by the council, health services and other public sector partners to make Bristol a more viable and sustainable place to live.

So Bristol has successfully benefited from the inside knowledge and participation of the Bristol public. So it is for sure a method to consider as it allows the public to voice out their opinion, however, it is part of their rights to have their say according to the Human Rights Act 1998.

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DRAWING 10

to regard a drawing as a work of art as we usually understand it is to regard it as something to be consumed by the viewer.

[Evans, 160]

DRAWING Architecture has very little to

Standing back from such complexities, we can admire the gentle power of the Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn’s sketches.

do with art, however, is more to do with creativity and the ability to communicate your ideas.

Architects do use hand-drawings and sketches to communicate their design ideas with others. the use of drawing can now be seen as old fashion with the use of latest technology however it is still an important tool. it can be used to develop a design idea into a coherent proposal, to communicate ideas and concepts or even to convince clients of the merits of a design.

Sir Peter Cook (2013)

This lecture ties into the diagramming and parti lecture where we were taught the usefulness of parti diagramming which primarily involves drawing. The ability to draw is indeed for an architectural explanation and is important for architecture students to master.

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Max Drupka, Buddhist Monks Walking The Daily Ritual , 2012.

A drawing that I can say I am confident with is Perspective drawing. one-point perspective is when it contains only one vanishing point on the horizon line. This type of perspective is typically useful when drawing roads, railway tracks, hallways, or buildings viewed so that the front is directly facing the viewer. This particular method of drawing is used a lot in my studio class for the things mentioned above. There are more drawings that were covered in the lecture like Anomorphic and axonometric which aren’t used too often but can be used a little more.

I came across a few architects drawing From reading Sir Peter Cooks book called ‘Drawing: The Motive Force of Architecture’.

Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn was one who had a paper on him all the time. The excitement of his Museum of History at Ulefoss (1995) is probably a smaller, even faster drawing and more scribble-like dynamic suggesting that Fehn was here making a determined point about the channelling of light.

I can incorporate that into my studio work, in terms of drawing specific parts to get an idea across.

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CONCEPT DIAGRAM PARTI 13

JS sketches from various stages in the development

CONCEPT DIAGRAM PARTI It is important to understand It is also refered the meaning of diagraming because it is very easy to get confused with the term. A diagram is a sketch, outline, or plan demonstrating the form or workings of something; In this lecture, we were taught the effectiveness of diagramming and how we could utilise the method.

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to a simplified idea or concept (a general idea or notion that corresponds to some class of entities and that consists of the characteristic or essential features of that class).

‘Everything should be made as simple as possible – but not simpler’ Albert Einstein (quoted by Sennett 2012, p. 202)

Albert Einstein refers to diagrams to simple drawings in the sence that it makes understanding complex ideas so much easier. Diagramming is indeed a great vehicle for architectural explanation, and important for architecture students to master. a parti diagram is an idea sketch, an initial response to a site, a client’s program or some other conditions that begin to determine the order for designing a project. It is another form od diagramming that is well used by mainly architects to show things like forces, horiozon and centre, or territory and enclosure.

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

Stephen Gardiner

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These free hand sketches dont really represent the project but is used as a visual reference. Often found in the early stages of a project .

This will be very helpful to student architects because it an easy way for their lectures to communicate complex designs through to them. Parti diagram has been a useful tools for many architects in our generation including the likes of Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Le Corbusier

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“It is extremely hard to suggest the atmospheric qualities of Las Vegas, because these are primarily dependent on watts” Robert Venturi 1977

FILM rchitecture is more than an a3 printed A report. We can use a different range of

media to understand how people use spaces, and filming is one of them. As an aspiring architect, I want to explore and push the boundaries to test the relationship between architecture and film.

A filmmaker is someone who understands that film is a language. It is a useful piece of research that involves camera usage, lighting and sound design in which different techniques are adopted to show certain viewpoints and ideas. It isn’t necessary to only create scenarios that simulate and distort perspectives.

Roland Barthes, a French literary theorist and philosopher outlined the two different meaning that could be extracted from a film frame in his book ‘The Third Meaning (1977). The first one being the obvious meaning which tends to be the text that often gives out information or a definition. Next meaning being the Obtuse meaning with refers to the image which should symbolise something emotional or ideological.

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M32 horizon marker, frame augmented from captured M32 footage.(Author. 2011)

As a methodology and process of collecting research, there are is a huge range of techniques that could be beneficial in making a successful film. Different film cuts including: - Jump Cut - L Cut - Pre Cut - Pan Cut

Audio stretch

These different cutting methods can be manipulated and edited to help capture the experience of an individual or group.

Filming can be implemented in my studio as a process of collecting research for certain sites and projects.

It can become really helpful and useful when dealing with clients to help them engage better visually with our ideas and plans. It is important to understand that to create a film will call for teamwork and collaboration.

This ties into the collaboration lecture which helps me to understand the sort of field I am entering and the necessary skills required.

Goodbye to Language.(Jean-Luc Godard. 2014)

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REFERENCES Banou, S. (2018). Drawing.

Banou, S. (2018). Walking. [ebook] Available at: https:// blackboard.uwe.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/pid-6590554dt-content-rid-13836742_2/courses/UBLMNV-152_18sep_1/Walking_Presentation-W3.pdf [Accessed 19 Jan. 2019].

Burch, J. (2018). Concept Diagram Parti.

Cook, P. (2013). Drawing: The Motive Force of Architecture, 2nd Edition. [ebook] pp.12-13.

Available at: https://media.wiley.com/product_data/ excerpt/43/11187006/1118700643-7.pdf [Accessed 19 Jan. 2019].

En.m.wikipedia.org. (2019). Perspective (graphical). [online] Available at: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Perspective_(graphical) [Accessed 19 Jan. 2019].

Farmer, D. (2017). Dan Farmer film + architecture. [online] YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=vvEZO3S57PM [Accessed 19 Jan. 2019].

Hynam, M. (2018). Film.

Jones, M. and Daniels, S. (2018). Participation.

PORTICO. (2019). Why do architects draw?. [online] Available at: http://portico.space/journal//drawing-asa-communication-tool [Accessed 19 Jan. 2019].

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