Studio I Process Book

Process Book ARCH-300 Architecture Design Studio 1 Mark Painter Pariani Fall Quarter 2009 Professor Dudzik

Martin Guitar Museum Nazareth, Pennsylvania

A museum to the history of the design and production of the Martin Guitar Company A synthesis of a two part relationship between designer and guitar One - a true desire to share with others Two - physical connection with the guitar A museum to help the small town of Nazareth, home to the Martin Guitar factory A museum to celebrate the connection to the guitar physically, mechanically, and metaphorically

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- Project 1 - Project 2 - Project 3 - Project 4 - Design Development - Design Draft One - Further Design Development - Final Design - Index

Choosen Object: Martin Guitar

Project 1 Step 1: Choose an object that you ‘interact’ with on a daily or near dialy basis that will form the basis for the studio projects throughout the quarter.

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Study Models: Relationship

Enabling

Interwoven

Abstract

Chaotic / Peaceful

Creator

Project 1 Step 2: Make four study models. Two that explain your object and how your relationship to it translates spatially. Two that abstractly explain your chosen object as a thing.

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Model One: Layered and Covered Space

Model Two: Layered and Radiating Space

Project 2 Step 1: Make two study models that synthesize your relationship to your chooen object with an abstraction of that object. Abstraction within and on top of abstraction.

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Diagrams:

Project 2 Step 2: Draw six diagrams. Three that articulate the potential of your object to create space. Three articulating how your interaction with the object could translate to movement throughout a building.

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Case Study One: Casa De Retiro Espiritual “House of Spiritual Respite�

Architect: E. Abasz Date: 1975

Case Study Two: Tenerife Opera House Architect: S. Calatrava Date: 1990-2003

Project 2 Step 3: Research two case studies that express differing abstract ideas represented in built architectural form, abstract abstracted and made manifest.

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Choosen Site: Nazareth, Pennsylvania Home to the Martin Guitar Factory

Relationship: Help people with music by way of the guitar.

Help people of Nazareth by way of a brand-new museum to bring in commerce.

Project 3 Step 1: Choose a site that symbolizes your relationship with your choosen object.

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Diagrams:

Project 3 Step 2: Draw diagrams that help to explain how the choosen site will benefit the final design and what natural changes occur in and around the site.

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Proposed Program for Museum:

Lobby At minimum Three Galleries Offices Bathrooms Library One Bedroom Apartment - not to exceed 1,800 sq. ft.

Reflecting Pool Sculpture Garden Terrace

Project 4 Program: Program of the project is to be a semi-private museum of approximately 12,000-20,000 sq. ft.

The museum will be open two days a week with the remainder of the tim reserved for private reflection.

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Study Models:

Project 4 Step 1: Make two study models that speak to programmatic distribution of a semi-private space that references your object and your site. Subject of the galleries can be the object or inspired by the object.

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Project 4 Step 2: Draw four diagrams for each model - circulation, parti, hierarchy, and public / private.

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Revised Program: Building Program: Lobby - act as main entry and information desk for tickets and coat check Three Galleries - Main gallery, history of Martin Guitar Second gallery, evolution of guitar design and manufacturing process Third gallery, picking gallery where visitors can test out guitars Library - more private with books on guitrs as the focus. Also books on music as well a music and video library for guitar music and guitar legends Museum Store - items for sale that promote the guitar. Martin products, playing cards, calendars, picks, strings, guitars, stands, straps, ext.

Bathrooms - Public ones at front, private ones for offices and apartment Offices - seperate and more private, used to organize and plan museum events, also museum’s owner personal office Apartment - One bedroom, possibly where owner of museum lives, or where guest performers can stay when on vist Theater - Small 100-200 seat theater to be used as a concert hall for guest performers or as a movie theater to show music related movies Landscape Program: Reflecting Pools - behind museum dividing up the garden space with a small one in front with a sculpture piece in the middle to place importance on the main entry Sculpture Garden - behind museum divided up by the reflecting pools and containing guitar or music themed sculpture. Not to have a definate edge towards the lake but to radiate out from the building

Design Development 14

Design Draft One 18

Design Draft One 19

Further Design Development 22

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Final Design 25

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Index D Design Development Design Draft One

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F Final Design Further Design Development

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P Project 1 Project 2 Project 3 Project 4

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