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VOLUMETRIC HUDDLE: A STUDY OF FORM, FOOD + MATERIAL ON THE HUDSON RIVER CRITIC: Abigail Coover Hume
CORE
-P artner at Hume Coover Studio (2008) - Editor & Founder of suckerPUNCH (2008) -G raduated with a MArch from Yale University (2006) -E arned a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from University of Virginia (2001)
The site is located in Espopus NY along the Hudson River. The site houses an existing Gothic Revival structure originally built as a farm house in 1852 and later purchased by the religious order of the Christian Brothers who built a masonry school building in 1933. These two buildings are adjacent to one another, but not physically connected. The two buildings cover a footprint of 8300 square feet on a plateau that then descends dramatically to the train tracks and ultimately the Hudson River below. In looking at the existing site as a series of large scale volumes in relationship to the ground plane, we will study the ways in which new, large scale programmatic volumes can clump with those existing, tumble down the hillside and nestle next to the Hudson River. We will begin with a formal analysis of huddled bodies - tomatoes, penguins, football players, and corn to name a few examples. We will look at photos and paintings from popular culture to draw, study, and codify existing relationships between objects. From these studies, we will create material experiments to further examine these physical and material relationships and then use these finding to move into massing and material development. Representation will also be heavily emphasized as a design development tool. Final deliverables for two large scale composite drawings and one large scale model will be given at the beginning on the semester and will be consistently developed through the final review.
SUPER DECORATED SPACE CRITIC: Jonathan A. Scelsa CONSULTANTS: Yan Chu (Heingtes Associates), Rob Franco (Buro Happold) - Jonathan is an Architect, Urbanist, and an educator. Prior is a co-director of OP – Architecture Landscape. - As an educator, Jonathan is an Assistant Professor of Architectural Design + Technology at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and Lecturer in Architecture at The University of Pennsylvania School of Design . - Jonathan is a Licensed Architect in the state of New York. He received his Master of Architecture in Urban Design with Distinction from Harvard University. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University.
Two very dirty words in a contemporary Architectural discourse are Space and Decoration, arguably due to their association with the two dominant conceptual paradigms of the 20th century which we’d like to think are dead. Space was the project of modernism, and Mies Van Der Rohe one of the chief architects. Mies made the spatial form of the grid his architectural master-work, externalities such as HVAC or private rooms would either be inside of its field, adhered within the grid or expelled. The shed’s grid space is totalizing and in the soap bubble of Modernism, the Inside is the Outside. As a studio we will adopt the interest in decoration of ordinary building typology (as well as healthy interest in figuration), but we will eschew the “envelope-only” outside-in architecture that has already been investigated, ad-nauseum. We will explore a formalism that is rooted in disfiguring the legibility of the Cartesian capital grid through various 2D optic methods of patterned illusion, deception, and trickery that hopefully will result in a new style. We will explore methods of patterning based on mid-century graphic designers and explore how we might spatialize the graphic via Anamorphosis, or conical extrusion in order to blur the binary relationship of 2D envelope versus 3D space using shape as a medium.