Studio Folio 2018 Fall

THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE

YEAR 2 ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO ECOLOGIES: THE FUNCTION OF ENVIRONMENT IN ARCHITECTURE STUDIO SU CHANG

STUDIO FOLIO FALL 2018

Every building is bound to a specific environment, which is influenced by all kind of natural phenomena. Standardization and proprietary solutions of the construction industry have negated the specific relationship of a building to its surrounding with the result that we build similar in nordic climates as we build in tropical environments.

Our studio reflects upon the function of environment in rendering architectural ideas. The natural environment of sub-tropical Hong Kong is ambiguous and even imprecise; its diffused sunlight, blurred shadows, densely humid air and layered greenery are all parts of an overlap of mixed dynamics, leading to a wide array of unregistered techniques, different and simultaneous sense of time, and diverse subjective journeys. A qualitative technique of measurement and design for the making of architecture in such environmental conditions will be the focus of our studio. The goal is to explore how environment can amplify architectural ideas through the interaction between atmosphere (quality of place) and tectonics (ways of making). After all, nature is unintentional; artifacts are not.

Studio Instructors: Ulrich Kirchhoff, Geraldine Borio, Su Chang, Wallace Chang, Sunnie Lau, Rosalia Leung Assistant: Vivian Xu Wei

RENDERING IDEAS

Exercise 1 - Site + Topic: Discovering Ideas Students explore techniques to discover and represent the essential idea of environment. The goal is to discover how architectural ideas are embodied in the environment’s atmospheric and tectonic characters, to develop 2D and 3D techniques to represent the relationship between environment and ideas, and therefore to make architecture.

Exercise 2 - Topic + Concept: Prototyping Ideas In the previous exercise, each group approximates a type of architectural elements - foundation / retaining structure / skylight / glass wall / addition. In the second exercise, students iterate and develop prototypes via different tectonic systems. The goal is to understand that architectural idea can be presented in diverse formal and materialistic expressions through iterations of tectonic systems.

Exercise 3 - Topic + Concept + Site: Projecting Ideas The last exercise focuses (only) on 4 fundamental design tools for an architectural project: 1. Section; 2. Model; 3.Perspective; 4. Plan; Discussions are facilitated through weekly seminars and pinups.

These tools should construct and present our ideas in a synthetic manner, i.e. to make a project.

STUDENT WORK

HUI TSZ NAM THOMAS / ALVINA LEE TIN WING

LANDSCAPE OF LIGHT

Lighting Study 1/5

HKU University Art Museum

Skylight Prototypes 1/50

studies of winter and summer light conditions

Design Plan, 1:100 Scale Extension of Lung Fu Shan Environmental Education Centre

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CHERYL LEE CHING TUNG / VIVIEN LEE CHUN KI

RETAINING POROSITY

Retaining Wall Analysis 1/5 HKU Lok Yew Hall

Retaining Structure Prototypes 1/50

Design Plan and Section

LEE HAE JIN / KIM MINJOO

GROUND SUPPORT

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Design Sketches

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We derived different sketch models from the original V-shaped column, corresponding to the research on functionality, availability, materiality, different perspectives, and underground. We modeled the foundation structure of current Lung Fu Shan environmental center exhibition hall, previously a colonnial workmen’s bungalow since 1916.

Design

WU XIAOYE / THOMAS WAN HOI LUNG

TRANSLUCENT VOLUME

Lighting Analysis

HKU Ming Wah Complex

Lighting Analysis

Design Section

Design Prototypes 1/50

SHAO YANG / REGINA TANIA

BAMBOO-SCAPE

Site Plan

Design Sections

Bamboo Structure Prototypes 1/50

Sectional Perspective

This lecture discusses the function of section as a tool to formulate relationship between building and its environment.

SUPPLEMENT 1: STUDIO LECTURE

7 SECTIONS 7 IDEAS

São Paulo Museum of Art, Lina Bo Bardi, 1968

Maravillas School Gymnasium, Alejandro de la Sota, 1962

Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo João Vilanova Artigas and Carlos Cascaldi, 1961

Helsinki University of Technology Auditorium, Alvar Aalto, 1949-66

FRAC Dunkerque, Lacaton & Vassal, 2013

FRAC Dunkerque, Lacaton & Vassal, 2013

Dule Temple, 984

This list of references serves as a visual guidance for the studio’s production of drawings and models. The standardisation of drawing and modelling techniques is pedagogical in a way that it provides a shared platform for discussions focused on ideas beyond aesthetics.

SUPPLEMENT 2: REFERENCE

VISUAL REFERENCES

Fall 2018 HKU Architecture Studio Year 2 Studio Su Chang

I. SECTION: “ENCLOSING RELATIONSHIP” Tasks Create sectional line drawing to describe the key idea of the design. The drawing has to capture the essence of the project through description of relationship: solid/void, access/exit, open/enclosed, compressed/relaxed, dark/light…

Deliverables 1:50 black and white sectional drawing on A0 paper; Use only 3 types of (heavyweight cut line, lightweight line, and dashed line); References

Johnston Marklee - Vault House

Barozzi Veiga - Museum of Fine Arts, Chur

Rafael Moneo - Wesley College Art Museum

Ricardo Bak Gordon - Escola Secundária Garcia

Fall 2018 HKU Architecture Studio Year 2 Studio Su Chang

II. MODEL: “CRAFTING REALITY” Tasks Use grey cardboard to make a 1:50 model with site context. The model should be crafted with care, and easy to cut, alter and re-craft. The model is a working model for us to physically iterate ideas with our hands.

Deliverables 1:50 model and site context, grey cardboard.

Minimum pieces; maximum Information.

References

Paulo Mendes da Rocha - Osaka Expo Brasil Pavilion

Alvaro Siza - Fundacion Manuel Cargaleiro

Barozzi Veiga - HQ Ribera del Duro Wine

Fall 2018 HKU Architecture Studio Year 2 Studio Su Chang

III. PERSPECTIVE: “CONSTRUCTING IMAGINARY” Tasks Imagine the interiority of your project. Produce color mass drawing to express the experiential quality that defines your imagination, describing the relation – hot/cold, soft/hard, compressed/ relaxed, inhabited/imagined… – between those spaces and the environment at large.

Deliverables 750x750mm perspectival image on A0 paper; using masses of color, no line is allowed.

References

Abalos & Hererros - Recycling Plant in Madrid

Lina Bo Bardi - Casa al Mare

OFFICE KGDVS - After the Party

Mies van der Rohe - Concert Hall in Chicago

Fall 2018 HKU Architecture Studio Year 2 Studio Su Chang

IV. PLAN: “SHAPING ORDER” Tasks Illustrate the spatial order of your project in plan. Is there any hierarchy of these spaces? How to access or exit? How is it related to the surrounding? How to compose these spaces to engender social experience?

Deliverables 1:50 black and white plan drawing on A0 paper; Use only 3 types of (heavyweight cut line, lightweight line, and dashed line); References

Valerio Olgiati - School in Paspels

Valerio Olgiati - National Park Centre

Valerio Olgiati - Atelier Bardill

Valerio Olgiati - Residential Building Zug Schleife

REFERENCES - TEXT On Drawing Ferraz, Marcelo. On Architectural Drawing: Lina Bo Bardi and Beyond. March 2017 https://www.drawingmatter.org/writing-and-media/architectural-drawing-lina-bo-bardi-and-beyond/ On Model Maltzan, Michael. “Architecture as craft: After Narrative, Before Memisis”. Architecture As Craft, Michiel Riedijk (Ed.), SUN architecture, 2011 https://www.mmaltzan.com/essays/essay-notes-on-architecture-as-craft-after-narrative-beyondmimesis/ On Section Shu, Wang. “剖面的視野 (The Perspectives of Section)”.

Times+Architecture, February 2010. http://wen.org.cn/modules/article/view.article.php/2519 On Nature Mateo, Josep L. Earth, Water, Air and Fire. The Four Elements and Architecture today. ACTAR. Zürich, 2014. http://www.mateo-arquitectura.com/the-four-elements-and-architecture-today/ On the Use of Nature Herzog, Jaques. The Hidden Geometry of Nature, Lecture at Harvard University Symposium Emerging European Architects, 18 October 1988. https://www.herzogdemeuron.com/index/projects/writings/essays/the-hidden-geometry.html

On Bullshit Frankfurt, Harry G. On Bullshit. Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 2005. https://www5.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_ on_bullshit.pdf On Tectonic Frampton, Kenneth. Course Syllabus for Studies in Tectonic Culture. CCA and GSAPP. Fall 1995 https://www.cca.qc.ca/cca.media/files/10622/9600/Studies_in_ Tectonic_Culture.pdf On Typology Moneo, Rafael. “On Typology”. Opposition 13. Summer 1978. https://doarch152spring2015.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/moneo_on-typology_oppositions.pdf Three Lectures (on youtube) on Type, Prototype and Architecture: Moneo, Rafael. “Type and Typology”. Keynote Lecture at AA School of Architecture. February 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EudnQtpTBiA Silvetti, Jorge. “TYPE: Architecture’s elusive obsession and the rituals of an impasse”. Eduard Sekler Memorial Lecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. November 2017. https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/eduard-sekler-memorial-lecture-jorge-silvetti/ Ábalos, Iñaki. “Architecture for the Search for Knowledge”.

Walter Gropius Lecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. November 2016. http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/inaki-abalos-architecture-for-the-search-for-knowledge/