IDEA WORK 08 09
23 CoordinatorS: Valery Augustin and Selwyn Ting. Instructors: Michael Chung, Hunter Fleetwood, Rebecca Lowry, Lauren Matchison, Janice Shimizu, Linda Taalman
Building on the first semester’s studies in awareness and intent, second semester explored the organization of space form, and light—not as an end, but as a means of constructing experience and meaning. Syntactic literacy was reinforced through diagramming precedents to explore a taxonomy of constructs, phenomena, and interpretation. In the generative process, design choices were treated as conscientious manipulations of the experiential realm. Here, formal-spatial ordering of syntactic elements provided the evidentiary link between intent and consequence. Programmatic and tectonic performance provided rigor and realism to design scenarios. The development of skills was integral to the projects. The instruction in 2-D and 3-D software, sought to accelerate long-term proficiency in inter-dimensional form generation and delineation. Sequence. The semester began with short exercises: translating found space into written form and regenerating the same words (from a random student) back to form. A comprehensive precedent study analyzing formal and organizational concepts followed.
Object, space, and form relationships were explored in a design for the exhibition for three objects. Using a genericized context (trade show) and material palette (opaque, translucent, and transparent), strategies explored in precedent studies were applied towards fixing spatial and sequential structure to mediate objects and experience. “Light Model” explored the relationships between form, space, material, and light through analysis and replication of specific photographs through models. The “Annex to the Schools of Architecture and Fine Arts” synthesized all the critical concepts in a five-week final project that expanded the challenge to specific programmatic and contextual demands. THIS PAGE: |2| Benjamin Iringa, |3| Victor Otter NEXT PAGE: |1| |2| |4| Jessica Chang
CORE STUDIOS undergraduate
ARCH 102B space and order