Great Session - Thanks guys

Thanks to you all for a great semester. I hope you've all learnt something along the way. I have enjoyed myself very much and I wish you all the best for the rest of your degrees.

I was pleased with the final presentations and I am sure you will agree that the guest critiques were very helpful and inspiring.

You will hear from me via email to student accounts with your grades for the final submission.

Cheers

Felicity.

Countdown to final Presentation

I look forward to seeing some exciting sketch designs this week guys. Make sure you bring scaled accurate sketches to class this week. I want to see plans and sections working in tandem. See you Wednesday 2pm sharp for 15 minute one on one reviews.

READ DOWN FOR IMPORTANT STUDIO INFO.

Example photo stitch up (perspective)

Example of photo stitching collage. Igualada Cemetary. Enric Miralles. NB: Your photo stitch up is in elevation.

Example site analysis drawing.

Studio Wednesday 26th May. Project 2

Hi everyone.

A good site visit on Wednesday last week and hopefully you have lots of ideas to present this week.

In terms of determining your narrative for this project, you will need to look at the work of one or two specific artists as a way of understanding the environment and capacity for display and architectural engagement with such works. We will discuss this as a group so you will need examples and prepared thoughts.

You will need to bring the following to class this week:

NB: All drawings are to be to a consistent scale (1:200/1:100/1:50)

Drawing are to be done in pencil or black pen as basic line drawings.

1. SKETCH PLAN OF SITE

• This must include surrounding buildings, parks, trees, dimensions of streets, traffic poles and other important geographical information.

2. CROSS SECTION

• Cutting across the side through the middle. Showing maybe a couple of buildings either side and their approximate height

3. LONG SECTION

• Down the length of the site. Showing neighbouring buildings and/or roads and parks across the street from the site. Neighbouring buildings should be shown in elevation down the side of the site.

4. STITCHED PHOTO STREET ELEVATION (or hand drawn elevation)

• As discussed at site this involved walking down the King Street and taking photos directly facing your site and neighbouring buildings. The photos can be overlapped together to give you a street elevation. Print this out roughly to scale and bring to class.

5. STREET IMAGE

• One photograph street perspective of the site for drawing over in class. This needs to be a large photo of the street view of your site. A4 minimum.

This basic set of drawings should be created for you to begin your design work. I expect to see these drawings from all of you with an accompanying sketch design. You will be asked about your narrative for the project and your attitude towards the brief regarding contemporary art. Sketch models and precedent studies are also highly recommended.

Please also bring A3 tracing paper, A3 sketch paper, drawing mediums, scale rulers and other materials for an in class drawing exercise.

See you Wednesday!

Project 3 - Site Meeting

As discussed in class yesterday we will be meeting next Wednesday 19th May at 2:30pm at Berkalouw Bookshop at #6 O'Connell Street Newtown.

Please bring

• Site plans for annotations (to scale)
• Camera
• Tape measure
• A3 Sketch pad/paper
• 2B/4B/6B pencils
• Artline 0.4 and 0.6 pens
• Other mapping tools

Project 3 - Artist's Gallery, Shop + Residence

Hi everyone and here's to a great project number 3.

We are going to meet for 2 hours this week to go through the project brief in detail and plan our site visit next week. The tutors are having a parity session at 4pm for Project 2.

I would like you all to bring all project material and information you have gathered already. We will go through the outline documents in detail and you will need to bring your sketch books and laptops to begin your work before we go to site.

Our site visit will be next week meeting at 2pm in Newtown. The details of this visit will be discussed in studio this week.

See you Wednesday

FS.

IMPORTANT > NARRATIVE

Hi everyone. I am looking forward to seeing some imaginative work as we meet today after the study break and long weekend. You have had a good amount of time to analyse, ponder, draw, model and explore possibilities for assignment 2. I have received some narratives and research from you over the two weeks and some good drawings and sketch models have come through.

I would suggest that you all take plenty of time to formulate clear and well written narrative sentences. Some of the language coming through is convoluted and unnecessarily wordy. The idea is to ‘translate’ the emotive reading of the painting into activities so that there is a design brief. Remember Xing's example about the tall man in a tower who enjoys stamp collecting... it is uncomplicated but gives parameters to create a design.

example: "A heart broken woman spends her days and nights in her house atop the headland. She writes constantly... recounting stories from her past. She hovers at the edge, gazing out over the crashing waves below."

This narrative clearly sets a scene and allows us to imagine a place. It gives parameters for a design. Remember to imbue your text with strong sense of story and character.

Project 2 - Room + Narrative

Wednesday studio discussion was very thought provoking and you have all chosen very interesting paintings for this next project. I would like to see you uploading your chosen work to your blog and writing some words about your interpretation of the work in the next few days.

***Read the outline very carefully:

...'You are encouraged to uncover the original narrative of the assigned painting, or to superimpose a narrative onto the painting, and then to 'materialize' this narrative into a 'receptacle' that is inhabited by human figures'... (page 6)

We do not have class next week however, you will need to upload the following to your blog by next Wednesday.

• A couple of paragraphs and drawings about your interpretation and reading of the painting. Include research information.
• Some draft narratives and perhaps a final narrative sentence or short paragraph with an accompanying explanation.
• Some parti drawings, plans, sections or models of early designs for your space.. these might be ideas about a particular window opening or feature of the room. You are welcome to collage/montage your ideas... think outside the box in terms of presentation and finding a way into this project.

When we reconvene on Wednesday 28th April you should all have this work well and truly underway with progress on your final model, as a mock up or practice model.

***Upload to your blog

You are welcome to email me your narrative and I will give you some feedback. Upload your progress work to your blog and I will have a look at it and send you some thoughts.

FS

Submission De-brief

I am pleased with the display of work from the first submission. It appears that everyone has worked well in teams and some very nice models have been made. I think you have all learned a great deal from this exercise and your verbal presentations and class discussion illustrated this. I will be in touch regarding written feedback and grades.

Remember to upload work to your Blogs by April 9th.

Have a read of the course outline over the break to get up to speed with the next assignment. Hoping you all had a fun Easter and I will see you in a week or so.

FS

Lecture Monday 29th March.

Well done to James and Hayley for presenting their parti ideas in the lecture today. A very good discussion ensued.

Tips - Check out Anu's page for some great examples..

http://anuradhachatterjee-arch1201-2010.blogspot.com/

Project 1 - Submission

Next Wednesday is the submission date for Project 1 which includes the Group Model, Parti Drawings and Poche Drawings.

I would expect that at this stage most of you are well on your way to some great results. I have not seen many Poche drawings however so remember to email me photos over the weekend if you have any questions or want to get some feedback.

You will be required to be pinning up your work promptly at 2pm. We will begin at 2:15pm.

Put your individual work on the wall in your groups and place the model on a table in front of the work. Make sure your project is clearly, neatly labelled and that all drawings and text are legible. Assure you have appropriately mounted or backed your work with white paper/card for best display.

Please nominate someone in the group to present the model; to outline the specifics of the building based on your research, including the position of the section and thought behind the construction of the model. We will be having in depth discussions on each building so make sure you are properly versed.

I look forward to seeing some great results!

FS

Project 1 - Progress

Ok after a somewhat slow start this week I am expecting to see some great progress with the models next wednesday. I would expect you to at least be half way with the models (at least).

Don't for forget that next Wednesday evening after class at 6:30pm there is a talk at Scientia UNSW but Jan Utzon and Richard Johnson. I will be going so we can all head up there after class.

Everyone must have a solid set of Parti draft sketches and I will be checking in with all of you to see what you have worked up.

CHECK OUT ANU'S (TUTOR) BLOG PAGE FOR SOME GREAT EXAMPLES.

FS

MCA Exhibition Olafur Eliasson

http://www.mca.com.au/default.asp?page_id=10&content_id=4820

Monday Lecture Week 2

I think today's lecture provided some great examples for the Parti and Poche. Remember to bring at least two parti sketches each this week. You may like to create a series investigating different aspects of the building: Circulation/Structure/Envelope etc. As mentioned you will pin them on the wall at the beginning of class and we will have a discussion before you get started on the models.

FS

Blogs

For those who have not already.. please send me your blog address asap. FS

Week 2 Project 1 > Notes

As you begin Project 1 with both group and individual work, I want to clarify a few points in response to some emails...

1. Sectional Model - Make sure you identify an appropriate and telling point at which to take your section/s through your villa. You will decide on your section/s with a good argument and understanding, as to why a particular cut has been chosen for the 'section model'. Discuss your thoughts about the building in depth before you make this call. Each building can be dissected in different ways so there will be many responses. Consider the sections drawn in the drawing material you have uncovered. Where did the architect draw their section? and why do you think?

2. Materials - It is important that you call/visit various art stores to find the appropriate materials for the project. Read the outline very carefully before you purchase. Plan the amount of materials required and calculate accordingly. Minimise waste and cost and be thoughtful with model making techniques because I will be looking for quality and precision.

Next Week:

MODEL: Arrange with group to bring all necessary model materials and building equipment. We will be getting straight into it! Have scaled drawings to use for reference as you build.

PARTI: Remember to bring at least 2 sketch Parti diagrams to class next week. Pin them neatly on the wall as a class group as you come to class next week. Lecture: Xing may highlight some key information and examples of partis on Monday.

*Important note: - Lecture has moved to Central Lecture Block 6

Attend the lecture so that you have the best possible understanding of the tasks in front of you.

I will expect to see you all there each week.

FS

Welcome

Hello everyone and welcome to Second Year Design Studio 1201 semester one!

Please see the blogspot 1201 main page [http://arch1201-2010.blogspot.com/] for instructions relating to studio this Wed, March 10th. You will notice that you have been allocated groups for the first project; I expect that you will equip yourselves with research and sketches for discussion and group model preparation this week. I will see you all Wednesday in Studio Red Centre 5007.

Please email me your Blog address asap to add to our studio page. This is required before we begin this Wednesday. Send to felicityannestewart@gmail.com (email me if you have any problem setting this up).

Cheers

FS