Thinking outside of the box

PUB NIGHT WEDNESDAY NIGHT !

ALL THE MEMBERS OF OUR GROUP ARE MANDATED TO COME BY.

TEACHER INCLUDED.

in the landscape

http://www.archdaily.com/8600/juvet-landscape-hotel-jsa/

New Photos of the Site

https://picasaweb.google.com/xgracex/20120129WellsLamsonQuarryBarreVT?authkey=Gv1sRgCKuGnrz5tNHY3gE

From my visit on Sunday

http://www.dezeen.com/tag/viewpoints/

http://www.landezine.com/index.php/2010/10/trollstigplataet/

3dm model - rupture/crack

Hey guys,

I have an updated topographic model, with surfaces, of the "crack/rupture" portion of the site. I cross referenced site photos as well as google maps to generate the topo lines and I believe it is significantly more accurate than the one Lyceum provided us.

It is uploaded on the FTP.
U3 Units > SB Unit > [2]Site Documentation > 3D > 12 01 30 site map.3dm

I have also uploaded my site visit photos.

Enjoy

Cantilever

Grace, you might find this inspiring.
http://www.archdaily.com/12781/top-of-tyrol-astearchitecture/

underground

to pick up on julian's explorations, and michael's follow-up, an example of underground work...
http://www.archdaily.com/43187/villa-vals-search-cma/



and 2 seminal examples of underground habitats... or work by substraction... Tungkwan [China] and St. George Church at Lalibela [Ethiopia]
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/01/the-collaborative-design-of-ancient-hive-cities/251898/

This is a pretty cool project. An interesting precedent for those who are dealing with the intervention/relationship to the water.

simple

http://www.archdaily.com/145949/faculty-club-tilburg-university-shift-architecture-urbanism/

for a switch up, heres a bit of a different relationship to the land.  the staircase is rather badass.

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/13730/steven-holl-the-nanjing-museum-of-art-and-architecture-is-now-complete.html

another one for julian or anyone else thinking of working underground for the project - super beautiful house

http://www.carusostjohn.com/projects/brick-house/

for julian or anyone else who may find this inspiring - mentioned by sinisha on friday

http://www.art-wallpaper.com/17985/Piranesi+Giovanni/Consequence+of+the+Carceri++Sheet+XIVzweite+text+?Width=1600&Height=1200

http://www.cca.qc.ca/fr/education-evenements

Vernissage at the CCA.. look at Siza's sketches of the macchu picchu for ideas on stone cities 

lookouts etc

LOOKOUTS

http://www.landezine.com/index.php/2010/10/trollstigplataet/

http://www.landezine.com/index.php/2010/09/aurland-lookout/

http://thechive.com/2011/12/08/beautiful-norwegian-reindeer-lookout-7-hq-photos/

RANDOM

http://www.big.dk/projects/nuuk/

http://www.domusweb.it/en/news/the-nemo-project/

http://architettura.it/architetture/20050526/index.htm

Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum - Tadao Ando

http://www.arcspace.com/architects/ando/Naoshima_Image_Library.html

beautiful intersection of art, architecture, and nature

Redesign of the Roman Quarry disposed Opera Festivals

http://www.archdaily.com/45692/redesign-of-the-roman-quarry-disposed-opera-festivals-alleswirdgut-architektur/

http://archigram.westminster.ac.uk/project.php?id=156

Pablo Esteban Zamorano + Marcos Cárdenas, Waterfields

http://www.archdaily.com/38790/lavender-lake-competition-winners-announced/

An art factory, an open public space, a beach, a picnic field, a crop garden, a space for the community and for culture, a land open to the water, the city and the arts. The border condition (water-land) of this site made us think about how these limits could react with each other to create something new. An hybrid space product of a simple movement: the inundation of the site, the analysis of a close up view of the canal and the projection of that into the site as a geometry, to translate what used to be water into land but now as a construction of the memory of the canal. The Gowanus Canal is now a new public space for the city that brings the canal back to the people.

superstudio

a shot of superstudio, supercharged, ecstatically bold and pure imagery [courtesy tom balaban]

Random precedents

Obviously, sky's the limit, and there are xilion approaches to engage the project and the site,here are simply a few projects that crossed my mind.  in below projects, what counts is the organisational / spatial logic and not form per say;

Scattered Pattern

Cottages at Fallingwater [Patkau architects]
http://www.patkau.ca/project/fallingwater.htm
http://www.dezeen.com/2010/06/01/cottages-at-fallingwater-by-patkau-architects/

Rehab Centre... or any other project by [Sou Fujimoto]
http://www.archdaily.com/8028/children’s-center-for-psychiatric-rehabilitation-sou-fujimoto/
http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/sou_fujimoto.html

Mobile Hotel [Jagnefalt Milton]
http://www.dezeen.com/2010/12/22/a-rolling-masterplan-by-jagnefalt-milton/

Seijo Houses [Sanaa]
http://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/kazuyo-sejima-seijoville/

museo de la vega baja [mansilla + tunon architects]
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/11072/mansilla-tunon-architects-museo-de-la-vega-baja.html


Cluster

Timayui Kindergarten [Giancarlo Mazzanti]
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/15297/giancarlo-mazzanti-timayui-kindergarten.html


All arts under same roof

21st Century Museum [Sanaa]
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=21st+century+museum+sejima&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=0l0l0l3586l0l0l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1920&bih=989&ix=hcb&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=lcMcT8nGDYeMgweEw9SICg

NDSM Hall, Amsterdam
http://www.eikongraphia.com/?p=2615

Photo // Alex MacLean

Same kind of curious & observing eye as Ed Burtynsky
Alex MacLean
http://www.alexmaclean.com/#/portfolio/growing/

5 Questions

As discussed, the 5 questions aim to activate different registers of thinking and understanding the project.  Some of you will find particular affinities with one, and some with others.  The answers are to be articulated through your process of design and interpretation; 

- What is the image / character / atmosphere / mood / visual logic of this architecture, of the complex and of its relation to the landscape? 

For instance, this raises the question of what kind of relation to landscape does this architecture seek, how it marks and activates the landscape, how it interacts with different layers of this landscape, or how it synthesises some of the key registers of this quarry landscape.  

This can also bring you to consider the imagery and the imaginary of the quarry landscapes, either in its current passive contemplative state or in its past active state... the world of blocks, pure white stark geometries, all similar yet all different... the world of stratified, piled slabs, parts of future architectures... the ever morphing landscape of rubble shadowing the life of a quarry... etc.  

Worlds of material, colour, texture and light come into play.

This investigation is both intellectual and visual, experimented through photography, collage, drawing, painting, etc.

- What is the basic sequence and the choreography of the experience of the site that you would like to achieve?

Relation to the road, the forest[s], the quarry, the water... One could almost see it as a cinematographic experience of the site... light, camera, action.

- What is the logic of the relation between programme components or ingredients?

All 3 registers of the programme together or all separate?  

What kind of relation of the artists' studios to the 'exhibition' space would be the most rich and pertinent?

What kind of relation of the artists' studios to the artists' residences would be the most rich and pertinent?

And the relation of each of those to the quarry and the landscape?

- What is the conceptual figure or the pattern that would be able to capture, describe or conceptualise the organisational logic of your project?

Relating to the previous question, how are you interpreting the programmatic substance of the project; 
Total fragmentation into programmatic confetti; 
Some sort of clustering along disciplinary or character features; 
Loose agglomerate or a powerful monolith; 
or yet some other logic?

What orchestrates a meaningful organisational pattern, that provides the rules for the project?  How does it orchestrate relations to other studios, artists or the landscape?

- What is the space for the arts?

What characterises it or makes it distinct from other types of spaces?

What are the conditions of light, sound and views? What are the conditions of interaction with 'others' and the public?

Are the 4 disciplinary studios necessarily different, or should they be the same?  

Ultimately, how should the design question be framed in building for the [other] arts?  How much 'design' is necessary...?

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These are obviously only some of the possible questions and themes pertinent for the thinking and designing of this project.  I'm obviously open to discussing any themes you find pertinent.  

The trick is to think these issues through production, whether drawings, diagrams, collages, small models... through architectural means of investigation.

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