Stacking Green - Arch Daily

www.archdaily.com/199755/stacking-green-vo-trong-nghia/

Incredibly beautiful project - how could it be even better?

Blog Exercise 4

Hello all,

Please respond to the following prompt via the comment section by Sunday at 8pm. These count towards your studio grade and are meant to help you develop a polemic for the second half of the semester!

BLOG EXERCISE 4

In response to the LID-IR reading, what should we change about our graphic template? What works well and should be maintained? What makes LID so successful as a manual/booklet?

Blog Exercise 3: Boston Urban Ag Map

Hello all,

Please respond to the following prompt via the comment section by Sunday at 8pm. These count towards your studio grade and are meant to help you develop a polemic for the second half of the semester!

BLOG EXERCISE 3

Post 1: In response to the in-class reading, What will you farm? What scale? What delivery method? (1 paragraph polemic)

Post 2: Save your (4) Boston Urban Ag sites map file to the UA MAP Dropbox using the following convention: ua_lastname.ai. The instructors will compile the map next week!

Food Production - Precedent Assignments

TOPIC 2: Food Production

          (Hyrdoponic Facades) 
          I'mLostInParis, R&Sie(n)
          Dan & Todd

          (Installation/Demonstration) 
          Public Farm 1, Work AC
          Sean & Jason

          (Institution/Incubator) 
          The Plant, Illinois Dept. of Commerce
          Mary & Amy

          (Greenhouse Typology) 
          New York Botanical Garden, Mitchell Giurgola
          OR  Gruningen Botanical Garden, Buehrer Wuest Architekten 
          Nway & Katusha

Great work this week!  Thanks for sticking it out to the end of an ambitiously programmed class on Wednesday.  Please see our comments and notes on each project below.  

Keep in mind as you work, that with these case studies you are defining/casting the project through detail and diagram.  Get the base drawings exported/modeled ASAP so that you can spend 75% of your time on how you choose to deliver the representation.

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HARMONIA 57, Triptyque

Amy & Todd

AS YOU ARE DEVELOPING YOUR DRAWINGS, CONSIDER:

What systems are celebrated and what is hidden?

Figure out a great way to draw the spraying water activity of the building.  Do you consider that a spatial, functional, and experiential move?

Map the material geography of the 'sustainable concrete'.

The rough exterior vs. clean polished interiors. How does this add tension to the super function aesthetic of the exterior?  How does this question relate to the expected/actual use of the building and what the architects are suggesting about lifestyle?  

Combine or link the system diagram (that you need to draw yourself) with the detail section.

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SIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL, Kieran & Timberlake 

Dan & Katusha

AS YOU ARE DEVELOPING YOUR DRAWINGS, CONSIDER:

You might cast this as 'Building as an educational device.'

If you were to diagram all of the systems with a different color on the same massing, could we understand a majority of the building?

SUPER LEED - how do you use all these statistics?

Compare the green roof with raised beds (heavy, intimate participation) vs. constructed wetland (viewed from the outside). How are students educated in both systems?  What is the spatial experience associated with each system?

Don't feel like you have to label this as a solely green surfaces system - many of the projects have multiple components and you are the first to wrangle with this. How does this shape\ the way the booklet might be organized?

HOW ARE YOU USING/ADAPTING/CRITIQUING THE TEMPLATE?

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ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Renzo Piano

Jason & Nway

AS YOU ARE DEVELOPING YOUR DRAWINGS, CONSIDER:

How does the tectonic move of deforming the flat plane of the roof to create the iconic 'bubble' inform the way the green roof system was designed?  The modularity, the drainage system, the structure, and how it grew over time (breakdown/knitting between modules)….

The ironic aspect of not being able to inhabit the roof as a human, but to 'pop' up and view it from a sanctioned flat patio! Ironic real green roof that you cannot experience vs. the fake/real plants and animals on the interior that are celebrated.

Habitat created with 'local' plants and bees. What is their effective radius (the potential for a building to affect a region!)

HOW ARE YOU USING/ADAPTING/CRITIQUING THE TEMPLATE?

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BLACK BOX, Martijn de Geus & Philip Mannerts

Mary & Sean

AS YOU ARE DEVELOPING YOUR DRAWINGS, CONSIDER:

Temporality as a theme: (design build burn design build… ?)

The short life of this building and the previous version is curious. it seems that its implicit temporality might be represented in a construction and deconstruction 'timeline' that uses the detail and a 'series' as a way of exposing it.  have fun with it!

Ironic/fad factor: coconut fiber  (product grown far from The Netherlands

It would also be really interesting to map in a small diagram the material geography of this product

How does the technology accept growth and actually morph as the plants grow?  What is the visual affect that results from this and how can you represent this as complicit with the ambition of the project (constant change of both interior and exterior)?  How can you represent the shifting interior activities and environmental factors?

The black box with the big door (the ability to be hidden and exposed is interesting

Each drawing could describe both the experiential/psychological/cultural role of the project as well as the technological execution.  How would this be represented on the site plan vs the detail?

HOW ARE YOU USING/ADAPTING/CRITIQUING THE TEMPLATE?

Blog Exercise 2: Reading Response

Hello all,

Please respond to the following prompt via the comment section by Sunday at 8pm.

BLOG EXERCISE 2

Post 1: After reading in-class and from the those assigned this week, comment on the each way the authors choose to index the systems described.  How do their motives/audiences vary? 2-3 paragraphs.