Thresholds - "PLACE II"

Week 6

Introduction to Organizations of Form & Space

Slides of Architecture and Drawings exploring “Place”

Student will craft a set of drawings.

Students shall craft 10 "entrances" of various styles or era.

Materials - 18" x 24" white paper, HB, 2B, 4B graphite pencils, kneaded eraser. Ink Marker Optional

Conceptual

This week’s lecture will focus on Form and Space

ASSIGNMENT

Thresholds

Practical

In the past young studying Architects would be required to draw the great architectures of the world for years before designing anything of their own. This was to ensure a strong ability to draw so that any new design could be clear and well understood.

·          Create ten (10) drawings in total depicting entrance.

o    Prehistoric

o    Egyptian

o    Greek

o    Roman

o    Medieval Gothic

o    Renaissance

o    Baroque

o    Modern/Urban

o    Sci-Fi

o    Fantasy

Homework

Complete:                               Assignment “Thresholds”                                    10 Drawings 

Read:                                      Architecture: Form, Space and Order                Chapter 6 (pp. 194-241)

The Visit - Architectural "PLACE"

Week 5

Introduction to Form and Space – Defining Space, Planes in Space, Enclosure, Light, Views, Openings, and Corners
Reference - Architecture: Form, Space and Order Chapter 3 (pp. 110-192)
Slides of Architecture and Drawings exploring “Site and Context”
Students will be given a unique image of a Persian rug for analysis.

Student will examine an image of a prayer rug and draw an expression of architecture that speaks of “place”.
Materials - 18" x 24" white paper, HB, 2B, 4B graphite pencils, kneaded eraser. Ink Marker Optional

Conceptual

This week the lecture will explore the notion of “place”. The foundation of architecture is how structure sits within a site. Context is the identification of a geographic site (virtual or otherwise) for which architectural elements can establish an environment. Simply making buildings is not architecture. For architecture in games or film to be believable they must have context or the structures imagined will simply feel parachuted into the space. Identifying space through the use of architectural elements such as “planes” and how they are enclosed, framed, positioned, adorned, and oriented with respect to approach, paths, axis, openings, and light will ensure an expression of “place”. Architecture tells a story in how it identifies space so that it suggests ritual, ceremony, hierarchy, order, or transformation.

ASSIGNMENT 

The Visit

Practical

·          Create a drawing that identifies an architectural idea of “place”

·          Examine the provided (chosen) Persian rug and search for Architectural elements

o    Analyze holistically (Overall Impression + Individual Elements) 

o    Identify and Write down the ideas and motifs

o    Look at the Rug and Visit it as an Architect would (Identify your "CONTEXT")

o   Read the abstracted forms and find plan or section in the lines and shapes

               (these can be understood as either structural or spatial)

·          Identify a “plane” (As base, elevated, depressed, and/or overhead) as a celebrated space within a site

·          Establish space through the notion boundary (edge, shape, entrance, and/or exit)

·          Define your “place” as a spot within the rug…..and as architecture for which to lay the rug.

·          Explore Style to help keep the visual language in context

·          Keep a sketch book or loose pages to show design process

Homework

Complete:                              Assignment “The Visit”                                           1 Drawing

Read:                                      Architecture: Form, Space and Order                Chapter 4 (pp. 194-243)

Choose from this assortment:  

The Rise of Form - SHAPE & PLATONIC SOLIDS

Week 4

Introduction to Architectural Form – Shapes, Solids, Regular and Irregular Forms, Additive Forms, and Articulation

Slides of Architecture and Modeling.
An Appreciation for the works of Hugh Ferriss

Students will explore mass modeling as a fast method of architectural visualization

Materials – Digital Renders of 3D Mass Modeling

Conceptual

This week’s lecture covers the basics of Architectural Form.  Starting with the fundamental shapes of circle, square and triangle, we will examine the base plutonic forms of sphere, cylinder, cube, pyramid and cone.  Architecture begins at this most rudimentary level but transforms quickly through additive or subtractive means to create centralized, linear, clustered, radial and grid organized regular or irregular forms.

ASSIGNMENT

Forms

Practical

PART I

·          Create 15 examples of form using a 3D rendering package.

o    5 Additive or Subtractive examples of the plutonic forms.

o    4 linear forms

§   2 horizontal (bridges?)

§   2 vertical (towers?)

o    1 centralized form

§   Using any of the plutonic forms

o    1 clustered form

§   Using any of the plutonic forms

o    1 radial form

§   Using any of the plutonic forms

o    1 grid based form

§   Using any of the plutonic forms

o    1 space (Plaza)
§   Celebrated as you choose, using form....explore scale, depth, height and a muse if you wish
§   Try an enclosed space or one that is in the open and only defined by architectural elements in the landscape

o    1 scene

§   Assemble forms to create a place, path, hierarchy or a sense of space of importance
§   Tell a STORY! Propose a City or a Palace Complex or a Metropolis

 Please Print these to ordinary printer paper and prepare to display for crits next class

PART II

Create a single drawing in the style of Hugh Ferriss 

         o    Use your 3D forms to compose a scene that features a structure as a focal point.
         o  Choose a dramatic angle to covey a sense of scale and epic proportion (consider Background )
         o    Use your skills as an artist to render your image with shading and light on a 18 x 24 sheet
         o  You may use pencil, charcoal or conte to give your image a romantic quality

Homework

Complete:                     Assignment “The Rise of Forms”           15 Examples of Form in 3D – Digital Renders
                                                                                              + 1 single rendered drawing in the style of Hugh Ferriss

Read:                            Architecture: Form, Space and Order               Chapter 3 (pp. 110-192)