03.06.03 - 03.13.03_Studio
visits London. Highlighted visits include the Tate Modern's Anish
Kapoor sculpture, the Serpentine Gallery, and an Iwana Blazwick lecture at the Architectural Association.
03.05.03_studio midterm review RM.115
02.21.03_Greg +
Jeff will be in studio today. Greg @ 9am + Jeff from 10-3. Franklin has reserved RM.407
02.17.03_Elmer + I have digital copies of all relevant Scientific American
articles from the past five years available if anyone is interested. _dave
02.11.03_greg will
be back in studio on february 17.
02.10.03_everything should be working fine on the site. i
will help anyone with uploading information._dave
02.05.03_At a recent NATO meeting, France and Germany
expressed reluctance to lend military support to the U.S. if it invades
Iraq. What do you think?
02.03.03_the matrix grid is functional.
it will make more sense when the information is complete.
02.02.03_studio trip to the Intricacy
show at the ICA in Philadelphia. Made a pit
stop on the way home.
Studio_Description:
The studio will revisit the recent
addition of the Rose Planetarium to the Museum of Natural History. Because
the addition encompasses a number of significant issues, from its urban
context to the status of hiruction, we believe the problem should provide an excellent opportunity
to test the full potential of new design techniques. The existing building
uses cubic and spherical volumes to produce clear distinctions between interior
and exterior, volume and line, transparent skin and solid mass. The goal
for each student will be the use of digital desigstoric structures, to the use of new materials
and construction strategies to produce
unprecedented architectural effects that flow from topological surfaces
and component arrangements in variegated series, and apply these effects
on a range of familiar issues in urbanism, program, and textuality to more
topical problems of atmosphere and mood. Having completed an initial survey
of digital processes and tested these on canonical architectural precedents,
we are poised to explore the application of these on a more general synthetic
problematic. Though the studio is the second half of a two semester research
studio, students from other studio backgrounds are welcome and encouraged
to join us, so that a larger, hybrid set of design strategies might be explored
and critically assessed.
