ASSIGNMENT 6 SPATIAL ORGANIZATION PRECEDENT
Post assignment 5 on your website. Provide overall and closeup images to support the best communication of your design. Provide rendered images of your sketchup model, photographs of your drawings, and jpeg files of your illustrator work.
The best way to become skillful at spatial manipulation is to study precedent. Choose a partner to study one of the precedents from the list below. One precedent per team. Read (thoroughly) in Architectural Form Space and Order about spatial organization (Chapter 4). Pay particular attention to interlocking spaces as this will become important in your later project. Collect the appropriate handout and begin research. You will be responsible for finding and printing at least one plan, one section and whatever else would help your presentation. Axonometric drawings are ideal.
- La Casa del Ojo de Agua by Ada Dewes and Sergio Puente
- Barcelona Pavilion (also called the German Pavilion) by Mies van de Rohe
- Neuendorf House by John
- Pawson Truss Wall House by Ushida Findlay
- Farnsworth House by Mies van de Rohe Villa E1027 by Eileen Gray
- Maison a Bordeaux by Rem Koolhaas
Read the handout on your precedent and discuss this with your partner.
Scale your drawings so that each drawing fits on to letter size paper. Redraw the drawings for your precedent using fine markers, and sharpie marker or colored pencils for poche, freehand onto trace. Be prepared with the appropriate drawing tools. Although these are freehand on trace, compose the drawings carefully on each piece of trace. All trace should be the same size. Give each drawing a title and graphic scale, and put your names at the very bottom of each sheet, lower right corner.
Outcome:
Redraw freehand with pens, colored pencil, and trace, a plan, section and two (2) three dimensional image such as an axonometric or perspective. (Four total drawings) Format drawings full page on 8.5 X 11 trace.
Using more trace paper, come up with a series of diagrams that talk about circulation, ordering principles, and the breakdown of space. Use Ching’s Form Space and Order examples. (Focus on chapters 4, 5, 6, and 7) These diagrams should be neat, on the same size trace (you may have to do 5 sketches to come up with one diagram), and titled.
Visual Assistance
Study and emulate the images that Ching uses in Form Space and Order. Note diagrams in Chapter 4 for the plan for St. Peters, (plan and interlocking spaces), and the Villa at Carthage section interlocking spaces.
Note the organizational diagrams of the Hagia Sophia, and Villa Capra, these are simplified versions of the plans that provide diagrammatic interpretations of centralized organization. The Ramano House has an excellent diagram of linear organization. You see the major spaces and added diagrammatic line to emphasize the concept.
Outcome:
Redraw freehand with pens, colored pencil, create four diagrams. One each of spacial organization, interlocking spaces, circulation, and two (2) principles. (Four total drawings) Format drawings full page on 8.5 X 11 trace.
Wednesday - September 24- Pin-up with examples of work from research printed and hanging on the wall. Be prepared to discuss findings and preliminary analysis.
Due September 26 at 9:05 in class and website.