D&T Review

D&T Presentation Boards

The way the D&T worked was each team was given a specific image of a social setting, and required to analyze the setting, remove the structure from the image, and design our own intervention to enhance and facilitate that setting. My team's image was of an elementary school classroom, where the kids were, as we decided, at the point of the day just prior to going out to the playground. It was this anticipatory period that we decided to key on, implementing some way to heighten and enhance the anticipation of going outside. Our proposal for how to do this was though the use of smell, being the most powerful of the senses, generating some sort of way to release smells of the outdoors with increasing intensity as the time grew near to go outside. There would be a floor with varying tiles of a new material called Aerogel,, which can absorb and store various types of particles. The idea was that the tiles would be infused with the scents, and heated from below to slowly release the scents into the air, which was then regulated by a series of air curtains from above. Then, as time elapsed, the air currents would change, allowing for the scents to permeate into the classroom at a natural dispersion rate. From this point, the scents would begin to lead the students outside due to their increasing intensity as they progressed out to the playground.

Historical Environmental and Social Site Analysis Boards

Here is the phase 1: site research and analysis presentation boards for my team.
(sorry for the lack of resolution, I had trouble getting the file reduced in size but not quality)

Design & Technology Workshop Brief

2-day inter-studio team design project, led by Sean Lally of Weathers Environmental Design

Quick Sketch Analyses

Quick sketch analyses for one of my other classes.
Villa Stein (Garsches), by Le Corbusier
Villa Foscari (Malcontenta), by Palladio

ARTificial Urban: Final Presentation Board

The final product of the 2 week design charrette:

Scheme 2

Playing off the idea of graffiti as a "connective" urban language, I envisioned a sort of ribbon flowing through the site and generating space for program, all the while becoming a form of open public representation by allowing it to be one extensive blank canvas for expression. Then, through the use of diferent materials for different program, creating an outdoor park in which to cut through to the bus stop and corner store, allowing the user to experience and engage the site while still not diverting them from their end destination.

Scheme 1

Playing off the park idea, I decided to treat the entire site as a sort of fabric, able to be molded and pulled up to accommodate program, thus generating a flowing landscape and preserving the integrity of the park. By using the main pedestrian traffic routes, I was able to determine where to locate the various elements, and therefore creating an inviting site as both a destination in itself as well as a shortcut to the bus stop.

First Site Analysis

The idea for our first site trip was to pinpoint particular urban qualities of the area, and anything of immediate importance. It was readily apparent, both from seeing the site and from previous experiences and understandings of urban life, the the corner was critical. Not only does the corner symbolize certain social phenomena, it provides a node for public transit, and the typical location for convenience stores. On a more subconscious note, I recognized the significant presence of urban art: graffiti. But not only in the typical gang signs and such, but also in the form of murals and representations of live in the area.

In addition, the sites on either side of ours, both social housing, contain a certain amount of green and park space, with large trees and meandering walkways. From this, I see a certain possibility of integrating such space into our site.

Part 1- Charrette Info

The site and program for the charrette.

Studio Outline

Heres the outline for this semesters studio.