Radical Campus Studio Fall 2016 (M1) The Bell Struck - Heuristic Discoveries
Submitted to Professor Lisa Landrum Created by Bryan He ARCH 7050 January 2017 Faculty of Architecture University of Manitoba
2 Cover page: Terracotta Acoustical Installation
Acknowledgement: Studio Advisor: Professor Lisa Landrum
What is a university… The institutions of learning must stem from the undeniable feeling in all of us of a desire to learn… The desire to learn made the first school… The institution became the modus operandi… The institution will die when its inspirations are no longer felt… I say we must go back to the original inspirations that caused our institutions to be institutions. – Louis Kahn
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3 1. Intro (5-11) Radical Campus Discoveries
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2. Prelude (13-19) Heuristic Device 3. Interlude (21-29) Radical Campus Field Trip 4. Etude (30-31) The Strike 5. Postlude (32-71) Heuristic Chamber 6. Resonance (72-74) 7. Bibliographies (75)
This portfolio demonstrates my tenacity to be alert, observant, and contemplative. Working with found conditions, materials, and artifacts, I tried to manifest the very conditions that kindle my desire to learn through documenting, drawing, and making. My original inspirations are rooted in context: the now, the here, and the history. In this first half of the Radical Campus Studio, I have found great joy in being a synthesizer of the reality and the imagined.
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1.Intro Radical Campus Discoveries
Right: The bell tower at the entrance to St. Paul’s College by Architect Peter Thornton, University of Manitoba
This chapter looks into the beginnings and the flux of University of Manitoba Fort Garry Campus,
the exploration to a specific faculty. I chose the Faculty of Music because I am interested in
established since the early 1900s, situated 10km South from Downtown Winnipeg. The photo
how architecture can be a stage for events and performances, and at the same time be the
documentation illustrates the serendipitous discoveries through wandering the campus and
performance itself with its own anatomies. I am also interested in learning about music in the
searching for hints in understanding the current fabric and state of affairs of the campus. Each
context of social construct, especially the social phenomena music do so well to inform, pin-
student in the studio was to identify a specific area of the campus to explore and to relate
point, and inspire.
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Aerial view of Fort Garry campus, c.1950
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University of Manitoba Original Inspirations
Left Page: Aerial view of Fort Garry campus, c.1950 [Source] Image from Visionary (re) Generation Master Plan, University of Manitoba
Right: Student life in and around TachĂŠ Hall, the former student residence now home to the Faculty of Music [Source] Images from TachĂŠ Hall Celebrating a Century of Residence Life at the University of Manitoba 1911~2011 by Leo Pettipas
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1.5.2 Campus History Campusthe History Although University was established as institution Although the was established as institution in 1877, its Fort Garry campus was not established until in 1877, its FortUniversity Garry campus was not established
the early 1900s. Beginning in 1910 land was cleared to make way for new buildings which were completed in until the early 1900s. Beginning in 1910 land was 1912 and include the present-day Administration cleared to make way for new buildings which were Building (formerly the Agricultural College). This initial wave
of development compact for development, with new buildings and open spaces arranged in an completed in 1912laid anda include thestructure present-day efficient and contiguous pattern. Administration Building (formerly the Agricultural College). This initial wave of development laid a subsequent waves of development and expansion in the 1930s This development pattern continued through compact structure for development, with new buildings and 1940s, although, it is worth noting, the scale and style ofAerial buildings reflect the times. Construction view ofchanged Fort Garry to campus, c.1920 and open spaces arranged in anaround efficient and during this period intensified the quadrangle adjacent to the Administration Building. The 1950s was a period of renewed growth, aided contiguous pattern. The 1950s was a period of renewed growth, aided by a by growing economy andand thethe relocation a growing economy relocationofofthe the major
college divisions to the Fort Garry campus from satellitemajor campuses. newtodevelopment this period college The divisions the Fort Garryofcampus This development pattern continued through subsequent also began to expand out from the traditional central corefrom of the campus. Increased building construction in satellite campuses. The new development of this waves of development and expansion in the 1930s and the 1960s generally conformed to the existing pedestrian orientation of the campus. Also during this time, period also began to expand out from the traditional 1940s, although, it is worth noting, the scale and style increasing enrolment necessitated the addition of academic buildings to all the faculties. central core of the campus. Increased building of buildings changed to reflect the times. Construction
In the 1970s, the compact nature of the campus was transformed to accommodate student and faculty service demands. The result was a more sprawling and spread out campus. Funding diminished in the early 1980s, resulting in a period of reduced construction, although the Max Bell Centre was built in 1981. Economic constraints continued into the mid- 1990s, punctuated by the development of the Investors Group Athletic Centre in 1998, built to accommodate the Pan-American Games of 1999. Within the last decade the University has seen a new period of growth and change with several new projects recently completed. The ARTLab is a new building housing the University’s School of Art, and is adjacent to Taché Hall, which is being renovated and expanded to provide a new and centralized location for the Faculty of Music (including a large new auditorium). The new Active Living Centre is a 10,684 square metre eco-friendly state-of-the-art fitness amenity and research facility for the University and community located along Dafoe Road. This high-performance training facility and research centre opened in April of 2015.
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Campus History 1915-2015
With the re-opening of the Campus Planning Office in 2011, there is also a renewed focus on the spatial quality and planning of the campus. [Source] Text from Visionary (re)Generation Master Plan (p22-23), University of Manitoba
construction in the 1960s conformed to the during this period intensified thealso quadrangle The Pan-American Gamesaround of 1967 spurred new development, particularly thegenerally construction of University existing pedestrian orientation the campus. Also adjacent theathletic Administration Building. Stadium,to an field, and new athletic facilities. Campus planning during this eraofcalled for a compact this time, increasing enrollment necessitated clustering of central campus buildings, with vehicular trafficduring restricted to the periphery. the addition of academic buildings to all the faculties.
Aerial view of Fort Garry campus, c.1950
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Historic Campus Expansion - pattern of development: 1915-1994
Historic Campus Expansion - pattern of development: 1915-1994
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[Source] Diagrams from Visionary (re)Generation Master Plan (p22-23), University of Manitoba INTRODUCTION // 11
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Faculty of Music and Taché Hall
The junction of change: View of Taché Hall expansion construction showing relationship between Taché Hall (built 1912), Central Energy Plant smokestacks (built 1912), Pembina Hall (built 1964 ), Drake Centre (built 1987), and Pembina Hall Residence (built 2011)
Current state of Taché Hall - life only happens behind the often closed doors in practice rooms and offices that were converted from former student dormitories. The thick load bearing demising walls were preserved for their structural properties and utilised for sound separation.
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View of Taché Hall expansion construction from the recently renovated Taché Hall (built 1912, renovated 1979, 2015)
Display at the door of a practice room in Taché Hall
Staging I Delivery I Structure I Parts I Tools I Assembly I Order I Boundaries I Thresholds I Platforms I Scaffoldings I Surfaces I Acoustics I Equipment I Performer I Performance I Audience I Performing
From place to place (space) to place ...
11 “Think Outside the Bachs� Manifestations adorned the walls of the Student Lounge in the original 1965 music building that is currently being renovated to accommodate expansion of the Faculty of Education
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In Between Spaces
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2.Prelude Heuristic Device
While exploring the south end of the Campus, the bell tower of St. Paul’s College at the opposite end of
instrument, with regards to its symbolic meaning, acoustical properties, and its metaphysical wonders.
the campus drew my attention. The quarter hour reminder from the bells sounded strangely familiar but
With found materials and objects and through mindful play and careful manipulation, I crafted a collection
anew. I suddenly realized deeply a sense of place and purpose: I am learning at the University of Manitoba
of idophone instruments. These instruments were then arranged to become a larger idiophone ensemble
in Winnipeg. The resonance of the bell sparked my curiosity to find out that the university was founded as
within a wooden frame. The composition is driven by sound qualities and visual appreciation of the
a confederation of three denominational colleges in 1877. It later became a secular environment for it to
ensemble. This device is a meditative wall on my studio desk that is also a privacy scree and a bookshelf.
be an inclusive institution, but the university maintains close relationships with the religious colleges, and
A improvised piece of music made with the Heuristic Device was recorded and shared with the studio.
shares the Fort Garry Campus with the established colleges.
Unfortunately, the digital file is lost due to a computer failure; fortunately, the joy of spontaneous play still
With this awareness, I focused my Heuristic Device exploration the notions of a bell, a simple idophone
lives in my memories and it still resonates.
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The pictographic notation on the left is of a Wreck Beach recording I made on March 30, 2016 in Vancouver. It’s a piece of my memory revisited through drawing. I was playing the tambourine along with a drum, a marimba, and two men singing.
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Eureka! I am Alive! An Essay
The Heuristic Device began with digging into the memories, those of mine, to the roots where I came from, and my desire to move forward. Moving forward, should be with purpose and clarity.
Where the recording took place - Wreck Beach, Vancouver (March 30, 2016)
I began investigating a piece of the campus where we are, now, to see what’s interesting. I picked the Music faculty as a focus, which is in transition of expansion. Through wander and discovery, the initial investigation of the music faculty in Taché Hall was a rather disappointing experience, visually. But the soundscape experienced through the corridors is evident and affirming that, surely, the musicians are working on their crafts behind the closed doors of the practice rooms, and perhaps having the most intimate conversations with themselves through music. Music is a sort of a universal language, isn’t it? One Sunday morning, while I was still in bed, half awake, I found myself slowly drifting in the sound of a church bell ringing calmly in a distance, as if I am in a state of hypnopompic (a lucid dream). I thought to myself, as if I know I was conscious: where am I? The answer became clear as I became aware of the sound from the raindrops hitting the window sill, followed by a car making a small splash onto the wet asphalt pavement while cruising by - I thought to myself: I am awake, I am alive. I have never lived so close to a church prior to my recent relocation to Winnipeg. The sound of the church bell ringing on a Sunday morning was not an experience that I associate with. Yet the sound of the bell was strangely familiar that it disoriented my consciousness, and begged the simplest and universal question: where am I?
Drawings of the bell on my bicycle
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Album cover: The Koln Concert, Keith Jarrett, 1975
Pictographic notation of a Wreck Beach recording
My consciousness was grounded with the concrete sound of raindrop hitting on the vinyl window frame and conveniently splashing onto the bricks that form the window sill; to the same effect, my existence was confirmed by the sound of water channelling out from the deep treaded tires of what sounded like an SUV driving by. Then it was the church bell again, ringing ever so calmly. Eureka! I am alive!
The bell struck. It was an eureka moment, an experience of serendipity, reaffirmingly so: the bell summons me be alert, observant, to reflect, and to contemplate. The found objects and materials salvaged on campus, and in this one fascinating antique store I accidently stumbled across inspired me. Their embodied qualities, observed through my own awareness, have revealed themselves over time. They are wonderful in that they truly show the signs of age - weathered wood with deep grains, oxidized steel giving off rust, exposed aggregates that belong to concrete and only so exposed after its mix is cured, concrete test samples from a permeability test and a compressive strength test, and the piece of plywood so ornate by nature, it’s almost comparable to the Tyndall stone of Garson and Tyndall. One my of favourite recordings is the Koln Concert by Keith Jarrett - it was a serendipitous moment for Jarrett to create this ephemeral piece of music, the quality similar to a bell. The story tells that it was a bit of an accident: Jarrett was given a wrong piece of equipment, a rehearsal quality, small baby grand piano instead of the Bosendorfer 290 Imperial Concert Grand piano Jarrett had requested. He fought with the staff but with no prevail: the requested piano could not be delivered in time. Meanwhile, the clock struck 11:30 at night, with a full house of spectators half patiently waiting for the show, Jarrett finally accepted the facts and came to peace with what was available at his fingertips, and went on to play his finest piece of recorded music - the Koln Concert on January 2nd, 1975, at the Opera House in Cologne, Germany. Jarrett worked with the tinny and thin upper registers and weak bass register, together with semi-functioning pedals. However, with intuition, Jarrett worked with the embodied qualities of the piano and explored, and pushed them to their full potentials. The Koln concert is improvisation at its best: it was as magical as it was radical. So I wonder, is it possible that such improvisation can flourish on a radical campus? Could architecture present the opportunities for alertness and clarity for all of us to pause, observe, reflect, contemplate, and to perhaps meditate, and learn.
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Heuristic Discoveries
UofM’s root as an agricultural college
Heuristic Device as a meditative wall and a privacy screen on my studio desk
Identifying the uniqueness in every branch
Notes regarding musical elements, classifications, and parameters
Stripped down original music building revealing its fundamental structures
The graveyard for concrete test samples behind the engineering building became my playground for an afternoon
An acrylic mural of the bell tower and a quote by Voltaire is painted on the plywood of the Heuristic Device - “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
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One of the instruments in the ensemble - plywood, stone, concrete, wood filer, L shape steel angle, stainless steel spring, brass bell without a clapper
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01. REFLECTOR FROM DEMOLISHED LIGHT FIXTURE
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02. PLYWOOD FRAME
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07. CONCRETE TEST SAMPLE COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH TEST
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09. MATERIAL COLLAGE 01-08, 10-13
10. SMALL BRASS BELL - MISSING CLAPPER
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Found Materials and Objects
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Idiophone Instruments
IDIOPHONE AN INSTRUMENT THE WHOLE OF WHICH VIBRATES TO PRODUCE A SOUND WHEN STRUCK, SHAKEN, OR SCRAPED, SUCH AS A BELL, GONG, OR RATTLE. - OXFORD DICTIONARIES
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With the found materials, a range of exploration was done in effort to understand their shapes,
as a whole was synthesized to perform like a carefully composed idiophone ensemble, with mechanical
acoustical properties, aesthetic values from oxidation and weathering, workability, compositions, and
details showing the motional/acoustical relationships between the individual parts when the device is
constructabilities. The exploration process would start from the imagination and a sketch, or it would
activated. Recordings were made during the improvised performances while testing the instruments.
begin with playing and modifying the physical found objects. Through testing and more playing, a collection
These recordings were then edited and mixed with the original Wreck Beach recording to combine sound,
of small idophone instruments were made. Then, through visual composition and arrangement, the device
space, and time. The result was serendipitous.
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Heuristic Device and Functional Diagram
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3.Interlude Radical Campus Field Trip
Right: The bell tower inside the Massey College courtyard by Architect Ron Thom, University of Toronto
The studio went on field trip to visit university campuses in Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal from Oct.14 -
and John Shnier in Toronto, Ron Keenberg in Ottawa, and Professor David Covo in Montreal.
Oct. 25, 2016. The field trip was an intensive study of radical campus planning and an in-depth look into
One of my many serendipitous encounters of this trip was an unplanned visit to Ron Keenberg’s Glass
the kinds of architecture that encourage learning to take place. This chapter documents the places I found
House, his residence in Gatineau, and for the first time experience a master architect’s dwelling. The journey
successfully foster the environment for contemplation, encounters, and interactions.
to Ron Keenber’s Glass House reminds me of a science fiction scene in an Alexandro Jodorowsky’s film
Along the way, we had the great pleasure to meet with and learn from architects including George Baird
The Holy Mountain - an awe-inspiring quality that only a master can achieve.
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Places for Learning and Contemplation
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Ron Keenberg A Man of Order and Feelings
Ron Keenberg sharing his knowledge at the Library and Archives Canada he completed in 1997. He envisioned the eternal qualities of a Greek temple for the execution of this project.
“Try thinking feeling� - Ron Keenberg signed the book Thinking Architecture by Peter Zumthor that I brought along with me to his glass house.
An aerial view showing the modest footprint of the glass house in a relatively populated neighbourhood
The exact entry sequence Ron Keenberg wanted his visitors to experience the glass house:
First sight is a pyramid that disappears into the sky
An obscured volume comes to sight
A brass bell marks the entrance
Seeing through the glass house
A drawing of a Greek temple
Studio inside the pyramid
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Impressive yet simple structural order
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Professor David Covo Lecture at McGill University Model of McGill campus
Professor David Covo gave an in-depth lecture on McGill’s campus history and development
Notes from Professor David Covo’s lecture
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Sketches
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Sketch: a reading room of Grande Bibliothèque by Patkau Architects, Montreal, Quebec
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Sketches
Sketch: a curious window that looks out to nature in a study space in HEC MontrĂŠal by Dan Hanganu Architects, Montreal, Quebec
Sketch: view of Habitat 67 by Moshe Safdie from Old Port of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec
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From Nov.1 - Nov.21, 2016, University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA) demonstrated
of the bell. It was a powerful experience and from then on, this cowbell gained a symbolic
a 21-day strike against the university’s administration questioning its governance and
significance in my heuristic discoveries. The bell struck again.
priorities. We asked ourselves: what is the role of a university?
Reflecting on the strike, UMFA President Mark Hudson stated in an open letter that the strike
On Nov.4, students showed support to UMFA by joining the march to the front door of the
“served as a platform for students to engage in these conversations and arguments—and
university’s administration building. In this historical moment, I decided to march along with
it was incredibly heartening to see how students rose to this, became informed, talked to
a cowbell from my Heuristic Device and rung it loud and hard. This simple act energized the
their classmates and to faculty on the picket lines about the issues, debated in their student
marching crowd: I saw a lot of nodding heads and smiling faces that resonated with the ring
associations and councils, and became central actors in the dynamic of the strike.”
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5.Postlude Heuristic Chamber
With the heuristic discoveries up to this point, the Heuristic Chamber expands the architectural scopes to
From a programmatic point of view, the vertical circulation to get to the elevated Chamber is generously sized
look at creating an inhabitable place for a site on UofM’s Fort Garry Campus, and further examines the special
to anticipate simultaneous interactions and jam sessions to take place on one of the projected balconies or the
conditions that foster the desire to learn. I chose a site at the intersection of Maclean Cres. and Freeman Cres.,
seating platforms incorporated into the stairs. With its folded steel treads and railing cables of different gauges
at the south end of the campus by Red River. With a modest enclosed space of 150m2, a simple program
that can produce different pitches and rhythms, the stair becomes a musical instrument upon interaction with
provides different spaces and conditions for which musicians and others can create, jam, and perform.
its occupants. The stair is left open to the elements so it will also take on a seasonal character. A circular
The objective is to continue the process in working with the found conditions and create the architecture that
elevator is designed to be large enough to carry a grand piano up to the Chamber, and becomes a beacon on
responds to these conditions. With the architecture attuned to its surroundings, it also allows its inhabitants
the campus edge that echoes the nearby impressive smokestacks of the Central Energy Plant. The Chamber
to be more sensitive to their immediate context - place, time, sounds, seasons, weather, light, shadow, and
itself is an open space with two zones: one that addresses the dense campus and the other oriented to reflect
other inhabitants including animals and insects. I believe this awareness will be able to influence the creative
the bending of the majestic Red River.
energy of the musicians and create the atmospheres for which they would enjoy to work in.
The emphasis on material exploration is rooted in the site where the Chamber sits. The abundance of clay
From a campus planning point of view, the siting of the project recognizes the duality of the site: the lively
along the river bank, the fine clay that potters and sculptors adore, presents the opportunity to be explored as
campus core and the restless landscape of the Red River. The elevated massing of the Chamber respects
a building material that represents a local vernacular. Its acoustical properties can also be utilised for interior
the seasonal flux of the river while maintaining the visual connection that frames the river and the campus at
sound treatments.
either ends. The ground plane turns into a new plaza that will support outdoor events and concerts. It is also
With next term’s Heuristic Edifice site identified in close proximity to the Chamber, the above ideas will be
a gateway that celebrates the vital connection the Fort Garry Campus has with the Red River.
further explored.
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From Bell Tower to Red River
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Notes and sketches: From Bell Tower to Red River - Remarking the serendipitous campus discoveries and imagining the possibilities
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The Many Sides of the Site
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Mechanical and Electronic Music boxes Carillons and chimes Mechanical music makers Automatic pianos Mechanical organs Electric guitars Electro-mechanical instruments Electric organs Radio-electric instruments
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Aerophones
Footed drums Goblet drums Waisted drums Barrel drums Conical drums
End-blown flutes Side-blown flutes Nose flutes Vessel flutes Multiple flutes Panpipes Whistles Whistle flutes Recorders Flageolets Clarinets Saxophones
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Chordophones Simple bows Resonated bows Mouth bows Multiple bows Box lyres Bowl lyres Bow harps Angle harps Frame harps Round-backed lutes Flat-backed lutes Fretted lutes Fiddles
A place to accommodate the multi-instrumentalist and for this homo luden to witness the splendid twist of the Red River from a vantage point 12 metres above the fine clay riverbed.
Ground zithers Trough zithers Tube zithers Raft zithers Stick zithers Long zithers Psaltery Harpsichord Virginal Spinet Dulcimer Clavichord Pianoforte
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Site Planning
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Sketches showing the initial ideas
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A site plan sketch showing the building orientation is influenced by the Red River contour and has a symbolic shape of an instrument or an amplifier
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Site Plan
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An Elevated Chamber
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Sketches showing initial ideas for the elevated chamber massing
A collage showing the elevated chamber massing and event space at ground level - the source images are from various Russian constructivist art
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An Elevated Chamber
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A Collage of Seasons Fall / Winter
Top: Diverse vegetation samples collected on site Left: Drawing of a piece of wood found on site - it is an inspiration for a door handle Below: Photo montage showing the contrast between Fall and Winter
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A collage showing the elevated chamber massing and event space at ground level in the Fall - the source images are from various Russian constructivist art and the St. Andrews Lock and Dam of the Red River flood way
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A Collage of Seasons Fall / Winter
Top: Snow decorated creeper on the wall of the engineering building - an inspiration for the creeper proposed for the stair screen of the chamber Above: Texture found on site after a snow fall - permeable concrete pavers and black spruce tree Below: Amphibexes breaking up the ice jam on Red River in early Spring
The Bell StruckH e u r i s t i c Discoveries Radical Campus Studio Portfolio A collage showing the elevated chamber massing and event space at ground level in Winter - the source images are from various Russian constructivist art and the St. Andrews Lock and Dam of the Red River flood way
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Painting the Ephemeral - Site
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Painting the Ephemeral - Elevated Chamber
Left: The Ephemeral Red River Bank at Noon Acrylic paint and cotton thread on canvas Right: The Elevated Chamber Acrylic paint and cotton thread on canvas
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Site Model 1:500
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1:500 Site Model - wood, acrylic sheets, paper
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Site Model 1:500
East Elevation - Red River
South Elevation
West Elevation - Campus
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North Elevation
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Working Ground Floor Plan and the Vertical Circulations
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1:100 Ground Floor Plan and Stair Section
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Seating Platforms in Stair Looking Over Red River
Working Design Vignettes
View of Stair and Ground Level Plaza
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View of the Chamber on Maclean Cres. Outside of MSH Residence
View of the Chamber from Maclean Cres. and Freeman Cres.
View of the Ground Level Plaza and Connection to Red River
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Working Main Floor Plan
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1:100 Main Floor Plan - showing early exploration of enclosed “pods” as recording studios
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Understanding the Spatial Relationships
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1:100 Main Floor Plan - showing an open space for group jam session
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The Amplifiers
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Drawing and Collage: Imagining the mediated world between the natural and built environment for a musical act, with the interior finishes are thought to be “playable”
Sketches showing different ideas for the “amplifier” element that mediates the chamber and the campus
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The Amplifiers
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Sketches showing different ideas for the “amplifier” element that mediates the chamber and the campus
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Clay Studies
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Clay Studies
Far Left: Clay studies of a sun shade concept showing ephemeral light and shadow conditions. With the right conditions, lichen and moss can be encouraged to form on the clay cavities over time. Left: Moss growing on the clay tile roof of a house. Microscopic images of common moss-dwellers: Tardigrade (water bear) and Rotifer [Source] http://yaquina.info/ybn/nature/km-moss.htm https://manitobamuseum.ca/main/manitobas-miniature-forests/
Top: Clay studies of a sun shade screen Above: Ceramic pieces from a broken vase found during a site visit Right: 1:1 mock up of a sun shade screen
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The Stair as an Instrument
Idea for a simple idiophone instrument incorporated to the end of the handrail
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Sketches of the stair threads and railing cables Double metal stair screen with creeper growing
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Building section studying the stair configuration
Imagining the stair as a musical instrument: running the fingers along the vertical railing cables of different gauges to produce different pitches
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Filler slab with terracotta pots in a house by Anupama Kundoo, Auroville, India
[Source] http://research.auroville.org/system/papers/attachments/000/000/272/original/Introduction_to_ Auroville_Building_Techniques_Mona_doctor_Pingel_2012.pdf
Clay Studies - Clay Pot Acoustical Ceiling
Detail of clay pot ceiling installation - light fixture and acoustical treatment
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Sketch study of the clay pot installation, inspired by the terracotta pots in filler slab application in India, and the Turkish stick jingle
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Clay Studies - Clay Pot Acoustical Ceiling Installation
Top and Bottom: Clay Pot Acoustical Ceiling Installation - showing the installation being activated by hand with the movement producing sound similar to wind chimes
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Clay Pot Acoustical Ceiling Installation: the arrangement is based on the acoustical performance once activated by hand or by wind
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Clay Studies - Clay Pot Acoustical Ceiling Installation
Top and Bottom: Clay Pot Acoustical Ceiling Installation - showing the installation being activated by hand with the movement producing sound similar to wind chimes
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Final Model 1:100
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Detail of 1:100 Model Base: incorporated the found ceramic pieces from a site visit as the ground for the model
Deers are imagined to be one of the Chamber’s inhabitants
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Final Model 1:100
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Final Model 1:100
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Model detail showing the sun shade screen
Model detail showing the translucent wall facing South that would catch the shadows of the trees
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Final Model 1:100
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Final Model 1:100
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West Elevation - Campus Side
South-West Perspective
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Final Floor Plans
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East Elevation - Red River Side
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Oooh yeah Ah Now Ziggy played guitar Jamming good with Weird and Gilly And The Spiders from Mars He played it left hand But made it too far Became the special man Then we were Ziggy's Band Ziggy really sang Screwed up eyes and screwed down hairdo Like some cat from Japan Oh he could lick 'em by smiling He could leave 'em to hang He came on so loaded man, Well hung, snow white tan So where were the spiders While the fly tried to break our balls? Just the beer light to guide us So we bitched about his fans And should we crush his sweet hands? Oh yeah Ziggy played for time Jiving us that we were Voodoo The kids was just crass He was the naz With God-given ass He took it all too far But boy could he play guitar Making love with his ego Ziggy sucked up into his mind Like a leper messiah When the kids had killed a man I had to break up the band
David Bowie’s larger-than-life spirit and his enigmatic musical and theatrical creativity will be with me for a very long time. David Bowie (Jan.8, 1947 - Jan.10, 2016)
Oh yeah Oooh Oh hohoo Ziggy played guitar - Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie
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Perspective - Ziggy’s Band Playing in the Heuristic Chamber
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Perspective - View from Campus
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Perspective - View of Campus Framed by the Heuristic Chamber
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73 The Bell resonates. It’s 8:31am, the sun is just rising across the red river from where I got off the bus. It is
sky. With close inspection, I realized the campus Central Energy Plant is sending off moisture in such great
Saturday, December 10th, 2016, -29 C outside, what magical moment this is! At least the bus dropped me
velocity through the majestic smoke stacks to the heavenly crisp orange sky. Erik Satie was playing in my
off right here. Right now, the sun illuminates radially across and above the frozen river ice, the pockets of
headphones, I imagined he probably wrote The Gymnopédies in similar tranquillity, maybe at night under
steamy pools dotting along the bending river suggest it may be much warmer over there, perhaps comparable
dim moonlight. It was sublime, I thought, nature in its fullest! I also imagined a piece of slow piano music
to my own respiration. I spotted two deers munching away in the bush few metres away from where I stood,
coming out from the Heuristic Chamber with a window ajar. Like the Sun’s ray and the resonance of a bell,
they seemed to welcome my presence. I noticed there is a beautiful long lonely cloud reaching across the
music has the magic to reach far and wide, in all directions.
6.Resonance
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I. HEAR the sledges with the bells -Silver bells ! What a world of merriment their melody foretells ! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night ! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight ; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells -From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells. II. Hear the mellow wedding bells Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells ! Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight ! From the molten-golden notes, And all in tune, What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats On the moon ! Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells ! How it swells ! How it dwells On the Future ! how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells -To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells ! III. Hear the loud alarum bells -Brazen bells ! What tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells ! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright ! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune, In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire, In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire, Leaping higher, higher, higher,
With a desperate desire, And a resolute endeavor Now -- now to sit or never, By the side of the pale-faced moon. Oh, the bells, bells, bells ! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair ! How they clang, and clash, and roar ! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air ! Yet the ear, it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows ; Yet, the ear distinctly tells, In the jangling, And the wrangling, How the danger sinks and swells, By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells -Of the bells -Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells -In the clamour and the clangour of the bells ! IV. Hear the tolling of the bells -Iron bells ! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels ! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy meaning of their tone ! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people -- ah, the people -They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who, tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone -They are neither man nor woman -They are neither brute nor human -They are Ghouls: -And their king it is who tolls ; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls A pæan from the bells ! And his merry bosom swells
With the pæan of the bells ! And he dances, and he yells ; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the pæan of the bells -Of the bells : Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the throbbing of the bells -Of the bells, bells, bells -To the sobbing of the bells ; Keeping time, time, time, As he knells, knells, knells, In a happy Runic rhyme, To the rolling of the bells -Of the bells, bells, bells -To the tolling of the bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells -Bells, bells, bells -To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.
The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe
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7.Bibliographies
Brodsky, Alexander, and Ilya Utkin, and Lois Nesbitt. Brodsky & Utkin. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003 Byrne, David. How Music Works. San Francisco: McSweeney’s, 2012 Carlson, Marvin. Places of Performance The Semiotics of Theatre Architecture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993 Cook, Peter. Drawing The Motive Force of Architecture. West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2008 Darden, Douglas. Condemned Building. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1993 The Diagram Group. Musical Instruments of the World, An Illustrated Encyclopedia. New York: Bantam Books, 1978. Friedman, Yona. Architecture With The People, By The People, For The People. New York: Actar, 2011. Nieuwenhuys, “New Babylon.” Text for the Exhibition Catalogue (The Hauge 1974). Accessed November 20, 2016. http://isites.harvard.edu/ fs/docs/icb.topic709752.files/WEEK%207/CNieuwenhuis_New%20Babylon.pdf Pérez-Gómez, Alberto. Attunement Architectural Meaning After the Crisis of Modern Science. Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2016. University of Manitoba. Visionary (re)Generation Master Plan. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, 2016 Sorkin, Michael. Michael Sorkin Studio: Wiggle. New Work: The Monacelli Press, 1998 Xenakis, Iannis. Music and Architecture: Architectural Projects, Texts, and Realizations. New York: Pendragon Press, 2007 Zumthor, Peter. Thinking Architecture. Basel: Birkauser, 2006.
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Radical Campus Studio Fall 2016 (M1) The Bell Struck - Heuristic Discoveries
Submitted to Professor Lisa Landrum Created by Bryan He ARCH 7050 January 2017 Faculty of Architecture University of Manitoba