Architectural Design AnyPlace: Library Guiseppe Ferrigno
Contents The Written Word Site Analysis Design Development Design Proposal Appendix
The Written Word: Week 1 This series of models where created in response to ‘the written world’ radio 4 podcast (part of the In Our Time series). They identify 5 key origins of the written word and my responses to them. This created an interest in the transition between the literal and the symbolic of the different processes to the written word.
The Ancient Egyptian Pyramids and the geometric principle used to create them. Perspex and mount board mounted on corrugated card. observation - literal symbols - abstract symbols
History
Counting
A portion of the Tudor family tree. Paper and aluminium wire.
Engraved Mesopotamian counting stones used for trading. Salt dough.
memory - history - memory
original - three dimensional miniature - three dimensional symbol - two dimensional symbol
The Written Word: Week 2 This series of models explores the transition between the literal in the previous series of models. Here I have asked people to draw a symbol of a common object from an image of that object. The series of objects used where chosen due to there linguistic relation, in that their names rhyme. I then constructed three dimensional models from the two dimensional symbols drawn. I found that there linguistic relation had little or no consequence. On the other hand I did note that although the resulting objects easily see the relation once labelled.
Throat
Coat
The Written Word: Week 3 This week I reversed the process from the previous week. The following models where made by people with little architectural interest from text based instructions. The instructions on the other hand where concerned with architectural ideas of solid, void, space, scale and proportion. I also varied the degree of interpretation required from the instruction. The models that where quite prescribed tended to be better executed, however the results where fairly predictable. The ones that where more open to interpretation where generally made in a cruder fashion but represented strong ideas, that where almost entirely unpredicted.
‘align the squares vertically to create a fan shape’
‘wrap thread around the sticks to create a from between them’
‘use three squares of card to represent a cube’
‘connect these two squares of card (one 50x50mm one 100x100mm) to create a three dimensional object concerned with the change in scale’
The Written Word: Week 4 of people interacting with my work from the past two weeks into a scaled concept with more human relation. I created a series create spaces that evoke different feelings. I found that people had varying opinions of different types of spaces. In particular enclosed spaces could either be felt as comforting or imposing and the same person often felt the opposite reaction to an open space. Tall monolithic structures however where generally seen as imposing and impressive by all.
‘comfortable’
‘imposing’
The site is located in a predominantly residential area. The Piazza currently hosts a local food market that attracts people from across the city. There is also a recreational space adjacent to the market. Due to these attractions people already congregate here, although there could be said to be a lack of seating.
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Design Development The market end of the site has an open social feel, whilst the narrower end naturally creates a quieter more intimate space. This transition from an open space interacting with the market, through to a more intimate secluded space became the starting point for my explorations.
Design Proposal The design concept combines the ideas of transition of open to spaces and evoke different feelings, as explored in the conceptual models. The process starts with an outdoor space of scattered seating facing onto the market. The building then starts with a canopy space that leads on to a group of large open, sky lit spaces. As the site tapers the spaces reduce in size and goes down into more secluded study areas and more intimate reading spaces. Culminating in a tall space with a great tower of books, a tribute to the power of the written word, acting as a beacon to the library. The building’s program provides a community social space in the open end of the building, the narrower end of the building comprises of study spaces that tend towards quiet contemplation in the smallest areas. One of the open spaces can also be closed off to form a lecture theatre.
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Appendix Written Work Models Section Line Drawing Pecha Kucha Drawing With Satellites
Communication
Stories
A letter detailing the completion of a ships time peace ‘the chronometer’. Ink on paper.
A scene from the story. Paperback book.
voice - symbol - voice
imagination - symbols - imagination
The Written Word: Week 1
Stoat
Boat
Goat
The Written Word: Week 2
‘represent the space within a cube’
‘create a cube within a cube’
‘represent the frame of a cube without making a cube’
The Written Word: Week 3
‘lost’
‘working’
‘trapped’
‘daunting social space’
‘awkward social space’
‘comfortable social space’
The Written Word: Week 4
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Pecha Kucha
Pecha Kucha
Connection We wanted to get all the members of the group involved in the drawing process. This decision played an important role in the formation of our concept. We kept a list of the names of the members in alphabetical order which was our only control variable. An The connection that the member establishes between the object and the city would the choices made by each individual and dependent decisions made instantaneously. Kevin Kuriakose Guiseppe Ferrigno Thanpisit Tangwongsiri Simay Yildiz Henry Ma Joe Scotchman