ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to express my gratitude to my instructor, Daniel Hapton, for his help and guidance through Studio 1. I would also like to thank the guest reviewers through the fall 2020 semester for their constructed criticism and guidance on my work from each phase.
INTRODUCTION
The following portfolio is a chronological collection of all my work through each of the three phases throughout Studio 1 during my first semester as a foundation year student at University of Calgary, SAPL. During phase I we were tasked to research and analyze a precedent architectural project to try understand the logic behind the design. My understanding of the logic behind the architectural exterior shell of the SO-IL Mini Living project was based on a rail-line + profile sweep system that would generate the organic form. Phase II looked to change the precedent of looking at an architectural project and begin to look at a sculptural artist to figure out their system that they used to create their work. I was assigned to research and learn about the sculptural work of Tony Smith with the help of my team, Taylor Jackson, Awani Khatu, and Dash Maxwell we produced a program that revolves around the knowledge we gathered from researching the lifestyle of Tony Smith. The program would be used as a foundation for designing a live-work home for the artist that we each did individually. The work seen on pages 14-15 are a collective effort of my team where we collected and produced drawings and diagrams pertaining to site analysis of Nassau County Museum of Art, New York, USA in which our designs would reside. The second part of phase II included the development of our own hybrid system that incorporated the logic derived from our precedent from phase I and a selected sculptural piece of our artist from phase II. From this hybrid system, I created a variety of massing to illustrate the controllability and variation of multiple iterations. Phase III looked to start producing architectural drawings from our selected massing from phase II and to develop it further.
Willy, 1962
Tony Smith
Selected Sculpture (Phase II)
Breathe
Mini Living - SO-IL
Assigned Precedent (Phase I)
Willy, 1962
Tony Smith
Selected Sculpture (Phase II)
table of contents
PHASE I PRECEDENT ANALYSIS, CLARIFICATIONS AND ADJUSTMENTS pg. 04-07 SO-IL MINI LIVING
PHASE II ARCHITECTURE’S EXPANDED FIELD-FORM, PROGRAM, AND SITE pg. 08-15 TONY SMITH
PHASE III DESIGN SYNTHESIS: ARCHITECTURE BETWEEN FORM AND CULTURE pg. 15-28 BILLY, 2020
wic 5 sq.m. ensuite 7.5 sq.m.
master bedroom 17.5 sq.m.
bedroom 1 15 sq.m.
ensuite 5 sq.m. ensuite 5 sq.m.
bedroom 2 15 sq.m.
gross floor area 254 sq.m.
library 17.5 sq.m. office 17.5 sq.m.
corridor
kitchen 15.75 sq.m. dining 15.75 sq.m. living 24.5 sq.m.
studio 37.5 sq.m. storage 6 sq.m. powder 4 sq.m.
