BUILDING COMPLEXITIES
Melissa Johnson LA 203 / Spring 2016 / A. Wilcox Department of Landscape Architecture Cal Poly Pomona
TABLE OF CONTENTS Project One: Pieces + Parts Introduction Phase One
Phase Two
Phase Three
Phase Four
Phase Five
Project Two: Mapping + Recon Introduction Phase One
Phase Two
Phase Three
Phase Four
Phase Five
Project Three: New Parts + Rules of Attraction Introduction Phase One
Phase Two
Phase Three
Phase Four
Project Four: Silver Linkages + Exquisite Corpse Introduction Phase One
Phase Two
Phase Three
Phase Four
PROJECT ONE “As individuals, studio participants will develop a very quick but highly crafted set of landscape pieces made of typical landscape program parts. This project will document the nascent design influences as short-lived design responses of individual students.”
Project Deliverables:
• 6 , 2”x2” landscape pieces
– 1/2” Uniform Slope
+ 1/2” Uniform Slope
– 1/2” Concave Slope or Depression
+ 1/2” Convex Slope or Mound
– 1/8” Uniform Trench
Unconditioned Ground
Materials:
PHASE one:
Readings
Atlas of Novel Tectonics; Reiser + Umemoto
“We assert the primacy of material and formal specificity over myth and interpretation. In fact, while all myth and interpretation derives from the immediacy of material phenomena, this equation is not reversible. When you try to make fact out of myth language only begets more language, with archit4ecture assuming the role of illustration or allegory. This is tire not only of the initial condition of architecture but actually plays out during th design process in a similar way. Material practice is the shift from asking, “what does this mean?” to “what does this do?”
-The Judo of Cold Combustion -Introduction -Geometries: Fineness, Difference + Degree, Similarity + Difference, Part- to- Whole -Matter: Folly of the Mean, Operating in a State of Poise, Exchanges Amongst Systems, The Diagram, Diagram Deployment, Fineness + the Macroscale, Matter + Context -Operating: Asignifying Signs, Migration of Pattern, Emergent Structures, Impersonal Individuations Material Expressions, Devolutionary Architecture, Optimization -Common Errors to Avoid: The Abuse of Data, The Abuse of History, The Abuse of the Diagram, The Abuse of Logic -The World: Migration of Practices, Continuity + Discontinuity, Neo-Regionalism
Readings
Reiser + Umemoto, pp 23, Atlas of Novel Tectonics
PHASE two:
Lectures
Lectures
PHASE three
Project
Project
Project display required close up photos on each project and a shelf built to display our cubes. I made a solid black shelf to accent the color light color of the basswood models.
Detailed photos were to be taken to insure quality of project and appr4eciation of scale.
PHASE four
Assembly
The entire placed their six models together to create one large, complex landscape.
PROJECT TWO “Students will investigate, map and analyze the critical systems, associations and alignments of the studio project location and its context. In teams of two, students will map their assigned transect of the Silver Lake Reservoir. Students must look at alignments that are above, within and below their image sites to identify opportunities, partners, beneficiaries and histories of the project alignment”.
Project Deliverables:
• One 1/16” plan for the assigned transect- edge to edge
• One 1/16” ‘deep’ section of the assigned transect- edge to edge
• 6 Photographs (with overlay of response) of the assigned transect
• One big Diagram of Programmatic Potential
• One Rhino Site model
• 2 built frames
• 2 narrative sequences
• 2 trivial familiar
• Mapping Presented on one 42” wide x 120” long sheet, top 24” must be cut off on lower sheet.
Mapping Deliverables:
• Specific Mapping// Specific Opportunities Specific opportunities Specific Partners Specific Potential Beneficiaries
• Process Mapping// Mapping Process Horizontal and Vertical Alignments Climate Processes and Alignments
• Mapping Presented on one 42” wide x 120”
PHASE one
Readings
“Akin to a puzzle, geographic ma[p]trix drawing types are taxonomical inventories of various parts brought together to form a whole.� Perry Kulper, pp 20, Pamphlet Architecture 34
Instinctual Marks, Relational Fields, Sites of Wonder; Perry Kulper, Pamphlet Architecture 2014 Rambunctious Garden; Emma Marris
-Chapters 1-4
Projective Ecologies;
-Parallel Genealogies; Reed and Lister
-Ecology and Landscape as Agents of Creativity; Corner
-Selections from Landscape Ecology; Dramstand, Olson, Forman
-Flood Control Freakology; Fletcher
-The Flora of the Future; Del Tredici
Readings
PHASE two
Notebook
Notebook
PHASE three
Site Visits
Site Visits
PHASE four
Project
Project
PROJECT THREE
Project Deliverables:
• 6 , 2”x2” landscape pieces
– 1/2” Uniform Slope
+ 1/2” Uniform Slope
– 1/2” Concave Slope or Depression
+ 1/2” Convex Slope or Mound
– 1/8” Uniform Trench
Unconditioned Ground
PHASE one
Readings
“To generalize, a field condition could be any formal or spatial matrix capable of unifying diverse elements while respecting the identity of each. Field configurations are loosely bound aggregates characterized by porosity and local interconnectivity. Overall shape and extent are highly fluid and less important the internal relationships of parts, which determine the behavior of the field. Field conditions are bottom-up phenomena, defined not by overarching geometrical schemas but by intricate local connections. Interval, repetition, and seriality are key concepts. Form matters, but not so much the forms of things as the forms between things.� Stan Allen, pp. 2, Field Conditions; Point + Lines
Field Conditions, Points + Lines; Stan Allen, 1985 Being in Circumstance; Notes toward a Conditional Art, Robert Irwin, 1985 Rambunctious Garden; Emma Marris
-Chapters 5-8
Projective Ecologies;
-Designing Ecologies; Hight
-Anthropogenic Taxonomies; Ellis
-Do Landscapes Learn?; Cook
-Combustible Landscapes; Kwinter
Readings
PHASE two
Notebook
Notebook
PHASE three
Research
Research
PHASE four
Project
PROJECT FOUR
“The final project phase will require participants to link the narrative exploration and concept development of other studios. Emphasis will be placed on the structure and organization of project components as a complete narrative of verbal and visual expression. This phase will require combined and complex drawings and 3D modeling.” Project 4 Syllabus
Project Deliverables:
• 1, -1/16” scale model
• 3D printed inlay/ insert
• Included existing buildings
• Included 1/16” scaled figures
• 16, 11” x 11” drawings
PHASEone
Notebook
Notebook
PHASE three
Process
PHASE four
Project
PHASE three
PHASE four
Project
Project
+pacific flyaway migratory route
+native birds +constant sun exposure
+native plants
SITE DIAGRAM: Current Conditons
+water movement +bioremediation
+invasive plant species +bromide contamination
AERIAL SECTION: Render
SITE DIAGRAM: Current Conditons
SITE DIAGRAM: Proposed Conditions
AERIAL SECTION: Linework
SITE DIAGRAM: Current Conditons
PERSPECTIVE: Passer-by
RENDERED SITE PLAN
PERSPECTIVE: INSPIRATION
PERSPECTIVE: Subterrestiral
PHASE three
PHASE four
Project
Project +protected terrestrial habitat
+shallow water
+expanded litoral edge
+protected terrestrial habitat
+protected terrestrial habitat
SITE DIAGRAM: Current Conditons +water movement
+controlled human activity +water movement
+protected terrestrial habitat +water movement
TOPOGRAPHY: Fixed Programming
TOPOGRAPHY: Planting Plan
TEXTURAL QUALITY: Grass
SECTION RENDERING
+bird movement
+bird movement
+human path
+water movement
+water movement
+water movement
TEXTURAL QUALITY: Flowing Water
+water movement
TOPOGRAPHY: Circulation
PERSPECTIVE: Tri-Colored Blackbird
PHASE five
Assembly