Assignment 2

ARCI 211 Architecture Design

2012

Coordinator: Simon Twose, room 307 Tutors: Anastasia Globa, Grace Mills, Nick Roberts, Sam Skogstad, Stuart Taylor

Assignment 2: Your Coffee House Project: Developed Design and Presentation Phase

Coffee and Architecture In this project you are asked to design architecture that aids and abets the consumption of coffee. The first assignment provided the conceptual and research background to the design of a coffee house. By now, you will have developed an understanding of a specific site in the city, an approach to program and you will have developed strategies to bring this thinking into architectural form. In assignment 2 this conceptual design thinking will be refined into a resolved architectural proposal. By the end of this project you will have designed a small scale building that provides the perfect spatial accompaniment to the everyday art of coffee drinking.

Assignment 2. Developed Design: This stage of the design will focus on developing site, program and formal strategies of the first phase. Spatial, tectonic and material concerns will be brought to resolution in this phase and a highly resolved piece of architecture is the expected result. Techniques of description – conventions of plan, section, elevation, will be emphasised. These will invariably be a combination of design media, moving between hand drawing and computer. The final work will be exhibited in a group exhibition in the atrium. Each student will present their coffee house as a series of (edited) design iterations that show a progression towards a set of refined final drawings and presentation model.

Architectonics By now you will have a good understanding of tectonics and this will inform your design drawings. The final designs will be resolved in terms of materials and form and will be represented in architectural drawings and a presentation model. The designs will be experimental and need not necessarily resemble conventional buildings, or use conventional materials - but will need to be resolved in terms of the materials you use and the tectonics of how they compose the building.

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Drawings Whereas the last assignment focussed on conceptual diagrams and models, this assignment will work with architectural drawings. Analogue (hand drawings) and computer drawings will be encouraged to help develop and describe your scheme. Plans, sections, elevations and 3d images will be used to develop your project. The understanding of drawing as a tool will be aided by a presentational model.

Exhibition Your design will be presented and exhibited in the Atrium.

Tasks – week by week Week 1. Develop the Brief Develop a detailed brief for your coffee house based on your concept. How the building functions will be very much related to the possibilities you have come up with thus far. The brief will need to be solved by the building but the program, of coffee house, need not necessarily follow a conventional mode. We are asking you to use your concept to push the program. Think about such things as:    

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Scale – what size is your building. How may sqM. Accommodation – how many people are you catering for (suggest 50max).

Spaces – how many, how do they vary in use, purpose; are they interior/ exterior, private/ exposed to view from the street, bounded/ unbounded.

Ritual/ protocol – how does the coffee house operate in terms of the social rituals of coffee drinking: is it like a Japanese tea house, accommodating one person for an hour in a strict spatial ritual, or does it provide coffee hits to a multitude of busy city goers, late for their important meetings.

Entry/ exit/ circulation – how do people get in/out, how does the coffee house mesh with the city life, is there vertical access, stairs, lifts, secret entrances, vestibules, corridors.

Furniture – are people seated, do they drink coffee on the run, standing up; what facilitates the drinking of coffee in detail in architectural terms.

Kitchen – is food sold/ prepared, how and where, how is it displayed, how is it served/ eaten.

Bar/ Barista – how/ where is the coffee made.

Checkout – how do people pay.

Staff – how many, how do they operate, what space do they need.

Servicing – how is stock delivered, rubbish/ recycling removed.

Storage – where do you store food, staff clothes, plates, cups, cutlery, etc.

Toilets – how are these planned, how many, where.

Mid Term Break. Develop Concept Design: material, tectonic, form, program After the break, you will present drawings and models showing the first iterations resolving your detailed brief into a building.

Week 2. Develop design programmatically The design will be further developed in terms of the brief. Draft site plans, plan layouts and sections will be used to develop the design.

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This will involve : how does the building work functionally, how is it inhabited, what scale/ proportion is it, materials, mood, and so on.

Week 3. Develop design tectonically What materials is the coffee house to be made of, how these materials come together into a constructional ‘logic’ – and importantly, how can you use these aspects to get the qualities of space you want. These questions will be addressed in model form.

Week 4. Program and Tectonics together Program plus tectonics will be further developed for presentation at an interim crit. Plans, sections, 3d models will be developed for presentation.

Week 5. Interim Presentation An informal crit will give feedback to the students. This will be in the studio spaces in tutorial groups. Tutors will swap groups and act as critics. Plans, sections, 3d models will be presented.

Week 6. Presentation Drawings Drawings will be worked up in parallel to a refinement of the design.

Week 7. Presentation Model Final models to be started this week, if not already begun.

Week 8. Compilation/ Presentation Refinement of presentation drawings and model for exhibition Presenting your design: Crit and Exhibition 8th June 2:30pm The work will be exhibited in the Atrium. Work will be critiqued and selected work will remain in the atrium for exhibition. Advice from the crit can be incorporated into the design before the final hand- in on the 18th. There will be no formal or informal tutorials after the crit.

Work is to be fully pinned up and arranged by 2pm.

Final Hand-in: Monday, 18th June, 8pm. 60% of final grade The official hand-in is the electronic R dive hand-in, which records the time and date of submission.

Assemble your presentation drawings, sketches and images of the model into pdf files of not more than 50 megs each and no more than 3 files. Photoshop files can be flattened before printing to pdf and can be further reduced by optimising. Do not hand in Photoshop files.

Hand in to the R drive: (R:\Hand-ins\ARCI\ARCI211\assignment 2) After the hand in time, hand in to the Late folder (R:\Hand-ins\ARCI\ARCI211\assignment 2 late) Hand-in Requirements This will be primarily a drawn assignment. At a minimum your design should show the following:   

Site plan, 1:500 minimum.

Plans of each level, 1:50 min.

Long and Cross sections, 1:50 min.

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Detail part sections of key spaces, 1:25 min.

Elevations, external plus internal, 1:100 min (these may be part of other drawings, for instance internal elevations are often shown as part of a sectional drawing) Images, sketches, renders or montages.

Diagrams of tectonic/ material strategy.

Edited collection of sketches/ images showing conceptual development and design process.

Presentation model.

     Assessment Requirements Please refer to the course outline for the philosophy of the course. A summary of the assessment requirements is below: Content: Experimentation:

Rigorously developed architectural inquiry evident Exploration and understanding of architectural representational media and conventions Program: Ability to develop and manipulate programmatic requirements Site: Ability to develop and manipulate site requirements Composition: Ability to develop and manipulate formal, spatial, siting, massing vocabularies Comprehensiveness: Extent of in-depth and inventive inquiries leading to architectural strategies Critical thought: Evaluation of design decisions and methods evident in the development of visual/formal languages throughout the project.

Clarity: Communication of concepts/inquiry clearly visible in all drawn, built and written work, and design processes

Reading/ watching list Below is a list of stuff that can be used as a starting point. Depending on your interests you may divert to other lines of enquiry, requiring other books. Your tutors will also be able to direct you to specific readings.

Movies: (It should be noted that some of these movies are rated) Coffee and Cigarettes Stalker (1979) The Man with a Movie Camera Blade runner Synecdoche New York The Cook the Thief his Wife and her Lover Books: Atlas of emotion - Giuliana Bruno ‘Models are Real’ in Your mobile expectations – Eliasson ‘Spatio-temporality’ in Your mobile expectations - Eliasson Architecture and Narrative: The Formation of Space and Cultural Meaning.

The Manhattan Transcripts The Situationist City Montage and Architecture Cinemetrics: Architectural Drawing Today Stalking Detroit

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Links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49tTzEifY6M&feature=related http://bartlettyear1architecture.blogspot.co.nz/ http://archidose.tumblr.com/ http://thedraftery.com/ http://www.presidentsmedals.com/ http://bldgblog.blogspot.co.nz/ http://drawingarchitecture.tumblr.com/ http://thefunambulist.net/ http://www.dezeen.com/2011/07/25/london-city-farmhouse-by-catrina-stewart/

Author

Title

Call No.

Related lecture / course section

Anderson, M.L and Anderson, L (et al) (2003) Bachelard, (1994)

Scanning: The Aberrant Architectures of Diller + Scofidio

NA737 D56 A4 S

Experimental architecture practice

Poetics of Space

B2430 B25 P E 1994

Atlas of emotion : journeys in art, architecture, and film Invisible Cities

NX175 B898 A

Space, time and imagination Chapter on ‘dialectics of inside and outside’ Course in general

PQ4809 A45 C5 E

Fiction

Electronic Resource

Tectonics and structure

NA2543 C594 A 2009

Course in general

N7053 O43 A4 Y

Experimentation in art practice

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Colour in art practice

Bruno, G (2002).

Calvino, I (1974) Charleson, A (2005) Clark, Robin (Robin Lee) Eliasson, O (2008).

Eliasson, O (2004).

Eliasson ,O

Frampton, K (1995) Hill, J (2006) Hill, J (ed) (2001) Hill, J (ed) (1998) Koolhaas, R(1994)

Structure as architecture a sourcebook for architects and structural engineers Automatic cities : the architectural imaginary in contemporary art Your mobile expectations BMW H2R project Colour memory and other informal shadows Olafur Eliasson : surroundings surrounded : essays on space and science / edited by Peter Weibel.

Studies in Tectonic Culture

N7153 O43 A4 O

Writing on Science and space

642 F813 S

Tectonics

Immaterial Architecture

NA2500 H646 I3

Course in general

Architecture: The Subject is Matter Occupying Architecture: Between the Architect and the User Delirious New York : a retroactive manifesto for

NA2750 A673 T

Course in general

NA2542.4 O15

Course in general

NA735 N5 K82 D 1994

Course in general

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Pallasma, J (1996) Reiser, J. Umemoto, N.(2006) Tschumi, B(2004) Tschumi, B(2004) Neufert, E

Manhattan The eyes of the skin: architecture and the senses Atlas of Novel Tectonics

Event-cities 3 : Concept vs.

Context vs. Content Bernard Tschumi : architecture in/of motion Architects Data

NA2500 P164 E 2005 NA2760R375A

NA1353 T78 T881 E NA1353 T881 A4 B TH151 N482 A 2ed

Course in general Course in general

Course in general – also Event Cities 1 and 3 Course in general Ergonomics/ human dimensions

It is worth looking in the AVERY index and Environmental Building News magazine, as much of the most recent material is in magazines. The Architecture and Design library has an extensive selection of books about architecture, design, materials, landscapes, etc that are not listed here. If students require specific information not listed here discuss with tutors or with the Course Coordinator. Any additional specific reading and reference material will be outlined in project / assignment hand outs or may be specified by guest lecturers and speakers.

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