PLAN 616 and ARCH 675 | Spring 2022 | Urban Design Studio University of Calgary | School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape
BUILDING CULTURE
DS22S
Cover page: Google Maps, 2022. Screenshot. Back cover: Dogma 2010. City of Walls (perspective).
CONTENTS
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Contents BULDING CULTURE
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BAUKULTUR
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THEME
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SCHEDULE
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STUDIO PROCESS
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SITE
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READINGS
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GUEST SPEAKERS
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ASSIGNMENTS
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BULDING CULTURE
Studio co-leads: Fabian Neuhaus, Associate Professor SAPL, Hal Eagletail, Knowledge Keeper, Tsuut’ina, Sven Kohlschmidt, urbanista, Germany
The urban design studio will explore a project by examine the dynamics between processes that are generally described as guiding culture. Constructing the built environment means also building social spaces, building economic spaces, building spaces for living or learning. In turn these spaces that define our daily experiences influence ideas of transformation or future projects. In this studio we want to work with this notion of a dialectic process where the creation of the artefact is influenced by its existence. The project site is centrally located in Calgary and a hub of north-south and east-west regional infrastructure providing the best panoramic view of downtown and the Rocky Mountains. Together with a series of planning process experts we will experiment in groups the new and emerging tools guiding urban development in urban areas around the world. You will learn about and use a range of processes /beyond competition/: from Hackaton to Test Planning and Forum - New International Models. Culturally we will be exploring beyond the norm of western concept of land use planning and seek to develop an understanding /beyond Indigenous planning/: from IIDC to Stories and Collaboration New Paradigms. In practice we will go /beyond vision/: from Tactical Urbanism, to Build to manufacturing and Experience - New Making.
BAUKULTUR
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Short exerpt taken from Davos Declaration 2018: Baukultur, as an aspect of cultural identity and diversity, holistically embraces every human activity that changes the built environment, including every built and designed asset that is embedded in and relates to the natural environment. Baukultur calls for contemporary creation and the existing buildings infrastructure and public space, including, but not limited to, monuments of cultural heritage, to be understood as a single entity. Thus, Baukultur refers to both detailed construction methods and large-scale transformations and developments, embracing traditional and local building skills as well as innovative techniques. Three central aspects define the overall concept of Baukultur underlying the conference and declaration: 1) The existing construction, including cultural heritage assets, and contemporary creation must be understood as a single entity. The existing construction provides an important Baukultur reference for the future design of our built environment. 2) All activities with an impact on the built environment, from detailed craftsmanship to the planning and execution of infrastructure projects that have an impact on the landscape, are expressions of Baukultur. 3) Baukultur not only refers to the built environment but also to the processes involved in its creation. Since the turn of the millennium, the term “Baukultur” has been used in the German-speaking world in this all-encompassing sense. As there is no term with an exact equivalence to this concept in English, the conference will introduce the German term Baukultur in English. The German term has been chosen in contradistinction to closely related terms such as architectural quality, so as not to limit the concept to architecture alone. Within the international political context, the fields of cultural heritage conservation, urban development and architecture refer to each other whilst still maintaining their independence and, at times, competing with each other. The cultural value of the quality of the built environment as a whole, with cultural heritage and contemporary creation being understood as a single entity, is hardly ever defined as a political goal. The Davos Declaration is an attempt at addressing this gap by offering an all-encompassing concept of Baukultur, which treats the care and preservation of cultural heritage and the extensive shaping of the environment by means of construction and development as a single entity and formulates cultural expectations with respect to the appearance of our built environment, for the common good.
Bernd Becher, Hilla Becher, 1959-73. Framework Houses. MoMA
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Marc-Antoine Laugier, Die Urhütte [original hut]. Engraving by Charles Eisen, 1755. Allegory of Architecture. Cover illustration of: Essai sur l’architecture: Observations sur l’architecture. 1755. 2nd Edition 1765. Paris: Duchesne 1755; Desaint: (Bruxelles: Mardaga 1979).
9| The Davos Declaration, 2018. The Davos Baukultur Quality System Eight criteria for a high-quality Baukultur. www.davosdeclaration2018.ch The Davos Baukultur Quality System proposes a multidimensional approach to defining the holistic concept of high-quality Baukultur and to assess the Baukultur quality of places.
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THEME
Cross-Culture Beyond the Norm:from IIDC to Stories and Collaboration New Paradigms. Process Beyond Competition: from Hackaton to Test Planning and Forum New International Models. Intervention Beyond engagement: from participation to co-creation and tactical interventions New Making.
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SCHEDULE
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afternoon
Tuesday
8:30 -
Kick Off (Testplanning Introduction+Analysis) Workshop: analysis (framework)
12:00
SK, HE, FN
2:00 18:00
Site visit FN
8:30
afternoon
12:00 2:00
09-May -
SK, FN
Workshop
Into: project, Design Brief
12:00
C: Medicine Wheel, Pablo Russel
C: Blackfoot Elder Casey Eagle Speaker Documentation
FN
SK
afternoon
17-May
desk crit: Project C: Stoney Nakoda Elder Rod Hunter
23-May
C: Visit to Tsuut'ina Reserve HE, FN
24-May
25-May P: Bahanur Nasya, Placemaking
NO CLASS Vicotoria Day
Workshop
18:00 Week 05
Desk crit: Synthesis
Local Stakeholders
C: Cree Elder HE, FN
FN
30-May 8:30 12:00 2:00 -
18-May P: Claudia Schwalfenberg, Baukultur Workshop
2:00 18:00
12:00 2:00
afternoon
Desk crit: Project
16-May P: Andrea Balestrini, Landscape Workshop / Desk crit: charette
8:30
11-May P: Naama Blonder, Smart Density
8:30 -
Week 04 morning
morning
10-May
DEL: Analysis
18:00
afternoon
Thur 04-May
Week 02 morning
Week 03 morning
Wednesday
31-May
Desk crit: installation SK
01-Jun P: Christian Scheler, Infrastructure Workshop
Desk crit: installation C: Tsuut'ina Elder Harley and Gilbert Crowchild
18:00
C: Indigenous Architecture, Film HE, FN
HE, FN
Week 06 morning
8:30
Desk crit: proposal
06-Jun
P: Markus Ewald, Testplanung Project Examples
SK
Workshop
afternoon
12:00 2:00 18:00
Week 07 morning
afternoon
Week 08 morning
07-Jun
Desk crit: charette
C: Ceremony and Protokoll, Sweat Lodge
HE, FN
HE, FN
13-Jun 8:30 -
14-Jun
15-Jun
21-Jun
22-Jun
Desk crit: charette SK
12:00 2:00 18:00
Desk crit: proposal C: Healing Chicken Dance Anson Eagletail HE, FN 20-Jun
8:30 12:00
08-Jun
DEL: Reflection (submission)
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rsday
Friday 05-May
06-May
Saturday Sunday 07-May 08-May
Desk crit: analysis SK
12-May
13-May
14-May
15-May
20-May
21-May
22-May
27-May
28-May
29-May
03-Jun
04-Jun
05-Jun
10-Jun
11-Jun
12-Jun
17-Jun
18-Jun
19-Jun
24-Jun
25-Jun
26-Jun
P: Martin Nelson, Human Scale Workshop Desk crit: project
19-May DEL: Project Test Design Intro Synthesis SK, HE, FN
26-May DEL: Synthesis SK, HE, FN Intro: installation
02-Jun DEL: Installation Live-Stream Nextcalgary SK, HE, FN Intro: Proposal
09-Jun Desk crit: proposal SK, FN
16-Jun Final Crit SK, HE, FN, Guests DEL: proposal
23-Jun
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STUDIO PROCESS
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SITE
Legal land descriptions for these regions are based on the DLS (Dominion Land Survey) system. Under the DLS, land is designated as being west of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th Meridians (W1, W2, W3, W4, W5, and W6) or east of the 1st and 2nd Meridians (E1 and E2). Between meridians are six-milewide columns called Ranges. Ranges are numbered consecutively from east to west starting at Range 1 west of each meridian. Townships are six-mile-wide rows that intersect ranges and are numbered consecutively from Township 1 at the Montana, North Dakota, and Minnesota border to Township 126 at the Northwest Territories border. The term township also describes the six-by-six mile square formed by the intersection of ranges and townships. Townships are divided into 36 Sections, each section measuring one-by-one mile. Sections can then be divided into Quarter Sections (NE, NW, SE, SW), or into 16 legal subdivisions (LSDs) Using Township Canada you can find legal land descriptions using three formats: Section-Township-Range-Meridian, for example: 25-24-1-W5 Quarter Section-Section-Township-Range-Meridian, for example: SW-25-24-1-W5 LSD-Section-Township-Range-Meridian, for example: 7-25-24-1-W5
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Superstudio
Superstudio, Gian Piero Frassinelli, Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, Alessandro Magris, Roberto Magris, Adolfo Natalini, 1969. The Continuous Monument: Alpine Lakes, project (Perspetive). Moma.
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Superstudio, Gian Piero Frassinelli, Alessandro Magris, Roberto Magris, Adolfo Natalini, Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, Alessandro Poli, 1971. Supersurface, The Happy Island, project. Moma.
Exerpt taken from Cristiano Toraldo di Francia (co-founder of Superstudio) at www.cristianotoraldodifrancia.it:
In 1969-70 we developed a sweeping argument on the possibilities of architecture as a means of critique. Beginning to use the demonstratio per absurdum systematically, we produced a model of total urbanization called The Continuous Monument. This project, through the images of a negative (critical) Utopia, pushed to extremes the classical conception of the relationship between nature and architecture, city and country. The rhetorical figure of the demonstration by absurdity laid bare, through photomontages, the public image of a new relationship, no longer of opposition, but of hybridization and alliance. The Continuous Monument takes to the limit the modern distinction between natural and artificial and opens the way to a new hybrid philosophy of reconstructing the relations between architecture and nature, in which the two terms blend in a single design. The only possibility for architecture is in its monumental extension. All the problems of quality of space, functional destination or sensibility have been removed.
The Continuous Monument it is not the simulation of a future situation, but works as a mental paradox, a critical project not buildable and therefore ”negative”. On the other hand, during those same years we realized that society could no longer be identified with the rational-mechanical model of the all-production factory, of early capitalism, but that we were well on our way to another model, the supermarket, a place of consumption, a faceless, anonymous container within which goods were displayed and moved without requiring Architecture in order to be represented.
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SITE
Section no 13 of Township 24, Range 1, West of 5th Meridian - Image Google maps, satellite view, 2022. online.
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VIEW
Rocky Mountains
Bow River Topography
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Site
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A Simple Heart
Dogma, 2010. A Simple Heart. In 11 Projects, 2013. London: AA Publications.
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READINGS
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Aureli, P. V. (2011). The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture. MIT Press.
Rowe, C. and Koetter, F., 1978. Collage City. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
The Guidebook for Great Communities Creating Great Communities for Everyone
SEPTEMBER 2019
The City of Calgary, 2019. Guidebook for Great Communities: Creating Great Communities for Everyone. Calgary: The City of Calgary.p.147.
Aureli, P.V., Tattara, M., Tournaire, J., van de Wijdeven, T. and Pohl, D. eds., 2013. Dogma: 11 Projects. London: AA Publications.
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Davis, H. (1999). The Culture of Building. Oxford University Press.
COPY OF TREATY AND
SUPPLEMENTARY TREATY
No. 7, MADE 22ND SEPT., AND 4TH DEC, 1877, BETWEEN
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN AND THE
BLACKFEET AND
OTHER INDIAN TRIBES, AT THE BLACKFOOT CROSSING OF BOW RIVER AND FORT MACLEOD.
Reprinted from the Edition of 1877 by
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ROGER DUHAMEL, F.R.S.C. QUEEN'S PRINTER AND CONTROLLER OF STATIONERY OTTAWA, 1966 Cat. No.: Ci 72-0766
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QS-0575-000-EE-A
Copy of Treaty and Supplementary Treaty No. 7, made 22nd Sept., and 4th Dec, 1877, between Her Majesty the Queen and the Blackfeet and other Indian Tribes, at the Blackfoot Crossing of Bow RIver and Fort MacLeod. (p. 10). (1966). [Treaty].
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GUEST SPEAKERS
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GUEST SPEAKERS
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ASSIGNMENTS
The design studio is organized in a sequence of phases each which has its own assignment. The individual stages align with specific content and input but also support the development of the project by scaffolding the process. Each phase contributes to the overall aim of the design studio not just linear, but by looping back and forth between them. For the assignments, this means even though they are graded, they are mere stepping stones and not only product in themselves. Primarily they can be viewed as progress assessment [Standortbestimmung].
Aureli, P.V., Tattara, M., Tournaire, J., van de Wijdeven, T. and Pohl, D. eds., 2013. Dogma: 11 Projects. London: AA Publications. Project Stop City, p.11.
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ANALYSIS
Objectives: Understand the site, it’s functions and how it is embedded in the broader context of the city. Two groups ar analyzing one of the following aspects) 1) transport (Group 1 & 3) 2) infrastructure and terrain (Group 2 & 4) 3) history and policy documents (Group 5 & 7) 4) land use (Group 6 & 8) 5) built form (Group 9 & 11) 6) atmosphere and community (Group 10 & 12) Deliverables: one poster Deadline: Monday, May 7, 08:30 Evaluation: 10% (group)
37| Guy Debord, 1957. The Naked City: Illustration de l’hypothèse des plaques tournantes en psychogéographique. Lithograph, Encre sur papier, 33.3 x 48.3 cm, 009 05 01, © François Lauginie, FRAC Centre-Val de Loire.
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TEST PLANNING
Objectives: Proposal for the project site’s redevelopment as a dense neighbourhood that nits together the existing fabric. Clear strategies regarding infrastructure. Proposed morphology shoud be articulated including functions and flows as well as the athomosphere - what is like to live, work play there? Deliverables: three posters - strategy/strcutural plan - key themes - diagram - plan drawing - surrounding/context map (1:5000) - section Deadline: Friday, May 20, 09:00 Evaluation: 20% (group)
SimCity 2000. Screenshot.
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SYNTHESIS
Objectives: Evaluate the previous project phase to reflect onth edeisgn process the emerging key points for the site and charta way into the final phase of the project. Evaluation matrix provided. Deliverables: - complet evaluation matrix for your own preject - evaluate and comment two other group projects - engage with the comments and evaluation received Deadline: Friday, May 27, 09:00 Evaluation: 10% (group)
Ron Herron (archigram), 1966. Walking City on the Ocean, project (Exterior perspective). Moma collection. online: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/814
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PLACE MAKING
Spread taken from: Observatorium, 2010. Civilization if Maintenance. In: Big Pieces of Time. 010 Publisher
Objectives: Developing and inplementing a representative installtion on site. The intervention translates the project ideas and temporarily transforms a vision in tangible facts. Deliverables: - Temporary on site installation - Presented as a live stream on NXC Insta - Documentation Event: Friday, June 07, 09:00-14:00 Evaluation: 20%, (group)
Beweg Dein Quartier, 2021. City of Offenbach, Germany.
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PROPOSAL
Objectives: Complete project with vision and masterplan for the development of the site as a synthesis of the projects collaborating. Deliverables: - strategy/strcutural plan - surrounding/context map (1:5000) - masterplan (1:2000) - conceptual modules of the masterplan -- Mobility -- Landscape -- Mophology - diagram - annotated evaluation matrix - vignettes - section - text description Deadline: Friday, June 17, 09:00 Evaluation: 30% (group)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Ichnographia Campus Martius (second state), sometime after 1762.
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REFLECTION
Objectives: Revisiting the design process to reflect on the learning, new discoveries dn the decision making process. Deliverables: VLog 5 minutes. Deadline: Wednesday, June 22, 17:00 Evaluation: 20% (individual)
The Arts Company, 2020. VLogging. online: https://theartsdevelopmentcompany.org.uk/ resources/good-to-know-1/what-is-vlogging-2/
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