Tutorials W4-2

Tutorials on Friday 31st of October will be as follows,
10.30 Antonin
11.00 Jeanne
11.30 Sophia
12.00 Patricia
12.30 Raya

2.00 Olimpia
2.30 Hana
3.00 Mikolaj
3.30 Elias
4.00 Yasmina
4.30 Amar
5.00 Shira

Tutorials W4 -1 and Lecture

Tutorials on Tuesday 28th of October will be as follows,

10.30 Antonin
11.00 Jeanne
11.30 Sophia
12.00 Raya
12.30 Olimpia

2.00 Lecture by Francisco Gonzalez de Canales
3.30 Patricia
4.00 Elias
4.30 Shira
5.00 Yasmina
5.30 Mikolaj
6.00 Amar
6.30 Hana

Lecture “The Sphere and the Labyrinth” by Francisco Gonzalez de Canales

 

Form

As a starting point, in the first two weeks, different examples at various scales of block proposals by different contemporary architects exploring form as a structuring system will be analyzed (Bowles and Wilson, Kenzo Kuma, Christian Kerez, etc.. General aspects driving different building examples spatial organizations, such as free section, voids, public/private relations and circulation, will be explored by diagrams to understand their spatial organizations to be later applied to block proposals.

Later, Chilean architectural examples (including CEPAL building by Emilio Duhart, Copelec by Juan Borchers, Portales Housing by Fernando Castillo et al., the Benedictine chapel by Correa and Guarda and recent Alejandro Aravena and Smiljan Radic work) will be analyzed using different diagrams and axonometric drawings. Most of these examples will be visited during the unit trip.

References

Miguel Adrià (ed.): White Mountain : architecture in Chile, Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, 2013.
Alejandro Aravena: Elemental: Incremental housing and participatory design manual, Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, 2012
Patricio Mardones: Cecilia Puga 2G, Barcelona : Editorial Gustavo Gili, 2010.
Pezo von Ellrichshausen 2G, Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 2012.

Shape Exercise

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Pin-up Shape Exercise

We will review the work done in these three-weeks exercise during a Jury from 10am to 4pm in the AA 32 First Floor Front on Saturday 25th of October 2014. Please bring all your models and place your final one in the middle in a grid of 4 by 3. the invited crict will be the architect and artist Catalina Pollack.

 

Tutorials W3-1

Tutorials on Tuesday 21st of October will be in the unit space as follows,

10.30 Yasmina
11.00 Shira
11.30 Patricia
12.00 Amar
12.30 Sophia

2.00 Olimpia
2.30 Raya
3.00 Mikolaj
3.30 Jeanne
4.00 Hana
4.30 Elias
5.00 Antonin

Tutorials W2-2

Tutorials at the end of this week will be divided in

Third years – Thursday 16th of October
5.30 Patricia
6.00 Shira
6.30 Yasmina
7.00 Amar

Second Years – Friday 17th October
10.00 Hana
10.30 Sophia
11.00 Jeanne
11.30 Olympia
12.00 Mikolaj
12.30 Antonin
13.00 Elias
13.30 Raya

Tutorials W2 -1

Tutorials on Tuesday 14th of October will be in the unit space as follows,

10.30 Yasmina
11.00 Shira
11.30 Patricia
12.00 Amar
12.30 Shopia

2.00 Olimpia
2.30 Raya
3.00 Mikolaj
3.30 Jeanne
4.00 Hana
4.30 Elias
5.00 Antonin

Please work the whole day in the unit space as some questions regarding this exercise will pop-up during the different tutorials

Shape

As a starting point the unit will explore through 1:250 scale models the shape of a120x120m block. This will be first developed in a purely intuitive manner. Different materials, such as paper, cardboard, cloth, foam, cables, wood and metal sticks, will be initially use to have a range of schematic shapes that will be later used to define formal ideas. Students are invited to feel comfortable with these materials, and learn rules and modeling criteria out of their manipulation.

After this initial stage we will experiment with other stiffer materials such as wood, metal, stone and plaster, discovering other intuitive possibilities for block schematic designs. Along this exploratory process students will be exposed to intellectual, artistic and literary references generating a specific unit inspirational atmosphere.

Reference Books:
Literature
Novels
Jorge Bolaño, : By Night in Chile, New York: New Direction, 2000
José Donoso: The obscene bird of Night. Boston: Verba Mundi, 1995
Poetry
Pablo Neruda: “Three Material Songs”, in Residence on Earth. New York: New Direction Books, 2004
Pablo Neruda: “Towards an impure poetry” (http://www.onierafilms.com/readings/neruda.pdf)
Federico Garcia Lorca: Theory and play of the Duende: and, Imagination, inspiration, evasion. Dallas: Kanathos, 1981
Mario Hernandez: Line of Light and Shadow: The Drawings of Federico Garcia Lorca. Durham, CN: Duke University Press, 1991

Arts and Architecture:
Valérie Vergez: Jorge Oteiza, Anglet: Atlantica, 2003.
Eduardo Chillida : Sculptures and works on paper, London : Annely Juda Fine Art, 1992
Smiljan Radic, 2003-2013 : el juego de los contrarios = the game of opposites, Madrid : El Croquis, 2013.
Rodrigo Pérez de Arce: Valparaiso School : Open City Group, Basel : Birkhauser, 2003.

Tutorials W1-2 Pin-up

Next Friday we will meet in the unit space at 2.30.Please put your models on the tables, and leave your final ones in the middle arranged as a grid of 4×3. All final models should be 120×120 metres at 1/250 scale.