RESEARCH :: MATERIALS

Midterm Review

Obnoxious or not, our group was determined to make the building as big as possible. We added a few extra hundred thousand square feet to our design, only to make sure that there was enough room for both the college community and neighborhood community to meet and come together. Yes, we are exaggerating but as Jimmy says first make up the craziest idea possible, make it as unrealistic and unreachable and then come back to a feasible approach. It is always fun making crap up that wont work; but how will we know it does not work, if we didn't give it a chance at first.

ATLANTA

So after Emily Davis and I almost did not make it to Atlanta because of the snow storm, We finally decidedm

i like it better upsidedown

It looked like we were adding piles of trash upon piles of trash, but we were actually trying to come up with a building form. Individually we came up with pieces that formed a "building structure". Once we finished our individual exercise, as a group we came together and pieced all of our individually parts together. Basically we made puzzle pieces and then we tries figuring which part went where (without the picture on the box). After coming up with various forms, we choose one that excited us or was appealing and we made sketch up models. Still we were at a very conceptual state, and we could not decide on a single building form. We tried piecing the sketch up models together but that was not as effective as putting our sketch models together.

Pass IT On>>>>>

After we left Sunday night we were still unsure of what we had accomplished that day. We started with this trench (sink hole idea) that got complicated very fast so we stopped. However, on Monday we sat around the table and started to draw. Each of us started drawing about what we had talked about the night before, then we passed around our drawings so that each of us had an opportunity to draw on each others initial sketch. (VERY GOOD IDEA by the way) We ended up with this abstract SECTIoN of how we wanted the new architecture school to look like and started working from there. 

This was an awesome exercise that we did, each of us had a different perspective on each drawing. I turned a few drawings upside down and saw a completely new design or shape of the building. P>S> the sketch that we are using tho develop our design is on the yellow trace paper>>>

For those of you who were not available to attend Paula Carr's Lecture on Friday, here are the projects she talked about on Friday. Check them out!

BRIDgING?

I had a hard time figuring out how the design of the building would fit into the site and how it will be part of the ground. On Monday, team DF7A26, sat down and sketched a few ideas of what bridging meant to us, what we were going to bridge and who would benefit. This sketch (above) is really more my idea of how the building would fit into the site and how it will go underground and be exposed above ground.