Experiencing Architecture Studio

Topics

• Campus Tour: Relationships betweeen spaces
• Optimist’s Daughter reading; BH demo on drafting, cutting . Make scale figures, build 1/8-scale cube models. Students and TAs talk about choices of designer
• Due : Written statement on choice of designer, facilities; Begin 1/8-scale context model; BH demo on using trace to “surprise yourself”
• South End Field Trip
• Due : 1/8-scale sketch plans, card-stock spaces on context model; BH talk on site attitudes
• Pin-up : First arrangement of work-space “cubes” on 1/8-scale models; BH demo on SketchUp
• Due : First sketch of site apportionment; BH demo on fome-cor ; Build 1/16-scale gesture model
• Inter-group Exhibit : SketchUp site images; BH talk on columns as structure and idea
• Carpenter Center tour: Spaces within a structural order
• Due : 1/4-scale plan of site on trace; TA demos on column experience; Column experience on 1/4-scale plans
• Due : First-pass columns on 1/4-scale plans and 1/8-scale models; BH talk on using SketchUp in designs
• Inter-group Pin-up : Second-pass 1/4-scale plans and 1/8-scale models; Class work on beams and planes
• First Mid-Review : 1/4-scale plans and 1/8-scale model showing “heavy,” “hollow,” and structure
• Photo and advising day; BH talk on spatial zones, organizing plan and site by abstraction
• Due : “Final” 1/4-scale plans; BH talk on 1/2-scale “show” plans and “tectonic nature” of concrete
• Due : 1/2-scale plans; BH demo on concrete formwork and casting ; Talk in groups on 1-in-scale Detail Models
• Work in class on concrete formwork
• Second Mid-Review: 1/2-scale plans and 1-in-scale Detail Models
• Photo day; Begin construct 1/2-scale Final Model base
• Due : Completed 1/2-scale model base; BH talk on proportion and openings
• Pin-up : Massing in chip on 1/2-scale final model. Desk crits on opening sketches
• Due : Site “heavy” built in chipboard, “final” massing of studio sketched in chipboard, first-pass openings sketched on trace overlays
• Inter-group Exhibit : “Pre-final” 1/2-scale models
• Last class
• Final Review: With faculty, alums, and guests, all day in the review spaces