Dalhousie University School of Architecture M1 Landscape Studio. ARCH 5007.06 Summer 2017. Instructor: Roger Mullin Calendar Description: This investigates architectural responses to landscape. It regards the land as a physical and cultural context requiring appropriate methods of visualization and representation. Referring to recent projects in land art, it considers how to engage local materials and interests while promoting the sustainable occupation of a particular site. Note: ARCH 5007 (RM) is co-requisite with ARCH 5212 (RM) and ARCH 5198 Humanities Seminar (RM). This concurrent suite of courses will reinforce one another in the following ways. The design work in ARCH 5007 (RM) will deliver 2 small public buildings, one site is theoetical and one site will selected during our travel in Iceland during weeks 6 and 7. It will consider architecture that supports the experience and understanding of landscape and culture. The primary detail assignment in ARCH 5212 (RM) will be a technological detail applied in the projected context of your design project. In ARCH 5198 the work will study the relationships between landscape and architecture through film, seminar readings and a final illustrated paper. These theoretical studies will front load the applied work ARCH 5007 and ARCH 5212. Landscape Studio image: Shin Egashira image: Thingvellir National Park, Iceland
Strange Spaces + Public Goods: Cultural Invention in Iceland A twenty-first century public building. Bolles / Wilson Studio Program: This proposes two design projects. Working in groups of 3 students will design a small landscape shelter (Project1) and a small public building in a town in Iceland (Project 2). Architectural emphasis / Design and Representational Strategies: Considering the combined phenomena of the visual and the ambulatory, student work completed in Iceland will draw, photograph and video situations that frame design opportunities. These representations will act as developable models that will be further propelled through our work in Halifax. This work will be linked to work completed in the co-requisite, ARCH 5212 (Technology) and ARCH 5198, (Humanities seminar) Studio Inquiry: The will work within areas of the western part of Iceland and will propose individual designs of a small landscape shelter and working in groups a public building that engages with urban infrastructures. Infrastructural systems are those urban systems that have a significant presence in the city such as public conveyance and energy systems, parks, streets, knowledge networks, etc. These projects will also develop ambulatory interventions that are in dialogue with existing buildings, institutions, infrastructures and landscapes. Students will have the opportunity to choose from a series of programmatic and site scenarios or develop their own. Project development will be derived from a series of less conventional representations that sample the city (audio recording, film, photography, drawing, modeling, time based analysis, collage techniques, etc). The work will benefit from direct engagement with the site. The discourse will be broadened and developed through lectures, course readings and related studies of design work from the discipline and previous s (2).
Studio Topics: Spatial Types. Architectural writer and thinker, David Leatherbarrow argues that twentieth-century spatial types such as the free plan, the Raumplan, and the open plan developed out of the early eighteenth century variety and ensemble of the English picturesque garden. Modern architecture blurred the line of interiority utilizing advances in structure, asymmetry and directional shifts to bring exterior space, figures and the architectonic garden into the imaginative landscape of the viewer. The display of artifacts, paintings and sculptures lend themselves to this imagination as they interplay with kinds of movement [1]: the procession, stroll, or wandering of a perceiving subject. image: Route #1, Iceland, area of focus, west coast Movement - Speed (and slowness) The temporal dimension of movement distinguishes the experience of architectural space from that of a static prospect in that it provides multiple views in sequence (body through space). The plan view of the spatial types mentioned above (Le Corbusier, Adolf Loos and Frank Lloyd Wright respectively) suppresses the 3-dimensional characteristics of space. This aims to elevate the oblique view (of the perspectival sketch, framed model, photographic image, etc.) to systematically inform the arrangements of building plan and adjacencies considering spatiality of foreground, middle ground, background. Steven Holl s spatial type arguably goes further than the 2-dimensional plan or the 3-dimensional static perspectival point of the Renaissance space and the positivist rationalist space of the modern axonometric projection and uses light as a space defining element that structures movement. Spatial Parallax.[2] considers a 3-dimensional axis of gliding change. Multiscalar and Spatial Networks Based on our engagement with the landscape we will examine how architecture and spaces (found and formed) affect the quality of formal and informal experiences. Individuals should explore, study and document the function, shape and quality of their respective sites through a variety of media that forms part of the final presentation. Experiencing landscape involves a combination of observation and movement. This aims to consider the afor mentioned architectural spatial types and extend them into (and draw other spatial characteristics out of) the landscape of Iceland. notes: 1. John Dixon Hunt 2. Steven Holl image: Interior of Forum. Rene Davids, 1984.
The work will address some of the following questions: What constitutes a public building and how can one consider and evaluate the designed limits of its use? How do civic spaces and infrastructural networks relate to public buildings and spaces? Do they individually or in combination act as collective resources? What roles do permenancy and temporality play in the current city and landscape topologies? How could an architectural project heighten our expectations and experience of civic life in a particular place, now? image: Steven Holl, Kiasma Musem. Learning Objectives: To develop a building design for a program and site, guided by: a) an architectural idea; and demonstrating integrated attention to: b) structural system, c) environmental systems, d) building envelope, e) building assembly, f) life-safety provisions, and g) environmental stewardship. To a high level of accomplishment students will design, develop and resolve a small public building that is related to a site in Iceland. Students will extend representational skills and strategies to develop critical and innovative positions that examine the role of public buildings and spaces. To develop representations that include a representation of landscape through a variety of media (drawing, photograph, model and material detail) image: Zaha Hadid Evaluation Criteria: Work will be evaluated on evidence of knowledge and imagination, the clarity, quality and depth of representation of subjects studied and designed. Grading Standards: A to A+ (80 100%: excellent): Considerable evidence of original thinking; outstanding capacity to analyze and synthesize; outstanding grasp of subject matter; evidence of extensive knowledge base. B to B+ (70 79%: good): Evidence of grasp of subject matter, some evidence of critical capacity and analytical ability; reasonable understanding of relevant issues; evidence of familiarity with course resources. A+ 90 100% A 85 89% A- 80 84% B+ 77 79% B 73 76% B- 70 72% F 0 69% image: Richard Lundquist
Assignments: Multiscalar Mapping / Situational Strategies 10% A study that explores and documents the function, shape and quality of their respective site. Multi-media. Class Participation 10% image: Masks Series, 2007. John Stezaker Utilizing course references and additional readings to contribute to the collective discussion of the inquiries. Building Design (25% Project 1 + 55% Project 2) 80% Working in model, much of the work will begin in and around the space of your site. Model, photography, drawings and narrative will be the primary modes of representing your final design work. Note: The course work will primarily be executed in Halifax but a significant, 2 week research trip to Iceland will inform the work. This trip is in partnership with the Icelandic Institute for the Arts (IIA). Approximate costs: Air Fair: June 03 - June 17 $800.00...late booking increase significantly Accommodation: Camping Card $213.00 for duration of trip Hostels: $50.00 per night, $500.00 total See: http://www.hostelworld/hostels/iceland Transportation: Car Rental $450.00 per person Approximate Total: $2800.00 - $3800.00 per person Funding: In selecting this course please consider applying for SWIF funding here: http://tinyurl.com/lth48tx
Iceland Excursion Schedule: 02 June 2017/ Reykjavik Depart (Halifax) via Icelandair / arrive Keflavik International Airport Welcome from Ambassador to Iceland Lecture on Canada Iceland relations Visit to Iceland Academy of the Arts Faculty of Architecture Week 1 04-07 June 2017/ Stykkishólmur & Ísafjörður Depart Reykjavik / arrive Stykkishólmur (171 km/ 2h 16m) tour of historical homes/ Danish trading houses oldest two storey house in Iceland Optional: Vatnasafn/Library of Water Depart Stykkishólmur / arrive Ísafjörður (387 km/ 4h 38m) Flateyri, barrier 08-11 June 2017/ Ísafjörður & Flateyri Ísafjörður old town Maritime Museum Optional - Suðureyri (23 km) - fishing village, fish factory - Flateyri (23 km) - Þingeyri (49 km) - land of the sagas - stage of Gisla saga Surssonar Vopnafjörður 12-15 June 2017/ Bifrost, Holar, Reykjavik Workshops at universities and s in Reykjavik 16 June 2017/ Reykjavik Recap session 17 June 2017 Egilsstaðir Depart Reykjavik via Keflavik International Airport Seyðisfjörður
Term Schedule: Week Topics Tuesday Friday 1 Start of Project 1 May 02 Introduction May 05 lecture 2 Situation Strategies Tooling Up May 09 May 12 Strategies Assignment due (Hut) 3 Penultimate Review May 16 May 19 penultimate review 4 Review of Project 1 May 23 May 26 Ultimate Review 5 Start of Project 2 May 30 June 02 Early Iceland departure 6 7 EXCURSION to ICELAND June 02 - June 16 8 Design Development June 20 June 23 midterm review of Project 2 9 Design Development June 27 June 30 no class 10 Design Development July 04 July 07 - last class 11 Design Development July 12-13 D E S I G N R E V I E W S
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