4/27/2017 - Tighten Up
Over the week I started to lay out some plans. I started with the Pilotis. Le Corbusier uses the same sized columns on a grid. I didn't want to do the same things that he did so I decided to scatter the columns so they looked random. Looking back to the Maison Curutchet and the tree that runs through the building, the tree has a different diameter than the columns, and in a forest, all the trees are different. So I decided to pull inspiration from that and vary the diameters of the columns.
I than started to "connect the dots" and outline walls and spaces. I then planned out what I thought a free facade would look like. Some I started laying out the main floor of the home and what that might look like. Through the sketching process, I started to blur some of the lines of the rules. But I think I need to be stricter with the rules. Twist and bend them, but don't break them. They need to be there.
Thursday, April 27, 2017
4/25/2017 - The Fifth Obstruction: On Architectural Autonomy
"It is only in that instant when the laws are silent that great actions erupt."
The page is blank. We can pick and go anything we want. Anything. So where to start? Where to end? I had no idea. So i thought back to the beginning, all the projects that we have done over the semester and what would fit in the "what next" category. I thought back to the Maison Curutchet. Then I thought about how I felt when I got assigned to Professor Carranza's studio. When he told us that we would be working on Le Corbusier and his works. The first thought in my head was, "I hate Le Corbusier" and we would be working with his works all semester. I think the reasons were I just didn't understand his works, I didn't get them I thought they were boring.
So I decided to put myself into his shoes and work with what he worked with. The 5 Points of Architecture. Pilotis, free plan, free facade, horizontal windows, and roof garden. Using the rules he applied to himself, I want to see what I could come up with.
"It is only in that instant when the laws are silent that great actions erupt."
The page is blank. We can pick and go anything we want. Anything. So where to start? Where to end? I had no idea. So i thought back to the beginning, all the projects that we have done over the semester and what would fit in the "what next" category. I thought back to the Maison Curutchet. Then I thought about how I felt when I got assigned to Professor Carranza's studio. When he told us that we would be working on Le Corbusier and his works. The first thought in my head was, "I hate Le Corbusier" and we would be working with his works all semester. I think the reasons were I just didn't understand his works, I didn't get them I thought they were boring.
So I decided to put myself into his shoes and work with what he worked with. The 5 Points of Architecture. Pilotis, free plan, free facade, horizontal windows, and roof garden. Using the rules he applied to himself, I want to see what I could come up with.
Sunday, April 23, 2017
4/21/2017 - Kinetic Art Gallery
Today was the Crit for the 4th Obstruction, and over all I think it went fairly well. I think if I had my floor plans up and presented those as well It would have helped a lot. The way the axon came out, I liked it, but being drawn at a 30 degree angle, it was hard to see all the angels and floor changes that were going on. The axon wasn't helping my presentation so I think it I had my plans up there then the axon would have made more sense. I took the three perspective that used and redrew them with all the changes that happened when I drew out the floor plans and more changes that came with the sections. I had an exploded axon of the three floors and the roof plan. As well as the model of the original Masion Curutchet and the new model for this project.
There are so many ways I could have taken and seen the images that I choose and so many ways I could have developed the project differently. But in the end I really liked how it came out, and yes I might have missed a lot of opportunities, but this is also something I have never done before, its completely different form everything else, but this is something I kind of always wanted to do, and when I would try to in the past, I would get turned down or steered in another direction. So I'm really happy that I had the opportunity and was allowed to do what I wanted.
Today was the Crit for the 4th Obstruction, and over all I think it went fairly well. I think if I had my floor plans up and presented those as well It would have helped a lot. The way the axon came out, I liked it, but being drawn at a 30 degree angle, it was hard to see all the angels and floor changes that were going on. The axon wasn't helping my presentation so I think it I had my plans up there then the axon would have made more sense. I took the three perspective that used and redrew them with all the changes that happened when I drew out the floor plans and more changes that came with the sections. I had an exploded axon of the three floors and the roof plan. As well as the model of the original Masion Curutchet and the new model for this project.
There are so many ways I could have taken and seen the images that I choose and so many ways I could have developed the project differently. But in the end I really liked how it came out, and yes I might have missed a lot of opportunities, but this is also something I have never done before, its completely different form everything else, but this is something I kind of always wanted to do, and when I would try to in the past, I would get turned down or steered in another direction. So I'm really happy that I had the opportunity and was allowed to do what I wanted.
4/18/2017 - Finalizing the Plans
Over the weekend I finalized how the floor plans and section would look. I know I'm going to be hating myself when I go to do a model or my Axon because I think only maybe only 3 pairs of walls are parallel. But I really like how it looks and the spaces that are created. No two spaces are the same, and each space has its own feel and emotion and lighting condition, and height, some are really tall, some are short, some start one floor and then turns into a double height space.
I started to think of a program for the spaces that I have created. And Professor Carranza suggested a Kinetic Sculpture Gallery. And I really liked the idea, with all the changes and openings, there would be so many ways to view a single piece of art. One could walk all the way around, look from a floor above or from a floor below. And with all the different size and heights of the rooms, a lot of different cultures can be displayed. Also with indoor and outdoor spaces, the sculptures can interact with light, wind or rain, or they could be inside and stand alone.
I also created a small study model for the Gallery and if anything I fell in love with the spaces I created even more.
Over the weekend I finalized how the floor plans and section would look. I know I'm going to be hating myself when I go to do a model or my Axon because I think only maybe only 3 pairs of walls are parallel. But I really like how it looks and the spaces that are created. No two spaces are the same, and each space has its own feel and emotion and lighting condition, and height, some are really tall, some are short, some start one floor and then turns into a double height space.
I started to think of a program for the spaces that I have created. And Professor Carranza suggested a Kinetic Sculpture Gallery. And I really liked the idea, with all the changes and openings, there would be so many ways to view a single piece of art. One could walk all the way around, look from a floor above or from a floor below. And with all the different size and heights of the rooms, a lot of different cultures can be displayed. Also with indoor and outdoor spaces, the sculptures can interact with light, wind or rain, or they could be inside and stand alone.
I also created a small study model for the Gallery and if anything I fell in love with the spaces I created even more.
4/14/2017 - To Create a Floor Plans
Next we selected three of our favorite perspectives and started to stitch them together and create floor plans from the spaces we created. And even though the three final I picked didn't have the funky floor changes and opening that a lot of them had, I now I want to incorporate them.
Next we selected three of our favorite perspectives and started to stitch them together and create floor plans from the spaces we created. And even though the three final I picked didn't have the funky floor changes and opening that a lot of them had, I now I want to incorporate them.
So looking at the images I started to plan out how the wall are to create those spaces, then how they would fit together. A lot of walls that are not parallel to create odd shaped spaces and open to above spaces meaning there are multiple floors, as well as indoor and outdoor spaces. After a lot of sketches and quick-draws, I started to piece together a shape and idea of the plans, so I started to cut some sections and designing how I want the floor plates to fit together. I didn't want to do what I've done in every other studio before, I didn't want to make boxes.
4/11/17 - Take Two
After our mini pin up on Friday, Professor Carranza asked us to take another look at the images that we choose. Do the images have to be cut in a square, and do the images have to be right side up? So I printed out a few more images a little bigger, and I started to rotate the images and looking at the lines and seeing in my head the lines projected and what they could create. So I created three more perspectives over the weekend.
So even though I was looking at the images differently, I still created spaces with multiple levels and floor changes. Open to below and above spaces as well. So I know I'm going to be incorporating that into the final project.
After our mini pin up on Friday, Professor Carranza asked us to take another look at the images that we choose. Do the images have to be cut in a square, and do the images have to be right side up? So I printed out a few more images a little bigger, and I started to rotate the images and looking at the lines and seeing in my head the lines projected and what they could create. So I created three more perspectives over the weekend.
So even though I was looking at the images differently, I still created spaces with multiple levels and floor changes. Open to below and above spaces as well. So I know I'm going to be incorporating that into the final project.
4/7-2017 - A Little of This and a Little of That
For the first look at this obstruction I printed out a few interior perspectives of the Maison Curutchet. I started to look at them differently, Instead of seeing the images, I was looking at the lines that cut through and intersect to create the images. The line where the floor meets the wall, or the wall to the wall, or the wall to the ceiling. And I started cutting out sections that I thought were interesting and that I can work off of. I created six perspectives derived form the sections.
A lot of them had floor changes and opening to the floor above or below. So that created a lot of double and triple height spaces And some had wall at odd angles, creating interesting spaces that aren't just boxes.
For the first look at this obstruction I printed out a few interior perspectives of the Maison Curutchet. I started to look at them differently, Instead of seeing the images, I was looking at the lines that cut through and intersect to create the images. The line where the floor meets the wall, or the wall to the wall, or the wall to the ceiling. And I started cutting out sections that I thought were interesting and that I can work off of. I created six perspectives derived form the sections.
A lot of them had floor changes and opening to the floor above or below. So that created a lot of double and triple height spaces And some had wall at odd angles, creating interesting spaces that aren't just boxes.
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