Catching up.

Trying to post up all the notes from the last 2 weeks WD and DES to clear my desktop, so here goes...Post-analysis under each image...

 Okay, this 1st one, was actually a scribble from 3rd year, but most of my class notes are largely interchangeable. This looks at brick veneer wall, and considers the arrangement of the various skins or lines that constitute that wall. With the following question. What are the architectural and structural implications if we reorganise the sequence of these lines, and expand the spaces in between?
(Think about this one for a while).

 WD: The usual submission requirements.
Timesheets and Markups are obligatory.
[RANT MODE ON] THERE ARE STILL SOME STUDENTS WHO HAVE NOT PRINTED LARGE FORMAT SETS, AND I HAVE YET TO SIGHT THEM. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, AND I WILL BE INSISTING ON SEEING THEM NEXT CLASS. [RANT MODE OFF]


This one is a design image. Covering the crucial need to not let revit control the graphic outcome of your projects.

• all arrows point up (not down)
• do not use default hand rails.
• simplify furniture, most times outlines are enough.
• use a scale bar not an odd ratio.
• small key legend is preferable to room tags.

Use Virginia Macleod's Books as a base graphic style/ bench mark. Clean and simple lines, tones are better than hatches.

Simple message here. Design is inclusive, that is the influences (dare I say context again!!!) inform the scheme and graphic.
Do not forget the data tower, it is a requirement in the brief.
Also information being collected from the site has to be conveyed to the general public on site. This has to be conveyed in the final scheme. Key physical elements have to be included. Bike paths, river, trees and contours (minimum, not negotiable).

 The plans have to include more than a nod and a wink to the BCA. At the very least, Doors need to open in the path of travel. Stairs need to comply. some of the sections I have seen, have conveniently ignored stair geometry. Make sure they work.

This image is about the incongruities I am seeing about the graphic quality of the floor plans. Each plan graphic needs to relate to the floors above and below them.

Design one again, tones not hatches.
Glass as black.

WD. This is a critical detail, I am seeing the same solution a number of times, which is far from convincing.

another pick just reminding ppl of the details required for this project.

WD#5

so little time, so much fun...

Messy scratchings for the entry canopy.

Even messier musings on the roof plan.

Remember:

Look up the A.S. Codes for Fall Arrestors and include them.

Dimension to grid all penetrations through the roof

Pay close attention to the roof plumbing.

"remember the raindrop"

Concept Mapping Exercise

Step 1 & 2

1. Create a 'mind cloud' an unfettered word association from which to draw numerous conceptual 'seeds'
a) do not spend long at each node. (total time about 45mins.)
b) do not try to reverse engineer an outcome.
c) adjectives use can apply to building descriptions or maybe not.
d) draw on your knowledge of architectural history.
e) bring in conclusions and ideas from the precedent study.
e) draw on subjects you are passionate about, and that may inform you design position.
f) the map should be by definition, uniquely personal.
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Take a break
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2. Combine these constituent bits into a collective grouping/ some contradictory bits may 'virally' enter the mix to mutate later on...
a) with lines, colours, proximity
b) write and begin sketching or image collating 3 or 4 options.