Formwork requirements:
Drawings of the diagrammatic process. These should express the sequential phases of transformation until the final stage. 2D and/or 3D wireframe representation.
Images of the 3D parti models during the process.
Printouts in 11x17 for review monday 28
guardiola house eisenman architects
You are asked to design a structure. The contents and purpose of it is unknown. The only information you have is, that it is to house a concept for form, material, light and space.
The structure consists of initially of 50 prismatic volumes. Provide for human occupation in terms of access and perception. Focus on the language of form attained through the a definite structural order, space and material articulation.
Constraints:
Structure with 50 volumes. Each volume has the fixed dimensions of 5m x 5m x 10m (~15’x15’x30’). The 50 spaces must be clearly legible and indexed. The only orientation is vertical.
The surrounding situation is a city with perimeter blocks delineated by four orthogonal lines.
Code:
The way how the form is generated is to be documented explicitly. All transformations applied are to be explained via serial drawings such that each transformation is defined in time and can be traced back or repeated.
There needs to be an index on the formwork surface in a way to code form, transformation and time.
Transformations:
Add
Subtract
Shift
Rotate
fold
Elongate
Compact
Cut
Splice
Warp
Bifurcate
Material:
Metal
Wood
Concrete
Construction:
You model (1/100 or 1/8”) needs to be built in wood, preferably bass wood and painted.
Dates: Jan 14-28
What is a brandspace?
Try to familiarize yourself with the term. As a first step, find an international recognized brand example & product example which illustrates best for yourself this term.
Assigments:
1. Give an example of a typical international brand predominantly from the fashion sector. You are required to explain in a written concise statement, what the term means in todays competitive markets referring to the brand you choose. Why do large companies need to refer to this strategy and how? What means identity for fashion and product design firms? (max. 2000 characters - no spaces, Arial)
2.You are required to give a project report of a building of your choice situated in NYC, which refers to the term brandspace as stated in your description above via its design, in particular exterior facade design and its interior space layout, and exemplifies it. (drawings, images, etc..in printed format)
3.Illustrate further the term brand via a product design of your choice. Research two existing mass produced design objects from the mid -20 th century to today. Furniture perfume fashion objects…What is literal, phenomenal and conceptual expressed in the form.
You will give a class presentation on monday the 14th to move forward the class research on the studio topic-brandspaces
The collected information is to be printed (format: A3, 11x17”) for pinup
And to be made available for the class on the webserver.
Reading: Harvard Shopping guide; Prada part I; Powershop;
Luxury manhattan Living
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LuxMANliv is the name of a Design Studio that will explore the potentials of the digital craft for the generation of dynamic organizational structures on the urban and architectural scale. The new relationship between man, natural and virtual environments is the basis of research for the conception of space.
To think the future is to speculate on the inevitable.
Private space, working space and public space will merge into innovative hybrids and investigate the definition of mixed programs for vertical structures. Implemented into a contemporary large, public urban setting in NYC, the project’ effects of luxury program mix, design culture and customized fabrication, play on the recent development concept of upscale residential designer brandhomes. An expanding group of buyers is looking for the unique product to satisfy their quest for luxury and differentiation.
One aspect of the studio is to continue exploring on brandspaces with new ideas and concepts now for vertical density.
The other major interest are innovative living-forms that are both, retreats and social condensers, as can be seen in current live-work developments in the Netherlands that offer common social programs and spaces. The studio takes further into consideration the historical, social and technical context of avant-garde housing experiments in the early 19th century in Berlin and will use these to influence proposals for the existing urban fabric of Manhattan - New York.
