pay attention to:
circulation (stair arrows!) & core (elevator, stairwell)
structure –wall section thickness –columns;
door swings & fenestration
furniture layout illustrating the program
text for detailed explanation of use;
give rough dimensions (unit – rooms)
Max unit height is 20’ for main living areas and outdoor space. Lower areas should be considered with a min. of 10’. Split-level floors are an additional feature and do not replace the duplex condition. South balconies/ terraces max. 7' off building facade.
Penthouse: ~3300 sqft @ 4 bed & 4.5 bath
4 duplex units ~1950 sqft @ 3 bed & 3 bath
3 duplex units ~2700 sqft @ 4 bed 3 bath
(sqft excluding balconies, including covered outdoor space for duplex units with 100 and 200 sqft respectively, excluding separate additional outdoor space which maybe added, penthouse outdoor space not included in sqft)
develop a concept for the commercial/ retail /gallery and public use of the building on the lower areas. 1. 1: ground floor with ~2100 sqft gallery space (optional suitable commercial or retail), remaining is for Lobby, reception, elevator, egress stair, mechanical.
2. 2: 2 nd Floor and partial 3rd Floor with ~2000sqft (depends on the actual Highline height). This area is intended to give additional amenities to the residential units in terms of leisure or service. It is planned to be a semi-public area and may give access to the highline.
3. 3: Vacant Space under the Highline along the frontage of the building in length of 60’ should be designed for public or partial commercial use
4. 4: Lot space south of the building should be designed for semi public use of tenants only. This area should offer green and outdoor communal spaces.
discussion Monday 18:
Site NYC
And there is Chelsea market:
"Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I knew
There was milk and toast and honey and a bowl of oranges, too
And the sun poured in like butterscotch and stuck to all my senses."
Assigments:
Due Friday 15:
Review the formwork of provocation 1, and the site conditions and develop your proposal for an adapted volume to the site.
Site footprint and height requirements & restrictions according to file provided.
….Icon Humor Tribe Beauty Inspiration Happiness Vision Honesty Home Whimsical Expression Love Democratic Hearth Unpredictable Sophisticated Classic Quality Design Playful Nature Welcome Ironic Respect Creativity Tenderness Warmth….
While construction as a technological process is prosaic –deriving directly from a mathematical equation, a functional diagram, or a rule of formal combinations- architecture is poetic, necessarily an abstract order but in itself a metaphor emerging from a vision of the world and Being.
Only by engaging our own imagination (with its inescapable horizon of language, and despite its dangers) can we be truly compassionate. It is our imaginative faculty that allows us to identify with the other, and truly understand her suffering. This entails a very real, yet opaque connection between words and deeds. Alberto Perez Gomez
Narrative and fiction, have always played a role in architecture, not long ago however suppressed through modern architecture. If we think about rituals, even back to religious and ancient mythodologies, mankind tries to understand its condition through symbols and the words described within.
Architecture often is a metaphor for those interpretations and the words become inscribed into its processes and more so into its representation. Architecture affords to be read in those terms.
The architectural narrative in the last century has been replaced for most projects with the mathematical orchestration of a program, nothing but a rational quantification of volumes, sizes, proximities etc..
With this project, it is now the time to revisit the power of the architectural narrative and to establish an association between architecture and fiction.
What is the projected interrelation of spaces to the distinctiveness of means of how we inhabit architecture and even in a larger sense …the world.
You need to accommodate the individual first, but also extend your concept to the larger group, the family, friends…The interior as a place is addressing life and the methods of occupation of space as you would define it.
Think about the recent emerging reflection back to the ritual and the mystic, as it informs architecture.
Get interested into the more intimate territories of life, which includes also the insecurity of life, death, tradition, the family, ceremonies, the richness, rite, secretness... How do we obtain or reconsider a new significance in daily life? How do you see the idea of the modern minimalist open space as opposed to the “house” with a lot of small secret spaces? What about the violence or public exposure through media?
Assigments:
Due Monday 4:
Give a brief written description of the physical and psychological condition of the typology of the person inhabiting the space. Explain through your narrative in how you see “him or her” in relationship to a variety of external conditions. Take notice of the specific environment in which the occupant/s are situated, New York. Your narrative needs to incorporate a vision on how one sleeps, works, eats, uses the bath etc...
Give few words (1-3) in a loose list that describe the atmosphere as you imagine it.
Enhance the narrative through a collage of few images, describing the words.
Due Wednesday 6:Set up a potential time line of the described daily activities, which you then transfer into an abstract drawing.
The following evolution of the drawing into three dimensions inscribes the essence of those activities and time into space.
The type of occupation will be situated somewhere within the construct of exercise 1.
Frederick Kiesler, Selected Writings
Frederick Kiesler, Endless Space
Frederci Kiesler, Inside the Endless House
