ASSIGNMENT 1.4: Joint between exterior and interior

You should have a series of 2D and 3D parties that will help you to conceive the conceptual and schematic idea of your project.
In conjunction with the development of your design process, you should concentrate on two (2) important interior spaces, each with different characteristics.
Special attention should be paid to the following themes:
-The public resonance of the building, the exterior/interior expression;
-A place of many experiences and events: learning, experimenting, socializing, respecting, playing, etc.)
-A space with a particular condition: scale, orientation, light, form, accessibility, view, placement (threshold, spine, core, in between, etc.), spatial relationship with other spaces (inside or outside)

Consider possible combinations and spatial variety of rooms, of voids, of voids and rooms.
Explore the ambiguity of voids as negative spaces and/or solids.
Investigate patterns of voids or strategic voids: you could involve the exterior, or consider the space in between rooms, or public spaces (or communal, semi-public) flowing into your rooms. Your communal space (interior or exterior) could be a surface or a volume within the volume generated by the building.

Think about a diagram of densities (of units/of voids).
The arrangement of the spaces could create completely secluded voids, or slightly open or completely open spaces (interiors or exteriors).
Study how the spaces interlock; idea of adjacency involving lighting conditions, air, transparency, opacity, protection, structure…, as organization of the internal and external spaces.

Your drawings should explain a particular nature or an architectural quality of those spaces. Focus on strategies that imply operations of assembly, repetition, difference.
Use the media technique that you feel more confident with.

The spatial narratives or intuitions will be printed in 2 color-pages of size 11x17, one page for each space. Space should be represented in plan, section and through axos.

Complete and rethink your drawings through a parallel investigation with physical study-models. The models should not be the exact replication of your drawing. It should contain the idea of the sectional-volumetric exploration as another of the project’s generators.

Scale of the sectional models: n”=1’-0”


Due on Fri, Jan. 30 Class discussion