DESIGN IDEA WORKSHOP on Monday 3 May

Hope you all enjoyed the Kalk Bay experience yesterday!

On Monday we will be running a special DESIGN IDEA WORKHOP. Please bring the following:
1. Completed Righini exercise.
2. Paper, glue, scissors, card (and other model-building tools), as well as pencils, kokis etc. for drawing.
3. Site analysis, showing all possible design informants, physical as well as sensory...
4. Key site photographs printed.

Meet in Rm 2C at 10:00 sharp.

See you there!

Back from the long week end

We hope you had a good (productive?!) long week end and trust you are all rearing to go ;-)

See past two posts for tomorrow's programme (that is Wednesday, 28 April). Note the change in OFP lecture time to free up the afternoon for Kalk Bay site visit.

Please organise/ plan transport to the site and come prepared.

Project 3 SITE VISIT

Almost forgot to tell you about the site visit...

After Nina's talk on Wednesday, there will be a short Project 3 briefing session after which we will make our way to the site at the Kalk Bay harbour.

Traveling will be with own transport/ train. Please come prepared. Traveling takes approximately an hour and we plan to spend around 1.5 - 2 hours on the site.

Before the long week end

Hi all!

We trust that you made the most of the additional feedback, input and support in the form of two extra pin up crit opportunities on Monday and Wednesday this week!

Perhaps you can find the time over the long week end to make some serious progress on Project 2 before we start with Project 3!

Remember Monday, 26 April, is a holiday!

The programme for Wednesday, 28 April, is as follows:
Lecture 1: CTD
Lecture 2: OFP
Directly after OFP, please meet in Rm 2C (unless indicated otherwise) for an exciting meeting with Namibian Architect, Nina Maritz. Please google her in the meantime so that you can ask her some nice trick questions :-)

Have fun!
See you on Wednesday.

Week of 19 - 23 April 2010

Hi there!

Thanks and well done to all of those who participated in today's pin up group crits. Brace yourselves for coming Wednesday's LAST opportunity to discuss improved work on Project 2. The venues will be as on Monday (Lisa in Rm 4.8, Michael in Rm 2B, Jolanda and Hermie on opposite sides of the Studio). St. Lucia projects will go first (pin up at 10:00 - 10:30). Windhoek projects must please be pinned up by 12:00.

In the meantime, hang on to that Project 3 exercise until the next briefing, which is scheduled for Wednesday, 28 April. There will be no session on Monday 26 April, due to the public holiday. Please make sure to take the flu vaccination :-) so that you are alive and well on that day! Nina Maritz, famous Namibian Architect, will be visiting and share her work with you. You may want to Google her in the meantime...

Those students who have not submitted Project 2 work in time for the assessment, must please catch up and be sure to participate in ALL remaining crit sessions. Keep your passports safe and present your work at the June portfolio exam. As from May onwards we will allow some time at the end of each session for those who need feedback on reworked projects.

Good luck and see you on Wednesday!

Project 3

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGY


Principles of Architectural Design ‘10

PROJECT 3_ex1

HAND OUT: MONDAY, 12 APRIL. COMPLETE AND BRING TO CLASS DISCUSSION ON WEDNESDAY 14 APRIL AT 12:00 IN RM 2C.

Your next project is set in a heritage context. The briefing and site visit will take place next Monday. Arrangements will be made on Wednesday. Also watch the blog for details.

In order to prepare for this project, you need to do the following work.

Study Chapter 13 (“Introducing settlements as context for architecture.”) of Paul Righini’s “Thinking Architecturally” (2000), pp 251 – 293. Now prepare answers to the following ten questions:

1. List 20 prominent words/ concepts that you find in this chapter.
2. Why, according to Righini, is it important to “read” settlements?
3. Explain the terms “fabric” and “texture”.
4. Define “sense of place”.
5. Name and briefly explain five spatial patterns that Righini deals with.
6. Make a comprehensive list of all the things that should be considered when doing a site analysis.
7. How does Righini explain Lynch’s understanding of “grain” of the context?
8. Explain the concepts of accessibility, legibility, complexitiy and sustainability.
9. What was the key challenge(s) in the case study of Mamre?
10. What was the key challenge(s) in the case study of Wynberg?

For further reading see sources listed on page 310 under “Chapter 13”.

Good luck!

Please read

Dear student,

thank you for those who submitted Project 2 today.

Please collect Project 3 exercise brief from Bongiwe - or attached.

Please use your own transport and meet at 22 Genova Drive, Camps Bay to view Michael Borgstrom's nearly completed project. You will be taken on a tour around the building to see how the design idea has been integrated into the technology and detail resolution of the project.

Then meet in Rm 2C at 12:00 on Wednesday, after which there will be an important Project 2 feedback work shop in the studio.

Those of you who missed the hand in today (we accepted work until 13h30!), may put up your work in the studio. Feedback may be given, but you have missed the assessment opportunity. Only those students with valid excuses (sick certificates etc.) qualify for a later assessment. The next assessment opportunity is the Portfolio exams on 26 - 28 May 2010.

Please don't remove your work until 14:00 on Wednesday. Passports may be collected from Bongiwe (on 2nd floor) on Wednesday.

Thank you.

Hand in Monday

Good luck for the rest of the weekend, remember you do not have to have elevations, just a readable, understandable model and the other things described on the passport.

You can all do it!