Concretization

After the critique on the 20th December, I was told that I don't take my drawings seriously. Although my lacking knowledge in Danish, I understood that the critics were missing context and program in my project.

This is of course important parts of architecture (if not the most important) but during this year I've been trying to find out how to work in department 6's way. And I still haven't got a grip of it. A couple of weeks ago my teacher told me that it was to early to go into the questions mentioned above... hmmm.

Anyway.

With this in mind I have taken a much more concrete approach to the project, tying it down into context and forming my drawing according to program.

Below I show you the old plan put into context as well as a new plan, generated from the old and adapted to the context, along with a program. The gray scheme is showing degrees of private/public.

Section + Plan

Here we go!

I've finally produced two sections and one plan that are coherent. I feel that these together explain the concept that has grown forth quite well.

Lets see what the crit's say. I'm going to present these in about 6 hours, better get some sleep.

Getting into the section drawing

I've realized that I can't jerk around in plan view all my life. I got to get in to the building (or what ever I'm drawing) in section. I remember Professor Sir Peter Cook telling me: "If the plan and the section are your children, the section is the one you send to collage." Thats the one you should invest your time and effort in. And I can tell you that most architecture students (including myself) are almost afraid of going into section, it's really a lot harder than drawing in plan. And it's, strangely enough, a lot harder to get a section not to look "flat".

New book on the way

I bought a book on amazon the other day. It's a collection of some of CJ Lim's work. He is an extremely interesting and elaborate architect with a diploma from AA in London and he is now teaching a studio at the Bartlett.

I'm looking forward to read more about his work and strategies, as well as studying his form and spatial techniques.

ISBN-13: 978-1920744809

Evolvement of plan drawing

My plan drawing is starting to take shape.

The grey colored field represents the walkway and the yellow frames indicates room, which activity they hold is not yet specified. Whether this is important or not is not yet determined. I actually see this more as a project regarding opposites like; inside/outside, under/over, and how surface becomes room and the other way around.

Now lets get down with the sections and elevations, to make you (read, me) understand what I'm doing here.

Taming a monster

My teaching assistent Gitte Juul told me today, that I should stop inventing, and start working with what I already have. I followed this advise and did a clean-up-version of my plan, starting from the bottom, peeling of junk and re-drawing. The top one is far from final, but I see more of what I'm aiming for in it. At least a whole lot more than what i did in the old one (at the bottom). It has a much more harmonic flow, and a more controlled shape.

I really like that they are so different but still carry resemblance. That the new plan actually is generated by the old plan. That I stopped inventing and let my material invent for me (with some minor tweaks, of course).

Conceptual Model

So, now the model is "done". I have built it with the focus on the elevation and section to study how body and surface co-exist, and how they can flow into, across, over and under each other. Where is it pure construction and when does it become a room? When does the landscape become a building? Can I erase these boundries? If I can... Should I?

These two pictures are taken as two long elevations and should be seen as a material to further study the project in drawing.

Generating drawing

This drawing has the strengths and characteristics of my previous models, drawings and scetches. Hopefully it can become... something. I will try to produce a conceptual physical model during the weekend, with the rules that this drawing possess.

Analysis of the BIG buiding, 8-Tallet

During the last two weeks, me and a couple of classmates have wasted a large amount of our precious time creating an analasys of BIG:s building 8-Tallet, for the course TEK5.

Check out the result by clicking here (direct link to plan and section drawings here)