MIDTERM REVIEW | FRIDAY 10.30

Based on today’s conversations and the drawings I saw, do not forget to include the following for Friday…

1- The Module Model is a PHYSICAL model, not a digital model.
2- Include Orienting lines in your Territorial Drawing and in your Site Plan.  These should include your three (3) centers as well as the capitals of the Oceti Sakowin Nations.
3- On the Territorial Drawing, label the names of your centers.
4- Pin up your Modular Space & American Indian Space Reflections.  There is a lot of good work in them.
5- Remember, the Midterm Review is a moment for pause.  Think about the questions you want to explore for the remainder of the semester and state them.

Review Line-up

1- Bret & Rachel
2- Emily & Kyle
3- JoAllen, Quadri, & Dustin
4- Jesse & Levi
5- Teresa & Jared

ORIENTING_TERRITORIAL DRAWING

PIOVENEFABIA | STEFANO GRAZIANI | YELLOWOFFICE _ Durana

For Wednesday 10.21 you will make a TERRITORIAL DRAWING based on the digital model you made.  The Territorial Drawing above takes into account topography, buildings, fields, rivers, and lakes and combines them into a cohesive representation of the territory.  The drawing only shows the information relevant to the narrative and the remaining territorial information is left as white.

TERRITORIAL DRAWING

1- Start with a 24″ x 36″ layout (Hand drawing, Illustrator, Photoshop, AutoCAD, etc,)

2- Using your Rhino/Revit Model (layers etc.) combine the fragments of the model into a two-dimensional drawing like the one you see above.

3- Pieces of the drawing should be output at scale, though each person’s will be different  (know the scale of the fragment!)

4- You DO NOT need to print the full-scale sheet for Wednesday, but you do need to make letter-sized test prints.  I will come to your desk and and look at the layout and the tests.  This is an exercise in representation.

• How does one make a drawing of vast territories?
• What are the fragments, layers, nodes?
• Were are the centers?

Below are other examples of representation:

NEMESTUDIO _ Museum of Lost Volumes

NEMESTUDIO _ Museum of Lost Volumes

LIST _ Metropolitan Landscapes

LIST_ Sportpark, Gent

DISSECTING THE DRAWING COLLAGE | ORIENTING

Territory is understood as a series of nested scales from the local, to the regional to the global.

– Lola Sheppard | From Site to Territory | 2013

Tsunehisa Kimura |  Visual Scandals: Scale |

Landform Building | 2008

DEFINITIONS OF TERRITORY| From Site to Territory

Layered Territory: stratifies its environment into a series of individual layers and systems.

Networked Territory: conceives of context as the subject and product of multiple intersecting networks of human and natural ecologies.

Epigenetic Territory: one in which forces, data and information are continuously scripting its performance.

FOR FRIDAY 10.16 | ORIENTING

Your drawings/collages implement the first principle of CENTERING on the SDSU Campus as well as in the Oceti Sakowin Territory.  Through CENTERING, you have begun to establish a narrative about site and territory through the present campus layout, historical events, origins, capitals, etc.  By Friday 10.16 you should have a clear idea of where your campus center is located.  

1- Using Google Earth (https://www.google.com/earth/), save your SDSU Campus CENTER, the capitals of the sixteen (16) US Oceti Sakowin reservations as well as the three (3) Oceti Sakowin centers you chose in “My Places” (20 places in all).

2- Using the path tool, draw a line from the SDSU Campus CENTER to the nineteen (19) locations. Save these paths. To be more accurate, you may use GIS coordinates.

3- Email me an aerial shot of these ORIENTATIONS by Friday, 10.16 at 2pm & print it on a letter-sized sheet by Monday 10.19.

using the path tool in Google Earth

FRIDAY 10.16* | DISSECTING THE DRAWING/COLLAGE

*I will be in Chicago this Friday, 10.16.  You will use Friday as a work day.

Friday will be used as a day to dissect the drawing/collage through ORIENTING.  You will use the day to digitally model the SDSU Campus Center and the three (3) Oceti Sakowin Centers you have chosen.

1- Using Revit or Rhino, digtally model your centers.  You are NOT ALLOWED to use Illustrator.  Your digital model must use the following layers:

       – Orienting Lines (orange): use the path lines from Google Earth

       – Topography (green): You can get topo maps from Eros or the

         USGS https://eros.usgs.gov/usa

       – Present Buildings (blue): use the figure-ground drawing as a basis

       – Additional Layers: must be added according to the information in your collage (historic              buildings, origins, vegetation, pathways, etc.

digtally modelling the centers in Rhino or Revit

MONDAY 10.19

Digital Models will be due.  Print two (2) Axonometric views of your centers and two (2) Perspective views on individual sheets of letter-sized paper.  There will be four (4) sheets in all.

– Back up the digital model.  We will continue to work with it.

-What are the boundaries of the CENTER?  It is better to model more than less (this is an anti-Mies view).  The boundaries of the center are not always rectangles.

Metis | Mimetic Urbanism – Verona

Foreign Office Architects | La Gavia Park in Madrid | 2003

WHERE ARE WE GOING…..

SAA/Stan Allen Architect | Gwanggyo Pier Lakeside Park | 2008

Look at the work of Lateral Office, Office, Superstudio, and Archizoom

AMERICAN INDIAN & MODULAR SPACE DESIGN

The project brief for American Indian & Modular Space Design 1.1_Site has been posted to the website

Superstudio | The Continuous Monument

 
SITE | From Islands & Atolls Pamphlet Architecture | Welcome to Fleetwood

STRUCTURE | From Islands & Atolls Pamphlet Architecture | Welcome to Fleetwood

WHERE WE HAVE BEEN AND WHERE WE ARE GOING….

1- PRECEDENT:
By studying the relationship of the Circle & the Square as well as COMAE principles, we have established a path for exploring Site & Structure
2- SITE: 
The Physical Site is the SDSU campus. The Political & Socio-Cultural Site is the Oceti Sakowin Homelands. The nations of the Oceti Sakowin are acknowledged through Site/Program.
3- STRUCTURE:
The Structure is rooted in the part to whole relationship of a module that comprises a system.

For Friday 10.09, you will make a drawing/collage that begins to form a narrative about the site. Tell us a story through graphics.  This is not a prescriptive exercise, yet it is your opportunity to begin to explore site through various graphic techniques.  We will push these drawings and ways of representing site within the following weeks.   Below are some general constraints and questions:

• How do you combine photos and maps of the physical site with photos and maps of the political & socio-cultural site?
• How does the drawing/collage combine all six (6) centers?
• Look at Lola Sheppard’s From Site to Territory
• To start, the drawing must be at minimum 11×17 inches.

WINGSPRINGS

SDSU DoArch | Wingsprings Itinerary
FA 2015_Wingsprings Itinerary
Weather Outlook: Friday 50 degrees & rainy

Friday 10.02.2015

8:30am                 Depart from Brookings – AME Parking Lot

12:30pm              Lunch in Kadoka – ?

2:00-2:30pm       Arrive at Wingsprings

Saturday 10.03.2015

10:00am             Depart from Wingsprings

12:30pm              Lunch in Chamberlain – Al’s Oasis

3:30pm                 Arrive in Brookings – AME Parking Lot

What will be provided:
Cots
Sleeping bags
Fleece
Sleeping sacks
Pillows
Pillow Cases
Towels

What to bring:
Wet weather/warm clothing
Flashlight (iphone)
Slippers
Snacks
Etc.

Modular Space Precedent Study Reflections
American Indian Space Precedent Study Reflections
Figure Ground Map
Sketchbooks
Pencils
Camera