On Wednesday I mentioned that you will be turning in four 8.5x11 (landscape) sheets of exploratory building analysis diagrams. For the past week we have been looking at the Jim Kimmel Center as our site. The Building Generator phase of the studio is making connections from the concepts that you found in the shirt into initial conceptions of site. You spent the very first week of studio looking at the shirt and finding ways to measure and then notate these methods on your drawing. You should do the same to the building. You should be building these parallels into the building conceptually as well as graphically.
We are going to dissect the building in a similar way to how you dissected your shirt. The building is our starting point and our initial investigation. In two weeks we will be siting your operations and it is possible that the remainder of the block will come into play, but for now what you need to analyze is the building itself. You are to first identify the elements of the site and then classify them. What elements are essential to your project, what elements are secondary to your concept, what elements are tertiary to your concept?
These sheets should be handed to me at the end of class tomorrow. They can be two plans/diagrams and two sections/diagrams. They could be a collection of Isometrics or Plan Obliques of the building rendered as wire frame. You can pick any combination of diagrams to be the chosen four, but there should be an order to why and what you pick to give me. These sheets will be a part of your mid semester grades that you will receive on the Wednesday before spring break. I will be grading you on your analytic and graphic abilities.
See you tomorrow.
There will be a presentation tomorrow with video and sound.
