5.2

Glass Pavillion (Toledo Museum of Art), Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / S A N A A, 2007 Toledo, Ohio

All exterior and nearly all interior walls of this museum consist of large panels of curved glass, resulting in a transparent structure that blurs the boundaries between interior and exterior spaces. From its exterior, the building interacts with its surroundings because of its reflective surface. Juxtaposing gallery space and glassmaking studios this museum acts as a cultural icon for the city of Toledo.

This is Sejima and Nishizawa's first building in the United States. It is spectacular.

5.2

Do not worry about adding walls, let your systems and concepts do the work for you! Refer to images ::

The drawings and models for the homes below were recently on exhibit in Los Angeles at the MOCA. The exhibit entitled Skin and Bones is now a traveling exhibit that draws ties between the concepts of fashion and architecture or in 2502 terms surface and structure. You should be working on your progressive concept diagrams (finishing those for final print), plans, and sections. Please refer to the presentation at the right of this page to get a feel on how to draw nice diagrammatic plans as well as sections.







Curtan Wall House, Shigeru Ban, 1995,
Playing without the solidity of walls, Ban exhibits a softer relationship between home and shelter. Open to the elements for 6 months out of the year, this house is free of hard boundaries. For the winter months the house has a second layer of glass that is hidden in the back walls of the house, this layer can be slid out and secured at the edge corner.




Naked House, Shigeru Ban, 2000
The exterior of this house is composed of two sheets of corrugated fiber-reinforced plastics and the inner walls are made of a nylon fabric. Both are mounted on wooden stud frames and sit in parallel. In between these two layers are attached clear plastic bags, carefully stuffed with strings of foamed polyethylene for insulation. See, anything is possible. The private sectors of the home are situated in the movable modules making the floor plan totally open.






John Hejduk, Wall House 2, 2002

This house was not in the exhibit and on the contrary to the other two examples on this post this house is about walls. The concrete wall divides the public from the private. The area to the right of the second image is the public and the three sectioned rooms on the left are the private.

This building was built after his death in 2000.

5.1

You should now be working on your floor plans and sections. When examining your working models / concept models think about sequence and the context of the building. How does your flexible concept exploit how the building sits on the ground, how do you approach the building? Our models should be able to conform to the sequencing of the building. How do you enter the building, where is the circulation (is it a core circulation or a continuous path that transverses through the whole building.) Everything should be designed from your working model, this is why we have our working models! They Move! Yes they do so now fit in the program and roll with it. When drawing these plans and sections do not draw any different than how you have drawn your building diagrams and or your shirt diagrams! Do not lose your high graphical quality!

On Monday you need to update your wall. It will be a cleaning day. It will be a big day. Print two versions of your initial plans, two sections, and sequential diagrams on 11x17's or a larger format if you see fit. Have your model ready to go and we will be pinning these things up not putting them in your locker. No more hiding!

See you on Monday bright and early!

Display Program

Your finished working model is due on Wednesday. We need to now focus on how we are fitting program into your building concept. How does your concept relate to the notion of display? The systems found in the shirt and then the operative model have now been transferred to this working/concept model of the JKC. We need to stay close to our concepts when defining the spatial and programmatic conceptions of display but first we need to remember our context.

We have a site which is our ever so faithful JKC but now we need to site it. Siting consists of analyzing and diagramming the external conditions of the site and how the built world interacts with it as well. Your working model is flexible to respond to these conditions. How can you use this model to relate to the streets Main and K, how can you manipulate your concept and working models to control the sun at the site, the wind, the shadows, ect., ect.

An initial set of site plans and or diagrams are due at the beginning of class on Monday. I talked to most of you about how to simply start to incorporate this into your exploded isos and or current diagrams. So do what we reviewed on Monday and I will see you bright and early on Wednesday.

3.1

Here is an example of a working model.

Working model(s) are due on Monday at 8h00.

Continue to develop your concept through diagram. We should be extracting ideas both from diagramming and working tactically with our hands. The diagram should be used to not only extract information from the sight, but also to introduce and apply your conceptual ideas to it as well. The diagrams should be viewed in all three dimensions. Please download the presentation to the left and review what we discussed in class on Friday.

Have your diagrams printed on 11x17 sheets for Monday no later than 8h15. We will have a small pin-up. Depending on your concept you may have to do this in section, isometric, plan, and or in 3d space. Again think of the indexical condition of your shirt and the material exercises we battled through. What operations did you perform on the shirt? What was the graphical notation you used to represent those operations in your diagram? Use both. Keep reminding yourself of the concept, use the specific ideas you found in those surface exercise, and just draw and build! Have fun...your projects will be beautiful.

We are playing with the concept of display. Your program should simply be thought of as a verb. This verb display will give you flexibility withing the program itself. We will use your working models to push and pull ideas concerning not only your concept but display as well.

3.0

Happy Spring Break!

You are to continue with your models for Wednesday. We learn through tactility, the more you work with your hands the more ideas will be born. You should experiment with these models over the break while working with careful craft.

Again think of the indexical condition of your shirt. What operations did you perform on the shirt? How did your operative model perform. When identifying what materials to use think of your concept and how the model that you make should be an index of that idea. Your models should not necessarily move, but you should think about these ideas found in these initial experiments of this studio. Use what you have as a reference, talk to your shirts, talk to your operative models. Go beyond expectations with these models and simply experiment. Every move you make from this point on in the semester will be important. It is now time to extract form from your concepts. The concepts of the studio range from fit, stacking, unfolding, banding, interlocking, to the site as a singular surface to just name a few. Your study models need to encompass these ideas. On Wednesday we will have a presentation and a short review.

The program we are going to propose for the In Town Inn or the Jim Kimmel Center is a Gallery/Artist in Residence Center. This program will include possibly several galleries, studios for residents, apartments for residents, small offices, library, and lecture/exhibition hall. We will elaborate on the program in the next two weeks.

Below are just a few links to some galleries that also have artist in residence programs....You should be visiting some of these programs during your break or simply just look at the links below. But for those in cities other than Lubbock, you should check out some galleries, small or large that have programs like the ones discussed on Friday. Click here for more.

Texas
http://www.artpace.org/aboutTheResidency.php
http://artpalacegallery.com/main/calendar/
http://www.amarilloart.org/Content.aspx?cid=60
http://www.chinati.org/information/becomeartistresidence.php

Nebraska
http://www.bemiscenter.org/residency/index.html
http://www.artfarmnebraska.org/residency.html
Great Firm
http://www.minday.com/minday2007.htm

Illinois
http://www.mcachicago.org/information/fellowships.php?page=efell
http://www.three-walls.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4&Itemid=8

I hope all of you are enjoying your break. Have Fun....

MK12