Independent Task for Week6 - Project 2 and Precedent Study

Project 2 is now up on blackboard. All students are required to read and familiarise themselves with the brief and submission outcomes.


1) Your task for the non-teaching week will be to do some self-directed study on pairing up the concepts and ideas explored in Project 1 with two additional precedents.

2) Choose a different building from your Project 1 Nominated Architect. Your selection should be based on its compatibility with the ideas and concepts you have been looking at in your Concept Model. You have already been synthesising multiple buildings at this point from looking at the representational archetypes of your nominated architect. Therefore a good way to start would be to position yourself back to Assignment 1.

3) Choose a building  from a different architect. Your selection should be determined by the opportunities offered to read both buildings as a pair (refer to today's lecture) based on the ideas and concepts in Project 1. You should also choose a building that you can find enough information on.

4) Begin to source as much information as possible relating to the two precedents. Use a mixture of books, journals, and internet sources to collect relevant orthographics, perspectives, diagrams and other representational archetypes.

5) Begin to do a comparative visual analysis of the building using the concepts identified in Project 1 as a frame of reference. Pair photographs and perspectives to compare points of convergences and divergences. Create quick diagrammatic overlays on your representational archetypes where necessary to highlight these convergences and differences. See below for an example, which is a visual analysis on "Stacking" and "Bridging".

MVRDV, European Patent Office, 2005	Kenzo Tange, Fuji Broadcasting HQ, 1996
Horizontal Bars as Functional Spaces spanned and supported on vertical circulation nodes	Vertical Functional Spaces separated in plan, stitched together by horizontal circulation extrusions.
Bridging of Stationary Space	Circulation Bridging

6) Start thinking about your Design Proposal and how you want to re-envision your architecture. Make a quick list of three examples of the types of buildings and functions you want to create. Your choice should not be similar to your Project 1 Nominated Building (ie people who done Eisenman's Houses should avoid small residential proposals). Rather, think of the scales your concept model can afford, the contrast between the proposal and the original Nominated Building, and how your design proposal would allow for a distinct re-presentation of the ideas and concepts you have been looking at. Blog your list to elaborate in class for week07.