Progress

Over the next week everyone must make process models that describe the primary aspects of your thesis concept and outline the main parts of its program.


Diagram these and present them on Thursday.

The first presentation will be short – a description of the studio intentions and what you have found to be important aspects of community space. Next are the critiques of the D# projects. Take notes in relation to your work. End with a group discussion about where the D3 class should go with their ideas and how you will use what you have seen in your work. Post the notes on the blog. Please do sketches as well.As for selection of a site. Some of you already have a site, some have an idea where and two have no site. My advice is, aside from the Nik and Stacy with no site, pick something and stick with it through to the mid term.

Nik – you need to find a place as big as your program. Where could this be? Any ideas from the studio?? Keep going with the inside-out transparency studies. Map out for everyone what each of your models is about and how you are beginning to fine results in your study.

Stacy – no site for now – keep modeling the idea of the program and do build a model that begins to demonstrate the varying scale of your program.

Jenn – model the overlapping cultures. Perhaps you should modify the Queens map to show the overlaps of the cultures. The boundaries are much more fuzzy and overlapping than the diagram suggests.

Matt – build something to represent the scale of the site and its relationship to the market. How many veggies from the field fit in a crate and how much area is required per crate? This might tell you how the outside farmers interact and sell their produce. The market is the key here

Steven – we need to see a model relating time and space. Like we said, your project is a timepiece, a continuous loop of events that lace the monks, the retreat and the visiting public. Model that loop. I will post Tshumi Sequnces – all should read it if you haven’t already.

Derek – we missed you today. Let’s see what you have.

Dennis – model the two spaces and how they become a third. Perhaps one model shows how they combine to become and interior volume and another could show how the spaces converge to open out to an exterior space.

Brian – Lets see the brainstorming session on the blog. Make notes and sketches about your intentions. Describe who you think this place is for and how they will use it. Lets all give Brian a hand in making some decisions in program. Pick three potential sites and present them and determine a program that is about the site selection.