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Research and Analyses_Homework

Individually, make research on performance and practice of the selected art students and their basic accommodation space requirements. You also need to search on dormitory spaces.

Select for detailed study and discussion 4 successful examples (2 artist spaces and 2 dormitory spaces), both from traditional and modern environments worldwide, paying attention to:

•vehicular and pedestrian access and parking

•space sizes and dimensions

•location and character of practicing, eating, resting, bathing, sleeping and storage spaces

• configuration of open, semi-open and closed spaces in the plan and section

• orientation and lighting conditions for individual spaces

• construction and finishing materials

• the use of colour and texture

• privacy considerations

• the experience from the outside

Analyze by sketches and diagrams the selected examples and present them in a format suitable to discuss with your group mates.

You will improve your design that will be located in an empty plot in Old Foça. It will be a dormitory space for the selected art students consisting of accommodating and workshop space (consisting of practice or display spaces). With its location and relation with the town, it should provide a capacity to be transformed into a small gallery/museum.

For 3-5 art students

Your proposal should enable the functions below:

Accommodation:

•Resting

•Eating

•Bathing

•Sleeping

•Storage

Workshop:

•Practice/performance

•Display

•Access as pedestrian

Rules of the proposals:

Each proposal should:

•Consist of at least one open, one semi-open and one closed space responding to any one of the required functions.

•Have a connection with the street to create/enhance public life and relations.

•Demonstrate special attention to its relation with the environment and the comfort it ensures for its periodic occupants.

•Each students’ privacy needs to be designed and distinguished. Some functions such as eating should be designed for common uses.

•Space dimensions will be based on the notion of existenzminimum and decided according to the dimensions of the plot.

ANAYLYZES OF DORMITORY & GALLERY

Design

For 3-5 art students

Your proposal should enable the functions below:

Accommodation:

•Resting

•Eating

•Bathing

•Sleeping

•Storage

Workshop:

•Practice/performance

•Display

•Access as pedestrian

Rules of the proposals:

Each proposal should:

•Consist of at least one open, one semi-open and one closed space responding to any one of the required functions.

•Have a connection with the street to create/enhance public life and relations.

•Demonstrate special attention to its relation with the environment and the comfort it ensures for its periodic occupants.

•Each students’ privacy needs to be designed and distinguished. Some functions such as eating should be designed for common uses.

•Space dimensions will be based on the notion of existenzminimum and decided according to the dimensions of the plot.

1/500 SCALE MODEL REPRESENTING PLOT AND ITS SURROUNDINGS

1/500 SCALE MODEL

FINAL PROJECT

FINAL POSTER

REVIT RENDERS

The first step of this assignment requires building up an understanding of the physical and social characteristics of a social space. Thus, as the first step, you will explore the spatial logic of a social space design by analyzing an example of it to understand the way in which a public social space has been used by different profiles such as artists, students, and wanderers, how they interact with each other. You will also examine the elements of design (you may clarify its planar and linear elements, gridial system, or the logic of modularity through diagrammatic drawings). You will find the examples that can be tracked down from the internet. However, you are also welcome to analyze other relevant examples that you have found/experienced.You will work in group of 2-3 to do your analysis and represent it as an info poster on a 50*70 cm cardboard. Since this step of the assignment will help you to form an understanding towards space formation of social space, these presentations will form a library that will be open for use by all the students in each studio group.

ANALYSIS OF L'ARBRE DE FLONVILLE & GALLERY OF AFTERPARTY

Social Gathering Space in Urla Pier

In this step, you will explore the site and its environment to do the analytical observation while experiencing the site. The following considerations will guide you in your site analysis. You will do the site analysis as a group of 2 and represent it in a 70*100 cm. poster.

(group work: group of 2):

Space Hunting and Analysis

1.Observation and documentation on physical (natural and buıilt-up environment) and social characteristics of the given place; such as gathering places and circulation paths of visitors and pedestrians, different types of activities, shadows, shades, natural elements, wind and sun direction, vegetation, topography, etc.

2.Analysis of the collected data to understand actual spatial organization and social space possibilities.

3.Selection of sites based on an architectural scenario of the group.

4.Presentation of the group analysis on a 70 * 100 cm poster by using presentation techniques; such as freehand sketches, photographs, diagrammatical drawings on site plans (in 1/500 or 1/200 scale) and sections etc.

Rules:

1.Prepare site analyses (by using plans and sections in different scales, freehand sketches, photographs, verbal descriptions, charts, etc.) by revealing your assessment for site selections, architectural scenario, and individual design ideas.

2.Design an architectural scenario binding site selections and individual proposals of your group.

3.Use common site plan with individual projects and other proposals in site scale (in 1/500 or 1/200 scale, depending on the locations of selected sites and the proposed scenario).

ANALYSIS OF URLA PIER (AS A GROUP)

SCALE 1/50

ELEVATIONS

OTHER ANALYZES

Design Phase

(group + individual work )

You will design modular construction to display, perform and celebrate the social space.

1.Development of a new scenario in a group of 2, integrating potential social spaces with natural and built environment of the shore.

2.Design of a set of two different shelter designs as social spaces in two locations based on the rules indicated below.

3.Representation of shelter design with a scale model, architectural and related drawings, and a photo-collage.

Rules:

1.Use linear and planar elements. The dimensional limit of the material are:

Planar (thickness to be defined):

2500 mm x 1250 m

3000 mm x 1500 mm.

Linear:

60 mm x 60 mm x 2500/3000 mm

60 mm x 120 mm x 2500/3000 mm

120 mm x 120 mm x 2500/3000 mm

2. Use design field requirements for your proposals indicated as below:

3. Dimension: For the meeting of 25-50 people approx. 50-80m2

4. Improve a new modular construction. To increase your module’s potential you may integrate it into a structural frame which could be a modular system too. You may use 2-3 variations of your module in sizes.

5. Create your design with linear and planar elements.

6. Create at least two different space characteristics (e.i. semi-open, semi-closed, open spaces; circular space vs. linear space; main space vs. sub-space etc.)

7. Your design needs to involve main composition principles.

8.May create light and shade plays with opening holes that will make your social space more attractive.

9. Your design needs to be suitably embedded to the characters of its nearby environment (natural or built-up).

10. Your design needs to have at least one entrance point to the social space.

11. Your design needs to be easily accessible by pedestrians.

12. Your design needs to be perceivable from the outside environment that helps to attract pedestrians.

13. Your design needs to be a social interaction space providing functions such as sitting, standing, leaning back, etc. You need to consider the related design elements such as surfaces with relevant heights and appropriate angles rather than tables and chairs. They need to be part of your design.

14. Your design needs to provide a sense of comfort and safety to people gathering and using the space. To prevent crime, do not create individual/small spaces which are fully closed.

15. Your design needs to be unique and has a special character.

16. Your design needs to provide a friendly and welcoming atmosphere.

Goals to Achieve:

Understanding the physical and social characteristics of space

Analysing the relationship between social use and physical characteristic of a built environment

Developing a simple space scenario

Collaborative design considering part-whole and whole-part relationship

Understanding and using analysis techniques

Method:

2D representation techniques (photo collage, image editting)

3D model making

FINAL PROJECT

COLLAGE I

COLLAGE II

FINAL POSTER

JURY DAY

The term of “Structure” implies anything constructed or built from interrelated parts that are fixed in location. It represents a definite pattern of organization of parts as dominated by the general character of the whole. Structure and architecture are two components in shaping the organization of a building and consequently forming the architectural and urban space.

The purpose of this assignment is to make understand the basic principles of a structure through the analysis of “Tensile Structural Systems”.

The term of Tensile Structure is associated with the load-bearing capacity of structures (i.e. buildings) that is achieved through tension stress using cables, fabrics or foils. Although it may be in different forms, it has generally two constructional processes: the saddle and the cone, or combination of them.

In this assignment, you are going to design tensile structure of yours based on the basic principles of Tensile Structural System located in Gülbahçe Square, Gülbahçe, Urla.

To create your own composition, you first need to understand the principles of tensile structures through the analyses of existing structures and model making. After then, you will start working on your composition with a proper application to the site.

The composition of your structure will cover at least half of the Gülbahçe Square, but will not exceed 2/3 of it. It will provide a shading environment to about 20 people who are standing underneath it for a specific reason that you will decide and describe. Your structure needs to represent the possibility and space characteristic of the nearby environment as well as represent its architectural durability.

Working Steps:

1.Understand the structural logic of tensile structure by analyzing and modeling assigned and researched examples (group work of 2)

2.Understand the physical characteristics of the site by producing a class model of the site (class work)

3.Familiarize with the physical characteristics of the site (group work of 2)

4.Produce a shade structure by using the principles of tensile sturctural system (individual)

5.Present the structure you designed by a 3D model and 2D drawings (individual)

Studio Work-1a: Structural Systems

Understanding Tensile Structures (Group work)

As the first step of this exercise, you will explore the structural logic of tensile systemsby analyzing two examples. As a group of 2, you will analyze 2 structures assigned to you and represent your analyses by producing an info poster on a 50*70 cm cardboard.

After careful research that is retrieved from the internet, each group will produce an info poster that should introduce and represent;

•The Name

•The Architect/Designer/Engineer etc.

•Function of the structure

•Form and volume (height) of the structure

•Spatial organization of the structure (i.e. linear form, central form, organic form etc.)

•Structure-Human scale relationship

•Components of the structure (the elements) and relationships of each components with one another

•By showing how tensile stress works

•By showing how compression stress works.

Working Step:

1.Understand the structural logic of tensile structure by analyzing the examples

2.Present your analyses as an info poster (50*70cm)

Goals to Achieve:

Understanding the context of tensile structure

Understanding structural system

Understanding part-whole relationship

Understanding the physical space charecteristics of structure

Method:

2D representation technique

Depicting the organization system of examined structure

Sketches (Scale-free drawing)

ANALYSIS OF GERMAN PAVILION'67 & MUNICH OLYMPIC STADIUM

(IN THE STUDIO)

Structural Systems

Understanding Tensile Structures (Group work)

As a second step of this exercise, as a group of 2, you will explore the structural logic of tensile systems by producing a 1/20 scale model suitable to human-scale which will depict the basic working principles of tensile systems.

While your model requires working on the principles of tensile structural system inspired from the examples listed in here, your model is also expected to be self-standing and resistant and to protect for about 8-10 people from the wind and rain.

The materials you will/may use are;

•Wooden sticks (4 mm)

•Strings

•Stockings (nude color), fishnet stockings, undershirt

Examples

•You may use the examples in Studio work-1a and show the basic principles of a membrane structure. However, while using Studiowork examples, you may need to focus on the the main working principle and model it.

•Other examples you may choose to produce

Working Step:

1. Understand the structural logic of tensile structure by modeling.

2. Present your group model in 1/20 scale suitable for human scale.

Goals to Achieve:

Understanding structural system

Understanding the context of tensile structure

Understanding and making representation

IN THE STUDIO

REDO (AS A GROUP)

OTHER WORKS

INDIVIDUAL

Tensile Structure on Gülbahçe Square

As the last step of this assignment, you are going to design a tensile structure of yours based on the basic principles of Tensile Structural System located in Gülbahçe Square, Gülbahçe, Urla.

Since your design proposal will locate on a certain place, you also need to experience and explore the site. This understanding will help you to design your design proposal suitable to its nearby environment. As a group of 2, this understanding will be represented on a 35*50 cm poster, analyzing of the site through photos, sketches (facade and perspectives), diagrammatic illustration indicating circulation patterns, vista points etc. (1/500 to 1/200 scale base map would be enough to use for showing the diagrammatic representation.)

In relation to the site, you are going to develop a design proposal of tensile structure individually. Your structure will cover at least half of the Gülbahçe Square, but will not exceed 2/3 of it. It will provide a shading environment to about 20 people who are standing underneath it for a specific reason that you will decide and describe. Your structure needs to represent the possibility and space characteristic of the nearby environment as well as represent its architectural durability and will be on a 1/50 scale.

Additionally, you are going to produce a mass model of the Gülbahçe Square which will be a collaborative work of the class. The scale of this model will also be 1/50.

Working Steps:1.Understand the physical characteristics of the site by producing a class model of the site (1/20 scale) (class work)

2. Familiarize with the physical characteristics of the site and represent it on a 2D poster (the group of 2).

3. Produce a shade structure (individual).

4. Present the structure you designed by a 3D model and 2D drawings (individual).

Note: While on the site you will explore;