ARC307 Architectural Design studio -
Professor Bruce Coleman

STUDIO ASSIGNMENTS

The third pass.

Issued: Friday  8 September 1999
Due: Monday 10 September 1999

The following is a rather broad generalization (to say the leasti). There are many exceptions, but then, there are also many buildings which conform. Not all buildings manifest all properties. The terms are relative - to each other.

• spatially discrete
• compartmentalized plan
• heavy building
• enclosure as structure
• structure as enclosure
• structure as box, wall
• short span
• sectionally stratified, simple

• spatially ambiguous
• overlapping spaces
• light building
• enclosure as membrane
• structure as separate from enclosure
• structure as matrix, Cartesian grid
• long span
• sectionally varied, complex

You are reminded that all projects that we do in the studio are vehicles to explore and research various aspects of the making of architecture.

The first phase has taken a rather broad sweep at the topic of typology and the results have indicated a difficulty in cleady distinguishing among sorne of them. This phase will try to clarify some of these by posing selected ones as opposites.

Assuming that one has a repetoire compositional typologies, the next aspect is to develop the skill of transformation. In this phase the exercise continues by exploring the possibilities of transforming one typology into another.

There is an admitted graphic component to the problem but the architectural implications are substantive.

Select one set of opposite or contrasting organisational typologies. Transform each typology into the other. Each step of the transformation should represent a viable architectural possibility.

You are reminded that all proiects that we do in the studio are vehicles to expbre and research various aspects of the making of architecture.