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Fall 2015
GSD1201: Third Semester Core Architectural Design
Provocation / Precedent
For your provocation, you will experiment with an attitude towards
environmentaly/thermally driven work. Students will select a building
precedent (from the list below or an alternate with your critic) and
suggest radical modification to it based on found or imagined techniques
from researching extreme sites and architectures Students will
research non-western vernacular approaches and extreme climates
(comparable to their respective given sites) and conceptually or rather
proactively apply these discovered techniques onto known/canonical
tower types, offering an eco-tourism of the selected extreme remote
site:
Precedents:
- Fridrichstrasse --Mies Van Der Rohe
- Highrise of Homes --James Wines
- Tribune Tower --Adolf Loos
- Johnson Wax Tower --Frank Lloyd Wright
- Philadelphia City Hall --Louis Kahn
- Marina City --Bertand Goldberg
- National Commercial Bank, Jeddah --SOM
- Dharmala Sakhti Tower, Jakarta --Paul Rudolph
- Narkomtiazhprom --Ivan Leonidov
- Llyods of London --Richard Rogers
- Nakagin Capsule Hotel --Kisho KuroKawa
- Paris Garage --Melnikov
- Marriott Hotel, Atlanta --John Portman
- Downton Athletic Club, New York --Starett & van Vlek
- SESC Pompeia, Sao Paolo --Lina Bo Bardi
Suggested Eco-tourism Sites:
Cold Continental
Svalbard, Global Seed Vault
Vostok Research Station, Antarctica
Jungfraujoch, Switzerland
Tropical Rainforest
Kandalam, Sri Lanka
Manaus, Brazil
Daintree Rainforest, Australia
Hot Arid Desert
Big Daddy Dune Sossusvlei, Namibia
Yulara, Uluru, Australia
Timbuktu, Mali
Readings:
On Bullshit, Harry Frankfurt
Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Letham
Bibliography:
-Architectural Graphic Standards/Time Saver Standards
-Neufert Architects Data
-Inaki Abalos, Jaun Herreros, Tower and Office (MIT Press) 2003
-Erik Firley, Urban Towers Handbook (Wiley, 2011)
-Thomas van Leewen, A Skyward Trend of Thought (MIT Press) 1988
-Inaki Abalos, Thermodynamic Somatisms, Verticalscapes
-G Z Brown, Sun Wind and Light, Arch Design Strategies (Wiley) 2001
-Rayner Banham, Architecture of the Well Tempered Environment
-Kiel Moe, Thermally Active Surfaces in Architecture (PAP) 2010
-Eric Howeler, 18 Degrees Inside, Hong Kong Thermal Space 2005
-Andrew Ross, Bird on Fire, Lessons from Least Sustainable Cities
-Marco dErmo, The Pig and the Skyscraper, A History of our Future