Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
colordesignfoodtable times
thursday 21 october 2010 last design studio day of the year
bring your dish, a plate, cuttlery for yourself and your dish
programme
11 - 12 o'clock: set up and photographs
12 - ? o'clock: food tasting
2 o'clock: food judge will give "best dish of the table" prize/ certificate
bring your dish, a plate, cuttlery for yourself and your dish
programme
11 - 12 o'clock: set up and photographs
12 - ? o'clock: food tasting
2 o'clock: food judge will give "best dish of the table" prize/ certificate
Sunday, October 10, 2010
thursday 21oct colors&flavors
last task of the term
this thursday you will draw a) a color and b) a taste/ flavor c) attribute
ex: red, sweet, healthy or green, salty, exotic etc
and be asked to bring a dish/ food that corresponds to those
on thursday 21 oct for a design food table end of term brunch.
this is your last dp performance.
make it a good one.
this thursday you will draw a) a color and b) a taste/ flavor c) attribute
ex: red, sweet, healthy or green, salty, exotic etc
and be asked to bring a dish/ food that corresponds to those
on thursday 21 oct for a design food table end of term brunch.
this is your last dp performance.
make it a good one.
spatial diary crits
i will pin up a list on my door
whoever wants a crit on the spatial diary
please write down their names
so i can plan times and tutors
whoever wants a crit on the spatial diary
please write down their names
so i can plan times and tutors
11.10.2010 cancelled
i am sorry to cancel the planned meetings for this monday
i got sick over the weekend and could not prepare the final mark list
we will do that on thursday, come in your time slot:
last name:
a-d 11-12
f-h 12-13
j-l 13-14
m 14-15.30
n-z 15.30-16.30
what we will do: check if your marks as uploaded on wams are correct
fill in any missing marks
please bring any work that you have handed in late and did not receive a mark yet for.
come at least 15 min ahead of yor time (in case others don't show up)
and bring some work to bridge waiting time...
i got sick over the weekend and could not prepare the final mark list
we will do that on thursday, come in your time slot:
last name:
a-d 11-12
f-h 12-13
j-l 13-14
m 14-15.30
n-z 15.30-16.30
what we will do: check if your marks as uploaded on wams are correct
fill in any missing marks
please bring any work that you have handed in late and did not receive a mark yet for.
come at least 15 min ahead of yor time (in case others don't show up)
and bring some work to bridge waiting time...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
30 September 2010
No Lecture Crits from 11 o’clock
Crits argument/ idea/ concept
b) design development/ detailed design
Requirements:will look at
a) presentation of the
Complete draft set of drawings/ collages for hand in (incomplete drawings as sketch)
Scale as requested on hand out
NO DRAWINGS IN SKETCH BOOKS WILL BE CRITED
NO EXPLANATION SHOULD BE NEEDED TO UNDERSTAND THE ILLUSTRATIONS/
IN CASE THEY DO, ADD CAPTIONS AND A SHORT PROJECT DESCRIPTION
STUDENTS WILL ANSWER QUESTIONS OF TUTORS BUT NOT TALK THEMSELVES THROUGH NOTHINGNESS ON PAPER
Crits argument/ idea/ concept
b) design development/ detailed design
Requirements:will look at
a) presentation of the
Complete draft set of drawings/ collages for hand in (incomplete drawings as sketch)
Scale as requested on hand out
NO DRAWINGS IN SKETCH BOOKS WILL BE CRITED
NO EXPLANATION SHOULD BE NEEDED TO UNDERSTAND THE ILLUSTRATIONS/
IN CASE THEY DO, ADD CAPTIONS AND A SHORT PROJECT DESCRIPTION
STUDENTS WILL ANSWER QUESTIONS OF TUTORS BUT NOT TALK THEMSELVES THROUGH NOTHINGNESS ON PAPER
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
the wall
20 May
The wall must be the most banal element in architecture: a line on a plan. Architects draw them all the time. Making every wall demands deliberation and intelligence. If you have to make a wall, make it perfect. IT’S THE WALL BUILDER’S RESPONSIBILITY.
After thesis, I know I will never draw a line on a plan the way I did before.
http://swchuarchitect.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2000-01-01T00%3A00%3A00%2B01%3A00&updated-max=2001-01-01T00%3A00%3A00%2B01%3A00&max-results=13
The wall must be the most banal element in architecture: a line on a plan. Architects draw them all the time. Making every wall demands deliberation and intelligence. If you have to make a wall, make it perfect. IT’S THE WALL BUILDER’S RESPONSIBILITY.
After thesis, I know I will never draw a line on a plan the way I did before.
http://swchuarchitect.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2000-01-01T00%3A00%3A00%2B01%3A00&updated-max=2001-01-01T00%3A00%3A00%2B01%3A00&max-results=13
Monday, September 6, 2010
ARPL 2000 Streetlife / part 1
Workshop 1 Thursday 9 Sept 2010 8.30h – 17h DP (compulsory) To do between now and then: take a walk through your neighbourhood and record what you see
To bring (compulsory):
- photographic panoramas from the street you live in (from cross road to cross road, from both sides of the road, possibly different time of the day)
- typical section 1:200, line drawing
- google earth location map, a) within suburb, b) within greater Johannesburg
- recordings of the streetlife/ plan/ section – sketches/ notes :indicate who’s on your sidewalk, who is on your street, what is happening in the buildings along the sidewalk. Are there people? What are people doing? Walking from a to b? Talking? Sitting? Waiting? Selling sweets? Are there busses? Minibus taxis? Private cars? What is present on the sidewalks (if there are any)? What is missing? In some cases this might be the sidewalks themselves!
some of the things you might (not) find are: bus stops signs benches, shelters newspaper boxes, mail boxes garbage bins trees and other greenery public art food carts animals
pedestrian crossings (marked or unmarked) curb ramps, stairs, overpasses or underpasses
places to stop and rest places to get out of the rain construction barriers and broken sidewalks
boom gates security huts street lights
…
To bring (compulsory):
- photographic panoramas from the street you live in (from cross road to cross road, from both sides of the road, possibly different time of the day)
- typical section 1:200, line drawing
- google earth location map, a) within suburb, b) within greater Johannesburg
- recordings of the streetlife/ plan/ section – sketches/ notes :indicate who’s on your sidewalk, who is on your street, what is happening in the buildings along the sidewalk. Are there people? What are people doing? Walking from a to b? Talking? Sitting? Waiting? Selling sweets? Are there busses? Minibus taxis? Private cars? What is present on the sidewalks (if there are any)? What is missing? In some cases this might be the sidewalks themselves!
some of the things you might (not) find are: bus stops signs benches, shelters newspaper boxes, mail boxes garbage bins trees and other greenery public art food carts animals
pedestrian crossings (marked or unmarked) curb ramps, stairs, overpasses or underpasses
places to stop and rest places to get out of the rain construction barriers and broken sidewalks
boom gates security huts street lights
…
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
thursday 26 aug
meeting at 9am in bubble
review of review
comments
warnings
then crits
bring your work
see you there
last chance thursday people have to bring new work so
we can see where they are going
i will see them with their tutors
review of review
comments
warnings
then crits
bring your work
see you there
last chance thursday people have to bring new work so
we can see where they are going
i will see them with their tutors
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Sunday, July 18, 2010
GREEN LIGHT UPLOAD 0/ test
compulsory to continue http://arpl2000upload.blogspot.com/
email:
archiwits@gmail.com
password:
arpl2000
for Thursday:
a)
upload one image with a photograph of a model (series of...) that represents your IDEA for your school
b)
upload one image with a photograph of a model (series of...) that represents a first "massing on site" test for your idea (build boxes for all spaces required to a specific scale and test them on a site model in the same scale)
- give your images a name/ title
- upload with your student number and name
all uploads to be done by Thursday 5pm.
email:
archiwits@gmail.com
password:
arpl2000
for Thursday:
a)
upload one image with a photograph of a model (series of...) that represents your IDEA for your school
b)
upload one image with a photograph of a model (series of...) that represents a first "massing on site" test for your idea (build boxes for all spaces required to a specific scale and test them on a site model in the same scale)
- give your images a name/ title
- upload with your student number and name
all uploads to be done by Thursday 5pm.
Friday, July 16, 2010
site 3: how to get there
from joburg: n3 dir durban exit suikerbosrand
turn right on r550
turn right into magagula heights
take next possibility left, cross railway
take next possibiltiy left
follow the road, 2nd school on your right
open classroom brief
Project: Open Classroom
Format: A1/ A0
Medium: Line Drawings/ Rendering/ Photographs/ Model
Dates: Hand Out1: MO 12July,
Hand Out 2+Excursion: THU15July
Hand In 1/Crit: MO19July,
Concept Model: THU22July,
Design proposal 1:200: MO26 July,
Green Light Blog Upload1: THU29 July,
Design Development (Façade) 1:100: MO02Aug,
Green Light Blog Upload2: THU05 Aug,
Design Development/Crit: THU12, MO17Aug
Green Light Blog Upload3: THU20Aug
Hand In/ Pin Up: MO23Aug
Feedback: THU26Aug
One of the challenges facing the newly elected ANC government in 1994 was the scale and weight of the apartheid legacy…This history is a major point of departure for transformation in the field of education. New education policies have been set and implemented since 1994 with varying degrees of success, specifically in schools. The physical shape and spatial dynamics of school buildings can profoundly affect teaching, learning and the community; so new approaches to education have led to a revision of these physical structures.
Iain Low: Space and Transformation
…If only it were that simple. In the 1950s (in the Netherlands), schools were still just “schools”: classrooms along a corridor, with a gym and a teachers’ room, and a schoolyard where parents dropped of and picked up their children…The schools of the future, however, will be “community schools”: schools combined with before and after school care, a library, community centre, social services, healthcare and welfare agencies…places, where a community is formed, protected and accomodated.
Crimson Architectural Historians and Felix Rottenberg: Wimby! Hoogvliet Future, Past and Present of a New Town
The quality of education and access to it is without doubt one of the most important sectors of public services. The creation and construction of good schools is therefore an essential element of any restructuring process. The landscape of teaching and learning is changing –this project asks you to design a school building, that
a) is considered a true public building and has a certain degree of flexibility to accommodate various additional functions, thus is considered an investment in a neighbourhood’s attractiveness and quality of life
b) investigates in the design approach of the open classroom and can so adapt to changing educational viewpoints and keep up with changing sets of requirements
c) can be seen as a prototype for one of the following settings: City School, Suburb School, Campus School.
The specific sites are in Newtown, Yeoville and Zonkizizwe. The building is designated for 601-1000 learners. This is classified as large by the Department of Education. The National Minimal Norms and Standards for School Infrastructure as stipulated in the Government Gazette No. 31616 shall be applied in your design, as well as the considerations to New Approaches to School Buildings in South Africa by the Education and Community Buildings Group, CSIR. The documents are available as print out in a folder in the library and as pdf.
Work within the following layers to approach the project:
Concept -what is the idea for this project?
Context - where is it placed? How can the building contribute to the surrounding and vice versa?
Programme -how do school and community cooperate?
Form - how does it look? How is the form generated? Does the from have any influence on the context?
Façade - how is learning screened off?
Structure - does the structure allow the flexibility that is requested?
Material - what materials are used? Why?
Light - natural Light, sunlight, natural ventilation, light flow, concept
Circulation - internal and external circulation, vertical and horizontal circulation, access for whom, where, car and pedestrian access, take us on a walk through the campus!
Public/ Private - how does the building relate to the context, how does it meet the ground, is there a square, a street, are there inside and outside spaces? Day and night life? Point out thresholds.
Produce
Min 3 conceptual pictograms / models
Site plan 1:500
Design proposal plan, section, elevation 1:200
Model 1:200
Min 3 three dimensional representations
A typical learning space 1:50, plan, section, elevation, model
Typical detail: 1:5 – 1:1
Demonstrate process development
EVALUATION
Your work will be evaluated according to the following criteria
40% design concept and execution
20% creative translation research/ design
40% visual communication, completeness, representation, drawing quality, model quality
DP workshops to be announced.
STAFF
Kirsten Doermann, Thomas Moldovanos, Kylie Richards, GuyTrangoš,
Sergio Duarte, Kay Hausler
Consultation times: on appointment
Room 110, 1st floor, John Moffat Building, Tel: 011.7177632
Format: A1/ A0
Medium: Line Drawings/ Rendering/ Photographs/ Model
Dates: Hand Out1: MO 12July,
Hand Out 2+Excursion: THU15July
Hand In 1/Crit: MO19July,
Concept Model: THU22July,
Design proposal 1:200: MO26 July,
Green Light Blog Upload1: THU29 July,
Design Development (Façade) 1:100: MO02Aug,
Green Light Blog Upload2: THU05 Aug,
Design Development/Crit: THU12, MO17Aug
Green Light Blog Upload3: THU20Aug
Hand In/ Pin Up: MO23Aug
Feedback: THU26Aug
One of the challenges facing the newly elected ANC government in 1994 was the scale and weight of the apartheid legacy…This history is a major point of departure for transformation in the field of education. New education policies have been set and implemented since 1994 with varying degrees of success, specifically in schools. The physical shape and spatial dynamics of school buildings can profoundly affect teaching, learning and the community; so new approaches to education have led to a revision of these physical structures.
Iain Low: Space and Transformation
…If only it were that simple. In the 1950s (in the Netherlands), schools were still just “schools”: classrooms along a corridor, with a gym and a teachers’ room, and a schoolyard where parents dropped of and picked up their children…The schools of the future, however, will be “community schools”: schools combined with before and after school care, a library, community centre, social services, healthcare and welfare agencies…places, where a community is formed, protected and accomodated.
Crimson Architectural Historians and Felix Rottenberg: Wimby! Hoogvliet Future, Past and Present of a New Town
The quality of education and access to it is without doubt one of the most important sectors of public services. The creation and construction of good schools is therefore an essential element of any restructuring process. The landscape of teaching and learning is changing –this project asks you to design a school building, that
a) is considered a true public building and has a certain degree of flexibility to accommodate various additional functions, thus is considered an investment in a neighbourhood’s attractiveness and quality of life
b) investigates in the design approach of the open classroom and can so adapt to changing educational viewpoints and keep up with changing sets of requirements
c) can be seen as a prototype for one of the following settings: City School, Suburb School, Campus School.
The specific sites are in Newtown, Yeoville and Zonkizizwe. The building is designated for 601-1000 learners. This is classified as large by the Department of Education. The National Minimal Norms and Standards for School Infrastructure as stipulated in the Government Gazette No. 31616 shall be applied in your design, as well as the considerations to New Approaches to School Buildings in South Africa by the Education and Community Buildings Group, CSIR. The documents are available as print out in a folder in the library and as pdf.
Work within the following layers to approach the project:
Concept -what is the idea for this project?
Context - where is it placed? How can the building contribute to the surrounding and vice versa?
Programme -how do school and community cooperate?
Form - how does it look? How is the form generated? Does the from have any influence on the context?
Façade - how is learning screened off?
Structure - does the structure allow the flexibility that is requested?
Material - what materials are used? Why?
Light - natural Light, sunlight, natural ventilation, light flow, concept
Circulation - internal and external circulation, vertical and horizontal circulation, access for whom, where, car and pedestrian access, take us on a walk through the campus!
Public/ Private - how does the building relate to the context, how does it meet the ground, is there a square, a street, are there inside and outside spaces? Day and night life? Point out thresholds.
Produce
Min 3 conceptual pictograms / models
Site plan 1:500
Design proposal plan, section, elevation 1:200
Model 1:200
Min 3 three dimensional representations
A typical learning space 1:50, plan, section, elevation, model
Typical detail: 1:5 – 1:1
Demonstrate process development
EVALUATION
Your work will be evaluated according to the following criteria
40% design concept and execution
20% creative translation research/ design
40% visual communication, completeness, representation, drawing quality, model quality
DP workshops to be announced.
STAFF
Kirsten Doermann, Thomas Moldovanos, Kylie Richards, GuyTrangoš,
Sergio Duarte, Kay Hausler
Consultation times: on appointment
Room 110, 1st floor, John Moffat Building, Tel: 011.7177632
Monday, July 12, 2010
Open Classroom DP 1
Illustrate your school (the school you attended before you came to Wits) in a comprehensive way. Name the school, date of construction, architect (if available), approx size (number of learners and sqm of school and site) Your graphic illustration should include: An aerial photograph within context, indicating the location (city, suburb). A brief analysis of this context: programme, heights, materials etc. A concise analysis of the school and its campus: programme (a. core education spaces, b. admin, c. supporting edu spaces: assembly, reception, break, sports grounds, multipurpose space, kitchen, dinning, parking, storage, toilets, printing, caretaker, tuck shop, boarding section if applicable etc), access/ circulation, use plans, elevation, section. Draw a typical classroom in 1:50. Show us which spaces you liked and disliked and give reasons why. Is your school complying with standard sizes or is it bigger or smaller?
Max 200 words: In your opinion, what is the biggest challenge a new school in South Africa would face? (a general, b spatial)
After this exercise you are expected to be familiar with general sizes of educational spaces, circulation principles and general programme. Pin up and hand in Monday 19 July 2010 1pm.
Max 200 words: In your opinion, what is the biggest challenge a new school in South Africa would face? (a general, b spatial)
After this exercise you are expected to be familiar with general sizes of educational spaces, circulation principles and general programme. Pin up and hand in Monday 19 July 2010 1pm.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
crits for people below 50% in design during holidays
tuesdays from 9.30 - 15h
please make an appointment
or book on list on my door.
please make an appointment
or book on list on my door.
urban infill marks
please remember that you have to pass research and design with min 50% to pass the overall project. any mark below 50% overrides a potential average above 50%.
you can re-hand in the project in the first week after the holidays.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
dates stage 2
i am sorry for the confusion of march, april and may in the hand out yesterday.
the dates should read as follows:
Concept: MO 12 April,THU 15 April
Design Development MO 19, THU 22 April
Detailed Design MO 26, THU 29 April
Final Crit: MO 03 May
Hand In: THU 06 May, 9am pin up
Thursday, 15.04.2010
4 A3 – the idea, the module vs the overall plan, the section and circulation.
Schedule
Lecture 8.30 - 10am
Group 3 crits concept from 10am - 1pm
Group 1,2,4,crits concept from 2-5pm
Group 1,2,4 crits 1:2 on analysis project (according to order on staple)
Group 3 crits on analysis project 1:2 (according to order on staple)
Group Tutors
1 KiKi (Anna is absent)
2 Guy
3 Kylie + Sergio
4 Thomas + Kay
From Monday on we will open 1 more group as we are more tutors now.
the dates should read as follows:
Concept: MO 12 April,THU 15 April
Design Development MO 19, THU 22 April
Detailed Design MO 26, THU 29 April
Final Crit: MO 03 May
Hand In: THU 06 May, 9am pin up
Thursday, 15.04.2010
4 A3 – the idea, the module vs the overall plan, the section and circulation.
Schedule
Lecture 8.30 - 10am
Group 3 crits concept from 10am - 1pm
Group 1,2,4,crits concept from 2-5pm
Group 1,2,4 crits 1:2 on analysis project (according to order on staple)
Group 3 crits on analysis project 1:2 (according to order on staple)
Group Tutors
1 KiKi (Anna is absent)
2 Guy
3 Kylie + Sergio
4 Thomas + Kay
From Monday on we will open 1 more group as we are more tutors now.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Lego Ville
Hi All
On Monday we will begin the design process/ stage 2 housing in Yeoville.
We will kick off with a short exercise:
You have to build a lego structure that is
a) made out of 300 lego stones with 6 dots
b) not more than 4 lego stones on top of each other
c) leaves at least parts of 2 sides of each stone (excl bottom and top surface) untouched by another stone
d) not wider or deeper than the sum of 15 legos long side length or 22 legos short side length or the equivalent as a mix
e) the structure can be made of smaller modules that undulate along the imaginary front/ backlines
(remember, rules can change…)
Why are we doing this?
The number of legos represent the number of 6sqm rooms for 100 people (3 legos pp)
that again is related to a high density development of ca 500p/ha for our site.
For Monday:
Get familiar with the programme.
The programme will be uploaded on the computerlab machines.
If you have your own computer and access to the net, please download.
And then: start to build!
http://ldd.lego.com/download/
For help:
C:\Program Files\LEGO Company\LEGO Digital Designer\Help\en-manual\en-manual.html
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Presentation Research Yeoville, attendance whole day DP!
Presentation A+B 1,2,3: 10am – 1pm
Presentation A+B 4,5,6: 2pm-5pm
Please note that we are starting at 10 and have 30 min per group.
10 presentation, 10 feedback, 10 marking/ buffer
Students will be asked to present digitally and print out black and white copies of their work
which has to be pinned up at 9.30 (morning group) and 13.30 (afternoon group)
A+B 1 inside bubble
A+B 2 room next to bubble
A+B 3 outside bubble
A+B 4 inside bubble
A+B 5 room next to bubble
A+B 6 outside bubble
After the presentation groups will be asked to pin down and re-pin up in the studio in demarcated spaces.
All digital presentations have to be on the laptop at 9.30.
Looking forward to seeing you there.
Best KiKi.
Presentation A+B 4,5,6: 2pm-5pm
Please note that we are starting at 10 and have 30 min per group.
10 presentation, 10 feedback, 10 marking/ buffer
Students will be asked to present digitally and print out black and white copies of their work
which has to be pinned up at 9.30 (morning group) and 13.30 (afternoon group)
A+B 1 inside bubble
A+B 2 room next to bubble
A+B 3 outside bubble
A+B 4 inside bubble
A+B 5 room next to bubble
A+B 6 outside bubble
After the presentation groups will be asked to pin down and re-pin up in the studio in demarcated spaces.
All digital presentations have to be on the laptop at 9.30.
Looking forward to seeing you there.
Best KiKi.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
subdivision group - photos
i just had a look at the photographs and some of them are really great - however, most need serious colour correction. as discussed, i'd like to see you with your work on tuesday and can most propably help you in that domain.
enjoy the long weekend.
enjoy the long weekend.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
e-services city of joburg
Dear all
Just to confirm that the CoJ GIS website is up and running (with much appreciation and thanks to Lesley and others at the CoJ):
Go to City of Johannesburg website, click on e-services
Username: arpl
Password: arpl2005 (no spaces)
It does not matter if you type in upper or lower-case
Just to confirm that the CoJ GIS website is up and running (with much appreciation and thanks to Lesley and others at the CoJ):
Go to City of Johannesburg website, click on e-services
Username: arpl
Password: arpl2005 (no spaces)
It does not matter if you type in upper or lower-case
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Dictionary: Angels
Indeed it is said that angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
G.K. Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton
lecture Thursday 18.Feb, 8.30
The lecture on Thursday will be in the East Bubble and hold by Kate Otten. This is in collaboration with the 3rd year series.
Be there!
Be there!
Monday, February 15, 2010
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/8960/a-asterisk-two-by-block.html
'two - by - block' is a proposal by japanese firm a - asterisk for a small shop in
the town of hokkaido. with a floor area of 30 square meters the shop is constructed
using leftover scraps of wood.
the project involves a special construction method, where the initial structure is built
in the winter time using a snow mountain as a base to create the exterior.
'two - by - block' was designed as part of the rokkatei competition
the town of hokkaido. with a floor area of 30 square meters the shop is constructed
using leftover scraps of wood.
the project involves a special construction method, where the initial structure is built
in the winter time using a snow mountain as a base to create the exterior.
'two - by - block' was designed as part of the rokkatei competition
http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/PORTFOLIO/PROJECTSREVIEW/projectreview2009.php
check projects from intermediate unit 2
Pallet
http://rgexcel.com/news/?cat=1
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Pallet (sometimes called a skid) is a flat transport structure that supports goods in a stable fashion while being lifted by a forklift, pallet jack, or other jacking device. A pallet is the foundation of a unit load design, which can be as simple as placing the goods on a pallet, and securing them with straps or stretch-wrapped plastic film, or as exotic as a ULD minicontainer.
While the majority of pallets are made of wood, pallets manufactured from plastic, metal, and paper can also be found. Each material has advantages and disadvantages relative to the others.
Overview
Containerization for transport has spurred the use of pallets because the containers have the clean, level surfaces needed for easy pallet movement. Most pallets can easily carry a load of 1,000 kg (about 2,000 lb). Today, over half a billion pallets are manufactured each year and about two billion pallets are in use across the United States alone.
Pallets make it easy to move heavy stacks. Loads with pallets under them can be hauled by forklift trucks of different sizes, or even by hand-pumped and hand-drawn pallet jacks. Movement is easy on a wide, strong, flat floor: concrete is excellent. A forklift truck can cost the same as a luxury automobile, but a good reconditioned hand-drawn pallet jack costs only a few hundred euros. The greatest investment is thus in the construction of commercial or industrial buildings where the use of pallets could be economical. Passage through doors and buildings must be possible. To help this issue, some later pallet standards (the europallet and the U.S. Military 35×45.5″) are designed to pass through standard doorways.
Organizations using standard pallets for loading and unloading can have much lower costs for handling and storage, with faster material movement than businesses that do not. The exceptions are establishments that move small items such as jewelry or large items such as cars. But even they can be improved. For instance, the distributors of costume jewelry normally use pallets in their warehouses and car manufacturers use pallets to move components and spare parts.
The lack of a single international standard for pallets causes substantial continuing expense in international trade. A single standard is difficult because of the wide variety of needs a standard pallet would have to satisfy: passing doorways, fitting in standard containers, and bringing low labor costs. For example, organizations already handling large pallets often see no reason to pay the higher handling cost of using smaller pallets that can fit through doors.
August 8, 2008 on 5:02 pm
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Pallet (sometimes called a skid) is a flat transport structure that supports goods in a stable fashion while being lifted by a forklift, pallet jack, or other jacking device. A pallet is the foundation of a unit load design, which can be as simple as placing the goods on a pallet, and securing them with straps or stretch-wrapped plastic film, or as exotic as a ULD minicontainer.
While the majority of pallets are made of wood, pallets manufactured from plastic, metal, and paper can also be found. Each material has advantages and disadvantages relative to the others.
Overview
Containerization for transport has spurred the use of pallets because the containers have the clean, level surfaces needed for easy pallet movement. Most pallets can easily carry a load of 1,000 kg (about 2,000 lb). Today, over half a billion pallets are manufactured each year and about two billion pallets are in use across the United States alone.
Pallets make it easy to move heavy stacks. Loads with pallets under them can be hauled by forklift trucks of different sizes, or even by hand-pumped and hand-drawn pallet jacks. Movement is easy on a wide, strong, flat floor: concrete is excellent. A forklift truck can cost the same as a luxury automobile, but a good reconditioned hand-drawn pallet jack costs only a few hundred euros. The greatest investment is thus in the construction of commercial or industrial buildings where the use of pallets could be economical. Passage through doors and buildings must be possible. To help this issue, some later pallet standards (the europallet and the U.S. Military 35×45.5″) are designed to pass through standard doorways.
Organizations using standard pallets for loading and unloading can have much lower costs for handling and storage, with faster material movement than businesses that do not. The exceptions are establishments that move small items such as jewelry or large items such as cars. But even they can be improved. For instance, the distributors of costume jewelry normally use pallets in their warehouses and car manufacturers use pallets to move components and spare parts.
The lack of a single international standard for pallets causes substantial continuing expense in international trade. A single standard is difficult because of the wide variety of needs a standard pallet would have to satisfy: passing doorways, fitting in standard containers, and bringing low labor costs. For example, organizations already handling large pallets often see no reason to pay the higher handling cost of using smaller pallets that can fit through doors.
http://www.dezeen.com/2008/05/12/pallet-house-by-i-beam/
May12, 2008
Architects I-Beam Design constructed a house for refugees made from wooden shipping pallets in a New York warehouse last month.
Designed for refugees, the house can be quickly assembled and needs no extra materials transported as pallets are used to deliver supplies of food, clothing and medical supplies to disaster areas.
Houses made from pallets would not only provide temporary shelter but could be adapted using locally available materials into permanent housing.
http://www.i-beamdesign.com/projects/refugee/refugee.html
Architects I-Beam Design constructed a house for refugees made from wooden shipping pallets in a New York warehouse last month.
Designed for refugees, the house can be quickly assembled and needs no extra materials transported as pallets are used to deliver supplies of food, clothing and medical supplies to disaster areas.
Houses made from pallets would not only provide temporary shelter but could be adapted using locally available materials into permanent housing.
http://www.i-beamdesign.com/projects/refugee/refugee.html
archigram
the cushicle, mike webb
http://architectureforguerillas.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html
http://books.google.co.za/books?id=ZVI2Z1Uqiz0C&pg=PA132&lpg=PA132&dq=archigram+addhox&source=bl&ots=1SxYx6yYox&sig=PgZmlDtIx2y39mkWxO-GL4p6IiA&hl=en&ei=fjV6S7OHJMHu-Qb35fGdCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=archigram%20addhox&f=false
check page 132, addhox
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3397632?seq=1
http://architectureforguerillas.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html
http://books.google.co.za/books?id=ZVI2Z1Uqiz0C&pg=PA132&lpg=PA132&dq=archigram+addhox&source=bl&ots=1SxYx6yYox&sig=PgZmlDtIx2y39mkWxO-GL4p6IiA&hl=en&ei=fjV6S7OHJMHu-Qb35fGdCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=archigram%20addhox&f=false
check page 132, addhox
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3397632?seq=1
links, tx 2anna
Andrea Zittel's Wagon Station, description and pictures:
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/show-full/piece/?search=A-Z%20Wagon%20Station%20customized%20by%20Russell%20Whitten&page=&f=Title&object=2007.40
http://www.flickr.com/photos/akzidenz/sets/72157600370352463/
Georgia Tech Students' Mad Housers Hut:
http://other90.cooperhewitt.org/Design/mad-housers-hut
Sean Godsell's Picnic Table House:
http://www.seangodsell.com/picnic-table-house
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/show-full/piece/?search=A-Z%20Wagon%20Station%20customized%20by%20Russell%20Whitten&page=&f=Title&object=2007.40
http://www.flickr.com/photos/akzidenz/sets/72157600370352463/
Georgia Tech Students' Mad Housers Hut:
http://other90.cooperhewitt.org/Design/mad-housers-hut
Sean Godsell's Picnic Table House:
http://www.seangodsell.com/picnic-table-house
Bamboo Huts
Bamboo Huts
Origami Bamboo HutsOctober 23
The Chinese government, looking for something good to do, have been looking into creating 1.5million temporary homes, primarily to be used after major disasters, earthquakes and the like. In response to that and a Re:Vision competition, Ming Tang has designed these origami inspired, folding bamboo huts that can be produced cheaply and efficiently. They can also easily be folded into a number of different forms, all remaining structurally sound.
Origami Bamboo HutsOctober 23
The Chinese government, looking for something good to do, have been looking into creating 1.5million temporary homes, primarily to be used after major disasters, earthquakes and the like. In response to that and a Re:Vision competition, Ming Tang has designed these origami inspired, folding bamboo huts that can be produced cheaply and efficiently. They can also easily be folded into a number of different forms, all remaining structurally sound.
Project 2: Follies
Project: Follies
Format: Drawings on A3 , Manual to be determined, Model
Medium: Pencil/ Ink Drawings, Selected Colour, Model Wood
Dates: Hand Out: MO 08Feb, Crit: THU 11Feb, MO 15Feb, THU 18Feb, MO 22Feb, Hand In: THU 25Feb
The project asks you to design an innovative, independent and ready to make wooden structure, which houses the minimum needs to sleep, work, eat, (wash). It has to be work in private as well as in public space. All material used has to be “off the shelf” , meaning, one can buy it in a builders market. The design drawings and model will be accompanied by a manual, which illustrates how to built the structure.
The design process starts from
a) the analysis of the typical garden shed (its parts)
b) photographic recording of the shed in public and private space (its context)
c) sampling examples of small wooden structures
d) research on and understanding of the design of Les Follies by Bernard Tschumi in Paris, La Vilette
e) research on and understanding of The Decorated Shed by Venturi.
f) analysis of a successful manual (e.g. washing machine, copy machine, furniture)
g) research on minimum requirements re: prpgramme/ space
The results of a-g will be presented on Thursday, 11 February in groups to the class, thus have to be available printed as well as in digital format. Studio time will be used to present concept drawings/ models of each individual student.
Final Requirements:
Analysis/ Concept sketches
Design Development: Plan, Section, Elevation, Model 1:20
Detailed Design: Major joints: 1:5 – 1:1
Manual: no scale, format to be determined
This project works in collaboration with construction, production of both subjects has to be presented on the day of final hand in.
Criteria:
- strength/ originality of concept: creative, yet disciplined interpretation/ transformation of everyday object and use of material - quality of design development,
- precision in detailing,
- representation: quality of drawings, model and manual
All submissions have to be pinned up before 11 o’clock in the dedicated space on Thursday, 25 February 2009.
Late entries will not be accepted and be marked 0%.
Format: Drawings on A3 , Manual to be determined, Model
Medium: Pencil/ Ink Drawings, Selected Colour, Model Wood
Dates: Hand Out: MO 08Feb, Crit: THU 11Feb, MO 15Feb, THU 18Feb, MO 22Feb, Hand In: THU 25Feb
The project asks you to design an innovative, independent and ready to make wooden structure, which houses the minimum needs to sleep, work, eat, (wash). It has to be work in private as well as in public space. All material used has to be “off the shelf” , meaning, one can buy it in a builders market. The design drawings and model will be accompanied by a manual, which illustrates how to built the structure.
The design process starts from
a) the analysis of the typical garden shed (its parts)
b) photographic recording of the shed in public and private space (its context)
c) sampling examples of small wooden structures
d) research on and understanding of the design of Les Follies by Bernard Tschumi in Paris, La Vilette
e) research on and understanding of The Decorated Shed by Venturi.
f) analysis of a successful manual (e.g. washing machine, copy machine, furniture)
g) research on minimum requirements re: prpgramme/ space
The results of a-g will be presented on Thursday, 11 February in groups to the class, thus have to be available printed as well as in digital format. Studio time will be used to present concept drawings/ models of each individual student.
Final Requirements:
Analysis/ Concept sketches
Design Development: Plan, Section, Elevation, Model 1:20
Detailed Design: Major joints: 1:5 – 1:1
Manual: no scale, format to be determined
This project works in collaboration with construction, production of both subjects has to be presented on the day of final hand in.
Criteria:
- strength/ originality of concept: creative, yet disciplined interpretation/ transformation of everyday object and use of material - quality of design development,
- precision in detailing,
- representation: quality of drawings, model and manual
All submissions have to be pinned up before 11 o’clock in the dedicated space on Thursday, 25 February 2009.
Late entries will not be accepted and be marked 0%.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Dictionary - Part 1 - collection originates from S,M,L,XL and imagination
African
Angel
Architecture
Authentic
Band
Beach
Beautiful
Between
Big
Block
Body
Butterfly
Cathedral
Chaos
Characters
City
Clichés
Climate
Clouds
Conclusion
Copy
Crisis
Culture
Data
Density
Design
Detail
Desire
Dichotomy
Dimension
Discover
Distance
Download
Edit
Elevator
Empty
Energy
Envelope
Everyday
Experiment
Façade
Fake
Fear
Figure
Fiction
Flaneur
Flat
Food
Foreign
Form
Fractal
Furniture
Garden
Geometry
Global
Goggle
Green
Grid
Here
Hidden
Historical
Home
Hotel
Human
Idea
Identity
Il/Legal
Illusion
Image
Imagination
Import
Impossible
Infrastructure
In/Formal
Information
Interface
International
Intuition
Island
Judgement
Junction
Kill
Knowledge
Labyrinth
Landmark
Language
Level
Loop
Light
Lite
Literature
Logic
Make
Manuscript
Map
Mask
Masterplan
Material
Media
Mediator
Memory
Metropolis
Mobius Strip
Modern
Money
Monster
Morphology
Movie
Multiply
Museum
Mystery
Name
Nature
Neutral
New York
Nomad
Normal
Nowhere
Object
Obstacle
Occupation
Odour
Opportunity
Order
Other
Paranoid
Parasite
Paris
PSP
Perception
Permanent
Pictures
Place
Planning
Plant
Play
Point
Popular
Postcard
Power
Process
Programme
Property
Project
Psychogeography
Public
Quality
Quantity
Radius
Red
Refuge
Regeneration
Regulated
Relocated
Rentable
Room
Rule
Rush
Same
Scale
Screen
Sculpture
Search
Secret
Security
Shopping
Simulation
Simple
Site
Size
Solid
Space
Study
Speed
Square
Squat
Stadium
Statistic
Stories
Stranger
Strategy
Style
Suburb
Surprise
System
Tactic
Talent
Taxi
Technology
Television
There
They
Thing
Time
Today
Tomorrow
Toilets
Tourist
Translation
Tree
Typology
Ugly
Uncertain
Unfinished
Uniform
Urban
Utopia
Vegetable
Venice
View
Violence
Virtual
Vision
Void
Volume
Wall
War
Water
Yesterday
You
Zoom
Zone
...to be continued.
Angel
Architecture
Authentic
Band
Beach
Beautiful
Between
Big
Block
Body
Butterfly
Cathedral
Chaos
Characters
City
Clichés
Climate
Clouds
Conclusion
Copy
Crisis
Culture
Data
Density
Design
Detail
Desire
Dichotomy
Dimension
Discover
Distance
Download
Edit
Elevator
Empty
Energy
Envelope
Everyday
Experiment
Façade
Fake
Fear
Figure
Fiction
Flaneur
Flat
Food
Foreign
Form
Fractal
Furniture
Garden
Geometry
Global
Goggle
Green
Grid
Here
Hidden
Historical
Home
Hotel
Human
Idea
Identity
Il/Legal
Illusion
Image
Imagination
Import
Impossible
Infrastructure
In/Formal
Information
Interface
International
Intuition
Island
Judgement
Junction
Kill
Knowledge
Labyrinth
Landmark
Language
Level
Loop
Light
Lite
Literature
Logic
Make
Manuscript
Map
Mask
Masterplan
Material
Media
Mediator
Memory
Metropolis
Mobius Strip
Modern
Money
Monster
Morphology
Movie
Multiply
Museum
Mystery
Name
Nature
Neutral
New York
Nomad
Normal
Nowhere
Object
Obstacle
Occupation
Odour
Opportunity
Order
Other
Paranoid
Parasite
Paris
PSP
Perception
Permanent
Pictures
Place
Planning
Plant
Play
Point
Popular
Postcard
Power
Process
Programme
Property
Project
Psychogeography
Public
Quality
Quantity
Radius
Red
Refuge
Regeneration
Regulated
Relocated
Rentable
Room
Rule
Rush
Same
Scale
Screen
Sculpture
Search
Secret
Security
Shopping
Simulation
Simple
Site
Size
Solid
Space
Study
Speed
Square
Squat
Stadium
Statistic
Stories
Stranger
Strategy
Style
Suburb
Surprise
System
Tactic
Talent
Taxi
Technology
Television
There
They
Thing
Time
Today
Tomorrow
Toilets
Tourist
Translation
Tree
Typology
Ugly
Uncertain
Unfinished
Uniform
Urban
Utopia
Vegetable
Venice
View
Violence
Virtual
Vision
Void
Volume
Wall
War
Water
Yesterday
You
Zoom
Zone
...to be continued.
judgement
Judgments make you very heavy. I would rather postpone the moment of judgement - the issue of morality - until the last moment, or occasionally suspend entirely. As they say in Japan: it floats.
S,M,L,XL, p.886, R Koolhaas, Dicionnary: Jennifer Sigler, The Moncelli Press, 1995
S,M,L,XL, p.886, R Koolhaas, Dicionnary: Jennifer Sigler, The Moncelli Press, 1995
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Monday, February 1, 2010
open city
Open City: Designing Coexistence
In an age when migration is changing the face of many cities, when mass mobility and communication are altering our perception of distance and difference, when individualism has become a driving force of social life, the Open City is a tenuous notion. As our cities grow and diversify, the question is no longer if we want to live together, but how to live together - how to share the resources and opportunities cities offer.
http://www.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/program/publications.php
In an age when migration is changing the face of many cities, when mass mobility and communication are altering our perception of distance and difference, when individualism has become a driving force of social life, the Open City is a tenuous notion. As our cities grow and diversify, the question is no longer if we want to live together, but how to live together - how to share the resources and opportunities cities offer.
http://www.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/program/publications.php
ps
Project: PS
Format: Collage/ A6 Class Matrix of Joburg
Medium: Pencil Drawings/ Photographs
Dates: Hand Out: MO 01Feb, Crit: THU 04Feb, Hand In: MO08Feb
Where do you come from? How do you live? What do you see? Where do you go? What is PS?
The project is about beginning to understand the interrelation between the city, buildings, places and specific focus on the notion of access . You as 2nd year design class will set up a matrix using Johannesburg’s spatial layout as base and your way from home to Wits as guiding lines. Along the way, you will introduce yourself, your room and propose 3 buildings of interest and 3 places to go to. All information will be presented as a common project in the room walls off the ramp between 1st and 2nd year studio. This matrix will become a permanent installation, yet changing over the year.
Requirements:
A6 portrait pages of
a) your way from your room to Wits on the general map, in pencil, marked with your personal nr ( as assigned in lecture on Monday 01 Feb). The map is generated from A6 copies, made from the Map Studio Atlas provided to the class. The grid of the atlas has to be keep and referred to.
b) plan and section of you room, scale 1:100, including furniture and all relevant detail with the following information: suburb, type of dwelling(1 page)
c) your b&w portrait with the following information: name, special interest, spatial interest, favourites: colour, book, food, material, architect, place, building, question, mode of transport. (1 page)
d) 3 buildings of value ( architectural, political, historical, personal) max 1 in each category, 1 page/ building incl. name, physical address, architect, date, use, short description
e) 3 public places of value ( architectural, political, historical, personal) max 1 in each category, 1 page/ place incl. name, architect, date, use, short description.buildings(abc) and places(efg) to be indexed as explained in lecture ( nr+ abc, nr+def, e.g. 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e, 1f)
Text has to be typed, Arial 10 pt.
Layout per sketches presented in lecture.
Criteria: teamwork, precision, choice of buildings and places (explanation of value), drawing quality
All submissions have to be pinned up before 13 o’clock in the dedicated on Monday, 04 February 2009.
Late entries will not be accepted and be marked 0%.
Format: Collage/ A6 Class Matrix of Joburg
Medium: Pencil Drawings/ Photographs
Dates: Hand Out: MO 01Feb, Crit: THU 04Feb, Hand In: MO08Feb
Where do you come from? How do you live? What do you see? Where do you go? What is PS?
The project is about beginning to understand the interrelation between the city, buildings, places and specific focus on the notion of access . You as 2nd year design class will set up a matrix using Johannesburg’s spatial layout as base and your way from home to Wits as guiding lines. Along the way, you will introduce yourself, your room and propose 3 buildings of interest and 3 places to go to. All information will be presented as a common project in the room walls off the ramp between 1st and 2nd year studio. This matrix will become a permanent installation, yet changing over the year.
Requirements:
A6 portrait pages of
a) your way from your room to Wits on the general map, in pencil, marked with your personal nr ( as assigned in lecture on Monday 01 Feb). The map is generated from A6 copies, made from the Map Studio Atlas provided to the class. The grid of the atlas has to be keep and referred to.
b) plan and section of you room, scale 1:100, including furniture and all relevant detail with the following information: suburb, type of dwelling(1 page)
c) your b&w portrait with the following information: name, special interest, spatial interest, favourites: colour, book, food, material, architect, place, building, question, mode of transport. (1 page)
d) 3 buildings of value ( architectural, political, historical, personal) max 1 in each category, 1 page/ building incl. name, physical address, architect, date, use, short description
e) 3 public places of value ( architectural, political, historical, personal) max 1 in each category, 1 page/ place incl. name, architect, date, use, short description.buildings(abc) and places(efg) to be indexed as explained in lecture ( nr+ abc, nr+def, e.g. 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e, 1f)
Text has to be typed, Arial 10 pt.
Layout per sketches presented in lecture.
Criteria: teamwork, precision, choice of buildings and places (explanation of value), drawing quality
All submissions have to be pinned up before 13 o’clock in the dedicated on Monday, 04 February 2009.
Late entries will not be accepted and be marked 0%.
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