http://www.wemadethat.co.uk/framesets/beachFrameset.html
http://www.dezeen.com/2007/04/13/bathing-beauties/

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/8772/piet-hein-eek-tree-trunk-garden-house.html

Dictionary: Angels

Indeed it is said that angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
G.K. Chesterton

rural studio - look at this project and many others

http://www.cadc.auburn.edu/soa/rural-studio/Default.aspx?path=Gallery%2fProjects%2f1997%2fsupershed%2f

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!

http://www.dezeen.com/2007/11/15/the-traffic-of-clouds-by-hackenbroich-architekten/

bed-room

http://www.richardhutten.com/

 

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

http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/PORTFOLIO/PROJECTSREVIEW/projectreview2009.php

check projects from intermediate unit 2

http://tinyhouseblog.com/stick-built/tiny-free-house/

Pallet

http://rgexcel.com/news/?cat=1


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.flickr.com/photos/partee/3297704466/

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

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

effective surfaces/ check Prototype in Ghana

http://www.presidentsmedals.com/Project_Details.aspx?id=1240

Traditional Japanese House + Manual

Final Wodden House Sou Fujimoto

3D fence

shed

nubrella_umbrella

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.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/8911/build-it-yourself-treehouse-by-rogier-martens-and-sam-van-veluw.html

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.

reference

http://mincasa.com/

m-velope, Michael Jantzen, http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/10/27/transformable-mvelope-by-michael-jantzen/

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%.

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.

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

PS

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.06/newworld.html

open places

http://www.open-places.com/

graphics/ organzing information

http://www.droog.com/
http://www.designboom.com/eng/
http://www.manuelherz.com/
http://www.shift.jp.org/en/archives/2007/07/sanaa_houses.html
http://www.muji.com/
http://www.filetransit.com/screenshot.php?id=47609

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

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%.

arpl 2010 welcome to the blog

feel free to scroll down the blog and check some things we looked at last year.
P1 brief will be uploaded soon.