My drawings

Marc,
Sorry these are delayed I tried to upload 3 times on thursday but blogger kept crashing on me. In all the confusion before leaving I forgot to try again before I left.
Below you will find my analytical drawings.
Additionally I have photographed the models that I made for last week and will be bringing them with me this friday.
If there is anything else you think I should work on this week please let me know.
Thanks!
Andee

Update me

Hey everyone,

So I finally just now have internet access, grandma doesn't have it. This week has been pretty awful and busy. I haven't had the chance to work on anything since I left New York on Tuesday. Would someone give me a rundown of how things went in class today, what you all had, what we need for next week? Thanks.

Marc- I'll try and post what I get done as I do it. I'm returning to NYC tomorrow and hope to get alot done this weekend. I'll post stuff I've done as soon as I can.

Jessica- I had planned on picking an organization as my client, a non-profit, and also develop their office spaces in my program. It helps to have a real client and not make one up because you can better cater to their needs; I made one up last semester and it wasn't such a great thing. If you want to pick someone, pick a winery, organization, or entreprenuer to serve as your client. Or I guess you could always be your own client!

Kelly- would you email me or give me a call? We have much to discuss. Or if you'll be in studio on Sunday or Saturday night let me know and I'll come visit. Thanks!

Lindsey

response to Tiff and questions for the rest of you...

Tiff--
like Andee, not sure about that either.
I've been focusing on the site at another level that ties more directly to the wine making concept-more exploratory diagrams than the previous from last week. I guess that will come into programming if I get there by tomorrow. I also am trying to look at the material qualities of my site because I think they are interesting for my project and can tie my perf. technique together more---I am working my last Performative Technique in that I am trying to express a relationship in how my technique would engage the building. I was going to make a new technique this week, but I was looking for resin at Home Depot for an Eva Hesse-like exploration, and after searching high and low and asking every employee in sight walked out empty handed. Since it needs a few days to set up, I wont have another technique by tomorrow.
Honestly, I have so much to do in all of my classes that I'm freaked! So stressed I can't think and it's slowing me down...Marc, please be merciful tomorrow :)

P.S. did anyone other than Marc see my post about clients? Has anyone chosen one?

HI EVERYONE (AND SOMETHING FOR ANDEE)

how is everyone doing for tomorrow? i am working on the programmatic frame right now and a little unsure of what visual images to use to help convey my program.. i am thinking of creating some kind of diagram along with storyboard images, architectural, fashion, design images to create the whole of my program... anyway, if anyone is working on this now or has finished and has any suggestions let me know.

Also, andee i found this and thought it could be great for you http://kostasvoyatzis.wordpress.com/2007/07/14/rem-koolhaas-tadao-ando-in-fashion/

Question about the book---->Client???

Marc,
in the syllabus under ENACTING THE PROGRAM, it says "Profile of client and end user should be elaborated". Are you suggesting that we should pick a client specifically by name? Or are we speaking more to the 'type' of client and end user that our space would cater to?

I don't really see how I could pick a client for my Winery/Hotel/Spa/Restaurant concept--
I don't want to cheese it up by profiling somebody by name....

Class on April 25th

Marc, 

Just to confirm...we will not be having class Friday April 25th correct?

(that is why we changed the final pinup to next week, right?)

I am trying work out my schedule with another group project and wanted to make sure I can commit to that evening. 

thanks!

andee

I'll be out too

Marc,

I won't be able to be at class on Friday either, we had a death in the family and I am flying to Houston tomorrow. Not sure when the funeral will be but I'll likely be coming back on Saturday. I am sorry to miss this big pinup. I guess I will post everything to the blog like you told Andee too.

Lucky for everyone else, you'll have more time in class.
See you next week.

Ben Van Berkel Diagram

Here is an example of a diagram from the architect Marc was talking about in class

oops

Hey everyone!

I posted some of the photos I took from the AIAS trip to the Fallingwater, and even though I spent some time in organizing the layout, it came out like this in the blog! Sorry for all the empty space and scattered photos.. Enjoy!

Fallingwater continued

Stairs leading up the second floor terrance





























An example of integration nature with architecture


























Sneak peek of Mrs. Kaufmann's bedroom with original furniture (Mr. Kaufmann had a seperate bedroom with a single bed, he would sleep in his wife's bedroom if she invited her over!)



























Living area door opening to main terrace


























Orignial FLW chair

























































Overhang of the patio leading up to guest house




































View of the main terrace with the terrace of Mrs. Kaufmann's bedroom on second floor






































General view of the facade










































Staircase and aisle view through wire meshed windows


















































Wright always respected nature

Overall view of the Fallingwater, the picture from the books, been there, done that! :)

Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright

Approaching Fallingwater
































View towards the living area terrace with stairs leading to water

































View of the guesthouse from the main house

Staircase installation detail

Overhang of main patio

Sneak peek of the living area with built in seating unit (Photography was prohibited inside)

Friday

First thing, (for all of us)---
Marc, I was hoping you could clarify again for us the performative techniques assignment. Although we have done one already, it's hard to say if most of us really understand the process we were exploring. If there's any way that you could explain it in a different way than before, I think it would help most of us create something more meaningful and is really pertinent to our project and investigations. This way, when it is incorporated into our research booklets, it will have a more cohesive relationship to the rest of the book's information. Or maybe, if it's still hard to explain, you could give some more examples? or suggestions? Just wondering...

Second,
I have been working on my diagrams for Friday and have been focusing on the interior space and proportional relationships of the building itself. Also, because my thesis explores architecture and design as a mediator between man and nature, I am trying to also do some site diagrams that relate the building to the city, it's occupants, and the natural surroundings (the river, the high line park, etc. etc.) so that hopefully this will lead to a clear connection between the three. Does this sound like it's going in the right direction?

this last part is for Lindsay--
I have in my notes that the person Marc recommended is Rachel Whiteread, not Rachel White. I'mnot sure that her name is spelled correctly here, but it's what I wrote so maybe that will help you figure things out until Marc write back and confirms this? hopefully :)

my drawings for friday

so I've been thinking and trying to decide what drawings I want to do.  I'm almost positive I've decided to go with the site just outside of SoHo with the large empty corner lot and the building is also on a corner.  I think it allows for a larger area and more visibility to the neighborhood and hopefully more impact.  So one drawing will be a more complete analysis of that building and adjacent lot.  Because of my program, my site has contextual parameters I think I should diagram... the relationship of the building to the lot, to the sidewalk and streets, to the neighborhood as a whole.  I am not quite sure how I would or should diagram these relationships.  I have been looking at some books, one being one of Paul Rudolph's works, with diagrams in it to get a better idea of what a good diagram includes or shows.  Any other suggestions on where to find good examples would be helpful, I am not the most experienced diagrammer.

In terms of a second drawin

g, I have no idea what I should do.  Should I do another drawing pertaining to my site/building.  Or could it be a drawing of some sort of precedent I have been looking at??  I was in Philadelphia briefly on Friday, detour on the way to DC just to get a Philly Cheesesteak from the Reading Terminal Market, and I loved the market!  It was horribly ugly but the concept behind it I thought was great.  It's been around since 1893 and is 78,000 sf with 800 vendors.  I loved how it combines so many types of markets into one, with vendors selling baked goods, produce, meats, seafood, jewelry, crafts, and restaurant vendors all in one indoor public space.  I'll attach a picture of the plan would I could produce a drawing to understand the circulation and use of space within the market. 

Also Marc, you told me to look up Rachel White, but I am having a hard time finding information on her, tons of Rachel White's in the world.  Is there something more specific I could use to search for her?  Or the name of a gallery she's displayed at?

And any other advice or direction you think I should go or work on after looking over my book would be helpful.  I'm a little hazy on where to go with performative techniques and if concentrating so much on perception of materials is exactly where I want to stay with my investigation or if I need to look at other techniques I am interested in as well.  

Thanks!

virus?

Marc,
Can you try and set the blog to private or something so that only members of the blog can post?
Random people keep commenting on posts and when you click the comments it starts to download some strange executable file. Looks like a virus....

my thesis

Sorry i didn't elaborate before as I was so exhausted ...and still am..
the idea behind the department store hosting the space is that historically department stores have acted as a intermediary for fashion and the consumer to learn about fashion and to have educated employees service their customers.
I am thinking that a way for department stores to get back to their roots is to have them host a space in which they display not only the history of fashion but even more so the history of retail and the ways in which it has impacted our world and specifically New York City. giving a perspective on the importance of fashion as a means of design and of course relating to the architecture which houses it.
So as opposed to being just about the fashion designers it would be a museum of education about fashion and giving it a "real" meaning as an art and a driving force in our society whether we acknowledge it or not.
So many people disregard fashion as a commercial endeavor and don't realize the impact it has on us.. like all artistic endeavors.. just like painting or sculpture or architecture of course!
As this is about rebranding the department store, I also want to bring the customer service and education of fashion aspect through the use of personal shoppers who instead of using the department store as a mall.. it will be the use of Soho that the personal shoppers will bring clients - of all levels of income.
Thirdly, as part of the rebranding of the department store is to have a social aspect of the space, such as a restaurant that would bring in clientèle that might not think of entering the museum/concept space or contact the personal shopper. This idea has been done is almost every museum and department store in the country and i believe could act as an interesting way to blur the boundaries of the art of fashion with its practice on each individual everyday.
Overall it is about bringing the department store back to its roots and updating it for the modern retail experience which includes education and personal attention to consumers.
As department stores still regularly hold events this space would also have the ability to hold small scale events but is by no means about being an event space.. just another facet of the department store concept.

Jessica- thanks for your input .. it helps as I try to develop this idea. i really appreciate it.

Although Andee and I are both doing fashion we have both been making an effort to not read or listen to each others ideas as not to influence our concepts. of course there will be some overlap but i think our ideas or different enough so that we each create our own unique ideas and space.

if anyone is going to be around over break let me know and we can help each other out
have a great weekend!