School of the Built Environment and Development Studies

Architecture Programme – BAS, First Semester, Third Year, 2012

ARCH301H1 Design and Technology 3A – Visual Communication

Project Three

Important Recent Architecture – Charcoal

Introduction:

Although the move in third year is towards composite digital presentation, hand drawing is still considered the fundamental way of communicating your ideas. The aim is to encourage and nurture different methods which have different expressive qualities and moods. Practice is the only way of mastering these.

The content will also be geared towards either integrating with the Studio course or exposing you to a range of influences, or both – the projects aren’t seen in isolation. Here the intention is to point to significant recent architecture that could inform and broaden your own design vocabulary.

The medium today is charcoal which, although quite forgiving, makes a strong impact that has to be carefully controlled.

Task:

Find an image of your allocated building that is complete but detailed, with some context. From a photocopy of this view, draw the building to a larger scale on newsprint, in charcoal, with as much detail as the medium allows.

Focus on the following:

• Composition – fill the page.
• Perspective and proportion – use the picture frame and your hand to get these right.
• Generate vanishing points to structure your task.
• Plan ahead with light guidelines before you tackle any detail work.
• Consider light and shadow, and how charcoal could work on a ‘taking away’, rather than ‘adding to’ basis.
• Use the shape of the charcoal – flat to indicate tone, sharp edge to show detail lines. Don’t ‘smudge’.
• Remember that charcoal is messy…

Format:

Drawn on A1 newsprint in charcoal (all provided), orientated to suit the view.

Submission:

Submit the work at 17h00 on Level 8, for pinning up in the corridor for all to admire.

Take a neat photograph of your work and submit it to the blog at: large.co.za

Assessment:

The tutorial will be assessed as a segment of the Visual Communication component of the Design and Technology 3A course. It will receive a symbol grading (from A+ downwards).

The Buildings:

Apart from a few slightly older examples, the buildings on this list are taken from the following two books:

Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture

Phaidon Atlas of 20^th Century World Architecture

These are important buildings, by important contemporary architects, selected from a broad range of geographies and cultures.

Jewish Museum, Berlin                                                                        Daniel Libeskind

Mediatheque, Sendai                                                                        Toyo Ito

Fondation Cartier, Paris                                                                        Jean Nouvel

Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre, New Caledonia                        Renzo Piano

National Stadium, Beijing                                                            Herzog and De Meuron

CCTV Building, Beijing                                                                        OMA / Rem Koolhaas

Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao                                                            Frank Gehry

Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh                                                            EMBT / Enric Miralles

Carre D’Art (Mediatheque), Nimes                                                Norman Foster

UFA Cinema Centre, Dresden                                                            Coop Himmelb(l)au

Federal Building and US Courthouse, New York                                    Richard Meier

Simmons Hall MIT, Cambridge Massachusetts                                    Steven Holl

Rosenthal Centre for Contemporary Arts, Cincinnati Ohio            Zaha Hadid

New Opera House, Oslo                                                            Snøhetta

VM Houses, Copenhagen                                                            BIG / Bjarke Ingels

Quai Branly Museum, Paris                                                            Jean Nouvel

Galicia City of Culture, Santiago de Compostela                                    Peter Eisenman

Contemporary Art Centre of Aragon, Huesa Spain                        Rafael Moneo

Braga Stadium, Braga                                                                        Souto Moura

Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart                                                UNStudio

Paul Klee Centre, Bern                                                                        Renzo Piano

Novartis Campus Office Building, Basel                                                SANAA / Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa

Art Museum, Graz                                                                        Spacelab / Cook-Fournier
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadabad                                    HCPDPM

Opera House, Guangzhou                                                            Zaha Hadid

Sǻmi Parliament Building                                                            Stein Halvorsen and Christian Sundby

McLaren Technology Centre, Windsor                                                Norman Foster

Glucksman Gallery, Cork                                                            O’Donnell and Tourney

Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz Cedex                                                Shigeru Ban

Phaeno Science Centre, Wolfsburg                                                Zaha Hadid

Netherlands Embassy, Berlin                                                            OMA / Rem Koolhaas

Tshuggen Wellness Centre, Arosa                                                Mario Botta

Library of Spain, Medellin                                                            Giancarlo Mazzanti

Alexandria Library, Alexandria                                                            Snøhetta

Greater London Authority Headquarters, London                                    Norman Foster

Law Courts, Bordeaux                                                                        Richard Rogers

Lloyds Bank, London                                                                        Richard Rogers

British Library, London                                                                        Colin St John Wilson

Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart                                                                        James Stirling

Alice Tully Hall, New York                                                            Diller Scofidio and Renfro

Apartheid Museum, Soweto                                                            GAPP / MRA

Constitutional Court, Hillbrow                                                            DesignWorkshop / Urban Solutions

Africa Centre for Population Studies, Mtubatuba                                    East Coast Architects

Red Location Museum, Port Elizabeth                                                Noero Wolff

Northern Cape Legislature, Kimberley                                                Ferreira da Silva

Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre                                                Peter Rich

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Leon Conradie  / shawn B hopkins

06/02/2012

Please see the marks attached.

If I have missed your submissions online, please could you email me the link so that I can add it into the MARK sheet.

Thanks,

shawn B.

This is what I believe is a tasteful and powerful conceptual render:

The submission is to be added to the blog in response to this post by 00:00 18/10/2011 .

Thanks,
shawn.

The submission is to be added to the blog in response to this post by 00:00 18/10/2011 .

Thanks,
shawn.

The submission is to be added to the blog in response to this post by 00:00 11/10/2011 .
Thanks,
shawn.

ARCH301H1 Architectural Design and Technology 3B

Technology

Project two:
Roof plan of proposed additions to Centenary Building

Proposal:

Draw a fully annotated roof plan of your new design showing ridges, valleys, gutters, downpipes, full bores, rainwater heads, roofing and waterproofing materials & pitches, and (for flat roofs) screed falls with maximum & minimum screed thicknesses. In the case of trusses, show a cut away in one section of the roof with truss & purlin positions, sizes and spacing. Show catchment areas for each downpipe and correlating downpipe & gutter sizes (show your calculations).

Focus on the following:

Because of the often rather inflexible geometry of roofs, they have to be considered during the design stage of any new project.
If your building falls down your engineer will get sued. If it leaks, you will. You have to be competent at designing a roof that will remove all rainwater from above your structure in a functional manner.
Roofs are often “left to sort themselves out”. You will be marked according to your grasp of how the roof is constructed and functions successfully. Convey this.
If there are details that are needed, circle these areas and cross reference the detail with where it can be found in your working drawings.
Submission is to be on one A1 sheet with a professional, complete title block.

Programme:

Submission: Tuesday 13/09

Hand-in at 18h40 Tuesday 13/09, at the lecture.

Your brief is to submit 3-4 A4 pages in an A3 (Landscape) format, capturing your sketches that where completed in class today. The first A4 is a representation of a ‘book-cover’ with your selected book name and sketches. The second page is to illustrate your critical analysis of the UKZN Architecture school you study within. This analysis is to include your perceived positive and shortfall aspects of the school (Including sketches), and your proposed solution and vision for the school if given a budget to instill a change (Including sketches).