Assignment 3 (Daniel)






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  1. Section ONE14 March 2015 at 09:49

    There are a few critical matters that still need to be addressed in your design approach that should be sincerely refined in this next project and certainly during the summer in preparation for the second year:
    -there is a disjointed focus on your work where you are still suffering from putting different elements in your design without really harmonizing them; in this project for example, you seem to really like the structural elements (though they are oversized and really not at the scale of what you've designed), while they really do not correlate to the form and materials that they are supporting (if the structure really made sense, they would converge at support the jag in the roofline as opposed to the midspan of one of the facets - more importantly, why would you need such a structural system to hold up glazing??)
    -elevations still seem to be one of your weaknesses; as opposed to simply thinking of an overall form or layercaking extuded plans, you may wish to try to deal with all the design in plan, section, and elevation simultaneously; the elevation still reads like it was driven by the floorplans as extrusions and then generic glazing elements popped into the walls
    -the quality of the drawings is extremely weak; though the solid elements in plan are legible, it really serves to hide your ability to present lineweight conventions; worse still, your adherence to conventions such as the stairs and how the structure shows in the 3rd floor plan make it look like you are either lazy or unable to perform basic drafting
    -the elevations in your work are disturbing as they have no real lineweights and simply come across as either primitive fixes from a primitive CAD model or worse still, SketchUp; this is really highlighted by your "site" plan; the low resolution and almost comic-book presentation of the drawing is so far from convention, it is less about architectural drawing and more about quick illustration; I would suggest taking the next project as a way to really sharpen your drawing skills; just because you have some variation of a computer model does not mean you have a drawing set or even a good design
    -the design suffers a great deal from simply formal expression as opposed to real consistent depth of design thinking; the triangulated elements coming off the west elevation do not make sense as they are apparently there to support what would already be one of the structurally strongest element in the fire stair core; the columns again are oversized and do not have any value as a space frame could have done a better job and alleviated the structural breakdown of the main space; aside from that one element, the structural awareness in the design is not evident; look to the British Hi-Tech guys like Foster and Rogers to get a sense of overtly showing these elements while keeping to a genuine focus on design

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