Through ongoing interviews that we have been conducting at core.form-ula, we have decided to highlight one video in particular for digital futures. We sat down with William Katavolos and got an incite on his experience as a Professor with over 50 years teaching at Pratt.

As we transition from one period to another, understanding the history becomes critical in building upon some of the rich pedagogies within the school and charting a path into the 21st century.

“More or less we have finished with “A”, we are now finishing with “B”, you better pull the “A”/ “B” together before you lose it but you better start on the new “C” and then of course you will have the “CA”, “CB”, the “ABC” and then we will have ourselves a great school” WK

You will be able to see parts 1-12 on core.form-ula over the next three weeks, in addition, digital future will be posting a lecture William Katavolos gave in 1994 that Gamal El-Zoghby has graciously extended to digital futures.

Sir Peter Cook, renowned English architect, will be lecturing at Pratt Institute Thursday, March 11^th at 6pm in Higgins Hall Auditorium.

Sir Peter Cook (b Southend-on-Sea, Essex, 22 Oct 1936). English architect, teacher and critic. He studied architecture at the Bournemouth College of Art (1953-8) and at the Architectural Association, London (1958-60), where his teachers included James Gowan, John Killick and Peter Smithson. While working in the office of James Cubitt and Partners (1960-62) he met David Greene (b 1937), and, beginning in 1960, they produced the first of nine issues of the magazine Archigram. An ARCHIGRAM group was formed with other recently graduated young architects, including Warren Chalk, Dennis Crompton, Ron Herron and Mike Webb, who came together after Cook had joined the Taylor Woodrow Design Office in 1962. Archigram magazine was the group’s most important outlet, but a wider audience was also sought through exhibitions, for example the Living City exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London (June 1963); through such events as the International Dialogue of Experimental Architecture, Folkestone (June 1966), a seminal conference for the architectural progressives; and through lecturing and teaching. Cook started teaching at the Architectural Association in 1964.

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When asked to describe the inspiration for the marvelous form of his Kunsthaus Graz museum, Cook describes how an intimate familiarity with the project’s site (“It used to be the one place that you could get a drink after 3 o’clock at night”) helped make the design decisions for this acclaimed building “terribly easy.” (1:40)

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Image courtesy Kunsthaus Graz; photography by Nicolas Lackner.

William F. Baker, partner and structural engineer for the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, will be lecturing Thursday, March 4^th at 6pm in Higgins Hall Auditorium

Bill Baker is the partner in charge of Structural and Civil Engineering for the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP. Mr. Baker pursues a collaborative process which resonates with SOM’s multidisciplinary practice. His approach to structural engineering seeks to integrate form, function, and aesthetics. Since joining the firm in 1981, Mr. Baker has worked on a broad range of engineering projects including designing structural systems for supertall buildings, to smaller, specialized structures and engineering collaborations with artists.

Mr. Baker leads the Structural Engineering studio to ensure that quality, innovation, material economy, and cost efficiency are customized to fit each project’s scope and needs. Mr. Baker has developed the structural system for the Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest structure. Other recently-completed projects include the long span structure of the Virginia Beach Convention Center, the glass cable-net entrancepavilion of the General Motors Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan, and Chicago’s Trump International Hotel and Tower.

In addition to working at SOM, Bill’s expertise is frequently solicited by institutions of higher learning, as well as numerous professional organizations. Bill is the 2008 recipient of the Fazlur Rahman Khan medal from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) and the 2009 recipient and first American to receive the Fritz Leonhardt Prize. He is a Fellow of both the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE). Bill is on the Specifications Committee of the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and also frequently lectures on a variety of structural engineering topics within the U.S. and abroad.

Professional Associations:

Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

Fellow, Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE)

American Concrete Institute (ACI)

Committee on Specifications, American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC)

Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH)

National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES)

International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS)

International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE)

Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)

University of Illinois President’s Council

Structural Engineers Association of Illinois (SEAOI)

Structural Engineers Association of Northern California (SEAONC)

Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAONY)

Certified in the Practice of Structural Engineering by the Structural Engineering Certification Board (SECB)

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Frank Barkow of the Berlin firm Barkow Leibinger Architects will lecturing Monday, March 1^st at 6pm in Higgins Hall Auditorium

Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger founded the Berlin based practice Barkow Leibinger Architects in 1993. Characterized by the interaction of practice, research, and teaching, the firm’s “interdisciplinary, discursive attitude allows its work to expand and respond to advancing knowledge and technology.” Recent designs include a gatehouse and factory-campus event space in Stuttgart, Germany and the TRUTEC Office Building in Seoul, Korea. Pursuing their interest in digitally tooled material, Barkow Leibinger’s recent research projects investigate revolving laser cutting and CNC-cut translucent concrete formwork with an application to facade systems, pre-cast concrete, and ceramic elements.

Barkow Leibinger Architects has been published and exhibited worldwide; drawings and other practice materials are included in collections at the Pompidou Centre, the Deutsches Architektur Museum, and the Heinz Architecture Center, among others. The firm has recently published a book edited by Andres Lepik, MoMA with Hadje Cantz entitled Reflect: Building in the Digital Media City, Seoul. The firm has won numerous AIA Honor Awards and was nominated in 2004 for the Mies van der Rohe Award for the Customer and Administration Building Ditzingen.

Bio:

since 1993 Barkow Leibinger Architects, Berlin, Germany
2005-06 Guest Professor, State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart
2004 Visiting Professor, Harvard Design School, Cambridge Cass Gilbert Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
2003 The Arthur Gensler Visiting Professor of Architecture, Cornell University, Ithaca
2000 Guest Professor, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
1995-98 Unit Master, Architectural Association, London
1990-92 Visiting Critic, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York and Rome
1990 Master of Architecture, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
1982 Bachelor of Architecture, Montana State University
1957 Born in Kansas City, USA

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Hot Keys for Revit 2010-get them while they are hot….

Modeling menu

File menu

“ER” menu:”File-Editing Requests”
“RL” menu:”File-Reload Latest””RW” menu:”File-Reload Latest”

Edit menu

“DE” menu:”Edit-Delete”
“MD” menu:”Edit-Modify”
“SA” menu:”Edit-Select All Instances”
“MV” menu:”Edit-Move”
“CO” menu:”Edit-Copy”
“RO” menu:”Edit-Rotate”
“AR” menu:”Edit-Array”
“MM” menu:”Edit-Mirror”
“RE” menu:”Edit-Resize”
“GP” menu:”Edit-Group-Create Group”
“EG” menu:”Edit-Group-Edit Group”
“UG” menu:”Edit-Group-Ungroup”
“LG” menu:”Edit-Group-Link Group”
“EX” menu:”Edit-Group-Exclude Member”
“MP” menu:”Edit-Group-Move Member to Project”
“RB” menu:”Edit-Group-Restore Excluded Member”
“RA” menu:”Edit-Group-Restore All”
“AP” menu:”Edit-Group-Add to Group”
“RG” menu:”Edit-Group-Remove from Group”
“AD” menu:”Edit-Group-Attach Detail”
“PG” menu:”Edit-Group-Group Properties”
“FG” menu:”Edit-Group-Finish Group”
“CG” menu:”Edit-Group-Cancel Group”
“PP” menu:”Edit-Pin Position”
“UP” menu:”Edit-Unpin Position”
“CS” menu:”Edit-Create Similar””PR” menu:”Edit-Properties”

View menu

“ZR” menu:”View-Zoom-Zoom In Region”
“ZO” menu:”View-Zoom-Zoom Out (2x)”
“ZF” menu:”View-Zoom-Zoom To Fit”
“ZE” menu:”View-Zoom-Zoom To Fit”
“ZA” menu:”View-Zoom-Zoom All To Fit”
“ZS” menu:”View-Zoom-Sheet Size”
“ZP” menu:”View-Zoom-Previous Scroll/Zoom”
“VP” menu:”View-View Properties”F8 menu:”View-Dynamically Modify View
“VG” menu:”View-Visibility/Graphics”
“HH” menu:”View-Temporary Hide/Isolate-Hide Element”
“HI” menu:”View-Temporary Hide/Isolate-Isolate Element”
“HC” menu:”View-Temporary Hide/Isolate-Hide Category”
“IC” menu:”View-Temporary Hide/Isolate-Isolate Category”
“HR” menu:”View-Temporary Hide/Isolate-Reset Temporary Hide/Isolate”
“EH” menu:”View-Hide in view-Elements”
“VH” menu:”View-Hide in view-Category”
“EU” menu:”View-Unhide in view-Elements”
“VU” menu:”View-Unhide in view-Category”
“WF” menu:”View-Wireframe”
“HL” menu:”View-Hidden Line””SD” menu:”View-Shading with Edges”
“AG” menu:”View-Advanced Model Graphics””TL” menu:”View-Thin Lines”
“RR” menu:”View-Rendering-Raytrace”
F5 menu:”View-Refresh”

Modeling menu

“DR” menu:”Modelling-Door”
“WN” menu:”Modelling-Window””CM” menu:”Modelling-Component”
“LI” menu:”Modelling-Lines”
“RP” menu:”Modelling-Ref Plane”

Drafting menu

“DI” menu:”Drafting-Dimension”
“EL” menu:”Drafting-Spot Dimension-Spot Elevation”
“TX” menu:”Drafting-Text”
“GR” menu:”Drafting-Grid”
“LL” menu:”Drafting-Level”
“TG” menu:”Drafting-Tag-By Category”
“RM” menu:”Drafting-Room”
“RT” menu:”Drafting-Room Tag”
“DL” menu:”Drafting-Detail Lines”

Site menu

Tools menu

F7 menu:”Tools-Spelling”
“MA” menu:”Tools-Match”
“LW” menu:”Tools-Linework”
“PT” menu:”Tools-Paint”
“SF” menu:”Tools-Split Face”
“AL” menu:”Tools-Align”
“SL” menu:”Tools-Split Walls and Lines”
“TR” menu:”Tools-Trim/Extend”
“OF” menu:”Tools-Offset”

Settings menu

“SU” menu:”Settings-Sun and Shadows Settings”
“UN” menu:”Settings-Project Units”

Window menu

“WC” menu:”Window-Cascade”
“WT” menu:”Window-Tile”

Help menu

Snap overrides

“SI” snapcode:”Intersections”
“SE” snapcode:”Endpoints”
“SM” snapcode:”Midpoints”
“SC” snapcode:”Centers”
“SN” snapcode:”Nearest”
“SP” snapcode:”Perpendicular”
“ST” snapcode:”Tangents”
“SW” snapcode:”Work Plane Grid”
“SQ” snapcode:”Quadrants”
“SX” snapcode:”Points”
“SR” snapcode:”Snap to Remote Objects”
“SO” snapcode:”Snaps Off”
“SS” snapcode:”Turn Override Off”

Alternates with closer key spacing

“ZZ” menu:”View-Zoom-Zoom In Region”
“ZX” menu:”View-Zoom-Zoom To Fit”
“ZC” menu:”View-Zoom-Previous Scroll/Zoom”
“ZV” menu:”View-Zoom-Zoom Out (2x)”
“VV” menu:”View-Visibility/Graphics”
“CC” menu:”Edit-Copy”

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2010.02.25 6pm Steven Holl will be lecturing at Pratt Institute School of Architecture  in the Higgins Hall Auditorium.

Steven Holl was born in 1947 in Bremerton, Washington.  He graduated from the University of Washington and pursued architecture studies in Rome in 1970.  In 1976 he joined the Architectural Association in London and established STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS in New York City.

Considered one of America’s most important architects, Steven Holl is recognized for his ability to blend space and light with great contextual sensitivity and to utilize the unique qualities of each project to create a concept-driven design.  He specializes in seamlessly integrating new projects into contexts with particular cultural and historic importance.

Steven Holl has realized cultural, civic, academic and residential projects both in the United States and internationally.  The Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland (1998) is generally considered to be his masterpiece.  Other notable work includes The Sarphatistraat Offices, Amsterdam (2000) and Chapel of St. Ignatius, Seattle, Washington (1997).  Some of his firm’s current work includes the Higgins Hall Center Section at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture, Brooklyn, New York; the Loisium Hotel and Spa, Langenlois, Austria; School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa; Swiss Embassy Residence, Washington, D.C.; and the expansion and renovation of the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri.  Recently Steven Holl Architects won two international design competitions and was selected to design the Cite du Surf et de l’Ocean, in Biarritz, France; and Sail Hybrid, a seaside resort project in the town of Knokke-Heist, Belgium.

Steven Holl has been recognized with architecture’s most prestigious awards and prizes.  In 2003 he was named Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA).  In 2002 the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, part of the Smithsonian Institute, awarded him their prestigious National Design Award in Architecture.  In 2001 France bestowed the Grande Médaille d’Or upon him, for Best Architect of the Academy of Architecture; and in the same year Time Magazine declared him “America’s Best Architect” for his ‘buildings that satisfy the spirit as well as the eye’.  In 1998 he was awarded the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design and in the same year was the recipient of the prestigious Alvar Aalto Medal.  The New York American Institute of Architects awarded him with their Medal of Honor in 1997. In 1990 the American Academy of Arts and Letters selected Steven Holl to receive the Arnold W. Brunner Prize for Achievement in Architecture as an Art.

Steven Holl is a tenured Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture and Planning.  He has lectured and exhibited widely and has published numerous texts including Anchoring (1989) and Parallax (2000).

He is a member of the American National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), the American Institute of Architects, the American Association of Museums, the Honorary Whitney Circle, the Whitney Museum of American Art; and the International Honorary Committee, Vilpuri Library, of the Alvar Aalto Foundation.

Selected Honors:

2007 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Project / Whitney Water Purification Facility and Park
2007 AIA NY Architecture Honor Award / Higgins Hall Center Section at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
2007 AIA NY Architecture Honor Award / New Residence at the Swiss Embassy, Washington, D.C.
2007 AIA NY Architecture Merit Award / School of Art & Art History, University of Iowa, Iowa City
2007 AIA Institute Honor Award, School of Art & Art History, Iowa City
2006 Honorary Doctorate, Seattle University, Seattle
2006 Maholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, Hungary
2006 AIA Iowa Honor Award of Excellence / School of Art & Art History, Iowa City
2006 Roger H. Corbetta Merit Award, Concrete Industry Board / Central Section Higgins Hall
2006 New York Chapter American Institute of Architects Merit Award / Planar House
2006 New York Chapter American Institute of Architects Citation / Sail Hybrid, Knokke Heist, Belgium
2005 New York Chapter American Institute of Architects Honor Award / Lake Whitney Water Purification Plant
2005 Benjamin Moore Hue Award
2004 International Parking Institute, Award of Excellence for best design of a parking facility, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
2003 NY AIA Project Award for Loisium Visitors’ Center, Langenlois, Austria
2003 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects
2003 AIA National Honor Award / Simmons Hall, MIT Undergraduate Residence
2002 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Architecture
2002 New York AIA Design Award / Simmons Hall, MIT Undergraduate Residence
College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Minnesota
2001 L’Academie D’Architecture’s Grande Medaille d’Or (Paris)
2001 Seattle AIA Design Award / Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
2000 Progressive Architecture Awards / Nelson Atkins Museum of Art; MIT Undergraduate Residence 2001
1999 New York AIA Design Award / Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1999 New York AIA Project Award / Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
1999 National AIA Design Award / Kiasma, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
1998 Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design
1998 Alvar Aalto Medal
1998 National AIA Design Award / Chapel of St. Ignatius, Seattle University
1997 Japanese Building Contractors Society Award / Makuhari Housing, Chiba, Japan
1997 National AIA Religious Architecture Award / Chapel of St. Ignatius, Seattle University
1997 New York AIA Medal of Honor Award
1996 Progressive Architecture Awards / Knut Hamsun, Bødo, Norway; Museum of the City, Cassino, Italy
1995 NYC AIA Design Awards / Cranbrook Institute of Science, MI; Chapel of St. Ignatius
1993 NYC AIA Architecture Project Award / Makuhari Housing, Makuhari, Japan
1993 AIA National Honor Award / Texas Stretto House, Dallas, Texas
1992 AIA National Honor Award / D.E. Shaw & Co. Offices, New York, NY
1991 NYC Art Commission Excellence in Design Award The Renovation of the Strand Theater, Brooklyn, NY
1991 AIA National Honor Award / Hybrid Building, Seaside, FLA

see a list of his writings
http://www.stevenholl.com/pages/resume.htm
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image via Roland Halbe/Courtesy of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Digital Futures Workshop Series

Pratt Institute

School of Undergraduate Architecture

Revit Workshop Level I

Location- Higging Hall Auditorium

Date + Time- 2010.02.20, 12-6pm (w/ a 30min break @ 2:45pm)

Requirements- Participants are required to bring a laptop with Revit installed and an extension cord.

Description- This workshop will serve as a basic introduction to Autodesk Revit. It will cover the software history and will begin to open up how it is being used today in contemporary practices. This is geared for people that have little or no experience in BIM software and will serve as an introduction to some of the other Building Information Modeling courses that are available in the UG curriculum.

Conductor- Joseph Nocella

About- Autodesk Revit is Building Information Modeling software for Microsoft Windows, currently developed by Autodesk, which allows the user to design with parametric modeling and drafting elements. Building Information Modeling is a Computer Aided Design (CAD) paradigm that allows for intelligent, 3D and parametric object-based design. In this way, Revit provides full bi-directional associativity. A change anywhere is a change everywhere, instantly, with no user interaction to manually update any view. A BIM model may contain the building’s full life cycle, from concept to construction to decommissioning. This is made possible by Revit’s underlying relational database architecture which its creators call the parametric change engine. (text via wikipedia)

Brochure (pdf – 3950Kb)

Workshop Outline:

I. Introduction

II. BIM- Definition

III. Advantages of Working in a BIM Environment

IV. Current State of the Profession

V. Technology at SOM

VI. A Tour of the Tool

VII. Workshop

Workshop Files:

intro_levels

CAD background

Digital Futures Workshop Series

Pratt Institute

School of Undergraduate Architecture

Rhino Workshop Level II

Location- HHS 416

Date + Time- 2010.02.17, 7-10pm

Requirements- Participants are required to bring a laptop with Rhino 4.0 (SR7) installed and an extension cord.

Description- This workshop will serve as an intermediate lesson in developing surfaces in Rhino 4.  Participants will be exposed to differing approaches to generating surfaces with a focus on the particulars of continuity and curvature.  Topics covered will include lofting, sweeping, patching, creasing, and blending with in-depth tutorials on digital topography creation/manipulation and generating layouts for a laser cut site model.  Emphasis will be placed on creating a procedural understanding of generating and managing surfaces and polysurfaces in Rhino.

Workshop Outline:

Curves and Curvature

-quantifying continuity: Positional, Tangent, Curvature

-strategies to blend curves and surfaces

-analyzing curvature in 2d, 3d

-Workshop Tutorial 1: Periodic Table of Form,

adapted from article by Gray Holland of Alchemy Labs

Generating Site Topography

-Importing/Tracing a site drawing

-Extracting Loft Curves to generate Surface

-Generate the surface, resolving issues/inconsistencies

-Adding Detail: Roads, Existing Buildings, Landscape Elements

-Workshop Tutorial #2: Creating the digital site model

Generating Content from a Digital Site Model

-Generating a site drawing, the contour command

-Creating a laser file for a site model.

-Workshop Tutorial #3: Creating Site drawings and laser files from a digital site model

Workshop Files:

Download: Rhino Workshop Level 2 files.zip

Digital Futures Workshop Series

Pratt Institute

School of Undergraduate Architecture

Rhino Workshop Level I

Location- HHN 308

Date + Time- 2010.02.04, 7-10pm

Requirements- Participants are required to bring a laptop with Rhino 4.0 (SR7) installed: download demo

Description- The workshop will serve as an introduction to Rhino 4.  Participants will be introduced to the most elementary concepts and techniques needed to develop drawings and models in Rhino 4.  Topics covered will include interface, navigation, settings and configurations, 2d/3d curve geometry, surfaces, and solids.  Emphasis will be placed on creating a procedural understanding of the methods of generating content in Rhino 4.

Workshop Outline:

User Interface, Navigation, Settings, Standards

-interface

-mouse navigation/hotkeys

-layers/properties

-options settings (units, command aliases, line display settings, etc.)

-views and the construction plane

Creating Curve Geometry

-command prompt, coordinate input methods

-Reference Geometry: point, textdot, text

-Primitive Curves: line, polyline, rectangle, polygon, circle, arc, ellipse

-freeform curves:  curve, interpolated curve

-Curve modifiers: trim, split, intersect, divide, explode, join, fillet, chamfer, curve boolean, hatch

-Transformations: move, rotate (2d/3d), scale (3d/2d/1d), copy, array, array polar, mirror, group

-Workshop Tutorial #1: developing curve geometry in plan

Creating Surfaces and Solids

-Primitives: plane, box, cylinder, cone, sphere, torus, 4 point surface

-Surfaces Derived from Curves: extrude, revolve, loft, sweep1, sweep2, pipe

-Curves on Surfaces: Intersect, project, extracting Isocurve

-Surface/Solid Modifiers: trim, split, boolean union, boolean subtraction, boolean intersection

-Workshop Tutorial #2: developing 3d models from plan, section, elevation

Other Useful Tools

-generating high resolution screen captures

-generating 2d drawings from 3d views

-exporting to DWG, AI

-printing

Downloads:

rhino workshop level 1 tutorial files

COMMUNITY CENTER FOR AQUATIC SPORT AND LEISURE

PROGRAM SCENARIO
The Community Center for Aquatic Sport is a mixed use and Leisure facility housing Olympic swimming and diving pools, gymnasium, community areas, press areas and administrative spaces in which to serve as a social condenser and venue for water sport events and training. The facility will serve both local Borough competition events at the level of public and private schools, and regional events. The proposal will comprise 115,000 sq. ft. of enclosed space, and approximately 100,000 sq. ft. of outdoor space whose program will be developed during design. Potential programs include: on site water catchment, swimming areas, amphitheater, public plaza, park recreational space and play ground facilities, 160,000 square feet of Parking and Bus loading and unloading areas. This facility will become a premier aquatics community center for Brooklyn located on a 375,000 sq ft site in McCarren Park at the site of the McCarren Park Pool in Greenpoint Brooklyn. This public assembly space will provide a venue for both local city wide events as well as serve as an important community center for the Williamsburg/ Greenpoint area of Brooklyn. The facility will hold classes and serve as a field trip venue for the public (as well as private) school system, year around. In addition to the facilities function as a city destination for aquatic recreational sport the facility will house community facilities that serve the other leisure sport venues for McCarren Park and the Greenpoint /Williamsburg community.

SITE SCENARIO
McCarren Park in GreenPoint Brooklyn is bounded by the neighborhood of Greenpoint to the North and East, a traditionally Polish community now transitioning with an increasing influx of high end condominium development in advance of the proposed extension park redevelopment along the East River to the North, and by Williamsburg to the West which is currently home to the „Hipster Movement‟ along with upscale condominium development and gentrification after the original influx of artists seeking cheap industrial space formerly typical of this area, and finally by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway to the South. The site exists along an intersection in several urban Grids that developed from historical land parcels. The park land itself was the site of an undevelopable marsh and flood plane with tributaries that feed into the East River. McCarren Pool is currently an abandoned structure since 1984 when it became the site of extensive problems surrounding gang violence and drug sales that ultimately blighted the surrounding neighborhoods. It was the eighth of eleven New York City pools built during the depression through the WPA program, under the leadership of Robert Moses and Mayor La Guardia. It was said that Moses was an avid swimmer. Built in the summer of 1936 the McCarren Park Pool accommodated 6,800 swimmers of the 66,000 swimmers the eleven pools collectively accommodated. Until recently the pool has been used to accommodate music events after the influx of artists and „Hipsters‟ to the Williamsburg/ Greenpoint neighborhoods. Currently the primary monumental building has been Historically Registered and is under restoration with plans for a new pool.

Assets for Arch 302 SP10.

SYLLABUS

Arch 302 spr10_Final_10_01-12b Syllabus PDF > download

MODELS

Arch 302 McCarren Park Site Model Base> download

PROGRAM

Arch 302 Natatorium Program Template PDF> download

Arch 302 Program Templates Final> download

REFERENCE

Arch 302 Architecture of Watter +Humidity> download

Arch 302 Professional Consultants Guidelines V003 PDF> download

READERS

Arch302.04-Sarrach

Structure Form Movement > download

NetworksSwarmsMultitudesP1> download

NetworksSwarmsMultitudesP2> download

things themselves are lying > download

Notes: (Photo by Donald Miralle/Getty Images)