Tronso Kindergarten by 70N Arkitektur

photo by Ivan Brodey

Course Overview

The course continues an emphasis on the critical role and correspondence that site, program, material and structure offer as determinants of an architectural project by addressing a medium scale public building in a semi-urban context. Through a thorough analysis of preexisting site information, architectural precedents, theoretical models of significance to the program, and relevant social and cultural parameters, a critical conceptual approach will be articulated aimed at producing a comprehensive project.

Learning Objectives

This studio focuses on a broader examination of architecture and design through an investigation of the physical and programmatic requirements of public buildings and their larger site implications. Programmatic strategies are developed through analysis of conceptual and programmatic issues. Appropriate interventional and transformational site strategies are explored. Spatial and tectonic configurations are then structured to mediate the external forces related to a semi-urban fabric, natural systems and the internal complexities of building program. The end product of this process of investigation will be the fully integrated design of a kindergarten school located on a sloped semi-urban site

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Models & Theories of Child Education

Structures Lecture

Grade Easy: Principles and Practices of Grading and Drainage

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Site Topo

Untitled , 2003

by artist Tara Donovan

Excerpt from Syllabus:

Established in 1974, Dia Art Foundation is internationally recognized as one of the world’s most influential contemporary art institutions. The name “Dia,” taken from the Greek word meaning “through,” was chosen to suggest the institution’s role in enabling visionary artistic projects that might not otherwise be realized because of their scale or ambition. Dia’s founders, Heiner Friedrich and Philippa de Menil, wished to extend the boundaries of the traditional museum to respond to the needs of the generation of artists whose work matured and became prominent during the 1960s and 1970s. Ever since, Dia’s mission has been to commission, support, and present site-specific long-term installations and single-artists exhibitions to the public. The original collection was assembled largely during the 1970s and early 1980s by Dia’s founders, Philippa de Menil and Heiner Friedrich, with Helen Winkler. It included works by Joseph Beuys, John Chamberlain, Walter De Maria, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Cy Twombly, and Andy Warhol among others. With the founding of Dia:Beacon the collection was augmented in the 1990s with works from artists of the same generation of the original collections. New acquisitions and commissions included works from Louise Bourgeois, Michael Heizer, Robert Irwin, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman, Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra, and Robert Smithson among others. Dia’s Commitment to promoting art that extends beyond a traditional exhibition framework lead to the commissioning and acquisition of large scale environmental works in the western United States, New York City, and Long Island including works such as Smithson’s Spiral Jetty. Architecturally, Dia pioneered the conversion of industrial buildings for the installation of contemporary art—a practice and aesthetic now widely adopted by museums and galleries internationally. Dia Beacon is located in a former printing plant built in 1929 by Nabisco (National Biscuit Company). With 240,000 square feet of long span exhibition space, and 34,000 square feet of sky lights the museum is sited on thirty-one acres on the banks of the Hudson River, and is adjacent to ninety acres of riverfront parkland. The renovation of Dia:Beacon was commissioned with American artist Robert Irwin and the architects OpenOffice. Dia:Beacon’s expansive spaces are uniquely suited to the needs of large-scale installations, paintings, and sculptures. In keeping with Dia’s history of single-artist, site-related presentations, each gallery were designed specifically for the art it contains.

The proposed museum for this semester, Dia Red Hook, extends Dia’s collection and mission to established contemporary artists whose visionary projects move beyond a traditional exhibition framework, and whose artistic works are an evolution in line with Dia’s founding collection. Each of the selected artists — Roxy Paine, Tara Donovan, El Anatsui, Tim Hawkinson, Doh-Ho-Suh, Martin Puyear, Anish Kapoor — produces work that is configured for the specific conditions of the environment in which it is installed. Drawing out relationships between artistic artifice, nature, and architecture; the works of the selected artists as with Dia’s current collection can be considered in light of Rosalind Krauss’ article “Sculpture in the Expanded Field”. Krauss summarized the development of American Sculpture in the 60’s and 70’s as following two developments that could be referred to as ‘through’ conditions: architecture/ not-architecture, and landscape/not-landscape. The two developments referred to the expansion of the “field” of sculpture practice, in the first instance, through the “field” of architecture leading to the development of the installation, and the latter embraced a broader nature/humanity space evolving into the form of land art. The program for Dia Red Hook, is to provide an environment for the public to engage with the work of the selected artists in consideration of the artists intent, and in consideration of the mission of the Dia Art Foundation.

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• Grasshopper for Rhino: Visual Introduction _ McNeel
• Essential Mathermatics for Computational Design _ McNeel
• Grasshopper Primer _ LIFT Architects
• Generative Algorithms: Using Grasshopper _ Zubin Khabazi (pdf)
• Intro to Grasshopper Webinar _ David Rutten (zip)
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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)

Like Curves, Surfaces can be described both geometrically and numerically.

The numeric description of any NURBS Surface can be understood as the “Parameter Space” of the Surface. This space is two dimensional and not necessarily tied to the Euclidean space of the modeling environment but is always tied to the topology of the surface which is a consequence of the geometry that created that surface. The bounds of this space is called the “Surface Domain” which can be navigated numerically through the native domain or through a “Reparameterized” domain that forces both dimension’s bounds to be 0.0 and 1.0. The current value at which this navigation is possible is called the UV Coordinate.

This Surface Primer constructs surfaces and their unrolled counterparts allowing user interaction as well as generating live visual feedback.

Download the Grasshopper Definition (version 0.6.0019) from modeLab.

Lines, Polylines, and Curves can be described both geometrically and numerically.

The numeric description of any of these geometry types can be understood as the “Parameter Space” of the curve. This space is one dimensional and not necessarily tied to the Euclidean space of the modeling environment but is always tied to the topology of the curve. The bounds of this space is called the “Curve Domain” which can be navigated numerically through the native domain or through a “Reparameterized” domain that forces the bounds to be 0.0 and 1.0. The current value at which this navigation is possible is called the “t” value or “parameter.”

This Curve Primer constructs curves and their unrolled counterparts allowing user interaction as well as generating live visual feedback.

Download the Grasshopper Definition (version 0.6.0019) from modeLab.

Vectors are an abstract non-geometrical data type that describe direction and magnitude in space.

Similar to Points, Vectors are composed of three parts. For Vectors these parts are distances, not coordinates, and are described as: {deltaX, deltaY, deltaZ}. Vectors exist anywhere in space because they are abstract and are not tied to a location until they have been anchored. Once anchored to a Point, Vectors can be visualized (typically done with arrows). Using a Summation operation with the Anchor Point and Vector, we can find the Vector’s Terminal Point or tip.

This Vector Primer constructs a vector by component delta values allowing user interaction as well as generating live visual feedback.

Download the Grasshopper Definition (version 0.6.0019) from modeLab.