Wednesday, June 24, 2009

A-2 Studio :: Summer 2009

The Chair Project

The students in this summer's A-2 Studio recently completed their first project, a chair design. In two intense weeks, they studied the human body, scale, joinery in cardboard, and furniture building. The end result was diagrams, models of joinery and chairs, a final full-scale model of a chair, and accompanying technical drawings.

In their designs, students considered issues such as scale, comfort, strength, design, and concepts. Most exciting, each chair was unique!

View the slide show on the right-hand side, and check back later this week for more images. (Photos: Hadiya Strasberg)

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Housing Hybrids C Studio :: Spring 2009

This C Studio, taught by Maria Arquero and Emilio Ontiveros, focused on mixing multi-scalar residential strategies. The studio was structured by scale - city, building, and apartment. Within that hierarchy, students analyzed existing sites, blended the sites they studied, and combined in location (context). Working in other direction, they then moved from the small-scale to the large-scale, working to create a building from an apartment design and a city from an apartment.

To see more work from this class, look at the slideshow on the sidebar.

Monday, June 15, 2009

View B-1 and B-2 Studio Work :: May 2009


Slide-shows of B-1 and B-2 Studio Work has been added to the right-side column.

Please take a minute to browse through students' work taken from
Monday and Tuesday, May 18 and 19, 2009.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Envelope C Studio Work :: Spring 2009

The envelope is not only the skin of the building. The envelope is the assemblage between the construction of the skin and the proportions of the envelope. Building envelops have been at the core of architecture research in the latest decade. That focus of attention is the result of a complex process of convergence of technological achievements, typological evolutions, practice policies and aesthetic paradigms.

The goal of Julia Capomaggi's Spring 2009 C Studio was to redesign the role of the building envelope, understanding it as a device that intersects interior and the exterior, confronting its material and technological definition with its socio-cultural role. Each student's building includes a new Prada store program, showrooms, offices, gallery space and a coffee bar.

For more student work from this class, scroll down to the slideshow on the right-hand side of your screen.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

BAC Urban DesignBUILD Program :: Spring 2009

(Nomadic Canopies, mock-up session - Spring '09)

BAC designBUILD Program
An Advanced Architectural Workshop at the BAC

Underlying Program Goals:

* Lead students in HANDS-ON construction combined with a design studio education in order to discover new intersections between design and fabrication.

* Foster a COLLABORATIVE studio environment such that students engage more fully in a dialogue with their peers, practitioners, context and communities.

* Implement architecture, design and the making of space to catalyze POSITIVE SOCIAL CHANGE and stewardship of our built environment.