Fall semester is approaching – and this means that studio and workshop lottery is being held in Cascieri Hall on Wednesday, August 2nd at 6 pm. Come hear about all of the great design workshops, Arch 3 and 4 studios, Interdisciplinary and C Studios being offered! Instructors will be presenting their courses, you will get an opportunity to ask them questions, and you will make your choices that evening. Below, you will find the 2017 Fall Studio and Workshop Descriptions.
Interdisciplinary and C
Studio
XDS1000 A Interdisciplinary
Studio | Natalie
Adams Monday 4-7
In
this studio, students from landscape architecture, interior architecture and architecture
work collaboratively to design a civic institution’s site plan, building, and
interior architecture. Students explore programmatic organization,
contextualization, site optimization and way-finding while being exposed to
each disciplines analytic processes and spatial thinking. “Design art people
use.” This studio will explore the museum as a civic institution and define new
ways of interaction and experience with the public. The studio will explore concepts, master
planning, site planning, buildings and interior architecture/design; attention
to the integration of the aforementioned is emphatic.
CD101/XDS1000 B Narrative | Constructed | Ruthie Kuhlman, Daniel
Zeese Tuesday
4-7
This
is a narrative design studio exploring the way that barriers change/shape our
cities and how they are broken down.
Students will have the opportunity to develop a landscape over time -
before and after the introduction of a barrier, and then design an intervention
that interacts with the barrier as a monument/gallery responding to the
narrative history of the place. The
studio will focus on creating a building/site design that is based out of the
spatial narrative and putting together a presentation that clearly communicates
its story through the use of narrative writing, mapping, plans, sectional
diagrams, section details, and perspectives.
Architecture Studio 3: B.
Arch
ARC1003 A Resiliency:
Designing for Change |
Arlen Stawasz, Tyler Hinckley B. Arch Studio 3 Mon|Thur 4 - 7 Resiliency: Designing for Change focuses on addressing real world
issues through the process of design. Students will work at scales from macro
to micro to solve complex issues of climate change, health and wellness, food
shortage, and distribution. It is our responsibility as designers to protect
the health, safety, and welfare of the public.
ARC1003B SANDWICH: Adjacent Contingencies |Yoonjee Koh and Robert
Brooks Mon|Thur 7-10
sandwich noun sand·wich \ˈsan(d)-ˌwich, ˈsam-; dialectal ˈsaŋ-\ 1 a: two or more
slices of bread or a split roll having a filling in between. b: one slice of bread covered with food. From
Steak and Cheese Sub, Tuna Melt, BLT,
Reuben, Ban Mi, Caprese, Chicken Parmesan, Monte Cristo to Burgers, Hot dogs,
Bagels, and Oreo cookies, a
sandwich plays with a simple idea of layering. Whether it be tomatoes, bacon,
or cheese, a sandwich collects pieces of different minced, marinated, sliced
edibles and re-creates a single, entirely new culinary experience with
ingredients combined. In this studio, we will take the concept of a sandwich to
pull in different constituencies into a single built project. Combining three
or more programmatic functions and working with horizontal, vertical, or other
creative layering methods of combination, the studio will engage with various
scopes of necessities, challenges, and inspiration that arise when cohesively
designing a project with multiple constituents. The studio pushes for
combinations of typically unrelated programs, and challenges students to engage
in innovative spatial designs.
Architecture Studio 3: M.
Arch
ARC3308
A Urban Meditations | Mikela De Tchaves,
Dana Shaikh Mon|Thur 4 - 7 pm
This
studio will explore a range of urban conditions such as infrastructure and
displacement, ecological challenges and environmental law, current development
and housing needs, public amenities and open space. The design approach will emphasize the
notion of urban environments as active processes of formation with different
temporalities and rates of becoming that continuously negotiate between past
traces, present contextual pressures and future projections.
ARC3308 B Adapt Alpine |
Jack Cochran, Leslie Carter Mon|Thur 7 - 10 pm
Alpine ecotypes are known for their unique flora and fauna
that have adapted to the harsh growing conditions of high altitude sites. These
specialized adaptations also make these environments particularly sensitive and
vulnerable to predicted climatic changes. The studio will focus on the alpine
landscapes of New England, with particular focus on re-envisioning the east
coast ski industry, which has taken a hit in recent years due to increasingly
unreliable winter weather patterns. Students will study the environmental
impacts of the traditional ski resort and economic implications of a ski
industry decline in the tourism-based economies of the New England states.
Assignments will include studying the ecology of the biome, case studies of
adaptations some ski areas have made to expand the season of marketability, and
industrial partnerships that could work in concert with ski resorts to increase
revenue. The studio will focus on development of program and structure to aid
in the adaptation of the traditional ski area.
Architecture Studio 4: B.
Arch
ARC1004
A Integrated Studio: ACSA Steel Design Competition| Bob Gillig Mon|Thur
7 - 10 pm
The
program is a BAC Student Center and Dormitory, offered in the context of the
ACSA Steel Competition. Program emphasize sustainable urban building. We will create functional, efficient,
buildable, and beautiful structures. We
will do a quick energy model (COMCheck), and research cost/sq. ft. for
buildings of this type. We will do a
complete zoning analysis for this site and your building will be IBC Code and
ADA compliant. The studio will be
structured around the 2017 ACSA Steel student design competition: We're entering the open category; entry in
the competition will be required, as well as all additional requirements of
this comprehensive studio. Teams of 2
(maximum) recommended, individual by permission.
ARC1004B
LES is more: a hotel for NYC’s historic
Lower East Side| David Eccleston, Mark Rego Mon|Th 7 - 10
The
Lower East side (LES) is a neighborhood in transition. While it has changed significantly over the
last two decades, its history as an immigrant neighborhood is still present and
its emerging character is still in a state of flux. This studio will look at
the ongoing cultural mashup against the historic context of Manhattan's Lower
East Side at a time that this neighborhood is actively redefining itself and
its future.
Architecture Studio 4: M.
Arch
ARC3309A Alia Musica: Performance Center for
Medellin
| Mark Urrea, Mark Yeager Mon|Thur 7 - 10 pm Roughly translated
to “A Different Music”, this studio asks students to design a new musical
performance center for one of the emerging cultural centers of Medellin,
Colombia. Students base their design explorations on a work of music of their
choosing. By analyzing the meaning of the piece, students will find the common
ground between music and architecture. That logic will then be applied to a
site adjacent to the Parque de las Luces, an important public space that ties
together museums, government buildings and a new public library with a unique
design that illuminates the area with sculptural lighted spires. Essential to
the studio will be a deep understanding of the culture, environment, history
and future of the Medellin. The design process will help students work through
three dimensional issues through model making, sketching, and computer
drawing/modeling. The studio will encourage exploration in physical models and
in section perspective. Special emphasis will be placed on site planning and
massing in order to reinforce how important it is that the designs work at the personal,
building, and urban scale.
ARC3309 B Space and Learning | Jerolim Mladinov, Chris
Hardy Mon|Thur 7 - 10 pm
In
this studio, we will be designing a kindergarten/preschool inspired by the
works of Herman Hertzberger.
Representation | Design Workshop
3 credits
DME2100
A Roadside Collage | Workshop | Instructor: Chip Piatti Tuesday
4-7
The
American Roadside is a wide-screen movie viewed through the windshield of a
speeding vehicle. This course will chart the development of American roadside architecture
and culture through a series of 14 collages of increasing complexity, technical
and material sophistication. Materials, techniques, historical concepts and
experiential expression will be explored. Come along for the ride!
DME2100 B Explore Arch.
Themes through Case Study |Instructors:
Adam Mitchell + James Moses Tuesday 7-10
The
word ‘innovation’ derives from the Latin innovationem, which according to the
Etymology Dictionary dates to 1540, and stems from innovatus, past participle
of innovare "to change; to renew," from in- "into" + novus
"new". It means "a novel change, experimental variation, new
thing introduced in an established arrangement". A specific relationship
to what came before, a precedent, is implicit in the word. Innovation does not
occur in a vacuum, but in context, in this case, a history. This course takes
aim at ‘an established arrangement’, while at the same time understanding that
that arrangement may itself represent an innovation. In it, each student will
be asked to do a deep exploration, a case study, of a single work of
architecture - a building and its attendant landscape - from a list of
important, thematically related pieces. The goals are: to luxuriate in getting
to know a work of architecture extremely well; to hone analytical skills
through curiosity, close observation, and critique; to present findings in a
clear, concise, and confident way; to contribute to the collective knowledge of
your colleagues and, perhaps, the discipline.
DME2100 C Immersive
Design
| Workshop | Instructors: Nil Tuczu + Cagri Zaman Monday 7-10
Recent
developments in virtual reality created a novel opportunity for a wide range of
applications. What was once created and consumed behind flat screens of
computers is now leaking into everyday spatial experiences. As a fundamentally
spatial discipline, architectural design processes benefited from this new
paradigm, both as a representational medium and a creative platform. In this
workshop, we will explore the agency of immersive media and its inherent
affordances for design. In particular, we will outline an embodied design
process through which the spatial designs emerge a result of the designer’s
bodily and perceptual interactions within an immersive environment.
DME2100
D - Light | Space | Workshop | Instructor: Sergio
Mazon Thursday 4-7
Through
lectures, readings, lab assignments, and filed trips, students will learn the
basics of Lighting Design for interior architectural spaces, be introduced to
AGi32 software and its basic tools, and have a better understanding of the
relationship between lighting and the effects on human beings and the
integration with the architecture
DME2100 E- Designing
Light|
Workshop |Instructor: Jason Detwiler Wednesday 4-7
This course will engage an exploration in designing light - by manipulating
light as it travels through space. Together we'll ask: how does light give form
to architecture and its components? By using fabrication as the method of
exploration, we'll construct, test, learn, and construct again our theories
about light as a material. Rapid iteration and failure will be our greatest
teachers on our pursuit to understanding.
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