I would like to suggest the following not as additional work but as a means to satisfying the objective of this studio in the most painless manner.
This is a comprehensive studio – climate, daylight, energy, sustainability, structure, building services are all supposed to be addresses and presented. How? This can best be done by viewing (literally in 3D interior, section/ and perhaps 3D exterior) one significant space – say a single studio space. Some of you have done this already either in current work or in the early January assignment. So I suggest that you generate for your significant space(s):
1. A section with labels for day and artificial lighting, glare control, natural ventilation, HVAC delivery (air registers, radiant, etc.), water management if appropriate, materials, structural spans and perhaps with some graphics to show sun/day light bounce, convective or wind air currents, etc.
2. Interior 3D view (of the same space) showing textures, materials, colors, lighting arrangements, etc. Transparencies are useful to show if you want daylight say to penetrate into other zones.
In an instructors meeting last night we imagined how useful it would be to test your buildings for say energy use. This is beyond us at this point I think. But we could look at a single space. For instance: what is the ratio of glazing to exterior wall (an important factor in code and energy calculations)? Or when do you begin to exclude direct sun from the glazing? And so on. This analysis is perhaps more important for individual spaces (to avoid temperature swings) than it is for the entire building. But before we can look at this, we need to at least do 1. and 2. above to view sustainable strategies.
Just think of 1. and 2. as something that you would do anyway but now it will have real meaning and impact. Based on our discussion last night I think Eric and Werner would welcome this also.
Friday, February 8, 2008
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
SOFTWARE TECHNIQUES
For Predesign/Programming/Site Analysis/Schematic Design we need software that is loose, colorful, easy to use, and diverse in its presentation possibilities and that can relate to or be a part of architectural BIM/3D CAD. I have posted a table of tasks/software to explore this - see ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN SOFTWARE TECHNIQUES on the list at right. Please comment, make recommendations, and share what has worked for you.
Question for anyone: is it possible to change the color of all of the context buildings in SkitchUp? Something closer to Boston brown?
I am reposting this separately to avoid confusion (or perhaps to create it!).
Question for anyone: is it possible to change the color of all of the context buildings in SkitchUp? Something closer to Boston brown?
I am reposting this separately to avoid confusion (or perhaps to create it!).
GENERAL COMMENTS FOR ALL
Again good work on Jan 19 – amazing in 8 days! Keep up the momentum! Some general comments:
Eco:
SOLAR: I think there is a good understanding that south is a good place for openings/glazing, east-west openings need to be filtered, and north openings few and well insulated.
NOISE: upon reflection this is perhaps the most important environmental reality – an example of local trumping global. If noise intrudes, nothing works. To deal with noise, form is important (continuous wall/membrane on the north), heavy mass or at least gypsum mass of the wall, and detailing/sound isolation (laminated dbl/triple glazing, etc.).
WATER: always(?) involves site plan and perhaps roofs; color or at least texture is very useful to describe. (See also “techno” below.)
Ico: (iconic architectural comment)
Some of you have created a (more or less) single form for this project (with pieces, different façade treatments, etc.) but more or less a single perhaps organic form. I think this is appropriate – we have a single client with a singular vision/program and it probably should be expressed as a unity. (Better than say a residential block here and a separate teaching area there, etc. – although it may also be possible to marry separate forms and create a single morphology – (nice vague word)) And iconically (which is important for non-profit public and community communication) there should also be a single image or icon which establishes the BAC presence (at least in this program) and perhaps expresses its green mission. Of course this may conflict with response to local context, etc. so that is a challenge, but not, I think, insurmountable. So keep expressing that ico-image however you see it.
Prosso (process)
Work smart. Keep your earlier work and recycle on your boards. This not only fills out your presentation but encourages you to incorporate what you have learned and to keep this earlier work before you (and your client). Gus Jan 27 does that well (although I am not sure I understand the ½ of it). Think of it as “publishing” (vs. plotting drawings); with publishing you can mix different media – use software that does this: SketchUp Layout, Adobe Indesign, etc.
Techno
For Predesign/Programming/Site Analysis/Schematic Design we need software that is loose, colorful, easy to use, and diverse in its presentation possibilities and that can relate to or be a part of architectural BIM/3D CAD. I have posted a table of tasks/software to explore this - see ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN SOFTWARE TECHNIQUES on the list at right. Please comment, make recommendations, and share what has worked for you.
Question for anyone: is it possible to change the color of the context buildings in SkitchUp? Something closer to Boston brown?
Eco:
SOLAR: I think there is a good understanding that south is a good place for openings/glazing, east-west openings need to be filtered, and north openings few and well insulated.
NOISE: upon reflection this is perhaps the most important environmental reality – an example of local trumping global. If noise intrudes, nothing works. To deal with noise, form is important (continuous wall/membrane on the north), heavy mass or at least gypsum mass of the wall, and detailing/sound isolation (laminated dbl/triple glazing, etc.).
WATER: always(?) involves site plan and perhaps roofs; color or at least texture is very useful to describe. (See also “techno” below.)
Ico: (iconic architectural comment)
Some of you have created a (more or less) single form for this project (with pieces, different façade treatments, etc.) but more or less a single perhaps organic form. I think this is appropriate – we have a single client with a singular vision/program and it probably should be expressed as a unity. (Better than say a residential block here and a separate teaching area there, etc. – although it may also be possible to marry separate forms and create a single morphology – (nice vague word)) And iconically (which is important for non-profit public and community communication) there should also be a single image or icon which establishes the BAC presence (at least in this program) and perhaps expresses its green mission. Of course this may conflict with response to local context, etc. so that is a challenge, but not, I think, insurmountable. So keep expressing that ico-image however you see it.
Prosso (process)
Work smart. Keep your earlier work and recycle on your boards. This not only fills out your presentation but encourages you to incorporate what you have learned and to keep this earlier work before you (and your client). Gus Jan 27 does that well (although I am not sure I understand the ½ of it). Think of it as “publishing” (vs. plotting drawings); with publishing you can mix different media – use software that does this: SketchUp Layout, Adobe Indesign, etc.
Techno
For Predesign/Programming/Site Analysis/Schematic Design we need software that is loose, colorful, easy to use, and diverse in its presentation possibilities and that can relate to or be a part of architectural BIM/3D CAD. I have posted a table of tasks/software to explore this - see ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN SOFTWARE TECHNIQUES on the list at right. Please comment, make recommendations, and share what has worked for you.
Question for anyone: is it possible to change the color of the context buildings in SkitchUp? Something closer to Boston brown?
Saturday, January 12, 2008
LATEST POSTINGS UNDER "ASSIGNMENT"
These posting give some structure to the remainder of the intensive. The Global Climates is just a list of the four typical climates of the habitable world - these are very useful - you will understand that world architecture is often an appropriate response to one of these four climates (except of course most industrialized architecture). This insight was developed in Design with Climate by Olgyay & Olgyay. Which climate is yours?
The other "assignments" are just a guide to our ongoing discussion of sustainable design and how you transform your own design into something that works with the environment, the community, the economy.
If you have trouble opening anything please let me know.
The other "assignments" are just a guide to our ongoing discussion of sustainable design and how you transform your own design into something that works with the environment, the community, the economy.
If you have trouble opening anything please let me know.
Friday, January 11, 2008
GENERAL COMMENTS ON THE ASSIGNMENTS
CLIMATE CONSULTANT
The Climate Consultant software seems to have inspired many of you – that’s great. Most of you, however, could go further and interpret the diagrams for your specific climate and stressful seasons (winter and summer). Try the psychometric and the wind rose diagrams for one month, or winter or summer months separately. They will immediately give you better insights into your climate during the periods of highest stress. Also, click on the (lower left) radio button for monthly display instead of daily display for say the time plot diagram – it will be easier to interpret. Don’t just dump the year’s summary – it will not tell you as much.
STRATEGIES
Your also have some good strategies for climate adaptations for your spaces. Most of you, however, followed your intuition and did not relate the software diagrams to your strategies. The point is to read a diagram and then use it to refine your specific design and strategy. What does the summer wind rose tell you for example; where are those cooling breezes between 1 PM and 5 PM when it’s hottest? And so on.
I think Jaclyn Tyler took it to the next stage – check out her BLOG. Also Scott Pfeifer’s. And Annie Kemp’s use of the psychometric chart for just the winter months – ditto wind rose.
SPELLING
Climate Consultant misspells psychometric! And so did I.
The Climate Consultant software seems to have inspired many of you – that’s great. Most of you, however, could go further and interpret the diagrams for your specific climate and stressful seasons (winter and summer). Try the psychometric and the wind rose diagrams for one month, or winter or summer months separately. They will immediately give you better insights into your climate during the periods of highest stress. Also, click on the (lower left) radio button for monthly display instead of daily display for say the time plot diagram – it will be easier to interpret. Don’t just dump the year’s summary – it will not tell you as much.
STRATEGIES
Your also have some good strategies for climate adaptations for your spaces. Most of you, however, followed your intuition and did not relate the software diagrams to your strategies. The point is to read a diagram and then use it to refine your specific design and strategy. What does the summer wind rose tell you for example; where are those cooling breezes between 1 PM and 5 PM when it’s hottest? And so on.
I think Jaclyn Tyler took it to the next stage – check out her BLOG. Also Scott Pfeifer’s. And Annie Kemp’s use of the psychometric chart for just the winter months – ditto wind rose.
SPELLING
Climate Consultant misspells psychometric! And so did I.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
WELCOME ALL - BEST WISHES FOR 2008
I shall be the Architectural Technology instructor for the spring 2008 semester of Distance M. Arch. for the BAC. As such I shall support both Werner Hoffman’s and Eric Nelson’s Distance M. Arch. Studios.
I have a related BLOG with the following address:
http://distancemarchtechivessp08.blogspot.com/
Please bookmark this site and go there to see assignments, postings, etc.
There will be one assignment due for posting on your BLOG Monday, Jan. 7th, and one due at the start of the intensive, Jan. 12, 2008. At that time, be prepared to make a presentation as a part of a small “affinity” group (see the assignment).
Please also create your own BLOG if you have not done so already. And segregate Arch. Tech. postings to make review easier. Create pdf’s for universality of display. (I can also read Microsoft Office and other formats.)
GERRY IVES BACKGROUND
I am an architect with a small office that has been practicing Sustainable Design for many years. Green technologies are promising in themselves; but as a designer, I am more interested in their seamless integration with architectural projects, and with architectural design that is inherently “green” (using natural daylighting for instance – or “passive” strategies). If appropriate, the architectural design can manifest a green “message” to users and the public.
I have a related BLOG with the following address:
http://distancemarchtechivessp08.blogspot.com/
Please bookmark this site and go there to see assignments, postings, etc.
There will be one assignment due for posting on your BLOG Monday, Jan. 7th, and one due at the start of the intensive, Jan. 12, 2008. At that time, be prepared to make a presentation as a part of a small “affinity” group (see the assignment).
Please also create your own BLOG if you have not done so already. And segregate Arch. Tech. postings to make review easier. Create pdf’s for universality of display. (I can also read Microsoft Office and other formats.)
GERRY IVES BACKGROUND
I am an architect with a small office that has been practicing Sustainable Design for many years. Green technologies are promising in themselves; but as a designer, I am more interested in their seamless integration with architectural projects, and with architectural design that is inherently “green” (using natural daylighting for instance – or “passive” strategies). If appropriate, the architectural design can manifest a green “message” to users and the public.
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