Week 8 Presentation Ideas
1. Who is your audience? Academic : strong, clear concept Professional: solid development 2. Tell your story: Catchy TITLE A. Context: what is the problem? Why does it matter? How does it work in the urban and natural system? B….
Presentation examples
Archiprix International thesis projects RIBA President’s Medal: UK and territories examples AIA COTE Top Ten Competition for Students Flinders’ Street Station competition videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW5Fj88_9PI
Week 7, 8, 9 Agenda
LANDSCAPE, WATER AND CHANGE OVER TIME Situate your building into the landscape, using vegetation to define edges, create areas for wildlife habitat and human activities. Diagram rainwater drainage, collection, filtration and storage. How will the place change over time? Phasing 2017…
Week 6 – Interior Daylighting
BLOG POST: Due Friday, May 6 Reflect on your midterm review and write a blog post 1) Key design ideas to keep reinforcing 2) Show major developments since December and describe how they support the key ideas 3) Which areas…
Week 5 – videos
Representing Building Systems – HVAC Introduction & SERIES LINK including Displacement Ventilation https://youtu.be/fqvo7bSr6t8 Portray your own Design Fiction of the Future. Sieman’s 2010 vision for responsive, intelligent, safe buildings with interchangeable modular components. Enable clients to partner with you: Zahner’s Shopfloor platform…
Technology resources
Bibliography of great building technology books STRUCTURES Equilibrium graphic statics structures simulator by Block Design Group (Java Control Panel must have Exceptions added for http://jars.geogebra.org and http://block.arch.ethz.ch) 99% Invisible Podcast about the Citycorp Center: Structural Integrity Ada Louise Huxtable on why…
Feb 21 – Making Reviews Productive
What are the most important things to communicate to reviewers? Conceptual design – underlying ideas to be the building block for the project. including what is important from the site context. (site problems/issues /interpretation) Narrative – why are you designing,…
Material-Based Design
Neri Oxman: Design at the intersection of technology and biology | TED Talk | TED.com Neri Oxman describes how designers can engineer nature to produce products with continuous functional surfaces. A hybrid between natural processes and the component-based world. Features…
Jan 1, 2016 Class notes
See Handouts page for Syllabus and new assignments See Portland Resources for more about the OMSI and Clinton sites URBAN DESIGN Green Loop PDX competition Roger Trancik’s Finding Lost Space: Theories of Urban Design on Google Books Llewelyn-Davies Urban Design Compendium