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

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

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   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 for…

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,…

Video on Architectural Style

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

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