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TASKS, SCHEDULE, PRODUCTS

  1. Documentation and Analysis, Weeks 1-3

Week 1: M-W-F, January 4th, 6th and 8th

  • Overview: Objectives, Design Question of Fine-Grained Urban Design
  • Conceptual understanding of atmosphere and urban design [writing]
  • Presentation of Urban Design and Parametric Design , student projects and SA+UD
  • Documentation of the site across scales: city, Campus, neighborhood (Superilla) and urban room [plans, site model] + RFQ studio group 
  • Readings/ Theory discussion
  • Design Process: Social Interaction and Urban Ecology Student Project Tools: GIS VIZ Tool – selection, study method, test use [Discussion, Analog and digital parametric Models, Design Books]  2 person teams  + Urban Design Exercise, Barcelona and Superilla context for tools
  • Choose traditional site documentation role
  • Kevin Nute: Nature and Architecture
  • **everyone install latest Elk  – Friday Grasshopper tutorial [Elk or Fundamentals] 

*    Supplemental Rhino/Grasshopper tutorial   [Fundamentals or Elk]  Thursday at 7pm

  • Kickoff meeting and discussion with School of Journalism and Communication Dean  Juan-Carlos Molleda 
  • Readings discussion
  • Discuss each partner group interests as problem and possible things to measure (and previous student tool to use)
  • Briefly look at each group project documentation and answer questions
  • Virtual Site visit to UO campus sites
  • Elk and GUS VIZ TOOL Elephant 🐘 demo
  • Later (On-site data collection)

Week 2, M-W-F, January 11th, 13th and 15th

  • Pin-Up (+ review site planning documentation)
  • 2 person: Select GIS and Sensor (sound, light, level, camera, etc)  [ownership of tool], Philip brief check-in
  • Elk
  • Campus planning visit with Aaron and possibly Liz

 

  • Virtual Site Visit: On-site data collection [UO campus data mapping]   Off-Site data research, existing data [diagrams]
  • Elk GIS VIZ TOOL (Elephant) together

* Supplemental Rhino/Grasshopper tutorial, mesh tool  [GIS VIZ] 7 pm

 

  • Setup shared on-site database and maps for indicators [One Drive or Google Sheets]
  • Review UO Campus Analysis (can be done in groups or together)
  • Desk crits

 

Week 3:  W-F, January 20nd and 22th

**No class Monday, Jan 18th, 

  • Elk 3D – zline tool.
  • Meeting with each group
  • Premiere
  • [Site Map data mapping] site visit (students on own)
  • Material Affect, conditions to performative scenarios
    • [Case study: Ned Kahn, Herzog de Mueron, James Corner, Paricio Clotet] Cataloging – Holl
  • Desk crits
  • Tool to Programming Analysis, Test Mass [Campus planning line diagrams, bullet points]
  1. Project Synthesis, System development, Weeks 4-6

Week 4: M-W-F, January 25th, 27th and January 29th

  • Part I Presentation and Review with stakeholders (Dean Molleda / UO Campus Planning)

Overview Part II

  • Selection by team of sites within Campus [drawing and models]  3 person teams
  • Selection of team role: urban design, envelope or urban architecture
  • Documentation neighborhood master plan [plans, digital model]  studio group 
  • Urban Analysis Tool application autonomously to urban design, building envelope and urban architecture, ex. urban interface, material affect and circulation, design ‘unit’ [urban planning and urban design guidelines / tool suggestion] individual
  • Programming refinement [bar and pie chart diagrams, 2D and 3D diagrams]
  • Ladybug Grasshopper plugin use and or Arduino use (when applicable) ind / group input

*    supplemental GH plugin and workshop

Crits 

Week 5: M-W-F, February 1st, 3rd and 5th

  • Review objectives, Briefly discuss CLT (Person #3 in group?), Maximum building area (4 stories)
  • Pinup / desk crits

 

  • Urban Analysis Tool Development, assess application during design process and or life of project and scale of application
  • Scenario studies, conditions of the material affect over time (measured phenomenon at site) [story board catalog of conditions as scenarios of material affect (big idea to filter such as Envelope/”Aura”]
  •  Urban Architecture, envelope and attachment (‘pheno/geno’ relationship) [wall sections, wall axonometric, wall detail, unit/system positions over time]

 

  • Meeting with Mike Harwood, University Architect and Stephen Maher about CLT and circulation
    • Energy (net-zero), CLT and mass wood construction

 

Week 6: February 8th, 10th and 12th

  • Review
  • Desk Crits
  • Part II Review

III.  Urban Architecture Development, Presentation, Weeks 7-9

Week 7: February 15th, 17th and 19th

  • Rendering / model shots of affect
    …interior moments. Feelings. 260 Warehouse SD book link pg 41
  • 3d parti as massing / forces (sources of phenomena)

 

  • DESK CRITS TODAY
  • Design Approach: Analysis tool to Design
  • / Site Scale Person: Design Development [moments: 1/8” sections and axons; Animation: aerial fly in or walking street view; 1/16″ site sections (with collage / timeline?) ]
  • / Envelope Person: Design Development  [1″ wall section; 1/2″ wall module (a floor); 1/2″ axon/iso (exploded?)]
  • / Interior Building Scale Person: Design Development [3D parti diagrams, 1/8″ plans, 1/8″ sections, interior perspectives, Massing model  [physical model] test materials: acrylic or wood; Animation walkthrough]
  • OVERALL PRESENTATINO: Urban Analysis Tool Presentation, story board, video or interactive design [various media]
  • WHAT DO YOU THINK?!
  • Pinup / Desk Crits

Week 8: February 22rd, 24th and February 26th 

  • Design Development: from unit to system
  • Analog to Digital Parametric Design Development
  • Final Integrated Models, 1/8” [model] source materials, test techniques
  • 1:1 models mockup, 6” [digital axon?] source materials, test techniques
  • desk crits

Week 9: March 1st, 3rd and 5th 

  • Pre Final Review
  • desk crits (design development and design communication consultations)

Week 10: TBA

  • Final Presentation

[drawings and models via Premiere, website, blog post] tbd

*some items to be submitted after final review

–       Virtual Studio Dinner and Happy Hour

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