schedule

Grit Studio Syllabus – ARCH 484_584_v2.0

TASKS, SCHEDULE, PRODUCTS

1. Documentation and Analysis, Weeks 1-3

Week 1: M-W-F, January 6^th, 8^th and 10^th

• Overview: Objectives, Design Question of Grit + 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, district, neighborhood (Superilla) and urban room [plans, site model] studio group

• Review Readings
• Philip to meet with groups: 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
• Review/assignment traditional urban design work individual
• Grasshopper tutorial [Elk or Fundamentals]

*    Supplemental Rhino/Grasshopper tutorial   [Fundamentals or Elk]

• Gather and Pinup
• Kickoff meeting and discussion with private developer Philip Farrington, CDC

• Site visit to Island Park
• On-site data collection

Week 2, M-W-F, January 13^th, 15^th and 17^th

• Pin-Up (+ review site planning documentation)
• Define atmosphere and design idea (problem): what, who, why important
• Select GIS and Sensor Tool (sound, light, temp/humidity)  [ownership of tool] 2 person teams
• Statistical Research with comparison site [Climate and Infographics ]   2 person teams

• Research of structural types including steel, concrete and mass timber (CLT). [text and diagrams]
• Site Visit: On-site data collection [Superilla data mapping]
• baseline data collection at 260 Ferry Street, Eugene
• Off-Site data research, existing data [diagrams]

* Supplemental Rhino/Grasshopper tutorial  [GIS VIZ]

• Setup shared on-site database and maps for indicators [Google Sheets]
• Review City of Springfield Analysis
• Tool use, ‘Analog Parametric’ or ‘Digital Parametric’ approach [Application using existing and new graphics from tools]  see methods outline of indicators
• Desk crits

#    studio dinner

 

Week 3:  W-F, January 22^nd and 24^th

**No class Monday, Jan 20^th,

• Group review (+ review Springfield Planning documentation)
• On-site data collection [Superilla data mapping] site visit

• Material Affect, conditions to performative scenarios
• [Case study: Ned Kahn, Herzog de Mueron, James Corner, Paricio Clotet]
• Tool application to multiple sites  [Application to existing and new graphics from tools]
• Tool to Programming Analysis, Test Mass [zoning line diagrams, bullet points]
• Design information interface and urban intervention [Situated technology /  app]
• Desk crits

1. Project Synthesis, System development, Weeks 4-6

Week 4: M-W-F, January 28^th, 30^th and February 1^st

• Part I Presentation and Review with stakeholders (Developer / City of Springfield)

Overview Part II

• Selection by team of sites within the Springfield CDC block development [drawing and models]  3 person teams
• Selection of team role: urban design, envelope or urban architecture [envelope discussion – 3 projects Piano, Tschumi, Clotet Paricio and Zaera-Polo reading]
• Documentation neighborhood master plan [Master plan, site plans, CNC site 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]
• Grasshopper plugin use and or Arduino use (when applicable) ind / group input

*    supplemental GH plugin and Arduino workshop

• Desk crits

 

Week 5: M-W-F, February 4^th, 6^th and 8^th

• Review objectives
• 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 conditions as scenarios of material affect]
•  Urban Architecture, envelope and attachment (‘phenol/geno’ relationship) [wall sections, wall axonometric, wall detail, unit/system positions over time]

 

Week 6: February 11^th,13^th and 15^th

• Review Objectives
• Desk Crits

• Part II Review

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

Week 7: February 18^th, 20^th and 22^tnd

• Design Approach: Analysis tool to Design from the Bottom Up
• Envelope: Design Development  [1:1 drawings and models]
• Urban Design: Design Development [1/8” drawings and models]
• Urban Architecture: Design Development [parti diagrams, plan, section, perspectives, 3D model, 1/8” model]
• Urban Analysis Tool Presentation, story board, video or interactive design [various media]
• Integrated model mockup, 1/16”, Foam core or other [model] test materials
• 1:1 models mockup, 6” [model]
• Review zoning requirements by city and developer [ Meeting with Troy Doss]

• Place Branding Presentation, Scenarios and Attachment finalization [Identity and Identity over time with participation, Diagrams and Drawings]
• Pinup / Desk Crits

Week 8: February 25^th, 27^th and March 1^st

• 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” [model] source materials, test techniques

• desk crits

Week 9: March 4^th, 6^th and 8^th

• Pre Final Review

• desk crits (design development and design communication consultations)

Week 10: TBA

• Final Presentation

[drawings and models via Powerpoint, blog post] tbd

*some items to be submitted after final review

–       Studio Dinner