Kara Tepe 2 Camp, Bird’s Eye View from Paréa Center, Lesvos Island, Greece, E.Mark Photo, 3.6.23
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The term “sketch problem” is used below to signify that the purpose of these exercises is to fluidly test ideas and concepts, raise questions, and to potentially challenge assumptions in the studio brief. [1]
SKETCH PROBLEM 1: Improvisational Shelter Part 1
SKETCH PROBLEM 2: Site Visit Field Trip Sketches And Diagrams
SKETCH PROBLEM 3: Improvisational Shelter Park 2 _ Duet
SKETCH PROBLEM 4: An Architecture Machine _ Octet
SKETCH PROBLEM 5: A Soft Architecture Machine _ Community
SKETCH PROBLEM 6: Transitional Shelter
SKETCH PROBLEM 7: Synthesis
SKETCH PROBLEM 8: Design Integration & Final Review
- As we approach midterm, the sketch problem approach exploration continues at a more detailed level of testing and proposition making, but the preponderant effort is still for the purpose of questioning and challenging the validity and effectiveness of solutions rather than finalizing them. Towards the final part of the studio the sketches yield way to more definitive resolution that is influenced and strengthened by the experimental work leading up to it. Whereas in an ideal world perhaps all things may seem possible, one of the challenges of design is to make trade offs, prioritize some objectives and potentially putting aside others so that conflicts are resolved. The end result will have worked though and tested in substantial detail a resolution of the competing visions of what is appropriate.