For 10/25 + Mid-Review (11/01)

As you can see, I laid out the tasks for the next two weeks.  I tried to break them down, so they're a bit more doable.

Firstly, work on the second portion of the list for next week (aka 'Work On 18-25'). So, develop your chosen site, your massing approaches, your concept, etc. into an architecture (however roughly at this point) for next week. Do SCALE drawings (and know what scale you're working in). Consider its Program (if you're not ready to commit to one, describe several in diagram form). I have listed things to consider when working on your program diagram. (By the way, for those that were in class on Thursday, I'm nixing the photoshopping your model into a site photo. We'll get to that later.) Don't worry too much about the first part of the list for this week.

The reason is - the goal for October 25th is to have a version of all of the drawings, models, collages, renderings, etc. we plan to bring to the Mid-Review. They won't be final but they could be underlays and they will help you figure out how to present your project, what you're missing, what you don't need, etc.

For the week of Oct 25 - Nov 01, you will revise your maps (detail and large scale map) and work on any other site information you may need (like diagrams explaining why you chose that site, what your intervention does there, what is lacking, etc.) to make the jump into your architecture. And then you will also have to do more developed, revised, crafted, beautified versions of the second portion of the list.

Does this make sense? I know, lots to do, but you can do it! And please - let me know / post on the blog with Illustrator questions. I hope that tutorial was helpful, even if it was brief.

Aviva

O.M. Ungers designs for Bulfinch ! ?

Do you ever get the feeling that it's all been done before? I was doing research on 'Archipelago Cities' and ran across this image which looked suspiciously familiar . . .

Its actually a plan for Berlin by O.M. Ungers (1970's) for a 're-development' of Berlin in which the city's state of urban decay / depopulation became the ways in which Ungers suggested the city create highly urbanized components, surrounded by the open / un-built landscape, as a way of re-building the city while still taking into account the dwindling population / political constraints (Cold War).

Source, Abitare : City - Archipelago. Cities within cities #02

Color Palette Help

https://kuler.adobe.com/

Check it ooouttt!

This is sort of relevant.

Residents in the North End are upset about a new development 

http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/10/09/development-plan-for-waterfront-pavilion-pits-north-end-residents-city-officials/9QkB006KsrsdpqXZbXTTrL/story.html

Check this out! Online maps! Of all sorts!

http://www.boston-online.com/Maps/

Check it out y'all! Schedule until Mid-Review!

I will send you an email with this info as well - especially for those that couldn't be at the meeting tonight. Lots to do!!

Deadlines + Reminders

Hi all -

Did you guys go to the lecture yesterday?? I hope so! I'm sure it was very interesting and potentially inspiring. I also hope you all recovered from our wet and early site visit this past Sunday. My apologies for the terrible timing of weather. But please use your mapping themes as lenses to re-look at the site. And how did your 'notations' work out? Did they help you quantify, qualify, and locate the information in analysis? Please incorporate these into your mappings!!

Reminders!

• Cris: did you post the re-scaled maps? Everyone have them?
• Everyone: have you tested the scale of your mapping? Does 1"=100' work for 24" x 36 (in either orientation)?
• Everyone: Does 1" = 50' work for your detail map?

I would like you guys to all email me your progress in the next two days and I look forward to seeing them in more detail on Monday, October 8th from 6pm - 7pm. The BAC will be open on Monday, despite Columbus Day, so we can meet in the 320 Newbury Street building and I have contacted them about reserving a room for us for the hour. I'll let you all know where that will be. But for now, just expect to meet at 320 Newbury Street.

Deadlines!

• Send me your progress before Sunday night!
• For Monday October 8
• A revised Mapping at the larger scale (1"=100') (24" x 36" print out - can be multiple boards )
• A Detail Map at a smaller scale (potentially 1"=50' - but someone let me know how that works) paper size is up to your discretion

Lots to do in the coming days! Please send me questions, thoughts, issues you're having since our last crit / discussion. K? Anything else?

I'll email this info out to you all as well!

See you Monday!! Aviva

Thursday October 4th Lecture at the GSD

Hey Guys, except Aviva since she'll be gone,

There's a lecture this Thursday at the GSD which I thought might be a fun 'replacement' for Studio. Let me know if you want to go. I thought it might be nice to meet-up either before or after and possibly talk about our mappings / bounce ideas off of each other. Just a thought.

- Aaron

Thursday, October 4

6:30pm Piper Auditorium

"City as Territory as Landscape," a talk on the nature of outdoor spaces by Zürich landscape architect Günther Vogt. Vogt has collaborated with architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron on the Tate Gallery of Modern Art and the Laban Dance Center in London, as well as the Allianz Arena, Munich; he also worked with Gautschi Storrer on Zürich's Masoala Rain Forest Hall.