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| dear all, here are some suggestions for each of you based on where you are and the reviews last week. FOR ALL: please send me your library manifestoes. if you realize that your manifesto needs some evidentiary support now is a good time to quickly set up your argument, especially if it has changed from where you have been. generally i think we lack this 2 statement intro across the studio. what is the status of the library as an institution, what are the opportunities for it once it is collaborating with mbta, contemporary nature of public space or of storing and retrieving information. and then how does your project tap into the potential you describe. all of you need to give me some qualitative images of the interior of your project this weekend, these could be collages or renderings...but they need to bring out the atmosphere of your project. For some go bys on this - I am a big fan of Josep Luis Mateo's collages. He uses collage (a kind of combination of rhino massing with more material images and scalies) to design...makes them before his 3d model is all rendered and complete - and that is why these are useful for him. Bring in the materials, the quality of light and some real people...you want to filter them somehow, but most importantly it is much better if you find your library of scalies (photograph each other in the right pose from the right angle or find a photographer whose work you like...or a movie...and cut out come people) than to use some generic rhino or illustrator character. the important point here is that you need to make these images before your project is resolved...think of them as an image campaign, or a postcard from your library before it actually exists. Also if you don't have this drawing - and many of you do not - you need to have a 3dimensional or a 2dimensional explanation of your programmatic organization. I want to see all three of these by Monday. I will go clockwise around the studio and i want you to see each others comments: // Andy - do not add sticks to the facade that touch the ground. I could have killed you when I saw all of those sticks totally dumbly attached and totally perpendicular to the ground too. The choice you make because you are running out of time makes me think that you are not understanding me. You really need to develop the narrative of the project - why do we need the landscape...I think that it is pretty cool...but in order to really develop it you need to be clear on what is and what is not the ambition of your project. I think the plan was getting better....you need to draw those sections again, and also please please look at some real section drawings. You need foundations...cannot just stop at the line of the site ground. In your sections you need to differentiate between the tectonic elements...your floors don't just continue to become your vertical partitions. I would try two different ways of making enclosures on the interior of your project: one could be those scripted sticks, but they have to be scripted to produce different situations and patterns, and they either have a different curve on the bottom and in the floor that they are connecting between or they are at an angle and connecting two same or offset curves (they are not straight), or the enclosures are more 3-dimensional objects...so something like a big egg or 3d elliptical object that sits in your landscape and maybe protrudes through the ceiling...this would be more like OMA's agadir project...that has a big circle serving a real enclosure function. Your roof cannot be just a dumb plate. You need to become clearer and FASTER about resolving everything, and do not fear complexity. If you build up the complexity of the project step by step it will be easy to pull of and resolve. // WORK WELL - AND SEND ME YOUR MANIFESTO, YOUR PROGRAMMATIC/ORGANIZATIONAL DRAWING AND YOUR INTERIOR IMAGES. (ps. forgive me my spelling mistakes if there are any - I am rushing to send you this) YOURS A. | ||||||||
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| how is everyone? i hope that you already received the global mail about our next week's schedule. i still want us all to meet on tuesday in a small pinup mode. it will be a working session, which does not mean that you are not printed and that you only begin to make progress on studio from 2pm onward. you all need to be printed and ready to talk, but you also need to be ready to do things as we go...that is, i will literally send you to your desk to make a model in 20 minutes and bring it back. or to test an aspect of drawing, print it and bring it back, so have materials, knifes, glue...around. you will need it. you need to absolutely have printed and good drawings of your program studies. i do still want to see 2 schemes...they can be variations on a theme different enough to be meaningful, or two radically opposed directions. you also need to have 4 massing model tests - 2 of those are to be related to the two schemes I mentioned above. be inventive and smart when it comes to finding the 'right' means to represent your massing...you can use corrugated cardboard, wood, pink foam, cast glycerin, plexi, just don't use all this at the same time. so for tuesday - your drawings of program and whatever library descriptions (based on real examples or graphic standards) need to be at a super high level. your models need to be excellent (thoughtful and well made) but they don't have to be as developed as your drawings. Please do not take this to me that you can just glue a few things together 5 minutes before studio, everything in design takes time, thinking and tinkering...you have to put that time into it. and only if you do, will you also enjoy it... don't make me have to beg you to be great! you have to want it! i hope that you have worked on studio every day since i saw you...smartly and steadily. do not postpone working on studio until tomorrow! I WILL KNOW, YOU WILL KNOW...AND YOUR WORK WILL KNOW that you did it. Now that you are in the studio with other studios, look around...talk to other students about work/life habits. you have to love what you are doing...and you have to care for it...and you have to keep a straight head about it... I am ok with you taking one day of the weekend off for yourselves...but you have to get back to studio before Monday, or it will be too late. ana | ||||||||
DON'T PANIC (panic is counterproductive) - TRY TO RELAX without "relaxing" your intensity and without loosing your LOVE FOR ARCHITECTURE. Let these problems torture you until you have solved them, don't let the schedule torture you into stressing about it all and just trying to check studio off the list.
WORK LIKE DEMONS....
Ana
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U keep this stuff????
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