100412 - positioning

A dynamic conception of architecture, which overcomes the traditional notion of buildings as a still, tectonic construct, allows us to think of space as practice. This involves incorporating the inhabitant of the space (or its intruder) into architecture, not simply marking and reproducing but reinventing, as film does, his or her various trajectories through space—that is, charting the narrative these navigations create.

- Giuliana Bruno
Atlas of Emotion, Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film

While the section drawings, animations, and perspective images you will be developing for the final review are representational, they are also operative. This work will continue to test ideas and position your project within a clear conceptual framework. Along with your written thesis, this work will support an argument for your project.

ANIMATION

Develop a new version of your animation. Track three noun-noun neologisms through the pre-midterm work (dunescape maps, unit/cluster development, landscape sunlight study, etc.), the light filter studies, the attachment / extension system, and the distinct spatial experiences of your observatory. Though the structure of the animation does not need to be linear, it does need to track a coherent line of thinking through the entire project.

Consider how the following filmic techniques can inform the animation:

• Speed: Is the camera moving fast or slow?
• Frames: What is being framed? Is there more than one image in the frame?
• Sequence: How might sequences play out separately or in juxtaposition? How are sequences manipulated by flashbacks, crosscuts, close-ups, and dissolves?
• Drawings: How are drawings panned, zoomed, and/or assembled?

Consider using short video clips combined with still images. Consider introducing sound. The camera is more than a tool to document space; it is a tool to shape space. 

SECTIONS - go here for examples of the final sections

Two 1/4” scale sections are required, one horizontal, one vertical. Sections must document as many different spatial experiences as possible. The vertical section must include shadows and scale figures. The vertical section may be drawn at different times of day or year to document changing lighting conditions. All sections must show deep space by calibrating line-weight and line-type.

vertical sections - Yokohama Ferry Terminal, Foreign Office Architects

horizontal sections - Bibliotheque de France, OMA / Rem Koolhaas