Description
DS1031 | 3B Studio | AMIGAA: Articulation and Tectonics II (was Dynamic Architectural Systems)
The second studio in the core sequence introduces students to the comprehensive design and development of a large scale, institutional building in an urban site. Advancing on the pedagogy established in previous studios (AMIGAA: architecture as mass, interiority, ground, aperture and articulation), this studio focuses on the design, development and tectonic of the building envelope and its ability to articulate contemporary formal organizations. Neither vertical tower nor flat mat, a more ‘spherical’ building typology is explored using a methodology of aggregated assembly, pursuing issues of part to whole relationships and the notion of an awkward or less coherent whole. Assemblage vs. monolithic form, surface vs. mass, iconicity and image, the intentional obscuring of hierarchical mass, layered and graphic assemblies, tectonics and materiality constitute a range of concerns in the work. S