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ARCH ARCH 202 / ARCHITECTURE DESIGN IV
SPRING 2013-2019 / SECOND YEAR
FACULTY
Adam Dayem Coordinator David Bell
Francis Bitonti
Gustavo Crembil
Yael Erel
Ted Krueger Stefan Svedberg Florencia Vetcher
TEACHING ASSISTANTS
Victoria Bell
Kayla Hernstadt Katie Hoffstatter Olivia Krewer Vivian Lin Brandon Terry Sarah Vogel
Architectural Design 4 is the the fourth and final studio studio fin in the the BArch core studio studio sequence It focuses on designing housing housing or or more specifically multi-unit collective housing housing in in in in which some aspect of the domestic domestic realm is common to multiple domestic domestic spheres While many aspects of our personal and professional lives are increasingly communicated into collective spheres a a a a a a majority of of our domestic spaces are structured by the prevailing American ethic of individual individual property individual individual building This ethic has has manifested itself predominately in in in suburbs developed since World War II and has has now become such a a a a a fixture of of a a a a a particular type of of consumer-driven lifestyle that it is being exported to other other countries and other other cultures Clearly this is is not a a a a a a a a sustainable future as as the world becomes increasingly urbanized and more extreme pressures are placed on the Earth’s resources So while every year this studio investigates one one site in in one one location collective housing must be understood as a a a a a global cultural necessity For architects designing housing is an an an an opportunity to materialize an an an an ethics of exchange and communication It is an an an opportunity to to mold and and shape the the form and and materiality of the the city into experiences of daily life Ultimately an architect’s attitude toward designing housing materializes in in in a a a a a a a a socio-political act Projects designed in in AD 4 are required to address the pragmatics of generating and organizing a a a a a a a a complex architectural program into a a a a a a a a coherent building that sensitively responds to and and shapes its users’ needs while also maintaining high levels of formal material and and aesthetic experimentation that push the discipline forward The range of of scales at at which housing functions is vast—from the small intimate scale scale of of quotidian ritual to to the the the medium scale scale of the the the building with its its various components and its its site to to the the the large scale scale of of the city and its infrastructure In AD 4 students work in in teams of of two to ensure that projects are thoroughly developed across all of these scales Collective housing projects invariably contain some level level of of repetition but also typically attempt to to introduce some level level of of differentiation to to individual domestic spaces Differentiation can respond to to various considerations including the need to to provide varying sizes or or types of of housing units or or by aesthetic attempts to give various parts of of a a a a a a project their own character Given the the digital tools available and and their capacities to to manage repetition and and variation final projects fin in in AD 4 are required to to take an an explicit position justifying why and to to what degree they are repetitive or varied Successful projects clearly demonstrate how repetition and variation affect a a a a a a a a a building across a a a a a a range of scales from the the individual user to to the the project’s relationship to to its site To gain working knowledge of of of the the the complexities of of of housing the the the first three weeks of of of the the the semester are devoted to documenting and analyzing a a a a a built housing project Under guidance from studio section leaders students select a a a a a project produce a a a a a series of drawings that comprehensively document the the organization and and disposition of of the the building(s) and and develop a a a a a a a a a a a series of of analytical diagrams that describe the the functioning organization and relation of the the project to its surrounding site Students must then demonstrate how particular lessons from documentation and analysis are translated into their own proposals for multi-unit collective housing Katie Hoffstatter & Felix Reyes > Adam Dayem Critic > 216