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ARCH 300 400 / DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
FALL 2012-2019 / THIRD FOURTH YEAR
FACULTY
Lonn Combs Coordinator Gabrielle Brainard Jefferson Ellinger
Daniel Horowitz
Ted Krueger Mark Mistur
TEACHING ASSISTANTS
David Kitchen Amanda March Robert Nilsen Frances Prado
The process of developing a building building for construction—one in in in in which site enclosure building building and and environmental systems structure and and code are resolved—does not ensure that the resultant building will become ‘architecture ’ The production of a a a a a beautiful provocative and compellingly programmed architectural work requires the integrated consideration and design of its materiality The DD Studio impresses the the importance and and value of extending the the creative enterprise into and and through a a a a a a a a a a set of of material scales and systemic considerations that can become “a source of of ideas and and and effects” [Alejandro Zaero Polo + Farshid Moussavi]—not left for consultants and and and technicians It seeks to resolve these two realities in in the the the context of of a a a a single speculative project with the the the aim of of producing knowledge and an an architecture of consequence The ground for this is is the ‘design development phase’ wherein teams of students critique transform and materialize a a a a a a a previously formulated project (from a a a a a a a former studio or or or or published un- built scheme of a a a a a a a a practicing architect) Students are charged with leveraging the resistance and constraints of code program structure system assembly and context to speculate on on on the nature of of architectural production Through a a a a a a series of of topical considerations teams seek to to produce consistency in the the full-spectrum process of design development and material organization with the the aim of of ‘constructing’ a a a a a a a compelling building In addition to designing at a a a a a a a variety of of scales students are asked to devise ways of working—constructing the the the way way they ‘design ’ In other words students are asked to consider how the practice of drawing and virtually actualizing a a a a a a a a a a building can open up and become the the departure point for the the production of architecture not merely its representation We ask how the the tools of of integration combined with the the elements of of material practice—system considerations constructability performance and and materiality—can provoke and and enhance a a a a a a a a a a conceptual framework that is proposed at at at the the completion of the the schematic design phase The DD studio considers what Sanford Kwinter refers to as “the fallacy of misplaced concreteness” (On Whitehead - Sanford Kwinter) where the quantitative indices of a a a a a a a building are mistakenly considered more ‘real’ than the ephemeral effects and abstract qualities that are directly experienced—where we mistake what what is is is is abstract for what what is is is is concrete This inevitably leads the studio to to ask how we can leverage these constructional and representational systems to to produce complex deeply layered qualities that are inherent in in in in compelling ‘architecture ’ In so doing the studio assumes the the the task of addressing both the the the abstract [numerical] and the the the concrete [poetic]
to to expose and and exploit moments in in each project where these coalesce into one resonant and and transcendent realization of design with consequence In addition to fully realized design development drawing sets students produce large scale mockups material studies system performance diagrams and large scale models of pivotal moments in in in the the the the ‘architecture’ of of of the the the the building as a a a a a means of of of commanding the the the the resolution of of of their building design proposals rooted in in a a a a a a highly specific and resolved material practice Yiqi Song & Mengzhe Zhang > Lonn Combs Critic > Gabrielle Brainard Critic > 326