Files organization
With reference to the NYLstudio activity till February 01, 2008

Main folders

PhaseI-NYC
PhaseII-Surfaces
PhaseIII-Building


Sub-folders

In folder PhaseI-NYC create two sub-folders:
NYC-Visual
NYC-Virtual
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In folder PhaseII-Surfaces create the following sub-folder:
Surfaces-Patterns


Sub-sub-folders

In the sub-folder Surfaces-Patterns create more sub-sub-folders:
Pattern analysis
Pattern geometry
Pattern perforations


Files

In Pattern analysis create the file:
Pattern components

In Pattern geometry create the files:
Pattern rotation
Pattern repetition
Pattern overlapping
Pattern shifting
Pattern scaling
Pattern trimming

In Pattern perforations create the files:
Lines analysis
Laser cut

Episode 2.4 - Pattern perforations

Finalize and complete your transformations.
Update and keep in order your prints.
You should have, on 11”x17” paper sheets, a complete set of explorations, which contains:
- Original pattern, analysis of its parts, rules and underlying geometry (at least 1 page);
- Set of drawings with application of rotation, repetition, and overlapping (at least 1 page for each transformation);
- Set of drawings with application of shifting, scaling, trimming and their combinations (at least 1 page for each transformation);
- Analysis of lines and parts to reach a successful laser cut of some of your new patterns (at least one page for each drawing).

Out of all your selected series of transformations, choose 3 final drawings.
Analyze your patterns lines, elements, parts, areas in order to apply perforations.
Think about your pattern as the resulting adjacency of solid and void.
Compose the three selected drawings on one cardboard sheet of 18” x 32 “, and cut them out with the laser cutter machine.
Choose a white cardboard with the appropriate thickness.

While choosing the three drawings, start to think about their 3D potentials. Import them into 3DSMax program.
Create a new file for each drawing.

Due Friday, Feb. 01

Episode 2.3- Pattern and geometry

Continue to apply transformations to your selected series.
You have 3 sets of drawings exploring operations of 1-repetition, 2-rotation, and 3-overlapping.

Implement, within each set, combined possibilities of shifting, scaling, and trimming.

On 11 x 17” paper print the following:

Series of 2D drawings where you are to explore repetitions, rotations and overlapping of elements through shifting;

Series of 2D drawings where you are to explore repetitions, rotations and overlapping of elements through combinations of shifting+scaling;

Series of 2D drawings where you are to explore repetitions, rotations and overlapping of elements through combinations of shifting+scaling+trimming;

Use Autocad 2007-2008

Due Wed, Jan. 30

Episode 2.2- Pattern and geometry

Isolate and redraw the single elements of your original pattern.
Create your individual sets of geometries as sequences of parts.
Try to uncover the underlying geometry as 2D figure. Your selected pattern contains rules of repetition and multiplication.
What is the inherent principle according to which the single module proliferates?
Reveal the rules, tiling strategies, layers and constraints, which are at the basis of the selected geometries.
Apply different ways of repositioning, combination and transformation of single elements to new entities, forming new patterns of complex organizations.

Particularly, you should have a set of drawings exploring operations of:

• Repetition
• Rotation
• Overlapping

On 11 x 17” paper print the following:

Series of 2D drawings of your single components. The original overall pattern should always be present as background figure, as reference;

Series of 2D drawings where you are to explore repositioning, combinations and transformations of single elements through repetition;

Series of 2D drawings where you are to explore repositioning, combinations and transformations of single elements through rotation;

Series of 2D drawings where you are to explore repositioning, combinations and transformations of single elements through overlapping.

Use Autocad 2007-2008

Due Mon, Jan. 28
Class projection

PHASE 2: Surfaces

Episode 2.1- Pattern analysis and geometry

You will search and analyze 2D patterns, and the evolution of their geometrical systems.
Explore the following fields:

- interior design, industrial design

- ornaments in architecture and art

- objects, furniture, lighting

- pavement, tiles, wall coverings, wall paper

- fashion, textile, fabrics

- nature

- science, mathematics

- culture

• Collect 10 different digital images of patterns applications. Compose all the 10 images on a paper sheet of 11”x17”. Comment each image with a short explanatory caption (materiality, field of application, designer name,..ect.).

Print the 11”x17” paper sheet.

• Choose and exactly redraw one favorite pattern as a 2D figure using Autocad 2007.
  Start to observe the single elements that are composing the whole patterned figure. Draw your pattern selection as line drawing (black and white) and print on an 11”x17” paper sheet.

Scale to fit page.

Books consultation:
Go in the CoA Library and consult a list of selected books, reserved for our class:

The Pepin Press, Agile Rabbit Editions, www.pepinpress.com

· Weaving patterns

· Lace,

· Embroidery

· Ikat patterns

· Floral Patterns

· Mediaeval Patterns

· Renaissance

· Baroque

· Rococo

· Patterns of the 19^th century

· Art Nouveau Designs

· Patterns of the 1930

· Chinese Patterns

· Japanese Patterns

· Islamic Designs

· Persian Designs

· Turkish Designs

· Elements of Chinese and Japanese Design

· Bacteria and other Microorganisms,

Schmidt P.,Tietenberg A., Wollheim R., Patterns in Design, Art and Architecture; · ISBN-10: 3764371846 · ISBN-13: 978-3764371845

The world of ornament

The World of Ornament, http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/search/result/1.htm

· ISBN-10: 3822821942 · ISBN-13: 978-3822821947

Due Wednesday, Jan 23

Episode 1.2 VirtualNYC

Set up a team of 4 people.
Select from the web source (MySpace, uTube, iGoogle…) one video-clip per student, a total of 4 videos per team. Each video-clip: 2 min. to max 5 min. length.
Each team should have a smooth digital movie by composing the 4 selected short video-clips, with a max of 20 min. total length.
Each team will choose one of the following topics:

-People flow, movement, walking, shopping, working, leisure, any activity or dynamics….

-Spaces: interiors, inside, protected, hidden, big, small, dark, bright, old, new….

-Spaces: exterior, outdoors, open, covered, empty, full, rare, dense…

-Buildings: façade, structures, components, presence, materials, adjacency, verticality, horizontality…

Media requirement: Windows Movie Maker
Save your final movie into the folder called: virtualNYC

Due on Fri, Jan. 18
Class projection

Phase 1: Diagramming the site
Episode 1.1 VisualNYC
Start to get familiar with the city of New York. We will analyze the territory of Manhattan, one of the five neighborhoods in NYC.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/neighbor/neighbor.pdf
http://www.ny.com/sights/neighborhoods
http://www.mustseenewyork.com/neighborhoods.html
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eguides/nyc.html

Choose and explore 3 (three) of the following:

• City grid, districts, circulation north-south-east-west, street-systems, subway-system, tall buildings, important public buildings, horizontal voids, vertical voids, hierarchy of infrastructural systems, vertical and horizontal connections, access-exit to the city, bridges, tunnels, boats, paths of specific destinations, existing green spaces, congestion, densification, rarefaction, events, programmatic bands-stripes, layering of activities or of traces, people flow, cars flow, movement, in different hours, during the day, at night, courtyards, open spaces, residual islands, images, brands, signs, advertising, water, waterfront conditions, views, night life, day life, entertainment, attractions,…etc.
• Feel free to add and discover other conditions in the city.

Compose and print your research on a total of 6 (six) color pages in 11”x17” format.
Represent your research using:

• Collage of images, pictures, detailed images, simple given diagrams, simple mapping drawings, or any visual technique that could be useful to represent a city condition.
• Add some explanatory captions, short text or titles if necessary.
• Pages Layout is at your choice.

Save your final 6 pages into a folder called : visualNYC
Start to built-up a digital folder called: virtualNYC.
Collect all information, images, texts, materials, videos, and more you will use for this assignment into this folder.

Due on Wed, Jan. 16
Class pin-up

NYL (New York Living)

NYL (New York Living) is the Studio that will focus on the design of residential units in New York City.

We will explore the potential of information technology for the generation of dynamic organizational structures on the urban and architectural scale.

Implemented into the contemporary urban scene of New York City, the Studio will focus on innovative living-forms and will search for living modalities that are malleable enough to adapt to the changeable individual’s life-style.

We will analyze recent forms of social transformations, continuous re-inventions of the relation with the urban context, and uncovered possibilities of space perception.

Phase 1: Diagramming the site
The diagram is the beginning, is the key drawing that contains the entire project. The diagram expresses the idea of the project precisely. We will try to understand what a diagram is, working on a conceptual reading of the project-site and analyzing real conditions in a creative way.

Phase 2: Skins, surfaces and light

Manipulations of surfaces will intercept, trap, re-direct natural and artificial light, leading to new redefined spatialities.

An oriented surface, thought the skin design, will be affected, defined or dissolved by the movement of light/shadow across the interior and exterior spaces.

Through light, we will develop a comprehension of given “enclosures” by blurring their spatial boundaries, leading to a new redefined building expression.

The approach to this phase aims to apply the idea of the building skin as representation and communication.

The affect and the material used to construct these affects are interconnected. We will explore several key-conditions related to skin performance: sensation, experience, material organization, transformation, variation, modulation, geometry, pattern, texture, specific material choices and resulting architectural affects.

Phase 3: Integration

We will design a residential building in NYC with different types of units. The building will be a town-house and it will result from the combination of one-floor apartments with duplex-apartments, as synthesis of the previous phases.

The units should be interconnected in order to configure inhabitable, dynamic, interchangeable, and flexible organizational structures.

Parameters :

- Site constrains and site diagrams

- Given units modular dimensions (ex. 1, 1 1/2, 2 modules)

- Horizontal and vertical (stacking) combination of the units

- Variety of solid/void, in/out spaces

- Sectional interlocking possibilities

- Idea of adjacency between units, between nearby buildings

- Optimal floor plan study

- Structure, skin and material implementation.

Requirements:

Proceed by constructing both physical and virtual models and drawings according to the different episodes of the assignments. Develop spatial construct through a reciprocal series of 2D and 3D transformations using both computer generated and material projections.

3D Studio, Autocad, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat.

Other requirements discussed in the syllabus.