It looks like we will have some visitors, at least for a time.
You should start your presentation with your title and the three sentence statement. Then- with as little said as is possible and nothing said about anything but architectural ideas and the facts that make them apparent. You will be cut off if you say, "I wanted..." or any other first person reference while talking about the project. Reading the project statement is acceptable. Bringing the project to life through your presentation of it is imperative.
We ALL will start pinning up at 13h00. We'll pin up in the front two rooms on the first floor. EVERYONE should be pinned up in the front first floor rooms at 13h15. We'll do a quick walk through, then we'll start at 13h30.
13h30
Chelsea
Andy
Cameron
14h30
Luis
Christina
John
Frank
15h30
Katie
Nichole
Eddie
16h30
Phil
Jordan
Ryan
Cynthia
17h30
Brittney
Edgar
Jeff
We'll just put the work in the studio and leave after we're done. We'll come back to it Tuesday to clean up and pack the models. If you are not going to be there Tuesday then you will need to have someone take care fo yoru part of the clean-up and packing for Lubbock.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Work
Work Hard. Make smart decisions. You're not alone. Here's a screen cap of my designs for one block of 34th Street.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Tuesday - Teacher Crit and Clean Day
On Tuesday Marti and I will share with you some of our work and we'll do a cursory clean up of the studios. Let's meet at 13h00 on Tuesday and be gone by 16h00 with the studio cleaned, cards and keys turned in, and your critiques of our work shared.
I'll show you my designs for Lubbock's 34th Street (to be voted on in a bond election in November), my redesign of a tidal island in Long Island Sound for a new U.N.H.Q. (honorable mention competition entry), my stadium for The Los Angeles Pacifics in Santa Monica (second place competition entry), a design for a boating museum on the Seine in Paris (I was beat by our Professor Chris Taylor in that competition), my Civic Center in Curtis, NE (the town and school don't know I designed this for them), design for wind turbines on the TTU campus (being considered by the Chancellor and President), and my design for a campus lawn between the TTU admin and SUB buildings (nobody who parks in that lot I'm replacing likes this thing- which is the university administration).
I'll try to convince Marti to show her redesign for Galveston Island, her High School in Houston, her floating park in San Francisco, her Hannover study abroad project, and her new project researching the effects of water depletion in the Ogallala aquifer on towns on the High Plains.
That sounds like more than it will be. A lot of the new renderings we both have have never been seen by anyone. We'll just show a few images of each project- enough to present the narrative.
I'll show you my designs for Lubbock's 34th Street (to be voted on in a bond election in November), my redesign of a tidal island in Long Island Sound for a new U.N.H.Q. (honorable mention competition entry), my stadium for The Los Angeles Pacifics in Santa Monica (second place competition entry), a design for a boating museum on the Seine in Paris (I was beat by our Professor Chris Taylor in that competition), my Civic Center in Curtis, NE (the town and school don't know I designed this for them), design for wind turbines on the TTU campus (being considered by the Chancellor and President), and my design for a campus lawn between the TTU admin and SUB buildings (nobody who parks in that lot I'm replacing likes this thing- which is the university administration).
I'll try to convince Marti to show her redesign for Galveston Island, her High School in Houston, her floating park in San Francisco, her Hannover study abroad project, and her new project researching the effects of water depletion in the Ogallala aquifer on towns on the High Plains.
That sounds like more than it will be. A lot of the new renderings we both have have never been seen by anyone. We'll just show a few images of each project- enough to present the narrative.
Monday Schedule
We'll all pin up by 13h15 in the two crit rooms on the first floor. You should put everything on the wall and in front of reviewers that you think helps build the project narrative. We'll go through from 13h15 until 13h30 getting the wall looking good. Here is what was sent to the potential reviewers:
CoA@TTU Montréal Summer Studio 2009
PROJECT REVIEW
Monday 27 July 2009 at 13h00
McGill SoA First Floor Crit Rooms
PROJECT STATEMENT
Urban Centre
at Place d'Youville, Montréal
How else dispose of an immortal force
No longer needed? Staunch it at its source
With cinder loads dumped down? The brook was thrown
Deep in a sewer dungeon under stone
In fetid darkness still to live and run –
And all for nothing it had ever done
Except forget to go in fear perhaps.
No one would know except for ancient maps
That such a brook ran water. But I wonder
If from its being kept forever under,
The thoughts may not have risen that so keep
This new-built city from both work and sleep.
Place d'Youville sits on the former Little St-Pierre River waterfront edge of the old city. It is akin to Canal Street in New York- once a brook, then a canal, then a sewer, then paved over. The studio site is a through block hole in the northern edge of the Place. Under the place in front of the site lies the ancient sewer that will tie the project to the Archaeology museum at the other end of the sewer. Under the site lies the foundations of the former city wall. The Parliament of Canada once sat ablaze in a riot in the Place. On the south side of the place, outside the old city, sits the Grey Nun's Hospital, the generator of the skewed secondary grid in the city's fabric.
The project program is generically speaking an Urban Centre. The studio, whose focus is urbanism, is the last in a sequence that starts with representation and moves through form, program, structure, and envelope before getting here. Each student, through a careful reading of the site and its surroundings in highly contextualist terms, has come to a particular position on how the building and the city will meet and how the project is shaped and will shape event structures in the city.
CoA@TTU Montréal Summer Studio 2009
PROJECT REVIEW
Monday 27 July 2009 at 13h00
McGill SoA First Floor Crit Rooms
PROJECT STATEMENT
Urban Centre
at Place d'Youville, Montréal
How else dispose of an immortal force
No longer needed? Staunch it at its source
With cinder loads dumped down? The brook was thrown
Deep in a sewer dungeon under stone
In fetid darkness still to live and run –
And all for nothing it had ever done
Except forget to go in fear perhaps.
No one would know except for ancient maps
That such a brook ran water. But I wonder
If from its being kept forever under,
The thoughts may not have risen that so keep
This new-built city from both work and sleep.
excerpt from “A Brook in the City” by Robert Frost, 1924
Place d'Youville sits on the former Little St-Pierre River waterfront edge of the old city. It is akin to Canal Street in New York- once a brook, then a canal, then a sewer, then paved over. The studio site is a through block hole in the northern edge of the Place. Under the place in front of the site lies the ancient sewer that will tie the project to the Archaeology museum at the other end of the sewer. Under the site lies the foundations of the former city wall. The Parliament of Canada once sat ablaze in a riot in the Place. On the south side of the place, outside the old city, sits the Grey Nun's Hospital, the generator of the skewed secondary grid in the city's fabric.
The project program is generically speaking an Urban Centre. The studio, whose focus is urbanism, is the last in a sequence that starts with representation and moves through form, program, structure, and envelope before getting here. Each student, through a careful reading of the site and its surroundings in highly contextualist terms, has come to a particular position on how the building and the city will meet and how the project is shaped and will shape event structures in the city.
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