Studio Syllabus Excerpt

course schedule

Week 1 Site Graphical Studies
June 1 First Class Date

Week 2 Site Graphical Studies / Form, Surface, & Use Models
June 8 Major Review of Site Graphical Study

Week 3 Form, Surface, & Use Models / Models, Diagrams, & Planimetric Projections
June 17 Major Review of Form, Surface, and Use Models (First Grade)

Week 4 Models, Diagrams, & Planimetric Projections
June 23 Major Review of Models, Diagrams, and Planimetric Projections
June 26 Last Class Day Before Break

Week 5 Models, Diagrams, & Planimetric Projections / Form, Surface, & Use Models
July 6 First Day of Classes Back

Week 6 Form, Surface, & Use Models / Site Graphical Studies
July 13 Major Review of Form, Surface, and Use Models (Second Grade)

Week 7 Site Graphical Studies
July 22 Last Class Meeting
July 27 Final Review (only projects that are A and B grades after 2/3)

August 5 Final Submission (Third Grade)

Schedule for Wednesday 3 June

10h00 to 12h00 - Drawing class meets at studio.
14h00 to 18h00 - Design class meets at studio.

Studio

We've been in the studio since 09h00 and have some keys for you all.  We'll be here until 12h30.  To get a key you will need to give us a 15$ (CDN) deposit, refundable when we return the key later this summer.  Magnetic cards for getting into the building after hours are 10$CDN (refundable deposit).

There are three t-squares up here.  They are first come, first served.

1) Site Graphical Studies

This diagram shows the approximate extents needed for your study.  The area to be included in these drawings is represented approximately by the inverted area.  Each drawing should show evidence of an individual investigation and interpretation of the site.  The drawings should not be merely a documentation of existing conditions and should engage the particulary palimpsestic conditions unique to the location.

A. X-ray Plan:  Beginning with the physical conditions of the site, develop a layered representation of built and un-built realities of the area.  The drawing is not limited to a single normative elevational datum or set of drawing conventions.  One or more notational strategies must be developed to synthesize various types and layers of information in the drawing – the emergence of unrealized relationships in site will be dependent on the successful (legible) interaction of the layers of the drawing.

B. Site Section MRIs:  Draw a series of sections through the site and immediate context at 10’-0” intervals.  The sections should be oriented perpendicular to Place d’Youville and should include spaces below ground.  The sections should each only convey the things that are at the cut, nothing beyond.

C. Unfolded Elevations:  Draw two “unfolded” elevations, comprised of both the elevations and facades (all vertical surfaces) engaging the site.  Each drawing will begin with a façade of an adjacent building facing Place d’Youville, proceed to the interior of the site and end with the opposite façade facing Rue Saint-Paul.  

Schedule (For the first day see below)

WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR TTU-MAP SUMMER 2009

Monday
14h00 to 18h00 Building Urbanism Studio in Session

Tuesday
Work Day

Wednesday
10h00 to 12h00 Building Surfaces Workshop in Session
14h00 to 18h00 Building Urbanism Studio in Session

Thursday
Tour Day

Friday
10h00 to 12h00 Building Surfaces Workshop in Session
14h00 to 18h00 Building Urbanism Studio in Session

First Day's Schedule : 01/06/09

We've got a busy day and three major things to do Monday. Make that four if you are in the ARCH4000 class.

Check out the weather for the day and dress for working around the weather- cool and cloudy with possible showers. We'll work around the weather and stay close to the schedule below. We will be outside whenever possible.

You will need your camera (if you have one) and your sketchbook and something to sketch with today. You will NOT need your computers.

11h00 Meet up at the Belvedere on Mount Royal. Meet inside the pavilion if is is raining.

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Break for lunch at 12h30.

Meet up at McGill SoA at 14h00. As you arrive go to the back of the first floor and look at the end of year exhibition.

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Break at 15h30.

Meet up at the project site, Place d'Youville, at 16h00.

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Break at 17h30.

The ARCH4000 class will meet again at the site at 19h00.

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We'll make the final break at 20h30.

Montréal Museums Day

On Sunday, 31 May, 30 museums will be free to the public.
Grant, Zach, Carrie, and I will be in the lobby of the Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal Museum of Archaeology and History, which is a focus of our studio study, at 10h00. We'll go to the Science Centre at 13h30 and we'll be at the Museé des Beaux Arts at 16h30 for a quick romp around the art.

The first venue visit is highly recommended.

Jeff, if you're coming along, your dad is very welcome both Sunday and Monday. We'll be mostly touring on Monday. Post to come about that.