Selection of systems easy to be assembled and capable to present a variable degree of transparency starting from simple configurations.
Division in two study groups to start model making:
A_on crossed elements systems
B_on plates and panels systems
24 May 2015
Teamwork 8_Plates Systems Study
Analysis of Plates/Panels systems that compose simple modules: works by architects and artists (like Sol Lewitt) using triangles, open cubes, planks and massive cubes...
Selection of systems easy to be assembled and capable to present a variable degree of transparency starting from simple configurations.
Division in two study groups to start model making:
A_on crossed elements systems
B_on plates and panels systems
Selection of systems easy to be assembled and capable to present a variable degree of transparency starting from simple configurations.
Division in two study groups to start model making:
A_on crossed elements systems
B_on plates and panels systems
18 May 2015
Mortise-tenon joints
These two joints can be used for our connection,it's simple and wo already discussed about them last time.The link below shows all the joints.
16 May 2015
Teamwork 7_Building System Features
Confrontation and discussion on the case studies, analysing their junction systems to select examples to develop considering our needs.
According to the concepts considered basic by the team, the system should:
_give the possibility of various configurations in angles, forms, inside/outside skins
_be composed of light elements easy to handle
_allow an easy assemblage
Furher investigations will be carried on to verify the possibility of using only wood, including the junction elements.
The work goes on with junction studies and modelling of prototypes in small scale.
According to the concepts considered basic by the team, the system should:
_give the possibility of various configurations in angles, forms, inside/outside skins
_be composed of light elements easy to handle
_allow an easy assemblage
Furher investigations will be carried on to verify the possibility of using only wood, including the junction elements.
The work goes on with junction studies and modelling of prototypes in small scale.
8 May 2015
A new category: Plates
A construction elements category has been added to our list: Plates. Two dimensional
panels or boards that could be either structural or not, be massive or with different transparency degrees, made of one or more materials...
Talking about plates, we should immediately focus on De Stijl. Bruno Zevi describes Gerrit Ritveld's architectures "levitating and diaphanous (...) they seem to excuse themselves to occupy an urban area, they in fact don't create an obstacle".
A very clear example is the Sonsbeek Pavilion, originally built to exhibit sculptures in Arnheim (1955), then rebuilt at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo (1965).
The same principles you find in his object design, for Zevi "using Ritveld's furniture (...) you retrace its genetic sequence and assemblage element by element with an extraordinary clarity". The Steltman Chair (1963) shows a minimal occupation of space.
In the open landscape plates could be used to define spaces. Monika Gora's in the Garden of Knowledge for the B01 Exhibition in Malmö, Sweden (2001) creates enclosures to delimit inner, outer and in-between areas.
A description of the project can be dowloaded on the architect's website. Other pictures and info here.
Zevi quotes are from Poetica dell'architettura Neoplastica, Einaudi, Torino 1974.
Talking about plates, we should immediately focus on De Stijl. Bruno Zevi describes Gerrit Ritveld's architectures "levitating and diaphanous (...) they seem to excuse themselves to occupy an urban area, they in fact don't create an obstacle".
A very clear example is the Sonsbeek Pavilion, originally built to exhibit sculptures in Arnheim (1955), then rebuilt at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo (1965).
The same principles you find in his object design, for Zevi "using Ritveld's furniture (...) you retrace its genetic sequence and assemblage element by element with an extraordinary clarity". The Steltman Chair (1963) shows a minimal occupation of space.
In the open landscape plates could be used to define spaces. Monika Gora's in the Garden of Knowledge for the B01 Exhibition in Malmö, Sweden (2001) creates enclosures to delimit inner, outer and in-between areas.
A description of the project can be dowloaded on the architect's website. Other pictures and info here.
Zevi quotes are from Poetica dell'architettura Neoplastica, Einaudi, Torino 1974.
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| Monika Gora, Garden of Knowledge, model and detail (photos by Monika Gora from www.landezine.com) |
7 May 2015
6 May 2015
Teamwork 6_Focus on Details
We decided on focusing on a series of building details either on the already selected case studies or on the new
ones
_foundations and connections
to the ground
_assembling and junctions
_transparency vs opacity
The team is going to analyse
them in relation to the functions (rest point, info point,
observatory along a path) and to the approximate dimensions of our small
architectures. The research aims to find out practical solutions with a clear link to
the construction system in order to compare and discuss them during the next meetings.
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| Crossing elements + Massive blocks Tetsuka architects, Woods of net, Hakone, Japan 2010 |
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