university of oregon - school of architecture and allied arts - department of architecture

analog / digital studio – arch 484/584 – prof. nancy cheng

Schedule

revised 10/25/00

THEME

CONTENT FOCUS

MEDIA / METHOD

PRODUCT

DATE

1 Community

Background research

Web report

Website including

site resources

 

2 Place

Site Analysis / Documentation:

Identify essential issues, deficiencies, potentials

Use digital photos, video, sketches and diagrams to represent the site on the web 

 

3 Place response

Scheming, massing as site response

Use sketches or Photoshop over site images to generate massing ideas.  Test block models in site by using images as backgrounds in FormZ.

 

Massing as 3D drawing or model

 

4 Designing through Stories

Technology enhancing community

Design a concept of how technology in the built environment can foster collective memory

 

Scenarios

Group storyboard, Individual photocollage or sketches

Final web-page  Mon. Nov. 13

5 Structural Order

Hillside design

Examine structural options.  wall, pier or column for vertical support; beams, arches or trusses for spanning. 

Framing plans,

Axonometric view of structure

Plans Wed 5pm,

Axon

Fri. Oct.27

6 Sequence

Experiential public sequence, program refinement, Focusing and editing

Study how light and enclosure shape a memorable spatial sequence

1/16” Plan, 1/16” Section, structural axon, animation

Wed.

Nov. 1

7 Collaboration

Composition with emblematic images, evocative texts, details to incorporate

Photoshop dialogue

Sequence of images as Animated GIF or QTVR (tentative)

Wed. Nov. 8

8 Color & Finishes

Interior development of room with technology enhancing community

Using a computer model, design a room that embodies the essence of gathering.  Create variants that show how color and material can shape the atmosphere.

Rendered views, room section & plan at ½”

Mon. Nov. 13 (video-review Nov. 15)

9 Materiality

Building Articulation, Construction systems,

 

Perception of detailing through the human body: views and touch

Draw an example of a well-designed connection and design your own detail that is related to it.  Digital transformation optional.

Physical or Computer Models, animation of construction

Nov. 22

10 Order

Façade composition, materials

Photos of models, photocollage

Elevation images

Nov. 29