ANSWERS: Project No. 2: 2D PRIMARY ELEMENTS: INTERRELATED SPACES

Project No. 2: 2D PRIMARY ELEMENTS: INTERRELATED SPACES

1) READING
Architecture – Form, Space and Order, Francis D.K. Ching
- Primary Elements: point, line, and plane

2) VOCABULARY
- Design concept or “parti”, visual weight, spacing, direction, overlay, design process, and abstract thinking

3) SUPPLIES
- Drawing Pad Paper, Triangle, T-square, Tracing Paper, Lead Holder and leads:

4) ASSIGNMENT
Design a series of Interrelated Spaces within your field, making one of these new spaces more dominant than the others. You are to have for review at least three overlays, each exploring different options based on your original point line and plane base. Additional drawings and models will be assigned in later phases!

Interrelated Spaces
Spaces that have a mutual relationship, both giving back to each other.

They have an intimacy or connection – what establishes this, say on a house to site? a person.

Assignment Design Problem – Project No. 2 – Interrelated Spaces

1. Problem - we can’t get from one space to the other!

2. Create a “Construction Line Base Drawing”
- adding the 4th line, the lightest weight line, construction line.
- Construction lines do not exist.
- Step 1: add construction lines to open box.
- Step 2: add (2) vertical lines centered on point, add (2) horizontal lines center on point, 1/8” apart.
- We are going to use this drawing for three overlay sketches.

3. The rules for the (3) overlay sketches: Subtraction and Translation

a.You must subtract at least one line segment from every existing line, (6) lines.

b.What is a line segment – any part of a line that is intersected by an existing line or construction line.

c.Any subtracted line segment must be translated (i.e moved orthogonally) to parallel an exist’g line, construction line, or edge of field.

d.(6) moves, if not you can’t subtract another, so that all of the spaces are connected to each other.

5) SCHEDULE

Week One
08.23.10: Discuss syllabus, introduce Project No. 1, ORID, assign pins.
08.25.10: Class Project No. 1 prelim pin-up and discussion, Introduce Favorite Place
08.27.10: Class Project No. 1 Final Due, introduce Project No.2,

Week Two
08.30.10: pins due, Favorite Place Final Pin Up, Project No. 2 prelim pin up / desk crits
09.01.10: Project No.2 Final Due and Introduce Project No 3
09.03.10: Project No. 3 prelim pin up and desk crits.