>>>Duration: 2 weeks
>>There is no
architecture without action, no architecture without events, no architecture
without program (…)<<[1]
Bernard Tschumi
Architecture and
Disjunction
Cedric Price, Diagram mapping program and community for Inter-Action Centre London
1977 [2]
>>To what extent
could the literary narrative shed light on the
organization of events in
buildings, whether called "use",
"functions", "activities" or "programs"? If writers could
manipulate
the structure of stories in the same way as they
twist vocabulary and grammar,
couldn't architects do the
same, organizing the program in a similarly
objective, detached, or imaginative way? For if architects could self-consciously
use such devices as repetition, distortion, or
juxtaposition in the formal
elaboration of walls, couldn't
they do the same thing in terms of the
activities that occurred
within those very walls? Pole vaulting in the chapel,
bicycling in the laundromat, sky diving in the elevator shaft?
Raising these
questions proved increasingly stimulating:
conventional organizations of spaces
could be matched to
the most surrealistically absurd sets of activities. Or
vice
versa: the most intricate and perverse organization of spaces could
accommodate the everyday life of an average suburban family(…)<< [3]
Bernard Tschumi
Architecture and
Disjunction
Very often the significance of
program had been neglected and
reduced to mere functional aspect and list of specific requirements. However, program involves complex readings and
reciprocal relationships. Taking into consideration the existing conditions and
the explored potentials of the site, as well as the requirements of our
clients/users we will seek to elaborate different strategies for organizing and
accommodating these matters and data as a program-
i.e. to explore how these issues can be processed spatially. Thus, we will
focus on program in terms both of
spatial and functional conditions, as well as events, scenarios, or
atmospheres. You will be asked to develop mixed organisms that respond to definition of hybrid buildings, as these “enjoy dense and fruitful atmospheres, which
favour the natural appearance of unexpected activities”[4].
The scale of the proposal and the
diversity of uses are up to you. However, it should be based on the premise
that at least 50% of its area will be dedicated to housing.
Bearing this in mind, we will
take as a point of the departure a pilot initiative launched in July 2012 by the
New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD)- adAPT NYC. The aim of this program is to
develop a new model of housing adapted to the City’s changing demographics. It defines
so-called micro-unit that measures
25-35 m2, as an innovative apartment model which includes a kitchen
and a bathroom that are smaller than what is allowed under current regulations. [
>>(…)Sociability
The ideal hybrid feeds on the meeting of the private and public
spheres. The intimacy of
private life and the sociability of public life
find anchors of development in the hybrid building.
The permeability of the
hybrid makes it accessible from the city and the private use of its
services
extends its timetable to 24 hours a day. This means that activity is constant
and
is not controlled by private or public rhythms. Another use category is created,
a full-time
building.(…)
Programmes
The mixing of uses in a
hybrid building generates a potential which is transferred, as in a
system of
connected vessels, to those weaker activities so that all involved are
benefited.
Hybrid buildings are organisms with multiple interconnected
programmes, prepared to
house both planned activities as well as those
unplanned activities in a city(…).<<
Javier Mozas [5]
Henceforward you will be
asked to work in teams of 2, and to define and quantify different uses according to your mappings and
reflections on the site, existing and imagined scenarios, events, conflicts and
potentials.
Keywords: [scale]
[area] [high] [form] [materiality] [ambient conditions] [orientation] [atmosphere]
[cycle] [events]
> Catalogue of situations
and spaces + diagram of connections, interrelations and cycles
> Collage- using existing
examples (plan 1:100)
> Diagrammatic models of
the program focusing on interrelations and spatial conditions (1:200)
> First colonization of the site/ plan + section
1:100 + working models
[1] TSCHUMI, Bernard: Architecture and disjunction, MIT Press, 1996,
pg. 121
[2] in: GARCIA, Mark (ed.): The Diagrams of Architecture, AD Readers, Wiley, 2010, pg. 215
[3] Ibid. pgs. 146-147
[4] MOZAS, Javier: ’This is a Hybrid… and also this’ in A+T Hybrids II – Low-Rise Mixed-Use-Buildings FERNANDÉZ PER, Aurora; MOZAS, Javier, ARPA, Javier (eds.), pg. 5
[5] MOZAS, Javier: ’Mixed uses- A Historical overview’ in A+T Hybrids II – Low-Rise Mixed-Use-Buildings FERNANDÉZ PER, Aurora; MOZAS, Javier, ARPA, Javier (eds.) pgs. 23-25
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