>>>Duration: 5 weeks
>>Space has no room;
time not a moment for us. We are excluded.
In order to be included-
to help our homecoming- we must be gathered into their meaning (we are the
subject as well as the object of architecture).
Whatever space and time
mean, place and occasion mean more.
For space in our image is
place, and time in our image is occasion<<[1]
Aldo Van Eyck
Place and Occasion
YONA FRIEDMAN: The
Flatwriter [2]
In the previous phases you
have defined the users and the program, as well speculated about some possible
scenarios. Design is not to be understood only in terms of imagination,
invention or production. It is inextricably related to negotiation. To design
means to negotiate the best conditions. The limitation of size of the micro-unit seems to limit its
configuration. However the orientation, the relation with other units in
combination with public spaces, as well as the openings (location and type of
windows), generate spatial and atmospheric diversity. Using the material extracted from the site, as
well as individual research and interpretations, you will be asked to re-develop
the micro-unit as a part of a complex
organism (the site and other programs)- and to generate a contemporary form of
habitation that allows its occupants, as well as visitors, to experience a
building and the city that operate between the public and the intimate, the
real and the imagined.
>>Architecture is
not just a matter of technology and aesthetics but the frame for a way of life-
and with luck, an intelligent way of life.<<[3]
Bernard Rudofsky
[P2.1] 2 Weeks - General proposal 1:100
This phase will start with an
investigation of innovative built proposals of collective housing. Each team
will be asked to explore one example (focusing on both the building as a whole
and one chosen unit typology) and to present it following the given template. A special
emphasis will be put on the relation between private and public spaces as well
as the role of the opening as a mediator between them.
Drawing upon the initial
research a speculative proposal will be developed as a scale working models
1:100.
[P2.2] 2 Weeks- General proposal development
1:100
[P2.3] 1 Week- micro-unit 1.50
Each student will be asked to
adapt one of the micro-units to the specific inhabitant (defined in the [P1.2]).
YONA FRIEDMAN: Ville
spatiale, 1959–1960. [4]
[1] VAN EYCK, Aldo:
“Place and Occasion” in VAN EYCK, Aldo: Writings,
pg. 471
[2] FRIEDMAN, Yona: “About the Flatwriter” in FRIEDMAN, Yona: Pro Domo, Actar, 2006, pg. 136
[3] RUDOFSKY, Bernard in PLATZER, Monika (Ed): Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky. Life as a Voyage, Birkhäuser, Basel, Boston, Berlin 2007, pg. 11
[4] Yona Friedman’s drawing: in FRIEDMAN, Yona: Pro Domo, Actar, 2006, pg. 54