Design begins
with the site. (At least in my world it
does) Architecture is a poetic response
to place, and circumstance.
Today we kicked
off the summer 2016 Design + Build studio, and naturally, we began by analyzing
the site. We spent a portion of today’s
class measuring, drawing, and observing the site conditions for this summer’s
project.
Students always
seem to immediately grasp the necessity of having accurate site information
with dimensional relationships, but I am also interested in understanding the
more transient aspects of the place.
Where is the
sun, and how does it move? (This alone could be an entire project)
How do people
move and occupy the site?
Where are the
view corridors and potential relationship?
What else makes
this place a place? What makes it
unique?
What are the
latent aspects of the site, and how can they be revealed?
These questions
will hopefully encourage students to think deeper about the site, and
eventually lead to a design solution that is a response to the specificities of
this place.
How can our
design exist here, and nowhere else? Can it engage? Create place? Reveal?
And so today it
began with the SITE. Very soon it will
move to the IDEA.
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