Basic Architecture Studio A (Fall)
: 1st Year Undergraduate Studio
Students learned design fundamentals with various exercises and an opportunity to experience the process of design development from conceptualization though model making to the presentation. The series of design exercises include figure& ground composition, 3D composition called “Out of a Box,” and “use of precedents.” As a final project, the students designed a lifeguard station at Waimea Bay Beach Park. With this lifeguard station project, they experienced a cycle of design process from conceptualization through model making to presentation in front of a client as an architect. The final project was developed with the help of Captain Van der Leeden who is in charge of Lifeguard activities involved around North Shore and Mr. Jim Howe Jr. who is Honolulu's chief of lifeguards.
DETAILS
- Hyoung-June Park & Student Works
- Completed
- School of Architecture
- Honolulu, Hawaii
- University of Hawaii at Manoa
DESCRIPTION
On a 11” x 17” vellum, students are to make a ¬gure+ground composition of the space of the city using their own creative three dimensional drawings based upon a selected section of Nolli’s maps.
Student works: Sean Nishioka, Aaron Denton, Rebecca Weatherford in counter clockwise
02. Out of the Box
In the history and theory of architecture, the below nine basic components illustrated from the top view have been heavily employed for the sources of systematic architectural design development. The given components are not limited in two-dimensional shapes, instead, they should be considered to be a three-dimensional object in space. Furthermore, various geometric operations on each component and the di¬fferent orientations of the component are expected and encouraged in synthesis. In plain English, when we see “I” shape from the top view, we can’t come to the easy conclusion that “I” shape would be a wall or column or beam. It means that you need to imagine or create its three-dimensional entity and its usage in design.
03. Study of Architectural Precedents
04. Lifeguard Station Design
1) Students should come up with the design solution for making the station functional for saving people, but at the same time making itself as a harmony with its surroundings. 2) The students should ¬nd out the design solution for making the lower level as an interface for providing transitional experience between a beach life at the Waimea Beach Park and everyday life in the outside world. This level should avoid becoming a visual obstruction to people at a beach. 3) The station should provide a comfortable public accessibility to the lifeguards attention while minimizing the potential of prolonged distraction from unnecessary interaction with the public.
Our understanding of where we live
is not so philosophical but rather pragmatic
Understanding urban environment with quantifiable measures has been the source of debates
Well then becomes the one of heated discussions … now possiblly the one of main trends