Esquisse 1and 2 Review

The location for our parity session on the 8th of April :  G03 – CLB2 (Time: 14.00-18.00)

Regards

Sanaz

Key text for lecture 5

Lecture 5

Six Myths in Contemporary Architecture

General References

Evans, R 1997, Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays, MIT Press, London.

Letherbabrow, D & Mosafavi, M. 2005, On Weathering: the life of buildings in time, Forth printing, Massachusetts.

Rowe, C & Slutzky, R 1997, Transparency. Birkhauser Verlag, Basel.

Ruan, X & Hogben, P 2007, Topophilia and Topophobia : reflections on twentieth-century human habitat, Routledge publishing , London.

Tuan, Y 1974, Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes and Values, Colombia University Press, New York.

Tuan, Y 2001, Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience, University of Minnesota Press, London.

Watkin, D 2001, Morality and Architecture Revisited, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Submission Folder Location

file://emustore.fbe.unsw.edu.au/Submit/ARCH7201-2011

Friday's studio question and answer- Message from Prof. X Ruan

Question:

Hi Xing,

I was wondering if it would be possible for you to post on the blog the expectations for Fridays crit? I am a little confused as to what exactly I need to base my critique on..  From the lecture I understood that I need to look into the social history of building, whether the building has been completely misunderstood by the inhabitants/observers, architect-client relationships, if building is understood now as purely object and if architect has instilled anything 'more' into it…. Am I on the right track?? Also does the building have to be pre-19^th Century, because I would like to use Federation Square?

Kind regards,

XXX

Xing’s reply:

Yes you are on the right track: you will need to look into the social history, the “social life”, of the selected building, which is one of the three that have critiqued on. In other words, this time you will undertake more than a formal analysis. As for the pre nineteenth-century case, it is my encouragement for people the look into a historical proposition for esquisse 2.

Hope this helps.

Xing

Lecture 4

Beyond Architecture

Key Texts

Codd, John (1990) “Making Distinctions: The Eye of the Beholder” in Harker, Richard et al (Ed) An Introduction to the Work of Pierre Bourdieu. Macmilian, London:132-159.

Foucault, Michel and Rabinow, Paul (1982, 1998) “Space, Knowledge and Power” in Hays, Michael (Ed) Architecture Theory since 1968. The MIT Press, Massachusetts: 428-439.

General Reference

Hirst, Paul (1993) “Foucault and Architecture”. AA Files, No. 26: 52-60.

Foucault, Michel (1975) Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Vintage Books, New York.

Bourdieu, Pierre (1984) Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Polity Press, Cambridge.

Bennett, Tony and etc. (1999) Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.   

Bourdieu, Pierre (1993) The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature. Polity Press, Cambirdge.

Jenkins, Richard (1992) Pierre Bourdieu. Routledge, London.

Stevens, Garry (1998) The Favored Circle: The Social Foundations of Architectural Distinction, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.

Gell, Alfred (1998) Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory, Clarendon Press, Oxford, New York.

Jean-Philippe showed me a book during the lecture break, which may be of some relevance:

Webster, Helena (2011), Bourdieu for Architects, London and New York: Routledge

Important Message re Studio Nominations

Dear All:

Further to our discussion before the lecture on Tuesday, we have decided to postpone the submission time and date to 9 am on Monday the 28^th March. In this way you will have the extra weekend to work on the two panels.

All my best,

Xing

Studio Nomination Requirements

Three preferred studios

From the 9 studios on offer, you are asked to nominate three in the order of your preference. Write one paragraph on each stating the reasons behind your choices. The limit is one A4 page write-up in font size 12, and single spacing, with no images.

Your drawings

On one A3 panel include your selected drawings of esquisse 1 (compulsory) and any other drawings from your previous studio projects that may support your studio program preference (optional). Plans and sections must be accompanied by a scale bar. Drawing titles and concise texts should be used to explain the projects. No copy-and-paste of other peoples’ designs is allowed on this panel.

Both sheets (one A4 and one A3) must be saved as one pdf document with the maximum file size of 2mb. The file name should be your full name followed by your student number. For example: JohnLittle_z1234567.pdf.

Failure to comply with the above requirements will result in our disregarding your preferences for your studio allocation.

Your studio nomination file must be placed in the submition folder on EmuStore by 9 am on 25 March.

Studio Synopsis

Arch7201 Research Studio

Ramin Jahromi + Shaowen Wang Studio Synopsis - Number of students: 12
Bridging Centre | Periphery?  Re-conception of a Train Station

The contemporary transport hub although originated from C-19’s conquest and mastery of space and time, is no longer just a node of circulatory system. From a mere “improvised shambles” in its 1830’s inauguration, railway station has been integrated into a web of motion, communication, organization, exchange and public works that is the lifeline of a modern city.  This ‘infrastructure’ creates a living condition of experiencing endless spatial continuity and localized discontinuity simultaneously. The constant flux in-between the public and private realms accelerated by the network of transportation has, in the meantime, inflicted the continuous order of urban fabric and its social form. A kind of residual/empty spaces where there are no continuity, repetition or system, the so-called ‘drosscape’, become more dominating than the constructed urban fabric in the recent landscape of infrastructure.

For the third instalment of this studio, following Placing Motions (2009) and Staging the Public (2010), the Re-conception of a Train Station will focus on the architectural proposition for the spaces lying on the boundary between Centre | Periphery brought forth by a new train station and its transit networks. Students are encouraged to research on this edge condition and develop architectural + urban strategies that will either bridge, further isolate, or insert a new urban system into the vertiginous terrain accentuated by the juxtaposition of train station, railway, public domain + landmarks, existing urban fabric + circulatory system, and topography in Sydney.

2 exercises in 3 parts will be commenced after WK6. They will lead students to the final design proposal to be presented on the 3rd of June and submitted in bound booklet on the 10th of June. 

Students start by working in groups for the Mapping Exercise and Typological Analysis. Sydney as a city of infrastructure and the train station as a building type will be the focus. A list of benchmark projects will be provided in WK6. Fololwed by Siting a Typology Exercise in WK9, three stations in metropolitan Sydney are introduced as the project sites with each presenting a different site condition + urban context: Milsons Point – Lavender Bay Station, Redfern Station and Artarmon Station. Each student is encouraged to define and identify the Centre | Periphery conditions + their architectural elements based on the research of one chosen or assigned station. The idea is to have all 3 stations designated so the studio as a whole can benefit from working on the same building type embedded in three different urban contexts along one rail line.

Other than in-scale site models, conceptual models and drawings representing the particular characteristics, mechanisms, organizations and qualities of a city infrastructure; writings, 3D animation and/or film are all encouraged. Students will be asked to employ architectural knowledge, skills and discipline to carry on the research of one particular station. Informed by the critical study of the benchmark projects and with the Sydney infrastructure in mind, each student will propose a re-conceptualized train station from the given 3 sites. At the end of the cycle, a programme for a train station design positioned by a set of architectural + site planning strategies for Centre | Periphery dichotomy will be the main focus of the final presentation.

In session II, all efforts are to be focused on the design of a re-conceptualized train station. This part of the studio will run as an atelier.  Weekly attendance is crucial unless otherwise noted.  Since this is a project-oriented studio, diverse approaches in design and the tools to evaluate the competing forces in larger scale + public buildings will lead the weekly discussion and informal pin-ups. Guest critic of particular focus will join the atelier as often as possible. A structured timetable and weekly task will be provided before the beginning of session II.

Tim Greer Studio Synopsis - Number of students: 12

CULTURAL SPECULATION

Introduction

The city is ever-changing and can be thought of as an evolving organism: thriving and dying, receding and regenerating.  Regeneration is usually led by culture - predominantly by youth culture, artists or sectors of society who are not rooted in the past or wedded to precedent.

This programme focuses on a central part of Newtown (Newtown train station and environs), currently a reinvigorated and thriving part of Sydney. For this programme, the studio group's research into the area's contemporary culture, investigation into the evolution of the area, and analysis of both will provide the impetus towards an architectural proposal for the future function and vitality of this area. 

Informal events consolidate into institutions. The studio group will identify these 'informal events' such as park raves and illicit markets, and speculate on their cultural development into built form. Examples of this phenomenon:

- Chinese artists colonised Beijing's disused Precinct 798 to produce a major international arts centre 

- Small illicit bands of Christians grew into a culture embodied in cathedrals and monasteries

- Technicians sharing digital information coalesced into the internet.

Building Programme and Site

This is an arts and entertainment programme.The specific uses will be developed collectively by the studio, based on research and analysis. Examples of specific uses are: music venue, art gallery, anarchists summer school, drama theatre, flame-throwers bar, cinematheque. Each student will propose two uses for their architectural project.

The overall site is the Newtown Train Station and its environs, including the air space over the train line and the historic tram sheds, Hub Theatre site, the King Street Bridge spanning the railway, and the parcel of land bounded by Enmore Road, Station Street and the railway line. Students will select one of a number of interconnected sites on which to develop their architectural proposals. 

Students will be required to test their proposals against the prevailing planning controls (Marrickville and City of Sydney), and prepare an urban argument justifying their departure from the established controls.

Architectural Expression and Representation

Develop an architecture that is rooted in the 'now', but speaks of the creativity and innovation ('future') of Newtown.

Representation and architectural ideas are inextricably linked.

Students will be encouraged to use a form of representation that best suits their architectural idea.

Rob Brown Studio Synopsis - Number of students: 12

OVER THE BORDER

ARCHITECTURE FOR HUMANITY

A design studio taking a worldwide view of architecture and the challenging role architects can play to help communities in need. Within the context of a ‘social project‘ students will be exposed to the complex myriad of cultural and socioeconomic challenges that architecture of necessity entails. It is into this perplexing mix of globalisation, rapid third world urbanisation, climate change and the ever increasing occurrence of natural disasters students will be asked to design not for $ but for humanity.

Session 1

The studio will spend the remainder of session 1 investigating, researching and reflecting on the challenges, constraints and opportunities ‘social projects’ for disadvantaged communities face.

Students will select a recent project as a precedent study working in groups of two. This research will lead to the selection of a substantial design project chosen in consultation with the studio master and could include but not limited too;

Design competition for a prototype football, education and health centre in the slums of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Orphanage school for tsunami victims in Band Ache, Indonesia

Design competition for prototype housing for Aboriginals in Broome WA

Session 2

With a selected project, students will develop a brief and a design proposal. While the previous research investigations are critical to gaining a clear understanding of the issues, the design proposal will be seeking to develop the students’ capacity to search for meaningful architecture beyond the issues of functional problem solving and pure composition. This approach should lead towards the complex integration of architectural issues and an innovative solution in direct response to the needs of the community.

The studio process will be critical and rigorous with high expectations of further developing student design and presentation skills well outside the comfort zone of local sites, materials and technologies students often rely on.

Russell Lowe Studio Synopsis - Number of students: 12

FAME 3.0

In this studio group students are invited to propose self directed projects that depend upon the application of contemporary technology for their conception, method of enquiry, design, fabrication or evaluation. Such technologies, strategies and media might include (but are not limited to) parametric modeling, rapid prototyping, rapid manufacture, real time interactive environments from the computer gaming industry, film making, social networking and telecommunications.

The site for this studio group will be the area bounded by the streets Foveaux, Albion, Mary and Elizabeth. The acronym formed by the initials of these streets gives the studio its title (as discovered by Ray Brown). This site will also be used by the studio led by Ray Brown and as such we expect an ongoing, Architectural, dialogue between the two studio groups.

The research will be conducted in three stages:

The development of a ‘Problem Space’ in the form of a research matrix. This is a diagram that shows the key parameters of the student’s scheme with initial design responses that together form a series of hypotheses.

The definition of three experimental methodologies, three texts and three modes of representation to engage with three issues within the Problem Space. The notion of experimentation in this step is closer to that expressed by Gordon Matta-Clark … “an imaginative disruption of convention” … than to scientific experimentation. See: Matta-Clark, Gordon. Interview with Donald Wall. “Gordon Matta-Clark’s Building Dissections”. Arts Magazine. May 1976. Arts Digest. 74-79

Conducting, documenting and critically presenting the outcomes from the three experiments.

Frank Stanisic studio synopsis - Number of students: 12

Hybrid And Connective Housing

Hybridisation – the process of combining different varieties or species of organisms to create a hybrid; the mixing of atomic orbitals to form new orbitals suitable for bonding. Wikipedia

PREMISE

The contemporary city is in a constant state of flux with shifting cultural, social and environmental demands. Today’s prescriptions are tomorrow’s aversions. Tower and podium combinations are replaced by perimeter structures; private plazas by public parks; and office towers by linked fragments and sliced forms.

Housing is a form of cultural design, as important to society as the design of iconic structures such as event, arts and media buildings. More than any other form of architecture, housing responds quickly to cultural shifts such as demographic change, urban consolidation, global recession and climate change. In this respect housing is perhaps more important than celebrated icons as the living environment forms the launching pad for much of our lives in a digital age.

The studio draws together three strands of architectural design: the hybrid, habitation and linkage.

THEMES

The studio explores the emerging hybrid form and program in Sydney, with specific reference to the transformation of type; live work; long life: loose fit: low energy; the aesthetics of operability; and public interface. These themes will be explored by examining the changing nature of living environments and their potential to make connections to other uses; the public domain; and the water’s edge.

VENUE AND PROGRAM

The venue for the project is Barangaroo South, adjacent to Kings Street Wharf, between Hickson Road/Napolean Street, Lime Street and the harbour’s edge. The site will be calibrated in scale and scope to the ambitions and focus of each student’s investigation. The constraints are based on the original international competition brief. Existing controls can be set aside and redefined to establish a new urban future for the city. While the studio is anchored in the design of living environments, it encourages multiple uses (live, work and at least three other uses) within the site.

INVESTIGATION

The studio encourages a return to the diagram and frame as a basis for organization and the study of configuration. It goes beyond architectural instrumentality, adopting a performance approach with intensive digital and analog design testing and representation, and setting aside context as an increasingly devalued and inhibiting urban trait. The project will require the investigation of building anatomy, material, structure, building depth and climatic response to create an authentic architecture. It encourages the design investigation of a building fragment, rather than the comprehensive realization of an urban structure.

Ultimately, the studio encourages critical reflection; viral propositions, testing life experiences and perceptions while striving for innovation. It takes both a local and global perspective, drawing on the recent work in Australia, Europe and Asia.

‘Our experience of the contemporary city is one of partial views, fragmented and incomplete.’

Xing Ruan Studio Synopsis - Number of students:

Dream Home in the Metropolis?

Is there a dream home in the metropolis? What constitutes a home? To what extent does the architecture of housing contribute to it?

The background of these questions is the modern dilemma facing the Australian city, as well as a large portion of the urbanized world: the Australian dream home – a detached house on a quarter acre block, and the high-density collective living – multi-storey apartment and various other forms of attached dwelling, remain incompatible in our psyche. Yet the high-density collective living is one of the most critical measures of urban consolidation that ought to be anticipated and indeed planned to accommodate sustainable population and urban growth. In large metropolitan centres, there is no lack of density in collective living: to take the City of Sydney as an example, 73.9% of its dwellings are multi-storey apartments/flats, with another 4.9% made up by the semi-detached housing. But the scenarios of high-density collective living, either attached or in the sky, such as the compact size, the perceived lack of open space and privacy, as well as its affordability, do not meet the expectation raised by the detached suburban dream home. In its 2030 vision, the City of Sydney aspires to a series of honourable targets of 7.5% of all social housing, 7.5% of affordable housing, and a total of 48,000 additional dwellings. Assuming these targets can be achieved, they are at best a limited degree of success through “social engineering”, rather than a collective and willing trend towards making a dream home in the metropolis. No top-down “social engineering” imposed by the government and bureaucrats can succeed without the willing response from our everyday circumstances.  

  

This studio launches into an inquiry into what constitutes the meaning of home in the Australian context in particular, and the English speaking world in general. The inquiry is two-fold: on the one hand, it examines in the Anglo world the birth, development and meaning of suburbia in relation to the facts and myths of the dream home in this country. On the other hand, it looks into the multi-story and other forms of high-density urban housing throughout the European history, both on the continent and in England. The focus on both fronts is the modern development, that is, from the eighteenth century onwards. Dwelling on a learned and discerning inquiry, the studio shall test the efficacy, as well as the limit, of the architectural apparatus through the experiments of attached and multi-storey housing design. The ultimate goal of this studio is to explore the possibility of making a dream home in the metropolis.   

This studio shares the broad context of the Frank Stanisic Studio of ‘Hybrid and Collective Housing’, that is, the socio-cultural context of mixed-use live-work-pleasure urban proximity and the physical context of urban centres and peripheries of the city of Sydney.  

Catherine De Lorenzo + Lindsay Webb Studio Synopsis - Number of students: 18

People Live in Architecture -

The studio proposes to question the nature of dwellings for the aged, specifically the aged with some form of dementia (the loss of cognitive abilities in previously unimpaired persons). We will seek to develop a dwelling type recognising that some of the inhabitants shall require care in some form or another due in part to the presence of dementia. To this end the central themes of the studio will be care, treatment and research.

These themes will be considered not from the perspective of an institution such as a hospital/nursing home but from within the dwelling ie when care is required it shall be provided in the home. Treatment shall be considered as part of that care to which art and architecture shall play a central role.

The project will include a research facility however the research shall also be in-situ i.e. the project will facilitate the investigation, analysis and postulation of the needs to those suffering dementia. In this way the idea of a hospital/nursing home or institutionalised research facility is removed and replaced by a home that has  spatiotemporal continuity to an inhabitant's past.  A kind of living laboratory is imagined.

In keeping with the aims of the Dutch-based Humanitas Foundation, "intensive nursing home care …[is]  rendered in one’s own home. [An] Important starting-point in this notion is that supply of care is strictly based on the demand. What does the inhabitant want?… For Humanitas it is evident that in many cases the client experiences more ‘well being’ from a pet than from a nurse, more from a barkeeper than from a dietist and more from expressions of art than from a strict hygienic regime."

On an inner Sydney urban site, the studio shall demand a certain density involving a moderate to high-rise development, and will address ideas around:-

Social Mix

(De)institutionalisation

Age mix/segregation

Nature in dwelling

Home ownership

Attitudes towards work and ageing

Dwelling flexibility & Family

Design for needs across cultures, including Indigenous people

The ability or potential of art & architecture to operate in a caring capacity

Peter Mould and Helen Lochhead Studio Synopsis - Number of students: 12

The School As Community Hub

The purpose of this project is to re-think the proposition of the school in the urban environment and to explore the concept of a learning community.

The project is in two parts. The first part is research and analysis.

Students will research and analyse how the school sits within the urban context and can act as a community catalyst for social engagement - a meeting place.

They will also investigate the notions of the 21st century school education pedagogy and places of learning. How is a school different today and how does the physical environment shape the way we learn and engage in learning.

The second part is the design proposition.

Building on the research and analysis of the first semester, the proposal is to design a 21st century school in an urban Sydney location that acts as community hub by incorporating facilities such as library, gym, performance spaces and child care that can be shared with the broader community. The project will also allow for other complimentary uses on the site such as commercial and retail which serve the local neighbourhood.  The exploration of innovative models for the design of new schools in infill areas is a key imperative of the Sydney Metropolitan Plan. These projects can inform that debate.

Ray Brown Studio synopsis - Number of students: 12

F.A.M.E

Site: Centennial Plaza, bound by Foveaux, Albion, Mary and Elizabeth Streets in Surry Hills.

(FAME).

Located on the City Fringes at the crossroads between Central Station - Sydney's largest transport infrastructure hub, the density of the CBD precinct and the terrace + warehouse suburb of Surry Hills the site is exposed to a number of challenging urban conditions providing a rich context from which to draw upon.

Project: The project is a simultaneous investigation into the streetscape design/ design of urban precinct and the design of a high-rise office, residential buildings, and other uses such as hotels, cultural facilities, retail and transport infrastructure.

Background: Architectus prepared a redevelopment scheme for the subject site on the fringes of the Sydney CBD under the Sydney Local Environment Plan 2005. It was identified as a strategic site for improved public domain and enhanced development opportunities.

Initial Frameworks: Sydney Metropolitan Strategy Review 2036 and the Architectus Urban

Design Study provides the foundational base from which to debate, challenge, re-interpret, and re-design. Students undertaking this project are expected to do so. As a guide, an

Australian example is the Queen Victoria (QV) precinct in Melbourne (redevelopment of the

Queen Victoria Women's Hospital)

Premise - The premise for this project is urban complexity and connectivity, which aims to conceptualize, connect, and complicate the relation between street, place, work, habitat, transit and sky. It is intended as a challenge to the current notion of ‘workplace’ and ‘dwelling’ and to reconceptualise them by reconsidering the traditional notion of 'streetscape' and its figurative relationship to the ground plane.

Contemporary Framings: The project is framed by an awareness of design trends in the coexistence between workplace and places for living, vertical buildings and sustainability, optimal effective and efficient floor plate design. Australian examples include QV in

Melbourne and Santa Caterina Market by Enric Miralles, Barcelona.

Studio: The studio would involve group work to interrogate and analyse the precinct and it's particular spatial conditions. In pairs, students are expected to undertake research and prepare a series of propositions in master plan overlay format, which demonstrate an understanding of, and response to the spatial conditions identified on site.

Question about esquisse-1

Q: I am not quite sure what I should do for esquisse-esquisse 1 submission. It should be a design for a specific place with a specific design brief which will be supplied before Friday or it should be a prototype proposed by myself base on my twentieth-century modern provision? The design could be presented by Powerpoit or A3 pin up? 
Could you please give me more explanation about this esquisse-esquisse 1?

A:

The esquisse should have been determined with your studio master on last Friday after you have undertaken a self critique of your three presented projects and your understanding of the propositions they represent.

To put simply, you should, with the assistance of your studio master, have decide to take one of the three presented projects and their propositions as a ‘role model’, or put differently, an example, for you to do a sketch design, which can be of a different program. But the site, size, needless to say, shall be determined by you. As for the requirements, which again should be determined between you and your tutor as each project is different. Most of my students will do scaled free-hand sketch designs on yellow tracing paper; plans and sections for most of them would be 1:200 and 1:100. Most of them will attempt to produce some perspectives too. But again each project is different. Some students may use digital tools. I have requested my students to present scaled print-outs and pin-up presentations for this Friday.

Hope the above helps.

Xing RUAN, PhD

Professor of Architecture

Lecture 3

Key Texts

Tuan, Yi-Fu (1972) “Structuralism, Existentialism, and Environmental Perception” in Environment and Behavior, September: 319-331.

Eisenman, Peter (1971) “From Object to relationship II: Casa Giuliani Frigerio” in Perspecta, 13/14: 36-65.

General Reference

Kant, Immanuel (c 1952) The Critique of Judgement. Clarendon Press, Oxford.

Levi-Strauss, Claude (1963) Structural Anthropology. Basic Books, New York.

Baker, Geoffrey (1984) Le Corbusier : an analysis of form. Van Nostrand Reinhold, Wokingham, Berkshire.

Schumacher, Thomas (1991) Giuseppe Terragni, Surface and Symbol. Princeton Architectural Press, New York.

Chomsky, Noram (1966) Syntactic Structures. The Hague, Mouton and Co.

Perez-Gomez, Alberto (1983) Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

message 9 March from Prof. X Ruan

Dear All:

I wish to reiterate that I have asked all of you to consider a more conscious framework with which the three presented projects can be self critiqued on Friday. I have made it clear at the lecture that you do not have to use one of the three examples that I discussed at the lecture. If you can, you should develop your own. This self critique may prompt you to decide a new role model/proposition (if the selection of the three projects for last Friday now seem random, or they no longer withstand further scrutiny and critique. From there, a specific esquisse task can be determined for each of you through the discussion with your studio master on Friday.

I include here the key references for lecture 2 if some of you wish to probe into certain aspects of the discussion further:

REFERENCES

Eisenman, Peter (1971) “From Object to relationship II: Casa Giuliani Frigerio” in Perspecta, 13/14: 36-65.

Hejduk, John (1985) Mask of Medusa. Rizzoli, New York

St John Wilson, Colin (1995) The Other Tradition of Modern Architecture: The Uncompleted Project. Academy Editions, London.

Best,

Xing

Friday Presentation. Questions and answers

I am confused about the presentation on friday and have a few questions to ask you:

1.      How long will the presentation be?

XR: 10 to 15 minutes presentation followed by 5 to 10 minutes immediate response from your studio master.

2.      What is to be included in the presentation - design ideas, process, how the buildings work etc?

XR: Yes, your understanding of them. You must use plans or sections to help explain!

3.      How are we meant to "articulate your proposition, or your world view of architecture" when the presentation is meant to talk about the three buildings?

XR: These three buildings are your favoured ones, for they represent what you believe, hence you use them to articulate your ‘world view of architecture’.

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In regards to our 3 favored architectural projects to be presented on Friday, are you able to clarify what is meant by 'complex urban scale'.

One way of defining the building of complex urban scale is to see its connection to the exiting urban fabric in both physical and symbolic sense.

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