Project 1: Famous people, Familiar Faces

Task:

In group of 5, you are to select one of the following Master Architects 

- Frank Gehry (Norton House l Gehry Residence)

- Alvar Aalto (Villa Mairea)- Frank Lloyd Wright (Fallingwater l Freeman House l Robie House l Kaufman House) 

- Mies van der Rohe (Barcelon Pavilion l Villa Tugendhat l Fansworth House)

- Le Corbusier (Curutchet House l Maisons Jaoul l Villa Savoye l Villa Stein de Monzie) 

- Robert Venturi (Vanna Venturi House)

- Tadao Ando (Kidosaki House l Koshino House l Benesse House l Azuma House)

- Adolf Loos (Steiner House l Rufer House l Villa Muller l Scheu House)

- Walter Gropius (Gropius House l The Alan l W Frank House) 

You are to produce a complete set of architectural drawings (site plan, floor plans, sections, elevations – scale 1:100) of the selected project (private residence) on A3 size tracing paper.

You are then required to investigate and formulate your findings into a set of 10 diagrammatic models (10 x 10 x 10 cm). The models should be precise and informative to express the analysis of the ideas hidden in the project assigned. You are to use no more than three colours and the models should be well crafted and beautifully made to be mounted on an A3 MDF board. 

SET UP FOR PRESENTATION

SKETCH MODELS

FINAL MODELS

 

Reflection:

In a group of five, which members are Sharon, Angoline, Chiew Nee, Jiayi and me, we chose Mies Van der Rohe famous Barcelona Pavilion, Spain to study for our fist project in studio II. Throughout the whole project, we managed to study the buildings with all sorts of reference from books, journals and internet.

To perfectly understand the concepts and ideas from the architect's perspective, we need to figure out every single detail available in the building, every single entity should not be ignored. We first understand the building the figure out the keywords for it. These models are made through trial and error which can represent the concepts most based on the study we had done.We collaborated well giving out ideas, diving our part to progress to our final models and boards.

This project let me understand precedent study is really important to actually understand how architecture works as well as how design should start based on how a master architect previously did. This helps a lot in my future design progress, how I should start and know where to develop from.