Stage 04
Assignment 04.01 – Affect


Project: The catwalk

You will design a small structure representing your fashion designer (brand).
It is a temporary space/building for fashion shows that adapts, relocates and reorients itself to changing environments, contests, places, views, use, and program.
Its contemporary conception engages materials and surface treatments.

You might consider:

- Your fashion item’s new grid as a regulating background;

- Your previous assignment on “7 elements assembly” (volumetrically, in plan, in section, constitutional elements, hierarchy, dominant and weakest elements);

- Patterns, all phases, particularly the assignment on “Structural patterns”.


Program:
Total area of building: 2100 sq.ft.

The total area should include:

Catwalk and sitting: 1000 sq.ft.
Backstage: 300 sq.ft.
Make-up/bathrooms: 150 sq.ft

Entrance: 100 sq.ft
Lounge/party room: 300 sq.ft.
Bathrooms: 150 sq.ft.
Jolly room: 100 sq.ft. (may vary)

Max exterior Height: variable from 12’ to 18’


Process
Starting from the previous assignment on “7 elements assembly” and from your fashion item’s grid, reconsider the assembly of your elements in plan and in 3D.


In your design, you must include:

Circulation systems. Diagrams of paths and transitions spaces serving the building inside and outside.

Entrance/exit options that establish relationships between indoor and outdoor spaces.

Diagram of densities (unit/voids). Combinations and spatial variety of solids and voids. Voids could be considered as surfaces (ex. ground floor garden, outdoor paths, open terrace or deck), or volumes (covered terrace, space underneath or above, voids within the building). You could involve the space below or above the volume, so that this space could pass underneath, flow into your building, or be treated vertically.

Façade treatment. Skin and structure. Structural patterns, cladding or sunscreens. Differentiated surfaces. You must integrate the Pattern’ exercise.


Parameters:
Modular dimensions; hierarchy of parts; adjacency of spaces; organizational possibilities;
Horizontal and vertical combinations of parts of the building;
Sectional interlocking possibilities;
Spatial relationships;
Commodity and delight — ease of entry into the building and circulation among the different zones; accommodation of natural light and airflow; views; generosity and sufficiency of space; surprises; unusual use of materials; surface manipulation.

Requirements
Process 2D drawings using Autocad 2009;
3d investigations and modeling using 3D studio Max;
Physical Model .

Due Wed, Nov.19, 2008