28 Nov 2008

Venice: Projection

Theatre series by Sugimotofrom Theatres by Sugimoto


Housing & Public Space


Frame

In response to the work you have so far undertaken, design a public or private/domestic room for your chosen site.

Consider your room in the context of the built landscape of Venice. Use exploratory and considered drawings and models to develop your room's quality of space, its materiality, lightness, views, light and shadow. Consider who might occupy the room and what use the room is put to.

At this stage you should not be overly concerned with the constraints of site planning, your room should be an inceptive and ambitious design approach that draws on your intuitive response to Venice and its population, and begins to draw together ideas for your proposed programme.

You should work on site studies and individual projects simultaneously. Some of the site analysis can be done in groups (sunlight study, models, detailed survey etc) but it has to be described as such in your portfolios. All your individual project work needs to be individual.

collage by Mies Van Der RoheMies Van Der Rohe

Armature

Write a maximum of 100-150 words about your design approach. This should cover aspects of procurement strategy, identification of key users, construction logistics. This is the first draft of the strategic Whys and Hows of your proposal.

Things to consider

- choice of site
- choice of programme
- choice of third element to programme
- end-users
- management and procurement

Montage*

Use the work you have already carried out and are in the process of working on:

1. Aperture - Domestic Space/Public Space
2. Exposure - Virtual Venice, Split Sites and Simultaneous Spaces
3. The Campi of Venice

to inform your proposal, interests and ideas, and also provide material for drawings and other outputs.

* In film-making, a montage is a sequence of successive images or short shots. In photography, montage is a technique for combining separate elements into a single image, similar to collage. In both, a new meaning or whole is created that does not exist in the individual parts.


In film, light leaves its traces on the sensitive emulsion, imprinting on it permanent shadows. The manipulation of two realities - the superimposition of two stills, both traces of material realities - produces something that is already outside the logic of "realism." Rather than represent reality, it produces a new reality.
Beatriz Colomina, Privacy and Publicity

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