ABOVE || Presentation Boards
Project Descriptors
Moving Edges, Anchoring Curves,
Reflection, Reveal
Balance, Counterpoint, Connection
Dialogue, Resolution, Action
Moving Edges, Anchoring Curves,
Reflection, Reveal
Balance, Counterpoint, Connection
Dialogue, Resolution, Action
In the Age of Technology, Information, and Beyond, times have changed and will continue to change. Decisions ultimately are made by the person, and responsibility must be taken. Rather than dependence on governing bodies, independence from foreign bodies, humanity must be interdependent and personally act while cooperating with others.
This is a space that supports humanity's resolutions.
This is a space that is the bridge between duality: Conflict and resolution, edges and curves, opacity and transparency, impeded and connected movement, and outside and inside.
This is a space that requires intent to access, and demands persons to act for their journey.
There is no specific use, it is a space to support dialogue and decisions. It will support and develop new means of governing, inspire alternate forms of education, and stage cultural performance and action. The space serves as a framework for people to take responsibility for action.
BELOW || Studio Notes
Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia, create buildings of suspense, voids of mystique,
Steven Holl, stairs as elements, you can cheapen a view by showing everything,
removing items from an axis creates separation, axonometrics should be used to show 3D movement,
Peter Zoontor, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA),
consider connections in site, use entries, internal (people, activity), external (environmental, history, light), built environment, life comes from density, unprogrammed open space becomes unused open space, use colour in narrative storytelling, colours should be consistent, colours should be contrasted to direct and divert attention (building colour different from movement colour),
Frank Gehry's Art Gallery of Ontario, Moshe Safde's Vancouver Public Library, Merrick Architecture's City Square Vancouver, Semiotics (symbols in design), structure as tensile response to site and form,
Rem Koolhaas' Illinois Insitute of Technology, Daniel Libeskind's Royal Ontario Museum, pragmatic aspects as concept drivers and not just for function, theory should be the vehicle and not concept alone, experience at the ground level, leaving negative space (off-site) to positive space (on-site), architecture should have landscape design concepts and not just offload to consultants, objects versus spaces, avoid static images and include people, textures, mediums
Steven Holl, stairs as elements, you can cheapen a view by showing everything,
removing items from an axis creates separation, axonometrics should be used to show 3D movement,
Peter Zoontor, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA),
consider connections in site, use entries, internal (people, activity), external (environmental, history, light), built environment, life comes from density, unprogrammed open space becomes unused open space, use colour in narrative storytelling, colours should be consistent, colours should be contrasted to direct and divert attention (building colour different from movement colour),
Frank Gehry's Art Gallery of Ontario, Moshe Safde's Vancouver Public Library, Merrick Architecture's City Square Vancouver, Semiotics (symbols in design), structure as tensile response to site and form,
Rem Koolhaas' Illinois Insitute of Technology, Daniel Libeskind's Royal Ontario Museum, pragmatic aspects as concept drivers and not just for function, theory should be the vehicle and not concept alone, experience at the ground level, leaving negative space (off-site) to positive space (on-site), architecture should have landscape design concepts and not just offload to consultants, objects versus spaces, avoid static images and include people, textures, mediums
Designers for Presentation Guidelines
Massimo Vignelli, Burton Kramer, Rolf Harder, Fritz Gottschalk, Hans Kleefeld, Stuart Ash, Heather Cooper