1.7 interior_exterior

PHASE 2: Explorations
Process 1.9: Joint between exterior and interior

You should by now have a series of 2D and 3D parties that delineate the conceptual and schematic idea of your project through a field surface condition.
This field condition is characterized by a differentiated system that develops tectonics through a coherent and rich rule based organization.
Similar as to the baroque or rococo interior spaces, the new luxury is based on a layered complexity between material, pattern texture, apertures to structure. All of these operate on different correlated scales that inform each other.

In conjunction with the development of your design process, you should concentrate on two (2) important interior space types, each with different characteristics.
Special attention should be paid to the following themes:
-The public resonance of the building, the exterior/interior correlation and expression;
-relationship landscape-transition-envelope-transition-interior space

1.A place of many experiences and events: experimenting, socializing, etc. (Reception, lounge, relaxation spaces..)
2.A space with a particular condition: experiencing oneself, one’s mind & body, relaxing (treatment rooms),
where both will employ specific scale, orientation, light, form, accessibility, view, placement (threshold, spine, core, in between, etc.), spatial relationship with other spaces (inside or outside)

The surface strategy implies operations on several scales. A local scale discusses surfaces partitioning, material and texture all important also for the next lighting exercise.
The global scale differentiates the envelope as surface enclosure of single units and then enlarged on the assembly of several units to form a cluster. The program and its spaces enter here on the scale of global differentiation and determines the phenotype of the overall organization. The program also necessitates to determine any connections or possible combinations and spatial variety of rooms, of voids, of voids and rooms.
Explore the ambiguity of voids as negative spaces and/or solids of the envelope surface.
Investigate ideas for clustering through patterns of voids or strategic voids: you could involve the exterior landscape, or consider the space in between rooms, or public spaces (communal, semi-public) flowing into your individual rooms. Instead your larger communal space (interior or exterior) could be a surface or a volume within the volume generated by the building.
Think about a diagram of densities (of units/of voids). The arrangement of the spaces could create completely secluded voids, or slightly open or completely open spaces (interiors or exteriors).
Study how the spaces interlock the units; idea of adjacency involving lighting conditions, air, transparency, opacity, protection, structure…, as organization of the internal and external spaces.

Exercise

Your drawings document and explain a particular nature or an architectural quality of those 2 spaces. Focus on strategies that imply operations of assembly of units and joining of spaces
Consider:
-not same repetition but similar with difference
-organization malleable
-gradient differentiation

Surface strategies:
-sharp edge, soft edge
-small grain versus large
-transparent versus opaque
-thickened versus thinned

Use the media technique that you feel more confident with.
The spatial narratives or intuitions will be printed in 2 color-pages of size 11x17, one page for each space. Space should be represented in plan, sections and through axos.

Complete and rethink your drawings through a parallel investigation with physical study-models. The models should not be the exact replication of your drawing. It should contain the idea of the sectional-volumetric exploration as another of the project’s generators.

Scale of the sectional model: > 1:100 (1/8"=1'-0").
Due on Fr, Oct. 23 Class review