Gus, Hey what's up with Blogger??? Your times keep screwing up every time I look at them. They keep showing different times. You might want to check into your template because it isn't showing your postings all the time. I checked last night to comment and it wasn't there. Maybe you should contact blogger to fix it!!!
Gus, I have a question programmatically. In your plan, I don’t see any spot for faculty? Do you have one somewhere or will they be housed in the current building? What do you envision in the administration area? I noticed this area is the same or smaller than your two bathrooms put together. I am wondering if you might want to reconsider these areas. The professors aren’t always in the studios with us and may need offices or somewhere to escape to. Keep up the good work!
dates combined: Feb 3 Very developed elevations with lots of detail. But I had to go back to the earlier posts to make sure I was not missing something. Your earlier visioning explorations were prolific, colorful, intriguing (even if I didn’t understand everything). And now I’m saying “is this the same Gus?”. Is this the same MOTION, CHANGE, TOLERANCE? The latest drawings are somewhat hard edged and tech looking. This is a issue we all have – how to make a graceful transition from colorful intuitive (Sketchup etc). to CAD. Perhaps color would help – most CAD systems will render the elevation in color and ditto the 3D views. But perhaps color is symptomatic of a more poetic/right brained way to think. Can you continue to think evocatively while using AutoCAD/Revit/ArchCAD, etc. Difficult issue. I hope to get some feedback from all in the studio on this. See also below under Jan 27. Can you marry both sides of your brain? I keep trying – changing media helps (from CAD to say pastel) – even Yoga! Good luck.
Site plan: well developed – especially the topography (contours) – the slope is important and can add interest. Developing this plan helps address the edge issues or at least can raise the challenging questions such as what to do with the east corner? Incidentally the site plan would really read better with shadow casting. Jan 27 "Fish" in plan: this is a promising urge. A fish has a head, body, tail but it is a unit. So this is a way to explore unity in an organic creature with parts (residential, educational, etc.) Also it is effective the way you recycle earlier work (climate, etc. ) on some of your boards. As you get closer to architecture, find the architectural equivalent to tolerance (urban context sensitivity), motion (pedestrian and traffic flows, building form “flow”?), and change (a new or changeable iconic treatment of the BAC exterior? – or perhaps loft space with variable interior configurations). Jan 24 Earlier comment: row house treatment (bays, color (?), and 4-5 story heights) of residence sympathetic to Boston residential form. Subsequent posts seem to loose some of this.
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Gus,
Hey what's up with Blogger??? Your times keep screwing up every time I look at them. They keep showing different times. You might want to check into your template because it isn't showing your postings all the time. I checked last night to comment and it wasn't there. Maybe you should contact blogger to fix it!!!
Gus,
I have a question programmatically. In your plan, I don’t see any spot for faculty? Do you have one somewhere or will they be housed in the current building? What do you envision in the administration area? I noticed this area is the same or smaller than your two bathrooms put together. I am wondering if you might want to reconsider these areas. The professors aren’t always in the studios with us and may need offices or somewhere to escape to. Keep up the good work!
dates combined:
Feb 3
Very developed elevations with lots of detail.
But I had to go back to the earlier posts to make sure I was not missing something. Your earlier visioning explorations were prolific, colorful, intriguing (even if I didn’t understand everything). And now I’m saying “is this the same Gus?”. Is this the same MOTION, CHANGE, TOLERANCE? The latest drawings are somewhat hard edged and tech looking. This is a issue we all have – how to make a graceful transition from colorful intuitive (Sketchup etc). to CAD. Perhaps color would help – most CAD systems will render the elevation in color and ditto the 3D views. But perhaps color is symptomatic of a more poetic/right brained way to think. Can you continue to think evocatively while using AutoCAD/Revit/ArchCAD, etc. Difficult issue. I hope to get some feedback from all in the studio on this. See also below under Jan 27. Can you marry both sides of your brain? I keep trying – changing media helps (from CAD to say pastel) – even Yoga! Good luck.
Site plan: well developed – especially the topography (contours) – the slope is important and can add interest. Developing this plan helps address the edge issues or at least can raise the challenging questions such as what to do with the east corner? Incidentally the site plan would really read better with shadow casting.
Jan 27
"Fish" in plan: this is a promising urge. A fish has a head, body, tail but it is a unit. So this is a way to explore unity in an organic creature with parts (residential, educational, etc.)
Also it is effective the way you recycle earlier work (climate, etc. ) on some of your boards. As you get closer to architecture, find the architectural equivalent to tolerance (urban context sensitivity), motion (pedestrian and traffic flows, building form “flow”?), and change (a new or changeable iconic treatment of the BAC exterior? – or perhaps loft space with variable interior configurations).
Jan 24
Earlier comment: row house treatment (bays, color (?), and 4-5 story heights) of residence sympathetic to Boston residential form. Subsequent posts seem to loose some of this.
Gus,
it would be nice to get feedback on the commetns during the week...
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