DESIGN
11: built environment
Overview:
You will demonstrate and apply your critical understanding of built environment design and its relation to people, the environment and cultures by:
- Investigating or deconstructing an existing Built environment an its designer
- Designing a sustainable or re-purposed design of the environment you researched
- Presenting all that you researched and designed in a website that suites the look and feel of your built environment.
- You will apply good design principles to your website design. We will use WIX for the layout and easy operation and allowing more focus on the creativity
Before
you Begin:
- Read
over ALL instructions
- Create
a folder in your account or in your Documents Folder and name it after the structure you are researching
e.g. "Alsop_smith" for now. In
this folder place a copy of all images and drag and drop all web links
you use.
- Set up a GDoc file to record (not copy/paste) your research and your sources of information. Everything must be referenced. Save images SEPARATE from the doc file.
Project Task & Targets:
You will research a built environment and create a website that promotes the space.
The website will have 4 pages:
- Page one, focuses on a built environment. Show images and describe the internal and external spaces /finishes. Outline what is innovative about the environment. Persuade your audience to want to care about the space. (see below under Initial Research)
- Page 2, focuses on the architect /designer. Include images and descriptions of the designer's philosophy or intent and examples from their body of work.
- Page 3, here you present a revision of the environment. Redesign it on paper or sketch up to suit a new function. You might turn a cathedral into a skate park. Include on this page .jpegs of your design AND a written rationale for your re-vision.
- Page 4 will be a glossary of terms you learned while investigating your architect. You should present 5-10 terms. All definitions MUST be written in your own words. Including visual examples (like a picture dictionary) is encouraged.
- Among your pages, you should present at least 10 images of your environment.
- Include active Links to your research sources.
Your Design will need to appear:
- simple and clear, organized using tables, layers or frames as appropriate.
- engaging to look at (without sacrificing clarity)
- as a reflection of the stylistic concepts of your chosen architect
- as a design challenge for you. Innovative.
Technically:
- Your pages must be organized in a folder with images in a sub folder
- The main page labelled index.html
- All links work and there is a link to every page from every page
Your Planning will be made evident through:
- 3 different layout ideas
- a concept map of your pages.
See recent
examples of successful sites here: Design
11 200X
To begin,
refer to the resource on how to build
a website (steps and videos)
Initial
Research:
Selecting one work
or artist / designers/ architect from below, gather and
record the following:
Details:
- Identify the name,
its creator(s), year(s) and era of creation, period (style), and
location of the (or a single) work.
Research
the Building and its Era / Period:
Use books and web resources. www.greatbuildings.com is a good place
to start
- What design era
was the structure created in Renaissance, Northern Baroque, Gothic, Modern, Post-Structuralist, Post-Modern?
- Illustrate and report on your
understanding of the work's purpose and significance... you might do this by identifying , describing, and illustrating the physical
characteristics that make the work unique, innovative, or historically
significant. Describe it externally and internally.
- GATHER
IMAGES THAT ILLUSTRATE THESE POINTS
The Designer OR Comparisons:
- Outline some basic information about three other works by your architect.
- Or, if the designer is unknown, ccreate a page that draws comparisons to three other buildings that serve the same purpose. E.g. Hagia Sophia could be compared to Renaissance Catholic Cathedral, a Mosque, etc.
- Indicate the details about each work and write a couple sentences that tells us something of interest about the building (such as its intent or the politics surrounding the work).
- GATHER
IMAGES THAT MODEL THESE POINTS
Glossary:
- Define and point
to examples where you can apply 10 new words or terms you have learned
from studying this period. Including a Glossary of Terms
is favored.
- In
your site and summary sheet, SHOW GRAPHIC EXAMPLES WHERE RELEVANT
*Record
all information in a Pages or MSWORD file, including links. Back-up to your PC
server.
Notes
- Review
how you will be evaluated HERE
- This web site can
be created in WIX.
- Use relevant
information in an organized way that is engaging. AVOID
AT ALL COSTS, jazzing up pages.
- More topic choices are listed on PAGE 183 of the Annotated Mona
Lisa. You will find several copies of this in the Art room.
Design Topics (if an era or architect, select one major built environment to research and respond to)
1.
Ancient to Romantic
- Ziggurat
- Phidias, Athena
and the Parthenon
- The Pantheon
- Temple of
Venus (choose one)
- Triumphal
Arches: Arch of Constantine
- S. Vitale,
Ravena
- The Hagia
Sophia (Istanbul)
- Great Mosque
of al-Mutawakkil
- The Taj Mahal
- Romanesque
architecture (exemplify one structure)
- Gothic architecture
(exemplify one structure)
- Notre-Dame-la-Grande
- Baptistery
of S. Giovanni, Florence
- Chartres
Cathedral
- Cathedral
LeMans
- St. Peter's
Basillica in Rome
- Compidoglio
by Michelangelo
- Notre Dame
Cathedral in Paris
See
recent examples of successful student sites here: Design
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2.
Modern to Contemporary (Post-Structuralists)
Architecture
& Art / installation
for these see
galleries on our links page
- *Sydney Opera
House
- *The National
Gallery of Canada
- *The Guggenheim
museum (NY or Spain)
- Isamu Noguchi
- *Christo
& Jeanne Claude
- Richard Long
- Viljo Revell
- John Andrews
- *Kenzo Tange
- I. M. Pei
- Frank O.
Gehry and Post-Modern Architecture
- Will Alsop
and the New OCAD building
- *Antoni Gaudi
- *Frank Lloyd
Wright
- Mary Miss
- Charles Moore
- Robert Stern
- Michael Graves
- James Stirling
- Robert Venturi
- Hans Hollein
- Philip Johnson
and John Burgee
- Lett/Smith Architects (CAN)
- Arthur Erickson (CAN)
- * Environmentally
sensitive architectural design innovations (e.g. www.earthship.net)
- Choose one from among 10 Inspiring Architecture videos
- Daniel Libeskind
- Thom Mayne
- Sam Martin
- Nathaniel Kahn
- Catherine Mohr
- Rachel Armstrong
- Liz Diller
- Bjarke Ingels
- Mickey Muennig
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