MEDIATION: Lecture and Links

Here is lecture as promised. It is in multiple parts due to file size.

• Introduction
• Sun
• Wind
• Light
• Local Examples
• Overseas Examples

The following links will help you in your research.
http://www.yourhome.gov.au/technical/fs44.html
http://www.arch.mcgill.ca/prof/bourke/arch672/fall2002/shading.htm
http://www.arch.mcgill.ca/prof/bourke/arch672/fall2002/natural.htm
http://www.arch.mcgill.ca/prof/bourke/arch672/fall2002/wind.htm
http://www.arch.mcgill.ca/prof/bourke/arch672/fall2002/wind2.htm

Use the following search terms: shading device, enclosure system, daylighting in Google to find more information.
Place links to good sites in your comments to this post please.

There are a few books and notes in my possession that I am willing to lend under the condition that it be used in the CSA office area only. Unfortunately these will not be available until Tuesday morning.

Contributed Additional Links
http://www.wbdg.org/resources/daylighting.php
http://www.architecture.uwaterloo.ca/faculty_projects/terri/carbon-aia/strategies1b.html
http://windows.lbl.gov/daylighting/designguide/section5.pdf

Tuesday Oct. 19

http://pvcdrom.pveducation.org/SUNLIGHT/SUNCALC.HTM

http://www.resourcesmart.vic.gov.au/documents/Natural_Ventilation_Systems.pdf

Prada Transformer

Designed by Rem Koolhaas/OMA (Office of Metropolitan Architecture) the Prada Transformer is a mobile exhibition for fashion, art, cinema and ultimately architecture. The exhibition accommodates a variety of activities within the volume by simply changing the axial arrangement of the space.

RITUAL: Schedule of process

SESSION 1 [Friday]
Lecture – Ritual & Activity
Workshop – In groups, perform a prescribed ritual and produce a series of drawn studies. Participants should break the ritual down into 4-6 crucial events in the ritual. The sketches will focus on proportions of the body in space as well as the relationship to other figures. This should take into consideration interactions, positions in space, parallel action, meaning. The sketches are pinned up for evaluation and discussion

WEEKEND
Take the rituals assigned and begin to break them down objectively and symbolically. Perform your ritual again stopping and pausing like a video machine. Record, analyse, diagram. Draw the figure postures that result from the freeze action. What are the distances involved? Is the ritual intimate or public? What is the static direction of the participants in relation to each other? How do support devices aid/mediate in the interaction between the participants? How do the participants move in relation to each other? Translate the information into an easy-to-read format. Make sure all aspects of the ritual are clear.

SESSION 2 [Tuesday]
Presentation. Pin up and Discussion
Staff in collaboration with each design collective will discuss synthesizing analytical information into a singular space.

SESSION 3 [Friday]
Lecture – Modelmaking
Group Review – Groups will gather to present latest progress to design tutor assigned to group. Discussions will cover the way forward and how to best represent your constructed space. Sketchbooks will be examined.

WEEKEND
Prepare your final drawings for submission on Tuesday afternoon. More Anon

SESSION 4 [Tuesday]
Final Review of exercise.