EXPERIMENT TWO: THE MARKER

DUE: NEW DUE DATE!!!!! Sunday May 10th by 11:59pm.

ASSESSMENT WEIGHTING: 30% (marking schedule)

EXPERIMENT OUTLINE


TIMETABLE: 3 Weeks. 30% of final grade.
ARCHITECTURAL ISSUE: The Marker.
ARCHITECTURAL CONVENTION: Monumental Architecture and Landform.
ARCHITECTURAL CHALLENGE: Articulating figure and ground in 3 dimensions.
CLIENTS: Architects. One living, one dead. Chosen by your tutor.
SITE: Blacktown International Sports Park.
PREMISE: Architecture may be designed by the amalgamation of discrete forms. Such Boolean operations promote an abstract understanding of the relationships required to make whole systems.

AIM

Blacktown City Council would like to construct a “marker” which when viewed from the M7 and surrounds will communicate to public the existence of the Blacktown International Sports Park. The marker should say something about the Sports Park in terms of the use of technology, sustainability, the multicultural peoples of Blacktown or its Aboriginal past.

M7 Marker Presentation: Larry Adams

BlacktownInternationalSportsPark_Cad_Drawing

PROCEDURE

Choose an architectural concept that was created, developed or challenged by each of the two Architects chosen by your tutor. Use one of these concepts to create a "marker" that addresses one of the themes above (technology, sustainability, the multicultural peoples of Bankstown or its Aboriginal past). Use the second concept to help situate the marker within the landscape.

Roanna Manlutac: Kenzo Tange and Kengo Kuma

Jackey Yuen: Daniel Libeskind and Hans Schauron

Rosmaond Kember: Farshid Moussavi and Frei Otto

Ivana Kuzmanovska: Carlo Scarpa and Alvaro Siza

Vinh Nguyen: Peter Stutchbury and Kazuo Shinohara

Brad Inwood: Mimar Sinan and Hijjas Kasturi

James Pedersen: Buckminster Fuller and Olson Kundig

Rob Asher: Frank LLoyd Wright and Sou Fujimoto

Nicole Gardner: Cedric Price and Neri Oxman

Lisa Dew: Sanna and Jorn Utzon  

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

In addition to the overall course assessment criteria students will be assessed on the level and extent to which they engage with the criteria listed below:

THE TWO CONCEPTS_ Do the two concepts suggest a distinctive and significant approach to engaging with the theme the student has chosen?
THE 18 SKETCH AXONOMETRICS _ Do the 18 sketch axonometric's communicate a distinctive and significant approach the student has taken with respect to each concept and their possible relationship to one of the themes?
THE 36 CUSTOM TEXTURES _ Do the 36 custom textures demonstrate enquiry and experimentation with respect to ideas of light and shadow?
THE IMAGE CAPTURES AND ARCHITECTURE _ Do the image captures demonstrate that the student has thought about the relative size of each element, what their proportions are, their orientation, how texture, colour and shadow map over their surfaces and how all of the above work together to establish the balance or otherwise of their scheme?

RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS

SketchUp to Lumion Tutorial on youtube

The UNSW library home page
Library services for undergraduates
Architecture subject guide