HABITAGES VORA EL MERCAT DE SANTA CATERINA

Site: Habitages Vora el Mercat de Santa Caterina
Architect: Enric Miralles and Il. Bravo 2004

La Ribera has been an area of progressive transformation since the city initiative in the 1980’s aimed to connect the Cuitat Vella to the l’ exiample and maximize housing in the old city sector. We will be investigating a series of urban interventions in the area of the Mercat de Santa Caterina.

Assignment: You will explore composition and narrative through a series of sketching explorations. Your final composition should communicate a narrative of the architecture and urban situation of the Habitages Vora and/ or the Habitges de Mercat Santa Caterina. Sketches: PJ Yurchak, Kevin McNamara, Kristen Clancey,

COAC

Site: Col-legi D’Arquitectes de Catalunya
Placa Nova 5


Assignment: You will explore composition and narrative through a series of sketching explorations at the COAC.

com·po·si·tion
1.
a. The combining of distinct parts or elements to form a whole.
b. The manner in which such parts are combined or related.
2. Arrangement of artistic parts so as to form a unified whole.

nar·ra·tive
1. A narrated account; a story.
2. The art, technique, or process of narrating.
adj.
1. Consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story.


Your final composition should communicate a narrative of the architecture, urban situation, and installations of the COAC.

Sketch: Hawra Esmaeil

MOROCCO:FEZ AND MIDDLE ATLAS

Assignment: You will be asked to sketch at a range of sites and locations in Fez and the Middle Atlas. Please examine the following ideas drawing connections and conclusion between the various sites and subjects. In addition you should investigate the practices of Islamic culture and religion and how they are manifested in the architecture and built environment.

Inside/Outside and the mediation between
Sacred/Profane
Centers/Edges
Direction/Orientation
Veil/ Reveal

Please consider the following architectural elements and how they might support or articulate the above concepts.


Threshold
Gate
Screen
Porch
Fabric
Skin
Contrast
Layers
Light
Shadow


Your investigation should be lucid and focused. Please establish a consistent framework and visual and textual language in which to analyze and communicate your findings.

Readings:
Hoag, John D. Islamic Architecture. Rizzoli: New York, New York. (Pg 38 – 62)
Kazimee, Bashir and Rahmani, Ayad. Place, Meaning and Form in the architecture and Urban Structure of
Eastern Islamic Cities. Edwin Mellen Press: Lewiston. (Chapters 1-3)
***Additional Handouts may be issued

Sketches in order from top to bottom: Josh Humphries, Stacey Carbone, Kevin Mcnamara

22@

Site: Buiding B and C of Can Jaumandreau 22@

Architect: Josep Llinas

Assignment: Façade, rhythms, patterns and proportions
Please draw a diagrammatical (plan and section) or (axon) of the Can JaumAndreau block indicating the existing from the new.

Sketch the new building and old building’s facing elevations. Your drawing should reveal or indicate the underlying rhythms, patterns and proportions of each.

Questions to consider: Please answer with visual and textual notes in your sketchbook
Which proportions, rhythms or patterns of the existing façade appear in the design of the new façade? Which do not?
Does the architectural language of Llinas’ new buildings blend or contrast with the architectural language of the existing factory? How...

Site: Meteorology Tower, 1992
Paseo de Maritim

Architect: Alvaro Siza

Assignment: Subtractive transformation
You will document the process of subtractive transformation of the cylinder. Please draw a plan and exploded axon documenting the primary volumetric form and the area subtracted to create the 8 radial openings.

Please draw 3 elevations revealing the uniformity and inconsistencies of the design.

Questions to consider: Please answer with visual and textual notes in your sketchbook
In a seemingly pure form, where does Siza break the uniformity of the cylinder?
How do the openings serve the interior space? What is the program of the void space?
How does he establish Hierarchy, Orientation, Entrance?
How does the materiality of the building reinforce the architectural language?
Is there a relationship between form and materiality of the center and it situation on the waterfront?

Schedule:
Alvaro Siza: Meteorology Center
Alvarez Tenaz: Park for Biomedical Research
Rambla del Poble Nou
Josep Llinas: Can Jaumandreau
Can Ricat
C. Ferrater-B720: Campus Audiovisual (media campus sector)
Chipperfield-B720: Layetana Building: D. (media campus sector)
Indra Building: C. Ferrater-B720 (media campus sector)
Habitat Sky: Dominique Perrault
Pl. De Les Glories
Rafael Moneo: Auditorium
Ricardo Bofill: National Theater of Catalunya

FOSSAR DE LA PEDRERA MEMORIAL

Site: Fossar de la Pedrera
Cemetery de Monjic

Architect: Beth Gali

Assignment: Transition: Sacred to Profane
Sketch a plan and section showing the relationship of the quarry space to the street. Indicate in your drawings the zones of sacred space, profane space and the transition space between.

Questions to consider: Please answer with visual and textual notes in your sketchbook
How are each of these zones articulated architecturally?
How do the architectural elements and materiality of the space and path choreograph an experiential sequence?
Locate the two points of access into the quarry. Are “entry” and “exit” suggested or prescribed by the design of the space?
What is the physical relationship of the quarry to the street and surrounding spaces? (boundaries, views, thresholds, connections, ...)?
In plan, consider how the geometries of the architecture respond to the natural topography. Sketches: Emma Pfeferkorn, Hawra Esmeail