studio clean up

Sara and I placing the cirles behind the strips on the windows.
Our 'light wall' represents US, as students, in our department, and how we have grown within it. The circles are an illustration of students working as a group, collaborating and sharing, as well as individuals, and the continuous strip shows how we have continued that way of working and enhanced it through out our years in the program.
VOILA! finito :D

The puzzle! Illustration on the wall, world play, representing our studio.

Ahhh, the joy of craftsmanship :)). Building the separator wall.

Placing in the walls, and hitting your your hand with a hammer while doing it isn't very fun, but I must say it payed off :))

FINISHED PRODUCT

FLOOR PLAN

CEILING PLAN

PERSPECTIVES

THE NEST

-A PLACE OR ENVIRONMENT THAT FOSTERS RAPID GROWTH OR DEVELOPMENT, A PLACE OF REFUGE FOR A NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT HOLDS IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND PROVIDES PRIVACY.

-BRINGING NATURAL MATERIALS INSIDE AND CREATING A CONNECTION WITH THE OUTSIDE, WE HAVE CREATED A MEDIA CENTER THAT CONTAINS NESTS WITHIN NESTS THAT WELCOME STUDENTS, DELIVERS INTELECTUAL INFORMATION.

- CONCENTRATING ON 1 MAJOR NEST, THE RECEPTION, THAT IS IN CONTRIOL OF 5 MINOR NESTS, Poetry area, Private seating area, Presentation/large group meeting area, internet café/stage, entrance, WHICH INCOMASS ALL THE ACTION.

-WE HAVE DIFFERENTIATED OUR NESTS WITH HEARARCHY AND INTRICACY, IN ORDER TO SHOW HOW A SMALLER NETWORK FITS INTO A LARGER ONE AND VISE VERSA.

REASEARCH cont. >>>

THE NEST reasearch:

In order to develop a better understand of the concept, I did a lot of reasearch on Nests.

There are 5 most common nests: Caviti, Pendant, Cup, Platform, Spherical.

With this, we decided to focus on the reception as he major nests from which the 5 minor nests operate that with hold small parts parts which make up the Media Center. from tsi we created a diagram that helped us identify these areas.

Concept: THE NEST

THE NEST concept for the Media Center : After thinking about a possible concept, a just researching different pictures that i believe would represent the space well, Bachelard book "The Poetics of Space' spoke to my ideaology and theory of what a High School media center should be. His 4th chapter on NESTS, was an an ideal description of a smaller form functioning withing a larger one with great impact on it's occupants and surroundings.

"A TREE BECOMES A NEST THE MOMENT A GREAT DREAMER HIDES IN IT." pg. 97

Northern Guilford H.S. Media Center

After our class visit to the Guilford High School and Middle School, i decided to focus on redesigning the Media center in the High School. I went back to talk to the librarians and take more pictures of the Media center in order to begin my design process.

As you walk in the Reception desk is the focal are in the media center with two arcs on the ceiling are waifinding devises leading you to the reception. Librarians would like a raised floor behind the reception, for a better outlook into the media center.

It is arranged in a matter in which most general H.S. libraries are arranged:

• made for large groups
• grouped coputer areas
• 2 librarians
• 2 entrance/exitsts
  

However, it is not arranged well for individuals, and currently has an area that is a 'unknown area', separaded friom the rest of the media center by columns and the only place in there with color (purple). After talking to the librarians, they are very interested in a stage in that spacific area and possably turnining it into an internet cafe area as well.

ATLANTA trip

I really enjoyed out trip to Atlanta, the companies we visited were extremely helpfull, and I've learned a lot. I hope to build a business relationship with these companies in my future, it would be my privilage.

BOOK READING CH 4+5+6

4 Nest

"...Men can do everything except build a bird's nest." Bachelard is stating that men, with all their wisdom, tools, and power are incapable of building a nest. "According to Michelet, a bird is a worker without tools." Bachelard mentions Thoreau's theory of the tree becoming a nest for daydreamers to hide away and be able to dream and make memories. "A tree becomes a nest the moment a great dreamer hides in it." Confidence is introduced as a means to build a shelter. Bachelard poses the question," Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world". "Mankind's nest, like his world, is never finished. And imagination helps us to continue"

5 Shells

Bachelard begins by explaining that shells are constructed by some kind of transcendental geometry, which stands out from the disorder of most perceptible things. Creatures hide shells for shelter and an area for meditation just like homes provide the same for us “To emerge”

6 Corners

Bachelard presents corners, as the providers for the daydreams, and all those warm, comfortable feelings we get in our home, the feeling of protection. “Every corner, of a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, o tog a house.” The creature retreats into its own private corner, a corner which assures immobility.

OVERALL THOUGHTS : Northern Guilford Schools

• Signage is an issue in H.S.


• Hallways need tacable surface in M.S. and H.S.


• Pictures on walls needed, and in scale to the space


• Address Color in both buildings, mainly in M.S.


• M.S. is a fixed place, while the H.S. is non-fixed [how do we address this]


• M.S.-communal spaces (hallways/courtyards) need to be addressed


• Individual classrooms need to be addressed

[BRING LIFE + VITALITY TO COMMUNAL SPACES]

[ENLIVEN CIRCULATION SPACES TO ENGAGE STUDENTS WITH ONE ANOTHER]

[CONNECT INSIDE WITH OUTSIDE, CONNECT STUDENTS WITH ENVIRONMENT]

what i have learned this far in the semester!

I've learned that a GREAT IDEA can come FROM something SMALL and SIMPLISTIC. Sketching is a great way to play with ideas, forms, colors, and shapes, that lead to something big. This reminded me of a drawing class I took a while back ,where we had to draw a certain image upside down, it was as if I was drawing blind, BUT it came out looking excellent, without thinking, or focusing, so hard on what it is that I was drawing. It is the same way with design, sometimes, it is good to design freely, no boundaries, and without thinking, and GREAT is what's going to come out.

[something interesting] BARBIZOL SCHOOL

A French school of the middle of the 19th century centering in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau. Its members went straight to NATURE in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with POETIC feeling for COLOR, LIGHT, and ATMOSPHERE.

BOOK READING CH 2+3

2 HOUSE + UNIVERSE
“House and space are not merely two juxtaposed elements of space. In the reign of the Imagination, they awaken daydreams in each other, that are opposed.” In chapter two Bachelards describes the connection/disconnection between a dwelling and the universe. He suggests that all really inhabited space has a notion of ‘home’, that when a human being finds shelter it comforts itself with the notion of protection. “Heavy draperies that hung down to the floor. Behind dark curtains, snow seems to be whiter. Everything comes alive when contradictions accumulate”, this quote really caught my attention, it is such a fact that I never thought about puts in such simplistic words as he does. He continues with this interesting quote, “But we are told nothing about the strength of the walls, or the walls, or the fortitude of the roof. The house puts up no struggle. It is as though Baudelaire knew of nothing to shut himself with but curtains.” The house is seen as a material figure in which we store our treasures from previous years.

















3 DRAWERS, CHESTS, and WARDROBES
“..images of intimacy that are in harmony with drawers and chests, as also with all the other hiding-places in which human beings, great dreamers of locks, keep or hide their secrets. Bachelard suggests that in the wardrobe there is a center of order, which prevents the house from disorder; it possesses such intimacy to an individual that it has affectionately cared for. He believes that small boxes and chests show need for secrecy, locks keep possessions guarded but are also are an invitation to thieves. “there will always be more things in a closed box then in a open, box.” Bachelard explores the psychology of houses, for example a door knob is used to close and open doors, as is a key, however the key is seen by people as something which is more often used to close and the door knob often used to open.

BACK TO YOUR ROOTS

After picking 2 objects to sketch in variety of ways, we are to relate these sketches to the book "The Poetics of Space" by Bachelard. I picked 2 different size boxes as a visualization of education, by layaring and stacking the boxes, just like we go through school in layers and stages.

This model is a representation of all the sketches, nad the relation to the book.

• Positive-Negavite
• It is dominated by straight lines, discipline and balance
• Geometrical object, which we are tempted to analyze rationally
• DRAMA/CONTRADICTION