Enric Miralles - Scottish Parliament

Below are some images of the Stirling Prize winning Scottish Parliament building by Enric Miralles. Please familiarize yourself  with this building and Miralles' other works. Consider how ideas explored and expressed in the design might relate to your own propositions. Think about how the form of the building relates to, expresses and engages with its physical context. Consider the variety of spatial conditions which the architecture generates, the use of various construction technologies, the buildings material and experiential qualities and the resolution of detailed design. 

Plan above from wikipedia

Diller + Scofidio - Flesh

Here a few drawings from Diller + Scofidio. Check out their seminal publication - 'Flesh'.  The book describes a selection of fantastic projects including the Slow House (posted earlier on the blog). Please take a trip to the library and have a look....

Dan Graham

Daniel "Dan" Graham (born March 31, 1942) is an American artist, writer, and curator.

 

From wikipedia:
"Dan Graham’s artworks are said to blur the line between sculpture and architecture. Since the 1980s, Graham has been working on an ongoing series of freestanding, sculptural objects called pavilions; they represent a hybrid between a quasi-functional space and an installation that serves to expose processes of perception and certain expectations."

Beatriz Colomina - Double Exposure: Architecture as a Machine to See

This lecture by Beatriz Colomina, hosted at the Architectural Association in 2011, explores architecture and photography as machines to see. The lecture was part of a series which addressed the photographic rationalisation and depiction of architectural space and its role as a tool for deciphering the urban environment. i think it would be highly relevant to several of your projects. 

Please have a look by following this link: Beatriz Colomina - Double Exposure: Architecture as a Machine to See

You can check out more great lectures from the AA archive online here:http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/public/audiovisual/videoarchive.php

Olafur Eliasson

 

Here are a selection of works by Olafur Eliasson. From wikipedia: "Olafur Eliasson (born 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish-Icelandic artist known for sculptures and large-scale installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer’s experience. In 1995 he established Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin, a laboratory for spatial research. Eliasson represented Denmark at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003 and later that year installed The Weather Project in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern, London."

 

Check out more works here: http://www.olafureliasson.net/works.html

 

 

 

Consider how the spatial implications of these material investigations might relate to your own studies. How might ideas explored in these works inform the experiential characteristics of your propositions?

Slow House - Diller Scofidio

The Slow House, a weekend retreat on the Long Island waterfront designed in 1989 for a Japanese Art Investor, is a seminal project by New York based Architects Diller + Scofidio 

'Our client came to us and said he wanted a house with a view,' Diller recalls. That request provoked them to explore the very notion of a view -- for instance, the evolution of the picture window and the terminology in real-estate ads. 'Why is architecture a technology that creates a view?' Diller recounts. 'Because it mediates it with a window frame.' The couple argued that the picture window represents a more advanced technology than the video display -- 'because it strips away the hardware that you have on a TV monitor and leaves only the effect'
From here

 

 

Above, TV in Picture Window Apparatus
"In this drawing, the architects juxtapose images of the view with the plan of the house - a house that captures the view in both the real and virtual senses. The architects how the "view may be recorded and deferred.. day played back at night, fair weather played back in fol. The view is also portable; it can be transmitted to different locations in the house or back to the primary residence in the city."
From here

Consider how ideas related to the occupants passage through the architecture and the associated mediation of visual relationships with the building's context might be relevant within the context of your own design work.