Peter Salter

Below are some examples of work by British Architect Peter Salter from his book '4+1 Peter Salter Building Projects'. Please go to the library and check it out.On Thursday we talked a lot about how you might start to imagine and describe the material and experiential qualities of your propositions. Consider how his drawings suggest and evoke potential spatial qualities. How might you use appropriate drawing techniques to imagine and develop the phenomenological characteristics of your designs?

Hiroshi Nakao - Black Maria

 Black Maria is an adaptable architectural installation by Japanese Architect Hiroshi Nakao completed in 1994 at The Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa. The flexible structure can be re-positioned into multiple arrangements  The work explores the conceptual boundaries between interior and exterior space and the implications of an adaptive architecture which, in its various configurations, can form a range of distinct spatial conditions and establish myriad physical and visual relationships with its context.

Steven Holl - Storefront for Art and Architecture

In 1993, The Storefront for Art and Architecture commissioned a collaborative building project by artist Vito Acconci and architect Steven Holl. 

From the Storefront website:

"The project replaced the existing facade with a series of twelve panels that pivot vertically or horizontally to open the entire length of the gallery directly onto the street. The project blurs the boundary between interior and exterior and, by placing the panels in different configurations, creates a multitude of different possible facades."

Consider how the treatment of the facade challenges conventional divisions between interior and exterior space as well as distinctions between private and public environments.  How could your own design explore similar tactics to generate an architecture within which threshold conditions transform in response to various modes of occupation and the rhythms of the city? 

'The front by Steven Holl with artist Vito Acconci is noticeably different from the traditional shop fronts and art galleries in nearby Soho: its experimental design forges a powerful link between public space, the sidewalk and street, and the private space represented by the narrow inner triangle of the art gallery. Conceived in this way, the façade is both an element of urban cohesion, an extension of the road into the interior, and an expansion of the interior into the street'. 
-Abitare 334, November, 1994

More information about the project here

Enric Mirralles - Apartment Plan

From here

Peter Zumthor - Therme vals

Below are some images of Therme Vals - a spa complex of thermal baths and associated facilities in Vals, Switzerland by Pritzker Prize winning Swiss Architect, Peter Zumthor. In the context of your emerging design ideas consider how the form and material of the architecture manipulates natural and artificial light to create a range of spatial qualities  Think about how your architectures might create environmental conditions which are applicable to the occupational practices of your users. Familiarise yourself with Zumthor's work and consider how it engages with the material and sensory aspect of spatial experience to create evocative and poetic architectural environments 

High Level Plan

Bathing Pool Level Plan

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Bolles and Wilson

Below are a selection of projects from German based architectural practice Bolles and Wilson. Please take a moment to have a look at their website and familiarise yourself with their drawn and built work.

Cosmos Commercial Building

Cosmos Commercial Building

Cosmos Commercial Building

The Ninja House

The Ninja House

Suzuki House

Suzuki House

Suzuki House

Suzuki House

Suzuki House

Osaka Pavilion

Lebbeus Woods

Lebbeus Woods (1940-2012) was an American Architect famous for his intricate hand drawing, elaborate models and polemical writing.

Please explore both his blog and website where you can enjoy his remarkable drawings and models as well as his written work.

Please also head to library to check out his books. Radical Reconstruction might be of particular interest to those of you who are considering how their propositions might physically engage with the ruined fragments of abandoned infrastructures and the 'gaps'/ residual spaces left between the various stages of the city's development.