Second Year Studio

We will start studio today with a lecture on facades in Lower Center Core at 2pm. Please bring your sketchbooks to take notes!

Friday March 31 — Prof. Mahjoub Elnimeiri and Jong Soung Kimm, both longtime faculty members at the College of Architecture who taught alongside Takeuchi, will lead two honorary lectures about his?work

Saturday, April 1 at NOON — Professor Takeuchi passed away last year on October 28, 2022 and there will be an honorary lecture at Noon, followed by memorial gathering at 1 PM.

Phase 5

Final Proposal

Designing for Healthy Living // Final Presentations + Review

5 A // Goals:

• To find creative approaches to define communal and intimate spaces in multi-unit living??
• Understand residential typology through organizing various units types, circulation and access?
• Understand context for the residential typology – physical and social – reciprocal effects
• Study sectional qualities of multiple living
• To understand scale of living in multiples

Your final project and presentation are the culmination of your iterative design process.? The thoroughness of your project will reflect what you have learned from other assignments and how you have folded in concepts of the communal and intimate in your designs.? Your project should challenge the many facets of housing – social, organizational, formal, contextual – while spatially studying the potentials through vertically or sectionally driven schemes.??

Additionally, as we have narrowed our focus for each project, ideas for materiality and structure should be folded into your project.? These choices should support your design concepts, work with the environmental conditions, and enrich the qualities of the space.??

For your final presentations, you will need to narrate and curate your design thinking into one cohesive story.? As guidelines for your presentations, the following is a list of minimum requirements needed for you to best describe your project.??

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5 B // Final Requirements

• Site Research and Diagrams on your neighborhood of study
• Diagrams of formal concept or massing ideas
  • how did you address communal/intimate ideas of space
  • how does your building relate to the context?
• Diagrams of functional/programmatic concept or organization?
  • how does your program organization address communal and intimate spaces
  • how are your communal, and dwelling programs arranged; why do they have certain adjacencies
  • how do you circulate through different programs and spaces
  • what are the functions of each space, what needs/equipment do they require
• Site Plan?
  • shown as a Roof Plan or Grade Level Plan to scale ( noted )
  • include shadows to show massing/volume relative to other buildings
  • Site Plan should define neighborhood context in all directions around the Site
• Additional Floor Plans drawn at a scale of? ?” = 1’ – 0”? or? 3/32” = 1’ – 0”.
  • Lower Level Plan(s), if any.
  • Grade Level Plan with Site Plan ( show context )
  • All Other Floor Plans
  • Roof Level Plan
• ( 2 ) Overall Building Sections, at scale similar to Plans; with adjacent context?
• ( 2 ) Exterior Elevations, at scale similar to Plans – with surrounding context/adjacent buildings?
• ( 1 ) Exterior Wall Section + Elevation at Exterior Wall Section. This combination drawing of two parts shall be at a scale approved by your professor (approx 1”= 1’-0”).? Showing at least (1) floor to floor section of building.
• ( 1 ) 3/32” = 1’ – 0” Site Model – can be a shared group model ( per direction of prof )?
• ( 1 ) Concept/Massing Model to fit on the 3/32” = 1’ – 0” Site Model;?
• ( 1 ) Detailed Section Model 3/8” = 1’-0”, min. 12” in one direction, at least one exterior facade?
• Minimum of two ( 2 ) Experiential Perspective View
  • ( 1 ) Exterior Street Perspective View and?
  • ( 1 ) Interior Perspective View?

5 C // Optional Forms of Representation:

• Section perspective
• Other diagrams – form, context, materiality
• Additional larger scale physical models
• Additional larger scale detailed floor plans

5 D // Other Requirements:

• All drawing sheet sizes to be 24” x 36”?
  • Portrait or Landscape.? Choose one orientation, combinations are NOT permitted.?
• Consider composition and color palette.
• Stack and align all floor plans with the ground floor on bottom.? Work with prof on composition.
• Lineweights will be critical for all drawings; check lineweight per the scale of your drawings.
• Please label all drawings with title, graphic scale, north arrow, room labels as needed;? be mindful of size of fonts for labels and titles.
• PRINT EARLY – consider off-site printing to avoid congestion or printer issues.
• SPELL CHECK!!!

5 E //? Issue Date | DUE DATE.

Issue Date: Wednesday, March 29, 2023

DUE DATES: Thursday, April 20, 2023 at 4 PM.

Reviews. Friday, April 21, 2023 at 2 PM. Crown Hall – Center Core

*** Set up begins at 1 PM ***

Meeting the due dates and times? is required in order to present in the final review – NO EXCEPTIONS.

A // Goals:

• To find creative approaches to define communal and intimate spaces in multi-unit living??
• Understand residential typology through organizing various units types, circulation and access?
• Understand context for the residential typology – physical and social – reciprocal effects
• Study sectional qualities of multiple living
• To understand scale of living in multiples

Your final project and presentation are the culmination of your iterative design process.? The thoroughness of your project will reflect what you have learned from other assignments and how you have folded in concepts of the communal and intimate in your designs.? Your project should challenge the many facets of housing – social, organizational, formal, contextual – while spatially studying the potentials through vertically or sectionally driven schemes.??

Additionally, as we have narrowed our focus for each project, ideas for materiality and structure should be folded into your project.? These choices should support your design concepts, work with the environmental conditions, and enrich the qualities of the space.??

For your final presentations, you will need to narrate and curate your design thinking into one cohesive story.? As guidelines for your presentations, the following is a list of minimum requirements needed for you to best describe your project.??

4 B // Final Requirements

• Site Research and Diagrams on your neighborhood of study
• Diagrams of formal concept or massing ideas
  • how did you address communal/intimate ideas of space
  • how does your building relate to the context?
• Diagrams of functional/programmatic concept or organization?
  • how does your program organization address communal and intimate spaces
  • how are your communal, and dwelling programs arranged; why do they have certain adjacencies
  • how do you circulate through different programs and spaces
  • what are the functions of each space, what needs/equipment do they require
• Site Plan?
  • shown as a Roof Plan or Grade Level Plan to scale ( noted )
  • include shadows to show massing/volume relative to other buildings
  • Site Plan should define neighborhood context in all directions around the Site
• Additional Floor Plans drawn at a scale of? ?” = 1’ – 0”? or? 3/32” = 1’ – 0”.
  • Lower Level Plan(s), if any.
  • Grade Level Plan with Site Plan ( show context )
  • All Other Floor Plans
  • Roof Level Plan
• ( 2 ) Overall Building Sections, at scale similar to Plans; with adjacent context?
• ( 2 ) Exterior Elevations, at scale similar to Plans – with surrounding context/adjacent buildings?
• ( 1 ) Exterior Wall Section + Elevation at Exterior Wall Section. This combination drawing of two parts shall be at a scale approved by your professor (approx 1”= 1’-0”).? Showing at least (1) floor to floor section of building.
• ( 1 ) 3/32” = 1’ – 0” Site Model – can be a shared group model ( per direction of prof )?
• ( 1 ) Concept/Massing Model to fit on the 3/32” = 1’ – 0” Site Model;?
• ( 1 ) Detailed Section Model 3/8” = 1’-0”, min. 12” in one direction, at least one exterior facade?
• Minimum of two ( 2 ) Experiential Perspective View
  • ( 1 ) Exterior Street Perspective View and?
  • ( 1 ) Interior Perspective View?

4 C // Optional Forms of Representation:

• Section perspective
• Other diagrams – form, context, materiality
• Additional larger scale physical models

4 D // Other Requirements:

• All drawing sheet sizes to be 24” x 36”?
  • Portrait or Landscape.? Choose one orientation, combinations are NOT permitted.?
• Consider composition and color palette.
• Stack and align all floor plans with the ground floor on bottom.? Work with prof on composition.
• Lineweights will be critical for all drawings; check lineweight per the scale of your drawings.
• Please label all drawings with title, graphic scale, north arrow, room labels as needed;? be mindful of size of fonts for labels and titles.
• PRINT EARLY – consider off-site printing to avoid congestion or printer issues.
• SPELL CHECK!!!

4 E //? Issue Date | DUE DATE.

Issue Date: Wednesday, March 29, 2023

DUE DATES: Thursday, April 20, 2023 at 4 PM.

Reviews. Friday, April 21, 2023 at 2 PM. Crown Hall – Center Core

*** Set up begins at 1 PM ***

Meeting the due dates and times? is required in order to present in the final review – NO EXCEPTIONS.

We’ll start studio today with a Lecture on Site in Siegal Hall at 2pm.? Come ready to take notes!

Tomorrow is MCHAP Day!? And we start bright and early at 9am.? I think you heard this from your professors but a few very important things:

1. Tomorrow is NOT a day of from school… it is day of learning from the event for MCHAP.? The entire day was set up for STUDENTS aka You!? ?Thus, all CoA classes are cancelled so everyone can and will attend the morning studio reviews, the student interviews and the afternoon presentations.
2. Everyone should be in Crown Hall at 9am to listen in to the studio reviews.? If you have outside CoA classes in the morning, you must let your studio professor know.? Otherwise, you should be in Crown Hall with notebooks actively listening and participating in the conversations.
3. A few Second Year students have been selected to represent your Second Year Studio in the morning reviews with finalist Jose Cubilla valois-housing-building.? They will be presenting work at 9am in Lower Center Core.? I will be there early in the morning to set up for our morning studio review and checking on attendance from the rest of the Second Year studio that will be there showing support!? ?You can also listen in to the other studio reviews that will be going on throughout lower core, but it’s not time to linger or socialize.??
4. In the afternoon at 1pm, there will be students interviewing the finalist and their projects in Lower Core.? Followed by Presentations by the Finalists.
5. Your Professors will all be there in the afternoon and checking attendance.? If you are not present or leave early, this will be consider an unexcused absence.
6. There are free lunches and dinners for students as well… check your emails from CoA about details for signing up!

The MCHAP Assignment

From your day of learning, listening and participating, we are asking you all to take notes and submit at least one thing that you learned from each of the 6 finalist that you didn’t already know or find online or on google!? This can be from any of the conversations or presentations you’ve engaged in throughout the day.? https://www.mchap.co/post/mchap-announces-2023-finalists

This can be written or diagrams or sketches.? ?Submit this to your professors by Monday, March 27 before studio at 2pm.

Welcome back from break! Hope everyone had a restful and well deserved break.

Wednesday, March 22 – Stained- Glass in Chicago’s Synagogues
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Friday March 24 – IIT MCHAP
Again, as per last post, please attend MCHAP Friday.

Next Friday, March 31, – IIT Arthur S. Takeuchi Honorary Lectures
Dr. Mahjoub Elnimeiri and Jong Soung Kimm will lead two honorary lectures about Arthur S. Takeuchi.

Hello everyone! Just a friendly reminder that on March 24, your studio will be having a Studio Review Session from 9 AM to 12 NOON with one of the finalist. You are required to attend! There will be architects, clients and jurors! And . . . There will be food!

A note from your Dean:

Please remember that classes are canceled on the 24th to accommodate MCHAP activities–of which we have a full roster. Students and faculty will get exclusive opportunities to meet with the architects, their clients, and the jurors on Friday morning and afternoon (with lunch provided between). Later in the afternoon, we will begin welcoming our external guests for conversations about the program and the state of contemporary architecture in the Americas. it’s going to be a very full day–and it is all open to our community.

If you are on Linkedin, enjoy:

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7039935425574051840/

If you are not on Linkedin ….. perhaps think about joining over Spring Break.

Hey Everyone, not sure if anyone got the pun from last post, but DAAM stands for Designers, Architects, Artists and Makers led by Professor Shelly and Elyse Agnello. DAAM is an award-winning professional design firm founded in 2016.

Check out their website and the Architect Magazine here! It’s very cool