ON THE AIR

CCA Architecture
/ Spring 2006
/ Adj. Prof. Jordan Geiger
Intro / Course Description Projects
Readings
General Requirements

Projects

Our semester will be marked by a short introductory exercise and then four main projects, each building towards the next.
The work can supplement the design work that you will undertake in your main 6-credit studios and it is encouraged that you find ways, when appropriate, that work in this class connects with your work in other classes.

Some proficiency in Maya is expected for completion of this course. Further instruction in other software will supplement this.

Assignment texts will each be posted in greater detail as we proceed through the semester.

Project One: Due Wednesday, January 25
Reruns

Defining pod’s program and relation to body
Click above on "Reruns" for full project text as pdf.

 

Project Two: 3 Weeks
Bodypod

We begin with broad questions, posed in strictly formal terms.

What are the salient relations between architecture and the body today?
Can the two be joined? Separated? Physically and non-physically?
What roles can vision (and electronic visualization) play?
Where can we assert enclosure? Adaptability? Connectivity? Isolation?
Is connectivity/isolation the same as public/private?

Click above on "Bodypod" for full project text as pdf.

Schedule

Monday February 6:
Visit to the Prelinger Archives with Ali Sant’s Site_Specific class.
Meet at the archives, 301 8th Street, Room 215 (at the corner of Folsom).

http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger
http://www.archive.org/stream/ThisIsPr2001/ThisIsPr2001_256kb.mp4

Wednesday, February 8:
“Posture” Pin-Up –
Physical models, drawings, and Maya models that propose the formal body relations.
(Time permitting, 2nd Maya Tutorial from 1:30-3:00)

Monday February 13:
Lot-Ek lecture in Timken Hall, 7pm. Attendance required.

Monday February 20:
Bruce Tomb lecture in Timken Hall, 7pm. Attendance highly urged.

Wednesday February 22:
Review of Bodypod with guest critics.

Project Three: 4 Weeks
Programmaterial

A transition to from computer modeling to materials, experimentation with their physical properties, matching performance criteria from the last exercise, and further defining your pod's program.

Click above on "Programmaterial" for full project text as pdf.

Tasks / Themes:
Iterative design process
Testing of materials and volumetric results
Specifying programs
Export of model to 2D pattern
Plotted output / Projected image stencil
Tactile, tensile and thermodynamic factors

 

Project Four: 3 Weeks
Inflatables

Click above on "Inflatables" for full project text as pdf.

Tasks / Themes:
Aggregation of material experiments
Scalar shift
Possible tie-in with main studio projects
Final pod construction

Project Five: 3.5 Weeks
Airings

Click above on "Airings" for full project text as pdf.

Tasks / Themes:
Export of visualizations, material explorations and process video
Introduction of AfterEffects, iMovie and possibly FinalCut
Development of the podcast’s program: documentary, guerilla set-design, etc.
Posting the podcast