Task - 2 Home-breeding

project 2a, 2c. home-breeding: mechanical cocoon or organic cockpit?

Over 99 % of registered architects live in ‘homes’ designed by others. Reality bites in financial or temporal contexts. Or, certain comfort in given conditions neutralises individual eager to conduct experiments for his/her own home. This situation is to be challenged by you; in a yet premature architect’s dream. You are growing the kinetic-spatial machine (Project 1) into an inhabitable pod in a way to refine your attitude toward an unhomely condition as well as machinery. You are then transplanting the pod to the premise of Centre Point and exploring
a spatial relationship between the two to create an odd symbiotic/parasitic environment.

term: 5 weeks
design a: an inhabitable pod where you work/live
design c: a spatial relation between the pod and Centre Point (survey)
definition:unhomely adj.
- from Freud’s essay Die Unheimliche (The Uncanny, 1919)
- describing an uneasy condition developing from the rediscovery of
something familiar; the uncanny disrupts one’s solid sense of home
homebred adj. - raised, bred, or reared at home; domestic
site: Centre Point premise
options: position - inside, outside the tower, low, high
intensity of use - working, living
level of automation, self-sufficiency

tasks:
workshop: casting
refs: Georges Perec, 1998, Species of spaces and other pieces
Anthony Vidler, 1994, The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely
Krzysztof Wodiczko, 1999, Critical Vehicles: Writings, Projects, Interviews
Aaron Betsky, 2003, Scanning: The Aberrant Architectures of Diller + Scofidio

week 6. (for Oct. 27 tutorial)
photo documentation:
- device in use at home - A2
photo documentation:
- device dissembled and reinstalled at home
- more than 30% should be in an outdoor/outside the room - A2
model: model of pod divided in two pieces to show interior
- app. 1:10
- materials: clay, wire mesh, blue foam etc. paper march, mixed media …
- be creative to give it a full 3-dimensional gesture
- we are rather against symmetry
photo montage: pod in use by you
manifesto 1: definition of home and brief description (50 words) - A4
manifesto 2: description of pod (100 words)
- what is it? what does it do? what do I do there? - A4

week 7. (Nov. 3)
model:
drawing: 2 plans of pod
- 1: 10
- describe all the structural, mechanism and material features of pod in detail
- what does it do? what do I do there?
drawing: 2 sections of pod
- 1: 10
- describe all the structural, mechanism and material features of pod in detail

week 8. (Nov. 10)
- design development - pod
- laser cutting model pieces (Centrepoint, Dubai tower)

week 9. (Nov. 17)
- workshop

week 10. (Nov. 24)

week 11. (Dec. 1)

week 12. (Dec. 8)
cross-atelier crit - 2nd year

week 13. (Dec.15)
cross-atelier crit - 3rd year