2012S_Arch Design 1_Dayem Section
ARCH-2210 | Adam Dayem, Adjunct Professor
Architecture Design 1
Selected Student Work:
Amy Gecelter
George Ziegler
The intent of this studio was to study interacting systems. In The Three Ecologies, Felix Guattari espouses thinking transversally across conventionally held systemic boundaries, i.e. natural / unnatural, human / non-human and material / immaterial. In the studio, transversal thinking across systems was applied to different modes of design production (drawings based on cloud formations and models built from folded paper models), different architectural conditions (site and intervention), and different socio-cultural environments (downtown Troy, NY and the Rensselaer campus). As emerging thinker/designers, students were asked to engage in transversal thinking as a way of beginning to confront complex relationships between the product of their works as architects, and the systems into which these works are installed.
Variable buildups of line work derived from drawing clouds became the basis of a landscape, while folded paper modules became the basis of a modular system for defining structure and volume. Qualities of structure and volume were initially abstract, but eventually became productive interrogations of conventional structure and space defining elements such as columns, beams, walls and floors. The two systems of material production were brought into contact with one another to design a pavilion situated in a landscape. As projects evolved, development of the landscape framed development of the pavilion and vice versa.
Graham Billings
Amy Gecelter
Tiffany Ip
George Ziegler
