SUTD / Architecture and Sustainability Pillar Core 1 Studio 2018-2021
Studio Coordinator: Carlos Banon
The studio establishes foundations for architectural design through three projects that build in scope and complexity to have students engage issues of 3-dimensional geometry and drawing, space and component aggregation, ordering systems, structure, circulation and narrative, and tectonics. The design process is introduced as an iterative form of research, experimentation, and play, enabling students to develop conceptual ideas about architecture and translate them into a series of physical and material investigations. Each exercise is envisioned as an introduction to design thinking through an increasingly more complex set of relationships with regard to formal procedures, programs, and systems.
Students are required to work in both physical and digital models, and rehearse both analogue and digital drawing techniques for each exercise. The exercises will test both conceptual and analytical thinking as well as aid in the development of representational skills.
Source: https://asd.sutd.edu.sg/programme/bachelor-of-science-architecture-and-sustainable-design/courses/20101-architecture-core-studio-1
Exercise 1 / Articulated Ground and Space Making
This exercise focuses on the experimental exploration of open space as articulated ground in 3d that is as field of transition between various types of spaces. A paper of size of 25x25cm is used to apply a fixed sequence ofsimple geometric transformations like folding, bending, cutting, twisting or similar to it. Duration: 1 week
Projects in sequence by: Grace Teo Yu Cheng, Megan Riri Moktar, Ng Yun Shu, Siong Min Wong
Exercise 2 / Constructed Grounds
This exercise works on the generation of a constructed volumetric land form. It challenges the creation of a continuous landscape where transitions from sheltered to burrowed spaces appear, to clearly de-emphasize the architectural object and integrate the architecture within an extensive landscape design. Duration: 1 Week
Projects in sequence by: Grace Teo Yu Cheng, Siong Min Wong, Ian Chung, Kai Jie Phua
Exercise 3.1 / A Thousand Cottages (based on Pezo von Ellrichausen’s Porto Workshop)
This exercise considers resolving a cottage through the geometric encounter of a square, a circular and triangular form. With this restriction, students based on essay and error, would obtain multiple forms of how to solve the building with the freedom of choosing the size of the geometric bodies. By organising the three basic volumes students will explore, using just basic geometric operations, how to address circulation, visual continuity or fragmentation, different lev-els of intimacy and privacy, amongst others. Duration: 1 Week
Exercise 3.2 / Pushing the Section
This exercise bias the use of sections to generate more complex spatial relationships, engaging the ground, with the aim to articulate the original object and landscape. Duration: 1 Week
Projects in sequence by: Ng Yun Shu, Grace Teo Yu Cheng, Siong Min Wong, Megan Riri Moktar
Exercise 4 / Satellite MoMA
The Satellite MoMA would have no permanent collection, it is a place for modern art to come and go. Rather than defining the museum as a place where works of art is archived, the Satellite MoMA is a dynamic space shaped by the founding mission to educate the public about modern art. Singapore’s MoMA’s guiding principles were honed by the inaugural director Alfred H.Barr, Jr., who saw the museum as a laboratory, exploring various branches of artistic production. Duration: 5 Weeks
Projects in sequence by: Xiaopeng Xiang, Grace Teo Yu Cheng, Ng Yun Shu, Megan Riri Moktar, Jui Che Tien