Design Activism slideshow from Architecture, Community and Ecology
October 16, 2011
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Public Holiday Monday
Per Chulalongkorn University announcement, the school is closed on Monday:
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Hydrology Lecture
Selected slides from last Friday's talk on hydrology are available for download here. I hope this helps you with your ongoing studio work and site analysis project.
You can learn more about the flooding in Bangkok this week by visiting the links below. I hope you and your families stay safe during this ordeal.
Project 2 Introduction can also be downloaded here.
You can learn more about the flooding in Bangkok this week by visiting the links below. I hope you and your families stay safe during this ordeal.
Project 2 Introduction can also be downloaded here.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Project 2 Brief
Introduction
Within recent years, Bang Kra Jao has seen an increasing number of guesthouses and local facilities such as OTOP markets, agricultural educational programs and biking facilities. Ecotourism around the world requires new building typologies that are respectful to local climate and site conditions. Hospitality is more than just sleeping and eating, it can create an experience that engages in its context. Can we rethink hospitality as a ubiquitous program and its priorities in Thailand? For the second studio project, we will be investigating modes of occupying the site. Inhabitation is not just limited to human activity but also applies to other life forms with cohabitation takes place in urban environments.
Types of dwelling programs for the project has to include either hotel or hostel and it may take the form of permanent or temporary structures. It is assumed that the program combination created by each student will engage ecological processes while meeting the following objectives:
- Creating opportunities for public access at the canal’s edge
- Allowing for public areas and activities serving both guests and local community while providing privacy.
- Consider the environment, situating the building to take advantage of the wind, adjacent waterway, daylight, and the overall climate.
Minimum Program Requirements
Public Areas of the Project Serving Guests and also the community
-Lobby 40 sq meters
-Library + Media Room 30 sq meters
-Dining + Kitchen 40 sq meters
-2 Toilets
Private Areas of the Project
-Hotel Rooms (15-20 Guestrooms with bathroom access) 30-40 sq meters each
or
Hostel type rooms (24 beds). Spaces can be separated in dormitories of 4 people or bunk spaces separated by gender
-Back of House service + storage 40 sq meters
-1 Front Office (Check-in desk) 15 sq meters
Permanent Communal Dwelling for Staff (3 tenants) 60 sq meters
Restrictions
Buildings can not covers more than 75% of its land, must be less than 15 meters tall and no industrial land uses allowed.
| Week | Month | Su | M | Tu | W | Th | F | Sa | Monday (13:00 16:30) | Wednesday (13:00 16:30) | Other Courses/Events |
| 9 | Oct | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Project 1 Review * | Project 2 Introduction | |
| 10 | | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | Project 2 | Project 2 | |
| 11 | | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | Fieldtrip (all day) (Taiwan DEW) | Project 2 (Taiwan DEW) | Oct 17 Fieldtrip to Pasaya |
| 12 | | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | Chulalongkorn Day (No Class) | Pinup Schematic (Taiwan DEW) | Taiwan Workhshop (Oct 17-26) |
| 13 | | 30 | 31 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Projct 2 (JS/NP out) | Project 2 (JS/NP out) | |
| 14 | Nov | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Pinup Design Development | Project 2 (Structural Design Clinic) | Nov 8 Env Tech Submission Nov 11 ACE Presentations |
| 15 | | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | BKK Design Exp. Workshop (Makeup Class for Students in Taiwan Workshop) | ||
| 16 | | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | Project 2 | Chulavichakarn’11 Nov 23-27 | |
| 17 | | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | Final Review | |
| 18 | Dec | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | | Dec 2 ACE Final Dec 6 Env Tech Final |
| | | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | | | |
| | | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | | | |
| | | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | | | |
| Week 9 | 5-Oct | Project 2 Introduction |
| Week 10 | 11-Oct | Site and Program Research/Conceptual Development |
| 13-Oct | Site and Program Research/Conceptual Development | |
| Week 11 | 17-Oct | Fieldtrip (all day) Taiwan Cinemetrics Workshop (Oct 16-26) |
| 19-Oct | Conceptual Development/Schematic Design | |
| Week 12 | 24-Oct | No Class Chulalongkorn Day |
| 26-Oct | Pinup Schematic Design | |
| Week 13 | 31-Oct | Design Development |
| 2-Nov | Design Development | |
| Week 14 | 7-Nov | Pinup Design Development |
| 9-Nov | Design Development (Structural Design Clinic 4:30pm) | |
| Week 15 | Design Experimentation Workshop | |
| Makeup Classes for Taiwan Workshop Students based on Instructor Schedule | ||
| Week 16 | 21-Nov | Desk crits |
| 23-Nov | Chulavichakarn’11 Nov 23-27 | |
| Week 17 | 30-Nov | Final Review 9:00-17:00 |
Current Student or Open Competitions that ongoing studio work could be submitted for include:
inNATUR Nature Interpretation Centre Design Competition
Registration Deadline 11/11/2011
Submission Deadline 11/15/2011
Awards 129,000 THB total
Entry Fee 2,700 THB (65 euros)
OPENGAP organizes this open ideas competition seeking for innovative, cutting-edge, contemporary, proposals, committed to a strategy of implementing architecture in a protected natural environment. Approaches should point to find synergies between nature and the building itself. Participants are invited to find spaces that promote a deep understanding and assimilation of nature. Projects must lead through their architecture to sensitivity, awareness, understanding, enthusiasm and commitment to the natural environment around them. Each participant or team will define the location of their Project; such as: natural parks, protected natural areas, forests, jungles, beaches, mountains, etc. However, the proposal must justify the choice of the location and the interaction reached between the project and the site’s environment.
2011 NTUT International Student [ARRAY] Competition
Registration Deadline 10/30/2011
Submission Deadline 11/03/2011
Awards 15,000-61,000 THB
Entry Fee None
This competition takes on an elemental perspective to architectural design and sustainability. Entrants are to revisit the methods to ARRAY spaces and produce creative proposals for a set of ARRAY with certain spatial order or mechanism under consideration of ecological design. The evaluation and definition of “ARRAY” are open to applicants’ imaginations. While the term “ecological” is subjected to many definitions: social, ecological, sustainable, its re-evaluations are open to students’ interpretations. Entrants are free to choose or make site, real or virtual.
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