BENV 7813 - PAIGE K

1.  CASA OCHOQUEBRADOS  ELEMENTAL  ‘ARCHITECTURE AS OBJECT’ KEY CONCEPT   Casa Ochoquebrados is a formally simple, yet striking holiday house located on the Chilean Coast approximately 250 hours north of main the city Santiago. Here it is a rough and rugged landscape, characterised by deep ravines and dramatically cut stone inlets and cliffs. Within this difficult and even brutal environment, emerged architect Alejandro Aravena’s (Elemental) impressive inspirations (Keegan 2019 ) .  The design is an unambiguously simple form with three volumes (Keegan 2019 ) . Named Casa Ochoquebrados (Eight Ravines), the key concept is derived from the site’s topography, sitting closely at 22 metres above sea level, making it a subtly ‘monumental’ piece in the landscape. Boundaries are blurred consistently as materials and textures blend are and starkly contrasted with the topography. Form challenges typology and topography. Here no longer is the landscape...

WEEK 4  PROJECT MATRIX DEVELOPMENT  I'd like to utilise this course to learn interesting and unusual methods to model making applicable to architectural presentations. With that in mind, I'd like to produce models which focus on different architectural elements and methods of communication. For example, a model which explores the site, one that communicates a section and one that can articulate an exploded axonometric.  1. SITE MODEL  CASA OCHOQUEBRADAS | ELEMENTAL    Style :  OR  LECA SWIMMING POOLS | SIZA  2.  SECTION MODEL  CENOTAPH |  MONUMENT TO NEWTON - ETIENNE LOUIS BOULLEE  Sectional relief model with electronics... to illuminate as a lamp!  3. AXO/DETAIL  MODEL  PRECEDENT |  MUSEO CASTELVECHIO - CARLO SCARPA  STYLE - EXPLODED AXO / DETAIL 

WEEK 3  WORKSHOP SESSIONS -  CNC  CASTING  MATERIAL PURPOSE CNC   CASTING 

Precedents... Early Thoughts  Aldo Rossi  Città Analoga Archigram  Moving City  Manuel Barbero y Gonzalo Echegaray                                                            Ryue Nishizawa Teshima Art Museum

Techniques Introduced  Week 2:  Laser Cutting In lay  2 mm poplar ply and timber veneer sheets.  example:  applications: facade patterns, tiles etc.  Metal Shaping  Tools: English wheel, Hammers, Magnabend etc  Applications: reversed curves, bowls. domes, contours etc.  3D Printing and Ceramic 3D printing  Solid 3D Digital Models - various colours + materials range of filaments 2 tone possibilities... ceramic 3d printing - control extent of drop and pattern  Wood Lathe: applications: curves, furniture, bowls. landscapes, etc