2012S_Arch Design 3_Perez Section
ARCH-2230 | Elena Perez Guembe, Adjunct Professor
Architecture Design 3: Housing Complex[ity]
Selected Student Work:
Tiffany Chiang
Chloe Mahoney
Every human being dreams of a special place they would like to inhabit. As architects we project our best understanding of the poetics of habitation into the design of a house. How we move, socialize, intimate… designing a house requires an act of generosity.
Under these premises, and departing from a concrete site, students are asked to resolve spatial, structural, and social relationships that engage and activate an urban environment. A formal analysis of the site conditions, combined with an exercise in the de-familiarization of these forms, reveals unique relationships among the manifold elements that come into play. For instance, a line could be read as a plane, a surface, a volume, or the combination of all at once. From this abstraction, new meanings and new ways of seeing are generated. Students’ explorations are guided by the development of a conceptual logic derived from the specific, unrepeatable conditions of the site from where the program starts crystallizing.
The intent is to teach students to move freely between intellectual control and intuition and make each of their projects unique.
Richard Abendroth
Tiffany Chiang
Yixuan Hu
Chloe Mahoney
