2012S_Arch Design 3_Rehm Section
ARCH-2230 | Michael Casey Rehm, Adjunct Professor
Architecture Design 3: Housing Complex[ity]
Selected Student Work:
William Pyatt
Kathryn Schaubhut
This studio focused on leveraging architectural precedent analysis toward the production of innovative housing solutions. The first half of the semester involved the analysis of modern houses assigned by individual section instructors. Our studio focused on early modern and pre-modern houses which had specific mechanisms or articulations to produce experiential effects through ornamentation (e.g. Antoni Gaudi’s Casa Batllo, Charles Renee Mackintosh’s Hill House) or explicit spatial relationships (e.g. Adolf Loos’ Casa Muller, Pierre Chareau’s Maison de Verre). Students were asked to mine the specific geometric devices utilized by the architect to produce intensive dialogue between occupant and building. In turn those devices became autonomous behaviors in a non-linear tectonic organization for the production of their own projects. An emphasis was placed on creating a high level of specificity at small scale material-occupant relationships over large scale formal production. Consequently the student work operates as a gradient cloud of specific architectural moments within a coherent but heterogeneous macro deployment. As an emphasis on interactivity and tactile product relationships becomes more central to contemporary lifestyle, the project for the studio looks to emphasize a more localized understanding of the complex relationships possible between the built environment and its inhabitants.
Ryan Hao
William Pyatt
Tom Roland
Kathryn Schaubhut
