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Second Year Studio
Prof. Jennifer Park, [email protected]. Michael Glynn, [email protected]
Prof. Vladimir Radutny, [email protected]. Steve Pantazis, [email protected]
Teaching Assistant: Karam Lee, [email protected]
College of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology
Dwelling Studio
House Studio
Home Studio
Residential Studio
Shelter Studio
Roof Over Head Studio
The Primitive Hut
Concept by Marc-Antoine Laugier (1713-1769) that man wants nothing more than shade from the sun and shelter from storms – the same as a primitive man.
Three essential elements: Column, Entablature and Pediment… origins of architecture
For us to question:
What does it mean to dwell?
Who needs dwelling?
What does one need to dwell?
What is the architecture for dwelling?
Second Year
Second Year
First Year
Third Year
Design Process
Technical/Tactical/Social
Technicalspace, scale, materiality, structure, systems, construction
Tacticalhow to develop and represent your ideas
Gago House
Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Wiley Theater Concept - REX
Kooz Arch Parc La Villete Diagram – Rem Koolhaas
SocialArchitecture is a social practice.
Rural Studio 2008-09
Second Year Studio
Second Year Studiohttps://iitarchstudio2ndyr.wordpress.com
“Architects become redundant because they obsess about physical objects and don’t understand the immaterial networks
orchestrating everyday cultural life.”
Mark Wigley, “Resisting the City”
One, to learn that architecture is more than making forms and must embrace social responsibility.
Two, to formulate opinions and take a position on ways in which we as architects can be forward thinking activists for our cities and communities.
Three, to broaden the understanding of an architect’s scope and knowledge base because the cities which we shape are also multi-faceted and need a multifarious perspective.
OBJECTIVES
Our semester will go beyond the glam and surface appeal of HGTV. The show does recognize the movement of tiny home in respects living more efficiently, it focuseson those who largely have too much and feel compelled to reduce. While leaving a smaller footprint is beneficial to the earth, this show centers on a middle or evenupper-class group who probably never worried about not having a roof over their heads. This show only reflects the part of the tiny house movement for those whoare uninterested, or unwilling participate in traditional housing markets.But there is also the part of the movement which is driven by those who are unable to participate in the current housing markets. The other life of the Tiny Housemovement has roots in those that cannot afford housing and have daily worries about maintain a roof over their heads. To explain, the common definition of“affordable” or who qualifies for affordable housing is when 30% of a person’s income goes toward paying for housing or rent. And the reality in Chicago is that 43percent of very low-income households are paying more than half their income in rent and living in severely rundown units.
The interest in Tiny Homes or Micro-units stems from the need to fill a gap in the affordable housing crisis and help provide homes to those are considered homeless.To be simple, there is not nearly enough affordable housing for all those that need it. Chicago is exemplary of this. We have a gap in supply and demand foraffordable housing - more people need affordable housing while supply has gone down. This is compounded by the fact that wages are not keeping pace with risingrents. In addition, the Trump Administration is not helping they undermine benefits to developers that depend on Low Income Housing Tax Credit to help fund theconstruction of affordable housing so building affordable homes has slowed.In efforts to aid the affordable housing issue, the City of Chicago is considering new policies for the development of tiny homes within the city. There is currently aRequest for Information circulating from the City to better understand how tiny homes can be integrated into our neighborhoods in hopes of aiding the affordablehousing gap.
The AIA Chicago has also highlighted the potential for “tiny” homes to help a growing homeless population through a design competition. In their brief, they explain,“According to the 2015 Chicago Homeless Count and Survey conducted by the City of Chicago, 31% of the unsheltered homeless population and 19% of those that aresheltered are between the ages of 18 and 24 years old.” It further explains how most of these youth are working to improve their lives by taking college course orstudying for the GED but struggle to find time to study when they are forced out of their shelters for the day and have no place to keep their valuable items.
How do these kids end up in this situation? Youth are considered adults after they finish high school and turn 18. Some of these youth were in foster care systemswhose families will no longer be able to legally care or get funding to continue to shelter these kids. SOS Children’s Villages, a foster care organization, is oneorganization that recognizes this gap in the system and is working to provide temporary housing solutions for these young adults.Modeled after the AIA tiny home competition, this study will focus on designing an affordable “tiny” home for singular young adult transitioning into a newindependent bright future.
Tiny homes are stand-alone structures that contain minimally-sized living areas, sleeping spaces, kitchens and bathrooms. A place to sleep, eat, relax, study, cleanwhile also providing safety and privacy. But to further explore this definition, one can simply break down the words: “tiny” and “home” or “minimal” and “dwelling”or “extra-small” and “house.”
The studio project will focus on the XS House as a means to study housing needs, a singular and transitional demographic, efficiency and scale, shelter and community.
Project SynopsisThe XS House: Rethinking the Tiny Home
APPROACH
Phase 1 // Transition Providing “Other” Shelter // Making
Phase 2 // The XS House Case StudyGetting Familiar with Tiny Living // Precedents
Phase 3 // The XS House A // Designing the Small House // IterateB // Designing the Small House // Re-Iterate
Phase 4 // XS CommunityCommunity and Site // Aggregation and Modularity
Phase 5 // The Compilation Collecting and Composing // Chronicled Representation
INWARD
• DESK CRITS: individual
• PIN-UP: within studio group
• REVIEW / PRESENTATIONS: entire second year
OUTWARD
• WORKSHOPS / LECTURES: studio profs
• GUEST LECTURES: outside experts
• FIELD TRIPS: Chicago and outside Chicago
ADDITIONAL
• TUTORIALS: by TA, Karam
STUDIO CULTURE
Please refer to the IIT Studio Culture Policy for more information:https://arch.iit.edu/about/studio-culture
The studio pedagogy is built around a collaborative approach to the projects: the collaborative effort is between faculty and students, and among the students themselves.
The most important teaching space is the studio. The learning that happens there only takes place when the student is present and actively participating in the daily exchange of ideas.
Class hours are time for working at your desk. Run errands and take care of personal business outside of studio time
And during studio is not the time to check your email, send text messages, or chat on the phone. You should be in your seat and working on the studio assignments.
EXPECTATIONS AND GRADING
Critical Thinking:
A critical thinker:• raises vital questions and problems, formulating them clearly
and precisely;• gathers and assesses relevant information, using abstract ideas
to interpret it effectively comes to well-reasoned conclusions and solutions, testing them against relevant criteria and standards;
• thinks open mindedly within alternative systems of thought, recognizing and assessing, as need be, their assumptions, implications, and practical consequences; and
• communicates effectively with others in figuring out solutions to complex problems.
EXPECTATIONS AND GRADING
Conceptual thinking :• the ability to analyze hypothetical situations or abstract concepts to apply insight
Craft • the skill and care put into the development of one’s project as both a digital and
physical manifestation of a concept
Collaborative and conversational • Teamwork is essential; each student has a shared responsibility to their group.
Intensity and rigor • self-motivation should drive the development of one’s projects
Verbal and visual articulation
ATTENDENACE
MANDATORY Studio time: 1:50PM – 5:50PM (see announcements for lectures outside Crown)
• No working on other courses or outside work• Refrain from phone calls, texting, email, watching non-studio related media
• Absences can be excused if: 1. they result from a death in the student’s immediate family, 2. they are caused by illness (must be followed up with a note from your
physician), or 3. they are approved in advance at the discretion of your studio instructor.
ATTENDENACE
• Two unexcused/unapproved absences will result in a course progress report and the third unexcused/unapproved absence will result as a failed grade or be withdrawn from the class. Unexcused late arrivals or early departures will be counted as absences.
• Computer issues and output problems will not be accepted as a valid excuse for failure to submit work or to pin-up.
• Failure to present work at any of the project reviews will result in a course progress report and failure to present in more than one project review will result in failure for the course or being withdrawn. Absence from a review is equivalent to absence from an exam. Anyone arriving late for scheduled pin-ups or critiques will be marked absent and may not be allowed to present.
SHOP
Need to get shop clearance – most of you have, but if you don’t…
• You will have to make a special effort to qualify yourself, which you do by passing a written test on machine and work place safety, and a schedule for these test sessions will be posted by the door of the M&M shop office. A list of students who are qualified to use the shop is kept by the door to the shop office.
• To prepare for this test you can either attend one of the two-session Safety Orientation Classes or you can watch the video of this class. Signup sheets for the classes, which are held during the first weeks of each semester, are posted on the bulletin board by the shop office door in M&M.
• https://arch.iit.edu/about/materials-lab-policies
MESSY NOT DESTRUCTIVE
Second Year Studio Groups
Group 1 - Park
1. Bahena, Mikael2. Brimmer, JVeun K.3. Budhia, Moksh4. Chang, Tiffany5. Chavez, Nancy6. Colbert, Morgan E.7. Dizna, Arshia G.8. Keilman, Jonathon R.9. Liu, Zaoqing10. Meyer,Joel M.11. Olarte, Silvia12. Ozturk,Seniha13. Rafati, Samah14. Schemmel, Caleb15. Singh, Arkansh16. Valdovinos, Genesis17. Wong, Jocelyn J.
Group 2 - Glynn
1. Chan, Anita2. Chen, Yuan3. Dane, Brianne R.4. Dinh, Cong T.5. Fu, Junzhe6. Gu, Zexin7. Ige, Olumayowa A.8. Kim, Yun Woo9. Kirch, Jarrett D.10. Lacamera, Margaret M.11. Li,Gaohong12. Mohiuddin, Nimah13. Singh, Rishi R.14. Torres, Hiram15. Van Der Sanden, Leah J.16. Weishaar, Kaitlin A.
Group 3 - Radutny
1. Abdo, Yousef2. Ali, Maliha A.3. Ben-Eboh, Edward E.4. Carrasco Morales, Kevin A.5. Effiong, Mminika6. Fleischer, Daniel7. Georgieva, Marinela T.8. Gomez, Nathan X.9. James, Erin M.10. Lickert, Jordan11. Messina, Nicholas R.12. Papoola , Salim13. Rodriguez Arias, Jeisson14. Ruzek, Julia M.15. Smith, Aubrie R.16. Soto, Amanda M.
Group 4 - Pantazis
1. Allen, Daniel J.2. Bockenholt, Nika3. Goll, Miles J.4. Hoxha, Floriana5. Kenneally, Caitlyn C.6. Kennedy, Aidan C.7. Koury, Kevin P.8. Li, Sheung T.9. Nettesheim, Jayden C.10. Regina, Hayden S.11. Sanmuzhou, Zelang12. Sheikh, Aamina H.13. Slansky, Patrick S.14. Smith, Mae A.15. Wiley, Keith W.16. Stone, Adam Zakarias
Group 5 – Flurry
1. Cardona Narvaez, Juliana2. Cruz Lopez, Marco A.3. Davis,Kevion S.4. Defterali, Semra5. Ding, Fang6. Ganama, Naya7. Holguin, Caldas Isabella8. Lao, Natalie9. Marshall, Amanda V.10. Mccluskey, Corey M.11. McCoy, Kyle P.12. Mora,Gerardo13. Patel, Maharshi R.14. Rosales Loayza, Emilia15. Teixeira Pereira, Marcela16. Wuehler, Andrew
Phase 1Transition
Phase 1Transition
Providing “Other” Shelter // Making
In his Essai sur l’Architecture, the 18th-century French architecture theorist Marc-Antoine Laugierdescribed the primitive man as constructing a shelter to protect himself from nature.
As a marker for transitioning out of first year into your second year of study, we will be reusing your full-scale wood constructs into half-scale shelter that provide protection or relief. How you define “protection” or “relief” is up to you and your group. It can be protection from environmental elements, like rain or sun. It can relief from others, like friends or foe. It can be protection from one’s self or the metaphysical. Ultimately, your definition will be the basis for your design.
1// Deliverables
In groups, create one half-scale structure with integrated narrative, no bigger than 4’ x 4’ x 4’
4 groups in each studio (20 groups) – each group will work with previous exhibit components
2// Criteria
Material/Construction• Use 50% old and 50% new material (provided)• Old material to be reused from last year full scale exhibit elements: 2x4 framing and birch ply panels• Include one non-wood material (not provided)• No nails or glue – to allow for possible disassembly and reuse
2// Criteria
Function • Structurally sound and can stand on its own• Provide support for a person – sit, lean, lie• Provide protection/relief – environment, people,
metaphysical
Story• Title or name of your piece• Develop a visual narrative/diagram or written story
• What is the story that surrounds this “shelter”?• Who does it exist for? Why does it exist?
Where does it exist?• Story should be integrated strategically into the
design of your shelter; not an after thought
Notes: can trade materials with other groups
DUE: Wed. Aug. 29 at 2pmStudio-wide Review - Upper Crown
Second Year Studio
Prof. Jennifer Park, [email protected]. Michael Glynn, [email protected]
Prof. Vladimir Radutny, [email protected]. Steve Pantazis, [email protected]
Teaching Assistant: Karam Lee, [email protected]
College of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology