Research

The studio will continue exploring “luxury residential space” and infuse the concept of deep surface with new ideas related to sculpture to understand the effect on sectional vertical density.
Students will in this regard investigate materials concerning building envelopes, art and sculpture concerning spatial ideas and innovative living-forms based on creative use adjacencies.
The entire design process will be structured in three incremental phases as provocations to isolate the individual design ideas and after spring break synthesize the outcome and finalize the project.
The studio and its 3 design research assignments until spring break are as follows:

Skin> understanding building envelopes & materials and applying the logic behind the effect of them > ornament and screens
Formwork> understanding specific modeling tactics and applying the concept of space with differential orientations; understanding of early shape implications for MEP & structure;
Interior >understanding the interrelationship created between shape, envelope and interior space and applying and modifying the effect on natural daylight and natural ventilation;