Category: ARCH102 – Introduction to Architectural Design
First Year Architecture Portfolio
S + F
S+F, also known as SEED & FIELD injection.
The spatial organization strategy I used while I creating my spaces is creating a continuous flow between spaces by shifting some elements of my seed or leaving some openings both inside of the spaces and the between spaces. Those gaps which has repeating scales are in the position of directing one space to another spaces. At the same time, the spaces are opening to those gaps so, it supports the continuity condition.
Growth Strategy
repeating similar rectangles + diagonal positioning
I do not have separator elements or boundaries inside of the seed but I have strong limiter elements on the ends of the diagonal positioning. They corroborate the idea of they hold the seed from two edges and represent the diagonal spread of the seed. I also have spaces inside of them.
Final Jury Poster
You see the poster I prepared for final jury representation. I have little space details of my final model at the top of my poster. The sub part represents the strategies, decisions and again some space details. I draw top Elevation Drawings to show Injection Strategy, Axonometic Drawing to show the Growth Strategy, and Partial Section Drawings to show some Space Details.
What is Hinge?
The hinge is defined to the studio as a design tool for design strategies; how seed and field relate to each other physically (they are not supposed to intersect with each other) & how different parts of the design interrelate with each other. It is about relating elements through the hinge, redefining their relation and creating spaces. However, not every point is emphasized as a hinge. While defining the hinge, we also need to have a strategy.
We can see the similar relationships but while one is entitled as hinge, the other one is not. So, what is the difference? Why do you think this is a hinge? In order to differentiate the hinge from the other relationships, we need to consider about textual, dimensional, and formal details.
*Hinge is not exact construct but it is about how two things come together and make something.
Scale change of the elements maybe makes the hinge. Also, texture, thickness can be applied as a hinge. The elements which are not touch each other and the gap between them creates the hinge.
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PreJury2
I forgot to work on the field parts which are seed does not exist.
Field
According to the overlapped maps we did for Ulus and Sakarya areas, we produced a field. I interpreted the darkest parts as the most dens parts and I organized them in terms of their density condition so, I arranged those most dense parts of my two layers in the way that they interact with each other.
PreJury
My field has two cores, one is on the upper layer and the other one is on the bottom layer. Field cores were defined according to density condition. More dens parts are going down for upper layer and more dens parts are vice versa going upward for bottom layer. My seed was located between the cores because there was already the relation and connection between layers and I wanted to use it. On my seed I worked the continuity condition and spaces flow into each other. There is no certain boundaries or interruptions between spaces. In order to provide that I left some openings, cutted some parts or shifted some planes of seed. Field was took form to make wall defined spaces beside the information it carries. Also, I changed some pieces of seed and eliminated some pieces from the field to reach a complete and complex model.
I have got certain critics about my model. Jury mentioned that my seed defines good spaces but I have some troubles about my field. They said that my field are not support the seed, it has unnecessary strips and some useless shapes. Additionally, at some parts it would be nice if I used seed elements instead of field.
Brand new theme: FIELD
We got to work on a brand new theme: FIELD and it came along the subtitle: Info Mapping.
Ulus Area
Sakarya Area
This time, the style of doing homework was different. We visited Ulus and Sakarya areas to document what we observed and introduce keywords according to our experiences on the areas. Later, we analyzed how the keyword changes in terms of zones and we defined those zones with rectangles, tried to map differentiations on areas.
I documented the shade&shadow condition with scale on one map for Ulus area. The one thing I interested in Ulus was the sudden changes between the narrow and wide zones. Especially, in a sunny day while one street is fully shadow, the right next wide street was almost shadowless. It was both because of the narrowless of the street and the scale of surrounding buildings (they were low). So, I choose it as one of my keywords for Ulus. With the decreasing of darkness, the shadow condition is decreasing.
Other keyword for Ulus area: Movement! Because, If you visited that defined Ulus area, you will see there have some too crowded shopping streets and again crowded mosques and the quiet castle and other places. There is always an action and movement in some places but also there is quiet places too. So, I thought that it might be a good choice to chose movement as a keyword for Ulus area. The more crowded zones are defined with darker rectangles while the quiet ones are defined with light rectangles and that opacity condition changes according to the changes in zones.
You see the maps I produced for Sakarya area above. My keywords for Sakarya area are: Sound and Directionality of Movement.
I choose the Sound keyword because there are several apart formations which have various sound levels inside. Schools, subways, parks, wedding hall, streets, hospitals, mosques… They all have different volumes inside so, I observed them in that way and the ones which have high volume are represented with darker rectangles in the map.
About the directionality of movement keyword: The defined zone has a lot of streets, main roads and the because of a lot of people use that roads hundreds time there is continuous and usual flow on that roads.
While overlapping them I played their opacity in order to give equal information of both maps.
The Last Seed
I want to share the final state of my “seed” but it is not in good condition according to the comments we have heard. About my own model, this time, I thought a lot on that should I use different types of quadrilateral except the rectangle and square ones in order to evolve my seed but, conversely, I could not found them in their places after grading, they were removed and the last remaining has a question mark on it. So, I guess, I have got the message.
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