TWICE A HOUSE - MOVEMENT I

Romain Sassine

TWICE A HOUSE

a house is the simple topic of this studio. a matter of simple complexity

starting from ways of living and a framed reference, defining a fragment; then investigate the reference, through drawing; finally arriving at a house.

learning about a house is learning about architecture.

MOVEMENT I

in this first part of the exercise students make a ‘fragment’ , not a facade or building but a ‘fragment’ of a house. it is about observation; investigation; understanding;

starting from a given film, featuring a remarkable house. a house showing a way of living, a house showing a way of building.

thinking differently about how we live, imagining and reinterpreting; how does this affect the ‘fragment’; on construction; material; detail; aspects that are all defined not only by a quality of space but now also by its meaning

in this second part of the exercise students select a drawing reference from an architect to look again to their house.

a la manière de, how an architect draws his architecture; why does he draw it this way; what does that mean for the reference; how does it alter the drawing; how does it alter the house.

observation rather than analyze; observing the house - observing the reference - understanding where one becomes the other.

drawing altering the house, the house altering the axonometry; focus; on movement; on construction; material; detail; aspects that all define not only by a quality of space but now also by its meaning.

Team
Unit:
LIF
Teachers:
Jo François Taillieu
Assistants:
Juliette Jeanne Marthe Contat, Ghan Thariq Oudhuis
Infos
Year:
2022
Period:
Bachelor, Fall
Category:
Semester Project
Topic:  
Architecture, Construction
Copyright:
CC BY Licence
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