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.