Maastricht Bookstore

Not quite a library, but a bookstore in a church!

Rural Studio

A great interview and website on the Rural Studio.
http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/ruralstudio/index.shtml

Auburn University's Rural Studio in western Alabama draws architectural students into the design and construction of homes and public spaces in some of the poorest counties in the United States. They're creating beautiful and economical structures that are unique in the world — and that nurture sustainability of the natural world as of human dignity.

Mapping for Photoshop

http://www.mayang.com/textures/

Perspective collage examples

Sometimes, using a level of abstraction makes an image much more powerful than a photorealistic one. The use of line makes the space legible in a way that a typical 3d max rendering wouldn't. Color and collage can quickly be added in photoshop to give an indication of context.

Mansilla Tunon Architects Public Library in Jerez

Diller Scofidio + Renfro Lincoln Center Expansion
Douglas and King structural glass addition

Midreview

Midreview is Thursday, November 1. For Midreview, required are
- Fully resolved site and program analysis
- Schematic plans and sections
- Multiple iterations of your physical or digital models.
- Perspective sketches of interior relationships that you are working towards.

At this point, everyone should have a clear intention for their project that can be explained in three sentences. It is not about the small moves that respond to small site considerations- you all need a clear goal that all of your decisions are working together to respond to.

Solar Decathlon

For those interested in green building technologies-http://www.solardecathlon.org/

Upcoming Lectures

There are a couple of interesting upcoming lectures at the Architectural League in New York City.
David Chipperfield on Friday, November 2, Weiss/Manfredi on Thursday, November 8.

Mapping

This is not directly related to studio, but This American Life has an episode on Mapping this week.

Kepler

The Course syllabus and assignments have been uploaded to our Kepler site in the Course Documents section.

OASIS

Open Accessible Space Information System for NYC- here
They also have a neighborhood tree survey here

Reading for this week

The reading to replace the lecture summary for this week will be "Notes on a Provisional Architecture" by Kevin S. Alter. It can be found HERE, go to Articles

Library Resources

If you're looking for more historical information, some great resouces in the library are the New York series book by Robert AM Stern. It starts with New York 1880 and goes on to New York 2000. If you're looking for information on our neighborhood in these earlier eras, look for it as Lower East Side. It wasn't Chinatown until later.

Another great one is A History of Housing in New York City, by Richard Plunz, especially for those interested in housing and how the fabric of the city has changed over time.

Both can be found in the NJIT Architecture Library.

Extra links

Hey guys, take a look when you have time of something that Columbia University students were doing.
Columbia


Also I found a really neat site on the zoning laws in NYC, and from there you can find other documents about new urban planning in lower manhattan.
zoning in nyc

Anatomy Project Final Requirements

Louis Kahn, Yale University Art Gallery

Each group is expected to have at least three 30x40 boards on Thursday, September 20.

One board, descriptive 2d drawings to scale, background information and key images of the building.

Two boards should include the following:

Structural Documentation
- Major structural components and materials in building.
- Show how floor and roof slabs attach to the super structure
- Show how facade ties into structure

Mechanical Documentation
- Define types of mechanical system providing heating and cooling
- Locate fresh air intakes and relationship to facade
- Locate all ducting as well as chillers, coolers, air handling units, and hot water heaters

Facade Documentation
- Detail and describe major form, materials, apertures and thresholds
- Detail any integration with structure and mechanical systems

Circulation, Section, and Spatial Documentation
- Define major vertical and horizontal circulation systems
- Define programmatic zones
- Define relation to street, neighborhood

Wherever possible, these analytical drawings should be in 3d instead of 2d.

Avery Library

The Avery Architecture library at Columbia University is the oldest and largest architecture library in the country. It is a non-circulating collection, so if you find a book online, it will most likely be there. To get in, you have to get a reading card from the main library, Butler.

Avery Library-
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/avery/

Access-
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/services/lio/access/

Map of Campus-
http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/

To get there-
Take the PATH train from Newark Penn Station to 34th Street/6th Ave. Walk one block over to Penn station on 7th Ave.
Get on the 2/3 Subway train going Uptown to 96th Street (express)
Switch to the 1/9 local train to 116th Street.

Illustrate plugin for Max

For those of you using 3dmax, there is a render plugin called Illustrate! that you can download that allow you to export vector line files (Illustrator files) of views and can give you images that look like this-

You can download a trial version that is good for 30 days from this website-
http://www.davidgould.com/

OMA Seattle Public Library

A very clear presentation on the development of this project- here

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