lundi, juin 04, 2007

Assignment #3: Control Lines & Construction Taxonomies

What are the control lines that regulate and shape your project? What were the first lines inscribed on the site that guided the construction process?
What are the major components of your pavilion and what sequence would they have to be constructed in to build the structure?
For class on Monday the 11th of June have these two files ready and posted:
A) Create a dwg, dxf, or fmz 2-d drafted file that is useble as a base file by the modeling program you will use to model the pavilion later in the semester. In this file there should be a hierarchy of control lines, regulating lines, centerlines, setbacks, guidelines, and context limits. These should show geometric rhythm, hierarchy, and proportion in the pavilion. Use the sort of technical conventions used in your pavilion's drawing set in terms of lineweight and line type to delineate these (centerlines are almost always a long-short-long combo) types of lines. NO COLORS- Greyscale only and use even that sparingly.
Have a well delineated image posted to your website by Monday the 11th at 10am. The smallest size of the image of your drawing you post should be 1000px. We'll grade off these images. Make yours clear and sharp so we can grade accordingly and so you'll have a good foundation to start subsequent work from. Construct it
B) Research the basic ideas and techniques behind the Critical Path Method (CPM) and its diagramming tools- PERT and GANTT charts. Make a list of the trades and components of the building (you can use the associated specifications included in the set of drawing) and post it to your page. Then make a graphically sophisticated and informative CPM style chart of the construction process for your pavilion in illustrator. Post an image of this chart to your web page.

What relationship exists in your work between your summations in A and B? Does the set of lines drawn in A relate to the words describing the variety and order of trades and materialities in B?

That will keep you busy for a week.