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ex 5 reflection prompt

Please read the prompt below. Then scroll to the bottom, click on the link to your section page for Ex 5 Reflections, and post your precise and articulate reflections in response to each set of questions.
Postings are due by FRIDAY MARCH 14th.


This semester’s Exercise Five ran parallel, in many ways, to last semester’s Exercise Two. They each invited the process of reverse engineering to understand everyday interfaces; ex 2 with objects, and ex 5 with buildings’ forms and spaces. Each surfaced numerous qualities through careful investigations using distinct filters: form and composition, fabrication and assembly, and use and operation. Each invited the process of looking between and across filters to further extend their analyses.

Exercise Five used many of the tools and strategies of Exercise Two to help unpack the complexities and nuances of buildings and spaces. It also introduced some new ones:

Briefly:
  • In 5.1 sketching and diagramming skills allowed quick abstraction and investigation of building skin relationships at three scales
  • In 5.2 form and composition was analyzed through the act of measuring, relating component parts, and translating this building slice into a set of orthographic drawings. Drafts were constructed in layers, inviting discoveries of relationships between component forms and spaces.
  • 5.3 invited speculation about the structure’s fabrication and assembly. Empirical and theoretical research of distinct building systems fueled thoughtful proposals about building components ‘hidden’ within walls, floors and ceilings.
  • In 5.4 the envelope ‘chunk’ was re-contextualized as a moment along a path through unfolded freehand drawings and carefully crafted scale models. Spatial volumes defined by the skin took dominance. Light and body studies using a variety of media investigated the path spaces as animated in time and over time.
  • Finally, your own wall of ‘discoveries’ was curated and composed, then placed adjacent to others to foreground shared discussions during the review.

1.
Identify what the different media and filters revealed about the building during each of the sub-exercises.
How did your understanding of the building change throughout the exercise?
Which investigation tools and procedures facilitated your most significant discoveries? How?
Which tools and procedures offered the most surprising results? What were they?

2.
Review your Reflection posted for Exercise Two.
Revisit Exercise Two examples in the CFY conference exhibition.
What significant relationships can you now draw between the investigations undertaken for both exercises and the resultant discoveries?

3.
Summarize what you learned about the way the exercise was constructed and about your particular inquiry during the course of the final jury.
What is your most surprising ‘take-away’ from having done this project?

4.
In Exercise Three’s riffing process, the analytical drawings of Exercise Two became generative.
Consider the comprehensive analysis work of Exercise Five.
How might these investigations of form and composition, fabrication and assembly, and use and operation become generative?

Identify specific Exercise Five findings which might begin to identify possible strands of that filter’s DNA. (a proportional system? an organization that correlates three scales? a system of assembly? a bodily encounter? a perception? a transformation over time?)

Identify possible trajectories for riffing through each of the various filters.
Without setting a final goal (of course!), identify a series of questions that might begin to offer variations worthy of exploration. (For example: What if proportional relationships are extended to inform the larger scale? What if the body is postured in the space to further exploit the modular system? What if the materials become transparent to further exploit the assembled layered systems?)


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