I think this would be an excellent ideas for those who have lots of time on their hands or are bored of their mind.
I was wondering what people would think about having mock design competitions, for no prize or anything. A person will suggest a situation/scenario and anyone who wants can design a answer for it. Obviously this will all be for 'architectural' fun. whether you're doing it with cad, mspaint, or even on a napkin it's all considered fair game as long as you take a picture of it and put it on webspace and link it to a reply. then we can all butcher and critique whatever we've submitted.. this is nothing full scale.. just something for fun.
who thinks this would be fun and an awesome time killer?
Ooh, I just thought of something else. Maybe the teams should be formed online through the discussion board, so your designing with someone you haven't necessarily met. This is truly the whole concept of Archinect: "Making Architecture more Connected"
I like the Exquisite Corpse idea. I've done drawing exercises with very inexperienced students (even high school) and the results are always interesting. Not sure how it would be managed - design projects, random drawings or pix? Photoshop? swapping Autocad files? The mind reels...
Awesome. I dig exquisite corpse.
I conceptualized a group project in 5th year studio where the three group members drew, painted, glued, stuck images, text etc on an olkd wood door. It was an urban revitilazation anti-master planning concept. We started with a map of the city blocks as they were and drew all over them, individually at times and together when it happened. We interpreted each others "messages", we drew over top of each other, there were no rules except you had to use what was there, and keep putting stuff down. We projected elevations of facades of entire streets off of a plan idea of someone else's that we didn't have anything to go by but the lines and shapes and materials and colors that were put down by our classmates. The thing turned out to be quite cool - layered, experiential, and confusing I guess. We drew at all scales, all materials were welcome, and once you laid a piece, you had to depend on the piece to relay to your audience and the team members what your intentions were. Of course it got interpreted and reinterpreted and morphed so lovely, but it was always still there. It was all scales from several city blocks to a minute facade detail all at once, yet the city grid was still readable. It was a wonderful tapestry of architectural components. I guess it was a sort of exquisite corpse. We didn't really want to talk about it - like you didn't really say "This is a building footprint". At first, feelings were hurt because people would say "That's not what I was going for..." etc, but we talked about how architecture is not just for the architect, it is for the viewer, the occupier and the builder and there is as much room for interpretation in architecture than there is in absract art. Then there were no hard feelings in the group and it got very interesting to see what could be done with our collective minds in this layering fashion, this way of communicating. I can see Archinecters doing something like this in a digital fashion, although the materiality and the texture was integral to the project.
I will try to find a picture of it and post it.
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I think this would be an excellent ideas for those who have lots of time on their hands or are bored of their mind.
I was wondering what people would think about having mock design competitions, for no prize or anything. A person will suggest a situation/scenario and anyone who wants can design a answer for it. Obviously this will all be for 'architectural' fun. whether you're doing it with cad, mspaint, or even on a napkin it's all considered fair game as long as you take a picture of it and put it on webspace and link it to a reply. then we can all butcher and critique whatever we've submitted.. this is nothing full scale.. just something for fun.
who thinks this would be fun and an awesome time killer?
You have time to kill?
Great ideas! I'm amazed how many people seems more eager here to talk about things has nothing to do with architecture whatsoever.
Cool idea! But I don't really know how many people would do it 'just for fun'
I know this goes against your original concept, but maybe make it more formal with some loose rules and deadlines.
There should be some sort of award to get people motivated; maybe an article on the Archinect homepage featuring your winning design.
This could be a monthly competition, with a monthly review posting the winning design and maybe a little bio on the designer/s. Lots of fun I think.
could we do a Exquisite Corpse project on Archinect?
Ooh, I just thought of something else. Maybe the teams should be formed online through the discussion board, so your designing with someone you haven't necessarily met. This is truly the whole concept of Archinect: "Making Architecture more Connected"
It would be a great way to meet new designers
I like the Exquisite Corpse idea. I've done drawing exercises with very inexperienced students (even high school) and the results are always interesting. Not sure how it would be managed - design projects, random drawings or pix? Photoshop? swapping Autocad files? The mind reels...
no award.. just for fun.. and yes i have so much time to kill.. only a student..
i would do it for fun! i have time: looking for a job
Awesome. I dig exquisite corpse.
I conceptualized a group project in 5th year studio where the three group members drew, painted, glued, stuck images, text etc on an olkd wood door. It was an urban revitilazation anti-master planning concept. We started with a map of the city blocks as they were and drew all over them, individually at times and together when it happened. We interpreted each others "messages", we drew over top of each other, there were no rules except you had to use what was there, and keep putting stuff down. We projected elevations of facades of entire streets off of a plan idea of someone else's that we didn't have anything to go by but the lines and shapes and materials and colors that were put down by our classmates. The thing turned out to be quite cool - layered, experiential, and confusing I guess. We drew at all scales, all materials were welcome, and once you laid a piece, you had to depend on the piece to relay to your audience and the team members what your intentions were. Of course it got interpreted and reinterpreted and morphed so lovely, but it was always still there. It was all scales from several city blocks to a minute facade detail all at once, yet the city grid was still readable. It was a wonderful tapestry of architectural components. I guess it was a sort of exquisite corpse. We didn't really want to talk about it - like you didn't really say "This is a building footprint". At first, feelings were hurt because people would say "That's not what I was going for..." etc, but we talked about how architecture is not just for the architect, it is for the viewer, the occupier and the builder and there is as much room for interpretation in architecture than there is in absract art. Then there were no hard feelings in the group and it got very interesting to see what could be done with our collective minds in this layering fashion, this way of communicating. I can see Archinecters doing something like this in a digital fashion, although the materiality and the texture was integral to the project.
I will try to find a picture of it and post it.
Just make these.
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