Working with and designing for a non-human client is known to be difficult. Starting Architecture school in September I have taken to the liberty of researching into the criteria of year one at my school. Project 1.1 states that one must design a habitat for an animal living here within the city (England city) I have had some ideas for which animal I have a tendency of designing for although after reading further into the course I have found that:
Tasks 1.2 = Design a small mobile home, no larger than a car parking space using the ideas from task 1.1 and the chosen animal.
Tasks 1.3 = Design a full building using the ideas from tasks 1.1 and 1.2
Example = Otters fish, small home is a fishing boat and full building is a cookery school located near a river where fresh fish is caught and sold.
My Initial choice of animal was the hedgehog, due to its dying population I thought I may be able to preserve the lives of those that dwell within a city. The animal habitat I have though about has gone through some design process although I have no prior experience in designing and only passion and interest to show for myself.
I have split the criteria for the habitat into 3 distinctive criteria -
Attraction - It must attract the given animal (Hedgehog)
Container - It must contain the animal and give shelter
3rd - It must protect and serve the animal AND flow and coincide with city life.
My problem comes when i think of project 2, How could i possibly design a small home the size of a car parking space with the hedgehog idea in mind?
My Thinking - A home that can shrink into a ball, like the anatomy of a hedgehog - for transportation and fit within the given size, When in use the home can curl out into a larger more usable space.
Problem [ Spheres don't fold very far and the only rational thinking of how it may work is if the contents inside were stationary within the centre and possibly fold in on its self and that the roof or floor of this portable home is made from a material like cloth.
Any advice for ideas or help would be appreciated, even just some advice on design processing would be great.
Lexington, Kentucky, and the surrounding equestrian estates are extremely pleasant places to live. A lot of the horse farm owners could buy and sell the Hamptons en toto if they chose.
The most expensive house in the US just sold for $147 million in East Hampton. The most expensive listing in Lexington is about 8% of that. These guys don't have a vacation house or two, they have investment portfolios of real estate holdings around the world, in the most expensive markets - the Hamptons, Palo Alto, Aspen, LA, etc.
Open listings here currently top out around $100m. The really exclusive stuff never gets advertised or openly listed.
As you said: "The really exclusive stuff never gets advertised or openly listed".
The horse barns around Lexington are better built than the crap in the Hamptons.
I'm sure there are landowners (farmers, ranchers) that could top $100 million in Kentucky, but I guess that doesn't count because the value isn't in the house. The horses are probably worth tens of thousands apiece though.
minifrost, put your client at the forefront of this project. Take a look at Visiondivision's home for crayfish called Cancer City - it's an actual built animal habitat.
Thank you Donna, the linked habitat is quite amazing and works perfectly like intended, however my problem is the portable home that we have been asked to design with the animal in mind. I'm not entirely sure on how to progress from a hedgehog, using the information from my habitat to create a portable home for a human.
Don't be so literal. If archi schools there are like archi schools there, some incomprehensible, unbuildable schematic and a line of pretentious bullshit will get you to the top of the class.
The difference is id rather be a good architect, than be a bad one with a good degree! I'm a qualified carpenter and therefore I think of a design and then think rationally how it may work, If it does not work, I try to find a way I can make it work.
I got told the first year is for making mistakes and making a name for yourself, so i intend to make a good job of this.
Miles, having visited the Hamptons several times as well as Lexington, there is no comparison. The Queen of England spends several weeks each year visiting Keeneland buying yearlings for her stables; I don't think the lady would be caught dead in the Hamptons. You are confusing value with costs and class with wretched excess. A lot of the new homes in the Hamptons should be bulldozed as eyesores. You cannot say that about any of the equestrian estates around Lexington. Point being if you think all Kentuckians are mouth-breathing gomers vastly inferior to the bankrupt bankers of the Hamptons propped up by a corrupt Fed you might want to reconsider.
I think Miles should sell his hampton estate and move to bluegrass country. maybe it will help with the negative thoughts. Horses are very therapeutic.
Volunteer, you're barking up the wrong tree. I'ver never been a fan of wretched excess, in either NY or KY, and have no confusion about values. Inherited royalty ("the Queen") is a particularly poor example of 'class', as has been repeatedly demonstrated throughout history. While on the subject, I would recommend the book Class by Paul Fussell, an insightful and hilarious dissection of social structure in America (and now much of the world).
FYI I've done a number of projects about this issue, including writing The Hamptons Dictionary (first word: A-list, definition: a catalog of assholes) and creating the Nuke The Hamptons website.
tint, we have horses here too, and the Hampton Classic, one of the biggest show jumping contests in the US. If horse people in KY are anything like horse people here, I'll pass.
I'm not sure there are a homogenous group 'KY horse people', exactly. There are the old guard gentry and then those who pool their money to join an ownership together, and then a spectrum of situations in between.
As I understand our geology - the massive limestone Karst formations below most of the state - is what gives us our excellent aquifer system for delicious water, and by extension our Bluegrass, healthy horses, and lovely bourbon.
The magic is in the place. People are just its ambassadors!
I was in Long Island City yesterday at the Nagouchi Museum....It is't the Hamptons but it is well worth the visit. Think I could quit my day job and go to work there just to be in the company of some very High Class Sculpture.
louisville's getting better bike infrastructure all the time, but it's still not understood by a lot of the driving population. i hear lexington's getting better as well.
louisville really needs to update cycling rules and then do a good education program. cyclists tend to break road rules - and it makes sense that they do, in some respects - but the rules need to actually change to accommodate. otherwise drivers get frustrated thinking that cyclists are arrogantly flouting the law.
rural kentucky? depends. as cyclists become more familiar, harassment is decreasing. there will always be yahoos, though. [but, then, that may not be kentucky-specific.]
is kentucky, in general, a safe place for cyclists. i'd probably come down on the 'no' side right now.
(and I'm a big fan of The Living, but this is just … I don't know)
Donna, Stan the rabbit is great. It's hot in Baltimore, and he doesn't like that much, but we keep cobblestones in the freezer that we rotate out to help him stay cool.
I think for me, what falls flat is that the form and execution is your run-of-the-mill parametric stacking exercise - assembled by a bunch of amateur masons. sure - the material itself is interesting, but they could have built it with anything.
but isn't the whole benefit of the material that it could be any shape? They could be 3d-printing intricate formwork and then using that to make strange lattice-like blocks (using FLW's concrete block houses as a springboard) - that would have been more exciting, IMO... There's absolutely no craft with this.
When *I* was a kid, we hand-crafted masonry units with an intentional flaw to see what kind of wall forms we could produce. This was before parametrics was common, so we used mass-produced but unfired bricks - wet clay.
I can't help but think this goes back to the myth of 'self-assembly' that was the hook in their proposal materials and animation. When you have real humans (likely not masons, but unskilled volunteer laborers) doing the work, you're not going to get that smoothly variable complexity and those elegant parametric lines so easily. Should've used quadcopters.
Not having internment for 2 weeks is awful. Like some sort of purgatory. Now I know what my kid in Pakistan feels like. First world problems. Thank god for 4G.
The high window thread is awesome. Like Archinect of old. Off to find this dishwasher thread.
I'm feeling so down tonight, most of my government and a huge chunk of my fellow citizens thinks I have no value as a human being. Guess I can stop paying taxes now since I'm less than human?
I'll be happy when Scalia either retires or dies. Don't care which.
"And if you don't, the Devil will get you," he adds - because Scalia actually sincerely believes in *the Devil*. He said so in a recent interview. IMO that's grounds for being committed to an institution, not for holding one of the most powerful positions on a government. He's clearly not only biased, but insane.
"And if you don't, the Devil will get you," he adds - because Scalia actually sincerely believes in *the Devil*. He said so in a recent interview. IMO that's grounds for being committed to an institution, not for holding one of the most powerful positions on a government. He's clearly not only biased, but insane.
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Hi I'm Mike,
Working with and designing for a non-human client is known to be difficult. Starting Architecture school in September I have taken to the liberty of researching into the criteria of year one at my school. Project 1.1 states that one must design a habitat for an animal living here within the city (England city) I have had some ideas for which animal I have a tendency of designing for although after reading further into the course I have found that:
Tasks 1.2 = Design a small mobile home, no larger than a car parking space using the ideas from task 1.1 and the chosen animal.
Tasks 1.3 = Design a full building using the ideas from tasks 1.1 and 1.2
Example = Otters fish, small home is a fishing boat and full building is a cookery school located near a river where fresh fish is caught and sold.
My Initial choice of animal was the hedgehog, due to its dying population I thought I may be able to preserve the lives of those that dwell within a city. The animal habitat I have though about has gone through some design process although I have no prior experience in designing and only passion and interest to show for myself.
I have split the criteria for the habitat into 3 distinctive criteria -
Attraction - It must attract the given animal (Hedgehog)
Container - It must contain the animal and give shelter
3rd - It must protect and serve the animal AND flow and coincide with city life.
My problem comes when i think of project 2, How could i possibly design a small home the size of a car parking space with the hedgehog idea in mind?
My Thinking - A home that can shrink into a ball, like the anatomy of a hedgehog - for transportation and fit within the given size, When in use the home can curl out into a larger more usable space.
Problem [ Spheres don't fold very far and the only rational thinking of how it may work is if the contents inside were stationary within the centre and possibly fold in on its self and that the roof or floor of this portable home is made from a material like cloth.
Any advice for ideas or help would be appreciated, even just some advice on design processing would be great.
Lexington, Kentucky, and the surrounding equestrian estates are extremely pleasant places to live. A lot of the horse farm owners could buy and sell the Hamptons en toto if they chose.
Let's play Can You Top This?
The most expensive house in the US just sold for $147 million in East Hampton. The most expensive listing in Lexington is about 8% of that. These guys don't have a vacation house or two, they have investment portfolios of real estate holdings around the world, in the most expensive markets - the Hamptons, Palo Alto, Aspen, LA, etc.
Open listings here currently top out around $100m. The really exclusive stuff never gets advertised or openly listed.
As you said: "The really exclusive stuff never gets advertised or openly listed". The horse barns around Lexington are better built than the crap in the Hamptons.
I'm sure there are landowners (farmers, ranchers) that could top $100 million in Kentucky, but I guess that doesn't count because the value isn't in the house. The horses are probably worth tens of thousands apiece though.
minifrost, put your client at the forefront of this project. Take a look at Visiondivision's home for crayfish called Cancer City - it's an actual built animal habitat.
Volunteer, we also have lots of brand new $20m spec houses that require serious ongoing repair from day one. Betcha don't have any of those, either.
I didn't say it was good, just that Lexington couldn't top it (or even come close). Like Steven said: that's a good thing.
Thank you Donna, the linked habitat is quite amazing and works perfectly like intended, however my problem is the portable home that we have been asked to design with the animal in mind. I'm not entirely sure on how to progress from a hedgehog, using the information from my habitat to create a portable home for a human.
Don't be so literal. If archi schools there are like archi schools there, some incomprehensible, unbuildable schematic and a line of pretentious bullshit will get you to the top of the class.
Haha Miles,
The difference is id rather be a good architect, than be a bad one with a good degree! I'm a qualified carpenter and therefore I think of a design and then think rationally how it may work, If it does not work, I try to find a way I can make it work.
I got told the first year is for making mistakes and making a name for yourself, so i intend to make a good job of this.
Miles, having visited the Hamptons several times as well as Lexington, there is no comparison. The Queen of England spends several weeks each year visiting Keeneland buying yearlings for her stables; I don't think the lady would be caught dead in the Hamptons. You are confusing value with costs and class with wretched excess. A lot of the new homes in the Hamptons should be bulldozed as eyesores. You cannot say that about any of the equestrian estates around Lexington. Point being if you think all Kentuckians are mouth-breathing gomers vastly inferior to the bankrupt bankers of the Hamptons propped up by a corrupt Fed you might want to reconsider.
I think Miles should sell his hampton estate and move to bluegrass country. maybe it will help with the negative thoughts. Horses are very therapeutic.
Volunteer, you're barking up the wrong tree. I'ver never been a fan of wretched excess, in either NY or KY, and have no confusion about values. Inherited royalty ("the Queen") is a particularly poor example of 'class', as has been repeatedly demonstrated throughout history. While on the subject, I would recommend the book Class by Paul Fussell, an insightful and hilarious dissection of social structure in America (and now much of the world).
FYI I've done a number of projects about this issue, including writing The Hamptons Dictionary (first word: A-list, definition: a catalog of assholes) and creating the Nuke The Hamptons website.
tint, we have horses here too, and the Hampton Classic, one of the biggest show jumping contests in the US. If horse people in KY are anything like horse people here, I'll pass.
As I understand our geology - the massive limestone Karst formations below most of the state - is what gives us our excellent aquifer system for delicious water, and by extension our Bluegrass, healthy horses, and lovely bourbon.
The magic is in the place. People are just its ambassadors!
Can't park a yacht in KY - that's gotta hurt the market out there despite the beautiful rolling hills.
I'm going to Kentucky today, and I'm very happy about it. The prospect of a trip to the Hamptons makes me itchy and a little nauseous.
How big's your yacht, 3tk? We do have water...
Are you coming to see me, Donna?!
mine's maybe a couple of inches :) I was just recalling the 3 deckers docked in Sag Harbor.
I was in Long Island City yesterday at the Nagouchi Museum....It is't the Hamptons but it is well worth the visit. Think I could quit my day job and go to work there just to be in the company of some very High Class Sculpture.
The prospect of a trip to the Hamptons makes me itchy and a little nauseous.
This time of year I feel the same way about leaving the house.
Well Katie Couric married some drone from Brown Brothers Harriman in the Hamptons this past weekend. You cannot make this stuff up.
kentucky... can I safely ride my bike there... without fear of getting harassed?
morning TC!
good morning!
toaster, when I bike commuted in the midwest people assumed I lost my license from drunk driving.
louisville's getting better bike infrastructure all the time, but it's still not understood by a lot of the driving population. i hear lexington's getting better as well.
louisville really needs to update cycling rules and then do a good education program. cyclists tend to break road rules - and it makes sense that they do, in some respects - but the rules need to actually change to accommodate. otherwise drivers get frustrated thinking that cyclists are arrogantly flouting the law.
rural kentucky? depends. as cyclists become more familiar, harassment is decreasing. there will always be yahoos, though. [but, then, that may not be kentucky-specific.]
is kentucky, in general, a safe place for cyclists. i'd probably come down on the 'no' side right now.
I was in Danville, Steven giving a talk on tactical urbanism to the GSA kids. Good time, but too brief.
I did manage to go see this project on the way home. Very well done.
When I bike in Connecticut I get Killed!
Donna that looks like a Kicking Chicken kind of experience!
Hi, y'all!
hey Fred! nice to see you around TC
Yo, Nam! What's happening?
You sll need to read Mimi's article on the Biennale and revolution. Here:
http://www.dezeen.com/2014/06/26/mimi-zeiger-opinion-radical-action-architecture-protest/?fb_action_ids=10152467393666380&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%5B520238074772675%5D&action_type_map=%5B%22og.likes%22%5D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D
Also, I'm excited about the proposed Chicago biennial. Chicago is obviously the proper place to hold it.
read it - awesome stuff.
Things are changing - I think we're seeing the beginning of a big shift in arch discourse.
This, I don't know what to say about this:
MoMA PS1 rendering: http://www.designmagazin.cz/foto/2014/02/moma-ps1-the-living-hy-fi-4.jpg
MoMA PS1 photo: http://inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/2/files/2014/06/Mushroom-Tower-PS1-Hy-Fi-537x357.jpg
(and I'm a big fan of The Living, but this is just … I don't know)
Donna, Stan the rabbit is great. It's hot in Baltimore, and he doesn't like that much, but we keep cobblestones in the freezer that we rotate out to help him stay cool.
I think for me, what falls flat is that the form and execution is your run-of-the-mill parametric stacking exercise - assembled by a bunch of amateur masons. sure - the material itself is interesting, but they could have built it with anything.
but isn't the whole benefit of the material that it could be any shape? They could be 3d-printing intricate formwork and then using that to make strange lattice-like blocks (using FLW's concrete block houses as a springboard) - that would have been more exciting, IMO... There's absolutely no craft with this.
probably more what these guys are doing:
http://www.emergingobjects.com/
Very cool, toast. Love those odd units.
When *I* was a kid, we hand-crafted masonry units with an intentional flaw to see what kind of wall forms we could produce. This was before parametrics was common, so we used mass-produced but unfired bricks - wet clay.
Now get off my lawn!
I can't help but think this goes back to the myth of 'self-assembly' that was the hook in their proposal materials and animation. When you have real humans (likely not masons, but unskilled volunteer laborers) doing the work, you're not going to get that smoothly variable complexity and those elegant parametric lines so easily. Should've used quadcopters.
The high window thread is awesome. Like Archinect of old. Off to find this dishwasher thread.
Highya, Fred!
Hi!
@Donna, there are also many good responses in that Window thread from;
"Thong Rods" to "helper monkey"...
Night all.
I'll be happy when Scalia either retires or dies. Don't care which.
"Get back into the kitchen, and make my meatloaf, honey." - Justice Scalia
CD.arch, it had to be Prada, because Rem!
CD.arch, it had to be Prada, because Rem!
Good rant on the Supremes here.
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