on january 9th, 2008, the work.group developed a schema for a dwelling, with components listed here, for a married couple and one creep.
the following materials were produced to represent the design:

plan.

section perspective.

axonometric.

axonometric.

exploded axonometric.

as built.

as built.

are we going to use the program from fallingwater? i might suggest that each house include a dangerous supplement as the seed for its narrative growth. we can start a program thread independent of the houses and then each job captain can provide the dangerous supplement to initiate the development sequence.

here is a pass at the ‘program’, hacked from the house -27 – 7 year house and from what i can remember at fallingwater – we were not allowed to peep all rooms.
i don’t know about sq.footages; if we are using the same five (5) houses, should the footage be the same for all? i wouldn’t think so. maybe the total square footage could be the same for all? what is the average size of a home in the u.s.? i will look it up later.

living
loggia/entry

spouse bedroom -> shared terrace
bath
spouse bedroom -> shared terrace
bath

guest bedroom -> private terrace
bath

kitchen
dining
study/library (accessed from spouse bedroom)
guest study
public terrace/porch
plunge
of course, there was a fireplace.

here is the final list of 5 houses for design development:
1. drift house
2. hider-in-the-house
3. casa del fascio
4. barker house
5. 7 year house

ashley has stated that he would like to start with hider-in-the-house this coming sunday, february 24, 2008 and that we would spend 1 month and 6 days on each house. i would like to suggest a couple of thoughts about the process.

1. i believe we should start each exercise with a thorough program development study in which we determine the spaces and square footages we are trying to shoehorn the concept into.

2. i think the ‘kooky’ drawings that we fascinate ourselves with have maybe gotten us to this point in each of these houses and that we shouldn’t see the communicative drawings that actually clarify the solutions to our problems as an less fertile or as some sort of cop-out. having said that, i think we should have legible plans, sections, elevations of each house.

3. i think that although each house is different and should maybe exploit differences in representational approaches, that there should be some unity to presentation of the 5, as might be found in one of those books of houseplans.

4. i think that as with the kooky drawings, the sort of cryptic or non-existent communication we have cultivated over the last few projects might now give way to some clear dialogues about our actual intentions. if you look back at the pentagon discussions there is some real lucid back and forth about form, material, and composition that i think would help bring resolution back to our suite of capabilities. oh for the days of:

ashley elucidated: under the knoll, at the north end of the pool, i planned on some type of viewing area for peeping out the crypt. this should have a place for public milling and private sitting(standing), but i am not sure about a group of segmented rooms. perhaps the private areas could raised be on a plinth, or sunken onto islands (more like peninsulas) of differing materials. this could serve the purpose you mentioned of visitors finding a space in which they are most comfortable (cherry vs. fiberglass) and also to inform the general rabble of a distinction of use.

more to come…

“i will take some close up pics of a folder later today, so you can see how they are constructed.”

as promised:

complete set of 31 dossiers available for $95*

*cat not included

“i saw grey tonight, he said he didnt think we could pull this off!!! lets bring it!” -jt

oh, we conquer!

[edited to add photos:]

† continue reading fun-a-day 2008

listening to radiohead ‘in rainbows’ on repeat, pounding 2lbs carrot sticks, and squeezing ‘over 90 drawings’ onto 8×10 frames

you don’t dream, for they don’t come true for you, not anymore. now, The wrk.grp’s 31 houses comes riding through with hope. this collection of more than 90 drawings illustrates the salient aspects of 31 homes of various styles, from a witch’s cookie kitchen to a sophisticated freeze-dried house to an hollowed-out international style ranch. Each design includes usefully allusive floor plans, or section drawings, or elevations, or perspectives, as well as a description of the particular life script that gave it birth. Keeping in mind that a chief priority for a small home is often lack of identity, most of the plans incorporate some idiosyncratic element that you can hang your hat on. There are dozens of plans suitable for every environment and deviance in the world. The designs are all a direct result of the unhinged collaboration of two thinkers who make up for their lack of communication with their delight in obvious conflict and reverence for cinema and rock music. Contact the wrk.grp to be fitted for your dwelling. you may weep tonight but you wont lie awake.

please make comment/changes.

john is the impartial moderator.

HO!
Having accepted the Fun-A-Day challenge thrown down by Philadelphia’s Artclash Collective,
the work.group has passed the month of January 2008 executing the design of 31 houses – a house a day.
Having succeeded heroically in this task, the work.group hereby issues an urgent summons to witness its triumph
at the presentation of ‘house-a-day’ as part of the 4th annual Fun-A-Day exhibition.

Fun-A-Day 4
4522 Baltimore Avenue
West Philadelphia

http://www.artclash.com

mimi zeiger apparently reads this site;
have you sketched up some plans for that ‘nice’ paper?

this post is to determine, by popular vote, the 5 houses that will graduate to design development. dont look until you have voted! we can pare down from the number of houses that results from the vote.

1
2
3
4
5

i have made the following selections:
2 or 2
3 or 3
4 or 4
7 they are all terrible
8
10 or 10
11
14
17
18
21
24
25
28 or 28 both are terrible
29
31

please comment on all.