the work.group has made available one hot piece for auction at the fund raiser to benefit the urban cat rescue organization:

the print - limited to a run of three (3) - is a product of some unbound photoshop gimp tennis taking place over 10 days in may of 2008, hand placed within the finest extruded aluminum frame available at value village in 2004. a gallery for each step of the process is available for viewing.

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.

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…

as promised:

complete set of 31 dossiers available for $95*

*cat not included