more later…

hitting the gas on house one, listening to nefilim, and drinking some yergacheffe.

my sole aim with the cladding of this home is to facilitate this:

this post is to further discuss massing of house one using ashley’s 31houses work as a springboard.

some concise diagrams, showing the whole program (i think), on a site in downey, based on development from the mechanics post.

i did some ‘sketching’ last night trying to think about some of the ideas we were talking about in the introductory thread so i am starting a new post to share thoughts about the mechanics of the hider’s space. i am thinking this will be more ‘spatial concepts’ than actual ‘deployments’ in a constructed arrangement of spaces. hopefully throwing some stuff in here will help when we actually start transcribing the life-scripts of the garcia-mortons.

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.

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

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.

construct a minimally invasive, low impact, and simply constructed, although not prefab, clowder of 31 dwellings in the back country of teddy roosevelt national park in north dacotah.

context

site

client: department store owner, his wife, and adult son
program: master bedroom, 2 bedroom, 2.5 bath, kitchen, office, lounge, patio, garden; guest house w/ bedroom, bath, kitchenette

site photos:

gordon matta-clark didn’t die from pancreatic cancer, he had consumption. in his last days he moved to this stone house in the monument valley to convalesce. this indexical monument was his last work; it is still being created.

hails to wikipedia: A weather house is a folk art device in the shape of a small German or Alpine chalet that indicates the weather. A typical weather house has two doors and two automata, side by side. The left side has a girl or woman, the right side a boy or man. The female figure comes out of the house when the weather is sunny and dry, while the male comes out to indicate rain.

In fact, a weather house functions as a hygrometer embellished by folk art. The male and female figures ride on a balance bar, which is suspended by a piece of catgut or hair. The gut relaxes or shrinks based on the humidity in the surrounding air, relaxing when the air is wet and tensing when the air is dry. This action swings one figure or the other out of the house depending on the humidity.

sandstorm

ventifact

im sorry in advance for the vague similarity to house 26. this is not a home for a man and his pets. this is a habitat nexus that must be constructed to avert trophic cascading as humans homogenize the planet’s surface.

1. On land, where biological diversity is generally far less than oceanic environments, the third trophic level lions can be the final trophic level and the local top predator.

2. In many land biomes, humans and dogs effectively share the role due to their co-operation.

3. Size is an obvious advantage in having no larger animals that might prey upon them as adults, as with a sperm whale.

4. Inaccessibility of its home makes such a hit-and-fly predator as a bald eagle an apex predator.

develop the constructed nexus of dens and shelters that occur in the same geographic point but allow each tenant to maintain his or her reign over their outlying habitat.

Any biologist can tell that our body’s cells are constantly dying and being replaced by new ones and every seven years we change the complete set of cells that means we change our body every seven years but this change is so gradual that it’s imperceptible. So, each of us has a number of “different” bodies in this very life. The body of an adult is completely different from the body the same person had as an infant. Yet despite bodily changes, the person within remains the same.

http://science.krishna.org

dead load:
two to three bedrooms, 1.5 baths, living/dining area, kitchen, roof deck

live loads:
recording studio, bakery, dentist, garage, tax assistance, airbrush shoppe, darkroom

each live load is utilized for seven (7) years, then replaced or abandoned to decay. live loads normally occur sequentially, but two live loads may be briefly simultaneous. live adaptations may invade the dead loads.

in the spring of 1861, two roommates, one for union and one for secession, unfortunately share a two bedroom house.

and the war came.

rather than break a lease and lose the deposit, each side must modify the dwelling so as to carry on the conflict, each praying to the same god, and each invoking his aid against the other.

program: 1974 preuss’s program

tifs in /31-file-list

hhumbert said: to any other type of tourist accommodation i soon grew to prefer the functional motel – clean, neat, safe nooks, ideal places for sleep, argument, reconciliation, insatiable illicit love.

please appoint a nook for humbert to enjoy with the nymphette of his choosing.

although the archetype is strict, i have proven that there is endless possibility within the type!

detail

be site specific!

as young architects rake in the cash on fast-track chinese signature design work, they find the freedom to express themselves locally with more exquisite building materials. design a small home outside of marfa built entirely out of donald judd objects.

client

and donald judd? well hell, you know who he is!

former bachelor pad taken over by a detached father with his dissatisfied second wife and frustrated daughter.
program: staircase, attic, rusty nails.

in honour of david hemmings, we continue the week w/ more stories from cortázar. i don’t know if you have time to read ‘the bestiary’, so we will marry a bit of that piece w/ todays narrative.

guide: house taken over pdf.

context.

psychological context.

program: dining room, library (french literature), living room w/ tapestries, 3 bedrooms, bath, kitchen, 2 master bedrooms, vestible vestibule, corridor, large oak door.

reconstruct the scene. noted celebrity obituarist, gary kisser, limps through the portal in the broad glass wall, the san diego sunlight shows all the colours of the vomit running down his chest, his gait is uncertain and he falls to his knees multiple time, staggering, he looks directly into the clear sun, and falls into the pool, face down. pan up to long view of pacific ocean. in his boudoir is found a small phial later to be identified as an emetic, a tube of model airplane glue, a glamour magazine, and a bodyglove full wetsuit with traces of blood around the collar. the trail of vomit drips traces an erratic pattern through the home, not directly from the boudoir to the pool deck. was he killed, or was it the desperate experimentation of a man whose life was death?

exhibit A: Ambiguous Obit.

exhibit B: Kisser’s last vision

continuing our movie themed weekend, reflect on the notion that all of our favourite romance-dystopias end with our dear couples getting f’ed up before they get where they are going. winston and julia are busted by the thought police (and most probably executed). james cole is shot in the back before he and kathryn can get to key west. and who knows wtf happens to deckard and rachel.

let’s pretend that we are the studio who is breathing down gilliam’s neck over the happy ending to ‘brazil’; jill isn’t killed and sam lowry doesn’t lose his shit, but rather than have them live in a fucking trailer, they drive into the hinterlands and, with the materials available on their truck, they construct the following house:

considerations include: winter gardening, sam’s ability to fly, and their pursuit by the ministry of information.

tifs in 31-file-list

program: seven bedroom anarchist co-op. roof garden. one toilet.

Punishment in Hell for the Deadly Sin of Pride is to be Broken on the Wheel

Pride (Vanity), is excessive belief in one’s abilities, such that you don’t give credit to God. Pride is also failure to give others credit due them – if someone’s Pride bothers you, then you are also guilty of Pride. Aquinas argued that all other sins stem from Pride, making this one of the most important sins to focus on: “inordinate self-love is the cause of every sin…the root of pride is found to consist in man not being, in some way, subject to God and His rule.”

Punishment in Hell for the Deadly Sin of Envy is to be Immersed in Freezing Water

Envy is a desire to possess what others have, whether material objects, like cars, or character traits, like a positive outlook or patience. According to Christian tradition, envying others results in failing to be happy for them. Aquinas wrote that envy “…is contrary to charity, whence the soul derives its spiritual life… Charity rejoices in our neighbor’s good, while envy grieves over it.” Non-Christian philosophers like Aristotle and Plato argued that envy leads to a desire to destroy those who are envied so they can be stopped from possessing anything at all. Envy is thus treated as a form of resentment.

Punishment in Hell for the Deadly Sin of Gluttony is to be Force-Fed Rats, Toads, Snakes

Gluttony is normally associated with eating too much, but it has a broader connotation that includes trying to consume more of anything than you actually need, food included. Thomas Aquinas wrote that Gluttony is about “…not any desire of eating and drinking, but an inordinate desire…leaving the order of reason, wherein the good of moral virtue consists.” Thus the phrase “glutton for punishment” isn’t as metaphorical as one might imagine.

Punishment in Hell for the Deadly Sin of Lust is to be Smothered in Fire, Brimstone

Lust is the desire to experience physical, sensual pleasures (not just those which are sexual). Desire for physical pleasures is considered sinful because it causes us to ignore more important spiritual needs or commandments. Sexual desire is also sinful according to traditional Christianity because it leads to using sex for more than procreation.

Punishment in Hell for the Deadly Sin of Anger is to be Dismembered Alive

Anger (Wrath) is the sin of rejecting the Love and Patience we should feel for others and opting instead for violent or hateful interaction. Many Christian acts over the centuries (like the Inquisition or the Crusades) may seem to have motivated by anger, not love, but they were excused by saying the reason for them was love of God, or love of a person’s soul – so much love, in fact, that it was necessary to harm them physically.

Greedy: Punishment in Hell for the Deadly Sin of Greed is to be Boiled Alive in Oil

Greed (Avarice) is the desire for material gain. It is similar to Gluttony and Envy, but gain rather than consumption or possession is key. Aquinas condemned Greed because “it is a sin directly against one’s neighbor, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them…it is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, inasmuch as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.”

Punishment in Hell for the Deadly Sin of Sloth is to be Thrown into a Snake Pit

Sloth is the most misunderstood of the Seven Deadly Sins. Often regarded as mere laziness, it is more accurately translated as apathy. When a person is apathetic, they no longer care about doing their duty to others or to God, causing them to ignore their spiritual well-being. Thomas Aquinas wrote that sloth “…is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.”

-source

somewhere there are some George Pencz prints that depict animals exacting the required punishments. i haven’t found them, so i don’t know which animals do what, but here is a list written by some random person – i am sure it is authorative:

Pride - Horse – Violet
Envy - Dog - Green
Anger – Bear - Red
Sloth - Goat - Light Blue
Greed - Frog - Yellow
Gluttony - Pig – Orange
Lust - Cow - Blue

this is a house for a crone who lures german hipsters into the forest with the smell of her vegan baked goods. as we all know, nobody actually likes to eat cookies, they just like to smell them baking. this house needs to project its fragrant contents out across the black forest.

leave a trail of breadcrumbs.

the house may or may not be made of edible materials. program: kitchen.

the midden house, or the architectural mixup, requires you to generate a massing study in elevation and plan. please draw from the following sources, you may use alternate imagery from each hombre.

speer

scarpa

pugin

neimeyer

maybeck

leonidov

kulper

scale house.

program: see: home house

client: barry lyndon (né redmond barry)

program: music room, dueling chambre, mistress quarters, promenade, wet bar.

you know what a trompe l’oeil is, so finding provocative pix is nigh impossible.

program: drafting studio, pasta kitchen, sleep tank, giallo theater, magnifying glass, trivial pursuit kiosk, corkscrew.

am wrote:
mobile doesn’t mean pre-fab,
and vice versa

jt wrote:
they are both useless

am wrote:
obviously you’ve never been to burning man

jt wrote:

http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=TC3PVt1_Jyc&feature=related

am wrote:
do i need to watch that?
i don’t know who that is?

jt wrote:
you might like it, he talks about prefab

am wrote:
since when do i like prefab!
i think those hold-punched trailers like that stan guy promotes are the
biggest scam since ‘naked lunch’

jt wrote:
who is stan?

am wrote:
stan allen?
maybe i am thinking of someone else.
i know it was one of those denari or lotek type of guys.

jt wrote:
xxxx xxxxxx

am wrote:
probably him.

why doesn’t coa have their new house on their site?
that blog only has construction pix;
surely they have some dwgs or renderings?

jt wrote:
architects websites are useless, at least coa isnt flash based…

Instant coffee is a beverage derived from brewed coffee beans. Through various manufacturing processes the coffee is dehydrated into the form of powder or granules. These can be rehydrated with hot water to provide a drink similar but generally regarded as inferior to conventional coffee. At least one brand of instant coffee is also available in concentrated liquid form.

…

Drying

This step is a very important one and two different methods are used in plants all over the world, freeze and spray drying, each has its own advantages and disadvantages.

Freeze Drying

The basic principle of freeze drying in the process for producing instant coffee is the removal of water by sublimation.

Since the mass production of instant coffee began in post-WWII America, freeze drying has grown in popularity to become a very common method. This is often because, although it is frequently more expensive than other methods of drying, it generally results in a higher quality product.

The Freeze Drying Process

1. Agglomerated wet coffee granules are frozen. For instant coffee this is a very important stage. Freezing too fast leads to large ice crystals and a very porous product and can also affect the colour of the coffee granules.
2. Frozen coffee is placed in the drying chamber, often on metal trays.
3. A vacuum is created within the chamber. The strength of the vacuum is critical in the speed of the drying and therefore the quality of the product. Care must be taken to produce a vacuum of suitable strength.
4. The drying chamber is warmed, most commonly by radiation but conduction is used in some plants and convection has been proposed in some small pilot plants. A possible problem with convection is uneven drying rates within the chamber, which would give an inferior product.
5. Condensation – the previously frozen water in the coffee granules expands to 10⁷ its volume, the removal of this water vapour from the chamber is vitally important, making the condenser the most critical and expensive components in a freeze drying plant.
6. The freeze dried granules are removed from the chamber and packaged.

Spray Drying

This method of drying is preferred to freeze drying in some cases because of its cost effectiveness, short drying time, usefulness when dealing with such a heat-sensitive product, and the fine, rounded particles it produces.

Spray drying produces spherical particles of size roughly equal to 300 µm with a density of 0.22 g/cm³ (ref 2). To achieve this, nozzle atomisation is used. Various ways of nozzle atomization can be used each having its own advantages and disadvantages. High speed rotating wheels operating at speeds of about 20,000 rpm are able to process up to 60,000 pounds (27 t) of solution per hour (ref 3). The use of spray wheels requires that the drying towers have a wide radius to avoid the atomised droplets collecting onto the drying chamber walls.

Typical Spray Drying Characteristics

* Completed in 5-30 seconds (dependent on factors such as heat, size of particle, and diameter of chamber).
* Moisture content change, IN = 75-85% OUT = 3-3.5%
* Air Temperatures, IN = 270 °C OUT = 110 °C

One drawback with spray drying is that the particles it produces are too fine to be used effectively by the consumer; they must first be either steam-fused in towers similar to spray dryers or by belt agglomeration to produce particles of suitable size.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

spatial arrangement

look up ehopper’s ‘automat’ to see full image (girl’s legs)

tsurjan: “…and if you don’t like it and want to go back, you can hit ‘undo’ or ‘control-z’. there is also a history palette, where you can go all the way back to where you started”

pkulper: “question. where do i find the moves that were just undone?”

tsurjan: “they are gone. you lose them completely if you make a new step after undoing.”

pkulper: “they are deleted, but there are no erase marks or fragments left?”

tsurjan: “not on a computer, p.”

pkulper: “whoa.” [exits room to contemplate]

a house for winston smith, 2008.

geometric strategy

site

contemporary reference

thanks to privacy international

make sure to provide a spot for winston to write.

A Knight’s Tour In cimmeria

After Perec: 11 Rue Oulipo is the subject of the problem. 11 Rue Oulipo has been frozen at the instant in time when Conan dies. People are frozen in different rooms, on the stairs, and in the cellars. Some rooms are vacant. The design moves like a Knight in a chess game. In each room we learn about the residents of the room, how they live, what kind aesthetic garbage they surround themselves with. Some rooms may occupy several cells.

after Calvino: The country is described as having existed as an independent state between World War I and World War II. The capital is Örkko, and its principal resources are peat and by-products, bitumonous compounds. In successive territorial divisions between her powerful neighbors the young nation was soon erased from the map.

Cimmeria

Knight’s Tour

A deranged man, Josh Frank, hides out in the attic while an unsuspecting couple (Morton & Garcia) and their family carry on their life in the house below. Once Frank stops just hiding out and becomes involved with the family and, in particular, the wife, the problems begin.

Holly Sargis: How is he?
Kit Carruthers: I got him in the stomach.
Holly Sargis: Is he upset?
Kit Carruthers: He didn’t say nothing to me about it.

bison proof.

this house is for a blind pauper and his gyrfalcon. his sense of smell has become his directional sense and the house helps him move about with aromatic materials. additionally, he is oriented around the house and to his environment by (aromatic) connections back to the landscape. His house has no windows, only sieves and filters.

Due to its rarity and the difficulties involved in obtaining it, in falconry the gyrfalcon was generally reserved for kings and nobles. Very seldom was a man of lesser rank seen with a Gyrfalcon on his fist.

saltair ‘view’ to the west

delicate balsam and pollen ‘view’ to the east

The lunatic is on the grass
The lunatic is on the grass
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs
Got to keep the loonies on the path

The lunatic is in the hall
The lunatics are in my hall
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more

And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon

The lunatic is in my head
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade, you make the change
You re-arrange me till I’m sane
You lock the door
And throw away the key
Theres someone in my head but it’s not me.

And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band you’re in starts playing different tunes
I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon

Whilst waiting to destroy the Nazi’s heavy water facility, the Norwegian saboteurs responsible for the task shelter in a single, secluded cabin in the mountains. The house shelters 10 men and their skis, climbing equipment, and Sten guns, yet maintains a low profile so as to avoid being spotted by the Heer and the Luftwaffe.

“There were four things that needed our constant attention those winter months in the mountains. Number one was to stay alive. We hunted soybeans, and used every part of them for food. Husks included. We hunted for moss to use in the baking of bread. Our second task was unrelated to the house program. Third, we had to keep radio contact with England. We used car batteries for this operation. Lastly, we had to make sure we had enough wood for heating. Our camp was located above the tree line so obtaining wood included long walks where you had to be careful so nobody would see us.”

-Kjøll Syyverlssennlund

Ski access only.

† continue reading house 05 – norwegian wood (heidi-) house

For more than a year, ominous rumors had been privately circulating among agitated loner proles that the United States had been at work on what was darkly hinted to be the ultimate weapon: a doomsday device. Intelligence sources traced the site of the top secret project to the perpetually fog-shrouded wasteland below the bear infested peaks of western Carolina. What they were building or why it should be located in such a remote and desolate place no one could say.

this bunker is an incubator for a new society. make sure to have lots of pillows.

Publius/3: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn’t that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?

Amsterd’m Houston: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious… service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.

Vermilion Girl: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.

† continue reading house 04 – guns, germs, pink steel seraglio

h’okay, let’s try this?
you can use ftp to drop your tifs/jpgs/other large files into the top-level directory ’31′, and they will show up in the list below:

napoleon (perhaps apocryphally) called the piazza san marco “the drawing room of europe.” what if it actually was? where would the rest of the house be? travel-time, convenience, and privacy be damned, we’re drifting.

program: drawing room (venice), kitchen/dining (?), chambre (?), porch (?), attic (?), studio (?), fruit cellar (?).

a house for ralf und florian and their respective robots. Robots should live in visible space that mirrors the enclosed false/’secret’ place that ralf und florian live. ralf und florian do not have contact but their robots may. karl bartos is not to gain access to the house.

include bicycle storage.

still having trouble posting images larger than 2.5mb in the vault. i will email you the missing file for this haus.

In 1994 a boy from Trooper, PA, was attacked by a bear while sleeping on the porch of his family’s cabin.
Remains indicate that the boy had been eating cake in his tent and had spilled sweet sauce on his sleeping bag. The boy’s left arm was removed at the shoulder.

(find larger tifs of these images in the ‘vault’. if you have trouble find them, i can send directs link to them.)

ashley wrote:

here is a 1st pass on which you can make changes/suggestions!

step one:
in the a.m. wrkr.a sends three items to wrkr.b:
(1x) theme. example: 1-word title of house, 30 word description of
client, 2000 word narrative of event on site, etc.
keep in mind that other worker won’t spend all day reading it.

(2x) fodder images.
examples: sketch, site photo, collage, screen shots, web-bric-a-brac, etc.
resolution should be highest available
images should be cropped to 1.33 ratio or 2.35 ratio (let’s discuss?)
the images should have the date or house number as a file name,
for example (house01a.jpg and house01b.jpg’) ((or tif!)
‘spam_in_a_can.jpg’ or ‘grunger-adagio_0019IMG.JPG’

step two:
using the above fodder, wrkr.b charettes out a scheme during the day,
applying whatever technical means and supplementary fodder (created or
found) phe sees fit.
scheme can be represented w/ dwg, collage, images, forced perspective, etc
wrkr.b returns 2 to 10 images, of same proportions as step 1.
(image can be a ‘board’ w/ multiple ‘views’ of the ‘house’)

step three.
wrkr.a reads the images and works out (2? 3?) ‘hardline’ dwgs,
including at least one plan, w/ some indication of scale.
finished drawings should be arranged onto a predetermined artboard/paperspace,
and stored as a tif/eps/pdf/dwg*

*i know we, or i, always say this, and it never happens,
i think b/c we are too busy w/ other things at the end,
but i would like to make a sincere effort to have a fanzine something
for people to take away from the ‘exhibit’
i think that if our ‘process’ is nailed down in advance of us beginning
the work,
then it will be a simple matter to calculate how many pages would be
needed for the publication
well in advance of the final day or two
so, i would like to see the final dwgs in something easy to port and
plug in to indesign;
then every day/night, i can just take the 6 or 8 images, that are at
predetermined size,
and plug them into the template w/ ease.
this is my hope, anyway.
based on what you’ve already said,
i know you are going to be tempted to labour for hours on end on these pieces,
and will just wait until jan 27th to start handrubbing a month’s worth
of dwgs to then postal mail to me,
but i think that having the pieces complete each night will facilitate
the above goal (fanzine)

more to come

what say you?

† continue reading house a day process

ashley wrote:
what do you think about this?

http://www.artclash.com/

jt wrote:
looks like fun, can i pretend that the stuff i have been spending years on was done in a month?

† continue reading house a day