Chronology of ideas, plans, and
undisciplined preoccupations
25 September, 2001
- Updated programme
information (3 pages)
- Added place
making to Inspirations section
- What is my thesis
about?
the sensual possibilities of ecodesign
sensual place making
sustainability, connectedness, and the workplace
sounded breath, cast shadow
24 September, 2001
- Updated site
information over the weekend (4 pages)
- Still have to finalise
programme surface areas
- Need to build a
site model out of wood at 1:500
- DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN
DESIGN
18 September, 2001
- Having difficulty
getting an AutoCAD map of site and
neighbourhood...
- Updated Alvar
Aalto's Village Hall precedent with more images
>> Related work for Tectonics course
- Next on the list:
Programme sizes
Defining 'Place' (project for Ricardo)
17 September, 2001
- Trying to get organised
and into action
- Thesis Tasks/Logistics
for next while
Ville
de Montréal
Géomatique
Accès Montréal (Cadastres and ownership)
Zonage
Research
site
Plateau readings
Maps
Historic (Geography Library)
Current (Ville de Montréal)
Autocad (??Russell or Geography!?)
Site
model
Programme
Rooms?spaces
Square metres
Placement
Photos
of site
Neighbouring
Elevations
Views
Design.........
Printers
Tom Desmarais
MP Photo
Sheet sizes (E / A0)
Illustrator version (7?)
Costs
Colour
B/W
Code
Materials
3 September, 2001
Looking to buy a personal
computer...
Critical writing assignment
completed
...will
post it to website eventually
Isobord (eventual
update of EcoResearch)
- straw-fibre
board
- straw grown
on Canadian prairies
- ecological
building material
- known to
be available through Goodfellow, Québec
Websites:
www.earth-policy.org
www.mcgill.ca/mse
(McGill School of the Environment)
Lester R. Brown lecture
on 24 August
- Earth
Policy Institute
- W.W.
Norton & Company
- wind
energy upcomming major source of energy
- solar
energy technology improving
21 August, 2001
Hands & Feet
Earth & Sky
- Beginning to research chosen
site
17 August, 2001
- 'design for the
post-consumerist society'
- We have to postulate about
the future even if it seems unlikely.
- What if we were to suddenly
stop consuming so madly?
- How would it change design/culture?
- Are we at the peak of
the consumerist frenzy now and what
will follow?
POST-CONSUMERISM...
- What will occupy us and
how will we express ourselves
culturally,
economically, intellectually....architecturally?
- I can only hope that the
era of negligent consumerism soon
comes to an
end; although, I have no idea what that will mean
for the economy
as we know it now. Perhaps something
as described
in The Ecology of Commerce - by Paul Hawken
Modernism
Post-modernism
Consumerism
Post-consumerism
11 August, 2001
- First time back on the
site in a while!
- Minor update of Inspirations
- Exploring materials and
textures by scanning materials and
photographing
textures. The goal is to develop a texture
library that
I can use to express materiality/tactility
- Beginning to plan my critical
writing assignment
- Need to clean-up webpages
for better recognition by MS
Explorer navigator
- Site: (Yes, I have
one)
The old areana
site on Mt-Royal between Clarke and St-Urbain
It looks like
a Loblaws is going to be built there
Took digital
photos of bare site before construction began
- Things to do immediately
when Autumn semester begins:
Ville de Montréal for plans and site info
Héritage Montréal for historical site info
Geography Library for site maps (historic to present)
Build site model for use throughout semester
- More readings to finish
before school starts
- During the heat-wave of
last week, I found that cross ventilation
only goes so
far...
22 April, 2001
- 'How do you do without
doing?'
- 'How do you make without
making?'
- Insert 'Aube et Crépuscule'
and 'Reminder' in Inspirations
- ..
[delete this section of links and substitute ..]
[use text program and the FIND/REPLACE command]
- DRM hand-in of website
on CD and print-out on 23 April, 2001
14 April, 2001
- Potential site: Old
Arena site
- Located on Mont Royal
at St-Urbain
- Programme would only use
north west half of site
- Close to Parc Mont-Royal,
Métro Mont-Royal, bike path
- Opportunity to help revitalise
neighbourhood
- Visible from du Parc and
Mont Royal intersection
- Access to sun
- Access by transit, bike,
foot, St-Laurent, St-Urbain, du Parc,
and Mont
Royal
9 April, 2001
- Add final touches to Thesis
Presentation
page for 10 April, 2001
- Add quote to site:
'Architects are the moderators
between the objective world of building and the poetic world of living.'
- The idea as architect-moderator
responds to issues in the
'connection'
essay. How I see myself as an architect.
- Start preliminary sketches
of ideas and scan them on to the
website
- Update Ventilation
and Cooling/Heating pages with more
information
in the EcoResearch section
- Look for ideas that challenge
my programme and offer new
opportunities
for an MEC store/office
- FIND A SITE!
1 April, 2001
- Begin office design research
and update bibliography with texts
(summer reading)
- Add sketched programme
to site
- Walked along Mont-Royal,
St.-Denis, St.-Laurent and no
apparent site
- Ideal site is at Rachel
and St.-Laurent (Parc des Ameriques)
but it is a
public park - it has good sun exposure (NE corner)
- Take a closer look at
centre-sud around Quartier Latin for
urban infill
site
- Still waiting to get information
from MEC....
29 March, 2001
- put draft programme on
site
- walk St.-Laurent, St.-Denis,
Rachel, and Mont-Royal for site
- 'connection'
posted (in Concepts section)
- Old sub-title: crafting
a sustainable workplace
[The internet has no history -> feeds NEWSPEAK syndrome]
- sub-title: sustainability,
connectedness, and the workplace
Thesis 'hinge' - sustainability and connectedness
- 'connectedness' rather
than 'phenomenology' (more accessible)
- work on expressive hybrid
images to illustrate ideas....
- beauty is amoral
22 March, 2001
Finish reflections on sustainability,
design, and phenomenology.
Post on net by next weekend.
Summarise precedents into
Precedent Summary page
Follow-up with MEC regarding
e-mail
Plan to dedicate most of
next two weeks to intensive site and programme studies.
16 March, 2001
- Possible Titles:
sounded
breath, cast shadow
sounded
breath, shadowed light
sounded
breath, tactile light
- programme idea: MEC
store and hypothetical head office above
contact
MEC to establish relationship for programme info and
site requirements
- possible site: Mont-Royal
and St.-Dominique
old car
lot and industrial building (recycling opportunity)
13 March, 2001
- Note ING Head Office Building
and sustainable features
(The Invisible
in Architecture)
- Think of site as a PALETTE
to draw from when beginning
design
- Begin search for poetic
mantra to bring thesis project together
- Analyse precedents and
draw off 'vocabulary'
12 March, 2001
- finish precedents
- search for site (should
be primary concern)
centre-sud,
canal lachine, or plateau
will
drive programme and is driven by programme
- develop programme
medium
sized office spaces (incubator?) on upper floors
MEC store
as part of commercial at street level
Think
of other commercial options
Juice Bar (café-type gathering place)
Day care centre (response to community)
Buanderie/Laundry (community gathering place)
- continue readings/research
- 'Its good to have a few
vices'
- 'imperfection gives character'
- Sustainable reference
from Robert Mellin:
LEED
http://www.usgbc.org/
- Web site references from
Amanda
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/sustain/EnvironMan/system/
greenop/office-e.asp
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/sustain/menu-e.asp
- suggested reference from
Jean D'Aragon:
'The integration of environmental
variables in the process of architectural design' from S.Mazouz and M.S.
Zerouala in: Open House International. Vol. 25 No.2, 2000.
- finish reading _The Spell
of the Sensuous_
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