ARCHITECTURE II | WUNDERKAMMER Johnathon Tran
BEGINNING (SECTION 1)
CRÆFT
toothpaste and brush..
Craft is an obnoxiously broad word--Craft could mean how you design an object, or a synonym for creating, and perhaps a synonym with skill. What does it mean to be able to have Craft? Is Craft applicable to every single task? If I brush my teeth with precise skill is that a craft?
What does the word "Craft" mean?
The skill a person wields and uses to be creative with a task. How much craft a person does is determined if they are creative and use their own hands to make something. Every single career in the world contains a piece of craft, and it doesn't matter if it's a miniscule amount.
What does the word "Craft" mean?
The skill a person wields and uses to be creative with a task. How much craft a person does is determined if they are creative and use their own hands to make something. Every single career in the world contains a piece of craft, and it doesn't matter if it's a miniscule amount.
STEP 1: INVESTIGATION
CRAFT INVESTIGATION
Originally, when we were first introduced to craft, we had a basic definition of it. Most of us thought of things like a job or a profession; there is much more to that idea. A Craft can't occur in any job. IT must be a handcrafted functional thing that takes skill. You cannot replicate true skill very easily. With that in mind, we were told to "investigate" it. Students researched the topics and interpreted most of the things alone. Thus, creating their own handmade collage. All things were acceptable and were only left to the crafter to make it fit. Moving on, this collage is strictly about the culture and globalization of food. Food in itself is a craft. You must have experience and precise movements to create a "dish". You can't give a toddler a knife and expect them to cut it into perfect pieces. The precise interactions and ingredients you must handle is very important in this craft. Speaking about ingredients, the ingredients you obtain are very important. You must know the ingredients nearby you to be able to use them properly. Before the Columbian Exchange chefs were very familiar with what was around them and need true skill to utilize them. The creation of food is something that will always be needed and have many skilled craftsman/chefs in it.
CULINARY INVESTIGATION
All the things of culinary arts.
At the beginning of the semester, I and many others discussed three crafts that we thought would be important for a massive craftsman college. We ended up choosing Metalworking, Textiles and Culinary arts. These three crafts demonstrated expert and precise skill that need a specific work style. Moving to the collage, the collage is research about the work environment and skills in culinary arts. A chef has to deal with a stressful and fast-paced work environment. Constantly being pushed to create high-quality fast meals. Squeezing in as much time and organizing their messy workspaces. They also deal with critics and safety inspectors. Whilst dealing with this they also must have experience in their craft. You cannot go blind into cooking and expect the best. You must know the recipe from heart or at least the process. Chefs also deal with the problem of good presentation. If the food looks bad, it can turn away many potential customers. More customers equal more profit earned.
ARCHITECT INVESTIGATION
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Students were assigned with random architects that have a general common theme. They were experts in using the environment around them to create "Craft". After being assigned the architect, students researched. Thus, leading to the creation of many collages. For example, this collage on Australia's most famous architect. Known for receiving the Pritzker Architecture Prize and spreading ideas of environmental responsibility/sensibility. The architect's name is Glenn Murcutt. The collage shows three buildings Simpson-Lee House, Magney House, and the Marie Short House. The collage shows how Glenn Murcutt's famous motto, "Touch the earth Lighty" is put into fruition. The buildings are characterized by a pavilion-like structure with a sense of openness. It also shows how Glenn Murcutt is able to adapt to multiple environments. The buildings are built in different locations. For example, The Simpson-Lee House is built in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales. The Mountains are constantly attracting cold wind. To work around this, the architect builds on the mountain using it as a natural shield. This also shows the environmental cleverness Glenn Murcutt demonstrates. Glenn Murcutt is an architect who makes structures like a skeleton with only skin. Hollow on the inside, but inevitably always detailed. |
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STEP 2: CABINET OF CURIOSITIY
WUNDERKAMMER DRAFTS
The Wunderkammers goal is to serve as a place that helps enhance the craftsman. Students in mind of this created their own unique "Wunderkammer" that must showcase and use "Craft". The drafts in this slideshow show the process of creating a studio for a chef. Chefs typically need some sort of cooking location/spot and a storage area for said raw materials/processed materials. Throughout these drafts separate ideas were created that were eventually combined together into a final product. For example, on #3 the idea of a farmhouse was implemented into the final drawing. Ideas like a walk-in freezer and pantry were quickly added on as their very essential to the needs of a chef. Generally, the first drafts were test runs that were just running through designs before an idea was conceived.
AUTOCAD FP & ELEVATION
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The Final Floor Plan and Elevation of the model. The Idea of a building that shows the linear process of cooking is established. The Wunderkammer begins on the right and works itself towards the left. Starting at a seemingly basic farmhouse and ending at a weirdly designed dining room. The Wunderkammer is not only designed but is also useful. The farmhouse allows the client to throw way any defective dishes and raw materials to feed the animals. The client is also able to reuse animal feces to be used as fertilizer. The building could be described as its own moving creature that can sustain itself for an amount of time.
STEP 3: MODEL
WUNDERKAMMER MODEL: STEPS TO TAKE
The Model here is a representation of the "Wunderkammer" as a whole. The model is a staircase that represents the linear progression of cooking. How the raw materials start and end with four steps. Creating a model that looks like stairs make it feel even more inclined to be a process where you "move each step." This creates the illusion of progression that is enhanced by the context of each step. This model shows us the farm, the education, the craft, and the presentation of culinary arts.
ARCHITECTURE II | FACULTY HOUSING (SECTION 2)
PROJECT 02: FACULTY HOUSING
(After PROJECT 01: Wunderkammer-> PROJECT 02 FACULTY vs. HOUSEHOLD)
GOAL
Students were tasked with choosing between two options. Option one: Create faculty housing area that houses four professors. Option two: a dormitory area for twenty students based on the college. When decided, students were further informed that they had to create a building that had an essence of sustainability. To make a building sustainable, you must incorporate the petals of the LBC. The LBC or also known as the "Living Building Challenge" is the idea that buildings should follow the idea of sustainable building.
STEP 1: PARTI CREATION
DEVELOPMENT OF THE 24-PARTI DRAWINGS
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The Parti Drawings here are a part of a twenty-four collection of ideas for the faculty housing. Students were instructed to create abstract formations of their concepts. By creating twenty-four variations of the idea, it allows true variety and development of ideas. Students may be stumped and troubled with coming up with it initially; but throughout the process ideas will improve. In my parti diagram, I developed the idea to make a building that is intwined--or connected. Throughout the process I wanted to show the connectiveness of culinary arts. How you must put one and one together and solve the puzzle.
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SEPERATION OF PARTIS
After the collection of twenty-four partis, we were asked to select between and finalize a draft between five partis. After careful selection, I decided upon choosing these five partis. I chose these partis in particular because they represented the idea of connectiveness effectively. They also were the more abstract and sensible ideas out of the twenty-four. The ideas all had abstract forms that connect into differently shaped objects that show the complex, strange, developed science of culinary arts.
STEP 2: THE DRAFT BEGINNING
INITIAL DESIGNS
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The designs of my faculty housing in the beginning were lacking. They were more attributed to the idea of sustainability rather than the unique concept we were required to develop. I incorporated elements of water recycling and a farm and presented it as my idea. I was critiqued and told that it was too focused on one concept of the project. It was like the carriage without the horse--if I had to describe it personally. Eventually, I was able to develop something worth mentioning. The idea of shaping the buildings to connect towards the middle and make them work towards it as an eventual goal. This represents the interconnectedness of culinary arts. No matter what cooking starts with a fire and spreads out to different variations. It shows the unique origin of culinary arts and its strong ties to global connections. The art of culinary arts is manipulating the fact that we need to consume and making it a social way to communicate and express feelings.
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WINNING CONTENDER
Eventually, I developed the idea that transformed to be satisfactory and different. The idea has both a unique concept and a sustainable approach to the Living Building Challenge. My idea was a four-building separation into different styles of culinary arts. Namely, barbeque, vegan, pastry, and fusion/modern cooking. The buildings are developed to suit the personalities of the cooking styles and act around them. For example, vegan has a more outdoor shaped house. It's separated and is forcing the person living to interact with the environment outside to move to a building they want to. The building forces forced trading that makes them interact with each other, despite different ideologies. A parallel to the real world as hated countries could be united by food and globalization of cultures.
STEP 3: TESTING THE IDEA
MODELS
Students were asked to create multiple study models to test the idea into fruition. Experience is one of the best deciding factors in any career that involves any sort of creative direction. The models I created helped me base the building around the distinct four culinary arts. Reshaping and creating new models have helped me develop a new perspective on the idea and development.
3D PRINTED MODEL
FINAL MODEL
STEP 4: FINAL DECISIONS
FINALIZED PLANS
VEGAN
The "Vegan" household remains as a separated three-part building that forces the professor to move outside to interact with the outside. By incorporating a unique aspect that forces the user to go outside, it makes the building more connected to the outside environment. It shows the interconnectedness a vegan has with the natural world. The ideology to completely remove any animal-like caloric options and pursue eco-friendly options. It is also the smallest house that shows the "earthbound-like" ideology the Vegan household upholds. The Vegan household holds elements of a person who is intertwined with the natural environment by including a outside kitchen, a yoga room, and a greenhouse.
BARBEQUE
The "Barbecue" house is a purposely larger house that represents the Texan-barbeque style buildings that add elements of openness and invitation to the outside elements. Although, ideologies are completely different, the ideas that both styles have of openness and connection to the outside are similar. The connection to the outside brings in a wood-like smell that is incorporated throughout the entire building; reminding us that a integral part of barbeque is the fuel--wood.
MODERN/FUSION
The "Modern/Fusion" building is a specially designed house that incorporates the elements of an abomination. It's designed to have uniquely shaped rooms that distinctly stick out representing the out of worldliness, or a being that is detached from natural expectations. The fusion house is a professor who is open to all ideas and is willing to add anything to make his recipes better. This is a good house for this professor because it shows the craziness, modern global cultural acceptance, and experimentation of modern twenty-first century culinary arts.
PASTRY
Highest building of them all, the "Pastry" house is a three-story house that is focuses on precise cuts and turns that are clearly defined. The clearly defined cuts are metaphor for the clear, precise, and calculative science of pastry. To bake a cake, you must carefully measure the ingredients, or it may become an oversized monster of a cake. The essential essence of pastry is a science of measuring and preciseness. The idea is further developed through the three-story house that is resembles a cake as well.
