studio birthday

more photos

more photos uploaded to photobucket today
from 02.28.08
includes photos from the 4th floor, heidi's, jenny's, jenna's, bige's, basement of 3 steeple street...

http://s17.photobucket.com/albums/b68/christinetan/steeple%20street/?albumview=slideshow

new rivers & steeple ground fl.

http://picasaweb.google.com/young929.c/NewRiversSteeple

neat

1958

art in ruins

http://www.artinruins.com/arch/stillinuse/steeplest/

The Dress Shop photos

http://picasaweb.google.com/djsuzuki/TheDressShop?authkey=qfuEj79tCxU

for your use, guys.

D.

Steeple Street photos

http://picasaweb.google.com/djsuzuki/SteepleStreetLoft?authkey=Qms_VZAelWI

let me know guys if you can't view it.

D.

at work

photos, photos, and more photos...

i'm including a link to my photobucket account of images taken today at our site. included are some from the basement of new rivers and exterior elevations of the building.

look here:
http://s17.photobucket.com/albums/b68/christinetan/steeple%20street/?albumview=slideshow

Norman Isham

Everyone should take a look at this book. It is by the architectural historian Norman Isham, who was fascinated with early colonial architecture here in Rhode Island, and restored many of the homes that were still standing when he was around. It is also in our RISD library; it is in a special binder as it is very old, and you can only read it there. It's a beautiful book though, so go page through it. What I like most is how carefully he writes about construction techniques, and how painstakingly he draws framing diagrams.

our site:

built by joseph congdon in 1792, and added to in (at least) three different eras that followed, this building at 3 - 9 steeple street is the oldest standing industrial building in downtown providence, and in sincere need of rehabilitation.

we will visit the building on tuesday, february 26th, touring the spaces of two restaurants and a cafe that occupy the ground floors. we'll measure and document those spaces, and begin to piece together the plan and section of the building.

dress warmly tuesday, and bring tape measures and clipboards..

assignment 1

assignment 1: due tuesday february 26

Read the essay ‘The Dialectics of Inside and Outside’ by Gaston Bachelard.

Build part of an enclosure that defines for you an inside from an outside.

Choose a material that has significance to you in terms of the way it can be manipulated to generate different qualities, i.e. texture, surface, depth, thinness, openness, opacity, etc. Identify the scale at which this material is working.

Use the material. Manipulate it, and in working with it, discover or generate a relationship between the ‘inside’ and the ‘outside’, as you define them.

Articulate in writing the various qualities you are interested in, and how the material you are working with manifests them. Remember that this example can be specific to one idea, and may not encompass the entire range of possibilities that the concepts inspire.

If so inspired, you may make several enclosures that evoke different ideas of ‘inside and outside’.

You may work with up to three materials in relationship to one another.

welcome

inside and outside in the palace of the winds, jaipur india.


it was built in 1799, the same decade as our site.


















Welcome to our studio. We are looking at the enclosure of buildings, from within and from without. We will be helped along our way by the Danish window & skylight manufacturer Velux, providing us technical expertise and support all semester. Check them out here.