assignment 2

“some of the qualities and charm which belong to their work is of course the effect of grouping later additions and of what someone has called the reclaiming touch of nature, softening hard lines and giving undulation and ease to surfaces which must at first have been much nearer geometrical planes…”
-Norman Isham from Early Rhode Island Houses


assignment 2 : due tuesday march 4

part 1
Working as a team of 11, document the building at 3 – 9 Steeple Street.

Using your site research, photographs and documents provided, draw a complete set of documents for the building. All sheets are to have a consistent title block. All drawings are to be at a scale of 1/4” = 1’. All full size sheets are to be 22” x 34”. Half size set is to be 11” x 17”, (at 1/8” = 1’). Site plan to be at 1/16” = 1’. All drawings (except details) are to be in Autocad. Use consistent line weights throughout (limit to 4).

part 2
Working individually, document one idiosyncratic detail of the site, to scale, in a numbered drawing. The detail drawing can be at any scale you deem appropriate. The detail should communicate an intrinsic aspect of the building and its history to the rest of the class for purposes of the rehabilitation. Presume your detail to be a highlighting of some aspect of ‘the reclaiming touch of nature’ (or perhaps of inhabitation) i.e. the material history of the building. If necessary, take creative license with this drawing in the pursuit all the detail’s particularities. How do you communicate the idiosyncrasy of this detail?