Sigmund Freud’s study, Vienna. Detail of the mirror in the window near his worktable.
“To live is to leave traces.
On the interior these are emphasized.”
-Walter Benjamin, Paris, Capitol of the 19th Century
assignment 3: mid review thursday march 13
Read Beatriz Colomina’s essay “Interior” from Privacy and Publicity, Architecture as Mass Media
Consider the existing building and all that you now know of it: its history, its materiality, its idiosyncrasy. Taking cues from your response to the first assignment and from the material study of your detail drawings, consider how the building could house a new use as a Center for the Study of Movement and Dance.
Consider how the building might work as a whole, through a reconfiguration of its ‘skin’ to create new spatial arrangements organized by access to light, air and view. You may reconfigure the building in dramatic or incremental ways, depending on the idiom of your process and inquiry.
To begin, draw a diagram of the building in both plan and section to show how you would modify or reconfigure the enclosure of the building. Use the diagram to demonstrate your attitude towards the interior spaces, their organization, and the presence of light, air and view. Take into account entry to the building, circulation through the building and large open spaces with ample wall surface for the movement studios.
To follow, build a diagrammatic model that shows the skin’s reconfiguration with attention to the interior spaces of the building.
Then build a diagrammatic model at a larger scale of the condition at the edge of one or several of the newly configured interior spaces.
The program of the Center is as follows:
Entry Area / Reception
Dressing Rooms / Showers / Restrooms (M & F, 3 toilets, 3 sinks, 3 showers each)
Vertical Circulation (Stairs & Elevator)
Open Administration Space
Square footage is per your own design parameters, and is open to an interpretation of the boundaries between programs…
