What is a Brief?
Most simply a Brief is a description of the design challenge. In Architecture it often includes the purpose of the building (which might be pragmatic or poetic, or some combination of both), any requirements demanded by the physical context (views, sun, legal boundaries, historical/cultutral significance, etc), performance measures to achieve (sustainability, worker productivity, views to the stage, for example), and a budget.
We'll touch on some of these below; lets start with a title for the project ... then the brief itself.
"The Pavilion of Architectural Inspiration"
In this project you are invited to re-imagine the Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe as a multi story building in the heart of UNSW's Kensington Campus.
The inspiration for this project came from the images one sees of the pavilion reflected in its shallow pool, like the below:
First appearances suggest the pavilion is a two story structure ... but on closer examination we realize the doubling we are seeing is in fact a reflection from the surface of the pool.
Imagine linking the real and the virtual floors with a stair. Then imagine stacking more levels, with more stairs, until you have a multi story building. This is your task.
How many levels? That's up to you ... but knowing what will be going in the finished Architecture might help.
Your multi-story revision of the Barcelona Pavilion will contain three exhibits.
1. The sculpture called Alba (which means "Dawn") which was in the original pavilion.
more detail here.
2. A Ferrari 250 GTO; Record holder of the most expensive car ever sold at auction and featured in the Art of the Automobile.
3. A Steinway Grand Piano; because Art, like Architecture, is not just about what you can see.
So how should you go about doing this? Where to start?
Head to the post called "Procedure" to find out.
Most simply a Brief is a description of the design challenge. In Architecture it often includes the purpose of the building (which might be pragmatic or poetic, or some combination of both), any requirements demanded by the physical context (views, sun, legal boundaries, historical/cultutral significance, etc), performance measures to achieve (sustainability, worker productivity, views to the stage, for example), and a budget.
We'll touch on some of these below; lets start with a title for the project ... then the brief itself.
"The Pavilion of Architectural Inspiration"
In this project you are invited to re-imagine the Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe as a multi story building in the heart of UNSW's Kensington Campus.
The inspiration for this project came from the images one sees of the pavilion reflected in its shallow pool, like the below:
First appearances suggest the pavilion is a two story structure ... but on closer examination we realize the doubling we are seeing is in fact a reflection from the surface of the pool.
Imagine linking the real and the virtual floors with a stair. Then imagine stacking more levels, with more stairs, until you have a multi story building. This is your task.
How many levels? That's up to you ... but knowing what will be going in the finished Architecture might help.
Your multi-story revision of the Barcelona Pavilion will contain three exhibits.
1. The sculpture called Alba (which means "Dawn") which was in the original pavilion.
2. A Ferrari 250 GTO; Record holder of the most expensive car ever sold at auction and featured in the Art of the Automobile.
3. A Steinway Grand Piano; because Art, like Architecture, is not just about what you can see.
So how should you go about doing this? Where to start?
Head to the post called "Procedure" to find out.
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