| teaching BLOCK LOFTING 151 | structures | block lofting Structural design, like architectural design, is an inherently creative process where each problem holds the potential for diverse, appropriate and innovative solutions. This exercise is conceived as a learning experience for students to explore the interdependent relationship of the poetic and pragmatic dimensions of architecture. It is also conceived to cultivate a knowledge and understanding of structural principles and behavior through explora- tion and experimentation. Conditions, parameters and objectives are carefully defined to provide an opportunity for self-initiated and self-directed structural play. Success in this challenge requires students to embrace and respect structural logic yet exploit the aching potential for creativity and aesthetic expression. The project consists of two to three iterations and is to be executed by teams of 2-3 students. Each iteration involves the design and develop- ment of a structural model and diagramming exercises. Each team is required to design a structural system to po- sition a prescribed block relative to a prescribed base with specific dimensional constraints. The block and the base are not to be directly connected. Each team is to develop concept drawings and force diagrams for both iterations. Objectives: - acquire the ability to negotiate and synthesize the poetic and pragmatic dimensions of design - acquire a knowledge and understanding of quantitative structural principles and behavior - acquire the ability to employ structural principles in a creative manner - acquire the ability to conceptualize basic structural systems comprised of specific structural elements - acquire the ability to effectively craft performance based structural models - acquire the ability to accurately diagram structural behavior Course Context: The Block Lofting exercise is administered concurrently with lectures on structural geometry and computational exercises utilizing the method of joints to analyze simple trusses; limited to trusses that are structurally legible and expressive. Project Conditions Block Lofting arc221 Building Technology I _ Structures I _ Fall 2009-10,12 The distribution of Material in Space: Le Ricolais relies on ‘the test as a companion to intuition’ to help in ‘uncovering some privileged arrangement of things’. His intuition or ‘looking into’ does not limit itself to an immediate apprehension by the mind without reasoning, but by a sense’. Structural intuition is not without reasoning. It is with com- plete concord between the mind and the sense of perception of space, a perception that begins in the body. - Visions and Paradox

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Structural design, like architectural design, is an inherently creative process where each problem holds the po-tential for diverse, appropriate and innovative solutions. This exercise is conceived as a learning experience for students to explore the interdependent relationship of the poetic and pragmatic dimensions of architecture. It is also conceived to cultivate a knowledge and understanding of structural principles and behavior through explora-tion and experimentation. Conditions, parameters and objectives are carefully defined to provide an opportunity for self-initiated and self-directed structural play. Success in this challenge requires students to embrace and respect structural logic yet exploit the aching potential for creativity and aesthetic expression. The project consists of two to three iterations and is to be executed by teams of 2-3 students. Each iteration involves the design and develop-ment of a structural model and diagramming exercises. Each team is required to design a structural system to po-sition a prescribed block relative to a prescribed base with specific dimensional constraints. The block and the base are not to be directly connected. Each team is to develop concept drawings and force diagrams for both iterations.

Objectives:- acquire the ability to negotiate and synthesize the poetic and pragmatic dimensions of design- acquire a knowledge and understanding of quantitative structural principles and behavior- acquire the ability to employ structural principles in a creative manner- acquire the ability to conceptualize basic structural systems comprised of specific structural elements- acquire the ability to effectively craft performance based structural models- acquire the ability to accurately diagram structural behavior

Course Context:The Block Lofting exercise is administered concurrently with lectures on structural geometry and computational exercises utilizing the method of joints to analyze simple trusses; limited to trusses that are structurally legible and expressive.

Project Conditions

Block Loftingarc221 Building Technology I _ Structures I _ Fall 2009-10,12

The distribution of Material in Space: Le Ricolais relies on ‘the test as a companion to intuition’ to help in ‘uncovering some privileged arrangement of things’. His intuition or ‘looking into’ does not limit itself to an immediate apprehension by the mind without reasoning, but by a sense’. Structural intuition is not without reasoning. It is with com-plete concord between the mind and the sense of perception of space, a perception that begins in the body.

- Visions and Paradox