http://blog.brian-schmidt.com Studio, UofO, and project discussion related to architecture Tue, 18 May 2010 23:25:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I came across the work of Vincent Callebaut today, a recent architecture graduate at Institute Victor Horta in Brussels, well recent being 2000. His work is definetly conceptual, and not too certain how much of the projects could be possible. I appreciate the invistigative nature of his work, ... http://blog.brian-schmidt.com/?p=392 Final review is approaching, fast. Time to get the rendering machine going. I'm still working out some details, but for the most part I'm settled on a design for the building. Hopefully there will be no need for major changes after tomorrow's pinup. The reading space ... http://blog.brian-schmidt.com/?p=389 Project mid review came and went, and overall I felt it went well and got some good feedback that will push me forward. I thought there were two big points from my crit which I will have to look at further for the rest of the term. 1. ... http://blog.brian-schmidt.com/?p=386 The time has come to delve into the program and design a building. Now that a somewhat clear diagram and idea has been developed, the next step is to evolve that into a building. The building has been dubbed an Academy of Literary Exploration. It will be ~15,000 ... http://blog.brian-schmidt.com/?p=380 Friday the 9th we got our site for our studio project. Yay! It's located between Broadway/6th and Jefferson/Madison. And we got to see YGH's offices, nice views for sure. Surely there are lots of issues and ideas that could be diagramed in regards to the site. ... http://blog.brian-schmidt.com/?p=378 After my review for ex1 I went ahead and did a first draft revision over the weekend. I got to the core of my ideas, and what it was I truly wanted to diagram. I simplified it a bit, and concentrated on one idea: A place for Reading ... http://blog.brian-schmidt.com/?p=375 This post is late coming up, but our final review on the topics in exercise one were Wednesday 4/7. In short, my review could have gone better. Where I was getting caught up was trying to diagram two different types of isolation, when I should have just concentrated ... http://blog.brian-schmidt.com/?p=372 After my review Friday, I came away with a clearer sense of what my main idea is. A place for reading should be solitary, and there should be a barrier that diffuses enough distractions where an individual can focus more clearly on what they're reading. Two conditions ... http://blog.brian-schmidt.com/?p=369 The goal of this ~10 day exercise was to explore architectural idea and concept. I was assigned the archetype "A Place for Reading" which could really be a lot of things. I began by narrowing down the subject matter I wanted to focus on. I reflected upon ... http://blog.brian-schmidt.com/?p=365 My Spring term studio started, and is done by an area firm YGH. Below is the overall goals of the studio, which is more abstract in nature than my previous studio projects. IDEA: The studio will begin by examining three program activities in detail (mine=a place for reading). ... http://blog.brian-schmidt.com/?p=363 Q2 Winter 2010: Studio 584 - National Museum at Oslo, Norway Professor Don Genasci For my winter term studio, the project is to undertake a competition for a new National Museum at Oslo, Norway. The competition has mostly passed and will not be able to enter, but there were several other ... http://blog.brian-schmidt.com/?p=333 Q1 Fall 2009: Studio 683 - Portland Sustainability Center Professor Don Genasci and Professor Hajo Neis After working on design for a few weeks and mostly working on producing a good set of images for the final review, this is what I arrived at. For a first project and first quarter ... http://blog.brian-schmidt.com/?p=289 Q1 Fall 2009: Studio 683 - Portland Sustainability Center Professor Don Genasci and Professor Hajo Neis Coming out of my mid review for the building design I had a good grasp on what my building was but there were certain elements I needed to focus on.  While my urban space was strong, ... http://blog.brian-schmidt.com/?p=279 Q1 Fall 2009: Studio 683 - Portland Sustainability Center Professor Don Genasci and Professor Hajo Neis The next step was to begin thinking of building program, and how this related to the building form I arrived at. The building form and first image, the orange elements relate to internal function which ... http://blog.brian-schmidt.com/?p=269 Q1 Fall 2009: Studio 683 - Portland Sustainability Center Professor Don Genasci and Professor Hajo Neis Within the building I started to look at how it could relate to the urban context and space. The main idea was to create a perpendicular axis to the space created that extended over 4th ... http://blog.brian-schmidt.com/?p=263