Un-Prescriptive
Term Harvard Graduate School of Design Spring 2020
Course Architecture Core IV Relate
Instructor Oana Stanescu
Partner Renee Yuen
Our current modes of dwelling are the product of urban system that segregates sites of labor and production. Today, work becomes a subsistence to our self-identification, social mobility, and self-worth. What happens in a society where we no longer have access to physical job site, or do not commute?
Course Architecture Core IV Relate
Instructor Oana Stanescu
Partner Renee Yuen
Our current modes of dwelling are the product of urban system that segregates sites of labor and production. Today, work becomes a subsistence to our self-identification, social mobility, and self-worth. What happens in a society where we no longer have access to physical job site, or do not commute?
Perspetive: Marius de Zayas. Right: Francis Picabia
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
Dada talks with you, it is everything, it includes everything, it belongs to all religions, can be neither victory nor defeat, it lives in space and not in time.
Dada is like your hopes: nothing like your paradise: nothing like your idols: nothing like your heroes: nothing like your artists: nothing like your religions: nothing.
Dada is like your hopes: nothing like your paradise: nothing like your idols: nothing like your heroes: nothing like your artists: nothing like your religions: nothing.
Diagram: Plan explorations of core spaces
Diagram: Program of soild vs void
Diagram: Transformation from core to curve
Site plan at ground level
Perspective: social spaces at ground level
Detail Plan at ground level
1. outdoor exercise
2. planter
3. small gathering
4. restaurant
5. kitchen
6. laundry
7. mail & packages
8. storage
9. park & parkground
10. amphitheatre
11. indoor gym
12. locker
13. convenience store
14. exterior store
15. cafe
1. outdoor exercise
2. planter
3. small gathering
4. restaurant
5. kitchen
6. laundry
7. mail & packages
8. storage
9. park & parkground
10. amphitheatre
11. indoor gym
12. locker
13. convenience store
14. exterior store
15. cafe
COMMUNAL LIVING
Communal living for all the inhabitants and nearby residents to shop, play,
live, and come together. Amentites
emcompasses activities, basic operations, and gathering spaces on the ground and roof level.
Indoor gym and outdoor exercieses ares, along with running track cutting through the whole site. Basic operations such as deliveries, storages, laundries and stores can be access in the solid spaces. Small, medium sized gathering spaces are scattered across the site. There are also pocket playgrounds located in-between the units.
emcompasses activities, basic operations, and gathering spaces on the ground and roof level.
Indoor gym and outdoor exercieses ares, along with running track cutting through the whole site. Basic operations such as deliveries, storages, laundries and stores can be access in the solid spaces. Small, medium sized gathering spaces are scattered across the site. There are also pocket playgrounds located in-between the units.
Nieh’s double-height balcony
Nieh’s double-height bedroom
Murakami and Nieh’s balcony
Murakami’s corner
elevation from the park
axon from ground to above
found objects
