Arch1392 Collaboration Studio - Urbans: March 2009

context

con·text

1. The part of a text or statement that surrounds a particular word or passage and determines its meaning.

2. The circumstances in which an event occurs; a setting.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/CONTEXT

The context in our project may refer to all elements within the model, including the existing element for example landscape, building itself, interior, lighting etc; also including the hiding elements such as concept, used computer programs, team members etc. Each of them can determines or affect the final result of the project.

Records

re·cord

v. re·cord·ed, re·cord·ing, re·cords

v.tr.

1. To set down for preservation in writing or other permanent form.

2. To register or indicate: The clerk recorded the votes.

a. To register (sound or images) in permanent form by mechanical or electrical means for reproduction.

b. To register the words, sound, appearance, or performance of by such means: recorded the oldest townspeople on tape; recorded the violin concerto.

v.intr.

To record something.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/records

The meaning of Records within our course may refer to keep the evidence and progress of our work. Some courses require us to write or draw on the journal; some may need us to show works to tutor regularly. Collaboration Studio is a computer based course, so we are required to update our individual blog and team blog in order to show the efforts we put in this course, not only for tutors, but also colleague.

Moreover, we also share our knowledge on the class wiki, which another way to record our contribution to this course.

Unbuilt Architecture Example

Example 1 Tatlin’s tower

http://www.tatlinstowerandtheworld.net/

Tatlin’s Tower or The Monument to the Third International was a grand monumental building envisioned by the Russian artist and architect Vladimir Tatlin, but never built. It was planned to be erected in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, as the headquarters and monument of the Comintern (the third international).

Tatlin’s Constructivist tower was to be built from industrial materials: iron, glass and steel. In materials, shape, and function, it was envisioned as a towering symbol of modernity. It would have dwarfed the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The tower’s main form was a twin helix which spiraled up to 400 m in height, which visitors would be transported around with the aid of various mechanical devices. The main framework would contain four large suspended geometric structures. These structures would rotate at different rates of speed. At the base of the structure was a cube which was designed as a venue for lectures, conferences and legislative meetings, and this would complete a rotation in the span of one year. Above the cube would be a smaller pyramid housing executive activities and completing a rotation once a month. Further up would be a cylinder, which was to house an information centre, issuing news bulletins and manifestos via telegraph, radio and loudspeaker, and would complete a rotation once a day. At the top, there would be a hemisphere for radio equipment. There were also plans to install a gigantic open-air screen on the cylinder, and a further projector which would be able to cast messages across the clouds on any overcast day.