Week 5 : Cross Section

 As the key component to site analysis, within their groups students are to cut 6 cross sections through the site. [This number is a minimum, students may choose to do more than six]. These are to run from the cliff top to the river edge. These sections will be utilised through out the semester as a constant resource. The sections need not be large, 1:200 or 1:500 is sufficient. They are however to indicate the location of the sheds, the water level and the Storey Bridge. The sections are to work as a suite of drawings and should be presented one under the other so that we may map the changing nature of the site.
reference

 01:: ‘Envisioning Architecture: Drawings from the Museum of Modern Art’. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2002. +/or

 02:: www.moma.org ‘The Changing of the Avant-Garde: Visionary Architectural Drawings from the Howard Gilman Collection’

03:: Spiller, Neil. ‘Visionary Architecture: Blueprints of the Modern Imagination’. London: Thames and Hudson, 2006.

Refer to the above sources for drawings. Although these sections are simple, uneditted directly derivative computer drawings are not acceptable. Consider, line weights in terms of what is cut, what is in elevation in the foreground versus in elevation in the background, presentation etc. Further references include drawings from Archigram [1960+70], Diller and Scofidio, Bernard Tschumi


requirements

6 x 1:200 or 1:500 cross sections to be completed by wk09 for the interim review
* students may wish to divide this task where by each person completes several sections.