Collective Seminar

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form living

Atelier Grafton

Accademia di Architettura - Mendrisio Spring Semester 2013


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Alfred Hitchcock: Rear Window 1954

Above: Alberti’s Window Right: Hitchcock Rear Window


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Scenes from ‘Rear Window’:The ‘semi-public’ realm involves numerous gradations from public to private.


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Typologies of collective space


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‘The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place toplace, and in any once place is always replete with new improvisations.”Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities.

Image: Jan Vermeer: Street in Delft, 1657-58

1. The Street


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Patterns of association in the street:

‘The street is not only a means of access, but also an arena for social expression.’ Alison and Peter Smithson: The Charged Void: Urbanism.


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2. Courtyards

Courtyards in Sevilla:Left: Traditional adalucian courtyard typology

Right: Cruz/Ortiz Architects, Donna Maria Housing


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Walter Gropius: Bauhaus, DesssauLeft: Kandinsky on his terrace. Right: Balcony, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

3. Balconies and Terraces

Le Corbusier:Roof terrace, Unite D’Habitation, Marseilles


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4. Streets in the Sky

Top: Spangen Housing, Rotterdam, Michiel Brinkman, 1918Bottom: A&P Smithson, Golden Lane competition entry


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5. Staircases

Left: Harlem ‘Brownstone’ Stairs. Above: Giancarlo De Carlo, Urbino


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The Nineteeth Century City: Gustave Dore, View of London


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Ideologies of twentieth century urbanism: The Garden City, Ebeneezer Howard (left), The Ville Radieuse, Le Corbusier (right)


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Rediscovery of the vernacular:Bernard Rudofsy, Architecture without Architects


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‘The search for meaningful groupings began almost as soon as we arrivedin London, in the winter of 1947-48....Any coming together is a cluster’

Patterns of GrowthThe ClusterConglomerate Ordering

Alison and Peter Smithson: The Charged Void: Urbanism.

Alison and Peter Smithson: The Cluster


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Christopher Alexander

‘House for one person’:Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language


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Henri Lefebvre: Notes on the New Town (April 1960)

‘A few kilometres away from the tower blocks of the new town lies thesleepy old village where I live’

The anaolgy of the sea-shell: ‘A living creature has slowly secreted astructure...it is precisely that link, between the animal and its shell, thatone must try to understand.’

‘History and civilisation in a sea-shell, this town embodies the forms andactions of a thousand-year-old community, which was itself part of awider society and culture, ever more distant from us a the years pass.This community has shaped its shell, building and re-building it, modifyingit again and again according to its needs’.

The Old Town


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‘Each village is a construct in its own right, and so is eachhouse. Everything about them forms a kind of unity...there areno residential areas separated from the places where peoplework or enjoy themselves. There is no clear-cut di erence,yet no confusion between the countryside, the streets and thehouses.’

‘But none of this really obtains any more...this small town isvegetating and emptying, like so many other dying villages andtowns. The expiring sea-shell lies shattered and open to theskies. The surviving shopkeepers are little more than manag-ers. The craftsmen? You could count them on the ngers of onehand.’

Image: Streetscape in the town of Bre´, Lugano


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The New Town: Mourenx.

‘Whenever I set foot in Mourenx I am lled with dread...everytime I seethese machines for living in I feel terri ed...Mourenx has taught memany things. Every object has its use, and declares it. Every object hasa distinct and speci c function. The text of the town is totally legible, asimpoverished as it is clear.

‘And here we are facing the same problem as before: how to reproducewhat was once created spontaneously, how to create it from the abstract.Possible? Impossible?’

Henri Lefebvre: Notes on the New Town (April 1960)

The New Town


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Giancarlo De CarloRestructuring of Coletta di Castelbianca, 1993-1995

Re-programming of historic town based on discovering ‘genetic code’of the structure (De Carlo). Cluster structure of similar size cells allowsfor exible programme.

Re-programming the Old Town


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Giancarlo Di Carlo in Urbino

Giancarlo De Carlo

Insertions into historic city of Urbino based on studies of urban morphology.

Modern university conceived as analogous to Italian hill town.


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Alvaro Siza & Roberto Collova:Reconstruction and landscaping, Salemi, Sicilia 1991-1998


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Narkomfn Building: Mosei Ginsburg, Moscow, 1932

The ‘Social Condenser’: The organisation of the project is designed toencourage and facilitate new forms of social life.

‘Architecture - and domestic architecture in particluar - coincides in‘almost iconic fashion with the basic units of social organisation, such asthe household.’

Victor Buchli: An archaeology of socialism

The Social Condenser


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Communal functions such as kitchen and laundry organised in a seperate block.

‘Feminist’ liberation of traditional domestic space.


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Peter Zumthor

House for senior citizens, Chur, 1993.

Circulation as Collective Space


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Jorn Utzon:Housing at Fredensborg, Denmark, 1963


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Walls step to express changes in function (above)Development of ‘L-shaped’ courtyard type (left)


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Landscape image and section:Repetitive unit transforms according to topography.


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Chimney detail and Site Plan


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Free Collective SpaceKazuyo Sejima: Seijo Townhouses: 20 Volumes, 20 Units


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Atelier 5: Diversity within Regularity


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Jean Renaudie , Housing at Ivry sur Seine, Paris, 1969-75

‘No one has the right to put himself in someone else’s place, to claim theythink this way, to say they like this or that’ Jean Renaudie (1976)

Artifcial Landscape


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