Fall 2011 convocation web

FALL 2011 CONVOCATION & STUDIO/ELECTIVE PRESENTATIONS

Dean Marilyn Jordan Taylor 9.7.2011

Welcome.

SCHOOL PROFILE

Incoming Class: 337 Total Students: 653

SCHOOL PROFILE

ARCH

CPLN

FNAR

HSPV

LARP

MUSA

INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATION

31 countries

ELEVATING DISCOURSE

Fall 2011 Lecture Series www.design.upenn.edu/events

ECONOMIC VITALITY & COMMUNITY RESILIENCY

CREATE VALUE & BEAUTY

creative in nature transformative in impact

GOAL 1 Advance our visibility and influence through thought leadership, international engagement, and strategic communications.

GOAL 2 Expand PennDesign’s research as an essential, integral element of our academic community and future professional practice.

GOAL 3 Build the faculty of the future.

GOAL 4 Innovate and experiment to create a better, stronger, student-serving curriculum.

GOAL 5 Enhance the community culture of PennDesign, specifically though an emphasis on critical design discourse.

GOAL 6 Prepare a draft Diversity Plan for implementation.

GOAL 7 Complete the administrative team and improve staff communications.

GOAL 8 Expand the resources of the school.

ARCH studios

www.design.upenn.edu/ architecture

ARCH 701-204. Studio Skytropolis Matthias Hollwich

Matthias Hollwich, PennDesign, ARCH 701 Studio: Skytropolis 1/16

Skytropolis

SK Y T RO PO LIS

Matthias Hollwich, PennDesign, ARCH 701 Studio: Skytropolis 2/16

San Paulo

g eneR IC

Matthias Hollwich, PennDesign, ARCH 701 Studio: Skytropolis 4/16

Journal Square

CO n T e x T

Matthias Hollwich, PennDesign, ARCH 701 Studio: Skytropolis 5/16

Journal Square

S I T eS

ARCH 701-201. Ali Rahim

Nested Urban Formations “Dream Hub”, Yongsan, Seoul, Korea

ARCH 701-202. Enrique Norten & Irina Verona

ARCH 701-203. Design Studio IV / Fall 2011Aggregated Figuration: The hotel as a Model of Urbanization Peter Trummer

Immeubles-Villas by Le Corbusier, 1925

Aggregated Figuration / Peter Trummer / Arch 701-203 Design Studio IV

Unité d’Habitation in Marseille by Le Corbusier, 1950

Aggregated Figuration / Peter Trummer / Arch 701-203 Design Studio IV

Plug-in City, by Peter Cook (Archigram), 1964

Aggregated Figuration / Peter Trummer / Arch 701-203 Design Studio IV

Hotel Sphinx in New York, by Elia Zenghelis (OMA), 1975,

Aggregated Figuration / Peter Trummer / Arch 701-203 Design Studio IV

Atlanta Marriott Marquis Hotel by John Portman, 1985,

Aggregated Figuration / Peter Trummer / Arch 701-203 Design Studio IV

Atlanta Marriott Marquis Hotel by John Portman, 1985, Photo, by Jaime Ardiles-Arce

Aggregated Figuration / Peter Trummer / Arch 701-203 Design Studio IV

The Hotel as a model of urbanization, Design Studio by Peter Trummer 2011, Models by Philipp Steger & Andreas Daberto

Aggregated Figuration / Peter Trummer / Arch 701-203 Design Studio IV

Aggregated Figuration / Peter Trummer / Arch 701-203 Design Studio IV

ARCH 703. Winka Dubbeldam

PP@PDPOST PROFESSIONAL PROGRAM PENN DESIGN // M-ARCH 2

WINKA DUBBELDAM, FERDA KOLATAN, ROLAND SNOOKS

2010-2011

From the Mechanical to the Organic

It is in Florida that we find three related future city models; the Venus project with Jacques Fresco, the Epcot design by Walt Disney andCelebration by the Walt Disney Company, a community based on the Epcot design.

// FALL 2010

SUPRA STUDIO // FALL 2011

Exploring New Architecture Prototypes for High Risk Coastal Regions in the USA

“We (and by this I mean scientists first) are beginning to see that those organizationsonce called metaphorically alive are truly alive, but animated by a life of a larger scopeand wider definition. I call this greater life "hyperlife." Hyperlife is a particular type ofvivisystem endowed with integrity, robustness, and cohesiveness -- a strong vivisystemrather than a lax one. A rain forest and a periwinkle, an electronic network and aservomechanism, SimCity and New York City, all possess degrees of hyperlife”

Kevin Kelly

THREE CITIES ARE EXAMINED:

THE STUDIO JOINS THOM MAYNE’S “SUPRA STUDIO”Culture Now investigates the contemporary American condition to shift perspectives in struggling U.S. cities.

For this year’s PPD studio we join the Supra Studio and study these three Coastal cities to investigatehow intelligent data collection and re-use of materials can create a more responsive/responsible environment.

Robotic collection systems, automated collection of trash and/or pollution [oil] as well as the recycling ofthose materials are to be carefully examined for their potentials in designing [con]temporary and adaptableunits for sustainable coastal regions. These units will challenge conventional ideas of recycling and re-use

of materials within an architectural context and expand the research into new modes/models of design, whichform a deeper ecology between technology and nature, production and consumption, parts and material. Inorder to achieve this, three design aspects will be particularly highlighted: Complex organizations, material

behavior, and component intelligence

COMPOSITE MATERIALS AND BEHAVIORAL LOGIC

LARP studios

www.design.upenn.edu/ landscape-architecture

LARP 701. Marina da Gloria, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil James Corner and Richard Kennedy

LARP 701. Studio V Limotrophe Drylands: Drylands Design Competition, Arizona Ellen Neises

LIMITROPHE  DRYLANDS  Drylands Design Competition is sponsored by the California Architectural Foundation and the Arid Lands Institute. Proposals will be evaluated on the basis of how well they respond to scarcity and volatility of water supply, reduce energy consumption, promote social equity, and project a new future for the West.  Project type and site are open.Jurors are Teddy Cruz, Shannon Nichol, Enrique Norten, Michael Rotondi, Greg Otto, Tom Anglewicz, Mary Griffin.

approach:

The studio will develop a territorial framework plan and physical designs for selected sites and prototype elements that engage water bodies and infrastructure, and enrich the context conditioned by them. 

MAPPING, MODELLING, FIELD WORK AND ANALYSIS

• map and model a rich data set, including geomorphology, depth to water table, soil salinity, magnitude of flood events, inundation frequency, vegetation types

• interpret findings with guidance from experts • explore sites with local guides and master the science of key processes• interview people who can help identify the issues of the territory

TERRITORIAL FRAMEWORK PLAN, INTERVENTION SITES AND CONCEPT

• build a set of arguments that responds creatively to the context and stakes out a compelling program

• create a coherent large‐scale framework plan

SCHEMATIC DESIGN AND BOARD DEVELOPMENT >> SUBMISSION 12 / 15

• develop physical design for selected sites, prototypical elements and processes• refine clarity and immediacy of visualization on competition boards 

LARP 760. Topics in Ecological Design: Designated Ecologies Ellen Neises

“Nature contains the history of the evolution of matter, life, and man. It is the arena of past, present, and future. It exhibits the laws that obtain. It contains every quest that man can pursue. It tells every important story that man would know. Therein lie its richness, mystery, and charm.” —Ian McHarg

designed ecologies seminar conceptual, artistic and technical dimensions of ecology as a source of invention in design

topics:

CREATIVITY OF NATURAL PROCESS evolved intelligence of organization; change agents at the organism, species and community levels

ECOLOGIES OF INVASION AND SUCCESSIONdynamics of community transformation; points of leverage on ecosystem trajectory amenable to design 

ECOLOGY OF EQUILIBRIUM theories of punctuated equilibrium, emergence, and tipping points as they bear on a philosophy of practice 

ECOLOGY OF DESERTIFICATIONscience of soft responses to aquifer depletion and loss of native systems

ECOLOGY OF INUNDATIONsea level rise and storm surge; reconceptualizing waterfront as episodic, biodiverse water interfaces, lenses, bodies

ECOLOGIES OF LARGE-SCALE, MULTI-SYSTEM TRANSFORMATIONeconomics, natural  systems, technology, sociobiology, long time horizons and clever systemic catalysts 

case study projects:

Fresh Kills Lifescape Staten Island, New York, US (Field Operations, 2001‐)Bos Park Amsterdam, Netherlands (Cornelis van Eesteren /Jacoba Mulder, 1934‐1964)The Spit Toronto, Canada (Toronto Harbour Commission engineers, 1950‐)Oostvaardersplassen Flevoland, Netherlands (National Forest Service, 1968‐)Yuma East Wetland Lower Colorado River, Arizona, US (Fred Phillips Consulting, 1999‐) Gaviotas Llanos Lowlands, Colombia (Paolo Lugari, 1971‐)OysterTecture Brooklyn, New York, US (SCAPE Studio, 2010)Euromediterranee Marseille, France (Agence Ter, 2008‐)Rhine Meuse Scheldt Quays Antwerp, Belgium (PROAP, 2009‐)Guanacaste Conservation Area Guanacaste, Costa Rica (Daniel Janzen, 1989‐) Hafencity Public Space Hamburg, Germany (EMBT, 2002‐2010)Deichpark Elbinsel Elbe Island, Hamburg, Germany (OSP / Studio Urbane Landschaften, 2011‐) Internationale Bauausstellung IBA Hamburg Germany (2007‐2013)

guest lectures:

SOIL: ROBERT PINE Soil Engineer, Pine and Swallow Environmental

WATER: FRANCO MONTALTO Professor of Civil Engineering, Drexel University

PLANTS: MATT URBANSKI Principal, Michael Van Valkenburgh and Associates

PROCESS: CHRIS REED Principal, STOSS Landscape Urbanism

LARP 701. Valerio Morabito

LARP 701. Jerry Van Eyck

LARP 760. Topics in Ecological Design: Contemporary Issues in Sustainability, London 2012 Olympic Park & Other European Examples John Hopkins

HSPV studios

www.design.upenn.edu/ historic-preservation

HSPV 701. Preservation Studio Mason/Wang/Barucco HSPV 701. American Architecture Wunsch HSPV 741. Seminar: Future of Heritage Randall Mason

Thaddeus Stevens School

Plays & Players Theater

Germantown Town Hall

Penn’s Rotunda (First Church of Christ Scientist)

Greenwich, Cumberland County, NJ

CPLN studios

www.design.upenn.edu/ city-regional-planning

CPLN 530. Land Use Planning Tom Daniels

What is good about this design?

Scenario vs. Trend

CPLN 651. International Infrastructure Planning & Finance David Hsu

CPLN 760 Public Realm Studio Evan Rose

FNAR studios

www.design.upenn.edu/ fine-arts

FNAR Sculpture Practices Terry Adkins

FNAR Graduate Photo Seminar Nancy Davenport

FNAR Graduate Video Seminar Joshua Mosley

Party.