ARCH 3502 SP08 Pongratz

From TTU College of Architecture

Christian R Pongratz

Office: 705 C Email: Christian.Pongratz@ttu.edu Studio location: 702 Phone: 806-742-3169-226 Course time: M,W,F>1-16.20 P.M.

Course Information: ARCH 3502 design studio with focus building envelope Credits: 5 semester credit hours

Luxury manhattan Living

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LuxMANliv is the name of a Design Studio that will explore the potentials of the digital craft for the generation of dynamic organizational structures on the urban and architectural scale. The new relationship between man, natural and virtual environments is the basis of research for the conception of space.
To think the future is to speculate on the inevitable.
Private space, working space and public space will merge into innovative hybrids and investigate the definition of mixed programs for vertical structures. Implemented into a contemporary large, public urban setting in NYC, the project’ effects of luxury program mix, design culture and customized fabrication, play on the recent development concept of upscale residential designer brandhomes. An expanding group of buyers is looking for the unique product to satisfy their quest for luxury and differentiation.
One aspect of the studio is to continue exploring on brandspaces with new ideas and concepts now for vertical density.
The other major interest are innovative living-forms that are both, retreats and social condensers, as can be seen in current live-work developments in the Netherlands that offer common social programs and spaces. The studio takes further into consideration the historical, social and technical context of avant-garde housing experiments in the early 19th century in Berlin and will use these to influence proposals for the existing urban fabric of Manhattan - New York.

3 PHASES/ Provocations

The entire design process will be structured in several incremental phases as provocations to be refining the point of view for the project in the course of the semester

Provocation 1: The exterior - brand

-research on brandspaces
-Formwork & space generation

Provocation 2: The interior - intimacy

-research on projected living concepts
-Diagramming the living concept

Provocation 3: The critical

-innovations in the 20th century
-diagramming types
-dis - assembly of units
-surfaces & skins – the envelope

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