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web network.
We established “steps” of file submission in the continuous process of the project
development enhanced by the digital tools, where 3d modeling and digital drawing
have the tendency to never come to a fixed form.
We made the steps official. So everybody, at given moments, needed to update
the project forum with new materials. To do that everybody was forced to make a
synthesis of what done until then, and to decide what to share with the rest of the
lab. This implies from the students side a critical analysis of their own work, and the
careful selection of the images that must communicate it publicly.
From the technical point of view the system used is very basic: we modified an
existing “php-nuke” module made to upload files. The student can choose if he wants
to send an image to be shown directly on the forum (the majority of them uses this
option), or rather to upload a file to be downloaded through a link. After the file
upload, the user gets an HTML code with the address of the file on the server. By
copying and pasting the code, the user can use the uploaded material on the forum.
The fact the publication is done through a text where the graphic material is identi-
fied by its code, allowed a lot of students to structure the publication as a “story”
(fig. 4).
I want to design a building with a nice working atmosphere inside. when you
look at the environmental psychology theory of Kaplan and Kaplan, you will see
that people like environments that are clear, but also mysterious and complex.
so I want to design a building that is clear from the outside and mysterious
from the inside.
<img src="archivi/easyup/upload/ElineJonkers_SCAN1A.jpg" alt=""
width="340" height="220">
I want to make the building interior more mysterious/complex to use different
floor levels, big stairs and hiding places.
<img src="archivi/easyup/upload/ElineJonkers_SCAN2A.jpg" alt=""
width="302" height="431">
I have tried two possibilities, one with one big block with different floor levels
inside this block. And one with different blocks in different shapes. which are
places on different levels.
My source of inspiration is the Villa VPRO in Hilversum (the Netherlands):
[img]http://archinet.uniroma3.it/lab2m/archivi/easyup/upload/ElineJonk-
ers_model1.JPG[/img]Fig. 4
The typical source code of a message in a student' forum. The images or the
files are included in the text as chunks of code (HTML or BBCode). Extract from
the Forum of student Eline Jonkers, lab2m 2007.We used the steps as sources for public discussions of the projects: in the discussion
every student was called to discuss the project in front a video-projection of his per-
sonal forum. The discussion was public, as it was in the past before the class' website,
and it was focused each time on the topic proposed for the step of file submission.