Dedale Term One Portfolio: Curio

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Project Three: Documentaion Cont' & Door Construct

Exterior Elevation Drawings A002 & A003. G. Rubin




Details: Laser cut pieces for Door Construct. G. Rubin

Project Three: Tangent

!achtung! Below is a video of music I like to hear in my head while I work in the cold, outside, on my box.

Project Three: Documenting the Work

Above is a template of how I document the drawing work on the Black Box.

I am making an archive of the drawings on the black box & in the black box by photographing entire elevations of each wall I draw on. I take a photo, then invert the image - turning white lines into black, black walls into white paper. The elevations, arranged one next to the other at the same scale becomes a construction drawing document. The series of elevations documented over time shows the progress of the work. It will be a record of the decisions made in drawing leading to making: a construction drawing set - an archive of the built work, a prescriptive language of how the phenomena is made apparent through drawing. The drawing as the language of the architect.

The language of the drawing, and the construction set as encyclopedia, compliments the tacit knowledge embedded in the built work. And vice verse.

I can also add to the drawings once they are arranged in the drawing set. I can bring into my studio measured information about the black box, and continue the process of drawing without being at the site. The drawing will give me a "whole view" of the project, an effect not apparent when I am standing outside the black box itself, dominated by it's one to one scale. I can reflect on the work, make adjustments at other scales otherwise not possible if I only carried on the work on site. Being able to transport the black box with me to different places will enable me to continue the project say, in the evening, when it is too dark to work outside. The drawing will help me organize the work schedule. Daylight hours are dedicated to actually making on site, while drawing, and building in the shop could take place at night, or when the weather is too difficult to manage.

Project Three: Getting out there

Whoa! thanks guys for all the help in trucking out this beast onto the lawn (what lawn---all I see is snow) in between the School of Architecture and CAST. The black box is now "at home".





foundation: shoveling snow and putting down cinder blocks




erection: view of Black Box through the trees. And, one of four elevations





video: black box on the move

Project Three: Finishing the Assembly

CC Assembly: (above) - view of interior space, with latter (scale). And below, several shots taken during the assembly.

Project Three: Layes of a sealed space

latex paint - black and red




Standard 4' X 8' sheets of OSB determine the limits of the space




Vapour Barrier and Foil and Heat Gun - making a continuous seal




Detail of Vapour Barrier heat seal from initial testing- some shrinkage!


The structure is a stud wall construction. Two layers (permeable and impermeable) make up the "original" building envelope: sheathing (interior and exterior finishes) and Vapour Barrier.
The latter layer seals the interior space from the forces of air and water existing in the exterior environment. And it establishes, alongside the perceived rigid and generic form of the wood enclosure, the parameters of equilibrium between interior and exterior space. So long as the Vapour barrier remains a sealed, no moisture can pass between the wall, and into both spaces.

To ensure that this is properly made, I have heat sealed the vapour barrier at the intersection of wall to wall, wall to floor and wall to roof connections. Rather than risk breaking the seal with nails traditionally used to fix the Vapour Barrier to the stud wall, I have welded the different plastic frames together.

I have also distinguished the two sides of sheathing. The exterior is painted black, and the interior faces painted deep red. Though both surfaces are the same material, I want to establish a clear difference between the homogeneous interior space's enclosure from the exteriors facade. Starting with the appearance of a solid, form from the outside, I will soon discover, after entering the space, that is is fact a composite envelope.