Art and Architecture Tour of the Boston Public Library
Cynthia Stewart
Wed Jan 9, 06-07:30pm, TBA
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event
THIS IS FULL as of 12/13/07.
Put on your walking shoes and take a tour of the Boston Public Library (BPL) in Copley Square, one of America's architectural treasures. Designed by McKim, Mead and White and completed in 1895, the magnificent Renaissance Revival building marries art with architecture. In addition to the mosaics, wall paintings, and murals, you will see features made of nearly 20 varieties of marble. View the murals by Pierre Puvis de Chauvannes, John Singer Sargent, and also see the work of Augustus St. Gaudens, Frederick MacMonnies, and Daniel Chester French among others. Meet inside the Dartmouth Street entrance of the Boston Public Library at Copley Square.
Web: http://www.bpl.org/central/index.html
Contact: Cynthia Stewart, 7-337, x3-4408, stewart@mit.edu
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Building Simulation Tools Workshops: Energy, HVAC, and Lighting
Sian A. Kleindienst
Wed Jan 9, Fri Jan 11, Mon Jan 14, Wed Jan 16, Fri Jan 18, 01-04:00pm, 3-401
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 21-Dec-2007
Limited to 20 participants.
Prereq: Please e-mail skleindi@mit.edu if interested. No calls or o
Students can sign up for workshops individually, although the first and second of the 5 are connected and will be one unit in sign-ups. Basiscally each one will be on a different piece of building simulation softward on the Building Technology side. The programs covered will be
1) Ecotect
2) Radiance and Daysim
3) Energy Plus
4) Equest
5) Contam and CoolVent.
Radiance and Daysim are covered mainly as exports from Ecotect. Basically, each will be a general 3-hour tutorial on the program intended to help someone get started using it, not finicky tidbits for advanced users.
Contact: Sian A. Kleindienst, 5-418, x3-1876, skleindi@mit.edu
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MIT's Public Art: A Fun Introduction
Rhett Nichols, SB, BSAD, '04
Tue Jan 15, 06-08:00pm, 6-120
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Come learn about MIT's great public art: the world famous sculptures, murals, and other works you see and walk past, under, or over, every day. Learn about their history, stories, the artists who made them, and related hacks. Also find out about art commissioned by the Percent-for-Art Program. NOTE: NOT a walking tour.
Contact: Rhett Nichols, krnichols@gmail.com
Cosponsor: Media Arts & Sciences
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Rhinoscripting Workshop
John Snavely, Matthew Trimble
Thu Jan 17, Fri Jan 18, Tue Jan 22, Wed Jan 23, Thu Jan 24, 10am-05:00pm, 9-250
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 01-Dec-2007
Limited to 20 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Experience in Rhinoseros preferred, but not required
Fee: for TBD; Based on use of RPL and zcorp printer
An introduction to Rhinoscripting. The topic of the workshop will be three-dimensional tesselation, exploring hedral and packing patterns as well as their structural, formal and programmatic implications. Since this IAP
course will follow a workshop format, the schedule will therefore be
structured as a short lecture period covering Rhinoscript basics
accompanied by group led research on the topic. This will be a
collaborative design charette.
This workshop is open source. All materials, images, and scripts will
be published on http://rhinoscripting.blogspot.com and available for
public download.
Contact: John Snavely, 7-337, x3-7387, snavely@mit.edu
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Velux Design Competition: Skylights to Bring Light and Air
Marilyn Andersen
Thu Jan 10, 10am-12:00pm, 2-143
Thu Jan 10, 02-04:00pm, 2-143
Mon Jan 14, 10am-12:00pm, 2-143
Mon Jan 14, 02-04:00pm, 2-143
Thu Jan 17, 10am-12:00pm, 2-143
Thu Jan 17, 02-04:00pm, 2-143
Thu Jan 24, 10am-12:00pm, 2-143
Thu Jan 24, 02-04:00pm, 2-143
Mon Jan 28, 10am-04:00pm, AVT (7-431)
Thu Jan 31, 12-02:00pm, AVT (7-431)
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 21-Dec-2007
Limited to 30 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Graduate and Undergraduate students - in teams of two.
Competition objectives: Sustainability in Design - Design an architecturally successful residential space that includes skylights and ensures as much autonomy from electric lighting as possible, ensures visual comfort based on a set of criteria, limits solar gains and ensures acceptable natural ventilation. Classes will include lectures about daylighting, ventilation and skylights, simulation tool demonstrations, hands-on sessions and desk critiques.
Projects will be presented as posters during the final review. First Prize: $2000; second prize: $800; Honorable Mention for Creativity: $200; Award Ceremony: Thursday, Jan. 31 - 12-2pm in AVT (7-431).
Contact: Kathleen Ross, 5-419, x3-1876, kross@mit.edu
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