Alicechoi2016

Alice Choi

Truth and Architecture Graduate Portfolio from Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne 2013-2015

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MSD Design Studio Project Adaminaby : Studio C Body Language Dialectic Monument : Architecture as Memory - Monumentality and

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Acceleration Becoming Hut ,Truth and architecture - Independent Thesis Project

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LIFE ARCHITECTURE Enter BORN START

EXIT DEATH END

JOURNEY

MY WORLD BODY

ANGER

SIGHT

SMELL

LOVE

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AFFRONT DESIRE

SOUND

I

YOU

FROZEN MOON PAIN

SADNESS

TASTE

HAPPINESS

I

I :HAVE

TOUCH HATE

PROOF OF MY EXISTENCE BODY SMELL AFFRONT

PAIN

SIGHT

DESIRE

SADNESS

SMELL

I

SOUND ANGER

SADNESS

PAIN

HAPPINESS

TASTE

HAPPINESS

SIGHT

HATE

HATE

BODY

TOUCH

LOVE

HATE BODY

PAIN

SADNESS

TOUCH

SOUND

TASTE

LOVE

AFFRONT DESIRE

SOUND

YOU TASTE

I

DESIRE

ANGER

PAIN

SMELL

SMELL HAPPINESS

TASTE BODY

SIGHT

LOVE

AFFRONT

TOUCH

PAIN

AFFRONT SOUND

ANGER

SIGHT

ANGER

TOUCH

HAPPINESS

YOU

INEVITABLE ELEMENT IN LIFE 1.TIME : DEATH > FOSSIL > STRATUM 2.GRAVITY : EARTH,

OCEAN

3.SUN AND MOON : DAY, NIGHT

TIME

GRAVITY

SUN

Project Adaminaby

EXERCISES

TSCHUMI - “Parc De La Vilette” LAYERS

Outdoor Theatre Draw : Body without Organs

1 METAPHYSICS

Old Adaminaby, NSW, Australia.

MOVING FOREST = MACBETH

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“i hurt myself today to see if i still feel” “The only thing is real”

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Points

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Surface

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BEING AND TIME

INEVITABLE ELEMENT OF LIFE = TRAGEDY

PHENOMENOLOGY

AFFRONT

TASTE BODY

SOUND

TOO MUCH STIMULUS

DESIRE

ANGER

LOVE

SIGHT SOLARIS

ISSUE

INEVITABLE CHOICE E TO KEEP REMOVE LOVE

THEATRE

LIFE PAIN > JOY

SMELL

INEVITABLE ELEMENT

SMELL

PAIN

AFFRONT DESIRE

AM I REAL?

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SOUND ANGER

SADNESS

PAIN

HAPPINESS

SIGHT

HATE

BODY BECUASE OF BODY

TASTE

SADNESS

TOUCH

I AM REAL BECAUSE I FEEL MY BODY

HATE

BODY LOVE

TOUCH

HAPPINESS FOSSIL

WORLD SUNKEN CITIES

ATLANTIS Atlantis (Ancient Greek:"island of Atlas") is a fictional island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written in c. 360 BC. In Plato's story, Atlantis represents the antagonist naval power that, despite ruling most of the known world,suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of “Ancient Athens”, the pseudo-historic embodiment of Plato's ideal state (see The Republic).

The tale, one of many such stories in Plato's work, serves as an allegory for a nation's fate due to hubris.

Despite its minor importance in Plato's work, the Atlantis story has had a considerable impact on literature.

The allegorical aspect of Atlantis was taken up in utopian works of several Renaissance writers, such as Bacon's New Atlantis and More's Utopia.

On the other hand, 19th-century amateur scholars misinterpreted Plato's account as historical tradition, most notably in Donnelly's Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882). Plato's vague indications of the time of the events—more than 9,000 years before his day—and the supposed location of Atlantis— "beyond the Pillars of Hercules"—has led to much pseudoscientific speculation (see location hypotheses of Atlantis).

As a consequence, Atlantis has become a byword for any and all supposed advanced prehistoric lost civilizations and continues to inspire today's light fiction, from comic books to films.

While present-day philologists and historians unanimously accept the story's fictional character,there is still debate on its origins.

Similarly to the story of Gyges, some scholars argue in favor of inspiration from older traditions, in particular Egyptian records of the Thera eruption, the Sea Peoples invasion, or the Trojan War. Others reject this chain of tradition as implausible and insist that Plato designed the story from scratch, drawing loose inspiration from contemporary events like the failed Athenian invasion of Sicily in 415–413 BC, or the destruction of Helike in 373 BC.

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> Movement : BEGINNING

RESCHENSEE

THRACIAN CITY IN BULGARIA

> Event : WHERE TWO MOVEMENT MEET

Project Adaminaby explores meaning of existence in architecture through understanding the relationship between human desire, body and organs. This relationship was further examined through social tragedy,

> Space : EVENT AND MOVEMENT CREATE SPACE

displacement and meaning of architecture and place in social conflict.

‘Body is a tool to understand other than me….. “i hurt myself today to see if i still feel” “The only thing is real”

At the surface of our body acts as the point of exchange

Bicycle drawing BY WEIGHT

between self and world.’2 If we, humans understand the world through our body, then we could create the world through our perception, which is only a subjective experience. Whether it is real or not real, it is totally up to your decision. However It is hard not to believe if a person stand in front of you and makes noise as well as touching you. But if all these elements are satisfied, do they become real and reality? For example, in virtual world, all of these are possible. But they and you become alive in different places. or may not even be alive.

Then how do you know they are not real?

In movie Solaris(1972) by Andrei Tarkovsky, the main character, the psychologist strongly denies

the reality where he is currently in and believes he needs to go back to Earth where his reality exist. But after 5

Drow Out : Concept Diagram I

all, when he returned to Earth(reality), he is actually in Solaris, the unreal world he tried to escape from.

After killing his loving wife three times to reach his true reality. Because she committed suicide in his past memory, the real world. But How could he have known this? How could he have been avoid the reality by distinguish real and unreal when they both feel real when our memory and perception tells us that they are both real? In Solaris, It becomes tragedy.

Aristotle discussed the reason of why we are fascinated by story of death, murder, and accidents

like tragedy such as King Lear and King Oedipus? Is it because we are evil? No. He argued that it is not because we are cruel or brutal or born to be murderer, instead through this tragedy we experience humanity, sympathy, sorrow, ashamed, and all the emotions that we go through our real life, and these deliver catharsis that nothing can produce. In tragedy, there are extreme situations human can stand, the choices we have to make, to avoid but cannot avoid, the inevitable decisions and results. And that explains why tragic stories are covering news head lines everyday, either it is caused by natural disaster like tsunami or mass killing terrible accident like airplane crash or parents killing their children. Tragedy makes human feel human by facing the core of life by projecting the end/exit of life, the death. And we are still driven into tragedy like in 384 BCD, because we are human. “A lot of us never wanted to go, my father tried to chase them down the street with a gun, but they said it was for the good of the nation and we had no choice in the matter.�3

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Concept of Draw Out Architecture without corners : the theatre Draw has the form of old town map, which is buried under the water in 1951. It is metaphorically draw out from the original location to the shore which is safe from the water level. But left their corners at the original location to be a constant reminder of their sacrifice and prove that how architecture without place cannot be exist.

In 1957, small town in snowy mountain called Adaminaby was covered by man made lake Eucumbene for NSW Hydro Electric Scheme. Originally the dam waters were to rise to just below the town and only some of the buildings were to be removed and relocated to higher ground. But the new dam meant that the Eucumbene valley, the Adaminaby Plain and most of the town of Adaminaby would be flooded, a total area of about 24,500 hectares, resulting in the loss of homes, businesses and properties. Valuable grazing land, which produced fat cattle, fat lambs and high priced wool, was to be submerged.

Once was a major town, become deserted place under water not by nature but by humans

as well as new displaced township. Although their buildings and houses were moved to new place stone by stone for 6 days, the town Adaminaby was ended there. With same houses and public buildings and churches, the town is not same as before. Because their place of desire is gone now. It is sunken under the water. Their desire for life, be happy and their dreams were buried underneath Lake Eucumbene.

People who want to keep their desire left to find new location which has future they want. And only who gave up their desire, stayed and displaced in New Adaminaby. The Place was their desire not the architecture. Adaminaby was the biggest town in Snowy Mountains. The place was created by desire not by its architecture. However new Adaminaby site is not related to anything. It only has same architecture and people from original place. It was just piece of empty land in high ground and free from all the conflict of hot desire. The town dose not need to be there after all. It was not needed there not by travelers, nor by its own people.

When the place has a value, they need architecture. You can not make place only because 7

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you have architecture. And if you even displace the architecture from original place to somewhere, then it becomes body without consciousness. And it ask questions whether it is still exist and real? Because the great architectural ruin site was once the Makkah of the nation and centre of peoples desire. When the nation lost its power it became a grave yard of architecture.

Architecture belong to place.

Theatre Adaminaby placed the edge of original Adaminaby town. In-between original town and new developed site after Dam construction. Over looking Adaminaby, the lake. However it is not like new Adaminaby buildings which have been displaced into new site. It dose not looks like anything like old building in Adaminaby. Instead, it only has walls. Although, it draw out from the lake Eucumbene, unlike displaced building, the building lost its corners, its organs. It is no longer a building that people used to have in old town. However, it kept the place. It is still there and it left its organs in original place this continuous interaction between two creates thousands reflections. Like One moon becomes thousands on rivers.4

The place still contain a strong desire. Famous fishing spot now. Thats why government

developed the new site after the dam construction. And sold to people who is not related to the original place. They did not draw out the building and architecture, they draw out the people to take their desire.

And architecture was used as if it is a biggest compensation, which created a debt that people from Adaminaby never had before in their lives. Architecture become their blind spot, and their weakest point. In 8

Lake Eucumbene: Covering 24,500 Hectares 1. New Adaminaby : Relocated By The Government, 6 Miles Away From Old Town(Red Circle) 2. Site Of Theatre Draw

fact the place had all the desire.

This out door theatre, draw attention(desire) to the original town; the half sunken trees and

part of ruins creates constantly changing scenery by the water level. When one desire enters into, one will experience the emptiness and deserted feeling relate to feeling of lost of place and isolation from outside in open air. Like people whose lives have been displaced by government. And the various wall height and angles that created by its the contour, make strong connection to the context, the place. Therefore, it would not be possible to draw this theatre out and place somewhere else. It wont stand anywhere else.

When there are hundreds of desire to enjoy live performance, these walls perfectly contain the desires. Here Architecture become a bowl to have desire can be capture and hold(rise). Whether it is peaceful, sadness, memory, pain, joy or feeling of loss.

One cannot force to create desire. Even if the desire was made by outside force, it would not

last long and it would not be true desire. And also the desire here means not the commodity itself but the reasons and environment and situation that desire has rise. For example, if you want to have a beer, it means you might want to meet friends in the pub and talk about your days and maybe some food and specific place and atmosphere. And you might go out side of you house or work to drink, plus you will see lights on city, the smell or feel the sun or rain. You desire all these things not only just beer. And I believe architecture is to realize, listen and understand the desire.

Old Adaminaby was left like fossil under strata in Lake Eucumbene now. The town, once a real

space became a unreal space by loosing its social space of use5. They did not lose their form like fossil but 9

“THEY’RE DROWNING OUR VALLEY!”

Top:View of Lake Eucumbene in 2006-Showing half S Below:Architectural Ruins of Old Adaminaby Town-Fully Appeared From The Lake Eucumbene First Time Since The Town was Drow

From Top Left Corner:View of Old Adaminaby in 1930s/First Post Office on Old Adaminaby/Old Adaminaby PostCard\Church/View From Upper Hill\General Store/Ying’s Family Store/Primary School\Newpaper Articles About Reaction of Hydro Electric Scheme in 1951/Dam Construction Site/Old Church which Has Been Relocated in New Adaminaby/Six Mile Bridge Between New and Old Adaminaby/Old Machineary/Water Tunner/House Moving to New Site1/2

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the corporeality is not there anymore. The memory only exist people who once lived there and when they disappear from this world, it will be drown too like the town.

‘Earth... ... is a body without organs. This body without organs is permeated by unformed, unstable matters, by flows in all directions, by free intensities or nomadic singularities, by mad or transitory particles’6 Theatre Draw is an architecture of Body without Organs7. But it is a healthy body with full of desire. Deleuze and Guattari said every actual body has a limited set of traits, habits, movements, affects, but every actual body also has a virtual dimension: a vast reservoir of potential traits, connections, affects, movements. This collection of potentials is what Deleuze calls the Body without Organs. To “make oneself a body without organs,” then, is to actively experiment with oneself to draw out and activate these virtual potentials. These potentials are mostly activated (or “actualized”) through conjunctions with other bodies that Deleuze calls “becomings.”8 Theatre Draw is to actively experiment with oneself to draw out from the other and activate a vast reservoir of potential traits, connections, affects, movements of the site(original Adaminaby) through conjunctions with audience who came to see the performance, who has their own desire. Original Adaminaby is “becomings”. It has been existed and is still existing and continue to exist. It became silent scream at the lake Eucumbene. And the echo will live for long time by architecture.

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Top Left Corner: View Of Old Adaminaby In 1930S | First Post Office On Old Adaminaby | General Store | Ying’s Family Store | Primary School | Newspaper Articles About Reaction Of Hydro Electric Scheme In 1951 | Dam Construction Site | Relocated Old Church | Six Mile Bridge Between New And Old Adaminaby | Old Machinery | Water Tunnel | House Moving To New Site |

Main Left :Old Adaminaby Postcard :View From Upper Hill | Right : Architectural Ruins Of Old Adaminaby Town-Fully Appeared From The Lake Eucumbene First Time Since The Town Was Drown Due To Drought At 2007.

LEft Map Of The Town Of Adaminaby And Suburban Lands [Cartographic Material] : Parish Of Seymour, Country Of Wallace, Land District Of Cooma, Dalgety Shire N.s.w.,1921 / Copied, Drawn And Printed At The Department Of Lands. Scale : Scale Of Suburban Lands 1:6,336. Publisher : Sydney : Dept, Of Lands. From : National Library Of Australia.

Right : Form Development of The Theatre, Ink on Tracing Paper

Sunken Tree due to Drought. wn Due To Drought At 2007.

Footnote 1.

Deleuze & Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus. Trans. Brian Massumi. London and New York: Continuum, p40, 1983

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, trans. Colin Smith, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962

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interviews from locals experience of lost town from http://www.news.com.au/travel/australian-holidays/drought-uncovers-drownedtown/story

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King Sejong, 월인천강지곡(月印千江之曲)[Walin-chungang-gigok] 1447, Korea : Poem by One of Korean King. The title means One moon creates(carves) thousands moons on rivers

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“places, as real social spaces, provide the possibility for the actual statement of relations of difference” David Summers, Real Spaces: World Art History and the Rise of Western modernism, London: Phaidon Books, 2003

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Deleuze & Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus. Trans. Brian Massumi. London and New York: Continuum, p40, 1983

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Deleuze & Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus. Trans. Brian Massumi. London and New York: Continuum, p40, 1983 p.42 Same As Above

Biography Deleuze, Gilles, Félix Guattari, and Gilles Deleuze. Anti-Oedipus : capitalism and schizophrenia / by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari ; translated from the French by Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, and Helen R. Lane ; preface by Michel Foucault. n.p.: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1983., 1983.

Deleuze, Gilles, Brian Massumi, and Félix Guattari. A thousand plateaus : capitalism and schizophrenia / Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari ; translation and foreword by Brian Massumi. n.p.: London : Continuum, 2008., Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, and Donald A. Landes. Phenomenology of perception / Maurice Merleau-Ponty ; translated by Donald A. Landes. n.p.: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012., 2012.

Summers, David. Real spaces : world art history and the rise of Western modernism / David Summers. n.p.: London : Phaidon, c2003., King Sejong, 월인천강지곡(月印千江之曲)[Walin-chungang-gigok], Korea : Poem by One of Korean King in Joseon Dynasty, 1447.

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1. The Wall Theatre At Higher Ground: Landscaped Lawn 2. Granite Pavement Connection Theatre Wall and Coner 3. The Coner Theatre At Lower Ground:WIll be Occupied When The Water Level Gose Below 4. Ends of Existing Town Road : Main Access Point 5. Untreated Outback Sand Ground 6. Lake Eucumbene Maximum Water Level

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p.12 Site Plan 1:500 @A2 Perspective. Hand Drawing On Tracing Paper, Ink And Charcoal p.13 Left : View Looking Up Theatre Draw I and Corners, View From Old Adaminaby Town, Hand Drawn On Tracing Paper, Ink. Right : East Elevation 1:500 @A3, Looking down to the lake and theatre draw Hand drawing on tracing paper, ink.

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South Elevation

Dialectic Monument Parkville Campus Student Precinct Relocation Project University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

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1. Art Gallery 2. Main Student Centre 3. Centre Court 4. Ramp Garden 5. Rowden White Library 6. Foods And Retails 7. Theatre Space 8. GSA 9. UMSU 10. North Court)South) 11. Book Shop / University Services(Upper Levels)

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What is Monument?

Why Monumentality?

Student Precinct Relocation Project University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

What is History?

What has been forgotten or disconnected in History?

How can we design Dialectic Monument to

The Dialectic Monument is for the future, not for

recover forgotten history,

the past. It brings forgotten histories and lost

To reconnect lost history for true Future?

connections back to life. Its purpose is for the future of us all. A future which is based on the true

The first part of the design involves the new

past and not on selective histories manipulated by

contour shaped structure. It cuts through the

a privileged few. Understanding our past is vital

existing heritage listed 1888 Building which results

to our identity and ideas. By recovering the lost

in an elevated section of the building. This is a

contours, it adapts forgotten people’s spirit, culture

record of the past, when the building was built

and history into design methodology, the site is

and when it ‘cut’ through the land and ignored

ready to move forward. It is ready to move forward

the original owners and their culture. It has been

to build our true future for us all.

reinterpreted in a dialectic way and recorded to

The project developed by following questions and

make history.

keywords.

The second part of the design involves the adding 16

PRIVATE GRADUATE STUDY SPACE gsa REPRESENTATIONS

UMSU STUDENT REPRESENTATION CLUBS AND SOCIETIES VOLUNTEERING MEETING ROOMS

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STUDENT INFORMATION CENTRE

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HEALTH SERVICES ADVOCACY AND LEGAL UNIVERSITY SERVICES

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FOOD & COMMERCIAL

ART & ENTERTAINMENT

OFFICES AND MEETING ROOMS

UMSU

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ROWDEN WHITE LIBRARY

Student Service Program Diagram

FOOD

LIFT

FOOD

RECEPTION

FOOD

CO-OP BOOKSHOP LIFT

FOOD

RECEPTION

CO-OP BOOKSHOP

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of a new main entrance to the Campus from

1888 Building and 757 Swanston to provide better

Swanston street by removing the John Smyth

access. This place makes people understand the

Building and replacing it with a circular outdoor

site and question the history of the University of

ramp. It is both an entrance as well as a change to

Melbourne and Australia.

rejuvenate and enjoy the contours of the site.

The Dialectic Monument is designed to

This Quiet Gate between 757 Swanston and

accommodate the University’s future demands and

Sidney Myer Asia Centre is a humble gesture

understanding our past and present. Finally these

of acknowledging the Aboriginal people who

intense dialectic histories will become a future

lived before there was a University of Melbourne.

monument for all.

Understanding how they represented their culture and life through symbolism and art instead of architecture, this project will make our future become more dialectic and intensive. This intensity becomes the monument.

The final part of the design is a response to the Student Unions’ demands. The 757 Swanston building is renovated to facilitate many of the students services and to create a new ground plane (rooftop) in the precinct. It connects the elevated 17

HOW HUMAN HISTORY PROGRESS?

Dialectic Future Formular

Relationship Between Past And Present : History Progression Diagram Based On Hegel’s Philosophy Of History.

Relationthip between Past and Present : History Progression Diagram based on Hegel’s Philiosophy of History.

Past

Present

Past

Present

Past

Present

Past

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Diagram of Dialectic Future

Dialectic Future Formular

Present

Future

Future

Future

Future

Left : Grattan Street Main Entrance Above : Bridge Between 1888 And 757 Building Swasntreet Entrance

Recovering contours of the

site to create dialectic future based on lost past by borrowing a methodology from Australian Indigenous people.

Map Of Parkvill Campus | Contour Map Campus | Contour Of The Site | Concept Model, Black Clay 1:100

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Australian Aboriginal Painting

Map of the landscape depicted in the drawing

Possum Track

Water Holes Old Mick Tjakamara, Children’s Water Dreaming With Possum Story, 1973. 45 X 58 Cm Custodian: Old Mick As Custodian For His Father, Old Dan Bugger Tjaparula By Permission Of Mr Geoff Bardon

Tracks Of Boy Looking For Bush Tucker

Running Water Bush Tucker

Trees Where Possum Looks Tuckers

Creek All This Is Bush Tuckers

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Model @ 1:20 : Box Board 3Mm, Mdf 3Mm, White And Black Card Top: View Towards Main Entrance Below : Birdseye View

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East Elevation

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Composition 46 =96

Composition 47

Andante Moderator =108

Andantino Moderator

R = 48

R = 54 R = 48

R = 60 Composition Donna Buanng Allegro

R = 54

R = 60

60 BPM Larghetto – rather broadly (60–66 BPM) 96 BPM Andantino Moderato– between andante and moderato (thus the name andante moderato) (92–112 BPM) 108 BPM Moderato – moderately (108–120 BPM) 120 BPM Allegro – fast, quickly, and bright (120–168 BPM) (molto allegro is slightly faster than allegro, but always in its range)

60 BPM Larghetto – rather broadly (60–66 BPM) 96 BPM Andantino Moderato– between andante and moderato (thus the name andante moderato) (92–112 BPM) 108 BPM Moderato – moderately (108–120 BPM) 120 BPM Allegro – fast, quickly, and bright (120–168 BPM) (molto allegro is slightly faster than allegro, but always in its range)

Becoming Hut A Holiday House

Designed For Glen Gould (pianist, 1932-82) In Mount Donna Buang, Vic, Australia

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Diagram : How Dose Three Spaces Defined By Its Tempo And Chords Of Composition (Sound Sketch), Which Are Composed Based On The Sound Recordings Of The Site

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Independent Thesis Project 2015, MSD Supervisor : Associate Prof. Greg Missingham University of Melbourne

Lao Tsu

Heidegger

Deleuze & Guitarri

TRUTH

TRUTH

TRUTH

道

Being

Thousands Plateaus

Exist

Dwelling

Body without Organ

Emptying

Da-Sein

Becoming

Becoming Truth : Towards One Truth Diagram

Thinkers

Books

Concept

Routes

Structure

Lao Tsu

Tao Te Ching

Emptying

Utility

Text

Heidegger

Being and Time

Da-sein

Place

Image

Deleuze and Guattari

A Thousand Plateaus

Becoming

Becoming Music

Music

Becoming Hut : Philosophy Concept Diagram

Becoming Hut : research on Truth and Architecture by comparing 1. Heidegger’s Hut, 2. Tao by Lao Tsu 3. A Thousands Plateaus by Deleuze and Guattari.

Introduction This book contains images and writings created

answers to questions of how we do architecture?

during independent thesis project truth in MSD,

and why?, before thinking of what we design in

semester two by Alice Y. Choi in 2015 under the

architecture. As truth is an idea which could be

supervision of Ass/professor Gregory Missingham

too far or too small, it is often treated as mythical

at University of Melbourne. The theme of this

or not related to our everyday life at all. But that is

book is truth and architecture. We can find truth in

the reason why it is worth to interrogate. Because

various ways. But here the truth which she is trying

It is obscure, and hard to find, and impossible to

to understand is truth of ‘the ten thousands things’

prove. Headgear writes on his book ‘Being and

in the world. And they are the questions, which we

Time’, that because it is hard to find, it is the most

all should ask prior to asking any other subjects.

valuable study in human. And we have to question

These include, but not limited to meaning of

it to find out what it is, because it is obscure. If

existence, being, time, consciousness, life, human,

we already know what it is, then what is the point

most of all, architecture. This is a research of finding

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to find out? Although it is a universal concept,

Becoming Hut ARCHITECTURE

Sound Sketch of the site

Recording 46

Scores of Compositions

composition 46

=120

Recording 47

Recording Donna

composition 47

Composite Donna

MSD2015 Alice Choi Becoming Hut

Sound recordings from the site which used to create sound sketches

Thesis Book : Composed By Sections Of Philosophy, Arts, And Architecture

it is hard to define. I realised that I was trying to

will continue outside of the school environment and

continuously define the words truth. Like how we

while I becoming an architect. So that I can always

define a desk. Because the methods of definition is

be the state of becoming as well as my architecture.

used commonly to explain a thing. However, when

All the things I have read, listen to, seen, watched,

one methods is not working or dose not provide

heard, and thought are becoming a hut. I wish to

the answer, we should try another approach to

records the paths of when a thing become itself

it. Instead of defining truth I have interrogated

in order to keep becoming. The mountains never

things which are suspicious of having truth. Then

stop being a mountain. As soon as it stops being

categorised them into three subjects, which are art,

a mountain it is not a mountain but just dusts.

philosophy and architecture. And made all those

And the rivers never stop being a river. If it stops

suspicious elements become a hut. This process is

becoming river, for example, by losing all the water

becoming hut. Because it is design to becoming

it holds, we won’t call it as a river but something

instead of became. It is not the final static object

else. It seems obvious in nature. However, in human

but process of becoming. Like truth. And this is

life it is not always easy to spot the one which is

architecture I am thinking of.

trying to be something else. And the truth is there

Conclusion

where the paths are. Creating the paths and never

This book may categorised into three subjects; art,

stop being making that paths. Like this hut which is

philosophy and architecture. However, they are all

continuously trying to become a hut. And hope, it

becoming one thing, hut(truth). And this process

could contribute to the body of knowledge too.

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How To Translate Philosophical Concepts Into Architecture?

Becoming Hut PHILOSOPHY

Heidegger’s DA-SEIN

Da-sein(Being there)

MSD2015 Alice Choi Becoming Hut

Da-Sein

Being

Above : Da-Sein Sketches, Becoming Music Sketches Both Pen, Charcoal On Sketch Paper Right : Diagram For Imaged Bridge And The Relationship Of Place And Dwelling.

Relationship Diagram Between Understanding Being And Da-Sein

道

Select For The Bridge

“Spots Along The Stream That Can Be Occupied By Something.”

Place

Place

三十輻共一穀

當其無有車之用

Thirty spokes join in one hub

In its emptiness, there is the function of a wheel

埏稙以爲器

當其無有器之用

Kneading clay to create a pot

In its emptiness, there is the function of a pot

鑿戶牖以爲室

當其無有室之用

Cut open doors and windows to create a room

In its emptiness, there is the function of a room

Therefore, that which exists is used to create benefit

That which is empty is used to create functionality

故有之以爲利

致虛極, 守靜篤. 萬物並作, 吾以觀復. 夫物芸芸, 各復歸其根. 歸根曰靜, 靜曰復命, 復命曰常. 知常曰明, 不知常, 妄作凶.

Lao Tsu’s Tao Te Ching, Chapter 11 & 16

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知常容, 容乃公, 公乃全, 全乃天, 天乃道, 道乃久, 沒身不殆.

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無之以爲用

Empty yourself of everything.

Let the mind rest at peace.

The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return.

They grow and flourish and then return to the source.

Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.

The way of nature is unchanging.

Knowing constancy is insight.

Not knowing constancy leads to disaster.

Knowing constancy, the mind is open.

With an open mind, you will be openhearted.

Being openhearted, you will act royally.

Being royal, you will attain the divine.

Being divine, you will be at one with the Tao. Being at one with the Tao is eternal.

And though the body dies, the Tao will never pass away.

Becoming Music Continuously Escape From... ...Musical Codes At A Given Moment.

From A Thousands Plateau by Deleuze And

A Block Of Expression

A Block

Guatarri’s

Am As System Of Musical Chords.

Transversal Turns Into A Line Of Abolition.

Am

Continuously Escape From... ...Musical Codes

This Block Of Becoming Rests On Transversal

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Am = As System Of Musical Chords.

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Composition

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Sketches and Concept Model Of Tunable Space And Becoming Music, Cardboard, AirDried Clay(Below)

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Above : Perspective Hand Drawing Ink on Tracing paper(Left), Early Atmosphere Sketch Charcoal on tracing paper Middle : Plan Development Pencil, Ink On Tracing Paper(Left) ,Earlier Version Of Hut In 3D Rhino Model.

Below : Earlier Plan Drawings In Autocad (Left), Form Development In Rhino 27

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Glenn Herbert Gould (1932-1982) and his piano. He was a Canadian pianist who became one of the best-known and most celebrated

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classical pianists of the Ratio of Working Space in Hut

20th century. He was particularly renowned

Glenn Herbert Gould(1932-1982) was a Canadian pianist who became one of the best-known and most celebrated classical pianists of the 20th century. He was particularly renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard Heidegger’s Desk Place for the Desk Glenn Gould’s music of Johann Sebastian Bach Steinway CD 318

Glenn Gould described his relationship with CD 318, MSD2015 his beloved Steinway piano, as “a romance on three legs”.

After discovering the piano in 1960, he performed and recorded with it almost exclusively. [Exhibition notes]

Place for the Piano

8959.8mm

3408.0mm 2740.00

5101.2mm

the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach

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3626.4mm

1106.0mm

as an interpreter of

1560.0

805.0mm

Specifications Dimensions Height (not on the webpage) Length 8’ 11-3/4” (274 cm) Width 61 1/4” (156 cm) Depth (not on the webpage) Net Weight 990 pounds (450 kg)

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Strings TREBLE: Twelve whole & one-half sizes from high-tensile Swedish steel.

BASS: Swedish steel core wire wound with pure copper.

Longest, agraffe to bridge: 79 1/4” (201 cm)

VARIOATION OF DOOR

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Ratio Study : Heidegger’s House And Desk Vs Glen Gould’s Piano Acoustic Variation Between Rooms With Circular Sliding Door Process

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Mount Donna Buang

ARCHITECTURE

Warburton VIC 3799 Marysville

Hillsville

Warburton

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Site Plan

1:500

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Above : Site Photograph By Fujix100t Site Sketches By Charcoal On Tracing Paper Above : Site Map Where Three Towns Are Meet 28 Process

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Heidegger’s Hut

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Heidegger’s Hut Model Made

By Mdf Laser Cut MSD2015 Alice Choi Becoming Hut

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CURVED SLIDING DOOR DETAIL

Sliding Door

Curved Cavity Wall

Head track : heavy duty extruded aluminium track rated carrying capacity up to 120kg

Hanger Hanger Plate

300mm

PLAN VIEW

Curved cavity wall

Timber Sliding Door

Continued timber cladded wall over sliding door

Bottom guide system fully concealed in the bottom edge of the door.

FFL Timber Sliding Door Timber Floor

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300mm

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Left : Details of Main sliding timber door connecting to each rooms and centre deck Model 1: 50 : Box Board and MDF 3mm (Left) | Concept Model : Hand Made Tasmanian Oak Right : MSD Independent Thesis Exhibition Nov, 2015 29

FLOOR PLAN

Above : Floor Plan Below : Perspectives, Section Left :East Elevation

PERSPECTIVE OF UPHILL WITH PIANO

SECTION B

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30 EAST ELEVATION

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Alice Choi Truth and Architecture Graduate Portfolio

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