EARTH
BOOK ADS EARTH S1, 2016. LEONG WENG SUM (AMELIA) 683650 HELEN CHEN (T17)
CONTENTS 1.0 THREE TECTONICS 1.1 Point/ Line/ Plane 1.2 Mass 1.3 Frame & Infill
2.0 HERRING ISLAND - SOMETHING LIKE A PAVILION 2.1 Site Analysis & Comceptacle 2.2 Concept & Sketch Design 2.3 Design Development 2.4 Final Design Drawings 2.5 Final Design Model
3.0 REFLECTION 4.0 BIBLIOGRAPHY
1.0 THREE TECTONICS 1.1 Point/ Line/ Plane 1.2 Mass 1.3 Frame & Infill
PRECEDENTS The Seed Catheral. Thomas Heatherwick. The UK Pavilion for Shanghai Expo 2010. This pavilion consist of 60,000 arcrylic rods inserted into the structure. Lines are repeatedly used and placed closely next to one another to give an appearance of a solid form.
Straight. Ai Wei Wei. 2008-2012 This monumental sculpture consist of 90 tonnes of steel reinforment rod taken from the Sichuan Earthquake 2008. All the rods are lined to form this uneven yet fluid surface.
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013. Sou Fujimoto. This structure is an architectural landscape made up of fine steel bar and glass panels. Lines and planes are stacked and connected non-uniformly to create a translucent terrain that merges the structure with the surrounding landscape.
Robson Square Steps & Ramps. Arthur Erikson. Vancouver, Canada. Lines are integrated with planes as series of steps and ramps to provided levelling.
POINT LINE
&PLANE
A place to lie down, sit up, stand up and walk (and back again).
PROGRESSION
& DIVERSIFICATION
When two points come together, a line is form. When three or more lines join together, a plane is form. Point, line and plane is about this gradual trasition in between (and back again), from point to line, and from line to plane.
These practices explore the diversification of how point, line and plane could evolve and progress in different ways. These exploration consist of series of steps and spaces that uses point, line and plane in different ways.
This process shows the progression from point, to line and to plane is obtained from this particular practice. Points are joined to form lines, lines are joined to form planes. Thus, more planes could be form simply by inseting lines into planes.
PRECEDENTS Church of Light. Tadao Ando. 1999. Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan. This church is built on the composition of mass and infill. There is s strong constrast between light and shadow, soild and void by allowing the infiltration of light to the space.
Bunker 599. RAAAF & Atelier Lyon. 2010. A2, The Netherlands. The contrast between the composition of solid and void is translated by this segmented concrete bunker, The opening up of this monolithic structure allows light to penetrate into the dark space, creating a gradual lit up effect.
Teshima Art Musuem. Ryue Nishizawa. Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. This structure is an open gallery space featuring a thick concrete shell with two elliptical openings. These openings allows natural light to illuminate the space, hence creating this contrast between the light and dark spaces.
Double Negative. Michael Hezier. 1969-70. Moapa Valley on Mormon Mesa, Overton, Nevada. This is a work of land art consist of two long trenches excavated into the earth, which represents the idea od geometric subtraction and negative space. The trenches is sunk into the landscape, allowing people to have different levelling experience.
MASS
Solid & Void; Darkness & Light: Touch & See.
GEOMETRIC PROTRUSION & DEFORMATION SENSIBILITY
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These practices explores how different geometric forms are use to translate different atmosphere and effect into the space. This is achieved by creating openings from protruding and deforming geometric forms to allow natural light to penetrate the space. The illumination of the space from natural light is used to manipulate one’s transition through a dark and negative spac.
PRECEDENTS House NA. Sou Fujimoto. 2011. Tokyo, Japan. This house is constructed with ainly white steel-fram and floor-to-ceiling window panels, created an effect of non-existence facade. This allows transparency and visual continuity by eliminating the distinction between interiror and exteriror, where the surrounding merged with the internal activity. There is also intereaction with maximum natural light that penetrates into the space.
Double Blind. Robert Irwin. 2013. Secession, Vienna. This is a site-conditioned installation consisting series of double blinds, a semi-transparent material used in the manipulation and engagement of light, illusion and space art.
Jussieu - Two Libraries. OMA. 1992. Competition. Paris, France. This design consist of a series of stacked floors wihtin a framing system. Sections of the floor are then twisted and folded to connect one floor with another,
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002. Toyo Ito. This pavilion consist of series of lines intersecting one another to form a frame consisting diffrerent shaped triangle or trapezoids. Different shaped translucent or solid planes are then placed into the frame as infills to create this semi-transparent structure.
&INF I L L
FR AME
View of the sky, View of the horizon, View of the ground.
RIGIDITY
& DYNAMISM
The frame is rigid, whereas the infill is dynamic. Within the fixed context of the frame, the infills is inserted into the frame to create different transitional and interactive space. Different planes are folded and twisted connecting different parts of the frame together. Whereas some planes are used to create and conceal views and also maneuver natural lighting to lead one’s trasition through the space.
HERRING ISLAND : SOMETHING LIKE A PAVILION
S ITE ANALYSI S
Natural aspect
SITE SELECTION:
Internal active space
Existing infrastructure
External noise
The site analysis explores explores the natural, social and physical aspect of the site. The selected site is located at the North-West of the island, where it is surrounded with vegetation and more secluded, a space to translate the idea of secret.
CONCEPTACLE “ INTERTWINE & TRANSITION �
Analogy: Intertwining Roots
This conceptacle explores the twisting pattern of the concept intertwine in the form of a transitional tunnel. When each cubic unit is twisted, openings at the edge allows light to penetrate from external into the structure. The use of lighting to manipulate the transition is translated here.
PRECEDENTS ENEL Pavilion, Piuarch. 2015. Expo Gate, Via Luca Beltrami. 20121 Milan, Italy. This pavilion aims to create a virtual volume: a place, generated by a gid onto which 650 polycarbonate vectors are grafted. This network of a grid is created with metallic elements carrying the distribution of electricity and the flow of data, conveys the idea of energy sharing.
EKKELESIA. pinktruder. 2015. Valencia, Spain. This is an installation made with cardboard tubes with metallic appearance. This contemporary image is place in a traditional context during the Fallas festival in Valencia held every year to provoke the debate between tradition and modernity.
ARC. BERNASKONI. 2012, Nikola Lenivets, Kaluga Oblast, Russia. This pavilion is a hybrid that performs several functions: a portal, a triumphal arch, an observation deck, a bar, and a well. It is an architectural and spatial reearch built on the border between forest and field.
World Peace Pavilion. Junya Ishigami + Associates. Nordhavnen, 2150 Copenhagen, Denmark. The pavilion is a floatin, cloud-like structure that seems almost hover over the harbor;’s horizon. The design consist sof an undulating plane that acts as both roof and walls for the structure.
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CONCEPT & SKETCH DESIGN A SECRET IS AN UNREVEALED PRESENCE
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The CONFUSION between something that is ABSENCE, in the same time PRESENCE.
INITIAL DESIGN The design process explores how the concept of intertwine in translated in the trasitional tunnels. These tunnels is a one-way route, which can not be accessed from outside. On the other hand, people within the tunnels do not have access to the external space. This maze-like layout is to intrigue the feeling of confusion throughout the structure. Since, there is a strong distinction between in internal and external. Confusion could be intrigued by curiosity.
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
A: A time capsule to be opened in 200 years time. B: a secret space, for children to identify.
B
A
FINAL DESIGN DRAWINGS A
C D
B
A: Internal storage B: External storage
C: Techinical room D: Toilets
FINAL DESIGN MODEL
REFLECTION This practice of the three tectonics in the frist 6 weeks, urged me to translate my design in a more abstractive way. The point line & plane, mass and frame & infill practice made me think of design based on their individual composition. After that, these three different composition are then combined together in my final design under one theme. By relating one to another, the space of underground, ground and above ground is connected together with the design.
BIBLIOGRAPHY ArchDaily. 2010. UK Pavilion for Shanghai World Expo 2010/ Heatherwick Studio, viewed 2 June 2016, from http://www.archdaily.com/58591/uk-pavilion-for-shanghai-world-expo-2010-heatherwick-studio Brown, M. 2015. ‘Ai Wei Wei RA show to house weighty remnants from Sichuan earthquake. Viewed 6 June 2016, from https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jun/15/ai-weiwei-ra-show-sichuan-earthquake-chinese-artist-steel-rods ArchDaily. 2013. Serpentine Pavilion/ Sou Fujimoto. Viewed 6 June 2016, from http://www.archdaily.com/384289/serpentine-pavilion-sou-fujimoto ArchDaily. 2011. Church of light/ Tadao Ando. Viewed 6 June 2016, from http://www.archdaily.com/101260/ad-classics-church-of-the-light-tadao-ando ArchDaily. 2012. Bunker 599/ RAAAF + Atelier Lyon. Viewed 6 June 2016, from http://www.archdaily.com/256984/bunker-599-rietveld-landscape ArchDaily. 2011. Teshima Art Museum/ Ryue Nishizawa. Viewed 6 June 2016, from http://www.archdaily.com/151535/teshima-art-museum ArchDaily. 2012. House NA/ Sou Fujimoto Architects. Viewed 6 June 2016, from http://www.archdaily.com/230533/house-na-sou-fujimoto-architects ArchDaily. 2013. Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012/ Toyo Ito + Cecil Balmond + Arup. Viewed 6 June 2016, from http://www.archdaily.com/344319/serpentine-gallery-pavilion-2002-toyo-ito-cecil-balmond-arup Brown, M. 2015. ‘Ai Wei Wei RA show to house weighty remnants from Sichuan earthquake. Viewed 6 June 2016, from https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jun/15/ai-weiwei-ra-show-sichuan-earthquake-chinese-artist-steel-rods OMA. (n.d.) Jussieu – Two Libraries. Viewed 6 June 2016, from http://oma.eu/projects/jussieu-two-libraries Double Negative. (n.d.). Double Negative. Viewed 6 June 2016, from http://doublenegative.tarasen.net/double_negative.html Pace Gallery. 2013. Robert Irwin at the Secession. Viewed 6 June 2016, from http://www.pacegallery.com/news/1922/robert-irwin-at-the-secession