Earth book

Semester 1 2016 ABPL20027 Architecture Design Studio: Earth

" Waves of Faith"

A Herring Island Concept Design

Student Subject Book Arianna Ina Garay 758843

Tutorial Group 14 Kirsty Fletcher

Table of Contents 1.0

“Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf.”

- Jonatan Mårtensson

Disclaimer: All photographs, images and illustrations placed within this publication are all taken and made by the student unless listed otherwise. The student understands that credit must be given when credit is due.

The Language of Tectonics

1.1 What is the language of Tectonics?

1.2 Point, Line and Plane

1.3 Mass 1.4 Frame and Infill 2.0

Concept Design

2.1 Conceptacle

2.2 Design Inspirations

2.3 Concept Illustrations 3.0

Waves of Faith: A Place For Secrets

3.1 Site: Herring Island

3.2 Site Analysis

3.3 Development Towards Final Design

3.4 Final Design Models

3.5 What’s your secret?

A Catharsis for the Populace 4.0

Citations and Bibliography

1.0 The Language Of Tectonics

1.1

What is the language of Tectonics?

As an architect, how do you explain the language of tectonics? There are no specifications that clearly define the definition of tectonics. It is a subjective expression and the perception of each individual varies. It changes within each mention, each moment taken to elucidate the constructs of this appellation. It is no mere theory; it takes many moments to apprehend and a culmination of those moments to imply to this apprehension to the art of architecture.

Tectonics could also be interpreted as the processes which concerns the control over the structure and properties of the earth’s crust.

An excerpt from the subject outline explains Earth:

Charlotte Bundgaard, an associate professor in Denmark’s Arkitektskolen Aarhus, explains:

“Tectonic thinking is not only about portraying a constructional logic. Tectonics is to create material realities that reveal narrative meaning. Tectonics is to construct with cultural references.”

(Bech-Danielsen et al., 2012)

Within the course of this subject, we are expected to perceive the qualities of earth as a material to explain, enhance and to bring life to over the course of the semester. Earth will become a subject to which we mold our ideas and inspirations towards.

Earth readily gives us an experience of above and be low, in which ‘above’ is our usual space, and below is an underground solid.

Caves and basements are physical spaces of the chthonic, the hidden, the secretive and mysterious. Above ground space is (at least before our articulation of it), open, obvious and easily traversed.

The tectonics on which this subject will focus their research upon are Point, Line and Plane, Mass and Frame and Infill.

Blog Inspirations of Point Line and Plane:

Model Sketches and Sketch Models:

1.2

Point, Line and Plane

What is Point, Line and Plane?

To simply understand this concept, here is an diagramatic illustration of the concept.

Photographs going down in order: 1. Shearwater by Inge King 2. Monument Park by Callum Morton 3. Terrain by Lebbeus Woods 4. Hanging Studio in the Melbourne School of Design by NADAAA and John Wardle Architects Photographs above and below: Rockpool Waterways and Escarpment Sculpture Royal Botanical Gardens, Cranbourne

To explain, Point Line and Plane is a combination of the three different elements listed and how they all interlink with one another. Point is the element that combines to create the following aspects of Line and Plane and point is known to either occupy or not occupy a spot on the canvas.

Final Model:

Blog Inspirations of Point Line and Plane:

Model Sketches and Sketch Models:

1.3

Photographs going down in order: 1. Nine Reconstructed Models by Lebbeus Woods 2. WeeGee Coney Island Crowd in 1940 by Smithsonian Magazine 3. Pyramids of Giza by Ancient Egyptians 4. The Shrine Memorial by Phillip Hudson and James Wardrop Photographs above: Rock Pedestals Archeology: Rock Formations

Mass Mass is a settlement, as it settles and sits on the ground. It should be thought as heavy, sometimes even collosal in structures, or at times, is hidden beneath the ground and in order to obtain a sense of the enclosed feeling a mass structure exudes, you must venture forth into the abyss within.

Final Model:

Blog Inspirations of Point Line and Plane:

Model Sketches and Sketch Models:

1.4

Frame and Infill

Frame and Infill is known to be a difficult concept to grasp, and even harder to implement. It is as Alex exclaimed, a ‘Black permanence filled with coloured transient elements’. It is a visionry of components and a combinationof mutiple elements of architecture seeminly blending into one form.

Final Model: Photographs going down, left to right: 1. Tea Pavillion by XYZ Architecture Studio 2. Space Frame by Zaha Hadid 3. 747 North Clark Building by Ranquis Development Group 4. Chorakuji Tea Room by Japanese Architecture 5. Angular Volume Inside Timber Frame by Heri & Salli

Frame exists as an infinite concept, forever continuing and seemingly never ending. It is often rigid and repeats and demonstrates the foresight of a plan in a frame and infill oversight.

Infill, on the other hand, are elements that are implemented into the frame that help define the space or spaces over time. People are expected to react and use infill as they enter the building, obtaining the idea of what the architect is trying to implement.

2.0 Concept Design

2.1

Conceptacle

A Conceptacle allows us to express our ideas into a single combined form of the overall project.

It is a culmination of Point, Line, & Plane, Mass and Frame & Infill and provides a narrative that will suggest the final product.

2.2

Sea Light Pavillion in Docklands

Design Inspirations

2.3

Concept Illustrations

3.0 Waves Of Faith: A Place For Secrets

3.1

Site: Herring Island

3.2 Site Analysis

3.3

Development Towards Final Design

3.4

Final Design Models

3.5

What’s your Secret?

A Catharsis for the Populace

As we move through life’s challenges and in our journey, experience the hardships that life throws at us, we experience deep emotions, just like the trial that the disciples were put through in the scripture.

The point of this pavillion is to ensure that people have an outlet in order to release themselves from the problem within and obtain catharsis by hiding their secrets in the area hidden below the surface.

4.0 Citations and Bibliography

Bech-Danielsen, C., Beim, A., Christiansen, K., Bundgaard, C., Jensen, T., Madsen, U. and Pedersen, O. (2012). Tectonic Thinking In Architecture. Denmark: The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation - School of Architecture, pp.4-5.

Photographs From: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/670136-feelings-are-much-like-waves-we-can-t-stop-them-from http://aarch.dk/person/70ced52b53236a4a9a6120cac7a88623 http://desertlandforms.weebly.com/desert-landforms.html http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/weegees-day-at-the-beach-132824534/?no-ist