Journal final

Digital Design - Module 01 Semester 1, 2018 Arika Brandon

915362 Joel Collins - Studio 15

Week One

Reading: Zeara Polo, A. 2010. Between Ideas and Matters.

According to Zeara-Polo, the diagram does not play a representational role in the design process but provides an organisational and can have a performative quality depending on how it is deployed. Explain how Diagram is different from Signs and Symbols? (100 words Maximum)

A sign is classified into thre different classes, symbols, icons and indexes. A symbol is a sign that refers to its object through formal representation but utlimately there is no connection between the two. An icon has a direct connection to what is signifies and an index has a physical link or connection to the signifier and what it suggests. However diagrams play no representational role whatsoever, it relies on space and organisation to distinguish and connect both conceptual and physical concepts.

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Week One

Precedent Analysis

Using the plans and pictures of the pavilion provided, I was able to model it. After modelling it and scaling it in rhino, I transferred the drawing over to illustrator where I shaded it and changed the lineweights accordingly.

Left photo: ITO, T. Serpentine Pavilion Right photo: outlines of the surfaces in the pavilion

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Week Two

Reading: Hertzberger H. 2005. The in-between and The Habitable Space Between Things, from Lessons for Students in Architecture.

Herzberger discusses how design should not be extreme in its functionality. Use your precedent study to explain how the pavilion allows for an appropriation of use. (100 words Maximum)

The serpentine pavilion allows for appropriation in a variety of ways. First of all, there is no set rigid path that one should take upon entering the pavilion. While some possible paths are carved out by the light cast by the glazing, the design allows for plenty of light to pass through and allow the viewer to take any path they wish. This is also futher emphasized in the openenss of the pavilion, it is not super closed off, but rather, there are several entrances into the pavilion that double as exits so people are not restricted to enter in one way or exit in another. Finally, the pavilion has a great connection to the outside enviornment too, allowing the flow of people to not only circulate within the pavilion, but to spill and coexist with the flow of the environment outside.

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Week Two Isometric

SERPENTINE PAVILION - TOYO ITO

To create depth to the isometric, both shading and different lineweights were applied to the drawing. The differences between the glazing, solids and frame was achieved by using different colours, darker colours for the solid, lighter colours for the glazing and white for the frame. By extensively modelling the serpentine pavilion, I was able to determine the circulation, threshold and construction. The circulation of the pavilion I discovered is determined by the light that that is projected onto the floor by the glazing.

The projected light lights up shapes on the ground and people will tend to take the path that has the bigger shapes. Based on the plans and isometric provided, I was able to determine where the glazing will project light onto the ground.

The threshold is split into 3 separate parts, the solids, the frame and the glazing. Each section relies on each other to mesh into the structure well.

The frame provides a solid structure to hold the glazing and the solid in place but is very thin so not to obstruct the view from the main centrepiece of the pavilion. The frame allows the solids to seemingly ‘float’ in space and the glazing is made of glass and therefore is almost ‘invisible’. The purpose of the glazing is to allow light to come into the pavilion and create interesting shapes and carve a path for the users as explained earlier.

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Week Two

Diagrams

Light orientated path

Threshold

This diagram shows how the light projected onto the floor defines the path that will be taken. It also identifies the outside from the inside and how that is a fluid form rather than a strict indoor/outdoor dynamic.

This diagram differentiates and explodes the pavilion to see the separate sections and materials used. Shown is just one of the possible but likely most popular paths taken upon entering the pavilion.

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Appendix Process

A view of the solids prior to capping and joining alongside the other components of the pavilion. Each elevation was traced out and then extruded, capped and grouped together

One of the completed elevations on rhino prior to the assembly of all 5 elevations. Once assembled, make 2d diagrams and isometric werre made on rhino before continuing the process on illustrator.

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Appendix Process

A view ofmost of the attempts of the make 2d views done in rhino

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Appendix Process

A view ofmost of the attempts of the make 2d views done in rhinoA snapshot of the progress of work done in illustrator. Most of the lineweights were changed to 0.25 to avoid the ‘chunky’ look that would appear on paper when printed. The rest of the hatches were completed on illustrator as well

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