ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN THESIS COLLECTION
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ARCHITECTURAL THESIS
Cha-am Oceanarium
AAU | MONTFORT DEL ROSARIO SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY
ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN THESIS COLLECTION
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CONCEPTUAL PART The Signification and Signficance in Architecture The way of creating something to communicate to each other actually already happen longtime ago. human need to create letter, symbol, painting to send the meaning or message to the other and the architectures are also affected by this idea.
Exterior
Signification
fully sense of aquarium
Interior
Significance Interior
create the sense of Nebulous of the ocean
AQUARIUM
=
Laguage Sign
Ferdinand de Saussure
Signifier
Signified
arbitratiness
words, sound, symbols, alphabets, objects, images
concept, meaning
Signifier
Signified
c-a-t
animal
(word)
(concept)
Structuralism
to seek the internationational structure between Signifier & Signified
- can understand in term of global - no need for interpretation
Claude Levi-Strauss
Objectivity > Subjectivity
Post-modernist
Poststructuralism
there is no international structure of the language
the meaning of the word isn’t only related to that word but it up to the difference and rela word and other word
Signification
International language
The logic of difference between Signifier to Signifier
The play between the difference from Signifier to Signifier
Signifier
Signified
c-a-t
a-n-i-m-a-l
(word)
(word)
the indefinite relationship
So, the aquarium is consist of
TANK
AQUA
Significance
ARIUM A place for relating to
HABITAT
FISH
To respond with the idea of Signification, this aquarium will represent as the group of large tanks stand together and create some character of the fish to makethe visitors can easily understand. The interior will let the visitors choose their own route of exhibition, to create their own experience of traveling in this aquarium. The space will also give the sense of “nebulous” and visitors can create their own meaning with the ocean to respond with the idea of “significance”. OTHER AQUARIUM
the recipient can create their own meaning in infinity way
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Water
CREATE NEW TYPE CIRCULATION EXHIBITION
Create the group of the fish tank and refine some part the give the form of the fish to represent as the aquarium then put the texture of bubble as the air bubble in the water to give the sense of under water.
TANK
EXHIBITION
INVERSE
SERVICE
Inverse the the circulation by bring the circulation for human to the outer area and open the viod in some part to attract the vision from the outside.
TANK SERVICE
Cha-am Oceanarium, 2014
ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN THESIS COLLECTION
AAU | MONTFORT DEL ROSARIO SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY
RISING UP EVERY TIME WE FALL
Cha-am Oceanarium, 2014
ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN THESIS COLLECTION
AAU | MONTFORT DEL ROSARIO SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY
RISING UP EVERY TIME WE FALL
Cha-am Oceanarium, 2014