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BOAT HOUSE PROJECT -LEARNING FROM THE MASTERS
The boat house project was part of a second year design studio aimed at critically investigating the modernist style through analysis of a ‘modernist master’. Our studio was allocated Alvaro Siza whose styles are explicitly expressed through series of bold and extruded cantilevers. By studying many of Siza’s projects, one can easily found that his design is a delicate balance between Le Cobusier and Alva Aalto. His eclectic design approach, as he said, was ‘not a pre-established language, but a response to a concrete problem, a situation in transformation in which I participate.’ His concerns of context made his work an ideal starting point for a redesign of the Fairfield boathouse. Using simplistic white washed concrete, this design follows Siza’s design manner, applying intrusive ground floor plans to make the dense upper floor material appear to float. The design emphasises layers of circulations and accessibilities. Staff entrances, infrastructures for transportation and storage are pushed to the back, invisible to the visitors as blocked by a green vegetation stripe. Then visitors’ accessible paths are open to waterfront and nods of activities, expressing a welcoming gesture. Further within the concrete structure, served programs are open to various views while serving areas recessed to the back strip supporting all the programs nearby.
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THE EMOTION The project mimics Siza’s design approach in creating initial visual impact and impression through the use of entry, anticipation, transition and culmination. A broken façade is first used to greet visitors. The notion of compression and decompression plays with the movement and experiences of users. Narrow paths leading to wider space of main dining area creates a strong visual impact Then a similar effect is enacted through the use of fenestrations, which causes the planes to naturally appear brighter. The extruded fenestrations, other than being used in great effect to illuminate, also frame the panoramic views of Yarra River.
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Berkeley water remediation centre An intertwining second landbridge
The Berkeley water remediation centre project was part of a third year architecture design studio taught as a core course at the University of Berkeley. The studio mainly focuses on concept formation through model makings. After four weeks of intensive form finding modelling making, prescribed functional programs were to be put in the found form. This is then followed by a closer consideration of construability, materiality and legibility of drawings including plans, sections and elevations. The project is a small scale public water remediation centre that has both educational and recreational function. Located at the far west end of Berkeley city of the intersection of Eastern Freeway and Aquatic Park, the project boasts ideal paranomic views towards Berkeley City, San Francisco City and the bay area on which based the major concept of this project: a link between city and water. The project folds between two existing land bridges: a ‘car bridge’ heading westwards to the freeway entrance, and a ‘pedestrian bridge’ that connects the residential area to the north of the project and the aquatic park, forming another intertwining land bridge that link the two existing land bridge together. Basement walls in this project function as series of filters that polluted water loops while being cleaned. The end of the process is culminated by a central water courtyard that is accessible for visitor when guarded by staff. The sound and visual attractness of central water yard would capture both pedestrians’ and drivers’ attention; therefore a billboard of the program it stands.
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Using ramps and folding structures, as well as the strolling views when people move their steps, the building itself is an architectural detour that engages the visitors in the programs it provided. The process of ‘attract – introduce – educate –reflect’ gradually leads to an open question about the theme of water remediate to the visitors rather than just exhibit. Here architecture is not just a shelter, a skin or a place to work; it is a program for spiritual communication.
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THRID floor plan view of golden gate bridge and bay area RETHINKING
1.kitchen 2.cafe 3.outdoor area
SECOND floor plan view of neary grassland and exhibition of the water remediation process CULMINATION
first floor plan b view of the Berkeley city INTRODUCTION
first floor plan a view of the ‘working space’ and amphitheatre PARTICIPATION - LEARNING
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Middle: plans with covered area Right: exploded diagram showing circulation, programs and views of architectural detour
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Wyndham City Gateway•a Romanises grotto - on digital architecture The Wyndham City Gateway project was an emulation of a real-world competition that aimed at critically exploring digital architecture through designing a highway land art for the city of Wyndham. The project begun with a research on practical implications of parametric modeling, and biomimicry, as a field of interest was chosen. Research of biomimicry buildings emphasis the cellular formation and self organization logic, from which four formal formation logics were abstracted: dodecagons tessellations, voroniors, cellular automata and tetrahedral lattice. Tetrahedral lattice was chosen as the main form logic for its easy control and modular fabrication. In responding to the brief, where an exciting eye-catching installation that inspires and enriches the municipality were desired, the idea of ‘exploration’ , in spesific,the process of exploration through the journey from highly urbanised Melbourne city to the naturalised romantic Wyndham, was chosen. As such the gateway is one that should be experienced as a place of wonder that luring drivers’ curiosity to the site and further, the Wyndam city. The gateway also manifest a changing experience for the driver that at the end nearer to Melbourne city should represent something that makes it different from the countryside rural impression that is given by Wyndam. To achieve the goals listed above, as well as carrying on the cellular formation and self generating idea, grotto effect in 18th century England garden was adpted not only refer back to many of the places of interest built in Romanism style in Wyndam, but also represent a sense of mysterious arousing drivers’ interest in Wyndam city.
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Assembly methods Influenced by the AA pavilion where elaborated joints are shown, joints used here are biscuits, nail plates and strong bolts. The material being used was LVL timber as timber material itself is economical and long lasting. It arouses a sense of nature and countryside feeling, which corresponds our idea of grotto Romanism and second artificial landscape. The project creates layers of permeability by designing four sets of geometries ranging in different sizes according to the persistence of vision theory. Each geometry functions as a film frame and the smallest geometry is denser enough to be impermeable when the observers move faster than 20m/s which can easily be achieved on the highway.
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Site tectonic studio , by proposing a design project that re-allocate Farnswort house to the local context of a Melbourne suburb, aims to enhance students ‘ knowledge of topography manipulation, site representation landscape architecture detailing. Detailed considerations were given on: 1. Slope manipulation 2. Water drainage 3. Materials and construction details of interface. The project was finalized in a proposal that fuses Farnsworth house’s floated character and the idea of merging into landscape with the glass enclosure sunken in land and a roof ramp connecting the higher terrace and lower river plan. The design emphasis the architectonic phenomenon, that the roof itself was articulated as a stroking ribbon meandering in between the site, forming a second landscape that sometimes extrude from the existing topography but sometimes disappear. The ramp also frames out the display for the viewers from the river side. The form of the ramp was the result of a transformation of Chinese calligraphy, giving consideration of Mies’ love of Asian culture. This also refers back to the origin of many Chinese Suzhou gardens where strong connections exists between drawings and garden design. The roof ramp was divided into 5 strokes and each stroke starts confidently and suggests a viewing platform. Then this is followed by a fast and confident stroke leading to a concrete ending without hesitation. A dry brush is always desired in representing the contrast between solid and void. Dry brushes were transformed into water channels under the ramp finish level. Construction details are influenced by the water sundeck in the New York High Line Park. Finally, the water channel, artificial ramp as well as the original earth gradings make up for three layers of archi- phenomenon in this design.
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