AIR Yr. 2013
ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO
STUDENT:CHLOE ZHU TUTOR:GWYLL ANGELA
ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO:
AIR
STUDENT: CHLOE ZHU TUTORS: GWYLL ANGELA YEAR: 2013
C O N T E N T S
“A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.” ----Frank Lloyd Wright
ME Dear everyone, I am Chloe from the 3rd year Architecture faculty. I came to Melbourne when I was in high school, and now I have fallen in love with this city completely. I started to probe the Architecture world when I was in year 11, and then I was just drunk inside this amazing world and never come out. I used to know barely anything of digital design. However since my comprehension of Design and my knowledge of Architecture are getting more, I started to be a friend to those digital little things. I am now very interested in all sorts of digital software as they truly make my life much easier than the time without them. I’ve tried Rhino, Sketch up, Illustrator, Photoshop, Auto CAD and In Design in my past years, but I am more familiar with Sketch up, Photoshop, Auto CAD and In Design rather than the rest. Now I am working as an assistant for my friendwho is an architect in Melbourne. I went to sites to get measurements and I did 2D drawings for him by using Auto CAD.
PART A. CASE OF INNOVATION
A.1. ARCHITECTURE AS A DISCOURSE Architecture, as an art which is given by lots of people as different definition, is a dominant part of various idea of its content. Then there comes the Architecture discourse. “Architecture, then, as discourse, discipline, and form, operates at the intersection of power, relations of production, culture, and representation and is instrumental to the construction of our identities and our differences, to shaping how we know the world.�----Dutton, Thomas A. and Lian Hurst Mann, eds (1996) For me, Architecture is not only a three dimensional building that is eye pleasing or as a shelter to human beings, but also about combining the sundry of disciplines and aspects like aesthetic, psychology, political science, humanities, and now parametric modeling and algorithmic technology. It is alive.
NATIONAL BANK OF KUWAIT H EADQUARTERS ARCHITECT: FOSTER +PARTNERS LOCATION: KUWAIT
NATIONAL BANK OF KUWAIT HEADQUARTERS The national bank of Kuwait headquarters is known as the iconic skyline in Kuwait. The design of this complex geometrical art is driven by a response to the local climate. It is shown that design must be influenced by solar, wind and planarity analysis. It is all about developing ideas by combining analysis of different nature and artificial elements, while parametric technique involved. As a convincing example of integration of parametric modeling and algorithmic
technology, the national bank of Kuwait headquarters has done a series of contribution. The Foster+Partners’ Specialist Modeling Group (SMG) was in charge of this attractive but yet challenging project. They firstly quickly produce various options of parametric models so that the models could be further developed by the design team. Then it was followed by evolving initial design into a fully rational shape that embedded serious consideration of the
various performance parameters, integrating the architectural aspirations, structural, environmental, functional and operational requirements. During the process, various algorithmic designing programs were used to produce this project, such as Bentley Systems’ GenerativeComponents™ (GC) and so on. This is what presages the unprecedented prosperity of a whole new digital era.
NATIONAL BANK OF KUWAIT HEADQUARTERS Four perspective views R e f e r e n c e : h t t p : / / w w w. s k y s c r a p e r c i t y. c o m / s h o w t h r e a d .