PERSONAL JOURNAL ABPL 30048 Architecture Design Studio Air
Dan Xu 365844
Walt Disney Concert Hall
1987-2003 Frank O. Gehry Los Angeles, California, USA
Architecture as Art Architecture is a public of art, it define people’s movement, moralize our mind and moreover, we live in or work in them. There’s no wonder numbers of fabulous projects been built to inform the cultural diversity. One example is the Walt Disney Concert Hall by Frank Gehry. It is a great project both in its size and complexity. The sculpturesque formation of the building standing in the middle of the dense, high-rise skyscrapers, towards which one can feel the aesthetic beauty built from the industrial evolution, or the modernism. By coparison, personal headpiece project also has such feature. The use of parametric design was completely featured, the concept behind is an idea of movement, changeable and diversity. Unlike the classical architectures where styles and elements are recogonized and featured to express perminant, the current society need a language to express its spirits, which are challengable, revolutionary and indivudualism. Personal Headpiece Project
Architecture as a Spacial Experience The Concert Hall not only has a unique expression of its outline, but also in its interior spacial experiences. The interior of the concert hall suggests an impressive visual environment, where the contour in the roofing gives depth to the overall structure, meanwhile, it was built for better acoustic effects for performing. Another example is the sculpturesque, wonderful space created by simple fluid-like geometry. Standing in the building, observing the light shining over the internal atmosphere, the sense of naturalism and piece quitely enter into one’s heart.
Interior look
Experssion of variety The varietility expressions a parametric design can have is astonishing. The digital version of the headpiece project can inform this idea of variety. As the Gateway Project is standing in the midway, where people can observe it from different angles as they move towards, it is quite exciting to make it a project that has a variety of expressions both interior and exterior.
Leonardo Glass Cube The Leonardo Glass Cube has all the expressions of art, spacial and functional requirements. The Cube sits within a natural landscape, however, it intergrates its ripple shapes from the building into the landscape, creating a harmonious atmosphere with its surroundings, which is a great interpretation of architecture and its symbolic meanings. Its interior continues this idea of fluid shapes, quite similar to Zaha, it can create a space that will guide people’s movement. Besides, every element in this building project is conherent, making the building an “organic” building. The space division of the cube is innovative, since most architecture define spaces by dividing and blocking, the project try to invite the landscape into the building by the use of glass panels. All in all, Gateway project can be a project that can intergrate cultural, functional and spacial meanings when using parametric design.
http://www.dezeen.com/2008/08/28/leonardo-glass-cube-by-3del uxe/
3Deluxe Architects Höxter, Germany