AIR Architecture Journal 2015
Daiwenqi Cao 503630
Context
Introduction
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Part A. conceptualisation Part B. criteria design Part C. detailed design
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Introduction
I am a third year architecture student and interested in designing and hand-drawing. In my childhood, I am interested in drawing and love to use pencils and colours to show my imagination about world. Since study in university, start to learn the digital design. It is a different experience from the previous. At first, it becomes a design tool to help me improve my work like more straight line or colourful attention. In the ADS Earth and Water, I did most of my work in hand-drawings and tried sketch up only .
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Previously, I am not familiar with using digital tools and too rely on hand-drawings. During the break, I learned Rhino and Grasshopper online. Air Studio is a good chance for me to touch the digital world and relate to my design process. And now, the technical use becomes a part of our design process and a better way to form ideas. Nowadays, digital design is very common in architecture. It is convenient to provide more ways and methods to achieve better outcome.
part a. conceptualisation
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1.1 design futuring
Defuturing is a new name and meaning from Tony Fry. He approach another agenda of thinking, which mentioned that ‘ the historiacal is as much before us as it is to our rear.’ It is a revolutionary theoretical to the traditional contexts and aim to rethink designing to achieve the sustainability. Profoundly, it offers a challenging archaeology of how the worlds we inhabit have been made unsustainable, and then makes available knowledge that has the potential to radically change design thinking and to dramatically change how futures are constituted. Design defuture influences on multiple ways and contributes to the human and social progress. As Dutton said in 1999 ‘Architecture 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.’
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Notably, the built architecture represent creative spirit and exist from generation to generation and from age to the age. It embodies the cultural, social changes and architect’s thoughts at that moment. It also becomes a guider of local or national interests and help people at present or in the future to ascertain the social and cultural background. In architect perspective, it should design in a larger scale, like Tony emphasis that ‘Architects actually know the consequences of their activities beyond a horizon of immediate concern.’ According to the promotion of sustainability, designing should consider greater scale and plan on the future development.
helsinki public library robert stuart-smithw
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The Helsinki Public Library designed by Robert Stuart-Smith. This Helsinki Public Library competition entry won a thirdplace vote by the Finnish public. It integrates the surrounding commercial and cultural context of its site to extensive space for public use and achieves minimum building volume. The project utilised an innovative tectonic principle of a continuous posttension timber surface that permeates through the building and mediates the organisation of spaces, circulation, natural ventilation and day-lighting. The library spaces are open plan,
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and utilise a modular furniture system that facilitates ongoing changes to the library organisation. It enhances the functions through the circular system. The library render photos look attractive, dynamic, changeable and elegant. The building is constructed from locally available renewable timbers and makes use of now underutilized Finnish timber mills.
spectra (2013) ryoji ikeda
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The spectra is designed by Ryoji Ikeda and build all around world. He is on of the most popular artists of the moment. The left photos are spectra show at Tasmania in Australia.
installation and imagine become fiction and invisible. It creates a feeling of ‘something indescribable, something sublime and unearthly, something unforgettable.’
His design is different and mystery. It is hard to define or divide his design concepts. It can be argue as film, sound, installation or performance.
The above photo shows his another artistic work, the ‘Test Pattern [No 5]’. It provides an experience with a data matrix based soundtrack. The platform shows a concert with different melody and should enjoy it.
The spectra is a series of large scale installations employing intense white light as a sculptural material. The purpose of using white light is to represent the electricity /energy in the purest form. It shows people the transformation. Also the strong white lights made people cannot see just like in the darkness to force them forget the
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Ryoji Ikeda’s works are very interested and attract people’s attention. They cannot define him is an artistic genius or maths magician. He represent artist (architecture) work in a more unrealistic more fancy way and communicate/ transform something to people.