Module 1 - Diagramming Design Precendents - Libeskind Serpenting Pavillion

Digital Design - Module 01 Semester 1, 2019 David Imanuel Chandra 948854 Michael Mack - Studio 23

Week One

Week One

Precedent Analysis

Reading: Zeara Polo, A. 2010. Between Ideas and Matters.

According to Zeara-Polo, the diagram does not play a representational role in the design process but provides an organisational and can have a performative quality depending on how it is deployed. Explain how Diagram is different from Signs and Symbols? (100 words Maximum)

Diagram is a tool to simplify informations into visual representation that emphasize something. Diagram would usually has a spatial correlation while Signs and Symbols usually represent a meaning without the need of a spatial correlation. Diagram can be used in many forms, it can prescribe performances in space and also relationship between spaces. Signs and symbols on the other hand, would not be able to prescribe performances and relationship as good as a diagram. Even a very simple diagram could create a very complex meaning of performances and also relationships, as the meaning of a diagram could be interpreted in various ways.

Libeskind, Daniel. Serpentine Gallery, 2001, photograph.

Serpentine Gallery, London.

Accessed March 17, 2019. https://libeskind.com/publishing/ serpentine-gallery/.

Top Left: Using the Unfolded Planes Top Right: Aligning onto the Plan Bottom Left: Finished Extrusions

Modelling the Libeskind Serpentine Pavillion was really challenging as the plan and elevations are not really accurate. Photos of the actual Pavillion helped the process of modelling it as accurate as possible to the actual Pavillion. Amongst all of the files available in the LMS, the unfolded planes picture actually helped the most, I created the model based on those planes and I used “Rotate3d” and “Orient3pt” to help me create the model with those unfolded planes. Throughout the process, there were several alteration to make it as close as possible to the actual pavillion.

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Week Two

Week Two

Isometric

Reading: Hertzberger H. 2005. The in-between and The Habitable Space Between Things, from Lessons for Students in Architecture.

Isometric View of Libeskind Serpentine Pavilion

Herzberger discusses how design should not be extreme in its functionality. Use your precedent study to explain how the pavilion allows for an appropriation of use. (100 words Maximum)

Modelling the Libeskind Serpentine Pavillion was quite a challenge because the elevations and also the site plan has a really bad resolutions and its all blurry. However, the unfolded plans really helped me through out the way. What I did was I traced the unfolded plans and used commands like “Rotate3d” and also “Orient3pt” to make the model. The difficult part was that there’s no way we can know the exact angle in which a certain wall is tilted, so what I did was I took the photos of the actual Libeskind Serpentine Pavillion and used those photos as a reference for the model. However, there was no photos of the middle section of the pavillion and it was quite hard to model as there is an intersection in the middle.

Herzberger discussed that a design should not have a specific or single function as a design could have many functionality. The Libeskind Serpentine Pavillion was located near a Gallery, and the circulations inside the space are are quite simple as the exits of the pavillion are all facing the Gallery, so the Pavillion actually acts as a pathway for people to go through before going to the Gallery. However, the pavillion itself has several other functions aside from just being a pathway, there are seats inside the pavillion which could be used by the people for various purposes. The pavillion also has such an interesting form that could interest people to move around the inside of the pavillion just to see the inside of the pavillion from various angles.

Throughout the process of modelling the Libeskind Pavillion, I became more familiar with several commands and even learned about one new command which is the “Orient3pt”.

Commands that I often use and became familiar with throughout the process of modelling this pavillion includes “SolidPtOn”, “Rotate3d”, “BooleanSplit”, “Trim”, and also “OffsetSrf”. The command “OffsetSrf” was used to give volume to the model, as it was originally all just surfaces. I actually tried to create the model as similar as possible to the actual model and tried to create a hollow wall with thickness, for the steel bars.

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Week Two

Appendix

Diagrams

Process

Sun and Space Threshold Diogram

Circulations (Movement) Diagram

There are several openings into the inside of the pavillion and those openings creates a change of spatial threshold and also light threshold, whereas outside you will be exposed to the sun and inside you will get less sunlight. The middle part of the pavillion is the most interesting change in threshold, be-

The circulation or movement inside the pavillion is pretty simple as it directs all the people into a single pathway to the exits that are facing the gallery. The diagrams above shows several entries and exits that the pavillion has and circulations inside the pavillion itself.

Modelling the inner structure was quite hard because of the unique model of the pavillion. The inner structure actually follows the direction in which each planes are going, and the steel bars continue from one surface to another surface.

This is the rendered version of the steel bars inside the pavillion. The steel bars in this model was created with the dimension of 100 mm width to 100 mm height to the length that is based on each surface respectively. The command that was being used to create the steel bars was “Box” and “3point”.

cause it gets light from a gap, but it is one of the darkest part of the pavillion.

The Sun Path creates an interesting effect on the thresholds throughout time.

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Appendix

Appendix

Process

Talking about the difficulty in figuring out the intersection in the middle part of the pavillion, here is a snapshot on how the middle part actually intersect. This might not be 100% accurate to the actual pavillion, but this was made based on the cross section view picturegiven on the LMS.

Process

Creating the diagrams for this pavillion requires me to dissect the model into three parts and put it into 3 different layers to ease the process of moving those parts. I divided them into “Floor”, “Steel bars”, and the “Main Frame”. Then, Make2D was used to create this image above, and it became part of the final diagram.

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I created an imitation of the 594 mm x 594 mm layout in Rhino before exporting the lineworks to Adobe Illustrator, just to make sure that the layout fits perfectly and the scale of every lineworks are correct. Throughout this process I realized that my scale was a bit off and rescaled it to the correct scale.

Playing with the sun on rhino helped me understand the sun paths in London where the actual pavillion is located, and it provides informations about parts of the pavillionthat are being exposed to the sun light during a particular time. This also became one part of my first diagram.

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