Digital Design - Module 01 Semester 1, 2018 Eunju Kim
914 834 Han Li + Studio 16
Week One
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?
The reader discusses about sign as icons, index and symbols. Icon is a sign that materially expresses quality and property of the object, but no bounding relationship between the form and the content. Index is a sign that show the imprint of an object, it has a binding relationship between form and function, however not formally explicit. Symbol is a sign refered to an object through formal representation while the relationship between form and content is total arbituary. Overall, Signs represent quality, property and function of a dynamic object in form, but not neccesarily contains relation to its content. Diagram on the other hand, don’t play representational role for its content but mediate between physical form and concept on a organisational level. It’s form has direct relationship to its spacial content of the performance of the dynamic object. The reader defines diagram as a tool which describes relationships and prescribes performance in space.
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Week One
Precedent Analysis
Top left: Section Top right: Detail Bottom left: Plan and section Main Photo Image reference: ArchitektenglĂźck 2013. Peter Zumthor â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Serpentine Pavilion Acessed Mar 7, 2018. <http://www.architektenglueck. de/peter_zumthor-serpentine_ pavilion/>
Sufficient amount of information were provided from the plan, section and detail drawings to model the overall structure and form of the given precendent. Although simple in its form, the drawings provided information on how the pavillion was designed in terms of structure and materials used to construct the pavillion. Detail drawing provided information such as the foundation of the pavillion and how it sits on earth. However, this information was reduced from the model as the module focuses on the overall form the pavillion.
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Week Two
Reading: Hertzberger H. 2005. The in-between and The Habitable Space Between Things, from Lessons for Students in Architecture. Herzberger discuss how design should not be extreme in its functionality. Use your precedent study to explain how the pavilion allows for an appropriation of use.
Extreme functionality in a design makes it rigid and unflexible, which does not provide further potential for differentiated use. Therefore Herzberger suggests that design should not be extreme in its functionality, as it limits its ability to play different roles in changing circumstances. Design that is extreme in its functionality already evokes what should and should not be done by the user. However, by notbeing extreme with the functionality, the design allows the user to expend its purpose and usage. The Serpentine Gallery by Peter Zumther is a simple design yet with clear intention to draw focus to the innner garden with in a garden which the pavillion sits. The use of double walls manipulates the threshold to draw attention to the garden, while providing a change of atmosphere as one enters from the outside of the pavillion to its interior. Zumthor’s ‘in between’ spaces allow people to either travel through or to stop and relax or to encounter other people before entering the interior garden of the pavillion, thus providing an appropriateion of use.
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Week Two
Isometric
Peter Zumthor Serpentine Pavillion The modelling progress of this precendent was relatively simple as clear and sufficent information were provided through the plan, section and detail drawings. The structure of the pavillion mainly consists of wooden frames with plywood panels. Peter Zumthorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Serpentine pavillion effectively manipulates the concept of threshold to draw focus to the enclosed garden, while creating a change of atmosphere through the transition from the outer environment to the interior. The threshold begins from the pathways that weaves through the grass to reach the rectangular pavillion. It then continues between the outer and inner walls of the pavillion until For the main isometric view, all pathways and entrances were modelled to display the overall form of the pavillion, as well as the threshold.
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Week Two
Circulation Diagram
Threshold Diagram
The circulation diagram was produced with the idea of the ‘shortest path’, by considering the closest entrances of the pavillion to get to the central garden.
Zumthor’s pavillion successfully create threshold that gradually leads the visitor to the centeral garden through a series of walls and hallways.
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Appendix
Process
Plan and section view provides location of timber frames.
Joists and Seating is modelled out.
line works are extruded out, and the solids were placed according to the plan view
Exterior walls were then modelled out with entrances.
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Model placed on site to see the pathways leading to pavillion from the garden