I N T R O D U C T I O N
Hi, I am Hidy. I am a third year architecture student in University of Melbourne. I am born and live in Hong Kong until I came to Melbourne two years ago. As you know, Hong Kong is famous for its crowded living environment and skyscrapers. Either commercial buildings or residential housings are high-rise building [I am the one living on 30th floor but that is not the highest floor]. What I believe is that the most important thing of Architecture is not the design itself, but the atmosphere and feeling it gives to audience. There may not be a standard; at least, people feel comfortable and are willing to approach the architecture. In my previous design, I prefer using simple line and white colour. I would like the audience to feel relaxed and secured inside the clean structure.
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"a sort of primitive situation that relates to the human ‘cave’ habitation but at the same time I like to create something new for the future" - Sou Fujimoto
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Every single new design is one step forward to our future. A design not just normally resolved daily problem, but a platform to speculate the world. It creates space for discussion and debate as well as encourage imaginations1. When a discussion starts, it is a good chance to reflect the design, either the design itself or its impacts to surroundings. Designers will keep modifying the product as to design "better", aiming to target more sharply to different people and environment. By using different strategies and materials, they attempt to achieve the balance of human and nature. Because of the climate change and other relavant environmental issues, people start concerning the problem in their surrounding. Undoubtedly, these problems cannot be solved within short period. Architecture is a beginning to reflect our behaviours nowadays and plan for our coming future.
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D E S I G N L’ARBRE
BLANC
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FUJIMOTO
L’Arbre Blanc [The White Tree] successfully demonstrated the close relationship between architecture and nature. Sou Fujimoto is inspired by Montpellier's outdoor living style and the properties of tree to generate this design. Ideas are not limited to certain objects or previous architecture, but the actual existing lifestyle of people and atmosphere of city. This helps shorten the distance between human and architecture as people can easily understand the concepts of designers.
An important feature in this design is its building style to show the bonding between building and nature. The pop-out areas are like leaves of tree, sliding rainwater from top to bottom. It acts like a ecosystem and becomes part of the environment. This idea is revolutionary that building is no longer a building, but part of the nature.
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The concept of building slowly changed.Although this design is not a "built" project, such concept did raise people to rethink of architecture-nature relationship.`
In our coming future, people will increasingly focus on the environmental issue because of climate change and reduction of natural resources. They will try to find alternatives to reduce the use of energy or discover new types of energy. Architecture brings new designs and concepts to society.
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