Architecture 101
Jacky Xian Fall 2015
Project 1:What's your sign
Project 2:A journey of discover to local place to wonder
Project 3:Make a Wall, a windows evoke wonder
Project 4: Make a place that evokes wonder
Final Project: FRAMING AN ATMOSPHERE
Sign
Gamer
Crazy Mind What is your sign Collage?
Sporty
The three word that I choosed to describe my personal is Gamer,Sporty and Crazy mind.
These three pictures are the sign that I have choosed for my personal sign.
I combined these picture by using crazy mind picture as the base, gamer sign inside the body of the person and put sporty sign into the brain.
In this project, we need to choose from my photos to create a new images.I put those four different places into a image. I put those picture to fit into my background of image.
Make a wall and window to evoke wonder ď °
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This project will allow us to think and create our own wall with window of wonder. This project also let us to practice the techniques of making model.
A wall with window of wonder
This was my first desgin of the wall with window evoke wonder. I tried to make the window big and wide to show my topic: connecting outside and inside. But I was wrong, this design is too simple and nothing to do with my topic.
This design is my second design of the wall with window evoke wonder. I create a curve with three circle of the upside and downside of the window. and also three circle on the left of the window for people to see what is world is in the morning and won't affect by the sunrise when you just woke up.
A place of wonder ď °
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This project, I am required to make a place of wonder basic on the place that I have made. And also a storyboard to describes the journey of visit the place of wonder that I have made.
A place of wonder I created this place of wonder try to make people want walk into the narrow tunnel to see what is inside. When people stand outside of the place, they can see a narrow curve tunnel in front of them. As far as they walk into tunnel, they can see the light come from the gap of right side tunnel. When people walk into the place, people will get focus the big wall in front of them. the curve and circle will allow them to see what is outside of the window and not just big and wide window.
Final Project
FRAMING AN ATMOSPHERE
FRAMING AN ATMOSPHERE In this final project, our main goal is design a functional way of enjoying the natural tranquility innate to the site. We found a place that away from the rest of the campus, a place to get away from the stress of studies, school and life. The
problem however way that there was no practical way for us to go amount doing any of those things, save for standing in a rushed and huddled circle.
FRAMING AN ATMOSPHERE In this project, I was grouping with Craig, which is the project manager, jingwen, which is the bookkeeper, Xiong, which is our photographer, Alice, which is our design director. And I am the site coordinator of this project. After the discussion and some meeting in our group, we came up a idea that where we will build our project and what we are going to build from taking each part from our design.
The model design draft
The beginning model
FRAMING AN ATMOSPHERE
First step was in figuring out what parts of the tree we could actually use. While there are lots of branches criss crossing above the site, most would be too weak to tie any lines to it without the possibility of snapping the branches in two.
FRAMING AN ATMOSPHERE Materials:
2x4 Lumber
Fishing line
Fabric
Split shot
Metal grommet kit
Secure tite 2-ft rubber core steel hook bungee cord
FRAMING AN ATMOSPHERE Evolve of our final design Originally we planned on stringing lines from tree trunk to tree trunk, acting like clothing lines floating above, from which we could tie lines in a way that created the shapes we wanted.
But after we met again during the weekend, we decided to erase the need for the clothes line between the trees and tried attaching the lines to a single tree. We were immediately drawn to the idea as it not only made for a more feasible option, but was a much more inspiring one which allowed our team to imagine and conceptualize a more defined and visually interesting space.
FRAMING AN ATMOSPHERE
This the new design of the final project
FRAMING AN ATMOSPHERE
This is the bench that we will put inside the fabric
FRAMING AN ATMOSPHERE
This is our final model, the fabric created the nice wall to create a space for people to sit down and relax
FRAMING AN ATMOSPHERE
Final reflection In this second half of class was the final group project to create a place to let people to discover wonder and relax. I learned how to work as a team to come up a design and to build it by hand. We also learned about how to solve problems by working as a group. At first, we though we came up a great design, but after we talked with jerry and when we actually building it, we discovered a lot of problems in our project. So we had to give up some ideas and improve our design to became the design that we have right now. In this project ,I understood that we need to work as a group, no one can fell apart or going a different direction .
This semester In this semester, I very want to thanks jerry to give me that nice journey about architect and arch 101. I found lots of fun during I build my own design and do the final project with our group. I will do my best next semester to become better student, a better interior designer and a better person