Mid Journey Towards an Imperfect Union

From 2D to 3D

After exploring formal and spatial potentials for subdividing your geometric primitive in 2D images. We move into modeling this in 3D.

While Midjourney is trained to generate interesting and beautiful images, we critically evaluate the results based on how it can become an interlocking assembly made of smaller elements.

Model Details

We used Midjourney exercise as the starting point and then explored different interpretations for connections, seams, and void spaces. The goal is to maintain the legibility of the piece as a geometric primitive.

Project & Site Selection

The studio project will be a new addition to a significant building from this century. This site and the original building - The New Museum was selected for its formal, spatial, material, and cultural significance.

Our building considered and respond to these issues, it is extending the logic of the original building, however, the stair part (more open/lead to different social spaces) is a counterpoint to the original building.

DE-ASSEMBLING

After we finished the design of the cube, the next stept is de assmbling the primitive into a new posture. We started to transform the cube into a building. We chose the site of the new museum because we felt that the shape of our model had a sense of vertical upward extension.

So after we put the cube on the site, we copied half of the original cube and put it on top, and then we shifted our model in the same way as the new museum shift. Then we found that the centerpiece of our cube was like a staircase that connected the whole building.

This corner site is directly adjacent to the original building. We considered the spatial and formal logic of the primitive and how to deassemble parts of the primitive to work with site.

The third and fifth floors of the twin stairs museum are flush with the new museum, and visitors can access the two galleries from the bridge between these two museums.

course:

As 322

Design Development Integrated Design Project

This course investigates issues related to the implementation of design: technology, the use of materials, systems integration, and the archetypal analytical strategies of force, order and character. The course includes a review of basic and advanced construction methods, analysis of building codes, the design of Structural and Mechanical systems, Environmental systems, Buildings service systems, the development of building materials and the integration of building components and systems. The intent of this course is to develop a cohesive understanding of how architects communicate complex building systems for the built environment and to demonstrate the ability to document a comprehensive architectural project and Stewardship of the Environment.