Reflections: Several main aims for this project. 1.
Must include all the essential spaces they
needed. 2.
The targeted people are looking for ex-
traordinary design and spatial arrangement. 3.
Balance between the outdoor living area
and indoor living area. 4.
Privacy is essential. The privacy level is the
core to determine how the space arranged. 5.
How many square metres do a family
need? Excessiveness of space can be a problem? 6.
Why cannot we live on land like this?
7.
The design is terrible, and the rest of the
class were designing tiny ‘ideal living containers’, but I believe most of the people don’t want to live in 5x7m ideal containers.
week 01 the bare necessities
In week 01, I was assigned as ‘designer ’ who was tasked with imagining the ideal container for living. That was a creative task for us. There are some questions for us to think about the ideal living containers: Do we live and work in the same space? What’s the ratio between outdoor and indoor space? How do you exercise? Do you require external/ lose furniture? Do you need a pool? How many people live here? Etc For a better design outcome, I wrote down a design narrative for tasteless rich people in advance. This project is an expression of the irony of ultra-luxury lifestyle.
REAL TIME RENDERS PRODUCED BY LUMION:
These renders were produced by Lumion real-time render software. And this is the first time for me to present my design project to the class through Lumion. It is efficient and useful, especially for online teaching courses. I would like to practice it more and further improve my efficiency in producing renders.
week 02 The Superflous and The Specific In week 02, I swapped to the ‘users’ group to design a superfluous program for living. I designed a Vet clinic for our Ark. For this task, I pretended to be a Veterinary fit-out specialist to design a modern and functional veterinary practice. Aim: Creating a comfortable and enjoyable clinic environment Clinic construction (Layout, functions, circulations, so on) + interior design + Furniture selection regardless of size 1.
Atmosphere: visit to the vets can be an anxious experience for both owner and pet.
Therefore I must create a warm and comfortable environment in order to put everyone that walks through your veterinary clinic’s doors at ease. 2.
Details are important:
a.
The separate waiting area in order to keep cats and dogs apart
b.
Acoustic options (minimize the noise level in the library is critical, we are trying to com-
bine multiple functions into a megastructure) c.
Functional and efficient
d.
24 hours? How to design the secu-
rity system? e.
Enough green space to ease the
anxious of both owners and pets. Functions: 1.
Reception
2.
Pet supply store
3.
Medical storage shelf (pharmacy)
4.
Temporary pet kennel (separate
cat, dog and other pets) 5.
Consulting rooms
6.
Sanitary (toilet+ shower)
7.
Physiotherapy/recovery
8.
Sinks (hand wash) every treatment
room
Reflection: Compare to the previous task. The Vet Clinic is much more compact. The optimization of the use of space is critical. The spatial arrangement in different circumstances is what I learned from these two tasks. I also designed some furniture for the Vet clinic. What an exciting experience!
RULES: -EFFICIENT CIRCULATION SYSTEM -OPTIMAL SELF-SUFFICIENT ENVIRONMENT -IRREGULAR FORM -THE HIERACHY OF PROGRAMS -MAXIMIZE THE GREEN SPACE IN LIMITED SPACE. -STATIC AND DYNAMICW
week 03 packing it all in
We started to design our projects in pairs. Jason Qian and I paired up. Firstly, we packed up all the ‘kits’ that designed by everyone in the class. And we studied everyone’s design carefully. There were two options for us to choose, Optimal and efficient way to pack programs together and Haphazard and inefficient way to create ‘waste’ space. I chose to do the ‘optimal and efficient’ tower. Before I start to design tWhe tower, I studied some precedents from the Evolve skyscraper competition. The precedents study opened my mind up and changed my view of the existing skyscraper
MEDICAL CENTERS EVENLY DISTRIBUTED IN THE TOWER FOR ANY EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCE. INTERNAL VERTICAL CIRCULATION FOR FAST TRANSPORTATION AND IMPROVE EFFICIENCY. EXTERNAL ANNULAR CIRCULATION FOR OPTIMAL LIFESTYLE. SIMILAR TO FERRIS WHEEL.
CULTURE & EDUCATION 1x Pre school 1x Day care
Reflection: It was almost impossible for me to design a project on this scale in one week, but the ‘kit of parts’
2x Library
accelerated the design progress. This method is
1x Art centre
quite efficient. Perhaps, this would be very useful in the future.
RECREATION 1x Café/bar 1x Cinema/theatre 3x Public bath 1x Sports centre
WORK 200x Office
OTHERS 10x Cemetery
The ‘Parts of whole’ diagram is shwoing the arrangement of programs: For families (200): 40x Module house 30x Roman domus 30x Family house 50x Young family house 50x Social housing
For single people (300) 50x Two side house 50x Dome house 50x Delicate house 50x Elderly house 50x Home studio 50x Self-isolation
Special (40) 20x Quarantine unit
SERVICES
20x Disabled
1x Healthcare
AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS 2x Waste management
4x Supermarket 1x Hair & Nail salon 6x Destress centre 1x Vet/boarding
4x Food production 2x Warehouse (no model) Delivery
LAW AND ORDER 1x Committee 2x Emergency service 1x Reformation centre
WHAT ELSE? WHAT’S THE SCENARIO? ITERATION 1: FLOATING CITY This iteration based on a completely different scenario. What if the current environment submerged by the flood and people have to move to the floating cities like the movie ‘Waterworld” shows. This idea is interesting, but we did not like the scenario. The most exciting thing is that many leading architectural firms like ‘BIG’ already designed ‘floating city’, even though they know this scenario would not happen in a short period.
ITERATION 01
week 04 What else is there?
These two diagrams are showing the design concept of our vertical tower and the spatial arrangement within the tower. This was the first time trying to explain concepts in these kind of diagrams, very interesting and a littble abstractive.
week 05 prepare for the mid-term review
ITERATION 02
Iteration 2: Combined Jason’s haphazard and ineffiecient tower andmy ‘efficient and optimal’ tower together. I extracted different design elements from both projects.
week 06 MID-TERM REVIEW
FINAL WHAT IF IMAGE. WHAT IF THE CITY DESTRUCTED IN THE WAR AND POPULATION DECLINED RAPIDLY. WOULD PEOPLE MOVE INTO THE VERTICAL TOWER AND TRY TO REVIVE THE SOCIETY?
TESTING WHAT IF DIAGRAMS. TRYING TO RESTORE THE SCENE STORYTELLING IMAGE
I was responsible for designing the residential areas and relaxation area for our tower. Continue using the ‘kit of parts’ method to design for different group of people.
ENTRANCE
SKY GYMNASIUM
RECREATION AREA
CENTRAL ATRIUM OF SINGLE APARTMENT COLLAGE PERSPECTIVES- SHOWING DIFFERENT SCENES OF RESIDENT’S DAILY LIFE.
SPATIAL ORGANIZATION CENTRAL CORE- COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES SUB-CORES- RESIDENTIAL AREAS BOTTOM- SERVICE AND ENERGY PRODUCTION
HERO IMAGE
RENDER PERSPECTIVES- SHOWING THE FLYING SKY LOUNGE- VIEWING THE TOWER
Symmetrical layout and the materiality.ďźˆReality Vs. illustration Diagram
Symmetry. Collections as decoration. The collection is not only for display. It involved into the design of the building. People could visit the collection while walking through the corridor. Educational facilities :( Lower level of the Great Core) Also housed on the lower level of the Great Court is the Clore Education Centre, a space that has enabled the Museum to expand its educational role. Here sits the: BP Lecture Theatre Hugh and Catherine Stevenson Theatre Raymond and Beverly Sackler seminar room Studio, used for art and craft activities Claus Moser seminar room Ford Centre for Young Visitors The Reading Room stands at the heart of the Museum, in the centre of the Great Court. Samsung Digital Discovery Centre Its two auditoriums are home to a daily programme of lectures, film and videos, as well as conferences, concerts Completed in 1857, it was hailed as one of the great sights of London and became a and other performances related to cultural festivals or special exhibitions. world-famous centre of learning.
It housed a modern information centre, the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Centre, and a
Five additional multi-purpose rooms are also used for other programmes ranging from informal 'drop-in' sessions collection of 25,000 books, catalogues and other printed material, which focused on the to courses for the general public and teacher training.
world cultures represented in the Museum.
The British Museum: Established 7 June 1753; 267 years ago Exterior:
Floor Plan: Circulation
week 07 NEW DIRECTION!!! ART GALLERY_ PRECEDENT RESEARCH
South entrance and Museum forecourt as the main gathering space. This space can be used by anyone in the city.
interior:
Wall painting colour and the skylight (penestration or transparency/ translucent) For the Great Court, the walls are in white paint to relieve the sense of oppression brought by the interior space. And the glass of the skylight is transparent to provide a abundant lighting. For the ancient Greece exhibition area, the paint is in grey. it helps the space to increase the heaviness experience/ atmosphere. And the skylight is translucent.
Architecture inside Architecture. Circulation: The circulation design of museum would never restrict personal freedom of moving around. The circulation on the map looks disordered without the guidance, However, the designer already designed the best circulation for visitors to visit all the collections in one way. So when we start to design the exhibition area, we have to figure out the best circulation for visitors.
The main gallery skylight: Light and Shadow Effect Carefully designed articulated light effect by Wright.
Showing how people walk on the ramp and visiting the art collections.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright Architectural style: Modern Established: 1937 (1959 completed) Location: New York City Type: Art Museum
Exterior:
Keywords: Top down, Continous ramp, Interact with other levels, Oval-shaped
Column, Double staircase, inspired by Giuseppe Momo at Vatican Museum.
The use of Rigid Geometry: How? Meaning of each geometry? The spiral design recalled a nautilus shell, with continuous spaces flowing freely one into another.[25] Even as it embraced nature, Wright's design also expresses his take on modernist architecture's rigid geometry.[25] Wright ascribed a symbolic meaning to the building's shapes.
He explained, "these geometric forms suggest certain human ideas, moods, sentiments – as
for instance: the circle, infinity; the triangle, structural unity; the spiral, organic progress; the square, integrity."
Wright's plan was for the museum guests to ride to the top of the building by elevator, to descend at a leisurely pace along the gentle slope of the continuous ramp, and to view the atrium of the building as the last work of art. The open rotunda afforded viewers the unique possibility of seeing several bays of work on different levels simultaneously and even to interact with guests on other levels. Forms echo one another throughout: oval-shaped columns, for example, reiterate the geometry of the fountain. Circularity is the leitmotif, from the rotunda to the inlaid design of the terrazzo floors.[23] Several architecture professors have speculated that the double spiral staircase designed by Giuseppe Momo in 1932 at the Vatican Museums was an inspiration for Wright's ramp and atrium.[27][28][29] Jaroslav Josef PolĂvka assisted Wright with the structural design and managed to design the gallery ramp without perimeter columns.
Object storage, Archive: painting screens, office, conference , cold room, preparation room and mechanical rooms are all placed on the ground floor. The escalator direct deliver visitors to first floor ( the Gallery) by avoiding the service area. Fully drown into the atmosphere what the exhibition area created. Second floor: Without column, the roof is fully covered by the Veil.
Broad Contemporary Art Museum: Architect: Diller Scofidio + Renfro Architectural style: Modern Established: 2015 Location: Los Angeles Type: Art Museum
Atmosphere: Dark and narrow entrance, feels like entering into a cave.
Contrast between interior and exterior. Daylight access. The museum's design is intended to contrast with its bright metallic perforated[17] exterior while respecting its architectural presence by having a porous, "honeycomblike" exterior.[18] The building design is based on a concept entitled "the veil and the vault". "The veil" is a porous envelope that wraps the whole building, filtering and transmitting daylight to the indoor space. This skin is made of 2,500 rhomboidal panels made in fiberglass reinforced concrete supported by a 650-ton steel substructure.[19] "The vault" is a concrete body which forms the core of the building, dedicated to artworks storage, laboratories, curatorial spaces and offices.
Atmosphere: Bright internal space with skylight monitors that let in diffused sunlight from the north.
control the daylight penetration ratio by designing the facade. From the section cut, we can easily feel the light and shadow contrast.
Minimalism- A ball created by artist, varnished concrete surfaces and a wall bathed in light. Skylight allow daylight penetrate into the building linearly. Simple but strong.
I sense Light as the giver of all presences and material as spent light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to light. -Louis Khan
Benesse Art Museum + Chichu Art Museum Architect: Tado Ando Architectural style: Modern Established: 1994/2002 Location: Naoshima, Japan Type: Art Museum
Tadao Ando achives one of the high point of his art, blending water, stone and light in a state of artistic grace. Pure Geometry + materiality + light
American Museum of Natural History Architect: designed by Calvert Vaux and J. Wrey Mould Architectural style: Classical Established: 1877 Location: New York City Type: Natural History Museum
The floor plans of the museum reveal a relatively complex pattern of geometric forms. Visitors are free to visit the galleries in any order.
Other precedents showing how Ando play with light and shadow in his design.
American Museum of Natural History Architect: designed by Calvert Vaux and J. Wrey Mould Architectural style: Classical Established: 1877 Location: New York City Type: Natural History Museum
Proportion/Scale: The collection and the space Dinosaur fossil collection synchronizing with the classical architecture. (Harmony) The floating Whale
REPAIR CENTER-OPEN TO VISITORS
FREE-PLAN EXHIBITION SPACE AND INFORMAL THEATRE (Educate visitors)
week 08_KIT OF PARTS FOR ART MUSEUM
EXHIBITION SPACE FOR LARGE ARTWORKS.
FORMAL LECTURE THEATRE FOR ART SCHOOL
TEST -DESIGN EXHIBITION SPACE FOR ZONE 1 PERIOD: - 500BC
1. THE CHARACTERISTIC/FEATURE OF THE PERIOD FROM:
- ARCHITECTURE
- HISTORY
- MATERIAL
- PAINTING
- ARTFACTS
We abandoned USING the feature of the specific time period to design the unique exhibition space for different zones. It is too complex and not accurate. Therefore we decided to use contemporary way to design the space. After watching James stirling’s documentary film about his own way of designing museum. I realized that we should simplify our design processes and accept some inconsistency in the design. Maybe we would produce something special.
week 09_KIT OF PARTS _ circulation
STAIRCASES
ESCALATORS
RAMPS
RAMPS
TRANSITIONAL SPACES BETWEEN ZONES
ISOMETRIC DIAGRAMS: ZONE 4.5.6 + REPAIR CENTRE
ISOMETRIC DIAGRAMS: ZONE 4.5.6 + REPAIR CENTRE
EXTRACTED ALL EXHIBITION SPACES OUT FROM OUR MODEL
EXTRACTED ALL CIRCULATIONS KITS OUT FROM OUR MODEL.
EXPLORING THE EXHIBITION SPACE WITH PURE COLORS, SINGLE MATERIAL AND CARTOON CHARACTERS. This diagram worked, but it is difficult to tell the difference with other exhibition spaces. We chose to further develop this type of diagram.
70%
WE COMBINED OUR MODELS INTO ONE. BUT THE EXHIBITION ZONES WERE FULLY DESGINED. WE HAD TO SPEND MORE TIME WORKING ON OTHER SUPPORTIVE PROGRAMS.
THESE SCREENSHOTS ARE SHOWING SOME INTERESTING INTERNAL SPACE I CREATED.
SITE: FEDERATION SQUARE EAST. THIS WHAT IF IMAGE WAS PRODUCED IN WEEK 10.
TESTING,TESTING,TESTING. LEARNING HOW TO EXPLAIN THE COMPLICATE CIRCULATION SYSTEM WITH ONE ISOMETRIC DRAWING. IT LOOKS GOOD, BUT NOT CLEAR ENOUGH.
UPDATED ISOMETRIC DIAGRAMS FOR EXHIBITION SPACE To be honest, I did not like these cartoonish diagrams. However, I gave it a try. AMAZING OUTCOMES
TESTING,TESTING,TESTING. These little isometric diagrams contain realistic materials, real artwork and light. They are gorgeous, but we did not choose this method. These little isometric diagrams are keys of explaining our project, so the style of the diagrams have to correspond to the whole panel.
UPDATED ISOMETRIC DIAGRAMS FOR CIRCULATION KITS SOME METHOD, THESE DIAGRAMS DID NOT SPEND ME TOO MUCH TIME.
ISOMETRIC DIAGRAM VS PERSPECTIVE DIAGRAMS THE CIRCULATION IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT IN OUR PROJECT AND IT IS SOPHISTICATED. HOW TO SIMPLIFY THE SOPHISTICATED CIRCULATION BECAME A PROBLEM TO US.
ZONE 6
ALL ZONES ZONE 4
ZONE 6
ZONE 6 ZONE 5
SCHOOL ZONE 3 ZONE 3
HOTEL
HOTEL
ZONE 5
ZONE 6 & SCHOOL
ZONE 3 ZONE 5
SCHOOL ZONE 5 & HOTEL
ZONE 1
ZONE 4
ZONE 4
CIRCULATION DIAGRAMS
SCHOOL
TO HOTEL
ZONE 3
TO UPPER LEVELS
ZONE 2 ZONE 2 ZONE 2
BASE
FEDERATION SQUARE
ZONE 1
TO BASE
TO HOTEL
ZONE 4 TO ZONE 3
SCHOOL ZONE 1
TO ALL ZONES
FROM ZONE 1 ZONE 1 ZONE 1
ZONE 2
ZONE 2
ZONE 3 CIRCULATION DIAGRAMS
SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE 01
It is very easy to produce this kind of sectional perspective image, but it still took me a night to complete it. Because of the size of the rhino file...
SCHOOL
ZONE 6
SCHOOL
ZONE 5
SCHOOL ZONE 4
SCHOOL
MODEL LIKE RENDER (COLOR-CODED) SAME ISSUE, THIS IMAGE HAS TO CORRESPOND TO THE TYLE OF THE WHOLE PANEL.
ZONE 5
ZONE 6
Terrible!!! I am not very good at colours. Jason asked me to change/adjust the tone for thousand times. But It worths if they look consistent.
Easy.
SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE 02
MODEL-LIKE RENDER (NIGHT MODE) I had my breakthrough on rendering through Vray.
WHAT IF!!! IT IS MY FAVORITE PRODUCTION~ EDITED BILLBOARDS FOR OUR ARTK!
MODEL-LIKE RENDER (NIGHT MODE)
MODEL-LIKE RENDER (NIGHT MODE)
MODEL-LIKE RENDER (NIGHT MODE) CLOSE-UP SHOTS
MODEL-LIKE RENDER (NIGHT MODE)
GREAT EXPERIENCE, THANK YOU TO ALL CLASSMATES. Thank you, Laura. Your suggestions are always helpful and constructive. Although 2020 is tough for us, lucky that I had everyone in the class. Also, say thank you to Jason. I feel like Jason explored potential energy. I did not even know that I could produce these images, diagrams... Last, thank you to myself. Thanks for the hard working. NO PAIN NO GAIN. PLAY HARD,WORK HARDER!!!
Thank YOU ALL
MODEL-LIKE RENDER (NIGHT MODE) CLOSE-UP SHOTS
The University of Melbourne . Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning Masters of Architecture Studio C, D, E Studio Leader: Laura Mártires
PEER REVIEW FORM
As part of our peer review process, you are to rate your team members group working ability. The ratings should reect each individual’s levels of participation, effort and a sense of responsibility, not his or her academic ability. Fill in the table below. For each of your team members, including yourself, please rate the degree to which each member fullled his/her responsibilities in completing the team assignment. Complete the review by yourself- it is strictly condential and details will not be distributed back to your team. Do not leave any commentary blank. Include this page as a last page in your Reective Journal* on Canvas.
Name of Team Member:
Rating:
Rate myself 8.5 because of the amount of work I have done. As I mentioned, I had my break-
Myself:
KAI LIN
Commentary (do not leave blank) through. Jason and me are both creative and innovative, but we don’t have excellent computer
8.5/10
software skills. My photoshop skill is slightly better than Jason, so I was responsible for producing all the diagrams, renders,etc... The other reason is about testing different methods of producing diagrams and adjust/redo the works repetitively with patience. It feels terrible. The missing 1.5 points: sometime I feel depressed, so I stopped to work for a short period. It more or less slowed down our process. Rate Jason 8 because of his ineffeciency. He always spent much more time on tiny things(detail)
JINGHENG QIAN
7.5/10 VERY GOOD
than I expected. And that is why he looked tired everyday... He was very critical (a bit nitpick) to the works I have done, but not very critical to his own work.：C we have quite different aesthetical tastes, so we argued a lot. Hahahah, We quite enjoyed the whole process. Fortunately, we are two positive persons, so we always look forward. He helped me to stay positive when I feel depressed. Once again, Thanks to Jason. Keep going and learn more software techniques, it would make further study or career much easier.
The possible ratings are as follows: A. EXCELLENT: Consistently carried more than his/her fair share of the workload and proactive B. VERY GOOD: Consistently did what s/he was was supposed to do, well prepared and cooperative C. SATISFACTORY: Usually did what s/he was was supposed to do, prepared and cooperative D. PASS: Sometimes failed to show up or complete assignments, not well prepared E. FAIL: Consistently failed to show up or complete assignments, unprepared F. NO SHOW: No participation at all * Make sure not to publish this form on ISSUU as this is strictly condential.